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Chapter 1 Listening to the Advice Before the Order

Several times when I wrote a letter, some officials said they were transferred to the Empress Dowager, but they all disappeared like mud cows entering the sea. Li Yun was worried that a person would be sent to take away the memorial, and that he would not be able to reach the emperor's imperial case at all, so he boldly proposed to meet with the holy person. But the man did not say much, saying that he wanted to report to His Majesty, and turned around and returned to the palace.

"Brother Li, why haven't you submitted a memorial?" Chen Min said in a complaint.

"I am worried that the memorial will be kept by the priest as before, and the emperor will not be able to see it at all!" Li Yun said.

"Oh, the person who came was when Chen Shi was walking in front of the emperor, and he was the one in front of His Majesty. He could present the memorial directly to the emperor, but he missed it!" Chen Min said angrily.

"Ah?! Why didn't you say early?" Li Yun looked like he was wearing a scorching official uniform, thinking that his rank was not high, but was just a small official in the court, and he didn't expect to miss it like this.

"He is the brother of the lower clan. How dare I see him? Thinking of the middle-aged officials accompanying him, you know that they are from the inner court!" Chen Min had seen the visitor clearly just now, worried that he would be recognized by him, so he hid behind others and did not dare to meet him.

"Brother Li, the emperor is a body of ten thousand gold. Officials under the fifth rank cannot enter the palace at all. We have no official position and need special orders to meet us. How can we meet as soon as you want?" Liu Muxi complained.

"Yes, it is not easy for Your Majesty to send someone to see us this time, but you have refused. I am afraid that I will return without success today!" Zheng Youmei lamented.

"If Your Majesty doesn't see me, I will kneel to death here!" Yang Lianshan glanced at several people, took two steps forward angrily, and knelt outside the gate.

"This... this is a crime of coercion of the emperor, and it is a great disrespect!" Zheng Youmei said at a loss when she saw this.

"If Brother Zheng is afraid, you can go!" Li Yun shook his hand and knelt with him and said.

"Oh..." Zhang Ruifeng and Liu Muxi looked at each other, and they felt helpless and knelt side by side. Chen Min and Zheng Youmei sighed heavily, feeling that there was nothing else to do. They just ended up like this and were unwilling to accept it. They shook their heads and knelt down. Seeing this, the students behind them also knelt down together, but the famous scholars and gentry behind did not move.

It was already early winter, with the cloudy sky, the whistling wind blew, and the stone slabs on the square were cold and hard. I didn’t realize anything at the beginning of the fashion, but for a while, not only did my body feel cold, but my legs also hurt. They looked at the closed palace gate, hoping that someone could come out to "liberate" their knees. But a quarter of an hour passed, two quarters of an hour passed... Time seemed to have frozen, becoming longer and longer, and their confidence began to shake.

Amid the 'praying' and calls from the tai students, the palace gate finally opened again. This time, only a middle-level official came out. He came to everyone with two guards and said, "Your Majesty agrees to your request for meeting..."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone was overjoyed and bowed in unison.

"Your Majesty has an order. You can select several people from among you as representatives of the memorials to enter the palace to meet you, and the palace will answer correctly!" The official frowned and said.

"This..." After hearing this, the few people in the leader looked at each other and were unable to decide for a moment. Being able to see Longyan is a great honor, but if they don't do it well, they will soar into the sky. But they are not without worry. If they anger the Lord and His Majesty is angry, they may have stood in and lie out.

"Your Majesty is busy with official duties, and it is not easy to be able to squeeze out some time to summon you. Please make a decision early and don't let Your Majesty wait for a long time!" The Zhongguan saw the people in front of him silent, and the sentient beings behind him whispered and urged.

"Brother Li, I am willing to enter the palace, but if there is any accident, I will bear all my responsibility!" Yang Lianshan said.

"Well... I need to be cautious!" Li Yun pondered for a moment.

"Yes, the power is unpredictable. Once the response is misleading, it will be a huge disaster, and it is not something you can bear!" Liu Muxi said.

"I...I thought it would be better not to enter the palace, otherwise it would be easy to enter, but it would be difficult to come out!" Chen Min said with concern.

"Master, can Your Majesty leave the palace and see him? The students of the Imperial Academy, gentry from all over the country and the famous scholars in the capital also want to meet him!" Zheng Youmei thought for a while and said with courage.

"Bold, who can see Your Majesty as soon as you want?" The middle-official shouted angrily after hearing this.

"..." Zheng Youmei was so scared that she shrank her neck and did not dare to say anything.

"The emperor is the emperor of the world. Why can't he leave the palace and see him at first? Don't he dare to face many scholars?" Yang Lianshan said angrily.

"You are so brave!" The Zhongguan sneered, "Since you don't want to enter the palace, the Sa family has to report back to the emperor, so you don't wait!"

"Master, can you discuss it?" Liu Muxi saw that he turned around and was about to leave, so he hurried forward to stop him.

"The Sa family will report to the emperor truthfully that His Majesty will decide everything, and it is not something that the Sa family cannot do." The Zhongguan said with a shake of his hand.

"Brother Yang, you are too reckless. Why do we come? Isn't it just meeting Tianyan and asking for the people? But you speak ill of each other, and he left with anger and lost the opportunity in vain!" Chen Min complained.

"Yes, Your Majesty issued an edict to let us enter the palace to meet. This is a great opportunity, but you will lose it in just one word." Liu Muxi said with a heartache, "Now, we are unwilling to enter the palace, but the emperor refused to meet. How can we explain to everyone and face all classmates!"

"Your words mean to protest with everyone, and you rejected the summons of Your Majesty. This is a serious crime, and everyone will be implicated!" Zheng Youmei said with a sad face as if a disaster had already come.

"I am the one who rejects the imperial edict, and I am the one who contradicts the official. You can leave as much as you want, and I will bear everything!" Faced with the accusations of everyone, Yang Lianshan snatched the memorial from Li Yun, knelt on the ground and turned towards the palace gate, shouting, "Taiwanese student Yang Lianshan, please accept the advice..."

Everyone was shocked when they saw this, and were at a loss for a moment and stood there. "Brother Yang, don't act irritating, it's not to mislead others or yourself!" Li Yun first reacted, stepped forward and covered his mouth, trying to pull it up. But Yang Lianshan seemed to have made up his mind and refused to get up. Others also stepped forward one after another, rushed forward, and dragged it together.

"Silent, Your Majesty is here!" Just as everyone was entangled, the palace gate opened again, and a group of people came from the palace with a young man wearing a golden crown, a bright yellow brocade robe and a big cloak coming down the steps. The guards saw that they were still pulling here and sang loudly.

"Your Majesty has an order. Please come to see the Tai Student who has submitted a memorial!" The middle-aged official who had just left came to proclaim the order.

"Abide by the order!" The students of the Taizong did not expect that the emperor would really come out of the palace to see him. In a panic, they only cared about their clothes and bowed in unison to salute.

The students of the Taishu don't think they are so arrogant on weekdays that they think that the eldest son of heaven and the second son of earth are not taken seriously by others, but they are guilty when things come to an end. After all, the son of heaven is the son of heaven. One word can determine the life and death of millions of people, and one angry can cause a thousand miles of corpses. After they line up again, they move forward in a regular manner under the guidance of the Zhongguan, and dare not look directly.

"The sentient beings in the Three Zhai of Taixue meet you. Long live my emperor, long live my life!" Everyone stood ten steps in front of the steps and bowed to salute.

"No gift!" Zhao Bing looked at the students in front of him, all of whom were immature, some were anxious, some were curious and peeping, and some were extremely excited. Not only was he funny in his heart, is this the hope of the future officialdom of the Song Dynasty?

Everyone stood up and looked at the emperor in front of them. They saw that he was tall and had a humble smile, which was younger than most of them. However, when the whole country was falling and the two emperors were either captured or destroyed, they led the court to lie in Qiongzhou for ten years and taste gall, and personally led the army to recover Jiangnan in one fell swoop. Just two years later, the emperor commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to defeat the Mongolian Yuan army, recaptured the two Huai Rivers, and fought the Mongolian Yuan envoys to seek peace. In front of him, everyone felt ashamed.

What surprised everyone even more was that the emperor went out of the palace to meet everyone, and he was so casual. There were only a few people accompanying him, and there were no ceremonial guards holding umbrellas and fans. There were only four small yellow gates around him, and more than a dozen guards were on guard. This was even simpler than the court officials' trip. This was indeed consistent with the emperor's dislike of ostentatiousness and advocacy of simplicity.

"You are lying on the ground in front of the gate of the palace to write a memorial. I invite you to the palace to talk to you, but I really refuse. I can only go out of the palace to meet you, and you can report to everyone in person if you have anything to say!" Zhao Bing said to everyone with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the students thought that there were slanderous ministers in the court who confuse the emperor and hindered the emperor's hearing. The memorials were fruitless and ended in failure. They had to hide in the palace and submit memorials again and ask for the people's orders!" Yang Lianshan looked at the people around him and did not dare to speak, let alone Li Yun submitted the memorials according to the initial agreement, so he went out to pay tribute.

"Come on!" Zhao Bing waved his hand, and Xiaohuangmen came forward to take the memorial and handed over it.

"I have to read this thick stack carefully, and I am afraid it will be difficult to finish it for a while. So you can talk to me here!" Zhao Bing took it and smiled.

"If the student is so disrespectful!" Yang Lianshan polites again.

"A little slow, I can't finish it for a while. You have walked all the way and knelt for a long time. You must be tired. Everyone should sit down and talk!" Zhao Bing looked at everyone and sat down on the steps first.

Seeing this, everyone looked at each other. They did not expect that the emperor's body of a thousand gold was sitting on the ground, regardless of his image. However, they also felt inexplicably intimate, but they did not dare to sit. "If you don't thank you, just sit!" At this time, a central official reminded.

"Thank you for your compassion!" Everyone was reminded and bowed quickly to salute. This was unexpected. They responded in a mess, disorganized manner, and all were ashamed. When the emperor sat on the ground, they had no choice but to wait for the seat and sat cross-legged on the ground.

"You can start!" Zhao Bing raised his hand to signal Yang Lianshan.

"After the order!" The memorial has been submitted, but Yang Lianshan didn't care and wrote it one by one based on his memory.
Chapter completed!
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