At Kang Longji's age, it is normal for him to have physical problems, and in the Dongqian Dynasty, where the average life expectancy was only forty or fifty years old, Kang Longji could be a mascot when he was old.

However, it is precisely because he is too old, once he has a physical problem, it is irreparable, even if he is a great grandmaster of the Tiangang Realm, it is useless, after all, he is an old man who is over 100 years old, as long as his body begins to have problems, it means that he has entered the countdown to death!

And from Zhou An's point of view now, he doesn't want Kang Longji to have any physical problems!

Because Kang Longji is the patron saint of the East Qianjiang River!

If it weren't for Kang Longji's presence, the Empress Shenzhao wouldn't even have a chance to succeed to the throne, after the death of the Empress Shendu, I don't know how many royal children coveted the throne, plus Wu Xukuan made waves, if there was no Kang Longji at that time, Wu Xukuan might have directly supported an obedient prince and prince to ascend the throne.

It is precisely because of Kanglongji that there is this situation.

In fact, Wu Xukuan wants to usurp the throne, there is a most direct way, he doesn't even need to carry out too complicated planning, he only needs to send someone to assassinate the Shenzhao Empress and blame the rivers and lakes, and he can directly support a puppet emperor to ascend the throne.

This is the easiest and most effective way to do it.

However, Wu Xukuan couldn't do it.

Because of Kanglongji!

Kang Longji's role in Ouchi is tantamount to the Dinghai God Needle.

For Zhou An, he has been both prosperous and lossy with the empress, he has come to this point, and he can't turn back, even if Wu Xukuan shows favor to him, he must go all the way to the dark, because he knows very well that even if he betrays the empress and takes refuge under Wu Xukuan, Wu Xukuan will unload the mill and kill the donkey sooner or later.

Traitors don't end well, Zhou An won't be a traitor.

So Zhou An hopes that Kang Longji can do well, can continue to be his Dinghai Shen Needle, and continue to maintain the situation, if Kang Longji dies now, the empress will not be good, and Zhou An has not yet been able to turn the tables, and eighty percent will die.

In fact, Kang Longji is the biggest obstacle to Zhou An's promotion, as long as Kang Longji is here, Zhou An will never be able to become a generation of power supervisors, but Zhou An doesn't mind Kang Longji's existence, he hopes that Kang Longji can live for another three or five years, and when Wu Xukuan is eliminated and the country is stabilized, at that time, even if Kang Longji dies, he can be called a smiling Jiuquan!

And if Zhou An can be the chief manager and the power supervisor of the peaceful and prosperous era at that time, it will be beautiful.

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October 15, the Great Asahi.

Early in the morning, the palace received news that a sedan chair had been prepared at the gate of Marquis Wuwen's mansion.

As Zhou An expected, Wu Xukuan is going to come to the court today, today's early dynasty is a monthly dynasty, and there are thousands of officials in Qianjing City who are qualified to go to the court, since Wu Xukuan has chosen to come to the court, then there should not be a large number of officials who do not go to the court today.

Ouchi, Qianwu Palace.

The empress got up very early today, and ate some pastries for breakfast, and she didn't have the heart to eat anything good, so she hurriedly ate some, and then drove to Fengtian Palace.

The place of the Chang Dynasty and the Great Dynasty is different, the daily Chang Dynasty is on the Qianjian Temple, while the Great Dynasty is on the Fengtian Temple.

Because there are too many people in the Great Dynasty, Fengtian Hall is the largest palace in the Dongqian Palace, and the inside and outside of the palace are large, not to mention thousands of people, even if it is thousands, they can accommodate the same court.

The reason why it is necessary to divide two places to go to the court is because the Fengtian Temple is too big, and the Chang Dynasty generally has sixty or seventy people to go to the court together, and when there are many people, there are only 100 people, and the palace is too big, and it is inconvenient to talk.

But the Great Dynasty is different, and all the Beijing officials of the high grade have to come to the court, and on the one hand, they must be accommodated, and on the other hand, they must all be able to hear the emperor's voice.

The sun had only been rising for a short time, and it was still a little dark.

In the autumn breeze, the dragon chariot drawn by six tall horses marched southward without hurrying, walking not fast, Kang Longji and Zhou An both followed on foot, and dozens of palace maids and eunuchs followed.

Fengtian Hall is in the middle of the southern part of the Great Inner Palace, and now the empress can only be regarded as just going out, not out of the inner court, because the distance is far away, so she has to sit on the dragon chariot, not on foot.

The area of the Dongqian Imperial Palace is very large, if converted into acres, it covers an area of about 1,200 acres, and the maximum distance from the south gate to the north gate has exceeded two miles.

When the empress came out of the Qianwu Palace, she had to go out of the inner court first, and then walk two or three hundred meters before she could reach the Fengtian Palace.

Not all of these palaces are called the Inner Court.

The inner court originally referred to the harem, which is the place where the emperor and his three palaces and six queens and concubines live and live, which is called the inner court, and the current Dongqian Imperial Palace, only the north half is considered the inner court, and the south is not.

The dragon chariot shook slightly, but the overall situation was quite stable.

Empress Shenzhao sat behind the curtain of the door, and Zhou An could vaguely see that the empress had a serious expression, frowning slightly, and looked full of worries and heavy thoughts.

Everyone had a premonition that something might happen today.

Because this is the first great dynasty after Wu Xukuan transferred troops to Qianjing, if Wu Xukuan doesn't do something today, he will be sorry for the 100,000 soldiers and horses he transferred.

In the past, Wu Xukuan led most of the important ministers of the court to go to the court together, but today the court is here again, if he doesn't do anything today, then the matter of not going to the court a few days ago seems to be meaningless, but if he wants to do it today, what will he do? !

Do you still want to impeach and kill a certain important minister in the court who is not with him?

Zhou An followed the dragon chariot, and glanced at the bead curtain on the dragon chariot door many times, the bead curtain was shaking, so he could vaguely see the empress.

Zhou An now wanted to know what the empress was thinking.

Now Zhou An is the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi, in some periods of the history of Dongqian, the eunuch Bingbi did want to accompany the emperor to the court with the eunuch of the palm print, and those periods were the period when the eunuch of Bingbi had the greatest power.

In recent decades, the fact that the eunuchs of Bingbi were able to go to court together has only happened so many times, all because of some special reasons.

Zhou An can accompany the empress to the court today, which can be regarded as a special situation, because Zhou An said that to Kang Longji last night, perhaps because Kang Longji agreed with Zhou An's opinion, so Zhou An was allowed to go to the court together.

This is naturally a kind of importance.

Kang Longji probably wanted Zhou An to feel the court firsthand, so that he could have a better understanding of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, so he was like this.

Zhou An naturally wanted to seize this opportunity.

So he only wanted to know now what the empress was thinking.

How can I behave it?

In the huge square, Long Yuan is still moving forward, this is just out of the inner court, and it is not far from the Fengtian Palace.

But I saw an old eunuch coming in a hurry from the south.

"Holy ......" The old eunuch walked quickly to the side of the dragon chariot and followed the dragon chariot.

Zhou An knows this old eunuch, he is the chief eunuch of Qianwu Palace, one of the empress's henchmen, Zhang Youcai and Zhang Gonggong, in the inner court, this is also a very special existence, because he grew up watching the empress, just like Wang Gonggong of Xichun Palace watched Princess Yunjing grow up, when the empress was still the eldest princess, Gonggong Zhang was by the empress's side, until today.

Speaking of which, if there is no such person as Kang Longji, then after Emperor Shenzhao ascends the throne, it is likely that this father-in-law will become the new chief manager.

"How's it going?" The empress's voice came from the dragon's chariot.

"It's coming, it's all coming." Gonggong Zhang bowed down and followed Long Yuan, and said as he walked, "The servants have gone to see, not only Wu Xukuan is here, but the ministers who took leave with Wu Xukuan before are also here, not only that, but even the Marquis of Xingguo, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Wei Darong, and the commander of the secret guard, Wu Guoyu, who was really sick before, also came......

"All here?" The empress immediately replied, looking very uneasy.

"It's all here!" Gonggong Zhang confirmed.

It's a little weird, even Zhou An's feeling came out, today's dynasty, I was worried that there would be fewer people coming, but now it seems that the situation is just the opposite, not only less, but more!

Even those courtiers who were really sick and had been sick for a while came to the court, which was obviously wrong.

This matter has nothing to do with Wu Xukuan!

Zhou An had some impressions of the people mentioned by Gonggong Zhang just now, and he and Gao Hong had never talked about Wu Xukuan in private, so he knew that those people were all Wu Xukuan's direct cronies.

Therefore, they went to the court with illness, and it must have been Wu Xukuan.

What is Wu Xukuan going to do today?!

He's going to do something!