Chapter 624 Build a big stone tablet
Li Chongjiu is quite old and has been an adult for a long time. However, when he encountered a problem, he didn't find a way to solve it, but he wanted to find a mother. It can be said that he was very unpromising.
Chen Deyin was very arrogant. He dared to question Li Chongjiu at such a moment. It can be said that he had broken his face and just wanted to die. But the ministers were silent because they all got the benefits, and they were those who immediately gained benefits. If they had not received the benefits, of course someone would jump out and scold Chen Deyin. How could he talk to His Highness Chongjiu like this and express his loyalty to Li Chongjiu.
But the key issue is that the ministers have now obtained benefits. Since this benefit has been obtained, no one will throw it away. Li Chongjiu was considered a tiger-mouthed tooth extraction and offended all the civil and military officials in the court. As a result, no one in the civil and military officials in the court helped him.
After hearing Chen Diyin's words, Cai Cai looked at the ministers and thought to herself: "This time you can see who is helping me, my brother. The old man named Chen dared to ask this question, it should be considered as attracting the snake."
She could vaguely guess the intention of Shendi, but it was just floating on the surface and not thinking about it deeper, and she was not in the mood to think about it. Let Yang Ze think about it with his brain!
Li Yan frowned and thought to himself: "This child Chongjiu is so good at offending people. He was questioned by the ministers in public. This is a rare thing. After all, this is not the era of Taizong. At that time, the ministers dared to fight against the emperor, but after his mother's dynasty, the ministers in the court never dared to do this again."
He looked at Li Chongjiu and found that his son was at a loss and felt very disappointed. It was just such a small matter. Why can't his son solve it? He is so old and wants to rely on his father and mother. Can he rely on his life?
Yang Ze thought to himself: "The sunken seal is really a fighting dog. This is not so good. He just became the Shangshu Ling and dared to bite the future prince. It's amazing, so amazing."
None of the ministers were willing to jump out to show their loyalty. Li Chongjiu was too low-key before, and he performed poorly here. There was no need for the ministers to show their loyalty now, looking at Chen Deyin. He was determined not to let Li Chongjiu become the crown prince. Whose subordinate is Chen Deyin, which is Yang Ze's subordinate, does that represent Yang Ze's attitude? Who is willing to offend Yang Ze at this moment? Who is stupider than who is?
But no one else said anything, but the queen couldn't help it. Although she was a little disappointed with Li Chongjiu, she had to support her only son.
The queen stood up and shouted, "Who is the person who is talking? Sign up!"
Chen Deyin shouted: "Reply to the Empress, I will be the Minister of State to Shen Deyin!"
"Palm!" The queen is no longer as big as Shangshuling's official. When she glared at her eyes, she made her look so impressed. In fact, if it is not clear that a high-ranking official like Shangshuling is at fault, then even the queen has no right to let Shangshuling slap himself.
He was so sank that he grinned and thought to himself: "My son is cowardly, but he is so tough. Can I suck myself?"
He wanted to stand up and argue with the queen, but it seemed that the queen should not offend him like this. He couldn't help but look at Yang Ze, just like Li Chongjiu had trouble finding the queen. When he was in trouble, he wanted to find Yang Ze.
Yang Ze cleared his throat and said, "Emperor, Empress, there are many important things to do now. Some small things may be put aside first, and it will not be too late to talk about them later."
Li Yan nodded and said, "No, there is still a serious matter to do, don't waste time on some trivial matters."
After he said this, he felt something was wrong. The matter of establishing a prince could not be said to be a trivial matter, and he was anxious to do big things. Will it make people misunderstand? He was anxious to be the emperor? But he had already said that, but he couldn't take it back.
Yang Ze immediately solved this trouble for him. It doesn’t matter if Li Yan said the wrong thing. As long as he can make a successful situation, nothing will be fine. He said: "The people in the world are looking forward to the emperor ascending the throne. How can my generous empire stay in throne for so long? I also ask the emperor to put the people in the world first and the country first!"
In one sentence, Li Yan was anxious to be the emperor and turned into thinking about the people of the world. Whether it was Li Yan or the queen, it sounded so pleasant.
Li Yan was better, especially the queen. The queen thought to herself: "It should be true to be the emperor this time. There will be no recurrence. Good days have been waiting for so many years, and it should be here!" Thinking of this, the queen turned around and looked at the Queen Dugu lying on the spiritual bed.
Last time Li Yan ascended the throne, the dragon throne under his butt was deposed by Queen Dugu before he could even sit. This time, Queen Dugu had already passed away. Caicai was not a person who loved the throne. Yang Ze was the most powerful person in the entire court, and Yang Ze was Li Yan's most loyal subordinate. Therefore, as long as Li Yan became the emperor, he would not be deposed any more, and no one could be deposed.
The queen breathed a long sigh, took Li Chongjiu's hand, and said, "Chongjiu, go and change your clothes. How can you participate in your father's throne ceremony when you wear this outfit?"
Li Chongjiu was still wearing clothes from when he fled, wearing tight Hu clothes, and was dirty. Of course, he could not participate in the throne ceremony. Moreover, if he was named the crown prince at the ceremony, it would be too unreasonable to wear Hu clothes. After all, he was the prince of the Central Empire. What is the matter of wearing Hu clothes? Even if the Li family has the blood of Hu people in the royal family, that would not work.
Li Chongjiu quickly agreed and thought to himself: "Can I become the prince? Judging from my mother's appearance, I should be able to become the prince! Humph, when I become the prince, this bastard named Shen Deyin, see how I deal with him, I must execute him to death. If I don't cut enough 3,000 swords, I will never let him die!"
Shen Deyin also looked at Li Chongjiu at this time, and he thought to himself: "Wait and see, even if you can become the crown prince, what can you do? The deposed crown princes since ancient times will not die well, you are the next one!"
Wu Youren was standing aside and thought to himself: "It seems that Li Chongjiu is not very good either. I don't know if he can beat Yang Ze. He really looks like a playboy. He is not a role that can be fought for. Well, he doesn't need to fight for whatever he wants. I will help him. The more he is, the better. I will have greater power in the future. This is great, very good."
Liang Dazhong looked at everyone. His idea was very simple, he had no idea. He just spat at Li Chongjiu in his heart!
Everyone followed Li Yan and the Queen, left the bedroom and walked towards the Tai Chi Hall. Another throne ceremony was to be held, and it was held together with the abdication ceremony, which should be a very simple ceremony.
All the ministers thought to themselves: "Our generous empire has all kinds of strange things. There are women who become emperors, and daughters who give the throne to their fathers. The throne ceremony is handled in succession, and they are all very simple. What is this called a thing? It is embarrassing to tell it out. I don't know how to write historical books in the future!"
After a while, everyone arrived at the Tai Chi Hall again. At this time, many ministers came in Chang'an City, and many generals also arrived at this time. The number of ministers was almost the same.
The ministers were busy in the hall. They each tried their best to show their presence, while Yang Ze stood in the hall without saying a word, very quiet. When others came to talk to him, he just smiled and was not arrogant at all. I am a powerful minister. You come here to salute me now. I also want to take advantage of the situation to win over you. I am very modest, just like a boy next door, completely harmless, and I can't tell at all. He just used violent means to help Caicai seize the throne, and now he wants to help Li Yan ascend to the throne.
Cai Cai just sat on the dragon chaise and squinted, like a little girl next door. She was tired, so she had to sleep. She had no momentum of the queen, nor was she sad about the throne she was about to lose. She just leaned against the back of the chair and dozed quietly.
In the back hall of Tai Chi Hall, Li Yan changed into a dragon robe. His own dragon robe was destroyed more than ten years ago. It was absolutely impossible to make it look like it. So he wore an old dragon robe, which was left by his father. It was not very suitable, but who still cared about this at this time?
The queen happily changed into the phoenix robe of Dugu Queen. The clothes that Dugu had worn when she was the queen were found by Liang Dazhong, and they did not fit very well. While changing clothes, the queen thought that she would make many new phoenix robes in the future, which could be worn on every occasion. When she was in the west of Zhenxi, she was almost vomiting with a black cotton jacket. It was disgusting to think about it, and the past was unbearable to look back on.
Li Chongjiu had just changed into Li Yan's old clothes, which was worn by Li Yan when he was the prince. He did not thank Liang Dazhong. Instead, he glared at the old eunuch from time to time to express his dissatisfaction with Liang Dazhong. After that, he would not take any action against Liang Dazhong, an old castrated person. Well, the word "dea" must be added to the front of the old castrated person!
After changing his clothes, Li Yan suddenly said, "I have to sacrifice to the sky and ancestors for a while. Then I have to go to the suburbs. What's the matter? This is completely impossible to do today!"
Just like the difficulties encountered when Caicai ascended the throne, it would be fine to worship the heavens, but it was very difficult to worship ancestors. Caicai could worship the ancestors of the Queen Dugu to show that she had taken over the throne from Dugu. But Li Yan did not want to worship the ancestors of the Dugu family, because the ancestors of the Li family were the emperors. Even if he wanted to worship his ancestors, he could only be the ancestors of the Li family, not the Dugu family.
This is a problem. The imperial tomb of the Li family’s ancestors was in the suburbs, and it was impossible to build the tomb in the city. If you want to go to sacrifice, it would be too late today and there would be no preparations!
The queen said, "I didn't think of this, so what should I do?"
If you don’t sacrifice to heaven and ancestors, the process of the throne ceremony will not be completed, and then the emperor Li Yan is not justified, which is not OK!
Li Yan said: "Then go and ask Yang Ze and let him give him an idea!"
The queen nodded and said, "That's right, if he can't come up with an idea, he can only go to the suburbs."
Both of them felt inappropriate. It doesn’t matter if they abdicate or ascend to the throne, but they can’t sacrifice their ancestors. They can’t let their ancestors see their miserable appearance. That would be too disgraceful to the face of their ancestors. Will they make their ancestors live from the grave?
Li Chongjiu felt angry when he heard this, but he couldn't think of any solution, so he could only let Li Yan send someone to find Yang Ze. After all, if Yang Ze came up with a solution, he could successfully become the crown prince. There was no other way.
Liang Dazhong personally jogged to the front hall, called Yang Ze into the back, and once he talked about the matter to Yang Ze, Yang Ze knew it.
When he arrived at the back hall, Yang Ze saw that Li Yan and his family had changed their clothes, he said, "Emperor, Empress, Prince, I think it is not careless about the matter of telling Tianhe to sacrifice to ancestors, and it needs to be treated solemnly. Moreover, the emperor is not suitable for worshiping the ancestors of Dugu."
Li Chongjiu said: "Aren't you talking nonsense..."
"Chengjiu, how can you talk to Yang Aiqing!" Li Yan frowned, feeling more and more that his son was ignorant. Without Yang Ze, how could you be the prince? It would be fine if you were not grateful for what Yang Ze did before. Now Yang Ze wants to solve our family's problems, but you are still not grateful. How can this happen? It seems that you really need to teach your son well in the future.
The queen said, "Yang Aiqing, what are you thinking? Let's listen."
Yang Ze said: "The emperor is naturally the ancestors of the Li family. But if he goes to the imperial tomb, he is not ready now. He is afraid he is disrespectful to his ancestors. Therefore, I think it is better to completely change the way of sacrifice from today."
Li Yan's eyes lit up. As long as there is a way, it's better for Yang Ze. His brain is quick and he can come up with an idea in an instant.
Yang Ze said: "When Princess Chengqian ascended the throne, she told the sky in the yard and then worshiped the ancestors of Dugu. I thought this method was very good and the emperor could use it as a reference, but it could not be so simple. It should be set as an example for the emperors of later generations and set rules."
Li Yan was even more happy. The ceremony of ascension to the throne was so simple that it could not be simpler. He could set an example for future emperors. So what method is this? If he could really set an example and form rules, then his throne ceremony would not be a joke. At least he would not be laughed at by the people and ministers like he did for the first time as he ascended the throne more than ten years ago. He was driven to the west of the town after a few days of the throne.
"Can you still become a role model and set rules?" The queen was surprised and happy. In fact, she was very dissatisfied with this throne ceremony, but she had no other way and could only accept her fate. Who made them anxious? If there was a good solution, she would certainly be willing to accept it.
Yang Ze said: "Emperor, Empress, you two, you, can pay homage to the ancestors in the square outside the palace..." He expressed his thoughts.
That is, Li Yan and the Queen sacrificed their sacrifices to the sky outside the palace. After offering sacrifices to the sky, they ordered people to erect a stone tablet in the square. This stone tablet must be tall and majestic, and it must become the tallest building in the entire Chang'an City. When all countries come to pay tribute, you can imagine the grand occasion when Li Yan ascended the throne.
Around the stone tablet, Li Yan used relief to write down how his ancestors worked hard and fought with the enemy, and finally obtained the deeds of the empire. They were carved one by one and displayed to people all over the world. Li Yan personally wrote a stele and carved an inscription on the stone tablet.
After the stone tablet was established, Li Yan would bring his ministers to burn incense and pray in front of the stone tablet on important days. The people of the whole city could also come here to admire the reliefs on the stone tablet. This would reflect the solemnity of the stone tablet, and let the people understand the hardships of the Li royal family fighting for the world, so that the people would support the Emperor of the Li family even more.
In this way, the stone tablet became an important place for the surrender of the sky and worshiping the ancestors of the Li family. Over time, it naturally became a rule, and history books would also record it. In the future, the emperors of the Li family had such a law of ascension to the throne. Li Yan would not only not become a joke, but also become the ancestor of the rules for the throne. He made outstanding contributions in his life.
After hearing this, Li Yan was overjoyed and clapped his hands and said, "This method is really great. No one has ever thought of it before, Yang Aiqing, you are really my good helper. You can think of such a wonderful method!" (To be continued)
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Chapter completed!