Phoenix and Dragon

In the end, the endless drama in the Zhengyi Temple Theater did not last until the last day.

This time, it was not because of such unfavorable incidents as water leakage or human life lawsuits, but because the court had guests.

It is said to be a guest, but the word "guest" is reluctant to be used by the imperial court. Officially, it is called "vassal".

The vassal who came this time was still a thorn, from the barbarians in the west. This time, it was they who sent a prince to Beijing to pay homage to the current Holy Majesty.

It's a pity that the date was chosen unfortunately, it was the last day before the closing of the big play in Zhengyi Temple Theater Building.

The barbarian prince wanted to enter through Ximen, and all the land in the west of the city would be under martial law that day. Today, the emperor sent the eldest son of the emperor as an envoy to welcome him.

The eldest son of the emperor is eighteen this year. He is not a concubine. He has always been cautious and conscientiously took over the job from his father. He ordered people to deploy defenses in the west of Beijing two months in advance. He ordered people to open the city gate early and clear the streets.Be so careful, not to mention the din of gongs and drums over there, where even a mouse would be beaten to death with sticks if it wanted to pass through Ximener.

Under such circumstances, the family and the country are the most important, and the court is the most important. Everything has to make way for this. Of course, a mere play will not be able to sing.

The people in the capital were also helpless, but they didn't dare to make irresponsible comments on state affairs. They could only switch from watching the theater to watching the Manzi in depression, and treated the Manzi as a monkey in a depressed and calm manner.

The eldest son of the emperor saw the schedule reported by the Ministry of Rites, and heard that the old Baixin was going to treat the barbarian as a monkey. He suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and cautiously ordered the people below to add three layers of defense, making him even more prepared to look at the monkey, oh no , the people watching the barbarians are not allowed to come within six feet of the guard of honor.

The eldest son of the emperor didn't intend to disturb the people, but he is a rare sober person. After thinking about it many times, he still has to be careful when dealing with barbarians.

It’s no wonder that the eldest son of the emperor is cautious, it’s all because the barbarians are not easy to mess with. When they were outside the customs in the past, barbaric things such as murder, arson and robbing women were simply the daily entertainment of the barbarians. Sitting in the west, he is watching covetously, ready to kick his son at any time if there is a disagreement.

These barbarians don't want to fight, they are all fierce, and the territory they occupy is indeed too barren. When the age is not good, they can't support their own people. I don't read much, so I don't have a good brain. I only know how to smash, loot and burn land to violate the border of the Jin Dynasty. The intrigue and tricks are really limited, but even so, it was already the Jin Dynasty in the early years. Seriously.

The Tai/Zuhuang has been an emperor through the ages, a generation of heroes, and spent ten years stabilizing the inside and outside of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains after aspiring to the Central Plains. He married three princesses to go to the barbarians, and won ten years of training time for the imperial court. Swinging troops to the west, beating this group of barbarians who came to beg for cheap from time to time until they cried and cried, the border has rarely been peaceful for more than ten years.

Tai/zu passed away, and the later emperor, the emperor, was not easy to mess with. However, at that time, the disasters of the four realms began to gradually become apparent. Even if he didn't allow it to grow bigger, he really didn't have the energy to kill him with a stick to prevent him from resurging. He could only beat and raise him, and in this way he raised a disaster for future generations.

This continued for several dynasties, until the last years of the first emperor.

The first emperor was lingering on the sick bed, Chao Gang gradually became chaotic, and several useless sons started a long fight like "you tripped me and I stabbed you." Well, in the eyes of this group of prodigal sons, what border and internal troubles are not as good as the golden seat on the Golden Luan Hall.

This finally gave the barbarian a good time to recuperate.

Later, Princess Pingyang won the trust card, and today she became a great treasure under the orthodox name of "King of Rescue and Qin". Let's deal with these barbarians in the west.

Let’s talk about it later, it’s about Prince Su taking command of the expedition to the west. Although Prince Su was injured and almost finished his game, his military exploits are real. The barbarian was beaten with a bruised nose and face. I can't wait to kneel down and stick out my tongue to pretend to be a pug.

This honesty is nearly 20 years.

The hometown of mountains and rivers for 20 years, the rare peace of home and country.

But is this tranquility real?

Everyone thinks that barbarians are tamed dogs, but not everyone has forgotten that they were originally man-eating wolves.

The barbarians can be said to be the most arrogant of the Jin Dynasty's vassal states.

In the Jin Dynasty, no matter which neighboring country sent people to have an audience, they had to bow three times and kowtow nine times to the emperor, but these barbarians did not bend their knees.In the first two years when I was beaten up, it was a little bit better. Back then, the people in the Ministry of Ritual even talked about reasoning and threats, citing scriptures and sayings, but they were all taken as fart by these barbarians. In the end, they didn’t know that one of the barbarian envoys Someone said something to their Laoshizi messenger, and the messenger fell to his knees reluctantly, and stood up without waiting for the present to speak.The bad emperor knew what kind of temperament these people were and was too lazy to pursue it, and it was the time when he had the upper hand, so he didn't blame him.

Now these years, although the barbarians have to pay tribute every year, they still send a princess to the emperor from time to time, each with uglier eyes than the other.

The princesses offered by other people’s homes are neatly selected, not to mention outstanding in appearance, but also unique in style. For example, Li Chao, who is a beauty, sent princesses and princesses who were favored by the emperor, and they were doing their best in the harem. .

Only the barbarians have unique aesthetics. The princesses sent here are all tall and round. From a distance, they look like white and porcelain white marble blocks. Their thighs are thicker than the emperor's waist. There is even a special talent. The emperor performed a show of upside-down weeping willows, and he felt sorry for An Ansheng's century-old willow tree in Dongyuan Palace and my emperor's frightened eyeballs that were about to fall out.

The emperor really couldn't stand this bright woman like Lu Zhishen, and he couldn't neglect this barbarian princess, so he seemed stingy, so he could only casually throw it to his neighbors to show his favor.

However, this kind of favor is too exciting. Civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, princes and powerful officials, whoever received this kind of favor, all felt that they might have fallen out of favor a long time ago. I don't know when he offended the emperor. The emperor was borrowing a knife to kill people. What's more, he wrote a note to resign when he got home. He was ready to leave the court with the whole family.

Not to mention how heartbroken the pillars of the Jin Dynasty and our emperor were by these barbarian princesses, the barbarians are very nourishing, and the princesses sent here are all treated preferentially (nonsense! She is the only one who eats so much in the entire family. can beat her), and because there has been no war with the Jin Dynasty for many years, it is no longer the time of being beaten into the mud 20 years ago.

Thinking back, they would have been so ignorant, but now they are relieved internally, and their eyes are growing to the top of their heads.

Today, I have been frightened by several barbarian princesses, and adopted the strategy of "out of sight, out of mind" towards these barbarians, and only made a hasty appearance in Ziguang Pavilion. He didn't intend to listen, so he just found an excuse and drove back to the palace to rest.The rest of the matter, from reception to wrangling, was left to the eldest son of the emperor.

The banquet at the Ziguang Pavilion was full of delicacies from mountains and seas. In order to take care of the eating habits of the barbarians, the cook specially ordered the cook to add roasted whole lamb and other dishes.

The barbarians ate with great joy, and the faces of all the officials of the Jin Dynasty, from the eldest son of the emperor down, were not so good-looking.

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After the banquet, according to the schedule, we also arranged to watch a play.

The royal family usually watch operas in Changyin Pavilion, but Changyin Pavilion is located in the inner palace. It is obviously inappropriate to use it to entertain a group of vassals with ulterior motives at this time. It was set up in Xiyuan.

At the banquet, except for the eldest son of the emperor who was unlucky enough to escape, all the sons and daughters of princes and princes were named by today to be their companions, and Xiao Yu, the son of Duke Song, was also among them.

The food in the imperial court was not easy to digest, Xiao Yu got angry at the banquet, and looked forward to the good job of going to the theater with all the hardships.

Everyone in the capital knew that Song Guogong's son was a fan of the theater, so he held the theater troupe himself, which part and which part sang well, this grandpa Qing'er, and even many folk artists in Nanfu were recommended by Xiao Yu kindness.

The person in charge of the Southern Mansion was sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When he was young, he had been with actors for a long time. If you look carefully, you can vaguely see that unique kind of delicate features with a powdery look, but now that he is getting older, No matter how you look at that delicate beauty, it is neither fish nor fowl.

This person's surname is Chen, and his subordinates call him Guanshi Chen, but behind his back they all laugh at him as a second-hand son.

This Guanshi Chen has a certain relationship with Xiao Yu. In the past, he was run out in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and couldn't get along. He almost jumped into a well, but Xiao Yu passed by and saw him. I gave him a bowl of rice to eat.

Although Chen Guanshi is a mother-in-law, he has a lot of right and wrong in his heart. Later, he made a name for himself in Nanfu, but he still misses Xiao Yu's "favor of a meal".

Xiao Yu was able to recommend actors to Nanfu before, and it was Guanshi Chen who followed behind him.

Xiao Yu ate a lot of anger at the palace banquet, and he only felt that the mutton that the barbarians loved was particularly angry, and he was too lazy to watch the barbarians shamelessly bragging, so he simply strolled to the backstage of Xiyuan After digesting food, he saw Guanshi Chen head-on.

Chen Guanshi had a white and chubby face, his eyes narrowed with a smile, and when he saw Xiao Yu from a distance, he came up to meet him: "Xiao Shizi is always good."

Xiao Yu responded indifferently, not thinking about it at all: "Well...it's okay, why are you here today?"

Chen Guanshi just smiled and didn't answer.

Only then did Xiao Yu return to Men'er absent-mindedly: "Oh, I'm confused, but this stall has to be watched by you. ... How is it? Where is it coming from tonight? division?"

"Today is Boss Du's Zhaodai Xiaoshao." Guanshi Chen responded.

Xiao Yu nodded, raised his head and wanted to stroll backstage, but was stopped by Chen Guanshi.

"Master..." Chen Guanshi looked around and saw no one around, so he lowered his voice and said, "Master, Boss Qin is here."

Xiao Yu was startled, he couldn't say whether it was a surprise or not, he just asked: "He is always lazy and doesn't like to get involved in the excitement, why is he working so hard to join in here today? He wants to be in a show?"

Chen Guanshi accompanied him with a smile: "How can it be, you don't know this one yet, it's hard to buy a word of his willingness, at this time, who dares to ask him to sing in an opera."

Xiao Yu thought about Qin Feng's misbehavior and felt that what Chen Guanshi said was very reasonable, but he was not sure what kind of moth Qin Feng was trying to punish for a while.

It's not easy to say this in front of Steward Qin, Xiao Yu didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Where is he? Lead the way, I'll go and say hello to him."

Chen Guanshi waited for his words, hurriedly put on a gesture of invitation, and led Xiao Yu to go backstage.

The two of them walked halfway, and they were talking about each other, when they suddenly saw a human-shaped firecracker rushing past in front of them, angrily, this firecracker-like man was full of anger, and he didn't know who he was holding back such a big fire with. Son, if he catches someone and pushes hard, the sky will be burnt out of the hole by him.

This person flashed past Xiao Yu's eyes, as fast as a monkey jumping into the sky, before Xiao Yu could make a sound, he only left the back of his head for Xiao Yu to think about.

Xiao Yu looked at the back of his head, and was taken aback for a moment. He knew this person, and it was Li Mingyuan, the son of Prince Su whom he had just troubled a few days ago.

It's just what day, why did he come here?