Chapter 123 The Emperor

August 27th, drizzling and stuffy.

The boundary of the imperial city is full of rain at this time, with a little rain for three days and a heavy rain for half a month. Sometimes the moat can't flow enough and it can overflow. It is rehabilitated every year but the roots can't be cut off.

At about the right time, two small doors of the palace gate opened, and officials and people from various yamen filed in. They entered the palace wall to go to their respective yamen on business. All of them are young or old, but their eyes are bright, and they are all exquisite characters. They have no real skills to work here, and they have to be human.

After entering the door, it is still far away from each yamen, and the nearest walk takes a long time, so you can know the rank of the official by walking alone or carrying the official sedan chair without looking at the official robes. The one who can sit in a sedan chair in the palace is at least a member of the third rank.

And the advantage of being a third-rank official is that there is no need to squeeze a door with others, and a separate small door on the side is prepared for these big guys.

Official sedan chairs also have different colors. The red ones are for military officials, the dark green ones are for civilian officials, and the orange ones belong to the prince's family.

In addition to these three colors, there is also a black official sedan chair, Xuanqingwei's. It was pitch black, just like their brocade robes, with taotie patterns on it.

In the entire Xuanqing Guard, only Pang Ban was a third-rank official who could sit in a sedan chair in the palace.

And when the black sedan chair comes, even if there are other sedan chairs beside it, they will avoid it, or speed up and leave, anyway, they will not follow along the way.

From the very beginning of its establishment, Xuan Qingwei was not in the same way as officials, big and small, in the court, and it was impossible to mix them together.

One helped the emperor herdsmen, and the other helped the emperor kill monsters.

Speaking of the emperor, Pang Ban in the sedan chair is always under pressure. This is his twenty-first year as the commander of Xuan Qingwei, and it is also the twenty-fifth year since the emperor succeeded to the throne. The relationship between the two monarchs and ministers can be regarded as knowing the bottom line. Pang Ban has always felt that he is the person who understands the emperor best.

But in recent years, Pang Ban found that he was wrong, the emperor, he could not understand.

There was no court meeting today, so there was no need to go to the Wanmin Hall, Pang Ban went to the Qinzheng Hall to wait according to the emperor's custom. There are also several servants from various ministries and the right minister who have something to face. However, these people formed a small circle and ignored the black-robed Pang Ban by coincidence, avoiding it far away.

From Maoshi to Sishi, the emperor still did not see him. The people who came with him had almost left, Prime Minister on the right went in and faced Sheng Sheng, and nodded to Pang Ban with a smile, the gloating in that smile was hardly concealed.

So what if you were favored before? Now the emperor doesn't even want to see you.

As a royal eagle dog, it's normal not to be welcomed by others, and Pang Ban has always had this self-consciousness. But if the eagle dog is detested by the owner, it may end up waiting to be cooked. This is also an important reason why the Xungui faction teamed up with the Xiu clan to dare to stretch their claws at Xuanqingwei.

However, Pang Ban never sits idly by. He knows that no matter what the emperor thinks of him, Xuan Qingwei is an indispensable part of the dynasty, and it must be independent of the local establishment to play its greatest role, so he is not worried about the emperor. Promise to split Xuan Qingwei. What he was worried about was that in order to appease the grievances of the Xungui family and the Xiu clan, the emperor chose to agree to their suggestion to add a supervising army to Xuanqingwei, so that Xuanqingwei might change drastically.

"Please come back, Mr. Pang Da. Your Majesty is already tired, and I don't want to see you." The servant walked over with a smile and sent a message to Pang Ban. It's been almost the same tone for the past six months, and the emperor still doesn't see him this time.

"Wang's servant, please submit this file. Your Majesty may summon you after reading it." Pang Ban took out the file from the Licheng Guard Office that Jiang Cheng brought him and handed it over. He stared at the man in front of him like an eagle.

"This..." Wang's servant really wanted to refuse, but he felt the sharpness in the other party's eyes but didn't dare, so he nodded, reluctantly took the file and left a sentence of "wait for a moment" and entered the Qinzheng Palace again.

After a long while, the king's servant with a strange face came out again with small steps, although his tone remained the same, but the content changed: "Pang Da, Your Majesty has summoned you."

Pang Ban nodded, finally heaving a sigh of relief. The emperor was willing to see him and said that the matter on the dossier also made the emperor aware of the seriousness.

After entering the Hall of Qinzheng, we walked through a lake and stone landscape, and finally entered a huge study.

The study room has a bright yellow tone, with bookshelves covering the walls on both sides, and a map of the territory of the Jingjiu Dynasty hanging on one side. There was a large desk in front of the map, and there were a lot of things scattered on the desk. A man with gray hair was sitting at the desk and looking at a file.

"Pang Ban sees Your Majesty!"

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There was no answer before, and Pang Ban didn't dare to get up once he knelt down. Even he could only lower his head, not knowing what to think in his mind.

After a long time, a deep voice sounded from the front, with a slightly sandy voice, which had the feeling of an old smokey voice.

"What are you going to do about this?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the current plan is to follow the trend and wipe out the Wen family and the Jingbei army in one fell swoop."

"Hmph, the white-eyed wolf of the Wen family is quite courageous, but I never thought that the Jingbei Army would be corrupted to such an extent. You, Xuan Qingwei, are also responsible for this matter!"

Pang Ban just straightened his back slightly, bent down again, and said with his head on the ground: "Your Majesty is guilty, please punish me."

Xuan Qingwei has a supervisory position in each army, similar to an observer, who has no right to intervene in military affairs but has the responsibility to find and discover omissions in the army and report them. The Jingbei Army is suspected of smuggling arms this time, but Xuan Qingwei has no internal reports at all. What does this mean?

"snort!"

He didn't say what kind of punishment, but there was another long silence.

"Tell me about your plan."

"Your Majesty, I think it's better to be fast than slow at this time, and it's best to start tightening from the head first." Pang Ban began to break down the plans he had made in the past two days. It is similar to what Jiang Cheng thought before, but the details are more detailed, and the whole is more sophisticated.

"Tomorrow, write a detailed secret booklet and hand it over, please withdraw."

After the matter was finished, Pang Ban was kicked out without any further exchange, and he clearly felt the coldness from the emperor.

Pang Ban shook his head, the emperor's attitude made him still uneasy, but fortunately, the emperor's attitude towards the case brought out by Shangli City was still very clear, as always, he couldn't rub the sand in his eyes.

Thinking of this, Pang Ban told the bearer to hurry up, he hurried back to the office, and within today he would write the specific details into a secret report, and he even needed to hire someone to go over it several times, the time was tight.

As soon as Pang Ban left, the emperor raised his head to look at the closed palace door, with a gentle smile on his face. Then he reached out and took out a list from the drawer, opened the first page and ticked the name of "Pang Ban" with the red pen on the table.