The Forbidden Palace is quiet in the middle of the night, but there are vigilant guards patrolling the Forbidden Palace at all times. But don't say that Gonggong Yang has now figured out the patrol time, but he hasn't figured it out, with her status in the palace, no one will dare to ask wherever she goes.

It is very convenient for Yang Gonggong himself, but for the entire dynasty, this is actually a sad phenomenon.

In the middle of the night, the two appeared in a luxurious hall. This hall has six coiling dragon pillars and nine golden and jade steps. It maintains a pleasant temperature that is warm in winter and cool in summer through a special design, and it allows everyone's speech to be clearly transmitted to every corner through a special structure. Especially in the deepest and highest position, no matter what you say, it will seem deafening and majestic.

This is the tallest of all the buildings in the palace, and a huge gilt plaque allows everyone to clearly know its name from afar - Daqing Palace.

That is, the main hall of the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Palace, the place where the court discussed politics.

Now, Yang Gonggong and Wu Jianniang are here.

"This is the dragon chair?" Jiao Niang looked at the gorgeous golden chair placed on top, and her eyes couldn't help but glow faintly.

"Yes, that's it, it must feel special to eat here. Yang Gonggong walked over and sat down absently, and when she turned around, she had already recovered her true appearance. She patted the chair next to her while touching her face: "Woo, I've been keeping the old eunuch like that every day lately, and my face is about to cramp." Come on, come on, help me knead it!"

Jiao Niang walked over slowly and looked at the wide dragon chair. In any case, it was the exclusive seat of the supreme ruler of the orthodox Han dynasty. It represents the authority that controls the power of life and death in the world. This dragon chair. To a certain extent, it represents her dream. She reached out and slowly stroked the pattern on the armrest. Feel the heavy and cold solemnity.

Yang Qi looked at all this, suddenly smiled, got up and walked to the place where she had stood in the last few days, pinched her throat and shouted: "The emperor - go - drive - to - !"

Jiao Niang was slightly shocked when she heard this, she turned around suddenly, and looked at the place where the civil and military officials knelt down on this high platform.

Then Yang Qi lowered her voice and pretended to learn: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The voice shouting long live came out of her mouth, and turned back to every corner of the Daqing Palace. Her sound skills are far less magical than those of Sanmiao, nor are they as subtle as those of Teacher Yang. But if you use it simply, it also looks similar, as if there are really civil and military officials kneeling and kowtowing, and the mountain shouts long live.

Wu Jianniang looked around the scene, and slowly sat down with a swing of robes, really having the grace and domineering of an empress. Her expression was high and majestic, and she gently raised her hand and slowly shouted: "Zhongqing is flat." ”

So someone imitated the voice of the civil and military officials: "Xie--Your Majesty--Xia-!"

Jiao Niang's eyes were blurred, and she seemed to suddenly have thousands of emotions. But in an instant, he shook his head with a smile and sighed in a low voice: "You, you really know how to play, come here, I'll help you rub it." ”

"Hmph, I've wanted to have fun with this for a long time. Yang Qi came over and sat side by side with Jiao Niang on the dragon chair. While doing the rotation exercise, he said with a depressed face: "Alas, it's been a long time since I changed the appearance of others. It was really a sore back, a cramp in my legs, and the emperor hurriedly helped me to pound and pinch the loose bones -- yes! That's it, the emperor is really a good craft!"

"Okay, don't be the emperor, it's like a child. Jiao Niang patted and pinched Yang Qi with one hand, and opened the food box with the other hand, and the good smell immediately floated out, making Yang Qi's index finger move instantly: "It's so fragrant!

Jiao Niang raised her head slightly proudly: "I did it." ”

Yang Qi was immediately shocked: "You can actually cook? You don't look like the type who can cook!"

Bang, Jiao Niang immediately slapped her on the back dissatisfied, and glanced at her a little: "Why can't I be able to cook? Because of this, I became the leader of little beggars near and far, and no one dared to mess with me. ”

"Mmmm, it's delicious, it's absolutely delicious!" Yang Qi immediately started eating and was full of praise. The so-called forgetting to sleep and eat, she really forgot how many meals she hadn't eaten, and she didn't want to get up, and she really felt a little hungry when she thought about it.

"Take your time, it's a lot. Jiao Niang spread out the layers of food boxes and asked, "I see that you just locked your eyebrows, did you encounter any problems?"

"It's not a problem, at least not ours, but I can't help but be disappointed. At the mention of this, Yang Qi couldn't help but sigh: "This dynasty is really terminally ill and incurable." ”

Jiao Niang didn't ask again, she quietly listened to Yang Qi's story.

"You and I went all the way from the Tianshan Mountains to the Western Regions, and then to Shuzhong. Along the Yangtze River downstream, then through Xiangyang north to Henan Songshan, transfer to Zhongnan Mountain and then back to Xiangyang. After passing through Yunnan, it goes east along the Pearl River and along the South China Sea. It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, and we have seen too many things along the way. ”

"Home, country, world. ”

"Politics, religion, martial arts. ”

"Officials, civilians, bandits. ”

"Good, evil, and heroism. ”

"Everywhere I go, I see a new kind of scenery, and every time I go there, I have a new sigh. ”

"Everywhere, in every kind, there are two kinds of information, positive and negative. Even if it is a small united front of prostitutes, there are factional disputes and differences in ideas. And now, I can finally stand at the very top of this Zhao Song Dynasty and see its scenery. This angle is perhaps the closest to seeing the world from the place we want to reach. But the scenery of this Daqing Hall is by no means refreshing. ”

Yang Qi raised his hand and pointed to the position a little behind the third dragon pillar on the right side of His Highness: "Right there, just a few days ago, there was a 'Lord Huang' there." He is not big, not small, not too high, not too low in this house, but he is also a well-known figure in the entire dynasty. A few days ago, there was an impeachment of the Imperial Historian, accusing him of embezzlement of disaster relief funds and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery. If you were the emperor, what would you do with him?"

Jiao Niang did not hesitate: "If you act like this in your position, you should be severely punished." Misappropriation of disaster relief funds is a felony and should be punished immediately. ”

"What if the evidence is not conclusive, or if the evidence provided by the Overseer may itself be fabricated?"

Jiao Niang frowned slightly: "If that's the case." That's trouble...... I get it. Is this what you've been seeing lately?"

"This is just one example. The scenery I saw was even more ugly than that. Yang Qi took a slight breath, pointed to the position of the civil and military officials below, and his eyes sharpened: "These people, no matter who is talking about it, it is hard to believe." The wisdom of the ancestors was superimposed on the court, but the scenery seen on the dragon chair became a complete illusion. ”

"Revenge on the border pass, kill a thousand enemies -- whether this thousand are the real enemy soldiers or just ordinary herdsmen and ordinary people. To risk leading the army?"

"10,000 soldiers at the border pass -- does this 10,000 soldiers really exist? Or is it a figure that the generals falsely reported just for the sake of empty salaries?"

"The border pass called the police, and the enemy army was attacking--Wenchen advocated that the enemy army would be invincible, and that he should pay reparations and sue for peace, and save the lives of his soldiers. The generals shouted that they were not afraid, they were all paper tigers, and it was absolutely easy for Lao Tzu to lead the troops. Who is it to listen to? Who is it believed to?"

"The border pass is in an emergency, and the army is besieging -- is this siege really a siege, or is it a trap set by the generals defending the city after secretly surrendering to the enemy? Can it be rescued or not? Who will be sent to the rescue? Is it the difficulty of fighting for merit or the difficulty of the death squad?"

"These are only very small aspects, and there are many more and more problems. And all of this," Yang Qi grabbed his hand: "The emperor doesn't know about it." ”

All he could see was the view of the Forbidden Palace. All he could hear was the words of his subordinates, slaves, and concubines, and the wind of his pillows. He can't hear the truth or see the truth, and he's surrounded by a web of lies. And it must be admitted. If you want to tear open this big net, even if it is with my 'kill if you are not happy' sharp and decisive. It's not very useful. ”

Yang Qi pointed to the position where the civil and military officials were standing one by one: "These people, none of them are innocent, and none of them are innocent." There is no one who is not proficient in conspiracy, because he who is not proficient in conspiracy simply cannot stand here. ”

"Although Lao Zhao is living a little aggrieved now, it is much easier than being a serious emperor. There are very few entanglements of power in his harem, and there are no authoritarian relatives who are correspondingly inflated in the court. If you include the harem-palace dispute, this pot is confused, and it really can't be mentioned. ”

"The external enemy is huge, the internal strife is endless, the weakness and exhaustion, the stubbornness and conservatism, and the rejection of all changes. It is also extravagant, greedy and dirty. No amount of funding can disappear silently in an instant. No matter how much money is taken out of the treasury, not one in the end is realized. In this way, where can we talk about working hard to make the country strong, and where can we talk about turning the tide?"

"At the moment of foreign enemies, the harem ladies can't help, so it's good to stop, but I didn't expect it to stop at all, not worrying at all. Just today, there are still many people who give me gifts, and there are many people who plan and calculate in order to better become pig feed. That face, indescribable!"

"By the way, there is also a group of self-proclaimed talented merry people who send poems through various doors. That's right, you don't have auditory hallucinations, they want to be favored by the emperor and ascend to the sky in one step, and the way they can choose is indeed to come, send, and poem! Look at those garbage things, what splendid articles, what aspirations to serve the country, bullshit!"

"I don't know when it started, just like a person with literary talents must be able to be a good parent, it has become a matter of course. But do these guys know how to collect evidence, adjudicate cases, and avenge the people's grievances? Do they know how to enhance production and seek benefits for the people? Do they know how to prevent and resist disasters and reduce diseases, and how to rectify defense and stabilize the people's minds? They don't know anything, they only know how to sigh at the moon and how to write brilliantly -- the country has selected a group of bards for the imperial examination every year!"

"There's so much more, too much to say. Yang Qi kept shaking her head, she didn't know where to start.

Jiao Niang listened quietly, and after a while, she spoke: "Then what kind of scenery do you see at the top of this dynasty?"

"Originally, I had a trace of thought to see if I could change the world through this emperor, and to see if I could use this as a basis to cleanse the world from top to bottom, and complete your and my dreams in advance. After all, no matter what the name of the country is, or who the emperor's surname is, as long as it pleases my eyes, I will be satisfied. But I now understand that it can't be. ”

"An illusory song and dance is leveled, and there is no possibility to change. ”

"An established system that must be broken in order to be reborn. ”

Yang Qi looked at Jiao Niang with a firm expression: "I only see one thing here, which is the target I want to destroy." It's not just people, it's not just things, it's thoughts, it's essence. ”

"There is no nobility in a place where there is no basic trust between a leader and his subordinates, and no beauty in a place where a husband and wife cannot guarantee even the slightest love. This palace is nothing but gorgeous garbage. ”

"From here, from the pinnacle of this dynasty, I am sick to the stuff that comes my way. ”

"So, I don't want to make any improvements, I want to change them thoroughly. ”

"I'm going to kindle a raging flame and burn up all this decay from the bottom up. When those tumors are burned out, the seeds of hope can take root and sprout in the ruins. ”

Yang Qi raised her hand and patted Jiao Niang's shoulder: "So, Jiao Niang, our dream will not come true for a while later." So, Jiao Niang, you have to be patient and wait a little longer. ”

Jiao Niang looked at Yang Qi's side face in a daze, she suddenly leaned forward gently, snuggled her small head on Yang Qi's shoulder, closed her eyes and said softly and firmly: "I will always walk with you." (To be continued......)

PS: I'm gradually finding the feeling of the previous two more. I have to be diligent and I can't slack off anymore.