It was just dawn, and there were people coming and going in the outer courtyard of Guo’s mansion. Some squatted at the door and soaked in the bucket for a night, chewing and brushing their teeth while standing at the door, while others yawned.

Dong Er was covering a piece of leather armor on his body when he suddenly saw his sister standing at the door and called out, "Come and help me tie the straps behind me... Hey, what are you doing when I run out so early?"

Dong Sanmei refused to answer and silently stepped forward to help.

"I bought something for you and was trying to find a way to give it to you." Dong Er suddenly said, you turned around. The third sister turned her back with no expectations but obediently. Dong Er took something out of the pillow.

He walked back and reached out to cover the third sister's eyes.

The third sister's little face suddenly turned red. She seemed to hear a voice full of pity saying in her ear: Stop looking, it's not suitable for the little girl to watch.

It seemed that he suddenly came from heaven. The third sister had never seen such a person since she was born. At first sight, his eyes were filled with pity and love. Why did he treat himself so well? Even the third sister's biological father did not treat her like this. Before she left her hometown in Hedong, she thought that the world was like that, and she didn't know that there was another completely different world and another completely different person.

"Look! Haha." Dong Er laughed in his voice, "Silver hairpin! It's really silver, I can afford it now!"

The third sister took it silently.

"Why, unhappy?" Dong Er asked.

The third sister shook her head and a smile appeared on her red face: "Thank you, second brother... second brother, if Alang asks you to accept me as her elder sister, don't agree to him."

Dong Er was stunned: "My lord wants to recognize you as your sister? It's a good thing! You stay in this yard all day long and don't know. I don't know what people in Tokyo look like to your lord! You are the lord's sister, and you will become a lady from now on!"

"I don't want to be his pampered sister." The third sister stubbornly raised her mouth, "If the second brother agrees, I will ignore you in the future."

At this moment, Dong Er glanced outside the door and said, "It's time for the lord to go out. I'm going to prepare a horse. I'll talk about that when I come back in the afternoon."

"Second brother wants to remember what I said!" the third sister reminded.

...

Soon, the sun rose.

There was a clear mirror in the office of the Hall of the Palace, and there were only two people sitting in the lobby. The tall Shi Yanchao took a letter on several cases, looked back at the empty lobby, and his eyes were on Yuan Yan: "Is the Hall of the Palace of the Palace of the Palace going to disband?"

Yuan Yan is fifty years old, with deep frost on his face, dark and yellow skin, but his figure is strong and tough. He pointed to the desk and said, "Can I see it?"

"Is there anything you can't see? What Zhang Dianjian left." Shi Yanchao said angrily.

It was the hour of Mao, and there was a kind of indescribable loneliness in the lobby. In the huge hall, there were many generals in charge of the organization; but now there are only two generals left.

Commander Zhao Kuangyin, Commander Shi Shouxin, Commander of the Left Cavalry of the Iron Cavalry, Commander Wang Shenqi, Commander of the Right Cavalry of the Iron Cavalry, Commander of the Right Cavalry of the Iron Cavalry, and Commander of the Left Cavalry of the Hell Commander Zhao Chao was chopped off his head, which was done by Shi Yanchao himself. In just two months, the senior generals of the Palace Front Division lost four people.

And now, Yuan Yan looked at Zhang Yongde's letter and said: "Zhang Dianjian is sick."

"It's broken up, it's broken up!" Shi Yanchao shouted.

Yuan Yan said disrespectfully: "What is missing is a high-ranking general. People who want to be and people who can be done are caught. Is Deputy Shi still afraid that no one is there? In less than half a month, this place will be lively again... It is very interesting who will do a check."

When Shi Yanchao heard this, he blurted out: "I won't let Guo Shao?"

Yuan Yan smiled but said nothing.

Shi Yanchao slapped the table and said, "Anyway, the current performance of the palace is like a bird, so we don't have time to panic about bird matters. Let's bet on a bet of 200 coins! With half a month as the deadline, if Guo Shao does a test, I will lose 200 coins; otherwise, you give it to me!"

"No, no." Yuan Yan immediately refused, "I am a subordinate of Deputy Director Shi, and my position is several levels away. When the time comes, I will take money from you, and the money will be very hot."

Shi Yanchao laughed and scolded: "Mom! You are not happy. He said that Shi was so stingy that he lost 200 guan, and he would hold a grudge against you."

"Shi Deputy Director must be very broad-minded, but losing money is unhappy. It is normal for human nature... I am not happy even if I lose." Yuan Yan said.

Shi Yanchao said: "Come on! Come on! Talking too much nonsense. If I win your money, I won't be afraid that you will hate me."

"No." Yuan Yan shook his head and said, "It's too obvious to lose, it's boring. Deputy Shi's implication is that he is not convinced by General Guo to conduct a prosecution?"

"He is a junior, and he is only in his early twenties. Why, are you convinced?" Shi Yanchao said with a round eyes.

Yuan Yan said: "I am quite convinced, and there is no more convincing person... Once the emperor and the ministers, they support the first meritorious service for the inspection, what's wrong?"

Shi Yanchao said: "There is no reason, it's just dissatisfaction! Unless he defeats the Liao army and takes back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun."

Yuan Yan said: "I have won a while in Zhuozhou, but I haven't won the main force of the Liao army because General Guo's troops are too different... Besides, the former emperor cannot do it, and Deputy Shi is too hard."

"I heard that Li Jixun, Li Chongjin and Li Yun are going to rebel. If he can defeat Li Yun, I will also accept him." Shi Yanchao said with a smile, "I have seen Li Yun, and I am not a person who is easy to deal with. Li Chongjin is not a fame, but unfortunately he does not have many elite soldiers."

Yuan Yan whispered: "I will persuade Deputy Minister Shi to be cautious. Who said that Li Yun would rebel?"

At this moment, an eunuch was brought in. Yuan Yan saw that it was Yang Shiliang, so he stood up to salute; Shi Yanchao sat on the chair and asked with his eyes slanted, "What's the matter of paying homage?"

Yang Shiliang glanced at Shi Yanchao and said, "The Empress Dowager ordered the generals of the Palace Front Office and the Guard Office to discuss matters together."

"There are only two of us in the front office of the Palace. Let's go." Shi Yanchao pointed at Yuan Yan and said.

Shi Yanchao simply asked Yuan Yan to go out together and went straight to Donghua Gate because the office of the Palace Front Office was closest to Donghua Gate.

...Fu Jinzhan was waiting for the arrival of ministers and military generals in the main hall of Jinxiang Hall. She was walking back and forth in front of a couch, while Cao Tai and others beside her bowed and stood there. Seeing that she was not in a good mood, she didn't dare to show up.

She thought about many things thousands of times and had made a decision, but she was still a little frightened when things were about to come. Today's approach is to completely hand over the hilt of the knife to one person. Fu Jinzhan said in his heart: People in the world are willing to give everything in the face of supreme power; people in the world are like this. Many loyal gentlemen are not just how high morality is, but the visible temptation is not enough.

Fu Jinzhan said in his heart: Will he let me down? No, I believe in his past heart. But people will change. How long can his loyalty last in the face of great power?

Even she foresaw the process of betrayal that once Guo Shao had enough prestige and strength to usurp the throne, he would get rid of the power that was pressed on his head. He did not need to please someone anymore, nor did he need to be restricted by anyone else... In the face of doing whatever he wanted and getting all the power, the value of a woman was not worth mentioning at all. No matter what her identity was, she would not even be able to have her own mother (just as Emperor Wu of Han forced to get great power from the empress dowager).

Fu Jinzhan will lose power and also lose her status (the status becomes the queen mother of the previous dynasty), and being refrigerated and kept in captivity is the best choice; even the Fu family will support Guo Shao's approach, because there are more suitable candidates for the Fu family's interests: Fu Ermei... and even Fu Liu.

Of course there is a worse ending. Guo Shao and her failed together and were replaced by someone else.

Fu Jinzhan was not suspicious, but her past experience made her understand a lot and became more rational... When the river was broken, even her parents were unable to rely on. At that time, her father Fu Yanqing and her mother Zhang had decided to ignore her fate to restore the reputation of the Fu family. As a result, Fu Jinzhan soon had to remarry Chai Rong with joy after losing her husband, and had to stay by Chai Rong for six or seven years, relying on her own torture, not only to rely on anyone's protection.

... Fu Jinzhan sighed in her heart. Will her heart die? If Guo Shao betrayed her, she will really die completely, and even her soul will be doomed... She imagined that at that moment, she would be in the center of despair and loneliness. It was not regret, but real cold silence.

"Empress Dowager, the ministers have arrived." Cao Tai said carefully in his voice.

Fu Jinzhan turned around, raised her head, walked out without saying a word. A group of people in front led the way, and the palace maid behind him followed with a fan. Cao Tai followed and asked in a low voice: "Does the Empress Dowager want my family to follow the imperial edict?"

Fu Jinzhan nodded slightly.

When she arrived in the hall, she sat down on the collapsed curtains. She heard the crowd below kneeling and bowing loudly, "I'm going to kowtow to the Queen Mother."

"Flat." Fu Jinzhan calmed down and looked at Cao Tai slightly.

Cao Tai stepped forward and cleared his voice, and began to tell the story of the process before the death of the late emperor. The Privy Council, the Minister of the Political Affairs Hall, the Hall Front Office, and the Guards and the Generals above all listened silently.

After a long time, Cao Tai bowed and turned his head to look at it, and said, "The Queen Mother's decree. Zhang Yongde, the chief inspector of the palace, is seriously ill at home, and wrote a letter to resign. The military position of the front office of the hall is vacant. The government office is in chaos. It is advisable to select talents to rectify the front office of the hall to restore the strength of the imperial guards... Guo Shao, Li Chuyun and Yang Biao are the first to support the emperor at a critical moment. He should be the chief military ministers whom the emperor (Zong Xun) relied on; it is advisable to be the chief inspector of the front office of the hall, and it is advisable to be the commander of the front office of the hall, and it is advisable to be the chief commander of the front office of the hall, and it is advisable to be the chief guard of the front office of the hall. He should be presided over the rectification of the camps of the front office of the hall."

After hearing this, Fu Jinzhan observed the people present one by one from the curtain, and no one spoke.

A new ruling center is being formed. As long as people who want to have a place in it, they will obviously be easily excluded from the outside when they come out to sing the opposite tune. Fu Jinzhan is also focusing on Shi Yanchao, and Shi Yanchao has not opposed it either.

Shi Yanchao is not a person who is completely unrestrained when he is in power. No matter how arrogant he is when the late emperor was in power, he never disobeyed the late emperor. Instead, he often flattered inappropriately.

At this moment, Wang Pu took the lead and said, "The Empress Dowager is wise, and I will obey the imperial edict."
Chapter completed!