Chapter 6 Return to welcome the young Marquis of Xiguan!
Liu Ziye walked forward outside the mansion gate. As soon as he walked out of the mansion gate, he saw Pan Yi, the captain of the Imperial Guard, riding on a tall horse. He was wearing the light fur and iron armor unique to the guards of the Yanjing Imperial Guard and was arranging the garrison positions of the palace soldiers.
When he first woke up, it was Pan Yi who walked forward to help the fallen eunuch Liu in the original owner's bedroom.
The Xiguan Marquis Mansion encountered a major change. The original 500 guards of the palace were disbanded, and most of them had dispersed on their own while the original owner was in a coma.
After the incident with Eunuch Liu and the Imperial Guards, many more fled. Only about thirty or forty people remained, willing to remain anonymously in the Marquisate. When the Marquisate was suddenly surrounded, these dozens of people also received the news and gathered together, temporarily guarding the gates and confronting the Imperial Guards and the Inspector's troops.
Seeing Liu Ziye coming out, these people automatically led by one of them made way for her.
Liu Ziye's gaze briefly passed over the man who was automatically regarded as the center by dozens of guards.
He looked to be in his twenties, very strong and energetic, but other than that there was nothing particularly outstanding about him. Even the original owner could not find any information about him in his memory.
Thinking that he was just an ordinary guard whom the original owner had never taken a fancy to, he quickly left like a dragonfly skimming the water.
Liu Ziye stood at the steps of the Marquis' Mansion and greeted Pan Yi with a smile: "So it's Captain Pan who has returned. He's so powerful!"
Pan Yi was briefly stunned when he saw Liu Ziye, but he quickly dismounted and knelt on one knee in the street in front of the Marquis's mansion to pay his respects: "Your servant Pan Yi greets the Marquis of Xiguan."
Liu Ziye smiled, but didn't ask him to get up. He just looked at him and said, "I wonder what Captain Pan's intention is? Could it be that he's planning to surround our Xiguan Marquisate and prohibit anyone, including me, from leaving without Captain Pan's order?"
"I dare not."
Pan Yi bowed his head again and returned the greeting.
"I, under Your Majesty's command, have escorted Eunuch Liu all the way to the Marquis' Mansion in Xiguan to read the imperial edict. However, unexpectedly, Eunuch Liu died unexpectedly. I fear that it will be difficult to respond to Your Majesty's order, so I can only report Eunuch Liu's incident truthfully for the time being and remain stationed where I am until Your Majesty's approval. Before Your Majesty's order arrives, I need to ensure that no one in the Marquis' Mansion leaves without reason, so as to avoid violating Your Majesty's order. However, I have no intention of restricting Your Majesty's travels. Everyone in the Marquis' Mansion needs to carry out their duties as usual. My Imperial Guards and the troops from the Xiguan Governor's Mansion will send personnel to assist you!"
Liu Ziye smiled.
Assisting? That sounds nice, but it's just following and guarding the whole process.
Pan Yi must have been shocked and angry because he had just killed Eunuch Liu with a sword. However, because the original owner was the youngest son of the Emperor, he did not dare to do anything to him. He could only take Eunuch Liu's body and temporarily retreat to the Xiguan Governor's Mansion.
But come to think of it, he felt that he was holding a lot of anger in his heart.
From his perspective, Liu Ziye, from the King of Xiguan to the Marquis of Xiguan, was indeed a supreme noble in the Great Zhou Dynasty in terms of bloodline, but in terms of actual power and status, he was at the bottom of the heap among the princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Both the current emperor and the emerging Crown Prince had clearly expressed their extreme dislike for the Prince of Xiguan, and any opportunity to teach the former Prince of Xiguan a lesson or embarrass him would be missed.
He is the captain of the Royal Guards and no one can do anything to him without permission.
However, if he were to report to Yanjing the fact that Marquis Xiguan had killed the eunuch Liu Gonggong who announced the imperial decree in front of the emperor, the emperor would inevitably have to issue another decree to punish this disgraced marquis who already had a bad reputation and disfavored the emperor!
Liu Ziye: "What if I need to go out of the palace on business?"
"Then I will personally serve you." Pan Yi acted very politely.
Every failure makes one wiser. The already stiff body of Eunuch Liu was still lying in the governor's residence. Pan Yi would certainly not make the same mistake again and bring bad luck to the young marquis.
"Okay."
"Then follow me to the Xiguan Governor's Mansion!"
Go to the governor's mansion?
Pan Yi was stunned for a moment. He did not ask why Marquis Xiguan wanted to go to the governor's mansion. He could only wave his hand and call a dozen guards and dozens of palace soldiers to follow.
Liu Ziye turned around and whispered something to Du Hui, asking him to call more servants from the palace to go with him.
As her eyes moved, she saw the guard who had led the charge and pointed with her finger: "And him, have him point to the dozen or so guards who stayed behind."
Du Hui looked in the direction Liu Ziye pointed and recognized that this was a guard from the former palace guards, named Jin Jie.
Jin Ji was incorporated into the palace guard just one month before the death of King Xiguan. Unexpectedly, after the palace had gone through such a misfortune, he still insisted on staying in the Marquis' Mansion.
He nodded and said, "Okay."
In addition to these dozens of soldiers, there were also Du Hui, Xiying, and a dozen or so stewards and servants from the Marquis' Mansion who were temporarily freed up, and they went to the Xiguan Governor's Mansion in a mighty procession.
If Captain Pan had not mobilized the troops from the governor's office, Liu Ziye would not have planned to go to the governor of Xiguan so soon.
In the original world line, the Xiguan area was an independent county, and according to the system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a governor's office was established to govern local people's livelihood and military affairs.
Since King Liu Mian of Xiguan moved here with his family and established his mansion and was granted the title, in addition to the annual taxes such as salt and iron that were directly managed by the court, Xiguan County had to set aside a portion of other local taxes, commercial taxes, and even products for the support of King Xiguan in accordance with court regulations in addition to those sent to the court.
In name, the Xiguan Governorate was located within the fiefdom of the King of Xiguan. Logically, the King of Xiguan should have had relatively strong power to intervene in the administration of the Governorate.
Ever since the death of Emperor Shengzu and his deportation to this desolate frontier, the current emperor's deep dislike and deliberate suppression of the King of Xiguan have been common knowledge throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty. Not only does the King of Xiguan lack any control or deterrence over the Xiguan Governor's Office, but the latter, in turn, monitors the King of Xiguan and his palace, reporting every action of the palace to the imperial court in Yanjing.
In addition, the population of the thousands of miles of land in the northwest border is only as many as that of a city in the Zhou Dynasty, and the imperial court has no intention of deepening its cultivation and governance here.
Therefore, the Xiguan Governor's Mansion was almost completely controlled by the emperor and was a tool used to monitor and control the power of the Xiguan Palace.
As for the governance of Xiguan County, it has always been secondary.
The current governor of the Governor's Mansion is named Yi Boli. He has been serving as the governor of Xiguan County for nearly ten years. He is an old acquaintance to everyone in the Xiguan Marquis Mansion.
From afar, Iberi heard the news that the young marquis of Xiguan was coming to the governor's mansion.
Pan Yi asked him to transfer the soldiers from the governor's mansion, so naturally he had no reason to refuse to hand them over. This young marquis of Xiguan only dared to pick on the weak and was here to cause trouble for him, Yiberi?
Iberly's eyes turned and he stared at the corpse of Eunuch Liu, which was parked in the center of the front hall of the Governor's Mansion by the Yanjing Imperial Guards. There was a hideous scar on his neck caused by a sharp sword, black and red rolled flesh, blood all over his body, and a pale and dark face and limbs.
In theory, the Marquis of Xiguan was no longer the King of Xiguan, and even the only remaining power to nominally control him as the governor had been completely lost. Iberi did not need to take it seriously at all.
But……
When this young Marquis of Xiguan was still the prince of the royal palace, he had done many rude and reckless things. He even pointed at the nose of the governor and cursed his eight generations of ancestors. These were all very common things. Iberi never took such behavior seriously.
But today, he felt inexplicably unsure.
As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.
What's more, the barefoot young Marquis of Xiguan is the youngest grandson of Emperor Shengzu!
He really didn't care and was willing to take himself to be buried with him. He had been working diligently in this place for many years, and now it was all gone in one day. Isn't it unfair?
Instead of doing this, it is better to give up some face now and let this young marquis calm down his temper. He will be able to make a breakthrough when the imperial edict comes down!
Iberi slammed the table and stood up, saying decisively in the shocked eyes of the officials in the governor's office.
"Let's go! Gather all the officials of the Governor's Mansion and gather them outside the government office to welcome the young Marquis of Xiguan!"
Officials: ???
Did the sun rise from the west? If I remember correctly, three months ago, Liu Ziye, then the heir of the Xiguan Palace, scratched the governor's face because the governor withheld their palace's title and salary. He was too embarrassed to show his face to see anyone for half a month.
How come all the past is gone in one day!
Lu Yanpeng, the deputy officer of the Governor's Mansion, said, "Sir Governor, the Marquis of Xiguan is disliked by the current emperor. Now that the King of Xiguan is gone, there's no one left to protect him from disasters. He's truly a prince who has fallen into a ditch of mud! As the saying goes, a phoenix in the wild is no better than a chicken. How can you still give him face?"
The other officials nearby also echoed, "Yes, sir. Think about it, when the Marquis of Xiguan was still the prince of the royal palace, we all avoided him. Why do we need to rush to meet him now?"
Lu Yanpeng added, "Governor Yi, just pretend you're busy with official business and can't spare the time. Tell me to send this useless young marquis away! This ancestor's methods are nothing more than crying, making a scene, and even threatening to hang himself. I'll call in a few more soldiers to stop him from getting violent."
Iberly thought about it and shook his head: "No."
"Captain Pan has already requested an imperial decree from Yanjing, but it will take at least a month and a half for it to arrive here. We can't confront someone who's at the end of his rope head-on. Besides, even if I manage to escape today, do I have to hide everywhere for the next month or so?"
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