Monument Yangmen

Chapter 47 Entering the Palace
The emperor celebrates his birthday, all nations come to court, and the whole country celebrates.

The ceremony is roughly divided into two parts.

Early worship ceremony, dinner ceremony.

Yang Yansi was alone, so he was not eligible to participate in the early court, and he had no chance to witness the spectacular scene of Wanbang coming to court.

Compared with the rigorous morning ceremony, the dinner ceremony is more relaxed.

Courtiers can bring their family members to participate.

Due to the large number of guests to be entertained, preparations for the dinner began in the morning.

The congratulatory gift prepared by Yang Yansi was a bit special, so it had to be delivered in advance.

Yang Yansi, Yang Yanzhao, Cao Wei, Wang Shilong, Shi Yuansun, and a group of five wanted to enter the palace with a huge birthday gift.

The giant birthday gift was carried to the gate of the palace, and the soldiers in front of the palace stopped five people.

On the emperor's birthday, foreign envoys entered the city, and the city of Bianjing was mixed with fish and dragons, and there were twice as many guards in the palace as before.

"Who are you? You know that trespassing on the palace is a capital offense. Thinking of you being young, I will wait around once and retreat quickly."

The one who spoke was a broad-faced, dark-skinned, burly man. The strong man was wearing armor, with a long knife hanging on his waist, and his face was majestic.

Forbidden Wan in the imperial palace, within a hundred steps from the city wall is a restricted area, soldiers guarding the imperial city have the right to shoot and kill on the spot.

Yang Yansi stepped forward, and the soldiers immediately held their hands on the handle of the knife, and he hurriedly took a step back.

"Brother, take it easy. The five of us are the heirs of the general family. Today is His Majesty's birthday, and we specially prepared a small gift to send to the palace."

Hearing that the five of Yang Yansi were all descendants of generals, the strong man's face softened a bit.

"Let's go out together, brother, I won't make things difficult for you. If you want to go in without the company of adults, you have to ask the superintendent's permission. Just wait, I'll send someone to report."

Wang Jien, the chief supervisor of the palace.

According to historical records, on the night Taizu Zhao Kuangyin died, Empress Xiaozhang, Song Shi, sent Wang Jien to hold the imperial edict of Taizu and summon Zhao Defang into the palace.After Wang Jien left the palace, he did not go to see Zhao Defang, but summoned Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi into the palace.

Therefore, Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne of God as soon as Zhao Defang entered the palace.

Whether the facts are true as recorded in historical materials, the answer is unknown.

In short, Wang Jien played a crucial role in Zhao Guangyi's journey to the throne.

As a hero from the dragon, Wang Jien was greatly favored by Zhao Guangyi.

After a while, an old man with white hair and beardless face appeared with a whisk, with anger on his face.The soldiers who went to report followed him dejectedly, as if they had been scolded.

Among the servants in the palace, Wang Jien can be considered as an ancestor.Apart from serving Zhao Guangyi in the next day, he basically stayed at home.Today I was interrupted hastily, and I feel very unhappy.

When he went out of the palace gate, he took a look and saw Yang Yansi and his party, all the anger disappeared from his face.

Wang Jien pretended to be annoyed, "Whoever our family said was so bold and dared to trespass into the palace to ask for an audience, it turned out to be you little brats."

Cao Wei leaned forward and stuffed a jade wrench into Wang Jien's hand.

"Wang Dajian, the boys have specially prepared a birthday gift for His Majesty, and plan to send it in. Please accommodate me..."

Wang Jien was not conscious of accepting bribes at all, he played with the jade wrench openly, and looked at Cao Wei suspiciously.

"Little brat, what bad idea are you planning?" Wang Jien saw the giant birthday gift covered with gauze, "What kind of birthday gift is covered so tightly, let our family see."

"Don't!" Cao Wei blocked Wang Ji'en, "Wang Dajian, this thing should not be exposed now, if you want to see it, let's find a more secret place."

Wang Jien looked at Cao Wei suspiciously.

After a while, he shook his whisk and sighed, "Little brat, this thing that hasn't been checked can't be sent to the palace. You should know..."

"This……"

Cao Wei was taken aback for a moment, not knowing how to respond.

Yang Yansi stepped forward and quietly stuffed something into Wang Jien's sleeve.

Wang Jien wanted to take it out to have a look, but took out half of it, and when he saw the words on it, his hand stopped.

"You boy..." Wang Jien stretched out his index finger and pointed at Yang Yansi, beat his chest and said, "You are embarrassing our family. Forget it, because of your filial piety to respect your father, our family will help you. Follow me Come!"

"Our family doesn't make things difficult for you in front of the palace, you also come to see it alone."

Led by Wang Jien, the group walked to a side hall at the foot of the imperial city.

After a quarter of an hour, Wang Jien came out with a smile on his face.

Outside the hall, Wang Jien wiped off a little cream from the corner of his mouth, and said cheerfully, "It's really rare for you little bastards to be able to make such a birthday present. If Your Majesty sees it, he will be delighted."

Carrying the gift, Yang Yansi followed closely behind, bowed slightly to salute, and said, "You have to keep it a secret, the supervisor, and give His Majesty a surprise when the time comes. Once the boys get any rewards, I will definitely thank the supervisor for his support."

Hearing the heavy thanks, the smile on Wang Jien's face became even stronger, "Seventh boy of the Yang family, you are a spiritual doll. Our family will also give you a guarantee that before your Majesty's birthday banquet, no one else will see it." to this thing."

"Our family is in charge of tonight's birthday banquet. We will arrange a suitable place for you later and let you stay."

Zhao Guangyi's birthday banquet was held in the Daqing Hall. Wang Jien arranged Yang Yansi and his party in the Fuze Hall near the Daqing Hall, and sent two father-in-laws to guard the door to prevent people from entering.

Inside Fuze Hall.

Cao Wei pulled Yang Yansi curiously and asked, "Brother Qilang, what did you give that eunuch? How did he become so talkative?"

"What else is there, money."

"Impossible. The jade finger ring I gave is the best emerald jade, worth hundreds of taels of silver. You just gave that eunuch a light piece of paper. How could it be worth more than my jade finger ring?"

Yang Yansi couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "A piece of paper, you said it lightly. The piece of paper in your mouth is worth 1 taels."

"One million taels?!"

Cao Wei, Yang Yanzhao, Shi Yuansun, and Wang Shilong stared at Yang Yansi dumbfounded.

"Seventh...seventh brother, how do you have so much money?"

"You don't need to worry about how I have so much money, you should think about how to perform at night. The heavy bet has already been put out, if you screw up for four nights, just wait to be a coolie for me for a year!"

Yang Yansi glanced at the four of them, sat down against the pillar of Fuze Hall, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Originally, Yang Yansi wanted Yang Yanzhao to present the birthday gift alone, but after thinking about it carefully, a big tree is easy to attract attention.And he was worried that Concubine Pan Gui would make trouble, so he brought Cao Wei and the three together.

In this way, if the emperor rewards four people at once, Yang Yanzhao will not be so conspicuous.Even if Concubine Pan was favored again, she would not provoke the heirs of the three top dignitaries and make enemies for herself for no reason.

In the Zichen Palace, after Wang Jien settled Yang Yansi and his party, he returned to Zhao Guangyi's side.

Zhao Guangyi was reading a book of "Han History" in his hand. He looked up at Wang Jien, then lowered his head and continued reading.

"I heard that you brought a few youngsters from the Yang family, Cao family, Wang family, and Shi family into the palace?"

Wang Ji'en smiled cheerfully, and complimented: "You can't hide anything from Your Majesty, those little bastards were indeed brought into the palace by slaves."

Fanshou took out the wrench that Cao Wei gave him, and held it in front of Zhao Guangyi.

"The brats knew that today is His Majesty's birthday, so they specially prepared a birthday gift for His Majesty. It's a pity that their status is low and they can't enter the palace. That's why they asked the servants to take them into the palace. For this reason, the Cao family boy even sent a servant. A jade wrench finger!"

Zhao Guangyi was taken aback, and glanced at the jade wrench, "You can accept it as a gift for you! You worked hard to speak well for those five boys in front of me, isn't it because you accepted such a tattered wrench?"

Wang Jien put away the jade ring finger, and smiled flatteringly: "The slave is His Majesty's slave, how could he be bought by others. It's just that the filial piety of those five boys is rare. And then..."

Zhao Guangyi asked, "What else?"

Wang Jien smiled brightly, "And the gift prepared by those five boys is really special, and it will definitely surprise His Majesty."

"Oh?" Zhao Guangyi became interested, "How about a special law?"

Wang Jien chuckled, "The servant promised to keep it a secret from those five boys. Moreover, the gift can only be shown to be special if you see it with your own eyes."

Zhao Guangyi shook his head and scolded with a smile: "You dog slave, you actually betrayed me. Well, I'll just wait and see what's so special about it at night."

"You go back and prepare the dinner!"

Wang Jien resigned.

After leaving the palace gate, he patted his cuffs, and a flower appeared on his face.

The reason why he spoke well for Yang Yansi and others was all because of the piece of paper in his sleeve.

It was a house deed, a house deed for a large house covering an area of ​​1 mu near the Jinshui River.According to the current market price of Bianjing City, it is worth [-] taels.

Evening drum and morning bell.

When one hundred and eight drums sounded, Emperor Zhao Guangyi's birthday banquet officially started.

　Thanks to 'couna, charming baby' for the reward!mwah!A classmate gets married... add another chapter!Look, if you don't give me a chance, I even use this kind of stupid excuse!
　　
　
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