Gao Ming carefully stood beside the emperor, bowing slightly.
"Your Majesty, Shen Yi has now completed the general examination..."
The emperor frowned.
"I said that no one can interfere with this scientific examination."
The emperor glanced at Gao Ming and said: "The internal guards cannot be idle. Fraud in scientific examinations must be strictly investigated. All the Jinshi I admit this year must be genuine."
Gao Ming bowed his head respectfully in response. He lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, the Qi people in the north have become more and more restless recently. Troops have already arrived on the banks of the Huaihe River in batches, and they seem to be stepping up shipbuilding..."
Hearing this news, the little emperor frowned deeply.
"I am not afraid of being attacked. If they can attack, they have already done so in the past few decades. I will give orders to the Huaihe Navy and ask them to defend to the death and not allow the Qi people to cross the Huaihe River."
Gao Ming nodded, looked at the little emperor again, and said: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother seems to want you to get married as soon as possible. Recently, Kunde Palace has been looking for girls from wealthy families in Jiankang. The major families in Jiankang have probably sent twenty or thirty posts and portraits to Kunde Palace..."
The little emperor couldn't help having a headache when he mentioned the wedding. He put down the ink pen in his hand a little irritably and said: "The queen mother just wants me to become a queen as soon as possible, and then bring the Princess Qi Ren into the palace so that we can have a good marriage." people."
His Majesty the Emperor snorted and said: "The Queen Mother still treats me as a child. She feels that I cannot handle national affairs and that I am no match for Qi Ren!"
He looked outside the palace, lowered his voice, and said angrily: "That Qi Ren princess has connections with Qi Ren's spies. Can such a person be welcomed into the palace?"
After Princess Izumo of the Northern Qi Dynasty arrived in Jiankang, she had contact with the spies of the Northern Qi Dynasty buried in Jiankang. Although she was not the leader of these spies, she did communicate with these spies.
Naturally, these cannot be hidden from the eyes of the inner guards.
Gao Ming lowered his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty, when Princess Qi Ren arrives in Jiankang, she is not familiar with the place. It is normal to have contact with Qi Ren in Jiankang. Besides, no matter what kind of person she is, when she arrives in the palace... There will be no chance to contact the outside world anymore.”
The little emperor looked at Gao Ming and sneered: "If you marry into the Li family, you will become the wife of the Li family, right?"
Gao Ming quickly lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
The little emperor glared at Gao Ming angrily and said in a low voice: "What you said is exactly the same as what the queen mother said!"
"The Queen Mother summoned you to Kunde Palace, right?"
Gao Ming trembled, knelt on the ground, and said: "Your Majesty, slave... I also think that what the Queen Mother said makes sense, slave..."
"This servant is loyal to Your Majesty..."
"OK OK."
The emperor waved his hands impatiently and said in a low voice: "It's the same thing every time. If you don't bother me, I will. Get up and get out. I'm upset now and don't want to see you!"
The high eunuch rolled and crawled back towards the outside of the palace.
The little emperor raised his head, looked at the embarrassed Gao Ming, and said calmly: "I've been a little bored in the palace recently, and I'm going to go out of the palace for a walk. You go and make arrangements. In addition, since Shen Yi is asking for a reward, I'll also arrange for him to see him. As soon as he sees me, I will ask him face to face what he wants."
Gao Ming had already retreated more than ten steps away. With a grimace on his face, he lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother does not allow you to leave the palace..."
The little emperor glanced at Gao Ming and said angrily: "Are you from my side or from Kunde Palace?"
"If you continue to be so ignorant, you should not serve in the Ministry of Internal Affairs tomorrow. I will directly transfer you to Kunde Palace to serve the Queen Mother!"
Eunuch Gao took a deep breath, lowered his head and said, "I understand, slave."
After saying that, he retreated respectfully.
Gao Ming's reaction is not surprising.
It’s not that he has low emotional intelligence, or that he can’t recognize his master. In fact, in the past six or seven years, because the emperor was young, matters in the outer court were discussed by several princes and the Queen Mother, while matters in the inner court were basically discussed. The Queen Mother had full authority to handle the situation. Even His Majesty the Emperor himself obeyed the Queen Mother's words and never dared to refute.
And it wasn't until this moment that Gao Minggao Eunuch realized one fact clearly.
His Majesty the Emperor, who he raised as a teenager, has grown up and become the emperor of the great Chen Kingdom.
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Shen Yi pretended to be crazy under the pretense of drinking, and after playing tricks in the inner guard's den, he successfully met Gao Ming.
Overall, this meeting with Gao Ming was quite successful.
Because Shen Yi went to Gao Ming this time because his biggest need was to send someone from the palace to protect him. This goal has been achieved, and Eunuch Gao also promised to send someone to protect him secretly.
In other words, no matter what benefits the palace gives you, they can be regarded as extra money, and they are all earned in vain.
After solving the personal safety problem, Shen Yi's next life will be much easier. He does not have to worry about the private retaliation of Young Master Yang, Young Master Zhao and Young Master Fan. He can wait for the results of the scientific examination with peace of mind and be down-to-earth. Really write a newspaper.
The content of this issue of Di Bao is still very tough. After it is published, some people in Jiankang City will definitely be unhappy.
Therefore, after Shen Yi finished writing the manuscript, he did not send it out immediately because the palace did not send anyone to protect him.
Or…
He hasn't found anyone protecting him secretly.
For this reason, Shen Yi deliberately went to wander on the street. He walked for two or three days in a row without finding anyone following him. Until one day, when Shen Yi was wandering on the street as usual, he bumped into the tall Qi Qi. Day after day, Captain Qi, the inner guard, grabbed Shen Yi's sleeve and pulled Shen Yi to the side of the road.
Qi Dayou took Shen Yi to a big tree on the side of the road and said with a wry smile: "Brother Shen, why do you stroll on the street every day and don't buy anything?"
Hearing these words, Shen Yi knew that the "bodyguard" promised to him by Eunuch Gao had been fulfilled!
He was overjoyed and immediately said with a smile: "I want to see if anyone is protecting me secretly."
Qi Dayou glanced at Shen Yi, full of helplessness: "Brother Shen, if you, a layman like you, can detect the surveillance of the inner guard, he will not be able to work as an inner guard."
"But you've exhausted your brothers from wandering around these days. You don't know that following people for a little while is much harder than walking normally!"
Shen Yi blinked and asked, "How many people are there to protect me?"
Qi Dayou had a straight face, shook his head and said, "I can't talk about the internal guards."
Shen Yi did not ask further questions, but took out the manuscript from his arms and handed it to Captain Qi. He said with a smile: "Since someone is protecting me, I can rest assured. This is the manuscript for the Di Newspaper Department. I'm sorry for bothering you." Brother, please forward it to the Di News Agency for me!"
After saying this, Shen Yi bowed his hands to Qi Dayou, said goodbye and left.
At this moment, Shen Yi, who was walking on the street, felt that his courage suddenly became stronger. He thought of the last time Zhang Jian invited him to dinner and encountered Zhao Zhuo's restaurant.
The restaurant seems to be called...Yaoyuelou?
There should be a place where the second generation often eats together.
Shen Yi is a practical man. He immediately went to Zhao's house and took Zhao Jizhou with him to Yaoyuelou for dinner. Not long after he sat down, Zhao Er drank two glasses of wine and complained to Shen Yi. A big news.
He drank a glass of wine and said in a low voice: "Zi Heng, you may not know yet, but Chen Yu, the prefect of your Jiangdu, has been promoted to the rank of official wailang!"
Hearing the news, Shen Yi couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Good guy, the local magistrate has been directly promoted to the capital official!