Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 438 6.9 Queen: I allow you to leave later

Volume VI

6.9 Queen: I allow you to leave later

At the same time, there were more than twenty seats in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but only the four seats in the middle had real status, which happened to be two civil and military seats. The people present were basically senior civil servants at the level of Pavilion Elder, Shangshu, and Minister, or A high-ranking military officer with title and real power, a senior general at the rank of commander-in-chief, there is another person at the top, naturally the eldest prince Guo Kai.

"Brother Zhou——" Chen Yejun first looked at Guo Kai, who was chatting and laughing with the civil servants, and then walked to Zhou Yang, who was holding the wine glass at the bottom of the core table with an anxious look on his face. He filled the wine glass in one gulp and pretended to toast. After he finished, Then he continued, "I heard that you have visited His Highness Yongchang in the past two days, I don't know."

"You, you are still a fan of the authorities." Zhou Yang smiled and picked up the wine glass and took a sip to accompany the drink. "You look carefully at both the civil and military sides. In the past few days, hundreds of people have been dealt with, not to mention the severity, even in the end. Those who were reprimanded, have you ever seen a person enter today's banquet? Think about it again, my mentor was not invited, what do you think you are here to do?"

"Seriously?" Chen Yejun's eyes almost exploded, so that his voice was obviously louder.

"False!" Shi Guangzhu, who followed from another table and came over from another table, glared at him angrily, waved his hand to tell him to get out, then looked at Zhou Yang and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Ziyang. To tell you the truth, Brother Niu and Brother Liu went to the palace to plead with His Highness afterwards, but it was all to no avail. Thanks to your help this time, at least the three families were not too embarrassed."

"Uncle Shi is serious." Zhou Yang smiled and accompanied him for a drink. "In the final analysis, it depends on whether we are useful to the royal family. If we are useless, do you think there are any males in Ning Rong's Second Mansion today? People must save themselves, and then Talking about asking for help, the three elder brothers have actually been implicated, and they are far from desperate."

"Yes, as Brother Niu said a few days ago, we are all martial artists, and we should work together as one. We must not let those poor people see the joke." Shi Guangzhu glanced at the civil servants with disdain, turned around and found Zhou Yang With a strange expression, after understanding what he meant, he raised his leg and kicked it, "I know you don't have Spyker now. With your ability, it's only a matter of time? What a pity. The Wu Xun lineage has been passed down for hundreds of years. I'm afraid the next generation will take you as the leader." Respected."

"Haha, well said!" The two were chatting and didn't notice that the eldest prince had already come over with a wine glass. "As the saying goes, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. The imperial grandfather and the late emperor did not lack the help of various families. I am still young and will be around you in the future. Of course, all of you are indispensable. My uncles are getting older, is it possible that we can still ignore them?"

"Don't you dare to obey the order?" Shi Guangzhu bowed respectfully.

"Okay, Uncle Shi sit down first, I just want to see you brothers." Guo Kai took a sip of his wine bowl with a smile, Shi Guangzhu quickly raised his head to feel bored, and lowered his head just in time to see someone was kicked again, " Why are you standing there in a daze? Now that you are so prosperous, you can sit here and not care about your brother below?"

"How dare you, general?" Zhou Yang smiled bitterly and touched the wine glass, but Guo Kai held it down with a smile. Then he saw a eunuch coming up with a tray with seven wine bowls lined up on it. It just so happened that Hachigong and the six families were added to him. , but this wine bowl has a capacity of at least three taels. Behind the eunuch, there are two young eunuchs, each carrying a wine jar. The strong aroma of wine overflows before it is opened, "Uh, Your Highness, don't use it, right?"

"General Zhou, this is the finest Zhuangyuan red, specially selected by His Highness." The personal eunuch following Guo Kai smiled as if he were a villain, "Our Qiu Shi'an has been serving in the palace before, and has rarely seen the general. .”

"It turns out it's Eunuch Qiu." Zhou Yang's heart tightened, but he took a wine bowl without revealing any emotion on his face, "In that case, I would like to thank His Highness for the reward!"

There are three named eunuchs mentioned in "Red Mansions", Dai Quan, Xia Shouzhong and Qiu Shi'an. The last one only appeared once, very late, but he was able to leave a deficit after the death of Wang Ziteng, and the Wang family was unable to compensate. At that time, Jia Lian was asked to come to intercede, and his status could be imagined.

"Okay, you will have to interact with each other from now on." Guo Kai, who was watching the whole show, waved his hand for Qiu Shi'an to step back, turned to Zhou Yang and said with a smile, "Let's go, they happen to be here, so we don't have to find anyone." trouble."

"Your Highness said so." Zhou Yang bowed, frowned and glanced at Qiu Shi'an, who was pleasing to the eye. He always felt that the attitude of this dead eunuch was wrong; but he didn't know that after he turned his head and followed Guo Kai, although Qiu Shi'an still followed with his head bowed, But after his peripheral vision glanced at Zhou Yang, he already had murderous intent when he lowered his head.

"Brothers, please be polite!" Following Guo Kai, he walked towards Wu Xun's young disciple and saw him holding up the wine glass with a smile. Niu Ben and others immediately stood up respectfully and took the wine bowls from the little eunuch's tray in order - this There were actually more than six people at the table, but after seeing the number of wine bowls, Han Qi, Wei Ruolan and others consciously stepped aside.

Zhou Yang smoothly took the wine jar from the young eunuch and filled it for everyone, including Guo Kai. Finally, he filled his own wine bowl. This also made all the martial arts disciples smile, understanding that this was a sign of Okay; but no one noticed that Qiu Shian had lowered his head, and the murderous look in his eyes became even stronger. "Thank you, Your Highness, for the wine!" When everyone finished drinking, Niu Ben took the lead and bowed to express his gratitude.

"Okay, why are my brothers so polite?" Guo Kai took the initiative to step forward and hit Chen Yejun and Ma Xin on the chests. "Don't think too much about it. You will have to work hard in the future. If we don't talk about official business today, it will be hard to wait until the right time. How can I keep you idle if you are not alone?"

"Thank you for your grace, Your Highness!" Chen Yejun and Ma Xin expressed ecstasy and quickly saluted and thanked them.

There is nothing to say about the next thing. In fact, this kind of banquet is the same in ancient and modern times. Eating is never the purpose, and it is not even the process. Not to mention the leader's speech, colleagues' exchanges, etc., and the wine culture is indispensable. Fortunately, Zhou Yang's position is not low now, otherwise look at the young men in Niuben, all of them drunk.

That night, Daming Palace, Imperial Study Room.

"You agreed to accept those three families, right?" Zhou Yang breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed, lowering his head to kiss the trembling empress, "At this time, we cannot lack the support of Wu Xun. Although they are indeed dishonest, the civil servants are more It’s hard to tell, I heard that Yu Chong has been jumping up and down since he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites, and kept contacting his old subordinates in the Ministry of Personnel.”

"Wait a minute." The queen squinted her eyes and was silent for a long time. After she stabilized her mind, she hugged Zhou Yang tightly to prevent him from leaving the fighting position. "Don't worry about him. Lin Ruhai is not easy to deal with. We will wait for a while." With the help of my second brother, I will have to make him honest sooner or later; as for Wu Xun, Rong'er has already told me, so you don't have to worry about it anymore."

"That's what the empress said." Zhou Yang's heart moved, and he understood that he was too close to Hachigong, so he quickly changed the subject, "Today I saw that the eunuch following His Highness was very unfamiliar. I don't know where he is. The great god?"

"If you want to ask, just ask, who is showing the yin and yang strange energy? He was in Longshou Palace before, and was sent to Kai'er by the Supreme Emperor a few days ago." As soon as the queen mentioned Zhou Yang, she realized why this eunuch was hostile when they first met. , "Now he is taking care of all the chores around Kai'er, and he has the reputation of being inspected by the inner court."

To put it bluntly, the Queen and her son were able to completely "prosperize" the Supreme Emperor now, mostly thanks to Zhou Yang's military support. As the saying goes, "the master humiliates his ministers to death", the Supreme Emperor lost all power, and his original subordinates naturally deteriorated. Qiu Shi'an was delivered to Guo Kai, presumably as a way to hand it over.

Although the eunuchs in the palace are slaves, they cannot be deduced by common sense. For example, Xia Shouzhong has been serving the emperor since he was a child. He is even called "big companion" and has always been wearing the highest eunuch title of "Eunuch of the Sixth Palace". The Shangtong was in charge of all the eunuchs in the entire palace. In contrast, Dai Quan, who followed Emperor Yonghe, only had the official position of "Eunuch in charge of the Daming Palace".

"Isn't that right? Now that Qiu Shi'an is following His Highness, his future future is no better than following Xia Shouzhong as the second in command? Why is he still hostile to me?" Zhou Yang asked strangely, could it be that eunuchs are also mean and don't want to be the boss? As number two?
"Kaier has his own servants around him. He is only used because of the Supreme Emperor's affairs. Is it possible that he will continue to follow him in the future?" The queen rolled her eyes at him, and in three words, Zhou Yang understood that he was actually Qiu Shian's job was ruined, "Okay, don't think too much, just do your errands. There are no rules for eunuchs to do politics in this dynasty."

"That's good." Zhou Yang replied with a smile, but after all, he didn't let down his vigilance at all. The people around him, the driver of the car, and the secret should not just look at their positions. Qiu Shi'an can sneak into the Longshou Palace The eunuch's second-in-command, his ability should not be underestimated, "Next, I'm going to make a thorough arrangement for the Shenji camp first, and I won't be able to see him a few times."

"Thank you for your hard work." The Queen sighed softly, "I would also like to trouble you to send the firearms mentioned last time earlier. There are many things happening in the capital now. If the palace is too lax, it is difficult to guarantee that the old affairs of Prince Yi Zhong will happen again; One, the girl named Qin in your courtyard has taken good care of it. Although I don’t care about this matter, with your current status, it’s hard to guarantee whether someone will take the opportunity to cause trouble."

"Don't worry." Zhou Yang nodded, knowing that she was talking about Qin Keqing, "It's late now, and it's not convenient for me to stay overnight."

"Wait a moment. I have arranged for someone to send you out around Haishi." The Queen made a slight adjustment so that he could not "break free". "I am afraid that the next days will be busy. I allow you to leave later. ."

"According to the order!"

(End of this chapter)