Chapter 444: Heading to the Hot Spring Palace
Li Siye thinks that as a conscious bedbug, he must not get involved in the struggle between the princelings and Li Linfu's henchmen, otherwise he will not know how to die when the time comes.
The history he is familiar with is like a vast starry sky, countless characters are like stars, and there are many unbreakable truths. One of them is to be healthy and live long enough. Those who do this do not need to be calculating and witty, just find a corner and shrunk their heads. When the time comes, you'll find that those invincible people are dead.
No matter how powerful your potential enemies were, how many broken networks they had, and how many loyal henchmen they were. As long as he drove the crane west, his governing philosophy and his powerful power would also disappear, and even as soon as he died, he would be dug out of the coffin and whipped to vent his anger.
He has completely devoted himself to this era, and he has always felt that he must live completely before he can gather strength and become a towering tree.
Therefore, following Yang Yuyao to the Hot Spring Palace is the best choice.
But before that, he decided to go to the county prison to see Zhang Xiaojing in the cage of the death row, and everyone else was preparing to watch the lanterns during the Shangyuan Festival, but he was in prison waiting for his death, which was too panicked. By the way, give him some confidence and tell him that he is in contact with the saint's sister-in-law, and there is hope that he can be completely rescued.
The last time I came, I forgot to buy wine and meat, and this time Li Siye went to buy a pound of contraband beef at one time, and bought a pound of Pingkangfang singer's favorite sake.
He came to the gate of Wannian County, stretched out his hand and handed the money to the public on duty.
"I want to see Zhang Xiaojing, a death row inmate, you can be accommodating."
The tolerance nodded and put the money away.
When he walked to the gate of the county prison, he was told by the messenger that Zhang Xiaojing had been transferred away.
"Who took you away?"
"Yasuyasu Division."
It's a department that has never been there before, no, he seems to have heard it in a person's mouth, Li Mi? What did he send Zhang Xiaojing out for?
Li Siye didn't think too deeply, so he led the horse out of the county party and went to the Yang family in Xinghuafang.
The streets were crowded with people, and floats from the various state capitals performed and marched through the streets, which were so large that they occupied almost half of the streets, and women in costumes sang on them. There is even a whole music class sitting on both sides of the car, the sound of pipa, guqin, and gonghou is mixed, accompanied by the graceful dance steps of women, and the tactful singing voice, which has the taste of the brilliant and magnificent river.
The Sogdians, wearing masks, walked in groups, dancing a few steps to the music, and a few large diners led the white camels, looking at the floats and forgetting to walk.
"Borrowed, borrowed." Li Siye led his horse past them, but a Turkic vendor with a lantern stood in front of them, and the vendor looked around cautiously for fear that the crowd would squeeze his paper-tied gadgets.
The women, whose faces were coated with thick lead powder, looked up at the singers on the float with their long swan-like necks, and the men would find that their necks and faces were completely two colors, and it was not too much to say that they had applied a layer of hoarfrost to the eggs of donkey dung.
"It's still a plain-faced woman who is really beautiful."
He muttered like this, and then turned into the door of Xinghuafang and walked towards the alley of the Yang family.
Yang Yuyao was really not ready, there was only a purple-maned BMW that had been prepared at the door, and the red-liped eunuch leading the horse was standing on tiptoe to comb the supple horsehair with his fingers, the horse's halter was inlaid with gold and jade, and even the leather case of the saddle was made of rhinoceros skin. The women suddenly became rich after becoming the emperor's sister-in-law, and the breath of the nouveau riche could not be concealed, not to mention the name of the big family of Hongnong Yang, the taste was far worse than their ancestors.
An Lushan was actually late, he rode on a fat horse, wore a collared robe, and combed six small braids behind his head. He had small eyes like mung beans on his fat face, and when he rolled his eyelids and looked down, he was as cold as a crocodile.
He was obviously taken aback when he saw Li Siye, and probably didn't expect the Yang family sisters to call him too. There seemed to be some dissatisfaction in my heart.
However, An Lushan changed his taste when he spoke: "Haha, Li Zhen, I specially told my aunt to call you a few days ago, mainly because you have a special appetite for me, and you really didn't miss the appointment today." ”
Just at his current enthusiasm, Li Siye felt that this should be heard in reverse, translated into An Lushan's inner line, I was still worried that they would call you a follower, today you really appeared, Lao Tzu lost his appetite when he saw you.
Li Siye also smiled politely: "Where An Zhongcheng appears, Li Siye naturally has to follow closely, maybe Li Siye will not be able to mix in the west of the moraine in the future, and he will have to go to Fan Yang to rely on Zhongcheng's snort." ”
An Lushan laughed politely twice, and the two stopped talking, and there was naturally a gap between them.
Li Siye suddenly realized that the Yang family sisters went to the Hot Spring Palace and it was An Lushan who proposed it. This fat man from Yingzhou is naturally not as accustomed to the elegance of Chang'an as the Yang sisters, and he will be bored, but why is he unwilling to stay in Chang'an, and he sneaks in front of the saint to shoot the horse, but he has to run to Lishan Mountain, which is thirty miles away?
His move is exactly the same as Huangfu Weiming's move just now to send him a letter to let him leave Chang'an, is there any inevitable connection between this, or is it just a coincidence.
Yang Yuyao was late, and her two sisters came on white horses and snow-treading black horses, and after a few affectionate conversations, they began to set off in the direction of Mingdemen.
There are many servants in the Yang family, each riding a horse with some daily necessities, tea sets, sheep felt, mattresses, sunshade oil paper umbrellas, and a road of more than 30 miles, making it seem like a long-distance trip. Only An Lushan and Li Siye traveled lightly, without an entourage around them, and the men had a tacit understanding in this regard.
After leaving Chang'an City, go to Lishan Mountain in Xinfeng County along the hard loess road, the surrounding slopes are densely forested by some dry branches, which looks very scarce, like half-detached hair on the animal's body, and the dry and bare loess occupies a large area of scenery.
It may be due to excessive tree cutting, or serious soil erosion, or it may be the trampling of wars since the Qin and Han dynasties. The 800-mile Qinchuan River has long since lost its former fertility, and the land yield of the Guanzhong Plain is not even enough to supply the living needs of Guanzhong and even Chang'an City, especially in the year of the great drought in Guanzhong, the emperors can only be forced to go to the eastern capital Luoyang to reside, which is called the Son of Heaven for grain by later generations.
In fact, the output near Luoyang is not enough to supply the city of one million people, and if it were not for the Grand Canal that runs through the north and south to continuously transport grain from Jiangnan and other places to Beijing, the prosperity of the eastern and western capitals of the Tang Empire would have been nothing more than a bubble.
The hot spring palace is surrounded by the forests of Lishan, and the whole mountain is covered with large and small buildings from a distance, and almost all the dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an City have built annexes around Lishan, and the hot spring palace is surrounded by the stars and the moon.
Xuanzong would leave Chang'an Linxing Hot Spring Palace in October every year and return to Chang'an at the end of the year. Many institutions of the imperial court have official residences here, and there is no delay in handling government affairs.
The Yang sisters' annex was next to the Hot Spring Palace, and it was already afternoon when they reached the top of the mountain. The courtyard covers an area of several acres, two pavilions are next to the hall, and there are two small courtyards on the left and right sides of the main courtyard, and the servants are busy packing up and moving. Li Siye and An Lushan had nothing to do, so they stood on the mountain and looked down.
Li Siye was curious and wanted to understand the mental journey of this anti-thief, but this guy had a lot of eyes, and most of the words he said were half-truths and half-truths.
"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the imperial capital is prosperous, but the arable land is getting less and less, and it seems too barren."
"It's really barren, but it's much better than Yingzhou. The place in Yingzhou was so cold in winter that he couldn't even dig up the soil. Last year, a certain relative led his soldiers to reclaim 600 hectares of fertile land, and these newly cultivated fields are fertile, and they can be used to extract oil when they grab a handful, which is especially suitable for growing wheat. ”
"Yes, An Zhongcheng, I want to ask you, what are we fighting again and again in the Far Frontier for?"
(PS: Thank you for Avery for the miracle, the evening rain and rain are in the same boat.) )