After staying in the capital for two days, every day he had a special person sent by the Zhenfu Division to teach Ye Guan how to recognize the official grades and rules in the palace, and he finally waited for the news of the two lieutenants who escorted him to Beijing, Zhang Ling and Liu Fan. Zhang Ling and Liu Fan failed to escape the pursuit and died on the mountain, and the commander of Jinyiwei made Mu Bin furious when he heard this, and instructed his subordinates to strictly pursue those so-called horse thieves and kill those horse thieves on the spot. But Ye Guan knew in his heart that those horse thieves were just scapegoats, and the real murderers were still at large, just like Zhen Neng from Tai'an Mansion, who was still his hundred households, and no one touched him.

On the day Ye Guan arrived in the capital, including when he learned the rules later, there would be several different little eunuchs doing the same thing for different people every day, and even how many vegetables Ye Guan bought and how many bubbles of would be known clearly, but Ye Guan didn't know anything about it.

"How?" In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Emperor Hongzhi took a few heavy breaths, and after eating a pill-like thing sent by the attendant next to him, he raised his eyes to look at the little eunuch kneeling on the ground.

"Back to Your Majesty, Ye Guan has only been learning court etiquette near the Xuanwu Gate for the past few days, and the rest of the time he is wandering around the Zhenfu Division or the streets of the outer city, no different from ordinary people. Even when learning etiquette, it is too stupid, and many etiquette must be taught several times before it can be memorized. The little eunuch knelt on the ground and answered Emperor Hongzhi's question with a low brow.

"Anything else?" Emperor Hongzhi listened to the little eunuch's reply noncommittally, maybe the pill he ate had an effect, his originally pale face gradually became ruddy, and his spirit was also strong, only at this time, he was not like a person who had been sick, and even his spirit was much more excited.

"Back to Your Majesty, no." The little eunuch replied without thinking.

"Well, somebody." Emperor Hongzhi called the Wu eunuch outside the pavilion in.

"This dog was in vain for the emperor's grace, dragged down to the cane and died, and then threw it to the Zuojiazhuang corpse field and burned it." Emperor Hongzhi said with red eyes.

"Your Majesty, the slave is not guilty!" The little eunuch was horrified, and cried and shouted when the Wu eunuch asked him to go out.

"Not guilty?" Emperor Hongzhi heard the little eunuch crying, and stood up from the embroidered dragon pier suddenly, his face was ruddy but his expression was slightly crazy and pointed at the crying little eunuch and said: "Do you really think that I was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of women?" The widow has not tasted sorrow, has not tasted worry, has not tasted labor, has not tasted fear, has not tasted danger! ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Hongzhi, who was already angry, was even more crazy: "My son has been bumpy since he was born, and the prince of the heavenly family actually needs to hide it in the Forbidden City, growing up in the cold palace, often accompanied by crazy people and wasters, and the six-year-old mother concubine was killed by Wan Guifei, and has suffered the danger of being deposed by the crown prince several times." Why don't you know how to mourn, why don't you know how to worry? Since I ascended the throne, I have been sleeping at night, and I have not dared to abolish the dynasty for no reason, and I am even more afraid that my crown prince will also suffer from the misfortune of me, and there are no other concubines in the harem. Will I not know the labor, the danger, the danger? Emperor Hongzhi took advantage of the power of medicine to express the depression that had been stuffed in his heart for a long time.

"Two nights ago, my son sneaked out of the palace, happened to run into that Ye Guan, and had a brief conversation with him, at that time it happened to be you following near Ye Guan, don't you know? Say, why don't you tell me about it? If I don't leave the palace for a long time, I will be fooled by you pickled dogs? Emperor Hongzhi said so much, and said what was in his heart, and he was a little tired, so he sat back on the embroidered dragon pier, holding the imperial book case with one hand, and drinking a bowl of medicine sent by the palace maid with the other.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty. Yes, it was the king of the East Factory who asked the slaves to do this. The little eunuch kneeling on the ground replied in horror.

"Wang Yue?" Emperor Hongji muttered to himself.

"Strangle, bury, leave him a whole corpse." Emperor Koji reversed his previous order to crush his bones and scatter him.

"By the way, bring his treasure with him, and the errands who enter the palace are all hard-working people, let him bury him with the baby, and he can be reincarnated into a good family in the next life, and he doesn't have to do this self-mutilating body so that the ancestors are disgraced, they can't enter the ancestral grave, and they are not accepted by the township clan, and they will die alone." Emperor Hongzhi sighed, his originally ruddy face gradually receded, and his temper was not so explosive, looking at the little eunuch who was about to be executed, he felt quite unbearable. When he was in the cold palace, he saw Queen Zhou, who was abolished by his father, and all kinds of abandoned concubines who had no heirs, and his old age was extremely miserable. But it was these people who risked their lives and joined forces with the eunuchs to help him evade Wan Guifei's pursuit, so that he could find an opportunity when Emperor Xianzong regretted it through the death of the eunuch Zhang Min who combed the emperor's hair, and finally became the eldest son of Emperor Xinzong and successfully ascended the throne, so he has always been very tolerant of the eunuchs in the palace, and if it wasn't for this little eunuch to bully the monarch today, he wouldn't want to execute him.

"Slave, thank you, Your Majesty." When the little eunuch heard Emperor Hongzhi say this, he was moved to tears, and was found by the emperor to deceive the monarch. can also keep the whole body and be able to carry his treasure into the coffin, and only a benevolent, righteous and generous king like today's saint can do it, the little eunuch kowtowed more than a dozen times in a row, until the head was bleeding and stopped kowtowing, and then said: "Your Majesty, the slave maid should die, the slave maid is not only ordered by the commander of the king, but also the order of Liu Ge Lao, Liu Ge Lao said not to tell Your Majesty about this matter, lest Your Majesty get close to the factory guards because of the prince, etc., so that Wang Zhi Ji Gang's powerful ministers will reappear." ”

Emperor Hongzhi was silent after hearing this, and waved his hand silently, asking the Wu eunuch to drag the little eunuch down.

"My emperor, your temperament is out of order, and you will definitely not get along with those old-fashioned old ministers in the future. However, if the factory guards are appointed, they are afraid of being misunderstood. You are truly born in the deep palace, grown up in the hands of women, and accompanied by eunuchs and palace maids all day long. What should I do? What can I do about it? Emperor Hongzhi sat in front of the imperial book case and was speechless for a long time.

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Today is the day when Ye Guan is on duty, and he was first arranged to be on duty at Xuanwu Gate, which is the Shenwu Gate of later generations. Owned by the Luan Yiwei, it was usually the gate for the royal family to enter and exit, as well as the gate for a market in the inner city. There is also an inner market, which is open every Thursday every month, when it is subject to the trade of merchants for the palace and dignitaries to purchase.

It's a fat job, and it's a chore. Holding the door for merchants to enter and exit, where there will be no filial piety to silver, but there are many dignitaries and dignitaries in Beijing, and there are even more in Shenwumen, and the Han general in this district is really not an official who can make those nobles raise their eyes, so it is also a chore.

There are a total of eight people on duty today, of which four are outside the door and four are inside the door. Ye Guan arranged to be on duty inside the door. With the intention of making friends, Ye Guan took the initiative to set up with them. One of the people in the door is named a merchant, and he is following the path of Mu Bin's department, so he has already been explained by the people above, and he is quite enthusiastic with Ye Guan. The other two were following someone else's path or not what Mu Bin's department liked, so they greeted Ye Guan a little coldly, just nodded, stood solemnly, and stopped talking.

Ye Guan was not on duty for a long time, and according to the time of later generations, it was only two hours, and soon the next class of Han generals would come to change shifts. This kind of working environment is still very cool, there are only two hours of work time a day, and if the rest of the work is not apportioned, it is the remaining time, and there are 120 stone of rice grain per month, plus some conventional inputs, which is also a good job.

"Eh, what are you doing, I don't know if this is Xuanwu Gate, it's not a place where you sell some bargains, it's all for nobles, go out." A Han general pointed to a cowering merchant and said.

"This military master, you are accommodating, I have a good dim sum fruit, no worse than those big dim sum shops. You're accommodating. The little merchant said this, and took out five or six taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it to the guard.

"Well, go in, be careful, look at your stingy appearance, don't disturb the nobles." The Han general felt that the money was a little small, but it was better than nothing, so he let him in. They only dare to blackmail some ignorant small merchants, the big merchants are directly related to those princes and nobles, people are in a good mood, they want to give, and they don't want to give them these gatekeepers, so they accept it with the idea that no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat.

Ye Guan was on duty on the first day today, and he didn't want to show a lot of love for money all of a sudden, so as not to leave a bad impression on those colleagues, so he had to hold back and be his doorman. Just after dozens of merchants entered one after another, Ye Guan, who was suddenly empty, was disrupted by a broken drink.

"Where did the monks come from, go out. This is not where you came. The merchant took out his waist knife and stopped several people who wanted to enter.

"We, sell, this, something": someone replied in broken Chinese.

"Foreigners! Still a missionary! Doesn't it mean that after the establishment of the Jesuit Society, Catholic missionaries came to China in large numbers? I don't think it was during the Koji period! Ye Guan was shocked to see a foreigner dressed in tattered monk's clothes and wearing a cross.

"Sell something? What to sell? The merchant saw why the foreigners were dressed in tatters, and squinted his eyes and looked them up and down.

"This, good stuff, punctual, clocks. I sent the bell. The leading black-clad missionary lifted off a white cloth they were carrying. When they opened it, the others didn't feel anything, but Ye Guan took a breath of cold air.

"Ringing bells! Such an accurate chiming clock? How far has the technology of Europeans progressed? Even missionaries from thousands of miles away can get it, but in fact, as early as the Hongzhi period, there were missionaries from the Catholic Church who came to China, but for some reason they did not succeed? If the West learns from the East, then a hundred years, what will the future of the Ming Dynasty look like! Ye Guan was not only envious of the Europeans who were about to pass through the dark Middle Ages, that Christianity would no longer be ignorant, and that there would soon be sectarian innovation, which would directly promote the great progress of the entire European society, but also when he was saddened by the gradual depression of the Ming Dynasty, the merchant shouted at the missionaries and said: "Go away, dressed in black, and covered with a white cloth to send you to the end, is it not enough to be depressed?" Get out, if you don't get out, I'll put you in jail!" As soon as the merchant finished speaking, more than a dozen Ouchi guards drew their swords and stepped forward, looking at the missionaries with fierce eyes.

"Oh God, go, let's go. Here, there is no way. The leading priest looked at the guards in amazement, then turned to leave.

"Wait, technology, industrial revolution, don't go. No, priests, wait a minute! Ye Guan could not let such an opportunity slip away, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop those missionaries.