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

Chapter 207 Li Guangbi's complaints, hot money.

Do you still have the face to say it while riding a horse?
Wu Shenglan gave him a gouged look.After coming out of the palace.He rushed here in a hurry.But I didn't expect that Su Ling'a would tell me about it after I came here.

Su Ling'a shrank her neck, scratched her head and said, "Brother Wu, even if you die, you have to make me a fool."

Only then did Wu Shenglan suppress the anger in her heart.Tell him everything about what happened in the palace.

Su Ling'a was also dumbfounded after listening to it, and it took a long time to come back to her senses: "Then... shall we report it to Mr. He?"

"What do you say?"

Wu Shenglan looked at his naive look, and couldn't help but get angry: "Also, not only do you have to report to Mr. He, but you also have to control your own mouth. Don't talk around all day long."

He also knew that Su Ling'a and Yan Lide had a good relationship.But this kind of thing is related to your wealth and life, you must not talk nonsense.

Su Ling'a seemed to know that she had caused trouble, so she had to obediently bow her head and be scolded.

When Wu Shenglan said she was tired, her anger almost disappeared.Soviet Union Acai raised his head and said tentatively, "Then should I go to Lao Yan's again? Make this matter clear, I was the one who made it up that day, and let him not believe it."

Wu Shenglan's eyes darkened: "Are you a pig?"

Isn't this what the silver-free 300 taels are here?
He explained wearily: "If you don't say it, he might forget it when he's drunk. If you send it to your door now, it's obviously making people feel that something is wrong."

Su Ling'a patted her head.This is also the reason.

"Okay, let's just let it go. If you ask me about it some other day, just say you don't know. You drank too much that day and forgot everything."

Wu Shenglan gritted her teeth and exhorted: "Also, no matter who it is in the future, you can't speak out anymore."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Su Ling'a smiled and nodded, with today's lesson, he is enough...

Although Wu Shenglan contained the source of the news in time, for some reason, in the next few days, this kind of gossip still blew up among the servants.

Fortunately, most people still know how to measure, how can such things be talked about everywhere?So the news is still limited to a certain range...

Although the New Year's Eve has passed, the New Year's atmosphere in the capital has not completely dissipated, because there will be a Lantern Festival after the New Year's Eve.

Today is the Shangyuan Festival in the capital, and it is also a day for the common people to visit temple fairs and watch lantern festivals.

Although New Year's Eve is lively, it is more ceremonial and ceremonial.Since years ago, I have been busy with work, staying up all night on New Year's Eve, going out to pay New Year's greetings to neighbors, relatives and friends on the first day of the new year, and going to the grave on the second day of the new year...

After this series of processes, even the iron man is very tired.

The Shangyuan Festival is different. On this day, people's accumulated fatigue has completely dissipated.Finally, I can relax and play.

Today's Li Gan didn't go to the City God's Temple Fair to watch the excitement, but stayed in the Ziwei Hall, and the reason was because of this person in front of him.

"Your Majesty, the search and field inspections are performed one subject at a time. The last test was performed by their Dongcheng Bingmasi, and it's our Nancheng Bingmasi's turn for this one."

In the Dongnuange study room, sitting next to Li Gan was a man in a blue official robe, with a burly figure, a high nose bridge, and a heroic face, but at the moment he had an aggrieved face, and his expression did not match his temperament at all.

"But now the people from Dongcheng Bingma Division continue to occupy the seats. This is obviously cheating."

This person is Li Guangbi, commander of the Nancheng Army and Horse Division.

Li Gan also knew that he was one of the fierce men who quelled the Anshi Rebellion, but his expression now made Li Gan feel inexplicably funny.

Speaking of the inspections and inspections, we have to mention the Tribute Court and the Examination.

Basically, the tribute courtyards in all places are built in the southeast of the city, and the capital is no exception.Because according to the five elements of feng shui, the southeast is the direction of 'purple air coming from the east', these scholars just want to take advantage of the purple air.

Because of the geographical location, the maintenance work of the examination room during the examination is also done by Dongcheng Bingmasi and Nancheng Bingmasi.

Li Qian knew that Li Guangbi came to him to complain, and there must be a reason for it. He asked curiously: "Commander Li, isn't this patrol and inspection similar? There is no need to fight with Dongcheng soldiers and horses over such a small matter." Bar?"

Li Guangbi sighed helplessly, and explained to Li Gan: "Your Majesty, this is too far away. Searching is an easy job, no matter how busy you are, it will only take you one day. However, you have to stand in the examination room for nine days..."

"It's just the beginning of spring when it's freezing and snowy, and the brothers who are patrolling the field are not like those who come to take the exam. They can bring mattresses, quilts, and heaters. They can only carry the cold wind outside!"

"After nine days like this, the iron man will suffer from ailments all over his body, and some brothers will also suffer from a root of illness because of this, and they can't be cured for many years."

Li Gan nodded thoughtfully.

Of course, Li Guangbi only told him half of the reason, but not the other half.

This inspection is not only easy and simple, he is also a first-class fat job.

In the spring of March, it was still freezing cold, and if they were outside, the candidates were asked to strip for inspection.After the inspection, eight of the ten people will be frozen, and there is no need to take the next test.

Therefore, the search and inspection are all held in a small cell. During this process, as long as the candidates can bribe a few officers and soldiers who search and inspect, they can turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye to bring the cheat sheet into the examination room.

These bribes are a huge amount of income, not only the top soldiers below are jealous, but even the people above are very excited.

In addition, there are also non-compliant examination instruments confiscated during the inspection process, all of which are resold, which is also a considerable income.

So, this inspection job is a fat job.

Of course, as long as Li Guangbi wasn't stupid, he wouldn't tell Li Gan about this.

Now that the examination is coming up, it should be their turn to examine the subject.

The Nancheng Bingma Si, who has always been bitter, has long been looking forward to this beautiful job. Who would be willing to be snatched away suddenly?
Li Guangbi explained again with red eyes: "Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are stingy, nor is it that the brothers of the Nancheng Bingmasi are greedy for life and afraid of death, it is really the Dongcheng Bingmasi who is too bullying."

"I didn't even give a reason, just took the errand away."

Li Qian's expression froze when he heard this.

He didn't care about whether he was fat or not, but he thought of the relationship between Cai Jing and Dongcheng Bingmasi.

Think back to the time when Qin Hui and Cai Jing fought for the first time, Cai Jing used his relationship with the soldiers and horses in Dongcheng to deceive Qin Hui. It has only been a few months, and Li Qian will never forget it.

Looking at Li Guangbi's expression, Li Gan picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and said thoughtfully: "Commander Li, if I remember correctly, this patrol and inspection should be conducted by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War. Let's decide."

Li Guangbi said with a bit of righteous indignation: "Your Majesty, I don't know how Dongcheng Bingmasi bribed people... After convincing the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War, these two families are now scumbags, and they are determined to let Dongcheng Bingmasi go to search. "

In the past, he shook his head with a smile: "Commander Li, now there are people in the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War. Dongcheng Bing Ma Si may not have persuaded the Ministry of Li and the Ministry of War, or he may have persuaded others."

Li Qian's words ended here, but Li Guangbi was stunned.

He's not stupid, he just kept hating Dongcheng soldiers and horses before, but now that Li Gan has gone through this, he almost understands it.

The incident between His Majesty the Emperor and Cai Jing has become known to everyone, and now no one knows that Cai Jing is in charge of the above-mentioned six ministries.

And the activities between Dongcheng Bingmasi and Cai Jing.Not only the civil servants are clear, but their generals are also clear.

After thinking about this, Li Guangbi didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

The joy is that I finally figured out the whole story, and it must be Cai Jing standing behind Dongcheng Bingmasi.

The worry is that His Majesty the Emperor can't help him with this matter.

Now who doesn't know that the emperor was beaten to shame by Cai Jing?He's definitely no match for Chae Kyung.

After Li Qian finished hating Cai Jing, he kept paying attention to Li Guangbi's expression. Seeing that he was a little disappointed at this moment, he said, "So, I can't help you with this matter."

You said earlier that it was a bit heavy: "But this matter is indeed a disadvantage to the soldiers of the Nancheng Bingma Division. I still have some private money here. Commander Li can use it to add some winter clothes to the soldiers."

Nancheng Bingma Division is also a big force. With their help, Li Gan's plan will be more perfect. Why don't you take advantage of the present to build relationships and improve your favorability.

Li Guangbi was shocked when he heard the words, he didn't come here to ask for money.What's more, this is His Majesty's private money.

"His Majesty……"

Li Gan interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "I'm not giving it to you, it's for the soldiers below, so don't refuse it, go support it with your companion now."

Li Guangbi suddenly had no reason to refuse, so he could only bow down and said emotionally: "On behalf of the soldiers and soldiers of the Nancheng Army, I thank Your Majesty."

When leaving with the old eunuch, Li Guangbi never thought that today would be such a result.

In fact, his original intention was to fight three poles with dates and no dates, but he didn't expect that although His Majesty the Emperor didn't help, he paid for it himself.

But this money is not the money given by those wicked people, but the private money of His Majesty the Emperor. Thinking about it, Li Guangbi feels that this money is very hot...

In the study, Li Gan also thought carefully about Li Guangbi's reason for coming.

As far as he knew, Li Guangbi and the Marshal's Mansion had always been very close, but this time he didn't go to Zhao Kuangyin to solve the trouble, but ran to himself, which was very strange.

Could it be that Zhao Kuangyin didn't care about him?Or was it Zhao Kuangyin's order to do this?Or...was this Li Guangbi's own idea?
Li Qian knew that Zhao Kuangyin had been squeezed out by Li Yuan and Yang Jian for a while, could it be that he was too busy to take care of himself?
But no matter what, this is an opportunity for Li Gan...

He had been busy in the palace for a long time, until the light outside dimmed, the old eunuch came in and reminded: "Your Majesty, it's time to put up the lamp in a while."

Only then did Li Gan come back to his senses, stood up from behind the table, and said with a smile, "Okay, then let's go and see the lights."

He didn't forget that during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, he promised to watch the lanterns upstairs in Suzaku City with the concubines.

After casually eating some Lantern Festival to pad his stomach, Li Gan came to the gate tower of Zhuque City.

As soon as he boarded the city ladder, he was attracted by the different night sky outside, and rays of light rose into the sky.The stars have no light, just like the day.

Li Gan walked quickly to the edge of the city wall and looked down.

There is no curfew tonight, and there are a large number of lampstands tied up in shops in various streets. Tens of thousands of colorful glazed palace lanterns, silk lanterns, five-color gauze lanterns, silk paper lanterns, and ice lanterns are all lit up. Go, like a colorful Milky Way.

The most conspicuous ones are the huge Aoshan lanterns on Zhuquemen Street not far from the gate of the imperial city.

This thing is made of various kinds of skeletons with colored paper, bamboo strips and bamboo silk, and then pasted into various lanterns such as mountain monsters, water monsters, birds, beasts, fish and dragons, etc., and then these thousands of lanterns are stacked to form a mountain shape. .

Li Gan was in a daze here for a moment, and suddenly heard the noise from the side, turned his head away, and found that the concubines had already arrived here.

"I have met Your Majesty..." The concubines were very pleasantly surprised, and they all came forward to salute Li Gan.

"Sit down, just sit down."

Li Gan waved his hand and stepped forward with a smile, but he didn't sit on the seat prepared by the old eunuch.Instead, he came all the way to the edge of the city wall, laying his arms on it, looking down without any image, and the concubines followed.

At this moment, there is a lot of people on Zhuquemen Street. A ceiling is set up high on the venue of the lantern festival, with various lanterns hanging on both sides, and several lantern mountains are formed in the middle. , "Mountains and waterfalls" and other scenes.

It is "Moonlight Lantern Mountain is full of emperors, and Xiangchebao covers the pass and thoroughfare." A bustling scene.

Li Gan looked at this scene with some emotion. It is said that the Aoshan lanterns were not placed on Zhuquemen Street in the past, but on Chengtianmen Square in the imperial city. This thing is exclusive to the palace, and only the royal family can appreciate it.

Later, during the reign of Emperor Ruizong, Emperor Ruizong sympathized with the people and specially opened the gate of the palace to let the people enter the imperial city to watch the Aoshan lantern.

But because there were so many people who came to see the lanterns in the imperial city at that time, the imperial city gradually couldn't accommodate them, so Emperor Ruizong ordered the Aoshan lanterns to be moved outside the Suzaku Gate to have fun with the people. This is the origin of the Aoshan lanterns outside the palace.

When Li Gan was in a daze, Xi Shi at the side brought a plate of dim sum and handed it to him: "This is the Lantern Festival meatball made by myself, please Your Majesty to taste?"

Li Gan smiled at her and nodded, picked up a piece of pastry and threw it into his mouth.

On the other side, Lu Zhi took Li Qiang's arm, pointed to the outside of the city and exclaimed: "Your Majesty, fly the sky lantern!"

Li Qian and a group of concubines looked out at the same time. Sure enough, in the direction Lu Zhi pointed, there were a few dots of lights flying into the night sky. ,striking.

"Oh, isn't that the lamp made by His Majesty?"

"That's right, I saw that kind of flying lantern in the palace a while ago, why are there now outside the palace..."

The concubines chattered and talked, but their beautiful eyes were always on Li Gan.

Everyone has seen lamps since they were young, but this kind of flying lamp is the first time they have seen it.

Even if this thing can be made, can it only be said that it is worthy of His Majesty the Emperor?
Wu Meiniang and Lu Zhi panicked when they heard the words.They were afraid that Li Qian's going out of the palace to sell lamps would be exposed. There are many people in the harem with impure goals!

After a moment of silence, Lu Zhi explained for Li Gan: "Naturally, His Majesty is willing to have fun with the people, and told the people in the city about this."

The empresses and concubines nodded their heads when they heard the words, isn't it? If His Majesty hadn't said it, how could the people in the city know how to make this flying sky lantern?
(End of this chapter)