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Chapter 15 Empress Dowager Gao: Sure enough, everyone is praising the sixth brother's pure filial piety?
In Baoci Palace, Empress Dowager Gao was feigning sleep with her eyes closed.

"Mother..." Liang Weijian's voice came from outside the curtain: "Zhang Shiliang, who is acting as an official of the Imperial City Company, was ordered to play!"

Empress Dowager Gao opened her eyes and said softly, "Tell him to come and talk to the old man!"

"According to the order!"

After a while, a short and strong minister in his 40s, who seemed to be honest and honest, came outside the curtain of the empress dowager's bedroom.

Seeing the figure of the Empress Dowager sitting inside the curtain, he bowed and bowed, "Shiliang, the official minister of the imperial city, I respectfully ask the empress that her phoenix body is safe and sound!"

"I'm all right!" Empress Dowager Gao sat in the curtain, looked at Zhang Shiliang's thick and short figure outside the curtain, and asked, "Tell me! What did the investigation department find?"

Zhang Shiliang bowed his head, bowed his body, and presented a document in his hand: "Qi Zou Niang Niang, all the things in Bianjing recently investigated by the Investigation Department have been recorded in writing, please read it!"

Under the Song dynasty system, the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics.

However, the Imperial City Division belongs to the inner court and is under the command of the empress, not restricted by the ancestral system.

Therefore, the Imperial City Division has become one of the few channels through which empresses and concubines can exert influence on the foreign court.

Especially the empress dowagers have always placed their cronies and ministers in the Imperial City Department to control the direction of the ruling and opposition parties.

Zhang Shiliang was Empress Dowager Gao's eyes and ears in the Imperial City Division.

The original intention was just to tell him to keep an eye on his relatives, not to ask them to act mischievously outside, so as not to cause trouble and lose the dignity of the palace—mainly the dignity of Empress Dowager Gao!

But now, at a time when the government and the wild are in a state of turmoil.

Zhang Shiliang became the eyes and ears of Empress Dowager Gao.

The pawns under the jurisdiction of the Investigation Department under the Imperial City Department have become the most powerful pawns in the hands of Empress Dowager Gao.

Liang Weijian took the document from Zhang Shiliang, then respectfully walked from the side of the curtain to Empress Dowager Gao, and handed it to Empress Dowager Gao.

Empress Dowager Gao took the document, opened it, and frowned immediately.

Liang Weijian was by the side, glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and immediately lowered his head.

Because, the words on that paper are too much.

"... I heard that Zhong Cheng Huang Lu said to the left and right one day: I have a grudge: I can't move the second king out when I am in Taiwan! If today's son is sick, and the second king is in the confinement, if a piece of paper suddenly drops from the one-day confinement, it will be too late for us to regret it!"

What kind of rebellious, outrageous and rebellious words are this?

However, the person who said this was Yu Shi Zhongcheng Huang Lu!

This person is the confidant of the emperor's confidant!

In addition, Huang Lu has a son-in-law named Lu Huiqing...

Huang Lu said such a thing, what did he want to do?Who has he consulted with?And who is instigating him to say these words behind his back?
Is it Lu Huiqing, or the guy from Jiang Ning?Or simply from...

Liang Weijian didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Empress Dowager Gao was not as angry as Liang Weijian imagined.

The crows admonishing Taiwan have been clamoring to expel the second king from living in Da Nei since the second year of Xining until today.

Empress Dowager Gao has long been desensitized to this.

To be honest, if the emperor hadn't been seriously ill now, even if Huang Lu said such a thing in front of her, Empress Dowager Gao would have laughed it off.

Why be serious with the Taiwan admonisher?

That's what they do.

What's more, Huang Lu is the censor Zhongcheng. Under such circumstances, if he didn't say that, he would be considered as "two-hearted".

The memorial to impeach him will flood the official office of the Yintai Secretary.

Empress Dowager Gao continued to look down, and what the investigation department reported was all the folk discussions in Bianjing City involving ministers, relatives, and the royal family.

So, Empress Dowager Gao soon saw a report from a coward: Yesterday, in the tiles of the capital, there were rumors in the tabloids, and the insider said: "It was said by the insiders, that Yan'an County Wang Chunxiao took medicine from the official family, and only ate vegetarian. He copied Buddhist scriptures for his father and sent them to Funing Hall every day as a prayer for blessings."

Empress Dowager Gao's complexion suddenly darkened, feeling a little uncomfortable in her heart.

She looked at Zhang Shiliang outside the curtain with cold eyes, and asked, "Why did the news from the big inside reach Wazi in the market and talk about it for ordinary people? What is this internal investigation?"

Zhang Shiliang immediately got down on the knees, bowed his head tremblingly and worshiped: "I'm guilty of death! Capital punishment!"

Liang Weijian saw him, and hurriedly approached the Empress Dowager Gao, and explained in a low voice, "Ma'am, the so-called insider investigation is the tabloid's name for the person who provided the forbidden information..."

"In addition to internal investigations, tabloids also have 'provincial investigations' and 'yamen investigations', which respectively inquire about news from the capital and the government..."

When Empress Dowager Gao heard this, she was furious.

Anyone in the market can find out the news from the inside?
Then what secrets does this big lady have in front of the world?

The tabloid even has so-called provincial detectives and Yamen detectives!
The meaning is not only forbidden, but the news of the Dutang and the government office will also be spread, discussed, and evaluated in the tiles? !

Why doesn't the emperor care about it?

She looked at Liang Weijian and asked resolutely, "Since you know this, why don't you punish this generation?"

Liang Weijian lowered his head, and said aggrievedly: "Madam, back then the Ren Temple was fashionable and there was nothing to do, Kuang Chen and so on?"

"Isolating China and foreign countries is not a small crime!"

But in the heart, whether Liang Weijian or Zhang Shiliang, they all know it well.

Who are these insiders?

Moreover, almost all of the forbidden things were leaked inside and out, and almost all of them were leaked under orders!
It's just that sometimes it's ordered by everyone, and most of the time it's leaked according to the wishes of the big insiders.

In particular, after Xining, Wang Anshi reformed the law, the government and the public were uproarious, and the world was in turmoil.

The ministers of the big palace were also severely impacted.

In particular, the implementation of the Market Change Law and the Market Change Affairs has caused many people to lose their previous lucrative business.

Therefore, a large number of ministers began to actively leak information to the outside world.

In this way, even if you can't stop it, you can still disgust Dutang and Gongzhong and cause them some trouble.

However, the Queen Mother does not need to know these things.

Everything is pushed to the ancestor system, and everything is pushed to Jiayou's government.

In this way, Empress Dowager Gao will not pursue it any further.

Sure enough, Empress Dowager Gao's anger dissipated most of her anger when she heard Liang Weijian mention the two key words 'the temple of benevolence has nothing to do with it' and 'isolation from China and foreign countries, the crime is not a small one'.

Empress Dowager Gao's favorite is the rule of Renmiao Jiayou.

There is nothing in the world, the Holy Lord is in court, and the famous officials are in power.

There is peace for all.

It's not like now, for a few slings of copper coins, flying from the capital to the local area, the system of the ancestors has been completely destroyed, and there are complaints from up and down.

In particular, the use of troops in the Northwest stretches endlessly and consumes a lot of money, but only a barren land for some people.

This made Empress Dowager Gao most dissatisfied!
"Since it's ancestral system, it's inconvenient for old people to intervene. It's just a forbidden matter. You must keep an eye on it in the future, and don't let people leak it at will!"

"Yes..." Liang Weijian nodded immediately.

Zhang Shiliang who was outside the curtain also quickly bowed his head: "I would like to honor your imperial edict!"

Empress Dowager Gao looked at the writing in her hand, and then at Zhang Shiliang outside the curtain.

He couldn't help asking: "Zhang Shiliang, Wazili, are you really praising the sixth brother's pure filial piety?"

Zhang Shiliang held his eyes, looked at the figure of Empress Dowager Gao in the curtain, and replied: "The subject is a despicable person, how dare you say such a thing?"

He didn't want to die before he dared to discuss this matter!

Empress Dowager Gao nodded: "I know!"

Then he told Zhang Shiliang: "Go to the Imperial City Division, and tell everyone in the Investigation Division to pay attention to the discussions in the public, and if something moves, come to the palace!"

"According to the order!"

After Zhang Shiliang left, the Empress Dowager Gao asked Liang Weijian, leaning on the limp body with the documents in her hand, "Liang Weijian, is Sixth Brother really eating vegetarian and copying Buddhist scriptures every day?"

Liang Weijian naturally didn't dare to hide this matter, he lowered his head and replied: "As far as I know, people in Qingning Palace say so!"

"If your empress is in doubt, you can recruit Feng Jing from Gouqing Ning Palace to ask..."

Empress Dowager Gao shook her head: "That's unnecessary!"

To ask Feng Jing, wouldn't it be tantamount to announcing publicly that her mother-in-law doubted the prince in Qingning Palace?
In this way, no matter what the answer is, for Empress Dowager Gao, the gain outweighs the loss.

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Note: The Investigation Department under the Imperial City Department was first established by Zhenzong. At first, there were 40 marriage officials and soldiers, who were in charge of "investigating gossip and plotters in the capital". During the Shenzong and Zhezong dynasties, the Investigation Department experienced large-scale expansion, and the establishment once reached 500 people.

Note 2: The official affairs of the Imperial City Division, that is, the officials in charge of the Imperial City Division, often serve as military officials and internal ministers, "Song Huiyao."Officials" records: In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the last batch: There are too many official officials in the Imperial City Division, and only ten people are left.

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