Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Seven: The King of Qin Who Scares People to Death
This morning, His Majesty Li Yuan, the current saint, made an exception and canceled the day's court meeting.
But the officials of Chang'an City, big and small, couldn't get any rest. They were organized by the Ministry of Rites early in the morning and came to the pavilion ten miles outside Mingde Gate...
Of course, the Ministry of Rites organized these officials to go out to Chang'an not for their autumn outing, but to welcome the greatest heroes of the Tang Dynasty: General Tiance, Taiwei, Situ, Shangshuling, Daxingtai of Shaanxi Province, Shangshuling of Yizhou Daoxingtai,
The pastor of Yongzhou, the general manager of Liangzhou, the generals Wuhou on the left and the right, came to Shangzhu State, and His Highness Li Shimin, King of Qin, returned in triumph.
Well, after coming back this time, King Qin will have one more title, the General of the Twelve Guards.
Too many titles can scare people to death, and reading them all in one breath can even stifle people to death!
There is no way, who makes it difficult for the current Qin King Li Shimin to reward him for his high achievements, so His Majesty Li Yuan can only do these favors and free things, such as welcoming hundreds of officials to the outskirts, rewarding some rare treasures, and giving two false titles.
The honor that is better than nothing comes to top up the number.
You can't really let Li Jiancheng give up the position of prince, right?
Why was the Sui Dynasty so unlucky? Isn't it because Yang Jian changed the crown prince from his eldest son to his second son?
The sun gradually rose from the east and scorched the earth, making the officials in heavy uniforms complain incessantly.
Of course, compared with those officials who can only stand in the fields and bask in the sun, as members of the royal family, both the prince Li Jiancheng and the third wife Li Xiuning have some privileges. For example, before Li Shimin showed up, they could sit on the
Take a rest in the car.
Li Jiancheng, who was sitting in the car, looked gloomy...
In front of everyone, he had to add a halo to his already dazzling and military-sounding younger brother, which made him feel very jealous and unbalanced.
He looked through the window screen at the whispers below, and the faces of the proud officials were twisted.
When these guys mentioned him one by one, they would only say, "The prince is generous," but there was absolutely no such proud look on their faces.
He doesn’t want to just be a kind and benevolent prince!
"perhaps……"
Sitting in the car, Li Jiancheng murmured to himself.
"Wei Zheng is right. Going to Hebei to attack Liu Heita this time is indeed an opportunity for me."
Compared with Li Jiancheng, who looked ugly, Li Xiuning, who was also sitting in the car, looked relaxed. She even had the time to chat with a Taoist priest in white standing beside the car.
"Xiao Qingwei, are you sure Li Zitong and the others will escape tonight?"
"That's right!"
Kong Qing had an expression full of wisdom.
"Li Zitong has made an appointment with Monk Yifan of the Fahua Sect. Tonight, when the current saint brought hundreds of officials to a banquet for His Highness the King of Qin, he took the opportunity to slip away, leave Chang'an, and return to the Jianghuai area to recruit old troops, start another uprising, and rebuild
Great Wu Kingdom."
"Yeah?"
Li Xiuning nodded.
After Kong Qing reported to her about the Fahua Sect's rebellion, although she immediately agreed to dispatch troops to intercept the fleeing Li Zitong and Fahua Sect's monk Yifan in Lantian and other places, she was still concerned about the Fahua Sect's conspiracy.
On the contrary, she was still a little doubtful about this matter.
So she investigated in the past two days, and finally got the testimony from the two monks from the Taishi Bureau that they killed Kong Ke. Then Ma Sixi also quietly obtained the testimony from Li Duanduan's flower house.
I found out that Li Zitong was indeed there that day.
Coupled with Kong Qing's constant blowing, Li Xiuning now believed 80% of the Fahua Sect's conspiracy.
Time passed minute by minute while Kong Qing and Princess Pingyang were chatting. At almost 9 o'clock in the morning, the team led by Prince Li Shimin finally appeared in everyone's sight.
At the front of the team were still the black armored knights with black masks on their faces, but this time the number was several times greater than the last time in front of Princess Pingyang's mansion, with hundreds of knights in total.
Under the rising sun, the black-armored knights slowly walked in, standing like a wall, and they were really murderous.
After the black-armored knight appeared, there was a moment of commotion among the officials in the suburbs, and they began to whisper to each other in low voices.
"Such a mighty military force, truly a fierce and fierce warrior!"
"The King of Qin is indeed brave..."
"..."
The officials from the Ministry of Rites responsible for maintaining order had to shout loudly for a long time to suppress the chatter.
The black-armored knights came closer and closer, and I saw that each of them had bright armor, and their eyes were not squinting. They looked really majestic when riding on their horses.
"Didn't you say that King Qin and the others came back from Jianghuai at a galloping pace?"
A Taoist priest in white who didn't understand the style muttered below. "It doesn't look dusty at all. Look at this black armor, it's even polished to reflect light."
"Don't talk nonsense, Jiaoying has to choose the time, so in fact Erlang and the others have already arrived at Baqiao the first day."
Sanniangzi, who had already stepped down from the carriage, curled her fingers and tapped Kong Qing on the head.
"And next, Erlang and the others have to enter Chang'an City and walk along Zhuque Street to the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial City. If they don't sort it out, how can they let the people feel the brilliant martial arts of the Tang Dynasty after they enter Chang'an City?
.”
"oh!"
Kong Qing nodded.
I understand, isn’t this the same as the military parade later?
"Okay, I have to go there..."
Li Xiuning tilted her head, looked at the position of the black armor knights away from the pavilion, and then knocked on Kong Qing again.
"You and your people should stand at the place designated by your Taishi Bureau and don't run around."
That's right, the reason why Kong Qing appeared at this military parade was not to follow Sanniang, but to represent the Taishi Bureau in the suburbs to welcome the King of Qin.
Originally, Kong Qing, the eunuch of the Taishi, was not qualified to represent the Taishi Bureau and participate in such a high-level event as welcoming the King of Qin in the suburbs.
But there was no way. Taishi Ling Qingxiazi said that he needed to guard the imperial city and could not escape. During this time, Taishi Cheng Yin Wenchao took Taishi Secretary Zhang Jiuzang to handle things.
Wang Gui, the high-ranking official in Maoshan, had been humiliated by Lady Yan, the wife of Dizhi some time ago. He felt that he was always being criticized when he was in the Taishi Bureau, so he simply went to Luoyang with Pan Shizheng, another Taishi Secretary, saying that he was doing business, but
According to Shu Chuo, he went to complain to Wang Yuanzhi, the Dharma Master of Maoshan...
After doing the final calculation, I discovered that among the free Taoists in the Taishi Bureau, only Qingweizi from the Neidan sect was left.
This is outrageous!
After watching Sanniangzi walking toward Li Jiancheng, Kong Qing shook his whisk and returned to the team of the Taishi Bureau.
This team was carefully selected by Kong Qing and Shu Chuo from the Taishi Bureau's look-alikes who had no magic power. They were all about the same size. They all wore uniform Taoist robes and looked very good.
Especially when compared with the pile of bruised and swollen faces and crooked melons and cracked dates in the censor's desk next to him, it was simply a matter of judgment.
Kong Qing looked over and realized that the censors next door with bruises and swollen faces were looking at the phalanx of Taoist priests from the Taishi Bureau on their side, with anger in their eyes.
"Shu Chuo..."
The corner of Kong Qing's mouth twitched, and he reached out to call out Shu Chuo, his mouth tilted to the side.
"By the way, what's the status of this matter now?"
"What could happen!"
Shu Chuo said with a smirk on his face.
"It is said that after Xiao Yu, the censor Zhongcheng, was beaten, he angrily went to the palace to complain to the current saint. Then the saint was furious. Shortly after you left, the chamberlain who summoned Qingxiazi came,"
"Then what……"
Kong Qing asked further.
“What do the saints of today say?”
"What else can I say? Of course I told Qingxiazi that we, the Taishi Bureau, should quickly find the demon who attacked Yushitai,"
The corners of Shu Chuo's mouth raised slightly.
"In the end, Qingxiazi said that this might be the work of Buddhists, because it is said that Buddhism has a magical weapon that can isolate the dragon's energy. Then Xiao Zhongcheng jumped up and said that it was definitely not possible for Buddhists to do it. The two sides fought with His Majesty.
Talking nonsense..."
"Ahem..."
Kong Qing covered his mouth with his hand and coughed twice.
"Then what?"
"Then Qingxiazi insisted that it was a monk who did it, and also said that the one who could attack the Yushitai must be a temple close to the imperial city."
Shu Chuo covered his mouth with his hand and whispered.
"Then those who took action were either Wenguo Temple and Dingshui Temple in Taipingfang, or Shanguo Temple, Da Prajna Temple, Fahai Temple, Jifa Temple, and even Mingjueni Temple in Bu Zhengfang. They cannot be separated from each other. But the most likely one is Da Prajna Temple.
Prajna Temple, because the Great Prajna Temple contains magic weapons that can isolate dragon energy, and there is absolutely no cause and effect in using it to kill officials below the fifth rank..."
Kong Qing blinked silently.
It turns out that this is how you, Master Qingxia, explained to His Majesty the matter of this magic weapon that isolates dragon energy!
"Then Xiao Zhongcheng insisted that it had nothing to do with the monks. Monks are all people with high moral standards. Then Qingxiazi asked, since the monks have such high moral standards, why did they prepare a magic weapon to isolate the dragon's energy? Who do they want to kill?"
Shu Chuo spread his hands.
"In the end, when Xiao Yu was at a loss for words, he actually said that the censors in their censorship stage fell on their own. It was none of the monk's business, and there was no need for people from the Taishi Bureau to investigate. The matter was just dropped!"
The corners of Kong Qing's mouth twitched again.
He dropped it himself!
No wonder these censors didn't like the Taoist priests and were beaten for no reason. In the end, they had to admit that they were the ones who hit him. In other words, these censors are scholars and well-educated. If someone with a bad temper would have beaten him, they would have just come up and started beating him.
However, Kong Qing looked at the Taoist priests with magic swords on his side, and then at the censor next door who was wearing a bulky dress.
It's also possible that the censors know what they're doing, and they can't fight now...
Just as Kong Qing and Shu Chuo were muttering, the Black Armor Knight had already walked to the Ten Mile Pavilion at the auspicious time calculated by the Taishi Bureau. Then the team dispersed in an orderly manner, wearing a black armor and looking heroic.
Prince Li Shimin rode a horse and ran out of the team.
This time, Li Jiancheng did not dare to wait for Li Shimin to dismount and salute the prince like he did last time. Instead, he took the lead, cupped his fists with both hands, and bowed to the ground in front of Li Shimin.
"The king of Qin defeated Xu Yuanlang this time, and his achievements were unparalleled. I was ordered to lead hundreds of officials to welcome him in the suburbs to show the merits of the king of Qin!"
Following Li Jiancheng's actions, all the officials who came to the ten-mile pavilion, under the command of officials from the Ministry of Rites, followed Li Jiancheng and bowed to Li Shimin.
“The King of Qin’s achievements are unparalleled!”
Li Shimin sat upright on his horse, looking at the scene of civil and military officials bowing down in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction.
This is what a man should do!
After Li Jiancheng led all the officials to salute, Li Shimin got off his horse and faced Li Jiancheng with a smile on his face. At this time, Li Jiancheng's honest face also had the smile of an elder brother.
"Erlang is fighting all over the place. It's so hard. Look how thin you have become..."
Li Jiancheng grabbed Li Shimin's hand affectionately and said excitedly.
"From now on, I will take a good rest in Chang'an to recuperate my health. Let Yuan Ji handle the remaining fish that slipped through the net!"
"No problem!"
Li Shimin also had an affectionate smile on his face.
"My brother is not tired. Besides, the situation is not peaceful in all directions. How can I have the nerve to take a rest?"
The two brothers held each other's hands and laughed cordially at the same time.