Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Three days after the national mourning, Tokyo officials removed the mourning clothes and put on official robes to restore order; there was no need to hold funerals in the market, but weddings, banquets, and singing and dancing were still prohibited for one month.

The empress dowager and the little emperor will still wear mourning clothes for a month. The sunny day after the rain poured into the Jinxiang Hall, and Fu Jinzhan came to the side hall next to the main hall in a naked body. Today is not the day of the court, so there is no need to go to court, just listen to the government. (It is agreed that the first and fifteenth court meetings will still be held every month, and the military officials will also be able to see the new monarch on such days.)

The chair that Fu Jinzhan sat down on was used by the Taizu and the late emperor to sit here for a long time and rack his brains day after day; now he changed to a softer cushion and sat on it with someone else. The state affairs handled by the two generations of emperors back then were awe-inspiring, and Fu Jinzhan became a little nervous here.

There are many officials in front of the hall, mainly officials from the Zhengshitang and the Hanlin Academy who are on duty in turn... The Jinxiang Hall does not belong to the harem in the first place, but is the place where many court officials go straight. They are here to act as advisors to the rulers, write imperial edicts and other work. So a curtain was drawn in front of the area where Fu Jinzhan was active, separating it from the men and officials to show the difference between men and women. This is listening to politics behind a curtain, as the empress dowagers of the Eastern Han Dynasty did.

However, after Fu Jinzhan read more than a dozen minutes of the memorial, he felt that this matter was very easy, and suddenly he didn't understand why the previous emperors had to frown and make such a great look.

Soon Fu Jinzhan was no longer nervous, and he handled it very lightly. She had a good memory, almost a photographic memory, and a fairly quick mind. Pick up the chapters and read ten lines at a glance, very casually, just like reading casual books, you can quickly understand the main content of a thing; usually read 20 copies at a time, and then you can remember the content you have read, and you can compare the severity.

Gradually, she became more relaxed, because she could understand at a glance what the internal and external memorials were trying to say, so she slowed down from time to time to look at the calligraphy and so on, and was distracted.

Some officials have read a few more books, so they have to hang their book bags, quote the classics in long nonsense, if they can talk about the truth after the nonsense, then that’s fine;

There are also some people who are also full of nonsense, but they are elegant and catchy, and they are quite comfortable to read... Like Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty who can really write chapters with style, no matter what the content is, it is always very beautiful.

Fu Jinzhan frowned sometimes, and smiled slightly at other times, every expression made the eunuchs who served beside him extremely admired. Such a fairy-like girl in this majestic room suddenly made the whole world seem a little more colorful.

There was a huge backlog of memorials on the table, and Fu Jinzhan read more than half of them in half a day. She also distracted and did some trivial things during the period.

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

Cao Tai and the others were stunned, looking at her achievements all morning, bending over in admiration.

At this time, she picked up the ink brush, took a piece of white paper and wrote a line, turned her head and pointed at the fat eunuch Wang Zhong: "Wang Zhong, you take the pile here to the Political Affairs Hall, and let the prime ministers decide how to deal with it. Don't ask me any more."

Wang Zhong looked flattered, and hurried forward and said: "Yes, yes... The slave family respectfully obeys the Queen Mother's order."

"Are you scared?" Fu Jinzhan looked at him with a half-smile.

Wang Zhong hurriedly said: "Back to the Queen Mother, I am not afraid, but respectful."

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

Wang Zhong thumped and knelt down on the ground: "The Queen Mother is kind and wise!"

She flicked her sleeve lightly, then pointed to another small part and said, "Put these away separately, and I will reply in person in the afternoon... here is the order written by the officials for me, Yang Shiliang, you take the jade seal to seal it and take it outside."

"Here." Yang Shiliang hurriedly bowed.

"What time is it?" Fu Jinzhan asked.

Cao Tai replied: "Going back to the queen mother, the clock for noon has not been struck yet, and the position of the sun should be almost noon."

"I'll go to the apse for dinner, and then I'll go back to the Long Live Hall for an afternoon nap." Fu Jinzhan said, "Cao Tai, go get someone to get ready."

She stood up from the chair and said to the outside of the curtain: "Ministers, you can go back to have lunch, and come back in the afternoon."

The voices of the crowd quickly came from outside: "I am waiting to thank the Queen Mother."

Since meeting General Guo a few days ago, Fu Jinzhan's complexion is rosy and smooth, his complexion is very good, and he is more gentle. She ate a lot at noon, and she was really hungry; she spent half the morning working hard, although she didn't find it difficult, but reading the memorials for a long time was exhausting and tiring. Nowadays, people go to bed early and get up early, and get up before dawn, and the morning is the longest.

After lunch, Fu Jinzhan entered Xuanyou Gate in a sedan chair after calling out. When I got to the gate of the palace, I saw the soldiers outside and the eunuchs and maids inside kneeling on both sides along the road. Fu Jinzhan sat on the big sedan chair covered by the curtain and ignored them, anyway, they would not continue to kneel stupidly after they passed by.

She closed her eyes thinking about something.

In this world, the so-called major national affairs dealt with in the temple are of limited importance... At that time, the Taizu and the first emperor did not focus on governing the government, but at most paid attention to the candidates for the ministers in the court. At this time, the most important thing is the military!

Among the "ten countries" in the world, there is no emperor who does not put military affairs in the first place. That thing can destroy the country at any time, the threat of foreign enemies, the internal arrogant soldiers and powerful generals are the most threatening factors... Even if the government is in ruins, it will take at least ten years to accumulate and never return? However, it will not take ten years to destroy the country by military violence, maybe a few months; it is clear at a glance what is the most urgent.

The biggest problem facing Fu Jinzhan right now is also the link between the past and the future for the army.

The succession of officials and government affairs is very easy and smooth. From the prime minister to the officials of the various government offices, whoever is in charge listens to whomever is in charge. They have long been used to the change of people at the top. Who is full enough to care about who is the emperor? But the transformation of the imperial army and local festival towns is very difficult.

According to the experience of the great ancestors and previous emperors who succeeded to the throne, it is generally necessary to re-entrust a large area of ​​foreign towns and directly issue an edict to move the town. As long as those who move the town show their loyalty to the new king, disobedience is the chaos of the party, and they must be dispatched to destroy it (the Fu family has moved the town several times). But Fu Jinzhan has no control over the imperial army now, and he dare not do that... So for a period of time, he will follow the previous pattern and maintain stability.

Right now, Fu Jinzhan needs to take it step by step. The first thing to do is to eliminate Zhao Kuangyin's influence in the cavalry army, otherwise the most elite cavalry army will not be reliable.

She can't disband the Iron Cavalry Army, so first of all, she has to find out who is closely related to Zhao Kuangyin... It's easy to check the senior generals, and everyone in the Forbidden Army knows the affairs between generals;

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

A group of people had already arrived at the steps of the Long Live Hall. Fu Jinzhan got down from the sedan chair with the hand of a court lady, walked up the stone steps slowly, and turned around suddenly. Everyone stopped immediately, bowed and stood in the middle of the road. She waved her hand, and everyone hurriedly backed away, and she said again: "Cao Tai, come here."

"Queen Mother." Cao Tai stepped forward quickly, and stood beside Fu Jinzhan with Fuchen in his arms.

Fu Jinzhan whispered: "Take my warrant later, and go to the Privy Council to find Wang Pu. Ask him to bring the old file of the Secretary of the Palace to the Privy Council... You must specifically tell him not to use my name, but only the military order of the Privy Council."

Cao Tai hurriedly said, "Here."

After she finished speaking, she quickly entered a bedroom in the Long Live Hall. This is a complex of buildings with many palaces; Fu Jinzhan asked the little emperor to live in the main palace of the original Taizu and the late emperor, and he chose a palace beside the main hall to live in. The Zide Hall where Fu Jinzhan used to live was far away from the harem; the Long Live Hall was very close to the Xuanyou Gate and the front of the imperial city, which was convenient for her to go out and govern, so she moved.

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

Fu Jinzhan sat on a bed for a while, looking at the empty bedroom, feeling very boring and tired, and said immediately: "I want to take a shower and change clothes!"

"My family immediately asked someone to prepare for the queen mother." Mu Shanggong responded quickly. She didn't show the slightest surprise at all. It was only natural for the Queen Mother to take a bath in the morning, noon, or even midnight, and she should be satisfied immediately.

Fu Jinzhan has already discovered one of the advantages of the emperor's bedroom, that is, the bathroom is bigger and more luxurious, which is the only place she likes. The emperors are not afraid of waste, Fu Jinzhan does not need to stay in a small bathtub like before, but in a pool!

Dozens of cauldrons boil water for a person's bath at the same time, and then fill the pool with warm water, just like an artificial hot spring. During the period, we will add boiling water to keep warm according to experience.

The room was foggy and very warm. Fu Jinzhan lay on the soft cushion by the pool, instructing the maid who bathed her specially: "Rub her waist. If I had known there was no rush, my waist is sore after sitting for too long."

The maid's finger skin is very smooth, but very strong. Fu Jinzhan enjoyed it very much, her face was flushed as if she had fallen asleep.

She has returned to her previous life. Whenever this time is the most enjoyable moment, she can relax completely, or be drowsy and lazy, or let her thoughts fly into those beautiful and expectant dreams... People can only see what others have done and heard what they have said, but who knows what she thinks?