In the middle of the day, the official in charge of the ceremonies in the inner palace came to arrange the morning audience, from informing the process to determining the number of people, from the taboo of speech to the choice of clothing, he was busy until the hour before stopping, which made Hua Hyaliu and others complain.

From the geographical point of view, the embassy where Hua Hateliu and others are located is in the north of the city, so it is necessary to take a car around most of Nianqing City until the south gate before officially entering the inner palace. Yang Jian stopped doing it as soon as he heard it, he didn't want to go out at all, and said in a heartfelt manner: "When you come, you will be clear, you are responsible for talking, I am responsible for protecting you to talk, don't say now that there is no danger just to meet, there is danger, when the time comes, you will protect me, I won't go to the hindrance!" ”

Of course, Hua Hate Liu disagreed, but it wasn't until the moment before he was ready to leave that he compromised and begged the officials of the celebrant to take care of him more - it wasn't that he was soft, but I don't know when Yang Jian took Hua Yuchi, Tian is not afraid, and the lantern trio sneaked out to play first.

Since the list of personnel has not been reported, the number of people has been reported, in order to make up the number of people, Hua Hate Liu had to call She Qing to come to the top, so that the number of people can be gathered.

In this way, together with other officials of all sizes who were in charge of specific affairs, a total of thirteen people set off in this way.

is indispensable, of course, there are those imperial guards who are called "protection", but this time, although Na Phuntsok still takes the lead, it is another part of the people who are transferred.

"If this continues, we can proudly say that just a dozen of us have restrained a whole team of 500 people out of the 25,000 people of the entire Imperial Guard Army-it seems that the mother of the Great Yue Country you mentioned really looks up to us, sir!"

She Qing drew a map of Nianqing City from memory based on Hua Hate Liu's day and night, and roughly estimated the scale of the entire inner palace, and finally determined that the so-called Imperial Guard was only 25,000 people according to the troop layout, combat power radiation, etc.

"Because of this, I can't figure out why that crazy woman suddenly had such a big change, according to Yuqing, only 25,000 people are firmly in the hands of the royal family......

After listening to She Qing's sigh, Hua Hate Liu also said sadly. Last night, he thought hard for a long time and couldn't come up with any specific reason, and after exchanging information with She Qing, the only thing the two of them could be sure of was that this matter should be related to the Silver Vase King!

However, after listening to the conclusions of the two, Tian was not afraid to completely pour cold water on the two people in one sentence: "I don't need your version of the discussion, I can say that this matter must be related to the King of the Silver Bottle, and even with the prince and the living Buddha who has not yet appeared!" ”

In this way, the two had no choice but to smile bitterly at each other, intending to continue to confirm according to the next step.

It takes about an hour to go around from the north of the city to the south of the city, and then go straight to the main gate of the inner palace, but because there are imperial guards all the way to open the way, and the officials of the celebrant deliberately flatter and arrive a little earlier so as not to make the prince and the mother of the country wait for a long time, so it took half an hour to reach the outside of the inner palace.

At this time, it was an old acquaintance who came out to greet Hua Hates Willow outside the inner palace, look at the solemn and fascinated look, who else can there be besides Bai Keqi?

"Mr. was a little earlier than expected, and I think it was a lot of bumps along the way." Greeting the flower and hating the willow, he squinted coldly at the celebrant and said meaningfully.

"It's causing trouble for Mr. Bai...... However, Her Royal Highness the Mother of the Nation must have been waiting, so it is better not to keep her waiting. The master of ceremonies didn't take Bai Keqi's blame to heart, he only said "Her Royal Highness the Mother of the Nation" and nothing else, thinking that he had made his position clear, and he was naturally not polite to Bai Keqi.

"You...... Licentious! Bai Keqi heard him speak coldly, and couldn't help but be angry, and reprimanded loudly.

"The lower official is just a small five-grade official, naturally not as good as the official position of the adult from the third grade, and he doesn't dare to be presumptuous in front of the adult...... However, if the adults are dissatisfied with the lower officials, they can go to the prime minister to ask the lower officials, and when the time comes, please show mercy to the adults! ”

"You!" Hearing that although the other party regarded himself as a "subordinate official" everywhere, he was always reminding himself that the backer behind him was the courtesy of Her Royal Highness the Mother of the Country, Bai Keqi was even more angry in his heart, but now in front of foreign missions, he couldn't lose the national unity, so he had to snort coldly, and he took Hua Hate Liu and his party to the main hall.

A mother and son who seem to be orphans and widows, their relationship is not as harmonious as people suspect. Just last night, Heizi walked to Hua Hate Willow at night and told him in detail about some of the situation in the court, including the so-called power structure of "four phases, three kings, two emperors and one Buddha".

To put it simply, the four phases refer to the ministers responsible for the assessment and selection of officials, the ministers responsible for sacrifices and ceremonies, the ministers responsible for the management of civil registration and tax collection, and the ministers responsible for farmland and water conservancy and palace construction.

The "Three Kings" Hua Hate Liu has long heard of them, namely the Silver Bottle King in charge of the border guards, the Tietuo King in charge of the Army, and the Bronze Snail King who was in charge of the Imperial Guard Army and was only exterminated in recent years. When it came to this, Hua Hate Liu keenly noticed that if it had only been a few years since the King of Tongluo had been removed from the clan before, he would be able to control the Imperial Guard Army in a short period of time, and this former King of the Golden Wheel of the Yue Kingdom would not be an idle person!

"Two emperors and one Buddha" does not need to be said by Heizi, Hua Hate Liu also knows that the two emperors refer to the current new monarch of the Yue Kingdom and the mother of the Yue Kingdom, and the one Buddha refers to the Situ Living Buddha * Dege.

In the process of Heizi's introduction, the current division of the four phases was especially mentioned, due to the removal of the dead copper snail king, and the two kings and two emperors, just by the four forces one by one, especially the etiquette minister, don't look at him is just an official in charge of sacrifices and ceremonies, it seems that he has little to do with soldiers, officials, money, and power, but don't forget that the new maharaja is still young, and if the mother of the Yue country wants to take over the power justifiably, no matter what, the minister of etiquette can't be bypassed. What is even more worrying is that after being co-opted by the mother of the country, if the minister wants to find a reason to say which official misbehaves and which phenomenon is a sign of heavenly punishment and needs to be dismissed and who needs to be killed, it will be an easy matter.

"Which side of the white chess is it?" When she said this, Hua Hyaliu thought about it and remembered that among the civil officials who had a little friendship with her, Bai Keqi was the only one, and she couldn't help but ask with concern.

"He is the person on Wen Xiang's side, it turned out that the king was standing behind him, and now he is still standing behind the king." Kuroko replied meaningfully: "However, since he came back from Xizhou, he has been demoted by the Minister of Rites and transferred to the side of the Minister of Rites, and his rank has been lowered accordingly. ”

"Why demote?" When Hua Hate Liu relayed this to She Qing, She Qing was shocked. His relationship with Bai Keqi and Heizi is not bad, after all, he was entertained for negotiations when he was in Xizhou, and there were some exchanges with each other on the way here.

"Is it because of us?" When the words were asked, She Qing suddenly thought of the reason again, and wanted to hate Liu for verification.

"To be precise, it was because the task of cooperating with Shu was not completed." Speaking of this, Hua Hate Liu sneered and said, "What nonsense! ”

"Well, that's a lot of nonsense...... Dashu is like this, and still cooperates? Isn't it true that you are looking for death yourself? If it were me, I would not only punish him, but I would reward him well! She Qing volunteered to do justice for Bai Keqi, but was called back by Hua Hate Liu's strict order.

"Don't say that people don't listen to you as an outsider, and you don't let people think that Bai Keqi has become a spy in Xizhou? Why else do you risk interfering in other people's affairs to excuse him? ”

"This ......" She Qing nodded, thinking that it was fortunate that he didn't succeed, otherwise he would have hurt him if he couldn't help, so he would have sinned too much.

"This is politics, where is right and wrong, everything is based on interests, things that go against interests must not be done, and people who violate interests must not stay. Bai Keqi can still be an official now, I think someone must be secretly protecting him, otherwise he would have been asked to roll up and leave! Hua Hate Liu sighed, "If the Yang City Lord can really mix up in the future, your position will naturally be indispensable, and you will remember it when the time comes, you must not fight in the nest like this group of people, and engage in any factional disputes!" ”

"She Qing remember!" She Qing didn't expect Hua Hate Liu to talk about himself without a match, and immediately replied solemnly with a straight face. "However, Mr. said that the four phases are divided into four factions, and he just said that the Wen phase belongs to the Dajun faction, and the rite phase belongs to the Yue State Mother faction, so what about the other two phases?"

"Among the other two phases, Ji Xiang was co-opted by the Tietuo King, and the Silver Vase King was only co-opted by the Gong Xiang."

"This ...... I have to say that this situation seems to be more chaotic than the situation in the whole of Dashu......" After thinking about it for a long time, She Qing didn't know what benefits such an arrangement would have for everyone in it, but he looked at the loopholes everywhere and was vulnerable everywhere.

"It's right to say it's messy, but you shouldn't say you can't see it." As he spoke, Hua Hyaliu stretched out his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger and said: "There are at least three points that can be seen: first, the minister of literature is on the side of the new monarch, which shows that in the mainstream of the civil system, the new monarch is still very supportive; Second, the prime minister has been used as a tool for the mother of the country, and it is conceivable that we will be dragged on for a long time in this negotiation; Third......"

"Third, Ji Xiang was co-opted by the Tietuo King, if they cooperate with the Silver Bottle King, they will win a very big face, even if they break with the Silver Bottle King, holding Ji Xiang in his hand is equivalent to holding the world's treasury in his hand, and he also has the upper hand - it can be seen that this Tietuo King not only has foresight and ambition, but also has brains and preparations, so it is still very difficult to deal with." Following the train of thought of the flower hating the willow, She Qing easily saw the key to it.

"Not bad!" Hua Hate Liu nodded approvingly.

At this time, walking on the marble road into the inner palace with Bai Keqi, She Qing was thinking about the conversation when he set off, and at the same time looked forward to it in his heart: Let me see this nonsense Xiyue officialdom!