"That's not true, Brother Su, I want to ask someone..."
Su Xuan stared at Su Tian's squirming look with wide eyes, and finally understood what was going on in his stomach.
"It turns out that you are in love for the first time! Tell me, who do you want to know? With my influence in patrolling the palace, I can ask you about your birth date and so on. Anyway, I want to see it, you bastard Which girl does this boy like?"
Su Tian scratched his hair.
"It's that... that..."
"Big man, what are you complaining about? Just tell me!"
"Brother Su, I think the Nangong girl from last night is quite nice. Could you please help me introduce her to her?"
In fact, not only Su Tian, but Su Xuan also felt that there was a power in this girl's small body that he didn't have now. It was not the kind of internal power of internal martial arts, but a true selfless dedication, and even the will to give life. force!
"sure!"
The two of them chatted while walking into Weiyang's palace, and soon they arrived in front of the main hall.
"We're almost there. Let's go away later. Although we have a good relationship in private, we can't be said openly by the people in the palace. Xiaotian, you may not know some subtexts in officialdom or Xiaotian. Details, but in front of His Majesty, we cannot form cliques.”
Su Tian nodded seriously.
"knew!"
With sincerity in his eyes, Su Xuan took the lead towards Weiyang Palace alone, followed shortly by Su Tian.
In the morning, Su Xuan looked around the palace. Civil and military officials stood separately. On the left were all civil servants in blue robes, with black tassel crowns on their heads. The embroidery on the chest of the clothes and the pattern of tassels on the crown highlighted the status among the civil servants. But whether they became Being a member of a certain group depends on where you stand and how you tend to speak.
On the right is the military attaché collective, which is much inferior to the civilian officials. They are uniformly restrained by belts, wear red-curled tassels on their heads, and even stand farther back than the civil servants.
The Great Xia Dynasty's policy of emphasizing civility over military affairs and using civility over military affairs was already established during the time of the late emperor. The empress's father, Zhu Yi, obtained the throne through Jingnan and force, so naturally he hated military attachés taking over too much power. But this matter was no longer mentioned openly after the late emperor ascended the throne.
Su Xuan stood at the back of the group of civil servants. Even though he was privately awarded the third-grade official title by the empress, he had not received the imperial edict yet, so it naturally did not count. Su Xuan did not want to stand out in the crowd from the beginning. I just attended the morning court. It can be said that this is the first time I have contacted so many officials.
Su Xuan even felt that the atmosphere in the palace was very depressing. He already felt that the Imperial Medical Office was not very lively at ordinary times. Most people who studied Chinese medicine studied on their own, but he did not expect that when the court came, not a single person spoke. Standing firmly in their positions, most of them lowered their heads. Only a few officials with real confidence and power showed arrogance in their body posture.
The king of inquiry, Zhu Houyi, and the only general in the entire dynasty, Gou Hongxuan, were officials who could stand with their backs straight. Of course, there was also the abbot Lin Zhangwen, but the latter's behavior today was not normal. His eyes were downcast and he had no body. I feel emboldened for the father-in-law.
Su Xuan looked at Gou Hongxuan's position among the military attachés. There was no strategist Ouyang Feng around him, but it was impossible to bring his own strategist with him when he went to court.
The only thing that surprised Su Xuan in the hall was that there were even twenty officials who fell here last night, definitely one-sixth of the number of people in the entire hall, but today, the number of officials in Weiyang Palace The location is still compact, as if there are no shortage of people at all.
King Xun and Lin Zhangwen stood in a group of civil servants. The distance between them was not very big. In the middle stood the prime minister of the current dynasty and the bachelor of Zishan Hall. The former gave advice on the empress's political affairs, and the latter was in charge of the prince's affairs. and the education of princes.
Zhu Houyi and Lin Zhangwen were both princes, one had a different surname and the other was a vassal prince. There was no communication between the two and they both looked down upon them. Su Xuan could feel that there was no way to deal with the two of them just by standing behind them. , otherwise the officials in the palace would not speak. As long as these two important people in the Daxia Dynasty wanted to talk, no one would stop them.
As for Gou Hongxuan, he was upright, neither humble nor arrogant, and had the appearance of a military commander. He even looked behind him, and his eyes shot straight towards Su Xuan. It was really unimaginable that someone with such eyes and body posture could actually be Su Xuan, an old man who was over sixty years old, was stared at by Gou Hongxuan and responded with a kind smile. Gou Hongxuan also nodded, and the two of them greeted each other across half the hall.
Zhu Houyi noticed Gou Hongxuan's gaze and looked back at the same time. Su Xuan and Zhu Houyi did not know each other. Moreover, Su Xuan had traveled to this world not long ago, and Zhu Houyi had basically not moved in Yanzhou where he belonged. This This is the first time to go to the morning court since the late emperor passed away.
However, Su Xuan still recognized the situation. A man standing at the front of a group of civil servants looked towards him. Although he did not have any decoration of official title, it would be extremely rude to not be polite.
Su Xuan simply folded his hands and bowed in salute.
Zhu Houyi carefully searched for the impression of Su Xuan in his mind, and found that he didn't know him at all. A young imperial doctor who stood at the back of the civil service team and whose official uniform was still from the sixth grade, what qualifications did he have to deserve his response?
When Su Xuan saw Zhu Houyi, he didn't react at all. He turned around directly, with a rather arrogant attitude, and cursed in his heart: "Are all high officials so arrogant?" Comparing Gou Hongxuan's behavior, he still had feelings for this outstanding military officer. The general had a good impression of him.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
The eunuch's sharp voice came from the inside of the hall. At this time, all the officials knelt down respectfully. Su Xuan, a young eunuch, was naturally no exception. However, Gou Hongxuan, Lin Zhangwen and Zhu Houyi stood firm and waited until the empress arrived. The dragon chair in the hall bowed and saluted.
After the empress sat down firmly, she raised her hand in the air.
"Everyone loves you!"
After receiving the emperor's order, all the officials stood up and finished the ceremony. Su Xuan looked up at the empress who was sitting upright on the dragon chair. She seemed to have plenty of energy. Her face was weak a few days ago, but now it was very rosy. She couldn't tell that she had been poisoned by someone, and Almost no one had slept well last night, and they only had one or two hours to rest after returning.
