Chapter 580: Blessed King Zhu Changxun
The prefect Feng Yijun said in a crying voice: "I don't know what Your Highness, Prince Fu is thinking. Old sir, if you want to save Luoyang, you can only come into the palace to persuade Prince Fu!"
"You are the civil and military officials of the country, and you can't persuade Your Highness Fu. I'm going to ask for a meeting in a leisurely manner, which may not work even more." Lu Weiqi asked in surprise.
Wang Yinchang repeatedly said, "Otherwise, otherwise. Mr. Wang was once a Grand Marshal of the imperial court and a famous scholar of Neo-Confucianism. He was the man of Heluo. His Highness, King Fu, respects Mr. Huo very much on weekdays and never refuses to meet him."
The prefect Feng Yijun advised: "Your Majesty must come to the palace to persuade His Highness Fu to save a living creature!"
The gentry also advised each other: "I would like to ask the old gentleman to meet His Highness, King Fu. I will send you the safety of Luoyang to you!"
"Okay!" Lu Weiqi stood up passionately, "Since you are not able to show your interests in the face of King Fu, then I have to give it a try."
The students of the academy also supported it because whether Luoyang City can be defended depends entirely on how King Fu does it. As long as King Fu opens the warehouse and releases grain and saves the people in the area, the people will naturally be grateful and willing to climb the city to defend the city. As long as King Fu takes out the silver and makes up the arrears of military pay, those who join the army will be grateful and strive to fight the enemy.
A circle of big red palace walls outside the Fu Palace divides Luoyang City into two worlds. Outside are hungry and frozen bones, inside is a world of luxury, corrupt, drunkenness and dreams.
The sound of sheng, Xiao, the sound of pipa and sandalwood boards came from the palace, and the sound of pipa was vaguely heard in the deep harem, floating in the palace.
In a bedroom behind Fu'an Hall, there were ground dragons burning underground in the main hall. Outside the hall, the ground was cold and cold, but the hall was as warm as spring. The fat King of Fu Zhu Changxun lay in a carved wreath chair covered with marten, stretched his fat legs forward, and placed his feet on a sandalwood short table covered with thick red velvet. There were four palace maids on each side, and gently pounded his arms and thighs.
In front of the hall, there were a group of musical prostitutes dressed in palace maids, holding various musical instruments. A beautiful woman sat on a low stool playing the pipa, and the other was kneeling with accompaniment with the cave. King Fu closed his eyes and snored most of the time with the music. Sometimes the snoring suddenly sounded, but then he fell down.
When the song ended, the music in the hall stopped, and King Fu's snoring also ended. On King Fu's fat face, a pair of small eyes slightly opened: "When can I get my bear's paw?"
A eunuch standing behind him took two steps and bowed to answer: "Your Majesty, I have just asked, and the bear's paw is almost ripe."
"Why isn't it ready yet? Don't stew it early?"
"Prince, this bear's paw must be stewed for two hours. I will stew it at noon, and it will be half an hour."
The palace maid of Si Le asked, "Prince, do you want me to retreat?"
"No need, play another song "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace."
The music sounded, and with the rhythm of the music, the hall sounded again with thunderous snoring.
At this moment, the eunuch of the royal palace walked into the hall and saw that King Fu was already asleep, so he winked at the playmaid.
The palace maids retreated one after another, and the music stopped. It was strange. As soon as the music stopped, King Fu's snoring stopped. Zhu Changxun opened his sleepy eyes: "What's going on? Why did the music stop?"
The eunuch stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, it was my servant who asked Si Le to stop."
"Liu Daban, what's the matter with me?" King Fu's sagging eyelids twitched.
The eunuch winked at the four palace maids standing on both sides of King Fu, and gestured to the palace maids playing music. All the palace maids and eunuchs in the hall retreated, leaving only him and King Fu. At this time, Eunuch Liu knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, Lu Weiqi has been waiting for a long time to come."
King Fu said impatiently: "What's wrong with this old man? Tell him, and I'll say that I'm feeling uncomfortable today and cannot meet guests. Regardless of big or small matters, I'll ask him to come again next day."
"Prince, Lu Weiqi said he must see you, and said that if the prince did not see him, he would hit him and die in the palace."
When King Fu was told that Lu Weiqi was forced to die, he was a little angry: "What's the matter with this old man? "
"He said that this matter is related to the safety of the prince's life."
"I am in danger of my life?" King Fu sneered, "I am a dignified prince, who can threaten me?"
"No, Prince. Recently, the thieves have been in great force, and the troops have arrived in Yiyang. The thieves threatened to defeat Luoyang, and they must, and they must catch you. Lu Weiqi asked to see the prince for this matter, and they must see him."
Zhu Changxun finally understood that this matter was extraordinary and he still had to meet the old man. So he said to Eunuch Liu: "Let that old man wait for me in Fu'an Palace, and let me call the prince too!"
King Fu is wearing a nightgown now, so it is really troublesome to change into a python robe to see someone. His legs could hardly support his weight of more than 360 pounds. Several palace maids and eunuchs were very furious and helped King Fu remove the nightgown, put on the python robe, and after changing his clothes, the palace maids and eunuchs were exhausted and panting. King Fu was sweating profusely and could not breathe.
If a person is too fat, his heart cannot bear the need for such a heavy body. If Li Guodong saw it, he would suspect that King Fu had serious cardiovascular blockage and hypertension.
With the help of two eunuchs, King Fu walked out of the bedroom and came to Fu'an Hall where he met guests in front.
Lu Weiqi saw a moving mountain of meat pressing towards him, and quickly knelt down and saluted: "Caomin has seen His Highness the King of Fu!"
"Give me a seat!" said King Fu.
When Lu Weiqi sat down, King Fu Zhu Changxun asked, "Why did you come to me for me?"
Lu Weiqi hurriedly bowed and bowed, "Prince, the bandits are less than thirty miles away from Luoyang! They are about to surround Luoyang! There are many hungry people in Luoyang City, and the soldiers have not received military pay for nearly a year. They are so excited that they think about following the bandits. The officials and gentry are helpless and wait for them to die together."
King Fu sneered: "Luoyang City is high and deep, and it is as solid as a golden soup. How dare the thieves come to attack the city?"
"The thieves are in power, Yongning City has been broken, and King Wan'an is killed. The army in Luoyang City is unstable. Although there is a Jincheng Tangchi, it cannot be defended. Prince, the place is not as good as the people!"
Zhu Changxun said angrily: "Luoyang is the prince's fief. How dare the bandits attack Luoyang?"
"The thief once broke Fengyang and burned the imperial tomb. Prince, have you forgotten?"
"Hmph! I am the emperor's uncle now. How dare the thief harm me?"
"Please forgive the people for saying frankly that Wuyin is not invisible. I heard that the thief once threatened everywhere to break through Luoyang and capture you alive, Prince."
King Fu's fragile heart beat: "Be serious?"
"It's true! All three-foot-foot-foot-child children in Luoyang City know it!"
King Fu only felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat: "What are the ideas that sir can save me?"
Lu Weiqi stood up from the chair and knelt down and said, "The royal family has countless money and a mountain of grain. Today, the grass people have no other good plans. I just want your highness to make up all the military pay owed to the soldiers for eight months, and to reward the meritorious people who defend the city, and then disperse the food to save the hungry people in the city, and organize the hungry people to help defend the city. In this way, the army will be strong and the people will be at peace, and the Luoyang City can be held."
King Fu sneered, and it turned out that another one was convinced to pay me! He sneered: "Mr. Lu, the duty of defending the territory is in the local officials! If the city is broken, I will not survive, and none of them, all the officials with royal salaries, who are large and small. Even if anyone of them can escape from the hands of the thieves, they will not escape the national law. Humph! I don't believe it. In order to save their lives, they can still defend Luoyang!"
Lu Weiqi kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Highness is a bad person! It is precisely because there is no money or food in Luoyang City that all officials are at a loss that the officials recommended the Minjin Palace to tell His Highness about the pros and cons, and begged His Highness to take out some of the money in the warehouse and grain in the warehouse to protect Luoyang."
Chapter completed!