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The eighth day of the third month of the second year of Qianfu.

Early in the morning, at two o'clock in the fifth watch, the sky has not yet brightened, with the first morning drum sounded on the Chengtian Gate of Taiji Palace, the street drums on the opposite street of the city gates of Chang'an City responded in unison, and the dust of the sixth street was drummed.

The street drums in Chang'an City are beaten 3,000 times, but if it is early in the morning, you can stop the color, as long as the eyes can clearly see things in the distance, you can stop the street drums.

"Knock knock!"

As the drums sounded, the city gatekeepers of Menxia Province began to take the 800 gatekeepers who were on duty in turn, and when the street drums sounded, the keys to the city gates, which were kept in a unified manner every night, were delivered to each gate on time.

Chang'an City is the first to open the nine outer city gates on the three city walls of Chang'an, east and west, from the west to the south, open the far gate, Jinguang Gate, Yanping Gate, Anhua Gate, Mingde Gate, Qixia Gate, Yanxing Gate, Chunming Gate, Tonghua Gate, have opened.

After the nine doors are opened, the next step is to open the doors of each square.

It wasn't until all the nine gates were opened that the palace gates slowly opened.

Next to the Yintai Gate on the right side of Daming Palace, it is the Hanlin Courtyard. The Hanlin scholar on duty in the courtyard was enjoying the best morning sleep before dawn, but the guard of the palace gate was verifying the unlocking deed. A doorman pulls out a wooden fish carved out of sandalwood. In addition, the doorkeeper carefully took out a piece of sandalwood and carved a recessed ridge on it.

The wooden fish is tightly fitted into the camp. The doorman nodded expressionlessly. The guards guarding the door began to slowly push open the heavy palace door. The palace gate creaked loudly, and the sound reached the Hanlin Academy, which made the Hanlin bachelor who happened to sleep complain dissatisfiedly, "There are a lot of sounds!" ”

The sound of drums reached the Daming Palace, and the palace maids who prepared clothes for the emperor held the ironed clothes and sent them to the emperor's bedroom. The emperor's gorgeous dragon robe was filled with the smell of ambergris. Several palace maids had gray faces and black bags under their eyes. As soon as the lights in the Emperor's bedroom went out last night, they began to work. It wasn't until the morning drum sounded that their night's work was over.

Before the clear drum sounds, some people are already busy.

The owners of the bakery are the first to get up, lighting the lamps and lighting the stoves in the dark, and preparing for the opening of the shop early.

The shopkeeper of Shengpingfang Cake Shop had just opened the door, only to find that many people were already sitting there waiting under the eaves.

"Wu Dalang, do you have any good cakes, come and have a few, I want flax cakes." A half-old man in a robed robe shouted.

The martial artist recognized that this was Liu Daguan in the workshop. This Liu Daguan didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, and only read the books of sages. Originally, it was a Huainan person. Twenty years ago, he came to participate in the imperial examination, and after he failed, he simply bought a house in Shengpingfang and lived there for a long time. Wu Dalang's family has opened a cake shop here for generations, and when he was sensible, he saw Liu Daguan in the workshop. Now that 20 years have passed, Liu Daguan still failed to win the first place. But fortunately, Liu Daguan's family is quite big in Huainan and is not worried about living expenses.

"Why are the officials in such a hurry today, this is waiting for the door to open and going out of the city?" Wang Dalang asked with a smile.

Liu Daguan sat on the long table set up in front of the store, and smiled rarely: "Didn't you hear that the Zhenguo Army is going to enter the city today?" ”

Due to the assassination of Li Jing during this period, Chang'an was under martial law, and it can be said that there are now more than one million people in Chang'an who do not know Li Jing and the Zhenguo army. Now I heard that the announcement posted by various squares that the army of Daibei's triumph would enter the city today to be inspected and sacrificed by the Son of Heaven, and many people were eager to go to the Suzaku Gate as soon as possible to occupy a good position, so as to block the Marshal Li Zhenguo and his Zhenguo army, who were well known to the women and children of Chang'an during this time.

At this time, other people who came to wait for the door of the shop to open also came to the cake shop to buy cakes and eat breakfast, some bought flax cakes, some bought mutton offal, some bought steamed cakes, and some bought millet porridge. Everyone sat at the table, waiting for Wu Dalang's beautiful little lady to come out early.

The Ximen official who opened the silk and satin village in the workshop was waiting for breakfast, and pinched his chin and looked at the little lady. Although he wore a cloth skirt, his graceful posture, beautiful face, and especially the two shallow dimples when he smiled, made him obsessed.

Da Lang sang while working. The song is Wang Wei's "Weicheng Song", "Weicheng is clear of dust in the rain, and the guest house is green and willow-colored......." His heart was full of excitement about a prosperous business, but he didn't know that there was a pair of eyes in the road that were peeking at his lady unscrupulously.

When the little lady of Fan Lian sent the cold pottery to the Ximen officials, Ximen stretched out his fingers without a trace and hooked it on the palm of the little lady's hand, but the little lady stared coldly, and directly stomped on his instep, making him bare his teeth and crack his mouth.

had to turn around and pretend to talk to Liu Daguan. "Why does Brother Liu care about Li Jiyu coming and not reading sages anymore?"

"Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young jinshi." Liu Daguan shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, "I have been taking the Jinshi exam for more than 20 years, but I have not been able to pass the ranking." Don't take the test, I have heard a lot of things about Zhenguojun and Li Jing these days, but I think that although Li Jing is young, he is an extraordinary person. I've already thought about it, so I'm going to see it today. If Li Zhenguo and his Zhenguo Army are really as rumored to be, then I will recommend myself to seek a position in the Zhenguo Army. ”

At this time in the late Tang Dynasty, although the imperial examination was won once a year, it was not only about talent that you wanted to pass the examination, but also about being born and famous. And even if you can win, it's difficult to be an official. At this time, most civil officials basically chose to join the shogunate in the feudal town first, and then transferred to the imperial court after making the most achievements.

Soon after the street drums sounded in the early morning, the whole Chang'an City had woken up, the sound of people, cars, horses, chickens and dogs, the silence was no more, and even the wind chimes hanging in the large and small Buddhist temples in Chang'an City. It has long been submerged in it.

Usually at this time. The permanent officials who were going to participate in the early dynasty had already gotten up and freshened up. Horses, mules, donkeys, and ox carts drove to the court. The imperial court system, before five o'clock, must rush outside the palace gate.

However, there are many officials on the street today, not only the officials in purple clothes riding horses and cars, but even many officials wearing dark green, light green, and even cyan official robes, are also rushing to the palace gate.

"Why are you all rushing to the palace gate?" Some people wondered.

A scholar riding a donkey on the side of the road smiled: "You don't even know the way? Three days ago, the emperor had already issued an edict. Today, the army of Daibei's triumph will enter the city to be paraded, and all high-ranking officials in Chang'an, except for the officials on duty, must participate in the parade. ”

In the palace, the four eunuch leaders of Ximen Sigong, Yang Fugong, Zhang Tai, and Tian Lingzi were already waiting outside the palace early, but the emperor did not get up for a long time.

Zhang Tai stepped forward and whispered to a few of the little eunuchs beside the emperor.

"Your Majesty played chess yesterday, and it wasn't until the third watch that he went to sleep."

Ximen Sigong and several people had black faces, on such an important day today, the emperor actually played chess with people last night until the third watch in the middle of the night. It's getting more and more nonsense.

Several imperial historians from the Imperial History Observatory had already arrived, and they saw that the emperor was still asleep. I couldn't help but darken my face even more. Tian Lingzi personally ran to wake up Li Yi after the most reluctance, and when he came out, there was immediately a counselor left to pick up Wang Zou Buqian and said: "Please break the first jade step to thank the counselor." As soon as Li Yi heard that he actually said that he would smash his head on the steps of the palace to admonish, his face immediately darkened. As soon as he opened his mouth, the newly promoted advisor immediately said: "Your Majesty has become the Tang Dynasty at a young age, and the co-master of the four seas, he should have eaten and clothed to govern the Tang Dynasty." But now, millions of people in the entire Chang'an City are waiting for the emperor to appear, and outside Chang'an City, tens of thousands of triumphant generals are preparing to enter the city to be inspected by the emperor. But now the emperor can't get up in the morning because he played chess until the third watch last night, which is going to spread the word, so that the people of the world think of His Majesty, and what do tens of thousands of triumphant soldiers who are looking forward to His Majesty's review think in their hearts? ”

After speaking, he really kowtowed in the palace, his head banged on the steps, and the sound was even heard clearly by the people outside the palace, and the blood flowed directly all over his face. Li Yi was about to get angry, and when he saw the result, he didn't know what to do.

Zuo Shizhi is just a petty official from the eighth grade, but as soon as this guy took office, he made himself the same as the Taishi. When encountering such a ruthless person, Li Yi was young after all, and he suddenly felt a little ashamed. Immediately, I had to say to him: "I know about this matter, so please retreat." ”

Ximen Sigong, Tian Lingzi and others were also greatly surprised, so they had to let him retreat first.

According to the rules of the officials, after Wang Zou withdrew from the main hall, he immediately came to the Jinwuwei duty room outside the hall to wait for punishment. However, after waiting for a while, there was no intention of punishment, but Li Yi issued an order to crown him as the imperial servant from the seventh rank of the palace, in charge of picketing the court, and also knowing the treasurer and the internal affairs of the palace gate, as well as the picketing matters of Gyeonggi. Wang Zou was stunned for a moment, not only did he not surrender his guilt, but he actually got a reward. After waiting for three years, this newcomer and the second finally became a small counselor from the eighth grade, and then on the first day of taking office, he was even promoted to a bold counselor who was promoted to three levels, and he was stunned. This young man doesn't seem to be as rumored outside, at least he knows his mistakes and can change them.

In a daze, a little eunuch walked in.

"Wang Yushi, Your Majesty asked Yushi to clean up and prepare to follow him out of the palace."

hurriedly cleaned up, and when he came to the outside of the hall, Li Yi had already put on a very grand crown dress, wearing twelve crowns, big fur, and Xuanyi. The top is painted with six chapters of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, and Chinese insects, and the bottom is embroidered with algae, fire, powdered rice, Zongyi, 黼, and 黻 six chapters, a total of 12 chapters.

"Under His Majesty, the ministers of the political hall rehearsed, and the parade horses have been prepared, and they have reached the outside of the Mingde Gate in Nancheng. Please give an order to announce the beginning of the review! An official from the fifth room of the government hall came to report.

Li Yi's expression revealed excitement, and he said loudly: "Spread my will, the review will start immediately, and let the triumphant soldiers and horses enter the city and accept the review!" ”

"Yes!" The official bowed his head and left the palace. (To be continued......)