Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

"Yes, yes!" Cui Yunying was infected by Wang Wenzuo's ease, and she nodded: "Husband, come back earlier!" She immediately reacted after she said that, and said with a smile: "There is also Jushengnu (honey-made sanzi) , Royal concubine red (red meringue), Han Gongqi (boiled printed round noodles), Changsheng porridge (dietary food), Tianxue (candied noodles), single-cage golden milk pastry (steamed pastry), Tonghua soft beef Intestines (cooked in mutton oil), Guangming Shrimp Sunburn (grilled live shrimp), Bailongyao (made from repeatedly beaten tenderloin), Snow Baby (frog with bean sprouts), Xianrenzi (stewed chicken in milk sauce), Xiaotian Crisp (stir-fried with deer and chicken), Zhutouchun (roasted quail), Guomenxiang (fried with all kinds of meat) right? I will prepare it immediately, waiting for my husband to come back!"

Speaking of this, the husband and wife could not help but smile knowingly. It turned out that the dishes Cui Yunying just mentioned were the menus of the Shaowei Banquet in the home of Wei Juyuan, a famous aristocratic family at that time. With a close relationship with him and a profound family background, he is one of the most wealthy families in Chang'an City.The so-called "Shaowei Banquet" was a custom at that time. After the imperial officials were promoted, they had to hold a banquet to celebrate and present the emperor. The folks called it "Shaowei", whichever it means "Shenlong burns the tail, straight up to the blue clouds" ".This meaning comes from the legend of "fish leaping over the dragon's gate".Longmen is located between Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province and Hejin County, Shanxi Province.Every spring, the carp of the Yellow River swim upstream, trying to swim across Longmen, but the water in Longmen is so fast that the fish are repeatedly knocked down.When the carp cannot pass the dragon gate after many times of upstream swimming, it will change the swimming into jumping, face the turbulent waves, break through the stormy waves, and leap to the dragon gate.At this time, the carp will be attacked by lightning, and its tail will be burned off, thus turning into a real dragon.Wang Wenzuo said earlier that he wanted to eat roasted mutton tails, and his wife would respond with the menu in Wei Juyuan's roasted tails banquet, which can be described as a tacit understanding.

Wang Wenzuo bid farewell to his wife, went out to mount his horse, and walked all the way to the palace city. He dismounted and entered the palace city from the Yanxi Gate, and came to the Taiji Palace. Waiting in the side hall!"

"Thank you!" Wang Wenzuo smiled. He followed the servant through a long and narrow corridor surrounded by towering palaces under the gloomy sky, and finally came to the northeast of Miyagi. The corner is only a small hall with a square of half an acre.

"The emperor and the empress will still take care of themselves! These halls in the palace, which are hundreds of square meters at every turn, are suffering in winter. Unless they go to court, fools will stay there!" Wang Wenzuo walked into the small hall, and a warm feeling immediately hit his face come.For the sake of etiquette and the need to conquer all nations, the palaces of ancient Chinese dynasties were generally located on high places in the city, and usually a high earth platform was built first, and then houses were built on the earth platform.And these palaces are very large in size, with very high ceilings, often hundreds of square meters, and indoor heights of six or seven meters, and the ancient building insulation and wind insulation technology is very poor, unlike today's insulation layer, sealed doors and windows, even if a brazier is placed The effect is also very average, and the result is that when the twelfth lunar month comes, it is normal for the room temperature in this kind of high-door hall to suddenly drop to minus four or five degrees.The emperor and courtiers can't wear too thick clothes because of etiquette, the taste is so sour.

"Wang Qing is flat!" The queen pointed to a Jindun next to her: "Sit down and talk, and bring Wang Qing a bowl of buttermilk!"

"Thank you for your reward, Your Majesty!" Wang Wenzuo hurriedly bowed to the emperor and queen. A court lady was holding a peony petal-shaped silver tray made in Neifang with both hands, and on it was a gold bowl filled with buttermilk With a silver carved tureen and a silver spoon, she walked gently into the warm pavilion.Another court lady took the gaiwan and silver spoon from the tray, put it in front of Wang Wenzuo, and lifted the lid casually.Wang Wenzuo carefully picked up the silver spoon and took two sips of buttermilk.

"Wang Qing!" The Queen laughed after Wang Wenzuo had finished eating the buttermilk, "A few days ago, someone in the court impeached the matter of blended hemp thread in the Shu brocade, saying that it caused the rebellion of the soldiers in Hebei, and said that it would be thoroughly investigated. Your Majesty has suppressed it. I won’t send it out anymore, judging by my concubine’s status, those admonishing officials in the foreign court are too much, Wang Qing lost a younger brother because of this, isn’t that enough? How else should I investigate?”

Wang Wenzuo looked at his nose and his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the younger brother is an ignorant person, and was deceived by his servants to cause such a catastrophe. After learning about it, I reprimanded him a few words." , remorse endlessly, the old illness broke out, and he was gone within two days. The minister also committed the crime of lax supervision, and please punish the two majesties!"

"Wang Qing!" Li Zhi finally spoke: "The queen has just said that, this matter is over, you don't have to apologize! Next, the imperial court will still be of great use to you, understand!"

"Thank you, I don't know what your majesty has ordered!" Wang Wenzuo hurriedly bowed his head. The couple's double reed singing was perfect. They first beat Wang Wenzuo with the impeachment of the foreign court's admonisher, and then showed their kindness with understanding. Li Zhi opened his mouth to make a qualitative statement. The husband and wife duo are really born top political players. They have killed so many heroes during their decades in office.

"En!" Seeing Wang Wenzuo's attitude, Li Zhi nodded in satisfaction: "The widow was born in the second year of Zhenguan, and he is already in his forties this year. The late emperor died just after his fiftieth year! It’s not as good as the late emperor. It seems that following the late emperor underground has been a matter of two or three years! So in the past two years, the widow has handed over a lot of government affairs to the prince, and your dispatcher has already told His Highness the prince. Just go to the East Palace and ask the prince!"

"Your Majesty, why should you say such ominous words! According to my ministers, Your Majesty is in the prime of his life. Although he is slightly ill, he can recover with a little care!" Wang Wenzuo hurriedly comforted him. Father and son fell in love and killed each other. I don't want to be involved in the reserving of the program. Li Zhi may not have the heart to kill the prince, but he won't even bat an eye when he kills a foreign official like himself.

Li Zhi looked at Wang Wenzuo's face, as if he was judging whether the other party was telling the truth. Wang Wenzuo suppressed the panic in his heart and tried his best to make himself look fearful. After a few minutes, Li Zhi laughed: "Then let me borrow Wang Aiqing's words." Good luck!"

"Should I have passed the test?" Wang Wenzuo thought to himself, but his face was still the same.Li Zhi laughed a few times, and suddenly coughed twice. The queen on the side was about to call the doctor, Li Zhi waved his hand: "Don't worry about it, it's still an old problem, just lie down and rest for a while. Ah Wu, you can talk to Wang Aiqing about the matter." Tell me!" After saying that, he went to the inner Nuan Pavilion with the support of two court ladies.

"Finally one left!" Wang Wenzuo heaved a sigh of relief, facing this couple at the same time was really unbearable.

"Come here, open half the window!" Wu smiled at Wang Wenzuo: "Although the room is warm, it is also very stuffy. Why don't you open half the window to let in the air!"

"What Your Majesty said is true!" Wang Wenzuo lowered his head, wondering what the queen meant. Could it be that it is inconvenient for Li Zhi to open the window here?This is not appropriate, is it?Thinking of this, Wang Wenzuo didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

At this time the sun came out, and a group of pigeons were released from the southwest corner of Taiji Palace. With whistles, they circled over the palace city for a while, heading towards Longshouyuan.The sun shines on the white jade railings, the bronze cranes and the Pojin bronze tripod outside the Taiji Palace.A court lady hung a parrot cage on a sunny pine branch, and pulled up the blue satin cage to surround it.The parrot stretched its feathers in the sun, and suddenly called out: "Changle Weiyang, Changle Weiyang!"

"Changle Weiyang!" The queen laughed: "It's almost time for afternoon snacks, isn't it?"

"Exactly!" The maid at the side responded, "Do you want the servants to pass on the meals?"

"Yeah!" Wu Shi nodded: "But not here, but on the back terrace, pull up the purple barrier, and put out the brazier!"

"According to the order!"

The queen's order was carried out immediately. Dozens of eunuchs and maids quickly set up seats and tableware under the pine tree on the terrace behind the palace. A brazier, in this cold winter, there is a feeling of spring.

"Wang Aiqing, let's talk while eating on the terrace!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Although they were eating together, they actually had a table for each of them. There were four or five meters between them. The maids brought the dishes like flowing water. The queen nodded, and the maid sent a copy to Wang Wenzuo.Although the dishes were indeed exquisite, Wang Wenzuo really didn't have much appetite. After eating like this for a while, the Empress suddenly said, "Your Majesty sent you back to Chang'an this time because I hope you will help the prince to rectify the soldiers in Guanzhong and change their weak status... ..."

Just after Wang Wenzuo heard the first two sentences of the Queen's words, his ears buzzed, and he could no longer hear what was said after that.Assist the prince in rectifying the Guanzhong government soldiers?This couple should not want to change the prince, right?Otherwise, how could the prince of a country be allowed to do such a foolish thing?

"Wang Qing? Wang Qing? Wang Sanlang?" The queen talked for a while, and suddenly realized that Wang Wenzuo's state was a little bit out of order, and she called Wang Wenzuo's name. After calling several times, Wang Wenzuo came to his senses, and quickly bowed down to apologize: "It's a capital crime for a humble minister, and I was so distracted thinking about other things just now, please punish me, Your Majesty!"

"It doesn't matter!" The empress showed extra tolerance at this time: "What was Aiqing thinking just now?"

"It's the matter of rectifying the government soldiers!" Wang Wenzuo said with a wry smile: "I don't want to hide it from your Majesty. As soon as I heard about this matter, I felt powerless. Guanzhong was the root of the four dynasties of the Western Wei, Zhou, Sui, and present dynasties. It is everywhere. They are all ministers from the bottom of their hearts, brotherhood, kindness and righteousness, as the saying goes, there is no close relationship, it is really beyond the power of a minister!"

"If it's just you, of course you can't do it!" The queen laughed and said, "Isn't there still a prince? Now the prince has the responsibility of supervising the country, and everything is reported to the East Palace first, and then sent to the emperor. With the prince backing you, you What else is there to worry about?

"You couple are really a pair of snakes and scorpions!" Wang Wenzuo cursed inwardly: "Others make the crown prince to do simple and easy things to succeed, quickly build a family of meritorious prestige, and prepare for the succession. You are good, If you don’t dare to do it yourself, let your son step on the minefields that are not easy to make. If you know it, you are parents, but if you don’t know it, you will think it is an enemy!"

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Wang Wenzuo was silent, the queen asked, "Why is Wang Aiqing silent? Don't you want to work for the prince?"

Hearing what the queen said, Wang Wenzuo knew he had to make a statement.Otherwise, the whole world would know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has shown great kindness to him, Wang Wenzuo, and if he dared to step down and back down at a critical moment after receiving such a great favor, then he would only be one step away from the coffin.

"The prince has treated Wen Zuo with overwhelming kindness, and it is hard to repay him by killing him!" Wang Wenzuo said: "It's just that I am just a warrior. If I form an army and lead an attack, I will definitely be the prince's pioneer and do the work of a dog and a horse. And I have never done anything to rectify the Guanzhong government soldiers, I am afraid that if it is not done well, it will hurt the prince's reputation!"

"Others don't know Saburo's talent, so why don't you not know?" The Queen laughed and said, "When you were in Baekje, you were under Liu Renyuan's command, and there were no more than ten thousand lone troops at most, but you were able to take over the rest of Baekje and drive them to attack the bandits. Victory is the powerhouse of the Three Hans. You can even take over the people of Baekje for your own use, so don’t tell me you can’t even manage the people of the Three Qins?”

"Your Majesty, it's time and time!" Wang Wenzuo said with a wry smile: "When I was in Baekje, I let him live and let him die. The power of rewards, punishments, grace and killing is in his own hands, so that he can go through fire and water. Dare to look back. And the people in Guanzhong are all ministers who have made meritorious service for generations, how can a newcomer dare to speak nonsense?"

The more Wang Wenzuo complained, the more the queen refused to let go. There was only one reason - you were just helping the prince, who already had the power to supervise the country. Such trust and support were not enough. What else do you want?However, Wang Wenzuo was full of bitterness and couldn't vomit it. The crown prince is the superintendent of the country, but the problem is that the power of supervising the country was given by you two.No matter the success or failure of this matter, in the end, it must have offended all the princes above the court. These people may not dare to do anything to the prince (in fact, they may not dare), but they will definitely not dare to do anything to the treacherous minister and villain. Dare to do it.

As the saying goes, thousands of people will die without a disease, even if he has great abilities, facing so many open and dark arrows, he will die.At that time, even if the prince wants to protect himself, he may not be able to protect himself at that time, maybe the prince himself will not be able to protect himself.You two throw my dirty white gloves out, and let the people of Guanzhong be hacked into pieces. Chao Cuo and his ilk are your own lessons from the past.

"Wang Qing, you don't need to worry!" The Empress said with a smile, "Let's do it! Tomorrow the emperor will issue an edict that you will be the right guard of the Eastern Palace. Right now, there is no left guard in the Eastern Palace. In fact, you are in command of the Sixth Commander of the Eastern Palace. In addition, I also entrust you as the envoy of the Guanzhong army to observe the appearance of the army, announce the comfort and disposition, and the guards in the Guanzhong, up to the army in the north and south, and down to the guards in various places, all have the right to order, how about it?" (End of this chapter)