It is another year of Shangyuan Festival, the three days of Shangyuan Festival is the three days of the carnival of the people of Jiankang, and it is also the three days of the whole country jubilant in the whole Great Xia, to the eighteenth day of the first month, all the large lanterns disappear in one day, only children run around with lanterns, which reminds people of the bright glory of that night.

But life does not always stay in celebration, to work hard to earn money, to support the family, everyone in the capital is back into the hard and dull busy.

A group of horsemen marched all the way along West Street, straight to the direction of the Imperial City Jinshui Bridge. Four or five of the people in this group were all thirteen or fourteen years old. Riding on the horse, looking left and right, a group of generals dressed up behind him followed, and at a glance, he knew that it was the guards of these people. is also a high-spirited appearance, obviously proud of the head of the family.

Riding on the horse, these people are all dressed in wealth and nobility, although they are not strong, but they are all thin skin and tender meat, and they are nutritious at a glance, and they are naturally not thin. However, this equestrian skill is really not very good, and the horses that can be driven can only move forward, and several people have to hold on to the reins tightly, and there are servants around them who are ready to support them at any time, lest these good men fall off the horse.

The first one looked around with great triumph, and then glanced at the gate of the imperial city, and then said with a smile: "Our old people told me to wait to make friends with the little prince of the Gan family, but it is meaningless, such a day should be idle and fun, but I have to invite the little prince to the banquet, what bird banquet, if it is not said that he will hand over him more, who is impatient with this, don't you know what kind of trick this little prince likes, this banquet is set up with wine, and it is plain and boring." This young man is only in his teens, he can like this, the old people in the family are all sauce brains! ”

"Hahaha------ it's just ------" caused his companion to burst into laughter.

"It's better for you and my brother to make friends today, and see what this little prince likes, you and I will follow him."

When he said this, several people around him nodded in admiration. These people are the boys of the generals of the Great Xia dynasties, although they are not very old, they are at least the commanders of the first army, and they are all at least the characters of the Marquis of Yu. For more than 600 years, the armed groups of the Great Xia Jiangmen have been very large, and this is the result of a large number of withering before returning to the south. The power that has been inherited for hundreds of years is a force that can compete with the Jiangnan clan and the Wenchen group, and most of their forces are the Nandu family after the martyrdom of Jingzong, and the Jiangnan clan is somewhat incompatible.

To say that the Xia Dynasty Taizu Emperor Chai Rong inherited the throne from his father-in-law Guo Huai, the Great Zhou Emperor and changed the name of the country to Xia, the Chai family originally had a saying that the position was not right, and they were afraid that their generals would follow suit.

Causing the whole world to be weak. The most obvious result is that his own family is also quite weak in that regard, since the fourth emperor of Great Xia, Xia Renzong Chai Zhen, there are four generations of emperors who have no heirs.

After Xia Suzong established the throne in Jiangnan, most of the descendants of the Chai family of the Great Xia royal family were plundered and killed by the Yan State, and the heirs withered. A year ago, Su Zong's only son was assassinated again, not only did he have no heir, but there was only one uncle and brother in the five generations, Fuwang Chai Mingyuan, who had a son under his knees, and I heard that this son was mentally retarded. There is no way, it seems that in the end, Emperor Suzong can only choose a more outstanding clan relative from the clan surnamed Chai to succeed him as a son and inherit the throne.

Over the past year, the descendants of the Chai surname who are now alive in Jiangnan have taken action, but Emperor Suzong was not in good health, and he was sad that his son was killed. The Xie family of the Jiangnan descendants, the grandson of Su Zongyi, the Wang Gan family of Xiangyang, several old ministers and the political affairs hall Zaifu are all the objects that the descendants of the Chai surname strive to win over. In terms of blood relationship, in addition to King Fu, the surname Chai is also the closest to Chong'an Wang Chai and Ruihe's official family.

The surname of the heirs of these Great Xia generals is Cao, called Cao Shuang, and the ancestors can be counted as the founding prince Cao Bin, and there are many heroes in the Shenzong and Zhezong periods.

Cao Shuang is only fifteen years old this year, and he is the leader of this gang of players. He was talking nonsense, which attracted laughter and echo from the ordinary Yanai brothers. Cao Shuang was speaking happily, and suddenly felt that there was a lack of echoing voice, and he turned his head in surprise, and asked a shy and handsome little Langjun: "Brother Di, you are with us for the first time, don't be restrained, as long as you have something to do in the future, find the brothers, everyone will give you a head, since your uncle asked you to come along, we are a family." ”

The little Ya Nei of Na Xing Di is a descendant of Di Qing, named Di Bo, and this is the first time that he has come out to mess with these Ya Men on the orders of his parents.

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At this time, I only heard the sound of "plop ---- ah yo ----" sounded, but it was a tall fat man who fell off the horse, due to his height and fatness, he did not sit firmly on the horse, and slipped down.

The Yanei who fell off the horse looked tall, in fact, he was only eleven years old like Gan Tang, his surname was Huyan, and he hadn't been able to ride a horse for a few days. Deng Shi made a fuss, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Gao, next time you have something to do, avoid this scene!" I just followed on foot, and I was willing. ”

Gao Shuang's equestrian skills also stink, but compared to this Huyan Qingyulai, it is stronger to the sky, and he pointed at his nose and scolded with a smile: "If I come to be in charge, I will definitely set up a sedan chair army, and the general of the hall is none other than the Huyan brothers. ”

After a group of famous generals in Daxia, they talked and laughed all the way, and came to the gate of the Forbidden Palace, and the wrestlers who guarded the door also recognized them, and they didn't know what kind of live treasures they were playing today, for fear of causing trouble, they hurriedly reported to Han Chong, the chief soldier of the Imperial Forest Army, Han Chong is the grandson of the general Han Shizhong and the heroine Liang Hongyu.

Since Liang Hongyu, his family education has been strict, and he has been a general of the Great Xia Forbidden Army for several generations.

Han Zhong heard a few generals come to the palace to play treasures, hurriedly came out of the class room, and saw a few boys, talking and laughing loudly in front of the gate, pretending to be a straight face and saying: "My little ancestors, this is also a place for you to be happy, don't hurry up and go to other places, otherwise I will whip your buttocks." Then tell your families and let them bring you back one by one. ”

Cao Shuang got off the horse, came to Han Chong with a hippie smile and said: "Uncle Han, don't, we are being sent today, we are here to wait for the little brother of the Gan family to come out of the palace, invite him to the banquet, and hope that the uncle will be convenient." ”

Han Chong snorted and laughed, "A group of little kids, their hair hasn't grown, what do you know, even if you can have a treat to eat and drink?" Laughed at me. ”

Gao Shuang said with an embarrassed face: "I think so too, what kind of banquet is invited, it is better to find Xie Lu's opponents to fight with them." But this is what my grandfather ordered, we are making trouble, and we have to listen to the elders in the family. ”

Han Zhong listened, laughed, and said: "Just a few of you, and go to someone to put it right, if I hadn't met it on the street last time, the could have been beaten out by them, and each eye is like a panda, so don't tease." ”

Just when everyone was laughing, I saw Gan Tang riding a green donkey from the palace and came out slowly, that Cao Shuang saw Gan Tang come out, hurriedly shook off everyone, came to Gan Tang donkey, and took a long shot to the tunnel: "The last will see the prince, I hope that the prince has a good future, his body is healthy, and the prince is Wandai." "'Oooo ”

"Hahaha----ha But Han Zhong really couldn't stand it, and flicked Cao Shuang's head with his fingers.

Han Zhong hugged his fists and said: "The king of Xiangyang should not be like them, these people are instructed by the elders of the family to come and invite the king of Xiangyang to go to the banquet, where they can't, please forgive the king of Xiangyang." ”

Gan Tang hurriedly got off the donkey and said to Han Chong: "Uncle Shi, don't be polite, you and I are a good family dyed with blood, Uncle Shi salutes the kid, wouldn't it be a shame for the kid." This is already outside the imperial city, and Uncle Shi is an elder, so what is there to tell Gan Tang. Then he turned back and asked, "Who are these?" ”

Cao Shuang stepped forward and said: "I am Cao Shuang, the martial doctor after the founding prince Cao Bin, and I came to invite the king of Xiangyang to the banquet today." While saluting, he muttered, "I'm a doctor of Wuyi, why can't I be called the last general, why do you want to hit me on the head?" ”

Gan Tang knew that although these Yanei people were not reliable, they were all after the generals of the Great Xia dynasties, and they had a lot of closeness to the generals who were killed from the battle array, and it was not easy to peel off everyone's face, so he thought about it: "You will be exempted from going to the banquet, if there is anything fun, I will accompany the brothers of the family to go for a while." ”

The fat man Huyan Qingyu hurriedly stepped forward and said: "It just so happens that there are a few Keju competitions in the past few days, I don't know if the King of Xiangyang is interested." ”

Gan Tang knew that Keju was the football of the Xia Dynasty, so he wanted to take a look at it, and said, "Okay! I'm fine, so take me to see it. ”

Gan Tang was taken to the south school field by everyone, this school field is equivalent to the size of a football field and a half in later generations, it is a special school field for the royal family, usually eunuchs, palace guards, and students are here to practice, archery, and run. There is also a special archery garden in the corner of the school field, and the imperial court encourages archery sports for students to strengthen their bodies, but there is also one of the most popular sports held here, that is, Keju.

Keju is the ancient football, compared with modern football, his confrontation is weaker, the ancient Keju has two ways to play, one is like the modern penalty kick

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The two sides take turns to shoot penalties at each other, a total of three rounds, and the number of goals is scored to determine the winner or loser. Another way to play is like modern freestyle basketball, which is a personal performance, and Gao Yu, the Taiwei of Xia Huizong, is the leader of freestyle basketball. He embodied the weak atmosphere of Great Xia from one side, emphasizing skills and ignoring confrontation.

The Keju of the Xia Dynasty was very popular, and there were one or two hundred teams in Jiankang alone, whether it was the eunuchs in the palace, the major forbidden armies, the big families, and every big street. The Gan family itself has a team, but it has always been a four-room management, and Gan Tang has not paid attention to it when he came out.

After watching it for a while, he lost interest, and said to a few Yanai next to him: "I see that a few brothers are all right, why don't you make some money and spend it, the capital will be paid by me, and everyone will share the money together, I don't know if you brothers are interested?" ”

At this moment, there was a sound of "dang", there was a shocking cheer all around, but it was the end of the game, the team wearing the red short beat won the team wearing the blue short beat 22 to 16, only to see a young man wearing the red short fight while sweating with a towel to Gantang They walked over, only to see several people in the government have saluted the people, Cao Shuang respectfully said: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Chong'an, I brought the King of Xiangyang." ”

Gan Tang was taken aback, there was actually a royal prince here, he specially asked Cao Shuang to bring him over, who could this person be?

Gan Tang couldn't help but look at the visitor, sixteen or seventeen years old, medium stature, handsome face, short body, even more heroic, extraordinary appearance.

The young man looked at Gan Tang and said, "I think this little brother is Gan Tang, the king of Xiangyang!" Counting from the emperor's uncle, you and I can be regarded as close relatives. ”

Gan Tang had no choice but to clench his fists and salute back: "I don't know that Uncle Chong'an Wang Shizi is here, Gan Tang failed to salute his uncle first, there are many offends, and I hope that Uncle Haihan!" ”

Chai Shixiang, the prince of Chong'an, smiled and said: "You and my family don't be polite here, this is not a place to talk, let's go to Wanghailou Teahouse to sit!" ”

Located on the north shore of Xuanwu Lake, Wanghailou is a large building group, the property of the Xie family of the Jiangnan family, which contains a hotel, a teahouse, a stage, an inn, a geisha hall, and a teahouse is located in the easternmost secluded part of the West Lake.

The group came to the teahouse, the shopkeeper of the teahouse saw the prince of Chong'an and a group of people in the ya, surrounded by a little boy wearing a light blue chest embroidered with a three-clawed cloud dragon pattern, according to the regulations of Great Xia, only the royal prince and above can wear a dragon robe, the emperor is a five-clawed dragon, the prince is a four-clawed dragon, and the prince is a three-clawed dragon. Even the current King Fu wears a three-clawed dragon robe like Gan Tang, and even King Chong'an can't wear a dragon robe, but can only wear a unicorn robe.

Seeing that everyone came around a father-in-law, I thought of the identity of the person who came when I looked at my age. At that time, there were only three people who could wear dragon robes, and in addition to Emperor Suzong, there were also King Chai Mingyuan and King Gantang of Xiangyang.

Since this place is a product of the queen's mother's family, I don't see it, so I stepped forward with a smile and said: "Could it be that the prince of the Gan family has arrived, and the small shop is not well received, please also invite the prince Haihan!" He stretched out his hand and invited everyone to sit in a separate space on the third floor.

When he arrived upstairs, Zhao Shixiang smiled and waved his hand: "Brother Gan, please take a seat!" ”

"All the brothers do it together, we all rely on the shadow of our ancestors to get the status, there is no distinction between high and low status, today everyone is the best."

The royal family and commoners of the Xia Dynasty were not as impenetrable as the Ming and Qing dynasties, they were easy to get along with, and the etiquette was not strict. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty started from beggars, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty started from small barbarians, making them so hierarchical, afraid that the people of the world would look down on them, and their psychological shadow was more serious, which was completely a manifestation of inferiority.

As soon as everyone sat down, the shopkeeper personally brought them fragrant tea, and said with a smile: "The king of Xiangyang is not an outsider, just treat this as his own industry, if you need anything, just put it forward, as long as the small shop can do it, you will do your best." It is rare for the prince to come here once, the chess hall below is rehearsing the chess game of the two national players in the big game, they heard that the prince is coming, if the prince has time, can you guide them in a game? ”

Gan Tang said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Xie is not polite, when I finish talking about business, I can just play chess, but I can discuss some changes in the big oblique style with everyone." ”

The shopkeeper Xie thanked him for his kindness, and Chai Shixiang said: "Although the king of Xiangyang is young, he has done many amazing things in the past few years, whether it is to rescue the displaced people in Jiangbei, or to develop the south, and to run a newspaper, he thinks that others can't think of it. Most of the elders in the family think that the virtuous brother is precocious. But why is it indifferent to the government? Even the newspapers that run very little about the way of war and peace. But why? ”

Gan Tang smiled and said: "It's not that I don't care, but it's not necessary, the affairs of the court should be decided by the princes and the imperial grandfather, and even a few grandfathers and uncles who are walking in the court can't speak, let alone you and me?" Not in his position, not in his politics. Empty talk misleads the country, but hard work prospers the country. ”

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