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Nightwatcher - Chapter 597

Published at 21st of April 2023 06:39:11 AM


Chapter 597

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Before Mao time, Emperor Yongxing, under the eunuch's service, got up and changed his clothes. At this time, it was dark and the candles in his bedroom were bright.

Zhao XuanZhen, the eunuch who served after emperor Yongxing from the eastern palace, now follows his master Jigou to heaven and sits as the eunuch.

"Lin'an didn't return to the Palace last night?"

Emperor Yongxing opened his arms and turned himself into a clothes rack, so that the eunuchs could wear the royal robes for him.

"I've got people staring at the gate of the palace. Once his highness Lin'an returns to the palace, he will report it immediately. Now there is no news. He should still be the chief of heaven."

When Zhao XuanZhen finished, he saw emperor Yongxing frowning, and immediately added:

"his highness Huaiqing has not come back."

Emperor Yongxing's brows immediately stretched out and nodded slowly:

"it seems that he was resting in the sky warden. Well, last night, it was cold and windy. The two princes were delicate. They were really not suitable to go back and forth, and they were easy to catch the cold..."

The master and servant have been together for more than ten years. Just now, Zhao XuanZhen easily read out his Majesty's concerns, so he added "his highness Huaiqing didn't return to the palace" to ease his Majesty's heart.

Sure enough, as soon as Huaiqing did not return to the palace, his Majesty was relieved that his highness Lin'an would not be bullied.

Zhao XuanZhen, who is the same age as emperor Yongxing, hesitated for a moment and said, "I know that your majesty is merciful for the people in winter, but I also want to ask your majesty not to forget to warm the hearts of the ladies."

Emperor Yongxing glanced at the eunuch and said with a sneer:

"son of a bitch, how much money have you collected from the empress?"

Zhao XuanZhen answered truthfully:

"five hundred taels, all of them are in the internal library."

In fact, Emperor Yongxing didn't do nothing at all. He knew that the State Treasury was empty and lacked money for disaster relief, and privately made many plans to collect money.

One of them is to use the eunuchs in the palace to ask the ministers for bribes.

Unfortunately, after all, he was only an emperor trainee who practiced for one month. Compared with his predecessor, who had been in the business for 40 years, his means of collecting money were really immature.

Emperor Yongxing nodded his head with satisfaction, and then he responded to Zhao XuanZhen's words:

"since I ascended the throne, I have often been working late into the night, sleeping at my desk, and working very hard."

Zhao XuanZhen understood that his Majesty would not be lucky for the empresses in the harem during this period, or even for a long time to come.

Emperor Yongxing suddenly sighed:

"if it doesn't work out, it's going to involve Shoufu and his son-in-law to bear the blame."

He is going to make a donation at today's court meeting. Of course, it will not be the emperor's charge or the king's first assistant, but Xu Xinnian, a scholar of the Imperial Academy.

In return, he promised Wang Shoufu that he would promote Xu Xinnian.

...

as soon as Maoshi arrived, with the sound of drums, civil and military officials went through the Meridian Gate and Jinshui bridge in an orderly way to attend the court meeting.

In the month when the new emperor ascended the throne, the most intuitive feeling of Beijing officials is:

when will the court meet?

The court meeting was held at Maoshi (five o'clock in the morning), and the princes who lived in the imperial city only had to leave the palace half an hour in advance.

However, some Beijing officials who live in the inner city and are far away from the Imperial Palace have to get up at the beginning of Yinshi (three o'clock in the morning). In this cold winter, it is really a painful thing.

The frequency of the court meeting mainly depends on the attitude of the emperor. A person as good at cultivating immortals as king yuan may not have a court meeting every ten days and a half months.

At that time, the Beijing officials, who boasted of their own statesmen, privately jumped to denounce emperor Yuanjing for neglecting his administration and clamored to "return our court meeting".

Now the new king is in the top position. He has been in the morning for a month.

Every time the Beijing officials get up from their beds in pain and come out of the palace in the cold wind, they will miss the emperor.

...

when Xu Qi'an's biological clock was also in its prime, the second time he woke up, I just heard that someone was selling "sister" fan, and also said that I could get money, someone really spent money to buy it.

As I said before, fanwai is free of charge. Don't be fooled.

Please stop this kind of behavior by selling to other friends. It's a blackmail for me.




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