Chapter Forty-Eight: The Banquet Mutation

After the two wise women had said some considerate words to each other, the matter was over.

But Yao Yanyu didn't know anything about this matter, but he just prepared the commonly used medicines that the emperor said, put them neatly, wrote down the dosage and corresponding symptoms, sealed them, and let Ge Hai take people to the Jinghai Marquis Mansion.

Xiao Lin saw that these medicines were stacked in a very orderly manner, and the labels of the instructions were also written carefully and carefully, so he smiled and said: "Anything that comes to your Lord Yao is just one and the same. ”

Ge Hai said with a smile: "These things are completely handed over to the Hou Ye, and the lower officials can be regarded as relieved, when they came out, our wife repeatedly told them not to be careless." ”

Xiao Lin said with a smile: "What I said is that medicine has never been sloppy. ”

Ge Hai naturally claimed that it was, and after seeing that his subordinates were busy with their work, he said goodbye to Xiao Lin.

Two days after the Beihu envoy Yelu Khan stayed at the Dayun Post House, the Eastern Japanese envoy Nogawa also arrived, and in the following ten days, the envoys of the Buddha Langji, the South Indian envoy, and the Western Uighur envoy Qiu Geda, who had destroyed Arke, and other envoys from the surrounding and neighboring countries of Dayun arrived.

When the prince of Ark, who had been living in the capital of the Great Cloud Emperor, heard that the Western Uighurs were coming, his teeth itched with hatred, but he could only watch the enemy move into the pavilion with a big grin.

Because the emperor has sent the king of Hengjun to come over to spread the word, this year is the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Dayun and the 35th anniversary of the emperor's accession to the throne, and the envoys of various countries gathered in the Dayun Emperor to celebrate the Dayun and the emperor, so any old favors must be let go first, and no one can disturb this year's Daqing. Therefore, Aba Kesha, who can only rely on the blessing of the big clouds to have a glimmer of life, can only swallow his anger and scratch the wall in his yard every day.

After repeated summaries between the Ministry of Rites and the chief official of the Qin Heavenly Prison, the emperor set the day for the emperor to accept the worship of the envoys of various countries on November 22. And the specific matters of this day, the Ministry of Rites also came up with specific regulations:

Early in the morning of the 22nd, the emperor received the congratulations of the civil and military officials in the Taiji Hall at the time of the Mao, and then accepted the congratulations of the envoys of various countries at the time of the solstice. At the beginning of noon, the Yun'an Hall of Nanyuan gave a banquet for hundreds of officials, and after the banquet, it was said to be singing and dancing, until the evening.

However, after reading the arrangement, the emperor said that it would not be enough to give the envoys of various countries to visit the momentum of our Dayun heroic three armies, and he must give them a chance. So the song and dance was changed to a mounted archery competition.

Because of this proposal, Prince Cheng and Zhenguo Gong have been persuaded, and the two of them agreed that the emperor had an accident last time riding a horse in Nanyuan, although the little eunuchs of the imperial horse prison were executed, but the real behind-the-scenes inspirers have not been thoroughly investigated. But these envoys all have ghosts in their hearts, and they are also extremely dangerous in nature.

At this time, it is mainly to whitewash the peace, and such things as archery and horse riding and archery can naturally be avoided.

However, the emperor said that as a big country, the best defense is deterrence! The Great Cloud Dynasty wants to shock and fear these small countries with absolute deterrence, and it is best to let the Great Cloud Dynasty's strong strength scare their envoys half to death, and bring a message to their monarchs when they go back, and never think about the Great Cloud Dynasty.

Prince Cheng and Gong Zhenguo saw that the emperor had made up his mind, and it was difficult to persuade him again. They had to step up their own precautions and send their own people to all three and three layers of the corners of the Great Cloud Dynasty, so that every foreign envoy and even the ministers and important ministers of the Great Cloud Dynasty were under their surveillance, and they did not dare to make the slightest mistake.

In private, Prince Cheng said casually to his son Yun Kun: "If you insist on it for a month, maybe even the people behind the scenes who instructed the imperial horse supervisor to do something to the emperor's imperial horse can find out." ”

Yun Kun is more tired than Prince Cheng, the prince is just worried, and he not only worries but also labors. The matter involves the safety of the emperor, and no one dares to slack off. Yun Kun has been personally inspecting the deployment of various places for several days, and every corner of the Great Cloud Emperor Capital is now in his heart, and as soon as he closes his eyes, he can imagine a few golden scale guards pretending to be selling breakfast somewhere, or who and who are squeezed into the slums somewhere.

Listening to Prince Cheng's words, Yun Kun sighed faintly and said, "Even if it is found out, I can't say it now." It's been a good year. ”

King Cheng also sighed but shook his head and said: "This is not easy to say, if someone is really unstable, there is no stable year to live." But...... Hopefully those people have a little bit of an eye, hey! ”

Here the two of them sit together and relieve their fatigue through wine. In the Auxiliary General's Mansion, General Wei also talked with his wife after a busy day.

"I heard that the envoys of the Western Uighurs were their princes? Do you think the Arks will take the opportunity to cause trouble? Yao Yanyu sat on the couch, turned her back to Wei Zhang, and glanced back at him.

Wei Zhang was pinching his wife's shoulder, and when he saw her, he smiled and shook his head: "Aba Kesha doesn't have that strength." ”

"Be careful, too. After all, it's the hatred of extermination. When Yao Yanyu said this, she suddenly asked, "How is that Prince Gaoli now?" ”

"Those who vainly try to destroy my great cloud foundation will not be redeemed for their death." Wei Zhang pinched Yao Yanyu's shoulder and gently knocked her on the back.

"If you're dead, you're gone." Yao Yan sighed faintly. I hope that the Gaoli people scattered everywhere will be able to settle down after knowing that their most detached prince has also returned to hatred.

Prince Gao Li is dead, and it is said that Yao Yanyu should be relieved, but he still feels faintly uneasy. This uneasiness continued until noon on November 22.

The noon banquet was very grand, and most of the people in the entire imperial dining room were transferred to Nanyuan.

The emperor and the queen appeared together, and hundreds of civil and military officials and envoys from various countries visited in unison. After that, the emperor and the queen took their seats, and invited the envoys of various countries to take their seats, and then the civil and military officials took their seats.

In fact, there are not many courtiers who can enter the main hall, and a few princes are naturally indispensable, and then there are several brothers of the emperor, in addition to Zhenguo Gong, An Guogong and a few other old Guogongs who have contributed to the society, and then there are several cabinet ministers who have a good official residence, six Shangshu, the imperial history of the imperial history, a few Taifu, Jiuqing, etc., plus more than a dozen foreign people, full of people sitting in a large hall.

Han Genge, Wei Zhang, and Yun Kun are also in the hall, but their seats are all under those princes, and their positions are not conspicuous, and they are not responsible for accompanying wine and chatting, but secretly paying attention to all the movements in the hall. Especially the guards and servants behind the envoys, the slightest change will fall into the eyes of these people.

The banquet was naturally the emperor who spoke first, and then Prime Minister Feng, as the head of the ministers, delivered a speech again. After that, the envoys of various countries congratulated Dayun for the eternal inheritance, long live the emperor, long live the long live and other cumbersome etiquette rules, everyone drank first, and then used chopsticks to eat.

After three rounds of drinking, the envoy of the Eastern Widow was the first to stand up and toast the emperor.

The emperor responded with a smile, and after drinking the wine in the cup with the queen, he said two polite words to the envoy of the Eastern Emperor, and just raised his hand and said, "Please take a seat." Then I saw that the envoy of the East Widow, Nogawa, suddenly raised his hand to cover his chest, roared in pain, and fell to the ground with a stagger.

"What's going on?!" The emperor asked in surprise.

"Got a problem with the wine?!" Feng Zongye exclaimed in a low voice.

"Impossible!" The Ministry of Rites immediately retorted.

"¥&*@......" Nogawa's guards immediately shouted, one stepped forward to support their chief, and the other casually lifted the table, directly using the sandalwood case as a weapon in his hand and glared at the emperor angrily.

The emperor angrily slapped the case: "Someone! ”

Yun Kun jumped up when Nogawa fell, restrained the palace maid who poured wine for Nokawa, and snatched the wine jug from her hand.

This kind of banquet, Zhang Cangbei and Yao Yanyu naturally can't avoid it, but the two of them are waiting in the side hall with the other imperial doctors, and they can't enter the main hall without being summoned. At this time, there was chaos in the hall, and someone had already come to summon: "Where is the order of the old man Zhang?" What is the judgment of the Yao court?! ”

Zhang Cangbei and Yao Yanyu glanced at each other, and hurriedly entered the hall without saying a word.

Nogawa's symptoms are obvious poisoning, and the poison is also very simple, and it is something that can be bought in ordinary pharmacies - arsenic.

Immediately someone came up to inspect the food and drinks.

There is no poison in the dishes, and there is no poison in the wine. But despite this, the palace maid who served and poured wine could not be spared. Without the emperor's orders, Yun Kun had quietly sent people to detain all the people who had come into contact with the wine and dishes used by the envoys of the Eastern Widows, and wait for the emperor's fate.

And over there, when Yao Yanyu was applying needles to Nogawa, he was also obstructed by Nogawa's guards. They thought that their chief had been victimized by the people of Dayun, so they naturally did not believe in the medical officer of Dayun. In desperation, the people from the Ministry of Rites came over to explain again, and the last two guards agreed that Yao Yanyu would give Nokawa an injection, but it must be in front of the public, especially in front of the envoys of various countries.

This is no problem, as long as you agree to apply the needle, it is no problem in front of the king of heaven. The silver needle in Yao Yanyu's hand quickly pierced the three acupuncture points of Tianshu, Juxu, and Quchi.

Arsenic is highly toxic and can be used in very small doses. But I don't know if Nogawa was lucky, or if the person who poisoned him accidentally released less poison, and Nogawa was not poisoned deeply and did not die.

Yao Yanyu used the Taiyi Divine Needle to detoxify, but after half a pillar of incense, Ye Chuan woke up with a low groan, and the pain in his abdomen was basically gone, and what happened just now was just a nightmare.

Seeing that their chief woke up miraculously, the Dongwei guards no longer drew their swords so angrily, but they still had a cold face, and screamed, the meaning was obvious, if the Emperor of Dayun didn't give them an explanation, this matter would not be over, although their Dongwei country was small, but it was not so easy to bully Yunyun.

The emperor was naturally very angry, such a thing happened at the state banquet, it was undoubtedly a big mouth to slap his emperor's face, what kind of face would he have to deal with countries in the future? Even in front of their own civil and military ministers, it is too cowardly!

"Check!" The emperor patted the dragon case, "Give me a thorough investigation!" If this matter is not clear, no one is allowed to give me the New Year! ”

How to check is the matter of the emperor and Prince Cheng, but Yao Yanyu didn't care about this, but she quietly glanced at everyone in the hall with her heart, and secretly screamed in her heart. So without saying a word, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down and said: "Back to the emperor, the minister suggested blocking the palace, and in the opinion of the minister, there is a chance that the ministers have been poisoned." ”

This sentence was undoubtedly a thunderbolt, which stunned hundreds of people in the hall. After a while, Yao Yuanzhi was the first to react, after all, it was his daughter, so he hurriedly reprimanded in a low voice: "Don't be alarmist!" ”

Yao Yanyu glanced back at her father and said helplessly: "Father, are you a little dizzy?" Seeing everything is blurry? ”

Yao Yuan was stunned, blinked his eyes to look at Yao Yanyu, and then blinked again - yes, why is Yanyu's face double shadowed?

After Yao Yanyu finished saying this, not only Yao Yuanzhi's face changed, but half of the people in the hall changed their faces. Because they found that they were also a little dizzy, the scene in front of them was a little blurry, and no matter how they blinked, it seemed to be through a layer of fog, and they couldn't see clearly.

Of course, these panicked people are basically people over half a hundred years old, and young people such as Wei Zhang, Yun Kun, and the Han brothers don't feel anything. They were able to calm down, and each took out a pill from his bosom and put it in his mouth, and the cool mint fragrance spread between his lips and tongue, and his mind was much clearer.

"Someone! I've sealed the hall! The emperor glanced at the queen next to him who was leaning on the dragon case with her forehead, and immediately changed her complexion.

Fortunately, the emperor has been extremely cautious since the Yuma madness case, and no matter where he goes, he carries the sachet prepared by Zhang Cangbei that can cure all poisons, so he has no discomfort at this time.

Zhenguo Gong was born in the army, and he was strong and strong, although he was a little uncomfortable, but he could hold on. As soon as the emperor's voice fell, Zhen Guogong immediately waved his hand: "Do it!" ”

The father and son of the Han family, Wei Zhang, Yun Kun, Huang Song and others immediately took action, and Jin Linwei and Lieying Wei should join forces to surround the Yun'an Hall in the South Courtyard.

Yao Yanyu led people to open the doors and windows of the hall, so that the cold wind outside blew away the heat of the fragrance in the hall, and Zhang Cangbei ordered people to move all the copper tripod incense burners out of the hall.

Feng Zongye held Taishi Liang Siqian's hand trembling and arched his hand towards Yao Yanyu: "Lord Yao, you must think of a way!" ”

"Don't worry, Lord Feng, there is an order from the old courtyard, and this little ten-spice soft can't become any climate." Yao Yanyu said, Qingling's gaze swept over the faces of several ministers around him, and then fell on his father's face, and then took two steps forward, reaching out to pull Yao Yuanzhi's hand to catch his pulse.

Yao Yuanzhi was an old minister after all, so he shook his hand and said: "You are the emperor's exclusive medical officer, at this time, you should first diagnose the emperor's pulse!" ”

"Father, don't worry, the emperor is fine." Yao Yanyu said, holding Yao Yuanzhi's pulse again.

At this time, it was seen that the biological father and daughter were better, so many people in the hall were poisoned, but the divine doctor passed everyone to check his father's pulse first. Even the prince and the prince don't pay attention to it. This made the several ministers who were uncomfortable around them feel uncomfortable.

After a while, Yao Yanyu let go of Yao Yuanzhi's wrist and sighed, "Father was too close to that incense burner just now, and the poisoning should be the deepest." Wait for your daughter to give you the needle. ”

After speaking, Yao Yanyu already had a silver needle in his hand, and Yao Yuanzhi had to sit down slowly with the desk next to him. Take the Baihui acupuncture needle down, and the internal breath enters Yao Yuanzhi's body through the silver needle, and a tour is just a moment's work. After the silver needle was removed, she whispered, "Father, open your eyes." ”

Yao Yuanzhi slowly opened his eyes, and sure enough, his eyes were clear, and there was no trace of discomfort.

"Yao Yuan's judgment!" Taishi Ling Liang Siqian said coldly: "Even if the emperor is fine, there is still the queen's mother!" What is your intention to only care about your father and ignore the righteousness of the monarch and ministers?! ”

"Lord Liang, do you treat the old man as nothing?" Zhang Cangbei's deep voice was cold, and he asked Yao Yanyu back, with Zhang Cangbei's court order, where is it the turn of others to criticize the body of the emperor and queen? Zhang Cangbei has been by the emperor's side for decades, but it is not something that anyone can compare.

"But the queen's body is obviously unwell!" Liang Siqian pointed to the drowsy queen lying on the dragon case and said.

"Wait for the old minister to go and check the pulse of the mother." Zhang Cangbei glanced at Feng Zongye coldly, turned around and walked to the dragon case, knelt on the ground with the corner of his robe, and pleaded aloud: "The minister can't find out in time that the incense in the hall is inappropriate, and the crime deserves death. ”

The emperor waved his hand and said lightly: "Let's talk about it after the crime, and now the top priority is to detoxify it quickly." ”

"Yes." Zhang Cangbei said, took out a few pills from his purse, and ordered someone to take a clean white jade incense burner again, and after lighting the charcoal fire, he broke the pills and burned them on the charcoal fire.

The smell of this pill was a little strong and a little pungent, and everyone sneezed after smelling it, and their eyes couldn't stop crying. Feng Zongye couldn't help but ask, "What kind of pill is this?" Why does it smell so bad? ”

"It's not a fragrant cake, it's just a pill for detoxification." Zhang Cangbei said lightly, and stepped forward to kowtow to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to diagnose the queen's pulse." ”

"Hurry up." The emperor has been disturbed by these things, and at this time he has no clue in his heart, and his face is naturally not good-looking.

Zhang Cangbei checked the pulse of the queen, and Yao Yanyu went to check the pulse of the foreign envoys. The pills in the incense burner burned quickly, and after a while, the white smoke gradually faded, and the pungent smell of the medicine gradually dispersed.

The queen mother rubbed her forehead and sat up straight, and asked with a confused look: "Your Majesty, what's going on?" The concubine felt so sleepy just now, as if she had a dream. ”

Zhang Cangbei glanced at the empress with a look of emotion, and Fang Langsheng replied: "Back to the emperor, the queen's phoenix body is fine, maybe it has been a little hard work in the past few days, and the body can't bear it." ”

Although it is a state banquet, but because the envoys who came are all men, so it has nothing to do with the harem, this morning the emperor also asked the queen how she is, and the queen said that she was refreshed after resting for this period of time, and her body was already well.

Hearing Zhang Cangbei's words, the emperor couldn't help but stare at Zhang Cangbei's eyes. Zhang Cangbei glanced at the emperor with a frank look, and after exchanging a look with the emperor, he hurriedly lowered his head. The emperor's face became more and more ugly.

When the pungent smell of medicine in the room dissipated, all the ministers also regained their clarity, even Nogawa, who had just been poisoned, was no different from ordinary people. It's just that a state banquet was disturbed, and the emperor was disgraced, and he was naturally depressed. The ministers trembled, and the ministers were excited.

Rao is the doors and windows of this hall are wide open, and the atmosphere is still dull and suffocating.

Yao Yuanzhi hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "Your Majesty, the turmoil has passed, fortunately, there is no danger, this is also God bless me with the longevity of the Great Cloud Country, and the emperor is blessed with great blessings." Therefore, the minister thought that this matter could be carefully inquired about later, but this state banquet still had to be carried out. "The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the envoys of various countries cannot sit here. Besides, today is the big day of the Great Cloud National Day, how can the celebration be suspended because of this matter?

When the emperor heard these words, his mind gradually settled down, because he said: "Tell me to go down, tell the imperial dining room to prepare additional dishes, and the banquet continues!" ”

"Yes!" The Ministry of Rites hurriedly kowtowed to receive orders.

There was another lot of chaos, and the palace maids serving in the main hall were all detained, but immediately a new group of palace maids came in to serve.

However, after this incident, everyone present was on guard, and all the dishes were tested for poison with silver needles after they were served, and the original mahogany and gold-inlaid chopsticks were now replaced with ebony inlaid silver, and the details of the celebration could not be paid attention to compared with life.

Although the civil servants are more talkative, the singers and dancers are also more hardworking. But the atmosphere in the hall could not be alleviated, and even these deliberately elevated chatters, laughter, singing and dancing became an embarrassment to whitewash the peace.

The emperor was even more depressed in his heart, he wanted to drink to relieve his boredom, but he was afraid that the wine was poisonous, and he didn't dare to eat the food, his stomach was bulging, and he had nowhere to vent, so his liver hurt.

King Cheng had already quietly gone down to inquire about the matter, and the Duke of Zhenguo looked at the puffing emperor from the side, and after a song and dance, he stepped forward and proposed: "Your Majesty, the banquet is almost over, and the hunting ground has been prepared early." The emperor is wise and martial, so he is naturally not afraid, but if the ministers drink too much, they will lose face if they lose their accuracy in riding and shooting later. Please ask the emperor and all the noble envoys to drink a few glasses, and wait for me to go out and hunt the living beast, and then come back with the fragrant roasted wine! ”

The emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and even patted the case: "Well said! Everyone, save some stomachs, and I'll have a big bowl of wine with you later! ”

Not only the military ministers and envoys of various countries, but even those pedantic civil servants are not willing to sit down in this hall. It's really hard to eat or drink, and you don't even dare to breathe! It's better to get out of the air quickly to breathe, even if it is a cold wind, but at least you won't die!

The prey in the hunting ground is carefully selected, and it is all fattened hares, pheasants, mountain roe deer, wild roe deer and other non-aggressive wild animals.

The emperor has not ridden a horse since he fell off his horse last time, and when he got on the horse today, the prince of Zhenguo was really apprehensive about guarding him.

But fortunately, the emperor is a person who has gone through great storms, and his heart is strong enough, from recognizing the stirrup to shooting the prey, it can be said that it was done in one go, without the slightest impropriety, and the Zhenguo Gong who followed closely next to him finally let go.

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