"What you have done all day and night, you should not be ashamed of being in the shadow of a quilt; time has passed, but it is still expected to be effective in Sangyu." [Night Talk around the Furnace]
Weiyang Palace adheres to the layout of the front hall and the back bedroom. The small hall in the front and the sleeping hall in the middle hall are where the emperor conducts his royal dynasty and regular court. The Xuanshi Hall in the back hall is where the emperor lived after he retired from the court. The Xuanshi Hall is spacious.
It is large and built according to the layout of the front hall and the back room. The central hall can still be used for conducting business, handling government affairs, and issuing edicts.
There are other small rooms and halls next to it where you can summon ministers alone and have banquets. Behind the Xuanshi Hall is the place where the emperor rests and sleeps every day, which is called the main room or the main place.
The Xuanshi Palace was the emperor's most private place. In order to ensure safety and privacy, the emperor began to clean up the palace discipline after Dong Zhuo's death. All the officials in eunuch positions were reassigned to other positions under various names and cleared.
Afu, the eunuch of Dong Zhuo.
After that, Mu Shun from the Xiaohuangmen was asked to accompany his Majesty, and a group of newly recruited Zhonghuangmen were excluded from entering the main room. Only a few from Luoyang were left with the emperor, and the emperor was still Chen Liu
Huang Men, a close confidant who has been serving since the time of the king, strives to be loyal and reliable.
Mu Shun was eager for this series of orders from the emperor. After he took office, he used it to eliminate dissidents and purge the eunuch team in the palace. He indeed had the skills to give Weiyang Palace a new look in a short period of time, and there were no longer any eunuchs.
Well, the emperor's slightest commotion would cause commotion both inside and outside the country.
In order to prevent Mu Shun from becoming too powerful and to appease the scholars, the emperor specially asked the Miao priests to lead the various officials in the province to check and balance Mu Shun.
In the days after Dong Zhuo's death, the sun and moon were clear, the weather was clear, there was no breeze at night, and the temperature was comfortable and pleasant.
Mu Shun walked in quietly from the outside. Although he closed the door quickly, there was still an inevitable sound.
The emperor was still sitting alone behind the desk, holding his chin with his right hand and tilting his head to look at the half-expanded bamboo slip held in his left hand. However, his mind was obviously not on the book. His eyes were distracted and his eyelids were drooped, as if he was about to have a fight.
Falling asleep.
Just when he was about to fall asleep, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of Mu Shun coming in. He woke up from the chaos and rubbed his brow: "What time is it?"
"It's just past the second quarter of Haishi. My country, there will be a regular court tomorrow, why not go and have a rest first?" Mu Shun stepped forward and boldly took the bamboo slip from the emperor's hand. After marking it, he rolled it up and put it aside.
; and then took the initiative to help the emperor rub his forehead.
Mu Shun did this series of actions without permission, and everyone else took it for granted. Even the emperor did not blame him for making the decision without permission, which shows the emperor's favor for Mu Shun.
Although the characters on the bamboo slips were Han Li, and the emperor could barely read them with the memory of this body, there were no sentence readings or paragraph divisions in the book, so he had to identify the broken sentences by himself, plus some unknown allusions.
The emperor's head was filled with confusion.
Reading under an oil lamp for a long time is extremely harmful to the eyes. The emperor closed his sore eyes. Although today he was riding a horse in the woods, meeting the imperial edicts from Zhongtai, and also went to Yeting, his busy feet did not touch the ground. At this time, he was still tired
I would like to go to bed and let Mu Shun rub the corners of his eyes to relieve fatigue.
As if he didn't hear Mu Shun's words, the emperor said to himself, "Is that slave who stole things, the guards from the north and south, and the left and right are waiting to be caught?"
Mu Shun's hand movements froze. He did not expect that three days later, the emperor would still remember this trivial matter.
After Dong Zhuo's death, people's hearts were shaken and uneasy. In addition, Mu Shun, the new official, took office and wanted to reorganize the eunuchs in the palace. As a result, several newly recruited slaves took advantage of the chaos in the palace and stole the ornaments of the Song nobles in Yeting. While they were preparing
When I escaped, everyone who was patrolled at Simamen was captured on the spot.
One of the thieves saw the opportunity and escaped and hid in the palace. The palace guards spent three days without catching him, which made the emperor very angry.
After all, this was a vicious incident that happened just after Mu Shun took office. It was undoubtedly a slap in Mu Shun's face. Mu Shun knew that the emperor was very concerned about this matter and did not dare to be careless. He quickly promised: "Please rest assured, the country, I will supervise and guide you."
The court order and the guards order to search strictly and never disturb the peace of the country and the nobles of Yeting."
In the past few days, he had almost figured out the emperor's temperament. He knew that the emperor was very insecure in his heart, so he cared about his own safety and privacy.
Now there is a thieving slave hiding somewhere in the palace. Although he may not have the courage to break into the front hall, letting him hide in the palace will become a hidden danger sooner or later. But although Weiyang Palace occupies a vast area, no matter how capable the thief is,
You can't hide for several days without eating or drinking, right?
The meaning of the Guard Order and the Yeting Order is to guard the dining room and warehouse. The slave cannot bear the hunger and sooner or later he will take desperate measures and capture him.
Unexpectedly, the emperor sneered at this. He said disdainfully: "Just wait and see, they have been busy for three days and they just came up with this method? There are so many palaces in Weiyang Palace, why don't they check them one by one, but they use such a stupid method? Then
What if the servants are desperate, rob the palace people, set fire to the palace, or frighten Princess Wannian and the two nobles? I don’t think they have any intention to search for them!"
Mu Shun was ashamed. Although this method was not his idea, he still agreed to it. Now that the emperor scolded the person who thought of this method as stupid, wouldn't he also scold Mu Shun?
He said with a grimace; "The country doesn't know something. There are at least hundreds of palaces in Weiyang Palace. In addition to the Chengminglu monk's desk where the attendants are waiting for the imperial edict, the eunuch's office, Shang Fang and Shaofu's office, there are also
In this front hall, except for the people who live in Ye Ting, the rest are vacant halls. The servant is probably hiding in some remote courtyard. The palace guards are short of manpower, so it is very troublesome to find her."
The emperor suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were like lightning, piercing Mu Shun, and there was a hint of anger in his words: "You have been working as a prostitute for a few days, and it seems that you have received a lot of benefits, and you are actually starting to defend them?"
The emperor's sudden dissatisfaction frightened all the Huangmen who were serving in the room and fell to the ground, unable to raise their heads. Mu Shun knelt aside and confessed in a low voice: "These are the ideas of the Weiwei Mansion, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I hope the country will forgive me... If the country does not want the military guards to search for it, then should they send a message to Guang Luxun and let the guards come to look for him? Or should they directly ask Yu Linyi to enter the palace to look for him?"
Since the Han Dynasty, the main guards who guarded the palace were Lang Wei and Bing Wei. Guang Luxun led Huben, Yu Lin, Wuguan and other Lang officers as Lang Wei; Wei Wei led sword and halberd warriors as Bing Wei. Lang Wei was responsible for the palace guard, protecting the emperor and the emperor.
The concubine's personal safety; the military guards were responsible for patrolling day and night to guard the palace.
In addition, Zhi Jinwu inspected the capital and guarded the guard of honor; the five schools of the Northern Army defended the capital and guarded the three auxiliaries. These were like insurances, forming a copper wall and an iron wall, ensuring the emperor's safety in all aspects.
At this time, Guang Luxun and Deng Yuan were born in the Nanyang Deng family, and Weiwei Zhang Xi was born in the Runan Zhang family. They were both representatives of the Guandong gentry in the court and were die-hard supporters of Wang Yun. If he wanted to fully control the military power, he had to first
Grab it from the troops around you.
"We can't let Lang Wei get involved in this matter." The emperor blurted out without thinking. He turned sideways and looked at Mu Shun who was kneeling on the ground, and said sternly, "This slave has not been arrested for a day, and I am heartbroken.
If he hides in any palace and disturbs his ancestors, I, as a descendant of the Han Dynasty, will be particularly responsible! Don't worry about this in the future. It's not that I don't trust you, but I have other plans.