Li Xuandu smiled: "I'm not very good at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but if you are willing to underestimate me, I don't have any opinion." ”

The old man raised his eyebrows: "Pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger? I'm afraid it's not a tiger and eat a pig! How can you pretend to be a tiger in the world?"

Li Xuan didn't care, but Zhou Shuning was not convinced, and said secretly in his heart: "What kind of character is the Great Heavenly Master, you have to treat your brother politely, what kind of character are you, and you dare to speak wildly?"

Li Xuandu patted Zhou Shuning lightly: "How can anyone boast of himself." ”

Zhou Shuning snorted lightly: "Where is it to sell yourself and boast, Senior Sister said in the message, now my brother's identity is unusual, the Great Heavenly Master calls you a cousin, and the Earth Master calls you a little friend, how many people in the rivers and lakes have this honor?"

The tall old man laughed: "It's really a big breath, even the old heavenly master and the earth master have come out, isn't it that the old sword immortal of the East China Sea also treats you politely, and the northwest Taiyun still wants to have a good relationship with you?"

Li Xuan didn't speak.

Zhou Shuning's face was strange, and she wanted to laugh.

Li Xuandu fell into contemplation again, he still thought that it was too much of a coincidence that he encountered these people after the palace official left, so he didn't think it was a pure coincidence, it was more like a bureau set up by others, he didn't want to enter the game, and he didn't want to go to the side again at these times, so he said: "Forget it, I don't care about you today, as long as you report your name, I can let go of His Royal Highness the prince." ”

Li Xuandu has always believed in what kind of identity and what kind of words, even if this tall old man is a genuine great master of the Heavenly and Human Realm, with Li Xuandu's current realm cultivation, he is also qualified to say the words that let go of the group, but there are too many smart people in the world, if Li Xuandu is cowering, maybe these people really think that they have met a character who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, but Li Xuandu bluntly told him, these don't believe it, in their opinion, it seems that Li Xuan is holding on to scare them away.

Seeing that everyone was looking at the joke, Li Xuan sighed: "It's okay, it's hard to persuade damn ghosts with good words." ”

Li Xuandu raised his feet and fell, neither light nor heavy, not even leaving a footprint on the ground, but the entire inn seemed to shake, and a huge aura spread around him as the center.

The tall old man's face changed, revealing a bit of solemnity: "Some skills, no wonder there is such a big tone." ”

Li Xuandu said: "I have already said it, report your name, and I can let you go." ”

The tall old man smiled and said in a calm tone: "I can report the name, but who will let go of whom, or two words." It's good, my surname is Ma, I am on an errand in the Imperial Horse Prison, this time I am out of Beijing by order, and I have a holy order. ”

Li Xuandu said

"Imperial Horse Supervisor, isn't Your Excellency the Imperial Horse Supervisor's palm print? Si Li is the first of the twelve eunuchs, and his chief and the chief are the same as the handle. Although the Imperial Horse Supervisor was set up last, he was in charge of the Imperial Stables and other items, which were related to the Ministry of War. Ministers who are a little concerned with the handle of the army, and change the rank of the royal horse, such as the governor and Sima Zhongcheng. The celebrant examines and approves the cabinet tickets on behalf of the emperor, and the cabinet is confidential, which is actually the 'internal minister'. The Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Ministry of War and the Governor jointly held the military authority, directly commanding the Dragon Guards and the Tiger Guards, which was actually the 'Pivotal Mansion' of the Inner Court. In addition, the Imperial Horse Supervisor also had to manage the pasture and the imperial estate, run the imperial store, manage the finances with the households, and be the chief steward of the inner court. When the Qingluan Weidu Governor's Mansion was not yet established, the Tsing Yi Division was also supervised by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Ceremonial Supervisor and the Celebrant Commander's Yiluan Division were divided into courts. It wasn't until the time of Emperor Yingzong that the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor were involved in the rebellion, which began to reduce the authority of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, which made the Imperial Horse Supervisor lose his momentum as it used to be, and now it is even more difficult to compare with the celebrant eunuch. ”

The tall old man's eyes were gloomy: "Your Excellency knows a lot about the affairs of the inner court. I am the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Seal. ”

From beginning to end, the old man did not use the word "our family", and his voice was not half sharp, but it was strong and powerful, full of energy, and he couldn't tell that he was a eunuch at all.

Li Xuandu nodded: "I have long heard that there are four masters in the inner court, the master of ceremonies and the chief of the master of ceremonies is Yang Gonggong, the chief of the ceremonial supervisor is Liu Gonggong, the imperial horse supervisor is in charge of the seal of Ma Gonggong, plus a soldier of the war bureau palm seal Shi Gonggong, they are all masters of the inner court, and they will not leave the palace when they are idle, I didn't expect to see Ma Gonggong among the four here today, it is really a little ...... Surprise. ”

The court is divided into inside and outside, the outer court has a cabinet, the five military governors' office, six departments and nine qing, the inspection yuan, etc., and the inner court has twelve supervisors, four divisions, and eight bureaus, collectively known as the twenty-four yamen, according to the legal system, only the eunuchs of the twenty-four yamen can be called eunuchs, and there are left and right young eunuchs.

The celebrant is in charge of the inner court, which is the same as the cabinet of the outer court, and the imperial horse supervisor is in charge of the forbidden army, which is equal to the governor's palace of the five armies of the outer court. Nowadays, whether it is the inner court or the outer court, it is a situation where the civil power is strong and the military is weak, as for the War Bureau, it is responsible for all kinds of treasures, weapons, armor, etc., which almost includes the treasures of the Great Wei royal family for nearly 200 years, so the power of the War Bureau is not high, but it is very critical.

Of course, this is only the four masters of the inner hall on the surface, as for whether there are still masters hidden in the other inner court yamen, only the Great Wei royal family itself knows, after all, it is the heritage of the heavenly family, and it is impossible to underestimate it.

The tall old man's eyelids jumped slightly, there is an invisible ravine between the rivers and lakes and the temple, so that the two are not connected, the "four masters of the inner court" This statement is not secret, but it is not something that everyone can know, at least it is possible to hear one or two things about it after practicing in the public gate for a period of time, and then look at this person

Wearing Qingluanwei's official uniform, could it be that this person is a hidden master hidden in Qingluanwei?

Gonggong Ma glanced at the young prince who was tied up sturdily, and said slowly: "His Royal Highness the Prince is the youngest son of His Royal Highness King Yan, since you are so familiar with the imperial court, you should know what kind of temperament His Royal Highness King Yan is." ”

Li Xuandu's face was slightly solemn.

If you don't talk about those big and small princes who are like being in captivity, then there are three princes who can really speak in the court, namely King Jin, King Tang, and King Yan, among which King Jin and King Tang are of the same generation, especially King Jin, who is the youngest. When the Empress Dowager Xie Pheasant won the four ministers of Gu Ming, she was only twenty-seven years old, and the King of Jin, who assisted the Empress Dowager Xie Pheasant, was only in the year of his establishment. At that time, it was the second year of Tianbao, and now it is the seventh year of Tianbao, so it is estimated that King Jin is only thirty-five years old now. Ke Yan Wang is now in his prime, not only twice as old as King Jin, but also a generation higher. However, these are not the reasons why Li Xuan attaches great importance to them, what Li Xuan cares about is the relationship between this King of Yan and the King of Qi.

King Qi is Mr. Xu, and at the same time, he is also the master of Xu Wugui, when Xie Pheasant entered the palace, there was the shadow of this Yan King.

As for the youngest son of King Yan, Li Xuandu also heard that King Yan should be strong when he was old, so he came to have a son, saying that he was a son, in terms of age, almost the same as his grandson, and it was inevitable to be arrogant, so His Royal Highness the prince was famous for his dominance in the imperial capital, and he had caused a lot of disasters, but they were all covered up by King Yan one by one. However, Zhang Suqing was also in the ascendant back then, no matter how domineering this prince of Yan was, he didn't dare to provoke the heads of Zhang Baigui and Zhang Baiyue's brothers and sisters, and Li Xuandu naturally never saw it.

Li Xuandu secretly wondered in his heart: "How could he take such a gentleman with such a good accomplishment and more than enough to do? Even if the imperial court is extremely corrupt, Xie Pheasant, King Jin and others will not be so childish in state affairs." Unless this person represents the King of Yan, and the King of Yan has a close relationship with the King of Qi, could it be that this time the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the others went out of Beijing to have something to do with the Earth Master?

If this speculation is true, then Li Xuan can conclude that this is a bureau set up by the palace officials, because the palace officials are sure that Li Xuan will be interested in the affairs of the temple, and at the same time, it can also indirectly show that the palace officials do not want Ma Gonggong and others to make the trip smoothly, and want to use Li Xuandu's hand to disrupt Xie Pheasant's plan.

Although he knew that it was the strategy of the palace official, Li Xuandu still had to admit that he was indeed becoming more and more interested, a big eunuch, a prince of Yan, the man with a knife standing next to Ma Gonggong, I think it is not an ordinary person, etc., such a group of people pass through Ping'an County, what is the intention? The answer is not difficult to guess, Ping'an County is the junction of Luzhou and Jingzhou, after Ping'an County, it is naturally in Jingzhou, is it to go to Jiangling Mansion to see Zhao Lianggeng?