V4.Chapter 11 (1/2)
Shen zangji and Shen Shuming leave the capital of the emperor in front of them, and something happens in the capital of the latter.
It's not a small thing - there's water in the palace.
Although the place where the emperor and empress walked was not the main hall, it was the fengci water hall where the emperor lived in these two summers. Fengci water hall was built by Emperor Xiaozong of the Wei Dynasty. Emperor Xiaozong was posthumous and filial. His mother died early and was raised by his mother, empress Xian'an, who served her as if she were a parent-child. After the accession to the throne, she still served the queen mother Xian'an in person from time to time.
Every summer, the royal family moved to the mountain palace outside the city to avoid the summer. However, the Empress Dowager Xian'an was not suitable to travel after her high age and was afraid of the summer. Xiaozong summoned skilled craftsmen to build this water hall in the palace for the Empress Dowager Xian'an to live in summer, which is known as ”worshiping kindness”.
Fengci water hall is built on the widest Lake in Shanglin garden. The cornice and the Guangdian Huating have the same scale as the ordinary palaces. They are more exquisite and better than other palaces, accounting for half of the lake. There are mezzanine floors on the upper and lower walls of the hall. In summer, ice is put in, and a water truck is set at the door of the hall to blow the wind. So even in the dog days, the hall is still cool and cold, like autumn and winter.
After emperor Xiaozong, people in the royal family sometimes are inconvenient or unwilling to go to the palace in summer, and they will basically live here.
In the past two years, shengshang has grown old. He doesn't like moving. After entering summer, he lives here with his beloved Princess.
In the early summer, miaojieu and Zhong Xiaoyi competed for favor. They ordered the palace people to take a boat and dance on the lake in front of the fengci water hall. The lotus flowers on the people's faces reflected each other, which made the saint like the beautiful scenery. So the Lingbo dance music hasn't stopped this summer. Now it's autumn, the holy one still doesn't want to leave the fengci water hall. He only asks people to remove the ice in the mezzanine and the windmill, and still lives here.
…… Of course, shengshang doesn't want to go back to xuanming palace. I'm afraid it's because he looks down at xuanming Palace at night. It's not hard to see the busy lights in six Yamens all night, reminding the old shengshang how dangerous his world is.
In a word, Emperor Jia lived in the water. Although the water hall was built on the lake, it was easy to get water on the spot to put out the fire, but the palace people were burned and Emperor Jia was frightened.
Not only was he frightened, but he also suspected that this was a plot against him.
This sudden change made the scholars a little unprepared. Fortunately, there were several trusted palace maids in the holy kingdom. These palace maids found out that the reason for going out of water had nothing to do with treason. It was totally an accident: a palace maiden in the water palace dozed off while guarding the fire candle at night, and the partial Lake wind blew some sparks to the tent. When the torch tent and other things were burning up, Although the palace people woke up, they were afraid of disturbing the holy master in the middle of the night because the place was close to the Shengjia sleeping hall. The holy master was in a bad mood all the time. There were not a few people who were killed or exiled because of a little incident in the near attendants. The fear of the palace people was also reasonable.
But he underestimated the fire. Instead of killing the fire for a long time, he accidentally choked into too many fireworks and suffocated himself. Then the fire spread throughout the hall Know that fengci water hall was built of pure wood.
So the fire burned nearly two-thirds of the whole fengci water hall, and the whole city was shocked by the fire. Because of the current situation, rumors spread all over the city before long. If Gu Xiaode, the commander of the forbidden army, was not decisive, he would send his inner forbidden army into the palace to help fight the fire. At the same time, he would hold a tiger amulet to block the whole city. He would order people to go up to the Imperial Palace and down to the humble land of Li Shu. They would not step out of the house for half a step. Those who disobeyed him would cut off and barely stop the scene. Maybe the capital would be in a mess because of this.
Although it is said that there is a false alarm in and out of the palace, after this event, the Holy Scripture unexpectedly wants to open!
On the day after the Palace officials found out that the water was an accident, the emperor summoned the princes who presided over the government affairs to attend the pilgrimage.
Of course, I'm a little scared about this call to all the families - they're not ready yet, but they're ready But to everyone's surprise, the Emperor didn't mention the things that bothered them, such as the civil commotion, Yanzhou, the Crusade and the defeat of the army. Instead, he comforted them for a while with a pleasant face. He looked back on his life, his ambition and ambition when he was just a young man when he first came to the throne, and felt that he was helpless now with his grey sideburns and his heart full of spare power
The Holy One said with tears: ”when I ascended the throne, you are still in your prime. Remember that at that time, when the emperor and the minister were united, they all had the ambition to revitalize my great Wei Dynasty! Now several decades have passed in a hurry. I and Zhu Aiqing are old, but my great Wei Dynasty is still tired. Now these two years are full of wars and devastation! In recent years, Zhu Aiqing's hard work for the government and me is also seen in the eyes. It is said that the great Wei dynasty fell to the present level, and its sin is not in Zhu Aiqing! ”
On this point, the confused ministers all thought they could hear the clue. Just as the ministers all lamented the ancestors of the Wei Dynasty, they showed their spirit. They let the holy conscience find out that if they planned to meditate in the prince, they should also soften the fierce anger of the whole world. Several loyal old ministers, such as Wei Yu, have been moved With tears in his eyes, he bowed to the ground and pleaded guilty, saying that he was incompetent and could not share his worries for the emperor!
Holy way: ” Of course, I am not guilty! ”
“……………………！！！”Ready to comfort the old emperor, meaning to forgive the old emperor's sins, the ministers looked at each other