The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 333 The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and tigers are rampant

But it is said that the winter is getting deeper, the time has entered December, and the end of the year is gradually approaching.

The Emperor Daojun went to the Zichen Palace early this morning, and all the officials Shanhu finished their worship, and the ministers of civil and military affairs stood in two groups.

The Emperor Daojun seemed to be in a good mood, before the official on duty sang the order, he said in person: "Every family loves you, come and play if you have something to do, and roll up the curtain and disperse if there is nothing to do."

All civil and military officials looked at each other, but no one spoke. At this time, the Grand Chancellor, Zuo Xiang Wang Fu, stepped out of the class and said, "Your Majesty has thousands of joys!"

The Emperor Daojun stroked his beard and said, "Wang Aiqing, where does the joy come from?"

Wang Fuli said: "Officials, a treasured tripod was recently unearthed in Suzhou. It is a state-defending weapon of the last three generations. It is a great joy."

Emperor Daojun wondered: "What happened? Is it He Baoding?"

Wang Fu said: "Reporting to the official family, it is rumored that this tripod was forged by a god-man with the fire of Nuwa's stone refining. There were nine of them in total, and they were handed down for three generations. Later, Zhou lost the world and the tripod disappeared. Now it is a great auspicious omen."

Emperor Daojun said happily: "I have heard for a long time that there was a god who made nine tripods handed down from the time of Yu, but I have never seen it in person. Wang Aiqing, where is the treasure tripod now? You can send someone to bring it here."

Wang Fu said: "Officials, this treasured tripod was discovered by Zhu Yu, who was promoted by the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau. It has been transported to Beijing, and it is outside the hall at this moment."

The Emperor Daojun said: "Okay, Zhu Aiqing is indeed a loyal minister, and she will be brought up to the palace immediately. I want to share the reward with all the ministers."

Wang Fu received the decree, and then asked General Zhandian to command the imperial guards to carry a large tripod into the hall.

Emperor Daojun stepped down from his throne to watch, and saw a huge tripod, standing on three legs, with two ears flaring, decorated with gold, resplendent with gold and green, and engraved with insect and fish seal characters, the grammar is profound and ingenious, different As for Li Si's Xiaozhuan, none of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could read it.

The Emperor Daojun was overjoyed immediately, and immediately delivered an edict: "Quickly enshrine the treasure tripod in the Ming Hall, and build another hall to store it in the future. When we can get the other eight, we will make a grand ceremony and congratulate the world."

All the ministers expressed their congratulations one after another, saying that this is a sign of a prosperous age, when this dynasty will flourish.

The Emperor Daojun said again: "I will pass on my will, Zhu Aiqing has made great contributions in offering the tripod, and I will be named the Weiyuan Army Jiedushi!"

Afterwards, a decree was given to hold a banquet in Yanfu Palace to celebrate. The Emperor Daojun rode on a free chariot, and sent someone to invite Empress Zheng to ride on the dragon shoulder. After passing the Xuanhe Gate of the Houyuan, the monarch and his ministers slowly entered the Yanfu Palace.

I saw countless towers, pavilions and pavilions in the palace garden, all carved beams and painted buildings, surrounded by long corridors, extremely luxurious, even though it is deep winter, but the garden is full of beasts and birds, and plum blossoms.

When Yanfu Palace was first built, Cai Jing ordered Tong Guan, Yang Jian, Jia Xiang, Lan Congxi, He Yi and others to serve as palace envoys. The towers, pavilions and pavilions built were decorated with landscapes and plants. In the attack, tens of thousands of laborers and craftsmen were mobilized, and the money consumed was incalculable.

The celebration banquet was held in the Yanchun Pavilion. This Yanchun Pavilion is magnificent and rare in the world. It is twelve feet wide and 110 feet high. There are four stages around the pavilion. Across the two pavilions, there is a corridor and a curved bridge across the sea for people to enjoy.

The Daojun emperor and his ministers entered the pavilion to have a banquet, celebrating each other's joy of winning a tripod. The Da Si Yue Zhao Yu ordered to play the Jubilee Anle, and the singers of the four places stretched their sleeves and danced.

The banquet lasted for two or three hours, and then the Emperor Daojun led his officials to visit Genyue Mountain. From afar, he looked at Longevity Peak, which was green and green, with pavilions and wings. Crystal silver columns hang upside down under the eaves, which is really beautiful.

Emperor Daojun drove into the flower garden, delivered an order to stop the chariot, and then pointed to a dried plum by the roadside through the drunkenness and asked casually, "What's the name of this flower?"

A little eunuch nearby replied: "Officials, this is plantain!"

Emperor Daojun was slightly taken aback, lost in thought.

After looking at it for a while, he pointed to a withered cypress and asked, "What's the name of this tree?"

It was the little eunuch who accompanied him again and replied: "Officials, this is plantain!"

Weizong frowned, feeling displeased.

Turning around the flower garden, Huizong pointed to a clump of dead trees and asked, "Who knows these flowers?"

None of the ministers on the left and right could recognize each other, so the little eunuch had no choice but to bite the bullet and play: "Officials, this flower is also a plantain!"

After hearing this, the Emperor Daojun flew into a rage and shouted: "The dead flowers and trees are all different, why are they all plantains? Do you dare to bully me?"

The little eunuch trembled with fright, and hastily knelt down under the chariot to plead guilty: "Damn it, I don't know the names of the flowers and trees, because I often hear people say that the leaves of plantains are scorched, so I mistakenly thought they were plantains. Forgive me, spare Benu the death penalty."

The Emperor Daojun didn't even look at the little eunuch, and shouted: "Come to the supervisor!"

After a while, the supervisor knelt down and kowtowed in front of the chariot. The emperor asked about the dead flowers and trees he saw, and the supervisor explained them one by one.

Emperor Daojun snorted coldly: "Why do these flowers and trees wither and die with branches and leaves?"

The Jianpu official replied: "Qizou official family, these flowers and trees were planted from Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi. They were transported all the way, across the river and across the sea. There are thousands of miles. When transported to the capital, more than half of the water in the branches and leaves will be lost, so they will wither and die shortly after planting."

Emperor Daojun asked again: "Based on what you have seen, how can the flowers and trees not wither, be evergreen all year round, and be fragrant all the time?"

"Go back to the official's house." The supervisor said: "If you want the flowers to be fragrant all year round, evergreen and never withered, you must bring the native soil to transplant, that is, dig the flowers and trees with the original soil balls, but this will be more laborious and expensive."

After hearing this, the Emperor Daojun smiled slightly and said: "I am rich in the world, what can't I do? What can't I do? What is the waste of money and effort to measure this grass and tree? Tell me and listen to me."

The supervisor said: "In the past, when transporting flowers and trees by water, in order to facilitate loading and transportation, most of the soil on the roots was shaken off, or a few or ten plants were consigned in bundles, which damaged the roots of the branches and leaves, and consumed juice, so they were easy to die. According to my experience, when transporting flowers and trees, the roots of the flowers and trees must be dug out without damaging the big roots, and the soil plates should be gently moved into the basket and tank, and then the roots of the branches and leaves should be sprayed with water. Dry it so that the flowers and trees grow as if they were growing on the original nursery ground. After they are loaded onto the ship, windproof curtains are drawn around them and a pergola is built on them. One plant can live 99 plants."

Huizong thought for a while and said, "This method is the best."

Immediately send an imperial edict to Zhu Xi, and in the future, the flowers and trees will be transported with soil and water, and replaced frequently at four o'clock, regardless of cost and manpower, and no one plant will wither.

After the decree was issued, the Emperor Daojun was about to set off, when a person flashed out from among the officials, it was Honglu Shaoqing Deng Su.

Deng Su pulled up his clothes and knelt down, saying: "Officials and ministers have recently heard that Zhu Xi and others have borrowed the title of tribute from the imperial court. In all private garden pavilions, in the homes of ordinary people, even among the tombs, there are flowers, trees, and flowers. If the object is strange, it will be sealed with yellow paper or yellow handkerchief, which means it is an imperial object. Officials lead healthy soldiers or go straight into their homes to force and rob them, or dig people's graves, dig people's ancestral graves, and the southeast is full of commotion. Some even took down walls and demolished houses in order to get something, so that the people in the southeast were displaced, and the people were in dire straits.

Emperor Daojun's face darkened when he heard the words, he looked at Deng Su and said, "What do you mean?"

Deng Su said: "Officials, I think..."

Before the words fell, Wang Fu said from the side: "Deng Su is so bold, he dared to falsely accuse Zhongliang!"

Emperor Daojun sneered: "Could it be that you are talking about me?"

Deng Su hurriedly said: "I don't dare, it's just that Zhu Xi used the name of Huashi to carry out..."

The Emperor Daojun interrupted him, and said to the side: "Take this madman down, take off the court clothes, and put him in the prison!"

The classes on both sides immediately got up, pulled Deng Su off, and then continued to visit the garden, but the Emperor Daojun frowned, and his mood was already very bad...

Let's talk about Suzhou, one of the things people in Suzhou do every day is to secretly talk about Zhu Xi's scandal in private.

Ever since Zhu Xi took charge of the Yingfeng Bureau, he was desperate for extravagance, so he had three ruthless hobbies.

There was a popular game in the mansions of high-ranking officials and dignitaries in this dynasty, that is, let Meiji and maidservants take off all their clothes, and compete naked in sumo.

The host watches from the sidelines, and the winners give rewards, such as silver ingots, or silk, and sometimes even gold ingots or gold and jade jewelry.

Sima Guang once vehemently criticized this kind of despicable game, and this kind of corrupt atmosphere has been restrained.

But this kind of game is often held in Zhu Mian's residence, and Zhu Mian is fascinated by it, and often watches it with great interest, sometimes when it gets angry, he even asks a beautiful woman to enter the room.

The second hobby is that there is a large bathing pool with an area of ​​one and a half mu in Zhu's mansion. It is filled with clean water every day in summer and warm water every day in winter. His dozens of concubines all go down to bathe and play with him. Act in water.

The third hobby is that there are several tiger cages in Zhu's mansion, and there are eight tiger cages. All enemies caught will be put into the cages for the tigers to bite.

Zhu Xi liked to see the big worms tearing people apart, saw people screaming in despair in the tiger cage, saw them being torn to pieces by the big worms, and rolled in pain in the cage, he would go crazy with excitement and let out cat-like meows. Voice.

On this day, a disobedient maidservant had just been executed in the tiger cage, and someone from outside suddenly reported that an imperial decree had arrived in the capital.

Zhu Mian hurriedly went to receive the order, but it turned out that the officials were overjoyed when they saw that he had made great contributions in presenting the tripod and awarded him the title of envoy of the Weiyuan Army.

He took some money to order the eunuch who passed the decree, and with a turn of his eyes, he sent someone to pass on the news. In less than half a day, everyone in Suzhou knew that he had been promoted again!
(End of this chapter)