Chapter 40: Treasures
He Zhao Xixing is the East Palace, and he is used to seeing slave faces, but he put it on her, as if he deliberately cut out his heart.
Especially this kind of pretending to be confused, he Zhao Xixing thinks that she is not stupid, he is really stupid, and he is stupid by her.
Sure enough, the little fox that bit back then, after so many years, is still the same unforgiving.
"You! Come with the main hall! ”
After Zhao Xixing dropped a sentence, he slammed the door and left, and with a bang, the door of the palace was smashed.
The people in the palace had white faces, and they were busy kneeling down, and Douxi was so frightened that they trembled.
Everyone saw it, and Donggong was furious.
The Son of Heaven is angry for thousands of miles, and the "saint" is angry, it is estimated that mortals are hard to think.
Hua Er glanced at the pitiful and gloating eyes around him, sighed, and inexplicably, he could only follow with his eyebrows lowered.
Zhao Xixing walked forward quickly, through the corridor and the building, passing through the towering palace, without saying a word the whole time, slightly pursed his lips, suppressing the stormy waves.
Hua Er carried the hem of his skirt and trotted behind, not daring to come out, and he never understood which point was Tai Sui.
Finally, in front of an underground palace, Zhao Xixing stopped.
The underground palace, built at the foot of the imperial city three zhang, expanded from the cellar of the previous dynasty to store ice, more than 80 red copper pillars support a hundred acres of brilliance, the ground is dry, warm in winter and cool in summer, specially used to store rare treasures.
And this underground palace is the "treasure house" of the exclusive East Palace. Treasures from all directions, jewels from all over the world, as soon as the front foot steps in, the back foot can be flashed by the treasure light.
Of course, when Zhao Xixing rushed in with an out of breath Hua Er, Long Xiangwei, who was guarding the door, was so shocked that he forgot to salute.
The treasure house of the East Palace, second only to the national treasury. Zhao Xixing actually took a folk girl, and walked like a bend?
"Don't make a noise. Violators...... Chop! Zhao Xixing stopped in front of Long Xiangwei, who was stunned, his eyes narrowed slightly.
The Long Xiang guards trembled, glanced at Hua Er strangely, and hurriedly opened the door.
When the two of them stood in front of the blind Baoshan Jade Sea, Hua Er smoothed his breathing, and his face was in a trance for a moment.
However, in the past three years, most of the treasures of the present dynasty were confiscated from the previous dynasty, and many of them she could recognize the ends of the treasures at the feet of the treasures, a line of branded words stamped with red clay marks.
Spring Breeze Bureau.
……
When she first entered the palace, because she was too young, the previous palace robes did not fit, and the color was a little old-fashioned.
But he said, my flowers are unique, and there is no need to learn the old system and use the old things.
So, he ordered to go down to the south of the Yangtze River and requisition silk and satin, only looking for unseen treasures and unseen wonders. When the first tribute material arrived in Beijing, he only looked at it for half a glance and burned it in public.
Just because these are already priceless silk in the people, the concubines and concubines in the past have already used them, and he only needs to be "unique".
However, it is almost more difficult to make him a "treasure" who is raised in the world's rich and noble pile, and it is almost more difficult than ascending to the sky.
So, Li Zhong, the chief of the inner chamberlain, led a column of forbidden soldiers to the city and brought the imperial decree: ten days, the deadline, there is no clothes to wear, embroiderers, beheaded.
Eunuchs! The people of Jiangnan scolded bitterly. Li Zhong just smiled faintly, and then drew the first red cross on the calendar.
She only learned about these things later.
At that time, all she knew was the new clothes that were delivered to her ten days later.
The brilliant embroidery and the one-inch gold material made her so happy that her little short hands were red. And he watched her quietly, and she smiled, and he laughed.
Later, not only the clothes and weaving, the hairpins, the shoes, the utensils, the meals, all her things were more brilliant than the sun in the sky, and he even set up a special official office for her to oversee this matter.
Corresponding to the "Survey of the Heavens" paid tribute by the Son of Heaven, this new government is called the "Spring Breeze Bureau".
She remembered that by chance, the palace robe was smoking, and a little palace maid picked up the silk thread, and took the silk thread out to sell it like crazy, and the embroidered shoes ran away, and her feet were full of blood.
Later, she was surprised by the spirit of the little palace maid, and asked about it, and she knew for the first time that the clothes and accessories she was accustomed to were actually golden.
And the money from the sale saved the whole family of the little palace maid.
So she also knew for the first time that there was a famine in Jiangnan.
The reason turned out to be that where the tribute fleets of the "Survey of the Heavens" and the "Spring Breeze Bureau" passed, the local people had to supply money and civilian service, so the taxes were unbearable and they were starving.
These fleets are composed of ten ships, which are called "Gang", and the folk are called "Huashi Gang" (Note 1).
At that time, she was twelve years old, and she was in the palace for her first year.
After that, she hadn't seen the little palace maid. It was as if the world had disappeared, but for a while, there was a bloody smell in the sky above the room where the slave lived.
She asked him, but he smiled without any strangeness, saying that the flowers didn't need to know about these filthy things, so naturally they diverted from the topic.
So, she never heard of such a thing again.
Occasionally, when her stubborn temper came up, she wanted to ask what was going on, but the minions she was asked about the next day were inexplicably gone.
It seems that a lot of life and death are struggling like a dog, in a place she can't see.
And the only constant is his gentle smile, which occupies her whole world.
……
Hua Er let out a breath of turbidity, and her thoughts returned to reality, even now, knowing the so-called truth, what can she do?
Hua San can still scold him twice, and himself, what qualifications does he have?
She had long been like him, riddled with sins.
"Your Highness, where the treasure house of the East Palace is located, the important place of the country, the humble body of the people's daughter, I am afraid it is not appropriate to step in. The folk girls are brave and kneeling. Thinking of this, Hua Er bowed down to Zhao Xixing, she didn't want to stay here for a moment.
Zhao Xixing ignored her, and his fingertips rubbed the words "Spring Breeze Bureau" one by one: "Say, what you like, this palace will reward you." Everything here, though. ”
Hua Eryi smiled, noncommittal.
Like what? Did Zhao Xixing deliberately stab her?
These things are hers.
Zhao Xixing did not receive an answer. raised his eyebrows, personally picked up a coral Ruyi, and handed it to her: "This, do you like it?" ”
"The people are terrified." Hua Er turned his face away and replied decently.
Zhao Xixing suddenly dropped Yu Ruyi, and picked up a string of Qibao Yingluo to her, and his tone was a little cold: "Why, I can't look down on this?" ”
The answer is the same as that of Hua Er, not salty or light.
Zhao Xixing pulled the corners of his mouth, and simply smashed Yingluo, without feeling a little distressed, and then picked a superb jade carving Magu and showed her: "How is it?" ”
Hua Er repeated the answer, still those four words.
Bang. Zhao Xixing directly smashed the jade carving, and the bottom of his eyes lit two fires.
After coming and going, Zhao Xixing picked more than a dozen treasures one after another, asked her if she liked it, and rewarded her if she liked it, and answered with two or four words, and her expression did not change at all.
Finally, the fire in Zhao Xixing's eyes became more and more intense, but his face was still calm.
"Don't like it? Heh, what about this one? ”
Zhao Xixing finally picked out a hairpin, his fingertips were hard to hold, and he was slightly white.
exegesis
1. Huashi Gang: In the Northern Song Dynasty Huizong, "Gang" meant a transportation team, often 10 ships called a "Gang"; At that time, the command of Huashigang included Hangzhou "Creation Bureau" and Suzhou "Ying Feng Bureau", etc., and they were ordered by the emperor to loot the rare cultural relics in the southeast region. Because of the place where the Huashi fleet passed, the local people had to supply the money valley and civil servants; In some places, bridges were demolished and castles were chiseled to allow fleets to pass. Therefore, it often makes the people of Jiangnan miserable, and the "History of the Song Dynasty" records the battle of Huashigang: "Those who have poisoned the county for 20 years." The officials and their gang seized the opportunity to extort money and make a windfall, causing great disasters to the people in the southeast and becoming one of the important reasons for the Fangla uprising.