Liu Mingzhi was wearing the lord's official robe sent by the Ministry of Personnel officials, with a fur coat thrown over it, and watched a group of servants carrying things to the carriage.
Liu Mingzhi seemed to be a little different from yesterday, but he didn't know exactly what was different.
Liu Zhi'an stood aside with a sigh of relief: "You bastard, you can save me some trouble. This time you are going to the palace to meet the emperor. If you dare to be unruly and cause trouble everywhere, I will make you stay in the palace forever."
Liu Mingzhi's mouth twitched and he rubbed his nose: "Old man, what you said is too harsh. I am your biological son."
Liu Zhi'an smiled disdainfully and looked at Young Master Liu with disdain: "Girl Yun is pregnant with Liujia, and girl Qinglian is also pregnant with Liujia. Your mission has been completed, and the Liu family has a child. Don't you think you are a bit redundant now?
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"Ah?" Young Master Liu looked at Liu Zhi'an in disbelief: "The meaning of my life is to give you grandchildren? Not like you... old man, we don't do this."
Liu Zhi'an patted Young Master Liu on the shoulder: "Think carefully, you have a wife, and it's time for Mingli to get married. Do you think you are stupid?" Liu Zhi'an suddenly stroked the beard on his chin: "Bring it up
Mingli, it’s time to contact your eldest brother to build a relationship. I haven’t seen Song Lei for a long time. Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I’ll go to the Song family.”
Liu Zhi'an clicked his tongue twice, shook his head and entered the house with his hands behind his back.
Young Master Liu smiled bitterly and looked at Liu Zhian's back: "If my uncle knew that you wanted to make his daughter your daughter-in-law, I don't think you would even be brothers."
A typical example of Liu Zhi'an is that I regard you as my brother, but you actually want to be my in-laws.
"Brother, everything is ready, let's go on your way?" An Gou'er patted the dust on his body and looked at Young Master Liu excitedly. He was going to see the palace. How could he not be excited?
"Okay, Jiang He, you drive and follow me. When you get to the palace, don't talk nonsense or look around, got it?"
"Don't worry, brother."
Liu Mingzhi nodded calmly, got on his horse, and hurried slowly towards the palace.
About half an hour later, the carriage creaked to a stop in front of the Meridian Gate and was stopped by the Imperial Guards: "Dismount the rider. No unauthorized entry is allowed in front of the Imperial City Gate."
Liu Mingzhi felt a little guilty when he saw a dozen cold and sharp spears pointing at him. If these guards came up indiscriminately and stabbed holes all over his body, he would have no place to cry.
An Gou'er also turned pale and held the horse's rein in his hand, his legs couldn't help but tremble. This kind of battle was really not something that ordinary people could endure.
Liu Mingzhi turned over and dismounted, took out the emperor's Golden Dragon Order from his arms and held it in his hand: "I am Liu Mingzhi, the Duke of Tongyuan County. I have important matters to meet with the Holy Emperor."
"Long live my emperor."
All the Imperial Guards knelt on the ground when they saw Young Master Liu had the token in his hand.
"Brothers, please get up."
"Thank you Sir."
A man who looked like a leader came forward and said, "Colonel Zhou Shang has met Sir Liu. Sir, please forgive me. It is our duty to check the carriage."
"Please."
Liu Mingzhi nodded lightly and did not embarrass Zhou Shang. If he let him into the palace without asking, it would be a big deal.
Liu Mingzhi still understands which is more important.
Zhou Shang opened the curtain of the carriage and took a closer look at the things inside the carriage. They were all things he had never seen before. Fortunately, there were no weapons. When he saw that the things in the carriage did not look harmful, he removed the carriage's contents.
The curtain was lowered.
Then Zhou Shang stared at the sword on An Gouer's back: "Brother, please leave the sword behind your back to me for safekeeping. You can come here to pick it up when your brother comes out."
An Gou'er didn't hesitate, he took off the simple knife from his back and handed it to Zhou Shang's hand. He gently dragged it and Zhou Shang said with a smile: "Good knife." Then he handed it to a guard.
custody.
"Master Liu, please come with me this way. Carriages are not allowed to enter the main entrance. We have to go around through the west gate."
Li Zheng was a diligent emperor. Although some things he did were not perfect, he rarely left the Imperial Study Room, where memorials were processed.
However, although the Imperial Study Room is called a room, it is indeed a huge palace. As we all know, the larger the space of the house, the harder it will be to warm the air inside.
Li Zheng, who tightened his cotton-padded dragon robe tightly, put down the ink pen in his hand and blew on his cold palms: "Old Zhou, go and light a basin of charcoal fire. There is no heat in the room at all. I'm a little cold."
Lao Zhou glanced at the emperor in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, the number of charcoal basins today has exceeded three basins. You have ordered that you must be reminded whenever the amount of three basins is reached."
Li Zheng was startled for a moment and then heaved a sigh of relief: "It's already been three times. I didn't realize it. It's already so cold even before it snows. If it snows, it will be even colder. With heavy snowfall, I don't know if the people's houses can hold up."
You can live with it. Fortunately, Liu Dangdao has saved ten million taels of silver for the national treasury. If we can collect less taxes, more people can survive."
"Your Majesty, if you are really cold, please make an exception and burn an extra basin of charcoal fire. I dare to say that if Your Majesty is ill, no matter how much charcoal you use, it will be in vain."
"No, I have a golden saying. The rule of three pots is the rule of three pots. If I violate the rules, the concubines and nobles in the palace will follow the rules. A pot of charcoal is worth two taels of silver. Have you ever calculated how much money so many people get?
The border guards in Suzhou, Ganzhou, and Yingzhou are not equipped with winter clothes. They have suffered enough to guard the territory in the bitter cold. How could I abandon the winter clothes of hundreds of thousands of troops for my own selfish desires?
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"Yes, this old slave made a mistake. Your Majesty, please punish me."
"Get back on your feet, stop playing emotional cards with me, walk with me, and stretch your legs and feet to get some warmth in your body."
"Your Majesty, where should we go?"
"Changchun Palace, I haven't seen the queen for a long time. Let's go and sit at her place."
Zhou Fei shook the fly whisk in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, please ride to the Changchun Palace."
Li Zhenglong walked out of the royal study room at a fast pace. Zhou Fei hurriedly led the way, and a group of young eunuchs hurriedly followed behind. Before the group left the corridor of the main hall, a person hurriedly ran over: "Slave Fuhai kowtows to your majesty, long live your majesty.
Long live."
Li Zheng glanced at Eunuch Fuhai Fu, whose clothes were a little messy: "Get up, what are you looking like in a panic? What's the big deal?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Lord Liu Mingzhi of Tongyuan County has asked for an audience. Now he has arrived at Linde Hall. Should Your Majesty summon Mr. Liu or let him wait at Linde Hall?"
Li Zheng's eyes lit up, and when he heard Young Master Liu's name, his eyes became like copper coins: "Oh, how did this kid come to Linde Hall? What do these guards do? They let him go without my summons.
Enter the palace."
"Uh-huh, Your Majesty, the Golden Dragon Order." Zhou Fei reminded him timely.
"Yes, I have been so busy these days that I have even forgotten about the Golden Dragon Order. Fuhai, please go to Xuanliu Aiqing to see you in the imperial study. Wait, Fuhai, go to the East Palace to summon the prince to see you in the imperial study. Lao Zhou, please go to Xuanliu Aiqing."
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"According to the decree."
"Master Liu, we meet again."
Zhou Fei, the chief steward of Linde Hall, looked at Liu Mingzhi with a chuckle. They had had a deal with each other in Jinling because of the general's drinking of horses, and they had a good sense of each other.
"It turns out it's Mr. Zhou, and you should be polite when you lower your rank."
Liu Mingzhi claimed that he was a lower official, but in terms of the official position of the chief internal officer, it was a position of the fourth rank, which was one level higher than that of Young Master Liu, who was of the fifth rank.
"Hey, Mr. Liu, please don't say that. Just call me Lao Zhou. I'm just a chamberlain, and I don't dare to call you sir."
"I'd better call you Manager Zhou."
"Okay, Lord Liu, your Majesty will summon you in the imperial study, please."
"Thank you."
Zhou Fei led the way with two young eunuchs, while Liu Mingzhi'an followed behind with the carriage.
"Brother, this manager is a great master. He's so tall that he has no boundaries."
An Gouer looked at Manager Zhou's back with a serious expression.
Liu Mingzhi curled up his lips: "You don't need to tell me, I definitely don't have a whip! Do you know what it means to stand in a wall and stand for a thousand years, and to be strong without desire? Can the unprecedented master be a joke?"