The night is as cool as water.

The lights in the temple are still bright.

The emperor sat in front of the desk in his clothes, holding a red pen in his hand, and approved the folding.

Nowadays, there are thousands of recitals presented to the palace recital office every day, and there are recitals, such as please fold, thanksgiving, congratulatory folding, etc. These are presented directly to the palace, without going through the Department of General Administration, without going through the excerpts of the Zaifu, if the emperor all of them are personally opened, they will definitely take up most of the day.

Therefore, the emperor also asked the chief officials of the three inner provinces, the secretary of the superintendent, the palace superintendent, and the inner chamberlain to assist in screening, such as the recitals of the three grades and above feudal officials, all of which were personally returned by him.

Li Jing asked for peace on the fold, and Luo Cheng replied with a pen behind the fold, "I bow very well, I feel better since the autumn, how are you doing?" I often miss it in real time, I can take care of my body, if the situation in Lingnan is stable, I will come to Beijing to gather, and the monarchs and ministers will meet. ”

picked up another letter, but it was the fold of Luo Shixin, the king of Dongning, who was sealed outside the gate.

Shi Xinzuo asked Sheng Shangyun to allow two children who had reached the age of six to study in Beijing.

Luo Cheng replied, "I sent someone to greet me, Xiaoliu, you can also enter the Beijing Dynasty together, come early, stay longer, accompany the Emperor Taishang and the Queen Mother, and go back after the first month." ”

Ninan County Taishou Pei Chengdong changed his name and asked the emperor for permission.

Because there is a character in its name, it is necessary to avoid the emperor's name.

Luo Cheng replied, "I have already issued an edict announcing that there is no need to shy away from changing your name unless you have the same name and surname as me, your name is very good, I like it very much, so you don't need to change it." ”

This is a very common thing in ancient times, the ancients had to avoid the fathers of their ancestors, and they also had to avoid the emperor's secrets, so the name could not be offended, and even the place name had to be avoided.

For example, in the previous dynasty, because of the need to avoid the emperor Yang Guang's ridicule, Guangling was changed to Jiangdu, Guang'an was changed to Yan'an, Guangrao County was changed to Donghai, Guangdu County was changed to Shuangliu, Guanghua County was changed to Hechi, Guangzhou was changed to Fanzhou, etc.

In order to avoid the loyalty of Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong, even the Zhongshu Province was changed to the Inner History Province, the Shizhong was changed to Nayan, the Zhongshu Order was changed to the Inner History Order, and so on.

Also, in history, Li Ji's original name was Xu Shiji, and he was later given the surname Li Shiji. After Li Shimin became the emperor, he avoided changing it to Li Ji, and even the Ministry of Civil Affairs, one of the six departments of the imperial court, was changed to the Ministry of Households.

Luo Cheng does not support this kind of evasive name change, today to avoid this to change the name of the person, change the name of the place, next time to avoid that and change it again, change it back and forth, it is really unnecessary, and it is easy to cause confusion.

So Luo Cheng issued an edict on avoidance at the beginning of his reign, unless he had the same name and surname as the emperor and needed to change it, other characters with written characters did not need to be changed, and when this word was written, there was no need to replace it with a fake word.

As for the place name, there is no need to change it, and even he asked to change the names of those that were changed during the Sui Dynasty back, such as the internal history province to change back to Zhongshu Province, and Nayan to change back to Shizhong.

Jiangdu changed back to Guangling and so on.

Of course, if you want to avoid these things when you write in your daily life, you still have to listen to his will, but in official documents, etc., it is not allowed to avoid changing words, so as not to cause ambiguity.

For the monarch to read, for the venerable, for the sage, although to show respect, not to call its name, not to write its words, but the name of the place is also so avoided, especially not only the name avoids, if even a word in the name to avoid, then where to avoid it.

It took more than an hour to read and approve all the folds of the three grades or more.

As for the excerpts below the third grade, there are cronies of the inner servants and eunuchs in the palace, as well as the secretary and the eunuch who have cronies, they are responsible for screening for the emperor first, and the emperor with important content will deal with it personally.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, do you still want to see the chapter sparse performance table handled by the ministers of the General Administration Department over there?" The eunuch in the palace asked in a low voice.

"What time is it?"

"It's just been a shift, and it's about two o'clock in the first month."

A day and night are twelve hours, which are divided into the beginning and the positive, so the Qin system is divided into twenty-four hours and ninety-six quarters. Eight quarters in an hour, four quarters in an hour, forty quarters in an evening, a section every ten quarters, and a total of five nodes at the beginning and end are called five watches.

At night, the first quarter of the first day is used as a watch, the second quarter of the beginning of the sea is used as the second watch, the whole time is used as the third watch, the second quarter of the ugly is the fourth watch, and the fourth quarter of Yin is the fifth watch.

It is seven to nine o'clock in the evening, seven o'clock at the beginning of the year, and about half past seven at the second quarter of the first month.

At this time, in fact, it is not too late, the ancients called the time of dusk, at this time the sun has set, the sky will be dark and not black, the sky and the earth are dark, everything is hazy, so it is called dusk.

However, after the autumnal equinox, the days get shorter and the nights get longer, and it's already early dark.

Although it was the second quarter of the first month, it was already pitch black outside.

Luo Cheng estimated that he had three highs, so he didn't dare to eat more at night, he didn't eat staple food at night, mainly light, and he had already eaten it.

"That's early."

The eunuch said, "Does the saint want to summon concubines to serve in the palace?" ”

Luo Cheng thought for a while, "Okay, I won't watch the music anymore today, swing and go to Princess Silla's side." ”

This Silla princess came to Luoyang not long ago, and the emperor awarded her the second rank of Zhaoyuan, but she has never been lucky. It's not that tonight is not that she suddenly has an interest, it's just that this princess has been sending people to observe her secretly since she landed in Qingdao Port.

During this time, the princess behaved very well, not in a hurry, not arrogant, not arrogant, very rare.

At present, the Korean Peninsula has seen a resurgence of smoke, the rebels of Baekje have been transferred to the border, and Seo Se-ji has also assembled the elite Chen soldiers of Andong at the border, at this time the Japanese have begun to land in Baekje, and the Silla army is also gathering to the border.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

Silla's army was indispensable for Daqin, and especially for Andong's army.

Silla sent 50,000 troops, and if he was willing to hand over the command to Xu Shiji, then this would be equivalent to the effect of the imperial court sending 200,000 troops from the Central Plains in the past.

Daqin needs the full support of the Silla people, but the last time Xu Shibi killed Jin Luxin, he was too strong, I am afraid that the Silla people may not be willing, now looking at this Deman princess, acting generously and steadily, Luo Cheng believes that if he can talk to her, then it will be much better than directly suppressing the Silla King Jin Baijing.

When he went to Princess Deman's palace, Luo Cheng specially asked the eunuch to prepare some exquisite gold and silver jewelry, glass bottles, large bronze mirrors, etc., and also asked him to prepare some food.

When she came to the princess's palace, the princess came out to greet her, and the eunuch read the emperor's reward to her.

"Why is Your Majesty free tonight?"

"I've been very busy all this time, and I didn't bother to come up to see you, so I'll steal some time tonight and come and sit down. How about it, the layout here is all in the Silla style, are you still used to it? ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your thoughtfulness, the concubine likes it very much."

Luo Cheng stepped forward with a smile, stretched out his hand to take her hand and walked to the palace, the princess's face was not very natural, her body was a little stiff, but she did not refuse, and even after walking a few steps, she took the initiative to put her hand on the emperor's waist.

Luo Cheng's smile became even brighter.

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