The rise of the president in the harem

Zhen Guogong personally took Liang Xiao and the loyal servant out of the palace and went straight to the Privy Council.Although Zhen Guogong is a little older, after all, he was born in Rongwu, and now he is on the horse, but he is not inferior to a young man like Liang Xiao at all.

In the past few years, since he handed over the order of the Privy Council, he no longer comes to the yamen to sit on duty every day as before. .This Qian Xing was the former emperor's imperial bodyguard in his early years, and benefited from the Zhou family's favor, his official career was prosperous all the way.During the Ping Liu's rebellion, because he protected Zhou Feiqi all the way, he was trusted by the new emperor and transferred to the Privy Council.

Li Yantai also inspected him for a few years, and saw that he was indeed loyal to Da Zhou, so he felt at ease and left the affairs of the courtyard to him after half-retired.

The biggest advantage of this Qian Xing is that it is very pragmatic not to compete for fame.Just like today, when concubines in the harem were enshrined in the Grand Ceremony, Qian Xing, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, was naturally qualified to attend the ceremony, and he did go, but he was not like many other officials who attended the occasions that should be attended. Still staying in the palace, chatting, wooing, flattering, and brushing up on each other. After paying homage to concubines and watching the ceremony in Yuehua Palace, he returned to the yamen and took care of the affairs of the yamen as usual.

Therefore, when Li Yantai, Lord of the Town, came with Liang Xiao and others, Qian Xing had already come out to greet him after hearing the news.He was extremely respectful when he met Li Yantai, and he really looked like a student respecting his teacher, making Liang Xiao and other outsiders feel that the atmosphere of the Privy Council is comfortable.

Li Yantai sat down at the main seat, and said to Qian Xing: "Do you still remember when Hua Ziying fought against Miaoman, when was the first defeat and the final victory?"

Qian Xingdao: "If the official's memory is correct, it should be the summer of Jiayi's second year."

"Go and find the record file of that battle."

"Okay, my lord, please wait a moment, and I'll do it right away." After Qian Xing finished speaking, he nodded at Liang Xiao.

Liang Xiao's eyes drifted away unconsciously, and he didn't look back until the back figure could no longer be seen.

At this moment, a small official brought tea to the two of them. The Duke of Zhen took the teacup and said to the small official: "Leave the tea, you go out, and notify the guards outside the door. Without my order, no one is allowed to drink tea at will." In and out."

The tea servant's expression changed with fright, and he quickly put down the tea set, and Alexander hurried out.

After a while, Qian Xing came back with a scroll of dossiers. He had already heard about the order issued by Duke Zhen just now, thinking that something big might happen.Sure enough, he handed the dossier to Duke Zhen, and he opened his mouth while browsing, and the exit was the current situation in southern Xinjiang. Is there any progress in the matter of medicinal materials?"

This is why Qian Xing has been guarding the yamen all the time these days, for fear of missing important information if he is negligent. Thanks to his responsibility, he has now sorted out a clear case report from a large number of reported news. After a while, Lord Zhen Guo asked, and he said eloquently: "Since the beginning of summer, Miaoman's merchant ships have collected grain at the ports along the banks of the Changhe River. The lower officials have sent people to investigate, and it has been confirmed that this is the first time this has happened. In the mountain city near the source in the west of the Changhe River, tens of thousands of stones of grain were purchased that time. Afterwards, traces of Miao merchant ships appeared one after another in all ports on both banks from west to east. As of this month, after tracking, Miao merchants have gone north, the farthest When we arrived in Gucheng, we not only bought grain, but also medicinal materials. According to the rough statistics of the lower officials, the amount of grain, herbs and medicinal materials purchased by Miao merchants this time may be enough for the people of a city to use for a year."

This number was so astonishing that Liang Xiao couldn't help being surprised when he heard it.

Lord Zhen Guo frowned even more, thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "As far as I know, the Miao Man has harassed our southern border of the Great Zhou for many years. It has dragged down the national treasury for a long time, the treasury is still empty, and the people are in dire straits, so why do such wealthy merchants appear? This matter is strange, you can investigate further."

However, Qian Xing said: "The lower official also had this question, so I have traced this clue, and now I have obtained the definite news that King Miao has adopted a new favorite concubine this spring, who was born on a treasure island in the South China Sea. , it is said that ten miles of red makeup brought a lot of treasures to Miaoman. This favorite concubine was surnamed Wuma, named Haiyao. She was born in the century-old Wuma family in Baodao. Since she married Miaoman, it has only been half a year since she married Miaoman. It all fell into the hands of the Wuma Clan, and now the Miao merchants' ships are criss-crossing the river and sea, and the control of Treasure Island is probably indispensable behind it."

At this point, Duke Zhen's face was full of fear, he sneered, and said, "Bao Dao and Dongying are just two small island countries, but they are even more ambitious than the four border powers. This matter cannot be slack, you need to sort out the files as soon as possible Send it to Hua Ziying, and let him deploy countermeasures as soon as possible."

"Your Majesty understands."

"Well," Lord Zhen looked at the file again, raised his hand and handed it to Liang Xiao. Liang Xiao had already prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and waited to transcribe it. Because Zhou Feiqi wanted to read it, he had to show him the original. If Li Jing wants to see it, he can only wait for Liang Xiao to make a copy for him.

He was writing like flying, and the two people next to him started talking again——

Just listen to Zhen Guo's justice: "The battle in the summer of Jiayi's second year, and Hua Ziying's defeat in the early days were really wronged."

Qian Xingdao: "Where did General Hua think that the barbarians would mobilize insect trainers to drive away the pests? Fortunately, they found a way to turn defeat into victory."

Zhen Guogong said: "It's also thanks to that Lan Xuedan is common in Weinan, if it grows up in our Pingjing, with the temper of self-replenishment of flowers, maybe the emperor will send him flowers thousands of miles away!"

Qian Xing smiled and shook his head, and suddenly remembered that in the court hall a few days ago, Li Jing, the son of Lord Zhen Guo, had advised the emperor for several days in a row that General Hua should stop building dams, but the emperor didn't seem to agree, just didn't know How does Lord Zhen see this matter? Although he is curious, Qian Xing is not a talkative person, so naturally he will not ask too many questions. He just said: "General Hua is now urging the construction of the Weishui dam, but it is an opportunity for Miao Man to take advantage of it. .”

Lord Zhen Guo smiled, and said meaningfully: "Not necessarily. Hua Ziying still has real skills."

Qian Xing didn't ask any more questions.

Liang Xiao transcribed the dossier and returned to the palace with the original.The loyal servant of the Li family carried the transcribed paper in his arms, and rushed to the garrison camp in the capital again at full speed.Only when I got to the place did I know that the situation had changed in just a short while. His eldest son had already rushed to the Royal Racecourse, and Master Bian also took a step ahead with [-] garrison troops. Yu Machang hurried away.

The Royal Horse Farm occupies a large area.There is plenty of grass, and there are many sheds. Even the green grass on the ground where the horses are walking daily is extremely neatly trimmed.Since Zhou Feiqi came to the throne, the Great Zhou has put more emphasis on armaments, so this imperial horse farm has set up a separate yamen, which is called the Yumajian. As the name suggests, it is a research department dedicated to breeding fine-bred war horses.Because of this, the cavalry of Dazhou has become more and more sophisticated in the past two years, and there are occasional wars on the border. Once the cavalry comes out, they are invincible.

This is also the reason why all countries sent horses during the Great Tribute. The tribute was just an excuse, more because they were curious about the Great Zhou war horses, and their purpose was to find out the detailed information of the Great Zhou war horses.

Therefore, during the period of the Great Tribute, the horse trainers from the missions of various countries came and went to the royal racecourse every day, and what's more, they stayed for a whole day, and the horse masters in Dazhou were used to it.The steward of the racecourse has long since said that it is okay to exchange experience in raising horses, but the horse breeding room is closed to the public. Anyone who dares to say a word will be punished directly.

So in the past few days, the horse masters in Dazhou are really excited and helpless in the face of "all directions come to make money"; and the horse masters from various countries who have repeatedly given gifts and been rejected repeatedly think that the reason why Dazhou's horses can be raised so well is that I'm afraid it has a lot to do with 'people', at least if someone sends money to them, they can't guarantee whether they can control themselves not to be tempted!

Well, this can be regarded as a harvest. What people raise what horses-horse 'quality' depends on character.

On this day, the horse masters of Dazhou discovered that there was a young horse trainer in Gaoshan Country who was extremely handsome.Everyone has a curiosity-seeking mentality, and it is inevitable to look twice when seeing something different.It had been several days since the horses from the high mountain country had been delivered, and the trainers and the others who were walking back and forth were almost familiar. This was the first time they had seen this man.

However, at first everyone just took a look and saw that this little brother walked to the racecourse after he came in. The racecourse is not a place for people to enter casually. He has a very strong temper and is difficult to tame, so I came here especially because I wanted to learn the horse training skills of the Dazhou horse masters. I don't know which master is willing to give me a few tricks? '

When everyone heard this, what else did they not understand?This person originally came to challenge, if no one responded and spread the word, wouldn't it be a joke to the Fan Kingdoms?Immediately, a master horse shouted loudly: "I will compete with you!"

That little brother is not picky, he does not reject anyone who comes.He responded with a smile, and started a game on the spot.

A fierce horse was pulled out. It is said that it was photographed by a master at the East Mule and Horse Market two days ago. At that time, the horse was locked in a cage. This is rare. The dealer also said that this It's a rare BMW, but it's too stubborn, it's boundless when it's wild, if it's not locked in a cage, bringing it to this market will definitely hurt people.

Master Ma looked at the horse carefully and confirmed that the pedigree was excellent, so he reported it to the Shangguan and bought it into the Yumachang.But this horse is just like what the businessman said, it is indeed extremely fierce, it has already kicked and injured two people in a row, which caused quite a headache for all the horse masters in Da Zhou.But since the horse was bought back, it must be tamed no matter how difficult it is, so someone thought that there are still many famous horse trainers in Pingjing who do not want to become officials in the court, and they have invited many people to deal with it in the past two days This horse, the one who spoke just now is one of them.

The little brother took a look, and the horse took the initiative to say, "I'll come first."

Da Zhou's horse trainer didn't compete with him, and stepped aside on his own initiative.The horse-training technique here has attracted almost all the attention in the racecourse, so no one noticed that during this period, a thin and small figure took the opportunity to run back.

At the back of the racecourse are rows of stables, and behind them are barns where grain and grass are piled up. Now people are running to the front to watch the excitement. The door of the barn is open, and the little shadow slips in, stepping on high The grain and hay stacks climbed up the beams little by little.The beams of the barn are wide and rough, and there is no problem for this thin person to squat on it——

The man just squatted on the beam, took out a brush and a small cinnabar inkstone from the cloth bag at his waist, and drew something on the beam.

The beams and columns of this barn are in the shape of umbrella bones, there are eight in total, and the little skinny man has patiently drawn them one by one...

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When Li Jing arrived at the imperial racecourse, he stepped on the wall and heard exclamations and laughter from the horse racing area from a distance.Before he was a teenager, he and Zhou Feiqi came here every day to practice horseback riding and archery, so the layout and structure are naturally very familiar. This time, it is for arresting people, so familiarity with the venue is naturally extremely important.

Li Jing turned his head and said to the other dead men, "Scatter."

Those black shadows scattered in all directions.Li Jing also concealed his breath, leaping and bouncing on the roof while waiting for the investigation report.The whereabouts of the deceased member of the Li family were strange, and when Li Jing landed on the third roof, that person appeared beside him, and said in a low voice: "We are competing to train horses, and everyone is watching."

"Who is comparing with whom?"

"The Ma Shi and Da Zhou of Gaoshan Kingdom."

"Keep an eye on it, don't act rashly for now."

After the dead man left, Li Jing looked at the sky. It was already past noon, and the worship ceremony at the royal ancestral hall should have been completed——

The worship ceremony of the royal ancestral hall has indeed been completed after a series of twists and turns.

On the way back to the palace by car, Gao Yue also heard from the accompanying guards that the people in several places in central Beijing were being bitten by insects, and the garrison battalion had dispatched [-] garrison troops to arrest the insect trainers throughout the city.

Gao Yue then asked, "Do you have any clues about the stranger you were asked to look for earlier?"

The guard said: "No trace has been found."

Gao Yue didn't ask any more questions.

Back at the palace, the last step of the Jin Feng ceremony officially began—the Jin Feng celebration banquet.

During the singing and dancing, Gao Yue took the time to tell Zhou Feiqi what happened today while changing clothes, and finally said: "... On the way back, I asked the guards specifically, and there was no trace of it among the people watching the ceremony at the ancestral hall. Suspicious person, and among the concubines, only Qiao Huan vomited blood, and now Helianye is still performing acupuncture for him, this is the second time, but Qiao Huan hasn't woken up yet. I just asked Xiao Xingzi to ask Afterwards, He Lianye said that Qiao Huan's qi and blood were retrograde, and he couldn't confirm what caused it for a while, but now Taoist Master Zixian has rushed over..."