Will Ming

Chapter [-]: His Highness at the Xuanwu Gate

I don't know why, the emperor is obviously in a bad mood these days, and the memorials are sent to the East Palace for the prince to handle, and he rarely goes to the empress's place again, but the construction of Yong'an Palace has not stopped from the beginning to the end.The one who supervised the construction of Yong'an Palace was Yu Wenkai, who was captured by the emperor as a coolie for the rest of his life after the catastrophe.The city of Chang'an in the Sui Dynasty and Luoyang, the eastern capital, were both built under his auspices. Another masterpiece is the mobile palace of Emperor Yang Guang of Daye.

Yang Guang toured Zhuojun, but there was no palace for him here, so Yang Guang ordered Yu Wenkai to build several palaces in the shortest time. It is simply impossible to complete within a few years of construction.But this is not difficult for Yu Wenkai. He personally designed and led the craftsmen to rush to make it day and night, and built a magnificent mobile palace... Guanfengxing Palace.

This huge wind watching hall has wheels underneath that can be dragged and walked by horses. It is luxuriously decorated and extremely huge. Hundreds of guards can stand on the hall.If the emperor intends to rest at a place with beautiful scenery, the craftsmen will quickly assemble the hall into a palace.

Not only that, Yu Wenkai also supervised the excavation of Guangtong Canal.

After Emperor Daye was hanged to death in Jiangdu by Yu Wenhuaji, Yu Wenkai fled to join the king Yang Yu in the Eastern Capital.As a result, there was a military accident on the way, and all the family members were killed.He fled alone all the way incognito, but after arriving in Dongdu, Li Mi was in a decisive battle with Wang Shichong, so he didn't dare to approach and flee again.All the way to Chang'an, he was recognized by others and recommended to Li Yuan. Li Yuan knew this man's ability well, so he was appointed as the master of Yong'an Palace, and presided over the construction of the new palace.

In fact, Yu Wenkai felt very uneasy when he built the Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan. He was one of the courtiers of the Sui Dynasty who pushed out Li Yuan. At that time, he was attached to Yu Wenshu, so he had no good relationship with Li Yuan.So he was deeply afraid that he would be killed by Li Yuan after he built the Yong'an Palace. He has been living cautiously these days and worried about his gloomy future.

But this man is extremely clever, and it took more than ten days to finally come up with a way to save his life, and then spent three months drawing this way on paper. He firmly believed that as long as he dedicated these hundreds of pictures to Li Yuan's words, Li Yuan absolutely can't resist the temptation.

But three days ago, a large number of elite soldiers entered the construction site, and Yu Wenkai's heart tightened all of a sudden.He originally wanted to donate the life-saving thing after the Yong'an Palace was built. Seeing the fine armored soldiers of the brigade enter the Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan, he thought that the emperor was anxious to kill himself, so he hurriedly brought the thing to see him. emperor.But Wu Yinghai, the chief servant, refused to let him enter the palace, only saying that the emperor was in a very bad mood these days and didn't want to see anyone.

After waiting for three days, Yu Wenkai felt very uneasy. After lunch, he ordered his craftsmen to speed up the construction. He took seven or eight soldiers and carried the hundreds of pictures he had carefully drawn to see the emperor for the second time.

When they got to the gate of the palace, they saw that the palace gate was closed tightly, and there were more than twice as many imperial guards on the city wall than usual.Even the guards patrolled one after another almost uninterruptedly. Yu Wenkai immediately guessed that something big might happen in the palace.He has been supervising the construction of Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan, but he didn't know that King Qi Li Yuanji died and King Qin returned to Chang'an to plead guilty.If he knew, he would never come to Li Yuan's fate at this time.

Just when he was about to go back, he saw the soldiers of the Forbidden Army from the brigade coming out of the palace city and heading straight to the Xuanwu Gate.Yu Wenkai hurriedly gave way, but he still couldn't dodge enough to knock down the blueprints.Yu Wenkai was so distressed that he almost scolded his mother, and asked his followers to form a circle to protect the blueprint that landed, lest he be trampled to pieces by the imperial army.

One of his entourage watched the forbidden army of the brigade running towards Xuanwu Gate, and asked Yu Wenkai in a low voice: "My lord, could it be that something big happened at Xuanwu Gate?"

Yu Wenkai glared at him and cursed: "Hurry up and pick up all the drawings, these things are extremely precious and inestimable in value. Don't ask about things you shouldn't worry about. If you talk too much, I'll have someone beat you up." Mouth."

The attendant didn't dare to say any more, he hurriedly picked up the drawing on the ground.It's just that the order of front and back was all messed up, and Yu Wenkai was so distressed that he almost vomited blood.

While picking up the drawings, he looked towards the Xuanwu Gate and couldn't help but think of an old event many years ago.At that time, he supervised the construction of Chang'an City. Yang Jian, Emperor Gaozu of the Great Sui Dynasty, insisted on building a palace gate there, but Yu Wenkai firmly disagreed. He said that if a palace gate was built in that place, it would destroy the feng shui of Longxing in Chang'an City. .That city gate has become a gate of great evil, and sooner or later there will be a bloody catastrophe.

But Yang Jian just ignored it, and let people build the Xuanwu Gate in that place.

Xuanwu Gate is the north gate of the imperial palace. At that time, the imperial palace designed by Yu Wenkai only had three gates in the east, west, south and no north gate.Such a layout naturally seemed a little strange and inappropriate, so Yang Jian insisted on letting him open another city gate to come out.But Yu Wenkai said that the location of Xuanwu Gate is the place where Longshouyuan, the place where dragon veins and feng shui gather, and when the door is opened, feng shui is broken.Because he was bluntly said that he was almost killed by Yang Jian's rod, and he never dared to mention it again.

Thinking of this, Yu Wenkai couldn't help sighing.

"Xuanwu Gate has broken the dragon's veins and geomantic omen. It would have been good for His Majesty to build a new palace in Longshouyuan, but... it seems to be a bit slow. It was bloody enough to seize the heir in the Sui Dynasty. Now in the Tang Dynasty... this The disaster of blood and light is probably countless times bigger."

Whispering to himself, he turned his head and left regardless of the carefully designed drawings.The pace is extremely fast, more like fleeing in fear.

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Last night, a strong wind blew away all the clouds in the sky. Today's weather is so good that people can't help but want to admire it.The sky is blue as if it has just been washed with water, without a single cloud, it looks like a large piece of sapphire in the full sky, which makes people feel bright in their hearts.

At the north gate of Chang'an City, officials from the Ministry of Rites came to decorate it early in the morning.This is the biggest and most difficult thing they have encountered since they took office as officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty. How to welcome the coffin of King Qi actually made the minister of the Ministry of Rites, the Minister of Rites, and Yuanwai Lang almost pluck their hair down in worry.Fortunately, there are many old ministers of the Sui Dynasty in the Ministry of Rites. Although this matter is difficult, it is still prepared according to the prince's specifications.Officials from the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War were all waiting at the gate of the city. There was no morning court today to welcome the coffin of King Qi.

Wang Wenli, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, frowned and looked at Nayan Peiji who was standing not far away, and couldn't help but mutter in his heart, why is it that His Royal Highness is still here?It was the emperor's will yesterday that the crown prince would pick up King Qi's coffin at the north gate instead. Why is the crown prince so mature and prudent today?

When this thought flashed, a servant-like man ran out of the city and whispered a few words to Pei Ji. Pei Ji then nodded, turned and followed the servant into the city.Wang Wenli didn't care at first, thinking that something happened to Pei Ji's family.But until the dust and smoke billowed up on the official road, and the troops of His Highness King Qin were already faintly visible, Pei Ji still didn't come back.

Wang Wenli panicked for no reason, wondering if something was going to happen today.He asked several people, and they all said that he hadn't seen His Royal Highness come down, and even Pei Ji didn't know where he went.

The general on duty at the city gate today is Wu Benlang, General Xin Wenli of the Sui Dynasty, but their names are exactly the same.Xin Wenli was a general of the Sui Dynasty. It is said that he is the only one in the world who can kill with a knife.When he led the Sui army to suppress the rebellion, he did not know how many heroes died under his sword.At that time, when Li Shimin accepted the new Wenli, he even laughed happily, and clapped his hands, Daogu became a great general of the Tang Dynasty again.

Later, Xin Wenli was transferred to the imperial army, and since then he rarely had the opportunity to lead the army.But this person must not be underestimated, the heavy Qinglong Yanyue Broadsword in his hand cannot be lifted by ordinary people.

Wang Wenli went to look for Xin Wenli, and pulled him away without being polite, and asked in a low voice: "The new general, do you know why His Highness hasn't come yet? Just now I saw Pei Nayan hastily entered the city and didn't come out again. Is something wrong?" ?”

"Shh..."

Xin Wenli said in a low voice: "Keep your voice down, the news came out from the palace just now, His Majesty just coughed up blood because he missed King Qi just now, the prince who was halfway there was rushed back to the palace, Pei Nayan was also rushed by the prince summoned to the palace."

"His Royal Highness is not coming?"

"There was a decree just now, let me lead the king of Qin to protect the coffin of King Qi and go directly to the Xuanwu Gate to enter the palace. His Highness the Crown Prince will welcome the coffins of His Highness King Qin and King Qi outside the Xuanwu Gate."

"That's good……"

After Wang Wenli said something, he was shocked immediately.Just now Xin Wenli said that His Majesty coughed up blood but subconsciously said something, it would be fine, if this word reaches His Majesty's ears, his official career will come to an end.He hurriedly went to look at Xin Wenli, but he saw that the other party was staring at the dust and smoke on the official road with a serious expression, but he didn't know what he was thinking.Seeing that Xin Wenli didn't hear his gaffe, Wang Wenli hurried back to the front of the team.

Not long after he stood up, he saw the elite cavalry of the Tang Dynasty rushing towards the official road.The dust and smoke were lifted high by the horse's hooves, as if a dark cloud rolled over the ground.When the cavalry got closer and closer, everyone felt something was wrong.Seeing that the black cavalry rushing over did not slow down in advance, they ran straight towards the officials outside the north gate.

"not good!"

Wang Wenli was keenly aware of something, turned around and was about to run into the city gate.But behind him were all the officials who came here to welcome the coffins of King Qin and King Qi, and he couldn't squeeze back when they stood next to each other.At this time, the general led by the cavalry galloping on the official road sternly shouted.

"The King of Qin returned to the capital to punish the traitors, and everyone must not act without authorization or they will be killed without mercy!"

It was General Qu Tutong who yelled, and he rushed over at the head of the horse, and the armored horse was knocked off, and a civil servant was knocked out. People rushed in directly from the city gate.Xin Wenli turned pale with fright and waited to be called to defend the city