Chapter 34: A Lonely Fish

The autumn day in Yongcheng is a little cold, although the autumn chrysanthemums in the city have been in full bloom, but the flowers still can't cover up this trace of autumn coolness.

Yongcheng Imperial Palace Imperial Garden.

Emperor Liu Yuanche set up the court meeting in the imperial garden for the first time today, and called it a banquet.

In autumn, the golden cinnamon beside the Taiye Pond is fragrant, and the silk chrysanthemum is clustered.

The autumn wind rises, the cinnamon fragrance is refreshing, the chrysanthemum fragrance is quiet, the petals are scattered with the wind, and the ten thousand carp in the pond grabs the petals and eats, which can be described as spectacular.

The hundred officials dressed neatly in the morning, according to the attendance, today's court meeting is extraordinary.

The banquet is the first time in this dynasty, since the Zhao Dynasty, where the banquet must have a major event, all officials have a sense of wind and rain, this meal may not be as delicious as imagined.

Emperor Liu Yuanche also came to the banquet early as usual, sat north and faced south, and gently stroked the gilded dragon heads on the armrests on both sides with one hand.

This dragon chair was originally supposed to be made of pure gold, but since Liu Yuanche succeeded to the throne, he has been frugal and ordered the Industrial Bureau to build this gilded dragon chair, and the original pure gold dragon chair was sent to the money prison, melted and minted into coins, and sent to the north for disaster relief.

The emperor took the lead, and all the officials followed suit, and no one thought that the great drought in the north that year would be resolved by the generous donations of the hundred officials.

The gilded faucet had already peeled off its gold paint, and it was uneven.

Whenever he saw the peeling gold lacquer, he had a feeling that a catastrophe was coming, although he repeatedly played the heavy lacquer dragon chair, and the saint rejected it with the words "not hindered".

But the so-called companion is like a tiger, the current saint does not care, it does not mean that he will never care, now there is no hindrance, but what if it comes to the day when it is hindered?

Recently, the situation of the court has been chaotic, disasters have occurred frequently in various places, and it is difficult to allocate funds for the household department.

Wang Ruopu looked at the hand of the saint who kept rubbing, and he kept praying in his heart, the remaining gold leaf should not stick to the hand of the saint, in case the saint thought of himself, today's banquet will not be steady.

Emperor Liu Yuanche of Zhao rubbed the gilded dragon head with both hands, he sat on this dragon chair for more than 20 years, since the first time he sat on this dragon chair, he did not feel that this spacious dragon chair was comfortable, when the war broke out, the disaster continued to make him sit uncomfortable, and now the court situation is stable, the four seas are peaceful, he is still uncomfortable to sit.

If he had a choice, he would prefer to travel the rivers and lakes as he did back then, lying on the open-air boulder, sitting on the eaves at the foot of the door, and nibbling on the big meat buns bought with the hard-won copper plates. Listening to the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family beating and scolding her own uncompetitive man, I saw that the old man of the Li family was not ashamed, and he drilled into the wine shop with a beautiful proprietress every day.

Sitting in such a place is called comfortable, even if the sky is the quilt and the ground is the bed, you can still sleep until dawn, that is comfortable.

Sentimental in autumn, Liu Yuanche raised his head, he looked at the Taiye pond, the osmanthus chrysanthemum entered the pond with the wind and filled half of the pond, countless red carp held their long tails and leaped to fight for food, and the hundred carp took off in the air, which was beautiful.

He remembered that winter was also the third year that he was away from the battle for the throne of the court, that year, Xiao Duoer was pregnant, in order to make up for her body, in the winter night, while she was asleep, he secretly ran to the river behind the mountain and caught fish all night.

In the end, the big fish did not catch any of them, but only a small red carp, which was fiery red and had a long tail.

When he returned home, looking at his snowy body and frozen red hands and feet, Xiao Duo'er's distressed tears flowed.

Later, the fish didn't eat, but the family got a big water tank, washed the tank, filled the mud, and calmed the water, and went to the neighbor's house to ask for two old lotus roots, and after a busy day, finally settled down for this red carp.

As the red carp continued to grow, Xiao Duo'er's belly became bigger day by day, and she often sat by the fish tank, watching the red shadow shuttling in the water tank, and she sat all afternoon.

Later, she told him that the red carp was lonely, and that when the spring dawned and the weather was warm, he had to go to the river again to see if there was any of the same carp, and it was best to find a companion for it, and if he couldn't find it, then put the family back into the river, and let it find a companion by himself...

He smiled and nodded.

Spring came, the weather warmed up, his third son was born, and he picked up the little life like holding a treasure, and he didn't know where to put it, in the words of Xiao Duo'er, clumsy.

It's not the first time he's been a father, the first two sons were born to the two-room wife room that his father gave him, although he also loved it, but he never had the feeling of picking up this child, he fled from the court, and the two-room wife room had to be sheltered by the family and didn't want to leave the palace, and he didn't force it, after all, not everyone is willing to accompany you to suffer together, he looked at the little Duoer on the bed, and he felt guilty and blamed himself.

The spring is warm, the river thaws, he took advantage of the little Duoer is still taking a nap, picked up the child and came to the river to look for the red carp, the emperor lived up to his wishes, he caught an almost identical red carp, he was full of joy, rushed home, but saw a ball of blood red on the bed, the red is more bright and dazzling than the red carp...

After all, his brother refused to let him go, even if he didn't want to fight, he didn't want to fight, but they would let him go, the prince whom his father loved the most.

That year, he carried a child back to the palace, and that year, his brothers trembled.

A year later, he sat on the dragon chair that made him feel uncomfortable...

He didn't want to sit on this chair, but he sat on it for more than 20 years.

Liu Yuanche watched the hundred carp take off, and the ten thousand carp swam in the water, the fish was still the same bright red as back then, swimming in the water, free and unrestrained.

This red carp will never be lonely again, but what about people?

The hour has come, and the civil and military officials are waiting for the court to listen to the performance, but the saint is looking straight at this Taiye Lake, and there is no intention of going to the court, and the ministers are difficult to figure out the holy will for a while, and they exchange glances with each other, I don't know why.

It's just that if you don't understand, you don't understand, but no one will be stupid enough to make a noise, in case it disturbs the saint, it is a capital crime.

The one on the dragon chair, diligent and loving the people, of course, can be called Mingjun, but Mingjun does not mean that he has no anger, on the contrary, from his accession to the throne, to the later pacification of rebellions, battles against countries, suppression of the Xiuzhen sect, etc., it is all stepping on blood and corpses step by step.

No, even the eighty-year-old Mrs. Zhou is still sitting calmly and squinting and drinking tea, who would dare to be this bird.

Song Mingyuan, the chief eunuch of the celebrant, was an old man who had followed the saint for many years, and when he saw that the time had come, the saint was still wandering thousands of miles, he gently reminded, "The saint, the hour has come"

Liu Yuanche held the gilt armrest hard, his grip was extremely strong, and his bones were a little white.

His grip made Lin Ruopu, the head of the household department, tremble.

He looked at Song Mingyuan and said, "Let's go to court."

Song Mingyuan looked at the master in front of him who he had served for more than 20 years, he always felt that today's saint was a little different from usual, and he couldn't tell what was different.

He cleared his thoughts and said in a loud voice, "Go to court!"

All the civil and military officials knelt down and shouted long live.

Liu Yuanche waved his hand and flattened everyone.

Looking at the ministers in the audience, there are elderly people, young and handsome people, literary leaders, leaders of martial arts, people from famous families, and people who are in the middle of the list.

After nearly 30 years of hard work, he finally lived up to the expectations of the people of Zhao State.

It's just that before the ministers started, Liu Yuanche opened his mouth first, he looked at the trembling Hubu Shangshu Lin Ruopu and asked, "Feng'an is besieging the city, is the Hubu rice grain still sufficient?"

What are you afraid of, what are you coming, Lin Ruopu knelt on the ground, and his whole body trembled lightly, "Your Majesty, Weichen is guilty of death"

Liu Yuanche was not angry, and said arrogantly: "What are you guilty of?"

Lin Ruopu buried his head in the lower road "Feng'an siege, several months of unsolved, Feng'an for our country's rice grain town, go to a town, such as cutting off the rice grain arm, the minister sent the household officials to investigate, but there is still no news, the minister did not report in time, did not deal with it properly, capital crime. As for money and grain, the ministers mobilized surplus grain from all sides, and in addition to leaving enough grain reserves and grain for disaster relief, the surplus treasury of the household department is still sufficient."

Liu Yuanche said softly, "Stand up, I don't blame you for Feng'an's matter"

Lin Ruopu got up with difficulty, he was covered in a cold sweat, he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it, he looked at the eyes cast by his colleagues around him, and there was really a trace of hostility, but his words were like an arm, and he was really forced to do so.

The civil and military officials all knew that the third prince Liu Zheng had gone to Feng'an Town, but everyone pretended not to know, and the saint also pretended not to know before, but today it seems that since the saint took the initiative to ask about Feng'an, then today's saint should know, thinking of this, he sweated more.

Sure enough, Emperor Liu Yuanche said softly, "Zhong Aiqing, Feng'an has besieged the city for several months, I know it today, it is really my sin, Feng'an is my country's rice and grain town, and the loss of Feng'an is like breaking my country's arm, and now Feng'an is constantly weird, and the people are uncertain, my son Liu Zheng is now also lost Feng'an, I don't know whether I live or die, for the public of the country, for my selfishness, I decided to drive the army to Feng'an!"

The ministers are boiling!

Half of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty knelt down, some shouted that it was impossible, some choked the ground with their heads, and the civil and military were all sorted...

First, for a town, it has never been done since the founding of the country

The black hand hidden behind the weirdness of Feng'an is so great that I am afraid that even the whole country of Zhao will not be able to resist, once the face is torn, how can Zhao deal with himself?

The three are also orderly and orderly, and the establishment of the eldest prince as the prince is what most of the courtiers are happy to see, and it is even more ridiculous to drive the royal conquest for the third prince Liu Zheng, whose mother is a commoner!

On the same day, next to the Taiye Pond, Wan Liyu Lake, Emperor Liu Yuanche summoned the world, the royal driver personally conquered Feng'an Town, the Shenwei general Dou Xifeng led more than ten generals from all walks of life to accompany him, and Lin Ruopu, the head of the household department, accompanied him to supervise the rice and grain, and the three major commanders of the Broken God Army led 10,000 Broken God Army to escort them, and the great prince supervised state affairs.

Song Mingyuan, the chief eunuch of the celebrant ceremony, looked at this large number of important ministers who knelt down, and he finally figured out what was different about today's saint.

I remember that when the saint was still the prince, he was still a little eunuch at that time, and once he was on duty at the palace gate, he happened to meet the saint and the woman, and the saint's eyes at that time were the same as today...

On the dragon chair, Liu Yuanche sat north to south, changing the straight sitting posture in the past, he leaned on the dragon chair, and felt that this dragon chair was so wide and comfortable for the first time.

He looked at the 10,000 red carp and muttered to him, but no one knew what he said.

On the roof of the palace, there was a man holding wine in one hand and a grape in the other, he threw the grape into his mouth, looked up to the sky and laughed, and walked in the direction of Nafeng'an!