Because of the injury on his head, Huo Yanzhi was ordered by the Imperial Doctor to quit the court and rest for three days. During this period, I couldn't use my brain at all, I couldn't read books, I couldn't read excerpts, I couldn't play chess, and even the cabinet courtiers didn't have to see them.

Huo Yanzhi's temperament jumped out, and he originally thought that with a rare three-day holiday, he would definitely be able to live a good life.

However, with these medical instructions from the Imperial Doctor, coupled with the palace people sent by the Queen Mother once a day to inquire, and the words of admonition from the "female master" when the Queen came to report every morning, Zhao Jiufu, a bastard slave, was pulled into their camp, and he was strictly guarded every day to prevent him from doing this and that, so that Huo Yanzhi's vacation was extremely boring!

On the second day of junior high school, he slipped away to the imperial garden to watch the flower god sacrifice, or he wore out his mouth to fight for his "welfare", Zhao Jiufu also put some powder on his forehead, and said that he wanted to maintain His Majesty's imperial bearing, plus the "cockfighting" scene that he bumped into later, which made him very interested.

By the end of the day, his injuries were almost healed, his head was no longer dizzy, and his eyes were better.

Huo Yanzhi thought about it, he went to visit his concubine in the afternoon, had dinner together, and then came back to read a few folds that had been backlogged in the past three days, so as to prepare for tomorrow's court meeting, so as to save himself from showing timidity in front of the pavilion elders as soon as he opened his mouth.

However, he never expected that when he went to Shangyang Palace, he would pull out an old case related to General Sun Liangcai, a rookie in the army that he had been very optimistic about recently!

Nowadays, almost all the courtiers in the court are old courtiers left by the previous emperor, and there seem to be some signs of many parties, which makes him feel quite constrained.

The generals are okay to say, after all, there has been no war in the country in the past two years, only the Beidi people were ready to move when he first ascended the throne, and they did something at the border.

However, fortunately, I don't know if the national fortune of Beidi was not very good that year, and their king also died of old age, and several princes immediately began to fight, which was more than half a year, leaving enough respite for Daqi in the south. Then when Beidi attacked again, Daqi had already prepared and firmly defended the border city, and the Beidi people could only retreat in a huff.

The civil servants are more troublesome, especially the six cabinet elders.

What annoys Huo Yanzhi the most is that they like to drop their bookbags at him, and they look like a good teacher and point out his decision-making, which always makes him feel that he is still a child, not an emperor who is about to be weakened.

In fact, Huo Yanzhi has not been cultivated as the heir to the throne since he was a child, his compatriot eldest brother is the eldest son of the emperor, his biological mother is a concubine with a noble family, and there is no owner in the middle palace, no matter how you look at it, his eldest brother is more likely to succeed to the throne. Therefore, until he was thirteen years old, Huo Yanzhi's goal in life was to be a rich and idle king.

Unexpectedly, his newly married eldest brother died of illness suddenly, leaving only a posthumous son, and his father, the emperor and the concubine, looked at him again, and was shocked to realize that this son, who usually looks like an invisible man, was actually born very much like his grandfather.

Even so, after Huo Yanzhi grieved over the death of his eldest brother, he quickly adapted to his new identity.

In order to protect his mother and eldest brother's widow, he must sit on the throne, and he must do everything to please his father, which of course includes all kinds of temporary study of current policy.

After five years of theoretical study and practical operation, Huo Yanzhi has become more and more like an emperor.

This means that he is not very satisfied with the auxiliary ministers left to him by the first emperor!

If he wants to replace these nasty ministers, of course, it is impossible, and he can only secretly use Chunyu to carry private goods, but the time is still short and has little effect.

Civil officials have a low starting point for entering the dynasty and are slow to be promoted, even if they are hand-picked by him, most of them are still compiling books in the Hanlin Academy. According to the usual practice, these are the reserve talents of the imperial court, and when they are almost sharpened, they will continue to practice as petty officials in the Sixth Ministry, or return to Beijing after a few years of foreign appointment. After coming back, he still brushed his qualifications in the sixth department, and he had to be forty years old to climb to the first and second positions of squire and Shangshu. Not to mention entering the cabinet, it is all the patent of gray-bearded old men!

In short, if you want to promote a pivotal henchman among the civil servants, the time cost is too high.

So, Huo Yanzhi put the idea on the side of the military generals who were in charge of the army.

The reason is very simple, military generals are promoted much faster than civilian officials, and military power has always been the weapon that the imperial power relies on the most!

When the first emperor, there was a manu boy from the border city, who unexpectedly touched the military tent of the Beidi people in a battle, and came back with the head of the prince of Zuo, and was immediately named a third-grade general. Then he led his troops to conquer southern Xinjiang, captured alive and persuaded the leader of southern Xinjiang, and the first emperor Long Yan Dayue directly gave him the title of a fat cavalry general. Before and after, from Manu to ordinary soldiers to first-class generals, it only took less than five years!

As far as Huo Yanzhi knows, Sun Liangcai is a person without party or faction, and he made two small contributions in the friction with the Beidi people in the winter last year, which can be said to be a very suitable candidate for him to woo.

If only Sun Cainu hadn't died, but it seems a little strange that she died!

Moreover, the Sun family has already folded a daughter in the palace, and I am afraid that it will be impossible to send people into the palace in the short term. This most convenient and quick way to make a gesture of favor was directly pronounced a death sentence......

Huo Yanzhi had a headache, and he didn't even eat a few bites of dinner, so he buried himself in the fold pile as if he was angry.

He didn't hear anything outside the window, but Zhao Jiufu's seven exquisite hearts fluttered and jumped in the silent night.

"It's strange, it's a little too quiet today, didn't the girl come to the bell? It can't be sick, right? ”

Zhao Jiufu asked his little apprentice Wang Dexi, only to find out that Zhi Wei was punished by the queen to go to the Huanyi Bureau to work.

Among the twenty-four rounds, only the Huanyi Bureau is not in the inner palace, but in a corner of the outer imperial city. The palace people of the Huanyi Bureau are not allowed to enter and leave without permission, let alone enter the inner palace.

"No wonder...... Oh, Ma Gongming's old boy's thoughts, it seems that this time he is going to be in the soup~"

Wang Dexi smiled and said, "What the master said is, what is our majesty, where can any vulgar fan look at it?" Ma Gonggong wants to flatter and invite pets, but his eyes are very bad ......"

Zhao Jiufu smiled, narrowed his little eyes, and asked Wang Dexi to come over with his ear, and said a few words like this.

Wang Dexi was a little surprised, and rushed out: "Master, does Your Majesty mean that you want to investigate thoroughly?" ”

Zhao Jiufu glared at him, and he covered his mouth in fright.

"The master's mind is also something we can speculate about? Let you check, you will obediently check, and if you find something, you will come back and tell the master. Even if you can't find out anything, you have to have something to say in front of the master. Do you understand? ”

Wang Dexi belched, and hurriedly said that Ming'er would go to the Phixiang Hall where the unlucky picker girl lived.

The night was silent, only a thin crescent moon hung high, like a goddess looking down at all beings through her curved eyes.

It wasn't until the next night that Huo Yanzhi finally remembered that there seemed to be a little palace maid who had been punished for lifting the bell, but there was no movement at all in the past few nights.

He asked Zhao Jiufu casually: "It's quiet outside, don't be lazy and can't come, right?" There was even a little resentment in his tone, as if he wanted to punish the other party again for the crime of laziness.

Zhao Jiufu hid the surprise in his eyes, and quickly told the truth about Zhiwei going to the Huanyi Bureau.

Huo Yanzhi sighed and didn't look up: "The queen's order?" Why? ”

Zhao Jiufu said: "It is said that he was negligent in his duties, ineffective in handling affairs, and jealous with his colleagues, so that he caused a fork in the flower god sacrifice......"

Huo Yanzhi frowned a little, and casually threw the fold aside.

"Jealous? What's the story here? ”

Zhao Jiufu could only rack his brains to recall the details and try to tell the story eloquently.

However, the people who listened to the story were not very satisfied: "The queen is too, her own people didn't take care of it, and if something happened, she pushed the blame on others!" That's it, anyway, the palace people seem to be a little miscellaneous, and it's not a bad thing to go to the Huanyi Bureau. ”

After that, Huo Yanzhi put the matter aside and began to ponder the candidate for the chief examiner of this year's Spring Festival.

Zhao Jiufu sighed in his heart, and said secretly, he thought that Miss Zhiwei was a blessed person, and she could make His Majesty remember her for a moment, but I didn't expect that His Majesty didn't seem to mean that to her at all.

"What a girl like a flower, she is going to fold in that ghost place in the Huanyi Bureau like this......"

Zhao Jiufu sighed and came out, just in time to see the little apprentice Wang Dexi, who had disappeared all day.

"How's it going?"

Wang Dexi smiled: "I ran all day, and I didn't even drink saliva, so let me fill my stomach?" ”

Zhao Jiufu scolded with a smile: "You skin boy, do you want to pretend to be pitiful in front of Lao Tzu?" With your current worth, where are you going to be flattered, and no one dares to give you a drink? ”

"Good master, don't say that, the apprentice is a person on the card, don't you still rely on the dignity given by Your Majesty and the master on weekdays~~"

The two gaged a few words, and then hid in the dark and whispered to the side.

Wang Dexi said: "However, today's apprentice really met a strange person who doesn't give any face, guess who it is?" ”

Zhao Jiufu watched him quietly and didn't speak, only the fat on his cheeks twitched slightly to warn him.

"Ahem, here's the thing, that Sun Cainu didn't live in the Phixiang Palace before, I wanted to ask someone in the past, but there was no one there at all, and when I pushed the door in, it was all dirt. Eh, I heard that after Sun Cainu went, there was no one living there, and the two little masters in the other side halls moved out, so I guess it's bad luck? ”

"I only asked around the corner, it turned out that a personal palace man named Xin'er, who was serving Sun Cainu, was sent to the Huanyi Bureau after Sun Cainu died of illness. And then less than half a year, and guess what? People are dead, they are also sick and dead, this pair of masters and servants is indeed a little unlucky, and they die before and after~"

"By the way, I still ran into that Zhiwei over there today, tsk tsk, my hands have turned frozen turnips after washing my clothes, it's pitiful. When she saw me and ran over, she told me that she couldn't leave the Huanyi Bureau, and asked me to go and talk to the Shen Criminal Division and Ma Gonggong, whether the punishment was cancelled or remember it first~ Haha, do you think she is quite interesting? Remember......"