Chapter 605: His Highness is at the Xuanwu Gate

I don't know why, the emperor is obviously in a very bad mood these days, and the twists and turns are sent to the East Palace to be dealt with by the prince, even the queen He rarely goes to the queen, but the construction of Yong'an Palace has not stopped from beginning to end. The person who supervised the construction of Yong'an Palace was Shangshu Yu Wenkai of the Great Sui Yuan Ministry who was arrested by the emperor for the rest of his life after the catastrophe and sold coolies. The city of Chang'an and the eastern capital of Luoyang were built under his auspices, and another masterpiece was the mobile palace of Emperor Yang Guang.

Yang Guang toured Zhuo County, but there was no palace for him here, so Yang Guang ordered Yu Wenkai to build a few palaces in the shortest possible time. But this was not difficult for Yu Wenkai, who personally designed and led the craftsmen to work day and night to create a magnificent mobile palace...... View the Wind Palace.

This huge hall of wind viewing, with wheels under it that can be dragged by horses, is lavishly decorated, and is extremely large, on which hundreds of guards can stand. If the emperor wanted to rest in a beautiful place, the craftsmen quickly assembled the main hall to make it a palace.

Not only that, Yu Wenkai also supervised the excavation of the Guangtong Canal.

After Emperor Daye was hanged to death in Jiangdu by Yu Wenhua, Yu Wenkai fled originally to surrender to Yang Tong, the king of Yue, in the eastern capital. As a result, there was a military accident on the way, and all family members were killed. He fled alone and went incognito all the way, but after arriving in the Eastern Capital, Li Mi was fighting a decisive battle with Wang Shichong, and he did not dare to approach and fled again. All the way to Chang'an was recognized, recommended to Li Yuan, Li Yuan knew this person's ability, so he was appointed as the master of Yong'an Palace, presiding over the construction of a new palace.

In fact, Yu Wenkai was extremely uneasy when he built Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan, he was once one of the Great Sui courtiers who had squeezed out Li Yuan, and he was attached to Yuwenshu at that time, and he had no good relationship with Li Yuan. Therefore, he was deeply afraid that he would be killed by Li Yuan after he built Yong'an Palace, and he had been living cautiously for a long time, but he was worried that his future would be bleak.

But this person is extremely smart, it took more than ten days to finally come up with a way to save his life, and then it took three months to draw this method on paper, he firmly believes that as long as he dedicates these hundreds of pictures to Li Yuan, Li Yuan will definitely not be able to resist the temptation.

But three days ago, a large number of elite armor soldiers entered the construction site, and Yu Wenkai's heart suddenly tightened. He originally wanted to sacrifice the life-saving thing after the Yong'an Palace was built, but when he saw the elite soldiers of the brigade entering the Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan, he thought that the emperor was anxious to kill himself, so he hurriedly took that thing to see the emperor. However, Wu Yinghai, the chief of the chamberlain, did not let him enter the palace, only saying that the emperor was in a very bad mood these days and did not want to see anyone.

Yu Wenkai waited for three days, and after lunch, he instructed his craftsmen to speed up the construction, and he took seven or eight soldiers to carry the hundreds of drawings he had carefully drawn to ask to see the emperor for the second time.

When he walked to the palace gate, he saw that the palace gate was closed, and there were more than twice as many forbidden guards on the city wall as usual. Even the forbidden army that patrolled was almost non-stop, and Yu Wenkai immediately guessed that something big might happen in the palace. He has been supervising the construction of Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan, and he did not know that Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was killed, and the king of Qin returned to Chang'an to ask for guilt from the iron cage. If he knew, he would never touch Li Yuan's moldy head at this time.

I was just about to go back, but I saw a large group of forbidden soldiers coming out of the palace and going straight to the Xuanwu Gate in front. Yu Wenkai hurriedly gave way, but he still couldn't dodge the drawings knocked over by the forbidden army. Yu Wenkai was distressed and almost scolded his mother, and beckoned his entourage to form a circle to protect the drawings that fell to the ground, lest he be trampled to pieces by the forbidden army.

One of his entourages watched the forbidden army run towards the Xuanwu Gate, and asked Yu Wenkai in a low voice: "My lord, isn't there something big going on in the Xuanwu Gate?" ”

Yu Wenkai glared at him and scolded: "Hurry up and pick up all the drawings, these things are extremely precious and inestimably valuable." Don't ask questions about things that shouldn't be your concern, and if you talk more, I'll let people break your mouth. ”

The attendant didn't dare to say anything more, and hurriedly picked up the drawings on the ground. It's just that the order before and after is all messed up, and Yu Wenkai is so distressed that he almost vomits blood.

While picking up the drawings, he looked at the Xuanwu Gate and couldn't help but think of an old incident many years ago. At that time, he supervised the construction of Chang'an City, and Yang Jian, the emperor of Gaozu of the Great Sui Dynasty, insisted on building a palace gate there, but Yu Wenkai resolutely disagreed, saying that if a palace gate was built in that place, it would destroy the feng shui of Longxing in Chang'an City. That gate will become the gate of great evil, and sooner or later there will be a bloody catastrophe.

However, Yang Jian just ignored it, and still let people build this Xuanwu Gate in that place.

Xuanwu Gate is the north gate of the imperial palace, and the palace designed by Yu Wenkai at that time only had three gates, east, west and south, without a north gate. Such a pattern naturally looked a little strange and inappropriate, so Yang Jian insisted on letting him open another city gate. Yu Wenkai said that the location of the Xuanwu Gate is the place where the dragon vein feng shui gathers in Longshouyuan, and the feng shui is broken when the door is opened. Because he bluntly said that he was almost killed by Yang Jian's cane, he never dared to mention this matter again.

Thinking of this, Yu Wenkai couldn't help but sigh.

"The Xuanwu Gate has broken the dragon vein feng shui, and it would have been good for Your Majesty to build a new palace in Longshouyuan, but it's just ...... It seems that it is still a little slower, it was bloody enough to win the heir in the Great Sui Dynasty, and now it is in the Tang Dynasty...... This blood-light disaster is only afraid that it will be countless times bigger. ”

muttering to himself, he turned around and walked away despite the carefully designed drawings. The pace is extremely fast, more like a panic escape.

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Last night a strong wind blew away the clouds, and today's weather is so good that people can't help but want to admire. The sky was blue as if it had just been washed with water, and there was not a single cloud, and it looked like a large piece of sapphire, which made people feel translucent in their hearts.

At the north gate of Chang'an City, officials from the Ministry of Rites came early in the morning to arrange it. This is the biggest and most tricky thing they have encountered since they took office as officials of the Tang Rite Department, how to welcome the coffin of the King of Qi is to make the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, Shilang, and Wailang almost pull their hair down one by one. Fortunately, there are many former ministers of the Great Sui in the Ministry of Rites, although this matter is tricky, it is still prepared according to the specifications of the prince. The officials of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War were all waiting at the gate of the city, and in order to welcome the coffin of King Qi, there was not even an early dynasty today.

Wang Wenli, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, frowned and looked at Nayan Pei Lin who was standing not far away, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, Why is it all here, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still here? Yesterday's emperor's will was for the crown prince to replace him at the north gate to receive the coffin of the king of Qi, the prince is an old and serious person, why is it so rash today?

When this thought only flashed, he saw a servant-like person running out of the city, and whispered a few words to Pei Lian's side, Pei Lin immediately nodded and turned around and followed the servant to the city. Wang Wenli didn't care about it, and thought that something had happened to Pei Lian's family. But until the dust and smoke rose on the official road, and when His Royal Highness King Qin's men and horses were already faintly visible, he still didn't see Pei Lin come back.

Wang Wenli panicked for no reason, and always felt that something was going to happen today. He asked several people, but they all said that he hadn't seen His Royal Highness the Prince, and even Pei Lin didn't know where he went.

The general on duty at the city gate today is the original Wu Benlang general Xin Wenli of the Great Sui, and the names of the two people are exactly the same. Xin Wenli is a tiger general of the Great Sui, and it is said that he is the only one who will kill people with a drag knife today. When he led the Sui army to quell the rebellion, he didn't know how many heroes died under his sword. At that time, Li Shimin even laughed happily when he accepted the new Wenli, clapping his hands and saying that he was a big general for the Tang Dynasty.

Later, Xin Wenli was transferred to the forbidden army, and since then there have been few opportunities to lead the army. However, this person must not be underestimated, the heavy Qinglong Yanyue Great Sword in his hand is not lifted by ordinary people.

Wang Wenli went to find Xin Wenli, and he didn't politely pull him and asked in a low voice: "Does the new general know why His Highness hasn't come yet?" Just now I saw Pei Nayan also hurriedly entered the city and didn't come out again, is something wrong? ”

"Shh......h

Xin Wenli said in a low voice: "You be quiet, just now the news came out in the palace, Your Majesty coughed up blood just now because of the injury of King Qi, and the prince, who had already reached the halfway point, rushed back to the palace again, and Pei Nayan was also urgently summoned into the palace by the prince." ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not coming?"

"I have a decree just now, let me lead King Qin to escort King Qi's coffin directly into the palace through the Xuanwu Gate, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will greet His Royal Highness King Qin and King Qi's coffin outside the Xuanwu Gate."

"That's good......"

Wang Wenli said a word, and then he was shocked. Just now, Xin Wenli said that His Majesty coughed up blood, but he subconsciously said that it would be good, if this word reached His Majesty's ears, his career would come to an end. He hurriedly went to see Xin Wenli, but he didn't know what he was thinking when he saw the other party staring at the dust and smoke on the official road with a solemn face. Seeing that Xin Wenli didn't hear his words, Wang Wenli hurriedly walked back to the front of the team.

He hadn't been standing for long before he saw the elite cavalry of the Datang Brigade rushing over on the official road. The dust and smoke were swept up by the horses' hooves, as if a dark cloud had rolled up against the ground. As the cavalry got closer and closer, everyone felt that something was wrong. Seeing that the black cavalry rushed over, they didn't slow down in advance, and ran straight towards the officials outside the north gate.

"Not good!"

Wang Wenli was keenly aware of something, and turned around and was about to run into the city gate. But behind him were all officials who came here to greet the coffins of King Qin and King Qi, and he couldn't squeeze back when people stood next to each other. At this time, the general led by the cavalry galloping on the official road shouted loudly.

"The king of Qin is ordered to return to the capital to kill the traitors, and everyone must not move without permission, otherwise there will be no mercy!"

It was the general Qu Tutong who shouted, he rushed over first, and the iron-clad war horse directly knocked a civilian official out of the air, and the cavalry behind did not stop at all, and I don't know how many people rushed in directly from the city gate. Xin Wenli was shocked, and it was too late to greet the guards and soldiers to close the city gate.

He hurriedly sent someone to the palace to send a message, but where could he compare to the speed of the light cavalry of the Split Tiger Battalion?

Seeing that the five thousand elite cavalry of the Split Tiger Battalion crashed into the crowd, after Qu Tutong led Yin Kaishan and broke off, he actually rushed directly in the direction of Xuanwu Gate, and the cavalry of the Split Tiger Battalion even lifted the horse lance, which was clearly the standard cavalry attack formation of the Tang Dynasty official army! Xin Wenli immediately ran out to the city wall, relying on his good martial arts skills to avoid being trapped to death.

And he climbed up to the wall, and a thousand horsemen came up and surrounded all the officials outside the gate, and all the arrows were wound, but all those who were disturbing were thrown to the ground. Xin Wenli lay on the city wall and looked down, and recognized that the leaders were Shi Sima Fang Xuanling, the marching commander of the Eastern Expedition army, and Tang Jian.

Later, the elite soldiers of the Flying Tiger Banner and the Flying Eagle Banner poured into the city gate one by one, and the soldiers armed with crossbows and giant shields quickly lined up in the city gate.

On a snow-white war horse, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who was wearing a black armor of dark iron, raised his head and looked at the Chang'an defenders who were in chaos on the city wall, and the corners of his mouth were slightly provoked to outline a touch of disdain.

He looked up and happened to see the new Wenli with his head exposed.

"New Dongcheng...... Where is the prince?"

Li Shimin raised his chin and asked.

"Prince...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in Xuanwu Gate...... Wait. ”

Li Shimin frowned slightly, and suddenly felt a little ominous in his heart.