Zhou An was sealed as a county marquis!

From the point of view of the title system of the Dongqian Dynasty, Zhou An directly skipped the three titles of county son, county man, and county earl, and directly sealed the county marquis, although he is the lowest level of the marquis, and the food is also the lowest, compared to the county marquis of Kang Longji with 3,000 food yi, and even less than Wu Xukuan's marquis of ten thousand households, but this is also a real marquis!

Since then, Zhou An can also be honored by the people below as Hou Ye!

In fact, in this place of Qianjing, the county marquis can be said to grasp a lot of money, which is nothing, on the one hand, because there are too many members of the imperial family here, and on the other hand, there are too many people who have been knighted in Dongqian for more than 300 years, especially in the boundary of Qianjing.

The county marquis is just a small role, and when it comes to the quality of the anecdote, it is equivalent to a positive third product, or the positive third product without real power, compared to the fourth and fifth grades of officials with real power, after all, it is just a virtual title, and only from the title, there is a county marquis above the county marquis, and then there is the county prince, the auxiliary state prince, the town state prince, and then above it, it is the prince, starting from the county king, or the prince, the prince.

And the highest knighthood is the first-class noble prince who is actually sealed, and his quality is superb.

Zhou An was named the Marquis of Gaoyang County, and Gaoyang County ...... It is Gaoyang County, where Wu Xukuan's 100,000 Sichuan River Army is stationed now, not far from Qianjing City, but Zhou An does not need to go to Gaoyang County, because his title is not a real seal, so he does not need to go to his own fiefdom.

In fact, under the first-class noble prince, there is no need to consider the issue of actual sealing, and there is no actual seal.

Dongqian Dynasty, in addition to the founding of the country, a number of princes, after more than 300 years, the title can be said to be only a handful, and in the past 100 years, only one person has been named a first-class noble prince, that is, the eldest brother of the same father and mother of the current Empress Shenzhao, the eldest son of the Empress Shendu and Emperor Sejong Wuyunzhuang.

Wuyunzhuang was originally the crown prince, but he was implicated in the "Baiyu Case" that happened eight years ago, and was deposed as the crown prince.

This "King of Fengzhong" in Wuyunzhuang is the first-class noble prince who is actually sealed, and the fief is Fengliangzhou.

The conditions for wanting to be sealed are too harsh, and it is almost impossible for the current Dongqian Dynasty to happen, and the situation in Wuyunzhuang can be said to be too special to be replicated.

Therefore, there is no need to consider the issue of actual sealing.

Nowadays, none of the relatives and nobles in the capital of Quanqian have titles and eats, and none of them have been sealed, whether it is a county or a first-class prince, they are not sealed.

is not a real title, to put it bluntly, it is a false title, this is just an identity.

But the significance is extraordinary.

Although the county marquis of Qianjing City is a big handful, but it is amazing that he can be named a county marquis with the body of palace punishment!

The eunuch was made a marquis, how many times has it been in the entire history of Dongqian?

In terms of the current Dongqian, only two people have been made marquis as eunuchs, one is Kang Longji, who was named the county marquis, and the other is Zhou An, who was named the county marquis.

Zhou An, as a close attendant of the Son of Heaven, a eunuch of the inner court, and one of the chief managers of the inner court who holds real power, has now been named a county marquis, and his holy family is afraid that he has directly followed Kang Longji, who served the four emperors of Dongqian.

In this kind of feudal dynasty where the emperor is highly centralized, the more powerful the saint is, the greater the power.

Therefore, Zhou An was made a marquis, which would naturally further enhance his power.

It can even be said that in the inner court that has now completely purged the dissidents, Kang Longji is the chief manager, and Zhou An, who has just been made a marquis, is the second chief!

Of course, Zhou An's rise in power this time is estimated to be limited to the inner court.

Out of the inner court, because of Wu Xukuan's relationship, Zhou An's power will not be greatly improved, but more people will begin to pay attention to him, attach importance to him, and even regard him as a thorn in the flesh.

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At noon on October 15, just two hours after the Scattered Dynasty, the news that Wu Xukuan and the Manchu Dynasty forced Empress Shenzhao to abdicate and make way for virtuous people in the Manchu Dynasty this morning spread throughout the Qianjing City.

Naturally, this caused an unprecedented sensation! Outcry!

There's even more sensational!

That is, Wu Xukuan did not succeed, and the reason why he did not succeed was that it was embarrassing! and was scared and couldn't get off the stage, and almost didn't get "scared to death".

Zhou An's name had spread all over Qianjing City before, and the impression of the vast majority of ordinary people in Qianjing City at that time was that he was still the envoy in charge of the "assassination case", a young but extremely talented and ruthless master of the Great Interior, and a close confidant of the empress.

Now, they have a new impression of Zhou An.

Some people think that although he is young, he is intelligent, brave and strategic, and his loyalty is even more evident in heaven and earth, and he is a virtuous eunuch.

There are even scholars and scholars who look down on the group of eunuchs the most, and applaud Zhou An, because Zhou An thwarted the conspiracy of Wu Xukuan, a big traitor.

Of course, some people think that Zhou An is an arrogant and ignorant madman, a fool who lost his mind for the sake of a momentary favor. dared to argue with Wu Xukuan in public in the court, this is no longer bold enough to describe.

The people who made such an evaluation of Zhou An were basically those "clear-eyed people", who knew how bad the current situation had become, and it seemed that a change of dynasty could happen at any time.

Wu Xukuan not only controlled most of the soldiers and horses in the city, but also transferred 100,000 heavy troops to be placed outside the city, if he wanted to rebel by force, he could immediately, but he just didn't want to rebel directly by force, so he kept dragging it out, he wanted to complete the change of imperial power through other means, in the "gentliest" way.

But no matter how Wu Xukuan seized the Dongqian River, it seems that he has a greater victory, and the Shenzhao Empress, who has only been on the throne for half a year, can be said to be the general trend has gone, and now he is just dying.

In this case, Zhou An also jumped out and scolded Wu Xukuan, although he relieved the empress of a temporary crisis, but from the overall situation, he really died! This is not something that normal people can do.

The news spread in the Qianjing City, and soon reached the level that everyone from the high-ranking officials and nobles to the peddlers and pawns knew about it.

Their evaluation of Zhou An was quickly polarized.

In fact, more people applauded Zhou An, and even changed their views on the group of eunuchs, after all, the reverence for imperial power is deep in the bones of the commoners, and for the commoners, they naturally hope that the country will not change.

In the afternoon, new news spread.

Only about the eunuch Zhou An, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch.

He was named the Marquis of Gaoyang County.

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Late at night, the imperial city of Ouchi, Qianwu Palace.

Outside the empress's bedroom, in the wide courtyard, Zhou An, dressed in a nine-python robe, danced a sword under the moon.

The python robe is one level lower than the robe, but it is also a robe that only the relatives can wear, and only the first-class noble prince can wear the dragon robe, the general prince and prince can only wear the python robe, according to the status of the number of pythons on the robe is also different.

Zhou An, the marquis of Gaoyang County, can wear python robes, but he can only wear python robes embroidered with five python monochromes, but he is now wearing the top color embroidered nine python robes, which are rewarded by the empress alone.

The empress has gone to bed, and Zhou An will be on duty for the empress today.

He was also appointed as a permanent attendant of the Qianwu Palace today, just as he was a permanent attendant of the Xichun Palace before, and he had to be on night duty for Princess Yunjing, from today onwards, he would have to take shifts with many other permanent attendants of the Qianwu Palace, and he would be on night duty for the empress every few days.

In fact, Zhou An can not be worth the night, because he is still the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch, and if he wants to be not worth the night, he can not be worth the night.

Zhou An just didn't refuse.

Anyway, he can't sleep at night, and he is idle, in fact, he is still thinking about whether to eat barbecue tonight, and then pull Gao Hong to drink a little wine together, wouldn't it be beautiful, but just think about it, the first time he came to the empress to eat barbecue outside the door at night, it seems too presumptuous, not good.

Zhou An was like a floating ghost, wandering in the courtyard.

In order not to make any movement, he was afraid of disturbing the empress's rest, so he used his body technique to the extreme, his steps were silent, his body seemed to be fluttering, and even when he took out his sword, it was silent.

It is worth mentioning that the sword used by Zhou An at this time is a "bloodless sword".

It was the soft sword of Geng Qiunian, the left protector of the Pure Land Sect, when Geng Qiunian was captured alive by Zhou An, Zhou An naturally confiscated his weapon.

This sword is a very famous weapon in the rivers and lakes, Geng Qiunian is known as a bloodless sword, because of his sword, and the reason why this sword is called a bloodless sword, one is because this sword is too sharp, sharpen iron like clay, kill people without blood, and the sword body of this sword is covered with unique red lines, so that even if it is stained with a little blood, it cannot be seen.

Although the Bloodless Sword is not one of the top ten divine soldiers in the rivers and lakes, it ranks among the top 100 soldiers in the rivers and lakes, ranking seventy-sixth.

On the list of 100 soldiers in the rivers and lakes, there are 100 weapons, most of the weapons are swords, but there are only three soft swords, and this is one of them.

Zhou An is proficient in swordsmanship, he collected more than 1,000 cheats in his previous life, and he can collect a lot of swordsmanship cheats, because the legendary immortals use swords, so Zhou An stubbornly believed that if he practiced weapons, he would practice swords.

However, the method of using the soft sword is different from normal swordsmanship.

It's harder.

So now Zhou An is, if there is nothing to do, he will practice.

"Nope! No! Let go of my ......" suddenly heard a panicked sound in the dormitory.

Zhou An suddenly retracted his momentum, and then turned into an afterimage and rushed directly to the gate of the palace.

The two eunuchs standing guard outside the door immediately cheered up, but heard one of them say to Zhou An: "Father-in-law, don't panic, the saint is having a nightmare again." ”

"Is it often like this?" Zhou An tilted his head and asked.

"In recent months, it's been like this very often." The eunuch replied in a low voice.

Zhou An looked towards the gate of the dormitory again, thought about it for a while, and then raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door, and said, "Holy Lord, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine." The empress's voice immediately came from the dormitory, and then the empress's voice sounded again: "Is it Xiao Anzi?" But Xiao Anzi is outside? She heard Zhou An's voice.

"It's a minion, and the minion is on duty for you today." Zhou An replied.

"It's you......" the empress said, and was silent again, but soon she said again: "Xiao Anzi, come in and talk." ”

"Yes." Zhou An responded and gently pushed open the door of the empress's bedroom.