Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 917 Entering the Palace at Night
With Huang Mengyu, the admiral of the East Factory, going to the city would definitely not be a problem, but if it was just going to the city, with a high reputation as a pragmatic person, he could do it himself. The real trouble now is going to the palace.

According to the system of Ming Dynasty, after the palace city was closed, even the emperor would find it difficult to leave the palace. That is to say, the head of the secret service agency like Huang Mengyu was able to enter and leave freely. Pragmatically, such a foreign minister enters the palace.

When entering Miyagi in the middle of the night, you cannot go through the Meridian Gate in the south, because after the Meridian Gate is the Jinshui Bridge, which is facing the Huangji Gate, and behind the Huangji Gate is the Huangji Hall, which symbolizes imperial power. [These two places were named "Fengtian" in the early Ming Dynasty, that is, Fengtianmen and Fengtian Temple. After Jiajing, they were renamed "Huangji", Huangji Gate and Huangji Hall. Gate of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Supreme Harmony. ]
And similarly, you can't go to the Xuanwu Gate in the north - as soon as you enter the gate from here, you will be in the harem. In the middle of the night, what do you want to do in the harem at night?
Theoretically speaking, you can go to Xihua Gate, but there is Taiye Pond, also known as the Three Seas, which cannot be entered at night.

Therefore, there is only one feasible way to enter the palace, which is the Donghua Gate in the southeast of the palace city.

Since the capital of the Ming Dynasty has three floors, inside and outside, Gao Yushi’s route tonight actually has to enter three gates: first enter the city from Deshengmen, walk all the way to the southeast, rely on Huang Mengyu’s face to enter the imperial city from Dong’anmen, and then continue To the west, try to enter the Donghua Gate, which is considered to have entered Miyagi.

Deshengmen is the simplest, and the defenders who rotate here are the most eyelids. For a person like Gao Yushi, he will definitely not admit his mistake, not to mention that no one in Gaofu's servant team dares to pretend in the capital, so he entered the city. Not difficult.

Gao Yushi chose to ride a horse, so Huang Mengyu had no choice but to abandon the sedan chair and ride with him on horseback. These two appeared outside Deshengmen. How could the guard of Deshengmen, a mere general, dare to stop him?Coupled with the fact that when Gao Yushi sent someone to call the door, he said "I have something important to report to the emperor", then even the last bit of trouble will be gone-even if the censors want to find trouble, they can only find Gao Shizhong, he is just a thousand In short, it is estimated that the mention is not worthy of being mentioned.

After entering Deshengmen, go all the way to the southeast, turn left at the Drum Tower, then turn right at Kaiyuan Temple, then go south all the way, pass Yulin Youwei and turn right again to Donganmen.

Although Huang Mengyu didn't dare to bring Gao Yushi into the palace city, he could still enter the imperial city. He put on the prestige of the chief eunuch Bingbi and the admiral of the East Factory, and brought Gao Yushi and his party directly without giving a reason. go in.

After entering Dong'anmen, Huang Mengyu became more cautious, and even said to Gao Yushi with some worry: "Master, it's not the same now as before. It's not easy for you to enter the palace in the middle of the night..."

Of course Gao Yushi knew it was not easy. Although theoretically speaking, Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju both had the ability to bring him into the palace, but that would be a suicide-like move for the two of them, and Gao Yushi couldn't ask for that.

So Gao Wushi only asked: "Old Huang, who is more convenient to see the emperor, you or Lao Chen? I mean, at this moment."

Huang Mengyu said: "We can see each other, but after all, Lao Chen has been serving the emperor for many years. It will be more convenient for him to see him than our family."

Gao Wushi nodded, and asked again: "Then it should be convenient for you to go to Ciqing Palace to meet the Empress Dowager Rensheng?"

Long before Gao Wushi overthrew Feng Bao, he had arranged for Huang Mengyu to join the Empress Dowager Chen. Now that Huang Mengyu was in the harem, he was also a confidant of the Empress Dowager Chen in name. Of course it would be no problem for him to go to the Ciqing Palace to find the Empress Dowager Chen.

The only problem is, what do you want to do with Queen Mother Chen?
Although Empress Dowager Chen has a high status, because she is not the emperor's biological mother, she seldom intervenes in court affairs, even in the affairs of the harem, she seldom intervenes. She will make a statement.

But what Gao Pragmatically wants is her status.

Empress Dowager Chen and Empress Dowager Li, a benevolent empress dowager and a benevolent empress dowager, because of Gao Yushi's suggestion back then, Gao Gong pushed them as "the two palaces are respected together", which is theoretically equal.

However, no matter how you say it, before the "two palaces are respected together", Empress Dowager Chen was Empress Chen, and Empress Dowager Li was just Concubine Li, and there was a clear difference in status.

In a folk analogy, only the Empress Dowager Chen is the rightful wife!

The current status of Empress Dowager Li is actually derived from Zhu Yijun, the son of the emperor.

Therefore, since Queen Mother Li's resolution is to be overturned tonight, there is only one person in Daming who has this title and status, and that is Queen Mother Chen.

Apart from her, even the emperor Zhu Yijun is not easy to speak - after all, he governs the country with filial piety, and his son can't be hard-headed in front of his wife.Just like a young and successful son like Gao Wushi, he can only talk about Huang Zhiting in front of his mother Zhang, and he can only persuade him. become a stain on life.

As soon as Gao Wushi mentioned Empress Dowager Chen, Huang Mengyu heard the string song and knew the elegant meaning, nodded and said: "Don't worry, Shidu, our family understands, but... I don't know what Shidu wants our family to tell Queen Mother Chen?"

Gao Wushi listened to him and said "so and so", Huang Mengyu nodded repeatedly.

Then Gao Wushi said: "In addition, you go to the palace and send someone to notify Lao Chen, and let him go and talk to the emperor, just say that I have something urgent to meet the saint."

Although Huang Mengyu was taken aback for a moment, he agreed immediately.

Generally speaking, there are very few courtiers who treat the imperial confinement system like nothing and come to see the emperor in the middle of the night. Even the elders of the cabinet will not face the emperor overnight unless there is a huge crisis in the country. On the one hand, it is inconvenient and against the rules. On the other hand, it was also because the emperor did not agree.

Gao Yushi wasn't too worried about Zhu Yijun's refusal to see him. He felt that this possibility basically didn't exist. The only trouble was the violation of the rules. The old Zhu's palace ban system was quite strict. Back then, he was Gao Yushi because he was young. His Gao Gong's nephew has another special care, but now it is different, today he is officially crowned.

He explained to Huang Mengyu how to send a message to Chen Ju, and Huang Mengyu was relieved after listening.

Although entering the palace itself violates the rules, according to the highly pragmatic handling method, the trouble can always be kept to a minimum. Presumably when the princess case breaks out, the disputes among the court officials will also shift, and the firepower is unlikely to be directed at them .

Arriving outside the Donghua Gate, Huang Mengyu himself brought a few eunuchs with him into the palace city, leaving Gao Yushi and a dozen servants waiting outside. After a while, the Donghua Gate opened. Gao Yushi was a little surprised, but Seeing the guard inside commanding the guards to run out with a grand master's chair, he nodded and bowed and said, "Master Gao, please forgive me, we dare not violate the court system...but we dare not watch you stand outside the door, you Please sit down, please sit down."

The night was too dark, until he opened his mouth to speak, Gao Wushi noticed that the guards of Donghua Gate today were in charge of Jing Jun.

The Jing army is under the leadership of the Yuma Supervisor, and the immediate boss is Chen Ju, no wonder he is so flattering.

Gao Wushi also relaxed slightly, nodded and said: "Okay, you have rules and flexibility in handling things, yes, yes, I will mention it in front of Chen Yuma when I have time sometime, go ahead .”

The guard couldn't help but thanked him again and again, but he didn't dare to disturb him, seeing Gao Wugong sitting down by the bridge of the moat, he nodded and bowed back again.
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