Chapter 19: Superstitious Emperors

If you want to say that Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, except for the governance of the country, everything else is good, especially good at calligraphy and painting, and he created his own thin gold body. Later generations commented on him: Song Huizong can do everything, but he can't be a king's ear.

In Wang Han's own words: This thing is not good to do in addition to the main thing, but he is very good at pounding the mallet with a ghost.

Zhao Ji saw Wang Han kneeling in front of him with a puff, and thanked him loudly, and couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, this is a real ordinary person, thank himself from the bottom of his heart. For the monarch, the favorite is like this, the courtiers kneel ten, it is better to kneel one of the ordinary people.

Wang Han knelt down to thank him, and Li Qingzhao was not easy to dry, and he also saluted Zhao Ji, "The slave has thanked the official." ”

But said that this Song Dynasty woman called herself a slave, at first Wang Han was not used to hearing it, and after a long time, he understood that this is a kind of self-humble name, the slave family is equivalent to the family that later generations of women say, and the self-proclaimed slave slave has some coquettish taste, especially the woman is born beautiful, and the slave is a slave when she opens her mouth.

And Li Qingzhao called himself a slave in front of the emperor at this time, which was not coquettish, but a kind of arrogance.

But isn't it, in the entire Great Song Dynasty, how many women can be married by the emperor himself? No matter how heroic and talented Li Qingzhao is, she is also a woman, and if she is a woman, she has vanity, and she has this great benefit, and she can't be arrogant.

Zhao Ji is also happy, he is a playful character, seeing that the talented woman is arrogant, she is playful, and she tells Liang Shicheng to set up a banquet in Guanglu Temple, and today she happened to meet Mr. Li Qingzhao who was very happy, and he should drink a cup.

Such a decision was obviously not in line with etiquette and the identity of the emperor, which made Wang Han stunned. But thinking about the fact that this product is in his thirties and has more than 100 concubines in the palace, he has to go into the brothel from the tunnel in the middle of the night to drink flower wine, and he is relieved.

I have said a long time ago that this product is not a serious emperor.

Seeing Li Qingzhao's hesitation, Zhao Ji said again: "Mr. Su Wen's name, he is highly educated, and he is fresh in modern times. ”

The emperor personally invited him, how dare Li Qingzhao disobey, and once again be blessed, "slaves obey orders." After speaking, he glanced at Wang Han slowly, his eyebrows were tossing and turning, and there were thousands of styles.

Zhao Ji naturally understood, haha twice, "Your husband should come together, and you should come together." After speaking, he walked away, with his hands behind his back, and strutted with his head held high, so that he looked proud and leisurely.

Zhao Ji walked in front, there was a guide in front, a yellow umbrella in the back, and the two sides were accompanied by left and right. At the same time, it is also clear that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is like this at home, which is completely different from the sea in later generations.

The emperor said that everyone should come together, and Zhou Bangyan, who is supplemented by Chao, needless to say, are all court officials, one Taixue and one school scholar. He helped Li Qingzhao to suppress the formation, and now Li Qingzhao's major event has been decided, and he should be happy together.

But then Zhao Mingcheng and Gao Bao were embarrassed, these two had never fought with Wang Han for hydrangea, and now the emperor wants to congratulate Li Qingzhao, will they go or not?

The emperor said that you are all coming, are there any of them among you?

However, Wang Han had a lot of eyes, and when he walked a few steps and saw that the two did not follow, he turned around and smiled and beckoned, asking the two to follow.

Such behavior is Wang Han's cunning. Before snatching the hydrangea, he stared at the beads of his eyes and worked hard, almost to kill the two Yanei, now that the dust has settled, he is the winner, so he has to pretend to be a good person, put on a posture of second in the game and first in friendship, and do not know each other with the two Yanei.

Why? Didn't you listen to that dead eunuch Liang Shicheng? This is Zhao Mingcheng, the son of Zhao Shangshu, he is such a big official, how can he do it if he doesn't handle this matter well?

As for the other one, although he was born short, he was able to beat Zhao Mingcheng with his sleeves on the street, and he was obviously also the master with thick thighs, and he beat others by himself, how could he do it if he didn't befriend them.

In Wang Han's limited memory, Li Qingzhao's backstage is not hard, and he was kicked out of Tokyo early, hoping that she can support herself, but it can't be counted on.

But said that walking in the palace, Wang Han's two eyes are not enough to see, entering from the Donghua Gate, there are high walls on both sides, about two meters high, the middle road is about ten meters wide, can accommodate two carriages side by side. The wall is a red wall, the tiles are green tiles, and the feet are bluestone slabs, revealing a thick and simple one.

Every three meters, there were armor-piercing warriors, standing with spears, meticulous, and they didn't move when they saw the emperor passing by, but their two eyes moved back and forth, reminding Wang Han of the armed police in the sea.

At the same time, it is also clear that for the outside world, the emperor is mysterious and unattainable. But for the people in this imperial city, it is not unusual for the emperor to see him every day.

The emperor is mysterious, but everyone thinks of it as mysterious, and when he really comes into contact, he is just a comic literary youth.

Looking from east to west, it is almost a kilometer away to the end, and there are several arches in the middle, which makes Wang Han smack his tongue, in the end, it is the emperor's house, and it is really a large area.

However, the emperor will not go far to entertain guests, close to the north of Donghua Gate is the palace of the province, there are imperial kitchens and six Shang Bureau, which is responsible for the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation. There is a Shengping Building inside, which is the emperor's usual entertainment place.

As far as eating is concerned, it is not what Wang Han thought, the meal was ready immediately after the order was delivered, and it had to wait for a long time. In addition, when the emperor invites guests, it has to be managed by a special person, and when a few guests come, a few tables and chairs, a few refreshments, and any meals, there are rules.

Speaking of tables and chairs, they are not the Eight Immortals tables, slats and chairs that Wang Han sees on weekdays, but low tables and soft seats, which allow people to sit and eat. The short is not tall, sitting on the chest level, the width is 60 centimeters, the length is about 1.2 meters, the two sit loosely, and the three sit just right.

Wang Han and the others have never eaten with the emperor, but Zhou Bangyan of Chao Buzhi often eats, and every year the emperor and the queen mother will invite the ministers to dine, knowing the rules, it is natural for the two to share the table. Seeing this, Wang Han also pulled Li Qingzhao to sit together, and the remaining two Yanei glanced at each other, each unconvinced, and helpless, so they sat at the same table. Zhao Ji sat in the hall, facing north and south, with a table.

Everyone sat down, their own little eunuch served refreshments and fruit plates, and a group of music girls came out from the back, falling on both sides of the building, and the silk and bamboo orchestras were of various colors, which made people curious. After the musician settled, the emperor clapped his hands, and the sparse sound of the performance made Wang Han depressed.

After all, it came from later generations, the development of musical instruments is diverse, and I am used to listening to electroacoustic special effects, and then listening to this pure natural primitive music, it is naturally a little old-fashioned, but it is difficult to say, after all, the band playing here is already the highest standard band in the Great Song Dynasty.

If you have a chance, you want to make a guitar and let the emperor feel the charm of folk songs, Wang Han thought to himself.

The music began, and two other lines of seven or eight beautiful artists came out from behind the screen, dressed coolly, curly and graceful, and danced in the audience.

Wang Han immediately stared at him, this emperor can play. They are all fifteen or sixteen female babies, stretching out their arms and kicking their legs on the spot, and Wang Han who watched it was so worried, for fear that they would accidentally show something, and for fear that they would not show it.

Especially when the girls made the rear arch bridge one-word horse, the upper body collapsed tightly, and two hard arcs were strangled, which instantly caught Wang Han's eyeballs.

It's all not well developed, is it so tight?

Not to mention the straight horse, the fabric is close to the girl's body, and it is delicate. Even though I know that I can't see anything, I just can't take my eyes off it.

This can't be done, it must be reined in, in the emperor's house.

Thinking like this, Wang Han ordered himself to look away, but as a result, he tossed and turned, and looked at the fat and short frustration on the opposite side, and at a glance, the two had already exchanged a lot of secret information, each nodded, the corners of his mouth were curved upward, revealing the meaning that the old driver understood, and everything was silent.

It is worthy of Gao Yanei, who is bold and bold, and dares to express his thoughts in such a red fruit in the emperor's house, and does not learn from Bachelor Zhao, who is not a scholar at all, and disdains those Yingying Yanyan at all, only turning a pair of eyes on Li Qingzhao's face, seeing Wang Han looking at him, he quickly turned his eyes, pretending to be inadvertent, but the pain on his face could not be concealed.

At the end of the song and dance, there are a few more dishes on the low table, which are cold liver and tartary buckwheat, which should be dipped in sesame sauce and eaten.

Wang Han was about to take chopsticks, but when he saw everyone holding wine glasses, they greeted Zhao Ji together, Zhao Ji smiled and said: "Today is Mr. Qingzhao's great joy, you don't have to be formal, you should rejoice together, this first cup is to congratulate Mr. Qingzhao and tie the knot." ”

Zhao Ji spoke, and the surrounding Qi said: Joy and joy. Only Gao Bao and Wang Han were stupid and didn't keep up with the rhythm.

Gao Bao can't afford to go to the door, and Wang Han doesn't understand the rules at all. When he saw the people drinking, he drank with him.

After a glass of wine, Zhao Ji waved his hand to stop the music, and then asked with a smile: "I heard people say that Mr. Qingzhao can have today's joy, but it is the promise of the Nine Heavens Xuannu in her dream, but I don't know, what is the details?" ”

Having said this, Wang Han suddenly realized, and thought that Zhao Ji really loved the people like a son, and invited the people to eat on a whim, and after making trouble for a long time, he was still interested in ghosts and gods.

It's no wonder that from beginning to end, Zhao Ji mainly talked to Li Qingzhao, occasionally smiled at Chao Buzhi and Zhou Bangyan, and didn't look at Wang Han, Zhao Mingcheng, Gao Bao and the three of them at all, not to mention that Wang Han was absolute, it was not high-grade in Zhao Ji's eyes, what he cared about was Li Qingzhao's dream.

Speaking of Zhao Ji's superstition, it has been a long time, let's first talk about why Zhao Ji proclaimed himself the Yuqing Sect leader Subtle Daojun Emperor.

When Zhao Ji was still the king of Duan, a Taoist priest named Lin Lingsu came to Tokyo, and Duan was a man with high power.

Lin Lingsu loves to drink, he was drunk in the hotel, Xiao Er went to ask him for wine money, he reached out and broke his head open, good guy, half of it was cheeky, half of it was a blood skeleton, and when he landed, he scared Xiao Er, and ran away with a crawl.

No one dared to ask him for money, but for him to continue drinking and eating meat.

The hotel reported the matter to Kaifeng Mansion, and when Kaifeng Mansion brought people to come, the Taoist priest was gone, not the stairs he took, anyway.

When Duan Wang Zhao Ji heard this, he was very interested and asked the people around him to look for it, he wanted to meet this master.

I really found it for him, but said that the first time the two met, Zhao Ji was strange and asked Lingsu, "Where did the Taoist come from?" Looking at the face of goodness, have you seen it anywhere? ”

Lin Lingsu said with a grin: "In the past, I was an errand boy under the Jade Emperor, and I had the honor to serve His Majesty. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Ji was shocked, and at the same time happy, no wonder he was born smart and talented, it turned out that he was a god.

Speaking of Zhao Ji's talent, it is not that he boasts, even if he loses the Great Song Dynasty, people after a thousand years will not be convinced of him, one yard is one yard, he can't govern the country, but his talent is really strong, he can be called the first emperor in ancient times, even the queen of Li who is the spring flower and autumn moon is better than him.

People are talented, listen to a lot of praise, and over time, it is inevitable that they will float, and they always feel that they are not ordinary people. Now that he heard Lin Lingsu say that he was an immortal, he asked, "What position do I have in heaven?" ”

Lin Lingsu replied: "You are the eldest son of the Jade Emperor, you are the highest in the Nine Heavens, the Yuqing King of the Shenxiao Mansion, in charge of the affairs of the south, also known as the Immortal Emperor." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ji immediately became foreign, only feeling comfortable and refreshed, and he couldn't wait to kneel down and call his father on the spot - he wanted the Jade Emperor to take him back to the sky.

But it was said that Lin Lingsu was in the Duanwang Mansion, serving good wine and meat all day long, and after eating for two or three days, Lin Lingsu wrote down a few words: Jiren should be a great treasure. After writing it, he didn't say a word and slipped away.

The combination of the two words Jiren is Ji, which means that Zhao Ji can be the emperor.

Zhao Ji was very surprised at the time, his brother Zhao Xu was on the throne, and he was young and strong, and he couldn't die in a few decades, even if he died, then he still had to have a son. Oh, Zhao Xu hasn't given birth to a son yet. Even if he didn't have a son, it might not be his turn.

Zhao Ji knows his own skills, he only likes to play and have fun, and he doesn't like to manage the country.

But Lin Lingsu left these six words and ran away, and it was not easy to find. Within a few years, Zhao Ji really became the emperor by mistake, and since then he has been convinced of this Lin Lingsu.

These legends were heard by Wang Han in the dog meat restaurant, and when it comes to the dog meat restaurant, here is another confused thing about Zhao Ji.

Because Zhao Ji had met Lin Lingsu, he was convinced of the gods and ghosts, and because Lin Lingsu said that he was the king of Yuqing in the sky, he also became the emperor of the subtle Daojun of the Yuqing sect, and he carried the word Yuqing.

The emperor was superstitious, and his ministers thought that Fa'er would echo him, and one of them was named Fan Zhixu, who said to Zhao Ji, "Your Majesty is a dog, and there are many dog butchers inside and outside Tokyo, which is disrespectful and should be banned." ”

Zhao Ji is a faint king, he told him how to govern the country he didn't understand, as soon as he said this, his eyes lit up, and immediately issued an order, no dogs should be killed inside and outside Tokyo, in addition, it was announced to the whole country that dogs should not be killed and eaten dogs.

In this way, it can suffocate the butchers inside and outside Tokyo, before Zhao Ji, dog meat is the best dish, one of the six animals, people's favorite meat, for which Su Shi also deliberately created a fancy way to eat dog meat cooking, and later generations established a brand, for Dongpo dog meat.

But as soon as Huizong came to power, he didn't let people eat dogs anymore, and he also allocated a special reward for this, but when he saw someone killing a dog, he reported it to the government and there was a reward.

Since then, who dares to blatantly kill dogs again?

It's a great Song Dynasty, cows are not allowed to be killed, dogs are not allowed to be killed, and mutton is not enough to eat, so what do the common people eat? There are those brave heroes, who are not afraid of Zhao Ji, they want to kill the dog, and after killing, hang a sheep's head on the butcher's shop, which is the origin of the authentic [hanging a sheep's head to sell dog meat].

Wang Han used to only think that selling dog meat on the head of a sheep meant that it was shoddy, and when he ate dog meat a few times in the Great Song Dynasty, he knew that people in later generations had misunderstood, dog meat was more delicious than mutton, and the price was more expensive.

Why? The heroes who dare to kill dog meat, they are all fighting with their lives, how can it not be expensive.

In the same way, it was these heroes who dared to kill dog meat that dared to spread the news of the Emperor of the Faint Emperor, and it was only then that Wang Han heard about Zhao Ji's ridiculous things about laughing off his big teeth.

It's just that he sat opposite Zhao Ji this time, but Wang Han couldn't laugh, he thought that Zhao Ji invited himself to dinner because he was really close to the people, and after a long time, people were only interested in the Nine Heavens Xuannu.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a move and suddenly brightened.

Zhao Ji is superstitious, isn't he giving himself a chance?