Emperor Dazhong used to be called Li Yi, but after ascending the throne, he changed his name to Li Chen.

After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor generally changed his name when he succeeded to the throne, and the reason was also to change an uncommonly used word, so as not to affect the people of the world for reasons of avoidance.

The emperor had a slight smile on his face at this time, and seemed to enjoy the cumbersome rules of wearing a dragon robe, although it was hot in summer, but the court meeting was still dressed very formally, fortunately, it was cooler in the morning, and the palace maid next to him kept fanning the huge fan, so that the room was cool and breezy.

No one around spoke, and a eunuch shouted, "Swing the Xuanzheng Palace." ”

So the front and back hugged out of the Penglai Palace, and the emperor sat on the royal chariot.

Only formal court meetings and large ceremonies would the emperor sit on the imperial chariot, and the rest of the time he rode on horseback.

Guo Hong didn't dare to speak, so he walked silently with the team, and returned to the Xuanzheng Hall after a while.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

The courtiers in the hall had already arrived, and they bowed together with the wat board, and the mountain shouted long live.

The emperor sat down, waved his hand to signal his body, and Guo Hong and they entered the hall and lined up on both sides of the main hall.

Guo Hong looked at this palace carefully, and a sense of familiarity arose.

The emperor sat on the wooden collapse, holding on to the table, and the wooden collapsed in the treasure tent, the tent was hung on three sides, and the back side fell to the ground.

With a few is a kind of small wooden stool to put the arm, also called coercion, generally more than 30 centimeters high, carved flowers, birds, insects and fish, elegant shape, very exquisite.

This was later merged with the chair and became the armrest of the chair.

The emperor had a pair on his left and right hands, but there was no place to lean behind him, so he could only sit relatively straight on his knees.

In fact, after the Tang Dynasty, it has become popular to sit on chairs, but the official court meeting still uses the ancient system.

The ministers below also knelt on the ground, and the kings and ministers knelt to each other, and there was no one who knelt to whom.

The hall was made of wooden floors and mats, so the ministers did not need to bring their own mats like the Qing Dynasty ministers.

Speaking of which, the knees of the Qing Dynasty people are really hard, and the kneeling are all green bricks.

Japan followed the Tang system and maintained this rule all the time.

Behind the emperor there were two court maids holding huge fans, made of peacock feathers, called palm fans, with cross-furnishings, which were a ritual to increase the majesty of the emperor.

On both sides of the main hall, huge cloth fans like sails are hung, and there are palace people who keep pulling ropes, and the huge fans come and go to agitate to keep the hall cool.

The temple is very high, reaching about ten meters, and people will feel small in the temple, so they will be in awe.

Guo Hong looked at the throne, his eyes were a little moist, a few years ago he was still sitting on his adoptive father.

He has now completely integrated the memories of the past, and those memories are full of deep attachment, and the thought of it triggers emotions and hurts his teeth.

Guo Hong stood behind the row on the right and looked at the two eunuchs led by the left, which were the privy envoy Wang Yuanyou and the lieutenant of the left army, Ma Yuanzhen.

He stared at Ma Yuanzhen, observing the other party's every move, and wanted to impress these deeply in his mind.

At this time, the eunuch who was the celebrant shouted, "There is a book." ”

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In the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace in the east, the emperor was discussing with two privy envoys and four prime ministers.

This was the highest-level meeting of the imperial court, and according to convention, although the lieutenants of the left and right armies of Shence had great power, they were not qualified to participate, and could only wait outside the palace.

The emperor sat on the throne and looked peaceful.

This is the palace of the Son of Heaven, different from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the four prime ministers are all sitting, very similar

A family reunion.

Although it was like a family gathering, the distance between the emperor and the ministers was also kept two feet away.

Zheng Yu, the palace attendant, is observing the prime ministers, he is responsible for the picket of the ministers, if the prime minister roars at the court, spit stars fly, and disturbs His Majesty, he will be impeached.

He is a native of Panyu, Guangdong, from the side branch of the Zheng family in Xingyang, the family is rich, it is said that the child servants are wearing silk clothes, Kaicheng two years (AD 837) in the Jinshi, is the protégé of the prime minister Wei Fu.

The emperor is surrounded by eight attendants, five guards are strong in martial arts, one is the attendant who is in charge of copywriting, responsible for recording, and two attendants, who are responsible for serving tea and pouring water, and can be used at any time, Guo Hong is one of them.

Zheng Hao, a concubine, was also sitting behind the bookcase on the side, he was a scholar of Hanlin and an intellectual, and was responsible for drafting the edict.

The four prime ministers are sitting in a precarious position, there is no lying horizontal and vertical like in some TV series, otherwise it will be a loss of honor in front of the palace, and the imperial history will be impeached and will be released from Beijing immediately.

Do you say that you can be treated preferentially when you are older?

Of course not, if you are sick, you can ask for sick leave and not go to court, and if you are sick for a long time, you must resign.

If he is old and sick and refuses to resign, the imperial history will impeach him for not going to be deaf and misleading the country.

"Zhang Situ died of illness in office, and I have invited you here today to discuss how to deal with it?" When the emperor saw that everyone was silent, he spoke and asked.

Today, Lu Longjun of Youzhou sent a report, saying that Jiedu made Zhang Zhongwu die of illness, and the army supported his son Zhang Zhifang to stay for Jiedu, and asked for a decision.

The first on the left is Bai Minzhong, fifty-eight years old this year, the official worship is shot from the right servant of the second rank of Shangshu, and he is the governor of Shangshu Province.

He was in power, so he naturally wanted to be the last to speak, so he glanced at Wei Fu who was at the bottom.

The squire of the military department and the judge of the household department Wei Fu came from the Julu Wei clan and was the fourth grandson of Wei Zheng. The judgment of the household department means that he is also in charge of the household department.

And at this time, the head of the household is Cui Guicong, so what is this book doing? He is judging the expenditure, that is, managing the country's finances.

Because the tax finance is too cumbersome, the other work of the household department is handed over to Wei Fu's agent.

Wei Fu has always been supported by Bai Minzhong, and naturally knew that he had to take the lead for him, so he bowed his hand to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Sikong worked hard for the country, broke the Uighurs, chased the mountains in the north, and expanded the land for thousands of miles. ”

Zhang Zhongwu returned to the west during the Huichang period, divided his troops with Shi Xiong, and broke the enemy army, and Wujie Khan fled to the Western Regions and then perished, which was a great achievement in destroying the country.

In the early years of Dazhong, Zhang Zhongwu went north to the mountains and Xi, broke the army and killed the generals, won a complete victory, and pushed the border of the Tang Dynasty thousands of miles to the north.

Wei Fu said that he was the first in military achievements since Huichang, and he lived up to his name.

The emperor nodded slightly and said, "Then Wei Qing quickly talk about it, how to get better?" ”

Wei Fu said: "This is not the same as being superior, one is to mourn after the end, and you need to give a good name." The second is to treat his clan well, reward his son Zhang Zhifang as the envoy of the festival, and reward Lu Long's soldiers to calm his heart. ”

These words are decent and clichéd.

The emperor glanced at the privy envoys standing on both sides, Wang Jufang's adoptive father Wang Yuanyou on the left, and Song Shukang on the right.

Although the two privy envoys were in high and powerful positions, they could only stand beside the emperor during deliberations, they were domestic slaves, and there was no place according to the rules.

At this time, the two lowered their eyebrows and were silent, they knew that if they interjected, they would be trespassing.

The emperor looked at the two prime ministers on the other side and asked, "What do Ma Qing and Cui Qing think?" ”

Ma Zhi, who sits on the right, is the scholar of the Zhengsanpin Zhongshu and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and this is the ancestor of Ma Ying-jeou.

"Wei Chen thinks that Wei Shilang said it very well, especially this nickname needs to be carefully considered."

The second person on the right is Cui Xuan, the doctor of the main discussion and the waiter of the Chinese book, and he only heard him say: "The minister thinks that Zhang Situ is the dry city of the country, and he has always been loyal, and his nickname can use the word 'loyalty'." ”

Wei Fu saw that the two Chinese scholars had spoken, so he smiled silently.

He is just a squire in the military department, and it stands to reason that it is not his turn to be the prime minister, because of Bai Minzhong's strong recommendation, he got the title of "Tongping Zhangshi".

His foundation is shallow, and he must be cautious in his words and deeds, so as not to be caught by the imperial history.

Although it is his protégé Zheng Yu who is on duty today, he can't take it lightly, and other prime ministers also have familiar imperial histories.

In the Tang Dynasty, only the governors of the three provinces were the prime ministers, and later because the Shangshu servants from the second rank were generally honorary titles, the standards were delegated to the first level of the six Shangshu, and when the Shangshu was vacant, he could also use his deputy to serve the Lang.

Guo Hong has made up for the relevant knowledge in the past two days, and he seriously suspects that the Li Tang court's practice of leaving the first and second rank official positions empty rather than giving them to people at will is to save money.

Nowadays, there are no more than five officials above the second grade in the whole country.

The highest governor of Shangshu Province is Shangshu Ling, because Li Shimin used to be a person, and he will no longer give people from then on.

Below is the left and right servant shots, now the left servant shoots are vacant, and the right servant shoots Bai Minzhong.

Further down are the six departments and twenty-four divisions.

Now there is no Shangshu in the military department, only two squires.

Therefore, Wei Fu, the squire of the Ministry of War, has just stepped on the line, and there are several people who are older than him, such as Cui Guicong, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Liu Gongquan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and more than a dozen people with comparable qualifications, such as the Squire of the Ministry of War, and Cui Qi (zao), the salt and iron transfer envoy.

There are so many people in the Imperial Observatory, and the eyes of an official like him who is fortunate enough to enter without qualifications are wide-eyed, just waiting to pull him off the horse.

What's more, the name should be agreed upon by Dr. Taichang of Taichang Temple, and then sent to the emperor for approval, and the prime ministers just said it casually, so he won't join in the fun.

Ma Zhi on the right has been in a good mood for the past two days, he is from the Fufeng Ma clan, he has just recognized the same sect with Ma Yuanzhen, the lieutenant of the left army, and he has attached this power eunuch, thinking that he will soon find an opportunity to remove Bai Minzhong from power, and also make a ruling party.

The highest goal of scholars in the Tang Dynasty was to govern, and generally when they retired, they could get official titles from the second rank or higher.

In this life, a person can hold the authority of the world, and one person is below and above ten thousand, and it is not in vain to go through the world.

He glanced at Bai Minzhong opposite, and saw that the old man was gray-haired, lacking energy, and seemed to be dozing off, and he couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart.

Turning his head and glancing at Cui Xuan again, some time ago, the two joined forces to drive Zhou Ji (chi) out of the court, and now they also have a tacit understanding to deal with Bai Minzhong, which can be regarded as a temporary alliance.

Ma Zhi saw that no one spoke for the time being, so he wanted to say a few more words, highlight himself, and leave an impression of unique insights in the emperor's heart.

I saw him gently stroked his long beard and said: "The minister thinks that since Zhang Sikong's combat exploits are the first since Huichang, it is better to add a martial character." ”

The ancients called military exploits martial arts, which is the origin of the emperor's martial arts.

When the emperor heard this, his face sank, he snorted, stood up and brushed his sleeves away!