Rainy season.

Shaoliang City has another spring rain today, but this rain comes quickly, and it goes very quickly, it began to fall from last night, and it has stopped when it arrives, and there is a lot of fog after it stops, so that the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty seems to be wearing a layer of light veil, which looks very hazy.

Changchun Palace is lit up as early as Mao, the central palace of the Great Zhou Imperial City, there are a lot of eunuchs and palace maids, and the meaning of the existence of these eunuchs and palace maids is to ensure the smooth operation of this palace every day, so that nothing goes wrong in Changchun Palace, after all, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty except for spending the night in a concubine palace every night, the rest of the day has to be spent in this Changchun Palace, so the eunuchs and palace maids who do things in this palace city need to be more and more carefulAfter all, no one knows when the Great Zhou Emperor, who has always been known for his eloquence and diligence, will come to this Changchun Palace to start his day's work.

Today, who is responsible for lighting the lights of the imperial study is the eunuch Su Jin, the chief eunuch of the inner court, as the head of the twelve eunuchs of the inner court, Su Jin is actually the head of the eunuchs in the imperial city who claims to have more than 10,000 eunuchs The power was withdrawn into his own hands, but even so, the entire palace court, except for the Great Zhou Emperor and a group of people who were related to the royal family, etc., the rest of the eunuchs and palace maids were subject to the jurisdiction of Su Jin, this eunuch in the inner court managed all the trivial matters of the entire imperial city, and was favored by the Great Zhou Emperor, so he seemed more and more powerful Xuan He, but no matter how Xuan He, Su Jin must do every day is to go to the imperial study of Changchun Palace to light the lamp, waiting for the Great Zhou Emperor to come.

When Su Jin went out at the end of the day, it was still raining lightly in the imperial city, this short palm print eunuch neither played a lantern, nor held an umbrella, let the spring rain wet his temples, just walked in the palace wall with his hands on his sleeves, and met a lot of eunuchs with lanterns on the way did not care, only occasionally a few eunuchs who saw the eunuch with the palm print of the eunuch with the dim light of the lantern would be silent like a cicada, standing on the side of the palace wall, bowing his head, and honestly waiting for the eunuch to walk before he dared to get up.

No one dared to take the initiative to talk to this eunuch with palm prints.

It is rumored that a new criminal law added by the Criminal Department of the Great Zhou Dynasty a few years ago is to bury people in the soil, only one human head is exposed, and then the prisoner's scalp is cut open, and mercury is poured from the human skull, and the prisoner will be itchy and unbearable, and the flesh and skin will be separated when he climbs up, so that a human skin falls off, which is from the hand of this great eunuch.

Although it was just a rumor, no one in the palace wanted to confirm whether it was true or not.

It's just that if someone really looks at the face of this palm print eunuch seriously, they will actually feel that he is really very kind, and there is a sense of extreme evil.

As the most favored person in the palace of the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the matter of lighting the lights of the imperial study naturally fell on him, in fact, the successive eunuchs of the Great Zhou Palace have done this matter personally, so the palace has to step into the imperial study if you want to become a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

Before Su Jin walked into the imperial study, he stood on the jade steps outside the imperial study for a moment, and then slowly pushed open the door and walked into the imperial study.

After taking out the fire fold in his sleeve and lighting the lamp in the imperial study, Su Jin slowly walked out of the imperial study, during this period, he did not take a second look at the layout in the imperial study, and after closing the door, Su Jin waited for the emperor of the Great Zhou outside the imperial study.

In half an hour, a middle-aged man in a black robe and a bun came to the door of the imperial study, glanced at Su Jin, who was bending down and waiting, and was not in a hurry to enter the imperial study, just looking at the dim sky in the distance, the Great Zhou Emperor smiled and said: "Su Zhangyin, what is new in the palace today?"

Now it's just a Mao hour, the sky is not yet clear, where will there be anything new, if other people ask, naturally destined not to get the answer of the palm print eunuch, but now, the palm print eunuch just said softly: "Huaining Palace, Concubine Li asked a little eunuch who had just entered the palace to go over, according to the news that the old slave got, the little eunuch stuffed silver in the clean room, but he was not clean. ”

You don't have to say a word, but what you reveal is enough.

In all dynasties, there will be no shortage of big and small things in the imperial city, and those pickled things are even more common.

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment and frowned, "Concubine Li entered the secret court, as for the little eunuch, you see if you have any ability, if you can still use it, you will send it to the side, as for the clean room, which slave does it, just cut it down, don't implicate others." ”

The middle-aged man, who had already dealt with this royal scandal in a few words, sighed, and suddenly asked, "Which family is Concubine Li from?"

Su Jin said in a low voice: "Shaoliang City Yang family, Concubine Li's younger brother happens to be Yang Changyun, the servant of the ministry. ”

The middle-aged man frowned and said: "Yang Changyun is a very talented young man, it is a little pitiful to have such a sister, Su Jin, after dawn, you go out of the palace, go to the Yang family, and tell them what I have done about this matter today, there is no need to say more, if someone from the Yang family enters the palace to intercede later, he will expel Concubine Li from the palace, if not, there is no need to tell me." ”

Su Jin nodded and said no more.

It's just that when the palm seal eunuch was about to leave, Da Zhou Tianzi, who was wearing a black robe, opened his mouth and asked again: "Princess Anyang went out of the palace yesterday, who did she go to see?"

Su Jin's old face full of ravines suddenly showed a wry smile, and he said a little helplessly: "Her Royal Highness the princess has been this temperament since she was a child, eccentric, and after leaving the palace, she got rid of the inner guards, and the old slave really doesn't know where Her Royal Highness the princess went yesterday." ”

Da Zhou Tianzi quipped: "If you hadn't spoiled that girl since she was a child, she would have been so reckless?"

Su Jin lowered his head and said softly: "The old slave doesn't dare to do this. ”

Before pushing open the door of the imperial study, Da Zhou Tianzi instructed: "By the way, if the girl from Anyang comes, you have to stop her for me." ”

Su Jin smiled bitterly and said: "The old slave is going to leave the palace to go to the Yang family later, how can he stop Her Royal Highness the princess for Your Majesty?"

Da Zhou Tianzi shook his head, as if he was a little angry, but then he waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care.

Bowed over and watched His Majesty, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, walk into the imperial study, and then close the wooden door of the imperial study, this Su Jin, who has been in the palace for at least fifty years and has been a palm seal eunuch for twenty years, has been watching this Great Zhou Tianzi become the monarch of this Great Zhou Dynasty from a babbling child, so he knows his character very clearly, and he is not surprised at all.

Standing outside the imperial study, Su Jin could vaguely look at the figure of the Great Zhou Tianzi bowing his head, Su Jin was expressionless, I am afraid that no one in the Great Zhou Dynasty can be more tired than this one, and no one can be heavier than the burden on his shoulders.

Su Jin stood outside the imperial study for about two quarters of an hour, and only after the two middle-aged eunuchs came, did he nod, and did not forget to instruct before leaving: "When Your Majesty approves the excerpt, except for Her Royal Highness the Princess, the rest of the people cannot be put in." ”

The two middle-aged eunuchs with ordinary faces nodded and said, "Su Zhangyin rest assured, the slave and maid know." ”

Su Jin didn't say anything anymore, turned around and left, going to the inner court to deal with the matter of leaving the palace, the Great Zhou Dynasty has very strict control over the eunuchs leaving the palace, even if he Su Jin is now the head of the twelve eunuchs, the first eunuch in the palace, and the mouth of His Majesty the Emperor, but if you want to go out of the palace, you have to report to the inner court, if you leave the palace without permission, the end will be as miserable.

Inside the Imperial Study.

The Great Zhou Tianzi looked at the mountains of twists and turns in front of him, and rubbed his head, although he has always been known to the government and the opposition for the word diligence, but looking at these twists and turns, he also has a headache.

It's just that this Great Zhou Tianzi just sighed and then picked up the fold from the top and flipped through it, but it didn't take long for the Great Zhou Tianzi to spit out some words such as "bastard" and "idiot" in his mouth, and the sound was so loud that he didn't know how far it came out of the imperial study.

It was obvious that the two eunuchs guarding outside the imperial study had not experienced this scene for the first time, so they were both expressionless and unmoved.

Soon, His Majesty the Emperor in the imperial study began to recite some people's names, and the two silently began to remember which minister's name in the court could be read by His Majesty the most, and at the end, the two looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

Yes, today is the name of the old man Xin Taikang who has been mentioned by His Majesty the Emperor the most.

For the current Hubu Shangshu, the old man who is in charge of the treasury money, whenever His Majesty the Emperor wants to use the money, he always comes out to contradict it, saying that it is not easy to accumulate money, and that the treasury does not have much money and grain, anyway, he will not let His Majesty the Emperor take out the money and grain in the treasury so easily, even if he wants to take it, he will try his best to minimize the expenses, so the hundred officials actually say in private that this old man is a dime a dime, but the old man does not care about it at all, and even takes pleasure in it.

And this Great Zhou Tianzi, although he is often annoyed with this old man, but he also knows that having such a household secretary is the great fortune of the country, so he has never had the slightest intention of deposing the old man, and even the old man's many resignations have been rejected by the Great Zhou Tianzi, so there is a saying that the family department and the family master are in this court.

The former is the old man Xin Taikang, and the latter is naturally a harmless joke made by some ministers of the DPRK and China about the Xie family.

At this time, in the imperial study, the great Zhou Tianzi was opening a book of frontier recitals, there were not many words on it, and there was not much ink in the rough stomach of the border army.

Say everything you need to say in a few words.

After that Xie Ying rushed to the frontier, he killed more than 10,000 iron horsemen of the Southern Wei State in the first battle, and he only lost more than 1,000 people in the battle.

After Da Zhou Tianzi closed the recital, he laughed heartily, "What a Xie family treasure tree, it really lives up to my expectations of you!"