Wei Ni

Chapter 37 Private Call
The next day is New Year's Eve.

Therefore, today the emperor Cao Rui held a banquet in the Chonghua Empress Hall to express his heart.

The lucky participants, in addition to the Sangong Jiuqing, such as General Cao Zhen, Shangshujian Yuling, Zhushizhong, Shoushangshutai Liaozuo, and Army General Jiang Ji, are qualified to participate in military and state affairs.

It can be said that if a meteorite happened to hit the Chonghua Houdian, Wei State would fall apart.

And Xia Houhui, whose salary was no more than six hundred shi, was also able to get involved.

Sanqi is a close minister of the emperor~
If you don't have this kind of honor, how can you be hailed as a noble position?
However, he is really a make-up.

In the huge hall, the emperor and the princes talked and laughed, drinking and drinking, but he who was sitting in the corner had no one to chat or exchange cups.Even the other casual riders or other people who were seated next to each other avoided his sight as much as possible without leaving a trace, so as not to give him a chance to toast or chat.

yes~
In today's temple, he is already an existence that everyone can't avoid.

Because of his last Shangshu refuting the general Cao Zhen's attack on Shu, after the emperor Cao Rui called Liu Fang, Sun Zi and Chen Qun to make a group plan, there was no specific conclusion.

However, sometimes there is no conclusion, that is, a conclusion.

Just like Sima Yi, who was far away from Wancheng in Nanyang, guessed the emperor Cao Rui's intentions through Cao Zhen's revision of the strategy of conquering Shu, Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Chen Qun and others also no longer argued with reason.

The so-called brainstorming and teamwork is actually the emperor asking them to supplement Xiahouhui's rebuttals to the strategy of defeating Shu, avoiding the disadvantages of Shangshuli or minimizing losses.

Those who can accompany the emperor around are all humane and sophisticated.

Such as Xia Houhui and Du Shu, after all, are outliers that appear occasionally.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Xia Houhui was isolated.

Even Wang Su, who had made a marriage agreement, nodded at him blankly while waiting for the driver out of consideration to avoid suspicion, and was unwilling to say a word.

Xia Houhui also has self-knowledge.

He consciously keeps a distance from everyone, and maintains the superficial harmony, enjoying himself at the banquet given by the emperor, leisurely and leisurely.

He was really happy.

For one thing, you can satisfy your gluttony with a hearty meal without being disturbed.

The other is that he doesn't have to pretend to be poor in the future, and sells wine and cuts meat to enjoy it.

Because a few days ago, after accompanying him for a ride, he specifically sought Weiyang's stable order, intending to take the horse out of the palace and transfer it to the west end of Yangqu to raise it.

The reason given was that he could not afford the cost of raising him in the palace.

But the Weiyang Stable Order does not allow it.

He claimed that such a thing had to be approved by the emperor or the eunuch before he dared to hand over the horse to Xia Houhui.

It also triggered a series of things.

When the servant office asked the little official to go to the house outside the city to find Xia Houhui, and asked him to pay the difference in the horse raising expenses for the next year in advance, Xia Houhui squinted at the little official for a moment, and then brought him into the house.

Let him see what items in the house can be sold, and just take them by himself.

How dare the fighting food official take it~
After standing there in a daze for a while, he murmured that this was against the rules or something.

After hearing this, Xia Houhui immediately took his official seal and put it in the hands of the little official, saying that it would be good for him to hand it over to the Tai Servant Office.It also made the little official put down his official seal in a panic and panic, and fled after a salute.

After returning home to report, the eunuch listened to the servant order and was helpless for a while.

Xia Houhui threw out the official seal. If he insisted on asking for the difference in the cost of raising horses, wouldn't he be forced to resign?

That's the cavalry servant~
How could he leave himself a stain on his official career that forced the emperor's close officials to resign?

In today's world, fame and reputation can not only affect one's official career, but also affect future generations!
But if you don't look for Xia Houhui and ask for the difference~
Ma Zheng is controlled by military law!

Not to mention that it also interfered with the expenses of the palace ban, how dare he let the accounts be unclear~
After thinking about it, he decided to find an opportunity to report the matter to the emperor, and asked Cao Rui to agree to let Xia Houhui lead the horse out of the palace, trying to solve this trouble completely.

At the end of the year, the emperor Cao Rui, who had complicated affairs at the end of the year, was quite annoyed when he heard about it.

Such a trivial matter is also used to bother yourself? !

Do you really think you have nothing to do all day long?
But after thinking about it for a while, he was relieved.

Although he did not instruct Xia Houhui to refute Cao Zhen's attack on Shu, the reason why he was kicked out of the mansion by his elder brother Xia Houheng and fell into poverty is really inseparable from him.

With a wave of his hand, yes.

He also found an opportunity to invite Xia Houheng to teach him a few words.

First, he said that Xia Houheng kicked his younger brother out of the mansion was a private matter of the family, and no one else could comment on it. Then he accused Xia Houheng of why he didn't give some money?
After Yuan Xun was reduced to being taken in by his servants, what shame did Wei Guo have?
How could this be so!

Xia Houheng, who had been in the official career for a long time, bowed his head and pleaded guilty after hearing this, and vowed to transfer some of his family property to Xiahou Hui Yunyun after returning.

Yes.

He did not make it clear that he had already transferred the fertile land at the west end of Yangqu to Xia Houhui.

Because by doing this, you can not only use the mouth of the emperor to make your brothers turn against each other, but also show your respect to the emperor, so why not do it?

And Xia Houhui was even more willful.

The horse can be brought out of the palace, the salary can be received on time, and the property at the west end of Yangqu can be taken over in an open and honest manner. There is no need to pretend to be poor. It can be said that you can count birds with one stone and gain a lot~
Therefore, at the banquet given by the emperor in the Chonghua Houdian, he was also out of place.

Other people's Changhuai can take this opportunity to get acquainted with the princes and win the favor of the emperor, while his Changhuai is to receive a mere six hundred shi salary after the celebration day, as well as the beauty of unlimited wine and meat.

However, Cao Zhuan didn't let him focus on the beauty of wine and meat in terms of the beauty of wine and meat.

Cao Zuan, styled Desi, was the second son of the late great Sima Cao Xiu and younger brother of Cao Zhao.

Now he is serving in the Forbidden Army, although he is not qualified for the banquet, but he has a simple and honest temperament, is more than eight feet tall, and has great abilities.

During the banquet, he didn't even think about exchanging glasses with others, and he was very focused on eating delicious delicacies.

It just so happened that his seat was quite similar to Xia Houhui's. At first glance, the two of them were feasting, as if they were comparing each other which one was more delicious.
Alas, it's really insulting.

The emperor Cao Rui, who was admired by all the stars, occasionally glanced over, and couldn't help criticizing Xia Houhui in his heart.

Cao Zuan is a simple and honest warrior, as a loose rider, are you a rough and reckless man?

He didn't care about the identity of the emperor's close minister at all!

The emperor Cao Rui, who was a little unhappy in his heart, thought for a while, and whispered a few words to the servant beside him.

Then, the eunuch walked around in a big circle along the inner wall of the hall, came to Xia Houhui's side, bowed and said a few words in his ear.It also made Xia Houhui look regretful, put down the small meat-cutting dagger, got up and left.

This small episode did not affect the conversation and laughter in the hall.

Some sharp-eyed people noticed it, and even made the smile on their faces even worse——

They all thought that the emperor Cao Rui felt that the presence of Xia Houhui, who was not liked by the princes and officials, would affect the atmosphere of the monarch and his ministers enjoying together, so they let him leave the meeting early.

But in fact, the regret on Xia Houhui's face was just that he had eaten a full seven percent~
And the emperor did not let him leave the palace.

Instead, he was taken to Tianyuanchi by the eunuch who had been waiting outside the palace for a long time.

Tianyuan Pond and Hua (Fang) Forest Garden are both located in the north of the imperial palace, separated from the Xuanwu Temple of the Luoyang garrison by a wall, and are also places where the emperor and the people in the harem spend their daily leisure time.

It is for the private use of the Tian family, and the clan or courtiers cannot enter it.

Therefore, Xia Houhui, who followed the servant all the way to the north, stopped after seeing the words Tianyuanchi engraved on Shi Gandang.No matter how much the eunuch urged, blindly claiming that this was the emperor's oral order, he refused to go any further.

Forbidden place, there are many taboos.

He is not an eunuch, how dare he enter the place where people from the Tian family's harem play?
Moreover, the eunuch just claimed that this was an edict from the emperor, not an edict in black and white that could conclusively prove its authenticity. Worried that someone secretly instigated the servants to do something bad?

Furthermore, he knew that Emperor Cao Rui had no intention of killing him.

If you don't go into Tianyuan Pool and wait outside, the emperor will not blame him if he knows about it.

And once he went in and was impeached by others, then the emperor had to punish him according to the law in order to maintain the law of the palace ban.

The relationship between them, he can clearly understand which is more important~
In particular, he couldn't figure out why the Son of Heaven asked him to come to Tianyuan Pool to wait for him to hide from others.

Nowadays, it is not a secret that the great general Cao Zhen wants to conquer Shu, but is there still something shady in the temple?
Even if there is, as a servant of Sanqi, he is a close minister of the emperor. If the emperor has something to ask, when and what should not be asked, why bother so much?
Therefore, he insisted on standing outside Tianyuan Pool and waiting for the emperor's driving on the grounds that he did not agree with the palace system.

Let the eunuch helplessly return to his life after urging him to no avail.

Waiting like this is more than half an hour.

It wasn't until the end of noon that he realized that he was overwhelmed, and he also knew why the emperor had summoned him.

Because when he was bored and waiting in front of Tianyuan Pool, he saw a group of palace guards carrying chariots and sedan chairs coming towards Tianyuan Pool, and the person sitting on it was the great general Cao Zhen.

The example that people can ride on chariot sedan chairs when they come to the palace and enter the palace is from Taifu Zhongyou.

When the emperor Cao Rui succeeded to the throne, Zhong Yao was old and had leg problems, and it was inconvenient to bow down and get up. However, the Taiwei Hua Xin was also old and sick, so they were allowed to ride in cars and sedan chairs when they went to court. He was carried by the guards to the hall and sat down, which is still the old practice.

Now Cao Zhen is also riding in a chariot sedan, not because he is sick.

But he was famous for his bravery in the army when he was young, and was appreciated by Emperor Wu Cao Cao for his bravery. He was sent to the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry for training. Now his body is very large (fat), and it is a bit difficult to gallop on horseback or on foot.

Naturally, he was also given such an honor by the emperor.

And when Xia Houhui saw the chariot sedan chair, he finally knew that the emperor had privately summoned him, and it was General Cao Zhen who wanted to see him.

At the same time, my heart became inexplicably excited - I don't know, can I make the general Cao Zhen give up his intention of conquering Shu with a three-inch tongue?
(End of this chapter)