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Chapter 8: Chapter 8: The Imperial Decree Arrives

Two days later, the memorial was spread out on Li Shimin's desk. After reading the memorial, Li Shimin laughed heartily for a long time, and then sighed: "God bless my Tang! God bless me!"

At this moment, there are two other people in the hall, Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling, these two are Li Shimin's right-hand men, they are indispensable to any major state affairs, but they don't know the content of the memorial yet, and they are looking at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin satiated the appetite of the two of them, and he was happy enough, so he asked the eunuch to pass the memorial to the two of them to watch.

The two got together and read the memorial from the beginning to the end. After reading it, the two hurriedly bowed to Li Shimin and cheered in unison: "Sure enough, God bless the Tang Dynasty. I will congratulate Your Majesty!"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "Okay, the epidemic is urgent and there is no need to delay. Auxiliary machine, quickly copy this prescription and send it to all states in Henan Province in an urgent manner, and order them to make medicine according to this prescription to save people. If you dare to delay, you will be severely punished." No loan!"

"Yes, I will do it immediately!" Changsun Wuji took the order to leave.

Li Shimin walked back and forth in the hall twice, and suddenly turned his head to Fang Xuanling: "Xuanling, do you think this Li Hao is a gift from God to me?"

Fang Xuanling rolled his eyes, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty already has the answer in mind."

"Haha." Li Shimin smiled heartily, and asked again, "What do you think, how should I reward this Li Hao?"

Fang Xuanling said: "Returning to Your Majesty, it is too early for the plague to be subdued. When the plague is completely subdued, it will not be too late to reward based on merit."

"Yes." Li Shimin nodded again and again, "You are right, haha, I really want to hear the good news of the suppression of the plague as soon as possible."

Two days later, Hu Xiaohai's plague had been eradicated, and the family of four was finally released from the isolation area. However, there were still soldiers guarding the door to prevent them from coming out. They needed to be observed for several days. The family was finally reunited, and the four met each other. Weeping and embracing, it happened that Physician Liu came to conduct a routine examination for them. The whole family expressed their gratitude to Physician Liu, and said something like a cow and a horse.

This made Imperial Physician Liu's face turn red, he quickly stopped them, and said: "It's not the old man who saved you, the old man is at most a medicine maker, the real meritorious service is a young man named Li Hao."

"Li Hao?" The old man Hu's family was stunned when they heard the words, and they looked at each other. They knew Li Hao's virtues, and they didn't even speak properly. How could they cure the plague well.

Old man Hu thought he was joking, and said, "Don't make trouble, old doctor, how could Li Hao cure the plague well..."

Imperial Physician Liu said solemnly: "The old man didn't make trouble. If Li Hao hadn't given the prescription to cure the plague in time this time, I'm afraid your family of four would have been separated from heaven and man, and the whole Huliu Village and even the whole Xuzhou would be affected by the plague. This kid gave a prescription at will, but saved thousands of lives."

"Ah?" The four members of the Hu family were all dumbfounded, and couldn't believe it was true. Doctor Liu turned around and left with his hands behind his back when they were in a daze.

Imperial Physician Liu continued to let the whole village drink the decoction for three days. No one was found to have the plague, so he ordered the villagers to go out of the house, but they were not allowed to leave the village. If there was any need to buy anything, the soldiers of Zhechongwei would do it for them.

The foot ban in the village was lifted, and the old man Hu's family of four ran to the village office to meet Li Hao. As soon as they saw Li Hao's face, the whole family bowed to Li Hao and saluted Li Hao. There is no such thing as virtue.

Li Hao hurried up to help them, but this family accepted death and must salute, how could he hold four people by himself, and in the end he could only accept a big gift from their whole family. Help yourself to conceal your identity, just say that you are from a foreign country, how could Old Man Hu refuse, the four of them nodded like pecking rice, and were willing to help tell the whole village, let them conceal it together, and then they sincerely told Li Hao invited him to his home and confessed like his ancestors. Li Hao also had a thick skin, so he accepted it calmly.

In the old man Hu's house, he lived in the days of eating and sleeping, and sleeping in the sun. After only five days, Li Hao felt that he had gained weight. On the sixth day, the village suddenly became lively, and many horses came, blowing and beating. , There was a lot of commotion.

Li Hao was basking in the sun in the fenced yard of Old Man Hu's house, when Wang Yuantai rushed in anxiously: "Li Hao, something big! Something big happened!"

Li Hao didn't even lift his eyelids, and continued to bask in the sun on the ground: "Don't make trouble, just bask in the sun."

Wang Yuantai gasped and shouted: "Don't dry it out, prepare the incense table quickly, someone from the palace will announce the decree!"

Li Hao jumped up from the rattan chair when he heard the words: "Is the imperial decree coming? For me?"

"Of course it's for you!" Wang Yuantai screamed, "This time the plague was able to subside so quickly, it's all thanks to your prescription. Who else is qualified to receive this imperial decree except you!"

At this time, old man Hu just came out, and when he heard that the imperial decree was coming, he hurriedly prepared the incense table, while Mrs. Liu helped Li Hao fetch a basin of warm water for him to wash.

Li Hao picked up the cloth towel and washed it symbolically a few times. The sound of drum music was approaching, and he saw a large group of people walking towards this side through the fence.

As soon as Mrs. Liu took the water basin away, the team had already arrived at the door. The leader was a white-faced eunuch. Since he had no beard, he couldn't really tell how old he was. He was not old, but he was not young either. He was walking squarely with a bright yellow scroll in his hand. Entering the courtyard, he squeezed his duck voice and shouted: "The imperial decree has arrived, Li Hao accepts it!"

Old man Hu hurriedly invited out the incense table, and the family of four, Li Hao and Wang Yuantai bowed and saluted together. Li Hao stepped forward and responded loudly: "Li Hao, a grassroots man, welcomes the imperial decree!"

The white-faced eunuch glanced at Li Hao proudly, unfolded the yellow decree scroll, and began to read the imperial decree with his male duck voice: "Zhi said: the way of heaven is impermanent, disasters occur suddenly, and the people mourn. ..."

The white-faced eunuch read very rhythmically, but Li Hao felt a little sleepy when he heard it. There are too many nonsense in this edict. At the beginning, he said that this plague is a disaster from heaven and has nothing to do with Li Shimin. The world is big, and the blame is the biggest. Now he is most afraid of taking the blame, and if he continues to recite it, he will become a blame man, and then he will talk about how he loves the people like a son, sees the people suffering, how sad he is, and throws away all kinds of tears-making words shamelessly It came out, and then went to the main topic, saying that a young hero Li Hao came out of the sky, all kinds of wise and powerful, fighting the plague, and the image of the hero was so tall, Li Hao was almost not sure that he was writing about himself.

Hearing the imperial decree, Li Hao suddenly felt blush, it was too shameful, how could Li Shimin be so shameless?He thought about it carefully, but it was actually nothing. Li Shimin was the most embarrassing thing among the emperors. At least he was an emperor through the ages and created the most powerful empire in the history of the Chinese nation. It's still very embarrassing.Unlike the founding emperor of the later Ming Dynasty, who had been a monk and a beggar, and once he became powerful and sat on the throne of the emperor, his whole body and pores revealed the breath of nouveau riche. Said," Li Hao has read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", and he still has a lot of opinions on Lao Zhu. Lao Zhu has both advantages and disadvantages. He is a national hero because he expelled the Tartars. This is an indisputable fact. For this alone, he must be applauded.

At the end of the imperial decree, Li Hao heard the sentence "Let Li Hao face the saint in Chang'an, and the Golden Palace will accept the seal", he was stunned, Li Shimin wanted to see him, so fast, he didn't expect to see him so soon The legendary Tian Khan broke down, and he was a little excited in his heart.

The white-faced eunuch finally finished reading the imperial edict, and Li Hao and the others were still standing there in a daze. The eunuch seemed to be used to this, thinking that the first time receiving the imperial edict should be like this, but he didn't know where Li Hao was so silly, why? Le, it's not because I can meet Li Shimin, but because of the award. Li Shimin asked him to go to the hall to listen to the award. With the same bonus as Yinshan, Li Hao suddenly went on standby.

"Li Hao, get up and receive the imperial edict." The white-faced eunuch said in a soft voice, Li Hao stood there bowed with a silly smile on his face, without any reaction.

The eunuch was stunned for a moment, then raised his voice: "Li Hao, quickly receive the imperial edict!"

Li Hao continued to smirk, his eyes almost turned into the shape of copper coins, and Wang Yuantai, who was beside him, was so anxious that he secretly reached out and pinched him.

Li Hao cried out in pain: "Ah, who the hell is pinching me!"

The eunuch immediately darkened his face: "Li Hao, come quickly to receive the imperial edict!"

"Ah? Oh!" Li Hao hurried forward to accept the imperial edict, and thanked the eunuch by the way, "Thank you, Eunuch."

The eunuch pinched him with his eyelids, and hummed in a neutral way.

Seeing this, Wang Yuantai hurried forward, took out three small silver collars and stuffed them into the eunuch's palm, and said with a smile: "Eunuch Li has worked hard all the way, my brother is young and ignorant, please forgive me, Eunuch."

The eunuch looked at the silver collars in his hand, each of them was worth five liang, his face turned from cloudy to sunny in an instant, and he said with a smile: "Where is it, Li Hao was able to be summoned by His Majesty as a commoner at a young age, and he must have a bright future , our family is just running errands and delivering letters, so how dare we speak bitterly."

Wang Yuantai hurriedly cupped his hands: "Elder-in-law's words are serious, words are serious."

Li Hao looked at Wang Yuantai's obsequiousness, and thought to himself: "Wang Yuantai is not a simple kid, he looks honest, I didn't expect him to be so slippery in flattering and flattering."

At the moment when he was distracted, the eunuch ordered: "Li Hao, you start to prepare, and go to Chang'an with our family to face the saint tomorrow morning."

Li Hao nodded and accepted the order: "Yes."

The eunuch nodded in satisfaction, turned around and walked out of the yard, leading a group of people away.

Thinking of going to Chang'an, Li Hao really wanted to go back to the Taoist temple and tell his master, but now the martial law in the village has not been lifted, and he can't go out at all, so he can only give up this idea.

Old man Hu's family heard that Li Hao was going to Chang'an to meet the emperor. They were so happy. They took good care of Li Hao. They almost opened their mouths and stretched out their hands for clothes. The Liu family also specially took out old man Hu's newly sewn clothes for Li Hao to change. Come on, to see the emperor, you have to dress better.

But after Li Hao put on the new clothes, he felt that he was not as handsome as his Taoist robes. He looked like a peasant to death. After all, these were the clothes of peasants.

Early the next morning, someone sent a message to Li Hao. Li Hao had just had breakfast. He simply packed his bags, took the donkey egg and followed the visitor until he reached the entrance of the village. He was driving a luxurious carriage, surrounded by fifty cavalry guards at the front and rear of the carriage. Each of the cavalry guards was wearing armor, holding a long soldier, and a Tang knife at his waist. No sound, no movement, even the horses seemed to be sculptures, I really don't know how they were trained, Li Hao couldn't help being shocked, sighing secretly that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty really lived up to their reputation, no wonder the Tang Dynasty became the world's number one cavalry A powerful country.

When Li Hao arrived in front of the carriage, the white-faced eunuch took two steps forward, greeted Li Hao symbolically, then pointed at the carriage with his fingers outstretched, and said, "Li Hao, our family has been honored by you this time. When the family went out to announce the decree, they all rode horses. This time, His Majesty is afraid that you can’t ride a horse, so he specially allowed our family to drive to pick you up. This is your great honor.”

"Why don't you just ride in a carriage, and I'm still talking about it." Li Hao thought inwardly, but he had to do a good job on the surface, only to see that he suddenly had a serious expression on his face, entered the scene in a second, and bowed in the direction of Chang'an, expressing his gratitude Shouted, "Your Majesty's favor, Hao will remember it in his heart, even if his body is smashed to pieces, it will be difficult to repay the emperor's mighty grace."

(End of this chapter)