Volume 2: The Eighth Route Army's Festival Envoy - Chapter 13: The Past of Luoyang (5)

The ceremony outside Luoyang City to welcome Li Wenge into the city was much more grand than that of Chang'an, and the Fourth Middle School, Henan Yin and Xijing stayed behind Wu Xingde to lead the judges and pushers of Henan Prefecture, as well as local civil officials such as Luoyang Ling Zhang Tang to greet them in front of the city gate. He has no impression of Wu Xingde, the Henan Yin with the title of prime minister, Li Wenge, this kind of person almost grabbed a lot at the end of the Five Dynasties, but he remembered that he remembered the Luoyang Ling Zhang Tang who was in his thirties, not because this person was the prime minister of the Zhao family during the Kaibao period, but because he was the son-in-law of the Later Jin Dynasty celebrity Sang Weihan, and at the same time one of the editors of the "History of the Old Five Dynasties".

At the reception banquet held on the side of the corridor on the bank of Luoshui in Shangyang Palace, Wu Xingde behaved extremely politely to this junior feudal town, without the slightest appearance of the prime minister, frequently persuaded him not to say anything, and even personally raised cloth and vegetables for Li Wenge, but Zhang Tang seemed to be quite arrogant, neither humble nor arrogant from beginning to end, and seemed to be quite disdainful of a local military leader like Li Wenge.

"Zhang Chengwen has just been released from the History Museum for a short time, he has few literary names, and he is a great talent in the world, and he may not be very happy to be in the company of us laymen on this occasion......" Lu Duan, who was sitting next to Li Wenge, said in a low voice.

Li Wenge nodded, did not speak, Zhang Tang is indeed famous, but he has not left any remarkable political achievements, he has never been good at dealing with people, and he is only a little mediocre in the world.

"Don't underestimate the martial arts, although he is modest and respectful, he is a bright-eyed person, he was captured by the Khitan, and he killed the puppet officials in Heyang and returned to the Han Dynasty, and he is also a very courageous character...... "Lu Duan gently introduced him to the Henan Yin who is the east today.

Li Wenge searched in his mind again, but he still had no impression. I had to give up for the time being.

Just as the banquet was halfway through, there was a commotion in the distance.

At first, the voice was still small, and everyone ignored it, but then it gradually became louder and noisy, and everyone in the banquet place stopped their cups and spoons, and Li Wenge's face also showed a look of surprise, Shangyang Palace was not far from the Henan Mansion, and there were sergeants and errands patrolling all around. In case of disturbances from the approaching of idle people. How could anyone come so close and make a noise? I can already hear the voices and words of these people clearly. It's all drunk and messing around, which is not unusual, but what is strange is how Henan Fuwu, who is most responsible for the perimeter guard, would let them go.

Just thinking to himself, these noisy people gradually appeared from the top of the rainbow bridge.

It was different from what Li Wenge thought, there were a total of five people who made a noise, all dressed in silk silk and quite tall. No matter how you look at it, they are all old guys in their sixties, one by one they accuse each other and argue endlessly, and there is a relatively short old guy dangling a wine jug in his hand, although it is far away, the jug still exudes a soft and cold light in the moonlight, so that Li Wenge, a layman, can see at a glance that it is a priceless treasure.

Although these people are old, they don't have the steady demeanor that older people should have, and they accuse each other and quarrel with each other. It's like a bunch of teenage kids.

See this group of people. Henan Yin Du Xingde's face suddenly stagnated, and his face suddenly turned a little yellow; During the banquet, everyone looked at each other for a moment, and they all shook their heads and smiled bitterly. Only that Zhang Tang's eyes lit up, but his face did not move at all, he still drank wine and vegetables, and behaved calmly.

In the blink of an eye, these five messy old men had already broken into the banquet venue, and the soldiers of Henan Mansion who were in charge of guarding around them did not squint at each other and stood with guns, as if these five old guys were transparent people, Li Wenge was secretly surprised in his heart, but Lu Duan and Han Wei on the side looked at each other and smiled bitterly, shaking their heads again and again.

Li Wengeqi said: "Yi Zhi, Qiren, do you know these people?" ”

Lu Duan opened his mouth and said in a difficult tone: "General, these people are not ordinary people......

At this point, he paused, with a look of embarrassment on his face, as if he didn't know what to say.

At this moment, I heard the old guy with the treasure pot shouting, "...... Okay, Wu Xingde, you thief is actually secretly drinking wine and eating meat here, but you put my brothers aside and ignore them, what should you be guilty of? ”

This person's voice is hoarse and ugly like a completely dried chopping wood, without a sense of roundness, but the words spoken are quite amazing, although Wu Xingde is a magistrate, but he is Xijing left behind in Henan Mansion Yin, not to mention that he also has the title of servant, and he is also regarded as the prime minister, this old guy calls his name without saying it, and when he comes up to split his head and cover his face, he asks for the crime, and the reason for the crime is so incredible. Although everyone knows that this person is messing around, Li Wenge, who doesn't know the inside story, feels that this guy is really messing around too much, almost a little boundless.

Wu Xingde smiled embarrassedly and bitterly, shook his head and said nothing, at this time, Zhang Tang stood up, slowly walked towards the old guy who was talking with a wine glass, his face was flat, there was no half of panic, and he slowly spoke: "Today-"

"Huh——?" Zhang Tang just opened his mouth to say two words, but was interrupted by an exclamation from the old man, when he looked at the old man, he saw that his two eyes did not look at Zhang who was walking towards him at all, but stared directly at the guest seat of the banquet, and his slightly surprised eyes only turned around on one person, and he didn't know what kind of idea he had.

The person he looked at was Li Wenge.

Li Wenge didn't understand why he wanted to look at himself, so he naturally felt uncomfortable, shook his head, picked up his wine glass and drank it himself. He didn't know that this old guy was quite familiar with these dignitaries and dignitaries in Luoyang City, and they were all familiar faces on weekdays, not to mention that these people were mostly crimson green officials in addition to Du Xingde, and there was basically only Du Xingde in Xijing City, a purple-robed man on duty. Now that there is suddenly a new face in a purple robe with a goldfish, but he is quite young, it is no wonder that this old guy feels strange.

The old man casually pushed Zhang Tang, who was coming up, and waved to the other old men, and the eyes of the old guys also looked here, and they were also a little surprised.

The old man took two steps towards Li Wenge's side with a strange look, but was pulled back by an old man with a tall figure and a short beard, frowning and saying something in his ear. As if to admonish this person, the short old man who was admonished shook his head nonchalantly, still holding the silver wine jug and striding lazily towards Li Wenge.

Behind Li Wenge stood ten personal soldiers led by Kang Shishi, who took on the responsibility of personally guarding Li Wenge, how could this group of people allow an inexplicable old madman to approach his own commander without authorization, Kang Shi did not move, only made a look, and a personal soldier stepped forward like lightning. Knocked the old fellow to the ground with great ease.

This move caused a commotion at the banquet.

"General, don't—"

"Don't—"

"You can't-"

There were three people who shouted. The most anxious is Luoyang Ling Zhang Tang. The most crying and laughing place is Han Wei, and the most gloating place is Yin Wu Xingde of Henan Mansion.

Wu Xingde is very polite, shouting "the general is not allowed", Zhang Tang is very anxious to care about etiquette, shouting "no", the most concise and to the point, Han Wei is shouting is too late. shouted the most cordially, and called Li Wenge's expression "Huairen can't".

Lu Duan didn't shout, but reached out and grabbed Li Wenge's sleeve on the side.

The old man called you on the ground: "You doll - the attack is not light or heavy, if you hurt my old man, I am afraid that you will not be able to afford it, why don't you let it go quickly?" ”

The soldier did not let up, and pressed the old man to death

The two eyes looked directly at Kang Shi. Waiting for Kang Shi's instructions. hesitated for a moment. Lowering his head to look at Li Wenge, Li Wenge thought about it, lowered his head and chuckled. From the old guy's style and the attitude of Wu Xingde Zhang Tang and others towards him, he had already guessed the identity of this person.

He smiled and glanced at Kang Shishi, Kang Shishi quickly tilted his head, and the soldier who held the old man let go, lifted the old guy who was leaning on the ground, glanced at him disdainfully, and stood back behind Li Wenge.

The old man looked at Li Wenge hatefully, rubbing his waist and humming: "Later life, my old man is old, and my old arms and legs can't help but toss, if you fall ill after being rubbed like this, grandpa can't spare you!" ”

Li Wenge smiled and said, "...... The children under him are not sensible, and they have shocked Dr. Chai, if they don't think the countrymen are ugly, you might as well sit down and have a glass of wine - rest assured, these children are good children, and they won't do anything with Chai Gong again-"

When this sentence came out, the old guy was stunned, and even Lu Duan and Han Wei were a little startled, but a trace of vigilance flashed in the eyes of Zhang Tang, who was standing on the side with a cloudy face.

Li Wenge guessed well, this crazy old guy at the banquet venue is Chai Shouli, the official worship of the silver Qingguanglu doctor, the school inspector department of the Shangshu, and the imperial history doctor, is the head of the famous Luoyang "Ten Fathers", when today's son Guo Wei's brother-in-law, the late Empress Shengmu's own brother, and now the prince Taiyuan Marquis Zhou Shizong Chai Rong's biological father - the fake uncle and emperor father, such as the most prominent person in the family today......

A person has mixed up to the point where his sister is the queen and his brother-in-law is the emperor's son and the emperor, and he can indeed be called "prominent".

Chai Shouli came to make trouble today, it was accidental, he made trouble and treated everyone equally, the government and the people were overwhelmed, and Wu Xingde had a headache for him. Unlike the original Henan magistrate, Wu Xingde never felt that this uncle was a shortcut to his promotion, but it is no wonder that he is neither the right to know the Henan Mansion nor a low-level position, he himself has done the service, and he will no longer worry about anything when he arrives at this time, at most, he will finally add the honorary title of a festival envoy to go home for the elderly, so he has a good impression of Chai Shouli and is not flattered, but the old guy's roots are really hard, and the emperor once greeted him in person, asking him to be tolerant.

When he came to Luoyang to take office, he knew how terrible the emperor's attitude was. This man and his old fellow henchmen have become a recognized evil in Luoyang City. It is not only a scourge to the common people, but also a scourge to the order of officialdom, sometimes Wu Xingde really wants to kill this vexatious old man with a killing stick, but although he is the prime minister, this matter is absolutely unacceptable.

He is not too worried about the emperor's side, although Guo Wei is overly indulgent to his relatives because of some heart-to-heart knots, he is by no means an unreasonable faint monarch, he is really a man who repairs the old guy, he will never do anything to himself because of this matter, Taiyuan Hou is even more unambiguous and unambiguous between right and wrong, and he will not say half a word. However, this group of old people can just take out one of them, so in terms of these people present today, in addition to Chai Shouli, the old guy with a mole on the side of his nose is the father of Du Yuhou, a member of the Iron Cavalry of the front army in the palace, the father of General Han Lingkun, the commander of the First Army of Konghe and the governor of the state assassin, the tall old man with long hands and thick feet is the father of Wang Yanchao, the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, and the old guy whose clothes collar was torn off half of it in the drunken tearing is the father of Wang Yan, the envoy of the Jianxiong Army and the servant of the army. And the son of the old man who walked with a limp and seemed to have inconvenient legs was the Duanming Palace, a bachelor of the Duanming Palace, who went to Yanzhou a few days ago to canonize Li Wenge as the festival town......

Which one can afford to provoke such a group of old guys? No matter how strong Wu Xingde is, in the face of this group of old guys, he really has no idea, he can only afford to hide, out of sight and out of mind, and get by!

Chai Shouli didn't know that Wu Xingde invited the festival envoy to Beijing today, but he saw Li Wenge wearing a purple and gold suit that is rare on weekdays, so he came to talk, but he didn't expect that he was not very old in this later life, and his soldiers were like wolves and tigers, strong and fierce, quite a bit of his brother-in-law's style back then, the old guy had no interest for a lifetime, and he had been a fool for a lifetime, eating his father and mother in the first half of his life, eating his sister and brother-in-law in the middle, and eating his son in the second half of his life. This old guy has eaten the Zhao family's idle meal for many years in vain.

If it comes to the gentleman, if he thinks he is second, I am afraid that no one will dare to admit the first for 5,000 years.

was taught a lesson by Li Wenge's own soldiers, but he didn't care, walked over with a big grin, frowned, and said, "If you don't stand up, where will I sit?" ”

Li Wenge moved his buttocks to the side and said with a smile: "Where is there so much exquisiteness, if you really want to drink, squeeze and sit down, if you don't want to drink, walk early, don't bother me and Wu Dayin!" ”

Although the soldiers let this old madman go, Li Wenge was tired of this notorious old guy in history, and he was very considerate of the complicated and depressed feelings in Chai Rong's heart when he heard the news of this person's murder in the street after he ascended the throne, which was really not a very good taste. If there is a chance to make this old guy deflated, Li Wenge will not be polite at all, he doesn't believe that Chai Rong and Guo Wei will turn their faces against him because of this old bastard.

He spoke rudely, and Zhang Tang stood on the side with a gloomy face, and said lightly: "Jieshuai, Chai Gong is a relative of the country after all, and he must be rude and domineering......"

Li Wenge looked at this person, but he read a slight sneer and smug taste in his eyes, he was depressed in his heart, and he had never offended this Zhang County Order, for the sake of the "History of the Old Five Dynasties" that had not yet come out, he still had a little admiration for him, why did this very famous scholar and historian not treat him as if he had a grudge with him for eight lifetimes?

He smiled faintly and said to Chai Shouli, "Did you hear that?" Lord Zhang is telling you, an old madman, that there must be a limit to being rude and domineering......"

Chai Shouli was stunned, and only after a while did he bend down, and then a burst of extremely ugly laughter broke out, he laughed so much that his shoulders kept twitching, and he couldn't raise his head, as if Li Wenge said what a ridiculous joke, but Zhang Tang stood on the ground awkwardly, neither advancing nor retreating, his face was blue and red, and finally he "hummed" hatefully, scolded "Pifu" in a low voice, turned around and bowed to Wu Xingde, and left the seat.

Chai Shouli had already stopped laughing at this moment, waved his hand indiscriminately and said: "Sit down and sit down, find a place to sit down, drink if you have wine, it doesn't matter who invited the damn......"

The old guys also laughed when they heard this, and walked into the table crookedly, and several low-ranking officials got up one after another and gave up their seats to these old people.

Chai Shouli didn't care about it, bypassed the banquet case, sat on the half of the seat that Li Wenge had just let out, and said drunkenly with a big mouth full of wine in Li Wenge's ear: "As the saying goes, it's better to offend a gentleman than a villain, and it's better to offend a villain than to offend a hypocrite, in the future, you have offended a hypocrite, but be careful......