"There is a city in the city, facing the south and the north, the bureau of the middle chamber is no different from the forbidden city, there is a palace in the inner city, the road makes the yamen set up in the palace, there is quite an image of the emperor coming to the court, and the minister feels very frightened......"

Zhao Zhen's case has a point of Gao Ruona's recital, and the above paragraph is part of the original words in the compromise.

This secret letter was sent to the capital by Gao Ruona in August, but Zhao Zhen has been hesitating in his heart, Gao Ruona's meaning is obvious, Su Jin opened up a city within a city in the middle of the newly built city, and this posture looks like a small palace, the Great Song Dynasty ritual system has clear regulations on the residence and construction of the yamen on the state capital road, what level of officials enjoy what kind of treatment and honor guard, what kind of house to live in, and even the height of the gate building of the yamen has clear regulations; If it is really as Gao Ruona said, Su Jin will undoubtedly violate the system, and he will be punished for violating the system, and this violation is because of a momentary mistake, or what kind of thoughts are hidden behind it, it is a reverie thing.

Zhao Zhen did not act rashly, such a big thing, just listening to Gao Ruona's words is naturally not appropriate, once the judgment is wrong, it is a public expression of distrust of Su Jin, Zhao Zhen is not so stupid, not to mention that he still trusts Su Jin at present, no matter from which point of view, Su Jin does not seem to be a person who harbors evil intentions, but there are always exceptions to everything, the entire northwest is handed over to Su Jin's hands, which is equivalent to handing over the gate of Bianliang and even the Great Song Dynasty to Su Jin in custody, once the guard of the gate has a problem, it will be a catastrophe.

Zhao Zhen has always been like this, both employing people and suspicious people, using and returning, doubting and doubting, as soon as this matter came out, Zhao Zhen always wanted to find an opportunity to send someone to see what was going on, is it as Gao Ruona said, Su Jin made a small palace in the middle of the newly built Pearl City.

Finally waited until the new city was completed in September, Zhao Zhen sent Zuo Daoying, the inner servant around him, to the new city in the name of congratulating and looking forward to knowing the appearance of the new city, and he asked Zuo Daoying to go all over the city and record everything he saw, especially the pattern of the middle chamber.

After Zuo Daoying arrived, he was led by Gao Ruona to live in his mansion, and the two of them glued together, wandering around the city every day, Gao Ruona ordered a large number of soldiers to accompany him, and he hugged and leaned back very angrily.

The doubts in Su Jin's heart are unsolved, and he will naturally pay close attention to these two people, it seems that Su Jin is busy in various states every day, and even the yamen of Pearl City rarely sits in the court, but Su Jin has already ordered someone to secretly watch Zuo Daoying and Gao Ruona's every move, and report to him at any time.

One day in late September, Su Jin and Liang Shi had just rushed back from Chengzhou at the junction of Lizhou and Qinfeng Road, because Liang Shi had discovered an iron ore belt in Heigou Mountain, Chengdu, and it seemed that the reserves were rich and worth investing in mining, Su Jin was naturally excited, so he followed Liang Shi to check there for two days.

As soon as Su Jin returned to Pearl City, the people sent to secretly keep an eye on Gao Ruona and Zuo Daoying came to report, saying that the deputy envoy Gao took the head of Zuo to take advantage of the few days when Su Jin went out to revolve around the middle box, and also pointed at the pattern of the buildings in the middle box, the two not only looked outside, but also entered the newly built inner hall of the yamen, as well as the garden behind, and checked the various public houses near the left.

Su Jin didn't think there was anything about it, but Rou Niang's words at the dinner table that night made Su Jin break out in a cold sweat.

Rou Niang was feeding Hu'er and casually chatted with Su Jin: "Son, our Hu'er is getting more and more generous, yesterday afternoon, I took Hu'er to play in the back garden, and met Mr. Zuo from the capital. ”

Su Jin frowned and said, "Why did you go to the back garden?" How will he know you? ”

Rou Niang said: "Who knows him, it wasn't General Gao who introduced him on the side, originally the slave family wanted to avoid them when they saw them, General Gao insisted on telling Manager Zuo that Hu'er was our child, so Manager Zuo stepped forward to talk, and the slave family was not easy to ignore, what's wrong?" Is the prince eating the vinegar of the slave family? ”

Su Jin rolled his eyes and said, "What kind of vinegar did you eat, I was thinking, what are these two guys doing in the back garden." ”

Rou Niang smiled and said: "It's said that it's a casual stroll, and the head manager Zuo also praised the exquisite back garden of the Zhongxiang Yamen, and it's almost time to catch up with the emperor's back garden." ”

Su Jin was shocked and said, "Did he really say that?" ”

Rou Niang said: "Yes, General Gao was still saying on the side, 'That's, the style of the middle chamber is like a small palace', and then the two of them left with a smile." ”

Su Jin's back was cold, he suddenly sensed the danger, Zuo Daoying's intention to come to Pearl City made Su Jin puzzled, this gentle sentence was said by the person who had no intention but the listener had the heart, so if he went back to the capital, as long as he gently said a sentence and a half in Zhao Zhen's ear, what would be the result? From this, it can be thought of Zhao Zhen's intention of sending this person here, could it be that someone deliberately made a fuss about this matter?

Su Jin thought carefully about the layout of the middle chamber, he originally wanted to use the middle chamber as the office area of the official yamen, in order to appear solemn, in the layout subconsciously did use part of the layout of the palace, because Su Jin saw a limited number of buildings, when designing the layout of the house, he would subconsciously take the most majestic and solemn palace he had ever seen as the blueprint.

Of course, there is also some vanity, and the young man always wants to show off, so he built the public hall of the Lu Envoy Yamen into a palace, but completely forgot to avoid such a thing.

Thinking about it again, I remembered that after the middle chamber was basically completed, all the subordinates praised in unison, but at that time Gao Ruona was a Piri Yangqiu, now I think about it, it is natural that the subordinate officials have not seen the palace, and Gao Ruona, who was on an errand in the palace, must have seen the similarities, from which it can be inferred that nine times out of ten it was Gao Ruona who played Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen sent someone to inspect it on the spot.

In addition to being frightened, Su Jin told his suspicions to the wives and concubines, and everyone was dumbfounded, although the wives and concubines had never entered the palace except for Yan Biyun and Xia Siling, from Yan Biyun and Xia Siling's eyes, they also understood that the layout of this middle chamber was probably indeed a bit like part of the layout of the palace.

"This ...... How good is that? The husband was too careless, why didn't he pay attention to this when he built it? It's still ...... It was also built according to the pattern of the imperial palace, and this disaster came. Yan Biyun rubbed her hands and smacked her lips anxiously, walking back and forth.

Xiao Sui'er said: "Tear it down, hurry up and dismantle it, don't leave the handle." ”

Xia Siling said: "It's too late, Manager Zuo has already recorded everything, and now the demolition is to cover up, and it is even more confirmative." ”

Huanniang Rouniang stomped her feet anxiously, looking at each other at a loss.

Su Jin leaned his head back on the chair and pondered the countermeasures, it is absolutely impossible to dismantle, not only to cover up, but also because of the high cost Su Jin is reluctant, but let this Zuo Daoying go back and talk nonsense, it will definitely not work, now he can only find a way to block Zuo Daoying's mouth, or dispel the idea of him going back to talk nonsense, and then it is to plan and turn bad things into good things.

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Zuo Daoying has been in Pearl City for more than ten days, and everything that should be seen and remembered is almost the same, although the road envoy Master Su did not accompany him throughout the whole process, and it seems that he does not have enough respect for himself; However, Zuo Daoying didn't care, in his opinion, Su Jin's good days were numbered.

Take advantage of Su Jin's departure from the Pearl City in a few days, Zuo Dao should be accompanied by Gao Ruona will have a good tour of the middle wing, large to the city wall and palace, small to the interior of the furnishings and trees and flowers, Zuo Dao should have seen them one by one, the more you look at Zuo Daoying, the more you feel like a small forbidden city, enter from the front door, straight and wide road straight to the Yamen, this Yamen is a temple, Su Jin's hall case is placed at the top, the open space on both sides is enough to stand down more than 100 people's subordinate officials, as a road envoy three officials, the Yamen is larger and more spacious, But to such a large size, to such a large extent, to such a large extent, it cannot but teach people to think about it.

If the palace of the road envoy can be regarded as the Daqing Hall in the palace, the courtyards of several rows of public houses next to it can be regarded as the office space of the two provinces, three divisions and six departments, and the back garden, isn't it the emperor's imperial garden? In addition, it was the Praetorian Guard Ma Jun beside Su Jin who was responsible for protecting the middle chamber, and at first glance he was dressed and magnificent, and he really thought it was a forbidden place in the palace, and this Su Jin was too bold.

Zuo Daoying got the evidence he wanted to get, and he didn't want to stay too long, Su Jin didn't know his intentions yet, in case he understood, whether he could go or not was a question, while he was still in the dark, it was better to hurry away.

So on the morning of the second day after Su Jin returned to Pearl City, Zuo Dao should be accompanied by Gao Ruona to bid farewell to Su Jin.

The place of resignation was in the palace of the road envoy Yamen, when Zuo Daoying and Gao Ruona arrived at the Yamen, Su Jin happened to sit in the hall, and dozens of subordinate officials lined up on both sides, looking more and more like the head of the emperor's palace.

Zuo Daoying and Gao Ruona glanced at each other, stepped into the lobby, Su Jin saw Zuo Daoying, quickly got up and left the case and greeted him with a smile: "Oh, it turned out to be Manager Zuo, and the official was about to order someone to invite you to come, but I didn't expect you to have good ears, but you came by yourself." ”

Zuo Daoying was startled, and his heart suddenly became vigilant, could it be that Su Jin noticed something?