The light moon and the stars surround the chapter, and the fairy wind blows down the incense of the royal furnace.

The courtiers stand in the Tongming Palace, and a red cloud holds the Jade Emperor.

Su Dongpo's "Shangyuan Banquet" is a very high level sycophant poem, which is about the scene when the emperor went to court, and it is said that many emperors are happy after reading it. Seeing this situation, Tianqi was not exempt from vulgarity, he felt very enjoyable now, looking at the group of high-ranking officials below kneeling and saluting, he felt that he was already a little intoxicated. Intoxicated for a moment, Apocalypse was ready to get down to business.

According to the custom, the personal eunuch Tan Jingxian asked, "Who has the foundation?" There is this morning music. ”

Tan Jing delivered a secret letter to the British Gong Zhang Weiying for the Apocalypse, which did not attract the attention of others, so he gained the trust of the Apocalypse.

As soon as Tan Jing's words fell, he saw a large group of people coming to the book one after another, and some brothers hugged several copies alone, saying that they were on behalf of the people who were not called in outside the station. Gu Bingqian, the first minister and Wei Zhongxian's godson, couldn't help but be secretly happy when he saw this scene, thinking that if these scripts were to be processed on the spot, I am afraid it would take at least three days to see if the emperor had the patience. Just as he was proud, Yu Shi Cui Chengxiu approached him with a gloomy face and whispered, "Lord Shoufu, the situation doesn't seem to be quite right. ”

Gu Bingqian's heart tightened, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, what's going on?" ”

Cui Chengxiu said: "Yesterday, it was arranged for Tian Ergeng to personally bring people to the Qianqing Palace this morning to escort him, but who knew that he didn't come, and these guards didn't seem to be our people." ”

At this time, I only heard the apocalypse ask: "I flipped through a few copies of these chapters at random, and found that they were all things that were not urgent, I don't know if there is anything urgent?" For example, it is a matter of human life and burning eyebrows? ”

Hearing Tianqi's question, these officials who wrote on the book looked at each other one by one, they were originally instructed by Wei Zhongxian, and took some trivial things to make Tianqi have no time to take care of others, and there was indeed nothing related to human life and eyebrows.

They didn't mean that others didn't, but I saw Cui Jingrong, the secretary of the ministry, come out and play: "Your Majesty, the minister has no book, but the minister knows that someone's life is at stake, I don't know if I can play it orally?" ”

Seeing that Cui Jingrong was about to say something, Wei Zhongxian, who was standing on the lower side of the throne, couldn't help but say coldly: "Lord Cui, don't you see that the emperor has a lot of things?" Why didn't you play this mouth? ”

Although Cui Jingrong usually doesn't like Wei Zhongxian, he doesn't plan to tear his face with him, but today is a rare opportunity, and what is even more rare is that there are still a few princes present today, and the reader's temper surged, and his neck stiffened and replied: "Father-in-law Wei, the emperor didn't say that it was inappropriate, is it too much for you to block me first?" Besides, Taizu has the ancestral training that eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, otherwise they will be skinned! ”

Wei Zhongxian hadn't heard such bold words against him for a long time, he couldn't help but be angry but speechless to refute, staring at Cui Jingrong with a red face but unable to speak, at this time the first assistant Gu Bingqian spoke: "Lord Cui, you don't want to play at first, or do you want to play with the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu?" ”

Cui Jingrong said: "Lord Gu, the will that the official listened to yesterday was that the emperor had something to announce today, so he didn't prepare to play the chapter, and now I heard the emperor say that he was in a hurry to play it in advance, and it happened that the official remembered an important matter, so he proposed to play it orally, what's wrong with this?" ”

Tianqi heard that they were arguing as soon as they came up, and said in his heart: "You are arguing before I start talking about things, and your energy is really strong." Thinking that it was still early, he watched them quarrel with great interest, and at this time, Wei Zhongxian's henchman Cui Chengxiu and others also joined in. The ministers quarreled with the petty officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and it was not easy to intervene, and only Wei Guangwei, Zhu Yanxi and other cabinet ministers were on the side to persuade them.

Cui Jingrong dealt with a few people alone without showing the slightest timidity, his words were appropriate and calm, showing his profound quarreling skills, seeing his combat effectiveness so strong, the military department Shangshu Gao Di was greatly admired, and he also saw that this was an opportunity, so he came out to Tianqi, who was interested in watching people quarrel, and said: "Your Majesty, Lord Cui said that there is an emergency, I don't know who else has an urgent matter to play, it is better to let them play the urgent matter first and then say anything else, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Apocalypse said: "Don't be in a hurry, let them quarrel for a while, the order of speaking is very important, wait for them to quarrel about urgent matters first, and then talk about urgent matters when they are tired of arguing." Tan Jing said to the guards in front of the palace, if there is an urgent matter in each department, it will be reported directly, and other matters will be postponed. ”

Hearing Tianqi say this, everyone stopped, Cui Jingrong bowed down and said to Tianqi: "Emperor Xie, what the minister wants to play is that Dongchang is arresting Yang Lian, Wei Dazhong and others, if you don't stop it, you will die." ”

Tianqi said strangely: "I don't ask why Yang Lian and the others were arrested, I only wonder that this arrest is not a murder, how can it be killed?" ”

Cui Jingrong said indignantly: "Jinyi Wei often uses torture at will in prison, a while ago Wang Wenyan, the secretary of the cabinet, was arrested, I heard that Xu Xianchun, who was in charge of the edict, was tortured to death, Yang Lian and others are still alive when they come?" ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he was in a hurry and reprimanded angrily: "Wang Wenyan committed suicide in fear of sin, don't spew blood in this mouth!" ”

As soon as Tianqi saw that he was about to start arguing again, he said: "Don't talk about it yet, let's do it, Cui Shangshu said that Xu Xianchun killed Wang Wenyan and asked Xu Xianchun to write a story." Regardless of whether it is the Imperial Prison or other places where prisoners are held, all acts of torturing prisoners should be temporarily stopped, and Liu Qiaoguan, the former commander of the Fusi of Beizhen, should be reinstated to his post, and the Jinyi guard should be escorted to escort, and Yang Lian and others should be escorted to Beijing to try their cases according to the law. ”

Hearing what the apocalypse said, Tan Jing immediately sent someone to deliver the message. Wei Zhongxian was secretly anxious in his eyes, and looked at Gu Bingqian and Cui Chengxiu, and Gu and Cui also looked anxious. At this moment, a guard in front of the palace entered the palace, knelt on the ground and reported: "Report to the emperor, there are three deacons outside from Dongchang who say that there are 100,000 urgent matters to report to Gonggong Wei, the governor of Dongchang." ”

Apocalypse said, "Since there are 100,000 urgent matters, let them come in and talk about it." ”

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the matter investigated by Dongchang is confidential, and I am afraid that it will not be appropriate to say it in front of such people. ”

Tianqi nodded and said, "That's right, then you can go to the door and listen, and after listening, choose what you can say and tell everyone." ”

I saw Wei Zhongxian hurrying to the door, listening to the reports of the three Dongchang eunuchs one by one, and his expression changed greatly after listening. Turned around and ran to the apocalypse, knelt down and said:

"Your Majesty, something is wrong."

Apocalypse said, "What's wrong?" Get up and talk slowly, one by one. ”

Wei Zhongxian got up and said: "The first thing is about Tian Ergeng, the left commander of Jinyi Wei, saying that he didn't go home after leaving home with the British Duke Zhang Weiying last night, and the family went to the British Mansion to find the British Duke and disappeared. ”

Apocalypse said: "If you don't mention this matter, the British Duke will not eat him, and talk about the next thing." ”

Seeing that the emperor was still joking when Wei Zhongxian was angry, everyone couldn't help but smile.

Wei Zhongxian frowned and continued: "The second thing is related to the British Duke, the Dongchang Fan Service found that the British Duke went to the five military camps outside Beijing early this morning to transfer 3,000 troops, and took the opportunity to close the nine gates, I don't know what he is going to do. ”

Hearing Wei Zhongxian say this, the ministers in the hall all gasped, looked east and west one by one, and closed their mouths tightly for fear of saying the wrong thing.

Apocalypse said, "Don't panic, I don't think the British Duke will eat the people here and the people in the city, so let's talk about the next one." ”

Wei Zhongxian reluctantly continued: "The third thing is that the queen suddenly led someone to arrest Mrs. Fengsheng, and found someone to torture her, asking the emperor to save Mrs. Fengsheng. ”

Tianqi frowned and said: "I just announced that I will not torture people, the queen may not have heard it, Tan Jing quickly went and told the queen to let her stop the torture, and by the way, ask her why she caught my nurse?" ”

At this time, in a small side hall of the British Mansion, a military attache with a rather strong appearance was anxiously turning around, he was Tian Ergeng, the Governor of the Zuodu of Jinyi Wei, who was brought back to the British Mansion under house arrest by the British Duke Zhang Weiying on the grounds that there was a secret decree announced. Tian Ergeng was born in Wuju, and his two arms are very strong, but under the supervision of eight vigorous guards, not to mention that he is a Wuju person, it is difficult for him to get out even if he is a martial champion. He shouted to the guards:

"What about the British duke? Why didn't he come to proclaim it? What's the deal with restricting me to this? ”