Until the bell and drum tower rang the New Year's bell, Ma Du wrapped in fur and guarded the brazier in the living room to sleep, before the hour Lao Liu woke him up to go to the court, today is the first day of all the officials in Beijing above the fourth grade to enter the palace to worship.

The biting cold wind just out of the house made him shiver, this winter in the south of the Yangtze River was wet and cold, and it went straight into the cracks of the bones. Lao Liu put the big coat on Ma Du, "The lord will wear it first, and then take it off when you enter the palace." ”

The two went out together with lanterns, and on the way they met a lot of carriages and horses rushing to the palace, and there were already a lot of people in front of the palace, and the number of people was much more than the Yuan-Japan court meeting that Ma Du participated in in the first year of Wu.

Everyone didn't get together to chat like that time, the civil and military teams had already lined up, although some people talked to each other but the voices were very small, Lao Zhu became the emperor, this rule is much bigger than before.

Ma Du took off the big dan on his body and handed it to Lao Liu, "I don't know when I will be able to come out after entering the palace, you can go back to Fangshan directly, the family will always stay together during the New Year, and this big dan will also be brought back to the second grandfather, and he will wear face when he sees guests during the New Year." ”

Seeing Lao Liu leaving with a lantern, Ma Du just joined the ranks, and was just about to go to the civil service team when he heard someone shouting to him: "Xuan Zhong is here." Ma Du turned his head and saw that Mu Ying was standing in the line of facial features and beckoning to him, "Where are you going?" Stand this way! ”

Ma Du said: "Last time, you asked me to stand in the ranks of civil officials. ”

"Your title of commanding affairs has not been given to you yet, Wugui Wen, of course you have to stand on the side of the generals." Mu Ying flashed a blank for Ma Du as she spoke.

Madu stood still before asking, "How are your recruits doing?" ”

Since participating in the celebration banquet, Lao Zhu has resumed Mu Ying's official position, but the Shenji Battalion has also been divided into two battalions, with Mu Ying and Deng Yu each leading one. Maybe Lao Zhu may still feel that Mu Ying is too young and needs to be trained, and he can't put the treasure on him, the failure outside Lanzhou City last time made him feel distressed to death, and the Shenji Camp is all piled up with silver. In addition, it was also discovered that the Shenji Battalion was not invincible, and it could be safely handed over to Deng Yu, an outsider.

Since Mu Ying resumed her official position, she has re-recruited new recruits to supplement the soldiers for closed training, except for Yang Xian's incident, she came out to see Ma Du, and I heard that she has not even returned home, and it seems that she is going to prepare for a shame.

"I practiced according to the previous method, but I added pikemen and let them practice more hand-to-hand combat, although I also practiced hand-to-hand combat in the past, but I didn't have the opportunity to show it, and after being broken up by Wang Baobao last time, I simply didn't have the power to fight back." Mu Ying sighed and said, "How did the gun without arquebuses you told me last time do." ”

Ma Du looked at a chubby figure on the side of the civil official, and said in a low voice: "I don't have a clue, I've already invited ...... Obey the order to help me do it. ”

Mu Ying's eyes widened, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "He...... Will he do it for you? ”

"Of course I didn't tell him the truth, I just gave him some ideas and asked him to help me make something called a lighter. I also had to bleed, so I gave him some glass panes and helped him change the window paper in the hallway, so that he could enjoy the warm sunlight in the cold winter. ”

Zhu Wenying stretched out his thumb, "It's really yours!" Xuanzhong, I also want to get some glass panels to change the window paper at home, what do you think? ”

"You think beautifully, don't you see that I haven't changed yet."

"Didn't you give it all to the animals, am I not even as good as the animals?"

"What's the hell...... Don't talk, I didn't see Liu Ji staring at the two of us, beware of this old man impeaching us. ”

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The two chatted for a while, and when the east revealed the white belly of the fish, the palace door slowly opened, and with the shouting of the eunuchs, the hundred officials entered the palace gate in turn, and walked to the hall where the court meeting was held on weekdays.

On weekdays, I always think that this palace is quite spacious, but today it was suddenly exposed. Ma Du and Mu Ying are both exposed, and the position of the two is not embarrassing or embarrassing, just under the porch, it is really strange that there are too many high-grade generals under Lao Zhu's hands.

The wind on the porch swished into his neck, and Ma Du couldn't help but shudder, really missing Wu Yuannian's time when he was warm in the house and was about to fall asleep.

"Wen Ying, it's all your fault, if I enter the queue of civil officials, I can enter the Taoist house, and I don't have to be frozen here."

"I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence, besides, you are such a big person, I asked you to come over, and you will come."

"Isn't that nonsense of a martial nobleman and a cheap man you said?"

"Don't complain about it now, the court meeting of the Yuan Day doesn't talk about political affairs, and the general kung fu of a stick of incense is almost the same...... Ouch! ”

Ma Du and Zhu Wenying were complaining to each other, and suddenly they were hit on the leg, and they were about to scold when they saw Lao Zhu standing in front of him with a straight face, and the two of them hurriedly lowered their heads.

Lao Zhu snorted inside his nose, "It's not honest for two bastards to have a court meeting." He walked up to Ma Du and said mockingly: "It's okay for Wenying to stand outside, you have a title and several titles, so you can't squeeze into the ranks of civil officials." What a fool, today's court chief deserves to freeze to death. ”

After Lao Zhu finished speaking, he walked towards the palace gate, and Yuan Sheng, who was following behind him, immediately shouted, "The emperor has arrived!" The officials in the hall all bowed down and greeted him.

Lao Zhu sat down on the dragon chair to let the ministers flatten, Li Shanchang immediately went out to represent the hundred officials to Lao Zhu to present the most sincere sycophants of the New Year, nothing more than in the past year, under the wise leadership of Lao Zhu, the people were rich and healthy, the officials were diligent and diligent, and the soldiers fought bravely, and even the farmer's sow gave birth to more than a dozen piglets at once, which was also attributed to Lao Zhu's body, which was a great auspiciousness. After that, Li Shanchang led the hundred officials to bow three times and bow nine times, and the three shouts of the mountain and the tsunami were long live.

Kneeling on the cold stone, Ma Du only felt that his knee joints didn't seem to obey the call, but Lao Zhu didn't let people get up. Ma Du raised his head slightly, and saw Song Lian standing under the Danqi after leaving the class, holding a scroll of holy decrees in his hand.

The holy decree was very large and long, and it even required Yuan Sheng to help Song Lian hold one of the scrolls, and Song Lian cleared his throat and began to read it. The content is very ridiculous, starting from the Yellow Emperor's war against Chiyou, and the successive dynasties until Zhu Yuanzhang Weijia Hainai, the sages of the past dynasties, the holy lords of the Ming Dynasty, and the famous ministers and brave generals have been greatly mentioned.

“…… I have won the world today, the style of the Lai Shi Wu Chenli, and the sea Yu Ning, Zhen Brigade class teacher, rest soldiers, Yu Feng Xinjiang important ministers, excellent travel and maintenance, reward the extension of the world, and favor the rivers and mountains......"

Ma Du's heart jumped, no wonder Lao Zhu said that this court meeting was very long, and it turned out that he was going to be a great hero!