Chapter Sixty-Nine: Remembering the Shandong Brothers

There will be civil and military disputes at any time, otherwise an example of reconciliation can be passed down for so long. This phenomenon also existed in the Tang Dynasty, where the threat of the military attaché to the change of regime between the two generations, and the inability of the civil and military officials to deal with external aggression, made the civil and military officials look down on each other. If you don't look at each other, you will fight with each other, this is not a party dispute, this is a cat and a dog, they are born to deal with each other, and they have to make trouble for each other when they have the opportunity, otherwise they will make trouble.

Generally speaking, as long as they are not particularly close to the military, the impeachment of military attaches below the fourth rank will not be regarded as causing friction, and the reaction of the generals is not particularly fierce. The generals are well aware of the consequences of their grouping. Recently, there have been frequent wars, and the generals are not civil officials one by one according to their merits, and the bad things they have done have been participated in one by one, which is useless, and the generals have not done anything more out of the ordinary.

Lu Jing's group of imperial historians had no taste in their mouths, and aimed at Xu Qing, wanting to use them to sharpen their knives and practice their mouths. To Lu Jing's surprise, Xu Qing, who seemed to have no background, was actually protected by this group of generals, which was strange. Xu Qing didn't expect Cheng Yanjin and them to protect themselves so much, so he secretly wrote it down with gratitude.

After all, Lu Jing's group of people are imperial history, and they rely on their mouths to eat, and they are not ambiguous, and one crime after another has been added to Xu Qing's head.

"Your Majesty, a soldier and a prostitute, should be dismissed and exiled......"

"Soldiers and prostitutes are bringing bad to the army, Your Majesty, this is going to ruin the foundation of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Dereliction of duty, indulgence in vocal music, and ruining the reputation of the court, his crime should be punished!"

“……”

Datang is relatively open, and even Yihong Courtyard has an official camp, so it's really not too embarrassing to say that you are a prostitute, at least no one really locks you in to educate for a few days. However, for low-ranking officers, prostitution is a great dereliction of duty, and if it is wartime, it will be judged to disturb the morale of the army and be a major crime of killing the head.

"Silence!" Li Yuan said in a low voice, and in less than three seconds, the court regained its quietness. Li Yuan glanced at the main hall and said, "Xu Chuliu is in the hall, why don't you let him say a word?" ”

"What?!" The generals who spoke for Xu Qing were surprised, they were grateful for the liquor sent by Xu Qing, and even more grateful to Xu Qing for inventing the horseshoe and fried rice, they knew what these two things meant to the army of the Tang Dynasty. Although it does not directly improve the power of weapons, but indirectly improves the endurance of the army, which can save the lives of countless soldiers.

So just now they defended Xu Qing, thinking that Xu Qing was not there, and they were blocking the dark arrow for him! But now that they learned that Xu Qing was in the palace, they were incredulous, and they were angry with Xu Qing, and Cheng Biting Jin scolded: "Where are you, Xu boy?" You stinky doll, your hair hasn't grown, you go to a brothel for Lao Tzu!? I don't kill you......"

"Zhijie ......" Li Yuan called in the palace, Cheng Yanjin heard it, and immediately turned red, knowing that he was roaring at the court again, he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I can't be angry, that kid is young, go shopping or something, if there is an accident, don't worry about it......"

"Su Guogong, what you said is not right......" Lu Jing said faintly, he didn't dare to go toe-to-toe with Cheng Biting Jin.

"Do you dare to say it again?" Cheng biting the golden fire began to rise again.

"Zhijie, let Xu Qing speak......" Li Yuan looked very calm when he spoke, as if everything was expected.

When Xu Qing was arguing, he took the opportunity to rub his legs, and when he heard this, he walked to the front, bowed down and said, "Minister Xu Chuliu greets the emperor." ”

"Well, the sixth junior high, you and Lu Jing should confront each other."

"No!" Xu Qing turned his head to that Lu Jing and asked, "Master Lu, how do you know that I went to prostitute myself, didn't you go too?" ”

"If people don't know, unless you don't do it, you naturally don't need me to see the prostitution with my own eyes, not to mention that even if I go, it doesn't matter, I just say that soldiers can't prostitutes, not that everyone can't go?" Lu Jing looked at Xu Qing with contempt, and said in his heart that a small military attaché, like that group of arrogant and unreasonable military attachés, what kind of argument can he have?

"Hehe, I didn't say that Lord Lu can't go, but it's true that soldiers can't be prostitutes, but I didn't say that soldiers can't go in and out of those places?" Xu Qing asked again.

"Hmph, then let me ask you, are you looking for a girl?" Lu Jing asked without answering. Xu Qing listened, thought about it carefully, and decided to tell the truth: "I found ......"

"Did you give the money?" Lu Jing asked again.

"Gave ......" Xu Qing continued to tell the truth, wasn't he hacked by a tael of silver?

"If you find a girl and give you money, then aren't you a prostitute!" Lu Jing laughed and said, turned around and said to Li Yuan, "Your Majesty, this matter has been decided. ”

When Xu Qing heard this, he smiled slyly and laughed:

"Hahaha, looking for a girl to give silver is a prostitute, Lord Lu, if your father gave your mother silver, won't your mother become a prostitute?" This sentence detonated the entire hall, Cheng Yanjin leaned back and turned back with laughter, praised Xu Qing loudly for his good look, and sighed why he wouldn't be so scolding. The few important ministers sitting at the front couldn't hold back their faces, and there were strange expressions on their faces.

The imperial historians next to Lu Jing were furious and scolded:

"Shaft!"

"Sven sweeps the floor!"

"Above the court, this is a great disrespect!"

"How can you be so ......" Lu Jing was even more angry and speechless.

Taking advantage of your illness, I want your life, seeing that Lu Jing was so angry that he couldn't speak, Xu Qing said to himself: "I went to the land of smoke and willows, just to ask for directions, after asking the way, the girl said that the minimum consumption is one or two silver, I see that she is pitiful, so I rewarded one or two silver, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

When Lu Jing heard this, he forcibly suppressed his anger and said:

"This ...... People in Chang'an, you don't ask for directions, why did you go to the fireworks alley? Isn't that quibble? ”

"I only heard singing from the fireworks alley on the road, and when I listened carefully to the poem that I wrote, I became interested, walked closer, and asked for ......directions by the way" Xu Qing's words came out, and the court was detonated again, but this time the civil officials laughed and turned back and forth, and Cheng Yanjin's expression was extremely complicated, but it was just a more ugly one.

"Hahaha, the poems you wrote, lying out of tune......"

"Shameless, I know that poem, the best of the best, how can it be written by a layman?"

"That's it, in order to escape the crime, this is to know that the guilt is hard to escape, and I panicked!"

"This kid is really ...... Burned out of the head! Cheng Yanjin shook his head, and had already begun to think about the way back for Xu Qing.

When the laughter gradually subsided, Xu Qing said, "How can you be so sure that this poem was not written by me?" When Lu Jing heard this, he forced a smile and pretended to be indignant and said: "Now in front of the emperor, don't you want to commit the crime of bullying the king?" ”

"Alas, all Chang'an is singing the poems I wrote, and the lies that can be punctured by asking anyone casually, it's useless for me to lie......" Xu Qing said very aggrievedly.

"Eh, you ......" Lu Jing lowered his head and thought about what to do, and suddenly said with a flash of inspiration: "I believe that you can compose a poem in court, and the quality is not lower than that of the two hands that are sung!" ”

"That's not good, my poems are very expensive, and I can't do it without silver......" After Xu Qing finished speaking, a group of civil officials hurriedly asked him and reprimanded Xu Qing for insulting Sven, how could he write poems for silver, isn't this an insult to such an elegant thing as poetry? Sure enough, it's a vulgar general! Xu Qing didn't care about the discussion, and said: "If I make a poem, if you insist on saying it badly, what should I do?" ”

"With the emperor's wisdom and the witness of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, how can I distort the facts?" Lu Jing said.

"Okay, okay?"

"Your Majesty, please ......" Lu Jing didn't dare to make his own decisions, and gave up the questioner to Li Yuan.

"Well, the Double Ninth Festival passed a few days ago, Xu Chuliu, you should take this as a topic." Li Yuan said after thinking for a moment.

"Well...... this" Xu Qing pretended to be contemplative, but in fact, he was overjoyed in his mind, and a quatrain came out of Xu Qing's mind, which was not only very well written, but also very much in line with the experience that "Xu Chuliu" should have, that is, Wang Wei's "Memories of Shandong Brothers on September 9th". After making up his mind, Xu Qing said: "When I was wandering in Shandong, I also met a few difficult brothers, and I also suppressed bandits in Shandong, and there were some brothers in the barracks. A few days ago, during the Double Ninth Festival, I suddenly remembered my old friends in Shandong, and I happened to write a poem - "Remembering Shandong Brothers"

After listening to Xu Qing's words, no one in the hall believed it until Xu Qing's voice recited sounded in his ears:

"Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, thinking of relatives every festive season.

Knowing that the brothers ascended to the heights, there was one less person in the dogwood. ”

Xu Chuliu is a wanderer, naturally everywhere is a stranger, and when it comes to the festival, when he sees the reunion of every family, he will naturally "think of his relatives", with the foreshadowing of the first two sentences, no one will pursue the details of the last two sentences, a group of civil officials, tears in their hearts. Li Yuan finally commented on Xu Qing's "prostitute" or not, and said slowly:

"Scatter!