Chapter 12 King Juan’s prediction came true, and the emperor was blocked
The capital city is very large, divided into the outer city, the inner city and the imperial city. There are large circles and small circles. The closer to the center, the closer to power.
Among them, the Imperial City has four gates, which are distributed in the east, west, north and south directions. This time, the beautiful ladies were ordered to enter from the Imperial City Gate in the south.
Mrs. Zhou went out according to the right time, and the journey was smooth.
As soon as the carriage passes through the imperial city gate, you will see the huge palace, which is the center of power in the world.
The closer she gets to her destination, the more excited Zhou Yuzhen becomes.
There was an eager impulse in her heart, and she couldn't help but stretched out her hand to lift a corner of the car curtain and look out.
Mrs. Zhou shook her fan and looked at her with a smile: "It's good to see more. When you enter the palace, you will be the emperor's man. What you see in front of you is wealth and splendor. It will be difficult to see these rough alleys." p>
"Mother~" Zhou Yuzhen said coquettishly, still looking outside with interest.
Suddenly, the carriage seemed to hit something, and it stopped suddenly. Zhou Yuzhen exclaimed, raising her hand to barely support the wall of the carriage to avoid hitting her face.
Mrs. Zhou was not so lucky and hit the side directly.
Before she could cry out in pain, she nervously checked Zhou Yuzhen's face. She was relieved when she found that nothing was wrong, and then she became furious.
She angrily opened the curtain and was about to scold the coachman, but the scene in front of her stunned her.
I saw that the Imperial City Gate was close at hand, but the scene in front was that carriages were piled next to carriages, all concentrated on this street, and it was impossible to see the end at a glance.
When the coachman saw Mrs. Zhou opening the curtain, he panicked and began to confess.
Mrs. Zhou was a little confused and asked the coachman to get out of the car and go to find out what was going on.
Only when the coachman came back did he realize that these carriages were used by various families to send beautiful women to the palace.
There were too many boxes and cages in each house, resulting in so many carriages that they drove very slowly and even stopped in the end.
The reason for the stop was that in the middle of the entrance to the imperial city, the two carriages that arrived first collided with each other in order to get ahead. The boxes and cages fell to the ground and scattered all over the place, blocking the entrance to the city tightly.
People can’t get through it at all.
This accident caught Mrs. Zhou off guard.
She looked up at the sky and screamed secretly. If this situation continued, they would definitely be late.
What to do? Mrs. Zhou became secretly anxious.
She was not the only one who was anxious. The beautiful women who were blocked in front of the imperial city gate were all anxious, but there was no way. They still had to wait until the boxes and cages in the center of the city gate were packed up and the ground was cleared to pass.
Someone said anxiously: "I have never encountered such a situation before."
What this person is saying is that this situation has never happened in the draft before.
Everyone else had the same idea, and almost no one expected this situation. They were referring to the experience of the draft many years ago, but they forgot that this year was slightly different from before.
In the past, the number of cages for show girls was limited, but this year the Queen Mother was kind and feared that the show ladies would not be used to the food and clothing when they first entered the palace, so there was no limit on the number of cages.
So each family worked hard to prepare for their daughters, resulting in a greatly increased number of carriages pulling box cages.
It was this slight difference that created this situation, but Lihua noticed it. She guessed that there would be a heavy traffic jam today and asked Mr. Wu to send her there early to avoid the traffic jam.
At this moment, a steady stream of carriages gathered and formed a long queue.
The whole street was blocked, and the people passing by were amazed to see it. Even during the Chinese New Year, it had never been so blocked.
When the guards at the Imperial City Gate saw this, they had to come out to maintain order.
While the people on the carriage were waiting impatiently, the cages and objects that had fallen from the imperial city gate and blocked the passage were finally put away, and the city gate began to become clear.
However, because there are too many carriages, the driving is still very slow.
The anxious Mrs. Zhou slowly breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was slow now, she was finally making progress.
She counted the hours and knew it would be too late.
However, after the coachman inquired about the situation on his return, Mrs. Zhou knew that almost all the show girls were stuck here.
As the saying goes, the law does not punish everyone. It is better to wait until later. My daughter will probably be fine, so I feel at ease.
When the sun is high in the sky, in front of the east outer palace gate.
A group of people rode in. The young man pulled the reins and stopped, turned over and dismounted neatly, and threw the reins to the people behind him without even looking at them.
They came in through the East Imperial City Gate and were hardly affected by the South Gate.
The young man kept walking and walked quickly through the palace road, his handsome and jade-like face full of anger:
"If I hadn't gone to see it myself, I wouldn't have known that the arsenal department is full of scrap metal and rotten to this point. How can we fight a war? Those who are in charge of the arsenal department should be killed from top to bottom!"
The people behind him were as silent as a cicada, all bowed their heads and followed. Someone whispered to persuade: "Long live the Lord to calm down."
Yuchi Gong's footsteps suddenly stopped and he sneered: "Calm down your anger? How can I calm down my anger! There are Huns in the north and barbarians in the south. Is it possible that the world is at peace when Wen Zhen and Wu Zhen of the Dynasty are in power? The Minister of the Ministry of Propaganda and War will come to see me immediately!"
"Yes!" Someone immediately prepared to leave in a hurry, but was called back after taking a few steps.
Yuchi Gong's eyes were filled with uncertainty. After thinking for a moment, he issued a new order: "Xuanwu Dingbang came to see me in secret, and don't make it public!"
The Arsenal Department has made such a big mistake, and the Ministry of War has neglected its duties. Yuchi Gong no longer trusts the Ministry of War.
He urgently needed someone to step in, and Wu Dingbang was a capable official. He was a Jinshi and had served in both military and civilian positions. Such a person couldn't be more useful!
After the person who announced the decree hurriedly left, Yuchi Gong walked forward again.
After turning a few corners, I was about to return to the dormitory through the inner palace gate on the west side, but I didn't want to be blocked.
When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, Yu Chigong was stunned.
On the long palace road, the eunuchs and palace maidens were hurriedly coming and going, constantly carrying boxes and cages from outside the palace gate.
There are so many boxes and cages, most of which are stacked directly on both sides of the palace passage, making the palace passage extremely crowded.
Forget it, there are actually a group of fragrant women in red and green among them!
This group of women did not listen to the eunuch's instructions. They seemed to find it very strange. They seemed to have met each other for the first time. They started talking to each other on the palace road and expressed their sisterhood to each other. From time to time, bursts of cute laughter could be heard.
The usually quiet palace corridor is noisy, with cages and people everywhere.
The scene was extremely chaotic, noisier than the downtown area, and almost no one noticed the group of people who appeared at the corner.
Yuchi Gong frowned. He was already angry when he came back from the palace. He barely endured his anger and sent someone to ask what was going on.
What a coincidence, as he was rushing to the imperial city, Xiu Nu's carriage quickly passed through the south gate of the imperial city and arrived in front of the palace.
This has made the palace people very busy. There are too many boxes and cages in each house. The boxes and cages are being unloaded in a steady stream, and it will be impossible to carry them all in a while.
The eunuch in charge of this matter felt that few nobles usually walked along this road, so he simply had the boxes labeled with the names of the beautiful women and carried them to the palace road. After inspection, they were carried into the palace. The palace road was almost completely blocked. It’s all blocked.
The eunuchs were also very busy. There were too many beautiful women arriving at the same time, and there were not enough people to greet them, so they gathered them all together and entered the palace together.
It is easy to get confused when there are many people. After these beautiful ladies got off the carriage, they reluctantly said goodbye to their families and expressed their feelings for a long time before following the eunuchs.
After the beautiful girls got together, they knew a lot of people and talked about old times.
Then this person was introduced to that acquaintance, and that person was introduced to another acquaintance, and they started chatting enthusiastically while walking.
At that time, the palace corridor was in chaos, with beautiful ladies chatting and reminiscing about the past intertwined with palace maids and eunuchs unloading boxes and cages and carrying them into the palace.
The eunuch who received him urged the beautiful lady many times to be quiet and leave quickly. When the time came, it was already very late.
These beautiful ladies are all pampered at home, and when they enter the palace, they rush to be their masters. How could they notice the little escort eunuchs? They all ignore their words and just talk happily to themselves.< /p>
At this moment, the emperor happened to come back from the palace.
At this moment, Yu Chigong, who understood the reason, looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and became furious!