Chapter 289

Tai Chi Palace

On both sides of the open space outside Dongnuan Pavilion, there are a row of buildings that look out of tune with the overall style of Taiji palace. These are five tile roofed houses. If they are placed elsewhere, they don't seem low, but they look so insignificant in the magnificent Tai Chi palace.

There is a row on the left and right outside Dongnuan Pavilion. Outside the Tai Chi hall, there is also a row on the left and right.

On the left is the rest place for eunuchs and maids on duty. Of course, there are bodyguards. On the right is the place where the courtiers waited for the emperor to see them. Since the emperor Tianyou ascended the throne, the row of tile roofed houses on the right of the Tai Chi hall has become the office of several important courtiers. The emperor was diligent and often called his courtiers to Dongnuan Pavilion for discussion. All the government offices of the imperial court are outside the Tai Chi palace. It takes too much time to come and go.

The emperor simply asked several important officials to work in the tile roofed room outside the Tai Chi hall. It would be more convenient for him to see it. Later, these slightly dilapidated houses gradually became a symbol of honor. Because only those who the emperor trusted would be qualified to sit there.

Later, the houses were given a bright name.

It is called the temple vestibule, and the officials who have been in these tile houses for a long time have been secretly become court officials by others. Someone once joked that if you can't be a court official in the capital, you'd better be a local parent official. But that said, there are no more than ten people qualified to work here for a long time.

These people naturally know what the court officials are talking about, but they don't care about this slightly jealous ridicule. On the contrary, they think it's definitely something to be proud of. There are so many civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty. How many can be called court officials?

Relatively speaking, the tile roofed houses outside the Tai Chi hall are also called the outer court in order to distinguish the tile roofed houses outside the East warm Pavilion, and those outside the East warm pavilion are called the inner court. If being an outer court official has been envied and envied, being an inner court official is even more envious.

Since Prince Yi's rebellion, there have been more than ten officials in the outer court for a long time. While handling the official affairs of the Ministry, he sorted out the information about the chaos caused by Prince Yi. His majesty often asked about these things. In the inner court, usually only one official works in it for a long time, no matter before and after Prince Yi's rebellion.

The man who is qualified to sit in the inner court and wait for his Majesty's call all the time. It's not very high in terms of grade, but the power is beyond imagination.

He is Pei Yan, the waiter of zhengsipin Huangmen. In terms of grade, it is not as good as each minister, which is equal to each minister.

The Sui Dynasty is too big. It is not too much to say that two ox carts can be filled every day. So many memorials, even if the emperor is diligent, he can only read them for 12 hours a day, which is impossible to finish, not to mention that every memorials should be approved.

The eunuch who once combed the memorials was entrusted to the imperial study to do it. But God bless emperor Yang Yi abolished this habit after he ascended the throne. Yang Yi ordered that people in the harem should never interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty. Not only eunuchs, but also concubines. Even the queen did not say a word about the government affairs of the previous dynasty for so many years.

Because of this, it also caused the biggest difference between the eunuch holding pen in the imperial study and the former eunuch holding pen. When the former Emperor was in power, he valued the eunuch's ability to handle government affairs in the imperial study, while the current emperor valued loyalty. The biggest difference between Su Buwei and Wu Peisheng is that he has more self-knowledge. Unless the emperor asked him to speak, he would not say a word about court affairs.

It is precisely because Wu Peisheng has handled government affairs for so many years, and is used to combing the courtiers' folds, and then approving unimportant memorials according to the emperor's thinking, so he has a sense of mission and responsibility more than su. In other words, his loyalty to the Sui Dynasty was even stronger than the emperor's personal loyalty. It was precisely because of this that the emperor asked him to take people to inspect the roads in the northwest. It was because of this that Wu Peisheng died.

Because he discovered Li Yuanshan's secret.

The existence of that iron mine was not first discovered by Mu Xiaoyao, but by Wu Peisheng. That's why Li Yuanshan didn't hesitate to design such a big and bloody bureau to let the people of fan Gu bury Wu Peisheng. Fang Xie guessed right. What happened to fan Gu that night, he was just an insignificant person.

Wu Peisheng found clues that Li Yuanshan wanted to rebel, and also found the existence of the iron mine. But he was unable to deliver the news in time, and his every move was monitored by Li Yuanshan. In order to gain Li Yuanshan's trust, he pretended that he had found nothing. Pretending to be greedy for money, he collected a lot of money from Li Yuanshan and promised to get rid of Fang Xie for Li Xiaozong. In fact, Wu Peisheng just wanted to paralyze Li Yuanshan.

But in fact, Li Yuanshan never believed him.

Fan Gu is a kill game, a kill game specially designed for Wu Peisheng. In order to prove that he was really just a greedy eunuch, Wu Peisheng promised Li Yuanshan to go to fan Gu. But there was a tomb that had been dug for him long ago, and it was also a tomb that had been dug for fan Gu's 2000 people and 800 border troops long ago.

From Li Yuanshan's discovery of Wu Yu Sheng's investigation in secret, he began to play a very important role in designing how to kill the former Emperor. He is also a significant figure in front of the emperor in. If you want to kill a eunuch with a pen, it is obviously unrealistic to hastily arrange a Jianghu robbery and can't convince others. Besides, although Wu Peisheng is not good at cultivation, he is also a master of seven grades at least.

Jianghu people who can kill him and are above grade 8 disdain to be mountain bandits who block the way. If you really want to have more than eight grades of cultivation, even if you don't work for the imperial court, you will be reused and respected if you invest in a business firm or a large family.

Therefore, in order to kill Wu Peisheng, Li Yuanshan must find an excuse for the imperial court to convince the emperor.

So he thought of Mengyuan people.

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Pei Yan, the waiter of the yellow gate, sat in his chair and looked at the mountain of memorials on the table in front of him. He raised his hand and gently rubbed his wrinkled eyebrows. He had sat here to comb the memorials for more than two hours, but he had not finished a quarter. This is his most important work every day. He classifies the memorials according to their priorities. Sort out the important memorials and send them to Dongnuan pavilion to the emperor. Unimportant, he replied in the tone of the emperor.

He was also responsible for drafting the imperial edict. The jade seal representing the identity of the emperor of the great Sui Dynasty was placed on the side of the table. Few people would have thought that most of the jade seals on the original imperial edict were not printed by the Emperor himself. In fact, people familiar with the imperial court know whether the will was written by the Emperor himself. We can see from the seal on the imperial decree. If there are eight seal characters printed on it "ordered by heaven, i.e. longevity and Yongchang", then this will was written by the Huangmen Shilang on behalf of him. If it is a small seal with four square small characters of Dongnuan's master, it is the imperial edict written by the emperor.

Peiyan leaned back and stretched his arms. Maybe he sat too long every day, and his neck became more and more uncomfortable. I feel sore every day, and sometimes I feel sick and want to vomit.

After drinking a mouthful of very strong tea, Peiyan pressed down a tumbling in his stomach. There are so many things in recent days that he can't even sleep for three hours a day. Not only to face the mountain of official business, but also to constantly figure out the emperor's mind. The latter is more tired than the former.

He rested for a moment, then focused his eyes on a memorial in front of him again.

This memorial was delivered to the capital by a county magistrate of Shandong road who risked his life. In order to avoid the investigation of anti thieves in the northwest, the memorial was first sent to the magistrate's hometown in Dongping County by letter, then secretly handed over by his family to his friends, and then sent to Chang'an in person.

So when he saw this memorial, Peiyan's eyebrows immediately frowned.

There is no doubt that this is the most important Memorial today.

This memorial was written on a piece of ordinary parchment, but in a very secret way. Only when water is sprayed on it will the handwriting be revealed. The Imperial Guard still uses this method to pass secret reports, which few people can see through. If the county magistrate's friend hadn't come to Chang'an in person and explained when submitting the memorial, Peiyan couldn't see the words hidden in the parchment.

This is a memorial written in small characters like flies, no less than a thousand words. It describes in detail the current situation of the three roads in the northwest, and even some rebel troop arrangements.

Pei Yan is also interested in the past about Wu Peisheng.

The fan Gu massacre.

The county magistrate made friends with a general of Li Yuanshan's army. The general told him the secret when he drank too much wine.

The memorial wrote that after Wu Peisheng arrived in the northwest, he secretly investigated whether Li Yuanshan was greedy for ink, which was his duty to inspect all roads in the northwest. But just because Wu Peisheng was too serious and rigorous, he found out that Li Yuanshan was going to rebel.

But Li Yuanshan could not hide his secret investigation, so there was the fan Gu tragedy. The people and the border troops were killed by Li Yuanshan. Then frame the blame on Meng Yuan, so that he can cover up the fact that he killed a big eunuch. Li Yuanshan's goal is not just that. It's basically a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

It not only killed Wu Peisheng, but also aroused the emperor's idea of crusading against the Mongolian Yuan people. Li Yuanshan knew that the emperor had always thought about the expedition against Mengyuan, but he had never made up his mind. He understood the pride of the Yang royal family and made up the story that Meng Yuan killed fan Gucheng. One was to kill Wu Peisheng and the other was to urge the emperor to march to the West as soon as possible.

Only when the emperor marched to the West did he have a chance to rebel.

It is not the first time for Li Yuanshan to kill two birds with one stone.

Pei Yan, as one of the most trusted people around the emperor, naturally knew about the loyal Prince's journey to the West more than ten years ago. And that was also a lie made up by Li Yuanshan. At that time, there were no Mongolian Yuan masters sneaking into the big Sui Dynasty to try to assassinate the emperor, which was all fabricated by him out of thin air. Then it was sent to Chang'an with an urgent secret report. When the emperor consulted Prince Zhong, Prince Zhong immediately decided to go west to kill the enemy.

Then Li Yuanshan sent a secret message to Mengyuan people, saying that the Sui Dynasty organized a large number of Jianghu experts to sneak into Mengyuan to assassinate brother Dahan mengge. Therefore, Mengyuan people hurriedly gathered their hands to intercept, but because of some errors in calculation time, when people in the Jianghu of the Sui Dynasty arrived at fan Gu, there were not many real experts in Mengyuan. Therefore, in the first confrontation, the Jianghu guests of the Sui Dynasty killed Meng Yuan's people cleanly.

But later, people from the Buddha sect arrived one after another. The two sides are really close to each other. The Jianghu people in the Sui Dynasty also began to die.

In that matter, the biggest winner seemed to be prince Yi Yang Yin, but in fact it was him Li Yuanshan. He took this opportunity to make Prince Zhong disappear, and Meng Yuan people also trusted him. For more than ten years, he has been secretly associated with the Mongolian Yuan people.

Two times before and after killing two birds with one stone, Li Yuanshan played very successfully.

For the first time, a large number of powerful Jianghu people in the Sui Dynasty were buried, and the whereabouts of Prince Zhong were unknown.

The second time, the elite 700000 troops of the Sui Dynasty were buried, and the northwest was empty. No one could stop him from rebelling again.

Look at this memorial and think about the loyal prince. Pei Yan couldn't help sighing... Li Yuanshan, you really deserve to be the descendant of Li Xiao. Your conspiracy is so vicious.

He shook his head and cleaned up the complicated emotions. Then he picked up the memorial, put it under his arm, took an oil paper umbrella and walked out of the inner court door.

It rained a little outside half an hour ago.

When he went out, he opened his oil paper umbrella, but he was stunned again.

He saw that in the rain, on the open space outside Dongnuan Pavilion, a young man in black stood there, standing with his hands down, his body as straight as a javelin. The boy raised his head slightly and looked at the sky. He didn't seem to care about the raindrops on his face, uninhibited and indifferent.

Seeing this scene, Pei Yan suddenly thought that when he first saw Prince Zhong many years ago, he was also in a rain. At that time, the loyal prince took hundreds of slaves to guard the gate. The soldiers of the forbidden army rushed up batch by batch, and then fell down layer by layer. In the rain that day, the loyal prince was also dressed in black, so uninhibited and indifferent. It seemed that he didn't pay attention to those forbidden troops at all.

So similar.