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Chapter 256: Changes in Jingzhou (I)


Zhao Yunze's body recovered quickly, and he was only able to get out of bed and move after only lying in bed for four or five days.After another three or four days, he was alive again.Today is the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, and in two days, it will be the Lantern Festival.The residents of Chang'an City, since the tenth day of the new year, began to hang lanterns in front of their homes at night.But these lanterns are small, and some large lanterns will not be exhibited until the night of the Shangyuan Festival.Shangyuan Festival is the first full moon night of the new year and the first festival after the Spring Festival.The celebration of the Shangyuan Festival is almost closely connected with the Spring Festival.According to the folk saying, only after the Shangyuan Festival, the Spring Festival will officially end.Many large families in Chang'an City will make some large-scale lanterns in the Shangyuan Festival.The lantern festival of the Shangyuan Festival has also become a lantern contest in which some princes and nobles or families secretly compete.Zhao Yunze will not compete with others.In his opinion, if you have that spare money to tie up lanterns for others to watch, it is better to buy more delicious food.Although he will not participate in this kind of secret competition, Zhao Yunze's family also wants to tie up lanterns.However, Zhao Yunze doesn't have to worry about this kind of work, Qin Mo'er has her own hands on the four maids.Qin Mo'er led people to make lanterns in the backyard, and Zhao Yunze met guests in the hall in the front yard.It was none other than Yan Liben and Fang Zhi who came to visit Zhao Yunze.At the court meeting on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Yan Liben was appointed by Li Shimin as the commander of the arsenal, and Fang Zhi became the second secretary.Li Shimin transferred two other officials to the Arsenal Special Administration.One took over Fang Zhi's original position as the acting officer; One took over as Xu Jingzong's chief bookkeeper.Xu Jingzong, on the other hand, was transferred out of Chang'an City by Li Shimin and went to a remote place in the south of the Yangtze River to take up a post.This may also be a disguised punishment for Li Shimin's accusations against Xu Jingzong for secretly fabricating charges for Zhao Yunze.Zhao Yunze's position in the arsenal was removed by Li Shimin, but Li Shimin did not announce the new ministry.Zhao Yunze also knows this, perhaps, from the first year of Zhenguan, his position will be disgraced.The purpose of Yan Liben and Fang Zhi's visit to Zhao Yunze today is also related to the Shangyuan Festival.It turned out that Li Shimin ordered the arsenal to prepare a large number of ceremonial flowers before the arrival of the Shangyuan Festival, which were used for the night of the Shangyuan Festival.This is what Comrade Lao Li means by wanting to hold a fireworks show and have fun with the people.The specific operation of the fireworks show is also the responsibility of the Arsenal Administration, after all, the personnel of the Arsenal Administration are professionals in this field.Fireworks are more likely to cause fires than simple lantern displays, and there are other unknown dangers.Although Yan Liben and Fang Zhi had already mastered the skills of making fireworks for fireworks, they had no experience in organizing such a large-scale fireworks show.So, the two of them came to learn from Zhao Yunze.Zhao Yunze finally gave a few suggestions.The first is to set the venue for setting off fireworks on the palace wall of Taiji Palace, the wall of the imperial city and the surrounding city wall of Chang'an City.The purpose of this is to increase the height of the fireworks so that more people can see them, and secondly, the top of the city wall is safer than other venues.Zhao Yunze's second suggestion was to ask the army to help maintain order, and a separation zone must be set up to prevent the fireworks from hurting the people watching the excitement.The third and most important piece of advice is to prepare plenty of sandbags and hoses to prevent fires.Yan Liben and Fang Zhi left satisfied.After sending Yan Liben and Fang Zhi away, Zhao Yunze stretched his waist and wanted to go back to the bedroom for a while.During the time he was recuperating from his injuries, he was already lazy to the bones.But at this moment, Qin Ping, who was on duty in the gatehouse today, came to the hall again.Liu Shanbao was given a big vacation by Zhao Yunze, and he couldn't come back until the Shangyuan Festival.Therefore, during this time, the two brothers Qin Ping and Qin An took turns to be on duty in the gatehouse."

Lang Jun, there is a person who calls himself Huo Tiankui and asks to see Lang Jun."

Qin Pingyu reports.Huo Tiankui, why did he come again, and the reason why he said "again" was because after Zhao Yunze went home to recuperate, Huo Tiankui had already come to visit Zhao Yunze several times.Once, he came with his wife Fang Ting.The first few times Huo Tiankui came, Qin An was on duty in the gatehouse, so Qin Ping didn't know Huo Tiankui."

Please," Zhao Yunze said to Qin Ping.Not long after Qin Ping retreated, he led Huo Tiankui into the hall.After the greetings, Qin Ping returned to the gatehouse.There were only two people left in the hall, Zhao Yunze and Huo Tiankui."

Master, are you getting better?"

Huo Tiankui asked Zhao Yunze."

It's completely fine," Zhao Yunze said with a smile."

That's good, that's good," Huo Tiankui nodded hurriedly, "Fortunately, the master's body is fine, otherwise, he would have felt guilty for the rest of his life."

My mother-in-law will count me down for the rest of my life. ”"Brother Huo, I have already said that you are not as good as others when you came a few times, and it is none of your business."

Zhao Yunze said, "When you have time, I still want to ask you about martial arts."

My little three-legged cat kung fu is really untenable in front of Brother Huo. ”"Master, if you can afford to look up to a certain person, you will definitely not hide your secrets," Huo Tiankui patted his chest and said.Zhao Yunze asked Huo Tiankui again: "Brother Huo, if you come to the door today, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as visiting my body" "I almost forgot about business" Huo Tiankui patted his head and said, "There is news from Jingzhou, yesterday, a wizard entered the mansion of Li Yi, the king of Yanjun.In fact, this is not a big deal, but since the owner of the meeting explained that he wanted to report Li Yi's every move in time, Jingzhou sent the news back. ”"Is the wizard a woman?"

Zhao Yunze immediately asked Huo Tiankui."

The Lord is really a god, but I don't know the prophet," Huo Tiankui exclaimed.Zhao Yunze smiled mysteriously, didn't explain, and said, "Brother Huo, this is not a trivial matter.Jingzhou rudder is doing a good job.After you go back, immediately convey my order to the Jingzhou rudder, continue to monitor Li Yi, and keep monitoring day and night.If he has any trouble, he will immediately report it to me" "I know" Huo Tiankui hugged Zhao Yunze and said.Zhao Yunze suddenly frowned again, and asked Huo Tiankui: "Brother Huo, you just said that the Jingzhou rudder was discovered yesterday when a wizard entered Li Yi's mansion" "Yes, it was yesterday." ”"No, Jingzhou to Chang'an, I'm afraid it's thousands of miles away.Jingzhou rudder only found out about this matter yesterday, how did the chief rudder know today, could it be that the dragon protection club can also borrow the military delivery of eight hundred miles to expedite the transmission of news," Zhao Yunze said suspiciously.Huo Tiankui opened his mouth and smiled, and said, "Hahaha, master, didn't my young lady tell you that our Dragon Protector Club uses harrier eagles to deliver news."

The military delivery is eight hundred miles expedited, and the news transmission speed is much slower than that of our Dragon Guardian Society" "What, using eagles to deliver news that the Dragon Guardian Society actually has a genius who trains eagles" Zhao Yunze was surprised.Huo Tiankui said: "Our Dragon Protector Club is a hodgepodge, and there are all kinds of people from the three sects and nine streams.Five years ago, there was a Turk who defected to the Dragon Guardian Society, and this person had no other skills, so he would train eagles.Since he joined the club, it didn't take a year for our Dragon Guardian Club to use Harrier Eagle to deliver news. ”"This is a big skill," Zhao Yunze sighed with surprise on his face.Originally, he still wanted to bring the method of using carrier pigeons to transmit messages into Datang, but he didn't expect that the Dragon Guardian Association had already used the trick of bird messengers.Moreover, people use eagles, which are safer than carrier pigeons.The wisdom of the ancients is not as good as underestimating Huo Tiankui and left after reporting his business.After Zhao Yunze sent Huo Tiankui away, he stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked to the north with his hands in his hands.Luo Yi, you're really going to rebel: