Chapter 54: Snow and Red Plum (4)
As soon as the sky turned white, I ordered someone to break the ice and row to the Daming Palace.
The palace is the palace, and it is the big spend. The firecrackers that were set off for one night on Chinese New Year's Eve last night are now red on the road, and they make a variety of sounds when they step on them, bright and gorgeous like ten miles of brocade.
My father said he was going to come with my mother, but how could I really let them come? Not to mention that I want to hide people's eyes, on the first day of the new year, it should be me, the daughter, who went to visit.
When I think of the rare reunion, I am still very happy in my heart.
All the way through the flowers and willows, I came to the Xuanzheng Palace. The chief eunuch in front of the palace was dressed in festive red, and after saying a few words on the painting screen, he went in with a smile and reported it quickly. Before leaving, he also instructed the little eunuch on the side to move a chair for me to rest.
It seems that my face is not small.
After a while, the chief steward ran out and knelt down respectfully to me: "Your Highness, please come in, the emperor is waiting for you." He said a number of polite compliments. is worthy of being the chief eunuch in front of the emperor, and his eloquence is better than that of the warriors in the rivers and lakes.
This time, I'm not in a hurry, I've come to the Xuanzheng Palace, so let's enjoy the luxury of the palace. Needless to say, the whole palace is magnificent, but the style is luxurious and low-key. Unlike the jeweled edge of the Wandering Gang or the top floor of the building, the emperor's residence is not exaggerated and ostentatious, but it is also extremely minimalist. For example, every pillar is full of dark fragrance, for example, every outline on the column is finely carved and hidden from different angles, and there are dark lines hidden under the paint. For example, every flower and tree is cut to complement each other, for example, the flower pot for cultivating flowers and trees is a famous product......
The residence of the emperor has a domineering and simple beauty.
After I admired it step by step and marveled at it step by step, I met Yang Yu who came out in front of the palace gate. This kid is still dressed gracefully and in line with the duty of a prince, and the immature little face of Lao Chen faced me, bowed silently, and led the people away.
He has always been a sensible child, and this time he has done his due courtesy, and he has just the right amount of proportion.
I turned and knocked at the door and entered the temple, and I paid no more attention to him.
I frowned as I was greeted by a wave of heat, and the picture screen immediately helped me take off my jacket. I watched the ever-bright lantern lit by whale fat, and hundreds of rare antiques, famous swords, swords, and famous calligraphy and paintings in the entire palace. Looking carefully, the so-called royal extravagance is not the extravagance of pearls like earth and gold, but the low-key luxury of a table, a chair, a cup and a lamp are all valuable in everyone's hands.
Entering this Daming Palace, I really have a long insight.
However, when I took a closer look at the heating system in this hall, I once again learned about my father's love for me. This palace is painted with pepper and mud, the wall is draped with splendid embroidery, mainly fragrant cinnamon, set up a fire screen, there is a red feather tent, and the ground is covered with a blanket from the Western Regions. In addition, pipes were dug in the walls around the entire palace, and hot water circulated in the pipes to provide a continuous source of heat for the palace. And the charcoal of this boiling water is also very particular, it is Rui charcoal, the tribute of the Xiliang Kingdom, more than a long foot, cyan, hard as iron, burned in the furnace, no flame but light, the heat is not approachable, but no smoke comes out. The heating in the Emperor's palace was really extravagant and warm. However, the heating in my dancing sleeve palace is exactly the same as that of the emperor.
I pinched my sleeves, which were a little heavy from all kinds of jewelry, and my father did his best to give me the best.
"Have you seen enough?" The grand voice of the upper seat interrupted my glance.
I smiled and walked forward to lie in front of the dragon case to face my father, and said sweetly: "Dad, people can't wait for you, so they ran over by themselves." I just looked at this gorgeous palace for a while. ”
Dad tapped my forehead: "What an uninformed." However, he could see that he was really happy, and his eyebrows and eyes were smiling.
"However, I didn't even get up so early to come to pay New Year's greetings."
"Yes, Yu'er has been here." Dad sat up slightly straighter, and changed to a comfortable sitting position, "Among my children and grandchildren, he is the most sensible." He is also pitiful, my Zhao'er died early, and this fatherless child is naturally more sensible than others. ”
Thinking that the son of the crown prince, who is capable of being noble, once lost his father at a young age, he had to live in this cannibalistic Daming Palace without his father's protection at such a young age, and he couldn't help but be more observant.
I didn't want Yu'er's affair to ruin my father's festive mood on the first day of the new year, so I immediately smiled and said: "Dad must have heard all kinds of compliments, and my daughter only said one word, Dad, Happy New Year." With a wave of his hand, he motioned to the picture screen to let the little eunuch outside bring in the gifts I had prepared.
I personally unveiled the red hijab, which was a delicately embroidered picture of Jiangshan Sheji, with some colored nails inserted on it, and some words were delicately engraved on the nails, such as "Li" and "Dou". I said to my father: "This map of Jiangshan Sheji is embroidered by myself, which embroiders all the gates and moats of my Great Sui and various spheres of influence, and these colored nails on it represent the warlords everywhere, and the number of nails in each place is different to represent the warlords' strength. Dad, my daughter thinks this strategic map is very useful, and my daughter wishes her father success and suppresses these rebellious ministers and thieves one by one. ”
Dad didn't seem to have used such a useful thing, his eyes lit up, and he patted my head and laughed, "Haha, my brocade scales are really different." Come, I have prepared a gift for you. With that, he pulled me to the dragon case again, took out a brocade box and handed it to me.
When I opened it, it was a toad that was white and red, and I immediately exclaimed, "Blood toad." Dad, you should keep this thing for yourself. ”
"Fool, this is life-saving stuff." Dad looked at me with a smile.
I handed the brocade box back: "Of course I know that the medicinal effect of the blood toad can almost kill people and flesh and bones, precisely because it is a life-saving thing, Dad, you should keep it for yourself." Fu raised his head again and added: "I am the black who is famous all over the world." King of the Way, this thing is useless to me. ”
Dad pushed the brocade box back to me: "Jinliang, you know, you are safe, Dad can rest assured." ”
I looked at my father deeply, and silently put away the brocade box without saying a word.
I didn't know what to say for a while, and glanced at the words on the dragon case, a painting of ink that had not dried:
The autumn breeze rises, and you travel thousands of miles. Thousands of miles to go, Hengxi to build the Great Wall.
The boy is wise, the camp of the first saint. Shuzi Wanshi policy, peace this billions of life.
Dare to worry about Jiao Si and sit back in Beijing. Beihe Bingwu Festival, thousands of miles of rolls.
Mountains and rivers haunt each other, and the wilderness is poor and overlooked. Hit the gold to stop the march, beat the drum and raise the soldiers.
Thousands of rides, drinking horses and the Great Wall Caves. Autumn dusk is filled with clouds, and the fog is dark and the mountains and moons are closed.
The edge of the cliff post is on the horse, and the beacon fire is sent in the air. By asking the Marquis of the Great Wall, he entered the court.
The turbidity is quiet in the Tianshan Mountains, and the morning light is high. The release of the army is still revitalizing, and it is necessary to take a foolish action.
Drink to the proclamation, and return to the front of the Qing Temple.
The whole article is full of atmosphere, quite the style of Wei Wu, it is the "Drinking Horse Great Wall Cave" made by Dad during his tour of the west. Breaking through the century-old Chen Liang's poetry, such a brilliant and grand style is really the best product.
Dad noticed my sight and said with a smile: "It's a new year, I always want to have a good luck." Over the years, I have suffered setbacks in my political affairs, and I hope that there will be a good result in the coming year. As he spoke, he sighed and continued, "The military salaries of Goryeo have not kept up and can only retreat, I wanted to make Liaodong more peaceful, but now it seems that there is no hope for a short time." The construction of the Great Wall to make a moat to resist the Turks, and the construction of the canal will inevitably develop the national economy, but it is slowly difficult to implement, and it has slowed down the process. Also, I thought that the imperial examination would absorb the Hanmen to curb the clan gatekeepers, hmph, this is not afraid of the opposition of those important ministers, but I didn't expect that the Hanmen was too sluggish, and there have been no talents for a few years. These are obviously good things that are beneficial to all generations, why are these lower-level officials and the people so uncooperative. As he spoke, he sighed again, a little annoyed and a little sad.
I see, so.
I didn't know what to say, so I just stood aside and sighed. I think of the people I saw from southern Xinjiang who were bullied like ants at the bottom of the prosperity of whitewashing the peace.
These are indeed feats that are tired of the present and beneficial to the eternal. But, Dad, you are the Son of Heaven, so naturally you don't know the suffering of civilians. You don't know that your beautiful visions that are beneficial to eternity are too eager to come true, and the heavy taxes and labor have made the people unbearable, not to mention that the Central Plains has just experienced years of war and has long been barren. You don't know how many people your canal will starve to death before it enriches the whole country, and you don't know how many families your conquest will destroy before it becomes peaceful in Liaodong. You are wise and martial, you can only see the magnificent hegemony of the country, and you can't see the white bone ghosts crying on the side of the road.
Of course, I don't see a lot of people's suffering, but the numbers in various account books are enough for me to draw these conclusions.
I bowed my head silently, I knew I couldn't blame my father, but he was wrong.
In the end, I could only whisper: "Dad, if you have time, let's go out on patrol again." In fact...... I want you to see the people at the bottom. A lot of things you don't understand, when you see it with your own eyes, you will understand. ”
After having lunch absentmindedly in the mother's palace, he returned to the dancing sleeve palace on the island with great interest.
I thought that my father was mediocre as an emperor, but I didn't expect that he was not only mediocre, but even wise and far-sighted. He just made an inevitable mistake, simply unintentional, and how do I blame him?
How do I choose?
Holding the delicate white porcelain tea cup in both hands, the light smoke unique to the green fog dragon well blurred my vision. I saw the long eyelashes enveloping the grief, and then I didn't lift my head, and the tea cup in my hand had been bounced up the beam.
But there was no sound of breaking.
There was a string of gorgeous and colorful laughter on the beam, and the man joked: "Great beauty, about?" ”