Chronicle of Emperor Jing

Jing Li is in the prime of life, so there must be a need for that, and so does Wei Yan.

After kissing for a while, the two became entangled together, and became inseparable.

Jing Li didn't want to tire Wei Yan, when he was favored, he tried his best to be gentle and capable, and naturally served Wei Yan comfortably throughout the whole process.

"Your Majesty!" After the incident, Wei Yan let out a long sigh of relief, put his arms around the emperor's neck, and lay in his arms, not wanting to move.

"It's still early, let's sleep a little longer." Jing Li opened the curtain, looked at the sky outside, estimated the time, and said.

At this time, it was probably less than the fourth watch, enough for them to sleep again.

"Yeah." Wei Yan responded softly and closed his eyes.

In the following days, although Wei Yan was busy with business affairs, but with the careful care of the emperor, he often gave him a massage, and he could sleep soundly every night. Although he had a lot of things in his hands, He couldn't figure it out for a while, but his spirit was always good.

After a few days in such a busy and orderly manner, it came to December 28, the time for worshiping ancestors at the end of the year came again.

On this day, Wei Yan got up earlier than the emperor. As soon as the gate of the Five Watches Palace opened, he went out of the Meridian Gate and came to the Taimiao. Nothing goes wrong.

At the time of the hour, the imperial family and officials entered the arena one after another. After half of the hour, the emperor also arrived. Afterwards, the ancestor worship was carried out in an orderly manner according to the scheduled procedures as in previous years.

The middle hall of the Taimiao is dedicated to the gods of the emperors and empresses of the Jing Dynasty, the side hall on the right is dedicated to the gods of the meritorious royal family, and the side hall on the west is dedicated to the gods of meritorious officials with different surnames.

When the emperor offered sacrifices to his ancestors, the main sacrifices were the direct ancestors of the past dynasties, and the honored ones were the emperor's relatives and meritorious officials who were eligible to live in the left and right side halls.

Waiting until the emperor led the officials to worship again and again, bowed the big ceremony, and ended the whole ceremony. Wei Yan was worried about the accident for a long time and never happened. In his heart, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Judging from this result, although everyone in the camp had a lot of dissatisfaction with him being fully responsible for this matter, everyone obviously knew the importance and no one dared to disturb the ancestor worship ceremony.

He stood at the door, watching all directions, listening to all directions, and always paying attention to the movement around him. After a while, he saw the little servant beside the emperor walking towards him quickly.

"My lord, is there something wrong with His Majesty?" He stepped forward and asked first.

"Marquis Yongning, Your Majesty invites you." The servant bowed to him very humbly, conveying the emperor's will.

The emperor was wearing a full set of crown clothes weighing more than ten kilograms today, and he was very tired after all kinds of worship, so after the ancestor worship was over, he did not directly board the royal carriage to leave, but stayed in the inverted room, Take a break.

Wei Yan didn't know what urgent matter the emperor sent someone to announce him at this time. Hearing what the servant said, he didn't say much, and soon followed the servant to the emperor's resting place.

"Your Majesty summoned his ministers, do you have anything to say?" He saluted respectfully and asked.

"sit."

Jing Li was sitting, wiping his hands with the hot silk scarf brought up by the servant, and when he saw Wei Yan coming in, the serious expression on his face eased a little, and he didn't go into details, he announced that Wei Yan came to the end What to do, just motioned Wei Yan to sit down under him.

Wei Yan was a little puzzled by his order, but sat down obediently.

Afterwards, the servants moved quickly, and also presented the twisted hot silk scarf to Yongning Hou, and served hot mellow tea.

Wei Yan took the silk scarf, wiped his face, wiped his hands again, dropped the silk scarf, picked up the tea cup, and took a sip. Suddenly, a bitter taste went straight into his stomach, but his spirit immediately sobered up many.

"Are you hungry? Do you want some sweet soup?" Jing Li asked him again when he saw that he drank tea, his brows were relaxed.

"No, I'm not hungry." Wei Yan shook his head.

He had already discovered that the emperor had nothing to do, he just called him in to take a rest.

Although he didn't think it was necessary, he wasn't a paper doll who would fall if the wind blew, but the emperor had to worry about these things. Even if he had an opinion on the emperor's actions, he would not speak up.

He could talk to the emperor in private about some things, but there was no need to sweep the emperor's face at such a time.

With this thought in mind, Wei Yan didn't say anything more. After drinking tea, he rested for a while, went out to check the emperor's car again, and then came in and respectfully invited the emperor to drive.

The Taimiao is outside the Meridian Gate and inside the Duanmen. There is a right gate of the temple connected to the Royal Road.

On both sides of the royal road between Duanmen and Meridian Gate, there are more than [-] houses. The south is the office of the six departments, and the north is the place where courtiers face up and wait. There are servants serving charcoal fire and tea.

The Chang Dynasty of the Jing Dynasty began at Maoshizheng, that is, the beginning of the fifth watch, and the Shuo Wang Dynasty was a moment later than the Chang Dynasty.

Courtiers who go to court at this time and live far away from the palace, probably will get up at four o'clock, wash and dress, then pass through the capital, and arrive at the Meridian Gate early to wait for the palace gate to open.If the courtiers were to wait outside the Meridian Gate tremblingly in the cold winter months, it was obviously not the Ming emperor's fault. Therefore, there was a rule in Gaozu's time that the courtiers who arrived early should rest in the northern court room.

After Jing Li ascended the throne, these established rules have not changed, they are still the same as the ancestors.

Although the inside of Duanmen can be regarded as inside the palace city, even though the ancestor worship ceremony passed safely, and the accidents that Wei Yan was careful to guard against never happened, he was still not completely relieved, and personally brought people to escort the emperor back. palace.

The imperial driver left the Taimiao and turned to the road on the right. The imperial guards cleared the way in front, and the guards stood beside the car, and there were also imperial guards at the back. On both sides of the road, there were also guards at five steps and one sentry at ten steps. There were guards everywhere. guard.Everyone went all the way, entered the right gate of the temple, and then turned right to enter the Royal Road.

When Yu Jia was turning around, suddenly a man in sackcloth rushed out from the north, knelt down beside the imperial road, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, the people are wronged!"

There are many people who want to do such a thing as suing imperial court, but there are very few successful ones.

One is because the emperor seldom leaves the palace, and the other is because even if the emperor does leave the palace, he will not be so stupid as to show his horses and chariots directly, revealing his identity, and attracting many people to watch and discuss.

Only when there are various grand ceremonies, the emperor will officially go out, but this kind of grand ceremony, the guards have always been tight, and those who can break through layers of guards and rush to the emperor's car to complain, need not say more, you know that there must be all kinds of tricks in it .

When Wei Yan saw this, his expression turned cold, and he winked at his subordinates, signaling them to take him down.

If it is found out later that this person's grievances are true, he can present it on his behalf, but letting an unknown person approach the emperor at will is completely joking about the emperor's safety.

"Your Majesty, the grassroots are wronged!" the man continued to shout.

But the other guards didn't eat anything. After receiving Wei Yan's signal, someone immediately stepped forward and dragged him aside, and another took out a handkerchief and blocked his mouth.

"Vice-commander Wei is so eager to keep his mouth shut, is there something wrong with his heart?" Another deputy commander in the guard camp, who was sent by Wei Yan this time, has been working honestly, doing whatever he is asked to do, At this time, he said something ugly.

Yu Jia stopped here, and the courtiers following behind also caught up one after another.

Of course, some people who don't like to be nosy still pace the ants behind leisurely.

The nosy ones all came forward.

"Your Majesty, why don't you listen to him, so as not to wrong others?" Some people seem to be neutral, but he knows best which side to help.

"That's right, Your Majesty, just today when we worshiped the Heavenly Patriarch, grievances appeared. From my point of view, it's quite mysterious!" Someone started a superstitious activity.

"Your Majesty, the New Year's Eve is approaching. Killing a pig to celebrate the New Year is indeed a sad time for some people!" Someone said very deeply.

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"Since all Aiqings want to hear it, let's listen." Jing Li sat in the royal car and said dispensable.

This matter refers to Wei Yan, that's for sure, but he is very curious. Wei Yan, this guy, has always been law-abiding and following the rules. Abandon Wei Yan's purpose?

The emperor said so in the car, and the servant quickly conveyed his words.

After the emperor said so, Wei Yan waved his hand, motioning his subordinates to take out the veil from the man's mouth and let him speak.

However, that man was still controlled by the guards, lest he suddenly violently hurt others.

"Your Majesty, the Caomin's surname is Shen, and his name is Quan. He is from Dongping County. There are more than ten acres of Susukino land in his family. The whole family farms and can still make ends meet. This winter, there is a servant of a wealthy family who, relying on the prestige of the master's family, wants to forcefully buy my field. From then on, he was pushed and shoved a few times by the slave's men, and accidentally fell on the stone steps under the eaves, and there was no sound on the spot. The slave saw that it was not good, so he walked away. Caomin went to the county government to report to the official, and the county official The lord arrested Hao Nu's subordinates. These people only reasoned that the old man fell by himself, not because of their pushing and shoving. They were only willing to pay two taels of funeral silver to the grass folks' family to settle the matter. The grass folks don't want money, they just ask them to pay for the old father's life. The county lord persuaded Caomin to calm down, because the Caomin family could not afford to offend the people behind it. Caomin now only asks His Majesty to make the decision and give Caomin's father justice."

The man knelt on the ground and articulated the long passage above.

As soon as he said this, he immediately won the sympathy of many people present.

Noble and powerful slaves, bullying others, are easy to arouse public anger, not to mention a life lawsuit, and this time this time for the old father, this person filed a court case, obviously a dutiful son, and added a lot to the eyes of others. Sympathy points.

"Your Majesty, even if he committed a heinous crime by colliding with the royal driver, his feelings are merciful."

"Your Majesty, this minister agrees."

"My minister agrees."

A bunch of people started to speak for him again.

Some people say this on purpose, and some people are probably out of sympathy.

"Your Majesty asked, do you know whose family's servant it is?" The attendant's servant got the emperor's order and asked the question on behalf of the emperor.

"The grassroots don't know, I implore His Majesty to order someone to investigate thoroughly." The man replied.

Dongping County?

Jing Li carefully recalled that the farm he gave to Wei Yan was not in Dongping County. There was no need for the servants of the Wei family to forcefully buy the land there. Could it be that this matter was not aimed at Wei Yan, but purely an accident?