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Zhang Ruoshui and Lan Yuanzhen came to the left hall of the Baoci Palace, and in the future this is the residence of the Baoci Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liang Weijian knew that the two adults were going to talk, so he retreated with the people he served.

After everyone left, Zhang Ruoshui walked to the window and looked at the Hui Hall behind him with longing. In the light of the lit night fire, he saw the black silhouette in front of the window, and he faintly heard her laughing, how long had he not heard her laugh like this.

Zhang Ruoshui, whose name is Yizhi, is one of the three major chamberlains around Gao Taotao, and he is good friends with Lan Yuanzhen. Relying on his adoptive father Zhang Weiji to make up for the little yellow door, he entered the palace at the age of fourteen to serve the Empress Dowager Zhang Hui Yang, and at the age of eighteen he transferred to the inner high grade. After that, he led his troops to fight and made many military exploits. With Wang Shi to quell the rebellion in Beizhou, and conquest Nong Zhigao, because of his strong martial arts, he was selected as a horse to bear. The thieves were pacified, he entered the official with labor, and moved to Huanqing Road three times. He made new contributions to Huanzhou and was promoted to the internal service class. During the reign of Yingzong, he was promoted to the inner detention class, and his position was to carry imperial equipment and guard the queen. Lan Yuanzhen is the inner attendant and Zhang Ruoshui is the inner guard, Ruoshui is six years younger than him, but because he has been leading troops to fight outside all the year round, he has made a lot of contributions, and he is more tired of officials.

At the beginning of the year, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he borrowed from his mother because he lacked a capable person around him. Because when he was the crown prince, he knew that there was a chief guard named Zhang Ruoshui next to the queen mother who was very capable. The emperor sent Zhang Ruoshui out of Beijing on an errand, and sure enough, he lived up to his high expectations, worked sensitively, and was able to bear heavy responsibilities.

Not long after Zhang Ruoshui left, he heard that the Queen Mother was seriously ill, and he did his best to complete the project, and returned to Beijing in a hurry to resume his life. While still on the way, he kept receiving Lan Yuanzhen's flying pigeon letters, the content of the letters was simple, often reporting Gao Tao's situation, but Lan Yuanzhen's tone became more and more pleasant. The last letter is: "Happy, the book is short and long, forgive you one by one, return quickly! ”

Lan Yuanzhen held the cup slightly with one hand, poured water and wine for the two of them with the other, he raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Ruoshui, and asked, "Yizhi, I'm right, after the master woke up, he changed, just like he went back to before." ”

Since Yingzong's death, Zhang Ruoshui has been sent to Beijing, and he can't guess what happened in the palace. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he finally understood why Lan Yuanzhen's tone in the last few letters seemed so happy.

He remembered the first time he saw Gao Tao.

Zhang Ruoshui was fifteen years old that year, and the Empress Dowager Yang he served died just a year after entering the palace, and his adoptive father Zhang Weiji's backer in the palace was gone, and they had to find another way. When Zhang Weiji was young, he once worshipped the Taoist priest Helan Qizhen of Songshan to learn martial arts, and he was glad that he began to teach Zhang Ruoshui martial arts very early. Since then, his adoptive father has been extremely strict with his martial arts cultivation, hoping that this child can rely on his martial arts to establish a solid foundation in the palace as soon as possible, so that he can have a guarantee in his old age. Zhang Ruoshui's life has completely changed, he either practices or practices all day long, he feels that practicing is painful, and when he was most lost, he was a milk doll who encouraged him.

After practicing that night, he sat under the porch with a wound, and he thought of his own father and mother, and remembered the free days when he and other children played barefoot in the mud outside the high wall, wearing tattered clothes...... He knew that his parents sent him away because they were poor, but they were reluctant to let him go, and he decided to leave on his own, because his adoptive father would give them a large sum of money, so that his father and mother could support his younger brother and sister. However, for a moment, he regretted his decision, and he wanted to go back...... He secretly wiped his tears, but the tears poured out unconsciously.

Lan Yuanzhen came out of the palace garden with five or six-year-old Gao Taotao in her arms, she saw a teenager crying, so she asked him why he was crying. Zhang Ruoshui didn't want people to see such a useless side, he wiped away his tears and told her that he didn't cry, but he was very hard and tired from practicing, and he didn't know when he was a head.

Lan Yuanzhen has been in the palace for many years, and he knows what it feels like to be inside, if the subordinates who have no backing don't have some skills, let alone settle down in the future and soar, maybe a few lives will be cut off as a stepping mud in the palace. There is only sympathy under the sigh, but there is no help.

On the contrary, the doll enlightened the young man in a milky voice: "If you don't like to practice, don't practice." The young man replied that if he didn't practice, he would be useless, and his father wouldn't want him. The brutal experience in the palace has long made the boy admit the reality.

Who knew that Xiao Tao, who was still babbling, actually walked up to him and announced to him like the king of a country: "No one wants you, I want you, I will make you the most valuable person in the world!" These shocking words made the young Ruoshui unable to calm down for a long time, and this kindness Ruoshui swore to repay him with his life.

Zhang Ruoshui's mind pieced together the past with Gao Taotao. Now that he was back with her again, he felt that guarding her like this was the best errand.

Lan Yuanzhen didn't rush to clink glasses, picked up the cup and took a sip of wine first.

Zhang Ruoshui walked to the table and sat down, he smiled and said: "Just like when I first saw him, he was still so domineering, and he did some fanciful things!"

Lan Yuanzhen smiled, "You're right, haha, I really don't know what she thinks when I fight with the little prince." ”

"To be honest, I really didn't expect that my master would want to learn martial arts one day, you see her determination, she must be turning the world upside down. ”

"And it looks like you have to win. ”

The two of them each picked up their cups, and after touching them, they raised their glasses and drank together.

"Actually, I'm very happy. Lan Yuanzhen put down his wine glass, paused and said, "Maybe the 'Thirteen Group Training' (6) is gone, which is a good thing for the master after all." ”

Gao Taotao's husband Song Yingzong was adopted into the palace twice as a prince, and his life can be described as ups and downs. So even after he became the emperor, Gao Taotao never called him an "official", and called him "Thirteen Group Exercises". And the three most trusted eunuchs around Gao Taotao were also in private, and they also followed her to call Song Yingzong as a group training envoy. Gao Tao is absolutely affectionate towards her husband. After her husband became emperor, she retired to the deep palace and cast all her light on her husband, hoping that he would become a generation of emperors. It's a pity that this Zhao Shu is really a bucket who can't be supported, not only does he not have the ability to govern the country, but he also often makes some stupid tricks, and in the end, he always has to talk about the three major internal servants to help clean up the mess. In this regard, they all have micro-words below.

"You're right, the thirteenth regimental practice has too much impact on the master, and if you tell me that she can't afford to fall ill, I'm very worried. Now that she has figured it out and let it go, it may not be a bad thing. Zhang Ruoshui also thinks the same way about this.

Today, Chris's personality is very similar to Gao Tao when he was young. Several of her close ministers felt that they had a head again when they saw their master return to the way he is now, and they were overjoyed!

In fact, how did they know that this master was no longer the person he used to be.

"The thirteenth regiment practiced ascension (7), this matter is too sudden. Zhang Ruoshui said in a low voice, "He has always been in good health, and the illness he had when he first ascended the throne was not all pretended, which you and I know best." ”

Lan Yuanzhen said: "I was about to tell you about this, but Mao Ze brought me news, and he suspected that the thirteenth regiment training did not die of an old illness as the imperial doctor said......

This Zhang Mao is the last of Gao Taotao's three major chamberlains, and he is also the person who Gao Taotao placed next to his aunt Empress Cao back then. The iron triangle formed by the three of them is indestructible, and each has its own strengths and division of labor.

"At that time, the master asked the hospital to check and check, but he didn't find anything, how did Brother Mao Ze ......?"

"On the day the master woke up, the official family and the empress dowager sent a lot of people in the palace, which made him suspicious. Shigeru is cautious and will never speak falsely. Thanks to his master's enduring for many years and lying beside the Empress Dowager, he was able to secretly discover these clues. ”

"Could it be that the Empress Dowager ......," Zhang Ruoshui said, "The Empress Dowager and the regimental training envoys, the two have always been at odds, but they are not ...... That's her nephew and son-in-law. ”

Speaking of this harem battle, Zhang Ruoshui is not as transparent as Lan Yuanzhen.

Lan Yuanzhen frowned and said, "It's just that I'm worried that this matter is not as simple as it seems. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember that before the thirteenth regiment practiced and died, there was a palace maid in the underground palace. ”

Zhang Ruoshui remembered that something similar had happened in the palace before, Yingzong once pampered a palace maid after drinking, and made the palace maid pregnant. The master lost his temper, and finally "went to the mother and kept the child", and the baby was the current eldest princess, Princess Dening. He nodded and said: "The thirteenth group practice also knows that the master never likes the things of the past in the palace again, so he took the initiative to send someone to send the woman to Kunning Palace and hand it over to the master to deal with. Who would have thought that he was seriously ill that night, and then he died. ”

"After the master woke up, he went to the underground palace alone at night, and the attendant who took care of this woman actually wanted to harm the master. ”

"What?" Zhang Ruoshui only realized afterwards that he was shocked when he heard it.

"At that time, the Empress Dowager strongly recommended this person, saying that he was familiar with the situation of this underground palace, and I didn't dig into it at the time, so I didn't shirk it, who knew that I almost hurt the master...... I'm scared when I think about it now. At this point, he was still sweating in the palm of his hand.

Zhang Ruoshui's face also became solemn, and said, "You mean that the Empress Dowager wants to be unfavorable to her master?"

"The master said that he killed him, but the death of the waiter was strange, so I had to investigate, who knew that this person was actually poisoned and died. The autopsy was experienced, but he couldn't recognize what kind of poison it was. You have been leading troops all year round, so you may recognize it, and I left a blood sample for you to examine. ”

"Can't you find out who you're looking for?" There are some colorless and tasteless strange poisons on the rivers and lakes, if someone really uses it in the palace forbidden, but it can't be prevented, the master ......" Speaking of this, Zhang Ruoshui immediately understood, "What do you mean The master is not sick, but he was poisoned?"

"I'm relieved when you say that. Fortunately, the master woke up and his body recovered better and better...... But during this time, things in the palace were strange and weird, and my heart was always up and down. Lan Yuanzhen continued: "The woman imprisoned in the underground palace, I always feel that there is something wrong with her origin. ”

"In that case, why don't you deal with it early, how can you settle in the side hall?"

I don't know why the master not only didn't dispose of her, but saved her. ”

"Eighty percent is a new funeral, and the master doesn't want to take another life, and it can be regarded as accumulating some yin virtue for the thirteenth regiment. ”

"If only that were the case. Lan Yuanzhen sighed and said, "This palace maid named Zhu'er, I have thoroughly investigated from her life experience to being elected to the palace, almost all the palace people who have been in contact with her are dead, and several of them are the descendants of the Empress Dowager who found some excuses to dispose of." If it weren't for the identity of 'Lan Yuanxiao' for the master a while ago, I wouldn't have noticed how a woman who was a little similar to the master could enter the palace so easily? ”

Zhang Ruoshui was silent for a while, and then said: "I was outside, but I didn't expect this palace to become a tiger's den in Longtan! Since the empress dowager has calculated on the master's head, we don't have to be polite!"

"The matter has not been revealed, and it is not yet time to make trouble! And Mao Ze is still investigating this matter, and any clues will be notified to us immediately. Lan Yuanzhen said, "It's okay to keep this pearl, her appearance can be used a lot." On that day, I asked people to put the corpses in the underground palace in the clothes of palace maids, and when they moved out, they deliberately showed some flaws, and then they breathed some air, and everyone outside knew that this palace maid named Zhu'er was dead. ”

Zhang Ruoshui knew that Lan Yuanzhen had always thought about it thoroughly, and he thought that he already had a plan for the future in his heart, so he didn't say anything more.

Lan Yuanzhen added water and wine to Zhang Ruoshui's cup, and the two drank a cup of each other.

Lan Yuanzhen said again: "The throne of the thirteenth regiment died before it was hot, leaving a mess, and the current situation in the imperial court has become confusing. The ministers wavered between the various forces, but neither did they stand in line, nor did they stand in line. ”

"What are Han Xianggong (8) going to do over there?"

"Lord Han has actually made arrangements for a long time, he thinks that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he has already asked the prince's mansion Yishan (9) Shao Kang to meet the new emperor and suggest that the queen mother will listen to the government. Lan Yuanzhen sighed deeply. But at this moment, the master suddenly became ill, and the proposal was stopped. ”

Although it is not as deep as Lan Yuanzhen's city, Zhang Ruoshui has also worked hard in the palace for decades, and he has also figured out some clues at this moment, he said: "The matter of the master's illness is really a little weird and inexplicable. ”

Lan Yuanzhen nodded, and he said again: "What's the matter with the admonition of the curtain, the saint is not a fool today, and he can't see it?" He urgently summoned the prince's mansion Yishan Wang Tao (10) into the right hall overnight, and sealed him as a right counselor, the right to advise the doctor, the right to the history of Zhongcheng, and then named Jiang Zhiqi as the doctor of Taichang and the superintendent of the state liquor tax. The two of them were like mad dogs released from the cage, biting indiscriminately. Jiang Zhiqi first attacked the old minister Ouyang Xiu in the court, and framed him for fornicating with his eldest son and daughter-in-law, Wu Shi, who was the daughter of Wu Chong, the deputy envoy of Yantie. The official family wants to take the opportunity to get rid of these DPRK-China forces that he cannot command. When the official family secretly asked Tianzhang Pavilion to be restrained by Sun Sigong, Sun Sigong tried his best to save Lord Ouyang, and the matter was not out of control. ”

"Wasn't this false accusation (11) done before?

"There is no excuse for the crime you want to add, and you will do whatever it takes to achieve the goal!" Lan Yuanzhen said, "Lord Ouyang defended himself in the last chapter (12), and Wu Chong did not want his own door to be humiliated in vain, and he also begged the court to distinguish the truth from the false. In the end, it ended like a farce, and it was over. This incident caused Lord Ouyang to suffer a big blow, and he repeatedly begged to retreat, hoping to go out of the county. Supervising the Imperial History, Xing Ma Mo was upset for Lord Ouyang, and was also demoted to Huaizhou. Even the Tuntian member Xia Yi and the Xiongwu Jiedu official Zhang Dun who had been recommended by Lord Ouyang were also implicated and discarded, and no one dared to speak now. ”

"The court will let these villains do it and suppress the ministers?"

"The official family just blamed Jiang Zhiqi, saying, 'The first emperor is gradual, Shao Kang built a curtain proposal, such a big thing is not to say, and the selfishness of the boudoir?' Jiang Zhiqi understood it quickly, and turned his face to impeach Shao Kang. In the past few days, the muzzle of the cannon has bombarded Lord Han again, and Wang Tao impeached Han Qi and said that Han Qi did not take Chang Chaoban, was arrogant, and bullied the king. ”

"What, Lord Han is the prime minister of the two dynasties, loyal to the country and has great military achievements, but he has been accused of bullying the king, and who has fought at the border pass does not admire him. Zhang Ruoshui was so angry that he slapped the table.

"Brother, Han Xianggong has never seen any strong winds and waves, how can he be afraid of these shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Come, have a drink to cool off. Both of them drank it all.

The transfer of power will naturally lead to a corresponding change in the political landscape. Zhang Ruoshui didn't know, but in his opinion, some things were done and some things couldn't be done.

After the master woke up, she seemed to have little interest in political affairs, and although the court was lively, she did not want to ask. We can only take one step at a time. Recently, she often dressed up in micro-costumes to play in the palace, and let me accompany her out of the palace again. Alas, it's better to let her relax. Lan Yuanzhen is much more sensitive to officialdom than Zhang Ruoshui, he has smelled a different taste, and continued: "The Empress Dowager and the official family also seem to be aware of the master's reluctance to intervene in political affairs, and they all take this opportunity to make frequent moves in the court. The official family first gave the younger brother of the Empress Dowager, the uncle of the country, Cao Tong, an official into the knighthood, and the Empress Dowager asked the old minister Fu Bi to publicly express his support for the official family, and Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo also attached themselves to the situation. Just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that there is a new force on the rise, there are many people in the capital who are actively operating for him, Han Wei and Zhang Fangping are both directly recommended to the saint, and even Zeng Gongliang and Lord Zeng have stood up to speak for him. ”

Zhang Ruoshui frowned, "Who is it?"

"Knowing the system of the king Anshi. ”

"Wang Anshi is a literary instrument industry, the whole virtue of the time, I remember that the 13th regiment has repeatedly recruited him to serve in Beijing, Wang Anshi refused to enter the court on the grounds of serving his mother's funeral and illness. ”

"Wang Anshi is quite famous, and now his mother's funeral is gone, and he has been appointed to Jiangning Mansion. I just don't know what role the prince plays behind this series of actions?"

"King Chang Zhao Hao?"

"Lord Zeng can come out to speak and recommend Wang Anshi, and most of the people behind it are the meaning of King Chang. Among the children of the master, the second prince Zhao Hao is the most favored in my heart, but I can't understand the prince's position more and more. The most important thing now is the attitude of the master, and we have to wait for her to make a decision. ”

Zhang Ruoshui nodded and said, "We can only wait and see, Dai Ying said that he will return to the capital in the near future, maybe the master is also waiting for 'that kind of thing'." ”

"Well, that's what I thought too. Okay, let's not talk about that, drink, drink. Lan Yuanzhen patted Zhang Ruoshui's shoulder.

The two would meet like this from time to time, exchange ideas, no matter what they encountered, in the end they would follow a very simple rule, that is, the Queen Mother's high-spirited decision as the ultimate law.

Lan Yuanzhen looked at the wine glass in his hand and said, his eyes were shining, and he said, "I'll tell you, that day, I took my master to Fanlou for dinner, but I didn't expect her to drink ......."

Then there was only Zhang Ruoshui's incessant voice of surprise.

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(1) "The Song Society's Manuscripts" - "Fangyu: Tokyo Ouchi"

(2) The five people who entered the house are all known: Ren Shouzhong, Deng Baoji, Gan Zhaoji, Li Yungong and Shi Quanyu.

(3) Short brown: a kind of short-hit clothing in the Hanfu of the Song Dynasty. It is also the name of a kind of clothing worn by ordinary people in ancient times, also known as "vertical brown" and "caftan brown".

(4) Yuan Xiao: When Lan Yuanxiao appears, he will replace "her" with a male "he" due to the perspective problem.

(5) Imperial Pharmacist: In the Song Dynasty, there was really a person with the name "Pharmacist", Guo Pharmacist, a native of Tiezhou, Bohai. General of Liao, in September of the fourth year of Xuanhe (1122), Guo Yaoshi led 8,000 people to surrender to the Song Dynasty in Zhuo and Yizhou.

(6) Thirteen regimental exercises: Song Yingzong is the thirteenth prince of Zhao Yunrang, the cousin of Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen, Song Renzong, and was given the name Zhao Zongshi because he succeeded to Song Renzong.

(7) Ascension: A theory that the emperor died.

(8) Han Xianggong: Prime Minister Han Qi, the Song Dynasty used "Xianggong" to call the prime minister.

(9) Prince's Mansion Yishan: The official name, the person who assists the prince.

(10) Wang Tao: Wang Tao entered the pair, and Shenzong said to Wang Tao: "I and Qing are of one mind, and they cannot be transferred", and asked Wang Tao to listen carefully, reward and punish clearly, reprimand people, and serve as a righteous person.

(11) False accusations: In the eighth year of Qingli, Ouyang Xiu was framed, and it was rumored that he had an affair with his "niece" Zhang, but the two parties had no blood relationship and was born to the ex-wife of Ouyang Xiu's brother-in-law. Zhang married Ouyang Xiu's cousin, and later had an affair with a servant in the family, and after the matter was revealed, the case was tried in Kaifeng Mansion. In the court, Zhang confessed that he had a personal affair with Ouyang Xiu. Ouyang Xiu tried every means to justify, and in the end, although he "found no evidence", his reputation was greatly affected. His political rival Qian Xian also used this to attack him, and was finally demoted to Chuzhou by the imperial court.

(12) Ouyang Xiu's self-identification: It is worthy of a generation of writers, and the chapters are written with imposing momentum and sonorous power, and special excerpts are for readers to enjoy. In the previous chapter, he said: "Those who slander the ministers are ugly deeds that the beasts do not do, and the great evil that the heavens and the earth do not tolerate, and the ministers who have it are guilty of the great evil of the world, and those who do not have it are the most wronged people in the world." If you commit a great evil but do not punish it, and if you are wronged but not snowy, you will be tired of the holy government, and its body is not fine. Begging for the selection of a just minister, for the ministers to discern reason, the first interrogation of the strange said is the minister's internal affairs, where do you get from, why do you show defeat? According to what he points to, you can deduce, do your best to reason, and you will see the truth and the false. ”