When the court meeting of the early dynasty was almost in progress, Liufu dragged out his voice: "There is something to start, nothing to retreat from——"

All the ministers had nothing to do, and no one came forward. Li Chun looked up at Liufu, he should have announced his retirement from the dynasty at this time, but Liufu somehow avoided his gaze and looked outside the main hall instead.

At this time, I only heard someone outside the hall say loudly: "The servants have grievances, and they have come to meet His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”

It was the voice of a eunuch. Li Chun was stunned: "Come into the hall and speak." ”

The man outside said: "Servants and others have lowly statuses and dare not enter the temple." ”

said this in his mouth, but if he really felt that his status was low, he would not make trouble at the court meeting. Li Chun then instructed: "It's okay, come in." ”

I only heard a burst of rustling, and it was Liu Zhenliang, the chief supervisor of the Daming Palace, with a large group of disciples and disciples, hundreds of people, bowing down and walking in a neat line with the fine steps of eunuchs, the line was too long, so that he stood from the Xuanzheng Hall to the steps and square in front of the palace.

When Liu Zhenliang knelt down at the front, all the eunuchs also knelt down and kowtowed three times neatly.

This Liu Zhenliang is the first person who launched the palace change this time and helped His Majesty ascend the throne, Li Chun hurriedly got up to help him, "Father-in-law Liu, please get up, I don't know what to complain about?" ”

Liu Zhenliang stubbornly fell to the ground and refused to get up, and said loudly: "Your Majesty dislikes the incomplete service of the minions and other incomplete bodies, and wants to drastically reduce the internal prisons in the palace, and ask Your Highness to persuade Your Majesty to take back your life and give the minions a way to live!" ”

Li Chun's two eyebrows are about to be twisted together, what is the matter with his father, now that he has finally become the emperor, do you think that he can really do whatever he wants, he will not care about the overall situation at all, and patronize and add chaos!

Since he has come to this Xuanzheng Palace, and asked him to clean up the mess, then His Majesty should be asked to pay some price.

Li Chun then said: "Gonggong Liu is serious. Your Majesty also has good intentions, since the palace can't summon so many people, so that everyone can find their own future, how can it be said that there is no way out? ”

Liu Zhenliang understood, and kowtowed a few times again, burst into tears, and said loudly: "The fathers-in-law in the palace are all from poor backgrounds, and they have been in the palace since childhood, and they have long lost contact with their families. There are no parents and brothers to rely on, and there are no children and grandchildren to rely on, all of them are people who have no children and grandchildren, and their bodies and bones are not complete, and when they go out, they are not as good as pigs and dogs! This is a slave in the palace, and he can only hope that he will be a person in the palace until he dies, and he will leave the palace halfway, but where is there still a way to live! ”

The disciples and grandchildren who followed behind all mourned and burst into tears.

The internal prisons are all subject to palace punishment, and have no fertility, because of physiological insufficiency, or some sequelae left when they are tortured by the palace, most of them are sick when they are a little older, and they basically have urinary incontinence and backache.

Ordinary people are reluctant to enter the palace as internal supervisors, but the old practice in the palace is that every few years a certain number of internal prisoners are forced to enter the palace to serve. Therefore, the magistrates forced some boys from poor families who could not pay taxes or owe usury to be punished by the palace and sent to the palace as internal prisoners to pay off their debts.

When he was sentenced to prison in prison, he was many years younger, so he had no children to support, and the evening scene was somewhat bleak. If you serve in the palace for a lifetime, you are old, and you can still find someone to treat in the palace, and you can also give a thin coffin to decorate when you die.

But the emperor ordered the redundant staff to be cut at this time, and these internal prisoners left the palace, how can they live? The people outside have been resentful of the Wufang envoys for a long time, and it is inevitable that they will not transfer their hostility to these old eunuchs who have left the palace.

The pain caused by physical defects, the discrimination and ridicule of outsiders, and the lack of children to rely on, have been in the palace for many years, and their families have long been unable to find them, how can they cultivate their health?

Liu Zhenliang peeked at the ministers of civil and military affairs who were a little moved, and continued: "The minions are loyal to the first emperor and His Majesty, and they do their best to support His Majesty's accession to the throne......

When Li Chun launched the palace mutiny, he found the leader of the Shence Army to escort him, and he joined forces with the eunuchs of the inner court to successfully help His Majesty ascend the throne. The Shence Army has always been in the hands of the internal supervisors, and it can be said that the eunuchs have contributed a lot in this matter.

Li Chun waited for him to finish before he looked around and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Everyone was worried about Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts, knowing that it was His Majesty's will that was too hasty at this time, but it was not easy to refute it directly, and they were even more afraid that they would offend Liu Zhenliang if they didn't say anything, so they all looked at each other and didn't speak.

Li Chun looked at Wang Shuwen: "What does Mr. Wang think?" ”

Wang Shuwen has always looked down on eunuchs, and naturally he is happy to see His Majesty reduce the number and power of eunuchs. But now that the trouble has come to the Xuanzheng Palace, things are not so simple. asked Liu Zhenliang to say this, but everyone saw that it was His Majesty who crossed the river and demolished the bridge.

He had no choice but to step forward and play: "Your Majesty has always been frugal, and now it is a good thing for the country and the people to deliberately reduce the expenses in the palace. The minister thought that there was no need for a sudden cut, and that the number of internal supervisors in the state capitals could be reduced year by year. ”

Li Chun nodded: "Mr. Wang is reasonable, since this is the case, it is better for Mr. Wang to go to the Taihe Hall with the main hall to meet His Majesty and explain the pros and cons." ”

Wang Shuwen had no choice but to agree.

The next day, I heard that the prince personally went to the table to intercede for the inner eunuch, and tried to show that his evening was sad and his life was lost, His Majesty was deeply moved, and took pity on the eunuch who had no livelihood after leaving the palace, so he withdrew his fate, and issued another decree that more than 300 palace maids and six women from the teaching workshop would voluntarily leave the palace

More than 100 people gave money and released it. The number of internal prisons has basically not changed except for a few who have asked to leave the palace on their own.

His Majesty is no longer willing to "fall ill" in the Taihe Palace, he is slowly "recovering", and the scope of Bai Ma's internal life is becoming more and more extensive, and he has begun to slowly and fully implement his "new policy".

Although he has not officially appeared in the court. However, in the previous dynasty, there was the crown prince in charge of the state, and there was Wang Shuwen in the inner court, who held the holy white linen to appoint officials and fulfill the holy will, as if there were two independent small courts.

The civil and military officials were even a little at a loss, and they didn't know whether to hand the fold to the prince during the court discussion, or whether to directly hand over the fold to Wang Shuwen, and he would privately pass it to the inner court and directly give it to the saint for approval.

I thought that the matter of cutting the internal prison was over, but only three days later, Wang Shuwen once again appointed the veteran general and the general Fan Xichao as the envoy of the Jingxi Shence Army, and Du Zhilang Zhonghan Tai as the Sima of the Shence Army Camp and Marching of the Shence Army.

The Shence Army is led by Liu Zhenliang, and His Majesty is now inserting his own people into it, and the old generals who are quite prestigious in the army are being installed, making it clear that they are trying their best to contain the Shence Army and try to reduce the power of the eunuchs.

But even for veterans, it's not so easy to get involved. Liu Zhenliang repeatedly delayed and put Fan Xichao in the air on the grounds that the new official was not clear about the old affairs and needed to settle the affairs first. Although Fan Xichao has rich experience in leading troops to fight, how can these conspiracy methods play the old eunuch who has been immersed in the palace for decades, he has to be led by the nose.

Li Chun's power in the court is naturally not as much as that his father has accumulated in the past 26 years, and at present, among the forces he can rely on, the most important ones are the Shence Army and the internal supervisor. And now Wang Shuwen relies on Bai Ma's internal orders to appoint officials and exclude eunuchs, which is equivalent to saying that he has been challenged.

Although most of the innovative measures taken by Wang Shuwen and others were beneficial to the people, they were quite difficult to implement.

Most of the figures of the reform party came from the Hanmen in the south of the Yangtze River, who were born as scholars in the imperial examination, and were proud of their talents, and they were always a little noble in dealing with people, and it was inevitable to offend people. More importantly, their new policy harmed the interests of the clans to a certain extent, and they were more or less ostracized by the clans in the north.

After all, the family family has been in the north for thousands of years, and even before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it has had a great influence. When the Empress Zetian ascended the throne, because of the cold of the Wu family, she also took a lot of thought.

The situation between the DPRK and China is gradually becoming delicate.

Soon after, Dou Qun, Cheng Wu Yuanheng, and others impeached Wang Shuwen, criticized and criticized the reform policy, and reprimanded them for forming friends with each other in the court. The two prime ministers both said that they were ill, which was tantamount to indirectly announcing that they would not cooperate with the reformists and would take a back seat.

But in any case, the palace is thrifty, corruption is strictly punished outside the palace, Wang Shuwen's reform of the new policy has achieved initial results, and there is a small surplus in the treasury.

This is something that has not happened in the Dejong dynasty for decades.

So, at a court meeting, Li Chun drafted a decree on behalf of the saint, and added Wang Shuwen as the household servant.

Liu Zhenliang, the chief of the internal supervision and the Shence army, knew the soldiers and horses, and said: "Wang Hanlin sleeps all night and works hard for the saints, which can really be described as 'bowing and dying'." However, Wang Hanlin has worn many positions, not only as the deputy envoy of the degree branch and the salt and iron transport, but also as a bachelor of Hanlin, and now he has added the post of a waiter in the household department. The minister thought that only by using one heart and one purpose could he concentrate on doing things well and not disappoint the saints. Wang Hanlin has always been in charge of the transfer of salt and iron, and the old slave thinks that he should go to his post as a bachelor of Hanlin and concentrate on sharing his worries for the saint! ”

Li Chun glanced at him idly, pondered for a moment, and said, "Wang Hanlin is indeed too hard, quasi-play." ”

Here, Wang Shuwen's face suddenly turned blue and white. It is important to know that Hallym is not an ordinary position. Although this Hanlin scholar was not of high rank, he was a person who could directly enter and leave the inner court and convey the secret edicts of the Holy Lord, held the secrets of the inner court, and was the closest adviser to the emperor and the official who drafted the documents.

According to the regulations, the Hanlin Bachelor can even stay in the forbidden room at night, and is known as the "internal minister". Now the crown prince has taken the position of a household squire and replaced him, the position of a Hanlin scholar!

Wang Shuwen's knees weakened and he knelt down: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince puts himself in the shoes of his subordinates, and his subordinates are really grateful. However, the ministers deal with the affairs of salt and iron, and the saint himself makes a secret decree, and the saint is in the inner palace, which is inconvenient, and he asks His Royal Highness to be more accommodating! ”

At this time, many officials of the reformist faction came to their senses and hurriedly knelt down together and pleaded: "Please be accommodating, Your Highness!" ”

Li Chun thought for a while and said, "You have some truth in what you said. But the Holy Dragon Body has never recovered, and it is inconvenient for you to ask for too many things in the court. Since the main hall is a prison country, you can directly hand over the fold, and if there is something important, the main hall will return to the saint. Since it's just a lawsuit on salt and iron, then you will be allowed to enter the inner court every three, five, or seven days. ”

That is, he was allowed to appear in the consecration three times every ten days. This is already Li Chun's extrajudicial grace to block the mouths of Youyou. Wang Shuwen had no choice but to lead this official to kowtow and thank him.