Volume 1 The Characters of the Capital Chapter 17 Enter the palace and face the saint
"Xiaguan pays a visit to Lord Lu. β
Lu Bai sat on the main seat, and the officials below saluted him one after another.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take a seat! The juniors are still young, and they will need a lot of advice from the seniors in the future. β
Lu Bai's performance at this time was completely less domineering and arrogant than when facing those officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory before, but he was very humble.
He has completely two attitudes towards his own people and outsiders.
"The adults are too modest, although they are young, their abilities are far beyond that of ordinary officials. β
Lu Bai knew very well in his heart that although these officials spoke very beautifully on the surface, who knew what they really thought in their hearts!
Moreover, if there are no great cultivators of the foundation building realm in this privy council, although it is said that the general took a few with him during the northern expedition, there must be a great cultivator of the foundation building realm in this privy council, and Lu Bai is not the strongest person among them, but in fact, he can also be ranked in the top few.
After all, unless he is a foundation building realm cultivator whose cultivation is slightly stronger, he is afraid that he will be helpless against Lu Bai. But no matter what, they are all members of the Privy Council now, and they should not be hostile to Lu Bai.
What's more, Lu Bai is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council personally appointed by His Majesty, even if the other party is a great cultivator of the Foundation Building Realm, he must nominally obey Lu Bai's dispatch.
In fact, the Privy Council has to do a lot of follow-up preparations for the Northern Expedition of the Great Cavalry, but these tasks are not completely done by the Privy Council, and the support of the Ministry of War is also needed.
After all, although the Privy Council was established under the control of His Majesty, its strength is still slightly lacking compared with the Ministry of War, and the functions of the two sides are not completely overlapping.
It does not belong to the civilian system, but the military belongs to the military attachΓ© system, and as for the Privy Council, it is between the civilian system and the military attache system, playing a coordinating role, and it is precisely on this basis that His Majesty was able to successfully establish the Privy Council.
Moreover, many affairs had been prepared before the general's northern expedition, so if it wasn't for any major events, Lu Bai would basically be relatively easy.
And according to the usual practice, Lu Bai should go to the palace to face the saint as soon as he enters Beijing, this is Lu Bai, obviously he doesn't attach much importance to the imperial power, but after all, His Majesty appointed him as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, if he doesn't give His Majesty face, it can't be said, so after Lu Bai came out of the Privy Council, he went straight to the palace to face the saint.
A second-rank minister who is not yet the age of the weak crown is extremely rare in the history of the entire Liang Kingdom, and only now His Majesty dares to do this.
However, the situation in the court is extremely complicated now, involving not only the struggle between His Majesty and the Queen Mother, but also the cabinet, the power of the cabinet is much greater than before, especially in the period of the first emperor, that is, the period of Xuanzong, the power of the cabinet began to expand rapidly, so that it has developed into the third pole in the court today.
Although the power of the cabinet has been somewhat reduced since the death of His Majesty Xuanzong, it is still very strong.
Since the Privy Council is not too far from the palace, who walks over by himself in vain, and at the same time he also wants to see the prosperity of the capital of Liang now.
Although the situation in the imperial court is complicated now, this Liang is indeed extremely prosperous, and the commodity economy is extremely developed, which is not weaker than that of the Song Dynasty.
It's just that unlike the Song Dynasty, today's Liang State. The armed forces are also extremely powerful, one of the best in the whole world, and even continue to expand their territory outward.
However, according to the people of Daliang, or the court of Daliang, they are carrying out revival and recovering territory.
The Great Liang was split into three states since the Great Zhou Empire. After that, the Great Liang inherited the largest territory of the Great Zhou Empire, although the Great Liang did not occupy the capital of the Great Zhou Empire, but they have always claimed to be the orthodox successor of the Great Zhou, wanting to recover the lost territory and re-dominate the world.
I was afraid that Lu Bai walked to the gate of the imperial city.
"Who's coming?"
Lu Bai didn't say any more nonsense, and he was not in the mood to do anything boring about pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, so he directly took out his identity token, and the other party saw that he was the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and immediately let him go.
After entering the palace, Lu Bai was still a little excited, after all, this palace is worth it in this kind of feudalism Not everyone can enter and exit at will, even if it is the prince and minister, there are great restrictions.
Moreover, Lu Bai entered Beijing for the first time, and it was also the first time to enter the palace, so he didn't know what the road was at all, so he casually called a eunuch to help him lead the way.
That eunuch thought it was the prince when he saw Lu Bai so young! Suddenly startled, and hurriedly knelt down for Lu Bai, it seemed that he was also a very timid eunuch.
Later, the little eunuch realized that the young man in front of him was the Privy Council Deputy Envoy who had been in the limelight recently, he heard that Lu Bai was extremely young, but he didn't expect it to be so young, it seems that this Privy Council Vice-Minister, as long as there are no accidents in the future, will definitely have a bright future, so he has a bit of a real "stutter" for Lu Bai in addition to awe.
Although this was Lu Bai's first time entering the palace, his understanding of the palace was not limited to this. He understands that people like this little eunuch are very miserable in this era, if it is not for the time when they can't survive, who wants to enter the palace as a eunuch!
And although this palace belongs to the entire Liang Dynasty. Centers of power. But there are crises everywhere, especially for these eunuchs, who may lose their lives at any time because of a little mistake, and they may also lose their lives because of the power struggle between some big people and become an innocent victim.
However, I have to say that this imperial palace is indeed magnificent, even better than the Forbidden City on the earth, and the most important thing is that Lu Bai has heard of it before, and there is a royal garden in Daliang that is comparable to the Old Summer Palace in the previous life.
According to legend, it was built from the period of Taizong, and it was not successfully built until the period of Xuanzong, during which it took a full two hundred years, so it can be imagined that this royal garden comparable to the Old Summer Palace has reached a point of what kind of peak, I am afraid that it has condensed a lot of civilization crystallization in this era.
"Gonggong Wu, thank you for leading the way for this official. β
Although this is a little eunuch, he is also a minor child! Lu Bai has some pity for this little eunuch, and this child is also an extremely sensible child, and he seems to be very honest and simple, such a child is probably bullied everywhere in this palace!
He hoped that he could give this child some warmth in such a dark environment, although he could help very little, but it was better than nothing, and something was better than nothing.
And this little eunuch was also sincerely frightened after hearing Lu Bai's words, for so many years in this palace, he had never seen a person so polite to his little eunuch, and he was also the second-rank minister of the dynasty, which made him a little flattered. Especially Lu Bai's feelings emanate from the depths of his heart, and he can't tolerate half of the fraud, especially since he is still a child, he is particularly sensitive to this aspect.
"Lord Lu, this is what a slave should do......"
This little eunuch was honestly afraid, for fear of the slightest neglect, and even some awe, although Lu Bai was very amiable, but for him, it was a bit unbearable.
Hearing this, Lu Bai was a little silent, this era is like this, at least for now, he can't make any big changes.
He will not be very idealistic to say to this little eunuch, you don't have to call yourself a slave when facing me, we are all equal and so on, because these words are really ridiculous in this era, even if he disagrees with these things extremely in his heart, and even doesn't want these things to exist, but this is the reality, not something he can change alone, this is the problem of the whole era.
Lu Bai had mixed feelings in his heart, and under the leadership of this little eunuch, he came to the outside of the Qinzheng Palace, and when he arrived here, there was another eunuch, this old eunuch followed His Majesty's side all the year round, and he was His Majesty's henchman.
"Your Majesty, Lu Bai, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, asks to see you. β
At this time, Lu Bai was still a little excited and nervous in his heart, after all, in this palace of diligence, not only his biological father in this life, but also the emperor of the Great Liang Dynasty, but also a land immortal in the realm of Jindan.
This majesty's life can be regarded as a winner in life, not only marrying the most beautiful woman in the world, but also the king of a country with great power. Moreover, he is also one of the seven Jindan immortals in the world, and his strength is strong and perfect.
The only thing that makes people feel very sorry is that the most beautiful woman in the world he married died eighteen years ago, and at that time he was just a waste prince, able to watch his favorite woman being killed by others.
This kind of experience Lu Bai is very empathetic, after all, he saw it with his own eyes when his mother was killed in this life, but he was just a newborn baby at that time, and he couldn't make any interference.
And after so many years, he still can't find out who the man in black is and who he was instructed by?
"Let him in!"
Compared with other people in this era, Lu Bai had less awe for the emperor, and he walked in directly after hearing those words.
"Wechen has seen Your Majesty. β
Lu Bai just bowed to the emperor, and did not kneel or anything like that, this is not because he has no reverence for the emperor, but because in this era, there is no rule of kneeling and saluting the emperor in the Great Liang Dynasty, unless it is an event such as a particularly huge priest.
Emperor Liang had been standing next to the bookshelf and looking at the books, and after hearing Lu Bai speak, he slowly turned around, and when Lu Bai saw Emperor Liang's appearance, he was very shocked, he never thought that Emperor Liang, who had never met him, turned out to be someone he was familiar with.