Chang'an, Imperial Palace.
Seeing that the sun was high in the sky, it was already noon. At this time in the past, the ministers who had gone to court had already left the palace and went to work in the government offices. But today, the court meeting in the palace has arrived, but there is still no intention to break up. , I don’t know what kind of national affairs those ministers are discussing!
However, no matter what kind of national events there are, as long as the court remains in the morning, it will be a disaster for the officials and grooms waiting at the door, as well as the guards on duty at the entrance of the palace!
It's better for those subordinate grooms. Although they don't dare to get on the car to keep warm, they can at least find a sheltered place and hide their heads to keep warm.
But the guards on duty at the door were really in trouble!
It's a cold day, but you have to stand upright at the gate of the palace! He was still wearing an armored ceremonial guard. You must know that those iron armors absorb heat. The little warmth on the body was sucked away by these iron guys. Then it was blown by the draft from the palace, and he was immediately frozen. Became an iron turtle with a runny nose.
It's a pity that they were so cold that their faces were ashen and their teeth were chattering, but they didn't dare to leave their posts without permission. They could only wait in the cold wind and hope that His Majesty the Emperor would leave the court quickly so that he could close the damn door quickly!
"Da da da……"
Time passed by, and just when several guards felt that they were about to freeze to death, there was a sudden rush of horse hooves in the distance on Suzaku Street. From the sound, it was coming towards them.
"What happened today? What's the urgent news?!"
At the door, several guards with cold noses and runny noses listened to the sound of horse hooves and glanced at the source of the sound with trembling eyes, feeling a sense of sadness in their hearts.
Although they were guarding the door and were not qualified to participate in the court meeting, they vaguely guessed that the reason why the court meeting lasted for such a long time was because of the cavalry messenger entering the palace earlier!
Because it was after the messenger entered the palace that the palace felt like it was going crazy. Throughout the morning, officials and servants kept coming in and out in a hurry, so that they did not even dare to close the door. As a result, they were frozen to death. so!
"Hey, no, listen to the sound, it's not one or two horses!"
His ears were numb from the cold, and even his hearing was a little slow, so it wasn't until he could vaguely see a few black spots appearing on the broad street that one of the guards realized something was wrong. He lifted up his spear stiffly and trembled. Pointing to the increasingly clear shadows.
The courier, especially the urgent courier, is usually one person, rarely two people!
Because there is no point in sending a letter together, because if there is any accident, probably no one can escape! Simply speaking, there were too many people traveling with us, and the horses at the stations along the way probably wouldn’t be able to prepare for them!
So when they saw that there were four horses coming, even if they didn't see the clothes of the people on the horses, the guards noticed something was wrong and quickly entered a state of alert!
"Bold! In the forbidden area of the palace! How can I allow you to ride a horse..."
The horses galloping along the long street were not slow, and they arrived at the entrance of the palace in just the blink of an eye. At this time, the guards also saw clearly that the people on the horse were four men with unkempt hair and disheveled clothes like beggars. They were immediately furious and shouted at them with trembling blue lips!
"it's me!"
Facing the sharp spear points in the hands of several people, and the imperial city guards who rushed in from all over after hearing the news, one of the men on horseback tightened the reins, smoothed the dirty hair that covered his face, and grinned at the guard. !
"Bang..."
Perhaps it was because it was too cold before, but after seeing Xiao Han's smiling face, a guard blocking the palace gate slipped his hand, and his spear suddenly hit the ground with a crisp sound.
However, with his hands empty, he seemed not to notice this at all, still staring directly at the man on the horse, and kept making "ho ho" gasping sounds from his open mouth.
"Xiao? Lord Xiao!"
Finally, someone called out the name!
And the small guard school who rushed out after hearing the news was still shouting angrily: He wanted to cut into pieces the madman who dared to rush into the imperial city!
As a result, I heard the man's cry, and when I looked at the people carefully, my legs immediately went limp, and I almost fell to the ground with my head down!
He recognized three of the four people!
The Duke, the Marquis, the Emperor’s confidants!
These three great gods are among them! What kind of fanatic is this? It is estimated that all the madmen in the world combined are not enough to carry the weight of the three of them!
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Tai Chi Hall
On the periphery of the hall, near the door, Dou Xiaoyong, a seventh-rank clerk in the Ministry of Revenue, was leaning against a beam, his eyes wide open, and he was looking forward seriously.
Tai Chi Hall is very big.
As the largest palace in the entire empire, the scale of Tai Chi Palace actually exceeds the imagination of most people!
It is seventy feet long and horizontal from east to west, and more than twenty feet long from north to south! In such a large space, it would be difficult for people standing on the outermost side of the hall, including the emperor on the throne in front, to see clearly. Being able to see an outline from a distance means that your eyesight is not weak.
However, the design of such a large palace was also done by the most powerful craftsmen in the world at that time! Yu Wenkai, who designed the entire Chang'an City and Luoyang City, designed and built it himself!
After his masterful design, after the construction of the Tai Chi Hall was completed, it also had a magical effect, which was to gather sound! This also ensured that in the main hall, the emperor did not need to tear his throat and shout, and the ministers could hear his voice.
At this moment, Dou Xiaoyong was listening to the emperor's arrangements for disaster relief in the Qinling Mountains, while trying hard to see who had taken the order!
Because disaster relief requires the use of civilian husbands, and as an official of the Ministry of Household Affairs, it is his duty to instruct the civilian husbands. After seeing clearly who has taken over this job, he will be ready to recruit the peasant husbands after he goes to court. register.
After a while, when Dou Xiaoyong saw clearly that the person in charge of the disaster relief was Liu Zhenghui, his minister of household affairs, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his tiptoes.
Since the person in charge of disaster relief is his immediate boss in the yamen, there is no problem. Dealing with him is better than dealing with those officials who are not familiar with him!
"It's all good, why can't it be gone? Alas... What a pity, you are still so young! The family still has a lot of money that has not been spent, and there is no son to inherit it!
Just as Dou Xiaoyong, who was relieved, began to mourn for Xiaohou of Sanyuan County who "died young", a somewhat unfamiliar voice suddenly came from beside him.
"Hey, brother, what are you doing, Your Majesty? What big thing happened? Why haven't you left the court yet? Rescue people? Who are you trying to save?"
