The reason why Shen Ying kept Guo Jiuchen and did not liquidate him was because he wanted to keep him to overturn the Xu Shu family's case, and secondly, he was afraid that if the eunuch group headed by Guo Jiuchen fell, the civil official group would occupy an absolute advantage in the court and act recklessly. Fighting for power and profit.

Because of the ancestral system of the Great Ying Dynasty, the influence of foreign relatives was severely suppressed, and the power of the civil official group was growing day by day. Facing the monolithic civil official group, the emperor was a loner. Therefore, since the Gaozong Dynasty, the emperor had to reuse eunuchs to consolidate imperial power. After all, eunuchs They have no heirs and are the emperor's domestic slaves. The only thing they can rely on is the emperor, so they can use it with confidence.

After Shen Ying came to power, although Gu Min helped him suppress the officials in the previous court, Jinyiwei is a military and political organization, and it does not have enough say in the government. If there is a slight overreach, it will be criticized by the civil officials, unless Shen Ying can control the officials. Keep your mouth shut, otherwise a Jinyiwei alone would not be enough to compete with the civil servants.

Shen Ying is well aware of this, so recently she has been actively selecting clever and intelligent young eunuchs from among the servants to study in the inner school, and then assign errands later, but he did not expect that someone could not wait to come to him after he took power not long ago. Attacked Gu Min.

When Shen Ying walked into the Golden Luan Hall, all the officials had already stood in line. When he sat on the dragon chair, all the officials knelt down and saluted him, and then began to discuss affairs and discuss affairs.

At the beginning, the ministers' performances were normal, but when the conversation was almost over, the eunuch said, "If you have a copy, you will leave the court without a copy." Holding a notebook in his hand, he said: "Report to the emperor, I have a copy to play! I want to visit the Marquis of Linyang, the Commander of Jinyiwei, Gu Min, who abused his power and harmed Zhongliang!"

Shen Ying looked at Can Gu Min's censor coldly, and sneered secretly, the one who was supposed to come really did come.

Standing in front of the queue of military attaches, Gu Min heard someone impeaching him and turned a deaf ear to him. Facing the probing gazes of other officials looking at him, he still looked calm and didn't even turn his head.

Shen Ying asked someone to bring up the memorandum for the impeachment of Gu Min, and glanced at it roughly. It was indeed the things that Gu Min told him in the morning. It happened only last night, and the memorandum was written this morning. People move really fast.

Shen Ying closed the memorial, slapped it on the table, and asked the censor: "You said that Marquis of Linyang murdered Zhongliang, is there any evidence?"

Yushi said: "Report to the emperor, the Ministry of Criminal Justice found at the home of Qin Ziming, the son of Qin Yong, the former servant of the Ministry of War, last night that Qin Ziming's family left a blood letter before committing suicide. The blood letter stated that Qin Ziming saw with his own eyes that it was the Marquis of Linyang who killed his father Qin Yong. !"

Shen Ying snorted coldly: "Then Qin Ziming's plan to assassinate Liu Shilang and put the blame on the Marquis of Linyang failed, and he committed suicide in fear of crime. How can a murderer's words be trusted? What kind of evidence is a blood letter alone? How can you know that Qin Ziming's conspiracy was not revealed? Unwilling to give up, deliberately frame the Marquis of Linyang?"

Yushi said: "Your Majesty, there must be a reason for one person to frame another person, right? Besides, Qin Yong's death is indeed strange, and the murderer has not been found yet. Qin Ziming had no grievances with Linyang Hou before, but he designed to assassinate the third rank of the court. The officials came to frame the Marquis of Linyang, and later accused the Marquis of Linyang of killing his father, Qin Yong, with five lives of his family. check!"

A censor came out and echoed: "The minister seconded the proposal!"

The second censor came out and echoed: "The minister also agrees! The Marquis of Linyang does not cultivate his private virtues, is arrogant and domineering, and in a high position does not think of restraining himself and serving the public, but he is obsessed with flattering him, stealing power without benefit, and using his power to run amok in Beijing. Frame Zhongliang for the crime, it is really a disservice to the emperor! I ask the emperor to issue an order to dismiss Marquis Linyang and investigate, otherwise it will not be enough for the common people to be angry!"

A censor stood up and said, "My minister seconded the proposal! Please the emperor give justice to Liu Shilang, who died innocently!"

Facing the excited imperial censor, Shen Ying gave a wink calmly, and Hubu Shangshu immediately stood up to defend Gu Min: "Your Majesty! Although I don't have a close relationship with Marquis Linyang, I have heard of Marquis Linyang. The loyal and brave deeds of Linyanghou in suppressing the rebellion of the Du Party, all the officials have witnessed his loyalty to the emperor, I don't believe that he would do such a cruel and loyal thing!"

Successively, several ministers who had received Shen Ying's prior instructions stood up to speak for Gu Min, and quarreled with the officials who impeached Gu Min. The public is right, the mother-in-law said the mother-in-law was right, but Gu Min, who was in the center of the whirlpool, just lowered his head, not saying a word to defend himself, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

In the end, Shen Ying couldn't listen anymore, slapped the table, and said in a deep voice: "Enough! Since it has been found out that Qin Ziming bought the murder for Liu Shilang's death, there is no need to investigate further. Qin Yong's death is due to Qin Ziming alone. One person's words are not enough to be trusted, as for whether the Marquis of Linyang has harmed Zhongliang, I will order someone to investigate thoroughly, this matter will stop here, and there will be no further discussion!"

But the officials are not forgiving.

"I dare you to ask who the emperor will order to conduct a thorough investigation? Why don't you assign people now in front of all civil and military officials, and give them an explanation?"

"Is the emperor's ambiguity trying to shield Linyanghou? Since Linyanghou was impeached, he should be handed over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for review, otherwise there is no legal principle?"

"As officials, I have the responsibility of admonishing the emperor and prosecuting all officials. If there is no law to persuade the emperor to stay away from traitors, what kind of face do I have to stand in the court! I ask the emperor to strictly investigate Linyanghou's faults, and to correct him. Audio-visual!"

Shen Ying heard the officials finished speaking generously one by one, grabbed the playbook of Gu Min on the table and threw it out forcefully, and said with a sneer: "My censors are really upright, but why didn't you see Du Qianren when he was the chief assistant?" All of you stand up and accuse him of being corrupt and breaking the law for personal gain and malpractice? When Guo Jiuchen was in power, how come you risked your life admonishing him for playing tricks and eliminating dissidents? You think I am better at speaking than they are, so you can speak out and question him I have made a decision? Since I feel that I have no face to stand above the court, I will demote all of them from Beijing, and within ten years, I will not be allowed to return to Beijing to hold a post!"

The censors were even more outraged when they heard that the emperor wanted to demote him and he would not be able to return to Beijing to be an official for ten years. One of the censors stood up, looked at Shen Ying resolutely, and said loudly, "Your Majesty! If you don't distinguish between right and wrong, you will go your own way to cover up traitors, and today I will die..."

"Admonition with death, right?" Shen Ying also stood up from the dragon chair, interrupted the censor, looked down at the censor, and sneered, "Death is inherent in a person, whether it is heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter Yu Hongmao, do you think that you alone can force me to agree to your unreasonable demands? Let me ask you, where were you when the Marquis of Linyang was born and died for me? Where are you! Now that I want to question the loyalty of a villain because of his groundless accusations, wouldn’t it be chilling to the heart of all the loyal ministers who helped me when I was suffering! Admonishing this set will not work for me, if you want to die, don't dirty my golden palace, and disperse the court!"

The censor, who originally wanted to admonish him with death, was choked by Shen Ying's retort, and his momentum suddenly became a lot lower, and he couldn't raise his breath to show his ambition by death, his face was red and white, as if it was stuck in his throat.

Shen Ying was about to walk down the steps and leave with a cold face, but at this time Gu Min, who had been silent all this time, stepped forward and stopped him, "The emperor calm down! Please listen to my words!"

Shen Ying had already stunned the officials, and didn't understand what Gu Min wanted to say when he stood up at this time, so he furrowed his brows and gave Gu Min a sneaky wink, signaling him to be quiet, and then asked: "What do you want to say? "

Gu Min bowed deeply to Shen Ying and said, "I thank the emperor for his trust in me, but since the censors think that I am an unjust official, harming loyal and good people, and for the sake of the court's laws and regulations, I ask the emperor to allow me to suspend my duties." , go back to the mansion and contemplate behind closed doors until the truth is found out!"

Shen Ying didn't expect that Gu Min would ask him to close the door and contemplate his mistakes, but after thinking about it, it's good to let Gu Min avoid the temporary limelight, as long as Gu Min stops his job and can't pose a threat to the mastermind behind the scenes, maybe the mastermind behind the scenes will not pay attention Focus on Gu Min.

Shen Ying repeatedly asked Gu Min with her eyes: Are you sure?

Gu Min slightly nodded to Shen Ying: I'm sure.

Shen Ying closed her eyes, waved her sleeves and said, "Zoo! Qin Yong's death will definitely be found out by whoever did it, and justice will be given to innocent people. Before the truth is found out, no one is allowed to speculate. , otherwise it will be punished for the crime of deceiving the public! Retire!"

After the court was over, Gu Min went to Yongle Palace to meet Shen Ying before going back to the palace to contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors. After that, the two of them were outside the palace and the other was in the palace. They didn't know how long they would not see each other. farewell.

When Shen Ying returned to the palace, she got a little angry, picked up the cup on the table and threw it on the ground, the faces of these officials are really hypocritical and shameless!All of them are dignified and full of benevolence and morality. In the final analysis, they are not for their own official reputation and self-interest. When they are really needed, none of them can be relied on!

When Gu Min walked in, the little eunuchs were timidly cleaning up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground. He made a detour and walked up to Shen Ying, pulled Shen Ying to sit down, and poured him a cup of tea again, "The emperor calms down, drink a cup of tea and surrender!" fire."

How could Shen Ying have the mind to drink tea, put down the teacup, and looked at him with a frown, "I have already suppressed the matter, why do you ask yourself to shut yourself up and think about your mistakes? Isn't this just what they want? If you stop working , then who will command Jin Yiwei?"

Gu Min smiled lightly and said: "I have a confidant who can be recommended to the emperor, and let him take over the power of commander temporarily, and Jin Yiwei is still under our control. The emperor has demoted so many ministers for the sake of the minister, if he does not deal with the minister, I'm afraid it will be hard to convince the crowd, and besides, I see that the emperor has been able to stand on his own, and the officials are speechless when he refutes, so there is nothing to worry about, as the New Year is just around the corner, and I can also rest."

Shen Ying nodded and said: "It's okay, you were too sharp before, that's why you found jealousy, but you have a special status, you shouldn't be too conspicuous, and you still have to keep a low profile in the future, so you can go back to the house to rest for a while, wait until this time Let's talk about it after this turmoil is over." After finishing speaking, he poked Gu Min's arm, and said in a regretful tone, "It's just that the Chinese New Year is coming up in a few days, and I'm afraid we won't be able to spend this year together."

Gu Min grabbed Shen Ying's hand, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, and said with a light smile, "Although we closed our doors and pondered over our mistakes, no one was staring at me. How would outsiders know if I was staying in the mansion and wanted to enter the palace? Can't help it?"

"It's true," Shen Ying smiled relaxedly, rolled her eyes, and came up with a clever plan. She lowered her voice and discussed with Gu Min mysteriously, "On New Year's Eve, I will send someone to your house to give you a gift." Cai, and then you will change into the eunuch’s clothes and come to the palace to look for me as a eunuch! Let’s keep the New Year’s Eve together!”



On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor and all civil and military officials started a month-long Spring Festival holiday. Shen Ying, who had been busy for several months, was finally free to take a good rest.

On the night of New Year's Eve, the entire palace celebrates together, and all the masters in the palace have a New Year's Eve dinner together. Even the Empress Dowager Liu, who has devoted herself to worshiping Buddha in Shou'an Palace once she returns to the palace, also attended.

This is Shen Yingchuan's first Spring Festival after coming here. Although the table is full of delicious food and wine, everyone is talking and laughing, and the laughter is very lively, but these people are not his real relatives after all. Shen Ying sits at the front, Looking at the bustle of the room, there is no sense of belonging, but some sadness of missing relatives emerges in my heart.

I don't know what happened to him in the original world after his soul crossed. If he no longer exists in the original world, then his parents will be heartbroken. They raised him so much, and he hasn't had time to repay him. Upbringing……

Shen Ying was not originally a sentimental person, but the more this happened, the sad things in her heart would be aroused. The more Shen Ying thought about it, the more unhappy she felt. It's not the same, I just think they are noisy" What does this sentence mean.

Gu Min was not around again, and there was no one close to him, Shen Ying became even more depressed, and drank a lot of wine, one after another, until Shuo Yu reminded him that it was time to give New Year's food, and Shen Ying put down the glass.

"Send the stewed ham with fish maw to the Marquis of Gu'an." Shen Ying pointed to the dishes on the table in front of her, then looked at Princess Changping sitting below, and said with a smile, "The sixteenth day of the first lunar month is the day when Changping gets married. I will also bestow a blessing on the Marquis of Gu'an's mansion with a dragon and a phoenix. Changping, you and Lin Che haven't seen each other for a long time, right? Do you want to send a message to the Marquis of Gu'an's mansion?"

The eldest princess of Changping may be in good spirits on happy occasions recently, or because she is one year older and her facial features are open, her appearance is much brighter than at the beginning of the year. After hearing Shen Ying's words, she lowered her head shyly and said angrily : "Brother Huang is used to making fun of Changping. My sister has nothing to explain. You should quickly ask the inner eunuch to send the food out of the palace, lest the food go cold when it is delivered to the Marquis of Gu'an."

After joking with Princess Changping for a while, to dilute the sadness in Dian's heart, Shen Ying laughed loudly and said, "I'm going to get married after all, and I only want to be with my husband's family for fear that they will eat cold dishes. Okay, I will let you be the first one." Send it to the Marquis of Gu'an!"

After pointing out the dishes given to the Marquis of Gu’an, Shen Ying gave the dishes to the families of other important ministers and nobles respectively. In the end, there were two dishes left. Shen Ying looked down at the menu, “This Ganlianfu sea cucumber is for the Marquis of Linyang. Send it over, another Taorenshan Chicken Ding... just send it to Anjun Prince's Mansion!"

Seeing that King An had been terrified in the palace for so long, Shen Ying gave the last dish to King An for the sake of hard work and no credit.

The inner eunuchs got the decree, put all the given food into food boxes, and went to deliver the food to each mansion respectively, just when the inner eunuchs were about to take the food out of the palace after giving the food to the Marquis of Linyang and the Prince of An County, Shen Ying suddenly Another idea.

His original plan was to let Gu Min pretend to be an inner eunuch, and then return to the palace together with the eunuchs who went to give food, but now it's boring to stay in the palace anyway, so why not pretend to be an eunuch who gave vegetables instead, Wouldn't it be more interesting to go out of the palace to have fun?Gu Min would never have thought that he would come out of the palace to find him!

Let's do this, go and surprise Gu Min!

Shen Ying immediately pretended to be drunk and got up, telling the Empress Dowager Liu and the concubines that she was a bit too drunk and was going to the Imperial Garden to sober herself up. As soon as she came out of Zhengqing Palace, Shen Ying immediately went back to Yongle Palace and changed into the clothes of the little eunuch. Taking Shuoyu with him, he followed the team of internal eunuchs who gave the food out of the palace.

Linyang Marquis Mansion and An Jun Wang Mansion are separated by a street, and the two mansions are very close, so Shen Ying made a stop by An Jun Wang Mansion before going to find Gu Min.

Before entering the Prince An's Mansion, Shen Ying could imagine how surprised King An would be when she saw herself coming to deliver food to him, so she narrowly told Shuo Yu: "Let's keep quiet for a while, see Can Shen Xuan, that idiot, find me?"

Shuoyu didn't know what he was thinking, and his expression was lost in thought. Shen Ying nudged him dissatisfied, "What are you thinking? Did you hear me?"

Shuo Yu came back to her senses, looked at Shen Ying with a guilty conscience, "Your Majesty, what did you say?"

Shen Ying patiently explained again: "I said, let's not talk for a while, and see if King An can find out that I'm here!"

Shuoyu swallowed and said, "...Okay, okay."

Entering the gate of Prince An's Mansion, Shen Ying and Shuo Yu deliberately stood behind the inner eunuch who gave food. After the decree was read out, King An kowtowed and thanked En, got up and took the food box in the eunuch's hand. Glancing behind him, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a look of unbelievable surprise appeared on his face.

Shen Ying thought it was King An who had discovered her, the corners of her mouth turned up, and she was about to say hello, but she saw King An walking up to him, looking straight at Shuoyu next to him, with a rippling expression on her face. With a smirk, she lowered her voice and asked Shuoyu, "Why are you here? Did you come to see me on purpose? I knew that you were thinking about me!"

Shen Ying, who was completely ignored, frowned, feeling that this matter was not simple.

King An still wanted to grab Shuoyu's hand, but Shuoyu hurriedly dodged with his head down, stuttering in anxiety: "An, King An! Please, please, please respect yourself!"

While talking, he frantically gave King An a wink and motioned him to look aside. Fortunately, King An was not so nervous that he couldn't even understand Shuo Yu's wink. When he turned his gaze, he happened to meet Shen Ying's suspicious eyes , so scared that King An almost jumped up on the spot, and said dumbfounded: "The emperor, the emperor, the emperor?! Why are you here?!"

Shen Ying raised her hands, and said with a smirk: "Can't I come? I came to see you specially. I miss you in my heart, but I didn't expect that the person you miss is not me, but Is it someone next to me?"

King An Jun took two steps back, his knees softened, and he knelt down with a plop, "The emperor forgives the sin! The emperor forgives the sin!"

Shuo Yu also knelt down and bowed her head in silence.

Shen Ying waved his hand, "Everyone else get out!" After the idlers left the courtyard, he walked back and forth in front of King An and Shuo Yu, looked at them and asked, "What's the matter with you two? When did it start?"

Shuoyu was supposed to belong to him, but he didn't expect that he would be cuckolded by Shen Xuan, an idiot?How unreasonable!

"Your Majesty, it's all the minister's fault and has nothing to do with Shuoyu!" Prince An hesitated, "It was when I was in the palace. Didn't I suffer from a serious illness at that time... It was Shuoyu who has been serving the minister wholeheartedly... ...And then we... But don't worry, Your Majesty! Since returning to the palace, Shuoyu has never paid any attention to my ministers, it was all wishful thinking, and Shuoyu is absolutely loyal to the Emperor!"

Shen Ying never thought about the relationship between King An and Shuoyu, but he could understand when King An said that the two had feelings for each other when they were in the palace. At that time, he pretended to die and left. Wang was pinched in the hands of Empress Dowager Liu, and his future was uncertain. It is reasonable to have a spark with Shuoyu who took care of him in adversity. Shuoyu is such a beautiful person.

Shuoyu kowtowed and said: "Your servant deserves to die, I should not have kept this matter from the emperor, my servant has betrayed the trust of the emperor, please forgive me!"

Anjun Wang looked at Shuoyu distressedly, went to stand in front of Shuoyu and said: "Your Majesty, it is all the fault of the minister, please don't blame him, you have punished the minister, I will admit it! Don't blame Shuoyu ..."

Shen Ying stroked her chin, looking at King An in front of her in a leisurely manner, "Shen Xuan, I almost don't recognize you when you look like this." This is still that wind.flow well.Is it the king of Sa'an County?How could he like a eunuch?He still looks like an infatuated person with deep and unswerving love. Could it be that he has been pierced by someone's soul?

King Anjun whispered: "Could it be that you, the emperor, have to change your mind and nature alone, so the minister can't turn his prodigal son back?"

Shen Ying pretended to sneer and said, "It's reasonable for you to get involved with the people around me, right?"

The king of Anjun hurriedly bowed his head to admit his mistake, "I don't dare! I admit that I will be beaten and punished. There is no other way! I just ask the emperor not to blame Shuoyu."

"Okay, let's all get up, for the sake of celebrating the New Year today, I won't settle the debt with you two." Shen Ying raised her hand, "I still have something to do, I can't stay in your house for a long time, after waiting Tonight, tomorrow you roll into the palace and tell me what to do!"

King Anjun hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty! I must reflect on myself tonight!"

Taking Shuoyu with her, Shen Ying left An Jun Wang's Mansion under the reluctant gaze of An Jun Wang, and turned to Linyang Marquis Mansion.

Although there is only one street between Anjun Prince's Mansion and Linyang Hou's Mansion, there is still some distance between the two mansions. Shen Ying rode on the horse and had nothing to do, so she asked Shuoyu, "What do you think about An Junwang in your heart?" ?”

Shuoyu said in a low voice: "Back to the emperor, this servant thinks that Prince An is a good man, although sometimes he acts absurdly, but he has a good heart and treats others sincerely."

Shen Ying continued to ask: "Then do you have affection for him?"

Shuo Yu pursed her lips, as if hesitating whether to say it or not, Shen Ying saw him smiling and said: "Don't worry, if you have it, say yes, if you don't, say no, I won't blame you."

Shuo Yu nodded slowly.

Shen Ying raised her eyebrows knowingly: "Then are you willing to serve King An? I'll be with your master and servant. If you have a good home, I'll be happy for you. I can make your wish come true."

Unexpectedly, Shuoyu shook her head firmly and refused, "Go back to the emperor, my servant is not willing."

Shen Ying was puzzled: "Why?"

Shuoyu laughed at herself and said: "Back to the emperor, Shuoyu is just a servant who serves others. Even if he goes to King An's side, he can't change his status as a servant. King An likes slaves now, but it's just for a while, waiting for freshness." After the son has passed, he might fall in love with someone else again, how will the servants deal with themselves at that time? So the servants are unwilling to leave the palace and leave the emperor."

Shen Ying turned her head in amazement and looked at Shuoyu carefully. She used to think that Shuoyu was quite clever in doing things, but she didn't expect that Shuoyu could see things so clearly.

Shuoyu looked at Shen Ying, her eyes sparkled, and said firmly: "I have been serving the emperor for so long, and I have seen with my own eyes how the emperor has come to today step by step. From the emperor, this servant knows a truth, that is, Only with the power in your hand to become a master can you control your own destiny. If the slaves leave the palace, they may not be able to become masters for the rest of their lives, but as long as the emperor needs them, the slaves are willing to do their best for the emperor, swearing to death Allegiance!"

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