Chapter 411: A Swirling Undercurrent Beneath the Water's Surface

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A feudal dynasty of the Oriental style of the earth, when the magnates, merchants, and wealthy gentry still maintain the cohesion of the Northern Han Dynasty at present, if it follows the natural development of the law, it is far from going to extinction.

It's like the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period.

However, under the huge external force and effect, the cornerstone of the Northern Han Dynasty has been shaken, and the edifice of Sheji is crumbling.

In mid-March, Beiping received a reply from the King of Zhongshan, sternly rejecting the Northern Han Dynasty's request to withdraw troops from the border. He also opened his mouth in the reply letter, threatening that the Northern Han Dynasty would not let the prince Zuoding return to the division, and he would increase the border again. It's just one of the pickers to declare war!

In late March, the envoys of the Northern Han Dynasty who had rushed to Běi Jing to 'rebuke the Tang King' returned. Before they reached Běi Jingcheng, they were escorted back like prisoners by the Tang king.

After the envoy delivered the overbearing reprimand document of the Tang King, he drew his sword and wiped his neck. As a dignified envoy of a country, he was humiliated by a prisoner, not only did he lose face, but even the dignity of the Northern Han Dynasty was trampled under his feet.

This person is fierce, and when the Tang Wangjun imprisoned the mission, he was the first to draw his sword to resist, but he was injured and executed. It is not difficult to understand that he returned to Beiping City and committed suicide after delivering his credentials.

At the end of March, the Zhongshan army in Hezhou was disrupted and was mercilessly crushed and suppressed by the surrounding Han army. In the past month or so, the Northern Han has received too much humiliation, whether it is the domestic people or the frontier army, everyone is full of righteous indignation. For the Zhongshan army, and even to the Tang King, it has changed from friendship to strong hostility!

Under the guidance of the imperial court, the military and civilians roughly separated the relationship between the Tang King and the Great Zhou, the Tang King is the Tang King, and the Great Zhou is the Great Zhou.

As for the information that was supposed to be kept secret, why did it spread to every corner of the people? With four grasshoppers here, what news can really be maintained?

The time entered April, and in the anger of the whole country, it entered early summer.

The weather that has to be cloudy or cloudy for several days in a row is really boring. Shi Yiqing's mood was also like this weather, and he became moody. Early in the morning. Just because the smell of spices was a little wrong, he suspected that the yellow gate in charge of spices was perfunctory to him, and he was shoddy, so he was furious and called the yellow gate, who was in charge of the entire inner court to use incense, and punished him to kneel in the courtyard for several hours.

Among the nobles of the royal capital. Shi Yiqing's life is not very luxurious. The style of life of the chamberlain. It was decided by the king and the concubines. It is very dangerous if the king likes to be frugal, but the chamberlain lives a fastidious, fastidious, and extravagant life. The head will fall off soon.

The Northern Han Dynasty did not have the scourge of eunuch dictatorship, but the great eunuchs would also form factions among themselves. The relationship between them is not as affectionate as it seems. If something falls into the hands of others, the consequences are unimaginable.

However, the eunuchs all have a problem that they can't get rid of whatever they can't do. That is leakage, and a smell of urine will accompany them for life.

The little eunuchs had no conditions, so the big eunuchs tried their best to cover them up with spices. But this spice can't be taboo, can't make the aroma spray or anything, and can't flush the master's mouth and nose, so it's quite a lot of effort.

How to make a good fragrance to cover the smell on the body just right, otherwise the smell will be more unpleasant after the fragrance is mixed with the smell of urine. Especially when sweating.

On the surface, Shi Yiqing can't be too extravagant, and the only place where he can use his strength is in spices, and he is also very sensitive in this regard.

If you take a breath, you can smell the spices mixed in it, and all his spices are the recipes he has drawn up himself, the best materials in the court. You are a matter of Zhan. The eunuch in the palace is the first, and this privilege is still there.

So all year round, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, every morning. Shi Yiqing will carefully put on the sachet with his own hands. As soon as he smelled that unique scent, he could feel a total pleasure.

But. Recently, Shi Yiqing suddenly felt that the fragrance of the sachet was a little wrong, and he couldn't even say why! In the past, no matter what was wrong in the sachet, he could easily distinguish it when he smelled it, but this time, he could only feel the abnormality of the fragrance, and he didn't know what impurities were mixed in it!

This made him wonder if he was delusional because he had been too nervous recently. So he didn't have a seizure right away, but endured it for a while to be sure, but until now he has found nothing, and the situation in the court is getting more and more tense, and King Han's health is getting worse and worse. That morning, he couldn't hold back any longer, and finally vented the anger in his heart.

Shi Yiqing felt that everything was not normal recently, and it was not only this one that made him feel annoyed. For example, the crown princess, although she has always been good to herself, it is completely certain that she trusts her own people more, her own people in the East Palace.

Shi Yiqing is a self-aware person, once a son of heaven and a courtier, especially an internal servant, especially the inner servant, it is too common. As soon as the king dies, the crown princess, that is, the freshly baked queen mother, will definitely hang herself high and serve it as a tablet for a year or two. After a year or two, their mother and son took full control of the court, and their good days would come to an end.

Isn't this the case every succession of thrones?

Compared with the general trend of the imperial court, the eunuch is too worthless.

However, Shi Yiqing was not yet fifty years old, he got up from a little eunuch, worshiped his master and godfather, and walked all the way to the position of Zhan Shi, and tasted the taste of power for more than ten years.

The courtiers retired and could still return to their hometowns to enjoy their old age in peace, but the inner servants retired, had no relatives and no reason, and were detained in Enjizhuang like prisoners, and finally contracted a miasma and died miserably, which is too common. These people more or less know a little bit about the palace insiders, and it is impossible to let them all out.

Only the new king has a kind heart and allows the former king Zhan Shi and Da Changqiu to go out of the palace to choose relatives and friends to support, which is a great gift to the eunuchs. But obviously, Shi Yiqing knew that he didn't have so much credit for the mother and son in the East Palace. Waiting for his fate, it seems to be determined......

Every time Shi Yiqing thought of this kind of ending, he shuddered. But as the king approached death, this fear became more and more real. But even so, Shi Yiqing, who is a noble Zhan Shi, is powerless to resist, the sword of fate has come to his neck, but Shi Yiqing can only wait for fate to be at the mercy......

But Zhu Biao had a Western saying in his previous life, when God closes a door, he also opens a window for you. It was at this moment that Shi Yiqing received a gesture of favor from Ji Kun, and a path of heart appeared in front of him.

Shi Yiqing embarked on that new path without hesitation, but he did not take action immediately, but quietly passed Ji Zhao's true illness to Ji Kun. Even Ji Kun asked him to sue the king of the northern invasion of the Zhongshan Kingdom, but he also disobeyed the yin.

Most of the people who are accustomed to being slaves and are accustomed to taking advantage of the power of the master let them deal with people other than the master, they are likely to be very arrogant and dare to do everything, and even do something that is not very beneficial to the master behind their backs to deceive the master; But once the subject is facing his master, then all the courage and wisdom are often thrown out of the sky, and they will only feel that their knees are weak, and their mouths will involuntarily give in to the promise.

This is the pathetic of servility.

Although Shi Yiqing had already made up his mind to climb up to Ji Kun and the others, he was unwilling to be the king of Han. The East Palace is the East Palace, and the King of Han is the King of Han. As long as the King of Han is still alive, even if he is paralyzed by a stroke, unable to speak, unable to turn his eyes, this kind of thing that may lead to the death of the King of Han, Shi Yiqing is also afraid from the bottom of his heart and does not dare to do it. He has been a slave all his life and never dares to disobey his superiors. All he has done to Ji Zhao in his life is to flatter and flatter, the kind of thing that 'angers' him will cause his subconscious resistance as long as he thinks about it.

He even used to distinguish the irrelevance between the East Palace and the Han Dynasty to maintain a belief in his heart - I am still a loyal servant of the king, and I have not betrayed the king.

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An urgent message was sent to Zhu Biao's desk - there was an abnormality in the Nangong family.

Zhu Biao's brows furrowed after reading the news, and he stood up halfway and sighed, "It's really how difficult the country is!" "The Ministry of Rites Shangshu represents the four princes, and they are actually involved with the Nangong family, isn't this a tiger skin.

He wrote a letter and sent it back, Zhu Biao asked Zhu Ming to closely monitor every move of the Nangong family: first, the number of personnel, this can be seen from the daily purchase of the Nangong family; Second, the flow of money, whether there is a large amount of money exported to other places in the near future; Third, the secret stronghold, it is impossible for the Nangong clan to arrange everyone into their own courtyard, there must be a place for them in Beiping City, carefully investigate every detail, and find out them.

King Han's health never improved, and the confrontation between the Zhongshan army and the Han army in Luozhou and Yanzhou became more and more intense. Compared with before, the only good news on the side where Zhu Biao is located is that it is more and more likely that Donggong Shun will succeed to the throne.

Ji Kun, Ji Feng and others for the throne, in order to seek foreign aid, have been in love with Zhongshan and Tang Wang, and now the whole country is shouting and scolding Zhongshan and Tang Wang, Ji Kun's approach to the four people, although the low-level military and civilians have not yet known, but the upper-level officials and eunuchs, a large number of neutrals have fallen to the East Palace!

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A secluded courtyard in the west of Beiping City.

In the wing room on one side of the master bedroom, five young people dressed as servants were intently reading the letters and secrets on the table.

From time to time, some pieces of paper are thrown into the paper basket at his feet, while others are placed in a small basket on the right-hand side. Cao Bingkun's eyes were full of excitement, the royal capital was about to be in chaos, but Zhu Biao was standing on the opposite side of the organization!

It's really pitiful to God, my blood revenge will be avenged!

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In the south of Beiping City, it is also a secluded courtyard.

In one room, Yu Shao'an leaned back against the recliner and knocked his legs high. There was a thick pen in his hand, and his eyes were more solemn than ever.

At this time, outside the small courtyard, a young man dressed like a dog touched in and saw his face clearly, but it was Jiang Guangren, who was known as 'Nancheng PHS'......