Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 851
Chapter [-] The Night Banquet in the Eastern Palace

Chen Ying ordered the soldiers to add meat and meals, and the leader of the army naturally did not dare to neglect.

In fact, the food of the army of the Tang Dynasty was not bad in history. It was much better than the army of the Song and Ming Dynasties, and it was a world of difference compared to the army of the Qing Dynasty.According to the records of the Arsenal of the Tang Dynasty, the supply of Tang soldiers during the expedition was "one person per day, one bucket of millet, five pieces of white rice, two pancakes, one steamed bun, one steamed cake. One piece of loose rice, three soups, vegetables Fifty taels, head meat and hooves of cattle and sheep, lamb liver with sauce, pork liver with sauce, one-third salt, half sauce, one tael ginger, one tael green onion, and one tael vinegar.

"He" is an ancient unit of measurement, that is, one bucket is ten liters, one liter is ten heels, and one heel is ten spoons.About one hundred grams.

As the saying goes, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Although the supplies provided by the imperial court are very abundant, due to layers of deductions and false reports of losses, how much they can reach the soldiers' mouths can only depend on the mood of the first commander of the army.

In this time and space, when the King Qin's Mansion competed with the East Palace for financial resources, because the East Palace had Chen Ying, in terms of financial resources, the King Qin Mansion fell behind.In order to raise money, Li Shimin could only focus on Cai Jin of the Twelve Guards.

General Qiu He, Marquis of Zuowu, belonged to Li Shimin. He put his two sons on Li Shimin's body. Food, don’t even think about it!
Chen Ying was well aware of these tricks, and when ordering extra meals, he told the quartermaster and the gang leader that he would send people to spot check, and if there was one or two pieces of meat missing, he would cut off the meat from them to make up for it.

When it was time to eat, four-wheeled carriages carrying steaming meals came slowly, steaming outside, and what came out was the smell of food, which made the soldiers salivate .

After finally waiting for the gang leader to arrange the meals, with the sound of a trumpet, all the soldiers of the Zuo Wuhou Wei Xiaowei Mansion and the Qinwei Mansion began to line up to receive the food.The gang leader pulled out drawers made of iron sheets from the kitchen cart, steamed buns as white as fat, and golden, fragrant and soft millet rice, emitting bursts of white mist.The soldiers of the Xiaowei Mansion took their lunch boxes and came forward one by one to get their meals. Those who love to eat steamed buns get steamed buns, and those who like to eat millet rice get millet rice. Anyway, a bucket of about ten catties would make them unable to finish eating. enough.They spread large sheets of mulberry oil paper on the ground, and a group of ten people sat together. The stew stewed with radish and duck was placed in the middle. After everyone arrived, they began to gobble it up.

The soldiers of Xiaowei Mansion ate with gusto, but the soldiers of Chen Ying's Qinwei Mansion began to scold their mothers.

"The leader of the dog day, you come over here!"

The head lieutenant did not dare to neglect, and hurried over quickly.After all, the general's personal guards are all confidantes.Maybe someday it will be released.

As soon as the lieutenant of the head of the army came to the front, the personal guard stepped forward and kicked him.He directly kicked the lieutenant to the ground.

The guard yelled: "How much money did you fucking steal from Yeye? Give Yeye duck meat?"

The surrounding guards also began to agree: "That's right, yeah, I want to eat mutton!"

"Take these duck meat and fool the ghost!"

"Hurry up, change it to Yeye, or Yeye will beat your ass to the ground, and then go to the general to argue!"

Since the rise of down jackets in Chang'an City, more ducks or geese have been raised. Ducks are omnivores. Even if there is no food to feed them, any weeds in the fields can be used as food.

Weeds do not cost money. Even children aged eight or nine can easily cut some weeds a day to feed ducks. Due to the low cost, duck meat becomes cheaper.

In Chang'an City, a big fat duck weighing eight or nine catties is only ten dollars, even if it is converted into later generations of RMB, it is only three or four yuan per catty, which is really cheap.

Xiaowei's mansion is often deducted from food, not to mention eating well, it is difficult to even eat enough, so this time there is meat and food control, unless they are in the New Year, they generally cannot eat.However, Chen Ying's personal guards have always followed the standards of the Tang army, and they never skipped anything.Especially meat, they eat more than three times more than ordinary troops, at least half a catty of meat every day.

The head captain had no choice but to get up and go to Chen Ying for a theory.

Liu Rengui looked at the big piece of duck meat in the lunch box and sighed: "I haven't eaten meat for a long time. General Chen is really rich and powerful, and he really deserves his reputation!"

Chen Ying was dumbfounded and said, "Isn't this a supply from the imperial court?"

Using one's own money to support the army is a taboo thing for Li Yuan. Although Chen Ying subsidizes the military expenses himself, these military expenses are not daily expenses. They are mainly captured from the war.

A captain of the Xiaowei Mansion exclaimed: "I am willing to be a soldier if I can follow a commander like General Chen who loves soldiers like a son!"

The grateful voices of the soldiers came from Chen Ying's ears, and these voices entered Chen Ying's ears, which made Chen Ying feel quite uncomfortable.The fighting power of the Tang Dynasty army is world-renowned, but it gradually failed. It was because the upper and lower levels were deducted, and the military merit system collapsed. Even the basic honor was gone, so the morale of the Tang army plummeted, and the combat effectiveness also plummeted.

Chen Ying thought about it, he must ask Xu Jingzong to check the accounts of the army carefully. Once the army starts to become corrupt, a country's defense force will start to collapse. Once foreign enemies invade, it will be very fatal. In his eyes, it was all meat.

General Chen Ying, Xu Guan, Zhou Cao Can Jun, Lu Shi Can Jun, Cang Cao Shi and other subordinate officials called them into the small tent in front of Qin Wang's mansion, and yelled at everyone.

Chen Ying scolded for half an hour, and Chen Ying panted and said: "What happened before, this general can let the past go, but in the future, whoever dares to stretch out his hand, this general will chop, stretch his feet and chop his feet!"

All the subordinate officials dare not say a word, dare not breathe!
……

In the bedroom of Prince Qin's residence, Li Shimin sat on the bed with a blank expression, and his eldest grandson Wugou led Li Chengqian with tears in his eyes.

Li Shimin said solemnly: "We can't go out now, but you and Cheng Qian should be able to. You can tell the third brother-in-law directly that you take Cheng Qian to visit the third sister, and he shouldn't make things difficult for you!"

The eldest grandson Wugou choked up and said, "Second brother, has the situation gotten so bad?"

Li Shimin shook his head: "Guanyin servant girl, don't force me to lie to you!"

The eldest grandson Wugou murmured, "It's really troublesome to seize the heir."

Li Shimin smiled dismissively and said: "Yes, this is also a battlefield... Either you die, or I live!"

Changsun Jiluo tilted his head, looked at Li Shimin's face, and said with a sad smile: "Seeing that you have not lost your fighting spirit, I have confidence in you."

Li Shimin turned around and stroked Changsun Jiluo's face.

Li Shimin walked into the hall with his grandson Wugou.

All the generals were fully armed and waited in the hall. Seeing Li Shimin coming in, they all stood up with a whoosh.

Li Shimin said: "It's getting dark soon, Princess Qin is going to Qinglin to visit Pingyang, Hou Junji, you go prepare the car."

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he went straight out.

Everyone stared at each other in the hall.

Not long after, Li Shimin's carriage was ready, and the eldest grandson Wugou tremblingly boarded the carriage with Li Chengqian in his arms.

The gate of Prince Qin's Mansion opened.

The soldiers of Zuo Wuhou Army guarding outside the gate raised their swords and shields as if they were facing an enemy.

A carriage drove out slowly, and the driver was obviously Hou Junji.

The carriage stopped in front of Liu Rengui.

Changsun Wugou lifted the curtain of the car, looked around, saw Liu Rengui, and waved to him.

Liu Rengui walked to Changsun Wugou's side, bowed and said, "Princess Qin, where are you going?"

Hou Junji sarcastically said: "Princess Qin's phoenix is ​​chasing her, could it be that she has to report to you in advance?"

Liu Rengui said neither overbearing nor humble: "Wang Concubine, please report, the general is in charge of the emperor's order to protect the safety of His Royal Highness Qin Wang and everyone in the palace. It is my duty, and I can't be negligent. Please, Wang Concubine, be considerate of my lowly position!"

The eldest grandson Wugou said softly: "Princess Pingyang's phoenix body is not in good health, I am going to visit her, it is already late, I'm afraid it will be disrespectful if I delay it!"

At this moment, Chen Ying said: "Liu Rengui, you lead 50 people to escort Princess Qin to Qinglin!"

Hou Junji smiled and said: "That's very good, General Chen will bring more people..."

Chen Ying didn't wait for Hou Junji to finish, and interrupted coldly: "General Hou, you don't want to go to Qinglin!"

Hou Junji wanted to argue: "I am the imperial hand..."

Chen Yingdao: "Liu Rengui, can you drive?"

Liu Rengui nodded.

Chen Ying turned around and returned to the tent.

Hou Junji got out of the carriage helplessly, and walked towards Prince Qin's mansion awkwardly.

Li Shimin watched Hou Junji go back, and said in a low voice: "Why, General Chen won't let you go out of the city with the princess?"

Hou Junji nodded and said: "Dai Zhou would rather die than cooperate, I'm afraid the case will not be good for the King!"

Cheng Zhijie stepped forward and said angrily: "Old Hou, what nonsense are you talking about? Zhang Liang is my old brother for many years. I know better than you what kind of person he is. Even if he dies, he will not betray His Highness King Qin..."

"There are plenty of torturers in Dali Temple!" Du Yan shook his head and said, "We must not place our hopes on the enemy's stupidity!"

Cheng Zhijie sighed and said, "What do you say!"

Du Yan turned to look at Li Shimin and said, "Currently, the only way is to survive!"

Cheng Zhijie tightly held the horse in his hand, raised his head and said, "Okay, let's fight them and get out of Chang'an City!"

"No!"

"do not want!"

Almost at the same time, two voices spoke one after another.

Li Shimin followed the prestige and saw Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui saying at the same time: "Your Majesty, you must be careful!"

Li Shimin sighed and said: "The concubine and Chengqian have already left. Based on what I know about the third sister, she will definitely spare no effort to keep my son Chengqian, and have no heirs to worry about!"

Speaking of this, Li Shimin's aura suddenly changed, and he said murderously: "My fate is up to me, the sky wants to destroy me, I will destroy the sky!"

Du Yan said with a relaxed smile: "If your majesty has this determination, it will be easy. Now I have a chance to survive!"

"Live from death?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said anxiously, "What chance is there to survive from death?"

Du Yan said: "It should be regarded as the king of endless days. Today is the 51st birthday of King Huai'an. The crown prince hosted a banquet in the East Palace. All the princes and princes of the clan attended to celebrate the birthday of King Huai'an!"

Li Shimin suddenly realized.

Then he said with a gloomy face: "Unfortunately, the crown prince will not invite me to the banquet!"

"The crown prince won't invite the king. What if the king of Huai'an invites him?" Du Yan vowed: "The eldest son of the king of Huai'an, Li Daoyan, the king of Jiaodong, has a bad relationship with the king of Qi. His disciples are absolutely sure that he can convince the king of Huai'an to invite the king to come." feast!"

Li Shimin laughed and said: "Then the king will not be afraid!"

……

The lights are on.The Xiande Hall, which had already been decorated with lights and festoons, was already full of people.The singer sings softly, and the sound of silk and bamboo is melodious.

Officials in the Tang Dynasty had generous salaries and extravagant officialdom.No matter how simple Li Jiancheng is, he has no way to save at this time.After all, Li Jiancheng's move was also to pull the clan kings.

Just when Li Jiancheng was looking forward to it, Li Yuanji came on horseback with Changlin army guards.

Li Yuanji laughed and said, "Brother, is Uncle Huai'an here?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "I just received the news that they have already left Huai'an Palace, and they will arrive at the East Palace in half an hour at most!"

As soon as Li Jiancheng finished speaking, he saw two luxurious four-wheeled carriages clearing the way, followed by the brigade's retinue, slowly coming along the street.

Before the people arrived, Huai'an Wang Li Shentong's laughter floated over first.

"Haha!" Li Shentong stepped down from the carriage, only to see that he was wearing a round-neck official uniform and a black headband.Futou, also known as Futou, is a kind of head clothing formed on the basis of Han and Wei towels.After the Tang Dynasty, people added a fixed ornament to the Futou, called "Scarf".The shape of the towel varies from period to period.In addition to the scarves, the feet of Futou also had many changes. By the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the original soft feet had changed to hard feet on the left and right.

Li Shentong laughed loudly, took Li Jiancheng's arm and said, "Let the prince spend money!"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and smiled, "No cost, no cost!"

Li Jiancheng and Li Shentong walked in hand in hand, walked into the Xiande Hall, looked at all the clan kings, pretended to be shocked and said: "Hey, why hasn't King Qin arrived yet!"

Li Jiancheng smiled awkwardly and said, "Uncle Huai'an doesn't know something. King Qin is living in seclusion in the palace, so I'm afraid he won't be able to come!"

"It's rare for our family to get together, how can we be without the King of Qin!" Li Shentong said displeased: "Then I will go to the palace, let go of this old face, and ask Your Majesty for mercy..."

At this moment, Wei Zheng opened his mouth towards Li Jiancheng, mouthing: "Brother, humble brother!"

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized that no matter how he fights with Li Shimin, he must show humility and humility, and he must act for outsiders to see.

Li Jiancheng thought about it for a while and said, "Come here, go to King Qin's mansion to invite King Qin to a banquet!"

Wei Zheng thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, let me go for a while!"

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Alright!"

Wei Zheng left the hall slowly and left in a car.

The East Palace is actually not far from the Prince Qin's Mansion, only about two or three kilometers away.

……

In the Wude Hall of Taiji Palace, Li Yuan and Concubine Yin De are having a meal.Suddenly, Hou Junji, dressed in black, appeared in front of the Panlong Pillar without saying a word.

Concubine Yin De didn't see Hou Junji, Li Yuan put down his chopsticks, looked at Concubine Yin De and said, "Concubine Yin, I'm full, you go down first!"

Concubine Yin De was puzzled and said: "Your Majesty..."

Li Yuan said with a sullen face, "Go down!"

A companion is like a tiger, no matter how much Concubine Yin De favors her, she dare not show her temper in front of Li Yuan, so she has to leave angrily.

Li Yuan looked at Hou Junji and said, "What happened?"

Hou Junji bowed and said, "Your Majesty, just now the Crown Prince invited King Qin to the East Palace for a banquet!"

Li Yuan was taken aback, and asked, "What banquet are you going to?"

Hou Junji said: "It is said that the crown prince held a banquet in the East Palace to celebrate the birthday of the King of Huai'an, and entertained the kings of the clan. During the banquet, the King of Huai'an saw that the King of Qin was not coming, so he extended an invitation!"

Li Yuan said again: "Where is Chen Ying, did you not stop him?"

Hou Junji shook his head and said, "He didn't stop him, but took someone to escort King Qin to the East Palace!"

Li Yuan nodded and said: "I understand, you step back!"

Hou Junji opened his mouth, lowered his head and backed away slowly!
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