Volume 2: The Eighth Route Army's Festival Envoy - Chapter 15: The Son of Heaven's Thoughts (3)

Wei didn't sleep all night.

Ever since Wang Yinzuo asked Wang Jun to pay homage to the Pinglu Festival envoy and handed it over, his mood has never calmed down. Unlike the conjecture of the outside world, this son of heaven didn't care about giving Wang Jun a festival envoy at all. For him, appointing an envoy was nothing more than a gesture, but the smell behind the rigorous and respectful remarks in this matter made the emperor very uncomfortable.

Among the brothers in the feudal town who had an incident back then, Wang Yin and Wang Jun had the best relationship, even better than their relationship with themselves, which Da Zhou Tianzi knew in his heart, what Wang Yin was doing at this time, Guo Wei knew it better. In fact, for Wang Yin, a person who does things regardless of arrogance and empty eyes, but lacks real management ability, Guo Wei is very unaccustomed to it from the bottom of his heart. If it weren't for the feelings of the old brothers, I'm afraid that these old brothers would have scolded him for being mean and unkind to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and Guo Wei would have taken this person's Tianxiong Army Festival Envoy and recalled him back to Bianjing for retirement.

But Guo Wei understands that this matter is only afraid that Wang Yin's intention is in it, and the seal of the Jiedu envoy can be played directly without going through the Zhongshu Gate, but if there is no Privy Council to present it on his behalf, the seal will never go directly to the front of the emperor. In other words, before he saw this seal, Wang Jun himself had already seen it.

It stands to reason that Wang Jun should personally present this seal and then express his gratitude, which is a gesture that a courtier should make. But Wang Jun didn't do this, and he handed over the seal as it was without saying a word. What does that mean? Is he waiting to see what he thinks?

After breakfast yesterday, Guo Wei pushed away all other official duties. sat in the palace and waited, waiting for Wang Jun to come and explain the matter to himself. waited until the lunch time had passed, and Wang Jun did not appear, Guo Wei finally determined that this close comrade-in-arms deputy commander was really going to test his mind this time. Guo Wei, who was in a sad mood, directly called Dou Yi, a scholar from Hanlin, into the palace, and casually drew a manuscript of the text and ordered him to take it to the door of the Chinese book for sealing.

Since there have been festival envoys in the world, there has never been a precedent for such a child's play of worship festival envoys, that is, Li Wenge, a remote and barren border county festival envoy whose qualifications and prestige are far from enough. Although the text drafted by the Hanlin scholars is not gorgeous. But it is also in line with the regulations. At best, the holy decree of such a sentence is nothing more than the "middle decree" and "ink edict" used by the emperor to order a small matter (that is, a matter that does not involve major military affairs), and there is no need for the Hanlin scholars to draft it.

Guo Wei also knew that when the decree arrived at the Zhongshu Gate, it would either be sealed back by the prime ministers, or the Zhongshu Society would redraft a decent edict and send it down. However, from the perspective of this emperor's heart, he really hopes that the group of sour scholars in Zhongshu will not hesitate to send the edict as it is this time, and he really wants to see Wang Jun's face when he sees this edict with only one sentence!

Brother of life and death. Mutual suspicion is at this point, which really makes Guo Wei sad enough!

Yesterday's lunch and dinner, Guo Wei was useless, he sat in the bedroom of Concubine Dong in the evening, and chatted and talked with this woman who had followed him for nearly 20 years. At that time, Guo Wei was not in a high position, and he entered the market during the day to cut down a butcher who bullied and dominated the market, and the situation was described in detail in the pen of a scholar named Shi Nai'an hundreds of years later. It's a pity that the matter was put on someone else.

Kaoru recalls the Qianyou Rebellion a few years ago. Escaping the embarrassment and pain when she escaped from the capital, the now de facto master of the harem sat with the emperor for a whole night in silent tears, and finally she suggested the emperor again. Now that the situation between the DPRK and China is getting more and more stiff, and your age has reached the time of unforgiving, as the saying goes, it is time to raise children to prevent old age, and it is time to recall the monarch back to Bianliang......

The two of them chattered like this, until early this morning, when they knew that they had come to play and invited them to ascend to the palace, Guo Wei got up, dressed neatly, and then drove the Qianyuan Hall under the crowd of Fa Drivers.

Dressed in Yanyi, he slowly ascended to the Dan throne, and after the completion of the three kneeling and nine bowing ceremony, the ministers raised their heads to see, Guo Wei's blue-black eye circles surprised the civil and military officials.

However, the festival is a great dynasty, naturally to go through the procedure, as the Yellow Gate singer sang: "On the congratulatory table-", the old and majestic Feng Dao walked out of the train with small steps, and read the congratulatory table to the emperor on behalf of the hundred officials.

This is a thousand-word macro article, the rhetoric is gorgeous and extraordinary, among which there are a lot of rare words, Wang Jun, who is standing behind Feng Dao's right, smacked his tongue secretly, but he also lost this old horseman, otherwise this congratulatory table let himself read it, but I am afraid that some words will not be recognized, and I am afraid that it will be a joke when I read it.

Li Wenge, who was standing in the train, was also secretly surprised, he naturally recognized Feng Dao as the old man he met at the confluence of the Bianhe River and the Yellow River a few days ago, but he didn't expect this person to be the famous Changle old Feng Dao.

He stared at Feng Dao up and down, but Guo Wei, who was sitting on the royal bed, was looking at him at the moment.

Today's dynasty, the officials above the fifth grade of the Beijing division are all present, and the important ministers who are above the third grade will stand in the Qianyuan Palace, in addition to the prime minister of the Zhongshu privy, the generals of the two armies in front of the palace, the six Shangshu nine temples and the twelve guards of the nominal generals and generals, and then there are some old and important ministers left by the previous dynasty, such as Dou Guzhen Su Fengji, and some are the real power of the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as Guo Chong Li Yun, the youngest of these people are also over the age of confusion, Li Wenge, a young man wearing a purple robe and a goldfish bag standing among them with an elephant wat in his hand, because the rules in his army do not allow him to have a beard and he did not have a beard, his face was smooth, and he could pierce his eyes as much as he wanted, but it was no wonder that Guo Wei looked at him.

Guo Wei frowned and thought about it, but he really couldn't remember who this person was, so he waved his hand lightly and waved over the yellow door that was standing on the left side of Dan, and asked a few words gently.

The yellow gate walked down the Dan, walked to Zhao Kuangyin, who was standing below, and asked a few words, and came back and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, that lord is the new right Xiaowei general, the Eighth Route Army Jie Du Envoy Li Wenge......"

Guo Wei suddenly remembered that Li Wenge went to Beijing to sacrifice horses. Although this matter is not a big deal, because it is involved in the defense of Guanzhong, it is a matter of discussion in the imperial court

However, the ranking is not very low. Guo Wei smiled, thinking that I was indeed old and confused, and I was so young.

When Feng Dao finally finished reading the congratulatory table, and finally the sentence "Ministers congratulate Your Majesty-" As soon as he spoke, the ministers bowed down again and shouted Long live, and Guo Wei stood up. waved his hand and said: "Congratulations to Qing and ......." So far, the celebration ceremony of the Shangyuan Festival has been successfully completed.

Because of yesterday's incident. Guo Wei didn't have the heart to speak anymore, so he waved his hand directly and ordered: "Give the public a seat and give all the heroes and ministers to sit ......"

With the singing of the Yellow Gate, Feng Dao was the leader, Dou Su, Guo Li and other meritorious heroes and Wang Jun, Fan Qian, Li Guwang, and the four prime ministers were seated on both sides of the hall in turn in left and right shifts.

According to the order, at this moment, the emperor should issue another decree to give ministers above the third grade to sit, but Guo Wei broke the rules this time. Waving his hand and smiling: "Give the right general Xiaowei to sit ......"

Everyone suddenly looked sideways again, and many ministers who were not very familiar with Li Wenge looked left and right, and their eyes did not stop looking back in the twelve guard shifts, wanting to see which general was the right Xiaowei general, and how he could get the emperor's grace to sit alone.

Li Wenge was also stunned for a moment, he didn't react for a while, and he was in a daze until Zhao Kuangyin came over after the Yellow Gate finished singing the edict: "General, Your Majesty will give you a seat." Please take your seat with your humble duties! ”

Only then did Li Wenge wake up. hurriedly went out of the class to thank the emperor, and then walked slowly behind Zhao Kuangyin and walked slowly through the train, and came to sit down cross-legged in the chief seat under Li Yun.

There was a slight ripple in the hall. Several ministers even ignored the taboo of the king's disgrace, and they didn't expect that General Youxiaowei would be such a young man.

Li Yun, who was sitting at the top, looked back at him twice, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the new Yanzhou Festival Marshal is at the bottom, it's rude!" ”

Li Wenge and Li Yun have met in the side hall, but they have not exchanged names, Li Wenge also knew Li Yundi's identity through Zhao Kuangyindi's private introduction, but Li Yun did not know his identity. In fact, under the agitation of Li Wenge at that time, although Zhao Kuangyin introduced him to other heroes and generals who rested in the side hall, his attention was completely focused on the person who introduced him.

Nonsense, compared with the three words "Zhao Kuangyin", Li Yun is a fart, Guo Chong is a fart, and as for Dou Guzhen and Su Fengji, they are not even a fart.

Although at this moment, these four people are qualified to sit on the throne of Guo Wei's hall first, but Zhao Kuangyin can only stand in armor, but in the eyes of Li Wenge, now dozens of big people wrapped in purple gold skins on this hall are all added together, and they are not as valuable as the fat man who stands on this stand, and even the son of the Guo family who is high on the throne is overshadowed in front of this young man who will be written into the history books with the name of "Song Taizu" in the future.

In the eyes of the traverser Li Wenge, he is so unreasonable.

Speaking of snobbery, Li Wenge's snobbery can be regarded as the highest level of snobbery in the world.

When he thought of the future Song Taizu humbly and respectfully led the way to himself to stand on the road, Li Wenge's mood - that is called a cool !!!!

But fortunately, he didn't faint yet, and hurriedly said: "Lu Shuai is polite, the boy is a junior, and he is ashamed!" ”

Li Yun smiled and nodded, no longer speaking.

At this time, Guo Wei had already waved his hand and said: "Give hundreds of officials to sit ......"

As the Yellow Gate sang, all the civil and military officials inside and outside the Qianyuan Hall sat down, Guo Wei stood up with a smile, and said loudly: "Give a banquet, I will have fun with all the secretaries......"

The Yellow Gate chanted loudly, and the drum music class that had been prepared outside the hall suddenly took action, and several large chimes that made Li Wenge dizzy began to jingle as a symphony, and the sheng pipe and Zhuxiao also began to play melodiously, and the atmosphere inside and outside the hall suddenly became active.

As the chef's yellow door came and went in an orderly manner, a rectangular low table was lifted, followed by some oranges, apples, pears, grapes, persimmons and other seasonal fruits, which were served on a silver plate, and then the meat was grilled and cooked. In Li Wenge's view, the simplicity of this imperial dish is really enough, and its level is not even as good as the next meal of the section-level leading cadres in his era.

However, what is not quite the same as imagined is that the banquet of this era is very real, the amount of vegetables and fruits is very large, and these civil and military generals are also very unkind, tearing their hands and biting and eating happily.

Li Wenge was a little unaccustomed to eating like this, and he felt very greasy when the large pieces of meat were piled up in front of him. Fortunately, soon, the capitalists brought a pot of charcoal fire boiling, the middle of the clear soup boiling, the onion garlic and other ingredients taste fragrant, smell very pleasant, Li Wenge immediately learned from the surrounding ministers, with a knife to cut the meat in front of him into a small piece, and then immersed in the boiling soup. Clip it out and eat it. It doesn't feel greasy.

But there are very few people who eat like him. The vast majority of people in the hall eat meat directly, and even the appearance of Fan Zhen and Li Gu and other civil servants does not have to be much better than that of military generals. Only Feng Dao is too old, and these big fish and meat really don't understand, so he only picks up two spoons lightly, puts them in his mouth and chews them slowly.

After eating like this for a while, Guo Weidi's voice suddenly came down from Dan: "General Li, these meals are imperial meals." But it doesn't go well? ”

Li Wenge raised his head suddenly, looked left and right, but found that the emperor's gaze was staring directly at him, with a slight smile on the corner of his lips.

He hurriedly got up and said, "Go back to the Lord, the minister doesn't dare!" The minister's family has been poor since childhood, and most of them eat vegetarians, and this lot of meat has never been used. When he was a child. Eat a meal of tofu. It's already the Chinese New Year......"

The words caused a burst of laughter in the palace, and Wang Jun, who was sitting opposite, said: "The general is humble, and the general is from a famous family. The status is extremely noble, how can you not get used to eating imperial food? ”

One sentence attracted everyone's attention, and the hall suddenly fell silent.

Li Wenge said in his heart, smiled slightly, and replied: "Wang Xianggong said that he laughed, Xianggong looked at this body skeleton, but it looks like eating meat like this?" ”

Everyone looked at his thin and barren figure, and couldn't help but burst into laughter again, and even Guo Wei smiled and stroked his knees and said, "Brother Xiufeng, no."

In his early years in the army, he played a lot of pranks, and now he is the prime minister, and he is especially unwilling to accumulate virtue and forgiveness, but he makes young people happy......"

The Son of Heaven said this, and immediately blocked Wang Jun's following words, and he stood up and laughed and said: "The minister is rude, but to say a few jokes, presumably General Li will not care about the minister!" ”

Guo Wei laughed, waved his hand and ordered him to sit down, turned his head and asked Li Wenge: "The general of the Cultural Revolution is promising as a young man, and he has already held the festival in the year of his establishment. Yesterday, I received a report from the Taifu Temple, and the 100 good horses you entered the land are all full-year-old healthy horses and good horses, and I have directly allocated the front division of the palace to use, although it is only a hundred horses, but it can be seen that you are respectful to the court in your later life. Anyway, vegetarian vegetables are also prepared in the palace, so you can order whatever you like, and I won't be unable to supply them if you want to......"

This made everyone laugh again, and Guo Wei immediately added: "Even if you want to eat wild vegetables to accompany you, there are also prepared in the palace!" ”

In the laughter of everyone, Li Wenge was very emotional, Guo Wei deserved to be the emperor of the army who immediately rebelled against the world, and was very familiar with the food used by ordinary soldiers in the army, he paused, and was about to thank him for his resignation, his heart moved, and he temporarily changed his words: "Don't hide it from Your Majesty, the minister is in the army, and eats wild vegetables and radishes every day, and he has already eaten dry mouth, and the best vegetable in the family when the minister was young is vinegar celery, and the minister is also quite good at this, but I don't know if there is a dining room in His Majesty's palace?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they said this, but they didn't expect this afterlife festival to be so real. Guo Wei didn't care, and ordered left and right: "Go to the dining room and ask!" ”

After a while, a yellow gate hurriedly walked into the hall with a full cup of celery made from the method of accumulating sauerkraut and gently placed it on Li Wenge's table.

Guo Wei laughed: "General of the Cultural Revolution, how's that?" Is the preparation of this dining room quite complete? ”

In fact, Li Wenge has never eaten this kind of pickled celery in his life, and at this moment, he smells the pungent sour smell on this celery, although it is not sweet, but he also feels quite appetizing, and he bows to Guo Wei as if he is swallowing saliva...... You're welcome......"

said, without waiting for Guo Wei to speak, he picked up the chopsticks and picked up the cup, and devoured it quickly, as if he felt uncomfortable eating with chopsticks, he even used the chopsticks together, and ate happily. A glass full of vinegar celery, and in a moment it was already eaten.

In fact, this thing is not delicious, and it is a cold thing, it is not very comfortable to eat in winter, Li Wenge ate it, scooped a spoonful of broth in the charcoal hot pot with a spoon, poured it into the bowl, drank it all, the stomach was more comfortable, put down the bowl and stroked the stomach and shouted "happy".

Guo Wei has been looking at him, seeing that he is so informal and polite, he likes it a little in his heart, and instructs: "The Cultural Revolution Aiqing has paid tribute for thousands of miles, it is very hard, and I will summon him the day after tomorrow, the Zhongshu Privy Council and the Honglu Temple Zhongqing, don't neglect him!" ”

The ministers even claimed, and many people peeked at Li Wenge in surprise and jealousy.

A new political star is rising in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the emperor's care and appreciation for this young envoy is obvious. This person is in his early thirties, and he is already a feudal town, and in a few years, he will be crowned as a minister, but I am afraid that it will be just an idle matter.

As soon as the banquet dispersed, many court officials dressed in vermilion came up to greet each other, saying that there were fellow villagers and fellow clansmen, some praised and complimented, and there were many invitations to dinner, which overwhelmed Li Wenge.

Dealing with it all the way, as soon as he walked out of Chengtianmen, a voice sounded from behind: "General Li stays!" ”

Li Wenge stood up, but saw that it was Zhao Kuangyin who hurriedly followed with a jade ruyi with a warm color, and said in a loud voice: "General, Your Majesty orders this thing to be given to the general!" ”

The surrounding officials suddenly had another burst of envy and amazement, Li Wenge hurriedly bowed to the north and thanked Jun En, then he stretched out his hand to take Ruyi, and said with a smile to Zhao Kuangyin: "There is Lao Zhao Dianzhi!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin looked around and said to Li Wenge: "General, please take a step to speak!" ”

Li Wenge was stunned, and as Zhao Kuangyin walked to the side of Chengtianmen, the people around him became scarce, and the east and west Bandian said with a slightly twisted face: "...... The humble position knows the disparity in status, but the humble rank does sincerely admire the general's heroism, so he contacted several brothers of the righteous society, after His Majesty summoned the general the day after tomorrow, the humble post is just on duty, and set up a table of wine in the iron scrap building of the Panlou market, listen to some side affairs, and ask the general for some experience and knowledge in military affairs by the way, and hope that the general will not blame our brothers for being presumptuous, and give in! ”

Song Taizu invited him to dinner, what kind of face is this, and Li Wenge doesn't have to worry at all that this wine is the wine that releases his military power, how many people can there be in the eternals with such treatment?

This is still second, finally have the opportunity to see the famous "Ten Brothers of the Righteous Society", for this group of cattle, Li Wenge is still self-aware, he is now just a small feudal town in a border county, this group of masters cannot be recruited, not to mention that if he puts his hand into this ***, God knows how Guo Wei and Chai Rong, the father and son, will suspect themselves in the future.

Drinking and bragging with this group of people has been addicted to history enthusiasts, and it's just that, once I go back to Yanzhou, pat my ass and leave, God knows when the next time I see these people.

However, it is not harmful to have a good relationship with Boss Zhao, at most there will be another seven years, and the person in front of him will sit in the Qianyuan Hall and call himself a lonely widow, while he has not yet made a fortune, it is always good to make some advance investment, this is the first class of the original potential stock in the whole world......

"Zhao Dianzhi is polite, our brothers who are soldiers, please drink and I won't go, don't you forget this? In the evening after tomorrow, I will wait for my brother outside the Donghua Gate,......" Li Wenge replied with a smile.

"Don't dare-how can I work with the general to wait for me, and after I get off duty after my humble post, I will personally go to the pavilion to pick up the general!" Zhao Kuangyin's black and red face was lit up, and he said excitedly.