"Chess piece?" Of course Wang Shichong understood the meaning of the word "chess piece". He suddenly felt that Li Yuan was really terrible. He was able to bury the chess pieces in Liu Ziqiu's palace. However, Wang Shichong was also a tycoon of his generation. He quickly regained his composure, shook his head and said
: "Liu Ziqiu is cautious by nature, and he has many talented people and strangers under his command, so how could he let irrelevant people sneak into the palace. I'm afraid what the Second Young Master said is a bit exaggerated."
Li Shimin laughed loudly and said: "My father almost became the master of that palace back then. Although he was taken advantage of by that thief Liu Ziqiu, how difficult is it to bury a few cronies?"
Indeed, many eunuchs and maids in the palace were Li Yuan's confidants, and even Xiao concubine and her son were regarded by him. After Liu Ziqiu occupied Luoyang, as long as he still retained the old people in the palace, it was inevitable that Li Yuan's spies would be around.
Among them, in fact, Liu Ziqiu did not purge the old people in the Sui Palace, but retained most of them. Of course, Liu Ziqiu also understood that there must be Li Yuan's cronies among these people.
But he also knew that these people's attachment to Li Yuan was more forced by the situation. Now that the world has changed its master, these people will naturally know what they should do.
On the other hand, Liu Ziqiu allowed these people to stay in the palace to test Li Yuan and see if he still had contact with these people in the palace. After all, the guards guarding the palace had all been replaced by Liu Ziqiu's trusted guards and female guards. These people
It is not an easy task to convey the message again.
In the past few years, Liu Ziqiu did not find any relationship between the eunuchs and maids in the palace and Li Yuan, but he did not take it lightly. He gradually released the older maids from the palace and asked them to marry each other. The maids in the entire palace
It has almost been changed. Most of the maids in the palace now come from Goryeo, Baekje, Silla and the nomadic tribes of Mobei. In addition, there are also some slaves bought from Persia and indigenous women brought back by Chen Leng from Africa. These maids
It is impossible to have any interaction with Li Yuan again.
The people who may really be connected with Li Yuan are the eunuchs in the old palace. After all, Liu Ziqiu came from a later generation, and his thoughts were different from those of people of this era. He did not agree with the use of eunuchs in the palace, thinking it was a very inhumane behavior. But
The original eunuchs had become useless. If they were released from the palace, they would probably not be able to gain a foothold in society, and they would even be looked down upon and bullied. Liu Ziqiu was kind-hearted, so he kept them. However, it was difficult to contact these eunuchs anymore.
Go to the core of the palace and only do some cleaning work on the periphery. Because there are many young girls from Mobei in the harem, these girls are no less powerful than those eunuchs and are fully qualified to do the work originally undertaken by the eunuchs.
Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Wang Shichong didn't know about these changes in the Han Dynasty Palace. After all, in the past, some older and less beautiful maids, in addition to being favored by the emperor, would also be released from the palace at a certain time. Liu Ziqiu
It is extremely normal for someone who has recently ascended the throne to release those young and beautiful maids from the palace and replace them with another group of maids. What's more important is that so far I have never heard of any eunuch being expelled from the palace.
However, Wang San was not that easy to fool. He sneered and said: "Liu Ziqiu is by no means an ordinary person. How could he not think of this? What's more, as time has passed, will those people who Mr. Li left in the palace continue to serve Mr. Li?
, who can guarantee that?”
Li Shimin said calmly: "This matter is extremely confidential. I don't want to talk about it. Since this brother doesn't believe it, I might as well tell Mr. Wang. At that time, the palace manager Li Cheng was my father's confidant. Later, my father left Luoyang, but Li Cheng still
He stayed in the palace and still served as the general manager. Li Cheng had no children, so his father found an adopted son for him to pass on the legacy. Now, Li Cheng's name is in my Li family. You say, Li Cheng
Dare you serve my father wholeheartedly?"
At that time, Li Cheng did have a nom de guerre, Li Ben, and later colluded with Xiao Dapeng. In order to show his loyalty, Li Cheng personally killed Li Ben. But in this way, Li Cheng's position in front of Li Yuan was preserved, but his incense was also cut off.
However, Li Yuan was still very kind to him. He chose a young son from among his nephews to adopt as his adoptive son. Although this child was young, he was born into a wealthy family and had far more resources at his disposal than Li Ben. His future development was certain.
He was far better than Li Ben. Therefore, Li Cheng became more loyal to Li Yuan.
Li Cheng can be said to be the most important chess piece buried in the palace by Li Yuan, or the only chess piece. This chess piece is very important. It is impossible for Li Yuan to use this chess piece unless it is absolutely necessary. Therefore,
All this time, Li Yuan has not contacted Li Cheng, as if the two have never crossed paths. And Li Yuan does not have to worry about Li Cheng betraying him. After all, the eunuch's thoughts are many different from ordinary people. Li Cheng is very interested in the adopted son who can pass on the incense.
He values it very much. As long as Li Cheng's adopted son is still in the hands of Li Yuan, it is impossible for Li Cheng to have other thoughts.
Wang San didn't know the specific situation here, so he couldn't help but believe it a little, nodded and said: "I see."
But Wang Shichong pondered: "The second young master took the risk and came here not just to tell me these things, right?"
Li Shimin said with a smile: "Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from Mr. Wang. Yes, I do have other important matters when I come here this time. Think about Liu Ziqiu's treacherous nature, and he is making such a big show of ordering his daughter to choose a son-in-law, how can it be without purpose?
?The boy estimates that there must be a trap here. Therefore, the boy is here to advise Mr. Wang not to be impulsive and not to go to Luoyang, lest he surrender!"
Wang San breathed a sigh of relief and nodded to Li Shimin in a very rare way, thanking him for the reminder.
Wang Shichong was silent for a moment and said with a smile: "Thank you, Second Young Master, for reminding me. I have my own sense of propriety."
Li Shimin didn't stay for a long time. He stood up and said goodbye, "Then you can rest assured. I've been away from home for a long time. I'm afraid the imperial court will find out, so I'll say goodbye. I hope Mr. Wang will be more careful!"
Wang Shichong also knew that Li Shimin was taking a bit of a risk here, so he did not try to persuade him to stay. He handed over his hands and said, "Second Young Master, you will have a good journey. I won't send you far away!"
A confidant had already taken Li Shimin out and sent him away through the back door. But Wang San said in a deep voice: "My lord, since Li Yuan has a close confidant buried in the palace, I am afraid that the news he got is more than that. According to my subordinates, this time
It is inevitable for Liu Ziqiu to set a trap. Please think twice, my lord, and never risk yourself!"
In fact, although they are just guesses, they are already close to the truth.
Wang Shichong waved his hand and said: "The person Wang felt most sorry for back then was Feng'er. I didn't expect that I would be able to see Feng'er again in my lifetime. All the suffering that Feng'er has suffered in these years was caused by Wang. How could Wang be blamed for that?"
Are you greedy for life and afraid of death and hesitate to move forward? You don't need to say more, Wang has decided to go to Luoyang!"
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At this time, in Luoyang City, Gao Xiuer had already arranged a palace for Wang Yufeng, and selected ten blond and blue-eyed women from among the blond women sent by Shi Danai to serve as her maids. Today, Wang Yufeng is no longer
A maid in Huayun Palace has returned to a life of pampering and luxury. Her life now is even more comfortable than when she was in Jiangdu Palace, but she is not very happy in her heart.
As people go up, water flows down, and even Wang Yufeng, a woman, is no exception. Although she has been hidden in the palace by Hua Yun over the years and has never been seen by Liu Ziqiu, she herself has escaped more than once
Peeping at Liu Ziqiu in the dark. Like the maids in the palace, who doesn't want to be favored by the emperor? What's more, Wang Yufeng also secretly overheard the "battle" between Liu Ziqiu and Hua Yun, and the two were torn apart. Although
Just listening to it, Wang Yufeng still feels warm thinking about it. The image of Liu Ziqiu has already occupied her heart. Now, if she is allowed to marry someone outside, how can there be any joy at all?
Just when she was upset, a palace maid suddenly came to report: "Princess, Concubine Yun has seen that you are here."
According to the regulations drawn up by Zhao Ling and others, Hua Yun was one of the four ladies and was canonized as Concubine De, second only to Xie Muyu. However, the old people in the palace still used to call Hua Yun Concubine Yun. A maid in Wang Yufeng's palace
They were all foreigners who had recently entered the palace. They didn't know the difference, so they followed others in calling Hua Yun Concubine Yun.
When Wang Yufeng was in Jiangdu, she was caught by Hua Yun and forcibly taken into the camp. She was molested by Hua Yun from time to time. At that time, Wang Yufeng failed to see through Hua Yun's identity as a woman disguised as a man and lived in fear every day.
I don't know when "he" took away her innocence, and I didn't know until later that Hua Yun turned out to be a woman. That experience left a shadow on Wang Yufeng's psychology, and she was very afraid of Hua Yun.
When she heard that Hua Yun was coming, Wang Yufeng exclaimed "Ah" and hurriedly walked out of the palace, knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said, "I pay my respects to the empress."
Hua Yun laughed: "Yufeng, get up quickly. You are the princess now, and you are no longer a slave beside me." After saying that, Hua Yun pulled Wang Yufeng up and held her hand.
Shou walked into the palace and said with a smile: "You are the person next to me. This time, the emperor has given me the task of choosing a son-in-law for you. When the time comes, I and you will disguise themselves as men and sneak in together."
We’ll let you choose personally at the venue, so you have to look carefully.”
In this era, major marriage matters are dictated by parents and matchmakers. How can anyone meet in advance? Even a sneak peek is very rare. But Liu Ziqiu's presence allows Wang Yufeng to observe those marriages at close range.
Young talents can not only see their appearance, but also their character.
Although Wang Yufeng was very unhappy about marrying outside the palace, there was nothing she could do about it, so she had to bow deeply and said, "Thank you, empress."
She knew that Hua Yunnu's ability to disguise herself as a man was already superb, and she would never make a mistake. Although the husband selected through this method might not be as good as staying with the emperor, it might already be the best outcome.