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Chapter 260: Hearing politics under the curtain

Three days after the national mourning, Tokyo officials removed their mourning clothes and put on official robes to restore order. There is no need to hold funerals in the market, but wedding events, banquets, singing and dancing are still prohibited for one month.

The Empress Dowager and the Little Emperor had to wear mourning clothes for a month. After the rain, the sun shone into the Jinxiang Hall, and Fu Jinzhan came to the side hall next to the main hall in white. Today is not a day for a grand dynasty, so there is no need to go to court, just follow the government. (It is agreed that it will still be held on the first day of every month and the fifteenth dynasty, and civil and military officials can also see the new king on such a day.)

The chair that Fu Jinzhan sat down, Taizu and the late emperor both sat here for a long time, racked their brains; now they have changed to a softer cushion and then changed to another person. The national affairs carried out by the two generations of emperors were awe-inspiring, and Fu Jinzhan became a little nervous here.

There were many officials in front of the hall, mainly those who took turns to serve on duty in the Political Affairs Hall and the Hanlin Academy... Jinxiang Hall did not belong to the harem, but was a place where many imperial officials were upright. They wanted to act as consultants for the ruling people, write imperial edicts and other work. So a curtain was drawn in front of the area where Fu Jinzhan was active, separated from the officials to show that there was a difference between men and women. This was the curtain of the ruler, and the empress dowagers of the Eastern Han Dynasty did it.

However, after Fu Jinzhan read more than ten points of the memorial in one breath, she felt that this matter was very relaxed, and suddenly she didn't understand why the previous emperors looked frowning and looked amazing?

Soon Fu Jinzhan was no longer nervous and was very lightly dealt with. She had a good memory, almost never forget it, and her mind was quite agile. She picked up the article and looked at ten lines at a glance, which was very casual. She could quickly understand the main content of a piece of stuff like reading casual books; usually she read twenty pieces at a time, and then remembered the content she had read, which was able to compare the importance of it.

Gradually she relaxed even more, because she could see at a glance what the memorials from both inside and outside wanted to say, so she slowed down from time to time to look at literary talent, calligraphy, etc., and her spirits were wise.

Some officials read a few more books and wanted to hang their book bags, quoting scriptures from long nonsense. It would be fine if they could talk nonsense and say something real; some of them wrote a lot about ancient sages, and then their own words were only a little bit like a little finger, which made Fu Jinzhan very annoyed... She couldn't help but imagine what kind of person the Guaner who wrote these articles must be a sloppy, sour and smelly pedantic old man!

Some people also talk nonsense all over the world, but their literary talent is elegant and catchy, and they are quite comfortable to read... Like Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty, he can truly write articles in a literary and elegant manner. No matter what the content is, they are still very beautiful.

Fu Jinzhan sometimes frowned and sometimes smiled slightly, and every expression made the eunuchs serving beside him admire him. Such a fairy-like woman suddenly made the whole world seem to have a little more colorful colors in this majestic room.

Fu Jinzhan read a lot of memorials on the table in half a day. During this period, she was distracted and did some trivial matters.

"Oh..." Fu Jinzhan let out a gentle breath, stretched unscrupulously, and turned around and said, "It's really tiring."

Cao Tai and others were stunned, looking at her achievements all morning, bent down and admired her so much that she was full of admiration.

At this time, she picked up the red pen, took a piece of white paper and wrote a line of words. She turned her head and pointed at the fat eunuch Wang Zhong: "Wang Zhong, take a bunch of them here to the Political Affairs Hall, and ask the prime ministers to take care of it at will, so there is no need to ask me again."

Wang Zhong looked flattered and hurried forward, "Yes, yes... I will obey the Queen Mother's decree."

"Are you afraid?" Fu Jinzhan looked at him with a smile.

Wang Zhong hurriedly said, "I am not afraid of the Empress Dowager, but respectful."

Fu Jinzhan smiled and said, "Even if you are a little better, I remember it in my heart, don't be afraid."

Wang Zhong knelt on the ground: "The Empress Dowager is kind and wise!"

She waved her sleeves lightly, pointed to another small part and said, "I'll send these to you in person in the afternoon... Here are the decrees written by the officials for me. Yang Shiliang, please use the jade seal to stamp it and take it outside."

"Here." Yang Shiliang also quickly bowed.

"When will it take?" Fu Jinzhan asked.

Cao Tai replied: "When I go back to the Queen Mother, I have not yet ringed the clock at noon. It should be almost noon when I look at the sun."

"I'll go to the back hall for a meal, and then go back to Wansui Hall for a nap." Fu Jinzhan said, "Cao Tai, go and ask someone to prepare."

She stood up from the chair and said to the curtain: "My ministers, you can go back for lunch and come back in the afternoon."

Everyone's voices came soon outside: "I'm waiting for the Empress Dowager to thank me for your kindness."

Since meeting General Guo a few days ago, Fu Jinzhan's face has been rosy and smooth, her complexion is very good, and she has become gentler. She ate a lot of food at noon and was really hungry. She worked hard all day in the morning. Although she didn't find it difficult, it was tiring to read memorials for a long time. Nowadays, people go to bed early and get up early, and get up before dawn, and the longest time in the morning is the longest.

After lunch, Fu Jinzhan sat in a sedan chair in front of the front and back and entered Xuanyou Gate. When he arrived at the palace gate, he saw soldiers outside, eunuchs and palace maids inside knelt on both sides along the way. Fu Jinzhan sat on the sedan chair covered by the curtain and ignored them. Anyway, they would not continue to kneel stupidly after passing by.

She closed her eyes and was thinking about things.

In this world, the so-called national affairs handled in the temple are of limited importance... At that time, Taizu and the late emperor did not focus their main energy on governing the government, and paid the most attention to the candidates for ministers in the court. At this time, the most important thing was military!

There is no emperor of the "Ten Kingdoms" in the world that does not put military affairs first. That thing can destroy a country at any time. The threat from foreign enemies and the arrogant and powerful internal soldiers are the most threatening factors... Even if the government is abandoned, it will take at least ten years to make a big comeback? But it takes less than ten years to destroy a country, and it may take a few months to achieve it; which is more important and what is an urgent matter at a glance.

The biggest problem Fu Jinzhan faces at the moment is also the army's inheritance of the past and future.

Civil officials and government affairs were very easy and smooth. From prime ministers to officials from various government offices, whoever is in power has long been used to changing the people who are superior, and who is still full and cares about who becomes the emperor? But the transformation of imperial guards and local towns is very difficult.

According to Taizu and the experience of the succession of the throne of the late emperor, it was generally necessary to re-reward the foreign town on a large scale and issue an edict to move the town directly. As long as the town was moved, it would show that it was loyal to the new king, and disobeying the orders would be a rebellion, and the troops would be destroyed (the Fu family has moved the town several times). But Fu Jinzhan now has no control over the imperial guards and dare not do that... So there will be a period of time to maintain stability according to the previous pattern.

Fu Jinzhan needs to do it step by step. The first thing she does is to eliminate Zhao Kuangyin's power in the Iron Cavalry Army, otherwise the most elite troops of the Iron Cavalry Army would be unreliable.

She could not disband the Iron Cavalry Army, so first of all, we must figure out who is closely related to Zhao Kuangyin... Generals of a level are easy to investigate, and everyone in the Imperial Army knows the matters between generals; the key is that the commander and those below are not easy to figure out.

Fu Jinzhan thought about it for a long time, but in the end she coincided with Guo Shao's idea of ​​dealing with Li Chongjin in the Guards Division.

The crowd had already reached the steps of Wansui Hall. Fu Jinzhan held a palace lady's hand from the sedan chair, then slowly walked up the stone steps, and suddenly turned around. Everyone stopped immediately and bowed and stood halfway. She waved her hand, and everyone quickly retreated for a distance, and she said again: "Cao Tai, come here."

"Empress Dowager." Cao Tai quickly stepped forward and stood beside Fu Jinzhan with his whisk in his arms.

Fu Jinzhan whispered: "You will take my handwriting and go to the Privy Council to find Wang Pu. Ask him to bring the old file of the Palace Front Office to the Privy Council... I would like to remind him not to use my name, but only the military order of the Privy Council."

Cao Tai hurriedly said, "Here."

After saying that, she quickly entered a bedroom in Wansui Hall. This was a complex of buildings and many palaces. Fu Jinzhan asked the little emperor to live in the main palace of Taizu and the former emperor, and she chose a palace next to the main hall. The Zide Hall where Fu Jinzhan used to live was far away in the harem; and Wansui Hall was very close to Xuanyou Gate and the front of the imperial city, which made it convenient for her to go out to manage politics, so she moved to the place.

The palaces and houses here are larger and magnificent than the temples in the harem, but they lack flowers, plants and beautiful decorations, making them look more monotonous.

Fu Jinzhan sat on a collapsed wall for a while, looking at the empty bedroom, feeling bored and tired, and said, "I want to take a shower and change my clothes!"

"I will ask someone to prepare for the Queen Mother immediately." Mu Shanggong responded quickly. He would not show any surprise at all. It is natural for the Queen Mother to take a shower and change clothes in the morning, noon, or even in the middle of the night, and should be satisfied immediately.

Fu Jinzhan has discovered one of the benefits of the emperor's bedroom, that is, the bathroom is bigger and more luxurious, which is simply the only place she is happy about. The emperors are not afraid of wasting it. Fu Jinzhan does not have to stay in a small bathtub like before, but in a pool!

Dozens of large pots are used to bathe and boil water for a person at the same time, and then pour the pool with warm water, just like an artificial hot spring. During this period, you will also add boiling water to keep it warm according to experience.

The room was filled with white mist and very warm. Fu Jinzan lay on the soft cushion beside the pool and instructed the palace maid who was specially bathing for her, saying, "Rubb your waist. I had known it would be too late, but I had sat for too long, and my waist was sore."

The palace maid's fingers were very smooth but very strong. Fu Jinzhan enjoyed it very much, and her face was red as if she was asleep.
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