Chapter 124 Curfew
Now it is said that after Ziqi got out of that flower street, he wanted to find a place to stay in this northern city. www.biquge.info Although this northern city is mostly occupied by prostitutes and operas, there are still many people who rely on these people to eat and drink.
At that time, the moon was rising, and the sky was gradually darkening, and there were only a few lanterns hanging in front of the doors, and there were still one or two shallow lights of light.
By the faint light of the candle, the child wandered through the streets and alleys carelessly. Ziqi's aimless wandering at this time made her aware of a different place in the northern city. In this northern city, there seems to be no curfew. The darker the day, the more lively it becomes. This strangeness really knocked over what the child knew in his heart.
The so-called curfew refers to the fact that every night, when the missing "daytime" in the yamen has been exhausted, the drums are beaten, and the name is "the closing drum". At dawn the next day, when the "night moment" has ended, the bell is struck a hundred times, and the name is "the opening bell". Anyone who walks on the streets of the city without reason after the "closing drum" and before the "opening bell" is guilty of "committing a night crime". Once discovered, not to mention the punishment of whipping, it will also invite the disaster of imprisonment.
This curfew has existed since ancient times, and it is a ban tacitly agreed by successive dynasties, and its purpose is only to maintain law and order. Although the success was very small, and the number of bandits who robbed homes and houses at night did not decrease, it was still a conventional rule, and no one proposed to abolish it for thousands of years. Now, this northern city ignores the curfew, and the flute is sheng every night, which can be regarded as a different scene for this Dacheng. It's just that in this way, it has encouraged those who are squirming and paste. Seduced by them, they indulged in this drunken gold addiction day by day, and lost their ambitions more and more.
If you look into it carefully, although Ziqi's remarks were a whim, the meaning of this point points out a lot of the truth behind it. Although the fact that there was no curfew in Beicheng showed that it was a blind man who accepted bribes from the Beicheng guards to close his eyes, in fact, it was the result of Emperor Xiao's tacit consent.
It turned out that Emperor Xiao was able to overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new dynasty with the help of the people's guards. But after all, because of his humble background and shallow foundation, it is inevitable that he will not be able to show some tricks in the matter of rectifying the government. Although he was once a son of heaven and a courtier, Emperor Xiao finally fell behind in the matter of his origin, and there were not many capable people around him, plus to appease the old ministers of the previous dynasty and stabilize the hearts of the people, he did not do that wanton reshuffle.
The events of that year, although it was a retreat by Emperor Xiao in desperation, finally put a lot of knots in Emperor Xiao's heart. Most of the powerful ministers in this court are former ministers of the previous dynasty, and the politics and affairs of the court are mostly in the hands of others. Judging from the situation of the day, although Emperor Xiao was in the name of an emperor, he became a puppet-like existence. This makes the pretentious Emperor Xiao how willing, and that Emperor Xiao is a suspicious person by nature, in the face of this situation, how can he sleep peacefully on the couch.
After thinking about it, Xiao Di finally came up with a countermeasure. Although most of the powerful ministers in the court at that time were former ministers of the previous dynasty, most of them were already old and approaching the age of becoming officials. If you follow the old practice of the previous dynasty, the father and son inherit the throne, and after these powerful ministers, they are also more connected with the previous dynasty, how can Emperor Xiao be entrusted with important tasks with peace of mind. Emperor Xiao can only be uprooted from its roots to avoid endless disasters.
The wind of malaise in the previous dynasty flourished and continued to this day and has not been broken. The children of these high-ranking families are protected by their ancestors, and most of them are hakama anointed. Playing in the willow lane of flower street all day long, chasing joy and laughter, and reading all the romance of the world. It's just because of the curfew that it can be restrained and avoid causing a catastrophe.
There is a way that "governing the people is like governing water, blocking is not as good as sparse, sparse is not as good as leading", Emperor Xiao penetrated his way, and simply exempted the curfew of Beicheng, although this matter has not been edicted, but the origin of the powerful people who are mixed in the northern city have long been well aware. Later, Emperor Xiao secretly sent people to seduce him, and directly hooked these powerful children into singing songs every night, and they had no home.
Emperor Xiao also found out the pickled stories of many people from them, and by defending the hearts of the people, he selected these former ministers and eliminated many potential disasters. At this point, everyone knew the thunderous methods of this snake python king, and they no longer dared to despise it, and the power of the court and government was gradually returned to the hands of Emperor Xiao.
It is also because of this past that the curfew has not been restored in the northern city. Chasing the root cause, Emperor Xiao did not explicitly announce this matter to the world, and there is no wonder that he does not know. Along the way, I feel more and more strange.
There is no curfew in this northern city, and because of Emperor Xiao's attitude here, the guards in this northern city have gradually slackened. At first, these guards were still known to patrol at night, so they could make a show and look at it. After a long time, seeing that it was not explicitly stated above, he simply forgot about this night patrol, and only nested in the "card room" at the corner of the street all night, or gambling for fun, or drinking wine and eating meat, which was no different from the gentlemen who came to this northern city to have fun.
At first, when I heard the old beggar on the street talk about this hidden reason, I laughed at it. It wasn't until he passed by a card room in the sub-period that he saw that the guards in the city were all huddled in it and ate wine, that he calmed down. It's just that in this way, it is convenient for the sub-period.
There is no curfew in this northern city, and the child is not in a hurry to find a place to stay, and shuttles alone in the streets and alleys of this northern city, familiar with the customs here.
In this way, the sub-period vacation has been covered by the beggar's body, and it has been in this northern city for three days. Although this northern city is not as magnificent as Xicheng Xiu, it is not a small boundary in the end. Although she is a woman in her childhood, her foot strength is not as good as that of a man. But in the end, it can be regarded as having endured hardships, compared with those daughters who are raised in the boudoir, they are much stronger. So after the work of the past three days, the streets and alleys in the north city have also walked most of the time.
During these three days, the child period wandered around, and when he was tired, he looked for a place to take refuge from others, and when he was hungry, he begged for some food to satisfy his stomach. Because everyone in the north city relies on nobles to survive, there are a lot of wine and food left in these large and small buildings. After a few days, Zi Ji Mo said that she had never been hungry, and even she herself felt that she was much richer than some time ago.
It was only said that the sky was going to sink on this day, and the child was holding the newly begged white bun and sitting at the foot of a wall to rest. After several days of running, she almost exhausted all the strength of the sub-period, and she made up her mind to find a place to rest for the night tonight, but who knew that the change was suddenly born at this moment.
Zi Qifang swallowed the last mouthful of white bun in her stomach, and saw a black shadow running towards her angrily, and the man shouted loudly as he ran: "What a boy, but grandpa has caught you!" ”
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