Chapter 71 The Great Asahi
It is normal for Kanglongi to have physical problems at this age. In the Donggan Dynasty, whose average lifespan is only 40 or 50 years old, Kanglongi can be a mascot.
However, it is precisely because he is too old that if there is a physical problem, it will be irreversible. Even if he is a great master of Tiangang Realm, it is useless. After all, he is an old man over 100 years old. As long as his physical problems begin to occur, it means that he has entered the countdown to death!
From Zhou An's current perspective, he does not want Kanglongji to have any physical problems!
Because Kanglongi is the patron saint of Donggan’s country!
If it weren't for Kang Longji's presence, Empress Shen Zhao wouldn't even have the chance to succeed the throne. After the death of the Emperor of Shendu, many royal families were coveting the throne. In addition, Wu Xukuan made trouble. If Kang Longji had not been there, Wu Xukuan might have directly supported an obedient prince and the prince would have taken the throne.
It is precisely because of Kanglongi that this situation is now available.
In fact, Wu Xukuan wanted to usurp the throne, and he didn't even need to make too complicated plans. He just needed to send someone to assassinate the Emperor Shen Zhao and blame the world, and he could directly support a puppet emperor to take the throne.
This is the easiest and most effective method.
However, Wu Xukuan could not do it.
Because of Kanglongi!
The role of Kanglongi in Dali is tantamount to the Dinghai Shen Needle.
For Zhou An, he had already become prosperous and both prosperous and loss with the empress. He had reached this point today and could no longer turn back. Even if Wu Xukuan showed goodwill to him, he had to go all the way, because he knew very well that even if he betrayed the empress and defected to Wu Xukuan, Wu Xukuan would sooner or later have to kill the donkey.
Even the traitors have no good ending, and Zhou An will not be a traitor.
So Zhou An hopes that Kang Longji can be good, continue to be his stabilizing needle, and continue to maintain the situation. If Kang Longji dies now, the empress cannot get it well, and Zhou An is not capable of turning the tables, and he will probably die.
In fact, Kanglongi is the biggest obstacle for Zhou An's promotion. As long as Kanglongi is present, Zhou An will never become a generation of power supervisors. However, Zhou An does not mind Kanglongi's existence. He hopes that Kanglongi can live for another three to five years, and by eliminating Wu Xukuan and stabilizing the country, at that time, even if Kanglongi dies, he can be called a smile!
And if Zhou An can become the chief executive and become a power supervisor in a peaceful and prosperous era, it would be wonderful.
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October 15th, the sun.
Early in the morning, the palace received news that sedan chairs were already prepared at the gate of the Marquis of Wuwen’s mansion.
As Zhou An expected, Wu Xukuan was coming to court today. Today's morning dynasty is the monthly dynasty. There are thousands of officials in the capital who are qualified to attend the dynasty. Since Wu Xukuan chose to attend the dynasty, there should not be a large number of officials who did not attend the dynasty today.
Danei, Ganwu Palace.
The Empress got up very early today and ate some pastries for breakfast. She had no intention of eating anything good. She hurriedly ate some and rushed to Fengtian Palace.
The places where the Changchao and the Dachao attend are different. The Changchao once a day is in the Gansheng Temple, while the Dachao is in the Fengtian Temple.
Because there are too many people attending the dynasty, Fengtian Hall is the largest palace in the Donggan Palace, and the inside and outside the hall are large. Not to mention thousands of people, even thousands of people can accommodate the dynasty.
The reason why we have to go to court in two places is that Fengtian Hall is too big, and often there are usually sixty or seventy people going to court together. When it is too big, there are only a hundred people. The palace is too big and it is inconvenient to speak.
But the great dynasty is different. All the officials of Beijing of sufficient ranks must come to the court. It is necessary to ensure that they can tolerate them on the one hand, and on the other hand, they must let them all hear the emperor's voice.
The sun has only risen for a while, and it is still a little dark.
In the palace where the autumn wind was bleak, the dragon chariot pulled by six tall horses was heading south slowly. It was not fast, and Kanglongji and Zhou An followed along, with dozens of palace maids and eunuchs around.
Fengtian Hall is in the middle of the southern part of the Inner Palace, and now the empress can only be considered as having just left the house and has not yet left the inner court. Because the distance is far, she has to sit on the dragon chariot instead of walking.
The Donggan Palace is very large. If converted into acres, it covers an area of about 1,200 acres. The maximum distance from the South Gate to the North Gate is more than two miles away.
When the empress comes out of Ganwu Palace, she must first leave the inner court and travel two or three hundred meters before she can reach Fengtian Palace.
Not all of this Donggan Palace is called the inner court.
The inner court originally referred to the harem, which was the place where the emperor and his three palaces and six courtyards lived and lived, so it was called the inner court. The current Donggan Palace is only the north half considered the inner court, but not the south. Although it is also a large inner palace and has multiple large palace groups, they are all the emperor's offices, not for living and living.
The dragon chariot shook slightly, but the overall situation was still stable.
Empress Shen Zhao sat upright behind the door curtain, Zhou An could vaguely see that the empress looked serious, frowned slightly, and looked full of thoughts and heavy-hearted.
Everyone had a premonition that something might happen today.
Because this was the first dynasty after Wu Xukuan sent troops to the capital. If Wu Xukuan did anything today, he would be sorry for the 100,000 soldiers he transferred.
Before, Wu Xukuan led most important officials in the court to report their illness and fail to attend court. Today, the grand dynasty came again. If he did nothing today, then the thing that he did not attend court a few days ago seemed meaningless, but if he wanted to do it today, what would he do?!
Do you still want to report to impeach and kill an important official in the court who was not with him?
Zhou An followed the dragon chariot and glanced at the bead curtain on the dragon chariot door many times. The bead curtain was shaking, so he could vaguely see the empress.
Zhou An wanted to know what the empress was thinking now.
Now Zhou An is the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor. In some periods in the history of Donggan, eunuch of the pen really wanted to go to court with the eunuch of the seal and accompany the emperor. Those periods were the period when eunuch of the pen had the greatest power.
In recent decades, the fact that eunuch Bingbi has only happened a few times when he went to court with him has been because of some special reasons.
It is a special situation for Zhou An to accompany the empress to court today. It is because Zhou An said that last night. Perhaps it was because Kang Longji agreed with Zhou An's opinion that Zhou An was allowed to attend court together.
This is naturally a kind of emphasis.
Kang Longji probably wanted Zhou An to experience the court personally and let him know more about the civil and military affairs of the court, so that's why.
Zhou An naturally wanted to seize this opportunity.
So he just wanted to know what the empress was thinking.
How can I show it?
In the huge square, the dragon chariot is still moving forward. This is just leaving the inner court and it is not far from Fengtian Hall.
But I saw an old eunuch coming in a hurry to the south.
"Master..." The old eunuch quickly walked to the dragon chariot and followed it.
Zhou An knew this old eunuch. He was the eunuch in the head of Ganwu Palace and one of the empress's confidants. Zhang Youcai and Eunuch Zhang, who was in the inner court, was a very special existence because he watched the empress grow up, just like Eunuch Wang of Xichun Palace watching Princess Yunjing grow up. When the empress was still the eldest princess, Eunuch Zhang was by the empress's side, and until today.
Speaking of which, if Kang Longji did not exist, then after Empress Shen Zhao ascended the throne and became the new chief executive, it is probably this father-in-law Zhang.
"How is it?" The empress's voice came from the dragon chariot.
"Here, we are all here." Eunuch Zhang bowed and followed the dragon chariot and said as he walked, "I went to see it. Not only Wu Xukuan has come, but all the ministers who had been taking leave with Wu Xukuan have also come. Not only that, even the Marquis of Xingguo, Wei Darong, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Wu Guoyu, and other secret detective commander... "
"All of them are here?" The empress immediately asked, looking very uneasy.
"All are here!" Eunuch Zhang confirmed.
It was a bit strange, and even Zhou An felt that today's dynasty had been worried that fewer people would come, but now it seems that the situation is just the opposite, not only a few, but more!
Even those court officials who were really sick and had not been in court for a while have come, which is obviously not right.
This matter has nothing to do with Wu Xukuan!
Zhou An had some impression of the people mentioned by Eunuch Zhang just now. He and Gao Hong had told him a lot about Wu Xukuan in private, so he knew that those people were all Wu Xukuan's direct confidants.
Therefore, it must be Wu Xukuanrang who went to court while they were sick.
What is Wu Xukuan going to do today?!
Chapter completed!