Chapter 689 Emergencies
The moonlight was hazy, and a fire dragon winded through the official road and swam towards Kaiyuan City.
On the city wall, Chang Chunming, the captain guarding the city, shouted: "Brothers, cheer up, prepare for the crossbow. Niu Da, go report to General Yan, Li Er, go and notify Lord Xu of the city gate."
Niu Da muttered dissatisfiedly: "It must be his own person when he came from Yanshan Villa at this time. He was fussing and alarmed General Yan. The young man might be slapped twice."
"You just talk a lot. If you don't talk nonsense, General Yan and Chengmen Lang will dare to open the city gate? If you go out late, do you still have to be in the head?" Chang Zhengwei cursed and directed his men to open the crossbow and be on guard. Niu Da dared not delay and ran down the horse road to the city.
There are 16 city gates in the Yongchang imperial capital, including Kaiyuan Gate, Jinguang Gate, and Yanping Gate; Tonghua Gate, Chunming Gate, and Yanxing Gate to the east; Anhua Gate, Mingde Gate, and Qixia Gate to the south; the imperial city is located in the north. In addition to Guanghua Gate, Jingyao Gate, and Fanglin Gate, there are also Xuanwu Gate, Chongxuan Gate, Zhide Gate, and Danfeng Gate, which enter and exit the imperial city. These four portals are only for the insiders of the palace, and ordinary people only hear their names.
The city gate guards are in charge of the left and right gate guards among the sixteen guards. Each guard has one third-rank general, two generals and four generals in each guard. There are as many as 220 prisoners like Chang Chunming. In the past two hundred years, the imperial capital gate is as stable as a rock and has never happened. In the words of other guards, the left and right gate guards are places where pigs are raised.
Chang Chunming asked Niu Da to inform the left guard of the left supervisor, Yan Jiancai. One of the four supervisors was on duty. Yan Jiancai was on duty to the west. Of course, the generals of the supervisors did not have to patrol the city gate like the supervisory lieutenant. The Western City guarding official was set up in Judefang.
When Niu Da arrived at the official hall, Yan Jiancai was drunk and listened to Niu Da’s report that a whistleman approached Kaiyuan Gate from the official road. Yan Jiancai cursed and said, “Get out of here, I will open any city gate at any time. I will not be able to live a peaceful life if I drink some wine. If I don’t open it, let him wait.”
Gan Qinglin, the army officer under his command, complained that drinking alcohol on the city gate was a crime of being executed. During the Taiping period, everyone would drink two drinks when they were on duty. As long as they were not drunk, even if they were caught by the inspector, they would whip them. Yan Jiancai was afraid of wine and did not dare to drink at home. So he often got drunk while on duty, and his subordinates couldn't persuade him.
Yan Jiancai is the son-in-law of Liu Xingjie, the subordinate of the junior minister (from the third rank). Liu Xingjie was born in the eldest Han Liu family. The eldest daughter married to the emperor and was Liu Guifei in the palace. Yan Jiancai and the emperor were brother-in-law. However, Yan Jiancai's wife was born to a concubine, and Liu did not take much attention to him. Yan Jiancai believed that he was a general of the central lieutenant (the fourth rank) in the left supervisor. He often drank wine to drown his sorrows, beat the swearing and sang, thinking of making achievements in Zhenbei Daying.
Seeing that Yan Jiancai was already drunk, Gan Qinglin said to Niu Dada: "You go back to the city gate first and tell Chang Chunming that the general will arrive in a while, and ask him to try to delay it." He also ordered the soldiers in the official party to say: "Go and pick up some well water and pour it on the general to sober him. If you miss it, you and I will not be able to survive."
After pouring a few buckets of cold water on it, Yan Jiancai woke up a little, stared at her eyes and asked blankly, "What are you doing?"
Gan Qinglin was sweating profusely. Seeing that Yan Jiancai was a little awake, he quickly reported: "General, the army is coming to open the city gate and the army is about to enter the city. I am waiting for you to check the talisman and check the pass."
Yan Jiancai quickly stood up shakingly. Someone brought his armor to put on him and put on his helmet. Yan Jiancai turned over and wanted to get on the horse. He was drunk and was powerless. He fell down from the horse's back several times. Gan Qinglin was anxious and said, "Prepare the carriage quickly, prepare cold water in the carriage, wash it up, and drink some tea to quench the alcohol. The Bodhisattva blesses you, don't have any trouble."
When the carriage arrived at the city gate, Shi Chongwei had been waiting outside the city gate for more than a moment. When he was having dinner at Yanshan Villa, his father praised him a few words. The mother was so happy that she couldn't stop talking about it. Before leaving, she secretly stuffed him a stack of silver notes. The one on the top of the skin was a thousand taels, and the thick stack was at least 30,000 to 40,000 taels.
The father asked the five hundred officers and soldiers of the Left Guard to escort him back to the city. When people were happy, they were standing outside the city gate of Kaiyuan City, Shi Chongwei looked happy. The Left Guard General Zhu Yiling, who was escorting him, was a little helpless, and urged the horse to come to the city gate and raised his head and shouted, "What's going on? The fish talisman has been handed in for so long, hasn't been finished yet? Are you intentionally asking me to drink the northwest wind outside, and when I enter the city, I have to fuck the group of stupid pigs who are the left guards of your left prison guards?"
The sixteen guards in the capital were fighting each other, and the one who looked down upon the most was the guards on the left and right prisons. Chang Chunming secretly complained at the top of the city. General Yan, the general of the left prison guard, had not arrived yet, how dare he order the city gate to open?
Shi Chongwei got the first prize in the villa and was in a good mood. He smiled and advised: "General Zhu, don't be impatient. It's okay to wait for a while. The guards of the city gate are a big deal. You can't be careless. You must abide by the law."
"Your Highness is so kind. If you want to rely on me, Lao Zhu, you must punish these boys for being frivolous." Zhu Yiling said angrily. In his opinion, it was clearly the left guard who was deliberately making things difficult for their left guard officers and soldiers.
Yan Jiancai stepped out of the carriage, his legs became weak, and he almost knelt on the ground. A strong smell of alcohol hit the noses of the people around him. The carriage was running too fast just now, and Yan Jiancai's belly was bumped and felt uncomfortable. He pressed down from his helmet, and he looked majestic and asked, "Who is entering the city at night? Can the fish talisman enter the city?"
When opening the city gate, the Zhonglang General and the Jung-Governor of the Menxiayuan City Governor of the Menxiayuan must be present. After inspecting the fish talisman and recording it in detail, the door can be opened. After opening the door, it must be submitted to Zhongshuyuan and the Jung-Governor of the Menxiayuan for reference and archive.
Han Jiefeng, the gatekeeper of the lower courtyard, was about to speak, but Yan Jiancai burped, and the sour and rotten smell almost made him vomit. He resisted his discomfort, and Han Jiefeng said: "General Yan, the officers and soldiers of the left guards guard the prince into the city. This is a fish talisman. Please check it out. If it is correct, open the city earlier. The prince has been waiting outside the city for more than a moment."
It was the prince who was about to enter the city, and Yan Jiancai's scalp became numb and almost made a big mistake. He took the fish talisman from Han Jiefeng's hand and reached out to touch his other half in the sleeve. The two pieces of fish were in one place and they were investigated. He entered his arms but felt empty. When he changed his wet clothes, the fish talisman was pulled into the wet clothes.
Seeing that Yan Building Materials changed color, Han Jiefeng could not take out the fish talisman. With a "buzzing" sound, he could not open the city gate. Although Yan Building Materials was responsible for the crime, he, as the city gate man on duty, wanted to eat. Han Jiefeng jumped up in his legs in a hurry and said in a panic: "General Yan, think about where the fish talisman is pulled. Your Highness is waiting outside. After a long time, we can't afford to be guilty."
Yan Jiancai was sweating coldly and ordered his personal guards to return to the official party to get the fish talisman from the wet clothes. Without the fish talisman, he did not dare to order the city gate to open the city gate first. When the fish talisman was taken, he closed and opened the city gate. Nearly half an hour passed, everyone welcomed the prince into the city.
With the light of the torch, everyone saw Shi Chongwei's gaze of Ling Li, without a smile on their faces. If they were to see the color of the blue during the day, they would not be able to see anyone outside the city gate for half an hour. The left guard general Zhu Yiling was even more angry. He saw Yan Jiancai standing beside the road, and he sneered from his heart: "Who is so bold and blocked the prince outside the city for half an hour. It turns out that he is General Yan Zhonglang. No wonder, General Yan is the son-in-law of Liu Shizhong. He heard that he likes to learn from the ancients' songs when he has nothing to do. If he doesn't open the door for so long, is he drunk and scolding again?"
Yan Jiancai didn't dare to speak. He was frightened and spasmed in his abdomen. He gritted his teeth and endured it. He just waited for the prince's men to pass by and vomited. Seeing that he was frowning and staring, Zhu Yiling mistakenly thought he was not convinced, so he urged the horse to approach and pointed with a whip, "Yan Jiancai, don't agree, right? If you have a habit, we two brothers will be on the school field. Zhu can fuck you down with one hand. Whoever loses will call you three times."
This is a bully. The clay man is still very aggressive. Yan Jiancai is a martial artist. If he doesn’t speak at this time, he will never look up and be a human being in this life.
"Zhu Yiling, don't bully people too much...uh!" A turbid wave burst out, and the smell of alcohol was scented in the air. The key was that vomit was still sprayed on Shi Chongwei's front hooves without death. Shi Chongwei was suppressing his anger and could no longer hold back. He shouted angrily: "When he was on duty, he would drink this way, and he would not forgive him for his crime. I locked up this guy first and sobered up and took him to the Ministry of War tomorrow to discuss his crime."
At the beginning of Hai, Xiong Zhian finally waited for the angry Prince. When he saw Shi Chongwei's face, Xiong Zhian felt a chill. It was probably because he was scolded by Long Live, so he was so angry. He comforted him in his heart: "Don't be anxious, everything has room for a turn. You can take a tea and rest first, and tell the old minister carefully."
After taking the tea handed over by He Ziying, Shi Chongwei saw Xiong Zhiren's panic that Xiong Zhiren tried hard to hide, and felt warm in his heart, and said with a smile: "The father-in-law misunderstood. The matter in Suxi County has been properly resolved, and it is another matter for him to be angry."
He Ziying chanted the Buddha next to him and said, "It's good that it's okay. My father-in-law has been in a hurry these two hours. If His Highness doesn't come again, the gold bricks in this hall should be replaced."
He heard that He Ziying was actually joking, and everyone smiled. Xiong Zhiren breathed a sigh of relief, leaned in the chair dejectedly, and sighed: "The matter of the imperial village involves the face of the late emperor and long live. The old minister is afraid that the crown prince is young and energetic, and Lord Jiang is also anxious again, so it is difficult to end the trouble. It's good that you have nothing to do. Your Highness tells the story to the old minister."
Shi Chongwei realized that this was his proud act and described the scene at that time vividly. Xiong Zhiren and He Ziying were in a thrilling and thrilling manner when they heard it. Although Shi Chongwei tried his best to boast about his role, both of them were well-educated people, so naturally they could hear Jiang Anyi's wisdom and courage from it.
After the prince finished talking, he picked up the cup and drank tea, Xiong Zhiren breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If you can get An Yi's help, it is the blessing of the prince."
Chapter completed!