Section 488 Chapter 11 Walking the Water

Shen Zangji and his wife left the imperial capital with Shen Shuming on the front foot, and something happened to the imperial capital on the back foot.

The thing is not small - the palace is gone.

Although the place where the water is walked is not the main hall where the emperor and queen live, it is the Fengci Water Hall where the saint lived in the summer of the past two years. Fengci Water Hall is built when the Great Wei Dynasty filial piety, filial piety is filial piety, and it is extremely filial piety to be a person. His biological mother died early, and he was raised by his mother, the Empress Dowager Xian'an, and served the Empress Dowager Xian'an like a parent and son since childhood. After ascending the throne, he still personally served the Empress Dowager Xian'an from time to time.

The royal family of this dynasty will move to the mountain palace outside the city every summer to escape the heat, but the Empress Dowager Xian'an is not suitable to travel after she is old, and she is afraid of summer. Xiaozong summoned skilled craftsmen and built this water hall in the palace for the Empress Dowager Xian'an to live in the summer, which is famous as "Fengci".

Fengci Water Hall is built on the lake with the broadest water area in Shanglin Garden, the eaves and corners, the wide hall and the garden, are equal to the scale of the ordinary palace, exquisite and more than better, and occupy a small half of the lake. There are mezzanine layers on the upper and lower walls of this hall, put the ice into it in summer, and set up a waterwheel at the door of the temple to blow the wind, so even if it is in the sky, the hall is still very cool and very, like autumn and winter.

After the filial piety of the emperor, occasionally the royal family was inconvenient or unwilling to go to the palace in the summer to escape the heat, and basically lived here.

In the past two years, the saint has grown up, and he doesn't like to move, so he will live here with his favorite concubine after the summer.

In early summer, Miao Jieyu and Zhong Xiaoyi competed for favor, and ordered the palace people to take a boat on the lake in front of the Fengci Water Palace. So the Lingbo dance music has not stopped all summer this year, and now that it is autumn, the saint still does not want to leave the Fengci Water Temple, so he only asks someone to remove the ice and the waterwheel in the mezzanine, and still live here.

…… Of course, the saint didn't want to go back to the Xuanming Palace, and there was probably a big reason because he overlooked the Xuanming Palace at night, and it was not difficult to see the lights in the six yamen that were busy all night, reminding the old saint how precarious his world was.

All in all, the emperor's residence is water, although because the water hall is built on the lake, it is easy to get water to extinguish the fire on the spot, but it is inevitable that the palace people will be burned and the emperor will be frightened.

Not only was he frightened, but the saint also suspected that this was a murder against him.

This sudden change caught the scholars a little off guard - fortunately, there were still a few trusted confidants in the saint, and these palace people found out that the reason for the water had nothing to do with the rebellion, it was completely accidental: a palace man in the water hall took a nap when guarding the fire candle at night, and the wind from the lake blew a few points of sparks on the curtains, and after the fire burned the curtains and other things, although the palace people woke up, they were afraid that the three watches would disturb the saint in the middle of the night and be punished - the saint was in a bad mood during this period of Chenguang, There are not a few people in the palace who have been killed or exiled for a trivial matter, and the fear of the people in this palace is reasonable.

It's just that he underestimated the fire, and instead of extinguishing the fire for a long time, he accidentally choked on too many fireworks and suffocated to death in the fire. Then the fire spread throughout the temple...... You must know that the Fengcishui Temple was originally built purely of wood.

So this fire burned nearly two-thirds of the entire Fengci Water Temple, and the flames soared into the sky and alarmed the whole city, and due to the current situation, it didn't take long for rumors to fly in the city. If it weren't for Gu Xiaode, the commander of the forbidden army, to make a quick decision, while sending his henchmen into the palace to help put out the fire, while blocking the whole city with a tiger talisman, ordering all the people from the clan palace to the Li Shu lowly family, they were not allowed to step out of the house for half a step.

Although it is said that there is a false alarm inside and outside the palace, but after this incident, the saint actually wants to open it!

The day after the palace people found out that the water was an accident, the Holy Lord summoned the princes who presided over the government affairs to the pilgrimage.

Of course, there was a little trepidation about this summoning of the families - they weren't ready, but they were starting to prepare...... But to everyone's surprise, the saint didn't mention anything that made them nervous about the people's uprising, Yanzhou, crusade, and defeat, but comforted them for a while; He also reviewed his life, counted the ambitions of his youth when he first ascended the throne, and lamented the helplessness of his sideburns and lack of strength......

The saint said with tears in his eyes on the throne: "When I ascended the throne, you Aiqing were still in the prime of life, and I remember that at that time, the monarchs and ministers were united and had the ambition to revitalize my Great Wei!" Now that decades have passed in a hurry, I and Zhu Aiqing are both old, but my Dawei is tired and still doesn't say it, and now the past two years are even more full of fires and devastation! Zhu Aiqing's hard work in politics over the years is also in my eyes, and it is said that the Great Wei has fallen to the point where it is now, and its sin is not in Zhu Aiqing! ”

Speaking of this, the confused ministers all thought that they could be regarded as hearing the clue - just when the ministers sighed that the ancestors of the Great Wei could be regarded as a spirit, so that the conscience of the saint found that he planned to Zen in the prince, no matter how bad he was, he should also issue a sin to soften the anger of the people in the world or something, and several loyal old ministers such as Wei Yu have been moved to tears, and they kowtowed to the ground again and again to ask for the guilt that they were incompetent and could not share the worries of the king-

A big turning point is coming to break the harmony between the monarch and the ministers, and work together to clean up the atmosphere of the mountains and rivers!

The saint said: "...... Of course, the sin is not in me! ”

“……………………！！！”

The ministers who were ready to comfort the old emperor and explain the old emperor's sins looked at each other......

Then, the saint said confidently: "The sin lies in the Great Wei people, who don't think about the grace of the king!" ”

The ministers collectively spit out a mouthful of blood!

In fact, after the civil uprising, there were not no hateful people in the Shi clan who slapped long cases and scolded the people......

Even before the rebels stormed the mansions and fields of the scholars, there were many scholars who thought from the bottom of their hearts that the rebellion was all because Li Shu was too big-hearted, or not trained enough, or someone fanned the flames, in short, it had nothing to do with the exploitation of the scholars and the royal family.

But now those who have been summoned to this golden palace are all the mainstays of the Great Wei Dynasty, even if they are not from a scholar family, but after experiencing the tempering of officialdom so far, how can they not be so confused that they really don't know the root cause of this tragedy in the world!

The Shi clan has always scolded the leaders of the popular rebellion for their ill-intentioned intentions and instigated the ignorant people to die, although to a certain extent, what they said is also true. But if it weren't for the neglect of the monarch and the corrupt officials and corrupt officials all over the country, coupled with the continuous external troubles, even if a small number of Li people would be instigated, how would most of the Li people pay attention? Ordinary people, how many days are willing to put aside food and clothing, but they have nothing to do and run to rebel?

All in all, the words of the saint who flew out of the sky made everyone choke for a long time and didn't come back to their senses - if the saint had said this from the beginning, everyone could still think that the saint was going to be ruthless to the people everywhere. But the saint first poured out his recollections...... The beginning of the prodigal son's return is accompanied by a faint ending, such as Wei Yu, a few old ministers who were moved to tears just now haven't wiped away their tears, this will suddenly come so suddenly, I don't even know how to pick it up?

There was silence in the hall for a moment, and the sentence that made the ministers vomit blood even more came again: "This time, the Fengcishui Temple was burned down, and my heart hurts." ”

Why did the Holy One suddenly mention this? Didn't you find out if it was caused by the palace people? Could it be that the Holy One has angered the people everywhere because of this? Ministers, you look at me, I look at yours, and they all agree that the saint is too old and confused now, and it is better not to speak rashly before figuring out what he is going to say - but I hope it is not the most terrible sentence......

But it's just that!

Shengshang said: "This hall is the legacy of Emperor Xiaozong, and all the monarchs of my Great Wei Dynasty since Emperor Xiaozong have all tasted this point and remembered the pure filial piety of their ancestors. How can the burning of such a place stop there? It must be rebuilt. ”

Shen Xuan, who had long been thinking about a way out after realizing that the Great Wei Dynasty was declining like this, was silent - Wei Yu, an old minister who was really loyal to the Wei family, was almost so anxious by this sentence that he choked on the spot! He was so moved by the memory of the saint just now that he knelt down and cried and pleaded for sin, and he didn't get up until now, so he continued to kowtow, and then the old tears said: "The saint can't, can't!" Now that the treasury is empty, not to mention the civil uprising everywhere in the world, if the Holy Lord rebuilds the Fengcishui Temple at this moment, it will inevitably be used by the people who provoked the civil uprising, compared with the Shang Dynasty building Lutai without regard for the people's livelihood! For example, if the people's hearts are floating today, if the saint does this, he is afraid that the people's hearts will be lost and the society will shake! ”

The treasury of the Wei family is now said to be empty, but in fact, it is not to the point where it cannot afford to build a Fengcishui Temple. The problem is that there are many places for Dawei to spend money now! And as Wei Yu said, at this time, the biggest scruple about repairing the Fengcishui Temple is not whether it can afford it, but whether it can't be repaired!

Under the situation that the people are not worried about internal and external troubles, the king is still drunk and dreaming of death in the harem, which has made the people of Li people, including the scholars, very resentful. At this time, not to mention repairing a palace that has been burned to two-thirds, even if it is a small repair of a certain part of the palace city, it will be exaggerated by those rebels for great reasons, and they will do everything possible to go to the Shang side to echo it......

How can a courtier like Wei Yu who still wants to help the Wei family not be in a hurry?

I thought that the saint had changed sex. Zi Ke is wise, and now he knows that he is thinking beautifully, and the saint is clearly thinking that the Wei family has not been defeated enough!

However, the saint has made up his mind - Wei Yu, who has gray hair, knocked his head under the danqi loudly, but it only caused his anger: "This dynasty governs the country with benevolence and filial piety, and the palace people accidentally burned down the water hall left by the ancestors to support the queen mother, and I am ashamed of my ancestors!" Why does Situ want to be the king of unfilial piety?! ”

Wei Yu said with tears in his eyes: "Benevolence and filial piety, benevolence and filial piety, benevolence is in front of filial piety, and now the people of Li are miserable, and it is easy to be instigated by people with bad intentions, forming popular uprisings everywhere." Now is the time to reassure the people with benevolent governance. When the world is decided, even if the saint does not say anything, I think there will be courtiers who are sympathetic and take the initiative to ask for the Cishui Temple! ”

"The small people are unjust, how dare they ask for my benevolence?! Could it be that I, as the Son of Heaven, have to bow my head to a group of untouchables?! If so, where is the Son of Heaven? What is the face of my Great Wei royal family! Because the saint has been addicted to wine for many years, his old eyes that have been cloudy and dizzy early suddenly became sober and calm - he looked at His Highness's prostrated old minister, and what Chrysostom said made Wei Yu cold in his heart, "Wei Yu, you are old and confused!" I remember that you have been in charge of state affairs all these years, this time I don't care about you, you go aside! ”

When Wei Yu heard this, his heart was cold but he was in a hurry-he was still about to plead, but he felt that there was a wind beside him, and it was Taiwei Liu Sihuai and Taifu Shen Xuan who came out to intercede for him at the same time - fortunately, the saint seemed to be disturbed by the water last night, and his spirit was not too good at the moment, so he scolded Wei Yu on the round between Liu Sihuai and Shen Xuan, and got up and ordered to drive back to the harem.