Chapter 32: Reward
Ask for flowers, collection!
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Duan Zhong hurriedly walked a few steps to the back of the hall, came to the door of the hall and beckoned outside, and finally saw a few eunuchs carrying a large box with great difficulty and slowly moved up.
The box is very large, and it is really eye-catching when it is placed in the Fengtian Temple. And how did Emperor Liang Wen touch his chin and ask with interest: "Duan Aiqing, what is in this?" β
Duan Zhong said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, wait for Duan to open the box." As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the box and saw a large object wrapped in red satin. Duan Zhong hurriedly called the eunuch on the side to come over and carefully carried this thing out.
When it was opened, the first person to be dumbfounded was Xiao Beiping. What is it? Dragon wheelchair?
That's right, it's a two-wheeled ...... Dragon chair. And Xiao Beiping can also recognize with great certainty that this is a wheelchair made by Duan Zhong in the mansion of Liao Zhangjin, the governor of Jiangnan, but the chair in front of him has some more gold-inlaid carvings and dragon pictures. This weight is really ruthless enough, I used the rest of the things, and I dared to take it as a gift to the emperor after a new makeover. This section ...... Sure enough, it's bold.
Three days ago, Duan Zhong heard that he was going to face the saint in the court, so he naturally wanted to think of a way to curry favor with Emperor Wen of Liang. Emperor Liang Wendi is not in good health, and he needs someone to help him not fall when he walks, and he usually travels by car, so Duan Chong came up with the idea of paying tribute to a wheelchair. Therefore, since receiving the notice, I began to modify the wheelchair to ...... Dragon wheelchair. I hired a few carpenters, paid a lot of money, and worked day and night, but I didn't waste any energy in these days.
Emperor Liang Wendi looked at the strangely shaped wheelchair with wheels in front of him and blinked: "Duan Aiqing, what is this chair for?" Why ...... And two wheels? β
Duan Zhong straightened the chair, bowed down and said, "Back to Your Majesty, this chair is named a wheelchair." Because I heard that His Majesty was in poor health and had difficulty moving, he made it out of purpose. There are two large wheels on top of this wheel, and if Your Majesty sits on it, he only needs one person to push it behind his back on the flat ground, and he can easily move forward. As he spoke, he picked up the wooden planks on the left and right sides with his hands, "There are two carved dragon planks on each side, one is for beauty, and the other is for fixation." As long as His Majesty needs to fix the seat, he only needs to order someone to lower the baffles on both sides to block the wheels and fix the wheelchair. β
Emperor Liang Wendi's eyes lit up, and he said to the eunuch next to him: "Help me go down and sit down!" β
The eunuch received the order, and slowly descended the dragon steps with Emperor Wen Liang in his arms, and sat on the dragon wheelchair. Duan Zhong stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I'll push you!" β
Emperor Liang Wen nodded: "Yes!" β
Duan Zhong grabbed the crossbar behind him, gently pushed Emperor Liang Wen and walked around the main hall, easily and steadily, and under the annotation of the hundred officials, he sent Emperor Liang Wen back to the head of the hall. The eunuch on the side hurriedly helped him stand up, and slowly walked up to the dragon chair and sat down. Emperor Liang Wendi smiled with satisfaction: "Duan Aiqing has accepted this big gift!" I love this wheelchair! I love it! In the future, I will use this when walking in the palace, which is much more stable than being safe. Duan Aiqing really deserves to be the proud protΓ©gΓ© of Scholar Dong, a genius! β
Duan Zhong hurriedly humbly said, "Your Majesty has praised it!" β
And next, our Emperor Liang Wen naturally chatted with Duan Zhong about the customs of Dali, and asked Duan Chong how he felt in Nanliang.
Originally, when foreign ministers met him, the emperor always had to reward something as a gift. And this time, the gold and silver brocade that Emperor Wen of Liang weighed last time was worth a lot of money, and it was probably as much as 10,000 taels of silver when converted into silver. However, Duan Zhong is not short of silver, and Duan Zhong has not seen such a reward. However, the next reward is enough to make Duan Zhongzhong jump. Feng Duan is a doctor in Taixue? Duan Zhong is a little weak-hearted, the guy who can teach in Taixue, isn't that a big white beard? And Duan Zhong also knows the rules set in Taixue: only a generation of Confucian giants who are clear in the past and the present, review the past and know the new, and have mastered the national system can act as a doctor. How can he, a hairy boy who has just grown up, be crowned a doctor in Taixue?
Duan Zhong naturally knew that this Emperor Wen of Liang was looking at the face of his master, Scholar Dong, after all, Scholar Dong was the Hongru of Hongru, and he was his apprentice, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was Hongru, right? Although this reward also attracted the slander of many ministers, no one dared to stand up against it.
But the next reward made everyone's eyes widen: the title of Earl of Duanzhong. No. Wen Yuanbo.
Earl? What is this concept? Our Lord Zhu Zhenyang has been an official in the court for decades, and he has only been rewarded by a marquis, and this Duan Chongyi is an earl, only one level lower than the prime minister? You must know that several generals of Nanliang have outstanding military achievements abroad, and they are born and died, but they are just the title of an earl, what virtue does Duan Zhong have? Of course, Duan Zhong naturally knew the deep meaning of Emperor Wen of Liang, one of which was to win over himself, the prince of Dali and the proud disciple of the contemporary Hongru leader Dong Daxue; The second is to express gratitude to Duan Zhong for offering a wheelchair, and of course, there must be a few women who have used their own perfume to blow the wind on the pillow; Third, I thanked myself for helping Xiao Beiping in Hangzhou. Of course, on the other hand, this South Liang is also a show to North Liang again, and a message to the brother in the north: Dali has always been a vassal to Daliang, and his own side is the real Liang.
Duan Zhong was kneeling on the ground at the moment, because Duan Zhong was no longer a foreign minister, but an internal minister. The so-called man has gold under his knees, and it is precisely because Duan Chong knelt down that Duan Chong already felt that the gold seemed to be pouring towards him. And in this way, if you want to do things in Nanjing, it is much more convenient there! Although this Liang Wendi's reward is just a false position, Taixue is a place where he can go or not, and the title of Wen Yuanbo is naturally just an empty lord who stays in the courtyard and takes a fortune, but the name is big! Although our Dong University Scholar is a member of Zhengyipin, doesn't he still have no fart power, but still enjoys incomparable appeal in the world? Didn't the emperors of Southern Liang and Northern Liang all lower their heads and want to lick the butts of our Dong scholars? As for rights, Duan Zhong has always followed the classic quotations of Chairman Mao, the great leader of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries in the previous life: power comes out of the barrel of a gun. Although he doesn't have a gun in his hand, he has a knife under his hand, enough to kill people, and that's enough.
So Duan Chong couldn't close his mouth with a smile, and knelt down to thank him. However, this reward was too terrifying for the officials in the court, and everyone shook their heads. And our Prime Minister Zhu Zhenyang frowned even more, and after hesitating for a while, he finally took a step forward, knelt on the ground and said, "Old minister......"
However, before he finished speaking, Emperor Liang Wen waved his hand and coldly interrupted our Prime Minister Zhu Zhenyang: "There is no need to discuss the reward, I have made up my mind!" "Immediately choked back all the words that our Zhu Zhenyang wanted to say." If Aiqing has other things to report, you might as well talk about it. β
Lord Zhu Zhenyang stood up, smashed his mouth, and finally didn't say anything, and stood back again. Emperor Wen Liang glanced at Zhu Zhenyang with dissatisfaction, and asked, "Do you Aiqing have any other important things to do?" β
Seeing that all the ministers were silent, Emperor Liang Wen waved his hand: "Retreat!" He motioned to the eunuch on the side to come and help him into a wheelchair. Emperor Liang Wendi was very interested in this new gadget. All the ministers naturally had to wait for the emperor to leave the main hall, so they all stood in the main hall and waited, and when Emperor Liang Wen got on the wheel, he was pushed and walked two steps, and suddenly turned back to Duan Zhong and said: "As a doctor of Taixue, you still often have to go shopping in Taixue." Also, although there are some rules in the palace, but you are the protΓ©gΓ© of Dong University's scholar and the senior brother of Beiping, you must not mess up the palace, come when you want to enter the palace, and let Beiping take you around and have a look. β
The ministers were in an uproar and allowed the ministers to enter the harem, what kind of gift is this? Duan Zhong is also a little **, this treatment is inevitably too good. Of course, this must be inseparable from the extremely motherly who has received Duan Chong's perfume, after all, as long as Duan Chong walks around the palace, the ladies can pull out a few more bottles of perfume from Duan Chong's body.
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The rule of the Southern Liang court was that the prince was allowed to listen to the government, but not to discuss the government. Therefore, Xiao Beiping and Xiao Beiding were all in the Fengtian Hall in the early dynasty, but they couldn't speak. And Duan Zhong naturally saw the two of them.
When Emperor Wen of Liang went down to the court and left the palace, the ministers scattered as birds and beasts. Of course, there are many officials who came up to say hello to Duan Chong, and Duan Chong also thanked them one by one. And our prime minister just walked out of the hall indifferently, but his steps seemed a little vain.
Xiao Beiping walked over from the side and gave Duan Zhong a thumbs up: "Senior brother is amazing!" β
Duan Zhong naturally nodded proudly, and was about to speak, but he heard an extremely gentle voice next to him: "Wen Yuanbo is really a young talent, if you are free another day, you might as well come and sit in my palace." β
The person who said this was Xiao Beiding, the second prince of Nanliang, and Xiao Beiping, who was standing on the side, frowned. Duan Chong smiled and nodded and saluted: "Second Highness has praised it, Duan Chong should visit Second Highness another day." β
"Okay, I'll wait for you!" Xiao Beiding smiled slightly, but he was extremely chic...... Let's go. Duan Zhong looked at Xiao Beiping, who was unhappy on the side, and said, "I naturally know what you are thinking in your heart. This weasel gives New Year's greetings to chickens, and people can eat chickens if they do well, and you always have to learn more. β
Xiao Beiping sighed, and then smiled: "Let's not talk about these uninteresting topics. Today, you entered the palace and got a big reward, so go to my palace and drink a few glasses first. The extremely mothers in the palace are also waiting for your perfume. You don't want them to wait. β
Duan nodded his head: "It's okay, I also want to see what this harem looks like." β