"With the eyes of the world, you will see everything. If you listen with the ears of the world, you will hear everything. If you listen with the hearts of the world, you will not understand everything."
Weiyang Palace, Greenhouse Palace.
The few snows that fell a few days before the New Year wrapped a few trees in the front yard of the Greenhouse Hall with a layer of snow-white winter clothes. In the huge yard, except for the paths deliberately cleared out in the atrium, there was a layer of accumulated snow everywhere.
Thick layer of snow.
Pingzhun ordered Jia Xu to step carefully on the slippery road. He put his hands in his sleeves and folded them in front of his lower abdomen. He walked neither fast nor slowly. There were several vigorous and tall ancient trees planted along the road.
A piece of black moss covers the original appearance of the tree, and the emerald green leaves are looming under the thick snow, revealing unique vitality and vitality.
Looking at the unique leaves and Qiu Ran's figure, Jia Xu said in a confused manner: "Are the cypress trees in this greenhouse left over from the previous dynasty?"
Mu Shun of Xiaohuangmen smiled and replied: "Yes, it is far away, at least it was there when Emperor Xiaocheng was Emperor Xiaocheng. I heard that there used to be many cypress and locust trees here. Then there was a fire and all these trees were destroyed."
It was burned, but these few trees remained, and after two years they sprouted leaves and are still alive today."
Because the emperor is far more fascinated by Weiyang Palace, an ancient palace complex that is after Afang Palace and many times larger than the Forbidden City, even though he has no intention of renovating it yet, he still likes to walk around when he has nothing to do.
, looking at the ruins, he likes to ask about the origin of the palace and anecdotes from time to time. Therefore, Mu Shun has done a lot of research on this, and he can probably tell the reasons for all the old things in the Weiyang Palace during the Western Han Dynasty.
Jia Xu's mind was not focused on this at all. He just suddenly thought of an allusion and then asked.
"It turns out this is the 'greenhouse tree'."
"Eh?" Mu Shun didn't know what Jia Xu meant by this sentence. Seeing Jia Xu's unwillingness to answer, he had no choice but to shut up. Mu Shun remembered the last time Li Jian asked him privately. In fact,
He himself was also very curious, how did Jia Xu learn that Li Jian knew how to dance?
Isn't he just a banning order who was demoted from the position of minister? If the emperor hadn't paid attention to him from time to time and summoned him, Mu Shun might not have personally escorted him with his current status.
Full of questions, Mu Shun led Jia Xu into the Greenhouse Hall.
The blazing temperature spread out from the beast furnace, making the entire greenhouse palace feel like spring. After turning through a door, Jia Xu came to the study room on one side. Except for the emperor himself, there was no one else accompanying him, even the one who never left.
Among the attendants who were present, Huangmen Shilang and others were all evacuated in advance, leaving the room feeling extremely empty.
The emperor was writing something at his desk. To be precise, he was copying and copying from a silk book.
Jia Xu has seen the official script written by the emperor. The writing style is immature and the turns are jerky. But for a twelve-year-old boy who has only caught up with his knowledge in the past few years, it is not bad to be able to write neat handwriting. After all, the emperor did not
You don’t have to be a calligrapher.
The emperor concentrated on writing, using his wrist to move the pen, and the pen and ink traveled on the plain white paper, looking very elegant. He was completely unaware that Jia Xu had finished bowing his head and bowing to the side, still fascinated by the calligraphy in front of him.
Suddenly, he raised his eyes that were wandering on the paper, looked at Jia Xu, smiled, and said as if he was talking at home: "Jia Gong, get up quickly. This is "Zixu Fu" written by Du Bodu
"Yesterday, Zhang Chang sent it to me for appreciation. I was very happy to see it. I copied it for a long time, but in the end I couldn't find its magic."
After finishing speaking, the emperor said again: "Do you know why Zhang Chang sent it here?"
"I don't know," Jia Xu said.
"Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing." The emperor tapped Jia Xu with the tip of his pen and said jokingly: "You are suspected of deceiving. What else in Chang'an City do you not know?"
The emperor's behavior of pointing at people with a pen seemed extremely rude and frivolous to traditional scholars such as Yang Qi and Huan Dian, but to Jia Xu, it was an insignificant detail.
"There are many." Jia Xu replied calmly and calmly: "The news in the market is generally known, but some people's houses are difficult to find out for a while."
The emperor's writing hand paused lightly, then moved together again, leaving a very beautiful mark on the paper. He put away the pen, lowered his head and stared at the word: "Whose family? Yang family, Ma family?"
Jia Xu said: "There are all of them. The Cangtou servants who are close to them in the houses of those big families have all been slaves for generations, or have been brought up since childhood. They are extremely loyal to their families and are difficult to bribe and win over for outsiders. And the rest of the idlers are like
, the status is not high, and it is difficult to achieve results, so I can say that I have made no progress in this matter."
The emperor put his pen on the case, leaned back, and said calmly: "Don't think that I can do whatever I want in the palace. In fact, any slightest disturbance can spread to the outside world in a moment, causing all kinds of speculation.
But I know nothing about those big families. There are too many people in this world who do one thing in front of others and behind their backs. They may be gentlemen to outsiders, but they are vicious villains inside."
Jia Xu heard that something was wrong. The emperor's statement was a bit evil. It seemed that he preconceived all the ministers as traitors and guarded against them.
He couldn't help frowning. This detail was quickly caught by the emperor. He mistakenly thought that Jia Xu felt ashamed for not being able to penetrate into the circle of Yang and others, so he comforted him: "The powerful family has deep-rooted power and has been operating for hundreds of years. How can it be like this?"
Zhang Chang's family is so isolated and does not value privacy intentionally or unintentionally? Mr. Jia has already done a good job, there is no need to feel sorry for himself. The remaining things should be done slowly and there is no need to rush."
"I promise." Jia Xu cupped his hands and said, "I will take good care of these things for Your Majesty."
At the end, he seemed to remind me deliberately: "Especially Hedong."
"Yes, Hedong." The emperor murmured. He looked up at the beam and column structure on the top of the palace, seeming to be thinking about something, and said in an affirmative tone: "I thought the one from Taiyuan was the top priority, but I didn't expect that.
Hedong has always been key."
Wang Yun was not restless after returning to his hometown. There were some small tricks in private that the emperor had already noticed. Originally, the emperor was still willing to see what tricks the other party was going to play, but since Liu Yu came, Wang Yun and a group of people suddenly
It became active, which made people vigilant.
The incident in Hedong was an incision. This time, Wang Yi, the prefect, was pushed to the forefront. Many people learned to follow the emperor's policy of salt and iron, and continued to criticize Wang Yi under the slogan of carrying out the emperor's salt and iron policy.
Even though everyone has different intentions, for example, Dong Cheng wants to interfere with the selection of salt officials to protect the interests of local powerful people from losses; while Yang wants to replace someone close to Jia Xu.
Wang Yi, a native of Liangzhou, asked his people to go to Hedong to share a piece of official salt; as for Wang Yun behind the scenes... Judging from some recent events, his ideas are very dangerous.
Jia Xu was Wang Yi's recommender. If Wang Yi was demoted due to lack of merit and achievements, he would not be able to escape the blame.