Chapter 62: The Crown

In the second year of Zhongping, that is, in February of 185, a fire broke out in the Luoyang Imperial Palace, the South Palace was destroyed, and the Ten Standing Servants took the opportunity to make a statement to Emperor Ling, increasing taxes to build the burned South Palace, Emperor Ling issued an edict, not only to increase taxes, but also to contribute wood and stone inscriptions to each state, and all states and counties need to pay money and silver.

For a time, the world that had just restored peace was once again complaining, the people were miserable, and there were rebellions in many places, even in remote areas such as Yizhou and Jiaozhi, where people rose up, not to mention the Central Plains region that had just gone through the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and many Yellow Turban troops took advantage of this resurgence and gathered to rise up.

The courtiers were useless, and the Emperor Ling, who provoked him, was furious, and dismissed the doctor Liu Tao and Situ Chen Wei from his post and sent him to prison, and no one dared to advise him for a while, and Liu Tao and Chen Wei died of illness in prison soon after.

In order to collect money, Emperor Ling was like crazy, and actually marked the price of the position of the three dukes, one 10 million, and sometimes there was Cui Lie, a famous scholar in Zhuo County, Youzhou, Ren Tingwei, after learning the news, through the relationship between Emperor Ling's nurse, bought the position of Situ with five million, Cui Lie, the word Wei Kao, was originally famous, but when he bought the position of Situ with money, he instantly became infamous and was despised by scholars.

Cui Lie's youngest son is Zhuge Liang's friend Cui Jun Cui Zhouping, who met Liu Bei on the way back when he first looked at the thatched house, and Shi Tao Shi Guangyuan, Meng Jian, Meng Gongwei, Xu Shu Xu Yuanzhi and called Zhuge Four Friends, and later the other three had some achievements, only this Cui Zhouping died early, which made people not very embarrassed.

Although so many major events have happened in the court, it has no impact on Li Feng, who is far away in Youzhou, because now with Li Feng's identity and Lu Zhi's status in the court, this Zhuojun Taishou will not hit the Li family with his ideas, so Li Feng's life is very freehand now.

At the beginning of spring, Li Feng obtained the consent of his father Li Cheng, recruited more than 100 guards again, and raised enough 600 people, and then Li Feng divided these 600 people into three teams, because they were home guards, they did not dare to call the army, a team of 200 people, divided into Dian Wei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun three people under the leadership, training day and night outside the city.

When the time came to June, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, as early as more than two months ago, Li Feng passed his thirteenth birthday, and in ancient times, thirteen years old had reached the age when he could perform the crown ceremony, plus Li Feng was smart and precocious since he was a child in the eyes of his parents, and his actions were reasonable.

And the most important thing, Li Feng has already told Li Cheng that in a few months, he will leave home again to study everywhere, although Li Cheng is reluctant, but his son has this ambition, or very supportive, so he wrote a letter to discuss with his brother Lu Zhi to pay tribute to Li Feng.

A few months ago, in order to win the hearts of the people, He Jin conquered the great Confucian Zheng Xuan at home, Zheng Xuan, the word Kangcheng, once studied under Ma Rong, and Lu Zhi was a friend of the same class, and then because of the disaster of the party ban, he was imprisoned by the Spirit Emperor, this ban was thirteen years long, and finally because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Spirit Emperor lifted the party ban, and Zheng Xuan was free.

Zheng Xuan refused several times because he had no career, He Jin was furious, and ordered the state and county to take Zheng Xuan to Luoyang even if he was detained, in desperation, Zheng Xuan could only come to Luoyang, when entering and leaving Luoyang, He Jin treated Zheng Xuan very much in order to show his courtesy corporal, but Zheng Xuan was unmoved, and finally escaped from Luoyang with the help of several friends.

At this time, Lu Zhi received a letter from Li Cheng and was about to give a crown salute to Li Feng, Lu Zhi immediately thought of his classmate and friend, so Lu Zhi immediately repaired a book and asked his subordinates to go out of the city to catch up with Zheng Xuan, hoping that he could go to Zhuo County to crown his son, and after Zheng Xuan received the letter, he naturally agreed.

After the next person brought back the news of Zheng Xuan's promise, Lu Zhi immediately replied to Li Cheng and informed Li Cheng of everything, the Li family was not a big family, naturally there were not so many rules, and the previous generation had no elders.

After that, Li Cheng prepared the necessary things for Li Feng's crown ceremony, while waiting for Zheng Xuan's arrival, so that more than a month has passed, Zheng Xuan finally arrived in Zhuo County, after Zheng Xuan arrived, Li Cheng immediately asked people to divinate the auspicious day, and finally set it on June 16, and Li Feng finally ushered in his coming-of-age ceremony.

On this day, the Li Mansion was very lively, almost all the friends who were familiar with Li Cheng came, Li Cheng was dressed formally, and his friends should come into the house one by one, and sat in the main hall, Zheng Xuan at this time, wearing today's orthodox Confucian clothes, wearing a crown and hat, and the whole body was neatly decorated.

At this time, Li Feng, with the help of his mother Dai and Gan Qian, put on the formal crown dress and combed his hair again, "After today, my child will really be an adult," Dai looked at Li Feng lovingly and said, and couldn't help tears in his eyes as he spoke, "Mother~ The child should be happy when he grows up, and the child will be able to take care of his father and mother in the future" Li Feng wiped away Dai's tears and said.

"Silly boy, mother, this is a happy tear" Dai Shi burst into tears and laughed, grabbed Li Feng's hand and said, Gan Qian was behind Li Feng at this time, tying the last belt for Li Feng, "Young Master ~ Madam, the master asked the young master if he was okay" At this time, someone came to shout, "Okay ~ What to urge" Dai looked at the villain quite dissatisfied.

"Mother~~ Let's go" Li Feng grabbed his mother Dai, and the other branch took Gan Qian, walked out of the room, and walked towards the main hall of the house, at this time Li Cheng and his friends sat on the left and right, Zheng Xuan and Li Feng sat with the head, waiting for the arrival of this Li Feng.

After a while, Li Feng came to the main hall, solemnly and formally walked into the main hall, and then knelt down, and Zheng Xuan stood up, and beside Zheng Xuan, there was a Li Feng uncle, who introduced Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang to Li Feng's acquaintance.

I saw Zheng Xuan pick up the crown hat held by Wang Du with both hands and bring it for Li Feng, and then Zheng Xuan read out the greetings in his heart loudly, and after Zheng Xuan read the congratulations, Li Feng bowed to his parents, and after the salute, he returned to Zheng Xuan, and Zheng Xuan expressed his words.

In fact, Li Feng's words had already been taken by Emperor Ling when he was in the palace, and the emperor took it personally, how could Lu Zhi dare to disobey, he had already explained it in his heart, so Li Feng was flying, and the crown ceremony was a cumbersome thing, but Li Feng's family is not a famous family that has been inherited for a long time, so it is much more streamlined.

After the completion of the entire crown, Li Feng will leave the venue first, and then return to the ancestral hall in the backyard, kneel down to worship the ancestors of the Li family, after completing these columns, Li Feng changed his dress, appeared in the main hall again, met the uncle who came to watch the ceremony, and finally put on the banquet, so that the entire crown ceremony was truly completed, and Li Feng was also considered a formal adult.