MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 1364 King of the Golden Palace

  Chapter 1364 King of the Golden Palace

   It coincides with October 15th, the Shuowang Chaohui.

  During the reign of Gaozu and Shengzu, it was the morning court every day, and the Chinese court was held every year on Zhengdan and Winter Solstice. In the middle and late stages of Zhenguan, there was a change to one court every three days and one visit every five days. After Li Yin succeeded to the throne, he specially restored the morning court every day, but after ten years in office, it was still changed to one court every other day.

  Yesterday, today's Shuowang Chaohui was notified.

  Usually, in the Japanese court, the fifth-rank and above regular officials go to the court. The regular attendants refer to those in Beijing who are above the fifth-rank in civil and military affairs, as well as supervisory censors, Yuanwailang, and doctors of Taixue, who attend the court every day.

  But Shuowang Chaohui, civil and military officials in Beijing with nine ranks or above, all court.

   Today is the 15th day. As long as you are a minister in Beijing, you must participate in the court meeting. The scale is large, so the place of the court meeting is not the Xuanzheng Hall of the Japanese Dynasty, but the Zhenguan Hall.

Although the Eastern Capital was relatively stable yesterday, the well-informed officials and nobles have already basically known the huge changes that have taken place in the palace through their own channels, and even the common people in the market have a general idea, and even because of this, countless new stories have been derived. version of the story.

What is Xuanwu Gate thrilling? At that time, Quan Yan controlled Xuanwu Gate, and at the critical moment, Qin Jun, the eldest son of the Qin family, rode a yellow puma horse with a golden gun, rushed to the gate with a golden mace on his back, and rebuked Quan Yan for murdering the saint. Then he closed the eunuch's scolded out-of-body smoke, and sent several generals to join him. They were the four generals of King Wei Xiao and Zheng, and they were also powerful generals of the forbidden army.

   As a result, Qin Jun rode his horse like lightning, and with a single shot, he first picked up one of the two golden maces, and then closed the other pair. Finally, there was only one general left. He was so scared that he turned around and fled into the Xuanwu Gate.

  Qin Jun rode his horse and chased after him.

  Picked off the bow while galloping, chased the moon with a shooting star, shot Na Webster off the horse, and then rushed to the gate before it could react.

After closing the gate in a hurry to put down the thousand-jin gate, Qin Jun insisted on lifting a thousand catties, and lifted up the thousand-jin iron gate with both arms, buying time for Cheng Chumo, Niu Jianwu and other Qin king generals behind, allowing them to rush into Xuanwu Door······

  There are obviously many loopholes in such a story that is obviously mythical and legendary, but the common people don't care about these, but the more it spreads, the more mysterious it becomes.

  The rich and powerful officials in Luoyang City knew the truth to some extent, but at this time, who cares about outside affairs, they only ordered the children of the family to stay at home honestly and not to talk nonsense outside.

   It was still dark.

  The officials in Beijing have already woken up early.

  Put on the official uniform that has been smoked with spices in advance, call the guards, and then go out.

  In the dark and silent city of Luoyang, people kept coming out of their houses in various workshops. Officials brought a corresponding number of attendants according to their grades, and carried lanterns in front of them to clear the way. The lanterns also had the official rank of the owner written on them.

  The high-ranking officials hugged each other, sitting in a luxurious four-wheeled carriage, and the lanterns were also extraordinarily bright. Some officials had many titles, and they specially made many more lanterns, and each pair of lanterns had a title written on it.

  Officials with lower ranks directly ride their own horses.

   There are also those low-level Beijing officials of the eighth and ninth ranks, who live in other places and have no family background, so they directly ride a donkey or a mule to the court, with only one lantern and two attendants around them.

  Luoyang is still under martial law and curfew tonight.

   In the streets inside the squares, there are government servants Ding Zhuang from the prefectures and counties patrolling the streets. On the streets outside the squares, there are Jinwu Guards patrolling the left and right, and there are Yushi patrolling the city.

   It's almost three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry.

  Hundreds of officials from the upper court continued to gather to the north of the city, and countless lanterns with official ranks and titles were dotted like a galaxy.

Normally, officials would not go to court so early, and when they met, they would often say hello or even chat with each other, but today, everyone walked in silence, even if they were acquainted, no one easily There will be no one to say hello and chat with others.

  And today, there are no vendors who get up early and set up stalls selling snacks for court officials on the streets today.

  Some officials traveled through most of Luoyang City, walked a small ten miles, and finally gathered with other officials outside the south gate of the imperial city.

  There is a waiting courtyard outside the Duanmen, which was prepared for the officials of the early dynasty to wait for the palace gate to open, in case of bad weather such as rain and snow.

  The censors came earlier, and they began to organize the officials to line up.

  The attendants brought by the officials were all separated by a cordon at this time, and they were not allowed to cross half a step.

The queues are actually arranged according to the order of the court meeting, and the queues are called to enter the waiting courtyard. The prime ministers also have a special personal lounge in the courtyard, and even a small cafeteria and small conference room. Quite a few people shared a lounge. As for low-ranking officials below the fifth rank of Scarlet Robe, it would be nice if they could come in and take a rest under the corridor.

  The end door remains closed.

  The lights on the pass city are brightly lit, and there are heavily armed soldiers under the leadership of the general on full alert.

  Even on the square outside Duanmen, armored heavy infantry and heavy cavalry were stationed, and there were horses standing in front of the door, staring at the officials vigilantly.

As soon as   Mao arrived (five o'clock in the morning), the sound of drums sounded from the Bell and Drum Tower.

  The prison gate guard, the gatekeeper of the provincial city under the gate, and the sergeants on duty, who belonged to different soldiers and horses, began to check the door symbols and keys.

  The gate of the palace opened slowly, and the horse was also moved away.

  The officers guarding the guards on the left and right began to move out the tables and put them in front of the door opening.

  According to the rules, sing the family name, check the fish charm.

The military officer has a thick family book, which is to register and file the officials who are qualified to enter the palace in advance, and check them every day before entering the palace. They also had to show the all-important fish symbol pair.

In the fish bags of the officials, there is a fish talisman. The officials keep half of the right talisman of this fish talisman, and the left talisman is stored in the inner court as the root. When the two become one, the same character just closes, and the whole fish symbol is complete and one, which is called a contract and a symbol.

  In addition to the same character, the official name of the official holding the talisman is engraved in the fish talisman.

   Singing and verifying symbols is a very complicated and cumbersome process, and it takes a lot of time every day. Today, singing and verifying symbols is even more careful, and it has to go through three verifications.

  But no one is impatient, everyone knows that this is a special period.

  Whether you are a prince of the clan or a third-rank relative, or a relative of the emperor, at this time everyone is somewhat uneasy about the unknown future.

  Even Qin Cheng Niu Zhou and other family members of relatives who participated in Qin Wang Jing's chaos yesterday and made great contributions with determined strategies and support were more low-key at this time.

  After all the officials passed the inspection and entered the palace, they regrouped under the supervision of the censor, and then under the supervision and leadership of the servants and palace guards, they traveled all the way across the entire imperial city to the palace city further north.

   Hall of Zhenguan.

   It is the second largest hall in Luoyang Palace after Hanyuan Hall.

  Usually during the Japanese and Japanese courts, it is basically held in the Xuanzheng Hall on the west side of the Hanyuan Hall.

Sometimes the emperor discusses matters with the prime minister, or when he summons his ministers to play against each other, they will be in Tongming Hall or Yisui Hall to the west of Xuanzheng Hall. The Ming Palace is called the Inner Dynasty.

  Today is the Shuowang Chaohui, which is second only to the Dachaohui in terms of specifications, but the Shuowang Dynasty Meeting is actually a bit of etiquette. The emperor also met with middle and low-level officials, without discussing any specific matters.

   On the contrary, Japan and North Korea have the function of handling daily affairs.

  Today is the new crown prince's formal meeting with officials, so it is different.

   Acting as the three guards of the guard of honor, they also arrived early today, divided into five battles.

   One is called the Consecration War, which is performed by the left and right guards, the second is called the Personal War, and the personal guards are used as it is, the third is called the Honored War, and the honored guards are used as it, and the fourth is called the Yizhang, and the Yiwei is used as the battle.

  The honor guards of these high-ranking officials' children are all young, handsome, tall and handsome, and each of them wears a crown with bird feathers and scarlet shirts.

   On the fifth day, the battle is scattered, and the pro-Xun Yiwei is the one. They all wore scarlet dunks with wild horses embroidered on them.

   This group of noble children took knives and sticks, and sat in the east and west corridors of Zhenguan Hall early.

And the Left and Right Qianniu Guards, with forty-six Qianniu guards, prepared to stand on the left and right, and equipped with imperial equipment, stood outside the inner gallery pavilion, known as the internal battle, commanded by the left and right Qianniu generals, and Zhonglang escorted the two of them. Of.

   Take the left and right Jinwuwei generals, and lead sixty-four Jinwu guards to follow.

  There are sixty-four guards and three guards on the left and right of the court, and the left and right guards, and the inner three guards are old and strong...

  From inside the gate of the Zhenguan Hall, to the corridor outside the gate, to the steps in front of the hall, to the square, there are guards of honor one after another, with various names.

   And from all the troops.

   There are the inner three guards from the 12th Army of Nanya, the outer guards from the 12th Army of Nanya, and the imperial guards from the 12th Army of Beiya.

All the troops, you have dozens of them, they are all tall, handsome, mighty and handsome soldiers, standing there, especially the robes they wear are also very special, which really makes the whole court meeting full of momentum. a lot.

   Hundreds of officials lined up to the square in front of Zhenguan Hall.

  This time, we have to stand on shifts according to the shifts of the meeting.

  Although the Hall of Zhenguan is a large hall, there are too many ministers above the ninth rank in the capital, and there is no room for them to stand inside.

  Thus, those of the third rank and above can stand in the hall, and those below the third rank and above the fifth rank can stand under the corridor at the entrance of the hall.

  As for the green-robed officials of the sixth and seventh ranks, they can only stand on the steps, while the green-robed officials of the eighth and ninth ranks can only stand on the square.

   When scheduling a station, you can't make a mistake at one step.

Because of a palace change yesterday, Wei Xiao, King Zheng and others have been cleaned up, and many people have been implicated, so there are already many vacancies in the sequence position of the Shuowang Dynasty last time, and this time they have to be replaced temporarily. It's been a hectic time.

   Wait until all the shifts are arranged, the genius will really shine.

  At this time, another group of soldiers and horses suddenly came, armored and sharp, but it was not a guard of honor, but brothers Qin Li and Qin Gui who personally led the Qin King soldiers and horses in the Suwei Palace. They came to search the prison again.

  The so-called search and prison is a system handed down from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. All officials participating in the court, in addition to checking their affiliations with their affiliations, must also be searched and inspected, that is, body searches to prevent weapons from being carried.

  Baiguan has been strictly searched just now, but now Qin Huaidao and his brothers are still ordered to search again.

  Anyone who meets the emperor is not allowed to carry weapons.

  Even senior ministers who received the special order of the emperor to award swords to the palace can only carry wooden swords, which are called elephant swords. The guard of honor also basically uses wooden lacquered weapons called Banjian.

  Only Qianniu Beishen and Beishen left and right of Qianniuwei can hold Qianniu knife and imperial equipment, etc. These people are real guards with swords and arrows.

   Thousands of officials crowded the inside and outside of the hall.

After another rigorous search and inspection, a few more violators were actually found. Some were carrying small knives and swords, and some were carrying small hammers. Although these things are not all weapons, they can be regarded as decorations, or Gadgets for everyday use.

   But it is still a violation, especially at this time.

  And one of them is the in-law of the Wei family, the son-in-law of the Wei family, which is even more reminiscent.

  Qin Huaidao coldly looked at this little ninth-rank chief who repeatedly claimed to have misunderstood, and didn't give him a chance to explain. With a wave of his hand, he dragged away all the people who found the prohibited items.

   There was such a small episode in the middle, and the court meeting was still going on as scheduled.

  The crown prince went to the palace to listen to the government.

  But only officials of the third rank and above in the palace can see His Highness the Crown Prince, even standing too far away from the entrance of the palace to see it clearly.

  After a set of meeting etiquette comes down.

Mainly Hanlin scholars read the imperial edict, Wei Xiao, Gao Hu and others murdered the emperor and dealt with them according to the law, and dealt with their accomplices, and then the crown prince supervised the country and regent, made some personnel adjustments to important official positions, and made adjustments to the army. Reward and so on.

  When the censor read that Qin Lang was granted the title of Chancellor, and he also knew the affairs of the Second Province and Pingzhang under Zhongshu's sect, and he was honored as Shangfu, there was inevitably a burst of exclamation in the hall.

   But no one stood up against it.

  Knowing that this reward was a little too much, especially Shang Shuling and his father, even surpassing him, no one said a word.

  Some people even wondered if the Son of Heaven was dead, but the Crown Prince and the others kept the mourning in secret, and only waited for the situation to stabilize before the mourning would take place?

  Qin Jun was conferred the titles of Special Advancement, Inspection School Servant, Inspection School North Gate Guards Camps, Leading Soldiers to Stay in the Palace, and was also named Prince Taibao.

   All the purple-robed ministers in the hall looked at the young man in his thirties who was very close to the crown prince.

Sure enough, the tiger father has no dogs. Before yesterday, how many people really put this young Duke of Qi in their eyes. After all, everyone only respected his father Qin Lang and his grandfather Qin Qiong. It all depends on the meritorious service of the father and grandfather.

  But now, the honorable ministers in the palace have to admit that they underestimated this young man before.

Although it was born in the Qin family, he was able to kill decisively, no worse than Qin Lang. After all, looking at this palace change in hindsight, the situation at that time was quite urgent. If it was an ordinary person, he would be able to know what happened in the palace immediately. I'm afraid I don't have the guts to raise troops immediately to fight for rebellion.

   Not to mention, in such a short period of time, not only a decision was made, but also a superior planning and deployment was made, and the rebellion in the palace was quelled in just over an hour.

   What an amazing thing this is.

  (end of this chapter)