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

Chapter 201 Probe into People's Heart Zhuge Liang, New Year's Eve!
Li Gan was stunned again, he found that since he started talking to Zhuge Liang, he had already been tricked by him twice.

The first time he used the way of questioning to trick out his identity, and the second time he tricked out such an important matter as Wang Mang.

It's really an old fox.

The vigilance in Li Gan's heart gradually increased, but his face was still a little stiff: "Sir, this is a wrong calculation."

"I can't order Wang Zongbo. How should I choose the chief examiner for this test? With the current situation, I will definitely lose to Cai Jing this time."

Zhuge Liang sat up straight, frowned and thought for a moment, but shook his head: "In Liang's humble opinion, His Majesty will definitely not lose, but win back elsewhere."

He dipped his finger in the tea and slowly wrote a word on the table...

Li Gan looked over curiously, and when he saw Zhuge Liang's writing, his eyes shrank suddenly, and he subconsciously sat up straight.

"Mr. Wolong is a great talent, and he really lives up to his reputation." Li Qian suppressed the horror in his heart, and gave Zhuge Liang a meaningful look.

With only a little information circulating outside, he was able to guess this level and figure out his own plan! !
It is indeed Zhuge Kongming who can be compared to "Jiang Ziya who prospered Zhou for 800 years, and Zhang Zifang who prospered for a hundred years"!

Zhuge Liang smiled, wiped off the water stains on the table with his sleeve, and said frankly: "Your Majesty, Liang just thinks that His Majesty will not lose so easily."

"Cai Sikou disagrees with His Majesty on this matter, and has no chance of winning."

Li Qian looked at him appreciatively, nodded with a smile, and asked tentatively: "Sir, you have to take the imperial examination, so you should review your articles at ease. Otherwise, if you fail the imperial examination, I will not be able to nominate you in the imperial examination." on the list."

Zhuge Liang seemed to understand the meaning of Li Qian's words, and nodded his thanks: "Thank you, Your Majesty, the grass people will definitely live up to your Majesty's expectations."

Seeing that he agreed, Li Qian was overjoyed, but he didn't show it on his face.

He stood up, nodded with a smile and said: "I originally wanted to invite Mr. to a safer residence for the New Year, but now that I see Mr.'s residence, it is peaceful and comfortable, so I gave up the idea just now."

"If my husband encounters any troubles, is made things difficult by others, or wants to move there, you can ask your younger brother to find me at any time."

Zhuge Liang's expression changed, and he cupped his hands with some emotion: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Based on his experience, superiors always like to impose what they think is good on others, regardless of other people's wishes.

But His Majesty the Emperor doesn't seem to have this habit, and he even considers it from the standpoint of others.

Combining all the things he saw before, Zhuge Liang subconsciously felt that he made a correct choice this time...

"Okay, it's Chinese New Year, and there are a lot of things to be busy, so I won't bother you any more."

Li Gan turned his head with a smile, looked at the old eunuch and Lu Bu: "Let's go."

Zhuge Liang sent them all the way to the door, watched the carriage go away and disappeared into the night, then sighed quietly, and was about to turn around and enter the house.

Zhuge Jun was still staring at the back of Li Gan's carriage, "Second Brother, is that really His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Of course." Zhuge Liang glanced at him: "Who else dares to impersonate him?"

Zhuge Jun took a deep breath and pinched Zhuge Liang's arm dryly, "Brother, am I dreaming?"

"In my life, I can still let His Majesty invite you to dinner..."

Zhuge Jun's black hand was not light, Zhuge Liang gasped in pain, and slapped his hand away: "Why don't you pinch yourself? Go away!"

Zhuge Jun didn't give up, pulled Zhuge Liang, asked with wide eyes: "Second Brother, did His Majesty want us to live in the palace just now?"

"You think too much, at most it's the kind of house you went to last time." Zhuge Liang turned around and walked back angrily.

"Oh? That's not bad!" Zhuge Jun hurriedly followed up and said, "Second brother, you don't know how good the food was when I went there last time, and how beautiful the maids in that mansion are..."

He walked quickly to the front room: "Second brother, pack up quickly, lest there will be a curfew later, and it will be too late!"

Zhuge Liang was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly pulled him back: "What are you in such a hurry for?"

"Of course we moved there!" Zhuge Jun said as a matter of course, "With that kind of big house, do we still need to live in such a small place?"

"It's next to the cemetery outside. You don't think it's bad luck, but I think it's bad luck!"

Naturally, he couldn't hide his knowledge from his brother, Zhuge Liang smiled coldly: "Did you fall in love with someone else's maid?"

"I……"

Zhuge Jun stuttered and said: "The two love each other...the man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried...I like her..."

"Pooh!"

Zhuge Liang looked at him with contempt: "Do you like others? You are greedy!"

He taught his younger brother: "Don't look at that kind of place as magnificent, but if you live there, you can't be as happy and free as you are now?"

Zhuge Jun was very unconvinced after being scolded, and couldn't help but said: "You haven't lived there before, what do you know?"

"I..." Zhuge Liang was so angry that he couldn't help but said, "Of course I lived there when I was away!"

Zhuge Jun's footsteps gradually slowed down, and his voice was a little low: "Anyway, you just ran out to enjoy yourself, and you didn't take me with you..."

Zhuge Liang was left speechless by what he said, stared at him for a while before sighing and said: "Let's talk about it after this year is over. If you think about living this kind of life in the future, maybe there will be no more."

Zhuge Jun was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head suddenly: "What do you mean? Second brother?"

Zhuge Liang turned around and walked into the house, his back was a bit lonely: "After taking the exam for my brother, I will work for the emperor's family from now on."

A gust of cold wind blew, shaking the corners of his clothes.

Zhuge Jun was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses, and suddenly he felt that he was very ignorant.

The second brother was thinking about how to do something big, but he only thought about a big house and a beautiful maid, it really shouldn't be.

"Second brother, don't be like this. At worst, I won't bother you anymore. At worst, we'll go back to the village."

Zhuge Jun scratched his head in embarrassment: "I don't want delicious food, and I don't want pretty maids either."

Zhuge Liang continued to walk forward, with a bit of determination in his voice: "It's too late, either you will retire after success, or you will die in the middle."

"Since you have already come out, how can you get out so easily?"

Seeing this, Zhuge Jun felt even more guilty, and couldn't help but comforted him loudly: "Second brother, let's think about the better things, what if you don't even pass the Jinshi exam?"

Just as Zhuge Liang was about to enter the house, he tripped over the threshold and fell to the ground with a slap.

"Second...second brother..."

Zhuge Jun was taken aback. He was so guilty that he didn't dare to go up to help Zhuge Liang, but kept backing away: "Second brother, I have to kill chickens tomorrow, and the chickens at home are gone. I'll go buy a chicken now." Just come back..."

"Come here first, I have something to tell you." Zhuge Liang stretched his arms and slowly got up from the ground.

"Forget it, second brother..." Zhuge Junren had already run out of the courtyard: "You must be exhausted after running outside for so many days."

He shouted from a distance: "Just let me do this kind of trivial matter, so I won't bother my second brother..."

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27 to kill a rooster, 28 to make noodles, 29 to steam steamed buns, and to stay up all night at [-].

In fact, on the [-]th afternoon of the twelfth lunar month, a lively and festive atmosphere has already begun to brew. Walking on the street, you can often see children in beautiful new clothes chasing and playing excitedly, and there are people who can’t wait for it. Firecrackers were set off cracklingly, causing cats and dogs in the neighborhood to jump around.

However, the officials who liked to hang out and have dinner together a few days ago were uncharacteristically, and they all stayed at home.

These people will participate in the court meeting early tomorrow morning, so naturally they have to prepare well at home.

If today's wave is too much, and tomorrow at the court meeting, he loses his face, dozes off, and whispers, and is caught by those correcting censors, then this official will have achieved his end.

Most of the officials in Beijing have to participate in the Great Court Meeting, and those who do not participate can't escape. They have to wait in their own yamen, and then when the Great Court Meeting is held, they will offer incense in the direction of the imperial city to express their respect The Son of Heaven, the reverence for the Dachaohui.

The same is true for various local yamen. In addition to sending county planners to participate in the court meeting, on the day of the great court meeting, incense cases must be placed in the yamen towards the capital. Local officials can have a good year, so there is no need to worry about it.

The place is loose and the capital is tight, and as the place where the Great Court Meeting is held, the capital is the tightest of the tight.

Long before the officials sealed it, the middle-ranking officials in the palace were already busy preparing for the Great Court Meeting. They have been busy with the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs. Even during the sealing period, they did not relax.

And tomorrow morning is when the Grand Court Meeting will be held, and the palace will be extremely busy.

The eunuchs carried all kinds of treasure cases, incense cases, musical instruments, brine books, etc., and placed them on Chengtianmen Square, and arranged the rank cards of the officials in order. Checking the same program...

Even the old eunuch couldn't stand his ground, checking all kinds of unfinished matters over and over again, for fear that something might go wrong in tomorrow's court.

This was Li Gan's first grand court meeting since he came to the throne, and the old eunuch paid more attention to it than Li Gan.

There is a saying that "the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry", which is very appropriate here.

Although others were more nervous, Li Qian himself did not have such emotions.

Today was New Year's Eve, so Li Gan didn't want to bother with this thing. Anyway, the palace held at least one court meeting every year, and the middle officials had already had experience, so just let them follow the steps.

If he went to give instructions blindly, he would cause trouble for others.

Li Gan plans to spend this New Year's Eve with his concubines tonight...

The winter sky darkened quickly, and the crimson sunset just came out to take a breath before being swallowed up by the pitch-black night.

In the Hall of Eternal Life, the bright glazed lamps were lit up one after another, magnificent and grand, and the laughter and laughter in the hall were getting closer and closer to the door.

Li Gan was dressed in a red-yellow padded robe, and led a group of concubines out of the palace, and several eunuchs waiting outside the palace hurriedly followed with lanterns on.

"It's getting dark, set off firecrackers."

Li Gan smiled and said: "Let's go back to eat dumplings after the release."

The fifty concubines were dressed in festive clothes today, and one of them was right next to Li Gan. Although everyone didn't understand why the emperor insisted on eating this kind of "flat food" during the Chinese New Year, since he liked it, there was nothing wrong with it.

The eunuchs carried firecrackers and fireworks to the front of the hall. Li Qian walked down the long steps, took the torches from the eunuchs, and lit a frame of fireworks placed in front of the hall.

The orange-red fire letter quickly devoured the fuse, and after the external fuse was burned out, a black shadow spouted a red-yellow tail flame and rose rapidly, accompanied by a clear howling sound, straight into the sky!

When it reached the highest point, it stopped suddenly, and then exploded into more than a dozen flames, turning into a beautiful flower in the night sky.

At the same time, clusters of beautiful fireworks gradually rose in the distant capital city, exploding in the air, which was extremely beautiful.

The sky above the entire capital gradually became lively, apart from the rumble of fireworks exploding above, there was also the crackling of firecrackers exploding below.

The concubines cheered happily in the rear, as if Li Qian had accomplished such a remarkable thing.

Li Gan didn't continue, but turned his head to look at the concubines with a smile: "Which concubine wants to set off the second firework?"

The concubines are all women, and most of them took half a step back subconsciously when they heard the words, not because they were afraid of this thing, but because they just wanted to show their soft and tender side to His Majesty the Emperor.

Only a few people were not afraid, but walked forward with excitement.

"Your Majesty, come here as a concubine."

Chen Leyi rushed to the front, and Li Gan handed her the torch with a smile.

But Chen Leyi didn't go to the other side to set off the fireworks, but ran quickly with long legs to the side of the firecrackers hanging on the long pole, his beautiful face glowed with excitement under the reflection of the fireworks in the distance.

Chen Leyi pointed at the firecracker, turned his head and said softly: "Your Majesty, I want to set this off."

"Okay, then let it go."

Li Gan smiled and nodded.

This is his little rich woman, her patron.

After the money in the internal funds was used up, Li Gan relied on the loom invented by Chen Leyi to weave cloth in the palace, and only then did he earn a lot of money to support his subsequent expenses.

Li Gan's ability to roam around in the capital was largely due to Chen Leyi's influence.

Under the watchful eyes of Li Qian and all the concubines, Chen Leyi carefully touched the fuse, and then ran back quickly.

The firecrackers fell to the ground and exploded cracklingly. The bursts of bright yellow flames dispelled the bad luck of the whole year and brought new hope.

Li Gan looked at Chen Leyi, who was smiling very happily, trotting back, and suddenly his heart moved, and he stretched out his hand to embrace her in his arms.

Chen Leyi was stunned, two red clouds flew up on her pretty face, but she didn't struggle, but put her arms around Li Qian's waist with her red face.

Seeing this, the concubines who were on the sidelines cried out regret in their hearts. If they had known that the first one to go up would be able to get the warm embrace of His Majesty the Emperor, they would have rushed up too!
Li Gan took the torch in Chen Leyi's hand with a smile, turned his head and asked with a smile, "Is there anything else to put?"

"Let me come here, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, I can't set off firecrackers, can I set off fireworks..."

The concubines rushed forward, even the eldest grandson Wugou was among them.

Li Gan smiled and handed the torch in his hand to Changsun Wugou, and said: "There are all over there, put whatever you want, go and get it."

The eunuchs were also holding a lot of torches, which were not valuable things.

Although the concubines were disappointed that they couldn't get the one in Li Gan's hand, it was not the time to pick and choose. They took the torches and ran to the fireworks stand to light them, and the fireworks flew into the sky screaming one by one.

For a time, the top of Miyagi was like a blooming garden, extremely beautiful.

In the midst of such fireworks, Li Qian turned around and returned to the Palace of Longevity with a group of concubines, and ate a meal of dumplings.

Today's Dagan has not yet formed the tradition of eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year, so the concubines feel a little weird about this.

But for Li Qian, what he eats is not only dumplings, but also his memories of another world...

After drinking and eating, the atmosphere in the hall gradually became weird.

All the concubines knew that tonight was New Year's Eve, which was of great significance. Everyone was curious about who the emperor would live with.

The empresses and concubines were making guesses in their hearts, and everyone's eyes were frequently looking at the most popular candidates, such as Wu Meiniang and Lu Zhi, who were always with the emperor, and the especially favored eldest grandson Wugou, Xi Shi, Zhao Feiyan...

The eldest grandson Wugou had a fair and pretty face with a smile on his face, whispering to Xi Shi.

But Xi Shi held her hand, looking worried, and looked in Li Gan's direction from time to time.

Since the last time Li Qian took his eldest grandson Wugou to stay with Xi Shi for one night, the relationship between the two has improved unexpectedly. Now, apart from the teacher-student relationship, they are also close friends who talk about everything.

It's just that the eldest grandson Wugou didn't respond to Xi Shi's worry at this moment, but comforted her with a steady smile.

On the other side, Lu Zhi and Wu Meiniang chatted with the surrounding concubines with smiles on their pretty faces. Their eyes collided by chance, and they could see the competition and hostility in each other's eyes.

Li Gan was holding a bowl of strong tea, sipping it in small sips. He had just eaten a meal of oily mutton dumplings, and he had to relieve his greasy after the meal.

Holding the teacup, Zhang Yan cautiously came to Li Gan, and said in a warm voice, "Your Majesty, in autumn, I picked some chrysanthemums and dried them to make chrysanthemum tea. The tea smells fragrant. Please taste it."

Li Qian took it with a smile, took a sip, and then nodded with a smile: "It's really good, you can send some over."

Seeing that Li Qian didn't express anything, Zhang Yan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but she didn't reveal anything on her face, and left with a smile.

Li Qian naturally understood the thoughts of these concubines, but he also had his own plans tonight.

After taking two more sips, Li Qiancai put down the teacup and stood up. The concubine's conversation stopped suddenly, as if a silence curse had been cast in the Hall of Eternal Life.

Li Gan said with a smile: "Tonight's New Year's Eve is a day to reunite with your family members. Concubines don't have to be alone. Just treat the company... the palace as your own home. I am your family."

The concubines all looked at Li Qian, feeling indescribably moved.

According to the senior maids in the palace, when the first emperor was in power, he only brought his favorite concubines with him on New Year's Eve, but he never cared about others.

In such a comparison, His Majesty the Emperor is too considerate.

Li Gan said with a smile: "Since it's New Year's Eve, we have to be reunited. Tonight, you all should stay in the Hall of Eternal Life."

(End of this chapter)