Text: Chapter 20: Two-finger Zen
Originally, fifty years ago, this Changxin Palace should have been his, and at that time he dreamed of lying on the knees of a drunken beauty in Changxin Palace and waking up to take charge of the world, but it was a pity that he ......
At the foot of the 9,900-step white marble steps, two old men with a flowing white beard wore the official uniforms of the Great Pillar and entered in a sedan chair.
The two are Xun Qing, the veteran of the three dynasties of the Guozijian National Pillar, and Song Yan, the old Song Yan of the Huangmen Pavilion, both of whom are one of the "nine elders" of the founding of the Xiangtuo Dynasty.
After that, the civil and military officials of the Guozijian and Huangmen walked into the main hall of Changxin Palace in turn.
The top of the main hall is inlaid with ten thousand night pearls, just like day. The walls are decorated with gold leaf, which is extremely luxurious. Just at the very back of the main hall, a throne inlaid with Ma, red, blue, and yellow Naya gemstones stood tall on the nine-step white marble steps. In front of the throne is a complete piece of red sandalwood carved out of the case, nine dragons are lifelike, circling around the main beam of the main hall, on the throne sits a yellow-mouthed child who has just performed the crown ceremony, it is the emperor Han Yin of the dynasty who has not yet been in power, and there are eight old eunuchs with dragon bells standing under the steps on his side, with their eyebrows lowered, as if they have settled down, and they are deaf to the things in the main hall.
The Xiangtuo Dynasty had a total of 135 eunuchs, and unlike the foreign officials, the internal officials were promoted according to the 12th rank, with the 12 eunuchs being the highest, and the most powerful was also called the east head.
These eight old men who don't need to lower their eyebrows are obviously the most powerful internal supervisors in the current dynasty.
"Last night, the palace reported to Beijing, Jiangzhou Mansion flooded again, Jiangzhou Governor Tan Zainian has been sent to the Dynasty's Criminal Law Department to punish the crime; Dazhou is in a famine, the border people are in turmoil, and three cities have been connected, and the Dazhou Governor is panicked and tries to abandon the city and flee, if it were not for the principal stopping in front of the horse and desperately admonishing each other, I am afraid that at this moment Dazhou Mansion is no longer a state of our dynasty...... " The proclamator on the side read out the instructions of the three auxiliary ministers.
"Hmph, what else will this Dazhou prefect do besides playing with women, he is mediocre and incompetent. Pacify the refugees within ten days, otherwise don't blame the court for not being merciful, his whole family of more than 100 people is looking forward to it in the prison", wearing a bright yellow nine-clawed python robe, a jade belt around his waist, and a sword of the Son of Heaven, King Jing Han Shang looked angry, and looked at Xun Qing, the great pillar of the Great Power Pillar on his side, and the old Song Yan of Huangmen Pavilion, the two old guys didn't say a word, and they didn't even raise their eyelids.
He looked at the throne, and the little emperor, who was about to take charge of the government, was looking at the three auxiliary ministers with a ignorant expression, listening to them deal with court affairs.
"No matter how powerful the martial arts are, they can't match this throne, this is the most powerful thing in the world", Han Sheng swept his eyes and muttered in his heart.
At the end of the court meeting, soon a hunchbacked old man, looking sluggish and looking a little old, walked into the Jingwang Mansion.
"Apocalypse, according to the list provided by Qin Tianjian and the yellow-robed Taoist Zhao Yanyong, forty-eight people with dragon qi have been assassinated, twenty-three people have been lost by Apocalypse, and sixteen people have been killed in Jiangzhou alone, Jiangzhou seems to be very strange", the hunchbacked old man was next to the middle-aged man, he himself had a little hunched back, and he almost bowed to the ground at this moment.
"Oh", King Jing didn't answer, as if he already knew it.
He stared intently at the huge painting in front of him.
On a square table made of ebony wood in the room, a pot of tea is wafting with a burst of aroma. The six-zhang long "Heavenly Palace and Difu Map" is lifelike, hanging in the center of the living room, and the scroll hangs down on the embroidered cloud brocade carpet, standing in front of it as if you are in the scene, panicked. The old man glanced up, and painted a man with his back to them, looking up at the mountains and rivers in front of him. At the feet of this man, the ground was full of ravines and bottomless.
"This picture is the treasure in the palace of the lord of the Later Tang Dynasty, what is the mystery in this? I have been looking at it for more than ten years, but I don't even see it at all", Han Sheng lowered his head and muttered for a long time, and slowly paced to the Wujin square table.
"Su Zhangyin, is there any purpose for Han Yin to send you this time?"
"My master wants to go south to play these days, and he has come to pay tribute to King Jing, and after he left Beijing, all major affairs inside and outside the dynasty have been troubled by King Jing."
"Alas", King Jing sighed softly and turned around, "The old man really feels more and more heavy about the heavy burden of this dynasty."
"Su Zhangyin, now the old national pillar Baibao, is there any movement over there?", King Jing picked up the ginseng soup that the maid had just brought up and took a sip, waved his hand, and the young maidservants in the hall all retreated, silently, like a civet cat, coming and going. However, the old eunuch of the Twelve Eunuchs knew that these women were all equipped with peerless kung fu, and they were able to hide their circulating aura.
Bai Bao said that he was old and frail, and the leaves fell back to his roots. There are no more years to live, begging His Majesty to allow him to survive in Jiangzhou, he really has the heart to be powerless to govern", the hunchbacked old man who spoke was the palm print eunuch Su Yu, the head of the twelve eunuchs of the dynasty, and his "two-finger Zen" kung fu forced the invincible Cangbei assassin to stop fifty zhang away.
Someone once said that Su Yu, the head of the twelve eunuchs, was the eunuch who was in charge of the seal, and his martial arts cultivation was no less than Nangong Yi a hundred years ago.
"Was Concubine Xiande alone in the empty room last night?"
"Yes".
"According to my years of hunting experience, this virtuous concubine is a stunner under the crotch, but unfortunately, this Han Yin doesn't take a bite of the shelled lychee, so tender. It's not a tiger, he doesn't even dare to touch his buttocks, they all say that the tiger father has no dogs, and this Han Yin seems to be too ......", Han Sheng stroked the jade seal in his hand, among which the dragon scales were one by one, faintly arrogant, and he did not shy away from the head of the twelve prisons, and commented on his master.
"The harem is so big, you can be regarded as the old minister of the elders of the three dynasties, you are also addicted."
Su Yu's face was expressionless.
After Han Yin destroyed the Seven Kingdoms, he ascended the throne as the emperor, and the Xiangtuo Dynasty broke the shackles of class interests in order to balance the scholar class. Realize the official system of scholars and doctors governing the country by literati, and grant the title of Huangmen to the scholars of the Han family, so as to distinguish them from the Qingliu nobles of the Guozijian, and give a large number of scholars of the Han family the opportunity to enter the temple of the dynasty, so as to change the situation that the scholar family was dominant and difficult to check and balance. The literati, especially the scholars of the Han family, closely linked their own honor and disgrace with the rise and fall of the country, and the government suddenly became active.
"The new party and the old party expose each other and dump each other, do they really think I don't know?", he said to himself, Su Yu did not answer, he has been deep on the throne for decades, and he already knows what to do and what not to do. It's not something he should worry about about the court, nor is it something he should interject.
"Su Yu, as the head of the twelve eunuchs in the Great Inner Palace, I'm afraid there are few opponents in the rivers and lakes, right?"
Su Yu didn't answer, he had already heard the three black-clothed people holding their breath, silently attached to the roof, and each of them held a green steel sword in their hands.
The three men in black were led by an old man with a sheep's horn beard, and since he entered the palace, he became more and more frightened, walking on thin ice.
He himself couldn't believe it, he originally thought that King Jing's Mansion was heavily guarded, but he didn't expect it to be so lax and easily break into the place where King Jing stayed in the mansion. However, the air is quiet except for the sound of one's own breathing, and nothing can be heard, which makes people feel inexplicably suffocated, and the silence is terrible.
"...... the Heavenly Palace and Difu Map?" , The old man with the sheep's horn couldn't believe that his luck was so good today, and he found this picture in the labyrinth-like Jingwang Mansion all at once.
The three of them floated on the back of the rock, and they didn't dare to breathe.
Because of his excitement, he held the palm of the green steel sword, oozing sweat, and the red sword spike was wet.
King Jing handed the jade seal back to Su Yu, didn't look back, and said slowly, "The three who came in, why don't you come down to talk?", he frowned slightly, obviously quite dissatisfied with the arrival of the three of them uninvited guests.
The three of them were originally going to pounce and stab the King Jing and the hunchbacked old eunuch to death, but King Jing's words shocked them and knew that they had been exposed. Without waiting, the sword light Huo Huo, three green steel swords stabbed out, two stabbed at King Jing, and one stabbed at the hunchbacked eunuch.
Han Shang did not move steadily, seeing that the two green steel swords were about to stab him in the back of the heart, he was calm.
At the moment when the white horse passed through the gap, the corners of the hunchbacked palm print eunuch's mouth showed a contemptuous smile, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.
The three of them heard a violent "click" of human bone joints, crackling like firecrackers. I saw that the palm print eunuch who had just been rickety in his waist was standing upright, his body was like a pigeon, and he had no appearance of an old dragon bell.
The middle and index fingers poked out against the sword light.
The old man with the horn beard led by the sheep was secretly happy in his heart, "Meet the sword with two fingers, unless the purple clothes of Dazhou Lianhua Temple are like a King Kong cover, is this old man already King Kong's incorruptible body", he was shocked in his heart, and the momentum of the first voice was suddenly like a deflated leather ball without a trace, and the movements in his hands were naturally half a minute slower.
There was a crisp "click" sound, and blood dripped down his fingers and fell to the ground.
The three of them were instantly blasted by the qi of their fingers, forming a cloud of blood mist, which fell one after another.
"Haha, two-finger Zen, it really deserves its name", King Jing's body didn't even move just now, and the green steel sword had already touched the clothes behind him, and he was calm, looking up and laughing.
"People say that the kung fu of the twelve prisons is unpredictable, and your fingers are probably soaked in blood."
"It's ugly in front of the prince. It's just that the old slave doesn't know something, who sent them?", Su Yu knew that although this Jingwang Mansion was extremely quiet, there were countless masters hiding in the shadows, loose on the outside and tight on the inside, guarding Han Shang at all times, these three people were obviously let in by King Jing.
"There are so many people in the world who want to kill me, and it is in vain to ask, sooner or later I will destroy their group of rebels and thieves", he picked up Ruyu Ruyi and handed it to Su Yu, "When you arrive in Jiangzhou, remember to give this to Bai Bao." ”
Su Yu returned to his old appearance, hunched over, took Ruyi with a respectful face, and never raised his eyes to look at this unfathomable prince.
The next day, in Changxin Palace, a carriage drove to the official road and drove away.
A young man in the carriage, dressed in a white robe, holding a jade pendant in his hand, playing, sitting next to a hunchbacked old eunuch, outside the car two horsemen in strong suits are preoccupied driving, the official road is full of dust, the four horses are all high-quality BMWs, iron hooves on the yellow sand of the official road, clattering.
"Master, where are you going when you leave the palace this time?", it was Su Yu, the head of the twelve prisons, who spoke.
"Jiangzhou, Zhao Yongli of Wudang Mountain and Wang Daokun of Qintianjian have already gone up to each other, saying that the dragon qi here shoots directly at the bull fight. I would like to see what kind of people are in the place where that man is brilliant, and I think that the ancestor placed the Duke of Dingguo here, and it is said that his grandson is a straw bale...... Then go all the way to the north and watch my uncle King Yan, who turned the tide for me, and the delusional King Tiefu of Cangbei."
That young man is the current Xiangtuo Dynasty has not yet ascended the throne, but is still the nominal emperor Han Yin.
In the eyes of the ministers of Changxin Palace, this child emperor, who has not yet ascended the throne, travels all day long, and is as angry as his father. When the ancestor passed away, Sejong, who had been the prince for more than 20 years, regained his freedom, and the original cowardly and humble, and the illusion of self-purity was gone, but the harem concubines in the general election, poor and luxurious, cruel and ferocious, drunk and dreaming all day long in the royal city, meat forest wine pool, tonic and eating several Dan furnaces, after all, he died in a few years. The Xiangtuo Dynasty, which had just improved, was about to run out.
The chamberlain Su Yu closed his eyes, secretly calculating in his heart, he watched the major events of the dynasty for decades with cold eyes, "I think that Han Yin killed heroes in order to be able to survive for thousands of generations, but he never imagined that he would not be able to live for fifty years, but his two most trusted younger brothers were the most dangerous people."
"King Jing is afraid of rumors, when King Yan is humble and corporal, he will die on the same day, who knows the truth of his life", this nursery rhyme seems to have begun to be sung in the streets and alleys of Wangcheng a few years ago, who is spreading......
The throne of this Changxin Palace is more than a hundred years old......