Chapter 5: I am the Immortal Emperor
It snowed heavily in the first three days of the New Year in Kyoto, and it was said that it was a good year for the snow, and Lu Cheng felt that the life of the people in the coming year should be better.
It's going to be the New Year, what does this mean? This means that the twenty-seven years of the chapter and the twenty-seven years are about to pass and the new year is about to begin. And the new year should be changed. The era name often carries the will of the new emperor, and the courtiers also want to peek into the heart of the present from the era name.
The Queen Mother is the only one who celebrates the New Year with Lu Cheng. Lu Cheng occasionally complains uselessly. For example, it would be nice if Aya could give her a younger brother and sister to play with before her death, like if she had a brother or sister to rely on, and she didn't say much about complaints like that, but she just talked about it. If she had, she might not really be happy.
Taizu (Kaiyuan Emperor LΓΌ Yu) advanced the annual night banquet to the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve in the spirit of humanitarianism.
The night of the dinner.
The courtiers and their families arrived at the Hanguang Hall early to wait.
The higher the authority, the more late it will come.
No, when everyone arrived, the emperor and the queen mother were late.
"Your Majesty to--Queen Mother to-"
Everyone at the night banquet got up from their seats and saluted, and congratulated: "The old Xi is sent, and the new Xi is welcomed." I wish the Holy Lord and Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother all the same, and your body is healthy! β
In the New Year, you still have to smile and please a good luck. Lu Cheng no longer has a poker face, and insists on pretending to be serious.
Lu Cheng smiled and said, "Sit down!" The serving of the dish. β
After Lu Cheng and the Queen Mother were seated, plates of exquisite meals were served.
Most of the people are already very skilled in the process of the night banquet, but this is the first night banquet after Lu Cheng ascended the throne, so the people in the night banquet are a little restrained.
But as the dishes are eaten in one bite and the wine is drunk in one cup, the atmosphere is relaxed.
And this relaxed atmosphere became more and more cheerful after the first song and dance was presented. The courtiers began to socialize as they did with the New Year's Feast.
And some ministers are quietly paying attention to Lu Cheng, who uses the emperor's mental skills freely.
For the first time, the ministers found out that the new emperor was really so young. The new emperor's skills in the court did not look at all like the appearance of the new emperor who had just ascended the throne. The inscrutable nature of the new emperor made the ministers unknowingly ignore the age of the new emperor.
The ministers secretly thought that the royal bloodline was not ordinary, and the emperor's mental skills were like flowing in the royal bloodline, and it was clear that Jinshang was very mediocre before he ascended the throne. This may be the golden scales are not the things in the pool, and they will turn into dragons when they encounter wind and clouds!
Some ministers are thinking that they must have been clumsy before they ascended the throne. I heard that the image that has always been positive before he ascended the throne is filial piety. And today is the only seedling of the first emperor, thinking about it like this, "Hiss-" The ministers are taking a deep breath, this is unfathomable, terrifying!
In general, the ministers' evaluation of Lu Cheng is quite high. Many ministers dug some pits that novices in the court tend to jump into, but the point is that she has never fallen into it before. It's simply appalling, even the first emperor has also fallen...... Ahem, don't say, don't say. Today, she is also inexplicably experienced in handling government affairs, is this the legendary talent? Son of Heaven, Son of Heaven of the Great Zhou......
And what is Lu Cheng, who was speculated by the ministers to be "unfathomable and terrifying" at this time, doing?
Lu Cheng is concentrating on eating. For Lu Cheng, this is another day to spend peacefully. Lu Cheng felt that her recent performance in the court was excellent, and she successfully avoided all the pits she had fallen into. She herself felt that the impression she had left on the courtiers must be particularly reliable.
I'm a bit of a Buddhist, but I'm a good emperor.
The song and dance are almost over, and after the song and dance is the time for the children of the ministers to show their talents. It can be said that the night banquet can be regarded as an alternative blind date meeting.
In the future, if you plan to walk in the officialdom, or if you are the only seedling in the family and want to stand up to the door, you will only marry but not marry, and you will tie a red ribbon on your right arm before coming to the night banquet.
And if you want to find someone to rely on, tie a green ribbon on your right arm.
Those who do not intend to marry do not wear ribbons on their arms.
People who have the intention of marrying are often full of energy, just like peacocks who open the screen to court. People who have no intention of marrying are also doing their best to make a name for themselves. Therefore, the annual night banquet is very interesting.
Lu Cheng still remembers that when she first attended the night banquet, she was full of curiosity and looked east and west. Of course, her main concern at the time was whether there was a young man with a green ribbon on his right arm.
Da Zhou is an inclusive and diverse country. There are many brave and determined women who have established women's households. There were also many open-minded families who began to involve women in clan affairs. There are also some single seedlings in the family who break through the gender restriction to inherit the family business, and no longer use the stepbrother of the same clan. Even in the Great Zhou, some matrilineal clans appeared. After all, it is not surprising that the land is vast, the population is large, and the ideas are diverse.
Lu Cheng really found the figure of the young man in the crowd wearing green ribbons at that time.
And everyone didn't laugh at anything.
It was also at that time that she had a sense of belonging to Da Zhou, which was actually not bad, and her current country was open, inclusive, and diverse. It was also at that time that her enthusiasm surged, she wanted to do something for this country, she wanted to lead this country on the right path, so that this country would take fewer detours.
At today's night banquet, Lu Cheng also saw young men with green ribbons tied on their right arms, and also saw many young women with red ribbons tied on their right arms.
Even if her blood was cold, she still couldn't help but smile.
Lu Cheng's gaze swept over the group of energetic boys and girls.
Finally, she fixed her gaze on a girl with a red ribbon and a boy with a green ribbon.
The girl's name is Xue Qian, and the word is Yuyin. She was going to have a love story with that young man in the future that shook Kyoto, and for a while, Lu Cheng couldn't help but smile when she saw the two of them. The two of them have lived like in romance novels, one word is "sweet", three words are "too sweet", and four words are "sweet".
Lu Cheng said that she was looking forward to what would happen in the future, even if she was reborn many times, but every time she was reborn, she could pick out new candy from the two of them to eat. After all, my life is as plain as water, and I can only find some fun elsewhere. These two people are still the same eye-catching, the same sweet, and they are worthy of being the heroes and heroines of romance novels.
Lu Cheng is the boss of the courtier, and the boss is always the object of speculation of his subordinates. Some courtiers noticed that Lu Cheng was smiling at a pair of young boys and girls. The ministers began to brainstorm, why should they be looking at them now? What's so special about that for boys and girls?
The courtiers kept this question until the end of the feast, and did not understand it.
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The night feast is over.
A minister's mansion: "Check, from the three generations of ancestors, what is so special about men and women." β
"Why did Xue Qian and Wang Chuan get the blue eyes of today? At the dinner party, he has always been unmoved by things, and his expression has always been a patterned smirk. He was sure that only the smiles on the men and women were very real. Why is that? "This is another crazy minister.
At this time, the Zhu Mansion was also speculating. At this time, Zhu Hong had already obtained all the information of Xue Qian and Wang Chuan, and he did not find any suspicious points at all.
Zhu Hong could feel the carelessness of his boss Lu Cheng, as if he had seen it countless times, and only the moment Lu Cheng looked at Xue Qian and Wang Chuan did his eyes light up.
Xue Qian and Wang Chuan are not at the top of the list, they are from ordinary small families. Zhu Hong was really puzzled.
Zhu Hong's sons and daughters walking in the court were also puzzled.
And at this time, Zhu E, the little granddaughter who was beside him and also participated in the night banquet, said bluntly: "Is it because they are good-looking?" β
Zhu Hong retorted categorically: "Impossible, how can it be so superficial if you are scheming and strategizing in the court." β
Ah Weng's serious tone was a little frightened, Zhu E flattened her mouth, a little aggrieved, she felt that she saw Xue Qian and Wang Chuan today because of their good eyes.
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The first morning of the new year began.
Lu Cheng is not very energetic.
To be honest, she doesn't really want to go to work, why is Da Zhou's annual leave so short. She felt that the holiday was just a matter of closing her eyes and opening them.
The first issue of the early dynasty was, of course, the change of the yuan.
Dou Zhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, selected the era name for the courtiers and Lu Cheng's reference.
Dou Zhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, proposed a total of five era names, which are Yanping, Zhongxing, Jianwu, Heqing, and Yonglong.
But Lu Cheng didn't choose any of them.
Although Dou Zhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was a little embarrassed, he had expected it, after all, he had always felt that Jinshang was an emperor who could toss and loved to toss.
Dou Zhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said: "Minister, incompetent. Ask the Holy One to decide. β
Lu Cheng first comforted Dou Zhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but she still decided to make a decision for Qiangang. She used to choose among those five era names, the result......
She decided that she would rather believe what she had than what she didn't. She wants to start planning for her ideal of dying from the name of the year.
Lu Cheng asked the courtiers: "What do you think of the word 'immortal'?" β
As soon as the word Changsheng came out, the court suddenly became a pot of porridge.
There has never been such a strange era name in all dynasties.
What does this era name mean? Today's upward direction? Longing for immortality?
At this time, Lu Cheng's hardcore Lin Yanxian jumped out to support Lu Cheng: "The minister thinks it's okay." β
There was one leader, and the rest were not so timid, and the courtiers successively expressed their support for Lu Cheng.
What the courtiers think is, anyway, it is the luck of your old Lu family, you, the patriarch of the Lu family, have decided, and we with little arms and legs can't make a fuss with you! Immortality is immortality!
"The immortals caressed my top, and my hair was immortalized. If the gods and Buddhas have spirits, remember to bless me. I am not greedy, I do not seek eternal life, I only want to live a good life. From today onwards, I am the Immortal Emperor! β