Unparalleled Concubine

Neither the imperial court nor Pingnanhou's mansion can be trusted.

The only one you can rely on is yourself!

Chapter 357

Qiyang County is at least two or three thousand miles away from the capital. With such a long distance, even if the decree is announced, Supervisor Chengxuan, one of the eight supervisors, should be in charge. And let him guard the mausoleum.

Li Xin dragged Dong Cheng into the main hall of the Qi family compound, the two sat down, Li Xin poured Dong Cheng a cup of tea with his own hands, and asked with a serious face: "Eunuch Dong, what happened in the capital? "

Dong Cheng glanced at Li Xin gratefully, took the cup of tea, and then heaved a long sigh: "Our family was careless. Your Majesty asked our family to place the spiritual seat of the late emperor in the ancestral temple. Our family... the queen mother's spiritual seat, Put it on the side of the first emperor, Xiao Zheng seized the handle and filed a complaint in front of His Majesty, saying that our family despises the Empress Dowager..."

Empress Dowager Xuan is the original spouse of Emperor Chengde, Empress Xuan. She passed away early due to illness and left no heirs. Empress Xuan naturally became the empress dowager. According to the rules, there is no problem in placing her next to the late emperor's spiritual seat.

but……

Today's son has a biological mother, and the former concubine Shu has now become the queen mother, so Dong Cheng is somewhat taboo to do this.

According to Xiao Zheng's intention, the late emperor's side position should be left vacant for the time being, leaving it to the current queen mother. Although this is not in accordance with the etiquette system, it is in line with the current majesty's mind.

Therefore, the emperor was a little displeased with Dong Cheng, and just as he wanted to order Li Xin to return to the capital, he left this job to Dong Cheng, out of sight and out of mind.

After hearing this, Li Xin shook his head and sighed: "Eunuch Dong is too honest, even if you are not sure about this kind of thing, you should at least ask..."

Dong Cheng had a bitter face: "Master Hou, our family asked His Majesty beforehand, but His Majesty didn't respond..."

Nonsense, if the Son of Heaven doesn't respond positively to such a sensitive matter, his attitude will be obvious, okay?

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Eunuch Dong should not ask His Majesty, but Eunuch Chen."

Eunuch Chen is Chen Ju, and now he is guarding the mausoleum of the first emperor, but even though Chen Ju is no longer in the center, he is still the eunuch of the inner servant, and is the eunuch with the highest status among the eight eunuchs for the time being.

Dong Cheng blushed slightly, and sighed: "After that incident at the beginning, our family has always felt a little sorry for Godfather, and has always been embarrassed to see him..."

Li Xin took a sip of his tea and said with a smile: "Eunuch Dong thought it wrong, Eunuch Chen will never blame you for that matter anyway, you are his adopted son, but Xiao Zheng has nothing to do with him , if you can often visit him in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, he will probably be able to help you a lot."

Chen Ju has been in charge of the Forbidden Palace for nearly 20 years. Whether it is the contacts in the court or the ability to be a person and do things, they are much higher than Dong Cheng. If he can give advice to Dong Cheng, Dong Cheng will be able to use him endlessly.

Dong Cheng's eyes lit up, then dimmed.

"If Lord Hou could have mentioned something to our family earlier in the capital, our family would not have fallen into the situation it is today."

He let out a long sigh, and said slowly: "Godfather said before that our family was not destined to be an eunuch and eunuch. At that time, our family was quite dissatisfied. Looking at it now, he is a wise old man..."

Originally, Li Xin shouldn't and can't participate in the affairs of the inner court, but if he can get acquainted with the young eunuchs and even the eunuchs of the inner court, it will be of great benefit to his political career, that's why he said this to Dong Cheng Chatty.

Li Xin smiled: "This matter is not urgent. Anyway, Eunuch Dong is still the young supervisor of the internal guard, so there is always a chance."

As he said that, he looked at Dong Cheng and said seriously: "Dong Gonggong, your Majesty is in such a hurry to call me back to Beijing, what's the matter?"

"Our family doesn't know exactly what happened. Your Majesty just asked Lord Hou to return to Beijing as soon as possible..."

Li Xin frowned, and asked, "Then Eunuch Dong, tell me, what major events happened in the capital while I was away?"

Dong Cheng nodded and said, "Ningling Hou Yelin, he left the capital a few days ago and went to Zhenbei Army to be a deputy general."

This is a normal thing. Before the mutiny, one of the conditions that the Wei Palace agreed to the Ye family was to let Ye Lin go out of Beijing. Now Emperor Taikang can be said to have fulfilled the promise.

He nodded and asked, "Where's Ye Mao?"

Dong Cheng shook his head and said, "The Ye family's young master did not leave Beijing."

This is where the new emperor broke his promise. When Li Xin talked with the Ye family on behalf of the Wei Palace, he agreed that Ye Mao could also leave the capital. Now Ye Lin went to the north, but Ye Mao did not.

But it's also possible that Ye Cheng didn't let his grandson go.

Dong Cheng lowered his head and continued: "What's more, Commander Zhong was appointed as the Taibao by His Majesty. He resigned from his position in the Imperial Army some time ago and went back to Yunzhou, and Zhong Heng, the grandson of the Zhong family..."

Having said that, Dong Cheng paused.

Before he could speak, Li Xin had already said with a chuckle: "Chongheng is the general of Qianniuwei Zhonglang?"

Dong Cheng took a deep breath, stood up and said to Li Xin, "Your Majesty has a fortune teller, our family admires it."

In fact, there is no magic calculation. The Qianniuwei yamen was established to check and balance the Habayashi Guard. The emperor will not have many choices in such a crucial position. First of all, the Pingnanhou Mansion is definitely not good. Not trustworthy enough, as for the Ye family and the Hou family, they are only short of wearing a pair of pants with Li Xin, and they can't achieve the purpose of restricting Habayashi Wei.

So there are only seedlings who live with the country.

The Great Jin Dynasty has been established for more than a hundred years. From Emperor Taizu to Emperor Chengde, seven generations of emperors have trusted the species family very much, and today's Emperor Taikang will also trust the species family. After all, the species family has no motive or possibility of betrayal.

"It's not a calculation, it's just a random guess."

Li Xin squinted his eyes and said, "Mu Ying and I are not in the capital. If you guessed correctly, the number of Qianniu Guards now exceeds that of Habayashi Guards."

Dong Cheng lowered his head and did not speak.

Li Xin added a cup of tea to Dong Cheng, laughed and said, "Eunuch Dong continues."

Dong Cheng nodded, and said: "The ministers of the three provinces have changed, and the six ministers have been replaced... Prime Minister Huan... has retired."

Li Xin's face changed slightly.

One dynasty and one courtier. After each new generation of emperor ascends the throne, the provincial personnel will be re-arranged. This is a normal thing, but even now, the new emperor has only been enthroned for more than three months, and the replacement has begun so soon The candidate for Zaifu is a little...too anxious.

As for the replacement of the number of the six ministers, there is no problem. After all, in the Chengde Dynasty, four of the six ministers were held by several princes. At this time, it is natural to re-select the minister.

Li Xin asked Dong Cheng in detail about the candidates for the six films.

Among them, the minister of the Ministry of War is still Li Shen, and the other ministers are usually promoted by Zuo Shilang.

There is no problem with this, but Huan Chu's resignation made Li Xin a little unexpected.

This upright old man once mentioned a few words to Li Xin, and Li Xin went to pay him New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year.

Li Xin and Dong Cheng had been talking for more than half an hour, but after listening to the big events in the capital, Li Xin still didn't catch any clues.

He slowly looked in the direction of the capital, with some doubts in his heart.

What was the former His Royal Highness King Wei calling me to go back for?

Chapter 358 Rejection

One thing is certain, that is, Dong Cheng has been eliminated from the power center.

And now that he is no longer in charge of the Tianmu prison, the information he can know is extremely limited. If Li Xin wants to see the whole picture of the capital, he has to go back and take a look by himself.

But he doesn't want to go back now.

Because the forces in the capital are currently being reshuffled, and it is not easy for him to interfere with this reshuffle process.