Chapter 242 The first court
At around 5 o'clock in the morning (equivalent to a little over 3 o'clock in the morning now), at this time, the drum beats on the main gate of the palace began to ring, and the gates of the major yards slowly opened.
Xiao Yan walked into Li You's room and whispered in Li You's ear: "Li You, you're going to court..."
"Clam..." Li You rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked at the dark sky outside, and said speechlessly: "It's too early...!"
"It's getting late... Our place is a bit far from the palace, so you have to hurry up. I've already made you wash your face, come out quickly...!"
After saying that, Xiao Yan carefully helped Li You up.
Li You had no choice but to lean on Xiao Yan's fragrance-filled body.
When Xiao Yan saw Li You leaning against her, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She helped Li You wash her face and brush her teeth step by step, which was more considerate than her little wife.
This scene made Chunniang and Xue Wangshi see it, and both of them showed a smile that understood it.
After washing up, Li You was pushed onto the carriage. Xiao Baoer drove the car, Xue Rengui and others protected him. The group went from Dunhuafang to the palace. You should know that the time for the Tang Dynasty was to die. If you were late, you would be scolded and fined at the least, and if you were severe, you would be sentenced.
Therefore, before the fifth o'clock in the morning, all officials must arrive at Wangxian in the south of Tai Chi Gong, outside Jianfu Gate, and schedule a scheduling station.
It was not dawn at that time, and everyone held lanterns and torches, and stood in the night fog. If there was wind, frost, rain and snow, there was no way to do so in the early stage. The middle and low-level officials should be strong, only the prime minister was treated with high treatment and allowed to go to the "Taipu Temple Chefang" outside the palace gate to shelter from the wind and rain.
However, it was probably in the late Tang Dynasty, in the early years of Emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty, the court set up a "waiting house" outside the palace gate, which means that all officials would go in and wait for the court, which was a great favor.
It was during the Zhenguan period at this time, and fortunately it did not rain today. If it rained, Li You, a civilian prince, would have to be watered in the rain.
Arrived at Jianfu Gate... Li You looked at the lanterns like fireflies in front of him, and was shocked. There were so many people coming, so Li You quickly got off the carriage.
As soon as he got off the carriage, Li You heard a familiar voice.
"Oh...Isn't this Goro... Are you finally going to court?" There was a little smile in your words.
Li You looked back and smiled quickly: "Haha...I don't want to... But His Majesty issued an order and had to come over. Oh my god, it's really too early."
"That's where I went...!" The speaker walked over with a lantern. At this time, he could see the other person's face clearly. It was no one else, but Tang Jian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
"You don't know... It's okay now, once every five days, but once a day before, I had to report to the palace every day, and I was really crazy...!" Tang Jian laughed.
In the early years of Zhenguan, everything was in trouble, so Li Shimin, the emperor who had just taken the throne, was also very hard-working. He basically went to court every day. However, later, it seemed that in the middle of Zhenguan, Fang Xuanling persuaded him and then changed it to attend court every five days.
Haha... Of course, compared with Li Shimin, there is an emperor who is more cruel than Li Shimin. Who... The Yongzheng Master of the Qing Dynasty... This guy is really cruel to him. He only has four hours of rest every day, and only a few days will belong to him during the Chinese New Year. He can give him a good rest. Everyone knows that Yongzheng had 14 children in his life. Among these 14 children, 12 of them were born before he inherited the throne, and only two were born after he inherited the throne. From this perspective, Yongzheng was busy dealing with national affairs every day and had no time to care about his concubines.
But Yongzheng was busy, and he did not work hard alone. Those officials might have to be busy with more things every day than the emperor, because they had to attend the morning dynasty every day. Yongzheng could be said to be the most diligent emperor in the history of the Qing Dynasty. He had to attend the morning dynasty every day, much more cruel than Li Shimin.
He had already got up at three in the morning every day, and had to start a military minister's recollection before taking the morning court. Because in order to attend the morning court on time, these officials had to get up at 12 in the evening, washed up and dressed neatly, walked to the palace in an hour, and stood here every day waiting for the emperor to finish the military meeting.
During this period, there are elderly officials or poor health officials every year. Because they have to do a lot of things every day, and they have to kneel down every day, they end up dying of exhaustion in the government and the government.
"Do you want to eat something..." Tang Jian took out his snack box.
Li You nodded with a smile: "Of course you have to eat a little, who doesn't know that Uncle Tang's chef is the best at cooking in Chang'an...!"
"You... are pretty good at knowing the goods." As he said that, Tang Jian opened his food box with a smile. After Li You finished reading it, he was surprised. He really didn't expect that there was actually a cross-bridge rice noodles in Tang Jian's food box.
"Hehe... I'm stupid... The soup for my soup is hung with tender sheep and fresh fish. It also contains chicken breast slices, mullet fillets and five-ripe pork loin slices, belly slices, and water-haired squid slices... The auxiliary ingredients include pea tips, leeks, as well as coriander, scallion, grass sprouts, ginger, magnolia slices, and rolled tofu skin.
Then use goose oil to cover the soup, but the soup is hot but not steaming.
Just pour this rice noodles in... Hehe a bowl of steaming morning snacks will appear. I knew you were coming today, so I brought two servings... Come here quickly!"
"Okay...!" Li You didn't be polite to Tang Jian, and followed Tang Jian and went to eat rice noodles.
You can't say it, the smell is really good, especially the temperature is well maintained, and the fragrance and umami make people who smell it can't stand it. Many of the officials around Li You and Tang Jian were swallowed by the fragrance.
"Is it delicious..." Tang Jian asked with a smile.
Li You stretched out a thumbs up: "It's delicious..."
"If you have some delicious food, eat more. When you go to court, watch more and talk less...!"
Suddenly, Tang Jian looked at Li You meaningfully and continued: "The man who returned to the court will go to court today to accept His Majesty's summons... The purpose of this man who returned to the man is very obvious, which is to use his horse to threaten His Majesty with his horse to marry the princess.
The squid is their primary target, you need to be mentally prepared...!"
"Thank you, Uncle Tang... I will know the right way." Li You nodded slightly.
"Xizi is your sister, but she is also the prince, the prince's own sister...you...you have not been banned yet and have no real power, so you must not force yourself...!"
Tang Jian finished his words slowly and slowly.
Li You could feel Tang Jian’s care for him. This was not his own person and he would definitely not say it. Being able to say these words to him means that Tang Jian really gave him to his own person just now.
"By the way... Cui's Tianguobake is going to be released today. Remember to bring me two bottles...!"
After Tang Jian finished speaking, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
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Chapter completed!