Chapter 523 Sleepless Night


    It is late at night and no one is quiet.


    Liu Xie tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep.


    ? ? Weiyang Palace in the Han Dynasty was quite large, but as a place where the emperor slept, it was not large.


    The bed is actually a bit like a smaller room, carved with patterns to form a rectangular space, leaving an area on the front for people to climb onto the bed.


    Liu Xie glanced at the burning lamp not far from the bed.


    ?During this period, the oil in the everlasting lamp was changed from rapeseed oil to fish oil. There is no black smoke and no odor. It seems that the wick has also been changed, right?


    At least now it is rare to hear the sound of wicks popping in the middle of the night.


    Liu Xie turned over and looked at the top of the bed. He could vaguely see a large pattern and some squares through the gauze curtain. There are eighty-one squares on the left and eighty-one on the right, a total of one hundred and sixty-two...


    As for the big pattern, in addition to a coiled dragon among the clouds in the center, there are also five cranes and nine bats, as well as some clouds, branches, leaves, flowers and fruits...


    Liu Xie was very familiar with these things and could tell where they were without even looking.


    Even everything in this room was very clear to Liu Xie.


    I don’t know why the right claw of the dragon carved on the top of the third pillar on the left side of the house is missing. Anyway, a finger tip is missing...


    There is a piece of wood carving on the right, which is probably affected by moisture. There are already some tiny bubbles on the paint surface, and it may start to peel off after a while...


    ??In the past, whenever he couldn''t sleep at night, Liu Xie would count and look at the numbers over and over again until he was exhausted and could fall asleep.


    ?But some time ago, well, it should be after the Dong thief was executed, Liu Xie basically fell asleep when the time came, and he could sleep until dawn.


    ?But today, for some reason, Liu Xie couldn''t sleep again...


    Liu Xie turned over again in frustration, this time with a slightly larger movement, and kicked his foot onto the bed board beside him, making a muffled "dong" sound.


    Perhaps awakened by this sound, a little black head quickly appeared not far away, and then a figure climbed up from the ground. He took a few steps to Liu Xie''s bed and saw Liu Xie shining brightly in the dark night. With his eyes, he couldn''t help but subconsciously said: "Can''t sleep again, Your Majesty?"


    Liu Xie said "hmm" and simply sat up holding the brocade quilt, and said: "Dong Huan, bring your quilt here, let''s talk..."


    "Wei, Your Majesty." Xiaohuangmen Dong Huan moved lightly, and soon he spread a cotton quilt on the floor at the foot of Liu Xie''s bed.


    "...In two days, there will be a big sacrifice..." When Liu Xie thought of this, he felt that his heart was pounding and it was difficult to calm down.


    "Yes, Your Majesty." Dong hugged the quilt, leaned his back against the foot of Liu Xie''s bed, rubbed it twice, and replied.


    "Although this is not my first time to participate in the festival, but...well..." Liu Xie didn''t know how to describe it, and finally hesitated and said, "...it''s not the same anyway..."


    Although what Liu Xie said was a bit incomprehensible, Dong Huan could understand it.


    As a young **** who grew up with Liu Xie since childhood, he is called a playmate in some nice words, but in fact he is Liu Xie''s scapegoat. No matter what Liu Xie did wrong, such as running outside on a rainy day, catching bugs for fun, etc., anyone who broke the rules would be Dong Huan who was punished first.


    ??The court guards who carry out the punishment are very measured and will not be cruel or leave any internal injuries. However, they will definitely beat Dong Huan''s two buttocks to pieces, leaving blood dripping and shocking...


    This is for Liu Xie to see.


    ?Fortunately, Liu Xie was very smart. After being reprimanded once, he basically never did something again, so Dong Huan did not suffer too many punishments.


    In the dead of night, it''s time for these two to be alone together. Of course, when Liu Xie turns thirteen, he will start marrying the queen''s concubines, etc. By then, there will be someone else in this small bedroom. Joined in…


    Dong Huan replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, this time is different."


    Liu Xie said excitedly: "You know, this time it will be changed to literary dance!" Wen dance and martial dance were the most important ceremonial music and dance during the royal sacrifices in the Han Dynasty. In fact, the dance teams were not two groups of people, but the same dance team. A team''s "culture" or "martial arts" is only displayed by the different dance equipment and movements. Wenwu means holding Yuyao, and Wuwu means holding Qianqi.


    There is no problem in choosing between civil dance and martial dance for sacrifices. However, at the end of the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he fought all the year round, first against the Xiliang Qiang people, and later during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so he always used the dance that represented martial courage. Mostly martial arts. Later, after Dong Zhuo came to Beijing, because of Dong Zhuo''s personal hobbies, he always used martial arts...


    Dong Huan was also looking forward to it and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, it seems that we haven''t seen Wen Wu for a long time..."


    ??Colorful feathers are more beautiful than Qianqi, at least in Dong Huan''s opinion, no matter from which angle...


    Liu Xie hummed and continued: "...and we also need to add the music and dance of ''Zhaode'' to the ''Shijule''..." Thinking of this, Liu Xie was inevitably a little excited. The music and dance of Zhaode were performed in memory of Emperor Wen. Do, "Pass through Liang, but not far away; eliminate slander, eliminate corporal punishment, reward the elders, accept the lonely, and drive away the group of people." Does this mean that I can be like Emperor Taizong, calming down the war and restoring the power of Han Dynasty? ?


    Dong Huan replied seriously: "Your Majesty will surely be like His Majesty Taizong, a man of great virtue and benefit to the world."


    Speaking of Emperor Taizong, Liu Xie also stopped smiling, with a stern face, nodded "Yeah" seriously, and then said: "Tomorrow I want to go to the Ancestral Temple first... It has been a long time since I came to Chang''an, and I haven''t gone there yet. After a few times...the spirits of my ancestors in heaven will think that my descendants are unfilial..."


    Strictly speaking, the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Chang''an and the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Luoyang are not from the same system. The Ancestral Temple in Chang''an is based on Liu Bang, while the Ancestral Temple in Luoyang is based on Liu Xiu...


    ??Although Liu Xie''s surname is Liu, in a sense, his bloodline is more inclined to Liu Xiu, and compared with Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, well, it is already considered thin.


    ??However, now the Ancestral Temple in Luoyang has been reduced to ashes, and only the Ancestral Temple in Chang''an is left. Although the memorial tablet of Shizu has been added to it,...


    How to say…


    Anyway, Liu Xie still felt a little weird in his heart, so he rarely went there.


    ?But now, it’s time to go talk to your ancestors, right?


    ??The traitor who brought disaster to the Han Dynasty has been executed. With the help of Wang Situ, things will definitely get better!


    Liu Xie clenched his little fists with a smile, looking forward to and imagining...


    ?After a while, Liu Xie suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, which Fei Zhonglang have you seen? What do you think of this person?"


    …”


    Liu Xie didn''t hear Dong Huan''s response for a long time, so he couldn''t help but stretched his head and took a look, only to see that Dong Huan couldn''t hold on anymore, his head was leaning on the foot of the bed, and he fell asleep.


    Liu Xie curled his lips, but did not wake up Dong Huan. He moved his body and lay down again. After a while, he closed his eyes, his breath gradually became lower, and he fell asleep.


    ?The master and servant have experienced situations like this many times in Weiyang Palace, but this time it may be a little different...


    But, who knows?


    Big data.


    Reminds me that the author also took a class on data mining when he was in college...


    There were even research monks specializing in deep mining of economic data at that time...


    But I remember that at that time, no such theory had been proposed...


    Or it already exists, but it is not open to ordinary people...


    In a sense, a person’s behavior can be completely divided into various 0s and 1s in the electronic age...


    A fixed IP, when all are monitored by the data network, then the behavior of this IP can be outlined, whether it likes to buy skirts or pants, likes red or blue, likes travel or food, likes radical or conservative, likes political system or individual…


    All of it, sketch out an outline of someone who is not you, but is you, and then you can predict what you will do next...


    (End of this chapter)