The next morning, Zhao Defang got up early. When the personal palace maid put on a red official robe on him, she quickly had breakfast. (1) Top (2) Point (3) Small (3) Said, x.
Immediately after, he ordered his personal palace maid to call over the Eastern Palace's chamberlain, Eunuch Zhang, and the chamberlain, Li Heiniu. He ordered Eunuch Zhang to count all the signs with the words 'Eastern Palace' on them, and gave him three days to change 'Eastern Palace' to 'King Qin's Mansion.'
Then, he ordered Li Heiniu to immediately bring his twenty capable Imperial Army guards stationed in the Eastern Palace to the rear courtyard of the Funing Palace. He wanted to build a new bathing hall that was similar to the two rows of male and female baths in the rear courtyard of the Eastern Palace. Furthermore, the deadline was seven days.
After Eunuch Zhang and Li Heiniu received the order and left, Zhao Defang felt that the two important matters in his heart had been removed. However, last night, Zhao Guanjia instructed him to have a total of four important matters. Two of the matters were left to the two of them to handle. Then, the other two more important matters would require Zhao Defang to personally take action.
As the saying goes, when a veteran goes out, one is better than two! Although Zhao Defang wasn't Old Ma, the two major matters that he personally handled were definitely comparable to Eunuch Zhang and Li Heiniu. Moreover, he had to personally handle these two matters. After all, as the Right Official of the Chamberlain of Dependencies, he was duty-bound to deal with the Liao people.
After Eunuch Zhang and Li Heiniu walked out of the main hall, he followed ten Imperial Army guards into a carriage and left the palace. He ordered the coachman to rush to the Honglu Yamen, which was four or five li away.
Although Zhao Defang was a "rich second generation" in her previous life, she had also ridden a horse. However, the horses he was riding were, after all, artificially domesticated. The tall horses he rode were very obedient, and they did not have the wildness of a horse that was free from its reins at all. At that time, in his opinion, the horses he rode in his previous life were as boring as livestock.
However, in his opinion, the horses used on the battlefield in ancient times were all wild. If one did not learn how to ride horses for a few months, they would not be able to ride them. If Wan Yi rode on it, once the warhorse became wild and happy, if he couldn't control it, it was very likely that he would fall off the horse's back. If he became half-paralyzed and couldn't take care of himself, then the gains would not make up for the losses.
Therefore, for safety reasons, Zhao Defang still chose to take the carriage. Another point was that, in his opinion, sitting in the carriage and experiencing the hundreds of ancient TV dramas that he had watched in his previous life, those young masters and young ladies all rode in carriages except for riding horses.
Moreover, the carriages in the Song Dynasty palace were all very expensive. The interior of the carriage was decorated magnificently, completely exceeding his original extravagant imagination, making him feel very comfortable.
Zhao Defang felt as if she was riding a high-speed rail carriage. She slowed down and slowly came to a stop after flying for less than fifteen minutes.
After the Imperial Army guards on the left and right dismounted, one of the leaders walked to the front shaft of the carriage and reached out to open the brocade curtain hanging down from the door. He reported,"Your Highness, we've arrived at the Chamberlain of Dependencies!”
Zhao Defang, who had been sitting cross-legged in the carriage with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes when she heard an Imperial Army guard open the carriage's curtain and report that they had arrived at their destination. She replied in surprise and joy,"Oh, we've arrived at the Chamberlain of Dependencies so quickly."
After the Imperial Army guard left, Zhao Defang stood up and walked to the carriage door with a hunched back. He reached out to pull open the curtain and stuck his head out. He looked at the door of the Honglu Temple Yamen in front of him. Before the accompanying guard could bring a chair for him to step on, he jumped down from the carriage.
"All of you, go back. Just leave the coachman behind.”Zhao Defang came down from the carriage and realized that he had come to the Honglu Temple to work, not to go out and play. If he made such a big scene, those censors who had nothing better to do would find out and report him again. Thinking of this, he glanced left and right at the ten Imperial Army guards who had dismounted and were waiting for orders, then hurriedly dismissed them.
In fact, other than not wanting to leave any evidence for those nitpicking censors, Zhao Defang also felt that he had made such a big scene on his first day at the Honglu Temple Yamen. In front of his colleagues, it seemed like he, the King of Qin, was trying to intimidate them. In the future, if they interacted with each other, they would definitely alienate or curry favor with him because of his identity as the King of Qin. This was naturally not a situation he wanted to see.
"Your Highness, our mission is to protect Your Highness. If Your Highness doesn't let us guard you, if someone dares to bully Your Highness, wouldn't it be our dereliction of duty if we weren't present? Your Highness, please retract your order and let us wait here for Your Highness to finish work.”Before the leader of the imperial guards went out, he had received instructions from his superior, Li Heiniu, to ensure the safety of His Highness the King of Qin. However, His Highness the King of Qin had asked them to return alone. Once they returned, they would not be able to explain to their superior. Therefore, they hurriedly bowed and begged with cupped hands.
"That's right, Your Highness. We are responsible for your safety. How could we leave Your Highness here and return alone? Your Highness, please retract your order!" When the Imperial Army guards standing in the front and back rows heard their superior ask for their orders, they all hurriedly cupped their hands in obeisance and pleaded in unison.
"Don't stay here any longer. This king came to the Chamberlain of Dependencies to work, not to play. If twenty of you were to wait here, how would this king be able to do his work? Moreover, you know my martial arts. Even your Thousand-Household Li Xiaowei can't beat me. If someone really dares to bully me, let alone eight or ten of them, even if twenty or thirty people surround me, I'm afraid they won't be my match.
"You don't have to worry about me. You should hurry back to King Qin's Mansion in the palace and assist Thousand-Household Commandant Li to build a bathroom in the backyard of Funing Palace. That is something that my father and your family value. Alright, you should return to the palace quickly. Don't waste too much time here.”Zhao Defang saw that the twenty Imperial Army guards who had followed him here were determined to protect him, and he was deeply moved. However, when he thought of the consequences he had just thought of, he was moved. He tried to reason with the twenty Imperial Army guards and persuade them to leave this place and return to the Imperial Palace as soon as possible.
"Since Your Highness has other urgent matters to attend to, we will not cause trouble for Your Highness. We will return to the palace to assist Commandant Li.”After hearing Zhao Defang's kind words of advice, the Imperial Army guard's leader was moved and no longer insisted on his own way. When he put down his hands, he turned around and ordered the Imperial Army guards standing on his left and right,"We will await the orders of His Highness the King of Qin. We will quickly mount our horses and return to the palace to assist Li Xiaowei in his work.”
After the Imperial Army guard captain finished speaking, the rest of the Imperial Army guards mounted their horses as well. They turned their horses around and reluctantly left the Chamberlain of Dependencies Yamen. They whipped their horses and returned the way they had come, galloping toward the Imperial Palace gates on the other side of the road.
Only after the twenty Imperial Army guards disappeared from his sight did Zhao Defang finally relax. She called over a guard guarding the entrance of the Chamberlain of Dependencies and revealed her identity. She instructed the guard to bring the coachman into the courtyard through the back door of the Chamberlain of Dependencies.
Meanwhile, Zhao Defang himself was led by an Imperial Army guard through the gate of the Chamberlain of Dependencies to pay his respects to his superior, Lord Zuo Shaoqing and Li Guanyu.
After the imperial guard led Zhao Defang to Li Guanyu's office where he dealt with daily affairs, he left. Originally, Zhao Defang had wanted to let this Imperial Army guard go and inform him before he went in to pay his respects. After all, in the eyes of a new recruit like him, it would be a little reckless if he went alone. If someone went forward to make a front stop for him, the effect would probably be different.
However, the imperial guard took the initiative to retreat after bringing him close. Zhao Defang was not born to force people, so she could only allow him to leave.
If it were his second brother, Zhao Dezhao, the King of Wei, he would probably use his identity as the Second Prince and King to force the Imperial Army guard to report. From this, it could be seen that Zhao Defang and his second brother's personalities were really very different. In some aspects, they were even completely opposite.
When Zhao Defang walked carefully to the front and back of Li Guanyu's office door, he saw that the door was tightly shut. He reached out his hand and knocked twice. Seeing that no one asked him anything, he called out a few more times," Li Shaoqing, Zhao Defang is here to report." Still, no one answered.
After his experience in his previous life, Zhao Defang thought that this was his boss putting on airs for him. After all, in his opinion, the Chamberlain of Dependencies had only had a single official, Zuo Shaoqing and Li Guanyu, who was in charge of all the affairs of the yamen. It could be said that as Zuo Shaoqing, Li Guanyu's words were unquestionable in the entire Honglu Temple.
However, it was different now. The Zhao family suddenly sent him to be Li Guanyu's assistant. As Zuo Shaoqing, Li Guanyu's power that originally belonged to him alone would be shared.
Moreover, this assistant was the Fourth Prince whom the Zhao family loved the most. Li Guanyu would definitely feel that the Zhao family wanted his son to replace him. He would definitely not like the Fourth Prince, Zhao Defang. That was why he closed his door and turned a deaf ear.
After gently knocking on the door outside the office, Zhao Defang saw that there was no answer from inside. This made him a little anxious. He was so angry that he stomped his feet, so he increased his strength and knocked on the door.
As Zhao Defang had used too much strength just now, the door that was originally slightly ajar was pushed open by him by a two-inch gap with a creak.
Zhao Defang bent down and put her eyes on the crack of the door. It didn't matter if she looked inside. She really didn't know if she didn't look. She was shocked when she looked.
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