Chapter 63: Escorting the Crown Prince into the Imperial Court
Fujimu raised his head and said with emotion: "I followed the Tang envoy to the Tang Dynasty, originally to study Confucian classics, but then I saw the book of soldiers in the Chongwen Pavilion, which is what I want to learn." That's why I volunteered to enter the army, practiced the Tang sword technique, and finally came to the Taigong and served as the internal leader of Qianniu. ”
"In fact, my greatest wish is to go to the border of the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, only there can I appreciate the essence of the Tang Army."
Li Siye breathed a sigh of relief and finally changed the topic.
The three of them came to the door of the duty room of the Nei Rate Mansion, and heard a group of people whispering inside, with a joke in their words: "Have you heard, this new Qianniu was sent by the saint to the prince's inner rate because the bread was made well."
"Where, I heard that this person offered a dish to the saint, so I wondered, the dish should be made to the Food Bureau, why did he come to serve as a thousand cows?"
"That is, what the prince needs is to be proficient in knives and guns, and let the cook protect the prince, if he really encounters this assassin, what can he do? Do you want to throw it with a dish?"
The crowd let out a laugh.
Liu Ziwu turned around and smiled at Li Siye: "Don't care what these people say, your current position of Qianniu was stared at by many people when it was vacant, and now it is suddenly occupied, they don't say a word, of course it's uncomfortable."
Li Siye nodded clearly, no wonder everyone said that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the Prince's East Palace is actually also a workplace.
Liu Ziwu coughed and pushed the door to enter. Those who whispered duly shut their mouths and sat cross-legged on the ground or talked about something else.
The duty room of the Qianniu is not in the same place as the duty room of the preparers and the main battle, and it seems that the grade is slightly higher, and there is a low couch and a rolled up futon inside, and the three of them sit cross-legged in front of the desk.
At this time, another Qianniu walked in, this person's name was Gao Sheng, and the four of them were organized into a group, and the other three groups took turns to guard the palace.
"Tomorrow morning, it will be our group's turn to accompany the prince into the palace, Brother Heiye, when the time comes, see more, talk less, and do less, just be a puppeteer."
"Really?" Li Siye was in high spirits, and he really wanted to visit the Daming Palace up close. "What do you need to pay attention to then, and are there any taboos?"
"That's not true, we people are just the prince's guards, we don't need to do anything, we need to protect the prince's safety."
He suddenly realized a fatal problem, he didn't know anything about swordsmanship, in case there was really an assassin, the other party was very skilled, and he couldn't go up and fight with his bare hands.
"Rank." Li Siye arched his hand and asked: "I want to ask, do you have a knife book or something, I want to practice a knife technique."
The atmosphere suddenly quieted down, and several people stared at each other, Liu Ziwu suddenly came over and asked, "You really know how to cook, right?"
"No," Li Siye said with a red face: "I am the best at fighting with my bare hands, and I am also good at sticking, but I have never practiced knives."
"It's easy, haha."
Gao Sheng said on the side: "There is a knife practice room in the right inner rate mansion, with wooden knives and protective gear, when the time comes, we will practice and practice you more, and it will naturally be." But what you have to learn first is not to practice knives, as a prince in the lead, you can't know how to swords, but you can't play polo, hey, how are your riding skills?"
"This ......" Li Siye was stuck for a while.
"Don't tell me you can't even ride a horse?"
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The management of the prince's right internal rate is still relatively relaxed, and the sixteen Qianniu implement a rotation rest system, and they can go home to rest for one day every three days. Then there are the palace guards, who change shifts at night, in a word, they can follow wherever the prince usually appears.
Since they had to escort the prince into the palace the next day, Li Siye and the four of them did not have to go to the prince's dormitory tonight to be on duty, they could lie in the bed and wait for the day.
This was the first day of novelty and excitement for Li Siye, where did he feel a little sleepy, and his mind was very clear. The three people around him snored like thunder, which poured a kind of confusion into his sobriety.
The crown prince Li Ying will be killed by his father in the future, and he will inevitably be involved in twists and turns when the time comes. Moreover, it is rumored in history that Li Ying was once misled by Concubine Wu Hui and led troops into the palace to catch thieves, but was attacked by the prison guards, and these soldiers may include them in the future. Does he want to start planning now, whether to stay away from this incident, or to change the fate of the crown prince?
With these thoughts in mind, Li Siye fell into a deep sleep, as if he had only slept for a short moment, but someone woke him up with a tap on the shoulder.
When he opened his eyes, Liu Ziwu and the others had already climbed out of the quilt and began to put on the cloth back armor.
Liu Ziwu said while leggings: "I really admire you, when I was the first time to escort the prince into the palace with a thousand cows, I was so excited that I didn't fall asleep at all the night before."
Li Siye seemed a little busy for a while, there were too many things to tie up on his body, skirt armor, shin guards, shoulder armor, belly guards, and then he had to tie his head, hang a horizontal knife, and keep his appearance neat.
Liu Ziwu looked at the jokes that newcomers often made on the side, grinned and said: "Brother Heiye, don't be too busy, the prince's side is more cumbersome than us, and there is plenty of time." ”
Having said that, Li Siye still stepped up his dressing, and the Japanese Fujimaki helped him tie a veil.
"Alright, we can go, don't let the prince wait for us."
Liu Ziwu led the way in the front, and was the steward of their group, and the four of them were neatly arranged in front of the prince's bedroom.
At this time, there were also four people who came to the prince's bedroom from the opposite direction of them, these four people should be the thousand cattle led by the prince's Zuo Nei, and the two groups of people just nodded tacitly, and there was not much communication.
Of course, there were not only these eight people who accompanied the escort of the prince in the early dynasty, they were only close guards, and there were sixteen people in front and behind, armed with swords, bows and crossbows, and forty main battles with guns and halberds.
Accompanying the crown prince were the crown prince Shaozhan Shi and the crown prince Diannei, one was a civil official, the other was a eunuch, and the two rode horses in parallel, sandwiching the prince in the middle. In total, there were eighty or ninety people in the early dynasty of the prince, but only Shao Zhan Shi could really enter the palace with him, and the rest stopped halfway.
Although it is summer, the days are long and the nights are short, but the sky is still gray. At the same time as the bell for lifting the curfew rang, their procession began to march forward, from the Jiafu Gate of the East Palace to the east, and out of the Yanxi Gate to Yongchangfang, where they could meet the civil and military officials who were preparing to go to court like the crown prince.
The officials did not have the expensive treatment of the crown prince, and they usually rode horses, and the prince sometimes rode in a sedan chair, and there were usually several domestic servants by his side.
When the team came to the Danfeng Gate, most of the prince's guards had to stay outside the gate, and only eight thousand cows were able to escort the prince in.
Li Siye felt lucky and excited, he was finally able to see with his own eyes the ancient and modern majestic building complex - Daming Palace, of course, he will not see the greatness of the emperor in it, every brick and tile of this huge building is the sweat and crystallization of the working people, this is because he has the correct three views and thoughts.