At the moment of the hour, the Jingyang bell in the imperial city rang loudly, and the professor of the music workshop outside the Zichen Hall used the law of chimes to beat the drum and stroke the qin, and the sheng and Xiao flute should be in harmony with the song. On the steps of the mountain in front of the hall, hundreds of inner and outer gardens taught and practiced and sang solemnly, singing:

"Zique Saga's chase the five mountains, and the hairpin heron guild will be Fangchen.

Gather the harvest year to stop condensing Huala, scattering for the new year's mighty spring.

……”

In the sound of the loud song, the Eastern Yuan Emperor was wearing a crown in full gear, stepping out of the east pavilion gate on the side of the main hall with slow and calm steps, and walking towards the throne with a happy point. When he walked to the middle of the throne and turned to face the hundred officials, the song of the Sect Division's He Xinchun Dynasty fell on one sentence:

“……

If you want to know the entertainment place of the government and the opposition, you can call long live the people of Tongqu Sanhu. ”

The song has not faded away, the music is still fluttering, the four golden armorers under the throne took a step forward and roared in unison, the sound was loud like a thunderbolt in the hall, and in an instant, it seemed that the palace beams and pavilions were vibrating, one by one, this is the most famous "New Year Thunder" in the folklore about the Zhengdan Dynasty, and then the Dongyuan Emperor stared at the chest and abdomen with one hand, the civil officials were headed by Zhang Pu, the military attaché was the old county king of the Qinghe of the Shangzhu State, and the foreman danced under the order of the Ministry of Rites, and said that he would worship again......

Shang Cheng followed the military attache class to concentrate on learning the same, others gave him his hand, he raised his arms, others approached him, others received gifts and he stood firm, and others called him to open his mouth to compare his mouth...... Busy and flustered. Fortunately, at this time, there are three or four hundred noble officials of the sect in the Zichen Palace, and he is not in the first three rows, even if it is a little bit wrong, the people in the pool can't tell the difference. After the five rounds of courtesy, people were already sweating profusely with nervousness. Only Hou Gushi of Poyang next to him smiled and kept whispering to remind him: "...... Further; Arch your hand, shake it, shake it again, shake it again, shake it again, shake it Retreat one by one, bow down and listen. ”

Shang Cheng lowered his head, and listened to the clear voice of the Eastern Yuan Emperor from the imperial platform: "Xinqing, the same as Qing." ”

Led by Zhang Pu, the ministers and hundreds of officials thanked Shengjun again, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites shouted in a long voice in the loud sound outside the hall: "Congratulations on the completion of the gift!" Hundreds of people return to work. Shang Cheng was desperately recalling what he should do at this time, so he heard Gu Shi lower his head and whispered: "Don't look up!" He bowed down and slowly retreated with the column...... "At the same time, the palace servants and miscellaneous servants who had been waiting outside the hall for a long time immediately carried a desk chair and stool through the side door. These people have already practiced I don't know how many times, advancing and retreating in an orderly and silent manner, and in an instant, dozens of columns of desk chairs were placed at the mercy of the east and west sides of the main hall.

When Emperor Dongyuan sat down on the throne first, raised his hand and pressed it weakly, the hundred officials thanked him and sat down.

But that doesn't mean the banquet has officially begun. Next is the tribute ceremony of the vassal state to the foreign domain, and the clan, the ministers, and the military generals must each elect their representatives to congratulate him......

These are the real ancient words and elegant songs, either "Yaotian Central Shunri Huaxia" or "Grace Four Pillars Wafer Eight Curtains", and then "Ju Ge Chen Gou around Xizhou", Shang Cheng still had the heart to open his eyes at the beginning, but as a result, the old county king of Qinghe had not read a few words of prayer on behalf of the clan, so he was dizzy to listen to it, and he had to break off the idea of increasing knowledge. He is now sitting on the right side of the hall, although the seat is not in the front, but it is always the first column, and he can't learn from the officials who arrived at the table after the banquet and talked in a whisper, so he had to lower his eyes and look at the black lacquer case in front of him. But there was nothing on the case, not even a little dust, and the black and solemn single and four paved bucket arches on the top of the hall were clearly recognizable. With nothing else to do, he improvised the study of this treasure of timber architecture, which crisscrossed and stacked one layer at a time......

But his specialty is not ancient architecture, so he can't tell what is the difference between this kind of dougong and the dougong of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in terms of form and function, and I don't know what the meaning of the dragon heads carved on the various components of the dougong is different, and what the pattern composed of the carved beads and the two green dragons on the left and right of the protruding part of the central part of the dougong means. All he knew was that it was complicated and beautiful, and it was rare to see it, and he had hardly seen it among the people. It is seen occasionally, that is, two wooden planks and a few wooden sticks are spliced together, and the style and shape are completely incomparable with the bucket arch in front of you. He also specially counted, the direction of this dougong has a total of five layers, and the main hall of his county Bofu is three floors; It seems that this is also some kind of system. If anyone accidentally repairs an extra layer, he will be trespassing, and the end will definitely be the same as that Peng Qu......

Thinking of Peng Qu, who was greedy and causing trouble, he remembered following the unlucky deputy minister Dong Quan. He quietly glanced at the civil officials opposite, Dong Quan was not in the palace, and did not come to attend the Zhengdan court meeting. It seems that this deputy minister is completely finished; I just don't know the next step of Zhang Pu and the Nanjin faction, whether to hold Dong Quan's mistakes and beat the water dog, or to give Dong Quan the title of Taishi with the prime minister's temperament to teach him to go back to his hometown to repair local history. As far as he knows, as a mature politician, Zhang Pu should not be ruthless to Dong Quan, because this is completely unnecessary: Dong Quan made a mistake on the fundamental principle of "overstepping the system", and there is no possibility of a comeback. Besides, a few years ago, when the Beijin faction controlled the court, they did not chase and beat Zhang Pu who resigned at that time, and now if Zhang Pu kills Dong Quan, he will definitely be very passive in public opinion. But he can't be completely sure that Dong Quan will be fine, after all, the Nanjin faction is not something that Zhang Pu can count if he says it alone; He also has to be influenced and constrained by others. For example, Ye Xun, the left waiter of the household department, who is now standing in the hall and reciting poetry, is very influential in the Nanjin faction, Dong Quan handed over the post of the servant under the door and quit the prime minister's office, this guy is the most promising person. But this person is a mad dog, barking indiscriminately everywhere in the six parts, and if he really enters the prime minister's office, then he still bites people with joy?

Ye Xun was immersed in his own gorgeous chapter, shaking his head and reading:

“…… From the perspective of the situation, the changes in the sky are not enough to be afraid. Liu Zizheng of the Western Han Dynasty has clouds, 'the eclipse of the moon obscures it'. What is this? The sun and moon haunt for its own reason......"

With Ye Xun's recitation, Shang Cheng saw that several people in the prime minister's deputy minister opposite frowned in unison, and their faces became extremely serious. But this is only an instantaneous change, and in the blink of an eye, several people have returned to their usual faces with low eyebrows. Although Zhang Pu's expression remained unchanged, he glanced at Ye Xun intentionally or unintentionally.

Shang Cheng was a little confused. Could it be that there is a problem in Ye Xun's few eulogies just now?

He pondered Ye Xun's words for a moment. Ye Xun's two sentences before and after are all about the sky changing, don't be afraid, this is not wrong, right? What is natural change, isn't it natural change or natural disaster? Otherwise, it refers to celestial changes such as solar and lunar eclipses. What's there to be afraid of? Didn't Ye Xun say it, Liu in the Western Han Dynasty pointed out that the reason for the solar eclipse was because it was hidden by the moon; Astronomers like Li Mu and others can calculate the exact time of the solar eclipse; Why don't Zhang Pu and other great intellectuals understand this simple truth? They also certainly know that this is a natural variation. But they were very disgusted and even resented by Ye Xun's words, why is this?

He just couldn't figure it out.

But there's definitely a reason for that!

He sat in the chair and carefully reasoned about Ye Xun's words for a long time, before he finally sorted out a vein.

Which of Ye Xun's words angered several prime ministers and deputy ministers? It must be that "the sky is not enough to be afraid of". And the natural phenomenon or natural disaster of heavenly change has another use in ancient idealistic philosophy, that is, to use it to accuse and correct the emperor's mistakes: the emperor is a person who is ordered by heaven, so if the emperor does something wrong, God will send some kind of sign as a warning or punishment, asking the emperor to correct his mistakes. This is an application of the theory of "heaven and man induction" put forward by Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty, and it is also a favorable weapon for the civil official system headed by the prime minister and the gentry class to limit the vicious expansion of imperial power since the Han and Tang dynasties. Now Ye Xun has detached himself from his civil position, and publicly proclaimed at the Zhengdan Dynasty that what changes in the sky are not terrible, whether he is intentional or unintentional, he is providing a theoretical basis for Emperor Dongyuan to maintain imperial power! He didn't even want to think about it, what was he afraid of if he did the emperor alone? The emperor is not afraid of anyone, but he is afraid of God; If he wasn't even afraid of God, then what else could he not do, and what would he not dare to do? With this theory in hand, even if it is not like a tiger, the reason for dividing power from the prime minister's office is bound to be more sufficient, and the struggle between the imperial power and the prime minister hidden in the imperial city is bound to be more intense. is such a sentence that adds fuel to the fire, can Zhang Pu and several sober-minded prime ministers and deputy ministers not hate Ye Xun, a guy who eats inside and out?

He raised his head and pretended to glance at Emperor Dongyuan, who was sitting on the throne. Emperor Dongyuan still had that cold appearance with a fixed smile on his face, and he couldn't see any clues. He glanced at Zhang Pu again, but just happened to meet Zhang Pu's deep gaze sweeping past Ye Xun, and the eyes of the two people touched each other and shifted their eyes as if nothing had happened.

Ye Xun is finished!

Shang Cheng sighed in his heart. It seems that this guy must have been too proud because he was about to pay homage to the prime minister, so he forgot about the form, and even dared to say such words as "the sky is not enough to be afraid". Based on this sentence, it is estimated that Ye Xun will not want to enter the prime minister's office in his life, and it is difficult to say whether he can continue to retain the title of household servant. Hey, you can offend countless people with one sentence, and this kind of thing can only be done by Ye Xun, a mad dog!

He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have read the phrase "the sky is not enough to fear" in some book. The person who said this was also a well-known person. But he couldn't remember who it was......

Until the banquet began, he didn't remember who else had said this.

The banquet was very deserted at the beginning, and it was not until Emperor Dongyuan took off his crown and changed into his usual clothes after the palace that the Zichen Hall gradually became lively. When Emperor Dongyuan gave Zhu Xuan and these old men imperial wine and food, the officials were no longer confined to their seats, some tended to the throne to toast the emperor, some went to other seats to chat and talk, and some moved the drum bench to enjoy the song and dance on the side of the front row of the case. Even Emperor Dongyuan was also infected by this lively atmosphere, and called Zhu Xuan and several of his old ministers to the imperial platform to rearrange a table of wine and food, and chatted about their topics while eating.

When Gu Shi came back from toasting to the old county king of Qinghe, Shang Cheng also picked up the lamp. In the army, he was a junior character, and half of the six people in front of him did not face him. He now knew that these three people were all clansmen, except for the king of Qinghe County, who had already retired from the army because he was too old, the other two Shangzhu countries were all deputy generals in the Plains General's Mansion, and they were his top bosses. However, these two men have never been to the yamen since they were ordained.

He first toasted the king of Qinghe County. The old man relied on the old man to sell the old, and instead of forcing him to drink three cups in a row, he only touched his lips by the lamp; The second Shangzhuguo was very polite, insisted on refusing to accept Shang Cheng's full courtesy, and drank a glass from Shang Cheng. The third is Xiao Jian, who is not only his former boss but also has the kindness to him to promote creation, there is nothing to say, and it is three lamps; The fourth seat is Yang Du, who ran to the side of Poyang Hou Gushi's case at this time to speak, so Shang Chengcheng skipped this case and went to the fifth seat. When he and the king of Xiangzhou each drank a glass and then came over to Gu Shi to toast, Yang Du glanced at him and returned to his seat without saying a word.

Gu Shi drank with him, then pulled him to sit on the drum stool left by Yang Du, and asked him while helping him add wine: "Are you okay the day after tomorrow?" ”

"As long as it's not the fourth year of junior high school, I'm fine every day." Shang Cheng said with a smile. The Ministry of Rites informed him that on the fourth day of the junior high school, he would go to the outer garden with the royal car to shoot a bow one by one, which was a test of archery skills.

Gu Shi also smiled: "I am the same in the fourth year of junior high school, I have to draw the bow and work hard......" He suddenly felt that it was a bit inappropriate to say this, and coughed and corrected, "...... They all have to go to the outer garden to perform martial arts. ”

"What's the matter with the third year of junior high school?" Shang Cheng asked.

"I'm setting up a banquet at home to celebrate the New Year, you can have a drink."

Shang Cheng pursed his lips and said in a deep voice, "It's nothing to have a drink." To be honest, even if you don't say it, I'm going to go to your house for a drink and dinner. That's it, it's ......," he frowned and smacked his lips, and said embarrassedly, "It's a happy and festive New Year, I'm afraid to see some irrelevant people." ”

Gu Shi was stunned first, and then reacted. He was silent for a while, and then asked in a low voice, "Is it because of the matter of the Auxiliary State Prince?" ”

"You know what to ask?" Shang Cheng was a little unhappy.

Gu Shi pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't I go and explain to Fu Guogong for you?" After a pause, he added, "Otherwise, it would be okay for you to give up the singer to him." There are also a lot of beautiful and beautiful artists in my house, and there are also two or three national colors, and when you come over in the third year of junior high school, you will take a look at them carefully, and if you have a fancy one, you will take them back. ”

Shang Cheng frowned and was silent for a long time. After a while, he slammed the wine cup on the table, and said angrily: "That orchid is the first thing I looked at, and Lao Yang Du wants to leave without saying a word, why?" ”

Yang Du had already come to Shang Cheng's back, and he couldn't hold back at this time, and said with a sneer: "You really dare to open your mouth and say big things!" What did you see first? You carry two catties of cotton to visit, I think who dares to say that you saw it first? ”

Shang Cheng slowly turned around on the drum stool, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, looked at Yang Du from his feet to his head, and then looked down from his head to his feet, then he didn't pay attention to him anymore, and only said to Gu Shi: "Please tell that person, whoever looks at it first and who doesn't look at it first, I have always ignored this kind of worthless thing." I just believe in a sentence, if the hand is fast, there is no hand slow. Also, please warn him not to be so arrogant. You know, not everyone is afraid of him. ”

Yang Du was standing next to him, where did he need Gu Shi to tell him? He was nicknamed "Yang Liehuo", his temper was full of knowledge, he listened to Shang Cheng's words ugly, and his tone was full of contempt, so he couldn't bear it at that time, and put a hand on Shang Cheng's shoulder, and sneered in his mouth, and he was about to exert his hand: "Vertical!" Do you dare to come out again and I'll listen to it? ”

Shang Cheng picked up the wine cup as soon as he stretched out his hand, and raised the cup backwards without looking back, taking advantage of Yang Du's opportunity to dodge and spill the wine, he kicked over the drum stool and jumped up, casually ripped off the blindfold and head, glared at Yang Du viciously and sneered and said, "Yang Liehuo, I have endured you for a long time!" You've spread rumors about me everywhere to ruin my reputation, and it's because I'm looking at your age that I didn't bother with you, an old horseman. Don't be embarrassed! ”

Yang Du's face turned blue and white for a while, and he gritted his teeth and burst out of three words from between his teeth: "Splash and kill!" "Grabbed a sea bowl on the side of the table and smashed it over, and the person also pounced on it, according to Shang Cheng's face, it was a punch!

Shang Cheng turned his face and moved to let go of the dishes and bowls; Before Yang Du's arms were straightened, his hands had already grabbed Yang Du's fists, pulled them and then pulled them to the lower ribs, and a half-sided elbow hammer ran to Yang Du's face. Yang Du is also a veteran of the singles group fight in the army, although he is old and lacks strength, his vision and experience are very sophisticated, his left palm stands to block the elbow hammer, his right hand clenches his fist and Shang Cheng slams forward and then pulls back, and he leans back slightly and his legs are raised, but his legs and feet are not straightened and he can't use them completely, so Shang Cheng took a step back and grabbed his ankle, and he was a little unstable when he landed; Shang Cheng pinched Yang Du's ankle with his right hand and dragged it back, stepped on his right foot, clenched his fist with his left hand, and crossed his head with his arm, sneering at Yang Du's leg, and smashing it one by one, as long as it was smashed, Yang Du would not want to stand up again in ten days and a half months......

The Zichen Hall was staggered with light songs and dances, it was originally a spring breeze, who knew that it would change suddenly, and the two Shangzhu Guo suddenly tore their faces and fists, saying that they were civil and military officials, and even the forbidden army on duty in the palace was also in a daze. The civil officials couldn't see the depth of the fight, they only knew that they were stunned with their mouths open; Some people drank lightly, and they were already a little drunk, and when they saw Yang Du and Shang Cheng fighting lively, they thought that they were performing in front of the Holy Throne, so they cheered loudly. Only a dozen people in Shangzhuguo and Zhuguo saw that the situation was not right, Yang Du and Shangcheng, you come and go, and I go back and forth, and all the hands and feet are heavy-handed, and it doesn't look like it's a skill, but a fight to the death!

Seeing that Shang Cheng's elbow hammer was about to smash on Yang Du's leg, Gu Shi hugged him from behind and tightened his arms to prevent him from moving. Over there, the king of Xiangzhou also dragged Yang Du.

Shang Cheng didn't shake off Gu Shi for a while, so he just forgot it, just looked at Yang Du with his eyes and said with a sneer: "The assistant is a good means and has been taught." ”

What he said was nothing but provocation. Yang Du was holding one leg by him just now, and he couldn't even stand steadily, where can he say what kind of good means? If it weren't for Poyang Hou Gushi's efforts to shackle Shang Cheng, he would have made a big fool on the spot. He was stopped by the king of Xiangzhou, and he slowly retreated without strength or silence, just glaring at Shang Cheng fiercely with his eyes. Although the king of Xiangzhou also has martial arts and has a military position on his body, but in the end, he is a clan, he has never been on the battlefield, and he can't figure out the thoughts of these generals at all. At this moment, Yang Du slammed him aside, stepped up a few steps and punched Shang Cheng's face, Shang Cheng was also dragged back by Gu Shi with two arms, his feet were unstable, he couldn't dodge at all, he could only hold on stiffly, his head was smashed backwards, and he staggered back two steps; Gu Shi was also a little unstable by him, so he could only let go of him first. Yang Du was unforgiving, taking advantage of his tinnitus and dizziness to react, he caught up and smashed him in the face with a punch, and then half sideways kicked him on his thigh, Shang Cheng retreated six or seven steps in a row, and failed to stabilize the two cases, and finally dragged the third case down, and was suddenly drenched with the wine and dishes and broth on the case......

Shang Cheng wiped his hand on his face, and even the nosebleeds with the soup and the dumped sauce were immediately pasted, plus his appearance was already fierce, and he looked even more like a ghost at this time. He turned over and jumped up, first pointing at Gu Shi and shouting angrily: "Gu Poyang, you are so capable, dare to pull the bias!" He yelled at Yang Du again: "Old Agni, there is no me with you today!" As he spoke, he kicked a drum stool that was in the way, and the person rushed to Yang Du and rushed over......

But he failed to avenge these two punches and kicks after all. At the critical moment, the forbidden army in the temple separated the two of them. Emperor Dongyuan on the throne finally came to his senses. The two Shangzhu countries fought in front of him at the Zhengdan court, which made him tremble with anger. He also dropped the wine cup, and announced with a black face:

"Call me out!"

Since Emperor Dongyuan said "fight out", the forbidden army immediately used scabbards to knock out the two Shangzhu Kingdoms that provoked the anger of the Holy Monarch and knocked them out of the Zichen Palace.

This is not the end, Emperor Dongyuan, who gritted his teeth with hatred, immediately issued another system: "Yang Du and Shang Cheng disregard the court, lose the national body, and each will be fined for half a year." Yang Du was grounded for forty days, and Shang Cheng was twenty spines! After thinking about it, he changed his words, "Nian Shangcheng is injured, write down the twenty canes for the time being, and then punish him when his injuries heal!" ”

He announced the system here, and the inner servant who served the pen and ink over there recorded it without adding a dot, and when he finished speaking, he was about to hold the edict and come over to let him see the seal, when he heard someone outside the hall shouting all the way and rushing over:

"Hooray, hooray! One by one, the plain general's mansion rolls the order, and the Bohai Wei reports that the red cavalry has passed through the northern camp of Gyeonggi, less than thirty miles away from the city! Guo Biao, the former false governor of Yanshanwei and the founding marquis of the country, led 3,000 iron horsemen of Yanshan to go deep into the desert for thousands of miles, stepped through the poor mountains and exhausted the ancestral court, seized the Yuan Tent, the white horse, and the carved flag, and rushed out from the territory of Buyeo, and returned it on the 16th day of the 21st month of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty! ”