The day was the third day of February.
The day was breaking, it was still dark outside, the pale black sky was studded with a few remnants of stars, and the air became even colder as the biting wind whistled and blew.
Zhu Pingan packed his bag, said goodbye to Yang Jisheng, and continued to Beijing. Yang Jisheng still had to wait for a friend here before going to the capital, so Zhu Pingan left first.
Tianjin Wei was not that far from the capital, so Zhu Pingan rode his horse all the way without resting, and arrived at the capital at around two in the afternoon.
The capital is the heart of the entire Daming dynasty, bordered by Liao Jie in the east, Taihang in the west, Shuo Desert in the north, the military capital on the back, and the Central Plains in the south. The capital city was like a savage beast lying before Zhu Pingan, majestic in scale and imposing, even more shocking than when he saw the city of Nanjing.
Gates, walls, towers, urns, corner towers, archery towers, this city was armed to the teeth. The moat outside the capital alone, Zhu Pingan looked at no less than fifty metres wide.
In front of the world’s strongest city, even heaven and earth are small.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was the first time that Zhu Pingan had been to the capital, but if he counted his previous life, Zhu Pingan had been to Beijing many times. Of course, the Beijing of that time and the Beijing of now were two different things. At that time, there were only a few preserved gates such as Dongbianmen and Zhengyangmen, most of the other gates, especially the city walls, could not be seen at that time. Unlike nowadays, not only the city gates and walls are visible, even the corner towers and archery towers can be seen clearly.
Beijing city gates are a bustling, in and out of the city gates of the pedestrian vehicles like a tide, an endless stream.
The foot of the Son of Heaven is really extraordinary temperament.
Zhu Pingan along with the flow of people to go to the city gate to accept the check into the city, the turn of Zhu Pingan, Zhu Pingan will carry the lifer credentials out, to the soldiers guarding the city to show. All things are inferior, only the book is high, the identity of the man in this dynasty is a save money, save time, save effort but also be envied and hated by the passport.
It has been tried and tested in the past.
But this time does not seem to have the same effect as in the past, the soldiers guarding the city verified Zhu Pingan’s status as a scholar, there is no unnecessary change on their faces, they guard the city gate has seen more dignitaries. They had seen a lot of dignitaries and officials, so this little man would not really be in their eyes.
“Five Wen.” The soldiers guarding the city gates returned Zhu Pingan’s Lifu Ren voucher to him, then stretched out his hand and said expressionlessly.
“What?”
Zhu Pingan sniffed. Somewhat unbelievable, how come you are still asking me for a fee, although he did not have any thoughts of the privileged class, he was used to the convenience that came with the status of a lifer. After presenting the Lifengren credentials, the gatekeeper soldier still asked for a fee. This made Zhu Pingan somewhat unconvinced.
“You don’t have to pay, but you have to pay for this horse of yours to enter the city.” The guard soldier looked at Zhu Pingan expressionlessly, not putting Zhu Pingan’s status as a lifer in his eyes at all.
Err.
What kind of logic is this!
“This is the rule of our capital, it looks like you’re from out of town, you have to pay if you want to enter, if you don’t pay, don’t enter.” The soldier guarding the gate squinted at Zhu Ping An and urged with his hand outstretched.
Looking at so many people waiting behind him to enter the city, Zhu Pingan didn’t want to delay everyone’s time because of this five pennies of his own, since this soldier dared to ask for money so openly, he must have something to rely on. Since he is a newcomer to the city, it is better for him not to get into trouble.
So, Zhu Pingan put his hand into his sleeve and felt out the five pennies, and was about to hand it over to the soldier guarding the door, when he heard a burst of chicken and dog jumping behind him, accompanied by the cries of a child.
Zhu Pingan turned his head and saw a group of brocade hat and sable fur horseback riding teenagers, laughing and horse in the crowd of each other to compare the speed, not only did not slow down the horse, but speed up the speed, in the crowd of left and right. Laughing and jocularly steering their horses towards the city gate hole.
Queuing up to enter the city of people saw this group of horseback riding brocade hat sable fur teenagers, have to dodge, also dodge when it is too late, such as the child who is crying. It is because of dodge is too late by the horse knocked down on the ground.
The child’s family just hold the child, the perpetrator did not have the slightest intention to pursue, the child looked to be knocked down, but only superficial injuries, so the family is also in line with the idea of peace of mind. As far as they, the common people are concerned, the teenagers who steered the horse. It’s not something they can afford to mess with.
“If you don’t want to die, hurry up and get out of the way.”
At the end of this group of brocade hats and sable furs teenagers was a fat man who was even fatter than Xue Chi, riding a high horse that was black in colour, much taller and more majestic than the killer black horse that Zhu Pingan was leading, however, even though this black horse was much more majestic, it was still too much to carry such a big fat man, so it walked at the end.
This fat man was grumbling about running at the end, waving his horse whip to scare the people in front of him who were blocking the way, and rode his horse forward to catch up in a hurry, his anxious fat face was full of sweat.
“Hahaha, Fatty Zhou, wait for your treat. Giddy up.”
“Fatty Zhou, today we’re going to go to Range Moon House and bleed you well.”
“Heh heh heh, still bragging about the Persian War Horse, not this time, don’t deal with us like last time, tonight’s rouge horse, but we have to pick it ourselves.”
A group of horse steering brocade hat 貂裘少年, laughing and joking, in the twinkling of an eye to the city gate hole, along the way don’t know how many queuing up to enter the city suffered.
If this is put in the modern era, it is a group of biking second generation ah, what happened is what is under 18 years old, what is usually good academic performance, what won awards and so on!
“What are you still waiting for, hurry and get out of the way.” The soldiers guarding the city saw Zhu Pingan still standing at the city gate, said anxiously, and hurriedly pulled Zhu Pingan towards the root of the wall.
It was not that he was afraid that Zhu Pingan would be hit by these Second Generation Ancestors, but he was afraid that Zhu Pingan would get in the way of these Second Generation Ancestors and cause these Second Generation Ancestors to be unhappy.
The young men who came with their horses, did not even give a damn about the soldiers guarding the city, whistled past the horses as if the city gate was their front door, and the soldiers guarding the city also looked as if they were taking it for granted.
“Damn He Laoliu, I blame you for blocking the city gate so tightly, causing me to lose again!”
When the fat man who was the last to pass by the city gate hole, he screwed up his fat face and spat at the guarding soldier, cursing and steering his horse through.
“You cursed, I’m sorry Young Master Zhou.”
The gate guard soldier didn’t even wipe the saliva on his face, nodding his head and apologising repeatedly at the fat man’s back, waiting for this group of second-generation ancestors to walk away before the city guard soldier wiped the saliva off his face.
“Are you still entering?” After the city guard soldier wiped off the saliva, he turned his head to look at Zhu Pingan and asked with a temper.
The contrast between former respect and arrogance is really big.
“Enter.”
Looking at the unwiped saliva on the faces of the soldiers guarding the city, Zhu Pingan smiled faintly and placed five pennies in the hands of the soldiers guarding the city before leading the killer black horse into the city!
