Chapter Ninety-Four: The People Ask for Their Lives
said that the ancestor Tang Huang was actually a very controversial figure. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, on the surface of the empire's historical records, just like all dynasties praise the magnificent sages of the founding fathers, the ancestor Tang Huang was a very great and legendary genius. Rising from a small city in the East, with his personal charm and excellent martial arts, he finally led the imperial soldiers to carve out the largest empire in history on this continent, and thus became famous for the ages.
This is something that the imperial people have to learn since childhood, whether it is a public college or a private school in various places, the gentlemen will explain this period of the past with affection on a bright spring day. Gradually, there are many young people and girls who regard the ancestor Tang Huang as their idol and fight for it. In short, in the eyes of the people, the ancestor Tang Huang is such a perfect character, without any shortcomings, just like a god sent by God to save the continent in the Zhiwei novel.
For example, the ancestor Tang Huang was born in a poor family when he was a child, but he was talented and intelligent since he was a child, and when he saw the chaos and the people on the mainland were struggling to make a living, he made a vow that he must return the mainland to peace, and there will be no more war in the world.
He also had a very famous debate with the gentleman at the time at the county school. The ancestor Tang Huang said that the people and the officials are interdependent, like the relationship between water and boats, the officials serve the people, and the people support the officials.
Later, he really fulfilled his oath, and the Ancient Tang Empire was born. At the same time, he formulated the first legal code of the ancient Tang Dynasty, which expounded the relationship between officials and the people at the forefront, water can carry boats, but also can overturn boats, officials love the people, and the people respect officials.
This is the impression of the ancestor Tang Huang in the eyes of the people, perfect, a good emperor who really loves the people.
But in the eyes of those with powerful backgrounds, what they understand is a little different.
For example, how did the ancestor Tang Huang make his fortune back then, even if a person is excellent, it is impossible to pacify such a vast continent in such a short period of decades. You must know that at that time, there were many famous generals and unparalleled strategists in dozens of countries on the mainland, and some of the emperors were even invincible, but they all fell inexplicably into the hands of the ancestor Tang Huang.
There is no record of the official history, and only some clues can be found in some wild histories...... For example, behind the ancestor Tang Huang, there has always been a huge black hand controlling everything.
There are also some strange actions of the ancestor Tang Huang in his later years, as well as the mystery of his life and death.
The people will never know that in fact, the ancestor Tang Huang disappeared for no reason one night that year, and has not been accounted for since. Later, the crown prince reluctantly announced the death of the ancestor Tang Huang, and ascended the throne with the support of the marshal and prime minister at that time. And these secrets are also recorded in secret books that cannot be published to the world, and only the powerful can know about them.
There are many secrets of the ancestor Tang Huang, but in fact, it is not a big problem, after all, everyone will have some laughing secrets. The most controversial are some of his policies and methods, such as those laws.
There is also a record in the secret canon, according to legend, the second generation of Tang Emperor actually disdained the exposition of officials and people in the law, and even wanted to revise the law, but was stopped by some old ministers in the end, and ended up in vain.
And this has also become the biggest controversy of the ancestor Tang Huang.
Because this is really strange, in the eyes of the officials, they naturally want to be above the people, this is the charm of power, otherwise, who would want to be thankless officials?
Isn't it true that the common people are just some inferior people, who call themselves grass people, untouchables, also confirm this?
But no matter what you say, the law has not changed, and they dare not do anything, so they can only pretend to be kind to the people, until hundreds of years later, the relationship between the government and the people has become more and more tense.
The common people only recognized the words of the ancestor Tang Huang, and believed that the officials were also equal to them and could not be on top. The officials continued to eliminate the influence of the ancestor Tang Emperor, and even worse, proposed to the Tang Emperor to change the law, but in the end Chen Ce refuted it.
But in any case, the officials will not have a good impression of the ancestor Tang Huang, on the surface they are respectful, but secretly they don't know.
And this bell that suddenly rang through Chang'an City was also a way for the ancestor Tang Huang to be close to the people.
Sacrifice rooftop, nine dragon bells.
When the palace was built, because the emperor was the son of the Mandate of Heaven, he specially built a sacrificial platform in the palace for the usual sacrifices. The sacrificial roof is very high, as if it can really reach the sky, and the Tang Emperor's bedroom is also very high, and the sacrificial roof is opposite, which means that it is as high as the sky.
Later, the ancestor Tang Huang put a nine-dragon bell in the sacrificial roof, and built a path from the sacrificial platform to the outside of the palace, saying that if he had the slightest mistake, anyone could ring the nine-dragon bell, and he would gladly accept any opinion, and if there was one, he would change it, and if not, he would be encouraged.
This move can be said to have caused an uproar at the time, because this is really a precedent for the mainland, for thousands of years of history, the emperor is high, how can the people be arbitrarily evaluated?
But in any case, the Nine Dragons Bell was placed there, and a year later, a bewildered citizen set foot on the path in despair and rang the Nine Dragons Bell.
The bell rings in Chang'an!
The ancestor Tang Huang personally met with the people, cleared his grievances for him, and frankly admitted that it was his own problems in appointing officials that caused such a situation, and said that he would know how to make good use of people in the future, so that the people would no longer suffer.
Since that day, the Kowloon Clock has really been of great use, and it is no longer a luxurious ornament. And the people really believed in the words of the ancestor Tang Huang.
For a time, the small road was overcrowded, and the Tang Emperor got rid of many drawbacks.
It was also quite a good story at the time.
Later, the ancestor Tang Huang also wrote this matter into the ancestral motto, requiring all future generations to listen to the words of the people, but unfortunately, this matter was not recognized by any descendants.
The crown prince at that time, the later second generation of Tang Emperor, had already complained before he ascended the throne, and later forcibly closed the sacrificial platform and blocked the trail only a few days after ascending the throne.
Since then, that group has once again begun to rise above the civilian population, as it has done for thousands of years.
And the Nine Dragons Clock, for hundreds of years, no one cared about it.
Until today.
The bell that rang through Chang'an made all the people in power think of the era of the ancestor Tang Huang, thought of some bad things, and changed their faces one after another.
And those people were still at a loss at first, but gradually, some of the older people finally turned to some words in the depths of their memories that their elders had mentioned, and they were overjoyed for a while.
Li Taizhong, Xie Zhenhe, and a large number of other officials and generals all stood on the stage in a daze, not knowing what to do, whether to continue to arrest Chen Guyu or ......
However, there was not much time for them to think about it, Wang Wu's figure appeared at the corner of the street, and he rushed to the front of the stage after a while.
He looked at Li Taizhong and Chen Guyu, who was surrounded by soldiers, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty's dictation, everyone, hurry to the front of the Qiankun Palace." ”
He looked at the endless number of people again, and said solemnly: "The Nine Dragons bell rings, all the people ask for their lives! Open the palace gate today, and all the people can go to the palace and ask about the emperor!"
The so-called asking the emperor is to ask the people to make suggestions to the Tang Emperor, and if there is one, change it, and encourage it if not.
Although he said that, everyone present was shocked, knowing that this time Emperor Tang was really angry.
Chen Guyu put away the Chengtian Sword and helped Chen Ce to walk towards the palace. Chen Ce had already told him about the Nine Dragons Bell intermittently.
Now the situation has changed a lot, at least in Chen Guyu's eyes, this should be a good trend, if you can use the Nine Dragons Bell to make Your Majesty change his mind, it will not fall out with the imperial power.
Because if there is a real fight, Chen Guyu really doesn't have much confidence that he can leave safely. Even though he has mastered some Dao methods, there are still many capable people on this continent, at least the Imperial Forest Army just now, as well as Xie Zhenhe, gave him a very dangerous feeling.
Unless, as he did again when the Tang Empire was overthrown, he stopped killing by killing, strengthened his strength by killing, let the demon re-blur his memory, and become the emotionless and inhuman walking corpse again, in that case, no one in the entire continent could stop him.
But he didn't want to, Gu Tang is still Gu Tang after all!
A group of people headed for the palace. In the distance, more and more people gathered.
Chang'an sensation!
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Emperor Tang stood coldly on the altar and looked at the group of people in front of him.
Behind him was the Nine Dragons Bell.
The Nine Dragons Bell is made of a rare sound iron on the mainland, with a hard texture and some characteristics of jade, even in direct sunlight, it is cold, so it is loved by the nobles on the mainland.
One of the biggest characteristics of the sound iron is that once it is struck, it will emit a loud and crisp sound, and the penetration is extremely strong, far exceeding that of other gold and stone objects.
And this Nine Dragons Bell makes use of this feature, so that it can cover the entire Chang'an.
The Kowloon Bell is golden as a whole, and nine lifelike dragons are carved on the body of the bell. The divine dragon seems to be soaring through the clouds, rising into the air, with full power, which makes people awe-inspired. In front of the Nine Dragons Bell, there was a black gold wood several meters long, which was now trembling slightly, presumably using it to hit the Nine Dragons Bell just now.
Wang Lu, Xiao Luo, Uncle Luo, and the young man were trembling and kneeling in front of Emperor Tang, their faces pale, but there was a look of determination in their expressions.
Around them, there was a dense array of royal guards.
Emperor Tang was wearing a simple golden robe, and stood there lightly: "Tell me, why are you ringing this Nine Dragons Bell?"
The young man raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, the grass people think that Lord Chen Ce is not guilty, and he has been wronged!" But the grass people are really soft-spoken and can't redress the grievances of the adults, so they can only make this decision, hoping that Your Majesty will see clearly!"
Tang Huang looked at him straight and said lightly: "Why do you think Chen Ce is not guilty?"
"Lord Chen Ce is such a good person, he is the best official in the world, how can he ......?"
"You said that he was wronged, but now that the evidence is conclusive, who do you think is wronging him?"
The young man was stunned for a moment, and then said, "The grass people think it's ...... King Liang!"
When Emperor Tang heard this, he shook his sleeves suddenly, and snorted coldly: "Ridiculous!" and then stopped looking at him.
In the eyes of Emperor Tang, let's not talk about whether this is really wronged, even if it is, it can't be King Liang. Because there were so many officials of the imperial court who reported together, why did they have to say that it was just King Liang? The Tang Emperor now even thought that it was planned by officials of Chen Ce's family to drag King Liang into the water, so his eyes began to turn cold.
"You look up!" said Emperor Tang pointing at Wang Lu.
Wang Lu was stunned for a moment and raised his head in a panic.
Emperor Tang squinted his eyes and looked at him carefully, and said coldly: "Tell me, who is Wang Wu yours of?"
Wang Lu said: "Yes...... It's the son of the grass people!"
"Okay, haha, good!" Tang Huang suddenly laughed, but his eyes became more and more gloomy: "First of all, my gatekeeper betrayed me and opened this path privately. Now it seems that this is the case with my personal guards!"
"No wonder, there are so few guards patrolling today, is it because Wang Wu faked my message?" Tang Huang said coldly, and then looked at the Imperial Forest Army over there.
A captain in the Imperial Forest Army immediately stood up, and a cold sweat broke out on his head: "Your Majesty, it is indeed Your Majesty's message that the five kings came to the barracks to preach!"
"Okay, haha!" Tang Huang waved his hand: "Take them to the Qiankun Palace!"
"Yes!"
"Your Majesty, it has nothing to do with Wang Wu at this time, it was the grass people who forced him to do this, Your Majesty, you can forgive him! ”
Wang Lu wanted to ask for mercy, but he was immediately sealed by the Imperial Forest Army and forcibly taken away.
Emperor Tang turned around and looked at the golden Nine Dragons Bell, and said in a cold voice: "What a Chen Ce, what a means!
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Before you know it, the weather has cleared, and a faint morning light spills from the sky and falls on the palace.
When Emperor Tang put on the Ninety-Five Supreme Dragon Robe and came to the Qiankun Palace, the hall was already full of people.
The Qiankun Hall is located in the center of the palace, on the side of the Jinluan Palace, which is the place where the ministers usually use to discuss matters, and it is not as solemn and solemn as the Jinluan Palace.
In front of the Qiankun Palace, there is also a wide square, located behind the Yushui Bridge, at this time, it has been full of people, looking at the Qiankun Hall with curiosity and awe, for them, the palace has always been a sacred representative.
Seeing Emperor Tang come out, the people all knelt down and shouted in unison: "See Your Majesty!"
Tang Huang smiled and nodded, just about to say a few words.
After all, such a big scene is rare in the centuries-old history of the ancient Tang Dynasty.
But the people didn't know it, and after they finished speaking, they shouted in unison: "The Nine Dragons bell rings, and all the people ask for their lives." The minister has three words: first, I hope that Your Majesty will self-examine, second, I hope that Your Majesty will pardon Chen Xiang's innocence, and third, I hope that Your Majesty will reopen Kowloon!"
Suddenly, Emperor Tang's face turned pale.