Chapter 11 The City Gate in Distress

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The majestic city gate seems to be covered with a layer of golden armor in the golden sunlight, and the traces on the mottled city wall are the testimony of the 210-year history of the Western Han Dynasty. Time flies, and the world-dominated Chang'an City has changed batch after batch of owners, but the city has still not changed. Even in the new dynasty, Wang Mang renamed it "Chang'an", it still stands here silently, regardless of the wind and rain, I will not move.

Gao Yuan lifted the curtain, and he looked at this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties from afar, which was praised by the world in later generations, and his eyes suddenly became a little moist.

"Look at your bear-like appearance, what kind of Wenqing are you pretending." Ximen Junhui on the side couldn't help but sneer when he saw the appearance of the plateau.

Gao Yuan didn't answer, just turned his face aside and quietly rubbed his red eyes.

In fact, he also felt a little embarrassed, everyone was in the carriage, and they all said that the man had tears and did not flick, he just felt the majesty of Chang'an City, and his heart was excited for a while, and the sense of national honor and historical responsibility suddenly broke out so that he couldn't help but wet his eyes.

"After all, he is a person with a temperament, and his feelings are relatively abundant, which is understandable." Zhang Aijia was afraid that Gao Yuan would feel embarrassed, so he hurriedly played a round game.

When Duanmu Ci heard this, he also smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and patted Gao Yuan's shoulder and said, "Young man, you are still young, you won't be like this when you perform a few more tasks, and you will get used to it when the time comes." ”

Gao Yuan listened to everyone's comfort, smiled a little reluctantly, and said, "It's also the first time I've seen such a majestic ancient city, and I'm excited for a while. ”

"Is this still majestic?" Zhang Aijia exclaimed slightly exaggeratedly: "The city I saw last time in the Song Dynasty was more than fifty meters high, and the city walls were all piled up with that kind of big bluestone, and the gap in the middle couldn't even insert a needle!" ”

Just as he was about to continue to brag to the plateau about how he galloped across the Song Dynasty, Xiao Lan, who had never spoken much, suddenly asked:

"Gao Yuan, how is your golden bell jar practice?"

Gao Yuan paused for a moment and replied truthfully: "It's okay, I feel that my defense has improved a lot, and I should be able to resist all kinds of blunt weapon blows." But I don't know if I can resist the knife cut. ”

"Come on, I don't know who said that I was a miracle last time, but I couldn't get up after being beaten with a stick."

"Nonsense! How did I know you had so much strength! Gao Yuan listened to Zhang Aijia's words and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Xiao Lan nodded coldly and said, "That's good, you pay attention to yourself, I always have a bad feeling, there may be danger next, then you can protect yourself, if there is an emergency, it will be difficult for us to take care of you." ”

When Zhang Aijia heard Xiao Lan say this, she suddenly felt a chill behind her. He shrunk his neck and asked cautiously, "Sister Lan, do you have bad feelings again?"

"Well, it's not obvious, maybe it's my delusion."

"I hope so."

"Ladies and gentlemen." Duanmu Ci said to everyone: "No matter what, we will definitely enter the city." On the one hand, in order to find Liu Xiu, who is still studying in Taixue, and on the other hand, to find out the news of Wang Mang, after all, at the foot of the imperial city, there are many sources of various news channels. It will be three years before the emperor of the earth, and Wang Mang's new dynasty can only survive for less than a year, so we must seize this time tightly and prepare for the next mix with Liu Xiu. ”

"Captain, shall we go with the old man to his son's house later?" Ximen Junhui asked.

He has been tireless recently, Mrs. Mourning admires him very much, and has taken a fancy to his good martial arts, and he has never stopped with small favors along the way, and he usually comes to him to do a good job, he is originally a violent temper, and he has to be patient with this old man's hypocrisy and grievances, which really makes him miserable.

Duanmu Ci knew that Ximen couldn't wait to stay away from the mourning family, and he also had a plan in his heart, so he said: "Later, when we enter Chang'an City, we will separate from the mourning family's convoy." Let's find a place to settle down and make the next step. ”

"Why? Wouldn't it be nice for us to go directly to the mourning house? In this way, you will not be unfamiliar with the place. Takahara asked, and in his opinion, having a familiar local guide would be of great help in the next mission.

"No! We now have a special identity, and we must not let others see any flaws, so living alone is the best choice, and it is not very convenient to act under the fence after all. ”

He straightened the crown on his head, and continued: "And that son of Mrs. Mourning is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and if he finds out that we are unusual, it will be in vain. ”

"You mean the son that the old man has been talking about? Hearing him say that it seems to be Wang Mang's dog's leg? "Simon Junhui listened to Taigong Mourning in his ear every day during this time, and his ears were already calloused.

"Well, his son is a general of the current imperial court, knighted as the new Duke of Meixin, and is Wang Mang's right-hand man, talking about his history, it's really interesting."

He was still a student of Taixue at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and later Wang Mang became the emperor, he saw that Wang Mang was about to replace Liu Han to establish a new dynasty, so he secretly made two inspections of the copper Kui, one inspection was written "Emperor Tianxi Jin Kui Tu", and the other inspection was written "Red Emperor Xingxi passed to Emperor Jin Ceshu", Jin Ce clearly wrote that Liu Bang passed the throne to Wang Mang, and the Empress Yuan should honor the mandate of heaven to grant the throne to Wang Mang. It is also written that after Wang Mang ascends the throne, he should be crowned with a mourning seal and become a national general. ”

"I guess it's because I crossed over by myself, Wang Mang is a very superstitious person. He couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the copper kui, and he used this as an excuse to justifiably accept the stupid prince Liu Ying's Zen let him ascend the throne. ”

The group listened to the historical stories with relish, especially Gao Yuan, who originally graduated from the Department of History, and when he heard what Duanmu Ci said, he couldn't help but sigh: "This person is not simple!" He can also think of such a successful political speculation, and the key is to have the courage to do it. It seems that the person of Wai Zhang is a little scheming. ”

"Yes, so for this reason, we can't follow the convoy to mourn home." Duanmu gave the final word, and it was decided.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

The border of Jingzhou is thousands of miles away, and there are homeless people and bandits everywhere. However, when it came to the territory of the three auxiliary areas of the Beijing Division, the situation was significantly better, and the public security environment had been significantly improved.

And Chang'an City as the capital is different from other places to show a lot of people, every day to come and go a lot of people, in order to maintain the city security, the city gate is set up a team of soldiers to check the passing pedestrians and vehicles.

The convoy soon lined up in front of the city gates.

"Stop!" The soldiers guarding the gate stopped the carriage and began to inspect it one by one. If you don't want to give money, you will definitely deliberately make things difficult.

The butler had been working for so long, so he naturally knew the routine, and before the soldier could reach out to remove the curtain on the car, he hurriedly took out a heavy purse from his sleeve and stuffed it into his hand.

He weighed it and was quite satisfied with the weight, so he was ready to let it go directly.

Just as he was about to get out of the way to let the convoy pass.

Suddenly, a man in armor walked in from the city, and judging by his dress, it was obviously different from the soldiers around him, he should be an officer of the City Gate Division.

I saw that he had a pair of deep and sharp eyes, staring at the convoy of the mourning family, and shouted: "Your Majesty has an order, recently, there are thieves in Jingzhao Yin who want to sneak into the city to plot evil, and all passing vehicles and pedestrians must be checked, and there must be no mistakes!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of cloth from his bosom, and something seemed to be drawn on it. With a serious face, he looked for the soldier behind him and motioned to come up and inspect the vehicle.

"Ahem!"

Mrs. Ai in the car coughed uneasily when he heard the movement outside. The housekeeper immediately approached the officer and begged for mercy: "This lord, we are the family members of the new prince, so we don't need to check, right?" ”

"Oh? Mei Xingong's family, that has to be investigated, I believe that Mei Xingong and his old man will not disobey His Majesty's order because of this trivial matter. ”

The officer was not ambiguous at all, and directly refused the butler's request.

As he spoke, he pulled the housekeeper aside, and even started the inspection of one car by one by himself. Looking at his posture, it seems that he is looking for someone.

"What's wrong outside?" Gao Yuan felt that the vehicle had been parked here for a long time, and immediately stretched out his head curiously to look at it.

"It doesn't feel good, could it be that something is going to happen." Zhang Aijia asked.

"It should be fine, it may be catching some Jiangyang thieves, and it shouldn't have anything to do with us."

Everyone was talking, and suddenly, the footsteps outside were getting closer and closer.

A hand came in from the outside and lifted the curtain, and everyone saw a serious face appear before them, it was the officer who insisted on asking for inspection.

I saw that there were five people sitting in the car, and when he glanced over, his pupils suddenly shrank.

Before everyone could react, they heard a slightly excited shout from the person in front of them: "The thief is here!" Come! Get them! ”

"Not good! There is a situation, let's go! ”

Duanmu Ci was the first to react, he shouted at everyone, slapped his two hands on both sides of the carriage, and when he slapped down, the carriage suddenly fell apart, and the broken wood flew upside down and hit the soldiers who were rushing over, until they vomited blood and retreated, which shows the power of his palm.

"Xiao Lan took Gao Yuan away, Ximen and I stayed behind, little monkey, you go and kill that officer! Fast! ”