Chapter 65: The Birthday Banquet I
Since then, Meng Heng only took one day, with the cooperation of Huang Yan, to use thunderous means to pinch the loyal Shun army that has become a plate of scattered sand again, with this big move to kill chickens and monkeys, so no one in the loyal Shun army dared to underestimate Meng Heng anymore, everyone was honest and down-to-earth, and no longer dared to cause trouble for the place, and became a strong soldier in the Zaoyang area again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
And the biggest benefit of this mutiny was Huang Yan, most of the generals who were newly appointed as the commanders of the armies were from Huang Yan's former army, even if not from some people under Huang Yan's command, most of them were some of his own people who were placed in other armies by Huang Yan before, and most of them were young generals from Crouching Tiger Village.
Nominally, Meng Heng is the commander of the Zhongshun Army, which is essentially equivalent to Huang Yan mastering the military power of the Zhongshun Army, and it can be regarded as becoming a soldier and horse that Gao Huaiyuan can control, and has become the second person after Meng Heng in the Zhongshun Army, and Meng Heng is convinced of Huang Yan, after all, he is also the commander of the Shenjin Army stationed in Suizhou, so after stabilizing the situation of the Zhongshun Army, the Zhongshun Army was basically handed over to Huang Yan to take care of. Huang Yan was also promoted to the deputy general of the Ezhou garrison army, and he can be regarded as a well-counted general in the area of Jingxi Road.
The matter of Zaoyang's loyal Shunjun was quickly fed back to Gao Huaiyuan, which made Gao Huaiyuan completely relieved, and at the same time happy for Huang Yan, and was relieved in his heart.
During this time, Gao Huaiyuan was still busy in the capital, in addition to being busy with these things, he also had an important thing to do, that is, Queen Yang's birthday.
He gave Guicheng a pair of exquisite tortoiseshell reading glasses produced in his workshop, and Guicheng did not live up to his expectations, and really found an opportunity to enter the palace a few days before Empress Yang's birthday, and presented this exquisite crystal reading glasses as a birthday gift to Empress Yang, Empress Yang immediately tried it on, and then was overjoyed, and the things that could not be seen clearly became clearly visible, which made Empress Yang very surprised.
After taking a look at the glass mirror that Gui Cheng gave him some time ago, Queen Yang was also quite satisfied with the style of this crystal reading glasses, because this reading glasses is much smaller than the reading glasses worn by Shi Miyuan, and it also looks much more exquisite, which is very suitable for women to wear, and it is not too ugly, and it is even quite fashionable, so Queen Yang never gets tired of wearing this reading glasses, and praises Guicheng endlessly.
In Queen Yang's opinion, this Guicheng is much more well-behaved than today's prince, and from time to time he will come to her to greet him, and will tell her some things about outside the palace, to relieve her boredom, and what makes her even happier is that Guicheng is a child who understands her mind very well, and from time to time will send some strange things into the palace for her to use or enjoy, and Guicheng is also handsome, so Queen Yang did not treat Guicheng very much from the beginning, and gradually began to like Guicheng as a child.
And the prince and Guicheng compared, it is worse than the old nose, since he was established as the prince, nominally he has become his mother, but the prince knows all day long that he gathers a group of ministers to fight with Shi Miyuan, and rarely enters the palace to ask her for peace, even if he comes once in a while, he chatters endlessly in front of her to tell Shi Miyuan and his party the evil situation, and wants her to help in front of the saint, say Xiang Xiang, and punish Shi Miyuan's party.
To be honest, Queen Yang is very dissatisfied with the crown prince Zhao Hong, many people in the world know how she partnered with Shi Miyuan to get rid of the former power minister Han Yanxuan, in fact, over the years, between her and Shi Miyuan, there is a tacit understanding, mutual support, she is in charge of things inside the palace, and Shi Miyuan is responsible for things outside the palace, the two people are actually a cooperative relationship, no one wants to offend anyone, so the prince Zhao Hong's performance in front of her makes her dislike Zhao Hong more and more, No matter how you look at it, I think that Guicheng is much more pleasing to the eye than Zhao Hong.
So after Guicheng gave her this crystal mirror this time, Queen Yang remembered the servant surnamed Gao that Guicheng said before, so she asked Guicheng who this crystal mirror came from, so Guicheng immediately reported to her: "Queen Qiyu, since the last time the mother told her nephew that she couldn't see things clearly, the nephew took it to heart, and told the Gao servant around him about it, and the Gao servant then made a special trip to Qingyuan Mansion, and after many days in Qingyuan Mansion, he finally found this thing from the hands of the feudal merchant and handed it to his nephew, The nephew was able to give this thing to the queen mother as a birthday gift! ā
When Empress Yang heard this, she immediately smiled and said, "Cheng'er can have a servant who thinks so much about you, and it is also your blessing!" It seems that Hongu is really going to meet this person! But I wonder where this man is now? Have you brought him here? ā
Guicheng hurriedly replied: "Queen Qiyu, my nephew also brought the high servant when he entered the palace this time, because the high servant is not a palace guard, so now he is waiting for me to go out outside the palace gate!" ā
Empress Yang nodded with interest and said, "Since this is the case, then pass on my decree and announce that your high-ranking servants will meet the palace!" Hongu really wants to meet him! ā
So Hou Gao Huaiyuan outside the palace gate finally waited for this rare opportunity, Xiao Huangmen came out to summon, and brought Gao Huaiyuan into the Ciyuan Hall in the Great Interior, Ciyuan Hall is the queen's bedroom, this is not ordinary people can enter, without the queen's call, no one is allowed to enter here, even the palace guards are never allowed to enter here, Gao Huaiyuan can enter the Ciyuan Palace, it can be regarded as a fortunate thing for three lives.
Walking on the road to the Ciyuan Palace, Gao Huaiyuan carefully looked around the situation in the palace with the corner of his eye, and saw that there were pavilions and pavilions and nine-curved corridors with carved beams and paintings, and the palace was full of beautiful garden rockeries.
He is also a person who has seen the market, although he did not know how the palace of Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty was, but in later generations he had visited the Forbidden City in Beijing, but today after looking at the imperial palace of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was still impressed by the splendor and beauty here, although the grandeur here is not as good as the Beijing Imperial City in the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, but the exquisiteness is absolutely incomparable to the Imperial City of Beijing, and there is a luxurious taste everywhere, which is not unrelated to the economic development of the Southern Song Dynasty. But it also fully shows that the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty did not think about recovering the Central Plains in the north and preferred to settle for a couple in the south of the Yangtze River!
Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but look at it, sighed secretly, didn't dare to shake his head and speak, and silently followed the little yellow door into the Ciyuan Palace.
As soon as he entered the Ciyuan Palace, Gao Huaiyuan smelled a rich aroma, this fragrance is the fragrance of high-grade and precious sandalwood, which is refreshing after smelling, and he saw a gorgeous crown lady sitting in the upper position, and knew that this was the current queen mother who had never been seen, so he knelt down and shouted: "Minister Gao Huaiyuan sees the queen mother!" Congratulations to the mother Chitose Chitose Chitose! ā
Empress Yang looked down and saw that Gao Huaiyuan, who was kneeling below, was really as Guicheng said, with a majestic figure, although she was wearing an ordinary military attache robe, but she also had a majestic taste, and she was in a good mood today, so she nodded and waved her hand: "No courtesy!" Stand up and talk back! ā
After Gao Huaiyuan got her permission, he stood up, stood under the hall with low eyebrows, said thank you, and then waited for Empress Yang's question.
Empress Yang looked Gao Huaiyuan up and down again, and saw that he was not only a great figure, but also a dignified appearance, although he stood there with a respectful attitude, but he seemed neither humble nor arrogant, and he had the demeanor of some generals, so he left a deep impression on Gao Huaiyuan for the first time, and after seeing Gao Huaiyuan, Queen Yang showed a slight smile and said: "Gao Cong doesn't have to be too restrained, for you The palace has been in Guicheng's place, and I have heard a lot of things about you many times, And I want to thank you for helping Cheng'er send so many novelties to this palace during this time, which is really eye-opening!
And this time you are not far away, asking for such a treasure for this palace, this palace is even more grateful, Cheng'er can get a servant like you, it is also his luck! You're very good!
Today, this palace recruited you in, just to see you personally, as Guicheng said, you are very general, and this palace also wants to ask you, you have done so many things for this palace, have you ever thought about how to reward you? ā
After Gao Huaiyuan listened to Queen Yang's words, he hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Thank you Niangniang Chitose for your praise, the little one is really ashamed, your subordinates can have this opportunity to serve the county marquis, you are already satisfied, and you can still see Niangniang Chitose today, it is really a small three lives are lucky, how dare you still ask for a reward from Niangniang, thank you Niangniang for valuing your subordinates!" It is a blessing for the subordinates to be able to do this little thing for the mother, and please don't worry about the mother! ā
Gao Huaiyuan's words made Queen Yang very happy, and although this high servant was born as a martial artist, his speech was not vulgar! And I know how to say what to say, which sounds very comfortable!
So Empress Yang thought for a while, and then said: "The high servant is really good, but the palace can't be exempted from your reward, come here, go get a jade belt, and grant the high servant to wear the belt, with this jade belt, although it is not as good as the golden book iron coupon on the saint, but when ordinary people see your jade belt, they must also lower themselves by one level!" And with this jade belt, if there is something, you can come to the palace to ask to see the palace! It can be regarded as a thank you from this palace! ā