Tang's dining table

A fair fight is meaningless to an official, and is even the most despicable thing for a mature official.

Because their bounden duty is to unite the vast majority of people and suppress a small group of people with different opinions.

Therefore, using more to defeat fewer and using their advantages to suppress other people's disadvantages is what they are best at.

Doing this is far more efficient than attacking the enemy by themselves, and the probability of victory is also much higher.

Yun Chu's current martial arts skills are very high, and he is one of the most brave men in Chang'an. Even so, Yun Chu is still unwilling to fight in a huge cage with an unrelated person.

A duel with a man named Bagman was a very small thing to Yun Chu, not even worth mentioning.

But what happened at the Dawan Governor's Mansion made Yun Chu vigilant.

If Liu Changqing and the others really killed a few kings who were unwilling to contribute good horses to the Tang Dynasty, judging from what Old Monkey and the others are doing now, those countries would fall apart immediately, and the result of the fall apart would be that Anxi was finally conquered. The war suppressed by the Protectorate will once again burn brightly.

Yun Chu believed that what the old monkey wanted to do at this moment was to take advantage of the raging war in the Western Region and make a huge profit from it.

Judging from the old monkey's habit of taking advantage of opportunities, some people in the Dawan Dudu Mansion area should have reached some kind of consensus this time.

Unfortunately, the old monkey didn't want to tell him.

If you don’t tell me, don’t tell me. Anyway, the people of the Tang Dynasty have not regarded the Western Region as their homeland so far. In the eyes of the vast majority of the people of the Tang Dynasty, the land within Yumen Pass is their homeland. As for the land outside Yumen Pass, it is just a hunting ground for the people of the Tang Dynasty. field.

Pei Xingjian has come to see Yunchu twice, but each time Yunchu used excuses to avoid Pei Xingjian.

Everyone knew that Pei Xingjian wanted to use the matter at hand to send himself to the position of Minister of Civil Affairs. Li Jingxuan also had this idea.

The reason why Pei Xingjian came to him was that he hoped that Yunchu could do what the emperor asked him to do under his leadership, abolish the power of recommendation by nobles, establish a county school to improve the knowledge of poor children, and finally make them become capable people. A learned man who competes with noble disciples.

This is obviously to turn Wannian and Chang'an counties into his testing base for Pei Xingjian.

Yunchu didn't want to be Pei Xingjian's step.

However, if Pei Xingjian comes again, Yun Chu will have to meet him again and again. In the Tang Dynasty, if you refuse someone's three requests to see him, it will basically be regarded as severing ties with that person, and there will be no need to have any interactions with him in the future. .

Yunchu didn't want to be used by Pei Xingjian, but he also didn't want to part ways with Pei Xingjian from now on.

Wannian County and Chang'an County continue to dry the ground, disinfect and remove insects, which are three very common tasks.

But these three ordinary tasks have created a strange scene in Qujiang - hundreds of birds paying homage to the phoenix.

There are many bugs in Wannian County and Chang'an County, and naturally there are also many birds. In order to disinfect the land, the people cut off the weeds when they were growing, dried them and burned them on the spot. It was like burning the fields. A type of pest control.

Another result of burning large areas of fields was that large numbers of birds gathered in Qujiang, where no one dared to set fire to the land.

Starting from the early morning of June 14th, hundreds of long-tailed male pheasants jumped into the Guangming Palace in Qujiang, and passed through the Guangming Palace in groups with its windows wide open.

After passing through Guangming Palace, he flew away and perched on the tall trees in Qujiang Palace Garden.

Just when the palace officials were about to drive away the pheasants, Wu Mei stopped them and told her in front of the court lady who came to congratulate her on the birth of the dragon son that these birds were her guests.

He was also rewarded with a banquet for birds to eat. Just as the pheasants were competing for the seed banquet given by Wu Mei, a large group of turtle doves flew in from outside, cooing and flying in from outside the palace wall to join in. Here comes the procession of pecking at the seed feast.

Then a large group of red-billed crows came, and the pigeons that originally liked to fly around the Big Wild Goose Pagoda also came.

As the number of birds increased, large flocks of raptors also appeared in the sky. As the number of raptors increased, more birds began to head towards Qujiang Palace, the only place covered by trees.

Because he usually shoots birds with a slingshot, Yu Xiurong, who also brought Naha and Li Si to congratulate the queen, could more or less recognize a lot of birds.

When she saw white spoonbills, little swans, whooper swans, mandarin ducks and other birds flying into Qujiang Palace, she was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. For the first time, she faced Wu, who was standing calmly at the gate of the palace with Li Dan in his arms. Mei admired endlessly.

Seeing that there were more guests coming, Wu Mei added a few more seed banquet tables. Not only that, she also ordered the warriors in Qujiang Palace not to harm her guests. She also sent people to get a lot of rice and sprinkle it randomly in Qujiang Palace. …

At this time, the vicinity of Qujiang Palace has completely become a paradise for birds. Flying in the blue sky are golden eagles, white-shouldered eagles, magpie harriers, white-tailed harriers, yellow-clawed falcons, red-footed falcons, merlins, kestrels, etc. Birds of prey such as swallows and falcons fly down from high altitudes from time to time. After catching their prey, they flap their wings and fly high again.

Under these birds of prey, owls, thrushes, mynas, cardinals, starlings, sparrows and other small birds flew around in panic. For a while, the sound of birdsong in Qujiang Palace suppressed the music played by the musicians.

Wu Mei handed Li Dan over to the palace attendants and walked up to the Liang Pavilion of Qujiang Palace step by step, holding up her skirt.

Under the suppression of the raptors in the sky, some birds that had no choice but to flee unexpectedly rushed to Wu Mei's side, chirping non-stop.

Wu Mei raised her head and looked at the birds of prey that were hunting starlings and sparrows. She actually pointed to the sky and said, "Don't be rude!"

I don’t know if Wu Mei’s words had any effect. The starlings and sparrows that were flying around in panic actually formed a huge group in mid-air.

They were flying densely in mid-air. As more and more birds joined the team, the flock of birds in the sky changed a lot.

They kept flying up and down in the air, changing formations. Even if a raptor got into this large group, it would be dizzy by various small birds and had to escape from the bird area.

A few, dozens, or hundreds of birds are nothing. When more than 100,000 birds gather into a team, their mentality in the sky changes greatly. One moment they are like dark clouds, the next moment they are like giant elephants, and the next moment they are like giant elephants. It will transform into a dragon shape or a phoenix shape. It can be said that as long as you are willing to stretch your imagination, the patterns formed by the birds at this time can be anything.

Among officials' wives, the most common thing is those who ignore trends, flatter others, and push things too far.

I don’t know whose wife was the first to prostrate herself to the ground, shouting: "A hundred birds are paying homage to the phoenix, a hundred birds are paying homage to the phoenix. This is a great auspicious sign. The queen is the reincarnation of the real phoenix. These birds are here to worship." The queen is a true phoenix."

Then amidst the noise caused by the birds, the ladies fell down one after another. Some women even cried and shouted, wanting to get closer to Wu Mei. Some gray-haired old women even wanted to touch Wu Mei's breasts with their hands. The dress has a little bit of the nobility of Phoenix.

When Yu Xiurong saw the women on the left and right kneeling down, he had no choice but to sit on the ground. He wanted Naha and Li Si to follow suit, but he found that Naha and Li Si were standing there, staring with their mouths wide open. He was stunned by the strange sight in front of him. As for kneeling down to Wu Mei, since Naha didn't kneel down, Li Si didn't either.

Fortunately, there were so many women who came to congratulate Wu Mei on giving birth to the prince. In addition, Qujiang Palace was originally composed of exquisite pavilions, pavilions and waterside pavilions. These things were so well-proportioned that no one noticed it. Who kneels or not.

At this time, Li Zhi, who heard that something happened in Qujiang Palace, hurried over and looked at the birds in the sky with a gloomy face.

He glanced at Zuo Chun, the governor of the Baiqisi Division. Zuo Chun understood the idea and turned around to leave. After a while, a group of soldiers appeared in Qujiang Palace. They raised their bows and nocked arrows, and then hundreds of arrows flew into the sky. These With a piercing scream, the feather arrow flew to the highest point and exploded with a bang. Hundreds of thunder rockets exploded in mid-air, and hundreds of black smoke immediately appeared in the blue sky.

The birds of prey that first sensed the threat scattered and flew away, and the birds that changed into various forms in the sky also fled in all directions after they were no longer threatened.

The huge explosion in the air also scared the birds in Qujiang Palace and fled in all directions.

Wu Mei, who was standing at a high place and happily looking at the birds, turned gloomy at the first sight of those thunder rockets flying high in the sky.

Countless birds flew out of the walls of Qujiang Palace, and gradually except for the bird droppings left on the ground, even the pheasants that flew in first disappeared.

Li Zhi didn't explain anything to Wu Mei. After seeing the birds disperse, he walked straight away, leaving the ladies who were still kneeling in the world wondering what to do.

Wu Mei whispered: "Sit down."

Everyone then stood up slowly, their hearts pounding. They saw with their own eyes that the emperor and empress were not getting along, and they didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

After Yu Xiurong left Qujiang Palace with Naha and Li Si, Yu Xiurong stared blankly at the golden hairpin in his hand, and in his mind was still the scene of birds all over the sky coming to congratulate Wu Mei.

"This is nothing!" Naha's voice woke up Yu Xiurong.

"My brother and I have seen larger flocks of birds in the Tianshan Mountains. My brother said they were small birds gathering together to defend against the big birds."

Yu Xiurong quickly looked around and found that only her own carriage was slowly walking towards the city, while the other carriages had long since disappeared. It seemed that they were planning to tell what they had seen and heard in Qujiang Palace as soon as possible. , tell your husband.

Obviously, the meaning here is very deep, not only the reality of birds paying homage to the phoenix, but also the emperor driving away the highlight moment that belonged to the queen.

Seeing that Yu Xiurong was still a little confused, Naha said to her, "Why don't you just go back and ask my brother to find out? He knows everything. Even if he doesn't know Master Xuanzang, he will definitely know."

Yu Xiurong looked at Naha and said, "Such a scene cannot be created artificially, right?"

See you tomorrow