In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 177
Yang Yuehu, Secretary of the Imperial City, was standing in front of the Daqing Hall and looking around.

One hundred steps in front of Daqing Hall is the Nangong Gate, and another 150 steps is the Lizheng Gate.

The people at Nangong Gate are all guarded by Wang Bin's people.

There are four flat areas between the Daqing Hall and the Nangong Gate, where the football was played just now, and the officials on the scene are waiting. When the banquet is set up in the Daqing Hall, they will enter the hall one by one.

There are about fourteen teams of Imperial City Division around here, each with five people.

There are two teams at Nangongmen, about 20 people.

Among these dozens of people, some belonged to Yang Yuehu and some belonged to Wang Bin, but no matter who they belonged to, they didn't know what would happen today.

The emperor was very vigilant. Except for Yang Yuehu, Mao Tong, Xu Youzhong and Liao Liao, no one in the Imperial City Division knew what they were going to do today.

The emperor does not intend to use the people of the Imperial City Department, because many of them may be unreliable.

Yang Yuehu himself patrolled left and right with two confidantes and a team of people. Even his confidants, who had been with him for ten years, didn't say what he was going to do today, which showed how careful the emperor was.

"These people are finished kicking, take them to the left hall of Daqing Hall, where lunch is arranged." Yang Yuehu said to a confidant at this time.

The confidant officer was stunned for a moment: "Are they not going out of the palace?"

"There are also singing girls dancing at the luncheon. After the dance, they leave the palace with the singing girls." Yang Yuehu said: "Tell them not to run around and stay in the left hall."

"No." The subordinate confidant turned and left.

Yang Yuehu looked up at the sky: "Mother, it's lunch time, let's go, let's eat too."

He also headed west with his party.

The Imperial City Secretary stationed in Miyagi took turns to eat, and they also had to eat when it was lunch time.

The sergeants around watched the football players arrive at the back of the left hall. The square was full of people just now, and suddenly it became empty.

Everyone also breathed a sigh of relief.

The square is full of people, and it looks like the pressure is quite high, and these football players are all in good physical condition and look relatively strong.

Seeing that everyone had arrived at the left hall, some people also started to prepare meals.

At the gate of the left hall, there are two groups of people standing, five people on one side.

Xu Youzhong said loudly: "Let them stay inside, don't come out if there is nothing to do, and send them out of the palace immediately after dancing and singing."

"No." The two groups of people around responded loudly, Xu Youzhong turned and left, and soon came to the Chuigong Hall behind the Daqing Hall, where there are maids here, and Xu Shi is also here, directing people to carry several large boxes. Come in.

The big boxes are all hot, and there are meals for the Cuju people in them, which will be carried to the side hall of the Daqing Hall in a while.

"The people who play Cuju are all His Majesty's people. Be careful when carrying the rice, don't spill it." Xu Youzhong shouted.

The servants and maids agreed one after another.

At noon, the banquet was about to begin, and their meals were carried to the Daqing Hall.
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Two quarters of an hour ago.

Near the water gate of Tianzong in the north of Lin'an City, a small boat quickly docked, and someone on it directly led a horse to the shore, drove it, and ran all the way to the vicinity of Fengbo Pavilion.

The Southern Song Dynasty Guozijian is also nearby, and Zhong You's home is between Fengboting and Guozijian.

Mrs. Zhong gained power when she was in Ningzong, and Zhong You's family was rewarded by the emperor, covering an area of ​​more than one hundred acres, which is very large.

The man hurried to Zhong You's house and knocked on the door.

Soon someone inside opened the door, and it was Zhao Yurui's confidant boy, Ji Huer, who is now the commander of the Imperial City Commander.

"The fleet is still ten miles away from the security water gate." The person who had just arrived shouted out of breath.

"Okay." Ji Hu'er immediately said: "Go back immediately and let the fleet speed up."

"No." The man rode his horse madly to Tianzong Water Gate again.

Ji Hu'er hurried back to the yard.

Many people in the yard are putting on their armor, and most of them are already dressed.

The imperial army was about to put Li Pinghu through the last piece of armor, and looked around at the same time.

There are more than 100 people around, all of them are strong young people up to the age of 20. It is said that they used to be the personal guards of the king of Wei.

After Wei Wang became emperor, these more than 100 people were arranged in the Imperial City Department.

But today they were not on duty, and they all ran to Zhong You's Mansion, and when they arrived at Zhong You's Mansion, most of them immediately changed their imperial guards' armor.

Therefore, the imperial army is going to pretend that all the soldiers and horses around Li Pinghu, except seven or eight confidantes, are from the Imperial City Division as the imperial army.

On the other side, Hu Song, the emperor's personal servant, was holding a lot of things in his hands, which seemed to be all imperial decrees. There were two servants beside him, Xu Fei and Gao Ming. They were both young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they didn't know what happened. what's up.

The two of them had just arrived here with Hu Song, and now seeing that they were surrounded by soldiers, they were too frightened to make a sound.

"Don't panic." Hu Song comforted them at this moment: "You just follow me, and you can do whatever you want."

"Understood, everyone knows." The two young servants hurriedly lowered their heads and said.

"Okay, let's go." Li Pinghu saw that everyone had changed their armor, waved his big hand, bang, opened the door, and rushed out of the street with more than 100 imperial guards.

When passing by Yujie, there was a poker room, and suddenly dozens of others rushed out and joined the team.

When walking to another small street, the gate of a certain backyard suddenly opened, and dozens of people rushed out, leading more than a dozen horses to join the team.

As they walked, more and more people gathered.

When approaching the Privy Council, the 500 people brought by Zhao Yurui to Beijing for the first time were almost all together, but they were divided into two parts, with dozens of people walking in front and hundreds of people following far behind.

The gatekeepers at the gate of the Privy Council are people from the Imperial City Department, and there are about ten people.

Suddenly seeing the mighty people and horses at the entrance of the street, the gatekeepers were all startled.

"The imperial edict has arrived." Hu Song took the imperial edict and led Li Pingxia and dozens of soldiers to the Privy Council.

Ji Hu'er also knew the gatekeeper of the Imperial City Secretary, who was shocked when he saw Ji Hu'er: "What happened?"

"Don't worry about it, just step back." Ji Hu'er said sharply, "We came here with an imperial edict."

The ten members of the Imperial City Division looked at each other in blank dismay, none of them dared to speak out, and stood aside.

With a wave of Li Pinghu's hand, someone from behind escorted the ten people into the Privy Council, unarmed them, and the door was immediately replaced by ten people from Zhao Yurui wearing the armor of the Imperial City Division.

There were not many people in the Privy Council today, and everyone above the seventh rank entered the palace, leaving only some officials of the eighth and ninth ranks. Suddenly seeing the imperial army entering, everyone was frightened.

Hu Song didn't care about them, and when he came in, he called everyone to read the decree and read it quickly.

More than a dozen low-level officials knelt on the ground, confused, but seemed to understand.

Zhao Mian rebelled, and there were still accomplices in Lin'an City. The emperor wanted to summon the imperial army to arrest the accomplices.

The imperial decree came here to ask for a military talisman.

"Where is the soldier talisman?" Li Pinghu snapped.

There are twelve rooms in the Privy Council, and these people are basically people from each room. Hearing Ji Hu'er's voice, everyone raised their heads and looked at each other in fear, not knowing how to answer.

During Ningzong's time, he used the prime minister as well as the privy envoy, but now the privy envoy Shi Miyuan is not here, and several deputies are also absent. It is obviously not in compliance with the imperial edict to take the military talisman.

Li Pinghu saw that everyone was silent, and put one hand on the knife: "Ask again, where is the soldier talisman?"

Someone in the crowd suddenly stood up: "In the 'Jingfang'."

All the officials turned around, but one was an official from the Jiupin Supervisor.

Ji Hu'er was overjoyed: "You take us there."

This person got up quickly and took them to the 'in Beijing room'.

"What's your name?" Ji Hu'er said, "What official position?"

"Return to the general, the next official is Song Ke——"

"Okay, very good, Your Majesty will hear your name, don't worry." Ji Hu'er said.

A flattering smile appeared on Song Ke's face.

After arriving at the Jingfang, I found that there was a heavily locked door with a soldier release talisman. It is said that two or more privy envoys and deputy envoys can open it together.

"Smash it." Without further ado, Li Pinghu ordered someone to smash the lock.

After a few bangs, the door was smashed open, and the drawers inside were still locked. I continued to smash and finally found two pairs of soldier symbols.

The tiger talisman of the Song Dynasty was engraved with "Amulet of Sending Soldiers Somewhere".

Tigers and leopards are cast as decorations, with five left and right talismans each.

The five talismans on the right are stored in the Privy Council, and the five talismans on the left are given to five important generals.

To mobilize less than 300 people, use one tiger and one leopard; to mobilize more than 5000 people, use two tigers and leopards.

But there were only two tigers and leopards at the scene, and Li Pinghu immediately knew that Peng Ren had two tigers and leopards, and Shi Miyuan might have a pair on his body without authorization.

He caught Song Ke and asked, sure enough, Peng Ren had it, and Shi Miyuan really had a pair with him.

He then asked who had the remaining pairs of Zuo Talismans?
Song Ke said, he doesn't know either, this is a military secret, and only the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council knows it.

Li Pinghu didn't care anymore, there was no emperor's imperial decree, no right talisman, Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen were in the imperial city again, and the other generals in command of the capital did not dare to mobilize troops without authorization even after they got the news, so he grabbed the remaining ones Two pairs of right talismans are equal to the right to control others and then mobilize other people's soldiers and horses.

After leaving the "in Beijing room", Li Pinghu brought over the seal of the Privy Council.

Then he said: "Who is in charge of the official room?"

Immediately someone stood up trembling.

"How long will it take to find out the list of generals who have not been promoted in the Imperial Army for more than five to ten years?"

"At least half an hour."

"The fastest promotion in the last ten years, how long will it take to command the above list?"

"Half an hour."

"Li Mo."

"The end is here."

"You bring 100 people to guard the Privy Council. No one can enter or leave. After the list is out, send someone to the palace immediately."

"promise."

"Let's go." Li Pinghu quickly left the Privy Council with the rest of the people.

After going out, Li Pinghu kept instructing the people around him, and people around him left the team one after another and went to various places in Lin'an City.

After a while, they appeared near the security water gate.

There are two water gates in Lin'an City, one is the Tianzong Water Gate in the north, and the other is the Baoan Water Gate in the southeast corner.

The security water gate is located in the southeast corner of Lin'an City, east of the Imperial Medical Bureau.

The Baoan Water Gate is connected to the Qiantang River, and the big ships going to Lin’an can directly enter the Qiantang River from Hangzhou Bay, and then enter the Baoan Water Gate from the Qiantang River.

However, it is difficult for large ships with more than [-] materials to enter here, and only small and medium-sized ships with less than [-] materials can enter. After entering, they follow the waterway to Lin'an City. Usually, the materials that were paid to the capital from all over the country in the Southern Song Dynasty entered the city through Baoan Shuimen. .

Other ships and merchant ships entered Beijing through the water gate of Tianzong in the north of the city (the location of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal) for later generations.

Lin'an in the first month is a bit cold, and the soldiers and horses of the infantry division of the imperial army are stationed on this section of the city wall.

It's cold outside today, even though the sun is shining at noon, the number of people in the city is less than one-fifth of the usual.

The water gate is usually open, and occasionally ships come in, usually official ships.

Before the emperor's wedding a few days ago, there were many boats coming in, but in the past few days, there were not many boats in a day.

"Touch." Not far from the security water gate, guard Xu Guzheng and three colleagues were playing mahjong.

(End of this chapter)