Manchu traitor, how can you let me be the emperor of the ages

Chapter 157: The Telescope Comes Out!Huang Chao, who kills and kills!
Xingyang and Bianzhou are still in the midst of intensive preparations, and Li Gan doesn't know that his Heqing family has already put a pot on his head.

The sun is scorching hot, and it will enter September tomorrow. Although the autumn tiger still has a bit of prestige at this time, the weather is already much cooler than it was in June and July.

There were people coming and going on the street, and the ice cream hawker was grasping the last business opportunity, shouting hard, just begging to sell more ice cream.

Standing on the tall Zhuquemen city gate, Li Gan held a long silver tube with shiny ends in front of his eyes, and looked at the scene in the city in the distance with great interest.

"Big Companion, Fengxian, don't you wonder what I made?"

"Curiosity, servant girl is very curious."

The old eunuch looked at Li Gan eagerly from the side: "But if His Majesty doesn't speak, how can the slaves dare to ask?"

Lu Bu also looked at the telescope, staring wide-eyed, but couldn't see anything.

This thing is about the length of the forearm, the thickness of the forearm, both ends are inlaid with bright crystals, the whole body is silvery white, very textured, it is embossed with beautiful patterns such as auspicious cloud pattern, swimming dragon pattern, curly grass pattern, etc., it is majestic, And delicate.

"Father, Bu is also very curious."

"What is this thing for?"

"Hehe~"

Li Gan took the binoculars off his face: "Naturally, it has great uses."

"I will open your eyes to you, don't be frightened!"

"Thank you foster father!"

As soon as Lu Bu's eyes lit up, he was about to reach for it, but the old eunuch took the telescope from Li Gan first.

"You..." Lu Bu glared angrily.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The old eunuch glanced at him triumphantly, picked up the binoculars happily, imitated Li Gan, closed one eye, put it in front of the other, and looked down the city in the distance.

"Aah~"

The old eunuch suddenly exclaimed, staggered back a few steps, almost sat down on the ground, and almost threw the telescope in his hand off the city wall.

"Don't break it!"

Lu Bu took the opportunity to step forward and snatched the telescope.

"Your Majesty, this... this... the people under the city almost bumped into the servant girl's face!"

The old eunuch looked at Li Gan in shock.

"It really is!"

Lu Bu's exclamation was also heard from the other side, and he was also stunned with the binoculars, just looking at the city, motionless.

"Show me again!" The old eunuch came back to his senses, and hurried up to ask for Lu Bu's arm again.

"Let's go! You just finished reading, now it's my turn!"

Lu Bu twisted his body to look around, but refused to let him.

Seeing them fighting for a long time, Li Gancai looked at them both with a smile: "How about this thing?"

The old eunuch didn't bother to snatch it anymore, turned around quickly, and replied with a flattering smile: "Your Majesty, this thing surpasses the creation of the world, exhausts the avenue of yin and yang, and exhausts the truth of all things. It amazes the slaves and maidservants. Mandate the Son of Heaven, don't make it!"

"Humph~"

Lu Bu put down the binoculars and snorted disdainfully: "You are very surprised, but I am not surprised."

"For ordinary people, it is a miracle that is difficult to reach the sky, but it is a common occurrence with my adoptive father. In the future, even if my adoptive father can fly into the sky and escape from the earth, I will never be surprised at all."

The old eunuch laughed dryly, making Lu Bu say that, it seemed that he was not good enough.

However, the old eunuch is after all a master who has been immersed in the way of horses for many years. Although Lu Bu is very talented, his skills are still far behind him. The old eunuch quickly thought of a counterattack: "Your Majesty..."

"okay."

Li Gan waved his hand and said with a smile: "There is no need to say anything else, let me see where all the ministers are."

Lu Bu's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something, he hurriedly handed over the binoculars: "Father, please take a look."

Li Qian held a telescope, looked outside the imperial city, and said with a smile: "I heard that in the big work, the bigger the official, the bigger the house and mansion will be. I don't know if it's true."

He glanced around, and first found the Duke's Mansion, which was closer to the imperial city.

"It turns out that the uncle's house is so big..."

Li Gan looked at the stretching gardens, the canals passing through the mansion, and the majestic rockery from a height...

"I remember going to his house to play when I was a child, but looking at it now, I'm afraid I haven't even seen one out of ten of his house."

The old eunuch smiled dryly and said: "The Duke is a nobleman of the emperor, so it is not surprising that the house is a bit bigger."

"That's natural."

Li Gan nodded: "It's just that I didn't see the figure of Uncle Huang, and I don't know what he's doing secretly. I'm going to visit his house some other day."

The old eunuch turned bitter when he heard the words: "Your Majesty, do you still want to go out? What if someone finds out?"

Ever since Li Gan said those words in the Political Affairs Hall that day, those ministers probably realized that His Majesty the Emperor might have sneaked out of the palace and was playing around in the capital.

Otherwise, why do you know the rumors in the city?

Li Gan looked at the magnificent scenery in the capital with a telescope, and said with a smile: "Go to their house, of course you can't go secretly."

"I will let everyone know that I went to visit the royal uncle's house as a guest."

The old eunuch and Lu Bu were speechless.

In this case... it seems to be possible.

If this is the case, Tang Guogong must take good care of His Majesty the Emperor and not let him make any mistakes.

If there is an accident, even if Tang Guogong did not do it, I am afraid that someone with a heart will press him on the head, and then the yellow mud will really fall into the crotch, and it will be shit or shit...

"Of course, I won't go now, at least I have to wait for a while." Li Qian added.

The old eunuch and Lu Bu quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

In any case, going to that kind of place is no less than dancing on the tip of a knife. If someone wants to frame Li Yuan by hurting His Majesty the Emperor... His Majesty will still be injured.

"Anren Square... Presumably the mansion that occupies half of Anren is the home of Marshal Zhao..."

Li Gan looked over one by one, feeling emotional about the residences of these ministers.

There was no anger in his heart, just emotion.

After all, he himself lived in such a big palace, much bigger than everyone else's.

It is said that the mansions of the ministers below were built by searching for the fat and anointing of the people, but why not this palace?
Li Gan may be able to excuse himself by saying that he did not build the palace himself, that he not only lives in the palace, but also that ministers work there, and that the majesty of the palace is more conducive to maintaining the rule...etc.

But big is big, luxury is luxury, and the palace is right in front of you, irrefutable.

Therefore, his resentment towards the beautiful houses of the ministers is also very weak.

Because this is the status quo of society, no one has the face to despise anyone.

There is only one situation that makes Li Gan feel intolerable, that is, knowing that the current situation is difficult, he still disregards the life and death of the people, looting and building mansions...

Everyone has desires, and Li Gan himself is no exception, but the key is to know how to restrain.

Just like now, he is standing on the gate tower of Suzaku City, but he still feels that he is not high enough to see too far away.

Just now he suddenly had the idea of ​​building another tall building in the palace, at least higher than all the current palaces.

It's just that as soon as this idea came out, he was quickly killed by him.

Now that the Yellow River just broke out, most of the summer grain has been washed away. Not only can the court not collect taxes, but it also has to subsidize disaster relief food for the people. When the canal is silted up, the water boats are impassable, and there is an accident in Longxi, a major grain-producing county, and the northeast frontier is uneasy. ...

Under all kinds of difficulties, if you want to build any palace, it will really not give the people a way to live...

Li Gan was full of thoughts, although he was still looking at all kinds of things in the capital, his thoughts had already flown beyond the sky.

Suddenly, an extremely lively street appeared in his eyes, with people coming and going, surrounded by many people, old and young, but most of them were men.

"Why are there so many people gathered over there?"

The old eunuch and Lu Bu looked in the direction of the binoculars, and the former immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty, isn't that the Gongyuan over there? You have eaten duck blood vermicelli soup over there."

After what he said, Li Qian also came back to his senses: "Today is August 31, the day when the Gong Yuan releases the list."

"Your Majesty is wise." The old eunuch said from the side, "I'm afraid the eunuchs of this department are about to come out."

Li Gan chuckled a few times: "It seems that the capital can finally settle down."

"I can't settle down for a few months, foster father."

Lu Bu attacked: "This year's autumn will be the spring, and next year's spring will be the spring. Not only the candidates of this subject, but also those who have failed in the rankings and those who have not taken the exam in the past have to come from all over the country to take the exam. These candidates are more non-stop than scholars."

During the autumn period, there were seven examination rooms in total, but during the spring period, there was only one examination room in Beijing.

Dagan has a vast territory, and some candidates even have to leave half a year or more than a year in advance to rush to the capital.

Dagan capital is cold in winter, the canals are frozen, and the transportation is inconvenient, so the candidates usually arrived in the capital a few years ago.

After spending a new year in the capital, I will take part in the spring test.

"Juren is more difficult than a scholar?"

Li Gan was startled, and turned to look at Lu Bu: "Didn't you say before that the most generous people are these talents?"

"Scholars are actually not bad, but juren is really good, and the bad ones are really bad." Lu Bu shook his head, his face was not very good-looking, obviously he had experienced it himself.

Li Gan frowned slightly, and turned his head to look over again.

Several bulletins have been posted at the entrance of the Gongyuan, with densely packed small characters written on them, those are the names of the new imperial examination candidates.

Those talented scholars who were still making a lot of noise were like big geese, stretching their necks to search for their names on the list.

Gradually, some people found their names on it, and shouted excitedly on the spot, or cried bitterly, and some were insane, and even rolled on the ground...

Such a situation reminded Li Gan of a famous article "Fan Jinzhongju".

"How many juren does the imperial court take each year?"

Li Gan frowned and asked: "I remember that the rural examinations in various places are generally one out of [-], but there are still subjects before the provincial examination. How many subjects will be eliminated?"

The old eunuch replied: "Returning to Your Majesty, slaves remember that the recording department is about one out of ten, and there are people like supervisors who occupy the quota, so the ratio is less than one out of ten..."

Li Qian was also a little speechless when he heard the words.

The so-called recorded subjects refer to the provincial examination qualification selection examinations, which include scientific examinations, recorded records and so on.

Not every scholar can participate in the township examination, you can prove your ability.

Only those who have passed the record test can be qualified for this.

According to the admission rate of Luke, less than one of the ten scholars can take the provincial examination.

And among those selected from one of the ten elections, a total of one hundred people will come to take part in the provincial examination, and only three out of three will be able to pass the exam...

From this point of view, it is indeed a difficult thing to win a person.

"It's no wonder I keep hearing about 'Gold Juren and Silver Scholars'. It seems that this is true, and it's not easy for scholars..." Li Qian sighed.

The sun was blazing, and Li Gan looked through the binoculars at the scholars who were looking at the rankings. There would be 97 out of a thousand people. Presumably, the vast majority of these people would not be the lucky ones.

Those who won were very excited, but many people were still pale, looking at the list one by one, trying in vain to find their names from it.

"It's not easy to pass the exam, but once you pass the exam, you will reach the sky in one step. These people are not arrogant."

Lu Bu said indignantly: "If foster father has time these two days, he might as well go out of the palace to see their ugliness."

The old eunuch was taken aback, and secretly kicked Lu Bu.

Lu Bu also seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly covered his mouth and said with a sneer, "I'm not in a hurry..."

"It's okay."

Li Gan waved his hand: "I will go out to have a look in these two days."

"His Majesty……"

The old eunuch looked disconcerted, and couldn't help but persuade him: "Now the general and the others know that His Majesty often goes out of the palace, in case someone is watching outside the imperial city..."

"Of course I have a solution." Li Gan waved his hand, signaling the two of them not to worry.

Lu Bu and the old eunuch looked at each other, what can they do?
But by the next day they knew.

In the past, when they went out of the palace, they always came out from the east, west, or even south side of the palace.

But this time Li Gan and the old eunuch left the gate on the north side of the palace.

The old eunuch really didn't expect this.

After all, the imperial palace is on the northernmost side of the capital, next to the city wall.

If you go out from the north side of the palace, you will go directly out of the capital.

Li Qian and the old eunuch left the palace from Yongning Palace on the northeast side of Qianyuan Palace. Looking around, there are lush forests and rolling fields in the distance.

This canal is drawn from the Chanshui River and is divided into east and west canals. After entering the city, the upper reaches of the east canal mainly supply water for the imperial palace and inner gardens.The Xiqu enters the capital from Tonghua Gate, flows through Yongjiafang, Shengyefang, Chongrenfang, etc...

Li Gan just took a look, and was attracted by the continuous houses outside the city.

Yes, there are folk houses outside the city, built on the wall far away from the imperial city.

Dagan capital is such a strange place. The south of the city is relatively depressed, and there are even people who cultivate and farm in the workshop.

But the north of the city is extremely prosperous. It is the political center, economic center, cultural center, medical center, etc. All the most prosperous and developed things are in the north of the city.

There was not enough space in the north of the city, so many people built houses outside the city.

The Dagan Imperial City has not been war-torn for many years, and the development of these houses without city walls is not much worse than that of the city.

But Li Gan's main purpose today was not to see this, he just took a few glances, then followed the old eunuch westward, and met Lu Bu waiting outside after a while.

"Master is witty and clever, and he is full of tricks and tricks. If those people really send people to follow them, they are only worthy of drinking the foot-washing water of the master." Lu Bu was so excited.

He thought it would be difficult to get out of Miyagi with Li Qian from now on, but he didn't expect there to be such a way!
"Be quiet."

The old eunuch glared at him: "The North City Gate is just a little bit safer, but it's not foolproof!"

"What are you afraid of?"

Although Lu Bu was still arguing with the old eunuch, he lowered his voice subconsciously: "Who would have thought that we would go in after leaving the capital?"

Li Gan ignored the two men, but took the lead and walked west: "Three gates, which way shall we enter the capital?"

"Naturally Gwanghwamun!" The two said in unison.

"Master, Gwanghwamun is a bit far away, but it is the place with the most people coming and going."

The old eunuch explained first: "Going from there, people come and go, it is the best way to cover up our whereabouts, and it is more convenient than a place with few people."

Lu Bu also hastily added: "Besides, both Jingyao Gate and Fanglin Gate are very close to the imperial palace. If someone sees it, it will be bad."

"Then go to Gwanghwamun." Li Gan nodded his head, doing his best.

A few people entered the city from Gwanghwamun, where people come and go, and then rushed to the places where the new imperial examination students often go, that is, some sensual places.

Everyone understands this situation.

Of course, Li Gan was still very reluctant when he first heard the introduction from Lu Bu and the old eunuch.

He is a decent person, so naturally he is not suitable to go to that kind of place?

But after Lu Bu and the old eunuch persuaded him earnestly, after several words of persuasion, Li Qian reluctantly agreed.

In any case, it is to take a good look at these upstarts in Daqian, Juren.

Autumn is crisp and clear, approaching dusk, the breeze on the street brings a bit of coolness.

Pedestrians come and go, and their clothes are much thicker than those of the previous days.

"Master, Pingkangfang is ahead!"

Lu Bu wore a purple robe, stepped on powder-soled soap boots, and pointed to the road excitedly: "The happiest place in the capital must be this place."

"Go halfway to the east from this street, then turn left until you reach the end, and you can enter the square through the Nanfang gate of Pingkangfang."

"Although the brothels on the Nanfangmen side are not as good as the brothels on the east, west, and north gates, those people have just won the exam and haven't had time to make money. Presumably they can't get three melons and two dates in their pockets, so they can only go. Nanfangmen is here..."

Li Gan, dressed in a red brocade robe with maple pattern, followed behind, nodding secretly, so there was such a way.

The old eunuch squinted his eyes and looked him up and down: "My surname is Lu, why are you so familiar with this place? Did you use all the money His Majesty gave you here?"

Lu Bu's face froze, and he said with a dry smile, "Entertainment, my colleagues..."

He waved his hand to the old eunuch: "I think people like you won't understand."

"You..." The old eunuch blew his beard and stared angrily, but he didn't have a beard, so he could only stare.

"Okay, go quickly, go back quickly."

Li Gan said helplessly: "Try to go home before the curfew, so as not to spend the night here."

"Yes, master." The old eunuch moved a little faster, and hurriedly followed Li Gan.

Lu Bu still had a bit of regret on his face, but he followed quickly.

The Cao Canal is introduced from the west gate of the capital and passes through Pingkangfang next to Dongshi.

Red pillars, black plaques, and three large characters written on Pingkangfang.

As soon as he walked to the tall and majestic square gate, he saw two men in black silk robes with round necks coming out of it, holding each other.

At first Li Qian thought that the two of them were overworked in the workshop, so their legs were weak.

But he took a closer look, and found that the two people had bruised noses and swollen faces, and even walked with a limp, and the black silk round-neck robes that represented Juren's identity were also gray and stained with a lot of mud.

Li Qian carefully observed the expressions of these two people again, and couldn't help but secretly marvel.

He whispered to the old eunuch and Lu Bu on the side: "This imperial examination, why do you become more and more useless?"

"The scholar was beaten up, and he sued the officials without hesitation. If he had to fall out, he would do it. How could this man be beaten like this, but his eyebrows are downcast instead?"

Lu Bu sneered: "The one who beat them must have been Juren. How dare they report to the officials about the jealousy in Pingkangfang?"

Suddenly, Li Qian nodded slightly, smiled and walked up to talk to the two men.

"Brothers, what happened in the workshop?"

The two Juren were already in a bad mood after being beaten, but when they saw Li Qian's rich attire and the beautiful jade hanging from his waist, they subconsciously answered him, and said indignantly: "It's all a man named Huang Chao, who sent a message inside. Crazy!"

(End of this chapter)