It's a cool night in the Forbidden City at night.

The leakage gradually moved, and it was the middle of the night in the secluded deep palace.

At this moment, only the West Warm Pavilion of Qianqing Palace is brightly lit.

The Son of Heaven is no longer a teenager, he is the same age as Lin Yanchao, twenty-two spring and autumn.

Compared with more than three years ago, his body continues to be blessed, his lips are also slightly bearded, and his eyebrows and eyes also have the precipitation of years experience.

defeated Feng Bao, liquidated Zhang Juzheng, and used hundreds of officials to force the Queen Mother to return to power, and the power of the entire world was finally seized by the twenty-two-year-old Son of Heaven.

Zhang Hong is the confidant of the Son of Heaven, Zhang Whale is the lackey of the Son of Heaven, and Shen Shixing, the first assistant, is the former emperor of the Son of Heaven. There will be no more big companions like Feng Bao in the celebrant supervisor, and there will no longer be a domineering person like Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet, or a calculating first assistant like Zhang Siwei.

But is the Son of Heaven, who is one in power, really happy?

Now the Son of Heaven will fight dogs as unscrupulously as he did back then, and he will also throw a handful of silver, so that the palace maids and eunuchs will fight to grab it, but the smile on his face is gradually gone.

The high places are not cold, and the Son of Heaven still has a few sorrows.

Now the Son of Heaven stood in front of the imperial case, holding a scroll that had been opened several times in his hand.

The head of the volume is covered with a jade seal, and the royal approval of the first place is written on it, and the seal of the seal of the seal is underneath.

This is obviously the champion of the temple examination.

Seeing this volume, people will roughly guess that it is the article presented by Zhu Guozuo, the new champion of this year's new section.

But a discerning person can conclude that this scroll seems to have been a little old, unlike the newly printed rolling paper of the Ministry of Rites and Ceremonies, which is as white as snow and slightly yellowed on the surface.

However, the striking red grid vertical lines on the roll did not fade.

The Son of Heaven frowned, and at this time, the rustling of footsteps in the warm pavilion came.

But seeing that Gao Huai, the duty brand of Qianqing Palace, came.

said that Gao Huai was originally Feng Bao's subordinate, and after Feng Bao was cleaned up, Gao Huai was also involved and wanted to be driven out of the Qianqing Palace.

However, Lin Yanchao asked Zhang Whale to speak to Feng Bao, so that Gao Huai changed his name to Zhang Hong, the eunuch with the palm seal, as his godfather, and finally escaped this catastrophe.

The Son of Heaven has always been accustomed to being served by Gao Huai, and he was transferred back to the Qianqing Palace to be on duty.

Gao Huai held a palace lamp, came to the imperial case of the Son of Heaven, and then said: "Long live the lord, it's late at night!" ”

The Son of Heaven looked at Gao Huai and said, "I know, how is it in Cining Palace?" Can anyone come? ”

Gao Huai knew that in the past, the Son of Heaven was late in handling government affairs in the Qianqing Palace, and when the Cining Palace saw that there was still a lamp in this palace, he would send a eunuch to come over and pass on the words 'The Queen Mother ordered the Son of Heaven to rest early, and he will go to court tomorrow'.

But now it is no longer transmitted.

King Lu's wedding was cut by four million taels, Marquis Wuqing was impeached by the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and Cining Palace still has strange places for the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven sometimes deliberately lets the lights in the Qianqing Palace turn on later, if someone from the Cining Palace comes to spread the word and let the Son of Heaven rest earlier.

At this time, the Son of Heaven was as happy as a child, and slept very sweetly.

At this time, the Son of Heaven stood for a moment, knowing that the Queen Mother was still angry, so he said: "Early tomorrow morning, I will go to Cining Palace to ask for peace." ”

Gao Huai stopped talking when he heard this.

The Son of Heaven saw it and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Before, the Queen Mother spread the word that the phoenix body violated the harmony and recuperated in the palace, so that Your Majesty didn't have to ask for peace tomorrow."

The Son of Heaven sighed when he heard this.

This sigh carries a lot of inexhaustible meanings.

After half a ring, the Son of Heaven ordered: "Gao Huai, will you go to Henan in a few days?" ”

"Your Majesty still goes to Henan?"

"That's right, do an errand for King Lu, you and the officials of the Ministry of Household and Industry will go to Weihui Mansion to see how King Lu's Mansion is repaired, if there is anything incomplete, the inner treasury will allocate silver. Henan's Zhuangtian, as well as the salt tax, as long as King Lu invited, as long as it was not excessive, it all complied with his wishes. ”

Gao Huai knelt down and said: "The slave is stupid, except for serving the Long Live Lord, nothing else." ”

"I know you can't do without me, but when other people in the palace go to the place, they don't take much bribes, and I know you won't. And you are the person close to me, these officials dare not slack off, and you will have a good talk with the Henan officials when the time comes. ”

And Gao Huai shed tears again, and then his eyes fell on the scroll that the Son of Heaven caressed. Gao Huai's eyes fell on the name of the scroll, and then he withdrew his gaze.

The Son of Heaven glanced at Gao Huai and said, "This is Lin Yanchao's former champion scroll!" ”

"Yes."

"Let me ask you if this article is good or not?"

Gao Huai said: "Your Majesty's personal hand-taken is excellent. ”

The Son of Heaven paused and said, "The article is good, but three years ago, I didn't understand it, and three years later, I still don't understand it when I read it again." ”

"The minions are stupid, Your Majesty doesn't understand, and the minions don't understand even more."

"You eunuch, you don't have all six roots, and you don't know what this article says. That's it, I tell you that the first article 'Rigidity and softness', Lin Yanchao praised Zhang Taiyue in the volume, as for the second article, 'Pei Du played the prime minister's should recruit talents and staff officers from all over the world to invite them to meet guests in private', the three hundred jinshi all took this opportunity to praise Zhang Taiyue's regent's regents, but Lin Yanchao and Zhang Maoxiu did not do it, and the power of the words was borrowed by the Son of Heaven. ”

"Zhang Maoxiu said this to avoid suspicion for his father, but Lin Yanchao knew that this move offended Zhang Taiyue, and it was likely that he would not be able to win the title, but he wanted to write it, why do you say this?"

Gao Huai said when he heard this: "The slave is stupid, although he can't understand what is said in the article, but listening to His Majesty say this, the slave guesses that the first article praises Mr. Zhang, indicating that the champion is afraid of Mr. Zhang's power, but the second article is that the champion knows that this will offend Mr. Zhang, but still truthfully, it can be seen that he is loyal to His Majesty in his heart, and he is more than afraid of Mr. Zhang." ”

When the Son of Heaven heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "If you are a scholar, I am afraid that you can be a cabinet scholar who can be me!" ”

Gao Huaizhi slapped the dragon's fart and hurriedly said: "The ability of the slave is taught by His Majesty on weekdays, if he is not by His Majesty's side, the slave is nothing, nothing." ”

The Son of Heaven laughed when he heard this, and then he didn't know what to think, and his smile disappeared.

"Lin Yanchao is a scholar after all, and in the hearts of readers, he 'said' more than 'summoning'. Therefore, he has a square and upright scholar in his heart, and he will not blindly meet my will, so this is also what I appreciate about him. ”

After a pause, Tianzi Long's eyes flashed, and he turned around and said, "By the way, Gao Huai, you must take a look at Lin Sanyuan in Henan this time." He did a good job this time, and I promised to promote him to an official. But I remembered what happened to him in the first place, and suddenly I couldn't swallow this breath again. You tell him that I still say 'just admit your mistake', otherwise let Lin Yanchao continue to let me stay in Henan to dig river mud." ”

Speaking of this, the Son of Heaven showed the smile of such a young man after a long absence, as if he had played people ruthlessly, and looked like 'I just don't talk anymore, so what'.

Gao Huai really wanted to say for Lin Yanchao, 'Your Majesty, you have no jokes!' ’

But he can't say it after all, he can only say yes.