A few days later, Li Jinglong quickly returned to the capital.
The Forbidden City has ushered in the heaviest snowfall this winter. The palace walls and palaces are covered in silver and are extremely beautiful. Li Jinglong, who had not even had time to tidy up his appearance and change into official uniform, immediately entered the palace to pay an audience.
The snow on the bluestone slab is very thick, and there will be a squeaking sound when you step on it.
Li Jinglong followed the bastard with eight-character steps.
"My lord, Zajia, why are you walking a little wrong today?" The bastard could not help but ask.
Li Jinglong grinned, "It's been hundreds of miles back and forth, and the lining of my thighs has been worn out by being on horseback all day long. The skin and flesh are stuck together with the pants. Now it's excruciating pain when I move!"
The bastard paused for a moment, "How about asking the imperial doctor to come over and give you some medicine?" After saying that, he looked Li Jinglong up and down, frowned and said, "My lord, it's really inappropriate for you to see Long Live Lord like this.
! Not to mention your unkempt beard, you haven’t groomed yourself in a few days, and the whole family is going rancid from the smell of you!”
"It's important, so hurry up and report back to Lord Long Live!" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "It's not like you don't know me. The things Lord Long Live tells me must be completed non-stop to feel at ease."
The bastard smiled sarcastically and continued to lead the way.
But he was cursing in his heart, "Tsk, tsk, no one can compare to you as a human being, Mr. Cao Guogong! You seem to have suffered a lot to look like this. Isn't it just to claim credit in front of the Long Live Lord?"
As he walked, Li Jinglong suddenly felt that the road was wrong.
"Old Wang, isn't this the way to Lezhizhai?" Li Jinglong asked doubtfully.
"Oh, Long Live Lord Qian'er has moved to Qianqing Palace!" Wang Ba Shai said, and happened to meet two teams of young eunuchs carrying silver wire covers for carbon furnaces. He said with a straight face, "Where are you going?"
"Go back to Mr. Wang!" The little eunuch knelt directly in the snow, "Give charcoal to all the empresses in the East Palace!"
The bastard stretched out his hand to pinch the unburned charcoal in the charcoal stove, and his expression was a little bad. "The charcoal in the palace is required to be the size of a fruit core and be high-quality charcoal. What is this? Can this be burned?"
"Little ones don't know, the little ones will take whatever the supervisor gives them!" the little eunuch said in fear.
Li Jinglong watched with cold eyes, suddenly feeling that something was wrong.
Although the charcoal is not the top charcoal, it looks good in quality. Besides, this thing is used for heating. How can it be judged by how hot it is?
What's more, things in the palace, to put it bluntly, how can the people below you do their work when you are so serious? If everyone really has to follow the rules, then the people below will wipe their necks and hang themselves!
He, the bastard, is so ashamed of a eunuch who is in charge of the Qing Palace. Why is he staring at such trivial matters when he has nothing to do?
"You don't know what to do with you?" The bastard suddenly said angrily, "If you don't know three questions, are you doing nothing?"
"Sir, please calm down!" The young eunuchs kowtowed hurriedly.
The bastard looked at them for a moment and said, "Okay, I know it's not easy for you either." After saying that, he paused and then said, "Go and do your work!"
The little eunuchs left as if they had received amnesty, and the bastard continued to lead the way.
Li Jinglong was a little baffled by his sudden anger. Did Manager Wang deliberately stage it in front of him?
That's not to say that one internal official and one external minister cannot be beaten...
Suddenly, Li Jinglong figured it out.
Isn't the eunuch, the chief eunuch who is in charge of the miscellaneous things in the palace, the deputy general manager Pu Wuyong, the god-grandson of the old man's side?
In the past, General Manager Wang might not have dared to find fault with others, but now the old man doesn't care about government affairs, and neither does Mr. Park...
"You are saying that you, a group of people who have lost your penis, are still fighting openly and secretly? Cockfighting and dogfighting are all roosters and male dogs. You are not even males, so why are you fighting by your neck?"
Li Jinglong secretly laughed in his heart, "What will happen if we win the fight? The king of eunuchs? The greatest eunuch in the world?"
The bastard didn't know Li Jinglong's dirty thoughts. The powerful eunuchs in the palace were bound to fight with each other.
Because they are slaves, only the one who wins can enjoy a bit of the pleasure of being a master by trampling the other under his feet.
Li Jinglong was born in a noble family, and he could not understand the thoughts of these slaves.
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Not long after the Qianqing Palace arrived, Li Jinglong stood waiting outside the second door.
There was heavy snow outside, but inside the palace it was as warm as spring and even a little hot.
The lower part of the Qianqing Palace is empty. When winter comes, the eunuchs will bring the burned charcoal in to let the heat continue to evaporate, which is commonly known as burning the earth dragon.
Li Jinglong stood outside for a while, his forehead was already a little wet, and there was faint sweat.
"Why did the emperor move to Qianqing Palace? Didn't he used to be annoyed by this kind of airless and bright place?" Li Jinglong thought to himself.
His secret to being a man and an official is to constantly think about what is best for him, because the emperor will never do anything on a whim, and he will never act without a clear purpose.
Thinking about it, Li Jinglong raised his head inadvertently but was suddenly stunned.
In the Palace of Qianqing, the screen next to the emperor's throne was full of dense words, which were the ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty compiled by the Supreme Emperor himself. One line in it directly revealed the answer to the mystery in Li Jinglong's heart.
"I take Qianqing Palace as my main bed..."
I!
"This is when the emperor begins to truly take charge of the family. When he first lived in Lezhizhai, it was to show his kindness and filial piety to the Supreme Emperor, and secondly, it was a transition..."
"In the future, you must be even more careful with the Emperor!"
Li Jinglong thought in his mind, "Firstly, don't take credit and be arrogant; secondly, don't use it as an excuse; thirdly, don't try to be smart; fourthly, don't monopolize power without authorization. All matters, no matter how big or small, should be reported to the emperor, and all major and minor matters should be decided by the king. Only in this way can we be rich and prosperous for a hundred years!"
Thinking in his mind, he raised his head again and landed on a paragraph at the very beginning of the screen.
"If the emperor's relatives commit crimes, the successor king will make his own decision. Except for treason, which will not be pardoned, for other crimes, the minor ones will be discussed with the relatives in Beijing, and the serious ones will be discussed with the kings outside and the relatives in Beijing, all of which will be decided by the superiors. The family where the crime was committed is not allowed to have the judicial officer file a memorial, and is not allowed to question the person without permission."
"Now we will designate the names of the relatives' homes: the Queen's family, the Princess of the East Palace's family, the Duke of Wei's family, the Duke of Cao's family, the Duke of Xin's family, the Marquis of Xiping's family, and the Marquis of Wuding's family."
Seeing these words, Li Jinglong laughed silently.
This is a legal system set by the old man himself. As long as the families he mentioned are not guilty of treason, they can be punished leniently. Moreover, the emperor has the final say on the punishment, and the yamen do not even have the right to question them.
Among the relatives of the Ming Dynasty father-in-law, Cao Guogong's Li family is one of them.
In fact, if you look carefully, the families the old man wrote about are also divided into high and low, far and near.
No one can compare with the Queen. The Crown Princess's home is the icing on the cake because of the Crown Princess.
Then there is Wei Guogong, whom the old man trusts the most, followed by his Li family. The ranking is still before Xin Guogong Tang He, and after Tang He is Yunnan Mu family. When the ancestral training of Huang Ming was written, the title of Duke Qian was still Marquis of Xiping, a relative. The last one is Mr. Guo, the Marquis of Wuding.
Li Jinglong felt very happy in his heart, "It's better to do well than to live well. I have become a master by relying on the merits of my ancestors since I was born. Not to mention glory, wealth, power, and family status, are you not afraid of breaking the law? What a pity in this world,
How many people have been working in fear all their lives, and any police officer in the yamen can bully him to death!"
Just as he was thinking about it, the emperor's voice suddenly came from the inner hall.
"Dong Cao Guo is back? Let him in!"
After the words fell, the bastard opened the curtain and came out with a half-bow, "My lord, the Emperor is here for you!"
Li Jinglong quickly walked in with his head held high and his chest high.
But as soon as I crossed the threshold, it immediately turned into a difficult and awkward step, with a look of pain on my face.