The next day (3 a.m. to 5 a.m.), before dawn, Da Kui got up early to freshen up and change clothes.

Da Kui likes regular clothes, although he is dressed in red, but the style is very casual. Today is different from the past, but you have to wear court clothes. Da Kui felt twisted when he wore the court clothes, although the court clothes were also crimson, but the wide robe and big sleeves were not to mention, there was a belt circle on the waist, and there were patches with flying fish patterns on the front chest and back. It has a square black sand on its head, and two short wings of black sand on the back of its head.

There is no way, civil officials are dressed like this. Da Kui has no ink on his chest, but where does he look like a civil official? He paced a few steps casually in the room and looked up and down, but the more he looked at it, the more awkward it became. Huang Ying walked over and said with a smile while straightening Da Kui's clothes: "You are a good court official, and you only go to court during the New Year's holidays!"

Da Kui sighed and said: "No way, ordinary people have to visit the New Year every year, and it is the same for officials." I don't go to court on weekdays, but King Wu has granted permission. ”

Huang Ying looked up and down at Da Kui again and said, "Well, my husband does look like a big official! The hour is not early, let's go, don't miss the hour." Da Kui smiled and suddenly stretched out his mouth and pecked Huang Ying's face, then turned around and walked out with satisfaction.

Huang Ying's face turned red, and she spat shyly: "I hate it!" Although he said so, he reluctantly sent it to the door.

Da Kui went out of the inner house, and there was already a soft sedan waiting outside the small door of the partition wall. Xu Yuan, Dong Hu, Tian Feng, and Zhou Kai were already waiting by the soft sedan chair, and when they saw Da Kui coming out, they all saluted: "My lord!"

Da Kui let out a 'grace' sound, walked to the soft sedan chair, and Xu Yuan lifted the sedan curtain. Da Kui stepped over the sedan bar and entered the soft sedan and sat down, Da Kui said: "Let's go" and then the soft sedan slowly got up and walked steadily. It turns out that Da Kui is very casual on weekdays, but the court must follow the rules of the court. The Ming Dynasty had to wait outside the gate of King Wu's palace to see the court, and Da Kui was a little curious when he went to the early court for the first time.

As soon as the soft sedan chair came out of Zhang's mansion, there were two teams of soldiers to support the left and right, and they hurried to the palace of King Wu together. Along the way, from time to time, I saw the sedan chair of the court official hurrying away, and when I saw Da Kui's crimson soft sedan chair, they all avoided it. (In the Ming Dynasty system, the sedan chair should also be divided into grades on the road, and the high-grade ones should have priority, and the low-grade ones should give way and not be surpassed.) ）

Da Kui's team got off the sedan chair in front of the palace of King Wu, and Xu Yuan unveiled the sedan chair curtain. Da Kui slowly walked out of the sedan chair and couldn't help but be surprised, there were more than 100 large and small soft sedan chairs around. In front of the palace of King Wu, there was already a large group of civil and military officials wearing various court uniforms gathered together, and they didn't know what they were talking about!

Da Kui walked slowly towards the crowd, got closer, and said with a smile: "The rank lord has arrived early? "This is Da Kui's old routine, as the saying goes, don't you reach out and hit a smiling person.

When Da Kui saw Da Kui coming, Da Kui saw Tang He and Chang Yuchun and others in the crowd at a glance, so he stepped forward to greet him: "Brother Tang has also arrived, how is General Chang......? Saying that, he came to the crowd and called everyone brothers.

At this moment, a silent drum sounded on the palace wall of King Wu's palace. As soon as the drums fell, the palace door was wide open, but a middle-aged eunuch in court clothes came out. The eunuch walked outside the door and shouted at the civil and military officials: "The fifth watch has passed, and the hundred officials are in line with the court." As soon as the words fell, the hundreds of officials in the crowd walked to their positions, and in less than a moment, they were divided into two columns on the left and right.

Da Kui passed by this, thinking that Tang He was the first product and he was the second product, so it must be right to stand behind him. Thinking of this, Da Kui flashed to Tang He and stood still, not wanting everyone to look at Da Kui like a monster. Da Kui couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and looked back at Chang Yuchun behind him. Chang Yuchun is also a product, and Da Kui is wrong again. Da Kui was a little panicked, and hurriedly bowed down to accompany him and stood behind Chang Yuchun.

This grade must be right, and Na Cheng thought that everyone still looked at him strangely. Da Kui couldn't help but be a little inexplicable, and at this time, Hu Dahai behind him said softly: "Lord Zhang, you are a civil official." It should go to the left. Da Kui suddenly realized, and hurriedly ran to the left to cut in line and stood in the last place of the red-clothed court officials.

It turns out that the upper dynasty also has the rules of the upper dynasty, and the civil and military officials must be divided into two shifts. In ancient times, there was a saying of civil and martial arts, so there were rules for the courtiers of the left and the right to stand.

The eunuch who passed the news saw that the hundred officials were already standing in a neat line, so he raised his voice and said, "Enter the court!" After that, he turned around and walked towards the palace first, and the hundred officials lined up and walked in the palace at one time. Da Kui walked step by step in the queue, and only walked a pillar of incense before arriving at the place of the Wu Palace's court meeting, 'Taihe Palace'.

The hundred officials entered the hall and still stood in two shifts, and Da Kui peeked back and found that due to the large number of people, only officials above the third grade were in the hall. And the officials below the third rank actually lined up outside the hall, and Da Kui couldn't help but think: 'I don't know what to do if it rains?'

It turns out that at the end of each year, all local officials above the fifth grade will come to Yingtian to report on their work. Especially today, it is even more lively, and there are nearly 200 officials participating in the court meeting. Although Da Kui was curious about everything, he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he could only stand there respectfully and wait for King Wu to arrive like everyone else. Although he just glanced back at his back just now, Da Kui found that the political counselor of Huguang Province, Fu You, was standing there leisurely, only separated from him by two people.

Although there were a large number of people in the main hall, there was no sound of falling needles, and everyone was waiting silently. After a while, the previous eunuch walked to the base corner of the platform in front of him and stood still, and said loudly: "King Wu has arrived~!"

Hearing this, the hundred officials knelt down in unison, and raised their voices in unison: "King Wu is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”

Da Kui leaned down but didn't dare to raise his head, until Zhu Yuanzhang, the king of Wu, said loudly: "Zhongqing's family is flat." Only then did he stand up with the hundred officials.

King Wu sat on the golden chair and said with a smile: "One yuan is renewed, and everything is renewed." Today's meeting of this king is to get together with all the Aiqing to talk about family life, if there is nothing else, everyone can talk freely. After speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang, the king of Wu, looked at the ministers with a slight smile.

Unexpectedly, Wang Fu came out of the class and said: "The minister Wang Fu has the book to play King Wu." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled and asked, "Wang Aiqing, please speak, why do you want to join Lord Zhang?"

Wang Fu turned his head and stared at Da Kui fiercely and said, "Zhang Dakui, the political envoy of Jiangnan General Minister, bends the law for personal gain, and is greedy for ink and dirty silver!"