Yu Zhong was waiting for Tuoba Shen and Li Biao, and after Jiang Shaoyou got into the car, he divided twenty people into the front and rear guards, led by the two clansmen, and followed on foot, and he sat in the car to drive the ox cart.

Because Yu Zhong had no experience in driving an ox cart before, and the streets were full of people and vehicles at this time, he moved slowly, and it was not until a while later that the convoy reached the front of Sima Gate Square.

Inside the Sima Gate is where the palace city of the Southern Dynasty is located, and you can't drive a horse inside. After Tuoba Shen, Li Biao, and Jiang Shaoyou got off the car in turn, they said to Zhong: "It's very hot here, so you can go back to the museum first, and leave the car and cattle and a few people here." ”

"His Royal Highness cares, and the lower officials dare not be ashamed. It's just that His Royal Highness went down to see the Lord Qi, how could the lower officials dare to sit in the hall, and besides, I don't know when His Royal Highness will come out, so please stay outside this door, so that His Royal Highness can return to the museum at any time. ”

Tuoba thought about it carefully, and he didn't have a score in his heart. If it is only the letter of state, it will not take half an hour before and after, but today is the day of the Southern Dynasty meeting, and it is uncertain when they will hold the meeting. It may come out before noon, or it may come out in the afternoon.

"Okay!" Tuoba Shen nodded

handed the rune in his left hand to Li Biao (the rune was too long), Jiang Shaoyou took the national letter in the box, and the three of them walked towards Sima Gate. The distance was only two hundred steps away, and I saw a lot of people in official clothes coming in and out of Sima Gate, or alone, or in twos and threes, and when they saw Tuoba Shen from a distance, they discussed a few words, but none of them stepped forward to ask or anything.

These people should all be Cao staff of the Southern Dynasty Provincial Department!

After Sima Gate inspected the official documents of Shangshu Province sent by Liu Hui yesterday and entered Sima Gate, he passed through the Nanzhi car gate along the main road, and went to the end gate of the main gate of Jiankang Palace. Because Jiang Shaoyou had a secret mission this time, Tuoba Shen, Li Biao, and Jiang Shaoyou paced slowly along the way, observing the palace and the distant towers while discussing the similarities and differences between them and the regulations of the Pingcheng Palace. It took a lot of time to get to the end door. Inside the end gate is Jiankang Palace, although you can't enter the door, but outside the door, you can see through the palace gate a tall specification nearly hundreds of meters away, located in a two-storey, double-eaves hall on a high platform of several zhang.

This should be the Tai Chi Temple!

Tuoba Shen gestured to Jiang Shaoyou with his eyes, and Jiang Shaoyou nodded slightly. The Tai Chi Hall is the main dish, and it is also one of the main lessons of Jiang Shaoyou's trip. He didn't dare to be careless, although he didn't go in and couldn't see the whole picture of the Taiji Hall clearly, but he still combined some information he had obtained in the past to outline the shape of the Taiji Hall in his heart.

About a quarter of an hour after the end gate, I saw a middle-aged man wearing a gauze crown running in small steps, saluting: "But the northern envoy in person? Under the order of the current confessor, Li Cheng, I will guide you by my lord's order. ”

"Exactly, dare to ask your lord if the court meeting is closed?"

"The court meeting has closed, and my lord sent Li to welcome you to the Taiji Palace. Please come with Li," Li Lingling said and made a gesture of please.

"Thank you Li for the order!"

Tuoba Shen, Li Biao, and Jiang Shaoyou entered the end gate together, and immediately watched the whole picture of the Taiji Palace.

There is a stone ramp on the left and right sides of the high platform of the temple base, which is about eight zhang, and the length of the ramp accounts for half of the length of the south side of the square in front of the hall, and it looks like it is about sixty zhang or more. From the end gate, the two stone ramps, which are at least sixty zhang long, are large enough to walk four carriages side by side. It looks like it should be the royal road where the emperor of the Southern Dynasty took the stage.

On the left and right of the Taiji Palace, there is also a palace with a high platform of more than half of the low, but the scale is much smaller, and the Hongqiao commonly used in general palace buildings can not be seen, which should be the east and west halls of the Taiji Palace.

Looking carefully at the Taiji Palace, it seems to be full of people, and the distance of several hundred meters is not very clear, but a person who is guarded in the middle can be seen.

Surrounded by the ministers, Xiao Zhen stood on the Taiji Hall and looked from afar, and vaguely saw a small and large figure from a distance, and the figure on the left was Li Biao, whom he was familiar with.

Frowning and blinking his eyes, which had already reduced his eyesight a lot many years ago, Xiao Zhen turned his head, his face was slightly haggard, and said to Xiao Changmao, Xiao Ziliang and Xie Xian, Wang Yan, Xiao Luan and others on his side: "Let's go down too!" After speaking, he walked off the stage, and Xie Xuan and others also followed closely.

"His Majesty Father's court meeting has been more than two hours now, whether you want to go to rest first, you can just have a son here to preside over it." Xiao Changmao said later

Xiao Zhen shook his head and said: "It's just that my father slept late last night, and I have been sleeping so late and getting up early all these years, I have long been used to it, and the prince doesn't have to worry." When the northern envoy came to the court, how could his father avoid it because of a small difficulty, wouldn't it make people laugh? ”

Tuoba Shen saw that Xiao Zhen, who was wearing a crown of heaven and a white gauze robe, led his ministers to the bottom of the hall, and also accelerated his way over, and no longer looked at the Taiji Palace.

"The foreign minister has seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Qi Dynasty!" Tuoba Shen and Li Biao and others gave a salute a few zhang away from Xiao Zhen

"The envoys have worked hard from afar. Two months ago, I heard that the envoy would be healthy, and I couldn't help but wait to see him until now. When the envoy first arrived in Jiangzuo, could he sleep peacefully last night? ”

"How dare Your Majesty condescend to ask. Although the foreign minister was new to Jiankang, he felt the hospitality of the inner and outer scholars. Everything is as it used to be, and the children are at home."

"That's great!"

Tuoba Shen took the wooden box from Jiang Shaoyou's hand, presented it with both hands, and said: "When the foreign minister left Beijing, His Majesty the Emperor of our country personally gave this national letter, and asked His Majesty to read it. ”

After Xiao Zhen motioned for Xiao Changmao to take the wooden box, he didn't open it to look at it, but led Tuoba Shen and his party to the Taiji Hall.

Walk in to see clearly, these two layers of the palace height is the same, each floor has four zhang high, the first floor of the high platform along the second floor of the temple steps about two zhang more than two zhang distance, two steps each in the majesty of the steps around, the width of the steps is three zhang wide, straight to the Taiji Palace.

Xiao Changmao saw that Tuoba Shen frequently looked at the left and right sides of the Taiji Hall and His Majesty's steps, and said with a smile: "How does Your Highness view this hall?" Can your dynasty be able to match? ”

"The Taiji Hall is indeed magnificent and majestic, beyond the reach of this dynasty, and I can't help but be attracted by it when I see it at the first time. Let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince see and laugh! Tuoba said cautiously

Xiao Zhen said in front: "This hall was rebuilt in the Taiyuan period a hundred years ago, when 1,500 people went to serve every day, and it was completed in a few months. The wood used in the hall has the thickness of the hug, all of which are cut down by Jingyi deep mountain, and float along the river to Jiankang. Each piece of wood costs no less than 400,000 dollars. The halls I have built are far from perfect. ”

Tuoba Shen raised his head and carefully looked at the eaves of the Taiji Hall and said, "It is indeed ingenious. ”

"In recent years, I heard that the Wei Dynasty has repeatedly built palaces, and there are endless works inside and outside the city, but is it true?"

"It is true."

As soon as Tuoba Shen's words fell, he heard a voice from the left: "My Majesty has been on the throne for nine years, and only three new palaces have been built, and the ministers are still admonishing and resisting. The Lord of Wei is constantly fighting, and there is no one or two loyal and righteous admonitions? When Luan heard about the first emperor, he wasted the people's strength, and the husband favored the right and the world. Isn't this matter a precedent? ”

Tuoba Shen looked to the left, and he was a middle-aged man with a long beard, a slightly chubby body, prominent eyeballs, obvious double eyelids, and drooping ears.

"Who dare to ask you?"

Tuoba Shen felt a strong malice, he had prepared for such a deliberate trouble before he came, but he didn't expect it to start before he entered the Taiji Palace.

"This is the right servant of this dynasty's Shangshu, Xiao Luan, Marquis of Xichang." Xiao Zhen stopped, turned around and stroked his beard and smiled.