Chapter nine hundred and twentieth: worship generals
The other palace in Wuyi has been built for a long time, but his master has never taken over. Li Ze never mentioned this matter, and other officials seemed to have never thought of it at all. Therefore, this palace, which is considered the most luxurious in Wuyi, has been left to the Taichang Temple Minister Tian Lingzi to take charge of it.
Tian Lingzi is a very interesting figure.
When the Emperor left Chang'an, his future was uncertain. Among the three central ministers, he was determined to follow the Emperor Beishou. The other two, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Wang Shu and the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty Chen Bi, were all kept because of their own considerations.
The fate of these three important officials is also very different.
When Zhu Wen conquered Chang'an, Shangshu Ling Chen Bi organized the last force to resist the death. In the end, the clan died in the imperial city. Before his death, Shangshu Ling, who had once looked down upon Li Ze, was preparing to burn the palace and prevent Zhu Wen from succeeding. Although he failed in the end, he only burned a side palace and was destroyed by those who wanted to make contributions in front of Zhu Wen.
On the contrary, Wang Shu, who had always seemed very moral in front of Li Ze, surrendered after Zhu Wen arrived in Chang'an. Then he went through the three emperors of Liang, Zhu Wen, Zhu Youyu and Zhu Youzhen, who still held the position of the Zhongshu Ling. Of course, the Zhongshu Ling at this time was not the Zhongshu Ling at that time, and his power was much worse than before.
Compared with these two, Tian Lingzi was lucky in some ways. Although he had been through many risks during the journey to the north, he and his family finally arrived in Zhenzhou smoothly.
Although he had been away from the center of power since then, he was not as dead as Chen Bi, nor was he as disgraced as Wang Shu.
He served as a idle position of Taichang Temple Minister who had almost nothing to do and received a very good salary. His family also started investing in some businesses in Wuyi. Over the years, the Tian family has gradually become a little bit in the north. After graduating from Wuwei Academy, the children of the family entered the bureaucratic system in the north. Although they all started from the grassroots level, they may not have gone further in time.
For these Tian clan members, especially those who have become officials, they naturally hope that Tian Lingzi will be loyal to Li Ze. Although Tian Lingzi doesn't care about anything now, where is this person's previous position? If he moves closer to Li Ze, Li Ze will definitely accept it happily.
But Tian Lingzi refused.
But Tian Lingzi also said that he was a serious royalist. At least when Xue Ping and Han Qi were jumping up and down, Tian Lingzi was always in a state of cold-eyed observation, sometimes doing some external work. After a long time, even the royalist who had expectations for him gave up on him.
He seemed to be very alienated from both sides, and then he was doing some jobs as the Minister of Taichang Temple.
Then, in Wuyi, he is almost a forgotten character.
It was not until this time that the court held a regular worship service that everyone remembered these things. Taichang Temple should take charge of all the affairs, but Tian Lingzi was extremely familiar with these links.
Tian Lingzi, the minister of Taichang Temple, returned to everyone's vision.
The emperor in the name of the Tang Dynasty was then taken back from Wuwei Academy to live in another palace.
Li Ke sat upright in the room, and several old eunuchs were serving him to wear complex crowns. This was the second time Li Ke had worn this precious etiquette clothes in several years since he officially ascended the throne. The first time was when he ascended the throne, and then it became a decoration. Today, it will be the day when the imperial court officially worshiped the generals. All the court officials were dressed neatly in the main hall outside the other palaces, waiting for the ceremony to be held.
Wearing a crown and a robe, although the young Li Ke still had a childish face, he, who was a little precocious, still showed a precious atmosphere, which was completely different from the students in Wuwei Academy on weekdays.
It's really good for people to rely on clothes.
Tian Lingzi looked at the luxurious twelve chapters on the robe, but his eyes were red.
"Your Majesty, the time is up!" A servant walked in outside and bowed slightly.
Li Ke took a deep breath and stood up.
However, Tian Lingzi stepped out of the corner and snatched in front of Li Ke. He knelt down with a loud voice and said wailingly: "Your Majesty, listen to me, this is the last chance."
However, Li Ke did not look down at the minister who kowtowed in front of him, but looked ahead, but his eyes were extremely firm.
Tian Lingzi looked up at Li Ke, lamented, got up from the ground, and gave in.
Li Ke strode out.
Three days ago, Li Ke had already arrived at another palace. According to the requirements of the ritual, he burned incense and bathed, and began to fast. The place where he worshiped the generals should have been in the Taimiao, but the Taimiao of the Tang Dynasty was still in Chang'an and in Wuyi, but he could only keep everything simple, and the worship ceremony was held in this other palace.
After entering the hall of another palace, all the civil and military ministers had already gathered here. The robe and robe in the hall made the hall shine brightly, and the one standing in the middle was Li Ze.
In response to the ritual system, Tian Lingzi had already informed Li Ke.
Li Ke stood facing east and west, but Li Ze stood in the south and faced north.
Tian Lingzi raised a tray over his head with both hands, and a small and exquisite axe was placed in the tray. Li Ke picked up the head of the axe and handed it to Li Ze. At this time, he really had the urge to raise the axe in his hand and hammer the head of the powerful minister in front of him. But in the end, he could only hand the tail of the axe to Li Ze.
"From then on to heaven, the general will rule it!"
This is an authorization, and the general is granted the power to kill.
Then Li Ke picked up the handle of the axe and pointed the blade towards Li Ze.
"From then down to the abyss, the general will rule it!"
This is also a warning to the generals to respect themselves. When he said this, Li Ke involuntarily emphasized his tone. Li Ze in front of him looked as usual, and seemed to have no feeling at all.
"When you see it, advance, and when you see it, stop. Do not underestimate the enemy by the crowd of the three armies, do not die because of the heavy responsibility of being ordered, do not be a bitch by being a noble person, do not disobey the crowd because of the unique view, do not judge the argument as inevitable. Do not sit before the soldiers sit, do not eat before the soldiers eat, and the cold and heat will be the same. In this way, the soldiers will be dying!"
Li Ke completed his mission without any emotion.
Li Ze took the axe with both hands, took a step back, stood up straight, and looked at Li Ke and said, "I heard that the country cannot govern outside, and the army cannot control it from the middle. The two hearts cannot serve the king, and the doubts cannot respond to the enemy. Since I received the order, I will give the power of the axe and the halberd, and I will not dare to survive. I hope that the king will also give me a word to the minister. The king does not allow the minister, and the minister will not dare to take it."
Li Ke stared at Li Ze for a while. At this time, he should have responded immediately, hoping to be full of Li Ze, but he was choked in his throat. This sentence was not said for a while.
The civil and military officials raised their heads in surprise. Although it was just a form, it was also very important.
Tian Lingzi coughed heavily, and Li Ke suddenly woke up and said word by word to give Li Ke in full power.
At this point, the ceremony of worship was finally completed.
Li Ze received the order, held the axe in his hand, turned around and left the hall. Behind him, the civil and military officials in the hall immediately left one after another. In a blink of an eye, the hall, which had just been crowded, was extremely deserted. Li Ke, standing on the steps, was wearing a crown, burst into tears in an instant.
Tian Lingzi sighed, his final hope was not realized, and Li Ke did not do the last life-saving move that Han Qi taught him.
"Your Majesty, I'm going to go!" Tian Lingzi bowed and said.
"Do you want to congratulate Li Ze too?" Li Ke said coldly.
Tian Lingzi shook his head: "I am old and have submitted my resignation to Li Xiang before the ceremony. Today is the last time I have been to the court. Tomorrow, I will retire and return home."
He bent down to salute again, Tian Lingzi hunched his back and staggered away from the hall.
On the square outside the hall, thousands of Li Ze's personal guards stood solemnly. Li Ze strode forward, turned over the horses brought by the personal guards, and clasped his fists to the civil and military ministers who were seeing him off, saying, "Li Ze is gone now. For all the matters in the court, I'll ask you."
"I wish Li Xiang to plow the acupoints in the courtyard and destroy the false Liang." The civil and military ministers held their fists and bowed to the ground.
Li Ze lightly carried a war horse with a sound of hooves, and walked along the wide street towards the outside of the city.
Before Li Ze set out, the troops stationed in Wuyi, Zhenzhou, Yizhou and other places had already set out in advance. The Tang Dynasty's final general attack on the pseudo-liang finally began.
At this time, on the Haixing Wharf in Cangzhou, countless large sea boats gathered here, and teams of right-leading guards boarded the ship one by one under the command of the commander.
For ordinary people who don’t know the inside story, everyone thinks that the right-leading guard’s trip this time was related to Prime Minister Li Ze’s launch of a full-scale general attack on the pseudo-liang. Only a very few people know that after the ship goes to sea, the direction of the ship goes completely different from everyone’s guess.
The place where they landed on this trip was Goryeo.
The first batch of vanguards had only 5,000 people, but they carried a large amount of weapons and supplies. Since the formation of the right-leading guard, they have been staying in Cangzhou. One of the conditions for the right-leading guard to recruit soldiers was to have a mature water quality and give fishermen who often go into the sea as the best choice.
All of this is due to Li Ze's desire to build the right-leading guard into a real naval marine.
The only senior official who came to see him off was Hou Zhen, the magistrate of Cangzhou.
"General Wen, I wish you a smooth journey and everything goes well together!" Hou Zhen said.
"Thank you, the governor, for your good words." Wen Fu smiled and said, "The subsequent team of troops and supplies need to be strongly assisted by the governor."
"How dare you neglect the military and national affairs!" Hou Zhen nodded and said, "Even if the general is determined to move forward, Hou Zhen will do his best in the follow-up matters."
Chapter completed!