The Tai Chi Palace is very big, but unfortunately I never saw the beautiful palace maids. The emperor's harem of three thousand beauties is actually just a legend.

The Tai Chi Palace is deep, but there are not many people in the palace. The eunuchs and palace maids may not be as many as 3,000, especially more than half of them are old. Many palace people are even gray-haired and have already come in when the Tai Chi Palace was still called Daxing Palace.

Tai Chi Palace is a palace of power for Li Zhi, but for many palace maids and eunuchs, it is actually a cage. Many people come in and will never be able to get out of it in their lifetime.

Although there are young and beautiful palace maids, there are very few, and they all serve the emperor in the harem, and they are not seen in the front court. The palace people have no chance to come to the front court, and there is no chance to leave the Shenshen Palace.

Surrounding the palace are several wall cities, with guard soldiers stationed inside. Outside Xuanwu Gate to the north, although there is Royal North Garden, there are even a large number of elite Yulin Army stationed there.

The palace is deep, the palace gates overlap, and each palace gate is strictly guarded. There are waist signs and handwritten warrants to check, and no one can get through it.

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Taizong, Empress Changsun pity the palace people and asked Taizong to release some elderly palace people out of the palace. At that time, thousands of palace people were released, and many of them had been in the palace for more than ten or twenty years or even forty years. They could not even remember who else in their family.

Li Xiao walked in Tai Chi Palace just like traveling in the ancient city, with a calm mind and no excitement.

He was surrounded by seven people, Xue Chuyu, Cheng Boxian, Liu Wen, Liu Jun, Wang Fangyi, Qin Xiong and Li Yuanfang. All of them made great contributions in the battle yesterday. The emperor specially ordered them to enter the palace to meet.

Cheng Boxian, Wang Fangyi, Xue Chuyu, Liu Wen and Liu Jun were all guards in the inner palace before. They were very familiar with Tai Chi Palace and were not excited or curious.

But this was the first time Qin Xiong and Li Yuanfang entered the palace.

Qin Xiong has been a soldier for most of his life. He has fought with Qin Qiong countless times. No matter how many enemies or how dangerous the battle situation is, he never shakes his legs. But at this age, he is fifty years old. Walking in this brilliant Tai Chi Palace, he feels his heartbeat, his palms are covered with sweat, his mouth is dry, and his legs are even weak. He is as light as he steps on silk cotton.

Li Yuanfang is better, but this young man who grew up in Helong and met desolate places there. Although he had been in Chang'an for a while, he was shocked by the luxury of the palace for the first time.

The red lacquer columns, yellow glazed tiles, painted masts, blue windows, white walls, and the rockery, flowers, plants and trees everywhere make people feel like they are in the fairy palace.

Cheng Xue and the others were expecting their appearance. After all, when they first entered the palace, they were also shocked by the glory of the Tai Chi Palace.

But when they saw Li Xiao's plain look, they were a little confused.

Li Xiao smiled and said, "This is not the first time I have entered the palace. This is the second time I entered the palace. The last time I was summoned to the palace by His Majesty, but His Majesty did not summon him later."

"Even if it's the second time, don't you think the Tai Chi Palace is glorious and luxurious?"

"It's quite brilliant and luxurious." Li Xiao replied indifferently, which made the people who wanted to see Li Xiao shocked and shocked.

"I remember when I first entered the palace to work, it took me half a month to barely get used to it here." Xue Chuyu said.

A little eunuch led eight people in front of him. He bent over and didn't speak, but his ears stood up and listened carefully. He listened carefully, fearing that he would fall a word.

Xue Chuyu smiled and said that Li Xiao must have seen His Majesty this time. Last time he was still a silence, but this time he was a sixth-rank official. He also made great contributions. In such a dangerous situation, he could still keep the corn and keep the safety of Lanxi villagers. This is a rare thing.

Cheng Boxian said that Li Xiao might be promoted.

Li Xiao smiled and said that it doesn’t matter whether he or she is promoted to an official position. It would be great if he could be awarded a title.

"You think the title of the Tang Dynasty is so easy to be granted, but none of us are still not in the title."

The best way to obtain titles from the Tang Dynasty is to make military achievements on the battlefield. If there is no military achievements, even if it is the prime minister, it is usually only a county and county official, and it is still a false title.

"What are you anxious about? You are going to go to Liaodong to conquer Goguryeo soon. When you win a few battles, you will have a title." Li Xiao pointed at Cheng Boxian and the others and cursed. These generals and their descendants were born as honorary relatives. If Cheng Boxian, he would not go to war, and he would have titles to inherit in his life.

His grandfather Cheng Yaojin is Duke Lu, and his father is Cheng Yaojin's legitimate son. Although he is not the eldest, he will never inherit the Duke of Lu in this life, but he has already won the Duke of Guangping County. In the future, Cheng Boxian's father will be promoted to his legs, and the Duke of this county will be his.

Even if he has no meritorious deeds and is demoted to the title of Xi'an, he will at least be a county duke. And his grandfather is a hero of Lingyan Pavilion and a veteran of two dynasties. Such a family of heroes can not be demoted to the title of Xi'an.

Sometimes I envy Cheng Bosheng and others. They are well reincarnated and can just live a life of life and wait for death. However, I admire them very much. They were born in a wealthy family, but they didn’t think of being a playboy who was living a life of life. However, they still wanted to make achievements and find a title for a marquis for thousands of miles. This ambition is quite rare.

The little eunuch led them to the Ganlu Hall and asked them to wait for the emperor to summon him in the side hall.

"This is Your Majesty's bedroom, and it is also the third hall of Tai Chi Palace. The emperor reviews memorials, reads, eats meals, and recruits concubines to sleep." Wang Fangyi introduced to Li Xiao.

The palace has three main halls, namely Tai Chi Palace, Liangyi Palace and Ganlu Hall. The front and back palaces are sleeping, with Zhumingmen, Suzhangmen, Qianhuamen and other palace courtyard wall gates as bounded, and the palace is divided into two parts: "Fore Dynasty" and "Inner Court".

The previous dynasty was also arranged according to the system of the three dynasties, and the two halls of the east and west were outer dynasties, which was to "prepare a grand ceremony and ask about the common people's places."

The Taiji Hall is the main place for the emperor to listen to politics and court. On the first day of the first day of the first day (the fifteenth day), the emperor will come to this hall to meet the ministers and follow the court. In addition, the emperor ascended the throne, enthroned the queen, crown prince, princess ceremony, and banquets for tribute envoys are often held in this hall.

The Liangyi Hall in the Neijing area is the inner court, which is where the emperor and his clan gather together to discuss and retreat to the doctor. Because the Liangyi Hall is under the ban, only a few ministers can discuss state affairs with the emperor, he acts more casually. This place is often where Emperor Taizong celebrates the ministers and tribute envoys. Emperor Taizong has hosted officials above the fifth rank in this hall many times. It is the second largest hall in the Tai Chi Palace.

Behind the Tai Chi Hall is Zhu Mingmen, and the north is Liangyimen. The cross street between Zhu Mingmen and Liangyimen is the boundary of ceremonies and sleeping.

Now the emperor summoned Li Xiao and the others to visit Ganlu Hall, which is the bedroom area.

If the Daji Palace is compared to the emperor's house, then the Chengtian Gate and the East and West Halls are considered the front yard living rooms of the emperor's house, the Taiji Hall is the hall of the middle yard, and the Liangyi Hall is the flower hall of the back yard.

As for Ganlu Hall, it is the emperor's bedroom.

The emperor summoned several people to his bedroom, which shows that he was very close.

"Your Majesty is still discussing affairs with the prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall. Please wait here." A eunuch came up and told them with a smile, and arranged for them to drink tea and wait there.

After a pot of tea was cold, I finally saw the eunuch coming again.

"Your Majesty summoned me, please come with us."

Li Xiao stood up and followed everyone behind the eunuch, walked along the corridor, and circled left and right for a long time, and finally arrived at the main hall of Ganlu Hall.

Take off your shoes and enter the hall.

When he arrived in the hall, Li Xiao found that he could not see the emperor. There was a row of screens in the hall. The silk screen was embroidered with flower and bird patterns, and calligraphy works were also written. You could vaguely see a young man sitting there in a bright yellow robe behind the screen.

"Your Majesty, Li Xiao, the Corn Supervisor, and the Qianniu Preparation King Fangyi and others met." The eunuch reported.

Li Xiao followed Wang Fangyi and the others to bow and bow and salute.

A slightly dry and dumb voice came from behind the screen, "You are calm, I feel the cold wind today. Although it is not a big deal, the imperial doctor told me not to see the wind, so I asked someone to stand the screen in front of you. I forgive you."

Li Xiao thought so, but he didn't think much about it.

But he didn't know that behind the screen, Li Zhi looked at Li Xiao at the steps, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. In the battle at the Political Affairs Hall just now, Li Zhi won a great victory. Chu Suiliang was demoted from the capital, and Changsun Wuji was no longer in charge of the government affairs. Seeing Changsun Wuji being isolated in the Political Affairs Hall, he felt a deep breath.

He was in a good mood at this time and felt very kind to see Li Xiao. Think about it, it was thanks to Li Xiao this time. If it weren't for him offering corn seeds and then Chu Suiliang made a fool of himself and wanted to mobilize troops to seize the seeds, there wouldn't be so many things, and it wouldn't be so easy to kick Chu Suiliang away.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi coughed, "I have received a detailed report on the past and after the Lanxi Rebellion. I have to say that the heroes are from the young, and the performances of several of you are remarkable, and I want to give them a lot."

"Add to the rank of Li Xiao Chaosan Dafu, and was awarded the title of the founding baron of Lantian County, and was given a black robe of silverfish. The fief of 300 households was granted a real household with 50 households."

When the emperor was happy, the reward was naturally generous. He even temporarily promoted the pre-determined reward.

The people next to him were very happy for Li Xiao’s reward. This was a generous reward.

It is amazing to be promoted to the title.

Li Xiao was originally from the San level below the sixth grade, but now he was suddenly promoted to Chaosan Doctor. This has been promoted to the third level in a row, from the fifth level, from the Lang to the Doctor, which is a critical step.

What's more, he even gave a title, even the lowest founding county man, he was a serious title, especially given a fief of fiefs of fifteen households. This is a real title. Many people can't earn a title in their lifetime, let alone a real title.

The fifth-grade fifth-grade rank is naturally qualified to wear a scarlet official robe and a silverfish bag. In the future, Li Xiao will no longer have to wear a green robe. He can wear a scarlet robe and can also hang a silverfish bag on his waist and hold a silverfish talisman inside.
Chapter completed!