Knocking on the palace gate at night is a taboo no matter which dynasty or generation you belong to, especially if it is a foreign minister instead of a clan member, it will make people think a lot.
The imperial palace of the Song Dynasty was divided into internal and external areas, and it didn't matter if the court came from outside. After all, there were many official transactions, but you were not allowed to return after the break, otherwise the rules of the imperial city would be in vain, and it wouldn't be as easy as talking about it in your back garden.
Just leave as you say.
The Lao Zhao family learned the lessons of the Five Dynasties and attached great importance to and strictness in palace access control. Even the emperor and queen, as well as the important officials in the court, had to follow this system.
Ye An looked at the tall and dark palace gate with some fear. He looked back at Lan Jizong and Chen Lin more than once. Are these two guys trying to trick him?
It's not that he was too cautious, but the palace ban management in the Song Dynasty was quite strict, and he would even be punished with a cane according to the seriousness of the plot and the location of the palace gate at night.
"The staff for palace gates is ninety, the staff for palace gates and city gates is eighty, and the staff for imperial city gates is seventy." Normally, a staff of sixty in a government office can kill someone, but in the imperial city they are all light and their position is
The closer you are to the emperor, the more severe the punishment. If you are imprisoned without being summoned by the officials, you will really be beaten to death!
Fortunately, Chen Lin and Lan Jizong took him into the palace through the small corner door next to the Gongchen Gate. The entrance from here was not a forbidden area but a place slightly closer to the East Palace where the Imperial Palace, the Imperial Kitchen, and the Six Masters were located.
Ye An is very familiar with the terrain of the palace, otherwise his promotion to Imperial City Secretary would be in vain?
Lan Jizong and Chen Lin took advantage of the change of guards at the palace gate to be secretly registered by the palace servants. At this time, Ye An discovered that these forbidden troops were all the old troops of the Imperial City Department. A few of them did not dare to speak and just cupped their fists and saluted Ye An.
Ye An breathed a long sigh of relief but then frowned. These former subordinates had taken a big risk.
"Anyone who serves as an imperial guard outside the palace gate and pretends to be a guard who is not supposed to guard him or replaces him will serve for three years." Even guards with serious status must obtain approval from their superiors if they want to exchange classes.
Okay, otherwise it will be a crime. If someone comes to knock on the palace door at night, and the guard opens the door without asking for permission, he will be punished with a penalty of more than three years and exiled thousands of miles away.
The chamberlain used the secret agent who entered the chamber of corps to endorse the Imperial Guards of the Imperial City. It seems that Old Chen Lin, the Imperial City's Imperial Guard, did not treat these people harshly after he left, so he has some conscience.
The people from the Imperial City Department could not be better on duty. At least the news would not leak out from the Imperial City Department. Even if Zhao Zhen summoned him late at night, the courtiers' memorials of impeachment would be able to bury him.
But Ye An soon discovered that something was wrong on the road. Lan Jizong and Chen Lin did not take him to the forbidden area, but to Zishan Hall, which was only separated by a wall. Although it was very close to the forbidden area, it did not violate the forbidden area.
Ye An is also very familiar with Zishan Hall. He knows the way to go with his eyes closed. This is also the place where he gave Zhao Zhen a lecture for the first time. He has too many memories.
Chen Tong came out of the hall with a lantern. When he saw Ye An, he staggered over quickly and said, "Marquis Ye, you are here. The officials want to punish the empress! Please go and persuade her!"
Seeing Ye An unhurriedly arranging his official uniform, Chen Lin burst into tears and urged him again and again.
Ye An looked at the anxious eyes of the three people and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you anxious about? You only care about these three moments? If even I am panicked, wouldn't you be even more panicked?"
"Okay, okay! You have the air of a prime minister, can you hurry up and don't delay at the door!"
Chen Lin beside her couldn't help but speak. She was about to hang herself in a hurry. You still have a calm and calm look, which makes people's teeth itch just looking at her.
But in fact, Ye An was deliberately delaying time. Zhao Zhen needed to calm down and be alone to think.
Seeing that it was almost done, Ye An stepped into the Zishan Hall and closed the door, making the people waiting outside helplessly retract their heads.
Seeing Ye An coming, the anger on Zhao Zhen's face gradually disappeared, and Ye An's rational appearance always brought him some peace.
"It has been seven or eight years since my wedding. Although it is not a deep affection, I have not treated her harshly. Why is she still so arrogant and rude? She even sent people to monitor my whereabouts and wanted to find her.
Come and cause trouble in front of me!"
Zhao Zhen, who was originally calm, became excited again as he spoke, much like the young and energetic young man in later generations would look like after a quarrel with his mother-in-law at home.
"Do the officials think the queen is causing trouble? From the perspective of Wei Chen, it seems that she has done nothing wrong from beginning to end!"
Zhao Zhen was furious and suddenly looked back at Ye And and said, "You even said that? Is she right to monitor my whereabouts?"
"Surveillance? Maybe the empress has something to do with you, so she sent someone to look for you, or is it a coincidence? The officials are still angry that they have to inform the empress because they favor everyone! But the empress is the empress of the Song Dynasty, the sixth palace
First of all, the emperor's concubine needs the approval of the queen. This is an unchanging rule from ancient times. The queen is the emperor's wife, so she naturally has the right to choose the concubines to sleep with."
Ye An could stop Zhao Zhen from coming to power with just one word. This was indeed a rule since ancient times, but many times no one cared about it, and the queen rarely objected, so it was ignored by many emperors.
Zhao Zhen looked at Ye An and sat down slowly and said, "You mean I can't depose the queen?"
Ye An shook his head: "The abolition of the empress is a major matter for the country. The officials need to make their own decisions and bear the consequences of the abolition. As the minister of Tianzhang Pavilion, my duty is to make appropriate suggestions to the officials.
, nothing more.”
"What if I am deposed? What will happen to you?" After Ye An said this, Zhao Zhen immediately asked. He wanted to see if Ye An was sincere.
Ye An paced slightly in the Zishan Hall, as if he was giving a lecture to Zhao Zhen, and said calmly: "If the official family is determined to abandon the queen, then list all the queen's faults and have Zhongshu's subordinates write an article for the court.
Civil and military affairs, such as being jealous and arrogant, spying on the whereabouts of the Holy Driver, injuring the official body, being married for several years without having any children, and so on. List these things clearly in detail. In this way, hundreds of officials will hesitate and the news will spread.
Going outside the palace to be discussed by the people all over the world, using the power of public opinion to completely make the queen have no place in the palace, and supplementing it with the methods of public relations, I believe that the matter of abolishing the queen will be easy for the officials."
"But if this is the case, where is my face? Where is the Tian family's face? Besides... I have been with the Guo family for many years and have never had such an idea... I just want her to leave the post."
Zhao Zhen finally began to hesitate, but Ye An continued to add fuel to the fire and said: "Only in this way can we depose the queen when the empress is out of date, otherwise the people of the world will wake up and find that the mother of a country has suddenly been deposed. At that time
The rumors will be even more terrifying, not only involving the queen, but also the officials. At that time, you will also have to face the constant stream of people in the court, who will definitely use the banner of "abandoning the empress without fault, the emperor has lost his etiquette"
The officials should be aware of the power of the Qingliu people in the court."
As Ye An finished speaking, sweat started to form on Zhao Zhen's forehead. Seeing this, Ye An also closed the lid of the central carbon basin.
"Then tell me, is there any way to depose the queen and allow the court to calm down this matter inside and outside the palace?!"
Zhao Zhen finally understood. Although Ye An had given a way to definitely depose the queen, it was a pity that it would only hurt the enemy a thousand times but he would lose eight hundred. In the final analysis, he didn't want to depose the queen! Then he had to make things difficult for him.
Just fine.
Who would have thought that Ye An nodded again and said: "Yes, it only takes one move to make the abolition of the queen a certainty, and at the same time stop the people from talking about it, but the officials in the court are really powerless."
"What way?!" Zhao Zhen was very surprised by such an answer. According to Ye An's previous words, he would be disgraced no matter what, but now there is still room for change?