Chapter 11: Li Er's Parrot
Han Yanxuan came back and brought back a lot of precious information about Lingnan, including the geographical environment, river distribution, animal and plant resources, etc., which is undoubtedly a big event in Xujiazhuang, after all, when the county lord sent a convoy to Lingnan to explore the current path, he explained that he might go there to settle there in the future, and now that the forerunner has returned with a full load, presumably the county lord's plan will also be put on the agenda.
When the convoy returned, the county lord announced a big celebration for three days, and the banquet was placed outside the village, and many merchants and nobles of Chang'an came to celebrate, staying up all night and not getting drunk.
Compared with the lively Xujiazhuang, the imperial city is more lively these days, the reason is that the plan to build the Luoyang Palace has begun to be implemented, Li Er keeps sending more people, and wants to rush to the construction of the Qianyuan Hall of the Luoyang Palace before the construction of the new city in the outer city of Chang'an.
Luoyang, which was later called the 'divine capital' when Wu Zetian was in power, has begun to show its ingenious geographical position at this time, is in the heart of the entire Tang Dynasty, and is the turning point of the railway trunk line, but also connects the capital Chang'an, and its transportation is so developed that it is called "the place where soldiers must fight for three hundred years" by Professor Qin Qiong of Nanshan Academy.
Historically, the Qianyuan Hall of Luoyang Palace is the most luxurious palace in Luoyang, and the first year of Emperor Yang of Sui was supervised by the general Yu Wenkai. The scale of the construction of the Luoyang Palace is huge, and the monthly envoy Ding Fu is two million people, and the people are also recruited to transport strange materials and strange stones from the south of the river and the north of the five mountains. It takes 2,000 people to transport a large wooden pillar so far away. The wheels were easy to rub against the wooden sunflower to make a fire, so they switched to iron sunflower, but they walked a mile or two. The iron sunflower was worn out. In addition, there are hundreds of people who bring iron sunflowers to change at any time. You can't walk more than twenty or thirty miles a day. Four or five out of ten people die as a result of hard labor. In the fourth year of Wude, Li Erchu leveled Luoyang, dissatisfied with the extravagance of Emperor Yang of Sui, and burned all the luxurious palaces of Luoyang Palace, including the Qianyuan Palace.
Some time ago, when Li Er visited the Qingshan Palace to see the "Holy Merit Map", he issued an edict to rebuild the Luoyang Palace, and put the prison into action immediately, a famous architect of this dynasty. Yan Liben, a professor at the School of Civil Engineering of Nanshan Academy, carefully drew the drawings and divided all the officials who were in charge of the supervision into various budgets for the civil engineering and craftsmen of the project, and soon made this large-scale construction plan.
What is surprising is that no one in the Manchao civil and military forces opposed Li Er's construction of the palace, on the contrary, the entire court called His Majesty's move a model for all generations.
Li Er was very arrogant and used a red pen to comment on the recital of the prisoner: spare no financial resources to restore the old view......
The huge palace is like a labyrinth, the road of this palace is tortuous, in the bedroom of Li Er of Chengqing Palace, a five-colored parrot is chirping: "Long live my emperor." Hooray, hooray! ”
This parrot was paid tribute by the Linyi Kingdom of the Western Regions more than ten days ago, and there are two more. One is white, the other is cyan, and this one is the best. Not only does it have colorful feathers and golden-armored claws, but it also emits this endearing human-like chirp.
Originally, Li Er didn't like flowers and birds, and his bedroom never displayed artworks with flowers and birds. He liked only horses, and he liked to ride them in the mountains and rivers, or to gallop on the polo field with his club, and he even had the prejudice that the neighing of horses was more beautiful and poetic than the singing of birds. This is naturally related to his career as a horseman, and his long-term companionship with horses has given him a special affection for horses.
Lately, however, his tastes, his hobbies, have strangely shifted to a parrot. It's not so much that he likes the beautiful feathers of the parrot as he likes the sound of the parrot. "Long live our emperor! Hooray, hooray! What a sweet and pleasant cry it was, and when he heard it, his heart felt like a fluffy feather was stirring, and he felt joyful, comfortable, and felt the dignity and majesty of the Son of Heaven.
People are the primates of all things, but this is all self-styled by people, and all the beasts and birds have not shown respect for humans, but the parrot in front of him has fully satisfied Li Er's vanity. You can do it yourself!
According to the worshippers, this bird is extremely intelligent and can learn human language, also known as "the bird that can speak". Now, even the birds are singing long live, which shows that the emperor's cultural and martial arts are not only extraterritorial, but also graceful to birds and beasts, which is auspicious!
Li Er's pride reached its peak at this moment, and he instructed the palace e's left and right to raise it carefully, and the imperial kitchen specially made it for the parrot to eat, and asked the craftsman to make a small and exquisite cage for it with gold wire and ivory, and hang it next to his palace.
Now, before it was time to drive to the Imperial Garden, Li Er and the parrot had breakfast at the same time, and took it out of the cage lovingly, put it on his arm and played, the parrot flapped its wings and cried vigorously: "Long live!" Banzai! ”
"Good bird! Good birds! Li Er couldn't put it down, gently stroked its smooth feathers, tilted his head, pursed his mouth, kept looking, and asked the palace who fed the parrot: "Have you drunk water?" ”
"Returning to His Majesty, I've drunk it." Gong E replied in a low voice.
"Scrubbed?"
"I just scrubbed it before breakfast, and I've already passed it."
Li Er nodded with satisfaction, and said, "You must be carefully fed, and you must not slack off!" ”
"The slave knows that this is a long-lived baby, and she must do her best."
However, as soon as the parrot squatted on the butt and pulled down a grain of shit on Li Er's sleeve robe, Gong E hurriedly took the soft juan, knelt at Li Er's feet, carefully wiped the parrot feces on Li Er's sleeve robe, and then gently retreated to the side with small steps.
"Haha." Seeing the parrot on himself, Li Er laughed instead of being angry, hooked the parrot's chin with his hand, and said with a smile: "You are really bold, there is no beast except you who dare to on me today." ”
The parrot couldn't understand what Li Er said, and then shouted loudly: "Long live my emperor!" Hooray, hooray! Li Er, who was amused again, laughed for a while......
As soon as Gong E retreated, the chamberlain Zhu Guiguang entered the newspaper: "Long live Qiyu, the secretary and supervisor Lord Wei ask to see you!" ”
Li Eryi waved his hand: "If you don't see it, just say that I am unwell!" ”
Zhu Guiguang pointed behind him: "Long live, Lord Wei, he ...... It's already here! ”
Li Er raised his head and saw that Wei Zheng had already stepped into the palace gate, and couldn't help but feel an inexplicable and clever panic, and subconsciously took down the parrot and hid it in his sleeve robe.
"Wei Aiqing, what is the matter with me?" Li Erduan sat on the dragon chair, looked at Wei Zheng, who had come to him, and asked in a slow tone.
At this time, Wei Zheng, looking at the emerald green feather exposed on Li Er's cuffs, and then looked at the empty parrot cage next to him, he was already standing on the spot, half a month ago, Xu Yang of the Ghost Valley had come to visit, as he predicted, it was exactly the same as what he saw in front of him.
Seeing Wei Zheng in a daze, Li Er coughed a little dissatisfied, "What's the matter with Wei Aiqing?" ”
At this time, Wei Zheng seemed to have recovered from a trance, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "Your Majesty, let's quickly take out the bird in the sleeve robe, presumably it will be suffocated in it after a while......
"Datang Games? What is that. Han Yanxuan sat on the high wall with his sword in his arms and asked lightly.
"Oh, it's a grand competition that will be held in Chang'an in half a month, you can understand it as a kind of competitive competition, and the winner will have quite good prizes, as well as gold, silver and bronze medals that symbolize honor. ~" Xu Yang craned his neck and said to Han Yanxuan on the high wall with temptation.
"I don't care about the prizes." Han Yanxuan's temperament is really like an iron stone, no matter how tempting he is, he will not be moved.
"My own brother, all nations are coming to the court, we are a big country in the Heavenly Empire, if we don't show some strength and suppress the arrogance of those barbarians at the sports meeting, how can we be worthy of our face, so for the glory of the empire, my brother must help with this favor." Xu Yang said bitterly.
"The face of this empire is just the one in power, Guigu has always been independent, and it must not bow to the powerful." Han Yanxuan's head was rigid, and he even wanted Xu Yang's screwdriver to open Han Yanxuan's head to see what was inside.
Gritting his teeth, Xu Yang offered a killer idea, "If you are willing to participate in this sports meeting, I will promise to pass on the Great Ghost Valley Technique to you!" ”…… (To be continued......)
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