However, it is said that the winter is deeper, and the time has entered December, and the New Year is gradually approaching.

Emperor Daojun made his way to the Zichen Hall in the morning, and after the ministers finished worshipping, the ministers of civil and military affairs stood in two shifts.

Emperor Daojun seemed to be in a good mood, and before waiting for the palace official to sing the order, he personally spoke: "All the families love Qing, if there is something, they will come to play, and there is nothing to do." ”

The civil and military ministers looked at each other and no one spoke, and at this time, Dazai's left prime minister Wang Huang stepped out of class and said: "The minister is playing, Your Majesty has a thousand joys!" ”

Emperor Daojun stroked his beard and said, "Wang Aiqing, where does the joy come from?" ”

Wang Haoli said: "Official, there is a Baoding unearthed in Suzhou recently, which is the instrument of the last three generations of the town, and it is a great joy. ”

Emperor Daojun wondered, "Is there such a thing? What is He Baoding? ”

Wang Hao said: "Back to the official's house, this tripod is rumored to be a god who took Nuwa's refining stone fire to exercise and build, a total of nine, the last three generations of succession, and then lost the world and the tripod is gone, and now the world is a great omen." ”

Emperor Daojun said happily: "When I heard Yu for a long time, there were gods who made Jiuding handed down, but I haven't seen it in person, Wang Aiqing, where is Baoding now?" You can send someone to transport it. ”

Wang Hao said: "Official, this treasure tripod was discovered by Zhu Mian who was promoted by the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau, and it has been transported to Beijing, and it is outside the palace at this moment. ”

Emperor Daojun said: "Okay, Zhu Aiqing is really a loyal minister, and he will be brought up to the palace immediately, and I want to share it with all the secretaries." ”

Wang Huang received the order, and then asked the general of the station hall to command the forbidden army to carry a large tripod to the palace.

Emperor Daojun walked down the throne to watch, only to see a big Baoding, that is, three legs standing, two ears outward, decorated with gold, gold and green, the insect and fish seal text cast on it, the grammar is profound and ancient, different from Li Si Xiao Seal, no one in the Manchu Dynasty can understand.

Emperor Daojun was immediately overjoyed, and immediately sent a decree: "Quickly enshrine the treasure tripod in the Ming Hall, and build another hall in the future, and wait until the remaining eight can be obtained, when the grand ceremony, the world will congratulate." ”

The ministers said that this is a sign of prosperity, and this dynasty should be prosperous.

Emperor Daojun said: "Spread my will, Zhu Aiqing has made meritorious contributions, and he has been crowned the envoy of the Weiyuan Army!" ”

Then the decree was sent to set up a banquet in Yanfu Palace to celebrate, Emperor Daojun took a leisurely ride, and sent someone to invite Empress Zheng to ride the dragon shoulder, the minister, and the palace attendant Gong E four or five hundred people, under the protection of the guards in front of the palace, out of the Xuanhe Gate of the back garden, and the monarch and his party slowly entered the Yanfu Palace.

I saw countless pavilions and pavilions in the palace, all of them are carved beams and painted buildings, surrounded by long corridors, extremely luxurious, even if it is late winter weather at this moment, but the beasts and birds are singing in the garden, and the cold plum is studied.

At the beginning of the construction of Yanfu Palace, Cai Jing ordered Tong Guan, Yang Jian, Jia Xiang, Lan Congxi, He Yi and others to serve as palace envoys, the buildings and pavilions built, the landscape and plants decorated, five than extravagant and gorgeous, do not delay each other, use tens of thousands of craftsmen, and consume money is difficult to count.

Celebration banquet is placed in the banquet spring pavilion, this banquet spring pavilion is majestic and magnificent, rare in the world, 12 zhang wide, 110 feet high, the stage around the pavilion is four columns, the pond is dug in front of the pavilion for the sea, the base stone in the sea is the mountain, the mountain builds Feihua, the horizontal two pavilions, there is a corridor curved bridge across the sea for people to enjoy.

Emperor Daojun and the ministers entered the pavilion to drink and feast, and congratulated each other on the joy of the tripod, the great musician Zhao Yu ordered to play the Xi'an music, and the four singers danced with their sleeves, and the red and green danced like butterflies wearing flowers.

The banquet lasted for two or three hours, and then the Daojun Emperor led his ministers to travel to Genyue, looking at the verdant and verdant on the long live peak, there were pavilions and wings, the residual snow on the mountain was half melted, mottled like silver flowers paving the ground, and the crystal silver pillar was hung upside down under the eaves of the palace pavilion, which was very good-looking.

Emperor Daojun drove into the flower garden, passed the decree to stop, and then with the intention of wine, he pointed to a withered plum on the side of the road and asked casually: "What is the name of this flower?" ”

A little eunuch replied: "Official, this is Basho!" ”

Emperor Daojun was slightly stunned, silent in thought.

After looking at it again, he pointed to a withered cypress and asked, "What's the name of this tree?" ”

It was the little eunuch who replied: "Official, this is Basho!" ”

Weizong frowned, already unhappy in his heart.

Turning around the flower garden, Huizong pointed to a clump of dead trees and asked, "Does anyone know these flowers?" ”

No one on the left and right could know the ministers, so the little eunuch had to bite the bullet and played: "Official, this flower is also a plantain!" ”

When Emperor Daojun heard this, he was furious and shouted: "The dead flowers and trees are different, why are they all plantains, do you dare to deceive me?" ”

The little eunuch trembled with fright, and hurriedly knelt under the carefree chariot to plead guilty: "The slave deserves to die, the slave really doesn't know the name of the flower and tree, because I often hear people say that the leaves of the plantain are scorched, so the slave mistakenly thinks it is the plantain, and hopes that the official's family will be merciful and spare the slave the death penalty." ”

Emperor Daojun didn't look at the little eunuch, and shouted: "Tell the prison officer to come!" ”

After a while, the nursery officer knelt down and kowtowed in front of the chariot, and Emperor Daojun asked the dead flowers and dead trees he saw, and the supervisor played them one by one.

Emperor Daojun snorted coldly: "Why do these flowers and trees wither and die? ”

The supervisor replied: "Qi Guan's house, these flowers and trees are planted from the roots of the two Zhejiang and Guangzhou, all the way to the river, across the river and the sea, there are thousands of miles away, how much wind and sun, rain and snow devastation, and so on to the Beijing Division, the water juice in the branches and leaves is lost more than half, so it will wither and wither soon after planting and die. ”

Emperor Daojun asked again: "From what you have seen, is there any way to make the flowers and trees not wither, evergreen all year round, and fragrant all the time?" ”

"Go back to the official's house." The supervisor said: "If you want to be fragrant with flowers in all seasons and evergreen and not withered, you must bring local transplanting, that is, dig out the flowers and trees with the original soil ball, but this is more laborious and costly." ”

After hearing this, Emperor Daojun smiled slightly, and said, "I am rich all over the world, what can't I do?" What can't you do? What's the cost of measuring this grass and tree? Speak and listen. ”

According to the experience of the ministers, when transporting flowers and trees, the roots of the flowers and trees must be dug out of the root soil without hurting the big roots, and then the roots of the branches and leaves must be gently moved into the basket and the jar, and then the branches and leaves and roots will be sprayed with water to moisten, so that the flowers and trees will grow as if they were growing on the original garden, If this method is used to transport the Jingshi, although the minister does not dare to plant and live, he also dares to ensure that 100 plants can live 99 plants. ”

Huizong thought for a while and said, "This method is the best. ”

Immediately issued an edict to Zhu Mian, in the future, the flowers and trees should be transported with soil, and they should be replaced at four o'clock, regardless of the cost, regardless of manpower, and not allow a plant to wither.

After the decree was given, Emperor Daojun was about to drive forward, and a person flashed out of the official congregation, it was Deng Su, Honglu Shaoqing.

Deng Su knelt down in front of him, and said: "The official, the minister recently heard that Zhu Mian and others borrowed the name of the imperial tribute, all in the private garden pavilions, in the people's Li Shu's house, even between the graves, where there is a flower, a tree and a strange thing, they will use yellow paper, yellow handkerchief to seal the sign, referring to the royal object, the official led the soldiers or straight into their homes to force robbery, or dig people's graves, dig people's ancestral graves, the southeast is in an uproar, some even tear down the wall and tear down the house, in order to get a thing, so that the southeast people are displaced, and the people are not happy.

Emperor Daojun's face sank when he heard this, and he looked at Deng Su and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Deng Su said: "The official, the minister thinks ......"

Before the words fell, I heard Wang Hao say beside him: "Deng Suling is so bold, he dares to falsely accuse Zhongliang!" ”

Emperor Daojun sneered: "Aren't you talking about me?" ”

Deng Su hurriedly said: "The minister doesn't dare, it's just that Zhu Mian pretended to use the name of Huashi to implement ......."

Emperor Daojun interrupted him and said to the side: "Take this madman down, strip the court clothes, and put him in prison!" ”

The classes on both sides immediately went up, ripped Deng Su down, and then continued to visit the garden, but Emperor Daojun frowned, and his mood was already very bad......

Let's talk about Suzhou, one of the things that the people of Suzhou do in their days is to talk about Zhu Mian's scandal in private.

Since Zhu Mian took charge of the Ying Feng Bureau, he has been extremely poor and extravagant, and has three extremely ruthless hobbies.

In the mansions of the dignitaries of this dynasty, there was a popular game, that is, to make Mei Ji and the maid strip naked and play sumo wrestling.

The master watched from the sidelines, and the winner gave a prize, either silver ingots, or silk silk, and sometimes even gold ingots or gold and jade jewelry.

Sima Guang once vehemently criticized this kind of despicable race, and this kind of corrupt atmosphere was only curtailed.

But this kind of game is often held in Zhu Mian's house, and Zhu Mian is fascinated by this matter, and often watches it with relish, and sometimes the fire starts, even if a woman with good skin is called into the room.

The second hobby is that there is a large bath with an area of one and a half acres in Zhu's mansion, which is filled with clean water every day in summer and warm water every day in winter.

The third hobby is that there are several tiger cages in Zhu's mansion, and there are eight big insects, and all the enemies who are caught will be put into the cage for the big insects to bite, and the disobedient concubines and maids and slaves will also be thrown into the tiger cage.

Zhu Mian likes to see the big insects tearing people up piece by piece, and when he sees people screaming in despair in the tiger cage, and when he sees them being torn apart by the big insects piece by piece and rolling in pain in the cage, he will go crazy with excitement and make a cat-like cry.

On this day, a disobedient maid had just been executed in the tiger cage, and someone suddenly came from outside to report that there was a holy decree in the capital.

Zhu Mian hurriedly went to receive the order, and it turned out that the official family saw that he had made a meritorious contribution to the treasure and crowned him as the envoy of the Weiyuan Army, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

took the silver money to send the eunuch, his eyes rolled, and he asked people to pass on the news, without half a day's work, everyone in Suzhou City already knows, no one knows, everyone knows that he has been promoted again!

(End of chapter)