Chapter 18: Iron Armor
Money often unmakes the men who make it! Princess Cloudview is right!
Especially the group of eunuchs, the concept of money is very different from ordinary people! Because all the little eunuchs who enter the palace have a very, very poor family background! If he can't survive, who is willing to send his son to the palace?
Zhou An This is a special situation, first he was lost in the casino by his gambling ghost father, and then he was resold several times, and he has already cut off contact with his family!
But other little eunuchs are different, and the little eunuchs who can enter the palace must have several elements!
First, you must be a native of Qianjing City!
Second, the family background must be innocent, there must not be any criminal record in the family, if there is a criminal in the family, you will not be able to enter the palace!
Third, if you can't find your family history, you won't be allowed to enter the palace!
Fourth, it must be voluntary to enter the palace, which refers not to whether the boy himself is willing or not, but whether the elders in his family are willing or not.
Zhou An's special thing is that he has been re-sold, but he can find out his family history, and he doesn't need his parents' consent to enter the palace, just the seller's consent!
And the other little eunuchs, they all entered the palace at the age of eight or nine, they are all from good families, but they are all from poor families, in the people, they are extremely contemptuous of sending their children into the palace to be eunuchs, if they don't really can't live, it is impossible to send them to the palace!
The procedures for entering the palace are very complicated, not only the main family members sign and draw the pledge, but also invite the neighbors to witness, this is to prevent disputes in the future, and the cleanser is also afraid of lawsuits!
After the little eunuch entered the palace, although he was sold into slavery and became a royal slave, he basically did not cut off contact with his family!
For example, Xiao Weizi, who Zhou An is familiar with, has been in the palace for many years, and has a chance to take leave to go home every year, basically he has to send a sum of money to the family every year, he will save most of his money and give it to the family, he is a little eunuch, he is only a teenager, but he is the pillar of the family, if it is not for Xiao Weizi to send money to the family every year, his family is afraid that he will not survive!
Therefore, eunuchs' concept of money is different from ordinary people, they value money more, because their families are too poor! Poor and afraid!
"Minions willing!"
"Minions willing!"
The five little eunuchs all kowtowed to Princess Yunjing!
Princess Cloudview has already told them that she might die! But none of them flinched!
"Good! We appreciate your courage and look forward to your performance! Princess Yunjing raised her chin and said majestically, "Let's go down first, Grandpa Wang, you can arrange ......"
"Yes!" Wang Gonggong received the order.
Then he took the men with him, and he took all the boxes with him!
……
In the blink of an eye, three days later.
As soon as he got up early in the morning that day, Zhou An heard that the new empress had ordered to cut the expenses of the inner court, and directly cut it by fifty percent! The reason for cutting expenses is to catch up with the disaster year, the drought in the north, the flood in the south, and the tragedy of a large number of starving people to death among the people, the imperial court is making every effort to relieve the disaster, and the royal family will also make a contribution, and the fifty percent of the expenses cut will be allocated to the treasury from the inner court for disaster relief!
Indeed, the Dongqian Dynasty has had a lot of disasters over the years, and Xiao Anzi has long heard of the folk affairs, although Zhou An has passed through a short time, but he has inherited Xiao Anzi's memory, so he also knows!
The current Dongqian Dynasty can be said to be stormy!
Not to mention the external enemy, let's talk about the inside, successive years of drought, floods, so that the people have been displaced in all directions, every day is the tragedy of starvation, in addition to Zhongzhou, Jiangzhou and other historically rich places, the rest of the state, there have been riots, even at the beginning of this year, there was a very large-scale riot in Minzhou in the south, more than 100,000 victims swept the four counties of Minzhou, robbed and killed large households, impacted the county town, caused the government and the opposition to shake!
But the riot was quickly suppressed!
The Dongqian Imperial Court has been providing disaster relief, and ordered the "Shuonan King" who guarded Minzhou to open a warehouse and release grain, but it didn't have much effect!
At present, the Dongqian Dynasty as a whole has already overturned!
Corruption is rampant in the court, the minister of military aircraft controls the government, and outside the court, the people are struggling to make a living, and riots are everywhere!
The Dongqian Dynasty has been inherited for more than 300 years, and it is not impossible to say that it has been wiped out in the torrent of history in the past few years!
Of course, no matter what happens outside now, at least in Qianjing City, as well as in the palace, there is still a song and dance on the surface! The new empress has just ascended the throne for a few months, and she must want to turn the tide, but she is powerless, because the power is not in her hands, and it is difficult to say whether her orders can be passed out of Zhongzhou now.
This empire, so to speak, is on the verge of spiraling out of control!
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In the morning, the martial arts training ground of the Spring Palace!
Princess Yunjing is wearing heavy armor and holding a long slashing knife, and she is inseparable from Zhou An! Zhou An seems to have become Princess Yunjing's sparring partner, and he accompanies her every day! Because Zhou Anwei is a person who dares to "hurt" Princess Yunjing, although he also lets her, he will never let her win!
This is the opposite of Princess Yunjing's temper, those old eunuchs always let her in the past, and she thought she was invincible!
Rumble!
Princess Yunjing suddenly threw her horse chopping knife away, reached out and took off her helmet again, and threw it heavily on the ground.
"If you don't fight, you won't fight, you're annoyed! Don't fight! Princess Yunjing looked super annoyed, and walked out of the field angrily.
"Your Highness, don't be angry!" Zhou An caught up with Princess Yunjing, "The saint is merciful, and he has the subjects of the world in his heart, and the saint is also taking advantage of the situation when it comes to cutting expenses, but he was not coerced by the old king......"
Zhou An's words were purely to comfort Princess Yunjing!
That's right! The new empress cuts the expenses of the inner court for disaster relief, which is benevolent and a good thing!
But this matter was thought about by the empress herself, or was asked by others, but it is two concepts!
For the emperor, many things can only be done by the emperor on his own initiative, and if the emperor does not do it, then no one can say it!
"You know!" Princess Yunjing turned around and kicked Zhou An, untied the heavy armor while walking, threw it directly on the ground, sat on the chair out of the martial arts training ground, picked up the apple and gnawed it, she loves to eat apples, eat them every day, eat them in a good mood, and eat them in a bad mood.
Princess Yunjing crunched the apple, and her expression was about to eat people!
"My Highness!" Zhou An trotted to Princess Yunjing's side, and while beating Princess Yunjing's shoulder, he said, "Don't be angry, it's not worth it to be angry, the saint must have her consideration......"
It's been a few days since he came to the Spring Palace, and Zhou An now has the obvious momentum to replace Gonggong Wang and become Princess Yunjing's number one dogleg!
"Humph!" Princess Cloudview snorted twice and continued to nibble on the apple.
Zhou An continued to beat Princess Yunjing's shoulder, and after beating the left side, he beat the right.
"Xiao Anzi, have you practiced the cheats given to you?" Princess Yunjing asked suddenly.
"Practiced, practiced." Zhou Anma said.
Just three days ago, after Princess Yunjing used a lot of money to lure the five little eunuchs to agree to practice peerless magic skills, she gave Zhou An a book of martial arts cheats - "Iron Armor Gong"!
"Iron Armor" is the peerless magic skill that Princess Yunjing said!
This is a body refining kung fu that can be said to be a sword that goes off the rails! After Dacheng, you can be invulnerable! And this kung fu can be done quickly! If you have a foundation and talent to practice, it can be practiced in as little as three months or as long as a year!
That is, if you want to do this kung fu quickly, the mortality rate is extremely high!
Princess Yunjing used a lot of money to lure those little eunuchs to practice, but she didn't spend money on Zhou An! This made Zhou An's heart congested, a feeling that he had missed 100 million!
Maybe it's because Zhou An's martial arts are too high, so Princess Yunjing is different from Zhou An!
And the "Iron Armor Gong", Zhou An said that he practiced it, but in fact, he didn't practice it! Because the cultivation method of "Iron Armor Gong" is very, very similar to "Gangshen Technique"! There are methods that rely on external forces to beat the body to achieve tempering! It's like a low-level version of "Gangshen Technique"!
If you give a score to martial arts, "Gangshen Technique" is ten points, then "Iron Armor Gong" is one point!
So Zhou An didn't practice!
Waste of time!
Crunch crunch!
Princess Yunjing finally took two bites of the apple, threw away the apple core, got up and said, "Let's go, go with the palace to see ......"
Look?
What to see?
The inner house of the Cherished Spring Palace, named "Cherished Spring Garden".
Princess Yunjing came back with a large group of people, Zhou An and Hongxing followed around Xichun Palace, followed by more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs, and walked all the way to the backyard of Xichun Garden...... This place is the first time Zhou An has come here, this backyard is very large, full of apple trees, and there is a gazebo, in front of the gazebo is a vacant land!
In the open space, more than twenty little eunuchs are being beaten!
It's still the four old eunuchs, they are holding copper sticks, chasing and beating more than 20 little eunuchs, and this time, they are not as merciless as they were a few days ago, they are really beating! Zhou An could see that these little eunuchs had all practiced "Iron Armor Gong" and were being tempered!
In fact, by now, Zhou An already knows what the Yunjing Duke does!
She is secretly training a group of little eunuch masters!
She wants to rely on this group of little eunuchs to kill the traitor Wu Xukuan!
Xichun Palace has often died recently, and it was during the practice that they died! In fact, what is said on the outside is good, they were beaten to death, but no one can think of the reason for being killed, they are all voluntary, and they can't complain if they don't resist!
Princess Yunjing's idea can be called whimsical!
And Zhou An is very familiar with this drama!