Sancai ran on the solid floor tiles of the palace with two elephant legs. It was a cold winter day, but his face was covered with sweat. Even so, he did not dare to slow down and kept sprinting forward.

"Isn't this the three-talented official of the East Palace? Why are you here at Zuoyintai Gate when you no longer serve the officials in the East Palace?"

Chen Tong, wearing a bright red court uniform, was standing at the door of Zuoyintai Gate, instructing some servants to carry things. He accidentally looked up and saw Sancai, who was running fast and making loud footsteps, and asked.

"This is incredible! The official announced that the secretary of the province will go to the East Palace to draft the decree!"

Sancai startled Chen Tong as soon as he opened his mouth. The enthronement ceremony was about to begin. What was the official planning for?

"The high official is joking. When drafting the decree, we should consult the official of the Imperial Pharmacy. Why are you here in person at the Secretary's Office? Do you want to announce the imperial decree before drafting the decree? Why are you in such a hurry?"

Chen Tong watched Sancai's sweaty palms leave fingerprints on the cuffs of his new imperial robe, and he spoke distressedly to comfort him. It was not that he felt sorry for Sancai, but that this vermilion imperial robe could only be worn today, and it was all marked by the sweat. …

Sancai took two deep breaths like a fat-headed fish that landed on the beach, "Hey! I don't know what the princes of the two palaces thought, but they actually sent an official document to a department and mobilized all the subordinates of the front department without authorization to worship heaven and ancestors at the official house. They drove the people away on the road! What's terrible is that they haven't gone to the imperial court to draw the edict yet. The officials found out and were very angry. Why don't they ask the old slave to come to announce the secretary-general's imperial edict and personally issue the edict to reprimand him! The auspicious day is about to come. , Aren’t these husband-in-laws delaying things!”

Chen Tong's face, which was originally red from the cold, turned pale in an instant. What was he doing? Could it be that the princes of both houses were crazy? Not long after King Rong's rebellion was put down, the official family was in trouble again! The late emperor was still in Gyeongbokgung Palace. Lying down!

Lifting the hem of his court uniform, he called out to Sancai: "Sir, please wait a moment. I'm going to summon Zhou Zhigao!" He hurried to the Secretary's Department. He could see that Sancai really couldn't run...

Chen Tong is a shrewd man. He knows who is the biggest in the palace. What else is more important than the official order?

When Sancai had taken a breath and his breathing had just become even, Chen Tong pulled Zhou Zhan and trotted over. He was the one who wrote the will in his own hand.

At this time, Zhou Zhan was confused and panting as he was dragged along by Chen Tong, "What's going on?"

Sancai didn't answer when he saw him coming, so he took him and ran towards the East Palace. On the way, he told the whole story, "The official announced that you have prepared a decree from the emperor! Leave quickly and don't delay the good time to ascend the throne!"

As soon as he heard that it was the official announcing himself, Zhou Zhan followed Sancai and stopped talking. Today the official is going to ascend the throne, and all his decrees should be passed. Being able to ask him to issue an decree without passing it means that things are not very good. It is difficult to handle, otherwise the government would simply issue an edict and it would be over.

The so-called Zhongshu means that the emperor issued an edict written by himself from the palace or passed through Zhongshu's door, and was directly handed over to the relevant agencies for execution. In the Song Dynasty, such an edict had supreme power, but it was generally not used by officials because After all, it was not done through normal procedures, so some courtiers would object, go to the emperor to criticize this behavior, or even boycott it.

Such Zhongshu officials do not have the right to refute. Unlike ordinary imperial edicts that pass through Zhongshu's door, officials can resist or refuse to accept them. They can also exercise the right to refute even imperial edicts.

It was warm in the East Palace, but Zhou Zhan was kneeling on the ground shivering.

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhou Zhan on the ground and said with a smile: "Why are you shaking? Isn't this big fireplace warm?"

Zhou Zhan watched the official throw a prepared word into the fireplace, and the fine Shu brocade slowly burned into blue smoke in the orange flames. He quickly asked in a trembling voice: "Is the official dissatisfied?"

?”

"The words are too slight, they are simply insignificant. My purpose is to reprimand the courtiers of the two governments for knowing and breaking the law! I know that mobilizing the imperial army requires a decree in front of me, but I still write without permission. I just want to know, in this case, what is the Tiger Talisman Festival Yue?

What’s the use?!”

Zhou Zhanmu stared blankly at the young official. He was wearing a large fur hat and was already the overlord of the world even before he ascended the throne. He took the new imperial edict handed over by Sancai and tremblingly wrote a fierce rebuke on it.

language.

Sancai on the side spoke in a low voice: "I am very sorry that King Rong has rebelled against me, but you still don't remember the lessons learned from the past. Today, you are good at regulating the imperial squads. What is the use of the Tiger Talisman Festival Yue? You and I are all two.

How can an important minister of the government know the law and break it? The late emperor's coffin is still there, and you guys are thinking about it!"

Zhao Zhen nodded: "That's pretty much it. Send it to the two houses for circulation immediately!"

After Zhou Zhan left, Sancai smiled bitterly and said: "Guan, today is your big day, why do you have to reprimand the ministers and give a banquet in the evening!"

"When a new official takes office, he still needs three things to do! Not to mention the official family of the Song Dynasty. If the civil servants do something wrong, let me forget the blame, and there will be no door!"

"But the official family has always been lenient. Today is the enthronement ceremony. There is no chance that the world will be pardoned! Now even the courtiers are very concerned about it..." Sancai looked at Zhao Zhen's face and his voice became smaller and smaller and finally disappeared.

Zhao Zhen walked out casually. Sancai's worries could be ignored at all. The courtiers now had no other choice! The servant behind him followed him with the clothes of Daqiu Mian. There was no way anyone could make the clothes too wide, even according to the body shape.

The tailor-made ones are still a little longer.

The Daqing Palace is not very far from the East Palace. There are chamberlains following Zhao Zhen along the way. He is not bored and chats about household affairs casually. Of course, they all talk about the daily routine in the palace. As an official family of the Song Dynasty, the chamberlains and maids in the palace are family members.

, this is a fact that has to be admitted.

Zhao Zhen rarely treats them as physically disabled people, and the topic of conversation is also related to them, "Chen Tong heard that your mother passed away a few days ago. I allow you to go out to visit. You will go home after your work today."

Let's see!"

"Thank you to the officials for their concern. I left the palace before the palace door was locked. I will be back early tomorrow morning. I am not afraid of the officials' jokes. I have many sisters in my family. My father died early, so I sent me to heaven because I was afraid that I would not be able to support her.

Come home to beg for food."

Zhao Zhen nodded. This situation is very common. Unless he can't survive, who can bear to let his son enter the palace and receive this knife?

Even Zhou Huaizheng was just an orphan picked up from the battlefield by Taizong. To say that the old Zhao family is really good. At least they control the number of servants very well. There are not many servants in the palace. The maids are different from them.

At a few years old, he can be released and find a good man to marry.

The chamberlains can only leave the palace when they are about to die of old age. It’s not that the Tian family doesn’t let them go but that they don’t want to leave. They are surrounded by normal people and they can’t stand the contemptuous looks. Only in the palace can they stay together and stay warm.

If one is missing, who is laughing at whom?

The old Zhao family has relatively strict restrictions on the rights of eunuchs. Even an old eunuch like Chen Lin, who has served two generations of officials and is known to all the high-ranking officials in the family, is no more than a fifth-rank official in the outer court.

Generally speaking, the servants will be the same as the masters. The emperors of the Song Dynasty were mostly kind and kind-hearted people. Those who were close to red were red and those who were close to ink were black. The same was true for the chamberlains who served the emperor all year round.

It's not that there are no hateful eunuchs, but it's still much better to have relatively few. Qin Han, a famous general in the Taizong Zhenzong period, was brave and resourceful. He was injured forty-nine times in total. He did not take credit, do not seize power, and did not seek personal gain.

. It can be said that he was the most outstanding military talent among the eunuchs in the Song Dynasty. Even compared with ordinary generals, he was quite outstanding.

Zhenzong even gave him the title Zhongwen as a sign of his favor, and after his death he was awarded the title of "Observer of Beizhou" and "Jiedushi of the Imperial Army".

As the master of the official palace of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhen certainly had to understand these things. The detailed records in the Imperial Encyclopedia saved him a lot of trouble. After all, it would not be nice for an emperor to keep asking about eunuchs when he had nothing to do.

The reason why he opened the Imperial Encyclopedia was not to make a fool of himself in front of the civil servants and generals. If something went wrong on such a grand occasion as the enthronement ceremony, it would be great for him. Zhao Zhen did not want to leave a sentence in the history books: The official succeeded to the throne in Daqing.

There was a lot of gibbering in the palace, and the ministers asked the imperial doctor to diagnose him if they didn't understand...

Fortunately, the Imperial Encyclopedia has a detailed record of what happened when my father succeeded to the throne. Even if it is a written record, it should be very similar.

Looking at Zhao Zhen who was resting on the throne in the back hall with his eyes closed, Chen Tong quietly led the people away. It was time for the officials to have a good rest. The two of them chatting just now looked like they were chatting with ordinary friends, without any sense of restraint.

, I didn’t even feel the indescribable gap in him.

The apse is extremely quiet. Although it is an apse, it is still huge. There are beautiful patterns on the pillars, restrained carvings on the beams, and even the caissons are as colorful as beautiful murals. The artistic level of the Song people is far beyond

Despite Zhao Zhen's imagination, only the painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival can give a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg among the works handed down from later generations!

The back hall of Daqing Hall is like this, but what about the main hall?! Zhao Zhen couldn't even imagine it.

It's a bit embarrassing to say that Zhao Zhen has never wandered around the imperial city since he took charge of the East Palace, especially the outer city of the imperial palace separated by a wall, where the offices of the two governments are located, and the Daqing Palace is also located on the central axis.

Among the imperial cities, only the Daqing Palace is located on the central axis. The other palaces serve as side halls, so the Daqing Palace has become an ideal place for court meetings and official enthronements.

Zhao Zhen quickly browsed the contents of the book, but there wasn't much in it. The main thing was to remember what he should do when.

Zhao Zhen slowly closed the book in his mind and fell asleep. There was already a quarrel in the front hall across the door. Zhao Zhen raised the corners of his mouth slightly. Needless to say, he must be circulating his imperial edict. The ministers of the two houses always

It was aimed at the officials. When did the officials start to reprimand them, and they reprimanded them so much at once!

The civil servants of the Song Dynasty were very comfortable!

He holds the highest salary, enjoys the best benefits, and is protected by the commonwealth of Taizu and scholar-bureaucrats. Dad’s exhortation to study makes people yearn for the path of studying and becoming an official. Zhao Pu, a prime minister, actually became an official

He dared to pursue and intercept Taizu over the issue of his appointment, and would not stop until Taizu agreed.

At this time, it would be more honorable to be kicked out by the officials than to get the first prize. The crows at the Yushitai saw the opportunity and came to remonstrate. They had to make the officials look bad. Who are these people? Is this the so-called

A direct minister, loyal? Not necessarily!
Chapter completed!