Chapter 23 The Royal Court
In the early years, the Khanate of the Golden Horde lived in the water and grass, and there was no city. The place where the Khan was located was the royal court. The royal court was a moving city, equivalent to the imperial capital of the Central Plains court. However, during the Khanate of the Golden Horde's successive journey south, the influence of the Central Plains dynasty gradually abandoned some of the nomadic habits and began to build cities.
Nowadays, the Khan of the Golden Horde no longer lives by pursuing water and plants, but by pursuing cold and heat, also known as the four seasons of Nabo system. In autumn and winter, they are taboos for coldness and avoiding heat in spring and summer. They divide the royal court into four directions according to the southeast, northwest and northwest directions. They live in the east courtyard in the early month of the first month. After the spring ends in mid-April, they move to Beiting to avoid heat. In early July, they go from Beiting to Xiting. When the weather turns cold, they leave Xiting and go to Nanting to avoid cold.
The royal court where Li Xuandu is now heading to is the Nanting, which is away from the cold in winter and is also the closest royal court to the Central Plains. In summer, Li Xuandu has to walk more than a month before he can reach the Beiting, which is away from the summer. The former site of the royal court that he passed by before should be strictly speaking the former site of the Nanting.
The structures of the four royal courts are roughly the same. Although tents are no longer inhabited, Lao Khan's palace is still called a royal tent or a gold tent. It is golden in color and is located in the middle of the royal court. The other few Khans stationed around the Khan and guarded the Khan. The outer side is the powerful and nobles of the royal court such as Nayan, and the outer side is the settlement area of warriors, officials, craftsmen, and merchants.
Outside the city of Nanting, there are not endless grasslands, but dense tents. People who are not qualified to enter the city live here, mixed with fish and dragons, very chaotic, stretching for more than ten miles, can be regarded as the first barrier to protect the royal court, like a moat made of tents.
In this case, the Jin Tent People called the inner city of the city, and the tent area outside the city was called the outer city.
The caravan can enter the inner city, but the royal court guards need to check their identity and goods. There are other caravans in front of the Yan family caravan, and the waiting time is about one day.
In fact, when entering the outer city, the cavalry of the Wangting had already conducted an inspection of the caravan. However, the inspection of entering the inner city was more strict and complicated, and Qie Xue Jun was personally responsible. According to Li Xuandu's original plan, he wanted to follow the caravan into the inner city of the Wangting, but now with Yue Leave, he changed his mind. He planned to say goodbye to the caravan in the outer city, and then enter the inner city through Yue Leave.
However, Li Xuan did not say goodbye without saying goodbye. Before leaving, hello to Zhang Wenlun and others.
When Li Xuandu came to meet Yan Qing and Zhang Wenlun, the two were discussing tomorrow's inspection of the Qiexue Army. Yan Qing was a little surprised by Li Xuandu's arrival, but Zhang Wenlun seemed to have expected it.
Li Xuandu said bluntly: "There is no banquet that will last forever. Now that I have arrived at the royal court, I am not very familiar with the next business matters. Let's leave here. Return to Liaodong tomorrow, and I will invite two more to drink."
Yan Qing looked at Li Xuandu, pursed her lips, with a complicated expression.
Along the way, she always responded to Li Xuandu's suspicion and defense, but the caravan finally arrived at the royal court safely, without any wind or rain, which made her suspicion very unreasonable. She apologized for this, but she didn't know how to apologize due to her facial expression.
Li Xuan has experienced the worldly love, so he could roughly guess Yan Qing’s thoughts, and did not care about her. He continued, "Young Master Yan, we are at least in the same game, and it is also fate. I have learned about your difficulties from Brother Zhang. Although I am not familiar with Mr. Li, I still have some weaknesses in my cousin. If you encounter difficulties that cannot be overcome, you can visit Chaoyang Mansion and report my name directly, and my cousin will definitely help you."
When Yan Qing heard this, he was very surprised and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Seeing that his lady was a little confused, Zhang Wenlun could only quietly pull down her sleeve and thank Li Xuandu: "Thank you for your kindness to Mr. Qin, the Yan family will definitely not forget each other."
Li Xuandu smiled slightly, clasped his fists and said, "The mountains are high and the rivers are long, we will see you again in the future."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Leaving the caravan's station, Li Xuandu walked through a muddy road mixed with sewage flowing between the tents and came to the place he had agreed to leave with Yue. The noble lady Wang Ting did not take the opportunity to escape, but she was soaked in the scimitar at her waist, with a little blood on the blade. She was not afraid, but stared at the blood on the blade, not knowing what she was thinking.
Although this noble lady of Wang Ting did not have the high level of cultivation to summon wind and rain, she was not a weak woman with no power to tie a chicken. If she really wanted to compete in riding and shooting, many Wang Ting warriors were not her opponents.
Seeing Li Xuandu come back, she retracted her gaze from the scimitar in her hand, and her voice calmly explained: "Whether it is the Central Plains or the grassland, women are in a weak position. A lonely woman will always attract bad intentions to peep at despicable men. At this time, women either choose to escape or surrender, and I choose to use the sharp blade in my hand to shock these despicable maggots."
Li Xuandu smiled and said, "In the words of our Great Wei Dynasty, this is the place where the emperor is the best. There are such crazy and illegal people. Your officials who have made up their duties will be guilty of dereliction of duty."
Yue Lijie took out a handkerchief, wiped the blood from the scimitar, took it back into the scabbard, and then said, "I agree with the words of the young master. The golden tent and the Wei Dynasty are rotten. Whoever rots slowly is the winner, and the winner can swallow the loser into his stomach and bring new vitality."
Li Xuandu looked at her: "How does Yan feel when she returns to the royal court?"
Yue Lijie looked at the messy environment around him, and said bluntly: "When I came to the royal court before, I never set foot in the places where the untouchables lived. According to the rules, people here cannot approach me within a hundred steps."
Li Xuan had heard similar statements, but he just sighed: "There is no place with all virtues in the world."
While the two were talking, a team of Wang Ting soldiers wearing scimitars came to the side. The leader Wang Ting soldiers shouted in a golden tent, "Who is hurting people here?"
Yue Lijie raised his eyebrows and said sternly: "Bold."
Li Xuan knew that when Yueli "showed his skills", he took a step back and let Yueli perform.
As expected, after Yue Libye revealed his identity, these soldiers of the royal court could only kneel down and apologize. After Yue Libye scolded him for a few words, he waved his hand to send them back.
When they arrived at the royal court, it was like the imperial capital. The most important thing they lacked was all kinds of powerful people. Therefore, these soldiers in the golden tent were not surprised by Yueli's identity, but they didn't understand why Na Yan appeared in the lowly people's settlement. However, they also knew that this was not what they should know. The situation in the royal court is very delicate. Lao Khan has not appeared for many days, which caused panic. Some people even speculated that Lao Khan had passed away and was just secretly mourned. The kings surrounded the throne of Khan, fighting openly and secretly, and Na Yan, who depended on the kings, also had their own plans. Therefore, the royal court has changed over the past period of time, and people died suddenly and died unknownly every day, but most of them occurred in the inner city. At this time, Yueli appeared in the outer city, making them wonder that the kings and the struggles of Na Yan had spread to the entire royal court, but they did not dare to go into it, for fear that they knew too much and could not see the sun tomorrow.
After the soldiers of the Wangting left, Li Xuandu and Yue parted and walked on the rugged path between countless tents. Li Xuandu asked in the Mandarin of the Great Wei Dynasty: "What should I do if I want to attend the birthday party of Xiao Yan?"
Yue Lige did not hide it and said bluntly: "Although the Da Yan family is the most noble woman in the entire royal court in name, in fact, the Xiao Yan family, who is loved by Lao Khan, is the most noble woman. The kings and many of the Yan people have to please her. As my identity, I want to attend her birthday party to celebrate her birthday. There is no problem, but it is difficult to attend the birthday party with a strange face."
Li Xuandu asked, "Since that beauty is not good, then who has the qualifications? Is it Yesen's beauty? Or the kings?"
Chapter completed!