Phoenix and Dragon

That night, all the dust in the sky was wiped out, and the bright moon was shining in the sky.

The fireworks in the west of Beijing ignited all night, and the bluish-colored fireworks vigorously lit up the boundless sky like a black curtain, and finally turned into ashes behind the tall pavilions and pavilions, leaving only the atmosphere of gunpowder smoke in Beijing.

Many years later, the common people still talk about the fireworks show that night. They only remember the hysterical revelry under the prosperity of the universe, but they don't realize the traces buried under the burning ruins under the night.

The imperial guards in Beijing quietly took away a warehouse in the west of Beijing, and under the cover of night and fireworks, they burned it up overnight, leaving no traces.

In the Xiyuan, the flowers and wine are in disarray, the sound of silk and bamboo is lingering in the air, and under the singing and dancing of all countries, there is only peace in the drunkenness.

The barbarian prince who came here with a high profile was "invited" to the Jinhua Garden in the west of Beijing, along with several barbarian princesses who had married into the Jin Dynasty, but the person who supervised the "reception" suddenly disappeared overnight. The eldest prince was replaced by Song Guogong, the emperor's confidant.

The very popular Zhengyi Temple in the west of Beijing suddenly changed its boss. The new boss is said to be a wealthy businessman in Beijing and China, but his name is not real.

Yi Gang, the original head of the Jixiu class, became crazy because he missed his daughter, so he didn't care about taking care of the Jixiu class.

Not long after that day, Han Zhan, the leader of the Imperial Forest Army, was punished with a cane for conniving with his servants. The emperor was furious and fined him a year's salary.

... There seems to be no common connection between various affairs, and many people forget it in a blink of an eye.

And only those in the game can see clearly.

Li Mingyuan knew many of the following things from other people, and he could only guess from the few prefaces that didn't make sense that Xiao Yu acted vigorously and resolutely after taking over Qin Feng's affairs that night.

And that night, the turbulent waves and changing conditions outside the palace had nothing to do with the Shi Ziye at all.

Whether it is the barbarians who are waiting for an opportunity to cause chaos, the Shanhe Society with ulterior motives and vain plans to disrupt the world, the behind-the-scenes mastermind who hides in the dark and does not know the truth, or the bloody storm inside and outside the palace that has never stopped since ancient times, all of them turned into a wall before the eyes of the prince. Strict, forbidden... Palace walls.

Li Mingyuan: "..."

Someone Qin asked that question, and got Li Mingyuan's answer as he wished, but he didn't say whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied.

He just made his choice with a silent smile.

Li Mingyuan answered seriously and answered seriously. He expected to get a serious reply or an answer similar to the promise, but he didn't expect Qin Feng to just get up with a half-smile, and gave Li Mingyuan a handsome silhouette in the cold autumn.

Qin Feng said: "I knew you were such a fool."

Li Mingyuan: "..."

Are you a fool? When I meet you, a famous actor who can appear in a play at any time, I want to see who is not a fool.

The son of the world has been played with by the bastard surnamed Qin more than once, and he finally developed a spirit of entertainment from being played with.

The son of the world feels that he has not made progress at all, and has almost reached the point of rapid progress. Even in the face of such unreliable colleagues, Li Mingyuan looked at the vermilion lacquer wall that was several feet high in front of him, and he had already thought about it. Thinking about things.

Is he going to climb over the wall and enter the palace?Li Mingyuan twitched the corner of his mouth and thought, okay, this height is so slick, let's see if he can't fall down later, this ridiculous liar.

The son of the world has already thought about "Qin Feng is blown down by the cold wind on the palace wall" to "if the wind can't blow this guy down, I will kick him down". Thinking about it this way, the plan is perfect and he is in a good mood.

However, the son of the world was first involved in the Liyuan business, and he really didn't know that the world was sinister, and he completely underestimated the degree of Qin Feng's bastard.

"I would like to lend a shoulder to my son." Qin Feng smiled innocently with a pair of peach blossom eyes, and his tone was so sincere that others could not discern it. "I am only a little learned and a superficial man, but I am not good at martial arts. It is a bit embarrassing to climb over the wall."

Li Mingyuan: "..."

This humble brat who claims to be "a man who can't be written without being able to achieve martial arts" just ran like a wild horse just now, like a crow in a dark night and windy weather, unable to see and chase after him, what kind of feebleness is he pretending to be here at this time, he really has a bull's head on his back Damn it, everyone who has a face will blush.

Li Mingyuan was furious, forced out a colorful and calm face, and glared at Qin Feng bitterly: "I don't know what you are from, but I dare to greet you to the palace. I don't believe you have only one way to go over the wall."

Qin Feng picked out those peach blossom eyes with a half-smile, stretched out his hand to roll up the sleeves that had been flowing in the cold wind like water sleeves, and smiled leisurely: "My son has good eyesight."

Li Mingyuan didn't react, and asked, "What?"

Qin Feng's smile did not change: "It can be seen that there are other ways to enter the palace."

Li Mingyuan: "..."

Qin Feng is like a gangster, with all kinds of obscenities and delusions. Normal people can't control him, and abnormal people will probably call him a lunatic when they see him.

Li Mingyuan was really too lazy to talk nonsense, so he forced himself to wave his hands calmly, thinking, that's all, and asked patiently: "What can you do, tell me quickly."

Qin Feng's eyes were watery, and there was a bit of playfulness in his smile. He had a really good life, and he was like a tree facing the wind in the dark night.

Qin Feng said: "Master, to be serious, climbing over the wall is the fastest way for us. The imperial army is cleaning up the mess, and the inner palace is loosely guarded. If you do this normally, you will be shot into a hedgehog by thousands of arrows if you don't go up the wall. , but today is different; as for other methods, if Xiao Yu's play is unreliable and the news leaks out, even if there is a little bit of news outside the palace, the people who handed the sign outside the palace at this moment will drown you and me with their spittle. Passing the sign won't work either; but..."

Qin Feng blinked slightly, and the water in his peach blossom eyes sparkled: "Your wronged son, follow me to Shang Beast Garden."

Li Mingyuan was taken aback for a moment, before he had time to think about it, he saw that Qin Feng's back was already far away.

Li Mingyuan hurried to catch up, this time Qin Feng didn't walk fast, at least he didn't look like a person who wanted to travel a long distance between heaven and earth, and it was finally not hard for Shi Ziye to follow.

The son who didn't work hard was finally not forced to work hard like a man with a great mission from heaven, and finally had time to use his brain.

Shang Beast Garden is the place where rare animals are domesticated in the imperial palace. It is located in the northwest of the inner courtyard of the imperial palace, adjacent to Xiyuan, and quite far from the inner palace.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the previous dynasty, because of frugality, he wished to break a penny into four petals, and the animals raised in the Shang Animal Garden were purely for fun, which greatly offended the emperor who was a money fanatic and stingy. It was the opposite, so the emperor thought Shang Beast Garden was not pleasing to the eye. In the end, it was because of the accounts reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs that raising beasts cost a lot. Emperor Xuanzong banned Shang Beast Garden in a rage, and gave away the beasts in the garden. In the imperial dining room, it is absurd to simply let those who cannot eat be starved to death.At the same time, the Northwest Palace, where the Shang Beast Garden once was located, was in dilapidated condition due to years of disrepair, wishing that several legends about gods and ghosts would evolve immediately, which really didn't match the noble and high-end style of the inner courtyard of the palace.

After Emperor Xuanzong left, his son went to two completely different extremes with him. The emperor's father was frugal to the point of being frantically stingy. If he didn't feel ashamed of his ancestors, he might even be able to break off the bricks and tiles of the imperial city. He went out and sold it; and Xuanzong's son Mu Zong was extremely extravagant and desperate to spend money like water, probably because his father was stingy and picked out the psychological shadow of Mu Zong's youth. The level of money is so cruel, it seems that this person has never spent money in his life.But thinking about the glorious deeds of Emperor Xuanzong's dragon robes being patched and worn, Mu Zong probably didn't spend any money when he was young.

Of course, Mu Zong, who was like a boy who spread wealth, almost wiped out the country and mountains that the ancestors of the Jin Dynasty had guarded for hundreds of years along with the gold. This is a later story.

After Emperor Mu Zong ascended the throne, he suffered a great deal of sorrow, and his ruling philosophy was condensed into one sentence: as long as his father doesn't like it, he will like it.

This matter can be reflected in the coffin he bought for Xuanzong. Xuanzong was stingy and poor even when he died. He ordered his son's coffin to be made of willow wood as the lining. Except for the inside of the coffin, the rest is made of high-quality nanmu with golden threads. I thought that the natural golden threads of nanmu were not dazzling enough, so I deliberately ordered someone to inlay a layer of coquettish bags on his father's coffin, which was full of the atmosphere of a country nouveau riche. Only then did he bury his father contentedly.Mu Zong is really a maverick, a rebellious son who has made a style of death.

Shang Beast Garden was rebuilt under the leadership of Mu Zong, meaning to resist his father's rule of money obsessives, a new dynasty and a new atmosphere.

Although Mu Zong's ability to resist his father is enough to be recorded in the annals of history, it does not prevent him from becoming a scourge of a prodigal son who will go down in history.

The rebuilt Shang Beast Garden is quite magnificent, but Mu Zong has never been here for a day, because he is afraid of dogs when he sees cats and cats, and even if a bird flies over the palace and loses a hair, he will yell, "There is always a tricky man!" The people want to harm me", he is a real idiot who is as timid as a mouse.

Therefore, the rebuilt Shang Beast Garden is just so barren.

This situation continued until Jinshang ascended the throne.

Speaking of which, the complete restart of Shang Beast Garden has nothing to do with the barbarians.

In the few years since Shang came to the throne, it was not fashionable for the barbarians to send their princesses who were as bright as Lu Zhishen to Beijing to frighten the rich and powerful, but they often sent some strange things, sometimes poisonous reptiles, sometimes An unheard of beast, meant to be provocative.

It is said that one year, the barbarians sent a giant python with the thick thighs of an adult man, and they still uttered nonsense in the court: In their culture, pythons are the sons of dragons. They felt that since the pythons are the sons of dragons, the emperor It is the son of the emperor and the son of the dragon. The gift of this thing is really reasonable, and it is almost a kinship.

Li Mingyuan still doesn't understand how his uncle, the emperor, suppressed the prehistoric power in his heart to kill these barbarians after hearing this passage.

This python is tens of meters long, coiled up like a small mountain, and can eat three cows for a meal. Such a grits was carried on the emperor's golden palace. It is said that Gao Cai, who was standing next to the emperor at that time, was so frightened that his face turned pale. green.

These savages are really brainless and blind.

You are related to such a thing, and your whole family is related to him.

As the emperor of Heaven/Chaoshang Kingdom, even if he is about to explode, he can’t have the same knowledge as this group of things, so he has to embrace the health of “Although this thing is very novel, but I am the emperor, I am not afraid of him, I can still support it” The mentality took this broken snake.

Since it was sent in under the banner of "Dragon Son", it can't be treated too badly. It doesn't look good outside the palace, so a huge and dense cage was built on the site of the original Shang Beast Garden, and the broken snake Where is it raised, it has the right to be a beast in the palace, and it is usually out of sight and out of mind.

Li Mingyuan suspected that the old man, the emperor, intended to make snake soup with this thing.

After all, what a fresh and affordable piece of material it is, enough for all the ministers to feast on.

However, the barbarians didn't care about Sanqi 21. From the matter of giving away the python, they suddenly found the joy of molesting the emperor of the Central Plains.

This kind of fun probably lies in the fact that he is obviously terrified to death, but still has to accept it, and he can't just throw it away after taking over.

The barbarians have been out of control since then, falcons, lions, and tigers are sent to the palace every now and then. The most outrageous year was a box of fist-sized purple-gold fish-tailed scorpions, which they called tributes. poison.

Li Mingyuan felt that any master who had no deep hatred against him would never think of detoxifying with this shit. In comparison, poisoning to death is better than being scared to death by this thing.

The savages are more vicious, and they don't give away one of these strange and weird things, but they also give away a pair of children, including the big and the young, and they are raised together, preparing for the endless development of their children and grandchildren.

The emperor endured it several times, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, but he couldn't lose the majesty of the emperor of the great country. In a rage, he simply took over the whole thing, and followed the cabinet minister's advice, restarted the Shang Beast Garden, raised all the beasts there, and called the nobles Relatives and noble children regularly enter the palace to watch the beast taming, which is intended to cultivate the courage and courage of the noble children.

The provocative things sent by the barbarians became a tool for the Jin Dynasty to coax the children. Naturally, they could no longer find the joy of slapping the emperor in the face. Since then, they began to change their strategies. When they entered Beijing again, they brought with them the princess who was as bright as Lu Zhishen They are gone.

In this regard, Li Mingyuan does not know whether he regrets it or not.

However, he still remembers the time when he entered the palace to play in the Shang Beast Garden when he was young.

The open and secret struggles between the court and foreigners have nothing to do with the children's childhood.

A group of relatives and noble children can't understand the situation of the barbarians and even the power of the emperor. They simply know that they can see some rare animals that they can't usually see when they go to the Shang Beast Garden. It's just for fun.

At that time, the eldest son of the emperor had not yet been born, Li Mingyuan was not very old, he was still a boy of five or six years old, the second son of Prince Su's family was still a baby, and among the group of relatives and noble children, those who were about the same age were all small carrot heads and small beans Ding, among them, Li Mingyuan, the prince's son, is the most precious, and the honorable children respect him, and they all give him three points.

At that time, he led the group of children to play hide-and-seek and catch crickets.

It's just that, thinking about it now, each of the childlike faces has become a title, more polite on the surface, less friendly in private, and some have disappeared without a sound.

The son thought of the carefree childhood and the people who disappeared without a sound, and felt a little melancholy, but when he thought about it again, he felt a little bit wrong.

At that time, a group of them played hide-and-seek in Shang Beast Garden, and found a small path leading to the inner palace, but the path was extremely narrow, children could pass through it, but it was difficult for adults, although it was not impossible.

Now Qin Feng told him that if he wanted to enter the palace, he wronged Li Mingyuan to follow him to Shang Beast Garden.

Could it be that he knew the way?

impossible!

The secrets of their childhood games, their loyalty when they were young, they swore not to tell it, but when they got older, they realized the seriousness of the matter, and no one would tell it, how did Qin Feng know?