Chapter Thirty-Eight: Entering the Palace
The sleeping tiger is still a fierce tiger.
Stepping on the morning light, nine hundred Yulin returned to the camp, Guan Yu stayed in the Yulin camp to take care of the injured Yang Feng, there are doctors and craftsmen in the Yulin camp who specialize in treating external injuries, to some extent, their level of healing external injuries is even higher than that of the imperial doctors in the palace.
Ma Yue and Jian Shuo rode into Luoyang City. It was important for him to report the two things he had in his hand before the morning came. During his year in Luoyang, he had never seen the open and secret struggle between Qingliu and the eunuchs, nor had he seen the struggle for power between the warriors and the scribes. Taiping Dao and the Eastern Han Dynasty court were the first games he saw.
The air in the streets is fresh in the morning, and the autumn breeze blows through the scales, which is a little chilly. As early as when he was imprisoned, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty promoted the thirsty Wu to the entire Luoyang, and the three streets of Baihu, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu were all made small transformations. This is Liu Hong's merit, but it did not benefit the people, but only the dignitaries in the city. This project, which was completed without Ma Yue's knowledge, made him think of the drainage system in later generations, which might be able to implement a state and benefit the people when he was in charge of the party in the future.
Luoyang has three main roads, but there are twenty-four streets and twelve city gates. Each street is a pavilion, and each city gate is also a pavilion.
Ma Yue was thinking about the underground water system in his heart, and he heard the family sent by the big family to catch the morning meeting talk about the events of last night.
"Did you hear that last night? Last night's troop move? ”
"Are you referring to the sound of horses' hooves coming from Xuanwu Street? Listening to the mobilization of nearly 1,000 soldiers and horses, it is not that something has happened. ”
"Not only that, my lord didn't sleep all night last night, and it was even more chaotic on the second watch, and I don't know what happened."
"Silence! You see that there are still blood stains on the armor-clad General Yulin, don't talk about it, chew your tongue and be careful of the offense. ”
Seeing Ma Yue and a few people riding tall horses past the middle of the street, the two miscellaneous servants immediately stopped talking, and Ma Yue drove their horses to their side and asked, "Did there be a movement of soldiers and horses last night during the second watch?" ”
The two family members immediately knelt down on the side of the road and said, "Forgive the general, the sound of a large march came from the street last night...... I don't know if it's a soldier or a horse mobilization. ”
Nodding, Ma Yue let the two leave, turned his head to Jian Shuo and said, "I watched last night, Captain Ji and Captain Chun Yu also took action. ”
Jian Shuo nodded and said, "Ma Youjian, there is still an hour before the early court, let's go into the palace and report the situation to Your Majesty." ”
"Report to the palace?" Ma Yue was puzzled: "Isn't it reported to Henan Yin?" ”
Jian Shuo smiled when he heard this: "Report to Henan Yin Na is the matter of Ji Ling and Chun Yuqiong, your Yulin Cavalry is directly ordered by Your Majesty, and naturally you have to go back to the palace to report the results to Your Majesty." ”
"That's ......" Ma Yue asked, "Jian Huangmen, have you prepared your battle report?" ”
Jian Shuo said: "Dictate it directly to Your Majesty, Your Majesty likes to listen to these battle reports, and as for the written ones, they have their own records in the palace." It's just that the right prisoner, can you remember the casualties and captures last night? ”
"Well, let's go." Ma Yue nodded, and took the lead in urging the horses to run towards Hongdu Gate.
There are two schools in Luoyang City, the south side of Kaiyang Gate is the prestigious Taixue, and the north gate of the palace is called Hongdu Gate, where Liang Hu studied in his youth. The location of Hongdu Gate is stronger than Taixue, Taixue is at the gate of Luoyang, and Hongdu Gate is at the gate of the palace, which is naturally different. This is of course inseparable from the Han Emperor Liu Hong's love for literature and art.
It is true that Liu Hong is a faint king, but it is undeniable that without this school that stood at the gate of the palace and was built under the influence of the public, and did not cultivate this group of 'dance, writing, and ink and three religions and nine streams', I am afraid that there would be no Jian'an literature, and even the poetry and literature of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Shaking his head, Ma Yue untied his sword and crossbow, jumped off his horse, and walked into the palace with Jian Shuo.
Liu Hong was very happy to hear the news that the eunuch had come to report Jian Shuo and Ma Yue, and drove away the palace maid to meet them directly in the dormitory.
Ma Yue and Jian Shuo were hindered by etiquette...... In fact, Jian Shuo has no problem, as a eunuch, he often enters Liu Hong's bedroom, but Ma Yue is different, he is a nine-foot big man with six roots, so he entered the emperor's bedroom and was known to have to play him, standing in front of the door and not daring to enter.
Not long after, the eunuch who delivered the message came out again and said: "Your Majesty has a decree, Xuan Ma Yue and Jian Shuo will enter the palace to meet you!" After a pause, the eunuch leaned over to Ma Yue's side and whispered: "Your Majesty also asked the servant to tell Ma Youjian that you and Jian Shuo are both Your Majesty's cronies, so there is no need to be polite." ”
Ma Yue nodded, smiled at the little eunuch and nodded, and said, "The more I thank Gonggong for passing the word." ”
'Why is it that this Jean, Jian Shuo, and these little eunuchs who have never met are so friendly to Lao Tzu, is it possible...... Lao Tzu is now considered a eunuch faction? Shaking his head, Ma Yue threw away all these thoughts and walked into the dormitory.
Deyang Hall.
There was curling green smoke in the gilded incense burner, and the bronze palace lamp illuminated the hall as bright as the outside.
"Weichen Ma Yue see Your Majesty's Sheng'an."
"Slave to Your Majesty."
Lowering his head, Ma Yue found that Liu Hong liked to put his two palms around his little belly, Liu Hong beckoned, yawned and said, "Get up, tell me, is there any good news?" ”
Jian Shuo glanced at Ma Yue and nodded, Ma Yue got up and said: "Your Majesty, last night Weichen and Jian Huangmen led Yulin to ride 900 strong men out of Luoyang, and met Ma Yuanyi, who had dispersed believers, in Shanyang and detained them, and was besieged by hundreds of mobs on the road, killing 679 enemies, and Yulin's right cavalry was killed 137, most of them were wounded, and 353 military horses were lost. ”
Liu Hong heard the casualties and raised his head and glanced at Ma Yue, maybe it was because he had not slept all night, his eyes were a little confused, and he responded nonchalantly, Liu Hong was a little irritable, and shouted: "I don't care about the loss of the military horse, you just need to tell me, have the traitors who intended to rebel have been killed?" ”
Shaking his head, Ma Yue said, "Back to Your Majesty, the traitors have not been killed yet. ”
Liu Hong angrily slapped the floor with his palm and shouted, "What did you do when you came back without killing all of them?" Didn't I want you to kill all the traitors after you caught Ma Yuanyi? ”
Seeing Liu Hong's anger, Ma Yue hurriedly knelt on the ground, but he was not nervous and afraid, and said clearly: "Your Majesty, there is a reason why Weichen did not kill all the traitors. As he spoke, Ma Yue took out the map and the book with the list in his bosom and said: "Because I got these things from a thief leader in the battle of Weichen, I hurriedly ran back to Luoyang to meet Your Majesty, this thing is very important." ”
Liu Hong raised his eyes, made a gesture to Jian Shuo and said, "Hand it over." ”
Jian Shuo opened the map in front of Liu Hong, and then opened the bamboo slips and put them on several cases in front of Liu Hong. Liu Hong asked, "What is this?" ”
"Your Majesty, this is the reason why Weichen is in a hurry to come back. This is a list of thieves who are deployed in the stronghold of the Sili Lieutenant Department and infiltrated into the forbidden army. Ma Yue raised his head and said to Liu Hong: "Because the thief is by His Majesty's side!" ”