The empress was silent for a long time.

It's a big deal, and she can't make a decision easily.

It is not that the construction of the new yamen on the basis of the secret guards is a big deal, the new yamen is still a secret service organization, and the secret guards were originally also a special service agency, and the so-called construction of the new yamen is just to expand the secret guards and change the internal structure.

Therefore, in the matter of building a new yamen, there is no resistance, it is not a big deal, and the empress has no pressure.

The real problem is that the new yamen wants to cooperate with Jinyiwei, which involves too many things.

Moreover, Zhou An actually took the initiative to ask for orders and wanted to take charge of the affairs of the new yamen, which was ......

Zhou An asked for orders before and entered the Yamen of the Zhenfu Division, although it was a precedent, but Zhou An had no real power, he only had the right to supervise the Zhenfu Division, and had no right to order, he participated in the Jinyiwei case, and he also discussed with Yuan Shengshi, Zhou An alone could not let Jinyiwei take any action.

But this time it's different.

This new yamen will be a judicial organ that is not subject to any power department and is only responsible to the empress, although all the arrest rights will be handed over to Jinyiwei, and the new yamen will lose the original arrest power of the secret detectives, but the investigation power it only has is scary enough.

Since the new yamen wants to cooperate with Jinyiwei, it must be on an equal footing with Jinyiwei, that is, the new yamen can theoretically investigate anyone except the empress.

Actually, in the end, it's nothing.

No matter how great the power of the new yamen is, it is not as good as Jinyiwei, after all, the right to arrest is in the hands of Jinyiwei.

The key is that Zhou An's request for help.

Zhou An conceived everything very well, and what he said was also very reasonable, if Zhou An did not ask for his life in the end, but only talked about the construction of the new yamen, the empress might have nodded.

The empress's current hesitation and hesitation are all because of Zhou An.

He was a eunuch.

If the empress asked Zhou An to be in charge of this matter, then it would really set a precedent for "eunuchs to interfere in politics", which is interference in politics in the real sense! The empress didn't distrust Zhou An, she was just thinking about the future, what it would be like in the future, whether it was good or bad, it was really uncontrollable.

If you only consider the present, the empress feels that it is very appropriate for the new yamen to be responsible for Zhou An.

Because Zhou An is her confidant and has absolute loyalty to her, the empress is absolutely sure of whether Zhou An is loyal enough.

"Rong Zhen think about this matter." The empress finally spoke, and raised her hand to Zhou An, "Xiao Anzi, you can step down." ”

"Yes!" Zhou An didn't say anything more and took the order to retreat.

Not long after Zhou An left the Dongnuan Pavilion, Kang Longji, who got the news, hurriedly came to the Dongnuan Pavilion.

He was not there before, and the empress couldn't ask Kang Longji's opinion, such a major matter, the empress didn't dare to decide it directly, she knew that she was still young, and there would be things that were not well considered, so for everything such a major matter, she had to ask Kang Longji first.

Kang Longji arrived, and the empress told the situation.

But Kang Longji didn't say yes or no, and he let the empress make her own decision.

This is already Kanglongji's statement.

Every time he asked the empress to make her own decisions, she represented it, and he had no opinion.

In other words, what the empress is worried about now, Kang Longji does not care.

******

Night, outside the door of the dormitory of Qianwu Palace.

Zhou An was like a ghost, his footsteps were silent, flashing and moving, and the sword light was vertical and horizontal.

The temperature is extremely low in the winter night, and today is Zhou An's night guard for the empress, he could have avoided this tiring work, but he himself was willing, and naturally no one would not let him do it.

Zhou An has become accustomed to dancing swords outside the palace when he is on night duty for the empress.

This is especially true in the winter.

Because it's too cold, it will get colder and colder if you stay still, and it will be more comfortable to move.

It's already the third watch.

The palace was silent.

Zhou An is still practicing swords, in the past month, Zhou An has been very busy, he basically has no time to practice during the day, he can only find time at night, he can also be regarded as diligent, as long as he has time, he will practice this and that, and he has never slackened.

Da-da-da-da.

Footsteps suddenly sounded, very hurried.

Zhou An stopped instantly, turned his head to look at the arch on the side of the courtyard.

But when he saw a little eunuch coming in a hurry, he looked very anxious, and when he saw Zhou An, he looked even more like a big deal, and hurriedly beckoned: "Father-in-law Zhou, it's not good......

"Shh Zhou An quickly stepped over to the little eunuch and motioned for him to be quieter, but asked urgently, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's grandpa......" the little eunuch said urgently, explaining the situation.

Zhou An's face changed dramatically when he heard this, turned around and hurriedly ran to the door of the dormitory, not caring whether to disturb the empress's sleep, raised his hand and slammed the door directly.

Knock knock!

"What?" The voice of the empress's personal maid Kou Dong'er came from the palace.

"Grandpa Tai is in poor health......" Zhou An said.

The lights in the dormitory quickly turned on, and the empress's voice came out from inside: "Is it serious?" At the same time, you can vaguely hear the sound of squirming, it is the empress dressing.

"I fell, it's not clear." Zhou Andao.

It's just a fall, normally speaking, whoever falls will not come to disturb the empress in the middle of the night, even if it is Princess Yunjing, she can't do it.

But Kanglongji is different.

He's the Great Grandmaster of the Tiangang Realm!

How could he wrestle?

Since he has reached the point where he will suddenly wrestle, his body ......

……

After the tea, the Qianli Palace next to the Qianwu Palace was brightly lit, and the empress brought people to visit Kang Longji.

However, in reality, Kanglongji does not seem to be doing much.

It wasn't that he asked people to report to the empress, it was the little eunuch who served him who panicked and said it.

Kang Longji just got up at night to go to the toilet, and when he went back to the room to cross the threshold, he didn't stand firmly, and he fell all of a sudden, so he fell that time, naturally he didn't break it, and he didn't even need to be invited by the imperial doctor.

But this matter, in the empress's heart, is not trivial.

Qianli Palace, Ningyi Garden.

In the room, Kang Longji, who was only wearing a plain white nightgown, sat at the table, and the empress sat aside, her slender hand holding Kang Longji's withered hands full of old age spots.

"Gong Kang, I can't live without you, the Dongqian River still depends on you to protect it, you can't ......" The empress's hand on Kang Longji's hand was a little hard.

"The saint doesn't need to worry too much, the old slave is fine, you can ...... relieved" Kang Longji said this, and Zhou An on the side could hear it, this was comforting the empress.

The empress pursed the corners of her mouth, suddenly looked sideways around, and said, "You guys go out, you all go out." ”

"Yes!"

"The minions are gone."

Including Zhou An, Kou Dong'er and others, everyone left the room and closed the door from the outside.

Only Kang Longji and the empress were left in the house.

Obviously, the empress wanted to ask Kang Longji about his physical condition alone.