Chapter 8: The Imperial Hall of the Li Erjia (I)
The autumn wind gives birth to Weishui, and the fallen leaves are full of Chang'an.
The hustle and bustle of the dark green summer has gradually faded, the time has come to the end of August of the first year of Zhenguan, the cold wind from the Tibetan highlands, swept through the dark yellow Anxi desert, when entering the far gate, the edge is exhausted, and there is only the cold that meets once a year without disobedience. Listen attentively, the wind is still wrapped in the sound of Hu Shang's camel bell.
If you ask about the wind, it will answer you like people all over the world, the most beautiful season in Chang'an City, is the coming golden autumn, gold and then lead out of the silver white, the cold winter followed by autumn, the bright and colorful pavilions and pavilions in the thin snow, but also the smile of the imperial capital.
In the vast Chang'an, the subtle light of the early morning pierced the clouds and sprinkled on the compacted ground of the loess, and the sky was still just bright.
Xu Yang was lying on the bed, dreaming of the utmost, should I eat this Peking duck first, or eat this Fu Liji roast chicken first, forget it, one bite at a time, just as Xu Yang was gnawing on it, there was a call in the fog in his ears.
"Hou Ye, Hou Ye, Hou Ye" The voice turned from small to loud, and finally it became shaking.
Xu Yang suddenly subconsciously said: "Don't make trouble, girl, I'll sleep for a while" Suddenly, he remembered that he was obviously in Chang'an, where did Liu Mengli come from, and opened his eyes in an instant, only to see two little eunuchs looking at him anxiously, Xu Yang knew that one of them was called Xiao Fugui and the other was called Xiao Shunzi.
"Yawn~" Xu Yang yawned and asked, "Is there something wrong?" "After that, I looked at the watch on the bedside, and I wiped it! It's only half past four!
"Master Hou! It's time to go to court! Xiao Fugui and Xiao Shunzi's foreheads were sweating.
"Huh? Go to court at half past four? Xu Yang was also stunned.
"At this time, it is the second hour, and the fifth watch is dawn! After two o'clock, you won't be able to catch up with the big court meeting, and your majesty will be angry. "Xiao Fugui and Xiao Shunzi are in a hurry.
"I'll wipe it, I'll go to work at half past five, this has no human rights!" Xu Yang looked indignant.
In the end, Xu Yang was still pulled up by the two little eunuchs, dressed up, to say that since he came to Chang'an, Xu Yang was annoyed by this dress, and wanted to wear a T-shirt, but his subordinates were all discouraged, what is the foot of the Son of Heaven, the etiquette is decent and the like, even if he is not allowed to wear it, he has to wear it if he dies of heat, as if the official uniform worn on his body is not clothes, but glory.
The day before yesterday, His Majesty named himself the Marquis of Chang'an County, and in the morning, his father-in-law presented the clothes from the Marquis of Sanpin County, which was more than twice as troublesome as the clothes of the men in his county. First of all, there are many layers such as middle clothes and **, and there are a lot of them, and they all have a full set of levels of fixed specifications.
Then there are components and collocation methods are extremely cumbersome and cumbersome, consisting of crowns, clothes, middle singles, ribbons, knee coverings, shackles, socks, leather belts, large belts and other components, wearing a dress for half an hour, annoying Xu Yang to death, determined to reform the way of dressing in the Tang Dynasty.
In the end, Xiao Fugui and Xiao Shunzi put on a white jade crown for Xu Yang, tightened the leather belt, and carefully looked at the fruits of their labor.
Xu Yang was dressed in a clean and scarlet robe, and finally said goodbye to a big green grasshopper suit, stepping on the clouds of the four seas, wearing a white jade crown, a black hole leather belt around his waist, and a gold-inlaid three-grade jade pendant, which looked heroic and sassy, and the young man was proud.
Xiao Fugui respectfully presented the fish talisman to Xu Yang.
Xu Yang was still curious about what this was, Xiao Fugui told him that this was an official fish talisman to verify his identity, and Xu Yang realized that it was a card that clocked in to work.
It took more than half an hour to get dressed, and at this time there were still more than twenty minutes before half past five, and it was too late to eat, so he stuffed a cake into his arms, and Xu Yang hurriedly trotted all the way towards the Taiji Hall of Taiji Palace.
As soon as I ran a few dozen meters out of the Cloud Palace, I heard the bells and drums of the whole city announcing the dawn.
At three o'clock on the fifth watch of the winter night and two o'clock on the fifth watch of the summer night, on the tower of the Chengtian Gate of the main gate of the Taiji Palace, the first dawn drum sounded, and the drum towers on the north-south street followed in turn. As the drums spread from the inside out, the gates of the palace, the gates of the imperial court office area, and the doors of each lane were opened in turn. At the same time, more than 100 temples in the city will also ring the morning bell, and the beating drums are intertwined with the deep and distant bells, waking up the entire Chang'an city to welcome the rising sun from the eastern sky.
The sound of the dawn drum was beaten fifty times before it stopped, Xu Yang knew that this was only the first wave of the dawn drum, and when the second wave came, he would officially go to court, and he ran faster under his feet.
Fortunately, Xiaoyun Hall is not very far from the Taiji Palace, it is all within the scope of the Taiji Palace, and those officials who live outside the imperial city have a hard time every day, but they all have to get up at half past three to hurry.
Xu Yang passed through three physical examination checkpoints, checked the fish talisman, and finally arrived at the gathering place of the hundred officials in front of the Taiji Palace.
When I came, I heard Xiao Fugui say that today is Fang Xuanling leading the class, the atmosphere is more relaxed, if it is Du Ruhui leading the class, the atmosphere is very dignified, Xu Yang came to the square in front of the hall, and saw the people standing in the square in front of the hall with relaxed expressions, and the team was scattered, and he knew that the mustache standing at the front wearing a purple robe and a goldfish talisman on his waist was Fang Xuanling.
Idol! Xu Yang resisted the urge to come forward and ask for an autograph, and began to observe the others again.
The color of the clothes worn in the square can tell the rank of the officials.
The Tang Dynasty followed the Sui system, and divided officials into nine grades, each of which was divided into positive and subordinate, with a total of 18 grades. Civil officials are below the fourth rank, and military attaches are below the third rank, and they are also divided into upper and lower ranks, so the scattered officials of the civil officials in the Tang Dynasty actually have thirty ranks, and the rank of military attachés is thirty-two ranks. In the Tang Dynasty, the official uniforms above the third grade were purple, the fourth and fifth grades were scarlet (vermilion), the sixth and seventh grades were green, and the eighth and ninth grades were green; The official belt ornaments are also related to the grade, from high to low: jade, gold, silver, gong, stone.
At the same time, officials above the fifth rank in the Tang Dynasty had a fish charm to indicate their identity, which was held in a bag, called "fish bag". The fish bags of the third rank and above officials are decorated with gold ornaments, which are called goldfish bags, and the fish bags of the fifth rank and above are decorated with silver and are called silver fish bags.
Xu Yang carefully observed the costumes of those people, the two teams of people, the civil official led by Fang Xuanling, and the leader of today's military generals is a big man with a biao shape, twice as strong as Biao Daguang, with a big beard on his face, and the purple robe on his body is about to be stretched open.
The civil official Xu Yang felt that the lengths were almost the same, and he could only distinguish the generals.
The few people in front of the generals wearing purple robes and wearing goldfish talismans on their waists must be Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, and Li Jing, but they all look similar with beards, and Xu Yang can't tell who is who, and secretly guesses that the thinnest person should be Li Jing.
Then there are some miscellaneous fish in the back who don't know at all, some of them have the same crimson robes as themselves, and some of them have green robes, in short, there are still most people wearing crimson robes in front of the whole hall.
Xu Yang was hidden in it, but no one paid close attention to him.
Feeling hungry in his stomach, Xu Yang took out the piece of cake that he brought with him in the morning from his arms and planned to eat it, and he heard a person wearing a royal history uniform next to him pointing to Xu Yang who was biting the cake, and said angrily: "In broad daylight, in broad daylight, you are so ignorant of etiquette, eat at will!" I'm going to impeach you! ”
This sound actually attracted the attention of the audience to Xu Yang.