Early in the morning, before dawn, Zhang Yue was sent out of the house by his wife, and Erlang Zhang Cheng took the rider from fifty people to accompany him, turned to the state bridge and went north along the royal street, and went straight to the front of the Xuande gate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 A lot of civil and military officials have gathered in the info square, chatting in groups and waiting for the city gate to open.

Although Zhang Yue is already a member of the third grade, he has few followers and has always been low-key, and he did not attract the attention of others when he arrived. At this time, Murong Chuzhao, who arrived first, saw him and squeezed over, and saluted with a smile: "I heard that the dynasty is going to announce the move to the town this morning, and we may all have to change places!" ”

"It's not bad to lead the Zhen'an army and lead the forbidden army! Could it be that General Murong doesn't want to change? Zhang Yue asked in a low voice.

"Hi...... It's not like you can change it or not, and I really don't want to change places. Murong Yanzhao sneered.

Zhang Yue can understand his thoughts, the average civil and military officials want to serve in Beijing, and every day they go to the court to have more opportunities to get close to the emperor, and it is much easier to get promoted than local officials. You can also live a comfortable life at home often.

At this time, Li Chuyun and Shi Guangjun, Luo Yanhuan and others came over, and after a few people gossiped for a while, there was a city gate Lang who entered the imperial city and opened the palace gate, and the ceremony on duty came out to report the time, and picket the queue of hundreds of officials, and when the auspicious time arrived, they led the hundred officials into the city.

After the main gate of the triple imperial city of Xuande Gate, Mingde Gate and Xuanyou Gate, you will enter the palace city, show in front of you is a wide square, pave the white marble slate corridor, towering and majestic, the golden and brilliant Jinxiang Hall is just two hundred steps away in front, two rows of people holding guns and knives in front of the palace are straight, scattered on both sides of the pedestal jade steps that extend upwards in the sky ladder.

The door of the palace has been opened, the vocal music is melodious and pleasant, and the hundred officials lined up to enter the front hall, and there were two ceremonial officials, and they began to break their legs again. They want to guide hundreds of officials into their own sequence, mainly because officials who are often absent from Beijing do not have an order, and there is no permanent military general like Zhang Yue, so they have to arrange a seat now.

Officials have been in place, and the red carpet on the main road in the middle is full of people, two people in each case, and two cases are lined up. Zhang Yue suddenly found that he was actually sitting in the front position, it seemed that there were civil ministers and military attachés on the left and right, and the boundary between civil and military affairs was not very clear. He himself hung up the civil and prose official of Dr. Yinqing Guanglu, and as a civil and military officer, the treatment was really different.

"Your Majesty has arrived!" The attendants on duty outside sang loudly, hearing each other from far and near, and the ritual music in the hall sounded again.

Guo Rong wore a black gauze folded foot stiff winged head, dressed in a crimson brocade robe embroidered with dragon patterns, pedaled black leather shoes, pressed his hands on the jade belt around his waist, and strode into the hall to the front of the high-legged imperial case. A large group of palace attendants clasped their hands on their abdomen and followed with small steps.

When the emperor was in place, the ministers saw that the ceremony was over, and the eunuchs came out and sang symbolically: "The ministers have something to do early, and they have nothing to do to retreat!" ”

Yu Dechen, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, came out of the column and said: "The minister has something to do, and the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Works is vacant, and the minister please fill the **** in the matter!" ”

"Yes! The Chinese book drafts the edict! "When the emperor was in the last court, he rarely spoke, and when he was in charge of major affairs, he would argue with his ministers because of his own intentions, and generally only said that it was okay or not, or that it could be discussed again. The appointment or transfer of normal officials is also issued by the ministers of the Central Committee. If the emperor personally decrees, it is called making a book.

After that, the officials came out one after another to make up for things, Zhang Yue was not interested in listening carefully, many officials he didn't know, and the things he said had nothing to do with him. However, after half an hour, it was soon time to talk about the Western Expedition.

Previously, a large amount of grain and grass had been seized in Fengzhou Huanghuagu and Xingyuanfu, and there were still many stocks after the army withdrew, which were still shelved there. Bian Guangfan, the head of the household department, asked someone to send some of them to Luoyang. It's a good thing that there is an income for this, of course.

Next, the executive secretary seemed to be finished, and the Privy Council and the Zhongshu had been passed, and the book of moving the town that had been reviewed by the subordinates was taken out and read by the eunuchs, and some other Fangzhen were transferred first, and then they went to the west to serve as a meritorious general.

Edict: Fengxiang Wang Jing changed the title of Liangguo Gong and moved the town of Shuofang; Feng Jixun of Lingzhou added to the service and moved the town of Fengxiang;

Fengxiang Zhang Jianxiong worshiped the envoy of Qinzhou Xiongwu Festival; He Jiyun, the commander of the soldiers and horses of the Dizhou Assassin and the Jing'an Army, repelled the Liao Army and made meritorious contributions to the south, and worshiped the Fengzhou Weisheng Army;

Xuanhui South Court envoy, Chenzhou Zhen'an Jun Jie Du Xiang Xun is still sentenced to Xingyuan Mansion; The Zhen'an Army commanded Liu Xinfa to worship the history of the Chengzhou assassination; Champion General, Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, Huizhou Thorn Shi Zhangyue, out of the town of Jingzhou, worship Zhangyi Festival envoy; Murong Yanzhao is also the commander of Hujie's left wing, and the envoy of the Zhen'an Army.

Hujie left wing Li Chuyun meritorious service, promoted to Hujie left wing deputy commander; Shi Guangjun was promoted to Hujie's left chamber to be waiting, and Luo Yanhuan was promoted to deputy to Yuhou.

After the chamberlain read it out, Zhang Yue and the generals came out to thank him, and then he heard Guo Rong speak: "The soldiers of the Hujie Left Wing Forbidden Army have been rewarded and sealed, and the Privy Council has issued the Guards Division, and the generals of the Western Expedition will stay later, and they can go to Xiyuan for a banquet with me." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Long life without borders! "The people will bow down again.

Finally got his wish out of the Zhenjing Prefecture Changyi Army, Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and his heart was very excited, but he resisted the urge to laugh, returned to a few cases with a straight face and sat down, and his mind flew to the northwest border. When he was out of his mind, he heard a voice from the inner servant singing: The court is over, and the ministers are retreating!

As soon as Zhang Yue looked up, he saw that the emperor had left, and the ministers were also getting up and lining up to leave the front hall. The old man, Fu Yanlin, was also in the crowd, looked back at him, and smiled a little meaningfully. Zhang Yue arched his hand from afar, congratulated each other with the generals, and left the hall to wait under the corridor.

After a while, an attendant came to summon and take the generals to the West Garden. Zhang Yue walked with Wang Jing, Xiang Xun and others, while Murong Yanzhao, Li Chuyun, Shi Guangjun, Luo Yanhuan and others followed. Along the way, through the corridor and alley, bypassing the Zide Palace, Long Live Palace, Yanfu Hall and other palace forbidden places, to the West Garden Dragon Pond.

Here is an artificial lake by the Jinshui River, the lake has built a small palace such as pavilions and water pavilions, there is a sparse grove under the palace wall near the Gongchen Gate of Wanfu Palace, and there is a grassland of hundreds of acres outside the forest, but the grass is withered and yellow at this time, and there is nothing to see.

"Everyone, please come with me, the official house is upstairs over there!" The chamberlain bowed down to lead the way, leading the crowd through the corridor, entering the front courtyard and then going up to the second floor, where the palace room was very spacious, because there were not many officials present.

Guo Rongzheng and Empress Fu sat on the inside, and Wang Pu, Zhang Yongde, Li Chongjin, Zhao Kuangyin and other twenty or thirty close ministers sat on both sides. After Zhang Yue came forward with Wang Jing and other generals to greet him, he sat down under the guidance of the palace attendants, and found that several cases were already full of tea, pastries and other food.

"Let's pass the meal!" Guo Rong instructed the chamberlain, and said with a smile: "Today is a small banquet in the inner court, to celebrate the achievements of the soldiers of the Western Expedition, which was supposed to be held in the Jinxiang Palace, but I have prepared some rewards, and after the banquet, the princes will follow me to practice shooting, you are at will!" ”

But the emperor and empress are all there, after all, they are the superiors, no matter how cordial they smile, everyone is still very restrained, that is, they signal to each other and talk in a whisper. Soon, the palace people lined up to enter, carrying the wine and food on the tray, and the chamberlain arranged for the palace maids to serve in various banquets.

After three rounds of drinking, Guo Rong picked up the bamboo chopsticks and signaled, symbolically ate something, and then got up and left with Queen Fu and went out through the side door.

"There is a reward! The battle of Gaoping got a good sword, a symbol of honor...... "It's probably past noon, Zhang Yue is indeed a little hungry, and he doesn't pay attention to anything, he just eats like a whirlwind and clouds, and he looks up and mutters a little bit when he hears the words."

Xiang Xun was also careful to eat a piece of dried meat, cut it with a knife, and sent it to his mouth to chew slowly, and when he heard the words, he picked up the wine cup and said with a smile: "There are many rules for practicing shooting in the palace, and it is just a matter of performing well, and you can't afford to make a mistake, it's really embarrassing!" ”

Half an hour later, the banquet ended, Zhang Yue went out of the pavilion with everyone, and went to the back venue, Queen Fu sat under the umbrella of Huang Luo from afar and watched, and a group of chamberlains and palace people were waiting. Guo Rong was full of interest, trotting in the field with a bow and a horse, as if he was practicing, and there were still a lot of arrows inserted in the arrow target in the distance, and the attendants were busy delivering arrows back and forth, reporting whether there was a shot or not.

The generals stepped forward to salute, Guo Rong waved his hand and said with a smile: "In the past, the emperor summoned his ministers to practice shooting in Nanzhuang every autumn, and now I have also set a target position of one hundred and twenty steps for foot shooting, one hundred steps for riding and shooting, and eighty steps for three distances. ”

"Your Majesty is so interested, and the ministers should accompany you!" The generals replied one after another.

It is a bit difficult to shoot 120 steps on foot and 100 steps on horseback, but 80 steps is very easy for a general to do. But Zhang Yue's archery is a short board, foot archery is better, riding archery is not sure at all, he has practiced less, and he is suddenly a little apprehensive.

Dozens of generals selected bows and arrows to appear together, and there was no missing arrow in eighty steps, and there was a gap in one hundred steps, and when it came to one hundred and twenty steps, Zhang Yue almost missed the target, and the last arrow only hit the edge of the target. Then the gap between the cavalry and the shooting was more obvious, and both arrows missed the target at a distance of 100 paces, and two arrows were hit at 80 paces.

Guo Rong didn't get involved, if he made a move, everyone would have to let him, but he himself understood, so he didn't mean to participate.

Then in terms of rankings, Zhao Kuangyin was actually among the best, followed by Zhang Yongde, Murong Yanzhao, Shi Guangjun, Liu Xinfa, Zhang Jianxiong and others, Zhang Yongde, Xiang Xun, Zhang Yue, Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan and others actually ranked in the middle, only far better than the few civil officials present, it was not comparable at all, and several people looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Subsequently, Guo Rong really rewarded raiders, gold belts, silverware, silks, refined saddles, good bows, swords, etc. according to their ranks. Zhao Kuangyin received the most rewards, and he was very proud, Zhang Yue only got two silks, a pair of silver wine cups, and a high-quality one-stone five-bucket horn bow.

In this way, the rewards of continuous competitions were given, and in the afternoon, Zhang Yue rode home, and immediately sent someone to invite Feng Qianhou to come over, and he was about to leave the town of Jingzhou, and before leaving Beijing to go to the guards, he had to go to the guard department to hand over the military talisman seal letter, and the entitlements and pensions of the soldiers should also be sent down. (To be continued.) )