"A room a hundred feet tall is burned with smoke from the gaps." [Han Feizi·Yu Lao]
Wang Bin's funeral ceremony was solemn and grand. Not only was he given the title of Gangbai, but on the day of the funeral, the emperor even came to the scene to express his condolences, which made Wang Duan burst into tears of gratitude, having rushed back from Youzhou all the way.
People in Chang'an haven't seen a funeral of this scale for a long time. Even though it was a sad event, the citizens couldn't help but talk about it after dinner. Some people began to recall the funeral scene after Situ Zhao Qian's death, and
Recently, the scale of the funeral of the predecessor, Sangong Ma Rixi, in Youfufeng, I couldn't help but compare the two with Wang Bin's, and finally came to the conclusion of the emperor's importance to the Wang family.
Since when we talk about the funeral of nobles, it is inevitable that there will be some frivolous people who speak openly. This is how they talked about the death of the emperor's uncle in private, so what kind of funeral ceremony will it be like after the death of the emperor himself?
The person who came up with this idea or even complained about it was one of the targets of Xiuyi surveillance in Chang'an City in the past few days.
As the embroidered messenger in charge of Chang'an City, Li Yi, the former Chang'an City Prime Minister, has been busy with these things recently. Slips of speech, disrespect, this kind of sin can be big or small, it all depends on how people deal with it. In Li Yi's opinion
, the gossips of the common people cannot be controlled or controlled. As long as there is no large-scale discussion, the government can order the chief of the pavilion, the chief of the li and other grassroots officials to give some advice.
However, the new Chang'an magistrate Zuo Ling refused to give in after hearing the news and made it taboo. He issued an official order to ban this discussion. In fact, he did not want people to talk too much and envy Wang Bin's funeral ceremony.
Li Yi vaguely understood Zuo Ling's intention to cool down the matter. His new boss pointed out that Wang Yue, the messenger of embroidered clothes, took office as a new official. When he first encountered this matter, he did not take it lightly and handed it over to Li Yi.
"This kind of thing also requires embroidery." Li Yi sat in the flag pavilion and complained softly to Yan Qian opposite: "Some people really gain power for a day or two, and then forget about it."
"Anyone in that position will show off. This is human nature." Yan Qian said, while habitually turning his head and looking around to see if there was anyone worthy of vigilance.
"This will not last long." Li Yi said very firmly: "From ancient times to the present, how many relatives have finally died a good death? Even if they have, they are not as grand as their family." He looked at Yan Qian and still turned around.
He closed his eyes and said nothing, then raised his knuckles and knocked on the table: "Okay, Yan Zhonglang, what are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking about what I'm thinking." Because Yan Qian successfully instigated the four counties of Hexi to raise troops to attack Han Sui, after returning to the court, he was worshiped as the Zhonglang of 600 stones and became a guard in the Weiyang Palace. At this moment, he had no intention
He went to listen to Li Yi's nonsense that he didn't know where to come from. After looking around for no one, Yan Qian looked at him: "Didn't you say you knew the whereabouts of Guo's daughter? You called me over and drank cold tea for a long time.
You are complaining. Do I have a lot of free time every day? Is it okay to listen to you telling stories sometimes? I am..."
"Okay, okay!" Li Yi quickly stretched out his hand to stop. He has heard the other party's serious and serious words countless times. They are all people who know each other well. He still doesn't know what kind of virtue Yan Gan is: "You
Your Excellency is busy, so I will tell you something!" After saying that, he couldn't help but muttered: "The new Guang Luxun hasn't arrived yet? What else can the third minister do?"
Yan Qian frowned and made a gesture to get up.
Is it true that Guang Luxun and Xu Qiu are still on the way to enter the pass? But they have already succeeded Song Hong, Yang Zhong's Zuo Zhonglang will be ambushed, and Five-Fun Zhonglang General Liu Xuan and others are already ready to light three fires after the beginning of spring? Please?
A group of Lang Wei were withdrawn from the examination. Yan Qian himself was not too close to the Song family and the Yang family, and his own talents and knowledge were enough to cope with the examination. Although he was not afraid of this, the pressure between Lang Wei and Lang Wei was still more or less.
Infected him. In addition, so many years have passed? Especially when I met the Guo brothers again after returning from Liangzhou, before I had time to ask them about their daily life and study progress, they repeatedly asked about the past, which reminded Yan Yan of the past.
Qian felt guilty and guilty.
Is Yan Qian a man of his word? He had a fateful relationship with Guo Yu at the beginning, and he may have promised to protect the Guo brothers. Now that the Guo brothers are taking care of him in his house, only Guo Yu's only sister Guo Zhao is left.
He is missing. Before going to Liangzhou, Yan Qian asked Li Yi to inquire about him. Now that he finally has the news, he can't stand the other party's constant gossip about him.
"You've always been calm when things happen? But once things are related to the Guo family, you lose your temper." Li Yi put away his joking expression and said slowly: "Not long after you arrived in Liangzhou, I already took your place.
You have found out that Guo Yu's sister is indeed in the Dong Mansion. There is no need to elaborate on the twists and turns, and you don't have to be happy, because I had not sent someone to redeem Guo Zhao at that time, and this person disappeared from the Dong Mansion."
"Gone?" Yan Qian's heart dropped to the bottom, and he suddenly had a bad thought: "What does missing mean? Is he dead?"
"It's worse than death..." Li Yi didn't know how to describe the complexity and coincidence here. He paused and then said: "When Han Sui rebelled, you were far away in Liangzhou and didn't know Chang'an.
Something happened in the city..." He briefly told what happened when Dong Cheng used his power to seize Qin Yi's wife, which caused turmoil between the government and the public.
"What does this have to do with Guo Zhao?" Yan Qian said doubtfully after half-listening.
"Although some people said that Mrs. Du had entered Dong's mansion, Dong Qiaoqi firmly refused to admit it. He even opened the door of the mansion for people to see. I sent a few people to pretend to be meddlesome and went in, but in the end, I didn't see Mrs. Du."
Li Yi had been lingering in his mind for a long time. He had reported this matter to the police, but there was no news as if nothing had been heard from him.
Li Yi couldn't figure out what the people above were thinking or what they were considering, so he could only take this opportunity to confide to Yan Qian: "I had already kept an eye on the Dong Mansion beforehand, and there was absolutely no way I would secretly take anyone out of the city to hide it."
Afterwards, I thought about it, and there is only one thing that can make people 'disappear'."
"What's the matter?" Yan Qian asked patiently.
Li Yi talked about the day when Chang Yu, a close confidant of Empress Dong, came to visit Dong Mansion, and uttered two words: "Enter the palace."
"You mean Dong Cheng sent the Du family into the palace?" Yan Qian looked shocked. He sent a woman with an unknown future into the palace and treated the palace as if it were nothing. Empress Dong was too courageous! He followed Li Yi's words and changed his mind.
Thinking about it, my heart trembled even more: "Is it possible that Guo Zhao is also among the group of people entering the palace?"
"Probably so." Li Yi looked at the other person's expression carefully. He knew that the other person only wanted to be a hermit, study and farm, and he only reluctantly entered the official career. He didn't want to get into trouble, but something happened to come to him.
What happened this time was not a trivial matter. It could be used to inflict a heavy blow on Dong Cheng. And because Guo Zhao was involved, Li Yi was sure that the other party would not stay out of the matter.
"The matter has come to this, so don't worry. I know a noble person, and I can just ask him to help you."