there is a king in the palace

After staying in the iron cage for two days, the king has always behaved very well.

But he was a little depressed.

The cage is such a big place, not to mention running a few steps, even walking around, you can turn around and get confused. The king is also a tiger as free as the wind in Hutou Mountain, and it is undoubtedly torture for him now.

Life... It can't be said that death is worse than death. It's better to live than to die. At least the food here is pretty good, but I'm so suffocated that I can't run or jump, and there is no small animal to talk to. I just treat it every day. Looking at those two animal trainers, the king is really not sure if he will eat them after going on like this.

At night, the king was lying in the cage thinking about how he could get out of here.

Those ignorant people always thought that he was aggressive, and would be fully armed even in the cage, for fear that he would suddenly bite someone.

Crazy, you serve my lord with delicious food and drink. My lord will bite you because of the horns on his head. Your meat is so delicious, I have to bite it.

Therefore, the most urgent task now is to let those foolish people know that he does not bite...

In the early morning of the next day, the animal trainer walked to the cage with a basin of bloody pork. Today's pork was cut into very small pieces and could be eaten bite by bite.

The animal trainer took a piece of meat with long and thin clips and passed it in through the gap in the cage.

The king pretentiously leaned over to sniff, tilted his head, and sat down with his back turned, his round buttocks facing the animal trainer, fully expressing his dislike for raw meat with body language.

Starting today, Ben Dawang will not eat raw food.

"Huh..." The animal trainer was a little puzzled, two days ago, he was still eating delicious beer, but he couldn't stop chattering, what's wrong with him today.

With doubts, the animal trainer threw the piece of meat beside the king.

The king didn't even look at it.

It's just that personable.

Seeing that he doesn't eat, the animal trainer is a little anxious. If he doesn't eat, he will lose weight, and his fur will not be as smooth as it is now. If the emperor thinks of it someday, he has to take a look. What he sees is A skinny tiger, he will have to pack up and leave, and his reputation will be ruined by then, and dignitaries will ask him to tame the beast.

This is how to do.

The animal trainer thought that it might be that the tiger, which was used to being free outside, was thrown into a cage and ate ready-made food every day. The lack of exercise led to a loss of appetite.

So, the animal trainer threw two pheasants that flapped their wings and could fly very high into the cage.

He thought that this would not only allow the tiger to exercise its body and increase its appetite, but also maintain its ferocious nature.

Although, he has not seen how fierce this tiger is so far.

The king looked at the two pheasants that looked delicious, and couldn't help swallowing,

These foolish people really have a brain problem. On the one hand, they don't want him to bite people, and on the other hand, they use these living things to stimulate him.

Don't eat, don't eat anything!

The king suffered twice because of foraging, which caused a lot of damage to his young and fragile heart, so now he can restrain himself.

Seeing that he still didn't move, the animal trainer scratched his forehead in confusion, turned around and left.

A beast trainer who was training a fan dog for Concubine Hui in the courtyard saw his confused face and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Hey, what can I do if I don't eat..."

The king was different from ordinary beasts, he was brought back by the emperor to take good care of him. If something happened, no one would be able to take care of it. He picked up the dog by its neck and put it back into the cage, and entered the tiger room where the king was kept.

The two animal trainers have their own strengths. Zhang Su, who is strong and nimble, is good at taming beasts, while Pan Qi, who looks weak, is good at treating animals. Pan Qi thinks that the king may be sick if he doesn’t eat. He went into the tiger room and looked around. The king was chasing two pheasants for fun, and the feces in the corner were normal.

It's really evil, how can I not eat.

"Zhang Su, is there still half a pot of food left for the dogs this morning, send it in for a try."

"Okay." Zhang Su agreed, and ran outside to get the dog food.

The court dog is much nobler than the ordinary people outside, and even the food is a good thing, with a big pot of pork bone, chicken, millet porridge and various vegetables, the nutrition is quite balanced.

The king was having fun catching chickens, and he didn't hear them say that it was dog food. Seeing Zhang Su bringing in a large bucket of steaming food, he moved over to smell it curiously.

This is ripe?

The king had never eaten cooked food as long as he could remember. He stared at the green grass inside and didn't like it.

When the king was in Hutou Mountain on weekdays, he was too tired to eat, so he would force himself to eat some grass to digest food. The taste really made the tiger want to kill him. He would not eat these green things unless he had to.

Today, there is no other choice.

The king buried his head in the barrel, and started to eat without hesitation.

hey!

This taste is really good!

His Majesty felt that all the meat he ate was for nothing. He had heard Asuka say that people like to eat cooked food, and he thought those foolish people were so stupid that it took so much effort to eat anything, but now that he thought about it, he had no experience.

The king ate up the half bucket of dog food, and his milky white belly swelled up. He couldn't get down on the ground, so he could only lie on his back on the ground, with two thick hind legs raised high, and snow-white front paws Gently rubbing his stomach.

The two animal trainers looked surprised, "Could it be that this tiger has become spiritually intelligent?"

Feudal superstition is forbidden in the palace, and animals are forbidden to become spirits, so the animal trainer changed his expression very tactfully.

"It's strange to say that Wang Ya is already an adult, but his body is still like a cub, and he can't tell his age."

"Whatever it is, when the envoys from foreign kingdoms meet in a few days, the emperor will definitely come to Hundred Beasts to select the beasts. This tiger emperor will definitely like it. You and my brother will take good care of you, and rewards will definitely be indispensable."

"Brother Pan is right."

After the death of the first emperor, the new emperor was young and stubborn. From then on, these foreign countries began to move around. It has become a good talk for the first emperor to conquer the world by riding a tiger. Therefore, when the envoys of the vassal states come to pay tribute every year, they must bring the most ferocious beasts in the country and the Song Dynasty to feed them. The fierce beasts have a contest.

In the two years since Zhao Xianao first ascended the throne, the beasts of the Song Dynasty were still winning steadily. From a stable win to a tie, and from a tie to repeated defeats.

In recent years, when those vassal kingdoms left Chang'an, they all looked proud and proud, and they were not so respectful when they spoke to Zhao Xianao.

Zhao Xianao didn't care much about this, for him, this kind of competition was just for fun, so what if they won, Xiao Fanbang could only find some sense of accomplishment in it.

But someone cares.

"If you have a book to play, you can leave the court without a book!" Li Qiushi, the chief eunuch, is most afraid of going to court in the past two days. He always feels that there is a murderous aura spreading.

General Zhen Guo was the first to stand up, "The minister has a book to play."

Even if he didn't listen to him, he knew that Fu Yong wanted to enter Fanbang.

Fu Yong, like Prime Minister Situ Zhang, was a veteran of the two dynasties. He conquered the country together with the dead late emperor. angry!

Zhao Xianao sighed, why didn't they understand how much Da Song used to spend a year for this so-called face.

The northern country is poor, and the tribute is only a little bit every year. If the envoys say a few words, the Song Dynasty will give a large sum of money as a reward, which is several times more than the tribute paid by others. But it will be different if Saishou loses. Well, relying on losing face and saving rewards, Beiguo is still happy.

How good.

Everyone in the world said that Zhao Xianao was a dog emperor, but no one knew how miserable he was. Since he ascended the throne, there was only one word on his mind - poor.

His good father left behind a lot of mess, natural disasters occur frequently, refugees are everywhere, the national treasury is empty, and the imperial court has to pay a bunch of idle and related households a sum of money every month, which will not even get the military salary. come out.

Zhao Xianao wished he could pawn his childhood toys.

The first emperor swollen his face to pretend to be fat, and his father paid off his debts. Zhao Xianao could only do everything possible to make money.

After several years of economic system reform and hard work, the treasury of the Song Dynasty is full and the people are rich and healthy, but Zhao Xianao has fallen into the eyes of money and has become a complete fan of money.

Even the gorgeous paper kites given to him by those concubines a few days ago were sold by him.

Anyway, it's useless to put it there.

These ministers in the court know best what kind of master they are. They can contradict the emperor, use their power for personal gain, and even manage the emperor's clothing, food, housing and transportation, but they must never become corrupt officials.

As we all know, Zhao Xianao has a secret guard under his command, which is the iron-blooded army left by the late emperor. Everyone in them is highly skilled in martial arts, and they come and go without a trace. The emperor immediately turned into a dog emperor, no matter how much you are loved by the people, if you are dragged out and beheaded, you will also implicate the nine clans.

This kind of viciousness made the prime ministers with one person under one person and over ten thousand people all the way to the ninth-rank Zhima officials, and there was no other way to get money except salary.

But fortunately, the emperor has clear rewards and punishments. As long as the business ability is good, he will be given an annual fee every year and festivals, and a clothing fee every month. After all, he is an official, so he can't be too shabby.

After the court, Zhao Xianao changed into a black uniform, and he planned to go to Baishoufang.

Li Qiushi looked at the emperor who was being changed by the maids, and couldn't help feeling that the emperor was handsome, his body was plump and elegant, no wonder the ladies of the official family knew that the emperor was stingy...cough cough...frugal and wholeheartedly wanted to enter the palace as a concubine.

On the way Zhao Xianao went to Baishoufang, every step he took was very sad.

It seems that this time, for the sake of face, I have to choose a beast that is good at fighting.

He just didn't know how much real money he would have to spend in order to save face. As he walked, he wondered how he could get the envoy from the Northern Kingdom to spit out the money to him before leaving Chang'an.

In the tiger room of Baishoufang, the king was also very sad. He just learned today that he actually ate so much dog food.

The king hates, hates that dog emperor, if he hadn't caught himself here, how could he eat dog food!He can only comfort himself, now he is bearing the burden of humiliation and trying his best, and one day, he will let that dog emperor know how powerful he is!

If the tiger doesn't show off its power, you will treat me as a silly rabbit!