While drinking tea, while looking at the newspaper in his hand, after finally killing half an hour, Wang Shanxi waited for the carriage sent by the Hanlin Academy to greet him!

But this time, Lord Sun, the deputy head of the immigration department of the Hanlin Academy, did not come, and he came to greet him yesterday, which was already a high-level courtesy, so naturally it was impossible to come to serve him every day, and people were also busy.

It was Lord Sun's subordinate who came to pick him up, and he also belonged to Hanlin of the Immigration Section, but since he was arranged to pick up people, it also proved that his status in the Hanlin Academy was not high, and he was several times the lowest grade in the Hanlin Academy.

But because the Hanlin Academy is important, even the requirements for ordinary staff members are high, so the most ordinary staff members in it also start from the seven-grade editing.

Therefore, the status of this person is low, and it is only relatively speaking, for the vast majority of ordinary officials, this is already a person with a great future from the Hanlin compilation of the seventh grade.

Follow the clerk surnamed Chen to get into the carriage, and then go all the way to the royal palace, on the way, clerk Chen carefully told Wang Shanxi some precautions after entering the palace.

Don't move around, don't talk, don't look around!

When facing the saint, you must pay attention to the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, although you don't need to kneel in the uniform, but the posture of bowing must also be standard, when talking to Your Majesty, the voice can not be too loud, nor too small, but you can't use the messy hometown dialect, otherwise how can the Holy Son of Heaven know what you say?

In addition, when talking to the Son of Heaven, you can't talk nonsense unless Your Majesty asks you to say something.

In short, you must not be rude in front of the Holy Son of Heaven! If the monarch loses his honor, although the Holy Son of Heaven treats the courtiers very kindly and will not say anything, but the officials outside will not be polite to you, and they will impeach you in minutes.

After being mentioned by this Chen clerk on the road, when he was about to arrive at the Royal Annex, Wang Shanxi, who was already a little nervous, was even more nervous!

"We're almost there!" As he spoke, Section Clerk Chen pointed to the huge building complex in front of him.

Wang Shanxi took advantage of the situation, and the first thing that caught his eye was not a huge building complex, but a large area of grassland.

They are now located right in front of the Royal Palace!

At the beginning, the main body of the royal palace was the Wei State Mansion, and there were many other nobles' mansions around, and there were also some private houses nearby, but later after choosing this place as the royal palace, it was directly based on the Wei State Mansion as the main body, and many nearby mansions and private houses were included in it!

The adjacent mansion was included in the royal annex and served as the main event place for the royal family, a measure that more than doubled the size of the harem to meet the growing demand of harem ladies.

Part of the outer building is used as an office space, serving as a front hall in the traditional sense, Li Xuan works in the front hall every day, and the Hanlin Academy, as Li Xuan's personal secretarial institution, is also within the palace wall.

Outside the front hall, most of the houses and streets were demolished, leveled, and planted with flowers and plants!

It's not for beauty, it's for safety!

After all, the royal palace is not a palace, there is no tall and thick city wall, and the courtyard wall is also a nearby street, which is a very serious adjustment for the security work.

Although this palace wall looks very high, more than six meters, but the thickness is only a pitiful two meters, and it is not as thick as the city walls of those county towns, so this palace wall is at most to prevent ordinary people from entering, but if there is an enemy army besieging the palace courtyard, it is basically useless.

However, the main force of the protection of the royal palace has never been the thin palace wall, but the nearly 5,000 guards troops stationed in the royal palace all year round.

According to the relevant regulations, the Guards should send an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, and a cavalry team to take turns to garrison the palace, with a total strength of about 5,000 people, and these troops should be rotated once every six months.

Behind the seemingly thin palace wall, there was an army of 5,000 and more than 20 field guns and more shotguns, and a huge basement was also dug out, and a large amount of ammunition and food were stored.

In addition, there is a secret project in the palace annex, that is, a secret tunnel, dug out of the palace courtyard, all the way to the outside of the city, the secret stronghold outside the city is stationed all the year round, standing horses, riding a horse can escape from Jinling City, or go to the dock where there is a secret backup of the special boat, this escape route, even the generals of the Guards do not know.

These are Li Xuan's many life-saving methods.

He never had the intention of leaning on the palace wall to save his life!

Although the army is his foundation, he is always on guard, and the contradiction between the navy and the army is certainly a conflict of interests, but Li Xuan's deliberate arrangement is also indispensable.

Even within the army or navy, there are many factions.

If there were no factions within the military to balance each other, Li Xuan would not be able to sleep peacefully at night.

Even so, he still used the Guards to defend the army or navy, so that the Guards were independent of the army and navy and used to contain them.

Even the Guards, he didn't fully believe it, so that almost the Guards on Hantong's side carried out extremely strict monitoring, and every officer in the Guards could basically enjoy the treatment of special monitoring.

Of course, the objects of Hantong's monitoring are not only the guards, basically all officials are the objects of their monitoring, regardless of civil and military, and military generals receive more attention because they hold the army.

Ordinary officers are fine, those generals, especially those who hold real power, such as division commanders and army commanders, are basically the focus of Hantong, and every general is surrounded by Hantong agents.

In addition, in the past two years, Li Xuan has increased his support for the Department of Military Intelligence, and made the agency independent from the War Department, directly under the Privy Council, and under the direct jurisdiction of Li Xuan.

Although the Military Intelligence Department is a foreign intelligence agency, there are many things that are hidden and not known to outsiders, and there are several more agencies in the Military Intelligence Department to monitor some officials and generals, and no one knows whether it is not.

It is the two intelligence agencies themselves, also under the connivance of Li Xuan, there are many contradictions, because the division of powers is not too clear, and part of the two sides can only overlap, so these two intelligence agencies are actually monitoring each other.

The subordinate army and the civilian officials are hostile, there are factions within the army, there are factions within the civilian officials, there are intelligence systems for monitoring, there are conflicts within the intelligence system, and many checks and balances constitute the current political ecosystem of the Tang Dynasty.

The containment and balance between many institutions is also an important guarantee for Li Xuan to control power!

For these, most people in the court don't know, or they know, but they can only be regarded as not knowing, and no one will stupidly jump out and say that this is not right, that is not good.

You jumped out, either stupid or rebellious, no matter which of the two, Your Majesty will cut you down in minutes.

Therefore, the hundred officials obviously knew that Han Tong was monitoring them, and they did not forget to impeach Han Tong at ordinary times, and tickled the teeth hated by Li Daobing and others, but in the past two years, no one dared to say anything about the harm of the factory guards and the dismissal of Han Tong.

Why?

Because someone said this a few years ago, and then they were all arrested by Li Xuan himself, and they were all charged with all kinds of messy crimes, the death penalty of the death penalty, the life of life, the exile of exile, without any exceptions!

So the current attitude towards Hantong in the Tang Dynasty is that you can impeach Hantong for not doing things authentically and ask for punishment of Li Daobing and the like, but you can't say that you want to remove Hantong.

The former, Li Xuan doesn't care, and even sometimes deals with one or two black sheep of the Han Dynasty to calm the anger of the hundred officials.

In the latter, Li Xuan will kill people.

After Wang Shanxi entered the Royal Courtyard, he followed Section Chen directly to the office compound of the Hanlin Academy, waiting for an audience, at this time the saber he was carrying was also taken away, and he was also carefully checked to ensure that he did not carry a weapon.

This waited for more than two hours, during which he didn't even dare to drink too much tea, because Wang Shanxi was worried that it would be bad if he had an urgency to urinate when he was facing the saint.

After waiting for two hours, he was taken to a waiting room by a secretary of the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, and when he arrived, there were already several people waiting here, including civil officials and military generals.

Wang Shanxi glanced at it slightly, he didn't recognize everyone, but judging from their military ranks and badges, every one of them was a big man.

Three civil officials, judging from the official badges, one is the third rank, and two are the second rank. The third product is placed in the locality, which is the political envoy, and in the case of the central government, it is a high-ranking official at the level of the director of each ministry, and from the second grade, then it is basically a squire of each ministry or the governor of each province.

The remaining generals are not from their army system, but from the navy, with the rank of rear admiral on his shoulders, and it is estimated that he may be the commander of a certain detachment or something.

In front of these people, he is a small major, and he really has no sense of existence.

For his arrival, the four people inside even showed a strange look, for no other reason, this person's military rank is too low, and according to the convention, he is not qualified to meet the Son of Heaven.

But Wang Shanxi appeared here, which naturally made them a little curious.

However, even if they are curious, everyone is an old fritter, and it is clear that this waiting room is definitely not a place to talk, why, the Son of Heaven is next door!

When they came to see the Son of Heaven, naturally each of them had a lot of things, and they were all preparing for the upcoming audience, so how could they be in the mood to chat with their colleagues!

After waiting for another half an hour, Wang Shanxi was finally called out, and then followed a secretary to a huge office door not far away, as the secretary opened the door and let him go in by himself, he took a deep breath, and then stepped into the door.

At this time, he took another deep breath, then stood still and bowed and said: "Deputy Station Chief of the Nanyang Station of the Military Intelligence Department of the Privy Council, Army Major Wang Shanxi knocks to see my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live."