"Hey, they are all really fucking stubborn!"
Yuan Xingye, the foreman of the Qianqing Gate guards, and several guards looked at the officials kneeling in front of the Meridian Gate in the doorway, stamping their feet, rubbing their hands, and cursing in a low voice.
At this time in the past, the palace gate was locked, and there was silence outside the Meridian Gate.
But today, because of these officials kneeling here, not only the palace gate is open, but also a fire is lit outside the Meridian Gate, and the lights are brightly lit.
"Who lit the fire?"
It was already midnight, and after the snow stopped, the biting cold wind penetrated directly into the cracks of people's bones. Even though they were specially covered with a layer of sheepskin clothes under their armor, they could not block the cold wind.
Yuan Xingye looked at the figures beside the fire and cursed, "It's just a waste of time to light the fire for them. Why don't they freeze to death! If you give them the light, your good intentions are useless?" He said, and took a sip, " In the middle of the night, we brothers are here to keep you company and add fuel to their troubles!"
A guard on the side heard this and squinted his eyes at Yuan Xingye, "Cao Guogong sent someone to order it!" He said, "Look over there, it seems that a few more iron buckets were dragged over from the military camp!"
Yuan Xingye looked over there and vaguely watched several soldiers carrying a metal bucket with a fire inside and placing it among the crowd.
Suddenly, he grinned and said, "Look, another one passed out?"
"Where?" Several guards around him craned their necks to look over there.
Sure enough, several weathered civil servants were dragged to the nearby hospital room like a dead dog.
"Hmph!" the guards sneered, "Nerds don't even tolerate freezing. Look, they all look like fucking quails!"
"Does that mean you are not resistant to freezing?" Yuan Xingye sneered, "That's just pretending!" He said, snorting again, "I can't bear to kneel any longer, and I can't stand up and say I won't kneel anymore, so I can only close my eyes. Play dead dog!”
"These people are full of food, so they are going against Long Live the Lord?" A guard next to him said with a curled lips, "They are a bunch of poor people!"
"Are they poor?" Yuan Xingye sneered, "Look over there, the fourth in the third row from the left, the old man with the beard..." He said, pointing, "Compiled by the Hanlin Academy, Yuan Shi Edited by Tanhua in the 22nd year of Hongwu. He came from a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River. It is said that their ancestors have been wealthy and powerful since the Chen Dynasty and have been high-ranking officials for generations!"
"And that one!" Yuan Xingye pointed to a middle-aged man in his early to forties, "He is also a Jinshi, the Zhang family of Suzhou, a wealthy family for many generations, a big cloth merchant and a big grain merchant, whose family has too much money to spare. "As he spoke, he smiled contemptuously, "You don't know, right? A round of wine is our annual salary!"
"Hiss!" The guards around him were stunned.
"Seventy percent of our officials in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, especially the noble and imperial censors from the Qing Dynasty, were born in Jiangnan, and behind them all are wealthy and famous families. Who is poor?" Yuan Xingye sneered again, "The really poor ones are the six ministries. Those magnanimous officials who only know how to work hard and rest!"
"Boss, you said that since they have a big family and a big business, why do they have to be officials in the capital!" A guard said, "They say they are noble officials, but I don't see them having any real power?"
"You have no idea, haven't you!" Yuan Xingye sneered, "What does it mean to have no real power? Think about it, if you are an official under the nose of Long Live Lord, do you think you are a close minister of the emperor? The people in the Imperial Academy of the Hanlin Academy in all dynasties are prime ministers. .”
"These people are all top scholars. You may think they don't have much power, but let me tell you, a word between these people and the local magistrate in their hometown is more effective than any other prince or marquis!"
"Can't you?" A guard next to him didn't believe it.
"You are still dissatisfied if you say you have no experience!" Yuan Xingye said with a smile, "They are noble officials, they may not be able to achieve anything, but it only takes a minute to ruin a person's future! The Yushi Yanguan can give it to Long Live Lord
Zhezi, go straight to the imperial court. The Imperial Academy oversees the world's scholars. Whoever passes the Jinshi examination should not be called "teacher"?
At this moment, a guard next to him suddenly smiled happily and said, "Look, hey, two more fucking guys have been brought in!"
"With such skill, a dozen of them have gone in, right?" Yuan Xingye rolled his eyes and said with a bad smile, "If you go in, you won't come out. Can the hospital room accommodate them?"
"Didn't you tell me? You're just pretending to be dead to keep yourself warm!" Someone next to you laughed evilly.
"That won't work! They are the ones who want to kneel down, and they are the ones who feel cold, and all the good things they have done together have been taken over by them?" Yuan Xingye breathed into the palms of his hands and rubbed them vigorously, "Let's go, brothers, let them go!"
"That's right!" said the man next to him with a smile that was not afraid of serious trouble. "If you criticize them a few times, if you don't like whoever you like, let them go back to kneeling outside the Meridian Gate!"
"Let's go!" Yuan Xingye smiled and waved.
But just after taking two steps, a group of people stopped in unison.
The guards, who looked excited just now, suddenly lowered their heads in fear.
Deng Ping was bluffing, his eyes were like knives, and he scolded, "You've eaten too much to support yourself? You've eaten too much salt?"
As he said that, he cursed again, "You think the matter is not big enough, so you want to make a fuss? Then he is the official of the imperial court, and you are the one who can take advantage of it?"
The fire in his heart was burning. He was afraid that these officials would cry and make trouble again, so he guarded here with a hundred cautions.
I pray to God and pray that these people can't bear the cold, so they go back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers.
Who would have thought that the people under my command would actually want to stimulate those officials!
"Are you confused in your head?" Deng Ping looked at Yuan Xingye, without giving him any dignity, and scolded him, "Are you just watching the fun and not afraid of trouble? Do you think your life is too peaceful and you want to suffer some punishment?"
Yuan Xingye couldn't help but subconsciously wanted to retort, but somehow he didn't have the courage to refute.
"No...I'm not displeased with them..."
"Is it your turn to be displeased?" Deng Ping angrily yelled, "What do you think you are doing? Go and watch on the sidelines, and then let me listen to your provocative words and see how I deal with you!"
"You..." Yuan Xingye instantly felt ashamed, and his heart was filled with anger.
In the past, even if Deng Ping was his immediate boss, he would still have a good fight with him. But now, since Deng Ping, the long live Lord, has gone to hell, the guards in the palace, no matter what their origins,
No one dared to speak loudly to him.
"Isn't it just that he was made a count? What's the air?" Yuan Xingye cursed inwardly.
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Deng Ping's eyelids twitched as he watched the guards return to their original positions.
Then he turned around and retreated into the corner.
"Xiao Yuan is related to the Tang family?" A voice rang in Deng Ping's ears.
Right next to Deng Ping, under the wall and leeward from the wind, He Guangyi was wrapped in a fur cloak, not even his head exposed.
Deng Ping looked over there again and said, "Don't you know better than me whether we should stick to it or not?"
"Haha!" He Guangyi smiled, "He talks a lot among the foremen of the guards in the palace!"
He is the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and the Jinyi Guards also have the responsibility of guards, so he also has the official position in charge of the inner court guards.
He continued to laugh and said, "It's his fault too!"
"What do you mean?" Deng Ping looked sideways at He Guangyi, "Why do I hear that there is something wrong with this?"
He Guangyi said nothing, tightly wrapped his cloak around him, and trembled twice, "You seem to have a clear mind, so you still need to ask me?"
"I don't understand!" Deng Ping glanced at him and leaned against the cold wall with his eyes closed to meditate.
"Okay, you can really keep your composure!" He Guangyi opened his eyes and glanced at Deng Ping with a little surprise, "I also mean well! You can't see an unstable person in that position at a glance.
Who will suffer in the future?"
"Then what do you mean?" Deng Ping muttered, "Those are also relatives of the emperor!"
How could he not know that a person with such a frivolous temperament holding an important position in the inner court was like a time bomb that might one day bring bad luck to those around him.
But there is someone else, the grandson of the Tang family, the cousin of the imperial concubine in Zhongcui Palace.
Turn him off?
Not to mention whether Deng Ping had that right, if he really did that, would it be as simple as offending one or two people?
"You! If you can't pass this level, you will be the leader of the guards in your lifetime!" He Guangyi narrowed his eyes and whispered.
This chapter has been completed!