(6) Micro service patrol
In the early morning, when the sun had already overflowed the outer wall of the palace, half an hour later than the monthly court meeting, Li Siyuan finally rolled over from his dragon bed, and the people waiting beside him hurriedly greeted him, not daring to slack off.
said that since Li Siyuan ascended the throne, he did not sleep again, the Son of Heaven was concerned by everyone, and he was not only able to grasp the power in his hands, but also shouldered the responsibility.
From the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty to the common people, even if he is lazy for a day, there will be a lot of material waiting for him...... At least on the surface, it must be diligent enough, and the occasional nonsense must also find a high-sounding reason.
These are the lessons of blood and tears left by all the "free behaviors" he did when he was naΓ―ve enough to become an emperor who can go down in history.
God knows how complicated his feelings were when he was scolded by the fifty-year-old minister, and the table of recitals that persuaded him was still piled up in the back storeroom.
What kind of free emperor's life is this?
It was a harder day than being supervised by his father every day in the East Palace!
So it is inevitable that Li Siyuan always likes to be stubborn in some things, such as the affairs of the Shen family, which are more or less full of his willfulness.
After all, he was an emperor at a young age, whether he was frivolous or young, he thought he had thought about it at this age.
In the same way, the intermittent "nonsense" can be regarded as his "temptation" to see how tolerant he is of the emperor to the limit.
This time, in the name of "micro-service private interview", it can only be said to be a reasonable petty fight.
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A wooden carriage staggered from the main entrance of the palace to the outside of the palace.
The closing of the palace gate was like a switch, opening the noise of the imperial city, and the sound was surrounded by the arranged "prosperity" around the carriage.
Li Siyuan sat on the main seat, flanked by the veiled Shen Qingjun and Yi Shu and others, and the car was very quiet - no palace concubine had the leisure to be curious about the scenery outside the palace, and similarly, they who wanted to be reserved did not have the urge to open the curtain and look outside.
"Ahem," Li Siyuan clenched his fist to his mouth and wanted to say something, but there was a slight noise outside the carriage that was not normal.
"What's going on?" Li Siyuan, who was interrupted from speaking, raised his eyebrows, stretched out his foot and kicked the eunuch sitting in front of the car.
"If you go back to your father, you will be surrounded by many people in front of you, and you have already sent someone to check it."
Changfang explained to Li Siyuan respectfully, looked at the returning attendant, beckoned him to report in his ear, and showed a smile on his face as if he had suddenly realized.
"Master, it's Li Ergou who is the gatekeeper of the gambling house on the other side of the street who is shouting to sell the daughter of the neighbor's sister next door to his aunt's house, I heard that the girl cried miserably, and the pear blossoms brought rain, and her voice was hoarse."
As a person close to the emperor, Changfang is also very good, and he actually repeated the words that came over like tongue twisters, word for word.
"What are these words, and you're putting them together?" Li Siyuan couldn't get used to Changfang's appearance of pretending to squeeze his eyebrows, so he raised the fan in his hand and wanted to give him a moment.
When the emperor is angry and wants to punish, he can't hide, but it's just an ordinary time, in order to please the emperor, Changfang naturally squeezed out a pitiful begging for mercy, pretending to flexibly dodge Li Siyuan's fan, but he didn't pull down the fan and put it on his body.
"It's not a villain, it's not a villain," Changfang smiled flatteringly: "I heard that it's a beautiful woman with a good appearance, as long as five big money, do you want to ...... it?"
"Don't!" Li Siyuan naturally rejected Changfang, whose smile gradually became obscene, and said triumphantly: "It's only five big bucks, what kind of cheap can it be, don't!" β
The small people in the market, short-sighted, can see a few beauties, how about five women bought with a lot of money, where can they compare with the pearl jasper in his palace-he thought.
Changfang raised his head and glanced at Li Siyuan's expression, lowered his head again, and said with a dog's leg: "Yes, yes, our master understands righteousness, and his wisdom is very human...."
"Okay, okay, don't boast," Li Siyuan impatiently pushed Changfang aside, raised his chin and ordered: "Let people clear the road." β
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This side of the road.
"Woooooooo Woo, I'm not going, please, don't sell me to a place where you don't eat people and don't spit out bones... Whining... I have the strength...... I can work and earn money...... I will repay you for your ...... even if I am a cow and a horse for you."
It seems like it should be a very common scenario, but there are some surprises in some places.
The shabby girl in her clothes, who was only worth five big coins in Changfang's mouth, held on to the pillar by the stable, trying to resist Li Ergou's drag.
The little girl is still young, her face has not yet opened, but her complexion is rarely fair, her eyebrows are delicate, dignified and lovely, she is already a beautiful embryo, her eyes are full of tears, overflowing and dripping on the coarse cloth clothes, looking really pitiful.
There are many onlookers around, although some people can't bear to turn their backs, but none of them can help her, who doesn't know that Li Ergou is a bad guy, and if you mess with him, you will get into trouble with a stray mad dog.
Fortunately, these people who are naturally lively and have a lot of time to stay for her with the thick human wall, so that she can still have a chance to meet nobles.
However, her expectation may be about to turn into bubbles in the sun, under Li Siyuan's order, the crowd was violently pushed away by the guards with swords and armor, and everyone saw that there were nobles passing by, and few had the courage to rush forward, so they scattered in all directions.
The crying was so miserable that the girl's voice was already a little hoarse, but she still shouted in the direction of the carriage with all her strength: "Please, a kind person, please save me, I am willing to repay your great kindness as a cow and a horse." β
But all in vain.
The emperor's carriage, even if it was used for a private visit, was not something she could recall.
The girl holding the pillar watched the carriage roll past in front of her in a daze, kneeling on the soft straw by the horse shed as if she had lost her strength, and Li Ergou on her side also came back to her senses from the movement of the noble person passing by, and wanted to pull the girl who was no longer struggling away.
As if this is how everything should have ended.
And at the moment when the girl was about to be grabbed by Li Ergou's arm, she rushed to the direction of the carriage like crazy, and took advantage of the moment when the guards who were already in the imperial city and were unvigilant were busy evacuating the crowd, she actually rushed out of the encirclement, grabbed the end of the carriage, climbed up and stood on the edge!
It was also her luck that the carriage had not yet picked up speed before it could climb up and not fall, but this frightened almost everyone who knew about it.
No one could have imagined that such a thing could happen under the Imperial City, whether it was the secret guards in ambush on the street or the ministers watching the play in the pavilion.
Thanks to the girl who climbed up, she had no intention of assassinating the emperor, and she pitifully hugged the carved flowers of the carriage, and there were tears on her confused face, probably frightened by what had happened.
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Li Siyuan sat in the carriage with his concubines, but the carriage, which had just been opened up and started to walk normally, suddenly shook and stopped, and there was a lot of noise around, and the shouts of Changfang were also covered by the sound outside.
I didn't know what was going on, I could only see Changfang and the coachman sitting motionless at the door, as if they wanted to guard the door and prevent people from entering.
This is the Imperial City.
Could it be that there could still be assassins?
Assassin, that's something you only have in a drawing book!
Li Siyuan was a little interested, he hadn't met any assassins yet.
Anyway, this place is heavily guarded, and even if there are really assassins, they can't wear heavy guards, and he, as the emperor, is really curious about such a new thing.
Thinking about it, he moved to the right side, intending to open the curtain to watch a few good shows, but Shen Qingjun, who was sitting on the right side, saw this, frowned, and walked away quietly.
Looking outside the carriage at the guards who walked towards her with red eyes in their eyes, the girl was already frightened, she grabbed the carved protruding carvings of the carriage, and kept her back close to the carriage, trying to find some peace of mind for herself.
Turning back with a beating heart, she found that there seemed to be something bulging on the side of the carriage, and the panicked girl subconsciously let out a scream, and actually broke the wooden carving held in her right hand and smashed it towards the bulge that covered the curtain.
Only the exclamations of the concubines were heard in the car, and the next moment, the girl was surrounded by the swords of the guards who rushed in.