Idle courtiers

Chapter 230
Hearing his son's nagging, Yan Song smiled and didn't speak.Thinking: Is it possible for a granddaughter to be Shao Qing's concubine?If so, would Xu Jie be ashamed?
He hadn't seen Hu Zongxian for a long time, and he couldn't stop persuading him to drink: "Ruzhen, drink a few more glasses, today is the happiest day for me, so let's have a reunion dinner."

At this moment, there was a slight commotion outside, as if a servant was whispering something.

Yan Shifan was seriously ill, and the patient was impatient and about to have a seizure.

A book office walked in quickly, with a sullen face: "Mr. Ge, you should go out and have a look. There seems to be something wrong with the situation in Xiyuan."

Yan Song: "What's wrong?"

Secretary office: "Xiyuan is on fire."

"His!"

The three people in the room took a deep breath at the same time, and then threw their chopsticks away, and ran outside the room.

When he got outside, Yan Song raised his head and looked towards Xiyuan, only to see that there was a ball of bright flames soaring into the sky, illuminating half of the imperial city.

The snow falls and the wind is strong, and the fire is like a scarlet tongue licking the black night sky, and sparks are flying everywhere.

In an instant, a bad thought came to my mind: force the palace, plot rebellion!
Yan Song was about to call.

Yan Shifan who was next to him shouted, "Hurry up, prepare the chariots and horses, and send your father to Xiyuan. Someone wants to rebel!"

Hu Zongxian also shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up."

Yan Song turned his head and said to his son, "Qing'er, go back to the house quickly, don't freeze."

Yan Shifan stomped his feet: "Father, what time is it now? Don't worry about it. You should enter the palace immediately, close the palace and find the emperor. The city will soon be chaotic, and we need to prevent someone from snatching it first."

Yan Song: "Yes, let's go right away."

Surrounded by everyone, Yan Song soon arrived at the place.The fire is still burning, and the royal garden is filled with the choking smell of smoke.

Fortunately, the order inside is okay, there are soldiers everywhere.

A man who looked like a military officer came over and saluted, "I've seen Mr. Ge."

Yan Song recognized this person and asked: "You are on duty today, what happened, how is Your Majesty?"

Officer: "If Hui Ge Lao said, the water in Xiyuan did not hurt anyone. The fire will probably be extinguished by dawn. Long live God is safe. Now Yuxi Palace, Chuan Ge Lao is going to talk."

Hearing what he said, Yan Song heaved a long sigh of relief.The imperial palace and various royal gardens are all wooden buildings, and water will leak if you are not careful.Since Emperor Jiajing came to the throne, Ouchi has been burned twice, which is not surprising.

When the fire broke out for the first time, the emperor happened to be caught in the fire, and it was Lu Bing, the guard in Jinyi, who carried him out.

In a blink of an eye, this happened more than 20 years ago, and Lu Bing passed away for more than ten years.

How time flies!

Yan Song lost his mind for a moment, and when the officer yelled several times, he said: "Close the palace gate immediately, and no one is allowed in without His Majesty's order, even the cabinet ministers and chief officials of various ministries."

After checking for a long time, I was relieved.

Don't come to the king early, and there are even early pedestrians.

When Yan Song arrived at Yuxi Palace, Xu Jie, Huang Jin, and Chen Hong were already waiting there.

Jiajing sat cross-legged on the futon, his face was very ugly, when he saw Yan Song, he scolded: "Who told you to close the palace gate, it looks like I'm going to do something big. Don't be afraid, there will be no chaos."

After finishing speaking, he threw Ruyi in his hand to the ground and closed his eyes.

Huang Jin smiled wryly at Yan Song, then put down the gauze hanging over Emperor Jiajing's head, and signaled everyone to retreat.

After leaving the house, before Yan Song could ask, Xu Jie said: "Today's winter solstice, Your Majesty wanted to have a good time, but he didn't want to be busy with people. He ran out of water and burned the Renshou Palace. Fortunately, His Majesty just suffered a little bit." Surprised, the dragon body is healthy."

After finishing speaking, he carefully explained: "My house is close to here, and I saw the fire in Xiyuan immediately, so I went to the front of the leader."

"Ren Shou Palace!" Yan Song felt a pain in his heart. The palace was built the year before last and cost more than 50 taels of silver.Among them, the emperor paid 20 yuan himself, and he helped raise the remaining 30 yuan.It has only been lived for more than a year, and it was burned to nothing.

Xu Jie said again: "Your Majesty is used to living in Renshou Palace on weekdays, and he is nostalgic. Now that he has moved to Yuxi Palace, he feels unhappy. It is not because of the closure of the palace by the chief assistant. Mr. Ge, since Your Majesty has such thoughts, Let’s gather some more money to rebuild Renshou Palace.”

Why do you live close by? Why is it that Long Yan was furious about the closure of the palace? It is clear that you, Xu Jie, will be the hero to save you, and you have also fallen into the old man's slander from the emperor.Yan Song was annoyed in his heart, snorted, and shouted: "Reconstruction is easy to say, the military salary of Hu Zongxian in the southeast can't be paid in full, the court is already in difficulty, but they want to build palaces, where did the old man get the money? Xu Sir, you tell me?"

Xu Jie looked terrified, and sighed: "Yes, what the chief assistant said is right, there is no way to do this."

While talking, the fire in front gradually dimmed.

After a while, someone came to report that the fire had been put out.

After Yan Song vented his anger, he also calmed down.Looking at Xu Jie with a wry smile: "Mr. Xu Ge, it's good if the fire is extinguished. Fortunately, the fire did not spread. It seems that you and I will live in the cabinet tonight. Let's go to open the pavilion together." Just now, the old man was also in a hurry, so don't worry about it."

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet is in charge of state secrets, and the door must be locked every day at the time of application. No cabinet minister is allowed to enter alone, and only two secretary offices are left on duty outside.It's really urgent, and two elders need to hold the key at the same time to open the door and go in.The cabinet in the imperial city is like this, and so is the value house in Xiyuan.

Xu Jie also smiled wryly: "Yeah, everyone don't want to sleep today."

The Ming Dynasty is the virtue of fire. Speaking of it, it really has a relationship with fire.

Not to mention the Jiajing Dynasty, plus today, there have been three fires.One of them, if it wasn't because of Lu Bing, the Jinyi guard at that time, who tried his best to save him, the dragon chair would have changed its owner.

As for the previous dynasties, large and small fires continued in the imperial city, the most severe of which was during the Yongle period, when more than 20 houses in a main hall were directly burned.

This is true of the capital, and so is Nanjing.

When Emperor Chengzu surrendered to Tianjing and took Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen set himself on fire and burned down half of the imperial palace.His body was not found until the fire was extinguished.Until now, life and death have become a mystery.

After opening the duty room, while dealing with related matters, Xu Jie carefully looked at Yan Song. He knew that the chief minister was quite dissatisfied with him today, and suspected that he wanted to compete for favor.

Unconsciously screaming injustice in my heart: I also talked too much about asking the first assistant to allocate funds to rebuild Renshou Palace, but I forgot that the emperor and the elder Yan Ge couldn't come up with money at all.Well, I don't care about this matter, let him worry about it himself!
Thinking of this, Xu Jie pretended to be unable to bear it and dozed off, and Yan Song pretended not to hear him.

Pretending to be pretending, he actually fell asleep.

Next to him, Yan Song smiled: "Time is not forgiving, you are old." He motioned for the book office to turn up the fire, and covered Mr. Xu Ge with a jacket.

(End of this chapter)