The weather was also sunny on November 19, with most of the snow from the previous days having melted. Li Bao was in a good mood, and after eating breakfast early, he hurriedly urged Ling'er and Hu Sanbao to prepare to leave the palace. Everyone was busy, and Li Bao went out of the palace to pay homage, so he had to prepare gifts and bundles in advance.

Two days ago, Li Keji came to visit Jinluan Palace, Li Bao invited Li Ying and the three of them to discuss the arrangement of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands", he and Li Ying are not good at music, and the arrangement is completely entrusted to Li Keji. Li Bao hummed the melody in his memory to Li Keji again for Li Keji's reference. Next, the three of them discussed the rehearsal and stage design of the music and dance, and the stage design has Li Bao's design drawings, as long as they are made according to the drawings.

The most important part is the rehearsal and casting of music and dance, Li Keji is from a servant background, he will not be a stranger to these, but Li Ying, a princess with a deep boudoir, lacks experience in this area, Li Bao let Li Ying and Li Keji be jointly responsible for casting and rehearsals. Li Bao defines himself as a mobile person, let professional people do professional things, he doesn't need to spend energy on this.

After the three of them discussed, Li Keji went to report to Li Yi and asked Li Ying to appoint his deputy to be in charge of casting and rehearsal, and Li Yi naturally agreed.

Li Bao finished breakfast early and set off with Ling'er and Hu Sanbao, and Daming Palace also showed a different style in the sunny winter. Although most of the trees and flowers have withered, but the colors of the palaces in the Daming Palace are gorgeous, the heavy eaves of red bricks and blue tiles abound, and the majestic palaces are overwhelming, and these buildings faintly reveal the majestic heroism of the Tang Dynasty, which is much stronger than the Forbidden City of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.

Li Bao's master and servant three wandered in the Daming Palace, through the triple palace wall of the Daming Palace, due to their identity problems, so can not go to the main gate, can only go to the side of the door, from the side to see the Zichen Palace, Xuanzheng Palace, Hanyuan Palace, these three are arranged on a central axis of the majestic palace, Li Bao can't help but sigh Hanyuan Hall is the most true portrayal of the high-end atmosphere on the grade.

Hanyuan Hall is located in the highest place of Longshou Yuan, there are long dragon tail road stairs on both sides of Hanyuan Palace, stand in Hanyuan Hall and look south, the huge Chang'an City is in full view. It can be seen from this that Hanyuan Hall is a true symbol of the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty, but this magnificent symbol is about to be crushed into powder by the wheel of history, and Li Bao can't help but regret it in his heart.

In front of Hanyuan Hall is a huge square with a depth of about 600 meters, and there is a royal road leading directly to the main gate of Daming Palace - Danfeng Gate through the square. The three of Li Bao's master and servant walked through the royal road and came to the front of Danfeng Gate, where there were already people waiting at the door.

A small yellow gate came to guide them to a tall white-faced eunuch, and said to Li Bao: "Lang Jun is the envoy of the gate in the palace, Tian Envoy, today Lang Jun is out of the palace, and the official has already ordered Tian Envoy, so Tian Envoy Jun has been waiting for you here for a long time." ”

Tian Xianchen looked to be in his early fifties, his face was not angry and arrogant, with a black head, a purple official robe, and a goldfish bag and a silverfish bag hanging on the white jade belt. Li Bao had heard of this Tianmen envoy for a long time, and his impression was good when he saw it today. For such a powerful eunuch Li Bao must be dealt with carefully, it is easy to set up an enemy in this Daming Palace, but it is very difficult to find a true ally.

After Li Bao offended Yang Gongqing, he didn't dare to easily pull hatred, after all, Li Bao was still very weak now, so he took the initiative to salute Tian Xianxuan.

Tian Xianchen was not arrogant, and returned the gift to Li Bao very affectionately. He also introduced the Jin Wu Wei sergeant who was standing beside him to him: "These two Jin Wu guards came to our house early in the morning to wait for Lang Jun, and you two have not come to see Liu Lang Jun?" Li Bao hurriedly saluted the two sergeants, and the two were very surprised to see Li Bao so humble, and they did not dare to accept Li Bao's salute, so they quickly jumped away.

One of the black strong arched his hand and said: "Lang Jun is not going to break a certain family, and a certain person does not dare to accept Lang Jun's courtesy." A certain brother was ordered to escort Lang Jun today, and a certain brother must be a guard Lang Jun. ”

Li Bao asked the names of the two again, the black strong one was called Zhou Rui and was from Chang'an, and the other was called Qian De'an, who was also from Chang'an.

In addition, Tian Xianchen introduced a eunuch from the Inner Servant Province, who followed Zhang Yichao's mansion to announce the decree, this eunuch is not tall, dead fish eyes, and his face is very white. was very polite to Li Bao, Li Bao and he saluted each other, and learned that his name was Tian Lingyu, and he was Tian Xianyun's righteous son.

Li Bao saw that it was not too early, so he said goodbye to Tian Xianchen, and took Ling'er, Hu Sanbao, and the two Jinwuwei soldiers out of Danfeng Gate together. There was a carriage waiting outside the door, and yesterday Li Bao sent someone to inform Liang Hongmei of the news that he was going out of the palace. So today, Liang Hongmei also sent someone to pick up Li Bao to go to Xuanyangfang.

Li Bao and the three of them got into the carriage directly. Zhou Rui and Qian De'an both rode horses and followed the carriage towards Xuanyangfang.

Due to the relatively square planning of Chang'an City, except for the center of the Zhuque Street, basically other streets have no name, Chang'an local people according to Chang'an's planning, horizontal 12 streets and nine streets to name Chang'an streets, the address can also be used to locate horizontally and vertically, for example, Xuanyangfang is in Hengliu Street and Longitudinal Fourth Street. Therefore, they walked west from Danfengmen Street to the fourth longitudinal street where the imperial city was located, and walked north through six streets to reach Xuanyangfang.

Li Bao sat in a carriage and observed the streets of Chang'an City through the window. There are tall rammed earth slabs around the perimeter of the lane. The walls are wide and thick, and the height is more than three meters. You can also see the ice skates hanging on the terraces of the houses in the house, and the snow on the ridge of the sunny roof has not melted.

Li Bao thought of two lines of poetry, and he couldn't remember the whole poem, so he said casually: Chang'an is like a spring return after the snow, and the accumulation of elements condenses and even dawns. When Ling'er heard it on the side, she immediately said adoringly: "Lang Jun is talented, and he can make poems." ”

Li Bao looked back at Ling'er, gently scraped her Qiong's nose with his hand, and said, "This is not what I did, it was done by others, I just saw the scenery here, and I just felt it." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be someone else's poem, what do these two poems mean by Lang Jun?"

"These two lines of poetry were written by Cen Shen, a great genius of the Xuanzong Dynasty, and it was written that he saw the snow scene in Chang'an when he went down to the court, so he made this poem, which means: Chang'an is sunny after the snow is like the return of spring, and the snow condensed everywhere reflects the morning glow."

"Oh, it's good to read, we only think these scenery are beautiful, but we don't know how to express them in poetry."

"Don't be sad, Ling'er, I can't do such poetry, although we can't do poetry well, but I'm definitely better than those great talents. Most of these talented people can write good articles because they have no ability and can't live a good life, so they have to show their discipline and morality by doing some poems. So don't envy those literati who moaned and groaned without illness in the future, you know? ”

After walking for about two quarters of an hour, Li Bao's carriage arrived at Xuanyangfang. Xuanyangfang is adjacent to the East Market and next to Pingkangli, the red light district of Chang'an City. Therefore, this is a gathering area for the rich in the eastern part of the city, and there are many dignitaries in the square. From this, it can also be seen that Tang Ting attaches great importance to Zhang Yichao.

Situ Mansion is located in the first district of Xuanyangfang, and in a neighborhood like Xuanyangfang, there will be a cross street in the east, west, north and south, and then the four separate districts will be separated into 16 districts by cross streets.

In a gathering area for high-ranking officials such as Xuanyangfang, a quarter or half of a square can be occupied according to the rank of officials, or the whole square can be used as the residence of officials. Princess Taiping's mansion once occupied most of Liquanfang as a mansion. Zhang Yichao's Situ Mansion occupies a quarter of Xuanyangfang, which is very vast.

Li Bao came to the door of Situ Mansion to report that Zhang Yichao opened the door to welcome Li Bao, everyone entered the outer hall, the maid served tea, after tasting tea, Tian Lingyu read out the edict, to the effect that the sixth prince Li Bao was allowed to worship Zhang Yichao as a teacher, and Li Bao was allowed to visit Zhang Yichao's house and so on.

After reading the edict, under the witness of Tian Lingyu, he began to worship the teacher.

Zhang Yichao sat upright on a chair in the center of the lobby, and Li Bao offered six salutes. In ancient times, the six rites included: celery, which means diligent and studious, and good at diligence; The lotus seed is bitter, which means painstaking education; Red beans, meaning good luck; Jujube, meaning early and high school; Longan, meaning for the completion of the merit; Dried lean pork strips to express the disciple's heart.

Zhang Yichao accepted them one by one, and then handed them to Wu Anzheng next to him. Then Li Bao knelt down and bowed three times to Zhang Yichao; In the end, Li Bao took Ling'er's tea and served tea to Zhang Yichao with both hands, and invited Zhang Yichao to drink tea, Zhang Yichao took a sip, put down the teacup, and took a piece of inkstone from Wu Anzheng's hand. handed it to Li Bao and taught him: "From now on, you must learn with an open mind, and you must not be ridiculous." Li Bao replied: "The disciple is taught!" ”

In this way, the entire apprenticeship ceremony has been completed, Li Bao got up and saluted Zhang Yichao, and said with honor: "Master Zhang is on top, and the students are courteous." Zhang Yichao said with a smile: "No courtesy, take a seat quickly." ”

After the apprenticeship was completed, Tian Lingyu was going back to restore his life, and Li Bao did not keep it, so Hu Sanbao gave him about two gold leaves, and after Tian Lingyu received the gold, he said goodbye with a smile on his face and left.

Zhang Yichao arranged for his family to summon Zhou Rui and Qian De'an, two Jinwu sergeants, to rest in the side hall. Leaving Li Bao, the master and apprentice talked, and Ling'er and others also waited outside the hall.

"Now my body and bones are no longer good, I'm afraid I don't have many days to live, that day on the official's birthday, you begged the official family in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to allow someone to be your master, and I was very grateful."

"Now that you and I have become masters and apprentices, I will not shy away from saying something. A certain has been in Chang'an for five years, and the thoughts of the princes of the court and the central government have long been understood. They are not very comfortable with such a vulgar warrior. Therefore, he has not given a certain nephew Huaishen the position of festival envoy. ”

"A certain is old and decrepit, and there is no power to change it. It's just that the situation in Hexi looks calm, but in fact, the undercurrent is surging, and I can't help but be anxious, so today I want to ask you for one thing, if you don't agree, the teacher will die and not look away. ”

Li Bao looked at the old man in front of him, and his heart was bitter. The prime ministers of the political hall only know how to compete for power and profit all day long, but they have never thought about it at all.

Hexi is the gateway of the Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions, and the Western Regions is an important springboard through Central Asia and Europe. Now that the Great Cannibal is in a period of weakness (the Arab Empire), the Tang Dynasty can easily enter Central Asia and even Europe by sending a strong army, so as to occupy the gateway to the Green Mountains.

Moreover, the Russian nation at this time was just some savages, and Datang occupied the Siberian region, and when science and technology developed in the future, it would be an important energy base for Datang. It's a pity that these prime ministers who are vegetarian are short-sighted. Not the son of man!

"Does Master Zhang want Master Bao to seal Zhang Huaishen as the envoy of the Guiyi Army as soon as possible?"

"Exactly, there is no other way to be a teacher, but to rely on you."

"Master Zhang, rest assured, I will definitely do my best."

"In that case, I'll leave it to you. There is a Taoist priest in my house, who is good at the art of Qihuang, and is an outdoor master. I'll introduce you to it. After that, Zhang Yichao called in his family, "Go and invite Wu Anzheng and Weiyangzi to the lobby." ”

After a while, Wu Anzheng and Weiyang Zi Daoist arrived in the hall, Li Bao looked at the Daoist, who was only thirty years old, with a beard, and a faint scar on his right cheek could be seen under his thick beard. Li Bao looked at him, and he also looked at Li Bao. The two looked at each other for a moment before parting glances.

Before Zhang Yichao could open his mouth to introduce, Weiyangzi suddenly bowed down in front of Li Bao, "Poor Dao Weiyangzi, I am willing to follow Lang Jun's side to climb the scales, and I hope that Lang Jun will be successful!" ”

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ps: Weiyangzi appeared, he is still a person with a story, ask for tickets to collect!