Daming Yuanfu

Of course Gao Pingshi knew what the emperor meant by business, but he smiled and said: "It's a coincidence that the emperor has come here. I also have a business matter to report to the emperor."

I don't know if Gao Pragmatic's prestige was too high. As soon as he said these words, the expressions of several personal attendants who accompanied the emperor changed slightly. Even Chen Ju felt a sudden thump in his heart and glanced around subconsciously.

At this glance, Chen Ju was even more shocked.

Why? However, I saw that the horse farm was surrounded by Gao family servants, with posts at five steps and one sentry at ten steps. There were also lookout posts in the distance, straddling the four corners of the horse farm. These servants all wore brown robes, with the Beijing "Book and Sword" emblem embroidered on their left chests. They were all tall and mighty, and they all wore wild goose feather sabers, holding them with their left hands. Everyone's eyes showed a cold light.

Seeing such a posture in Xinzhai, the emperor only brought dozens of followers, half of whom had never seen a soldier before and were just eunuchs in the palace. Even the few big men in Dongchang have no one available for them now. As for the Jinyiwei officers and soldiers, they just left some outside the Jianxinzhai gate, and only six people came in.

In other words, if someone in Jian Xinzhai wants to harm the emperor, the emperor's escort force may not exceed ten people.

ten people? Take a look at the security arrangements in the Xinzhai. Not to mention other places, there are at least two hundred elite servants here at the racecourse alone - elites for sure. Judging from the calligraphy and sword emblems embroidered on their chests, they must be the guards of the inner palace.

It is said that the selection of internal guards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beijing is extremely difficult, and the first, second and third class guards have their own standards. Even the lowest-ranking third-class guard needs to have achieved at least three military exploits, and must have a record of killing enemies with his own hands to reach the selection bottom line. As for how the final selection will be made, Chen Ju is not clear about this matter. After all, outsiders know very little about the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Jinghua. What he knows is only public information.

All in all, according to Chen Ju's judgment, if the two hundred inner palace guards around here want to stick to the racecourse now, then even if a thousand guards in brocade clothes are mobilized outside the racecourse, it must be difficult to break through, and they may even be counterattacked - after all Nowadays, there are still a few Jin Yiwei who know how to fight. It would be almost the same if they were replaced by the Imperial Guards.

However, although Chen Ju and others thought too much, it seemed that the emperor did not think blindly. Although Zhu Yijun had a strange look on his face, he just asked in confusion: "Really, what is it?"

Of course the emperor is confused. You, Gao Pragmatic, have been thanking guests behind closed doors for more than ten days. Even if there are any major events in the court, logically speaking, you should not know about it - of course, logically speaking, which important minister would really thank guests behind closed doors? Are you blinding yourself?

But, even if you knew there was something big going on outside, you shouldn't reveal it in front of me, right? This is the reason why Zhu Yijun's face showed a strange color.

Facing the emperor's doubts, Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Rong Chen wants to show you something." After saying that, he turned around and walked to the black horse he just had, and took out a holster from the right side of the horse's hip. A short gun.

The guards around Zhu Yijun were shocked and quickly took two steps forward to block the emperor. At this time, Gao Pangshi was walking over with a short blunderbuss. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "You don't want to be so coy, but you don't know that my cabinet held a murder weapon in front of His Majesty thirty years ago, and His Majesty not only did not I still need to discuss the crime in detail with my department."

However, after saying this, Gao Pragmatic still stopped in his tracks, changed his gun to holding it with both hands, and looked at Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun looked calm, stretched out his hand to push away the two guards in front of him, and scolded: "Yuanfu and I may be emperors and ministers in name, but in fact we are close friends. What's more, the late emperor entrusted me to Gao's uncle and nephew before he died. Although Yuanfu was young in the past, what's the difference between him and me?" Take care of your life! Get out of the way quickly and don’t make the world laugh."

The guards had no choice but to get out of the way. However, Gao Pingshi raised his hands slightly as if offering a gift, but his feet did not move forward. The emperor took the initiative to step forward, not caring about the "murder weapon", and took the short blunderbuss in one hand. While looking left and right, he asked: "You want me to see this short blunderbuss?"

"Exactly." Seeing that Zhu Yijun had already taken over the blunderbuss, Gao Pragmatic became more relaxed, but he immediately reminded: "Your Majesty, this blunderbuss was leftover from the competition just now. The ammunition is already in the chamber. All you have to do is pull the trigger." But please be careful when firing."

Even Zhu Yijun was taken aback at this time. He subconsciously paused in his hand and glared: "Well, Gao Rixin, if I accidentally accidentally get into trouble, let's see how you end up."

Gao pragmatically said: "It's not like the emperor has never touched a blunderbuss. At least he can't point the gun at you. In this case, the problem is not big."

"Really?" Zhu Yijun suddenly pointed his gun at Gao Pragmatic and said, "What if I hit you?"

Gao Pragmatic's face was extremely calm, and he said calmly: "If you want me to die, I have to die." Zhu Yijun laughed, pointed the muzzle of the gun down, but looked around and said: "You are calm and composed, but look at the guards around you. Servant."

Gao pragmatically looked around and saw that the guards around the racecourse, who were originally holding the knife with their left hands as required, had subconsciously changed their postures. They all grabbed the handle of the knife with their right hand, lowered their heads and held their chests, bowed slightly, and fixed their gazes. He looked steadily at himself and the emperor.

Gao Pragmatic, who has been commanding troops for many years, naturally knows the meaning of their actions - lowering the head, chest and arching the body, this is a preparatory action to keep a close eye on the target and can quickly start a sprint at any time; it is easier to grab the handle of the knife with the right hand, no doubt To draw the sword at any time.

This is a little troublesome. The emperor's imperial guard was afraid that Gao Jingshi had hurt the emperor just now, but his vigilant actions would be regarded as disrespectful to Gao Jingshi, an important minister of the Yuan Dynasty, so the emperor personally scolded him. Now his highly pragmatic guards are obviously wary of the emperor. How to explain this?

You know, there is nothing wrong with the emperor's guards showing vigilance to anyone, because the emperor is the most powerful person and everyone else is his minister. What is wrong with the guards loyally protecting the emperor? The emperor scolded them only for the sake of maintaining his complete trust in Gao Pragmatism, and could not use other reasons.

However, the situation is different when the two sides are swapped. Why is your pragmatic servant so wary of the emperor? The head of your family just said, "If you want my subjects to die, I have no choice but to die." But you actually made the move to draw your sword at any time. Could it be that if you want your subjects to die, you dare to rebel on the spot?

Gao Jingshi's face turned cold, he looked past the emperor towards Gao Mo, and said in a deep voice: "Gao Mo, tell me how you train the guards in the inner palace."

Gao Mo hurriedly stepped forward and knelt to apologize, saying: "When the master saw the crime, it was because the old slave had failed to teach me properly... The old slave always said that the master conquered the world, and although he conquered all the barbarians, many people hated the master deeply because of it. As It is the last line of defense around the master, and they should be vigilant against any behavior that may hurt the master, but...but I really didn’t expect such an accident as today. I didn’t do my job well, so I ask the master to punish me heavily.”

"Since you know you are guilty, then..." Gao Pingshi had a cold face, and was about to order severe punishment, but Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, what you old slave said is true, then I am Just kidding, how could he have expected such a situation? As for what he said about training servants like you, I heard that there is nothing wrong with it."

After a pause, before Gao Pragmatic could speak, Zhu Yijun said again: "Do you still remember when you were assassinated in your early years?"

Gao Pragmatic was stunned: "Which time?"

This time it was Zhu Yijun's turn to be stunned and said in confusion: "Why, how many times have you been assassinated? I'm talking about the Yao man who used Gu when you were in Guangxi."

"Oh... that time." Gao pragmatic nodded and commented: "Fortunately it was a false alarm."

The incident Zhu Yijun mentioned was the old incident when Gao Pragmatic was fed a mouthful of Yin snake poison by the Yao tribe Gu Master. It was also the excuse for him to launch a "war of revenge" against Annan Mo Chao.

The Yao Gu Master had actually succeeded in the assassination. He first created chaos, and then took advantage of the chaos to pour the Yin Snake Gu into Gao Jingshi's mouth. Although the Yin Snake Gu is a so-called "death poison", it survives when exposed to saliva. Gao Qingshi's attempt to spit it out by digging his fingers into his throat was meaningless.

However, Miss A Li, the great grandmother who exists like a poison among the Yao people, happened to have given Gao pragmatically a bowl of special insect repelling soup less than a hundred days ago. The soup contained the magical "Phoenix" that trained Miss A Li. A certain medicine needed for "eyes" made this bowl of insect-avoiding soup just enough to restrain the Yin snake poison, allowing Gao Yingshi to save his life. Because of this, Gao Pragmatic would say "it was a false alarm." [Note: See Chapter 132-134 of Guangxi in Volume ]

The reason why Zhu Yijun wants to talk about this is precisely because it is in line with what Gao Mo just said. Although Gao Pingshi won "all the barbarians into submission" after defeating him, many people had a deep hatred for him because of this, and it was inevitable that some people would hate him. He had a heart for assassination. According to this idea, Gao Mo trains the guards around Gao Pragmatic, which will of course make him full of vigilance.

As for why there was no exception for the emperor, as Gao Mo said - who could have expected this?

When training guards, who would make a special statement and say: "Hey, please pay attention. If the person who comes to 'assassinate the head of the family' is the emperor, you should not react in any way." Isn't this sick?

This is the truth, but this incident obviously affected the atmosphere in the venue. For a while, no one knew how to change the topic.

At this time, Meng Guzhezhe, who had been quiet for a long time when he saw the emperor, suddenly spoke. She was half angry and half curious as she said: "Sir, this short blunderbuss is very different from the short blunderbuss that the slave family usually knows. I have never seen a short blunderbuss that can shoot accurately at fifty steps away. But this short musket can hit accurately not only at fifty paces, but also at a hundred or a hundred and fifty paces. The master even has to pull the target to three hundred paces... How on earth is this done?"
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PS: This chapter was supposed to be updated last night, but I had a cold these past two days, so I fell asleep while typing...