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In ancient China, especially during the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Lantern Festival may not be the most important festival of the year, but it is an extremely special festival.
First of all, it is after the New Year's Day and before spring plowing. At this time, there is no busy farming season, but the weather has warmed up and is not as cold as the New Year's Day, so it is suitable for going out.
At the same time, perhaps due to a common characteristic of human beings, spring festivals have always been open to women. In the Song Dynasty and before, although women had always had a certain status, women of all ages were allowed to go out and play freely, but it was not
It is limited to two spring festivals... In the countryside, the Shangsi Festival (the third day of March) after spring plowing is undoubtedly the most suitable. This day is a good day for outings, bathing, and getting rid of evil spirits. In the city, there is no doubt that
It’s the Lantern Festival, and lanterns and prayers are the eternal themes.
In fact, this kind of extra respect and openness to women in spring festivals is probably the product of the compromise and combination of the most basic human desires, reproductive worship, free love and farming society.
This point can be clearly seen from many primitive tribes and early civilized civilizations. Some specific development lines... It doesn't matter whether it is good or bad, but it is inevitable for all people in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.
It can only be said that even China, which is gradually becoming conservative and continuously repressive, cannot stop this basic human desire and need.
After all, foreign monks also steal lamp oil, and the Central Asian warlords who integrate politics and religion also like to raise women. We are all human beings, and we are essentially the same thing.
Of course, in the Song Dynasty, the Shangsi Festival, which was recorded in "Zhou Li" and was certified by the Confucian ancestors, but was more unbridled, suddenly disappeared in the north and the Central Plains, while the Shangyuan Festival, which had a more restrained theme, was
The official's further promotion... From this perspective, it seems to be another victory for feudal ethics.
The further deepening of sexual repression in traditional Chinese society and the weakening of women's actual social status seem to be true.
But in this way, during the five days before and after the Lantern Festival, it is said that 'women go out in the streets from night to night, and men and women mix', and 'the four doors are wide open, day and night', so that even prison institutions can take the opportunity to display torture instruments.
It almost became the Song Dynasty version of the Carnival, but it was also another kind of release.
Among them, it is recognized that the pattern of the Lantern Festival in Tokyo, especially in Tokyo, has always been different from other places.
For five consecutive days, from the 14th to the 18th of the first lunar month, millions of people came out in full force inside and outside the city and in the countryside. Colored lanterns spread all over the city, even extending to Yuetai and Qingcheng outside the city.
At night, it almost becomes a sea of lights.
Among them, the unique lantern scene in the west of the city, the dense sea of lanterns in the south, the luxury of the lantern market in the east, and the vastness of the lantern market in the north have always been famous.
But these are not as good as the lamphouse Dengshan opposite Xuande Tower and in the middle of Royal Street.
The so-called Lamphouse Dengshan refers to craftsmen ordered by the royal family to start building large-scale colorful shed-style lamps since the Chinese New Year. The shapes and sizes vary every year. The taller ones are almost as high as Xuande Tower, and the wider ones are
It's almost on the same level as Royal Street.
In fact, every year on the second day of the Lantern Festival holiday, that is, on the night of Lantern Festival, people throughout Tokyo often go to both sides of the Imperial Street to take seats in broad daylight, waiting for the lanterns and lantern sheds in the evening. The ignition of... This is just like the Spring Festival Gala in later generations. Regardless of whether it is good-looking or not, it is always a specific repertoire and it is the main show.
However, if we look at it carefully, since the Jurchens besieged the city in the second year of Jingkang, which is also the first year of Jianyan, Tokyo has not had a serious lamp shed for seven years.
But this time, during the Chinese New Year, there were vague rumors that the official Long Yan was very happy, and then allocated special funds to summon craftsmen to make lamps... Everyone considered that there was no major war last year, and the official's authority status has reached its fundamental level again. The situation was unshakable, and there was also a reason for Empress Dowager Yuanyou to return to the capital, so she seemed to believe her.
Most of the senior officials had no intention of refuting the rumors, because they heard with their own ears the conversation between Lin Jingmo, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, and Zhao Guan's family, so they knew that last year's wealth-building plan had actually been overfulfilled.
So in this case, we can make tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of guan... and it can also make the Lantern Festival market more lively, collect more commercial taxes, sell some lottery tickets, and recoup some costs... It may not work!
However, the rumors came true, and until the Lantern Festival holiday in the eighth year of Jianyan's reign, no one saw any lantern sheds erected in front of Xuande Gate. They only set up lantern riddles on the corridors on both sides of the imperial street, and then performed the routine for the Secret Pavilion that day. The above-mentioned important ministers gave the prime minister a vegetarian meal in Xiangguo Temple, but they could not help but feel a little disappointed with the court and the officials.
It's just disappointing again, but it's destined that no one will mention this excuse... If you really want to mention it, there is no need for officials to ask, other officials will use the country's unrest and diligence and frugality as an excuse to prevent you from coming to power.
Of course, as mentioned before, with the country having no major military operations for a whole year, the economy fully recovering, and the court being extremely stable, even though there is no large-scale participation of the royal family and officials in Tokyo City’s Shangyuan Festival this year, But the scale is still close to that of previous years when Yuda was prosperous.
In fact, perhaps because they have been frustrated for a long time, the level of activity among the people seems to be even better.
For five consecutive days, there was a lantern market in the evening. Not to mention lantern riddles, during the day, the Cuju court in the north of the city also held exhibition games for five consecutive days. The lottery points near the gates in the inner city even added Shangyuan movable type special lottery tickets. Every day there were ten The prizes for hundreds of cultural treasures were awarded on the spot. It is said that the five-day prizes were sealed by the three queen mothers and two noble concubines on the same day... The first day was at the Zhuque Gate, the second day at the Xuanqiu Gate, and the third day at the Wangqiu Gate. On the fourth day of Spring Gate, many people flocked to Lijing Gate, Luhe Gate, and Chongming Gate. The whole family bought dozens or hundreds of lottery tickets, but unexpectedly they were still looking at Spring Gate!
On the fifth day, which was the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, before dusk, the chamberlains from the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened the small box of the royal seal in front of everyone at the same time. Unexpectedly, there was only one hundred strings of movable characters designated by Empress Dowager Zheng. In addition, there is actually a Qian Guan movable character string designated by the government!
Up to this point, who still doesn’t understand that this is the official’s private expression of compensating for the lack of a lamp shed? You must know that even if you don’t know how to calculate accounts, you can probably understand that this kind of sorted lottery with six movable characters and six doors is actually not large in scale. The imperial court only sold out all the money every day for only six to seven hundred coins, and basically all of them were given as rewards.
For the Zhao Guan family, who had always been stingy, this thousand guan was really a loss, and it could be regarded as a kind of sincerity.
Without further ado, Bai Guan was handed out immediately at Chongming Gate, and the Qian Guan award was handed out outside Luhemen... And then it turned out to be a military man from a Tibetan origin, and he bought it for only eighty Wen.
I bought eight Northern Expedition auspicious movable type paper coupons, but won this award!
I don’t know how many people around me are shouting and scolding in private, but this kind of lottery with six movable characters printed in sequence is divided into six doors. It is clean and the scale is not big or small. Everyone buys it randomly. It is difficult for even the officials to cheat. I’m done.
The Queen of Fan could only be envious in her heart.
After all, one thousand guan, for people below the middle class who are willing to buy lottery tickets, is enough to buy an heirloom house in the city, build an heirloom shop, and leave hundreds of guan for coffins.
.
The so-called financial freedom of the citizen class in the feudal era was roughly like this.
But no matter what, as the evening of the 18th day of the first lunar month arrives and the lantern market begins for the last time, it seems that this carnival is finally coming to an end.
However, so to speak, on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, early in the morning, Zhao Guan's family, along with two concubines, as well as several princes and princesses, appeared in the relatively deserted Xuande Tower.
Not only that, soon, the three empresses, whether it was Empress Dowager Meng, commonly known as Yuanyou, who had just returned, or Empress Dowager Zheng, commonly known as Ningde, who rarely appeared in the harem, and Empress Dowager Wei, commonly known as Chengping, were all accepted by the official family.
Come and board the Xuande Tower.
Not counting this, all the ministers in Beijing, including the Prime Minister Lu Haowen, also appeared one after another... Lu Haowen was picked up from Jingyuan by the Queen Mother and the Empress Dowager. The other ministers were due to start their official duties today.
, it’s basically a head-on collision... and the official family has an edict, ordering the ministers to go up to the tower together with the secret cabinet ministers to accompany him. If the meeting happens to happen, you may go up to the tower. The other officials, whether they are in office or retired, all follow the instructions.
At the final stage, sit quietly along the corridors on both sides of the imperial street and watch.
Since the officials want to put on such a posture to see their ministers, who wouldn't come? Not to mention the important ministers of the Secret Pavilion who came up to the building one after another. Even the monks and Taoist priests among those in the public pavilion did not care about the fragrant oil left in their temples.
They all hurriedly put on brand-new monk robes and Taoist robes, and gathered in a hurry.
When he arrived, he was out of breath, but when he arrived, he was solemn and dignified.
After this group of people arrived, on the frighteningly wide Imperial Street, directly in front of Xuande Tower, something changed again. Countless craftsmen had already poured out of Xuandemen from the palace with various tools and materials, and began to open the door in front of the public.
Assembling a weird, huge thing that kind of looks like a headlight... but not sure?
At the same time, the Imperial Guards were fully armed early and lined up around the object, strictly prohibiting others from approaching it.
Very soon, with the Zhao Guan family's unethical raid, the entire Tokyo city immediately seemed to come alive. Countless soldiers and people gathered together regardless of how long they had stayed up last night, so that the front of Xuande Tower was soon filled with a sea of people, no less than
Scenes at the gates of the inner city a few days ago.
The craftsmen were still working hard, but the noise was getting louder.
Frankly speaking, at this time, whether it is the important ministers above Xuande or the common people watching the excitement below, 80% of their attention is not on the Royal Street thing... After all, there is a 'established rule' for this kind of thing, never mind
Are you doing something fancy with the people, or are you trying to impress Yuan Xue with the horse-drawn hemisphere from last time? Anyway, everyone is watching the fun... At this time, everyone's eyes are more on Zhao Guan's house, the three queen mothers, and the two noble concubines.
On two princes and three princesses.
There is so much worth talking about in this set:
Needless to say, Zhao Guanjia himself is dressed in a scarlet robe and has a stiff-winged futou.
However, Empress Dowager Yuanyou, who had the greatest support for the Zhao Guan family and was also the source of the legitimacy of his ascension to the throne, happened to be the one with the furthest relationship with the Guan family. What’s more, the matter of handing over documents for the Second Saint had just happened, so that both parties
Seven or eight years of peace and quiet have come to an end.
Theoretically, Empress Dowager Wei is the closest person to Zhao Guan's family, but according to rumors, this Empress Dowager is the most difficult to describe, almost the same as Pan Guifei... Whether it is a big candle or a big parrot, anyone who is interested can find out.
It's really stupid... But it's not her fault. If Zhao Guanjia didn't stand out, this person would have been a low-ranking person in the emperor's harem, just like Pan Guifei had not slipped through the net and got pregnant at the beginning.
, there would not be such good fortune as it is today.
Empress Dowager Zheng is the most well-known, recognized by the people as having the highest prestige and the level of the harem, but she is currently the most silent one, and she was also the quietest one before.
Needless to say, the two concubines, without a queen, may not have a queen in the future, which is enough to make these two rivals for a lifetime... However, today, Concubine Pan is dressed extremely gorgeously, complementing the red robe of the official family,
Xiaomin, who didn't know it, saw it from a distance and probably thought she was the queen!
As for Concubine Wu, maybe it’s because she’s already pregnant, so she can’t wear the kind of luxurious clothes that fit her well, right?
The two princes are both in their infancy this year, and their true appearance cannot be seen. After only showing one side, the older palace maids took them back safely, but it was the two who had the shortest 'appearance' who got the most attention...
...Of course some people know what's going on, but some people will inevitably have confused thoughts in the reality where the level is not high. This is almost doomed.
As for the three princesses, one was promised to Yue Pengju's son, one was promised to Wu Jinqing's son, and the other was promised to Han Liangchen's son... Of course, they were princesses after all, even if it was the three princesses who came to the official family at this time
, but it doesn’t matter anymore.
Let's just say that waiting is long and boring, and it will be like that if you look around too much, but Xuande Building is destined to be eventful.
Not to mention anything else, it's just that the officials sit there for several hours, which is a rare opportunity to be at a distance that is actually far away but seems very close to the people, and it is in public... This is a rare and good opportunity, so,
In history, countless people took the opportunity to come out here to complain, write letters of remonstrance, and offer treasures.
Among them, of course, a special person will take over the imperial complaint directly like before in front of Taixue. Most of the latter two were rewarded and mostly dismissed casually. However, just like when Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was in high spirits, he was advised to be frugal.
A negative example of personally ordering torture and execution.
"Officials, please offer some sacred objects!"
Sure enough, after the city tower gradually became quiet, in the corridors on both sides of the imperial street below, an idle official of the prefecture level, who was obviously a prefect, saw that the opportunity was rare, but finally couldn't bear it anymore, and raised the things in his arms.
He raised his head high and jumped out from the crowd... then of course he was directly stopped by the imperial guards who were guarding him tightly.
Zhao Jiu glanced at this person. Although his eyesight was very good, he did not recognize who this person was, and he was not familiar with his voice, so he dismissed him with a wave of his sleeves.
But at this moment, Concubine Pan, who was on one side, suddenly put her hands on Zhao Jiu and said something: "Guan family, that person is the old prime minister, don't deal with it lightly..."
Not only Zhao Jiu, many people in the quiet Xuande upstairs instinctively came to see the imperial concubine, and then most of them turned back together.
Only Zhao Guan's family continued to look at Concubine Pan's red silk clothes, and then smiled slightly and said: "Since the concubine said it, it doesn't hurt to meet..."
Since the official had a verbal order, someone from upstairs waved to let him go.
At this moment, Zhao Jiu turned to face Lu Benzhong who was standing behind him: "Does Lu Qing recognize this person?"
"Why don't you recognize him?" Lu Benzhong ignored his father who was not far away. He immediately twirled his beard and smiled and nodded. "So that the officials will know that this person's name is Cai Mao. He is indeed a former prime minister, and he comes from a family of prime ministers. His father
His name is Cai Que, and his concubine's name is Feng Jing... This person is very familiar to me."
This statement was so easy that Ren Baozhong couldn't help but glance at Lu Benzhong... He really had no idea how to reincarnate.
"When did he do it justice?" Zhao Jiu didn't pay attention to Ren Baozhong's eyes. He was just slightly startled and then asked again. As soon as he finished asking, he suddenly woke up. "But one of the twenty-six prime ministers of Jingkang?
"
Lu Benzhong nodded again with a smile: "The officials have a clear lesson."
But Zhao Jiu soon became a little puzzled: "The twenty-six prime ministers of Jingkang were either kidnapped and died directly for their country; among those who were alive, the leader and the leader were denounced, and I have never forgiven them; and I, the leader of the battle, the leader of the defender.
Is there no reason not to use him?"
Concubine Pan on the side was a little nervous, but at this time, the man hurriedly boarded the stairs, panting, but he had already climbed upstairs quickly... Regarding this, although most of the officials upstairs looked a little weird when they saw this man, they
Still, they stood up one after another and showed some courtesy.
Seeing this, Lu Benzhong laughed even harder: "What the officials said is absolutely true!"
Zhao Jiu was confused for a moment, but as soon as he turned around, he suddenly realized - How dare this Xianggong Cai refuse to fight, make peace, surrender or defend when the Jin army besieged the city?!
Of course, he must have escaped in the end!
And out of ten, he was fucked by Li Gang because of this! Maybe it was because he didn’t have a master and a master, so he couldn’t fuck him to the end, so he could only fuck him to the level of Zhizhou Shi, so that he could escape calmly and become an idler.
Then this time she followed Empress Dowager Yuanyou back and sat there majestically.
As soon as she thought about this, Zhao Jiu couldn't help but look back at the fragrant Concubine Pan beside her... She was speechless, but somehow she could understand.
"His Majesty!"
Just when the thoughts of Zhao Guan's family were changing, Cai Mao, the former Prime Minister, and the Queen Mothers in the middle had finished their greetings. They hurried over with a box in their hands. Then, with a look of joy on their faces, they knelt down and saluted directly. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is very happy.
Ah! This time I returned from Yangzhou to the north and was on the Huaishang River. On the way, I saw a bright red light in the water. I fished carefully and found an ancient seal from the river embankment! The Huaishang River is the place where officials rose up. Is this true?
Isn’t it God’s will?”
Zhao Jiu hesitated to speak. The three princesses and two of the three empress dowagers all looked curious. However, empress dowager Zheng was just like the other important ministers around her, including Li Guang, not squinting...or rather too lazy to squint.
, the pregnant Concubine Wu frowned slightly, but she resisted not looking.
As for Concubine Pan, she was so nervous that she strangled the official's arm beside her until it hurt.
Although Zhao Jiu was in severe pain from being strangled, he still hesitated to speak to the former prime minister in front of him... There was no way, this job was too rough! It was so rough that he didn't even want to take it!
It was this kind of son from a prime minister's family who never escaped, and he hid in Yangzhou for another seven years before he dared to do such low-level rough work in front of him! It was also the stupid Concubine Pan who was so sick.
I urgently seek medical treatment and seek cooperation from such a down-to-earth leader!
But having said that, Concubine Pan at least knew that someone at the level of the Prime Minister had to come forward to deal with the court affairs. This is considered progress, right? I wonder if his uncle had any ideas from outside?
Just when Zhao Guan's family was in trouble, Lu Benzhong couldn't stand it anymore, so he blurted out directly upstairs: "Guan family, get this villain out! That day, this man was as famous as the prodigal prime minister Li Bangyan, nicknamed Ma
Mr. Fart! He relied on flattering Emperor Zhezong to overturn his own father's case, and relied on flattering Cai Jing and his son to become an official. It is best to rely on sending Liang Shicheng's flattery to become the emperor when Emperor Taishang Daojun fled south at the end of Xuanhe.
Zhi, then it was postponed to Jingkang... Even Emperor Taishang Yuansheng looked down upon him!"
Lu Benzhong spoke so brazenly that the surrounding ministers remained ignorant. Even the two queen mothers immediately turned away after being slightly embarrassed... Only Concubine Pan still held on to Zhao Guan's family and did not let go.
But what's interesting is that Cai Mao and Cai Xianggong didn't care about Lu Benzhong at all. He just listened quietly to what the other party said, and then continued to respectfully offer the wooden box in his hand. It can be said that he said: "The official family, Lu Benzhong means
It just means that I committed fraud and took in fake things without permission. But let the officials think about it. I came here because Empress Dowager Yuanyou returned from Yangzhou to the north, and Yangzhou no longer had the need to defend it. There is no difference between the two.
One day... I dare to ask how you can fake ancient objects in just one day? Guan family, this jade seal is indeed rolled out by the waves in the Huaihe River where the official family was facing battle."
Zhao Jiu finally became a little irritated and turned around to signal.
But Ren Baozhong understood, and immediately went over to Lieutenant General Lu Ben to fetch the wooden box, inspected it again, and then respectfully presented the jade seal in his hand, which looked like a real antique, to Zhao Guan's family.
Zhao Jiu brought the jade seal and turned it over casually. He was stunned for a moment, but turned it back. He held the jade seal in silence for a long time. After a while, he turned it over again, only to turn it back again. Then he still fell into a long-lasting feeling.
In silence.
At this point, if the hard wings on both sides of the official fu's head were not shaking, which proved that his strange action just now actually existed, I am afraid everyone would have thought it was a static scene.
But having said that, seeing the Zhao Guan family's posture, the surrounding atmosphere gradually reversed. Pan Guifei became excited for a moment, and the surrounding ministers gradually became uneasy, so that a small number of people who were unsure gradually turned their heads to look at it - to put it bluntly, this official
The family shouldn't be controlled by such a thing, right?
Especially since Concubine Pan was so obvious, it was probably because of her son that some of her family members had gone out of their way to communicate with her in advance.
"Cai Qing." Zhao Jiufang paused for who knows how long before squeezing the jade seal in his hand and smiling. "You really gave me a surprise!"
Almost everyone around him was stunned, but Cai Mao couldn't help being ecstatic, but he kowtowed in public.
As for Concubine Pan, she was obviously nervous with anticipation.
"Give Cai Qing a seat." Zhao Jiu turned around and ordered the stunned Lu Benzhong, then looked at the rest of the group and responded slowly. "It's just a gadget. Let's wait and see what happens."
After saying that, the official pointed directly forward and sat upright without moving. No one in the upstairs dared to neglect him. Even Cai Mao, who hurriedly retreated to the edge of the tower and sat down, also sat upright and recognized the situation.
Zhi stared at the strange things in front of Xuande Building.
At this time, the onlookers below were still in a daze because of the perspective problem, but Qiangxin suppressed their thoughts and focused on the imperial elites above Xuande Tower on the Imperial Street. Many of them were startled, and then suddenly woke up.
——It turns out that the Zhao Guan family is really just making a lantern, a giant big lantern that is not used to entertain the people at night, but is displayed in broad daylight.
It's just that this big lamp is not covered with a paper cover, but a boneless cover made of precious thick silk satin. At this time, it has been spread out on the Imperial Street, which is more than ten feet square, but I don't know how to cover it.
Going up, do you need to temporarily lift the bones?
The bottom is not an ordinary tray, but a huge basket surrounded by sandbags, which can allow several soldiers to stand in it and blow the wind.
As for why the blower is needed, because the basket is not a small candle, but a huge simple stove with its own blower, and the stove is filled with fine pebbles and charcoal soaked in precious oil wax... There is also a stove on top
The chimney is made approx.
The stove was lit, and with the diligent assistance of the sergeants, the chimney that could be tilted manually was directly aimed at the boneless satin cover that stretched out a certain area.
The next moment, while the onlookers were still watching a fooling around, many people on the Xuande Tower had already lost their composure and stood up... just like they did when they were watching the Marathon Hemisphere.
Otherwise, some smart people have realized what this thing is, just a large Kongming Lantern!
However, the Kongming Lantern can reach the sky.
That's right, it's one of the time traveler's sharp weapons, the hot air balloon... After the Zhao Guan family got sick, they finally realized that they couldn't be busy all day long with the official business that an official should be busy with, but should do some business that a time traveler should do. The official family
of idle matters.
As a result, he resumed his technological revitalization plan.
In fact, Zhao Jiu wanted to do the hot air balloon thing when he was in Nanyang, but every time he even tried the trumpet experiment, he would fail... The reason is very simple. He is an engineering dog who studies signals and systems, not materials, let alone
I major in chemistry and am not a welder, so I really don’t know how to make fireproof materials, so every experiment basically ends up catching fire on the silk.
As for the so-called fire cloth, which is also asbestos cloth, it is too expensive and rare these days. Once it is enlarged, it seems a bit unrealistic.
Of course, Zhao Jiu put a lot of effort this time. On the one hand, he was preparing to make a big news no matter what as a gift for the Lantern Festival in the eighth year of Jianyan. Therefore, he prepared to use ceramic chimney equipment to protect the flames.
It was during the "illness" period that people carefully investigated the rumors about fireproof materials that were not "Huohuanbu".
The two made progress almost at the same time. The former was considered feasible with careful operation, but the latter occasionally received many explanations. One of them was about a fire in a Shaoxing family, and a wooden barrel actually survived. Later, after investigation,
Only then did I realize that this is a special barrel used for water purification... Later, when I asked people about it, I found that similar things happened in many places. The older the water purification barrel, the more likely it is to be damaged in the fire.
It can be saved frequently.
These days, the chemical used by ordinary people to purify water is very simple, which is alum exclusively sold by the imperial court, which is also the ‘Fan’ from which Fan Tower is named.
After all, Zhao Guanjia is an engineering dog. Although he didn't know what the ingredients of alum were, he did not stop him from soaking silk in extremely concentrated alum water for experiments... The result was that it was really fireproof.
This led to today's experiment, which has been delayed for four to five years.
It also loses the face of the time traveler.
In a daze, as the surrounding soldiers and people exclaimed, the silk was quickly bulged by the hot air, and soon formed a big ball straight up, standing in the middle of the imperial street, and then gradually floated upward.
After a while, the ministers and royal family members in Xuande Tower were even more stunned... because they saw with their own eyes that the huge basket gradually became shaky after carefully throwing down many sandbags in order, as shown in Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyouyou"
"Kunpeng" in "Kunpeng", ready to soar to 90,000 miles.
Finally, as another sandbag was thrown down, a huge shadow enveloped the Xuande Tower. The sky's number one sky lantern slowly but surely flew up in an attitude that all smart people could "understand the principle".
But the more this happens, the more shocking it is.
This time, it is even more shocking than the Mara Hemisphere back then! Because it is more intuitive and obvious!
It can only be said that the Zhao Guan family really tried their best for Yuan Xue.
The huge hot air balloon had flown to the same level as everyone on the Xuande Tower. Almost everyone upstairs was stunned and silent. Zhao Guan's family didn't make a sound either, but unlike the others who leaned forward to look at it, he was the only one who couldn't help but stare.
Looking squinting, he was sitting upright as usual, and the stiff-winged head on top of his red robe actually didn't tremble at all this time.
"Don't panic, Beitutou!"
Yang Yizhong, whose figure was not visible at all, shouted at the basket above him. "There is a rope pulling down below. Follow the same drill as before. Don't throw sandbags for the time being. Just increase the fire and reduce the fire. Slowly move up."
But... when we are unhooked, you will use sandbags to control it and let it drift away with the wind, and the cavalry will come to find you."
There was a response from the basket, but the voice was trembling and distorted.
But at this time, who can control what the soldiers above think? Even the man with the nickname "One-Handed Dragon" and his deadly steady hand can only follow the wind and chase the clouds at this time... This huge Kongming Lantern starts with a
With this resolute attitude, the rope dragged from below continued to rise until the dozens of feet of rope were exhausted, and it temporarily stopped at a position more than ten feet above Xuande Tower.
This situation only lasted less than a stick of incense before the rope was disconnected directly. Then the huge hot air balloon flew farther and farther amidst the shock and panic of the city, and finally followed the slight southeast breeze.
, slowly heading northwest.
The Imperial Ban Nao had already galloped out in pursuit under the leadership of several captains.
At this time, unlike the panic everywhere in the city, Xuande Tower was surprisingly quiet. As people who had witnessed the whole process of the hot air balloon taking off, they felt a little bit confused... and the result was that most people
Still dumbfounded, they just looked at the black spots in the sky in the distance. Although a few people whispered, they did not dare to discuss it loudly. From the imperial ministers to the famous monks and scholars, they were all afraid that if they spoke louder, someone or something would be disturbed.
Zhao Jiu looked at it for a long time, then suddenly stood up, held the ancient seal and left calmly.
Zhao Guan's family left in a hurry and suddenly. All the ministers could only get up and see them off in a hurry. The queen mothers had their own rituals and did not mention it. Even if Concubine Wu showed her ambitions, it would not be easy to catch up... Only Concubine Pan hurriedly chased after her.
Yes, I have kept up with the pace.
The two of them walked in a hurry without using any ceremonial guard, but Zhao Jiu didn't say a word the whole time. Surrounded by soldiers, chamberlains, and maids, they moved forward with their hands behind their hands until they entered Yiyou Gate, when they suddenly stopped.
Pan Guifei looked at Zhao Jiu expectantly, and Zhao Jiu looked at the woman in front of her, and wanted to slap the jade seal in her back on her face several times to wake her up, but for some reason, after holding back at first, this
The more I thought about it, the more pitiful the woman in front of me became.
In the end, Zhao Jiu's pity took over, and he suppressed his dissatisfaction and responded with a smile: "Go and have a rest! I have my own considerations about the affairs of the outer court... But this dress is too conspicuous. In the future,
Don’t wear it when you go out.”
Pan Guifei was finally relieved, and with some extra expectations, she and several chamberlains and maids entered the harem from the side door. However, Zhao Jiu held the jade seal and continued walking north until she reached Linhua Gate and entered.
In the mulberry fish pond area, he sat silently in the stone pavilion that he had not been to for a long time.
At this time, he finally opened the ancient seal in his hand for the third time, and read the writing on it clearly for the third time.
The four big characters are simple and outstanding in shape, but they do not hinder Zhao Jiu from being able to easily understand them after living in this world for seven years - Yuan Zuo is long.
That's right, the jade seal says 'Yuan Zuo is long', not 'De Zuo is long'. Concubine Wu's own eldest son, Zhao Yuanzuo, is so damn lucky! When he gets older, there will be a baby who jumps out of the Huaihe River to serve as his wife.
Give a gift and say that he is the true master!
PS: Routinely offering a new book, "I had a suite in the late Ming Dynasty" by the veteran writer tx Cheng Zhi.