If it weren't for the capture of Puzhou, the military report arrived half an hour first; If it weren't for the emperor who immediately set up the harem after receiving the military report; If it weren't for Lu Guangting stopping the emperor halfway and leading him to Concubine Li's Yaohua Palace; If it weren't for the fact that it was nearly two watches, as soon as the emperor arrived at Yaohua Palace, he would invite Ying'er to sleep

If so many of them were not overlapped, it would have almost made a big mistake in the less than a month since the new provincial supervisor Shang Jing took office.

Shang Jingding received a report from the Western Xinjiang Army forwarded to the Daming Palace by the Ministry of War in the duty room of the Inner Servant Province, and it was said that Tubo suddenly sent troops and captured Liangzhou, an important town in Hexi. In recent years, there have been many military reports about the capture of the city of Western Xinjiang by Tubo, but first, most of the imperial court's military strength was placed on the northern battlefield to quell the rebellion. Second, in most cases, the Tubo people retreated immediately after capturing a state city, and there was no intention of long-term occupation, so the imperial court received this kind of military report, but only to understand and grasp the news, and had no actual meaning.

Therefore, Shang Jing did not pay much attention to this military report that was diametrically opposed to the military report on the capture of Puzhou that he had personally presented to the emperor half an hour earlier. He just sent a little eunuch to Yanying Hall to inquire about the emperor's movements, and when he learned that the emperor was in the harem and was led to Yaohua Palace by Lu Guangting on the way, Shang Jing's mind shifted to Lu Guangting, so much so that he forgot that he still had an urgent military report on hand that needed to be submitted to the emperor's imperial inspection immediately.

Although Shang Jing did not directly participate in the recent beheading of Li Jinzhong, he still guessed the truth of the matter as soon as he got the news of Li Jinzhong's death by virtue of his keen sense of smell cultivated by serving the emperor for a long time. And this conjecture, whether from Wang Bao'er's mouth, or from the emperor's sudden pardon of Lai Xing'er's crime of bullying the king, and the rapid change of reinstatement and marriage to him, have been repeatedly confirmed, so that he can undoubtedly confirm that Li Jinzhong died at the hands of the emperor.

The illustrious Li Jinzhong finally ended up in a different place at the hands of the emperor who supported him to ascend to the top, but his closest confidant Lu Guangting was not implicated at all, but after Li Jinzhong's death, he seemed to be more reused by the emperor. In this regard, after many days of hard thinking and careful observation, Shang Jing came to the conclusion that the emperor wanted to use Luguangting to check and balance himself and prevent the power of the Inner Servant Province from being monopolized by himself, and another important reason was that Luguangting, like Wei Chang, who had not been attached to Li Jinzhong for a long time, found another backer in the palace before Li Jinzhong lost power-Li Guifei Dugu Wanrong.

With this astonishing discovery, Shang Jing couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart: Alas, if it weren't for the fact that he was used as the prince's scapegoat to enter the prosecutor's hall of Li Jinzhong and Lu Guangting two years ago, he couldn't stand the torture and interrogation there, and prematurely confessed that the prince was the mastermind behind finding someone to blame, maybe the emperor would not be suspicious of himself now. He Luguang Court will not have the opportunity to fight against him in the Inner Servant Province.

After the emperor ascended to the throne, in order to ensure that the inner chamberlain province close to him could be truly used by him, he carefully planned and implemented a wide range of personnel adjustments. Although Xie Liangchen, the provincial supervisor appointed by the emperor before his death, was low-key and always diligent, he was regarded by the emperor as Li Jinzhong's sworn friend, and when Wang Cairen's son Li Bin was beheaded by an assassin who infiltrated the palace, he stabbed him to death with a sword in public. Together with Lu Guangting and Wu Xiaozhong, he was reused by the emperor, and at the same time he was transferred to the Inner Servant Province and was promoted to the Inner Servant. From that moment on, Shang Jing had a premonition that the next Provincial Supervisor of the Inner Chamberlain would inevitably be chosen among the three of them.

Wu Xiaozhong and himself belonged to the same East Palace, and he can be called an old man by the emperor's side, and he has no bad deeds of betraying his master to survive, so it stands to reason that he should be the best candidate to succeed Xie Liangchen. But I don't know why, once this old man was transferred to Daming Palace, he seemed to become deaf and dumb, if he wasn't asked by the emperor in person, maybe he couldn't say ten words a day.

Although the position of the provincial supervisor of the inner chamberlain is far from being comparable to the governors of the three provinces and six ministries on the surface, since the emperor's grandfather was in power since the emperor's grandfather was in power, for three generations, his actual status and power have faintly surpassed the Shangshu Order, the Zhongshu Order, and the subordinate servants of the court, and they are known as the "Inner Minister". A person who can hold such an official position can always remain silent in front of outsiders, pretending to be wise and foolish to protect himself and avoid contradictions, but if he is like this in front of the emperor, it will be difficult to gain the emperor's trust.

Wu Xiaozhong may be because he has read too much, his brain is a little stubborn, and because he has only fed the horses in the stable for many years, he is extremely lacking in experience in serving the king, so once he is transferred to the Daming Palace as an errand boy, he only thinks about how to retreat in this forbidden palace full of wit, and it is inevitable that he is too negative in dealing with people, so he inadvertently creates a rare opportunity for himself.

As for Lu Guangting, Shang Jing always believed that the reason why the emperor transferred him back to Chang'an from the position of supervisor was mostly to appease Li Jinzhong so that he would not be suspicious because the emperor had reactivated him. Although Lu Guangting has served in the inner province for many years, and has served as the inner temple uncle for a long time, he has the talent to handle cases and rectify people that is difficult for others to achieve, but in Shang Jing's eyes, he is just a foil for himself and Wu Xiaozhong, and the emperor will never trust him as much as he does Wu Xiaozhong and himself.

Now that Li Jinzhong is dead, and he has been officially appointed by the emperor as the provincial eunuch of the inner chamberlain, Lu Guangting, as Li Jinzhong's confidant, should be a man with his tail between his legs at this time, not seeking merit, but seeking a defensive pattern that has no faults, why did he have to act in a high-profile manner unexpectedly?

Since Li Jinzhong's death, he not only relied on his status as the general of the prison gate, re-re-rectified the prison gate army, reported to the emperor for permission, and sent all the generals and colonels in the prison gate army who had close contacts with Li Jinzhong to the western Xinjiang defense autumn frontier, and without mercy sent all Li Jinzhong's old relatives and other relatives in the disbanded "Jinggong Errand Room" to Shangyang, Jiucheng and other palace errands hundreds of miles away, completely eliminating the influence of the Li family in the Daming Palace.

What made Shang Jing most indignant, and there was nowhere to vent his dissatisfaction, was that Lu Guangting made such a big move in front of his eyes, and completely put aside, his new boss, from beginning to end, without asking him whether he should do this, nor did he discuss with him who should stay and who should be sent away. If there was no emperor behind his back, even if he lent him two guts, he would not dare to despise himself so much. (To be continued.) )