Chapter 5: Entering the East Palace
Gonggong Cao is in charge of the East and West Factories, responsible for supervising the world's hundreds of officials, and there are countless pickles in the East and West Factories, and the hundreds of officials have already wanted to get rid of them quickly.
Under the current situation, the East and West factories can only maintain their authority by relying on the new emperor.
And this sharp sword hanging above Baiguan's head will also become Xu Jing's biggest weapon.
Looking at Gonggong Cao kneeling in front of him, Li Chengzong threw the blood-stained dagger on the ground: "It's time to change the knife that my father gave you, how about the one I gave you?" ”
Gonggong Cao picked up the dagger and replied respectfully: "The slave has already said that the slave is a knife in the hands of His Majesty." ”
Looking back, the emperor whose face was becoming more and more pale and his body was withered.
Xu Jing walked towards the outside of the hall, and Gonggong Cao followed closely behind and maintained a five-step gap between Xu Jing.
"Although I have ascended the throne now, my father's bones are not cold, and the Xiao family is anxious to force me to abdicate. King Qi has a bad relationship with the Xiao family. How do I deal with it? ”
Xu Jing didn't say a word bluntly, and glanced at Gonggong Cao behind him.
"Slave, immediately arrange for someone to monitor the King of Qi day and night, who he meets, eats a day, and speaks will be handed over to Your Majesty word for word."
Gonggong Cao knew it in his heart, and his body was a few inches lower and responded respectfully.
Xu Jing only nodded slightly, neither agreeing nor denying.
He knew very well in his heart that although he was now the new emperor of Daqian.
Every step of the way is going to be hard!
Whether it was the Xiao family and the King of Qi who were close at hand, or the princes who were far away from Kyoto, they all coveted the dragon chair under him.
This battle for imperial power is far from over. It can even be said that it is just getting started.
"Let's go, go to the East Palace!"
Xu Jing exhaled a breath of turbid air and strode towards the direction of the East Palace.
Now, the former emperor has just passed away and needs to complete the funeral, although he is the new emperor, he still cannot enter the palace.
Only after the burial of the former emperor and the canonization of the new emperor can he rightfully enter the forbidden city.
Right now, the reasonable place for him to go is the East Palace, which has been idle for many years.
As soon as Xu Jing rounded the corner, he saw several eunuchs sitting on the east threshold.
"I heard that the new emperor is actually the king of Jing who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it?"
"Why don't you say that the emperor is unconscious? actually gave the throne to a waste who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it. ”
The one who opened was the eunuch who was in charge of the eunuchs.
"King Jing is the new emperor of the dynasty, don't talk about it!"
Another deputy chief eunuch, who was one grade lower, made a silent gesture, signaling that he would be cautious in his words and deeds.
"Afraid of what? You and I are both people from Kunning Palace, who can't give us a few thin noodles? ”
"What can Xu Jing do when he stands in front of us? Can you still kill it? Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha. ”
The chief eunuch did not follow and did not spare the rhetoric.
"Wait, ten years at most. No! In seven days, the dog emperor had to get out of his own way and give way to the new emperor. ”
The eunuch was especially uncomfortable and speculated.
Until a pair of exquisite cloud shoes inlaid with gold thread appeared in front of him.
The eunuch's heart sank, and his gaze moved up inch by inch along the clouds, until he saw Xu Jing's indifferent face.
"You say that I am the Dog Emperor, and you still say that I will abdicate soon?"
The corners of Xu Jing's mouth rose slightly, and he calmly looked at the group of eunuchs in front of him.
"Minions, see Your Majesty!"
Except for the chief eunuch, the rest of the eunuchs knelt down one after another and washed the floor with their faces.
Only the chief eunuch stood stiff in place: "Slave, slave ......."
No matter what he said, from the moment Xu Jing appeared in front of him, the ending was already doomed.
"Someone."
As Xu Jing spoke, two guards wearing flying fish suits with tiger-striped narrow knives around their waists walked behind him.
"East.... East Factory! ”
The chief eunuch's face changed greatly.
Since the establishment of the East and West Factories, they have been the emperor's personal guards and have always only obeyed the emperor's orders.
The chief eunuch knows very well that once he falls into the hands of Dongchang, death is the best ending for him, and often the ending will be worse than death!
"I am the chief eunuch of the queen's mother, and I am the son of the prime minister, you can't hand me over to Dongchang!"
The chief eunuch was afraid of falling into that prison, and hurriedly shouted.
As the chief eunuch, although he knew that Xu Jinggui was the new emperor, he didn't know that just an hour ago, Xu Jing had just killed a royal doctor.
From the bottom of my heart, I decided that Xu Jing in front of him was still the soft-footed shrimp at the beginning, and he was an out-and-out waste.
"Leave it to the East Factory? You get through the harem criminal law first. ”
Xu Jing sneered at the so-called chief eunuch and sneered.
"According to the crime of the harem, if you criticize the emperor, you should be given eighty court staffs!"
Gonggong Cao's voice sounded appropriately.
Hearing the punishment, the chief eunuch's face changed greatly.
The eighty court staff seems to be a big punishment and a small precept, but in fact it is even more terrifying than cutting off the head!
It is only a matter of cutting off the head, but the stick used in the court staff is made of lance technology, which is not only tough but also contains great internal strength.
There was once a nine-rank martial artist who was rewarded with fifty rods, and he had to stay in bed for several months before he could barely walk on the ground.
Not to mention a small eunuch.
"Your Majesty, I am here at the will of the queen, if you dare to kill me, it will be against the queen!"
The chief eunuch was pressed on the chair by the two brocade guards, and he still shouted unrelentingly.
"Drag it down, and if you can't finish it with eighty rods, you two will be punished for him."
Xu Jing's face was as calm as usual and he said.
"Queen? Now she should be called the Queen Mother, as the master of the harem, she allows her subordinates to act recklessly. I'm sorting out the calamity for her. ”
"As for Prime Minister Xiao? As an imperial courtier, he has the right to interfere in the affairs of the harem? ”
Xu Jing scolded angrily in the face of the chief eunuch and replied calmly.
Xu Jing's eyes made the eyes of the two brocade guards become colder, and one of them covered the mouth of the chief eunuch and dragged him to the front of the hall.
"Mr. Qian, I'm sorry. You shouldn't offend Your Majesty, and then I can only ask you to enjoy the eighty court staffs. ”
With that, he pressed down on the body of the chief eunuch, and the other person picked up the court staff and fell down fiercely.
Soon, there was a terrible scream from the chief eunuch in the hall.
The eunuch who was still kneeling in front of Xu Jing trembled with the scream.
"Anyway, whoever says some answers that will satisfy me first will be exonerated."
Xu Jing sat on the Huanghuali chair brought by Grandpa Cao, and looked coldly at these eunuchs kneeling in front of him.
The autumn wind is gradually rising, and the cold wind is whistling from time to time.
The sound of the wind was mixed with a terrible wail, constantly knocking on the heart door of the eunuch in front of him.
"Minions..... The slave knows! In the past three years, the chief eunuch has lied about embezzling nearly 5,000 taels of silver! ”
The deputy chief eunuch raised his head in panic and shouted.
At this moment, what queen and prime minister Xiao have long been left behind. I just want to survive at the moment.
"What else?"
With the beginning, the rest of the eunuchs opened their mouths one after another, counting the pickled things that the chief eunuch had done over the years.
Looking at the numbers that fell on the book, Xu Jingdu smacked his tongue.
Just a chief eunuch can be greedy for ink, close to tens of thousands of taels of silver.
In the past ten years, how much has that queen mother added to the Xiao family?
"The Queen Mother has arrived!"
Just when Xu Jing loudly dug into the queen's ten years of greed for ink, a shrill voice suddenly sounded.