At nightfall, curfews should have been imposed in various places in Beijing, but the gates of Xiyuan, a few miles away from the palace city, opened. The tall palace gates opened layer by layer, and a man rode a black giant horse galloping all the way to the side of Xiyuan.

Chaohua Garden in the west finally stopped.

"From tomorrow onwards, all those who come to see me will not be seen! Let them kneel before me outside the gate of Xiyuan!"

Seeing his rage, the guard guarding the door knelt on the ground, not even daring to breathe loudly.

"Waste! Waste! Waste!"

After scolding several times, the man still felt uneasy, so he picked up the whip set with gems in his hand and whipped it towards the pillar in front of the door:

"How dare a group of thieves with corpses to hold me hostage?"

Several eunuchs who were serving in Chaohua Garden rushed out in a hurry. Seeing this, they could only hold their breath and think that they were just flying insects and fallen leaves in the palace garden.

A young eunuch looked around, knelt down and said in a gentle voice: "Your Majesty, you must put your dragon body first, but you are just a bit of a sour scholar playing with the pen. Why should you get angry for them when you have a body of ten thousand gold?"

"Pa." The man who was called Your Majesty struck the ground with his whip and turned to look at the young eunuch.

The eunuch lay on the ground and did not dare to move.

The man smiled. He was extremely handsome, with bright features, but there was a sinister look in his eyes that made people afraid to look directly at him. He was the current His Majesty, Zhao De Emperor Zhao Surui, who had been on the throne for six years.

After looking at the young eunuch coldly for a moment, he asked:

"Gao Huaiming, you said that my minister of civil and military affairs is a sour scholar. Who are you?"

His tone was calm and calm, but it was like a knife soaked in the autumn wind, making people's liver and gallbladder tremble.

The little eunuch named Gao Huaiming was trembling, but still smiled and said:

"The slaves are your majesty's cat and dog servants. They are designed to relieve your majesty's boredom."

"Cats and dogs? Are you worthy?"

The young monarch swore in his mouth, but his murderous intent faded a bit. He raised his hand and said:

"Those trashes like one chicken and two dogs have been left behind. You come and serve me first."

"Yes!"

After standing for a few times, he picked his knees up from the ground. Gao Huaiming followed His Majesty into the main hall with small steps.

Entering the main hall, Emperor Zhaode threw the whip into the corner. The red ruby ​​inlaid on the handle of the whip was about the size of an inch. No one felt any pain even if it hit the stone tile floor.

Leaning on the soft couch and watching the eunuch taking off his boots, Emperor Zhaode still felt a little depressed.

He ascended the throne at the age of fifteen, and at the age of eighteen he personally conquered the Duqin tribe in Mobei, and at the age of twenty-one he also conquered the Duer headquarters in Moxi, and both returned with great victories. In terms of military achievements, although they were not as good as Taizu Chengzu who opened up the territory and expanded his territory.

, it is enough to be shining brightly for future generations to sweep away the decadence of Dayong for generations. But what is the result? Those officials always use the ancestral family law to say that he is unruly and inappropriate. This year is the year of harvest in the Jianghuai area, and the warehouses are prosperous.

In fact, he said that he wanted to mobilize 100,000 silver to build Xiyuan, but those officials seemed to be digging up their ancestral graves!

He, Zhao Surui, just spent a little money, so how could he become a Jie and Zhou?

The officials started comparing themselves with each other, each one's scoldings were more fluent than the other's, each memorial was longer than the last, and the court had almost become a place for them to perform!

Holding the small seal hanging on his waist with his fingers, Zhao Surui felt fierce in his heart. After two years of pacifying Moxi and Mobei, he would throw those bitter scholars to open rivers and plant trees!

Seeing the little eunuch named Gao Huaiming kneeling on the ground and beating his legs, he lowered his eyes and said:

"Since you are a slave of cats and dogs, you have to make me happy, but I am so angry, but there is nothing you can do. You are not even as good as cats and dogs."

Gao Huaiming lowered his head and took a careful look outside the hall.

He was afraid, but not just afraid.

His Majesty was in a hurry, and the "grandpas" around him were probably all left behind. On weekdays, those "grandpas" would always surround His Majesty wherever he went, and there was never a time when he could show his face, like today.

If he misses such an opportunity, he may have to be a sweeping eunuch in Xiyuan for the rest of his life.

"This servant really has a way to punish those slanderous scholars for Your Majesty."

The hand holding Xiaoyin paused for a moment, and Zhao Surui looked at the top of Gao Huaiming's head:

"Come and listen."

"Your Majesty, I have been cleaning the Chaohua Garden for many years. I knocked all the bricks outside one by one. There are a few bricks that make no sound no matter how hard I knock them. When the officials come tomorrow, I will take people to knock them out.

When we are led to those bricks, Your Majesty just gives instructions. If they kowtow without making any sound, they are disrespectful to Your Majesty. How can they dare to make noise to Your Majesty when their slaves have found out their faults?"

"This is a good idea. I've disgusted those officials enough."

Zhao Surui nodded, as if he was interested in the idea.

But Gao Huaiming's heart was beating like a drum. He felt that he might have said the wrong thing, so he lay on the ground and kowtowed to the couch:

"Your Majesty, this servant just feels sorry for Your Majesty..."

"I know." Zhao Surui straightened his body and looked at the small seal in his hand with his lowered eyes.

There are four words on it: "A gentleman has no weapons."

Outside the main hall, several eunuchs crawled to the door, panting like dead dogs.

Zhao Surui raised his eyes and looked at them:

"You chickens, dogs, cats and mice have come too slowly. You can't even sit on a horse anymore?"

The names of the eunuchs who served Emperor Zhaode were also unique. The so-called "one chicken, two dogs, three cats and four rats" were exactly the names of these four eunuchs.

The four of them and a group of young eunuchs knelt in front of the palace gate and did not dare to speak.

Zhao Surui stood up from the couch:

"Okay, don't pretend to be in front of me. Drag this man named Gao Huaiming out, take people to the palace prison, and imprison him together with the palace gatekeepers and cleaning eunuchs. Tomorrow morning I will know which other eunuchs dare to be here.

Playing tricks on the floor tiles to hijack the courtiers."

Under the power of God, hundreds of eunuchs were about to suffer disaster in an instant, and there was a dead silence inside and outside Chaohua Garden.

The uneven breathing of the chicken, dog, cat, and mouse suddenly became smoother, almost suffocating themselves.

Zhao Surui passed them and walked towards the memorial they escorted.

"Why, you eunuchs don't even have the strength to arrest people?"

Yiji hurriedly stood up with his waist bent, and saw that the little eunuch in the palace who dreamed of climbing high branches was too frightened to move. He waved his hand and asked a few of his cronies to go in, cover his mouth and drag him away.

He gave the Four Rats another sign, and the Four Rats also stood up and quietly led the people to arrest the people and interrogate them.

Before Gao Huaiming had time to beg for mercy, he was kicked to the ground, stuffed in his mouth with his own fist and dragged down. Passing by the palace gate, he heard His Majesty say:

"Anything found will be thrown into the tiger and leopard yard and fed."

Knowing his fate, Gao Huaiming's eyes were splitting, but he couldn't struggle at all.

Probably because he finally killed someone, the depression in Zhao Surui's brows finally dissipated a lot. When he saw Sanmao still following him with a complacent smile, he kicked Sanmao on the butt:

"Go and get me something to eat. I'm so angry with you that Guanglu Temple doesn't know how to get me something to eat."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the three cats will definitely satisfy your Majesty!" The eunuch named Sanmao ran away on tiptoes, with the marks of Your Majesty's boots still on his butt, but with a smile on his face.

Their emperor kicked his ass, he was in high spirits again!

Emperor Zhaode also had a smile on his face. He picked up a memorial with great interest and read it by the lights in the yard.

"Harvest."

"report a success."

After flipping through several books, he felt better and better: "The world is at peace and the world is abundant. What else do the officials in this prosperous age have to be dissatisfied with?"

He picked up a few more memorials and walked back to the palace. The two dogs and three cats had already led people to gather everything in order, and stood aside carefully.

Several screams were heard in the distance, but Zhao Surui smiled and took a sip of tea.

The next moment, the teacup in his hand was crushed to pieces.

"Tax cuts, disarmament, and people's livelihood? Does he want to negotiate peace with those barbarians in Moxi? I ​​revived in one fell swoop and won every battle, but to him, it became a crime of robbing the people of their wealth?! It's a shame he can say it out loud!"

"Your Majesty! Your hand!"

Several high eunuchs were startled and hurriedly stepped forward, only to see that Emperor Zhaode's hand had been injured by broken porcelain.

Zhao Surui didn't take it to heart at all. He shook off the blood on his hand and said sternly:

"How dare the cabinet even send this kind of information to me? This Chen Shouzhang! Send someone to get it for me immediately!"

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Zhao Surui was so angry that he didn't even want to read the memorial because it was just a memorial written by a fellow magistrate of Dengzhou Prefecture. After wrapping his hands, several eunuchs ordered people to bring peacocks and ibises from the south as tributes to entertain him, but he couldn't even mention it.

He got interested, but because his hand kept feeling a dull pain, he became even more irritated.

Even my dreams were unsettled. Sometimes I dreamed of monstrous floods, sometimes I dreamed of a sunset like blood, and sometimes I dreamed of someone dressed in white riding a horse into the palace to announce the funeral.

There was a faint cry in his ears, which made him upset.

"Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet!"

When he opened his eyes, he saw a light cyan curtain and a fair-faced woman looking at him with red eyes.

Zhao Surui frowned, why did the four useless chickens, dogs, cats and mice let these women with ulterior motives sneak into his royal couch?
To be continued...