Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 242

Around [-] o'clock in the morning (equivalent to a little over [-] o'clock in the morning), at this time, the drums on the main gate of the palace began to sound, and the gates of the various squares were slowly opened.

Xiao Yan walked into Li You's room, and whispered in Li You's ear: "Li You, you are going to court!"

"Hey!" Li You rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked at the dark sky outside, and said speechlessly: "It's too early!"

"It's getting late, we're a little far from the palace here, so you have to hurry up, I've already washed your face with water, come out quickly!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yan carefully helped Li You up.

Li You had no choice but to lean on Xiao Yan's fragrant body.

When Xiao Yan saw Li You leaning on her body, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she followed her hands to help Li You wash his face and brush his teeth, more caring than his little wife.

This scene was seen by Chun Niang and Xue Wang, both of them showed understanding smiles,

After washing, Li You was pushed into the carriage, Xiao Baoer drove, Xue Rengui and others protected them, and the group went from Dunhuafang to the palace. You must know that the time of the Tang dynasty is stipulated. If you are late, you will be scolded and fined , severe punishment will be imposed.

Therefore, all officials must arrive at the Wangxian and Jianfu gates in the south of Taiji Palace before five o'clock in the Asahi, and stand in line.

At that time, it was still dark, and everyone held lanterns and torches, and stood like a fire dragon in the night mist.If there is wind, frost, rain and snow, there is nothing to do in the early stage. The middle and low-level officials should stand up. Only the prime minister has a high salary and is allowed to take shelter from the wind and rain at the "Taipusi Chefang" outside the palace gate.

However, probably in the late Tang Dynasty, in the early years of Tang Xianzong Yuanhe, the imperial court set up a "waiting courtyard" outside the palace gate, that is, a place for all officials to go in and sit and wait for the court, which is considered a great favor.

This time was still in the Zhenguan period. Fortunately, it didn't rain today. If it rained, Li You, a commoner prince, would have to be watered in the rain.

When he came to Jianfu Gate, Li You looked at the firefly-like lanterns in front of him, and he was also shocked. So many people had already come, so Li You also hurriedly got out of the carriage.

As soon as he got off the carriage, Li You heard a familiar voice.

"Oh, isn't this Goro and you are finally going to court?" There was a slight smile in the words.

Li You looked back, and also quickly smiled: "Haha. I don't want to, but His Majesty has ordered, so I can only come here. My God, it's really too early."

"Where is this?" The person who spoke came over with a lantern. At this time, he could see the other person's face clearly. It was none other than Tang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

"Don't you know that it's still good now, once every five days, but once a day before, I have to report to the palace every day, I'm really going crazy!" Tang Jian laughed.

In the early years of Zhenguan, it can be said that a thousand wastes are waiting to be rejuvenated, so Li Shimin, the emperor who just took the throne, also worked hard, basically going to court every day, but later, it seems that in the middle of Zhenguan, Fang Xuanling After a bit of persuasion, it was changed to go to court every five days.

Oh, of course, compared with Li Shimin, there is an emperor who is more ruthless than Li Shimin. Who is that guy Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty who is really ruthless to himself? Only then will there be a few days that belong to me, so that I can take a good rest. Everyone knows that Yongzheng had 14 children in his life, and 14 of these 12 children were born before he inherited the throne. , only two were born after he inherited the throne. From this point of view, Yongzheng is busy with state affairs every day, and has no time to take care of his concubine at all.

But Yongzheng is busy, not by himself. Those officials may be busy with more things than the emperor every day, because they have to participate in the early court every day. Yongzheng can be said to be the most diligent emperor in the history of the Qing Dynasty. He has to go to court early every day, which is much more ruthless than Li Shimin.

He got up at three o'clock in the morning every day, and before going to the morning court, he had to open a memory of the military minister, because these officials had to get up at 12 o'clock in the evening in order to be able to attend the morning court on time, wash up After finishing dressing neatly, it took an hour to walk to the palace, and stood here every day waiting for the emperor to finish the military meeting.

Every year during this period, there will be older officials, or officials in poor physical condition, because there are a lot of things to do every day, and they have to kneel down every day, and finally die of exhaustion in the ruling and opposition parties.

"Would you like some food?" Tang Jian took out his own snack box.

Li You nodded with a smile: "Of course I have to eat a little. Who doesn't know that Uncle Tang's cook is the best cook in Chang'an!"

"You're pretty good at it." As he said that, Tang Jian opened his food box with a smile. After reading it, Li You was surprised. He really didn't expect that Tang Jian's food box actually contained bridge rice noodles .

"Hey, silly. The broth of my soup is made of tender lamb and fresh fish, and there are chicken breast slices, mullet slices, and five-ripe pork loin slices, belly slices, and squid slices. There are pea tips, leeks, coriander, green onion, grass sprouts, ginger, magnolia slices, and boiled tofu skin.

Then cover it with goose oil, the soup is boiling hot, but not steaming.

Just pour this rice noodle into Hey Hey and a bowl of steaming morning snacks will appear. I know you are coming today, so I brought two servings and come quickly! "

"Okay!" Li You didn't show any politeness to Tang Jian, and followed Tang Jian to eat rice noodles.

Not to mention, this smell is really good, especially when the temperature is kept very well, the fragrance and umami taste are unbearable to those who smell it, revealing that many officials around Li You and Tang Jian are attracted by this fragrance It made me swallow a mouthful of saliva.

"Is it delicious?" Tang Jian asked with a smile.

Li You stretched out a thumb: "It's delicious.!"

"Eat more if it tastes good, and watch more and talk less when it's time to go to court!"

Suddenly Tang Jian looked at Li You meaningfully and continued: "The Huikun people will go to court today to accept His Majesty's summons. The purpose of the Huikun people's summoning this time is obviously to use their horses to threaten His Majesty to marry the princess.

Sizi is their primary target, you have to be mentally prepared.! "

"Thank you Uncle Tang. I will know how to measure it." Li You nodded slightly.

"Sizi is your younger sister, but she is also the crown prince, the younger sister of the King of Wei. You have no title and no real power yet, so you must not force yourself out!"

Tang Jian finished speaking slowly and bit by bit.

Li You could feel Tang Jian's love for him, he was not his own, and he would never say it. Being able to say these things to himself showed that Tang Jian really gave himself to his own just now.

"By the way, Cui's Tianguo Shao will be released today, remember to bring me two bottles!"

After Tang Jian finished speaking, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

　I have been in poor health and waited for a while, the hospital was less crowded, so I went to check my body, thank Brother 51 Shi for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)