The Duting Posthouse of the Ministry of Rites in the Song Dynasty was usually used to receive tribute envoys from vassal states (and it was a country with a relatively good relationship, so the Jin envoys did not live here.), but like some Tibetan kings who had no residence after entering Beijing, they would temporarily stay in Duting.

Yi.

The lights in Duting Posthouse are brightly lit at night. There have been no foreign envoys recently, but when King Yi came, Duting Posthouse was also busy.

After King Yi had dinner, he took Quan Yong, Zhou Lai and Niu Bao and ran several laps around Dutingyi.

It was still early to mid-July, the weather was already hot, and the four of us were all sweating profusely from running.

And he kept running until dark.

After dark, Quan Yong, Zhou Lai and others said it was too dark to see clearly and they didn't want to run away.

But Zhao Yurui insisted on running with them for another two quarters of an hour.

After running through it, he was convinced that night blindness existed in ancient times, but night blindness was not as serious as the legend said. After all, there were still many examples of night attacks in ancient times.

The main problem is adaptation.

If you eat better later and run more, you will get used to it soon.

Around eight o'clock in the evening, four people came back from outside.

Zhou Lai and Niu Bao are both in their twenties and have never traveled so much before. Today they were almost beaten to death by Zhao Yurui.

When the two of them came back, they were out of breath. After walking a few steps, they wanted to stop. They put their arms on their hips and lowered their heads to catch their breath.

"Don't stop after running, walk, walk, walk slowly." Zhao Yurui shouted in the yard.

"Cousin---cousin---what are we doing---we have to run---" Quan Yong said out of breath.

"Exercise your body." Zhao Yurui said with a smile: "A man must train his body well. When his body is well, he will be able to play with girls."

".." The three of them looked at each other.

"Come on, come on, don't stop. Now I'm going to teach you a method for training your hips. It's called push-ups. It's useful for men. Just watch."

One hundred push-ups were divided into three groups. After finishing, everyone went back to their homes, but Niu Bao seemed to be out of sorts.

He was thinking that the king said this might be useful for men, and the movements were indeed different. After returning to his room, he immediately lay down on the floor and started doing it again.

His mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang, was stunned: "Master, why are you crazy?"

Niu Bao raised his head: "You are crazy. I am practicing martial arts. Your Majesty taught me."

".." Wang.

"It's useful for that." Niu Bao said mysteriously.

After saying this, he found that Wang didn't respond, so he followed Zhao Yurui's example and thrust his body a few times.

Now Mrs. Wang also understood, and immediately blushed: "Bah." She turned around.

"Wait a minute, what did you call me just now?" Niu Bao suddenly stood up.

Wang turned around and said with a smile: "Master."

"The Qin family (Zhou Lai's mother-in-law) said that you will follow King Yi from now on, and your monthly salary will be five guan, which is at least close to the salary of a county captain. From now on, you will be called Master."

"..Master?" Niu Bao looked a little surprised and murmured to himself: "Am I a master?"

"Yes, sir." Wang covered her mouth and said with a smile.

"Come on, call me again." Niu Bao looked at ease.

"Master."

"Well, it's really different." Niu Bao felt pleased.

"Master, from now on, you can no longer call me your wife."

"What should it be called?"

"I want to call you madam." Wang said these two words in a serious and round tone.

"Damn it, I'm not used to it." Niu Bao exclaimed, "My mother-in-law's scream is still comfortable."

"Bah, no dirty words allowed."

Wang said angrily: "You can't embarrass King Yi outside."

When Niu Bao heard this, he quickly puffed up his chest and said, "Don't worry, madam, I will not embarrass the king."

Zhao Yurui's body has not yet developed, and he is small and weak. After entering Lin'an, he began to increase nutrition and exercise every day. He took Zhou Lai and the others to run every day to practice physical fitness. The three of them took Zhao Yurui's salary, so it was nothing.

Complaints, and Zhao Yurui personally took the lead, so they could only follow.

Two days later, at a quarter of the morning, a carriage came to pick up Zhao Yurui from the palace. An official from the Ministry of Etiquette named Li Huang accompanied him on the carriage and introduced Zhao Yurui to the palace etiquette and the attention of the emperor and concubines.
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Zhao Yurui listened carefully and memorized it with a very good attitude. At the same time, he did not expect that there were people named "Emperor" in ancient times.

He has been reading these things for two days, but Emperor Li explained them in detail and took the trouble to say them again and again.

After Emperor Li finished speaking, Zhao Yurui couldn't help but ask: "What does Mr. Li do in the Ministry of Rites?"

Emperor Li said respectfully: "King Hui Yi, I will be the official host and guest officer of the Ministry of Rites, Wai Lang."

Yuan Wai Lang was an official of the sixth rank, so Emperor Li was considered a relatively low-ranking official in the capital, and he was at the bottom among the six officials.

Zhao Yurui asked again, how many years have you been a Jinshi?

Emperor Li was actually a Jinshi in the first year of Jiatai.

Jiatai is the second reign name used by Song Ningzong.

Ningzong of the Song Dynasty used a total of four reign titles. It is now the fifteenth year of Jiading. Emperor Li has been working for at least nearly twenty years.

"Master Li is only in his thirties? It doesn't look like it."

"Thirty-six." Emperor Li smiled bitterly.

He does look older, like he is over forty.

It took so many years to reach the level of a sixth-grade Yuanwailang. I definitely have no backing and no flattery.

Zhao Yurui said calmly: "Master Li, you should move more toward the Prime Minister."

"Haha." Li Huang smiled dryly, his face straightened, as if he didn't want to talk to Zhao Yurui anymore.

Zhao Yurui immediately noted down that Emperor Li was definitely not a party to Shi Miyuan.

The imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty was built on the basis of the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom in the Five Dynasties, and the emperors of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties all had a characteristic, which was to be "cautious about demolition" and did not dare to demolish the homes of ordinary people next to the imperial city.

Therefore, the imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty is also the smallest in history. Not only is it smaller than the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is also far inferior to the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Zhao Yurui was also stunned when he arrived at the gate of the imperial city. The noodles were so different.

The imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty was also rectangular, with a length of about 800 meters from east to west and a length of about 600 meters from north to south.

The main entrance is Li Zhengmen, which is where Zhao Yurui is now.

Standing in front of Li Zhengmen, he could see the entire front of the imperial city at a glance, without any ostentation. Looking further into the distance, he could vaguely see ordinary people's homes and scattered shops in the distance.

Didn’t the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty know about demolition? Zhao Yurui walked into the imperial city depressedly.

As soon as he entered the imperial city, he saw his acquaintance Yao Bizhi.

"Yao Douzhi."

"Meet King Yi." Yao Douzhi was waiting for him with two young eunuchs.

The two have been involved in corruption together and regard each other as good brothers.

Zhao Yurui now knows that there were originally two eunuch institutions in the Southern Song Dynasty, namely the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In the 30th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1160), the Ministry of Internal Affairs was merged into one province, and the two provinces were merged into one province. In the first year of Longxing (1163), the number of internal servants was 200, divided into five houses, and the number of officials was 35. Among them, those who entered the province of Internal Affairs were more than

If the Ministry of Internal Affairs is high, if there are vacancies in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they will be filled by the Internal Affairs Officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Therefore, there were very few eunuchs in the Southern Song Dynasty, only more than 200 people, which could not be compared with the tens of thousands of people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Zhao Yurui saw that the imperial city was so small, and it was estimated that there would not be many eunuchs and maids in it.
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Yao Bizhi was a member of the imperial eunuchs and was a sixth-rank official, second only to the fifth-rank official. He was considered the second-in-command of the imperial eunuchs and held a high position of authority.

He was also a close confidant of Emperor Song Ningzong, so Zhao Yurui must have grown more fond of him the more he looked at him.

"Yao Dou knows that he will not be polite." Zhao Yurui helped Yao Bizhi up first.

When Zhao Yurui grabbed Yao Bizhi's hands, he stroked them gently a few times.

Most people are reluctant to touch eunuchs like Yao Bizhi, but Zhao Yurui unexpectedly held his hand and stroked it a few times.

Yao Bizhi was so caressed that he got goosebumps all over his body.
Chapter completed!