Between Jinliangqiao Street and Liangmen Street in Tokyo is the famous Cai Xiangfu, and to the west is Jinliang Bridge, where Jinliang Xiaoyue, one of the eight scenic spots of Bianjing, is located.

Originally, there were two very lively markets, and Cai Jing's mansion was only one of the larger courtyards, but after Cai Jingguan became the Taishi, the emperor ordered to reward Cai Jing with the left and right lands in order to show his favor, so that he could expand the mansion.

A whimsical decree turned hundreds of nearby residents into mourning dogs and drove them out of their homes.

It happened that Cai Jing was building Yanfu Palace for Zhao Ji, who was very happy, and all the skilled craftsmen in the world were recruited to Tokyo, so Cai Jing appropriated a large part of it to repair his mansion, and the wood and stone used in the construction were all enshrined in various places to build Yanfu Palace.

The Song Dynasty ended the chaotic situation of China's five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, felt that Kaifeng had no danger to defend, and after unifying the world, he was ready to move the capital to Luoyang and Chang'an, but was opposed by Zhao Guangyi and other ministers, and finally gave up the idea of moving the capital.

Because Kaifeng was not regarded as a long-term Kyoto place, Zhao Kuangyin did not build the palace after the founding of the country, but only slightly rebuilt on the basis of the original Bianzhou Mansion, the area of the palace is only one-tenth of the Tang Daming Palace, most of the yamen are mixed with the residential houses outside the palace, and the gardens are also scattered inside and outside the city.

Yanfu Palace is outside the palace city, a palace area relative to the reading power, and it is also a place for the emperor and the queen to amuse, and the scale was not large at first.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there have been two minority regimes in the north, the Liao State and the Western Xia, from time to time to disturb, the military expenditure is huge, and a large number of annual coins have to be transported every year. Therefore, the emperors of the past dynasties Yanjing were still diligent and thrifty, and did not build palaces on a large scale.

But after Zhao Ji, who was so happy, ascended the throne, Cai Jing and other ministers wantonly looted the world, and all the money in the world flowed to the treasury. Cai Jing played the Son of Heaven, and the treasury surplus was 50 million yuan, which was enough to be happy and rich enough to prepare gifts.

Zhao Ji suddenly found that the Song Dynasty was so "rich" under his own governance, and the small palace naturally could not satisfy him, so at the instigation of Cai Jing's general ministers, Zhao Ji ordered the whole country to build Yanfu Palace and Genyue.

In order to please the emperor, the palaces everywhere compete for ingenuity, pursue luxury, and do not care about labor and wealth. The pavilions and pavilions of the palace are endless, the chiseled pond is the sea, and the spring is the lake. Bronze sculptures such as birds and strange beasts, in a variety of postures, Jiabao famous wood and strange rocks, poor and strange.

After the Yanfu Palace was built, the emperor Zhao Ji, who liked luxury, lingered here for most of the time. After the Yanfu Palace was repaired, Zhao Ji became more interested in Genyue, and ordered the Suzhou and Hangzhou Creation Bureau to contribute to the Huashi Gang, ten ships and one Gang, and the people of the southeast had to serve.

Cai Jing and Zhu Mian, who was in charge of the Suzhou and Hangzhou Creation Bureau, searched for flowers and stones under the name of the emperor, but most of them were actually swallowed by him. Therefore, Cai Jing's mansion is gorgeous and kitschful, which is better than Yanfu Palace, Zhao Ji saw it, and he was not jealous and said, "The heavenly immortal mansion, the prime minister's house in the world."

Cai Jing's life is even more extravagant and erosive, and he likes to gather people to feast and drink and have fun. Cai Jing's brother Cai Bian disagreed with his political views, so he once played his "no feast, no feast, extravagant life", Zhao Ji, who also likes luxury, not only did not blame Cai Jing for this, but was very envious of his luxurious life.

After Cai Xiang's Mansion was repaired, the street in front of the door was also widened, and the vendors who were just begging for a living on the street were also driven away. First, it is to show the majesty of Xiangye, and secondly, it is also to prevent someone from ambushing and assassinating. Cai Jing has been in power for more than ten years, and he has ruined his family, including former dignitaries and nobles, as well as the common people of Limin, so every year someone comes to assassinate him, but it is a pity that Cai Jing is cautious and comes and goes with guards, so no one has succeeded.

Compared with the deserted Liangmen Street, the street is very prosperous, along the street are hawkers, 400 military state specialties, and even foreign treasures from overseas countries are transported here to sell, many pedestrians are attracted to stop.

Suddenly, there was a rush of chickens and dogs jumping in front of me, and pedestrians on the road avoided on both sides.

The people in the capital followed to both sides to avoid at a glance, and some people from other places who entered Beijing did not react, and they saw a group of forbidden soldiers hugging a person coming, and the horsewhip fell on the heads of the pedestrians who could not avoid it from time to time, and the pedestrians hugged their heads and ran away.

Xiao Liuzi, who sells Yali pears, came to the cake stall next to him and said, "Look, Gao Yu, the Taiwei of the Palace Marshal's Mansion, has also gone to the Prime Minister's Mansion." It seems that there is going to be a big banquet in Cai Xiang's mansion today, and I don't know how many quails are going to suffer today. I heard that Guo Si has to send hundreds of quails to Cai Xiangfu every day, Xiangye only needs the quail tongue to make soup, and Guo Si will take the rest away, but it is cheaper Guo Si's house, and he has bought several houses in the city in the past few years. If I can send Yali to the Prime Minister's Mansion, I will have no worries about food and clothing. ”

The man who sold cooking cakes glanced at Xiao Liu and said, "If you want to send things to Cai Xiangfu, you must first honor those big and small managers, you can make up dozens of times first." If not, you might as well sell your Yali pears on the street. Guest, how many pancakes do you want? ”

"If I have dozens of times, my grandson will go to him to get angry."

Xiao Liu said stupidly, seeing that people had customers, they also went to the street to sell.

Military attachés ride horses, civil officials sit in sedan chairs, although the mode of travel is different, but the same is that there are many horses and horses, and everywhere they pass are the same chickens and dogs jumping.

Today, as soon as the street has regained some calm, there is another burst of chickens and dogs.

Cai Xiangfu, which is across the street, is a different scene, Cai Jing and Tong Guan, Gao Yu and others who arrived first sat on the table, drinking wine, the wine glass in his hand was empty, and the Mei Ji next to him was attentively added.

A few beauties in the middle danced, the tulle on their bodies was almost transparent, sometimes like colorful butterflies flying, sometimes swaying willows, bursts of breast waves and hip waves, and several ministers in the hall who were over the age of sixteen were full of enthusiasm.

Gao Yu looked at one of the plump Meiji with shiny eyes, and said with a smile: "Taishi is really a fairy, there is such a beautiful Ji waiting, it is pleasing to the eye." ”

Cai Jing was over seventy years old at this time, although he was already weak, but his hobby of collecting beauty was not stopped, and there were groups of beauty in the house, and officials from all over the country voted for him, and they were filial piety from time to time.

These many women who are in the prime of life are serving Cai Jing, an old man with a sixtieth birthday, naturally there are many who can't bear loneliness, and they can't attract bees and butterflies, so Cai Xiang's mansion is full of peachy scandals, which makes Cai Jingjing, who has a lot of power in the world, a little headache.

Few ordinary officials dare to fight these beautiful ideas, but Gao Yu, who was very favored by the emperor in front of him, was not among them.

Gao Yu was born in the market, playing songs and dances, stabbing guns and sticks, sumo wrestling, all of them, and what the saints like today is these prodigal children, so for decades, Gao Yu has been in the family, from a market gang to the palace marshal's mansion.

Although Cai Jing is in a high position, he knows that many Zaifu have been ruined by the emperor's favored ministers since ancient times, so Ping said that he was careful to make friends with the emperor's favorite retainer Gao Yu and his close minister Yang Jian, and said with a smile at the moment: "Which one does Captain Gao fancy again, just take it away after a while." ”

Gao Yu obviously didn't do this for the first time, and he was not polite, so he smiled and said, "Then the lower official will be disrespectful." ”

While everyone was talking and laughing, a few more people came one after another.

At this time, there were no more waves of dancing in the hall, and Cai Jing saw that everyone had arrived, so he waved his hand to let the dancing women in the hall go down.

Seeing the last woman retreat, Gao Yu put away her bewildered face and said, "The Taishi summoned us, I don't know what happened?" ”

Cai Jing glanced around, and the guests on the seat included Tong Guan, Gao Yu, Yang Jian, Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao and other emperor's favorite ministers and close ministers, as well as Song Qiaonian and Hu Shiwen.

Although Liang Shi Chengren is called "hidden", and there are henchmen such as Gao Yu and Wang Hao, who vaguely have a tendency to fight against him, but the struggle of everyone is only in power and wealth, but it is the same externally. In particular, on the issue of suppressing the clear stream between the DPRK and China, everyone has always made concerted efforts.

Today, he invited everyone to come, but it was a trivial matter, and I don't think anyone would oppose him because of this.

There were a few people who had such power in the past dynasties, Cai Jingzhi stroked his long beard proudly, and then said: "The previous Liangshan Caokou robbed my birthday gang and ransacked Yuncheng County. The Dongping Mansion Xiang Army failed to send troops to arrest it, but was robbed of the city by the Liangshan bandits, and the treasury money and grain were also looted. I invite you here today to discuss how to deal with it. ”

Hu Shiwen and Cai Jing are in-laws, after Cai Jing came out of the picture, he rose all the way, became a household servant, in charge of taxes and other financial matters, and frowned when he heard this: "Dongping Mansion has just collected all the summer taxes, and before it can be transferred, it was looted by the Liangshan thieves." Now that the treasury is empty, this gap is not easy to fill. ”

After the birth of the gang was robbed, Tong Guan came up with the idea of letting Dongping Mansion send troops to exterminate it, after Dongping Mansion was breached, he also read the distress document sent by the nearby state government to the Privy Council, but he just pretended not to know, and when he saw Cai Jing breaking it, he said embarrassedly: "Our family originally thought that Dong Ping's martial arts were strong, and it was easy to capture Caokou, but I didn't expect him to be willing to fall and collude with Liangshan thieves to rob Dongping Mansion." ”

Although Cai Jing complained a little that Tong Guan did not know people, he also knew that this was not the time to be held responsible, so he shook his head and said: "I don't mean to blame the cardinal minister, but now the situation is serious, so please come and brainstorm and come up with a good plan to exterminate the Liangshan bandits." ”

Gao Yu was in charge of the forbidden army, and after learning about Tong Guan's plan, he knew that things were going to fail, and then he didn't expect it, but he didn't expect that the Liangshan thieves took advantage of the situation to break the Dongping Mansion and looted a lot of property. At this time, he said: "It's okay for the Xiang army to do some miscellaneous work, how can you count on them to kill thieves." In my opinion, we still have to transfer the forbidden army to exterminate the Liangshan Caokou. ”

Tong Guan naturally didn't want to admit that he made a mistake last time, and said when he heard this: "The forbidden army has strong combat effectiveness, and the world knows it, but the forbidden army on Jingdong Road is in Qingzhou, and the ground in Qingzhou is not very peaceful, and the prefect there is Murong Guifei's brother. ”

Tong Guan was originally a eunuch, but he became the first military attache with the emperor's favor, and he was Gao Yu's boss.

Gao Yu believed that he had the emperor's favor and Liang Shicheng's support, but he looked down on Tong Guan who was pressing on his head, and did not hesitate to slap his face and said: "Although the Jingdong Forbidden Army is not suitable for mobilization, in addition to half of the world's forbidden army stationed in various roads, half of it is in Jinggi. The Gyeonggi region is too peaceful, and a forbidden army can be transferred from the Gyeonggi region to exterminate the Yangsan Caokou. ”

Cai Jing nodded and said: "What Captain Gao said is very true, if the forbidden army is transferred to the battle, why worry about the water and grass will not be destroyed." Just don't know where to go? ”

Gao Yu thought for a while and said: "Last year, I inspected the forbidden army of Gyeonggi Prefecture, and I remember that the forbidden army of Ruzhou was strong and strong, and Ruzhou controlled Huyanzhuo is the descendant of the famous general Huyan Zanyan, so that the two copper whips have the courage of ten thousand people." If he transfers his troops and horses to fight Liangshan, he will definitely be able to succeed. ”

After Gao Yu took charge of the forbidden army, he occupied the land of the military camp to build a private house, and the Beijing Forbidden Army also became his long-term worker, building a private house for him. Those who have no skills can only spend money to hire craftsmen to serve in their place. If you have money, you will spend money to eliminate disasters, and naturally you don't have to practice anymore; If you don't have money, you can only go to make a living and hire craftsmen, and you can't take care of it. Within a few years, the army's discipline was lax, and the military and government were not repaired.

In order to cope with the emperor's review, Gao Yu came up with a set of fancy shelves, when the emperor reviewed, the forbidden army lined up in four-colored boats, and there were hundreds of military plays, such as big flags, lions and leopards, swords, barbarian cards, gods and ghosts, miscellaneous dramas, and so on. There are two more boats, both clubs. Blowing and blowing, full of tricks, quite lively. Zhao Ji was also very satisfied with it, so Gao Yu was already in a high position.

Of course, as Gao Yu, who is in charge of the national forbidden army, will not be satisfied with just exploiting the forbidden army in the capital, so he has the official duty of inspecting the forbidden army in various states of Gyeonggi every year, and Gao Yu also takes the opportunity to accept bribes on a large scale. Without great wisdom, Gao Yu naturally couldn't let him have a vegetarian meal.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there were a series of strict regulations on the selection of the forbidden army, and the salary of the forbidden army was much higher than that of the box army. But after Gao Yu took power, these regulations were useless, as long as the height was qualified, send some silver taels, and they could be transferred to the forbidden army.

At that time, Tong Guan was confused by the seemingly tall and burly forbidden army, and selected thousands of forbidden troops as pro-army to fight against Western Xia, only to know that they were all silver-like wax spear heads, which were overwhelmed and almost ruined his surname, so he was very uneasy about the forbidden army.

Cai Jing naturally knew some of the forbidden army situation, and seeing that Gao Yu's recommendation was not the forbidden army in the capital, he nodded with satisfaction: "I have also heard of the prestige of the Hu family general, so I ask the captain to recruit this person to meet me." ”

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