Chapter 21: The Great Pilgrimage Meeting (2)

As a matter of fact, the people attending the court meeting today are most concerned about their salaries! Although many people do not say anything about it, they still have this matter of the highest importance in their hearts, and although they talk about it when they encounter this topic, it is only because they are afraid of getting into trouble.

Today is the Chang Dynasty, and it is more solemn than the ceremony of the daily royal gate decision.

As early as the fifth watch day ago, the six elephants had eaten the first full meal in two months, and the elephant slave in colorful clothes was escorted by the brocade official, and was brought here from the elephant house in the west city root of Xuanwu Gate, these elephants were full on both sides of the royal road in front of the noon gate and walked leisurely, and the hearts of the six elephants were also rolling the streets. Believe it or not, today you dare to let your family Xiangye and I eat one less bite, let's learn cat meow together, and fall to the ground and meow together......

After the two drums sounded at the noon gate, the six elephants who were deceived by the morning and evening walked to the front of the noon gate quite professionally, and they each stood at their posts, each pair of two and two opposite each other and the left and right spacing were the same, and stood still with the Jinyi Banner School.

After the three-way drum sounded, the left and right side doors of the noon gate and the folding door were opened together. A group of generals, captains and standard-bearers in brocade clothes walked into the noon gate, in the south of the Jinshui Bridge, sandwiched the royal road, divided into two rows and neatly arranged, standing solemnly, the captains held the guard of honor, and the standard-bearer held the flag; at the same time, a group of eunuchs who served as the guard of honor came out of the palace, and they stood in a row under the Danqi, and at the end of the class were two pairs of horses, golden saddles, golden stirrups, yellow silk bridles, and red gold chewing rings. At this time, the middle door is wide open, the flag is displayed on the royal road, chimes, cymbals, cymbals, chimes rang at one time, although Chongzhen always rides in front of the court, never rides a horse, but four beautiful and tamed horses comparable to the black horse under Li Guo's crotch, always in the three, six, nine on time to serve here, become an indispensable part of the guard of honor.

The other four eunuchs held a horse stool carved with rosewood inlaid with luodian in their hands, for the emperor to step on the horse, and several of them stood beside the horses like tethered horse stakes, and were lined up on the left and right of the Danqi like the brocade officials, and stood solemnly on both sides of the brocade generals, who wore bright and shining iron armor, and wore bows, arrows, knives, and swords, and wore red tasseled iron helmets with shy chests and bellies.

After another moment, the bell rang at the noon gate. The civil and military executives also put down their tea cups, stopped talking, and hurriedly walked out of the courtroom, and the middle-level cadres followed closely behind and entered the palace from the left and right doors; when the last official entered the left and right doors, they all followed the example of the little pot friends in the kindergarten, and they all rolled their noses together in a friendly manner; those who were afraid of this meaning as elephants did not understand, but the people in the palace naturally understood that this meant that no one was allowed to enter casually, and now that the attendance check had been completed! Those who were late were all punished as absenteeism.

The civil and military officials arrived outside the Huangji Gate, standing in accordance with the Wendong and Wuxi classes, they naturally arranged into two classes according to the size of their respective yamen and grades, abandoning the Gong Standing on the Danqi, the four imperial historians stood facing the north in class, a few of them are today's duty students, responsible for on-site correction, don't make mistakes, don't make trouble, don't talk to each other, I'm going to beat your ass.

When the civil and military officials entered the court in the fifth watch, more than 1,000 Qifu and Shandong scholars, led by more than 20 old people, spontaneously came to the outside of the right gate of Chang'an. The vast majority of them were small and medium-sized landlords on the verge of bankruptcy, but they represented interests far beyond the class to which they belonged, at least reflecting the interests of peasants, small and medium merchants, and artisanal owners.

Yesterday morning, when they saw the emperor's imperial approval, they were greatly disappointed by the decree above, and their group immediately wrote another notebook expressing their bitter feelings, and hurriedly sent it to the General Administration Department, which because the emperor had already decreed, that those people from Jifu and Shandong should not stay in the capital; and these officials of the General Administration Department were the most observant of words and feelings, and when they saw that some of the words in the manuscript were too fervent, they refused to accept it, and no matter how hard these people begged, they were blind people who lit lamps in vain, and no one cared at all.

In desperation, the desperate people thought that while today was the big day of the Chang Dynasty, the emperor knew that they thought that the emperor must have been deceived by the traitors in the court, so the group of people wrote a book with blood on their heads.

In ancient times, the so-called que was specifically referring to the palace gate, and if it was said in the Ming Dynasty, it was specifically referring to the noon gate. But now the common people are writing to the emperor, not only can they not see the noon gate, but they can't even get close to the Chengtian gate, so they can only kneel outside the right gate of Chang'an and cry.

Since the Ming Dynasty, civil and military officials have mostly lived in Xicheng, so that they can enter the court from the right gate of Chang'an to handle political affairs. The people who prostrated to the ground and prostrated hoped that there would be any cabinet ministers, the left and right imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate, or the great men such as Shangshu and Shilang, who would live in the high position of the temple and worry about the people, and pity them for taking this book into the palace and presenting it to the emperor; who knew that the brocade-clothed officers and soldiers guarding the gate did not allow them to approach the right gate of Chang'an at all, and drove them away with water and fire sticks, long knives, and sharp swords; once they saw a great official coming, they drove them farther away like a fly.

The feudal dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang also wants to be able to descend on generations. He himself was born in a reckless manner, knowing that it was difficult to reach the heavenly court, so whether it was Nanjing or Kyoto, a Dengwen Drum Courtyard was set up outside the right gate of Chang'an, with three small halls to the east, and a small building hanging drums next to it, and there were science and provincial officials who took turns to be on duty here 24 hours a day.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty: the people are wronged, the yamen who should be in charge does not speak for Shenli, and the general administration department does not convey it, and the people hit the drum, and the officials on duty have to report to the emperor truthfully.

But today they are in a groove, there are a lot of Jinyi Banner schools standing near the Dengwen Drum Courtyard, they are like wolves and tigers like a big enemy, although they can't fight against the Jurchens, but they are a top three against the grass people, and they suddenly beat the people can not approach; the people see that the right gate of Chang'an is not good, so they turn from the chessboard street to the Daming Gate, and come to the left gate of Chang'an.

The grass people obviously underestimated the IQ of the Ming officials, and on the left gate of Chang'an, they encountered the same situation, some of the old people were completely desperate, but some of the leading old people still did not give up, they led everyone to avoid the middle road, kneeling a little further away from the east Chang'an gate. Gradually, the officials from the eastern city to the court had passed out, and they had to beg the brocade officials guarding the door to accept the music books in their hands and send them to the palace.