Yongchang, the imperial capital, the osmanthus of potted plants is placed on both sides of the promenade in the palace, and the osmanthus exudes a fragrant fragrance in August, which is heartwarming. Shi Chongwei walked through the corridor, feeling very comfortable, and the good things have been going on recently, which makes him feel like he has seen the sun.

First of all, the war, the war with the desert people in the north has stabilized, and the desert people's large-scale attack has become a raid, returning to the previous state; In the west, Jiang Anyi broke the Rong Mi people, and the powerful countries in the Western Regions, such as Rong Mi and Xiuli, all sent envoys to the court to ask for peace and congratulate the festival; After Rao Qiangfeng's Tiantian army broke through the Dezhou defense line, Shen Guogong responded quickly and transferred 30,000 horses from Annan and Andong's camps to form a new encirclement, and Rao Qiangfeng had already sent people to the court to ask for surrender.

The second is the matter of the treasury silver, the empty treasury has been filled again, and 30 million taels of real money and silver have arrived, and Shi Chongwei has to wake up with a smile in his dreams. The four million taels of silver sent by Jiang Anyi from Huazhou are no longer in his eyes, but the size is also a piece of meat, and Shi Chongwei moved the idea of rebuilding the Yanshan Palace again.

The third is that two more princes and a princess have been added to the palace, and Shi Chongwei now has five sons and three daughters. This is stronger than her father's emperor, and the queen mother can expect him to have a group of children, and the country is big enough to divide these princes and princesses. It is precisely because he has many sons that he is not in a hurry to establish a prince and a son, and the two ministers have been made clear by him, and the matter of establishing a prince will wait for a few more years, Shi Chongwei feels that he will have ten or eight more.

Everything goes well, Shi Chongwei feels that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival should be celebrated, and take the opportunity of the celebration to wash away the bad luck of the past two years, Xue Zhiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Cui Yuanhu, the secretary of Guanglu Temple, have been ordered to do it, and today's report on various matters is quite his mind, especially Cui Yuanhu is ready to take the opportunity of Rong Mi and Xiu Li to seek peace, to create a grand occasion for all countries to come to the court, which really makes Shi Chongwei have some expectations.

It is only six days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and all the squares in Beijing are full of lights, the shops along the street are whitewashed, the pastry shops are prosperous, and the restaurants and green buildings are full of people. Shengpingfang is located in the southeast of the capital, and it belongs to the lower middle of the eighty-one squares in the capital, and the households are mixed, including officials in Beijing, wealthy businessmen and ordinary people.

In addition to the three-storey building facing the street, there are several quiet courtyards inside, you can invite friends to enjoy the flowers and talk about the moon in the courtyard, and you can also talk about some private things with people, so it is quite favored by some people. Today's auspicious building of the Gaosheng courtyard laughter, there are two tables of banquets in the courtyard, seventeen or eighteen people sit around, eating, drinking and laughing, Sinong Temple Shaoqing Hong Zuoxiang is here to feast.

Sinong Temple has two Shaoqing left and right, left Shaoqing Hong Zuoxiang, right Shaoqing Wang Zhixing, Hong Zuoxiang was originally a minister Langzhong, the original Zuo Shaoqing Huang Jiwei was transferred to the foreign post, he took over the post of Shaoqing, Hong Zuoxiang is born in Zhangyi Academy, authentic Zhangdang. With the original Zhang Party leader of the Ministry of Shangshu Pan Linfeng Zhishi, the status of the Zhang Party in the court became inferior to the Ze Party, a few years ago Fang Lin Bin Zhishi, the Ze Party banner was handed over to the Ministry of Rites Lang Deng Huaisu, the Ze Party and the Zhang Party in Beijing and became evenly matched, and this change is also the Son of Heaven is happy to see.

"Lord Hong, I heard that Master Li of Sinong Temple has already played this book to the Son of Heaven, and Kong Xiang intends to recommend the adult to take over the position of Qingzheng, and the younger brother will congratulate him with a cup here." Shen Daoming, a member of the military department, said with a smile.

The people beside him obviously just heard the news, and they asked Shen Daoming one after another, and when they learned that the news came from the political hall, everyone raised their glasses to congratulate Hong Zuoxiang.

Hong Zuoxiang had already heard the wind, drank all the wine in the cup, stroked his beard to himself, and said with a smile: "It's just rumors, don't take it seriously, don't go around saying it." ”

"If Brother Hong can take over the helm of Sinong Temple, it will be a strong victory over the Ze Party, and our classmates from Zhangyi Academy will have to raise their eyebrows." Secretary Lang Wu Chengxiang was a little drunk, dancing and waving his wine glass.

Fu Bin, the head secretary of the Middle School Academy, sneered: "Don't be happy too early, the Ze Party also has strong opponents." ”

The news that Kong Province recommended Hong Zuoxiang to take over as Sinong Siqing was spread by him, although the main secretary of the Middle Academy was only from the official rank of the seventh grade, but Hong Zuoxiang attached great importance to Fu Bin, poured him full of wine with his own hands, and asked with a smile: "What do you say about Brother Fu?" ”

Fu Bin smiled humbly at Hong Zuoxiang and said: "The Jingzhongze Party is headed by Deng Huaisu, Deng Huaisu is not enterprising enough, and Lord Hong can suppress him." It's just that Jiang Anyi, the assassin of Huazhou, is in the limelight, and I overheard Kong Xiang and Duan Xiang discussing that they want to transfer him to Beijing to take over as the head of the household department. ”

Hong Zuoxiang was silent, he asked himself how difficult to compare with Jiang Anyi, this is the champion of the three yuan and the first, known as the name of the word fairy, the poetry is sung all over the world, the reputation of Shilin continues, with the first emperor to conquer the Northern Desert, pacify the rebellion of the Eastern Invasion of the Western Regions, knighted the Marquis of Pingshan, civil and military, this time led the army to expedition to the Western Regions, pacified the Gobi, defeated Rong Mi, and made great achievements. Even the imperial historian Wei Youcheng's family background is illustrious, and he is inferior to him. If Jiang Anyi enters Beijing, the pressure on himself, the leader of the Zhang Party, can be imagined.

Someone in the audience laughed loudly: "Lord Hong doesn't need to worry, Jiang Anyi seems to be cooking oil on fire, but it is difficult to last long." ”

Everyone focused on Zhao Quanzhong, the director of the Ministry of Industry, Zhao Quanzhong brushed the ground and opened the folding fan in his hand, and said neatly: "You only see the surface, but you don't know that Jiang Anyi is actually in danger, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will be crushed." ”

Fu Bin sneered: "Brother Zhao, you always like to be alarmist, I can't see where Jiang Anyi is going to be unlucky." ”

"It is difficult to reward high merit, this is one of them", Zhao Quanzhong said calmly: "When Emperor Su was in power, he intended to suppress Jiang Anyi, but this Jiang Anyi is really capable, Ren Fuluo County ordered the promotion of tax integration into one, and the tax of the ruling state surged, and Emperor Su could only promote Lord Wei and Lord Zhang accordingly to balance the relationship. The defeat of the expedition, the Military Intelligence Department reported to Jiang Anyi, the Son of Heaven and the crown prince originally intended to use this to suppress Jiang Anyi, but they knew that the Western Regions Coalition invaded, and he had to be used to quell the chaos at the critical moment. You must know that Jiang Anyi is now on the top of the fourth grade, and he is not yet forty years old, such a young and prestigious important minister with great military achievements, how can he be taken lightly today. ”

"This time, Jiang Anyi defeated the Rong Mi country, forcing Rong Mi, Xiu Li and other countries to send envoys to negotiate peace, and the century-old trouble in the west was eliminated. Rewarding gold and silver fields, this Jiang Daren is rich and rivals the country, and he really doesn't care about it; Knighted, Jiang Anyi is already a township marquis, and if he wants to be crowned again, he will be a county marquis and a founding marquis. Jiang Anyi is still young, and he may make new contributions in the future, if Jiang Anyi can calm the northern trouble, then he will be crowned a duke. And after the Duke? You must know that there is a system in your country, and you can't be crowned a king if you don't have a surname Shi, so don't you give the surname Jiang Anyi as Shi Anyi? Hehe. ”

Most of the people know these words, but they don't have Zhao Quanzhong to see them thoroughly and speak clearly, Hong Zuoxiang muttered: "Yes, as Brother Zhao said, Jiang Anyi's merits are too great, the foundation is too shallow, and there is indeed a dilemma of high merit and no reward." ”

Yan Shunfang took a breath and said, "No wonder I have heard some rumors unfavorable to Jiang Anyi in the past two days, it seems that the wind is not groundless." ”

"I also heard someone say that Jiang Anyi secretly robbed the horse thief and kept the property of the black wind." Qian Qian, the chief bookkeeper of the country, said.

Shen Daoming said: "There are also rumors in the military department, saying that Jiang Anyi communicated with the Great Qi State and defeated the Rong Mi Kingdom together. ”

Everyone was silent, if the rumors were true, then Jiang Anyi was really not only useless but tired, and a catastrophe was just around the corner. Although the Ze Party and the Zhang Party are competing with each other, they are both Zheng Chen, speaking from the heart, Jiang Anyi is indeed the pillar of the country, and targeting him for his own selfishness seems to be contrary to the road he has learned, everyone picked up their cups and drank a cup silently.

Zheng system, the first moment of the imperial city is opened, and the moment is closed, and if there is an emergency, it can be passed in from the slit specially left by the palace gate. Huang Xi left the Anfu Gate at the moment before the palace gate closed and came to the Secret Guard Yamen, where he usually stayed at night.

The king of Chu took Concubine Huang to Chuzhou to take up the domain, this palace has no concern for Huang Xi, he took refuge in the Son of Heaven after the death of Emperor Su, obeyed the will of the Son of Heaven and drew a clear line with the King of Chu, and pondered the mind of the Son of Heaven to confiscate a lot of Chu Wang Party, and looted tens of millions of silver to enrich the inner treasury. It was precisely because of his hard work that the Son of Heaven dispelled his doubts and let him be the commander of the secret guard and fill the minions.

Huang Xi is very conscious of his minions, rushing to do dirty work, without any scruples about his reputation, he is already a eunuch, and he has become a secret guard commander, what do you want to do with that ethereal reputation. Huang Xi shrunk in the circle chair, his eyes showed a trace of sadness, two things for the rest of his life, revenge and gratitude.

In the second year of Changqing, the governor of Longwei also changed, and the right royal rate of the original East Palace was Zhang Heqing, who was a close minister of the Son of Heaven. Knowing that he was male and female, Huang Xi never competed with Zhang Dutong on the surface, and Zhang Heqing chose to back down against him several times.

The retreat quickly had an effect, the Son of Heaven reprimanded him several times for being weak and useless, and Long Wei and the Dark Guard worked together, the ability of the Dark Guard was obviously stronger than Long Wei, Zhang Heqing was strong and forced, and finally made the Son of Heaven unhappy, and several reprimands knocked out Zhang Heqing's arrogance, and now Zhang Heqing finally realized the reason why this Huang Gonggong was called a poisonous snake, the battle between Long Wei and the Dark Guard calmed down on the surface, and Zhang Heqing did not dare to provoke Huang Xi anymore.

Huang Xi picked up the book on the table, leaned against the candle and read it carefully, waiting for the spy report to be sent at the right time, if there was anything important after tomorrow morning, he would carry the black wooden box that was hated by hundreds of officials to the Son of Heaven like Feng Zhong.

After the exchange of blood for the dark guard, most of Feng Zhong's manpower was replaced, Huang Xi selected a group of people from the Military Intelligence Department to enrich the dark guard, the addition of these good hands greatly enhanced the strength of the dark guard, Shen Guogong led the army to encircle and suppress Rao Qiangfeng, and mentioned the merits of the secret guard many times in the note to the Son of Heaven: to inquire about the military situation, assassinate the enemy general, destroy the defense, etc.

Today's spy report came, a thick stack, Huang Xi leaned under the lamp to look at it carefully, he likes to sit alone in a dark room to read the secret report, which makes him have an indescribable pleasure. Under the lamp, Huang Xi's eyes lit up, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he finally waited for the opportunity to take revenge.