However, when he thought that if he was really sent abroad, he would be able to temporarily escape the control of the tigress at home. King Yong was still looking forward to this foreign assignment. After holding it in the house for such a long time, I couldn’t drink a little wine, couldn’t hear a little song, and couldn’t hold a beautiful woman. No matter how hard it is to go out, it is better than being at home and being controlled by a tigress all day long. This tigress is good at everything, but she is too strict with herself.
But at this moment, he was only thinking about what his ninth brother was going to do when he sent him to the second route. But he never thought about why his ninth brother sent him on this mission after the tigress had given birth in his own home. How could Huang Qiong not know about all the little problems he had? The water outside is deeper when we go out. How could Huang Qiong not be on guard against Yong Wang’s shortcomings?
After King Yong left, Huang Qiong sent someone to announce several eunuchs in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and several female officials from the Shang Palace Bureau to the Wende Hall. Several chief eunuchs and female officials entered the back of Wende Hall and looked at Huang Qiong, who was sitting at the royal desk with a gloomy face, and thought of this gentleman's character of not rubbing sand in his eyes. Even though they still didn't know what this man wanted to do with him, they couldn't help but be frightened and fell to their knees in a hurry.
Seeing several eunuchs and female officials in charge kneeling down in front of him tremblingly, Huang Qiong said in an extremely cold tone: "Is that the prince's wet nurse who sent me out of the palace after the New Year last year, who approved the re-entry into the palace? Don't you have the courage? Are you young? You actually dare to bring back those people I have sent out of the palace. Do you expect that I will lead the army to the west and never come back?"
"Or do you think that since I was not in the capital a few days ago, you can simply throw the rules set by me behind your head? It seems that you guys are quite courageous. I also know that there are no fish in the clear water, so I don’t intend to pursue any of the dirty things you do in your daily life. But if I don’t pursue them, it doesn’t mean that I don’t know what you have done in private.”
"Everything in this world has no rules. Some rules that should be set must still be set. The boards that should be beaten must also be beaten. Some people have been in this position for too long. Not only are they dead You still occupy the dining room and don't poop in the latrine, your eyes are obsessed with money, and even the palace ban doesn't take it seriously. What do you do with this kind of person? The palace is not a place for you to mess around."
Hearing the coldness in Huang Qiong's tone, among the several eunuchs kneeling on the ground, there was one who was wearing the clothes of the deputy chief eunuch. Perhaps he was afraid that the prince would really use people like himself to sacrifice the flag, so he hurriedly kowtowed and said: "To tell you what the prince said, those wet nurses are not just young people who were put into the palace. Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs has some authority, but in this palace Wet nurses and the like are not under the control of the chamberlain."
"Your Highness, all the female officials in the palace, as well as the wet nurses invited by the masters regardless of their tastes, are the purview of the Shang Palace Bureau, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs really has no control over them. Those wet nurses, Being recalled to the palace again has nothing to do with you. What's more, how dare you take the Crown Prince's decree seriously? Even if you are given the courage to do so, you really don't dare."
The eunuch tried his best to explain and kowtowed. The other eunuchs also kowtowed desperately and defended themselves. Regarding the explanations of these eunuchs, Huang Qiong said calmly: "According to what you said, this matter seems to have nothing to do with you? However, if I remember correctly, according to the ancestral system, although the Shang Palace Bureau is controlled by the Queen, , but it is under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
"Although the position of the Central Palace is currently vacant, the Shang Palace Bureau is under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At least one of you cannot escape the responsibility of lax control. None of them can escape the responsibilities of the Shang Palace Bureau. . But you cannot escape the crime of dereliction of duty and neglect of discipline. You guys go back first. I will give you instructions on how to deal with you next."
After Huang Qiong said this, the chief and deputy officers, all in charge of the eunuchs, could not help but tremble even more violently. Knowing that underneath your butt, everything is the same mess. As long as you check, you will almost get it right. Afraid of this man, some of the people who operated on them had their voices changed. They knelt there and begged bitterly, and even put the responsibility on the Shang Gong Bureau and those Shang Gong.
He was in charge of the eunuchs in the inner court and participated in the management of various royal workshops. Although the power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not small, this dynasty has always been very strict in the management of eunuchs, and the punishment of eunuchs is far more severe than that of the previous Tang Dynasty. Eunuchs love money. How can these eunuchs who have certain powers not make money? These eunuchs have a lot of bad debts under their butts. If they are found out, they will die according to the imperial law.
These few are also very majestic on weekdays, let alone those ordinary palace maids and eunuchs. Even the lower-ranking concubines did not dare to offend the eunuch in the slightest. At this time, in front of Huang Qiong, he honestly did not dare to be disrespectful. These people are all ordinary eunuchs. They can go from the lowest eunuch to the highest position a eunuch can achieve. Naturally, they are all people with extremely sensitive sense of smell.
As early as when the prince was still the king of England, he took action to rectify the government. These people knew that this master was no ordinary person. The year before last, he killed an earl in Zhengzhou without any mercy. Last year, when he served as the ambassador for the establishment of the Longyou and Shaanxi Second Roads, how many officials were killed? The Jiedu envoy of the second grade of Zhengzhi will kill him when he says he will. If he wanted to kill these eunuchs, he would probably not even blink an eye.
Now the emperor has left all government affairs to this man. I went to Tingxuexuan and became the shopkeeper. Now the crown prince is just one name away from the throne. Now that this man has just assumed power, it must be the time when he wants to establish his authority. These ministers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were all in charge of the eunuchs. After receiving the order from Huang Qiong, they repeatedly warned themselves to be more careful.
Don't become the target of this prince's prestige. After the palace servants around Su Zhaorong were locked up and taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, these eunuchs thought that the prince summoned them for this matter. Now that I heard that the prince actually mentioned the young princes in the palace, and the wet nurse who was originally sent out of the palace, but was called back to the palace privately, I naturally jumped to the conclusion.
The female officials in the palace, including the wet nurses who nursed the princes and princesses born from the harem's concubines, had always been in charge of the Wei Division of the Shang Palace Bureau. Since the founding of this dynasty, the six bureaus and twenty-four supervisors of the former Tang Dynasty's female officials in charge of the palace were abolished, and only the Shang Palace Bureau was retained. Although the Shanggong Bureau has always been managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it has always been controlled by the Queen herself. Except for the concubines in the palace, all those who are not eunuchs are under the supervision of the Shang Palace Bureau.
Since ancient times, where there have always been people, there are rivers and lakes. Because the Shang Palace Bureau is now too powerful, not only does it ignore the Ministry of Internal Affairs at all, but in recent years, since the empress has been seriously ill, Concubine De has been in charge of the affairs of the Sixth Palace. He even extended his hand to the royal prison territory, which had always been reserved for internal servants and had always been regarded as an important money bag and tightly controlled, and no one else was allowed to touch it. This undoubtedly touched the lifeblood of the eunuch, Sheng Quan.
This made the eunuchs in the chamberlain, who were always unhappy, but helpless. The Shang Palace Bureau is in charge of the Queen. Although the Queen has ascended to heaven, she still has the support of Concubine De behind her. Even if they are dissatisfied, they have nothing to do with it. The reason why he is so desperate to shirk now is not only to save his own head and position. Coincidentally, there was a rather dirty thought hidden in his heart.
What he wants is to move the Shang Gong Bureau, those daring women who are so greedy for money that they even put their hands into their own territory. Opposite them, Huang Qiong looked at several eunuchs who were kowtowing and begging for mercy. Looking over there, I don't know whether it's because of my strong backing, or if I'm just that stubborn. The Shang Gong Bureau's ministers had a playful smile on their lips.
Now that the two members of the Shang Gong Bureau were in front of him, they still had the status of a very tough Shang Gong, and Huang Qiong still knew it. One is the wet nurse of King Song, and the other is a female official next to Concubine De. The earliest one was the dowry girl brought back from her natal family when Concubine De entered the palace. The Concubine De, who took advantage of the fact that Queen Daxing was seriously ill and passed away in the past few years, did a lot of tricks.
In the past few years, he has placed his confidants everywhere in the palace. What kind of place is the Shang Gong Bureau? The maids around the concubines in the palace, the nannies of the princes and princesses are all in charge of the Shang Gong Bureau. Although Shang Gongju looks inconspicuous, his status in the palace is not generally important. With such an important place in the hands of Concubine De, I couldn't sleep.
I already have two sons and two daughters, and there are several women around me who are also pregnant. It is certain that I will use a wet nurse in the future. I can't guarantee that Cai's women will have milk when they give birth to children in the future. When He Yao gave birth to triplets in one go, all the wet nurses were people who had not been through the Shang Palace Bureau and were asked by King Yong to find them outside the palace. For me now, this Shang Gong situation is a hurdle I can't get around.
The harem needs to be reorganized, and it seems that the first thing he needs to do is take action on the Shanggong situation. He stood up and looked at the eunuchs who were waiting for him, kowtowing desperately. I looked at the female officer over there, who was kneeling there but said nothing, with a hint of arrogance on her face. Huang Qiong took a sip of tea and said calmly to the two Shang Gong and Si Si: "They don't dare to say it clearly, so you can say it yourself."
In response to Huang Qiong's questions, King Song's wet nurse and Concubine De's dowry maid, the two ministers of the Shang Gong Bureau, refused to say a word, holding their necks and ignoring Huang Qiong. of. After being asked anxiously, he said: "Your Highness, although you are the crown prince of the dynasty, whether the princes and the princess's wet nurse returns to the palace or not is a matter for the harem. Logically speaking, this is under the control of the queen. "
"Don't say that you are just the prince, even if you are the emperor, you have always ignored it. The previous dynasty has the rules of the previous dynasty, and the harem naturally has the rules of the harem. The Shang Palace Bureau is the subordinate official of the master of the harem, who controls the affairs of the Sixth Palace It’s just who you listen to. The person in charge of the Sixth Palace now is Concubine De, not your Crown Princess. Your Highness, according to the ancestral family law, you don’t have the right to deal with the affairs of the harem."
"So Your Highness, there is no need for the servants to explain to you. Even if they do, it seems that they should explain it to the Crown Princess. As the saying goes, the male master is outside and the female master is inside. If there is still time for these trivial matters in the harem, the prince should handle them personally. , then what should we slaves do? From the perspective of slaves, the prince should focus more on the important affairs of the court."
"In my opinion, if the Crown Prince is dissatisfied with this matter, he can talk to Concubine De first. If Concubine De also thinks that this matter is inappropriate, she will naturally tell us. If the Crown Prince is not satisfied, he can directly talk to Concubine De. Isn’t this order a bit overstepping the mark? I don’t know where the Crown Prince’s wife, the Concubine De, is now in charge of the affairs of the Sixth Palace and in charge of the Shang Palace Bureau.”
At this point, the minister who answered Huang Qiong, the wet nurse of King Song, looked at Huang Qiong rather arrogantly and said: "Your Highness, this is not a slave who consciously contradicts His Highness, but this is a rule. When it comes to In terms of government affairs, we women should not interfere. Naturally, everything is decided by the Emperor and His Royal Highness. But in the palace, we still have to listen to the Master of the Sixth Palace, Concubine De."
