Bells rang from the direction of the Great Guangming Palace. The sound was heavy and solemn. It resounded in the northwest of the imperial city. Even in Jiqingfang and Anfufang outside Xi'an Gate, the bells for the emperor's patrol could be heard.
Countless eunuchs and maids stood on both sides of the avenue inside the Xi'an Gate, not daring to make any overstep. Their heads were lowered to their chests. No one dared to look up for a moment. If they were seen by the patrolling guards, it would be a crime of beheading.
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The guards selected from the three thousand battalions held red sticks to clear the way, followed by a huge band with drums, flutes, trumpets, etc., and melodious music floated above everyone's heads. This was the majesty of the emperor's journey.
Hundreds more palace maids, holding round fans, walked around the procession. More than two hundred Han generals in royal robes, all majestic, armed with guns, halberds, daggers, spears and other sharp weapons, walked in neat steps behind a yellow curtain.
In front of the public.
Thirty-two carrying generals, dressed in red robes, walked carefully and steadily on the road.
Immediately following Bu Yu were more than a hundred guards in gorgeous clothes. Behind them were a large number of eunuchs holding incense burners, gold basins and other items.
At the end of the team were a hundred capable cavalrymen, carrying long bows on their shoulders and wandering around with ferocious eyes.
This mighty procession was the emperor's guard of honor when he left the Forbidden City. If he were to patrol outside the imperial city, the scale would be much larger.
However, today the emperor seemed to have no interest in having fun with the people. His destination was the Leopard Room in Xiyuan, which was the place of debauchery that the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty hated and denounced.
"These officials are just jealous. What dirty and debauched things have they done?" Liu Jin, who was walking next to Bu Yu, sneered in his heart, "Liu Xixian and Xie Yuqiao fell, and the two-faced Li Binzhi should be next.
You're a bastard, look at it, I'll send that kid to keep Dai Mian's company."
If anyone could hear his voice, he would be so scared that he would lose his job, because Liu Xixian is Zuo Zhuguo, the young master and the crown prince Taishi, the official secretary, Liu Jian, the great scholar of Huagaidian, and Xie Yuqiao is Zhuguo
, the prince's Taibao, Xie Qian, the Minister of Rites and a bachelor of Wuyingdian, but they had already retired from office not long ago, and only Li Dongyang and Li Binzhi were the mainstay among the elders.
Among the new generation of Sange veterans, Jiao Fang and I are close comrades-in-arms, and Wang Hao protects himself wisely and is no match for him.
Therefore, Liu Jin was not afraid. When he was still in charge of a small department like the Bell and Drum Department, he dared to challenge Chen Kuan, Li Rong, Wang Yue and others, the boss of the Supervisor of Ceremonies. After the governor's group camp, he even dared to kill the three
As the eldest brother, I selected two pavilion elders, Liu Jian and Xie Qian.
Now in charge of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Ma Yongcheng is in charge of the East Factory, Gu Da is in charge of the West Factory, and Jiao Fang is the foreign aid. Who else in this world is a rival?
Eunuch Liu couldn't help but feel arrogant. He did have the capital to be proud, especially when the emperor obeyed his words, which was more useful than the above few buddies put together.
As a poor boy from Xingping, Shaanxi, after drifting to the north for decades, to be able to sit where he is now is a legend.
He is really a poor boy. Liu Jin's surname is not Liu, but Tan, and he doesn't know his birth date. This shows from another aspect that he is very poor, because there are a few people with a small amount of money in the family who usually don't have a lot of money.
He would throw away something as important as his birth date.
There is another thing that can also show that he is poor.
Because he was born from the palace, of course, from another perspective, Eunuch Liu's courage was very amazing. Except for a few writers on a famous website in later generations, it is basically difficult to find a man who dared to cut himself into eunuchs.
But being in the palace does not mean success. Eunuch Liu was also very lucky. He was appreciated by an old eunuch named Liu. From then on, he rose through the ranks and became one of the elites in Beipiao.
Eunuch Liu's luck also reflected another aspect: he gained the trust of the new emperor, and this trust was blind and unconditional...
The relationship between the fifteen-year-old young emperor and Liu Jin, the elderly eunuch, is difficult to describe with words. Eunuch Liu did not read many books, and he was an unlearned person, so naturally he could not accurately describe it.
Describe the revolutionary friendship between himself and the emperor.
This is irrelevant, anyway, the emperor just loves to play, and Eunuch Liu understands the truth, that is, as long as he can make the emperor happy and let him have fun as he pleases, then he will be the powerful Governor Liu.
"No, there is another bastard, how could he be forgotten!" Eunuch Liu looked at Bu Yu's other side and cursed secretly in his heart.
Walking there was a burly man with a rugged appearance, facial features like a knife, his thick lips pursed downwards, and his slender eyes occasionally flashed with light. When he saw Liu Jin looking over, he snorted and turned his head to him with disdain.
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This man is another eunuch who grasps the truth. His name is Zhang Yong, a native of Xincheng, Baoding. He is the admiral eunuch of Shenji Camp, and one of the Eight Tigers along with Eunuch Liu.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Eight Tigers are a monolithic group of buddies who all grasp the truth of serving the emperor. But unfortunately, Zhang Yong and Liu Jin are exceptions. They had different opinions and did not conspire against each other when they were in the East Palace, and even more so after Cong Long.
Fire and water are incompatible.
Not long ago, Liu Jin found an opportunity and planned to demote Zhang Yong to Nanjing, and killed this boy by the way.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yong found out. The eunuchs around the emperor all knew that Eunuch Zhang had a bad temper and was domineering, sometimes even more arrogant than Liu Jin.
Then I saw Eunuch Zhang rolling up his sleeves and beating Eunuch Liu severely in front of the emperor.
The palm of the hand is flesh, and the back of the hand is also flesh. The young emperor's affection for Eunuch Zhang is no less than that of Eunuch Liu, so he has no choice but to come out as peacemaker and ask the two of them to sit in a row and eat fruit.
Liu Jin was an educated rogue eunuch, while Zhang Yong was an uneducated rogue eunuch. When an educated man encountered an illiterate person, he couldn't explain the truth and couldn't fight with his fists, so he had to give up for the emperor's sake.
Although the emperor was young, he still had good skills in dealing with the world. Seeing that the two father-in-laws, Liu and Zhang, were fighting each other like cocks, he called Gu Dayong from the Eight Tigers and set up a banquet.
Gu Dayong and his two father-in-laws have been best friends since childhood, and he advised: "Why should the eunuch bother the eunuch?"
The three of them drank wine all night, talked about the past bullying by Wang Yue and other dead old eunuchs, held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and finally regained their superficial calm.
But as it is said in a certain novel, the relationship has broken down, and the gay friend is no longer a good gay friend.
In short, at the beginning of the story, there was a huge gap between the Eight Tigers, which the emperor did not want to see.
However, the emperor sitting on the carriage was not in the mood to care about this. The person he is now is not the person he used to be.
In the past, his name was Zhu Houzhao, his occupation was emperor, and his residence was the Forbidden City. But now, his name is Zhu Shou, and his occupation before time travel was an otaku. If being an otaku can be considered a profession, his residence is somewhere in Shanghai in the second universe.
A community.
Yes, as readers are happy to hear, after two chapters of foreshadowing, our protagonist finally traveled through time.
Now, he was sitting on the carriage, looking at Zhang Yong on the left, Liu Jin on the right, and countless eunuchs, guards and maids in front and behind, and sighed: "Damn it, just time travel, why do you feel a strange taste in your mouth? This doesn't seem to be the case.