Gao pragmatic left the cabinet and went to Zhong Cui Palace.

Although he has the special purpose of Emperor Longqing and can walk in the harem, with his caution, he usually only goes to three places: the cabinet, the Wenhua Palace, and the Zhongcui Palace, and under special circumstances, he will go with the prince to meet the queen and Li Guifei.

Of course, no matter where you go, there must be a little eunuch to guide the way, and you will never run around.

There are also two little eunuchs who came to guide the way, one in front of the road, and the other walked in the position of a step back next to Gao Pragmatic.

Gao Pragmatic had just walked a short distance, turned a palace door, and the little eunuch who was originally walking behind him suddenly stretched out his hand in front of Gao Pragmatic, Gao Pragmatic's face remained unchanged, and he also stretched out his hand, and the two of them crossed their hands.

Not to mention that no outsiders saw it here, even if there were, in the eyes of outsiders, it was just the little eunuch who stretched out his hand and asked Gao Pragmatic to help him, and no one would find that there was a note transferred from the little eunuch's hand to Gao Pragmatic's hand.

Gao pragmatic took the note but was not in a hurry to open it, he folded his hands behind his back, looking like he was leisurely, but he stuffed the note into the hidden pocket of the cuff and put it away.

When he arrived at Zhongcui Palace, the prince was not there, and Gao Shishi asked to know that Zhu Yijun had accompanied Li Guifei to visit the emperor, and not only their mother and son, but also the queen.

Gao was not too surprised, after all, such a situation is not uncommon recently. He went straight to the Dongnuan Pavilion of Zhongcui Palace, claiming to rest for a while, and when His Royal Highness the Prince returned, he wanted to accompany the prince to discuss history.

But this is to say, the so-called history between him and Zhu Yijun is basically based on him, and Zhu Yijun's state is roughly between listening to lectures and listening to stories.

This is actually an idea that Gao Pragmatic came up with, because discussing history can quietly carry private goods, on the one hand, it will affect Zhu Yijun's thinking mode, and on the other hand, it will deepen the friendship between the two - if there is such a thing as friendship between monarchs and ministers.

The East Warm Pavilion of Zhongcui Palace is basically equivalent to the prince's study, and ordinary people naturally cannot enter it at will, but Gao Shishi, the prince's companion, is obviously not an ordinary person, he can not only come in, but also almost use this place as his own study, and there are even bookcases and other things for him to use.

Speaking of which, he is also a figure who sits in the palace every day - fortunately, he is not the kind that has been tortured by the palace.

Sitting down behind his bookcase, Gao Shishi first looked left and right, and confirmed that he was the only one in the warm pavilion - this is very easy, because the east warm pavilion of Zhong Cui Palace is not large, and I don't know if it is to prevent someone from assassinating or some other reason, the furnishings in this warm pavilion are very distinctive: at a glance, there is absolutely no place for people to hide.

He pulled out the note he had just received from his sleeve and spread it out to look at it. This note is not too big, but there are a lot of words written on it in small letters.

Gao Shishi looked at it carefully, sometimes frowning, sometimes showing his face, and finally picked up a fire fold with an expressionless face, walked to the incense burner and lit the note.

Then he began to pace in the warm pavilion, carefully thinking about the few messages on the note, both inside and outside the palace.

Among them, there are the following articles related to the palace: Feng Bao readjusted the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace where the empress and Li Guifei lived, and stuffed at least three to five of his cronies respectively, and we took the opportunity to make arrangements; Meng Chong, Feng Bao, Chen Hong and others each secretly planted people in the Qianqing Palace, the specific situation is unknown, and we also have arrangements; Li Guifei was a little sick, and summoned the imperial horse eunuch Li Wen to serve in close proximity, and got the holy permission; Zhong Cui's palace attendants were adjusted, Meng Chong, Feng Bao, Chen Hong, etc. all placed people, and so did our side; Feng Bao has been going to the East Factory a lot recently, and the East Factory Zhu Dajue has been quite active recently, but it is difficult for us to investigate; Zhu Xixiao, the governor of Jinyiwei, has been summoned three times recently, and his brother Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, has also been called to face the saint once, but both of them are solitary, so it is impossible to find out......

There are also several pieces of information related to the outside of the palace: Zhang Daxue's mansion is visited every night, or one or more people, and the steward of his mansion travels out of the palace every day, especially with Xu Jue, the steward of Feng Baowai's mansion, who has many secret meetings, almost every day; During the incident, Cao Dayu visited Zhang's Mansion for three consecutive days, all of which were late at night; Outside the high university scholar's mansion, there are often Dongchang fanzi; The third group of Dongchang dispatched to Kaiping to investigate returned to Beijing, and Feng Bao had personally received him; Dongchang sent Datong's son back to Beijing, and was also personally received by Feng Bao; The cabinet has been adjusted to the internal servants on duty, among which there may be Feng Bao's cronies, the details are unknown......

The information came from no single source, and it was only sent to him after it had been aggregated.

The message is quite disorganized, with duplication in some places, contradictions in others, and of course ambiguity in others.

However, Gao Pragmatic did not show any dissatisfaction, he knew how hard-won this information was, after all, he had neither Dongchang nor Jinyiwei at hand, so he could only rely on some other means to obtain these news, and to have the current level of intelligence was already the result of some people risking their lives to do things for him.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic not only did not feel dissatisfied, but on the contrary, he felt that his "investment" was quite valuable.

Fortune boys?

Gao pragmatically said, I just did some unusual business, and time will prove the value of these businesses.

But at the moment, in the face of these intelligence of a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, even if it is highly pragmatic, it seems a bit big.

In addition to "our", there are at least five parties involved: Feng Bao's side, Zhang Juzheng's side, Meng Chong, Chen Hong and other inner court bigwigs, Li Guifei's and Li Wenjin's side, and ...... On the Emperor's side.

Some of these five parties cooperate with each other, and some hate each other; There are those who use each other, and there are those who are wary of each other; There are those who guard the door, and there are those who lay out everywhere.

"It's fun to fight with people." Gao pragmatic muttered: "Taizu Cheng doesn't deceive me." ”

He calmed down and carefully brushed it up.

The main purpose of these actions made by Meng Chong, Chen Hongzhi and others was to focus on how to maintain their power in case the emperor died. People like them don't necessarily have any political discipline, but Gao Pragmatic believes that at least from the current form, they should still be more inclined to Gao Gong's side at the moment, so although they have a lot of actions, they can be put aside for the time being and don't care.

On Concubine Li's side, it is the first time that she has transferred her younger brother to her side without being pregnant, but this time it should not be to protect herself, but to transfer him to her side to give advice to herself, or to protect the prince.

It is worth noting that there is no news that Li Guifei and Feng Bao have strengthened their ties, but it is Feng Baoan who intervened by Li Guifei's side - this means that the connection between them may not be as close as he imagined before, and Li Guifei's closest person in the palace, in addition to her husband and son, is only her younger brother Li Wenjin.

The emperor's movements are very interesting, his most trusted minister is Gao Gong, and his closest eunuch is Chen Hong. In the current situation, it is understandable that he threw the government to Gao Gong, but he did not give Chen Hong any special instructions, but summoned Zhu Xizhong and Zhu Xixiao brothers in succession, which is very interesting.

Zhu Xizhong is the first person in the Jingnan department, and theoretically he is still the number one in Beijing, and the emperor summoned him, no matter what he said, the root cause should be considered from stabilizing the situation in Beijing. It is impossible for Gao Gong to rebel, and the emperor will not think that Gao Gong has such intentions, so there is no need to care too much about this article.

Zhu Xixiao is the governor of Jinyi Wei, who has both some military power and a large amount of independent supervision power, of which independent supervision power is more important. But Dongchang also has the right to supervise, and the emperor summoned Zhu Xixiao instead of Feng Bao, who was closer to him, obviously because he believed in Zhu Xixiao more. It seems that Zhu Xixiao may have some special tasks at hand, and it is estimated that most of them are spying on someone, but although the Chengguo Mansion has close contacts with Gao Pragmatic, Gao Pragmatic will never go to Zhu Xixiao to ask about this - after all, as long as Zhu Xixiao has no brains, he will definitely not say it.

It's better to ask him than to ask Zhu Yingzhen, but it's a pity that Zhu Yingzhen will probably be kept in the dark. But in any case, Gao Pragmatic didn't believe that the emperor had any suspicions about Gao Gong, so on the side of the emperor and the two brothers of the Chengguo Mansion, Gao Pragmatic thought that it was basically okay to ignore it.

The most noteworthy are Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng.