Chapter 116: In front of the Ming Palace
Seeing that Tian Yi was beside the king with a bronze sword in his hand, the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After all, Tian Yi is not his own person, and the Taishi and the others only feel that their hearts are about to jump out, and how much luck the king has to be to avoid the dense bows and arrows of the assassins just now, but don't let it be bad in the hands of those who have surrendered. And the guards nearby also felt the change in the atmosphere, and turned their heads to look over, but at this moment, they heard the king smile and said, "Don't panic, Tian Aiqing is just not convinced that the king's armor is so hard, and if you want to try it yourself, it doesn't hurt to let him try it." ”
The Taishi hurriedly beckoned, and the guards nearby pointed their spears outward. Zhou Mi also got up and got out of the way, but he was still by his side. Tian Yi's face has not changed much, he smiled when he heard the king's command, and then offended the king, so he lowered his body and slashed at the iron plate at the hem of the king's waist, and sure enough, there was no response. Tian Yi couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, "The king is really blessed by his ancestors, he can have such a hard iron armor, which is not seen in the world, isn't it a treasure left by the king of civil and military affairs?" ”
Could it be that the antiquities left behind must be good, is it not more than five hundred years old today, Zhou Bian smiled but did not explain, but how is it good at the moment, is it possible that he just stuck a few arrows in his body and lived in the Ming Palace, even if no one laughed at him, but this arrow still had to be pulled out after all.
Suddenly, I remembered the other iron sword at my waist, this is a real hundred refining sword. Thinking of this, Zhou Bian signaled Zhou Mi to untie it, and sure enough, the iron armor had to be broken by the iron sword, although the sword body was long and not in his hand, but he made great efforts, and he quickly cut the armor, and after a while, he pulled out everything except for the arm. When it came to the arm, Zhou Mi carefully cut the armor on the entire arm, and the arrow also fell after it was removed, and everyone found that the arrow did not shoot deeply, but pierced the armor and exposed a little head to hurt the king's arm, and the injury was not deep. After carefully checking that there was no poison on the arrow, Zhou Bian was relieved, and after sparing a circle of gauze on his arm, it was really nothing to move. It's really lucky, this assassination incident, luckily escaped, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be afraid, he escaped several disasters, and he didn't know when this good luck would run out.
"Long live the King!" Unexpectedly, at this time, Tian Yi suddenly kowtowed his head and made a big salute, which startled Zhou Bian and hurriedly turned his gaze over.
But seeing that Tian Yi made a big salute, "The king is really a blessed person, wearing such strong armor, even the sword at his waist is also unheard of by the old man." The old man's armor-piercing sword is a family heirloom, rare in the world, but compared with the king's sword, it is much worse, so the old man has to be convinced. The king is deeply protected by God, why worry that my Great Zhou will not be revived, the old man congratulates my king in advance! Saying that, Tian Yi kowtowed again.
I really can't see that this white-haired old man is also a sycophant, but what Zhou Bian wants now is the submission of the Luoyang nobles, so Zhou Bian didn't explain the origin of this armor and iron sword, let them guess for themselves, as a king, it's better to maintain a little mystery. However, he couldn't still be saluted by an old man all the time, Zhou Bian hurriedly signaled others to help him up.
Seeing that the king had been bandaged and there was no big problem, the Taishi opened his mouth and said, "The king, it's not too early now, let's hurry up and go to the Ming Palace." The rest of the journey made the guards more defensive, and it should be fine. ”
Zhou Bian naturally nodded in agreement, and the ministers, thousands of royal soldiers, and hundreds of Luoyang nobles who followed behind were all hanging on the street, which was really not good. So without waiting for the result of Wang Sunjian's pursuit, Zhou Bian changed another carriage, and the team continued to drive towards the Ming Palace.
Because of the trouble just now, there are many fewer Luoyang civilians watching on the street, most of them are hiding home, that is, the home is on both sides of Dingdingmen Street, and the gate is also closed, and occasionally a few children run out of play, and they are soon pulled back by their families. However, I could still see that there were many pairs of eyes in the crack of the door on the side of the road, still looking curiously outside, looking at the king who could survive such a sudden and violent attack. Feeling such a gaze, Zhou Bian was also a little funny in his heart.
There were fewer onlookers, the road became much wider, and the pace of the procession suddenly accelerated a lot, and finally rushed to the gate of the Ming Palace before the sun was in the middle.
This is the second time Zhou Bian saw the gate of the Ming Palace, the first time he was just one of the many pilgrims who went to the Taimiao Temple to worship his ancestors, and saw the brilliant tiles on the gate of the Ming Palace from afar, but this time he came as the master, and he could sit in a carriage until the door hole. Although it was already noon at this time, and the sun was a little shining, there was still a large group of people kneeling in front of the Ming Palace, and the leader was a young man.
Zhou Mi and Fan Yu hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhou Bian out of the car, and several people walked straight to the kneeling crowd, only to see that the young man took the lead in bowing down, "Ministers, meet my king, and welcome my king back to Luoyang Ming Palace." Behind him were a group of ministers and chamberlains, who kowtowed together.
Altogether, it is the son of the Zhou Dynasty who has died, at a glance he is still a teenager, Zhou Bian can't help but feel compassion, and he stepped forward to help him up, but the Taishi took the first step to help him up, which made Zhou Bian stunned, but then remembered that the Taishi was afraid that the other party would be desperate, although he felt unlikely, but Zhou Bian was still grateful to the Taishi's carefulness.
According to the previous Taishi's explanation, Zhou Bian raised his hands and shouted flat, and a group of former courtiers behind him stood up with their heads down, still touting Zhou Gong a few days ago, dreaming of Zhou Gong's triumphant return, but recently he was going to meet the king, although the servants changed from the princes to the royal family, but there are still some people who are uncomfortable in their hearts, from those people or frowning brows, or slanting their eyes that don't know where to look, or playing with their hands in their sleeves. But Zhou Bian didn't care, everything has to be a process, right?
Next is to pray for the three big temples such as the Taimiao, these three halls are outside the gate of the Ming Palace, Zhou Bian turned around under the instructions of the Taishi, and raised his feet to walk over. Unexpectedly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a minister jumping out of behind Gongzhi, and he didn't know what this person meant, so Zhou Bian stopped his steps and looked back.
The minister was about fifty years old, neatly dressed, with long sleeves, but his face was full of anger, he jumped out and stretched out his hand to point behind Zhou Bian and scolded, "Ning thief, I didn't think that you took refuge in the royal family, as a minister of the Duke of Zhou, why did you collude with the royal family and be unfavorable to the Duke of Zhou?" You villain, the master just left, and today you will go out of the city to meet the king, are you worthy of Duke Zhou? ”
It seems that this is still a loyal minister, Zhou Bian couldn't help but look sideways, but who is Ning Thief, Zhou Gong's subordinates took the lead in taking refuge only Tu and Xin, but they have never heard of the surname Ning. Just when he was confused, he saw a middle-aged man walking out behind him, with a medium stature and two mustaches, but who was not Ning Yue? In the team to greet the king, this figure and dress were not too conspicuous, but Zhou Bian didn't see it.
And at this time, seeing someone pointing at himself and scolding, Ning Yue couldn't bear it, so he stood up, took the lead in saluting Zhou Bian, and then turned around and said to the loyal minister, "The shore of the land is not the king's minister, Ning is originally a Zhou person, how can he come to the royal family." And Ning has been conscientious since he served the first Zhou Weigong, and has always been loyal to the word, and has never done anything unfavorable to Zhou Gong. Now that the late lord Zhou Gong has passed away, he is already an ownerless person, what about serving the royal family, didn't you also bow to the king? It's just two steps less, so why laugh at Ning. ”
This is the first time he has seen Ning Yue after the death of Duke Zhou, and Zhou Bian has already learned about Ning Yue's talent, and he has thought about wooing him, but he is afraid that this person will be too loyal to the old master, so he refuses to agree. And now that Bai Gui said that Ning Yue actually took the initiative to vote, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be a little puzzled, he really couldn't get the idea to grab it, but the one who sent it to his mouth was suspicious.
However, Ning Yue's words were very reasonable, and the minister who walked out behind Gongzhi was so angry that he stomped his feet after hearing this, but he couldn't think of anything to refute, just now he was just quick to speak, and now he was asked but had nothing to say, so he had to scold a few words that were not nutritious, but the child couldn't stand it, and hurriedly stopped it, and the minister muttered a few more words before returning to the queue.
At this time, Zhou Bian had the opportunity to re-interrogate Ning Yue, and the latter also felt the king's gaze, so he took the initiative to bow down without greeting, and made a big salute to the king again, shouting long live.
Zhou Bian was looking at Ning Yue with a slight smile, but he didn't know where to ask, but Fan Yu behind him couldn't help it, Fan Yu couldn't help it, but Fan Yu didn't find Ning Yue who had been looking for a night that night, and he was holding his breath. "Ning Yue, I came to ask you, when you helped Duke Zhou come up with an idea to deal with my royal family, did you ever think of today? Then seal up the natural residence, arrest Zibu and others, and let the royal family take money to ransom it, but your idea? ”
Ning Yue raised his head, "It's exactly Ning's idea." ”
"Hmph, then ask you again, my royal family recruited troops on the outskirts of Luoyang, but Duke Zhou personally agreed, why did you create difficulties and prevent my royal family from recruiting troops smoothly?"
"At that time, the source of Zhou Gong's soldiers was not enough, how could he give it to the royal family?"
"You are still in trouble with the royal family in many places, that is, when you attacked Gongyi two days ago, you deliberately damaged the strength of my royal family, why did you do this to my royal family? And today, why do you dare to stand here to meet my king, want to take refuge in the king, and are you not afraid that the royal family will kill you with a vendetta to avenge the hatred of the past? ”
In fact, Zhou Bian also wanted to ask these words, and he also wanted to know how Ning Yue would answer, so he quietly looked at Ning Yue, who was still kneeling on the ground. At this time, there was silence in the audience, obviously everyone was very curious about this issue, including the group of people behind Gongzhi, how Ning Yue dealt with the royal family at the beginning They were all obvious, and today Ning Yue actually took the initiative to join Wang Shi, I really don't know how this person's brain turned so fast.
Ning Yue was not in a hurry, and said loudly, "In the past, Zhou Gong was a minister in Luoyang, the lord treated the minister with faith, and the minister served the lord with loyalty, so everything Ning did was for the sake of Zhou Gong, since it was for Zhou Gong's plan, it was indispensable to offend the royal family, if the royal family was weak, Zhou Gong would be strong, and if the royal family was strong, Zhou Gong would be weak, this matter is like this, there is no need for Ning to say it in detail." One day as a minister is a day of loyalty, and the master is not there, the minister is a free body, and he can follow the new master, if he goes with the old master, he will not learn to say that he has failed a certain body, and it is not what the old lord wants to see. And in today's world, the world is in turmoil, the countries are strife, not the master picks the ministers, the courtiers can also choose the master to rely on, now my king is young, but wise, over time, it will be a generation of masters, the revival of the royal family is hopeful, Ning a certain person does not learn to explain here, but why bother to seek far? Besides, with the generosity of the king, he will not take account of the things that offend the royal family by planning for the old lord in the past, and be loyal to the Lord, what is the only crime? Besides, since Ning can be like this to the old master, he is naturally loyal to the king, and the king must know it in his heart. If the king still remembers the hatred of the past and wants to ask Ning Mou, Ning Mou naturally doesn't have much, and he will be at the disposal of the king. But I don't know what my king wants? ”
Saying that, Ning Yue spread his hands, touched his forehead to the ground, bowed down, and quietly waited for Zhou Bian's answer.