On the second day of April in the seventeenth year of Hongde's reign, the east gate of Daliang was filled with people.
Because today, at this time, the Emperor of the Wei Dynasty will lead the Prince of the East Palace, all the princes, and all the officials of the dynasty to welcome at the east gate the heroes who defeated the Chu State and returned triumphantly: King Su Zhao Hongrun and his subordinate Junshuiying
sergeant.
I saw a sea of people at the east gate at this time. I believe that the people of Daliang who came to the east gate were all eager to see the leader of the royal family who was only fifteen years old this year and the eighth son of the emperor, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun.
At this time, the whole east gate was very lively, and the people of Daliang were all looking forward to it. Sometimes they were discussing with the surrounding neighbors, guessing whether His Highness King Su was tall or short, fat or thin.
Listening to the heated discussions gathering around him, Emperor Wei, who was sitting in the imperial chariot, felt a chill in his heart: Who would have thought that the person they most wanted to welcome had already quietly slipped back to the palace at this moment?
Humph! Two wins and two losses? Hehe...
Emperor Wei smiled evilly on the imperial carriage, that smile that seemed like a person breaking down, which frightened the great eunuch Tong Xian who was waiting nearby: His Royal Highness Prince Su has returned to the palace. It seems that in the future, the palace will
It's getting lively again...
And at this moment, someone among the people shouted: "It's coming, it's coming!"
Are you coming?
Emperor Wei tensed up and finally restored his majesty as an emperor. Although his son made him a little embarrassed, apart from that scoundrel, there were still many meritorious men in this battle, such as his former Zongwei.
Bailiba, the current general of Junshuiying.
I saw a cloud of snow dust rising in the distance, and countless strong Wei cavalry acted as the vanguard, showing the prowess of their Wei cavalry to the people at the east gate of Daliang.
At the front of the team, Bailiba, the general of the Dredging Navy, rode a tall horse and slowly approached the east gate.
"Is this His Highness Prince Su? He doesn't look like he is only fifteen years old..."
"Nonsense! This is our general from the Junshui Camp of the Great Wei Dynasty, General Bailiba!"
"Then...who is His Royal Highness Prince Su?"
"I don't know..."
"By the way, why is General Bailiba the same person? Shouldn't it be His Highness King Su?"
"I don't know..."
When Bailiba heard the people's comments while passing by the welcoming teams on both sides of the road, he couldn't help crying and laughing.
Indeed. Logically speaking, as the biggest contributor to this battle, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun should be the first to ride on horseback and accept the welcome of the people of Daliang immediately.
But the problem is that His Highness is not in the military at the moment!
Just when Baili Ba was in a daze, he suddenly saw Emperor Wei slowly stepping onto the imperial chariot in front of him and standing in front of the imperial chariot, waiting respectfully.
Bailiba was startled and quickly pinched the horse's belly. He made the horse trot for a while. When he was about ten feet away from the emperor, he reined in the horse's reins, turned over and dismounted, held the reins and walked closely to the emperor, kneeling on one knee.
He knocked on the ground, cupped his fists and said in a deep voice: "Bai Liba, fortunately you have not insulted the emperor's favor!"
Looking at the once young Zongwei, who now had a full beard, Emperor Wei couldn't help feeling a little emotional. He stretched out his hand and bent down to help Bailiba up, and said in a deep voice: "General Baili, please rise!"
After saying that, the emperor couldn't help but sigh in a low voice: "Baili, you are getting old too..."
If the first sentence was just a routine matter, then the emperor's emotion in the second sentence made Bailiba's heart warm and he couldn't help but recall the time when their master and servant were together.
At that time, Emperor Wei had a heroic spirit. How could he look like this with gray hair on his temples now?
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Bailiba shouted, and then whispered: "When I saw Your Majesty last year, His Majesty's temples were not like this... Your Majesty, please take care of your dragon body."
Emperor Wei nodded and helped Bailiba up.
The clan guard system of the Wei Dynasty has always made it difficult to break up the friendship between the princes and their clan guards. Just like when the clan guard Shen Yu bluntly told the emperor that he was loyal to the Eighth Prince Zhao Hongrun instead of the Emperor of Wei, and now Zhao Yuanci and Baili Ba, even if one of them is regarded as the emperor and the other is regarded as a general, the love between them is far more than the simple love between a monarch and a minister.
This is the reason why the Zongfu established the Zongwei system in the first place. It is also the meaning of the existence of Zongwei.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Su..."
"I have already learned about it. As soon as that scoundrel returned to Daliang, he gave me a kick... Do you have any plans for this?"
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I have arranged for a young soldier to pretend to be His Royal Highness Prince Su..."
"Well, don't let the people down..."
The monarch and his ministers talked quietly.
At this time, the people in Daliang around suddenly burst out into shouts that resounded throughout the sky. It turned out that they saw a young knight wearing luxurious armor. Not only was he young and handsome, but he was also wearing a golden helmet and a red shirt. Extraordinary majesty.
Therefore, these people in Daliang took it for granted that this was Zhao Hongrun, the most popular king in Daliang at the moment, and cheered in unison.
"King Su! King Su!"
"King Su! King Su!"
In the midst of the people's greetings, the knight pretending to be Zhao Hongrun waved to the people, and then like Baili Ba, he got off his horse, kowtowed to the ground and said to Emperor Wei: "Your Majesty, you have lived up to your destiny!"
Amidst the heartfelt shouts of congratulations from the people of Daliang, Emperor Wei was in a very emotional mood and helped the knight in front of him who was pretending to be his son to stand up.
He couldn't help but start to imagine, what would it be like if his son was really as obedient as the knight in front of him?
Unfortunately, when he thought of that scoundrel, Emperor Wei couldn't help but recall Zhao Hongrun's exaggerated laugh outside the Chui Gong Hall just now.
This is really unreasonable...
Although he was so angry that veins popped out on his forehead, Emperor Wei still helped the knight in front of him up with a smile.
After all, although Zhao Hongrun didn't care about this kind of thing, as the king of Wei, Emperor Wei had to consider the people in Daliang City and make sure not to disappoint them.
No, when the Emperor of Wei lifted up the knight pretending to be his son in front of him, all the nearby Liang people congratulated and shouted from the bottom of their hearts. After all, the status of the Ji family in the hearts of the people of Wei is extremely high, and among the royal family With the birth of such an outstanding prince as Zhao Hongrun, people in Wei generally felt proud and happy.
However, in the distance, the expressions of those who had seen Zhao Hongrun looked a little strange.
For example, those royal brothers of Zhao Hongrun.
"That's Hongrun..."
"I can't see clearly...but I still feel like my behavior doesn't look like it."
When Emperor Wei led "Zhao Hongrun" to approach, the expressions of the princes such as Prince Hongli of the East Palace, Hongyu of the Yong Palace, and Hongjing of the Xiang Palace became even weirder.
Sure enough it's not...
That kid is so bold. He dares to ask someone to pretend in such an occasion?
Judging from the faces of Father and General Baili, they didn't seem surprised by this... It seemed that they already knew about it.
Hongli, Hongyu and Hongjing thought for a while and then came forward with smiles, pretending not to notice anything wrong at all.
Among them, the expression of Hongli, the crown prince of the East Palace, was the strangest.
You must know that Hongli, the crown prince of the East Palace, originally planned to play "King Su's Army Formation to Break Chu Yangcheng" composed by his aide Luo Yao at this time to win over Zhao Hongrun, the most powerful brother in Daliang at present, but who would have Thinking of it, Zhao Hongrun dared to let everyone go.
This kind of disrespectful behavior made Prince Hongli of the East Palace very angry.
But at this moment, he knew not to show it, not to mention that he was just a knight pretending to be his brother, even if it was a pair of empty armor, he could only admit it.
"play music!"
Following the instructions given by Hongli, the Crown Prince of the East Palace, the music officials behind him who had already been prepared immediately began to play the "Song of King Su's Army Formation to Defeat Chu Yangcheng" in unison.
That piece of music really sounds like a powerful force that can swallow up thousands of miles like a tiger.
Subsequently, the emperor's imperial chariot, Bailiba's horse, and the knight pretending to be Zhao Hongrun, followed the route arranged by the court, leading the Wei soldiers of the Dredging Army, and slowly entered the city from the east gate.
On both sides of the side street in the city, countless people from Daliang lined the streets to welcome the heroes of the Wei Dynasty in their hearts.
Among the crowd, Zhao Hongrun's confidante, Miss Su from Fangshui Pavilion, and her maid Lu'er were also among them.
She originally thought that her lover "Jiang Run" was the King Su Zhao Hongrun, but now when she looked at it, she felt that the "His Royal Highness King Su" riding on the horse was very strange and different from the "Jiang Run" in her memory. Not the same at all.
It's not...
When Miss Su discovered that she had guessed wrong, she was not disappointed, but secretly relieved.
Because in her opinion, if her lover "Jiang Run" is really the Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, then the possibility that the two of them can finally get together becomes increasingly slim.
After all, he was King Su, the son of the Emperor of the Wei Dynasty, with a dignified status as a prince, and she was just a poor servant in a waterside pavilion. No matter how clean she was in the past, it was not certain that the Ji family of the Wei Dynasty would allow her to marry into the royal family. , even if it’s a concubine.
It seems to be just a coincidence... Mr. Jiang must have really gone to his hometown.
Miss Su secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, she frowned because he noticed that not far away there was a rich man in luxurious clothes, staring at her intently. The man's unabashed greedy look made Miss Su, who already had his heart, very worried. Not happy.
"Lu'er, let's go back."
"Oh." Lu'er thought that his young lady was disappointed, so he nodded obediently, took his young lady's arm, and the master and servant returned to a waterside pavilion.
And the wealthy young man who had been staring at Miss Su just now was looking at the two masters and servants leaving, murmuring to himself in surprise and surprise: "I didn't expect that Daliang would have such a smooth jade-like skin. Beauty."
After that, he whispered to the attendant beside him: "Go and find out which family that woman belongs to."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Even Zhao Hongrun didn't expect that even though he had just returned to Daliang, the huge amount of money and goods he extorted from Chu State had already aroused the covetousness of many people.
After all, it was a valuable asset that far exceeded the income tax collected by the imperial household department in several years. Many people wanted to get a share of it. (To be continued.)