After speaking, Wang Pu took his leave. Guo Shao walked out of the back room with him and said to Wang Pu: "After Wang Zhijun went back, he ordered the divisions of the forbidden army to cancel the usual morning dynasty after three days. The first and fifteenth days of each month are held in the morning; For other duty times, everyone can gather once in the side hall on the east side of the Jinxiang Hall every morning. The people who ordered the envoys included the chief and deputy envoys of the Privy Council, the commanders of the front division of the palace, and the commanders of the guards; Prime Ministers of the Government Hall. ”

Wang Pu agreed, and Guo Shao asked the officials on duty outside the door to write a holy decree and go to the political hall.

In the early dynasty, he was worshiped by the ministers, and Guo Shao enjoyed the feeling of self-aggrandizement at first, but now he is tired of it. I don't think I'm a vain person, and I don't feel much about the pleasure of those scenes.

The etiquette of the early dynasty was complicated, and it was indeed time-consuming. And they don't say too many useful things at all, the officials are very smart, and they don't talk about sensitive specific affairs in the main hall, and they usually talk about good news and some great principles of governing the country. Sometimes he often quarrels, Guo Shao, as a modern man and a military general, is more tired of fighting Wendou...... If the minister has any ideas, just write a chapter.

Three days later, the key figures met for the first time in the side hall to exchange important information about each yamen. At this time, Guo Shao had not yet received Huang Binglian's report, and several days had passed and the spy had still not been caught. If you can't catch it for a few days, I'm afraid that the spy has run away, and it will be difficult to make progress in this matter.

…… After Guo Shao ascended the throne, the atmosphere was tense for a while, but soon calm was restored, and the Tokyo court did not change much. The reason may be that the people of the world have been accustomed to changing the dynasty once in ten years, especially those officials who have to harm the yamen, they have no resistance at all, and now the country name has not changed, and most people listen to whoever is in the imperial city; Moreover, a year or two before Guo Shao ascended the throne, he and Fu Jinzhan had gradually deployed the power of all parties and cleared some hidden dangers. The difference before and after the accession to the throne is nothing more than the difference in title. For example, in the current palace, Guo Shao lived in it without pressure, and it was full of people from Fu Jinzhan without even changing people.

Fu Jinzhan has faded out of the courtiers' sight for the time being, but she has retreated into the background, and her influence is still very great.

…… The place that has changed the least is Wanfu Palace, which is commonly known as the Cold Palace. Nobody paid any attention to it.

The person with the highest status here is the Empress Dowager Zhang, but she can't rule Wanfu Palace alone, and in fact, many people don't listen to her. The guarantee of power begins with violence and coercion, such as the power of the imperial court, because it is backed by various coercive institutions; The power of the empress is backed by the emperor, and the emperor has force and violence in his hands.

But the Zhang family only has a name, and she can't even see those who really have power in the dynasty, so there is no guarantee of power.

The palace ladies here may not know the logical relationship, but intuitively understand these things. The topics they are usually interested in privately are also those things outside the Wanfu Palace, such as Mrs. Fu (second sister) and Li Yuan'er giving birth to a prince and so on.

However, the most talked-about little thing is that Li Shanggong is favored.

The Zhang family and a few good palace ladies gathered in the hall and waited for dinner, and everyone whispered about Li Shanggong.

A palace woman said: "Li Shanggong entered the palace very early, and I knew her before." He doesn't look very good, Taizu was not young when he was in power, he has been in the palace for so many years, and now he is at least thirty years old. ”

"This kind of person can also be favored?" Another palace woman whispered.

The palace woman who spoke just now said sourly: "The building near the water will get the moon first." Besides, Li Shanggong has been in the palace for so many years, and there is no wind and sun, maybe it is ......also fine skin and tender meat," she leaned over and whispered, "I heard that Xinjun is the nephew of Taizu, but he has always been a military general." It is estimated that the generals are fighting outside all the year round, and there are few women they see, so they can't help but be seduced by an experienced woman like Li Shanggong. ”

These palace ladies are all nameless women, not the concubines of Emperor Taizu, so it stands to reason that they don't need to live in the cold palace. But people also need to work here, and they don't have long eyes and are not liked by the superiors, so they are naturally sent here. Like Li Shanggong, even if it is a palace woman of the previous dynasty, she can also serve the emperor of this dynasty, and since the Tang Dynasty, she has not paid much attention to these; So when they talked about Li Shanggong, they had a tone of envy and jealousy.

Another palace woman said: "There are two extremely favored concubines today, and now they take turns to sleep every day." One of them is said to have been married three times, and worked as a maid and a domestic servant in a blacksmith shop in the market; There is another one that was robbed in Huainan, and was sent back and forth, and later came to the upper room today......"

"Not really. Men don't look at their origins, and the more unashamed the woman is, the more favored she is! At that time, Taizu, wasn't Li Niangniang, who didn't deal with us over there, that kind of person? ”

"It's like you've seen a man......"

Zhang said quietly: "Don't talk too much, the person who delivers the food will come in a while, and there will be right and wrong for outsiders to hear." In this Wanfu Palace, there is nothing, but you can still fight so hard. ”

The palace maid said: "The slaves and maids are also helping Zhang Niangniang, so they are wary of Li Niangniang." ”

At this moment, several palace maids came up with food. Naturally, there are no two dishes in the cold palace, and there is no wine, but white rice and white noodles are still eaten.

Zhang picked up the chopsticks, put a chopstick dish in the bowl, and the few women sitting with him moved the chopsticks.

She mixed the dishes, took a small bite, and picked a chopstick in the rice bowl. Suddenly, I saw something wriggling in the bowl, and when I looked closely, two live maggots crawled out of the rice grains. Zhang's delicate little face suddenly turned bloodless.

Her stomach twitched, she retched, dropped her chopsticks and covered her mouth with her hand, and stood up. Ran to a basin in the corner of the wall, and immediately vomited.

"Zhang Niangniang......" The palace ladies looked at her in surprise.

One of them understood something, hurriedly got up and went to Zhang's bowl to take a look, glared and said, "There is dirt in Niangniang's bowl!" It's disgusting! ”

Everyone came over to take a look, and immediately scolded with all their mouths.

Zhang vomited for a while, rinsed his mouth with water, and said coldly on his face: "It's like this!" If you find that kind of filthy thing in my bowl today, if you find poison, won't you poison me to be willing! ”

The palace ladies said: "It must be the surname Li who did it!" ”

Zhang also concluded. That rice has to be cooked to become rice, and it's still hot, and someone didn't deliberately put it in it, where are the maggots that are so big? The person who hates her the most in this Wanfu Palace is Taizu's concubine Li. When Taizu was alive, she and the Zhang family competed for favor by unscrupulous means, and later neither of them got the prince, and the Li family attributed all the sins to the Zhang family, and the grudge against the cold palace has not been resolved.

Zhang just said angrily for a moment that he was poisoned. After saying this, she couldn't help but feel cold, because she felt that it was really possible...... Even if she was killed, who would ask about the lives of the people in this cold palace? If you can't find out the slightest and there is Li's obstruction, you must have burned the corpse, anyway, it was a group of people waiting to die.

At this time, a palace maid said, "I'll go and get the person who delivers the food." ”

Zhang said coldly: "They won't admit it, they will push the matter to the kitchen." ”

"The kitchen guy got it, too."

Zhang snorted, his chest rose and fell, and he took a deep breath and said: "This thing is not necessarily done by Li Niangniang's people, we have wronged her without any evidence, but we have many lives of right and wrong." ”