Ganlin Palace.
After lunch, Zhu Yunxuan leaned on the couch and closed his eyes to rest his mind. He was half asleep and half awake when suddenly there were a few cries from the eunuchs and Gao An's low voice from the outer hall: "Emperor Daxing's mourning period has not passed, and His Majesty has not yet subsided. In addition to being exhausted every day, you are here to make a fuss over such a trivial matter, are you desperate to disturb His Majesty? Why don't you retreat quickly!"
Zhu Yunxuan frowned, opened his eyes, and said, "What happened? Come in."
After a while, Gao An brought in seven or eight little eunuchs whose eyes were red from crying, knelt down on the ground and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, forgive me, these unusable things don't understand the rules and disturb you, slaves, let them lead For punishment, send them out."
Zhu Yunxuan glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, all of them were low-level eunuchs who followed from his Qixiang Palace: "What happened? Tell me clearly."
The little eunuchs prostrated themselves on the ground, weeping and crying, the people in Ganlin Palace are really deceiving people too much! Those of them who opened the Qixiang Palace and followed them are the people of the new emperor, while those in the Ganlin Palace are all old people who served the late emperor. Originally, even if there was friction between the two sides, it would not be incompatible. Among the people around the new lord, there is one Feng Sheng. He was the chief eunuch who was proud of the late emperor. He didn't dare to move the big eunuchs who served him closely, so he could bully the lowly little eunuchs. The little eunuchs had only been in Ganlin Palace for more than ten days, and they suffered all kinds of troubles and suffered unspeakably.
If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't bear it anymore, and Zhu Yunxuan treated Kuanren all the time, they wouldn't dare to sue him.
Gao An said embarrassingly: "It's because the servants neglected their duties and failed to mediate well, so that the people below disturbed the saint with these trivial matters. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Zhu Yunxuan asked in a deep voice: "Is what they said all true? Then Feng Sheng is really so domineering?"
Gao An lowered his head: "... Eunuch Feng is an old man in the palace. He has served the late emperor for many years. These people in the palace let him go. It's really nothing. Now it's the late emperor's funeral, and everything is busy. Everyone has more work than usual. A lot more, it's just that these bastards are lazy, and they still have the face to come to the imperial court and cry, don't listen to their nonsense, Your Majesty, even if Eunuch Feng is stricter, it's probably because of the heartache and depression caused by the death of the late emperor , this is also human nature.”
Zhu Yunxuan took another look at the little eunuchs who were crying, frowned even tighter, and sent them away, Gao An was the only one left in the hall with a cold expression: "Tell me, what's going on? "
Gao An was helpless, and explained to him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Feng did intend to make things difficult for the people who came out of the Qixiang Palace, especially when you ordered a servant to read the enthronement edict tomorrow. Keeping your position as the leader and eunuch, I thought you should not ask too much about this matter, after all, it is a conspiracy among the servants, and it really doesn't make you worry about it, then Mr. Feng... is King Zhao's man after all."
Hearing this, the gloom in Zhu Yunxuan's eyes gradually surfaced, and he said coldly, "Go and send someone here."
"Your Majesty..."
"Go."
Feng Sheng came soon, saluted in a proper manner, with a proud expression on his face, since he wished Yunxuan to be in charge of the Ganlin Palace, this was the first time he was sent to ask questions.
"Eunuch Feng has been busy with the late Emperor's funeral these days, it's really hard work."
Zhu Yunxuan's voice was indifferent, but Feng Sheng acted immediately, and raised his hand to wipe away the tears that didn't exist: "This is the job of a servant, so it's hard work. The servant followed the late emperor for more than forty years, and now the late emperor rides a crane. Immortals go, the slaves just wish they could go with him, so that they can continue to serve around."
No matter how eloquently he said it, Zhu Yunxuan didn't believe it. Although Dayan Dynasty didn't have the rules of burying living people, if he really wanted to, no one would stop him. Isn't Concubine Chen the precedent? This Feng Sheng was not ranked in front of Emperor Zhaoyang in the past, only because he helped An Lehou deliver a message to Emperor Zhaoyang a few years ago, letting the emperor know that his own son had come back to life, so he was admitted from then on. In the eyes of the emperor, from the very beginning, he took advantage of Liang Zhen's position.
Zhu Yunxuan said coldly: "Eunuch Feng is an old man in the Ganlin Palace. He has worked hard and made great achievements. Even if the late emperor is gone, he will always miss you. Now that you are old, you should enjoy your old age peacefully. I was not careful before. I didn't take this into consideration, let you still be busy with the late emperor's funeral at this age, and worry too much, why don't you let go of the errands at hand from today, so you can rest for a while."
Feng Sheng knelt down on the ground, deeply mourning: "Your Majesty! This old bone of your servant is only of use for the last bit! When the late emperor made his will, he told your servant to serve the new king even if he spared his old bones. I don’t dare to disobey! I beg you, no matter what, please let this servant stay and continue to serve you! Otherwise, this servant really has no choice but to die!”
Then you go to die, Zhu Yunxuan's eyes became colder, with murderous intent in his eyes, Feng Sheng, who was prostrate on the ground, didn't see it, although he burst into tears, he was not at all afraid, and he deliberately mentioned the will, which was to remind Zhu Yunxuan of the false edict .
Zhu Yunxuan hated him so much that even an eunuch dared to threaten him, but he had nothing to do. Killing Feng Sheng was a trivial matter, but if he killed Feng Sheng, he didn't dare to bet on what Liang Zhen would think. At least for now, against Liang Zhen, he has absolutely no chance of winning.
"Okay, okay... Are you willing to stay? Then you just keep it for me!"
Outside the main hall, Liang Zhen walked up the steps, and before entering the hall, he met Feng Sheng coming out. The other party greeted him respectfully, being extremely flattering, and then lowered his voice and quickly reported to him that Zhu Yunxuan had been in private for the past two days. Someone was summoned, and at the end he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Your Majesty wants our family to take off their errands and go back to take care of the elderly, because he thinks our family is useless and looks down on our family."
Liang Zhen gave him a sideways look, said nothing, and walked into the hall.
Gao An was waiting for Zhu Yunxuan to try on the crown he was going to wear for the enthronement ceremony tomorrow. The black clothes made him look taller and more elegant, and Liang Zhen folded his hands in his sleeves and looked at him with a smile: "Your Majesty, wear this Dagonfu, it looks decent."
Gao An glanced at Zhu Yunxuan, saw that he had no objection, bowed and stepped back.
Zhu Yunxuan's eyes behind the twelve o'clock are full of coldness: "I heard that when King Zhao just came in, he talked to Feng Sheng for a long time?"
Liang Zhen hooked the corners of his lips: "An eunuch's dirty words are not worth telling His Majesty."
He walked forward, raised his hand and stroked the sun, moon and dragon pattern on Xuanyi's shoulder, Zhu Yunxuan didn't move, and looked at him coldly: "King Zhao dares to inquire about my affairs in this Ganlin Palace, it's really great courage."
Liang Zhen disagreed: "Your Majesty has wronged the minister. It wasn't the minister who wanted to inquire, but the eunuch insisted on telling the minister."
Zhu Yunxuan sneered: "That eunuch is so powerful that he has no king, if I want to kill him, can I kill him?"
"Your Majesty will kill you if you want to. You are the emperor. If you want to kill an eunuch, why do you need the consent of your ministers?"
"King Zhao doesn't say that I crossed the river and demolished the bridge?"
Liang Zhen smiled lightly and said: "It's just an eunuch, if it hinders His Majesty's eyes, he can be killed, as long as His Majesty is happy."
Zhu Yunxuan was speechless for a moment, Liang Zhen looked at him, his eyes touched the faintly visible scar on his forehead behind the bead, and narrowed his eyes lightly: "Your Majesty, why don't you get rid of the scar on his forehead?"
This mark has been there for several years, a very shallow mark, you have to look closely to see it, if you apply ointment every day when it first left, it will be removed after a period of time, obviously Zhu Yunxuan has never done this.
Zhu Yunxuan said indifferently: "I am not a woman, why should I care about my appearance? Even if there are scars, so what?"
The smile in Liang Zhen's eyes grew stronger: "Your Majesty doesn't care, but I do... It's a pity."
He always remembered the first time he was brought into the palace that day, the first time he saw Zhu Yunxuan on the palace road, the weeping little prince rushed out, hugged the deposed prince who was escorted by the imperial guards and moved to the cold palace, weeping bitterly. He looked at it from a distance, and asked the palace guards who led the way, and he knew that they were the two sons of the daughter of the Xie family.
The second time was outside the Imperial Study Room of Ganlin Palace. Emperor Zhaoyang ordered the deposed prince to die. Zhu Yunxuan came to intercede, but was stopped outside and was not allowed to be summoned. He had to kneel down on the ground while crying and kowtowing desperately, with blood flowing all over his face. . At that time, he only felt that the little prince was too naive, pitiful and pathetic, and he even sneered at and dismissed the brotherhood in the deep palace.
The scar on his forehead was left at that time, Zhu Yunxuan kept this mark on purpose, just to remind Emperor Zhaoyang that he had personally bestowed upon his innocent and wronged eldest son to death.
Zhu Yunxuan frowned, what he was most impatient with was Liang Zhen saying these ambiguous words, but Liang Zhen always did this, saying these embarrassing words lightly and deliberately humiliating him.
Liang Zhen lifted the bead in front of Zhu Yunxuan with his fingers, wanting to see it more clearly, as if thinking of something, he suddenly smiled again, Zhu Yunxuan's eyebrows frowned even tighter: "What's so funny?"
Liang Zhen looked at him with narrow eyes: "If the subject speaks out, His Majesty will be angry again... Don't Your Majesty think that this is like lifting the hijab?"
Zhu Yunxuan was startled, and his eyes turned red instantly: "Do you really want to humiliate me like this?"
Liang Zhen sighed: "I love His Majesty with all my heart, but His Majesty thinks that I am humiliating Your Majesty. Your Majesty, you are doing this, it is really difficult for me."
Zhu Yunxuan didn't want to say to him again: "If you have nothing to do, then step back."
Liang Zhen's eyes narrowed slightly: "Every time I come back, His Majesty is in a hurry to drive me away. Is Your Majesty so unwilling to see my minister and insist on avoiding him?"
Zhu Yunxuan said coldly: "You are not allowed to enter the palace without edict. King Zhao is not only free to come and go in the palace, but even enters and exits the Ganlin Palace as he pleases. How can I avoid you? If I really want to avoid you, an imperial decree will You are sent to the fiefdom, are you willing to go?"
Liang Zhen looked at him quietly, and after a while, he smiled deeply: "As long as Your Majesty has the ability."