Chapter 62: The Right Inner Mansion
Li Siye thought that his original worries were simply too much, even if something happened in the East Palace, could the emperor kill these thousands of people? When an avalanche occurs in a snowy mountain, no snowflake is innocent, but every snowflake cannot be eradicated.
He stopped thinking nonsense, and walked up the steps into the hall, the interior of which resembled the council hall of the military attachΓ©, with a desk directly above, and a snow leopard screen behind the desk.
At this moment, there was no one in the hall, and at this time, two people came out of the side room, it was Cao Jue and Changshi Changchun. As soon as Cao Jue saw Li Siye, a strange look appeared on his face, and he asked him with a glare: "You, that Li Siye, do you recognize the general?" β
Of course, Li Siye had an impression, remembering that before he crossed Zaqilie in Wudoulou, it was this Cao Jue who came to power last, but he was still defeated by Zaqilie and was almost thrown off the stage.
He rubbed his eyes in a daze, glanced at Cao Jue carefully, shook his head and said, "No, I haven't seen you at all." β
Cao Jue breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that it would be good.
He strode to the stage, knelt in front of the screen, behind the desk, raised his hand and said loudly: "Everyone on duty today has come out!" β
With an order, Qianniu, Beishen and the main battle in the house all came out. They all wore blue-black cloth back armor, and the chest and other main parts were inlaid with copper plates, which looked both beautiful and relaxed, and majestic.
"Let's get to know the newcomer, this Li Siye, who was appointed by the emperor as the crown prince."
As soon as Cao Jue's words fell, everyone raised their fists and congratulated them in a humble manner, and then more than a dozen preparers and dozens of main battles left, and only three Qianniu remained in the hall.
"Where is the record of joining the army, where is the soldier, where is the Cao, where is the Cao?"
Three officials in blue robes stepped forward and reported with crossed hands: "My subordinates are here." β
"Record, register Li Siye's grade, and on the seventh grade, according to the seven-grade official system, the future will be issued, and the daily supply rewards of the prince's mansion are not among them."
"Bing Cao, Xuan Cao, give Li Siye a hair and hang armor and weapons."
Bing Cao and Xuan Cao bowed their hands to Li Siye and said, "Please Li Qianniu come with us." β
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He stood in the armor warehouse where Cao Cao's office was located, surrounded by five or six small officials, and Cao himself sat in front of the desk to make a list, and someone took it and read to the list: "A pair of rhino leather six-fold boots." β
Then a small official took off the shoes from the shelf and put them on for Li Siye, if they didn't fit, they could choose from the beginning.
"The bamboo green tiger and leopard lack two robes."
He was now in the dormitory, and could not wear a robe, which was folded by the servants and placed on his hands.
"Moqing's chest and belly cloth back armor."
The two servants began to drape him, starting from the legs, with shin guards on the calves, short skirts on the thighs, belly guards on the waist, and leather on the chest, but other than that, the cloth armor did not weigh much.
Li Siye stood in a daze, letting these people decorate his body like a boring vase.
He suddenly asked, "Don't we wear iron armor?" β
A Qianniu standing behind him sneered: "What are you doing with that thing, it's weird, I want to wear iron armor in the future, there is an opportunity, hunting in the palace, and patrolling the honor guard, you need to wear iron armor, you can wear it until you peel off the skin, you don't want to wear it." β
"Yak leather strap, with silver nine hairs, black gauze head."
A servant crouched in front of him and tied his belt around his waist, while a turban was wrapped around his head and four horns were pierced at the back of his head.
"It's okay, go to the Hyocho Library."
There are all kinds of weapons displayed on the shelves of the Bing Cao Library, after registering in the army, his own small officials led him to the weapon rack to receive the blade, saying: "One long and one short, the long knife is a horizontal knife, which is used for guarding the palace, and the short knife is a barrier knife, which is used to carry the micro-clothes." β
Li Siye looked up at the other weapon on the knife holder, the sheath as white as ivory, slightly half a foot longer than the horizontal knife, was really too beautiful, making him a cold weapon lover excited.
Li Siye stretched out his hand and pointed at it and asked, "This knife is good, can you ......?"
The soldier sat in front of the desk and glanced at him, his face dissatisfied, probably he had never seen such a mouthful of new officials.
The little official opened his mouth and said: "This is a ceremonial knife, with a dragon and phoenix head, which is used by the prince's ceremonial guard when he travels, and it will naturally be sent to you when you need to hold it." β
He took a knife from another shelf, without a head, with a slightly longer handle that could be wielded with both hands, and the ebony sheath had a gold pattern on it, and then crouched down and hung it on Li Siye's belt.
Li Siye's full set of belongings was thus ready, and he was about to leave under the leadership of two thousand oxen, when he suddenly saw a long knife in the corner of the armory.
He turned back into the storeroom and looked up at the knife, with a sallow handle below and a glittering blue blade above, which had two edges, slightly narrower near the handle and slightly wider above, with a sharp head that could be stabbed or chopped. It stood in the corner of the wall, blooming with a forest coldness.
The soldiers and the officials all followed his gaze and turned their heads, looking at the long weapon in the corner of the wall suspiciously, not knowing why this new Qianniu was interested in this strange sword.
Li Siye wanted to deliberately create this sense of fate and ritual for himself, as if he saw this kind of knife for the first time in his life and became interested in it, which is very similar to the plot in some stories, but life must have a sense of ritual, even if this sense of ritual is made.
The man behind him heaved and said: "You are interested in this kind of knife, this knife is not used by ordinary people, it is not the kind of knife head licking blood cruel and murderous people can control, this kind of knife is taken to the battlefield, as long as a knife is slashed down, it can cut people off the waist, and there are war horses, war horses can also be cut off at the waist, when the intestines, heart, liver and five organs all flow out at once, spread into a pile of thin paste, you can't tell which pile of intestines is human, which pile of intestines is horses, all let the knife cut into mud."
Li Siye was sick to his stomach when he heard this, he originally fantasized about the majestic feeling of riding on a horse with this knife, but at this moment, it was all the horse intestines and human intestines in this person's mouth, as well as the pools of blood and mud, and the atmosphere was all ruined by him.
The soldiers and the petty officials frowned, each doing their own thing, and no longer paying attention to these open-mouthed Qianniu.
The three of them came out of the armory and began to introduce each other, this funny-speaking Qianniu is named Liu Ziwu, and the other person speaks more stringy, likes to roll his tongue, it doesn't seem to be an authentic Central Plains official dialect, but he doesn't look like a Hu person.
"My name is Fujimaki."
"Li Siye." Li Siye looked back at him and asked, "There seems to be something wrong with your voice when you speak."
The white young Qianniu smiled: "I am Japanese, my original name is Fujiwara Akisuke, I came to follow the Tang envoy to the Tang Dynasty for a few years, and I have not yet fully mastered the authentic official dialect of the Central Plains."
"Jap?" Li Siye was taken aback, thinking that this Li father and son were so big that they asked the Japanese to serve as palace guards.
Liu Ziwu, who was standing on the side, smiled: "This nickname is quite good."
Fuji Mu suddenly frowned, and asked politely: "Brother Li, I have never known Brother Li, I didn't offend you, right?"
"Oh, no, in fact, I call you a devil, which means intimacy, and friends can call it that."
"But as far as I know, that's not what the ancient books say." Fuji Mu raised his fingers as he walked and said: "In the "Shuowen Jie Zi", it is said that what people are classified as ghosts, from people, like ghost heads, ghosts and thieves, from the house. "Zuo Chuan" neutron said: The ghost has a return, but it is not for the sake of being strong, and in the "Rite and Fortune", it is also said: The qi (soul) returns to the sky, and the form returns to the earth. In the "Sou Shen Ji" written by Ganbao of the Jin Dynasty, there is also a scene of Song Dingbo catching ghosts, Brother Heiye, you can't fool me, ghosts are bad in our Tang Dynasty. β
Li Siye was even more surprised, and asked, "You are so knowledgeable, why did you come to be a palace guard?"