Will Ming

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Chapter 810 Seventh Fishing

Changan

Chang'an City doesn't seem to have changed, what has changed is people's hearts.The capital of the Great Sui has now become the capital of the Great Tang, and the people of the Great Sui have become the people of the Great Tang.Except for the newly built Daming Palace in the north of the city, which made the majestic city look even more majestic, there seemed to be no other changes.

After a long time of peace, the people became comfortable and happy again.

The new empire has introduced a series of policies to benefit the people. In this season when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the people are not starving as before. This is already a great thing to celebrate.The court's decree is clear, and the people will have a good life.People who have just calmed down from the chaos of war have begun to praise the new empire.

The people have always been easy to please, and they are not stingy about admiring a wise leader.

But there is no doubt that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who is deep in the high walls of the palace city, cannot enjoy this kind of praise, and the more he hears, the more humiliation for him.He is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but he has not entered the Tai Chi Hall where the previous government discussed politics for a long time.

All the officials went to court, but the dragon chair was always empty.

But this imperial court, which was not presided over by the emperor, was still in order.Whenever he thought of this, Emperor Li Chengde had the urge to smash everything in front of him.If it weren't for the simple furnishings of the place where he lives now, and he couldn't find a substitute for smashing a thing, maybe he would really vent his anger once and for all.

There is only one set of water cups, and if you smash one, it will not be complete... It is really embarrassing for the emperor to do this.But who can blame this?If he was a puppet in a safe and steady manner, he might still be able to enjoy the treatment of a puppet.Accompanied by beautiful women, there is fine wine to moisten the throat.

But speaking of it, anyone, any man with some ambition would not want to be just a puppet in the dark.The emperor... owns the world, how can he be a puppet?

He failed.

But he is still alive.

This is exactly what makes Li Chengde most angry. He failed. He wanted to kill Li Xian and become a real emperor, but Li Xian just beat him back as easily as waving his sleeves. It turned out that it wasn't because of his pain, but because of his pain and anger... Li Xian didn't bother to kill him, and didn't even look at him more.

Only after that did he realize that in Li Xian's eyes, he might be just an ant with no power to resist. If Li Xian wanted to, he could easily crush himself to death at any time.

This is the saddest part.

When a man becomes the demon in another man's heart, there is no doubt that the latter will endure an unspeakable torment, wanting to end this torment, or the latter will die in humble waiting, or the former will die.Everyone is greedy for life, so when choosing between your death or my death, no one will have the slightest hesitation at all.

In order to prevent that demon from controlling his own destiny and even his dreams, and to sleep peacefully.

Sitting by the bed, Li Chengde watched the eunuchs with unkind faces cleaning the room impatiently, enduring the dust and the curses muttered by that humble eunuch, his face was always calm.He didn't even feel that the dust that was floating around was so annoying, nor did he feel the shame of being an emperor being sneered at by an eunuch.

There was even a smile on his lips.

"Su Sheng...my quilt is a little damp, can you take it out to dry it? I just checked, and the weather outside is good. Also...you can ask the guard at the door if you can find some books for me to read , I have finished reading the book I begged Princess Pingyang to send me a while ago."

The eunuch named Su Sheng glanced at Li Chengde, pretended he didn't hear him, and continued to sweep the floor with his head down.

Li Chengde shook his head and smiled, got up, walked out with his quilt in his arms, but was stopped by Su Sheng again: "Your Majesty...you forgot, His Royal Highness King Yan's order, you are not allowed to leave this room. The quilt is wet and handed over to the servant girl That's it, I'll take it out for you to dry in a while."

Su Sheng spoke without a smile on his face, but he was actually afraid that the guards of the military inspection office outside would see the emperor take the quilt out to dry.If someone asks about it, there is no guarantee that he will not be punished for his negligence.He is not afraid of the emperor, but he is afraid of those eerie military guards.Not to mention anything else, just the sharp iron rods that those people sometimes hide in black cloaks and sometimes appear in front of them are enough to make people afraid.

"It's work."

Li Chengde handed the quilt to Su Sheng, then walked back to the bed and sat down again.Sitting on the bed was a bit uncomfortable without bedding.

There are only two servants here, and the eunuch who cleans the house is called Su Sheng.And the big and thick guy who was washing clothes in a wooden basin outside kept cursing in a low voice, her face was not much smaller than the wooden basin, and the palace maid whose waist was much larger than her face was called Yang Mi. As she washed clothes, The pair of heavy hammers on the chest can always shake out the effect of stormy waves.

Li Chengde firmly believed that if it wasn't for the need to show up at court meetings or festivals, there would not even be such two servants.

He leaned against the cold bed, staring blankly at it.

"I want to have a snack."

He muttered to himself: "I still want to drink, I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty... what I want to do the most is to have a hearty meal."

"Some people say that men live for dignity. A man without dignity is a walking corpse. Life is worse than death. Then I ask you, why are you alive?"

He asked Su Sheng.

"Why do slaves live?"

Su Sheng thought for a while and replied: "In order to save enough money for the elderly, I will go back to my hometown to buy dozens of acres of land, buy a house, and adopt a adopted son if possible."

Then he asked something very disrespectful: "Then why are you alive, Your Majesty?"

"I?"

Li Chengde smiled, his smile was weird: "For the sake of eating meat, I ate meat unscrupulously, until I felt like vomiting."

Su Sheng was stunned, then smiled contemptuously.His wrinkled face was full of disdain.

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When Li Xian left the capital Chang'an, he appointed Xu Shiji as Minister of the Ministry of War, but Xu Shiji was leading the army to conquer the north, and now the Ministry of War is in charge of the servant Hou Junji.But in fact, Hou Junji is also doing nothing all day long.The food, grass, and materials needed by the North Army were collected from various places under the direct order of King Yan, and there was no need to go through the procedures of the Ministry of War.Moreover, there was no need for the Ministry of War to mobilize follow-up reinforcements, so even if Hou Junji wanted to be busy, he had nothing to do.

During the war, the Ministry of War was idle.

Hou Junji, who was wearing a purple court uniform, looked at the battle report on the table, put down the teacup in his hand, waved his hands and said: "From now on, the battle report will be sent to Lord Du Ruhui first, and Master Du will take it after reading it." Come back and show me."

"My lord, this is against the rules."

Cui Jinren, head of the Ministry of War, said in a low voice.

"rule?"

Hou Junji sneered and said, "There are no rules in the court of the Tang Dynasty. The ruler is not the ruler, and the minister is not the minister. The rules are for decoration and are useless."

Cui Jinren broke out in a cold sweat, lowered his voice and said eagerly: "My lord, you can't just say these words casually. If those with evil intentions find out and spread the word, I'm afraid It's not good for you, my lord."

"fine."

Hou Junji smiled and said: "Aren't you and I the only ones here? I'm just complaining. Jiangnan is suppressing chaos, Hexi is suppressing bandits, and Hebei is fighting wars, but our military office is so deserted that it makes people sad , This feeling is uncomfortable. Jin Ren, I can see that you are a good subordinate when I first arrived at the Ministry of War, so I am willing to talk to you about everything. Tell me, if Xu Shiji comes back, will the Ministry of War be the same as it is now?"

"General Xu is back...I'm afraid there will be no more battles."

Cui Jinren answered cautiously.

"Right."

Hou Junji stood up, walked to the door and looked at the clear and cloudless sky as clean as washing: "When Xu Shiji comes back, everything will be decided by him, Minister of the Ministry of War. I'm afraid I will be more free by then. But think about it. Well, I have been fighting with the lord for many years, but these days are the most comfortable and leisurely in the Ministry of War, and it is actually not bad to dawdle."

"You keep an eye on the affairs in the yamen. If you don't go to relax in such a good weather, it will be ruined."

He waved his hand, and it was Shi Shiran who left.

Cui Jinren looked at Hou Junji's back, and couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead.This lord servant has never had any scruples in speaking, and he doesn't know if he is really not afraid of being framed by others, or if he has a broken mind.He knew that this lord servant was old, and he followed the master to conquer the world a long time ago, perhaps it was because of this that he felt a little resentful.

He remembered the last time when he had a drink with Lord Shi Lang, he scolded after drinking: "Even a bad old man who only knows how to flatter horses has been made a county marquis. The general of the town army... Hehe, speaking of this encounter, it really makes people feel speechless."

He never dared to say this.

But it just happened to be like this, he felt that the servant minister was just unhappy in his heart.If you really have any rebellious thoughts, is it possible that you still keep your grievances in your mouth all day, lest others will not know?

That's what idiots do.

he thought so.

I don't know how many people think so.

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Hou Junji changed into casual clothes and walked towards the river with a few entourages.He wore a big bamboo hat and lowered his head, so he couldn't see his face.In addition, he was only wearing ordinary clothes, so he didn't have to worry about being recognized.After all, he should be on duty at the Ministry of Military Affairs at this time. If those people in Yushitai find out about his wandering around like this, the memorial to his impeachment will be like snowflakes floating around.

Especially the imperial envoy Wei Zheng, that guy's mouth is more poisonous than a poisonous snake.

Passing by a well-known dim sum shop in Chang'an City, he ordered his men to buy a pack of dim sum, a jug of new wine, and a few side dishes to accompany the wine, and put them in food boxes to take with them.It was almost noon at this time, and he was buying some food to prepare, it seemed that he was thinking that he would not go back to the yamen for the whole afternoon to do business.

Walking to the river, I chose a very luxuriant weeping willow, sat on the bluestone slab, set up the fishing rod, drank wine, ate vegetables and snacks, watched the fishing rod quietly waiting for the bait, and felt very comfortable.The weather is just right at this time, neither hot nor cold, and sitting by the river for half a day is actually a very enjoyable thing.

He sat there without turning his head, until he leaned against a willow tree and covered his face with a bamboo hat and fell asleep soundly.He didn't care about the fish that had already bit the hook, let alone those followers who drank all his wine secretly.

Not far away from the tea house on the street, several secret agents of the Military Inspection Office in plain clothes were staring at this side.After drinking six pots of tea and eating three plates of snacks, Hou Junji was still sleeping soundly there.The spies shook their heads helplessly, not knowing what Hou Junji was planning to come to sleep soundly by the river.

If you want to sleep, wouldn't it be more comfortable to sleep in the yamen?

In that well-known dim sum shop in Chang'an City, Hou Junji, who was leaning against the door, looked at himself sleeping soundly under the tree in the distance and smiled.Just when he went in to buy things, he changed clothes with the guy in the shop. The guy was about the same size as him, and he wore a big bamboo hat, so he couldn't see anything at all.

The entourage is still those few entourages, Hou Junji is fishing.

It's just that the little guy is going to do big things.

Putting on a fake beard and changing into the costume of a general of the forbidden army, Hou Junji went out through the back door of the dim sum shop, and walked in the direction of Tai Chi Palace casually.Since the Daming Palace was built, the focus of the imperial guards' defense has shifted to the Daming Palace. In the Taiji Palace, only the small courtyard where the emperor lives is tightly guarded.Inside and out, they are all secret spies from the Military Audit Office.

"Yo, General Zhou, you are back."

The captain of the Imperial Guard guarding the gate winked at him and motioned inside.Hou Junji nodded, and quickened his pace to enter the Tai Chi Palace.The east side of the Tai Chi Palace is the Prince's East Palace, which has been idle without the Prince.On the west side is Yeting Palace.At the farthest corner of Yeting Palace is the clothes washing room.

In the laundry room, there are the lowest servants and maids in the palace.The old clothes that people in the palace can no longer wear are usually sent here first and then sent out for destruction.But even these old clothes must be escorted by the imperial guards when they are destroyed.The things in the palace cannot be touched by the people outside at will.

Hou Junji ran into an extremely fat and ugly court lady who was delivering old clothes on the way, and the two of them brushed each other past each other.The maid apologized quickly, and couldn't help but curse after Hou Junji left.

"I didn't even apologize for bumping into the emperor. A small imperial guard general is arrogant."

She hid the pills in her hand without leaving any traces.