Chapter 157: The Matter of Armor, the Covenant of Swords
It can be seen how Jiang Shen's mind has changed from small to big, and it is publicized in convergence.
The squire ran directly to the side room after bypassing the wall, and after removing a large empty water tank in the side room, a wooden board was exposed, he opened the wooden board and walked in, tossing and turning for a long time with a stick of incense, and finally he came out of a side room and ran to the courtyard, this courtyard was completely different from the pattern of the scale of the shadow house, and there were seven or eight more family members, he called the family members to move a water tank, and led everyone into it, and walked around a lot of forks in the road, and after about a quarter of an hour, he came to a secret room underground.
The squire took a deep breath, turned his head and said to the family: "You may not have seen so many of these things in your life, and they are likely to cause death, if you are afraid to leave now, you can turn around and leave, I will give you a ride, and those who do not leave have a lot of glory and wealth waiting for you." ”
The family members looked at each other, and there were really two people who turned around and left, and the squire waiter's face was gloomy, and two flying knives appeared under the reversal of his palm, piercing the back of the two family members, and the two died violently in an instant.
After the squire played this trick, it seems that he still has some martial arts.
Then he smiled gloomily: "If I say I will give you a ride, I will give you a ride." ”
After that, he put the two jade buckles in his arms in the groove in front of the door of the secret room, and the stone door slowly opened, and the originally dull secret room burst out with wisps of golden light!
It is said that Yang Liechen followed Prime Minister Zhang Cheng to walk on the royal road, this is the first time he walked seriously on the road of being an official, he used to just send Chu Hanlin to the royal road and then he turned around and left, there is no chance and no qualification to go on a walk, the Beijing official said that he is not an official but the royal road, and he is an official in the imperial court.
Yang Liechen, the official to the second grade, finally embarked on the first step of walking the royal road, and the guide was Zaifu, the head of the hundred officials of the dynasty, this alone is enough to bluff people.
Yang Liechen looked at the old man beside him, he really couldn't help the thoughts he held back in his heart, follow the old man to face the saint, and it is not the saint who called him into Beijing, how can this not make an officialdom chick nervous, if he is not called, he still doesn't know what the old prime minister is, he asked nervously: "Prime Minister Zhang, what is the matter with entering Beijing to face the saint this time, the prime minister does not say, and the younger generation is not sure." ”
Zhang Xuanlin rolled up his cuffs and quipped: "You haven't done anything wrong, what are you afraid of?" Your Majesty is not a man-eating tiger, not much older than you, you should learn from your cheeky master, everywhere you look, you look at your nose, nose and heart, and look like a scoundrel who is not just me, and I am not a man. ”
Jiedu made the lord dumbfounded, and when he heard others say bad things about the master, he would definitely not be able to answer, he sneered and said: "Prime Minister Zhang, don't make fun of me, that's the saint today, who doesn't know the divine power of the saint?" Who is not afraid of the true dragon emperor? Can the prime minister give the younger generation a thorough explanation? What is the purpose of this trip? ”
Zhang Xuanlin raised his eyelids and asked, "Do you know what it is to discuss the emperor in private?" ”
"The following?"
"Then how about you still take a bite of a saint!"
Yang Liechen was completely speechless, the prime minister made it clear that he didn't want to tell himself, he took a deep breath, shook his head gently, if you come, you will be safe, and when the time comes, the time will be improvised, the saint who has never met will not drag himself down and cut him down when he just stepped into the door.
Yang Liechen followed Prime Minister Zhang Cheng for almost half an hour, and when he was about to see the Wuying Palace, he longed for it, it was his dream to enter the palace and listen to the court, although he was now the second grade of the official position, but it was still for foreign officials not to enter the court, he looked at Zhang Xuanlin who did not stop next to him, should he fulfill his dream today?
Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for him to see the huge dragon wall in front of Wuying Palace, a eunuch wearing a red python robe and a feminine appearance was waiting by the royal road with a group of little eunuchs, and he had been waiting for a long time.
When Lu Dongshan saw Prime Minister Zhang walking briskly, he also walked head-on, brushed his cuffs and said respectfully: "Our family has seen Prime Minister Zhang Cheng." ”
Zhang Xuanlin was puzzled: "Your Majesty has something?" ”
Lu Dongshan nodded, "Your Majesty specially sent our family here to greet you, and informed Prime Minister Zhang Cheng that he would not go to the imperial study to talk about matters today, and changed it to the imperial garden." ”
Zhang Xuanlin said: "Okay, I know, this is a senior disciple of Chu Hanlin, named Yang Liechen, I will bring him to face the saint today." ”
Lu Dongshan nodded lightly again, glanced at Yang Liechen without leaving a trace, and said: "Lord Yang is really radiant, he deserves to be called a Confucian general, and the deeds of rejecting 30,000 horses with 5,000 forces, our family is surging and wants to join the army." ”
Yang Liechen naturally knew that the eunuch who commanded the 50,000 eunuchs in the harem was joking, how could a general who was the commander of the army be stable and comfortable in the palace with brocade clothes and jade food, he didn't care, and quipped: "If Gonggong Lu joins the army, he will definitely be able to seek the county city of the Great Zhou." ”
"How dare you."
Lu Dongshan led the way in front with a smile, until a pond with green and yellow lotus leaves floated, he pointed to the moon cave door in front and said: "His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress are here, our family will not go in, please Prime Minister Zhang and Lord Yang take a noble step." ”
Prime Minister Zhang nodded and walked in directly, Yang Liechen bowed slightly to the big eunuch with palm prints, "I'm tired." ”
"It's just our family's business."
After that, Lu Dongshan turned around and left, Yang Liechen also followed Zhang Xuanlin to the Moon Cave Gate, he smiled self-deprecatingly, this palace eunuch only gave himself a little thin face for the sake of Zhang Xuanlin's face, and he was still delusional.
Walking through the moon cave door, there is a world of difference between the inside and outside of the door.
The pond outside the door is full of autumn loneliness and lifelessness, but inside the door is like the spring equinox, with a hundred flowers competing for flowers and a hundred grasses and moistening, exuding vitality everywhere.
There are three people enjoying the shade under a tall ancient tree, and the sound of laughter is endless.
The only man standing was dressed in clean white clothes, his posture was tall and magnificent, with a sense of grace, and a thin beard on his lips, which looked even more elegant and profound.
The seated woman was teasing a child of eight or nine years old, whose lips were red and his teeth were white, like another daisy blooming in the garden.
And the woman's appearance is the peony asset, a smile, a look at the sky, with the man feels that everything is so complementary, very comfortable into the eyes, as if the two are the mortal fairy couple, like a lady and a gentleman.
Zhang Xuanlin and Yang Liechen knelt down together and shouted: "The minister greets Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
"Long live the emperor, long live the queen."
The man who was standing saw the two kneeling on the ground and saluted, he laughed and helped Zhang Xuanlin forward and said, "Taifu is here, come and sit." ”
Zhang Xuanlin walked to the pavilion with Li Ru is smile, and when he passed by the queen's mother, he asked again, and sighed in his heart, is this queen really the reincarnation of the fox? On the day I saw it, I was just a middle-aged person, but now I was so charming.
Cheng Yiyue got up and gave a blessing, "Yiyue has seen Taifu." ”
The little boy also made a decent gesture and said, "I've seen Mr. Zhang." ”
Zhang Xuanlin touched the little boy's head, he liked this prince very much, not only smart and clever but also very interesting, but also extremely humble, in the body of this prince, he saw the shadow of Li Ru is childhood, presumably there will be no accidents in the future, and he is also a generation of Ming Jun.
As for what happened to the accident, the emperor's family affairs couldn't figure it out.
Yang Liechen was still kneeling on the ground, the Son of Heaven only beckoned Prime Minister Zhang Cheng to get up, but he didn't let him get up, without the Son of Heaven's dictation, he had to kneel for a long time, and watched Zhang Xuanlin and Li Ru go outside the pavilion.
The extremely beautiful queen smiled at him, and pulled the little boy to the pavilion, and for a while only Yang Liechen was kneeling in the entire garden.
Everyone who was still in the garden before, as if they didn't see Yang Liechen's existence except for the queen's mother, the emperor didn't say it, and Prime Minister Zhang didn't say it.
Yang Liechen knelt on the ground and thought desperately in his mind, what does this mean?
In the pavilion, Li Ru was eating melons and fruits and looked at Yang Liechen in the distance, and he asked: "Wronging a second-grade festival envoy like this, shouldn't it make him resentful?" ”
Li Ru is tone was inquiring, but Mei Yu didn't care, how this second-grade festival envoy rose up, and the role of the rise, he was clear.
Zhang Xuanlin hugged the prince Li Qianmin on his lap and said with a smile: "You kid is sinking again, you can't bear such grievances?" Our little prince has suffered a lot more grievances than him in the country. ”
Li Qianmin pouted and said: "Mr. Zhang, those are not grievances, the queen mother said it, it is called tempering the heart." ”
Prime Minister Zhang Cheng scratched the prince's little nose, "Did the queen really say so?" ”
Cheng Yiyue glared at her stupid son in anger, and Li Qianmin shrank his head in Zhang Xuanlin's arms and didn't dare to show his head.
Zhang Xuanlin touched Li Qianmin's little head, and said to the Son of Heaven: "As the queen said, it's just about tempering your heart, you can't stand this grievance, so when he is scolded by civil and military officials in the future, won't he commit suicide?" ”
"Yes."
Li Ru nodded slightly, "Taifu, did you want to give him some more credit for bringing him into Beijing this time?" ”
Zhang Xuanlin put down the little prince and took out a book from his arms, "This is written in detail about the role of changing the state and county to the state road system, of course, these are only applicable to the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it can be regarded as a rainy day, and when the Southern Dynasties and Western Shu are destroyed, the benefits of this system will gradually appear." ”
Li Ru didn't look at the recital, but just put it in his arms, "I'll go back and look at the state road system changed by Taifu, and now there is another thing, I have a headache, and I want to ask Taifu to solve my doubts." ”
Zhang Xuanlin let out a puzzled "oh", there are even more important things than the restructuring of the world? And it also gave the saint a headache, it didn't seem to be a good thing, he said in a deep voice: "If you can give Your Majesty a headache, the minister can only listen to it, as for whether you can solve the puzzle, you have to see if it is a specialization." ”
Zhang Xuanlin didn't say anything to death, in case it was really a problem he didn't understand, he could also use this to prevaricate, leave a way back, so as not to be speechless, it seems that he is not so professional, and the saint now hates those talented and virtuous people who occupy the pit and don't.
Li Ru sighed and said: "After the Huai'an army crossed the river, there was no news, and even the supervision envoy who wanted to send did not reply to any news, and did not hide it from the Taifu and said, I am a little scared, the Southern Dynasty and Western Shu are already chaotic enough, if it is ......"
"If the Huai'an army also betrays the Great Zhou, then the Great Zhou will really destroy the country?"
"Not really."
Li Ru smiled bitterly, "Li Zizhen is really my imperial brother, even if he really wants to seek power and usurp the throne, if he really lets him succeed, Da Zhou will still be surnamed Li, and will not be surnamed Liu or Lu." ”
"Your Majesty, but you see it thoroughly."
The Son of Heaven raised his hand to Cheng Yiyue, who understood, took out a letter from his cuff and handed it to Zhang Xuanlin.
Prime Minister Zhang looked at Cheng Yiyue with a strange face, this queen seems to be very trusted by the emperor, this kind of thing that is more important than the restructuring of the world, the queen is actually the woman who holds it.
Li Ru said in a deep voice: "The night before yesterday, when I was still in the imperial study, this letter suddenly appeared on the table, without any warning, it appeared out of thin air, I opened it and looked at it, there was only so much content. ”
Zhang Xuanlin opened the envelope and read: "Yu Youjun and his 10,000 troops disappeared inexplicably, Yu Youjun led an army of 50,000 to attack Qiulian Military Town outside Yuanzhou City, and fought for seven hours, Qiu Lianjun Town Wang Yi's 40,000 army did not survive one out of ten, Yu Youjun disappeared with the momentum of victory, and Dugu Taiyi was found on the battlefield. ”