[Chapter 5, Volume 5]

Section 490

After the news of the renovation of the Fengcishui Temple spread, the whole country was in an uproar.

Two-thirds of this water temple has been burned, what is the difference between the so-called repair and the reconstruction? Moreover, the wood used in the construction of the water temple is a century-old material transported from the wild land in the south, and it is impossible to get the same wood again with the situation of beacons everywhere today. Not to mention that the people of the world know that this is on the bones, and the saint still has the heart to repair the palace - even if it is cut down in the jungle of the Southern Wilderness and sent out, it will never be safely transported to the imperial capital!

With such a mediocre will, there are many people among the hundred officials who ask the saint to think about state affairs and take back his fate, but these people are either subject to the court staff or relegated to a remote place, or directly imprisoned and even affect the size of the family - the saint who "wants to open" now wants nothing but to seize the last section of the Ninety-Five Supreme Chenguang and do whatever he wants, he doesn't even care about the ancestral inheritance and many descendants, how can he care about everyone's advice?

The water temple has not officially started, and the saint has issued another decree to select it.

Due to her advanced age, her energy is not as good as before, and in the past ten years, Queen Gu has favored the sixth palace, and there has been no serious selection in the palace for many years. And since Concubine Deng Guifei recommended Miao Jieyu to shake Queen Gu's exclusive favorite status, and Queen Gu ordered Zhong Xiaoyi to serve the saint for her solid favor, both sides regarded each other as dead, and no one was allowed to share the favor.

But this time, even Queen Gu and Concubine Deng couldn't stop the selection.

Women between the ages of 12 and 17 who are beautiful, innocent, and without disabilities, and who come from good families, are elected to the palace - within the whole country, there is no upper limit, and there are as many as you want; Even in order to prevent the officials from neglecting their will, it was explicitly required that at least 100 people be paid in tribute from each state—and those who violated the order were exiled from their families.

With the current level of popular uprising in Great Wei, although there is no other popular uprising other than Yanzhou that can capture the government, but with this holy decree, the state officials of several state cities took the lead in rebelling first! Originally, the people were not able to make a living, so the household registration naturally had to be reduced, and the household registration was reduced, and of course there would not be many young and beautiful women.

What's more, if there are children and daughters in a family, when they are about to starve to death, most of them are children and abandoned daughters. Not to mention, even if the country is beautiful and fragrant, and you are so hungry that you are dying, there is only skin and bones left, what kind of beauty do you talk about? Hundreds of beautiful girls in each state - where the civil unrest is fierce, the state city is already struggling to support itself from falling into the hands of the enemy, but where to make up this number of selections? And neglecting the holy decree is a disaster that affects the family, how can the state officials, who have long been forced to exhaust by the popular uprising, not rebel?

Such a bad result, the saint completely ignored it, but intensified it more and more, singing songs day and night, indulging in love every night, and even Gu Xiaode, the commander of the forbidden army, couldn't stand it, crying and begging the saint to calm down and help the society...... However, the saint knows that Dawei is already terminally ill, and his own talent and virtue are not enough to turn the tide, where can he expect to support any society? Naturally, he couldn't listen to anything, but he asked someone to drive Gu Xiaode out of the palace.

did not demote Gu Xiaode to another country or go to prison for punishment, which is already an extra kindness...... Of course, it is also possible that the Holy Lord knows that it is not easy to find a credible and usable commander of the forbidden army like Gu Xiaode.

In the meantime, all the officials were punished to varying degrees, and gradually no one said anything except a few loyal ministers who were out of the way.

In November, Gyeonggi and other places were the first to gather the number of people because there had not yet been a popular uprising.

Hundreds of good families were dressed up in flowers and branches, and the fish penetrated into the palace, and in the palace wall of the winter depression, it seemed to bloom a fresh flower. The old saint sat on the throne, overlooking the newcomer who was old enough to be his granddaughter or great-grandson, but an indescribable sense of satisfaction rose in his empty heart.

It's just that this satisfaction is quickly broken-

Among the girls who were led to the Danqi to salute, two of them suddenly rushed out, ignoring the shock and obstruction of the palace people, pointing at the saint and scolding!

Although these two bold maidens were soon dragged out and executed, the enraged saint found that their families had already died in the rebellion—both of their fathers and brothers were in the service of the army, and they were killed by the rebels because of the defeat of their generals; Both my grandmother and mother died because they couldn't bear the blow. Originally, military households did not have to participate in the selection, but the number of good families was not enough, so the officials in charge of the selection saw that they were beautiful and young, so they changed their places of origin without permission and took the full number.

And these two girls have long been loveless because of the loss of their relatives, and they are full of resentment towards the Wei family.

This incident made the saint full of anger and had nowhere to vent, although he dealt with the big and small officials who selected the two girls in one go, and even several people in the palace were involved, he still didn't understand his hatred - in the end, he ordered that all the good sons of the two girls who were selected together would be given to death - the hundred officials had suffered enough of the persuasion before, and they were frustrated with the prospect of the Great Wei, and they knew that the saint was on fire this time, so they kept silent about the saint's venting this time.

Only Situ Weiyu still insisted on entering the palace despite everyone's persuasion - but as most people expected, the saint didn't listen to a word, and when he knew his intention, he flew into a rage and roared to drive him out of the palace.

How stubborn is Wei Yu? He let the saint thunder and rage, let the palace people try their best to hint, and even the saint ordered him to be demoted to the position of Situ, expelled from the imperial capital, and did not care, but he refused to leave under the Danqi, and bitterly told the ancestors of the Great Wei Dynasty that it was not easy to start a business and the difficulty of keeping it, starting from the grandfather of the founding emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, all the way to the saint, it can be described as bitter words of blood and tears. In the end, he never saw the Supreme on the throne have any emotion and repentance, and the desperate Wei Yu calmed down, he raised his sleeve to wipe away the tears on his face, kowtowed vigorously, and said: "The old minister has only one thing to ask for the Holy God now!" ”

The saint looked at him coldly, thinking about how to deal with this uninteresting old thing to relieve his hatred, and after a while, he spit out a word from between his teeth: "Say!" ”

Originally, the saint had already made up his mind, and he would ...... whatever Wei Yu asked Unexpectedly, he heard Wei Yu laugh miserably and said: "The old minister begs the saint to give the old minister a death!" ”

Taifu Mansion, Jintong Temple.

The afternoon sun shines into the house through the window lattice, and Wei Chang Yingyun, who has just gotten up from sleep and came to the wing room to see his son, has fluffy sideburns, and is pulling out a handkerchief from his sleeve to carefully wipe the saliva from the corners of his mouth for the second son.

Shen Shuxie, the fourth grandson who only completed the week a few days ago, can now walk, but he is not very steady, and he will fall to the ground in a few steps. I don't know if it's because of this, but he's still more enthusiastic about climbing.

As long as he is awake, he refuses to let people hold him, and he refuses to stand, relying on the strong twist in the person's arms, until he puts him on the soft couch or the couch covered with brocade quilts, he smiles and falls on all fours, and crawls neatly in a direction.

This time, he noticed that his mother was on the side, and when he climbed halfway, he turned around, and when he reached the vicinity of Dewei Changying, he threw himself into his mother's arms. Wei Changying hugged him up, but this kid wiped several wisps of saliva with the placket of his clothes, and wiped his mouth angrily and funny.

Taking advantage of this situation, Shen Shuxie tried to bite the Yingluo ring hanging on her chest again.

It's easy to grab it, Wei Changying doesn't dare to wear it, Yingluo Ring asked this kid to bite a few tooth marks to come out of a small matter, and the Yingluo hanging bits and pieces on it was eaten by him, so he hurriedly took it off and asked someone to take it away. At this time, I wanted to hold him again, but this kid refused to stay in her arms - twisting, twisting, babbling for a nursing mother, but hungry.

Wei Changying had to hand him over to the nurse to feed, touched the sideburns that had scattered a few strands of hair, and took the maid back to the main room to clean up, and couldn't help but sigh: "Xie'er is getting more and more noisy, and he is still young now, if in a few years, he and Guang'er are two, and I don't know what the trouble will be." It's really a heart when the time comes! ”

The maids laughed: "The little boys are so lively because they have good bones." Besides, the two little sons are extremely filial, how can they really worry about the young lady? ”

After saying these two words, he walked to the door of the main room, the master and servant entered with a smile, but saw that Shen Zangfeng, the head of the house, was there, and the maids hurriedly gathered their complexions and stepped forward to ask for peace, and Wei Changying also asked curiously: "How did you come here?" ”

Shen Zangfeng has been a personal guard since he was sixteen years old, and he has been on the seventh grade; Later, he caught up with the rise of the saint, ordered the imperial guards to go to the border to make contributions, served as a captain in Xiliang, and was promoted to the sixth grade; In September last year, he returned to Beijing to discuss the merits of the meritorious service, and because of the merits of the Qiudi and Ningjing frontiers, he was greatly promoted, and he became the general of Xuanwei from the fourth grade.

But his subordinates under the command of General Xuanwei were the Xiliang Army, not the Imperial Forest Army that guarded the imperial capital. In other words, before the Western Liang Army arrived in Gyeonggi, it was just a title, and in fact nothing could be done. Later, under the pretext of escorting their daughter-in-law and grandson back to Beijing for reunion, the Shen family got 60,000 elites of the Xiliang Army.

But after some negotiations, these 60,000 military horses can only be stationed two days away from the imperial capital, and their every move is watched by the imperial court and various families, and the Shen family is not allowed to have too much contact at all, let alone let Shen Zangfeng go to the army every day to practice-what if he is practicing one day, he will go straight to the imperial capital?

So Shen Zangfeng has no business now, but this does not mean that he is idle...... not only to assist Shen Xuan and Shen Zhou in the front yard to deal with the current situation; privately accepted Shen Xuan's words and deeds; He also bears the responsibility of teaching his eldest son, Shen Shuguang.

Shen Shuguang, who was only four years old, was enlightened in advance, thinking that he had been wronged, and because of the influence of his brother Shen Shuming, he was very unwilling to be detained now. This kid is very intelligent, and he has to use the child's advantage to seek refuge and support from his grandmother, mother, and other elders who can not only suppress Shen Zangfeng, but also directly interfere with him.

It was Shen Zangfeng who always had to keep some spirit to stare at him, as usual, at this time, Shen Zangfeng should have personally watched Shen Shuguang in front of the Golden Courtyard, why did he come alone at this moment?

Shen Zangfeng looked very calm, not like he was in a hurry, this attitude made Wei Changying think that there was no big deal, and he was still speculating about a few family matters. But after Shen Zangfeng slowly asked his subordinates to withdraw, he said: "There is not good news. ”

The smile on the corner of Wei Changying's mouth suddenly froze - her husband has always been calm, so to put it mildly, but things are very tricky and troublesome.

Sure enough, Shen Zangfeng continued, "The siege of Yanzhou failed again, and Lu Haozhi even organized soldiers to go out of the city to cover up for a while...... The eldest brother accidentally hit the arrow, and now he is on his way back to the imperial capital. ”

Shen Zangli has a lack of temperament in being the owner of the valve, but he is not a good general. The person who had a reputation for being good at fighting in Xiliang was actually on the way back to the imperial capital immediately after being hit by a stray arrow, and he didn't even have any news to ask whether to send him back, and he was obviously not lightly injured. It's not light, so that his subordinates will cut him first and then play and send him to the imperial capital.

Wei Changying's mind turned, and he didn't ask about the eldest brother's injury, but said, "But you want to go to Yanzhou?" ”