Chapter 200 Three things in court meeting

Seeing that Zhang Feng came in, Zhang Liang immediately stood up and greeted him, "Brother, Wuque is here."

Tang Cheng smiled and stood up and bowed to Zhang Song, saying, "I have met Lord Zhang."

Zhang Feng, who came into the room, bowed to Tang Cheng and barely showed a smile on his face, "Okay, I heard the third prince and my son-in-law mention you many times, and they all say that you are a young talent, please do whatever you want."

Because he wanted to speak purely, Zhang Liang did not leave anyone outside the study. "Brother, Yuan Zhengri's grand ceremony is just a routine article. What other major things can make you so angry?" As he said, he handed over the poured tea.

"Hmph", Zhang Feng chucked the teacup he had received and went to the table beside him, "Why is there no big deal? Every thing at the grand court meeting today is a big deal."

Just as Zhang Liang was about to say something, Tang Cheng, who smiled and took over the conversation and said to him: "Mingzhi, first order the kitchen to send some food. If you get up early in the court meeting, you may not have an appetite. After so long, Lord Zhang must be hungry. No matter what, you don't care about it, and you can put some cushion first. In addition, it is also serious to find someone to serve Lord Zhang to change the court clothes. Not to mention Lord Zhang's clothes, we feel tired even if we look at him."

Hearing this, Zhang Liang touched his forehead and blamed himself: "Wuque is still thoughtful." Even Zhang Feng smiled, "Changing clothes is serious. As for food, second brother, please tell me that it doesn't have to be too troublesome. Just put more onions. Wuque doesn't say that, it's okay. I really feel a little hungry when I say this."

With Tang Cheng's interruption, the atmosphere in the room improved a lot. After Zhang Rong changed into a regular dress, he obviously lost the excitement he had just now.

Zhang Liang changed him another cup of hot tea and handed it over, "Brother, what happened at the grand court meeting?"

"According to the court ceremony, all the ministers and ministers at the grand court meeting on the dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty should be reported by the censor of the palace to report the auspiciousness of the world. The emperor's son is virtuous, and auspiciousness comes from heaven to praise it. This auspiciousness has always been born in response to the emperor. Who dares to overthrow it? But today, all the things were rushed to the queen." Zhang Feng took a sip of tea and continued: "First, it came from the auspiciousness of the Grand Historian Kashyapa, and said that he often listened to children's songs in Chang'an City recently. The first two lines of this song are 'Sangtou Wei, and the female Wei'. It's ridiculous. Have you ever heard such a song?"

Children's songs are nothing in later generations, but they were amazing in ancient China. Whenever there are dynasties, such songs will definitely be circulated all over the world. "Eighteen Sons" is the most famous example, because songs are the easiest to sing and are the most convinced by ordinary people and are the will of heaven. Therefore, it is really powerful for conquering the hearts of the people. Therefore, there are many imitations. Over time, making nursery rhymes has become a very powerful killer move in the art of wisdom.

It is precisely because of this that the courts of all dynasties have strictly supervised this. Once they find that anyone who created this song was punished for the crime of treason, they did not expect that the Tang Dynasty would actually publish the song of Empress Wei.

"Brother, can you take this seriously?" Zhang Liang said it and murmured the two songs "Sangtou Wei, a woman Wei". In history, any song like this has to go around a bend to understand its meaning. He used this to fool the people by pretending to be profound and clumsy methods.

"Mingzhi, don't think too much. Wei is the queen's surname. The queen holds silkworms and mulberry branches. This sentence should be praised by the empress's mother to treat the world. She raises silkworms and plants mulberry to teach women all over the world. Together, it means that the queen's virtue has been recognized by God. Lord Zhang, I don't know if I can understand it correctly?" Seeing Zhang Feng nodding, Tang Chengzhan smiled and said, "This word is really clumsy, which is far inferior to the "Character Mother" sung by the world before the empress was established in the fake dynasty."

"What does it matter? The important thing is the last sentence of Wuque. Before the Empress came to the court, "The Charming Mother" had been spread all over the world. The people of Guizhou competed to sing. At today's court meeting, Kashyapa Shizhong also presented twelve songs "Sang Wei Song" and asked to sing them all over the world. Your Majesty... was actually the palace!"

"Wei is clearly testing the hearts of the people and then winning the hearts of the people. Your Majesty..." Zhang Liang's words afterwards were really impossible, and they finally came to his brother's sigh just now.

Seeing them like this, Tang Cheng couldn't help but sigh. The previous dynasty was vivid, and Empress Wei was just drawing a picture of such a big picture. Today, he didn't see such a clear trick. It was really interesting to be the emperor as he was.

"It's not only that, but then the Wei Party dug out the old story of the colorful auspicious clouds that were heard in the palace last year. It was said that the colorful auspicious clouds rose from the queen's dress were auspicious signs from the sky. The edict was issued to paint the "Auspicious Cloud Picture" based on it. Your Majesty also approved it. After the palace oral instructions, the picture was completed, it was first circulated in the imperial city, and then many copies were drawn and spread throughout the world." Zhang Meng said the more he said, the lower the voice, "It takes less than two months at most, and the people of the world should know that the Queen has auspicious auspiciousness."

At this point, Tang Cheng and Zhang Liang were speechless. Listening to Zhang Feng continue to say, "After the auspicious incident, Wei Dang submitted another memorial, saying that on the day of Yuanzheng, please give His Majesty and the Queen the title, and as usual, the palace should be approved. Now Your Majesty has been honored as Emperor Yingtian Shenlong, and the Queen is respected as Empress Shuntian Yisheng."

At this moment, the servant brought the soup cake, which was the hand-rolled noodles in later generations. While taking the soup cake himself, Zhang Liang said in a muffled voice: "What a great emperor, how similar is the Emperor, who was called the Emperor Gaozong and Empress Zetian in the previous dynasty?"

At this time, scholars are not talking about anything when they eat, and they don’t say anything. When Zhang Feng was eating noodles, the study room became quiet for a while. Tang Cheng played with the tea cup in his hand and analyzed the information just now. Compared to those who heard the earth when he first came to Chang'an, Empress Wei’s steps were obviously getting bigger and bigger.

Taking advantage of the high-level vacancy that occurred when the former abolished Prince's uterus changed, Empress Wei successively stuffed his tribe members Wei Wen, Wei Anshi, Wei Juyuan and his confidant Chu Ke, who was received from Wu Sansi, into the Political Affairs Hall, so that there are as many as seven or eight people in the Political Affairs Hall now ranked as prime ministers. The Political Affairs Hall is like this, so there is no need to mention the other tribesmen who were placed in temples and prisons of various imperial cities. After more than a year of adjustment and completion of the internal affairs arrangement, Empress Wei's subsequent big move was to replace the Yulin General more than a month ago, and all the generals of the Yulin Guards and Four Army were replaced overnight.

One internal affairs, one military affairs were arranged on both sides, but compared with the whole world, this was considered to have only happened in Chang'an. But after these two things were arranged, taking advantage of the first dynasty meeting after the New Year, Empress Wei officially began to expand outward. Originally, the Queen's auspiciousness was spread throughout the world only in the Chang'an Palace. At this time, the local people were not immune to these songs, talismans, and the colorful auspicious clouds. In addition, it was spread through the formal channels of the court, which added an official credibility to this. The people could not believe it or not. At the same time, the edict of the Queen's title of the Queen was issued to the world... This is not a vivid Tang Dynasty version of the god creation movement!

In the past, I didn’t have a high evaluation of Empress Wei in history books, and some wanted to write her as a fool. But when I came to Tang personally, I witnessed her one after another, first in the court and then in the Yulin, and then in the outside, Tang Cheng really sneered at the statement in later history books. Can a woman do this, and the fool come out with a capable way?

Now, let’s look at the ceremony of worshiping the sky in the southern suburbs. Looking at the arrangement of Empress Wei, as long as she participates in this ceremony, the halo of the “Divine Destiny of Heaven” above her head is steadily put in front of the subjects of the world, which also means that all her early arrangements have been completed, and when will they be launched from now on...

Damn, if I had known that I would have traveled through time this time, it would be difficult for me to find a job in the future even if I studied history. I would have to apply to this department when I was in college!

Seeing Zhang Song finishing a bowl of soup noodles, Tang Cheng asked a crucial question, "Is the time for the ceremony to celebrate the ritual ceremony in the southern suburbs of heaven today?"

Zhang Feng was about to answer when he heard footsteps outside the study. Then the servant came to report and said that the Third Highness had arrived.

"Dongbo, I heard Wang Maozhong say that you walked west after leaving the Zhuque Gate. You know that you must have arrived here in Mingzhi. It turns out that way." After Li Longji smiled and said to Zhang Song, he turned his head and said, "Wuque is here too, this is a coincidence."

Tang Cheng smiled when he heard this. Zhang Feng replied, "After the scattered court, my subordinates saw His Highness walking with the other princesses in the palace, and knew that something was wrong, so they left first."

"I go to greet all my uncles and aunts every year. It's enough if my elder brother is there. It doesn't matter whether I will go or not. So I will leave after I ran away." At this point, Li Longjilang smiled and waved his hand, "Let's go. Talking in the house."

Because what I said just now was too heartbreaking, the atmosphere between Tang Cheng and the other three was a bit dull. When Li Longji, who was full of heroism, came, and smiled brightened the original dullness in the study.

Since meeting for so long, Tang Cheng met Li Longji, a young man from all over the world, and every time he met, he could feel his cheerfulness and sincerity. Therefore, Tang Cheng summed up another advantage of him, that is, he has a strong affinity.

Li Longji is the investment target of Tang Cheng bet on all his wealth, so every time he has the opportunity to meet, Tang Cheng always seizes the opportunity to observe and analyze, has great ambitions, dares to take the lead, can humbly accept words, and has strong affinity. Although the situation in front of him is not good, Tang Cheng has added more confidence through his observation of Li Longji.

After Wu Zetian of the previous dynasty killed the Li Tang royal family, not many of the older generation survived, and most of them were the restless and safe people like the King of Xiang. The only outstanding Princess Taiping was still a female. The older generation had no point of relying on him, while the younger generation was mostly scared by the clan killing he witnessed in childhood. Everyone was young and thought about how to avoid disasters. The most typical example was Li Longji's elder brother Li Chengqi. In this case, among the men of the two generations of the royal family, Li Longji was indeed a prominent figure. It was worth investing in this person.

When Tang Cheng was thinking about this, Zhang Liang asked softly: "What's the matter with the palace descendant looking for subordinates?"

"I want to arrange a few horse racing games in the near future. The list will be discussed with Dongbo, Youqiu and others. As for the matter of this venue, Lao Mingzhi has suffered."

"Ma Lima" and when he heard this title, Tang Cheng immediately realized that Li Longji's move was not about drinking. At that time, the emperor's preferences and promotions had become a popular sport in the world. Even Tang Cheng practiced with him when he was studying in Shannan. This was already the case in Shannan, and the prosperity of Chang'an was even more unspeakable.

It would be inconvenient to visit people everywhere in the first month of the year, and it would be much more normal to interact with the target through such a horse racing competition. In the horse racing competition between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo last year, the Tang Dynasty defeated its opponent in four-on-ten. Li Longji was one of the four players in the battle field. He loved to play horse racing and was well known to everyone in the capital. Others can't say anything. Even if it was passed to Queen Wei, it was the best cover for Li Longji.

It seems that an unintentional horse racing is a good trick to kill two birds with one stone.

"Yes, my subordinates will start handling this matter in the afternoon."

"Okay", Li Longji nodded to Zhang Liang, looked at Tang Cheng and said, "Wuque, what are you talking about just now?"

"Mr. Zhang was full of righteous indignation at the morning court meeting," Tang Cheng smiled and said, "I was asking the date of the ceremony for the sacrifice ceremony of the southern suburbs to be determined."

"It's settled, it's March." Li Longji shook his head as he spoke, "At the end of last year, Empress Wei first handed over this matter to the Ministry of Rites, he was stabbed out, which made the entire Chang'an City excited. The matter was then eliminated for some time. Like many officials, I still thought that the queen had some concerns and abandoned this idea, but I didn't expect that the court meeting would be given up in one fell swoop."

Tang Cheng naturally knew who reported the matter. Hearing this, he asked: "Is the princess allowed her to decide on such a big deal?"

"The princess cannot personally break up to refute this matter. However, the civil officials who had been in good relations with her have tried their best. At that time, the two ministers in the court argued fiercely about this matter, and it was not impossible to stop Queen Yaxian. Unfortunately, the matter ended up breaking the matter with Zhu Qinming and Dou Huaizhen."

"Dou Huaizhen has no virtue, Zhu Qinming is shameless." It was Zhang Feng who said this.

"Dongbo said it well," Li Longji was also angry when he mentioned these two people. "If you want to refute this matter, you can only start with the ritual system. At that time, the focus of the debate between the two sides was also here. Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, have you ever participated in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven with a woman? This is indeed the fatal weakness of the Wei Party. It is hateful that Zhu Qinming was flattering the empress. He jumped out and said that when he was reading ancient books, he found that when the imperial court had great sacrifices in ancient times, there were empresses participating in the ceremony of sacrifices. Therefore, Empress Wei should also participate in this ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth."

"If such a big thing is unfounded, can he have evidence?"

"Yes. This slander clearly had prepared for a long time and brought the books to the court. However, the examples he gave were quite a lot of flaws. Because the queen's participation in the sacrifice in the book he quoted was to worship ancestors, not to worship heaven and earth, there was a difference between the two. However, this guy at least found a support for the Wei Party, and the Wei Party argued based on this. The opponent naturally dissatisfied. The two sides became increasingly argued. They almost fought in the court when they were in a hurry. They were stalemate. His Majesty ordered Dou Huaizhen, the Minister of Rites, to make a decision."

At this point, Li Longji raised his head and sighed, "Dou Huaizhen was a scholar and had a very high reputation in his early years. Now he is one of the leaders of the Shilin people respected by the world. Because of this, he took over the position of Minister of Rites, who was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, who was in charge of the responsibilities and education. When he saw His Majesty order him to make a decision, many ministers and officials were as happy as this king, but they didn't expect..."

"Who expected Dou Huaizhen actually pinched his nose and told lies, and ruled that the queen would sacrifice to heaven and earth as Yaxian, and his Majesty would not violate etiquette and law. This is why his Majesty approved the verdict." After taking Li Longji's words, Zhang Feng gritted his teeth and said, "Today's affairs were one of Zhu Qinming and the other was Dou Huaizhen, especially Dou Huaizhen was shameless and shameless, and even Confucius refused to recognize his own personal sacrificial powers. Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, there has been no queen who sacrificed heaven? Although the first empress served as Yaxian during the Fengshan Mountains, she had never touched the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. This is the first time I have received."

It's strange that the Minister of Rites can't do it just by wanting it, and the leader of the Shilin River is not a fool. Since Dou Huaizhen has both identities, it is impossible for him to be really unclear about this matter, but what happened made him act like this in the court meeting regardless of his face? Thinking of this, Tang Cheng naturally turned his attention to Li Longji.

"I also learned after hearing what Gao Lishi said that last night, His Majesty summoned several ministers to the palace for a banquet and stayed up for the New Year. Dou Huaizhen was one of them. That is, last night, his wife died early, Dou Huaizhen had a new wife again, and the wedding was hosted by His Majesty himself."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Liang suddenly said, "Beauty's plan?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing Zhang Liang's words, Li Longji couldn't help laughing with ridicule, "Have Mingzhi ever seen a beauty with wrinkles in his sixties? The new wife was Empress Wei's wet nurse, and Dou Huaizhen became the Empress of the Emperor's Empress (the Tangren's special name for the husband of the wet nurse). If they meet in a private house, even the Emperor's empress would have to bow to him. This is why Dou Huaizhen performed this way in the court today."

Hearing this, Tang Cheng smiled and said to Zhang Song: "It seems that Empress Wei has already arranged the matter in the court today, and is bound to win the ground. Even if the court situation is now impossible, Lord Zhang can be more open-minded and not be angry about these villains."

"Wuque is right. Dongbo is more willing to relax. Doing his own thing is more useful than venting his anger with these shameless people." As he spoke, Li Longji had already stood up, "I will go to the princess's mansion to attend the banquet at noon, so I won't stay much. I will understand that I must hurry up to arrange the horse racing event."

Zhang Liang got up and nodded, then Tang Cheng and the other two took Li Longji out of the study together.

When he arrived at the door of the mansion, Li Longji had already gotten on the felt truck but waved to Tang Cheng through the window, "Wuque, come up, I forgot to explain some of the things I just forgot to explain."

Tang Cheng got on the felt truck in surprise, "What's wrong with Your Highness?"

"Sit down and say," Li Longji patted the couch beside him, and after Tang Cheng sat down, he spoke: "I feel proud of your last list, my king's progress has been much faster, and you don't need to say more about your great achievements. Now there is another thing unknown, and there is no way to go."

"What is your highness saying, even if you can do it, how dare you not do your best?"

"Although we have gained a lot recently, we have been cautious since the two Wei brothers entered Yulin and were gentle everywhere. Although the soldiers in the army looked down on you, they felt less and less disgusted. In the long run, the morale was hard to use! The palace changes are serious and it is often a disaster for killing. If we want to encourage the Yulin soldiers to participate in this matter, it will not be easy. If Wei Bo continues to be gentle like this, it will be difficult to get along with many middle-class generals."

Damn, I can't let me do everything, I'm not a superman! Hearing this, Tang Cheng pondered for a long time before slowly saying, "But what are your concerns?"

"I am discussing this matter between Yu Ge and Chen. In short, we cannot just lead Wei Bo to lead the army so easily."

"I have not joined the army yet. It is useless to think about anything in an unknown situation. Let's talk about it later after the day is over." This is a big deal and the undercover agent is really dangerous. Tang Cheng could not really be willing to do anything like this, so he said it in a low-key and vague manner.
Chapter completed!