Chapter five hundred and fortieth the emperor urgently summoned
As an imperial envoy, the first thing he should do when he returns to the capital is to meet the emperor and hand over the decree. What's more, Xu Xun also brought the emperor's sword that Zhu Houzhao specially asked Gu Dayong to send before leaving. However, Xu Xun was If you enter the capital at night, it is impossible for you to see him in person at the palace gate. The next day is not the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month. Now he is exempted from all regular court visits. He does not have to go to court early in the morning, plus he has to travel for several days and last night. The intense exercise in the early morning made his back sore and his legs numb, and he didn't want to move. It wasn't until he felt something soft and itchy on his face that he reluctantly opened his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, he was face to face with a pair of round little eyes. It wasn't until he looked for a long time that he finally understood what the situation was. He immediately turned over and sat up, only to find that Shen Yue was already With quick eyes and hands, he hugged his daughter back.
"Madam, if I don't want you to torment people like this, please show me my daughter with a lot of money!"
"I asked Ning'er to wake up this lazy dad like you, otherwise she would have been scared away by your messy beard!" Shen Yue held her daughter in her arms and had no intention of letting her get close to her father again. Xu Xun's face was full of annoyance, so she smiled sweetly and said, "One more thing to remind you, Ruisheng is already waiting outside the door. He said that he was summoned by the emperor. You'd better move faster and faster, otherwise I won't know what the emperor did yesterday. I won’t see you tonight, so I’ll summon you today. If you linger any longer, will the Emperor get angry?”
"Ruisheng came in person?"
Seeing that his wife's eyes were joking, but she nodded slightly, Xu Xun immediately knew that this was not a joke. He quickly opened the quilt and got out of bed, and started to get dressed in a hurry. He quickly packed himself an outfit, and he He was standing in front of the bronze mirror, planning to comb his hair casually, but there was an extra hand on his shoulder. When he saw his wife in the mirror, he simply sat down and let the deft hands comb his hair, and finally put on his hair again. He added the official hat and hairpin.
"Finally, let me remind you that dad let you go last night in a reasonable manner. Once you enter the palace like this, you must come back early, otherwise when dad gets angry later, I will not intercede for you!"
"Okay, okay!"
Xu Xun raised his hands helplessly, and then stood up suddenly. Taking advantage of Shen Yue's surprise, he kissed her on the cheek. Then he smiled and walked to Ruyi's side who was holding the child. He saw the little guy blinking his eyes. Looking at himself, he felt warm and soft in his heart, and couldn't help but bend his head and kiss the child again. He saw his daughter was stunned for a moment, suddenly twitched her nose, and started crying again, so he hurriedly Flee in despair.
"Damn it, you're bullying Ning'er again!" Shen Yue looked at Xu Xun's back and scolded with a smile. She took the child and coaxed it for a while. Then she suddenly remembered something and snorted softly, "No. I’m reminding you, I’ll let you go to the palace to find food when you’re hungry!”
Ruisheng, who was waiting outside, was naturally not sitting there alone. Xu Liang, who was neatly dressed, was sitting beside him. An old man and a young man were talking enthusiastically. When Xu Xun arrived suddenly, he saw Ruisheng smiling happily at Xu Liang. Liang gestured.
"...Really, at that time I was worried that the emperor would become so stubborn that he would insist on leaving the palace without even caring about the key to the palace gate. Fortunately, the emperor still sympathized with Uncle Ping Bei after all. I thought that if the empress dowagers of the two palaces scolded him, it would be Uncle Pingbei couldn't bear it, so he had to lie down gloomily. So, I didn't dare to delay after getting the order early this morning, and rode straight over from Xiyuan." Ruisheng said this in one breath, and then saw with keen eyes. He looked at Xu Xun and quickly stood up to salute. However, before he could bend down, Xu Xun had already firmly supported him.
"It's your fault, if it was because of me that the palace gate was reopened last night, the battle would have been huge!"...
Ruisheng looked at Xu Xun and saw that he was much thinner than before. He suddenly felt a little worried in his heart, but he smiled and said a few words of humility, and then asked Xu Xun to enter the palace immediately. And Xu Liang saw Xu Xun.
Xun looked at himself, as if he wanted to say something, and immediately waved his hands and said: "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it later. You go to the palace first, don't keep the emperor waiting!"
Being in the capital, and being summoned by the emperor, Xu Xun had no intention of calling the guards who had followed him all the way back. However, when he and Ruisheng walked out of the middle gate together, they saw that there was almost an entire room outside that was quite spacious.
When the Wu'anhou Hutong was tightly blocked by many soldiers and horses, the surprise was not trivial. At this time, Ruisheng on the side just explained softly: "The emperor has learned that you were assassinated in Guangou yesterday.
Therefore, I ordered you to take these 100 advance guards with you as your retinue."
You actually have to bring a hundred retinue with you when entering and exiting the capital? Is this for everyone in the capital to see, for yourself, or for Liu Jin?
Xu Xun smiled bitterly in his heart, but everyone had gathered in front of the door, and all of them were old men who had walked out of his hands in the past, so he could only smile and nod. When he turned out of Wu'anhou Hutong and entered Xuanwumen Street,
Holding the reins with one hand, he looked around, especially when he passed by the Xisi Archway and saw the flagpole stained with blood, and the sense of reality that he had not experienced last night suddenly returned to him.
This is the capital, another battlefield!
After entering Xi'an Gate, the two hundred advance guards of the government returned to the inner school field to continue the drill. Only Ruisheng and a few small firemen were left to take Xu Xun to the Taisu Hall in the north of Taiye Lake. This is the privilege of riding horses in Xiyuan.
It was there when Xu Xun was training the avant-garde of the army in Xiyuan in the early years. But later, the days when he hung out in Xiyuan gradually became less and less, and he naturally rode less in the imperial garden. In addition, he was out for several months this time.
At this moment, when he saw the many newly built buildings, he had to look at them a few more times.
"Uncle Pingbei, the leopard house built by the emperor at the school yard in Xiyuan is almost completed." Ruisheng said. Seeing the astonishment on Xu Xun's face, he mistakenly thought that Xu Xun thought the construction period was fast, so he quickly added, "
The emperor said that it was inconvenient to live in the palace, so the Qianqing Palace was still reserved for worshiping the late emperor. The leopard room was easy to come in and out, and it was more convenient to meet the ministers, so he planned to move out when the construction was completed. The weather has been good in the past few months, so the construction was naturally faster.
It will be completed in about July or August."
Xiyuan built a villa to live in. This was something Zhu Houzhao had mentioned a long time ago. Xu Xun had just advised Zhu Houzhao to move slower and not to be too hasty, but now when he heard the words "Leopard Room", he couldn't help but feel a sense of return.
The trance of history. This feeling had always been with him when he entered the Taisu Palace and saw Zhu Houzhao. It was immediately diluted by the words he said in front of him.
"Xu Xun, you are finally back! I wanted to see you last night when I came up, but unfortunately Ruisheng stopped me. The weather is nice today, so I asked them to prepare a boat. Let's go up to Taiye Pond to talk without worrying about being disturbed.
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It doesn’t matter if it’s a tiger room or a leopard room, isn’t he being called a traitor by many people? Why do you care so much!
Boating in the Taiye Pond was an almost unheard-of favor for a courtier. However, when Xu Xun looked at Zhu Houzhao opposite, it was difficult for him to have that sense of sincerity and fear. But Zhu Houzhao was far away from the shore when the boat was far away.
After looking at Xu Xun enough, he suddenly coughed and said: "Xu Xun, I heard that you were assassinated again yesterday?"
The first words of the little emperor were not too unexpected, so Xu Xun glanced sideways at Ruisheng and the two little firemen beside him, and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, it is not impossible to say that he was assassinated.
, but I think this is a joke. I brought dozens of guards, and Uncle Jingyang’s large group of troops was just a short distance away, but an assassin with meager martial arts jumped out to assassinate him, shouting about Eunuch Liu.
, This is so ridiculous! I believe that some people with ulterior motives must have secretly planned this farce, so I have ordered a ban on this matter.”….
"Well, I saw you right. You won't be confused on such a big matter!"
After Zhu Houzhao listened to Gu Da's embellished report about Xu Xun's attack early this morning, he asked Ruisheng to bring two hundred people directly to summon Xu Xun into the palace. He originally planned to remind Xu Xun in a subtle way not to fall into the trap of others.
It was a plan to sow discord. When faced with Xu Xun's decisive answer, he was immediately satisfied.
Therefore, after putting aside this worry, he immediately asked Xu Xun to talk about what he had seen and heard along the way. While listening, he broke the casserole and asked to the end. In the end, when Xu Xun took out the soil taken from Helan Mountain,
He stood up and took the small cloth bag handed over by Xu Xun, pinched a little and twisted it in his hand, and his face glowed with a rare light.
"The soil on Helan Mountain... This is the soil on Helan Mountain! I only know that the territory under my rule is very vast, but even if I leave the palace once, I have to be complained about for a long time, and even the capital cannot easily leave.
Not to mention a place as far away as Helan Mountain!" At this point, Zhu Houzhao suddenly turned to look at Xu Xun, his eyes flashing with excitement and excitement, "Xu Xun, you did a good job on this!"
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty. Helan Mountain to the west of Zhenyuan Pass is the most westerly place I have ever visited this time, so I took this soil to give to the Emperor. But to the west of Helan Mountain, there are places such as Ganzhou and Hami, as well as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
, If there is an opportunity in the future, I will definitely obtain the land from the southeast, northwest and ends of the Ming Dynasty territory and give it to the emperor."
At this point, Xu Xun suddenly heard only a cooing sound, and was suddenly surprised. Who would make such an inappropriate sound at this time? However, when this sound sounded for the second time, he suddenly realized.
Yesterday, I hurriedly returned home in the middle of the night. Long Jinghu was lingering with his wife for a long time, and he fell asleep without even bothering to eat the midnight snack. When he got up early in the morning, Ruisheng came to summon the emperor, and even breakfast
I didn’t even eat. At this moment, others were too excited to notice it, so their stomachs protested first!
After Zhu Houzhao understood what the sound was about, he looked at Xu Xun's embarrassed expression and found it very interesting for a moment. He looked at Xu Xun with a half-smile but not for a while, then looked at Ruisheng and said: "I'm a little bit
If you're hungry, check to see if there are any snacks on the boat and bring them over quickly!"
Seeing Ruisheng leading the people down with understanding, Xu Xun suddenly said in an unusually embarrassed tone: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration."
However, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand very proudly and said: "Why does this trivial matter matter? Since you can forget about food and sleep, you are naturally a loyal minister. What's the harm in me sharing my food with you?"
However, when Ruisheng personally brought up a carved mahogany box with hundreds of birds facing the phoenix, he also brought another news: "Your Majesty, a small boat has just sent news that Mr. Liu, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, has arrived.
On the west bank of Taiye Lake, I want to see the emperor." (To be continued. [As an imperial envoy, the first thing you should do when you return to the capital is to meet the emperor to hand over the decree, not to mention that Xu Xun also brought Zhu Houzhao with him when he left.
Gu Day used the Emperor's Sword sent to him. However, Xu Xun entered the capital at night, and it was impossible for him to meet with the palace gate. The next day was not the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month. Now Chang Chao was exempted, and he did not have to go early in the morning.
Going to court, several days of traveling, and last night's intense exercise, his back was sore and his legs were numb early in the morning, and he didn't want to move. Until he felt something soft and itchy on his face,