Chapter 692: The Golden Horse
Seeing the thoughtful look on Chu Huan's face, Du Fugong leaned forward slightly and asked, "Do you promise to help me kill them?" ”
Chu Huan raised his head, glanced at Du Fugong, and said with a smile: "Lang Shilang and An Guogong are both important ministers of the imperial court, don't say that I have no killing intent, even if I really have the intention, then I can't kill them." Touching his chin, he looked at Du Fugong.
Although Du Fugong made his origin very clear, of course Chu Huan couldn't believe his words like this.
Du Fugong smiled indifferently, the expression in his eyes seemed to be like this, and said: "Lord Chu is the person of the King of Qi, which is well known to everyone in the court. An Guogong is a person of the King of Han, and the King of Han is ambitious, and it is self-evident that he wants to take the throne. I know that now the king of Qi seems to be very close to the prince, the king of Han is a person, and he has never been intimate with the enemy, he and the prince are incompatible, and the king of Qi is close to the prince, and he has become a princeling. After a pause, he said slowly: "Lord Chu thinks that once the King of Han gains power, he will let His Royal Highness the King of Qi go?" You are a member of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and King Han and Duke An Guo will naturally not let you go. ”
Chu Huan laughed and said, "Mr. Du has worked hard, Chu Huan knows it. I appreciate your determination to avenge your best friend, but it's just a battle between the courts, and it's not as simple as a few words. He got up, stretched, and said, "Since the gentleman has arrived here, let's settle down here first." In any case, at least it is guaranteed that Mr. will not sleep in the open, and of course, Mr. likes to drink, and there will be no shortage of your wine in my house. ”
Du Fugong frowned, Chu Huan glanced at him, and said with a smile: "If Mr. wants to leave, no one will stare at you." ”
Du Fugong took a deep breath and said, "People stand between heaven and earth, and keeping promises is the first priority. Since the deed of sale is in your hands, I will do my duty. ”
Chu Huan smiled: "That's very good. After thinking about it, he said, "I don't know where Mr.'s hometown is, you go back and pay some silver first, I think Mr.'s family must be very worried about Mr., you can send someone to send them some silver taels to report their safety." ”
Du Fugong was stunned.
"Lord Ouyang is a person I respect, if Mr. is really the same as Mr. Ouyang, then character should not be a problem." Chu Huan put his hands behind his back and said slowly: "Mr. is a scholar, it just so happens that there is a lack of a bookkeeper in my house, and I heard that Mr. has a good handwriting, if there is anything to copy and write in the house in the future, Mr. will take care of it more." ”
Du Fugong frowned and said, "You want me to be the bookkeeper?" He was a little surprised.
It is necessary to know that the account room is the head of income and expenditure, and the general dignitaries will arrange confidants when arranging the account office.
Du Fugong couldn't imagine that Chu Huan would hand over the position of the account office to himself so easily.
"Isn't the gentleman pleased?" Chu Huan turned around and asked.
Du Fugong thought for a while and said, "The deed of sale is in your hands, and I will naturally do what I should do." ”
Chu Huan nodded and said, "This is very good, if Mr. lacks something, just say it, I will let someone arrange a courtyard for Mr. alone, and try not to let others disturb you." ”
Du Fugong looked at Chu Huan a few times in surprise, and finally said: "Don't think that if you do this, I will be grateful to you, I won't tell you the whereabouts of the Peacock Diagram easily." ”
Chu Huan shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Sir, you can forget about this, if Mr. is interested in saying it that day, I think I will also be interested in listening, otherwise I won't ask Mr. this question again." ”
Chu Huan settled Du Fugong, and after telling the mansion again, he went to the yamen on an errand.
Ma Hong arranged for Lang Wuxu and Chu Huan to go up yesterday, mainly to put forward suggestions from the household department on the northwest issue, and Lang Wuxu and Chu Huan certainly knew Ma Hong's thoughts.
Ma Hong naturally understands that this kind of thing is actually very tricky, and no one knows what the consequences will be if the order to rent grain and land is really issued, he let Chu Huan and Lang Wuxuan enter this matter early, which is nothing more than to prepare for dealing with it in the future, even if it is really difficult to escape the blame at that time, at least he can push the blame on these two people.
The main task of the household department is to deal with the southeast and northwest, and the most important thing of the Ministry of Rites is to prepare for the temple worship ceremony.
Chu Huan had naturally learned that in order to prepare for this ceremony, the imperial court had transferred a small amount of silver from the household department, and compared to the war in the southeast, His Majesty the Emperor seemed to feel that the silver should be used more on the ceremony.
The day of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony was approaching day by day, and Chu Huan had also thought that the emperor would summon him before the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, after all, after he returned from Xiliang, the emperor had not yet summoned him.
Chu Huan also hoped to inform the emperor of what he had seen and heard in the northwest in front of the emperor, he always felt that since His Majesty the Emperor had once ruled the world, and had once governed the country prosperously, no matter what, he should also be a promising monarch, although the emperor neglected the governance of the empire because he was bent on seeking immortality, but now that the empire is full of devastation, Chu Huan hopes to see His Majesty the Emperor face the current predicament of the empire, and be able to wake up from the dream of immortality.
It's just that until the beginning of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, the emperor has never summoned him, perhaps when the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony is coming, the emperor's mind has been all on this imperial event.
Tongtian Hall is located in the eastern suburbs of Luo'an City, half a day's road away from the empire, as early as when the construction of Tongtian Temple started, many roads have been set up at various levels, this is the dojo of His Majesty the Emperor, except for the personnel who carry out the project, idlers are not easy to approach.
The Tongtian Palace costs a lot, this palace makes the burden of the empire extremely heavy, when His Majesty the Emperor listened to the proposal of the Xuanzhen Taoist Sect, in the eastern suburbs of the capital to prepare to build a large-scale Tongtian Palace, as soon as this matter came out, countless officials immediately admonished, asking His Majesty the Emperor not to have such thoughts, and even some officials directly denounced the Xuanzhen Taoist Sect as a demon, misleading the country and the monarch.
Even An Guogong, the actual operator of the household department at that time, also advised that he should slow down at this time.
In order to cultivate the Tao and refine the pill, the emperor has spent a large amount of silver taels in the treasury every year, the alchemy is extraordinary, its raw materials are extremely expensive, and a large number of extremely expensive raw materials, there are very few pills that can be refined, and even the situation of the furnace is often defeated, the so-called furnace failure, that is, the time for refining the pill is too long or too short, or the fire is too strong or too weak, resulting in the failure of refining the pill, ten times, the ability to successfully refine the pill is only two or three times, and the cost of refining the pill each time, To say the least, it will take tens of thousands of taels of silver, and once it fails, these tens of thousands of taels of silver will be lost.
After the establishment of the empire, the treasury was still full for more than ten years, just because of the alchemy, it became increasingly empty, and the officials from top to bottom were even more because of this name, wantonly looting the people's fat and people's ointment, the original dynasty that had already embarked on the road of rejuvenation, instantly from prosperity to decline, civil taxes increased again and again, and the construction of the Tongtian Temple made the empire's finances have a serious crisis, that is, the prosperous dynasty, and did not dare to carry out large-scale engineering construction easily, not to mention the Great Qin Empire, which has shown signs of weakness.
The reason for the return date is precisely because the heavy taxes of the empire make the people unable to bear it, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, Tianmen Dao takes advantage of the void.
Tongtian Hall is a majestic and magnificent dojo, covering an area of extremely huge, even the Imperial Chengtian Hall with a history of hundreds of years is only half the size of Tongtian Palace, a brick and a tile here, flowers and grass, it seems to be beautiful, but behind it is countless blood and tears to build, for this palace, the empire has spent countless manpower, material and financial resources, its purpose is only for His Majesty the Emperor to have a dojo that can seek immortality.
This, of course, is not just the blood and tears of ordinary people.
In order to prevent the construction of the Tongtian Palace, countless officials of the Dynasty were angry with Long Yan, and the emperor opened a killing ring without mercy, in the emperor's view, to prevent the construction of the Tongtian Palace, is to hope that he died early, such a trip against the sky, in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, it is natural to be mercilessly killed, and countless officials have been ruined because of this.
Even after the construction of the Temple of Tsuto began, under this beautiful dojo, there were countless bones, and for several years, in order to build this palace, countless accidents were buried under it.
The day of the festival is, of course, the auspicious day of the zodiac carefully selected by Si Tiantai.
Hundreds of officials gathered, since the imperial city lined up to follow the dragon chariot, to the east gate out, dozens of zhang of the road on the banner unfurled, covering the sky and the sun, the front is a phalanx composed of a group of cavalry, all the color of the iron armor cold light, majestic incomparable, all the soldiers hold spears slowly, two columns hold flags, the expression is solemn.
Behind it was another phalanx of cavalry, but the eyes of the armor were brighter, and under the bright sun, the cold light shimmered, and it was majestic.
The phalanx marched forward in an orderly manner, the armor was similar, but they were all Jin Ge iron armor, full of murderous aura, and the hearts of the people who saw it were full of awe.
Mingguang Armor, Xuanxi Armor, Qilin Armor, Pixiu Flag, Six Barge Flags, and Golden Dragon Flags are dizzying, dazzling, and the officials are arranged according to their ranks, from front to back, and the whole team looks majestic and majestic.
In the middle of the procession, the golden light is dazzling, a golden vehicle is slowly moving, the scale is huge, magnificent, just like a golden big house is slowly moving from the ground, under the sun, the golden car is shining, shining with dazzling golden light, colorful, luxurious and magnificent, it seems that the light between heaven and earth, are emanating from here.
People even feel a hazy feeling, the golden light is too strong, very dazzling, and they can't even see the full outline of this golden car, but people can clearly see that the golden car is pulled by eight snow-white horses, white horses are hard to find, not to mention eight peerless horses with almost identical bodies, they don't have a single miscellaneous hair on their bodies, they are extremely supple, just like the eight divine horses in the sky pulling the fairy palace to the world.
Around the golden car, there are naturally burly soldiers, they are surrounded by the side of the golden car, one of them is a tall horse, wearing a black helmet, carrying a longbow, his eyes do not squint, his expression is indifferent, under the helmet, vaguely revealing snow-white hair, it is the commander of the Royal Guard, the arrow god Xuanyuan Shao!