Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Audience
Dachen Kyoto "Ankang", the scale is unprecedented, the layout is symmetrical, the street is wide, the square is neat, the whole city is composed of the outer Guo City, the Imperial City and the palace city, the forbidden garden, the Fang City, when the country is the strongest, there are seven or eight hundred thousand people, it can be said that all industries are prosperous, everything is prosperous.
And even now, compared with the war in the north and the starvation, Ankang in the south is still indulgent and luxurious, and only a few traces of worry can be seen on the faces of the people at the bottom of the city.
Most of the people in Kyoto also did not care about the war in the north and east frontiers, just because Dachen had always been blessed with water and soil in the south, and there were few natural disasters.
As long as the south is stable, even if the Great Chen Kingdom is crumbling, it will never be able to fall for a while and a half.
It has been several days since he returned to Kyoto to be healthy, and King Ning's uneasiness has become more and more serious, he has gone all the way south, and has seen too many hidden dangers.
It is impossible to say that the civil and military officials of the entire imperial court do not know that Da Chen is in danger at the moment, but these people want to bury their heads in the gravel like ostriches, as if the chaos in the outside world has nothing to do with it.
The civil and military officials are like this, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Chen Communists is also like this, addicted to alchemy and can't extricate himself, he returned to Ankang to ask for an audience, his father and emperor are just in retreat, and they have no intention of meeting each other at all.
Even his son, who hasn't come back for many years, is like this, how many ministers can still see the emperor?
But today is an exception, his father asked him to bring his son into the palace together.
"King Ning Meets ......"
On the side of the "Taichi" in the inner garden, the buildings are connected with each other, the Caifeng Zhu Gate, the corridor of the compound road, there are exquisite jewels everywhere, and the jade girls of the silk yarn are all beauties that the outside world dare not imagine, but here, they are the slaves and maids that the emperor does not look at.
"Meet Your Majesty, long live your Majesty's good health and longevity. ”
King Ning took the prince and knelt down with him, bowing to the emperor sitting in the pavilion.
"My son, excuse me. ”
Only then did King Ning get up and raise his head, this look, he was taken aback, compared to a few years ago, his father's face was now even paler and weaker.
Emperor Da Chen, surnamed Chen Mingji, this year's birthday happens to be fifty years old, and the meaning of the name is different, he is not "sunny after the rain" at all, but his temperament is uncertain, the last moment is still smiling, the next moment suddenly changes color and anger, it is also a common thing.
Fortunately, he is not like Taizu, even if he is angry, he will be dismissed and investigated, imprisoned, and generally will not be killed, and he will not be released every few days to resume his original position.
In King Ning's view, this should be one of his father's imperial power techniques, ignoring the government for many years, but the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces are still trembling in the face of the emperor, and they dare not disobey orders.
In addition to Emperor Chen Ji, there was another person in the pavilion, who turned out to be Imperial Doctor Zhu?
"This is Xiao Yan'er, right? The last time I saw it, I was still a baby, but I didn't expect it to be so big in a blink of an eye, you came forward. ”
Chen Ji said, King Ning hurriedly let the prince over.
"Grandpa ......"
The child shouted very spiritually and obediently, and Chen Ji, who had touched his head in the past, smiled.
"Xiao Yan'er, I heard from Imperial Doctor Zhu, you were sick before, you were so sick that you couldn't even walk, how did you get better this time?"
Chen Ji, who touched the child's head, also reached out to grab the fruit and handed it to him.
"Grandpa Huang, I met a fairy!"
Xiao Yan'er cheered when she talked about it, and without waiting for Chen Ji to ask more, she told all the things that King Ning deliberately told him.
"It turned out that it was the gods who saved my little Yan'er. Chen Ji was still smiling, but King Ning on the side clearly saw a trace of displeasure in his father's eyes.
He couldn't help but shudder.
Why did my father suddenly get angry?
Could it be......
King Ning realized that his father had sincerely begged for immortals for decades and gained nothing, but Yan'er didn't do anything, but he was favored by the gods, how could this make his father happy......? My father was still a little jealous.
This kind of thought was like a poisonous snake, and just thinking about it made King Ning's face pale.
"Xu'er, what's wrong?"
Chen Ji glanced at him, "I see that your face is a little bad, are you also sick?"
"Father, the child is not sick, but he remembers that Yan'er suffered before and suffered many hardships at a young age, so he is distressed. Ning Wang Chen Xu hurriedly replied.
"It's good if you're not sick, but if you're sick, if there are no gods, why should you worry?" said that if it changes color, it will change color, Chen Ji's voice was cold, and Chen Xu was so frightened that he immediately knelt down: "Father, the child is at fault, please forgive your father." ”
"Forgiveness, what's wrong with you?" Chen Ji looked at him coldly.
Xiao Yan'er, who was let go of the side, was at a loss, but she was also born in the Wang family, and she still knew that she couldn't talk nonsense at this time, so she looked at her father anxiously, but she didn't dare to speak.
"Father, there are three mistakes with children. ”
Burying his head on the ground, King Ning Chen Xu trembled and said: "First, I met the immortals, but I didn't try to welcome the immortals back to the imperial city of Kyoto, so that my father missed the immortal fate. The second is that he only thought about saving Yan'er, but he didn't think about asking for the immortal rune elixir for his father. The third is to arrive in Ankang, and I didn't think about reporting the matter immediately, but delayed it for a few days. ”
"Hehe......" Chen Ji was noncommittal, until the atmosphere in the pavilion was solemn to the extreme, and he slowly spoke: "Get up, don't kneel and get cold, the wind is cold, here is hundreds of miles away, even the gods can't save you." ”
As these say, isn't there a doctor who has a cold? Why go and ask the gods?
Chen Xu knew that his father was still blaming him, and he didn't dare to refute it, so he only bowed his head and got up: "Thank you for your grace." ”
"It's really time for you to make these three mistakes...... If it weren't for Imperial Physician Zhu's report on this, I'm afraid that by now, I wouldn't know anything, it's really good, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty deceived and concealed it, but I didn't expect that even my children would do the same. Chen Ji said quietly.
Chen Xu's face was as pale as earth when he heard this, and he almost knelt down again, only then did he understand what it means to accompany the king like a tiger, and why the civil and military officials were so afraid of their father and emperor.
"Okay, don't be afraid, Imperial Doctor Zhu has already told me in detail about the matter, and I have also asked the people involved in this matter overnight, your first two mistakes can't be forced on you, that immortal master is playing the world, how can it be bullied? Xiao Yan'er can have this blessing, it is really a blessing for three lives......"
Speaking of this, Chen Ji couldn't help but show a little excitement, it was years of hard work, and finally saw hope, even if this hope was only a little bit.
"Xu'er, I have something to tell you. ”
Fang Cai's gloom disappeared in an instant, and the expression that appeared on Chen Ji's face was unhurried.