Chapter 510 The Unchanging Palace

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After saying that, Wang Pu said goodbye.

Guo Shao walked out of the back room with him and said to Wang Pu: After the envoy of the Wang army returned, the orders were ordered to the imperial guards to cancel the weekly morning court three days later.The morning court will be held once every day on the first and fifteenth days of each month; during other hours, everyone can go to the side hall on the east side of Jinxiang Hall at Mao every morning.The people who were Dianmao included the chief and deputy envoy of the Privy Council, the commander of the Hall Front Office, the commander of the guard office, and the prime minister of the Political Affairs Hall.

Wang Pu agreed, and Guo Shao asked the officials on duty outside the door to write an imperial edict to go to the Political Affairs Hall.

In the morning court, Guo Shao enjoyed the feeling of self-inflation at first, but now he is tired of it.

I think I am not a vain person and I don’t feel much about the pleasure in those scenes.

The ministers had complicated etiquette in the morning court, which was indeed time-consuming.

And they would not say too many useful things at all. The officials were very smart and would not talk about sensitive and specific matters in the hall. They usually talked about good news and good news, as well as some great principles for governing the country.

Sometimes he often quarreled. As a modern man and military general, Guo Shao was more tired of literary fights... If any ministers have any ideas, just write a memorial.

Three days later, the key figures met in the side hall for the first time, exchanging important information from each other's yamen.

At this time, Guo Shao had not received Huang Binglian's report, and the spy had not been arrested after a few days.

If I can't catch it for a few days, I'm afraid the spy has run away and it's hard to make any progress in this matter.

...After Guo Shao ascended the throne, the atmosphere was tense for a while, but it soon returned to peace, and the Tokyo court did not change much.

The reason may be that people in the world have become accustomed to changing dynasties once in ten years, especially those officials who are not critical of the yamen, who have no resistance at all. Now the country name has not changed, and most people will listen to whoever is in the imperial city. Furthermore, one or two years before Guo Shao ascended the throne, he and Fu Jinzhan had already gradually deployed the powers of all parties and eliminated some hidden dangers.

The difference between before and after ascending the throne is nothing more than the difference in status.

For example, in the current palace, Guo Shao moved in without any pressure. It was full of people from Fu Jinzhan, and he didn't even have to change people.

Fu Jinzhan has temporarily faded out of the court officials' sight, but she retreated behind the scenes and her influence is still very great.

...The place with the smallest change is Wanfu Palace, which is commonly known as the cold palace.No one paid any attention.

The person with the highest status here is Taihuang Taigui Concubine Zhang, but she cannot control the Wanfu Palace alone. In fact, many people do not listen to her.

The protection of power begins with violence and coercion. For example, the power of the court is because of various coercive institutions as support; the power of the queen is backed by the emperor, and the emperor has force and violence.

But Zhang only has the status. She couldn't even see those who were truly powerful in the dynasty, so the power was not guaranteed.

The palace ladies here may not know the logical relationship, but they intuitively understand these things.

The topics they are usually interested in private are also things outside Wanfu Palace, such as Mrs. Fu (second sister) and Li Yuaner giving birth to a prince.

However, the most talked about small things is the favored by Li Shanggong.

Zhang and a few good palace wives gathered in the hall to wait for dinner, and everyone whispered to Li Shanggong.

A palace woman said: Li Shanggong entered the palace very early, and I knew her before.He didn't look very good. When Taizu was in power, he was not young. He stayed in the palace for so many years and is now at least thirty years old.

Can such people be favored?Another palace woman whispered.

The uterine wife who was just talking said sourly: You will get the moon first when you get close to the water.Besides, Li Shanggong has been in the palace for so many years, and there is no wind and sun, so he may have been fine skin and tender flesh... She bowed and said quietly, "I heard that the new king is the nephew of Taizu, but he has always been a military general."I guess the generals were fighting outside for many years and saw few women, so they could not resist seducing experienced women like Li Shanggong.

These palace wives are all unidentified women, not concubines of Emperor Taizu, so they don’t need to live in the cold palace.

However, people also need to work here, and they are not allowed to be liked by those who are not good at eyeballs, so they are naturally sent here.

Like Li Shang Palace, even the palace wives of the previous dynasty could serve the emperor of this dynasty, and they did not pay attention to these things since the Tang Dynasty; so when they talked about Li Shang Palace, they were very envious and jealous.

Another palace lady said: There are two extremely favored concubines in the past, and now they take turns to sleep in bed every day.One of them is said to have married three times, worked as a maid and a servant in a city blacksmith shop; the other one was robbed in Huainan and sent by someone, and later came to the room today...

Not.A man doesn’t know his origin, the more shameful a woman is, the more favored she is!At that time, wasn’t the kind of Empress Li who was not against us there?

It's very clear, as if you've seen a man...

Zhang said calmly: Don’t talk too much, the person who delivers food will come later, and ask outsiders to hear that there will be something wrong again.There is nothing in this Wanfu Palace, but you can still fight so hard.

The palace lady said: I am also helping Empress Zhang, so I am careful of Empress Li and the others.

At this moment, several palace maids came with food.There are naturally no different dishes in the cold palace, let alone wine, but there is still something to eat with white rice and white flour.

Zhang picked up the chopsticks, picked up a chopstick and put it in the bowl, and the women who were sitting there moved the chopsticks.

She mixed the dishes, took a bite, and picked a chopstick from the rice bowl.

Suddenly I saw something squirming in the bowl. When I looked closely, two living maggots crawled out of the rice grains.

Zhang's beautiful little face suddenly turned bloodless.

Her stomach twitched, she retching, she threw down her chopsticks and covered her mouth with her hands and stood up.When I ran to a basin in the corner of the wall, I immediately vomited.

Empress Zhang... The palace ladies looked at her in surprise.

One of them understood something, so he quickly got up and went to Zhang's bowl to look, and glared: There is something dirty in the bowl of the empress!Too disgusting!

Everyone came over to take a look and immediately cursed.

Zhang vomited for a while, rinsed his mouth with clear water, and said coldly: He is so despicable!If I put that kind of dirty thing in my bowl today, if I find a poisonous thing, wouldn’t I be willing to poison it to death!

The palace ladies said: It must be done by someone surnamed Li!

Zhang also made the same conclusion.

The rice has to be cooked before it can be made into rice. It is still hot now. It is not because someone deliberately put it in it. How come such a big maggot?

The person who hates her the most in Wanfu Palace is Taizu's concubine Li.

When Taizu was alive, she fought for favor with Zhang by any means. Later, neither of them got the prince. Li attributed all the crime to Zhang, and the grudges he had not yet been resolved after entering the cold palace.

Zhang just said angrily that he poisoned him.

After thinking about it, she couldn't help but feel cold, because she felt that it was really possible... Even if she was killed by someone, who would ask about the life of the cold palace?

If it is not found out at a moment, and if Li obstructs him, he will definitely burn the body. Anyway, they are all a group of people waiting to die.

At this time, a palace woman said: I'll go and find the person who delivered the meal.

Zhang said coldly: They will not admit it, they will push the matter to the kitchen.

The kitchen guy was also found.

Zhang snorted, his chest fluctuated, and he took a deep breath and said: This is not necessarily what Empress Li's people do. We have wronged her without any evidence, but we have caused many troubles.