Chapter 17 second quarter

At this time, they looked down from the upstairs, and the imperial guards on both sides of the street downstairs, with their backs to the center of the street and facing the shop residents, pressed the red lacquered wooden stiles one after another with their hands, as if Two temporary human walls were built to encircle the crowded and side-by-side crowds outside the walls, leaving a large space in the middle for Luanjia to pass through here. The vanguard of the Lubo Brigade are six white elephants, all wearing golden bridles, silk silks of various colors, tassels and tassels, walking side by side in front of the team to open the way.The mahouts sit on the necks of the elephants - small magnolia chairs.They walked in the forefront of the big brigade with 21,575 people, and they had the important mission of regulating the speed of the ranks, so they looked around and were very proud.

They used to be small people, and they seemed insignificant when riding an elephant, but in this procession, in the eyes of the audience on both sides, they suddenly became big people.Behind them are Taichangqing, Guangluqing, Taipuqing, Kaifeng Yin and other officials. They all have a red rattan title plate in front of them, indicating their official titles and identities. At the same time, they are wearing scarlet and blue court clothes It also shows that they are not too high grade.Although they are qualified to join this rank, they are not up to the status of serving officials and closely following Yu Ren.They turned out to be the heads of a temple, a government, and a department. They usually seemed to be full of air bubbles in front of the common people and officials, fearing that their size would not be inflated enough.Now, on this occasion, with their particularly keen sense of smell, they sense that it is not appropriate to expand themselves but to shrink as much as possible, so they bow their heads and shrink their necks one by one, with short bodies, monkeys on the horse, and compress the space they occupy to the minimum. so as not to appear unduly prominent in this vast procession.

Followed by teams of infantry, and then the iron cavalry brigade composed of officers belonging to the guards' army Ma Junsi, called "armored riding equipment".This specially selected cavalry is the essence of the imperial army and the backbone of the guard of honor.All of them held weapons, stepped off their steeds, stepped on the sound of neat and well-proportioned horseshoes in response to the rhythm of bronze drums and golden gongs, and walked slowly and freely amidst the cheers and applause of the audience. The last person in this team is Yao Youzhong, who was temporarily sent to command Lubo.He wears a Zhu Ti pocket on his head, a golden armor with bright fine scales, and a green robe outside, looking masculine and high-spirited.If Liu Kai, who is also the envoy of the halogen book, is not on vacation, this should have been his errand.

This armored riding gear was exactly the one that Liu Qi put a lot of effort into after he came to Ma Junsi as an errand, and made it look completely new.Now Mrs. Liu Kai saw Zhao Long shaking his head dissatisfied, guessed his mind, and said freely: "They are all 'horses for battle'," she pointed to the iron cavalry under the window. "They have eaten three grades of food in vain, but they will not neigh when they are sent to a serious use. Uncle, do you think this is true? ?” This allusion is used just right, and Zhao Long couldn't help but praise: "The virtuous niece and daughter-in-law made a wonderful comparison of them, but they are not all ready to fight. Uncle Yu is going to make a fool of himself for the niece and daughter-in-law."

As he said that, he picked up the wine bowl and swallowed a large bowl.At this time, he was half drunk, and suddenly saw Yao Youzhong in the team, and shouted loudly: "Pengfei is here, too. Pengfei is also here. Pengfei is also a man. He was so high-spirited in the army back then. He doesn't want to hang out with these young men with embroidered legs and boxing fists today. What nonsense?" "Pengfei made up for his shortcomings today," Mrs. Liu Kai pointed at her husband and giggled, "If he hadn't accompanied uncle out for drinks today, he would have become a ready horse."

"He, Uncle Liu Xin," Zhao Long yelled again, "but he is a superb horse that looks far away from the north. Our Western Army trained him, not to show off in front of the imperial court." Suddenly For a while, he thought of what Liu Ziyu said against him yesterday, the pent-up anger and the past ten years, together with all the whimsical things in front of him, turned into a burst of vitality, and he took it to heart.He knocked on the window sill with his chopsticks indignantly and said, "Nephew! You have such a spirit, you have such a brass and iron body, you should be good at hiding your sword and using it properly."

At this time, the Luanjia below was slowly approaching, attracting everyone's attention.Only Zhao Long was drunk, and he just continued to speak according to his own thoughts, "I have sold this old bone to the government a long time ago." His voice was hoarse, and it was completely unlike his usual speech, "The volcano will go up! , Haiyan is willing to fill in, marrying this girl out, what else is there to worry about? It's just this war, I really don't feel at ease, and I don't want to rest in peace when I die. It is said that a man will die on the battlefield... okay? The crown, but I don’t know that death is heavier than Mount Tai, and lighter than a feather..."

"Father," Erniang gently pushed Dad, "Let's take a look at the bottom." "I'm so drunk that I just talk to myself, silly girl, why didn't you remind dad earlier?" , and snored.Mrs. Liu Kai pushed lightly, but there was no response. She knew that he was really fast asleep, so she took a light fur coat and put it on him. The flag team below passed by, the convoy passed by, and then the soldiers of Yulongzhi held two hundred pairs of red gauze and gold lanterns, and the deacons held twelve pairs of glazed jade pillars to hold fan lamps, and then The official's cronies, the inner eunuchs, slowly passed by in pairs, carrying his personal daily necessities, such as gold stove, jade handle dust whisk, and jade spit pot.

At this time, the string music was playing, and sixty drivers in rich clothes and jade waists came slowly pushing a jade wheel.Inside the pearl curtain of the jade rug, people can vaguely see the official himself wearing the emperor's legal uniform. He is turning around and standing in the jade rug. It can be seen from his posture that he is in a complacent mood. Next to the jade scorpion, the eight guards walked slowly at the same speed, and four groups took turns holding up a big flag. On the apricot yellow satin bottom, the four characters "Tianxia Taiping" were embroidered with black silk thread.This elegant and thin font is clearly from Chen Han.Wherever the law comes, it will follow. It can be said that this big flag has become the official flag for individuals.Over the past few years, officials seem to have developed a special obsession with these four characters.He loves to listen, speak, and write these four characters, no matter in the Dianmo imperial edict issued by the court, no matter in the brilliant celestial language when he summoned his ministers.No matter in the memorials of all officials praising the sages, it is indispensable.It is even said that the wood grains of these four universes are clearly engraved in a section of wood sawn in Jianzhou. If the rumors are true and not artificially processed, it can be said that it is God's will and the drums respond. .

If the official's eyes and ears were limited to what he had access to, he could have rested on this comment with peace of mind.It's a pity that under the four big characters where he was lying peacefully, there was an unsettled sea. Sooner or later, it would overturn this peaceful painting ship in the turbulent wind and waves.Although the officials are extremely wise and extremely intelligent, it is impossible to open their eyes and ears to listen to and see what is happening and what is going to happen in the depths. At this time, there was a burst of suppressed laughter among the audience on both sides of the street.They saw Cai Jing, the old grand master, sitting in the small palace specially entrusted with special orders, and Tong Guan, the head of the Privy Council and the newly appointed Xuanfu envoy of Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi, followed closely on a white horse.Someone shouted: "Prince Gong", "Princess Mother".These two titles have become so common that common people cannot help but have such associations when they see them coming out hand in hand.Some people went further and said: "The male rides a sedan chair while the female rides a horse. It's a reversal of yin and yang." These unscrupulous comments couldn't help laughing.Even the imperial guards who had to hold stiles and sticks to maintain order could not restrain their smiles.

Cai and Tong passed by, followed by the hottest Wang Fu and Cai You, and then Zheng Juzhong and Bai Shizhong.These two are mediocre and mediocre, and they have already fallen to the point of accompanying the prime minister, but they don't care, walking in the ranks, leisurely.Then there is another pair of eunuchs, Kaifu Yi and the third division Liang Shicheng and Li Yan, then Xiang You, who is known as the prodigal son, and Li Bangyan who was recently promoted to Shangshu Youcheng, Shangshu Zuocheng Zhang Bangchang, and then Cai Taishi's disciples Heh Ha two generals, Minister of Rites Yu Shen and Minister of Military Affairs Xue Ang, and then Gen Yue's general manager Zhu Xi and the commander of the palace Gao Qiu, Tokyo people are very familiar with Gao Qiu, they call him Gao Qiu, and regard him as a dignitary As a representative of the group, this is too flattering him, no matter in terms of identity, status, official position, and energy that can wreak havoc on the country and the people, he is not enough to be their representative. This group is the heart and soul of the imperial court, the prime ministers and important ministers. They follow closely behind the prince, the county king, and the son-in-law captain, and follow suit.They are the first inventors, specific executors or enthusiastic sponsors of the war against Liao.In the grand ceremony held just now, they accompanied the officials and played an important supporting role, and tried their best to show the necessary pious and loyal expressions on that occasion.But to be honest, none of them seriously cared about the upcoming war and carefully planned a winning strategy for it. On the contrary, since they had fasted last night, they hadn’t imported any meat, and today they spent most of the day. The red tape required them to keep kneeling and crawling, which exhausted them and caused endless slander.Now they are eager to get rid of the official family, disperse from this large team and go home, have a good meal and a full rest.The physical hunger and thirst are solved first, and then everyone splits up to do the things that they care about and like the most. The minister, the Duke of Lu, and the grand master Cai Jing did not "live in peace" as his teasers imagined.In the imperial court, his position is extremely unstable, and his mood is also very disturbed. He is the founder of the war against Liao Dynasty, but the right of invention and presiding has now been transferred to the hands of Dazai Wang Fu and his son Cai You went.Not only that, but even his position as prime minister was dismissed by You Lizhi, and he is now just an outdated prime minister.No matter how good his self-cultivation skills are, things involve stakes and must not be ignored.He thought day and night about a comeback plan.Just now when the big ceremony was held, he had already given the order to hint to the two generals, Hum Ha, and invited him to come to the mansion for two nights to have a secret talk.No matter what, these two abacus can always be pulled out of my own abacus! But he is obviously an outdated figure, and the development of the situation is much more serious than he estimated. Yu Shen has already changed from the superficial father party to the de facto son party.Many of the minister's secrets were presented to Cai You with both hands as a gift to see the letter. The son in turn used them as arrows and fired them on the crossbow to attack his father.This is the main reason why the father retreated steadily in a father-son confrontation.Now the Minister didn't just ask him to go to the Xiang's mansion to appreciate the lanterns, there is clearly another favor to give here, I'm afraid Xue Zhaoming will go ahead of him.They have known each other for twenty years, and he knows that Xue Zhaoming is an extremist. No matter which direction he goes, he always likes to get ahead of others. But this time Xue Ang fell behind.Although he has secretly flirted with Cai You many times, but up to now, they have not made it clear that they want to take him in.After careful consideration of the reasons, it is definitely not his own fault, it is entirely his own wife's failure to live up to expectations.He couldn't help but get angry when he thought of her. It turned out that one day, the prime minister held a private banquet, and his wife made a big fool of herself among the family members of the prime minister's mansion.Like a big fool, she kept claiming that those white elephants performing court rituals in the elephant pool were "big-nosed donkeys". ridicule.They even called him "Uncle Big Nose" and his wife "Aunt Big Nose" to his face.This really wronged him. In fact, although Xue Zhaoming's nose is said to be particularly sensitive, his nose is by no means bigger than that of the Cai brothers.Being ridiculed is still a trivial matter, but he has the magnanimity to do it himself. It is not as good as someone who despises his wife and even despises him, and even excludes him from the door of his descendants. This has a lot to do with the origin of his life. Festival.At this moment, he saw six elephants leading the way again, he couldn't help being moved by the scene, and cursed this whore in his heart, this bad luck star of "unintentional wisdom", which made him lose face, and he clearly violated the seven rules, so he must divorce her. Only then did he get a mouthful of infinite breath in his chest. Both Li Bangyan and Zhang Bangchang have just been promoted, and they tasted the sweetness of being in power for the first time, and they felt elated.They received the double favor of Cai's father and son, not only saw his son's current popularity, but also considered that Lao Tzu still had a certain influence, so they were not in a hurry to get rid of him completely at the moment of inconvenience.As long as someone bids, it doesn't matter whether it's Lao Tzu or a son, they are all their reborn parents, food and clothing parents, and they are all worshiped by them.But they also know how to sell at a good price. Later facts proved that the two of them, one became a traitorous prime minister, and the other climbed to become a puppet emperor, which proved that they can both abide by their creed and stick to it. They are worthy of being the rising stars of this group , outstanding talents. Gao Lian's face was hot, as if someone had slapped him. "Liu Kai, Liu Kai, where did you come from, a little wild bastard?" He couldn't get rid of this distressing thought in his mind for several days, "I have always been kind to you and very polite. I don't want you to think about it." To avenge my revenge, I lit a wildfire in front of the officials, and took away my pavilion. I spent money to reserve this pavilion, how could it be taken away by you? This revenge, I have the right to send it, and the future will be good or bad I want to show you how to look good, when that time comes, don’t say that I, Gao Mou, will take revenge and I won’t tolerate anyone.” The future accounts will be reckoned when there is an opportunity, but the real benefits must never be let go.Although he suffered a small somersault in the heat, he still has old friendship.He quietly gave Wang Fu a part of his nephew's character book, and asked to find a good job in the frontline transfer driver's office.At the same time, he invited Wang Fu to attend the "Lantern Festival" he held on the night of the 18th. Wang Fu hesitated for a while, accepted the manuscript, but refused to go to the banquet, implying that this fat vacancy that was full of people could not be sold so cheaply. Wang Fu had already heard about the seizure of Gao Qi's house, and he was a man in the official business, so he had a keen sense, and now it might bring him some consequences.But after all, they are brothers in the same team, and they have a relationship with each other, so let's accept his manuscript for the time being, and let's see how they look. But at the moment Wang Fu is most concerned about whether the "Xinfa Quail Soup" made by his favorite Ji Tianren has been stewed to the point of overcooking. It is a main dish in the banquet for Jin Dynasty envoys tonight.Whether the heat of this dish is perfect, whether the ingredients are neat, and whether the saltiness is moderate, all involve the honor and disgrace of the court, which is really something that cannot be underestimated.Using a grand ceremony to sue the temple, or using a famous dish made by a concubine to replace the political benefits that can only be obtained in a bloody battle with real swords and guns, this is Xuanhe's proud diplomatic method . Cai You is currently a very popular official. Tonight, he will accompany the official family to Xuandemen to appreciate the lanterns, and then he will accompany the official family to serve the banquet in the Forbidden City.This is his only honor.He was going to pretend to be drunk tonight when the wine was hot in his ear, and ask the officials for the fourth and fifth capitals of the official concubines, both of whom made him salivate.He knows the strategy of fighting against the officials, and it is absolutely impossible to ask for it in a serious manner.Only by highlighting the surprise soldiers and catching the officials off guard, can they obtain unexpected results. There is already such a large stack of character scripts in the boy's boots, and he is weighing and spreading them to estimate their value once in and out. He once generously escorted Zhang Di and the messenger Huang Xuan among his colleagues. In front of me, I said that I can provide a few good people for free. On the one hand, it is to repay them for their hard work, and on the other hand, it also leaves room for them to serve in the future.Unexpectedly, these two sent their hands to each other in a boundless manner, and said with a smile on their faces: "We know each other, and we will make arrangements for you!" It seems that they intentionally confuse the boundary between friendship and business. It would be a big fool to regard the friendship with them as the capital of dealing with others.In terms of stakes, Tong Guan is not a fool, although he has always been known for his extravagant spending. ... These are the various ideological activities of the ministers and ministers who wear purple robes and hold the lifeline of the Song Dynasty court in reality and in name.It's a pity that Zhao Long was intoxicated at that time, so he didn't have the chance to get to know them one by one.

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