Chapter 53: Return to the Palace
Ten Princes' Mansions.
No, it has now been renamed the East Detective Factory.
Li Mao had just seen the four big characters hanging at the door of the alley, and he saw Wei Zhongxian greet him with seven or eight of his subordinates.
"Minions, see Your Majesty!"
Wei Zhongxian knelt down on his knees two steps away and fell to the ground.
Li Mao nodded and said softly, "Flatten!" How do you know that I will return to the palace from Tonghuamen today? ”
"The minions have only arranged for men at the three eastern gates." After Wei Zhongxian stood up, he replied in a deep voice.
Li Mao smiled: "Not bad! I chose you to build the East Factory, and I was right. It's only been two days, and you've already set up a shelf. ”
"Your Majesty Xie praised, because of the urgency of time, the slave really couldn't find a way, so he could only cut it first and then play, occupying the Ten Princes' Mansion, please ask Your Majesty to condemn it."
Although Wei Zhongxian said this, there was not the slightest expression of pleading guilt on his face.
"It's okay, it's a waste to be empty."
Li Mao will also pursue the matter.
After all, the princes who lived inside had been arrested and put in prison, and those palace maids and guards were also dead and scattered.
The entire Ten Princes' Mansion is more than a dozen empty houses, and it is useless to keep them, and it is impossible to reward them to meritorious ministers.
These houses were built according to the specifications of the royal palace, but no minister with a self-known name dared to ask for them.
Wei Zhongxian breathed a sigh of relief and bowed down to invite. "Your Majesty, please go in and inspect it!"
Li Mao shook his head, "I will return to the palace immediately, and I will come to inspect it when I have time, how many people do you have in this East Factory now?" Are there any difficulties that can't be solved? ”
Wei Zhongxian waited for this sentence.
He had just taken the initiative to invite the emperor to inspect and also wanted to ask questions.
"Your Majesty, after two days of hard work by the minions, the scale of the East Investigation Factory has reached two hundred."
"Among them, more than 50 people are small eunuchs who are quite capable of doing things in the palace, and the rest are mainly selected from the captured sixteen guards of the Southern Ya."
"The biggest difficulty encountered by the minions now is that Dongchang now only has the power to investigate and arrest people, and Li Xiang is unwilling to give the right of trial to the minions."
Li Mao instantly understood the meaning of Wei Zhongxian's words.
Isn't it just to put yourself at ease and want greater rights?
However, if Dongchang has the right to interrogate, it will be very simple to create a wrongful prison in the future.
It is impossible for Li Mao to put sharp claws on the tiger of Dongchang.
"Since Li Xiang doesn't agree, let's hold off for the time being!"
"After you make your results, I will consult with Li Xiang."
Wei Zhongxian is quick to do things, and Li Mao can only use Li Linfu as a shield.
Wei Zhongxian didn't force it, "The slave obeys the order!" ”
Li Mao nodded.
I am quite satisfied with Wei Zhongxian's understanding of advancing and retreating so well.
"In that case, I will send you another thousand eunuchs to do business."
Anyway, for a long time in the future, they will march and fight in other places.
Li Mao was born in the military, and he was not used to being served by someone in everything, and it was useless to have tens of thousands of eunuchs in the palace.
And he didn't trust these eunuchs, so he could just hand them over to Wei Zhongxian for training.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wei Zhongxian's face suddenly showed joy, and he immediately bowed and saluted.
His recruitment has not been smooth at all in the past two days.
The eunuchs in the palace were reluctant to go out of the palace to do business, after all, they had never heard of any Dongzhi factory.
Under his hard flickering, he recruited more than 50 people from the palace, and they were all marginal figures.
Far from being quite clever as he suggests.
Li Mao smiled lightly and said, "Don't be too happy, I gave you so many people, but I didn't let you raise them for idle food." ”
"You have to immediately arrange manpower to go to various places to spy on intelligence, especially in the direction of Luoyang, you need to pay attention to it."
"If in the future, the enemy army is under the city, and you don't give advance notice, then I can only take your head and sacrifice the flag."
Li Mao's tone became heavier and heavier.
Even Wei Zhongxian, who had always been calm, couldn't stand still, and hurriedly reassured, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the servants will definitely grasp the information on the transfer of troops and horses of the world's ten major festival envoys within three months." ”
"If any enemy comes to commit an offense, and the slave does not report it in advance, without His Majesty's action, the slave will apologize for his own crime."
Li Mao nodded, "Then I'll wait for your good news." ”
With that, he rode around and left the East Detective Factory.
It is located next to the Royal Palace.
The news of Li Mao's return to Chang'an had spread throughout the palace.
Zhao Gao had already waited outside the Suzaku Gate to greet him.
"The old slave welcomes His Majesty's triumphant return to the dynasty!"
"Congratulations to Your Majesty's triumphant return to the court!"
Not only Zhao Gao, but Li Linpu also led the officials working in the imperial city to come after getting the news.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty's triumphant return to the court."
The Northern Ya Forbidden Army on Miyagi also bowed down at the same time.
Look at thousands of people kneeling on the ground.
The sense of accomplishment in Li Mao's heart came spontaneously.
This feeling of controlling the lives and deaths of countless people is really refreshing.
Now.
Li Mao was thinking in his heart, why did other time-travelers still preach the idea of democracy in ancient times?
Isn't it unpleasant to be an emperor?
Is it unpleasant that there are three thousand beauties in the harem?
Shouldn't it be a man's pursuit to control the world?
Ancient societies have not experienced various movements in modern times.
Not only the minds of the people can't be changed, but even those who read books can't be changed at all.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhao Gao saw that the emperor hadn't shouted for a long time, so he reminded him.
Li Mao reacted at this time, and immediately shouted loudly, "Zhongqing's family is flat!" ”
"My emperor, long live, long live, long live!"
Everyone shouted in unison before they stood up.
Li Mao walked into the palace and said to Zhao Gao beside him, "You asked Li Linfu and Xiao Song to come to Daming Palace to see me." ”
The emperor's return to the dynasty and the summoning of the prime minister are also due intentions.
After Li Linfu received the news, he was not surprised at all, and after explaining the matter to his subordinates, he immediately rushed to Daming Palace.
He was not an emperor and could ride a horse in the palace.
He could only walk, so he didn't dare to delay in the slightest.
At this time, Xiao Song was still guarding the old emperor's spirit.
I didn't know that the emperor had returned to the palace.
After receiving Zhao Gao's notice, he immediately got up.
The DPRK and China have changed too much in the past few days.
Xiao Song missed a lot of things, he didn't want to wake the spirit anymore, he felt that it was a complete waste of time, and he also regretted a little in his heart that he proposed to set up a clothed mound.
Qingning Palace.
Originally, it was a palace where only queens could live.
Although Yang Yuhuan was not officially canonized as the queen, she used to be the concubine of King Shou, so under Yang Guozhong's suggestion, she moved directly into Qingning Palace.
Li Mao didn't know anything about it.
After all, he has so much to do all day.
How can I have time to ask about the harem?
Even Yang Yuhuan didn't know that he was looking for a little wife for him.
After three years of marriage, Yang Yuhuan has not given birth.
She also guessed that she might not be able to give birth.
In order to consolidate his position, it was also at the suggestion of his brother Yang Guozhong that he began to draft Li Mao.