For my father, there are many happy events this year, not only for children and grandchildren, marriage, and for the sealing of Zen, but also because of the war this year, Tubo and Turkic have sent people to see him, and there are many more people from all over the world than in previous years. For my mother, this year is an even more important year, not only because she is going to Mount Tai to sacrifice for her father, but also because my father ordered the clan relatives, Baiguan and Zhuyi chiefs to meet the queen of heaven outside the Guangshun Gate on the winter solstice.

On the winter solstice and the first month, there is a big dynasty, and the hundred officials meet their fathers outside the Guangshun Gate, and the women meet their mothers inside the Guangshun Gate, which is an old practice, but this year, this old practice has been changed for the mother.

Mother did not hide her excitement in front of us, in October, she gave King Wu, Li Rui and me no less than 3,000 silk satin horses in various names, and at the beginning of November, she gave Li Rui a lot of brocade, and asked Li Rui to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to do a * thing on her behalf—naturally these excitements are only known to us, and my mother is more gentle and more like a "virtuous" wife in front of my father than before. She not only summoned King Wu into the palace several times for banquets and frequently gave rewards, but also persuaded her father to make all the sons of King Wu except for his eldest son the prince of the country. Li Qianli in infancy was the most favored, and his mother even simply asked the nurse to carry him into the palace to raise him, his brothers were no more than 300 households, less than 100 households, but he closed 500 households alone.

My father likes my mother's generosity very much, and the martial arts family is getting better and better - at the beginning of November, when we were about to go on patrol, we ordered Wu Chenghei to be Zong Zhengqing and Wu Sansi to be the secretary and supervisor, although these two positions are not really powerful, but they are extremely noble, and they have always only been awarded to people close to them, especially the position of Zong Zhengqing, which has always been only held by the Li clan, and now it has been given to Wu Chenghei, which has really caused a lot of controversy.

But now there are far fewer controversies than last year when my mother stood up from behind the throne.

I vaguely understood what my mother meant by letting King Wu enter Beijing - my father was the emperor after all, and if my mother wanted something, she must give something, and my father had never loved gold treasures and goods, and the Dan Fang had been collecting for many years, and it was difficult to test it in a short period of time.

What's more, summoning the concubine who is far away in the fiefdom into Beijing and loving the concubine can best show that he is not a jealous woman who is rumored to be greedy for power and will be repaid, but a good wife and mother who is virtuous and honest.

Not only me, Li Rui has long regarded his mother's recall of King Wu as a compromise, in his opinion, after all, his father is not old and confused, after the wife and children are so "compromised", he finally took care of the relationship between husband and wife, father and son, and supported his wife and his wife's mother's family.

Because this year is not the same as in previous years, the winter solstice day of the pilgrimage was divided into two groups, I first went to see my mother with the class of the women, after the ceremony, I hurriedly changed my clothes, and pulled Wei Huan and Cui Mingde to the Guangshun Gate to see the □□ weather, but when I arrived at the Guangshun Gate, I was stopped, and the sergeant guarding the door politely refused the request of "just hide in the city tower and take a look", and several palace gates inside and outside the Guangshun Gate have set up many honor guards, and the eunuchs patrol back and forth without noticing, and they can't get in.

I lowered my head a little frustratedly, and refused to leave, just wandering around, Wei Huan and Cui Mingde both felt funny, Wei Huan urged me: "Erniang go quickly, this is a dynasty, not a children's game, wait for Your Majesty to see it, and I don't know how to get angry." ”

I know the truth, but when I think that this is a living scene of "all nations coming to court", I feel itchy in my heart, and I tiptoe to look into the hole in the city gate, and I can't see anything except the guard of honor in my eyes. Wei Huan couldn't see me like this, and pulled me back: "The car is coming soon, go, go." ”

I walked a few steps with her, and I looked at myself and lingered, so I looked at Cui Mingde: "Cui Er doesn't want to see what kind of scene Wanbang is coming to court?"

Cui Mingde glanced into the distance and said lightly: "I remember that there are several city towers around here?"

My eyes lit up, and I said in a loud voice: "I recognize, I recognize every tower in the palace." After a moment's thought, he smiled, "Follow me." Then he shook Wei Huan's hand and pulled her away, she struggled for a while and let me drag her, the three of us went all the way up to the nearest city tower, I was nothing, both of them only looked down and raised their eyes, each took half a step back, I said, "What's wrong?"

Wei Huan said: "It's nothing. ”

Cui Mingde said: "The wind is a little strong. ”

I walked over and found that the wind was actually not very strong, and just as I was about to speak, Cui Mingde waved the white fan used to cover his face, pointed to the distance and said, "Over there." ”

Wei Huan and I both looked along the place she pointed, and saw a large group of people standing in line at the palace gate in the distance. There are a lot of people, even in the Great Dynasty, there are not so many people, and there are many colors, in addition to the purple and crimson green of the ministers, there are all kinds of clothes worn by the Yi chiefs according to the color of their own people's clothes. Far away, these people don't look like real people, but like small grids of small colors.

Cui Mingde's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly waved his fan and said, "Is that a Goguryeo?"

Wei Huan sighed, then stepped forward, looked at it on tiptoe, and said hatefully: "It's a Goguryeo." ”

I asked curiously, "What happened to the Goguryeo people?"

Cui Mingde rarely moved the color, looked at me and said, "You don't know?"

Wei Huan replied on my behalf: "She has been weak and squeamish since she was a child, and His Majesty is not allowed to tell her many things. ”

Cui Mingde put away the fan, covered half of his face, lowered his eyes and said: "In the first year of Linde, the soldiers of the Holy Dynasty entered the capital of Goguryeo and saw that a huge Jingguan was built there. ”

I didn't understand the meaning of her words, I hurriedly went to see Wei Huan, Wei Huan coughed lightly, and said: "The so-called Jingguan is a high mound made of gathering enemy corpses and sealing soil, it is rumored that Liu Gong entered the capital of Goguryeo, and the bones are stacked on the official road thirty miles outside the city, and it is the corpse of the Han family. ”

Cui Mingde snorted and said: "Since then, the atmosphere in Beijing has been the second highest among all the people, and when it is ugly, it is called 'Goryeo slave'." ”

I was speechless, Wei Huan looked out again, and said with a smile: "It's a gift from Zhuyi, and the Silla people have offered a lot of Goguryeo people - but Silla has repeatedly invaded my country since the Battle of Goguryeo, and it is not a good thing." ”

Cui Mingde nodded and said: "Silla is capricious, the most despicable and shameless, and now the imperial court has to deal with it because of the Tubo as a coward, in fact..." ”

As I spoke, the attendants had already led these people into the palace gate, and at first I wanted to count how many chiefs there were, but after counting them for a while, I was dizzy. The drum music had been played in Taichang Temple, which was almost the same as the music of worshipping his father, and the ministers and the chiefs of Baiyi stopped in front of the Guangshun Gate in the solemn music, and solemnly saluted - the music was so clear that even the praise of the ceremonial officer could be heard clearly from such a distance.

The three of us were fascinated, Wei Huan and I were both unconsciously sticking together, I was holding the wall with both hands, she was holding my shoulders with both hands, we were tiptoeing on the city tower like two unworldly primary school students looking into the distance, Cui Mingde also closed his voice, stood against the city wall, and waited for the crowd of pilgrims to begin to withdraw, the three of us were still looking at it reluctantly, each with feelings in our hearts, but I didn't know what to say, or Wei Huan said first: "Look at it this way, those people are really like ants." ”

I looked at her suspiciously, and she shook her head for a moment before she said, "I was thinking, my father seems to be there too." ”

Cui Mingde said lightly: "Since it is a great dynasty and a hundred bureaucrats, it is natural that they all want to come to the court." ”

I looked into the distance, the crowd has dispersed, in the distance is one after another palace gates, outside the palace gates, is the bustling Fang Shi Lu lane, I have passed through the heavy gates, and I have walked through many neighborhoods and alleys, but in the past, those things to me, are just a flash of light, now standing here, but as if I know this country for the first time - the Tang Dynasty, these two words have never had such a great weight in me today, this dynasty, like many other dynasties, lasted only two or three hundred years. But it is this dynasty that has risen from war and disaster to become one of the most powerful epochs in history, and now it has not yet reached its peak, and in a few decades, maybe in my generation, maybe in my next generation, she will become the most powerful empire in the world.

Datang, this is my past country, but also my future country, as a member of the royal family of this country, I think... It's a great honor. 166 Reading Network