At first, many people thought it was a little incredible.

At that time, King Jinjun kept claiming that he wanted to teach Mu Yan a lesson, saying that he had to let Mu Yan know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and it had only been a few days since he suddenly changed his ways, and he had changed, and he had not talked to others in advance.

So, some people went around to inquire about the news, and even more good friends and noble officials simply went directly to the palace of Jinjun in pairs.

King Jin also knew what they wanted to inquire about, and he had already accumulated bitter water in his stomach.

As soon as his friends came, he complained as if he had opened a dam:

"You don't know! The day before yesterday, the Lord Cen and the regent personally came to the king's mansion, and their words meant something. ”

"If this king doesn't cancel the fake, will he still wait for Dongchang to come and raid his house?"

"If this were you, would you dare to continue to ask for leave?"

“……”

King Jinjun was bitter in his heart, not only complained, but also dragged them to drink a lot of wine together, and several friends got drunk, came in vertically, and went out horizontally.

After coming out of the Jinjun Palace, several people who were not drunk looked at each other and sighed in their hearts.

After a moment of silence, a middle-aged man wearing a royal blue shirt asked hesitantly, "A few old brothers, do you think we should also cancel the holiday?" ”

The other people glanced at each other again, and an old man in brown in his sixties with gray hair was the first to speak: "Brother Feng, just admit defeat like this, that's too cowardly, right?" ”

Several people also nodded frequently, agreeing, and planned to spend it to the end.

Another young man dressed in azure straight clothes said indignantly: "Despicable! ”

He didn't name him, but everyone knew that the person he was talking about was Mu Yan.

The old man in brown was not as timid as this young man, and said bluntly: "What if the regent lets Lord Cen take the lead for him?!" He can't go down with Lord Cen and his family, it's too tasteless and ugly! ”

As soon as he said this, several other people felt very reasonable and echoed it:

"What Lord Liu said is reasonable."

"Even if the regent really has this meaning, I'm afraid that Lord Cen will not be able to cooperate with him!"

"I see, the regent is deliberately trying to scare us by killing the king of Jinjun to make an example of the monkeys."

"You can't bow your head. If we don't take this opportunity to suppress the regent in one go, there will be no room for us to speak in this court in the future. ”

“……”

In the echoing voices one after another, only the official surnamed Feng flickered his eyes and did not respond.

Early the next morning, the official surnamed Feng returned to the yamen in a gloomy manner to cancel his leave.

At the same time, the "truth" of King Jinjun's cancellation of the fake spread among the officials, and some people couldn't hold on to the fake one after another, but more courtiers were still holding on to it, and they wanted to fight Mu Yan to the end.

Mu Yan didn't pay any attention to this, he was busy preparing for the September sacrifice.

Today is August 18, less than a month away from the 9th day of September.

The ninth day of September is Mu Yan's nineteenth birthday, and it is also the first ninth day of September after Mu Yan's name is corrected, and it is the death sacrifice of Emperor Chongming, this time it must be done.

Mu Yan has no opinion on this.

Fan Peizhong, the newly appointed secretary of the Ministry of Rites, encountered such a major event just after taking office, and he did not dare to be contemptuous at all, and did everything himself.

On this day, Fan Peizhong personally came to Wuying Hall to see Mu Yan and check with him about the sacrifice to the Taimiao.

"Regent, the dress for the day of the sacrifice is already in the process of being prepared, and it should be completed in five days."

"This sacrifice is a big sacrifice, and the procedure is complicated. The lower officials have already written down the procedures of the sacrifice on this fold, and asked the regent to look at it. ”

"From the sixth to the eighth day of the ninth month, the regent needs to go to the palace and fast for three days."

“……”

This Taimiao sacrifice, Fan Peizhong and other officials of the Ministry of Rites attached great importance to it, and all rituals were strictly according to the ancestral system.

Although Mu Yan did not have the title of emperor, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that it was a matter of time before he ascended the throne, so when the Ministry of Rites made arrangements, it was directly carried out under the regulations of the prince.

For a while, there was only Fan Peizhong's voice in the Wuying Palace.

"Master Fan," Mu Yan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly interrupted Fan Peizhong, "On the day of the sacrifice, I want the fourth girl of Duanmu to enter the temple with me to worship. ”

"......" Fan Peizhong looked at the left and right attendants of the Ministry of Rites beside him, with the same meaning written in their eyes.

There was silence in the hall.

Although Duanmufei and Mu Yan are married, but after all, they are not married, so she is not considered a Mu family, and letting her enter the Taimiao to participate in worship is not in line with the ancestral system!

Fan Peizhong cleared his throat and said stubbornly: "Regent, I'm afraid this is inappropriate and unruly." ”

The attendants on the left and right sides of the Ministry of Rites silently stared at the tips of their shoes, only as if they did not exist.

Mu Yan still had a smile on his face, and said casually: "The rules are all set by people. ”

The implication is that he sticks to his own opinions.

"......" The corners of Fan Peizhong's eyes twitched, and he began to understand the courtiers who were making trouble and didn't come to work.

It's just that he is a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and others dare to ask for leave, but he doesn't dare. He dared to say that if he dared to ask for leave today, Mu Yan would dare to find someone to replace him in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites tomorrow.

Mu Yan casually knocked over the fold with the sacrificial procedure written on it, "Master Fan, take it back and change it." ”

He used an instructive tone, not an inquiry, which was equivalent to not giving Fan Peizhong room for opposition.

"......" The corners of Fan Peizhong's eyes twitched again, and he stopped talking.

Although Mu Yan has only been in the court for a few months as the regent, all the courtiers have already deeply realized that Mu Yan is different from Jinshang, he is determined, and he is not the kind of person whose ears are soft enough to be moved casually.

For Dasheng, who is in danger, having such a tenacious new monarch may be a blessing, which can bring a new atmosphere to Dasheng.

But for the courtiers, meeting such a stubborn son of heaven means that they will be forced to retreat again and again, and life will not be easy.

Fan Peizhong secretly sighed in his heart, and could only take the fold that Mu Yan sent back, and said:

"Yes, Lord Regent."

Having said that, Fan Peizhong's head ached faintly.

Mu Yan is really unreasonable!

He said on a whim that he wanted the four girls of Duanmu to enter the front hall of the Taimiao with him to worship, but it was a casual remark, but for the Ministry of Rites, this matter was far from being so simple, and a whole set of ritual processes might change accordingly.

Moreover, it is not only this time that will be affected, should the four girls of Duanmu also join in the future sacrifice?

Although Fan Peizhong has responded now, he is thinking about planning to discuss it with other cabinet elders after returning to the cabinet to see if there is room for change.

Mu Yan is not a person who is easily shaken, but as long as he is justified, he is not a person who insists on going his own way...... At least, he was still much better at talking than Cen Yin.

Now that he had made up his mind, Fan Peizhong didn't stay long, and immediately bowed and retired.

After coming out of the Wuying Palace, he immediately sent the left and right attendants of the Ministry of Rites, and he hurried to the Wenhua Palace.

In the afternoon, the Wenhua Hall was lazy and leisurely, Duanmuxian and the other pavilion elders had just had lunch, and they were all in the Wenhua Hall at the moment, drinking tea and talking.

"Lord Duanmu!" As soon as Fan Peizhong saw Duanmuxian, it was as if he had seen a savior, and his eyes lit up.

Duanmu Xian chuckled in his heart, always feeling that there was nothing good about the other party.

Fan Peizhong almost couldn't wait to tell the truth about Mu Yan's proposal to sacrifice with Duanmu Fei, looked at Duanmu Xian expectantly, hoping that Duanmu Xian could give a charter, and sighed in his heart: Fortunately, the first assistant is on leave, otherwise he would have wanted to discuss, and there would be no one to find...... You can't let him go to Cen Yin, right?!

“……”

“……”

“……”

Duanmu Xian and several pavilion elders were all stunned and speechless when they heard this.

For a while, no one in the hall spoke, and there was a dead silence.

Duanmu Xian's first thought was that Mu Yan was too chaotic to do things.

This is his idea as Shousuke.

Immediately afterwards, he put himself in the position of the future Yue family, and he was quite satisfied: Mu Yan, a stinky boy, came back and forth in a mess, and he really cared about his little granddaughter.

Duanmuxian slowly stroked his goatee, his face thoughtful.

Since the beginning of the old third Duanmu period, there have been a lot of remarks against Duanmu Fei in the court, although their words are not so straightforward, but the words are questioning the tutor of the Duanmu family, and denouncing Duanmu Scarlet as a country.

Later, the three princes were punished, and the three princes and the party are now all carrying their tails between their legs, and these remarks about Duanmu Fei have not subsided, and they have been passed into Duanmu Xian's ears from time to time.

In this regard, Duanmuxian was also annoyed.

It's just that even if he is the first assistant, he can't block the mouths of the people, and these people didn't say it in front of him, and they deliberately avoided Duanmufei's name.

These disturbances have been going on for a long time.

Now that so many courtiers in the court refuse to go to the government on sick leave, although they didn't say it explicitly, Duanmuxian knew very well in his heart that once Mu Yan gave in to these courtiers, next, they would only gain an inch, and in the next step, I am afraid that someone will have the audacity to interfere with Mu Yan's marriage.

Duanmu Xian's eyes flashed slightly, and a touch of annoyance flashed at the bottom of his eyes.

This is already a loss to their little granddaughter with Cen Yin's support, they have to be a little jealous, even if they have a lot of dissatisfaction with their little granddaughter, they don't dare to be too blatant, they only dare to be so tortuous and tentative, acting in a thousand turns, for fear that excessive words and deeds will provoke Cen Yin.

Qin Wenshuo and the other ministers exchanged glances with each other, and Qin Wenshuo said tentatively: "Lord Duanmu, what do you think?" ”

Before Duanmu Xian could speak, You Junji had already rushed to speak: "In my opinion, this is just a trivial matter, according to the regent." You Junji smiled like Maitreya Buddha, looking like "this is not a big deal".

Qin Wenshuo also smiled and was noncommittal.

Duanmu Xian glanced at Qin Wenshuo, not very happy in his heart. What Qin Wenshuo and these people are thinking, Duanmu Xian knows it, doesn't he think that his little granddaughter is not "deferential" enough and is not suitable to be the mother of the country!

It's really not long-sighted!

Her little granddaughter is so good, not only proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and astrology, but also smart, smart, and caring......

In Duanmu Xian's heart, Duanmu Fei is as good as tens of millions, she promised Mu Yan, that is the blessing that Mu Yan cultivated in his previous life, these people are still chattering endlessly, and they dare to dislike it, they really have a pair of eyes!

But......

Duanmuxian picked up the teacup in his hand, and his eyes softened a little.

Obviously, Mu Yan must have heard those nonsense remarks, and now he is changing his way to support his little granddaughter!

Duanmu Xian could probably guess Mu Yan's thoughts.

Once the little granddaughter and Mu Yan went to this sacrifice together and entered the front hall of the Taimiao Temple, which only Mu Shi could enter, it would be no different from the two of them, so from now on, no one could raise any objections to this marriage.

Just like if you want to abolish the queen, there must be a big mistake as a basis, even if the emperor is dissatisfied with the empress, it is not empty words that can be abolished.

That's the name, that's the rule!

Thinking about it, Duanmu Xian's heart was a little complicated and tangled.

He was happy that Mu Yan was defending his little granddaughter, and this grandson-in-law was barely qualified, on the other hand, he contradictoded that this matter was really wronged by his little granddaughter, hey, she hadn't passed the door yet, so she had to accompany Mu Yan, a stinky boy, to sacrifice for the Mu family, what is this!

Thinking about it, Duanmu Xian still spoke: "Lord Fan, there is a precedent for this matter. ”

In just eight words, Duanmu Xian's attitude has been clearly stated, and he does not object to Mu Yan's proposal.

That's normal, too. Fan Peizhong exchanged a subtle look with Huang Siren, the secretary of the military department.

Mu Yan is now clearly trying to support Duanmu Fei and make a face, Duanmu Xian is not such a stunned person, how could he slap Mu Yan's face at this time!

Duanmu Xian didn't care what the others thought, and continued unhurriedly: "When Emperor Ruizong was still the crown prince, he once sacrificed to the sky with the crown princess who had not yet passed the door at that time. ”

At the mention of Duanmu Xian, the other pavilion elders were silent.

Several of the elders present were well aware of the lives of the emperors of the Dasheng Dynasty, including the famous Emperor Ruizong.

Sixty years ago, Emperor Chengzong, who was only thirty years old, suddenly fell seriously ill and died in just a few days, and Emperor Ruizong, who was still the crown prince at that time, was only fourteen years old, and his later empress Tang had just made a marriage.

Originally, the crown prince was supposed to ascend the throne after Qingming in the following year, and then marry the Tang family, but during the three-month national funeral, the northeast area of Dasheng coincided with a rare drought in ten years.

In order to pray for Dasheng, the prince decided to sacrifice to the sky, and the Tang family, who had not yet passed the door, also participated in the ceremony as the crown princess.

This is also a helpless move to worship the heavens and appease the people.

After the ceremony, in just three days, it ushered in a heavy rain for three days and three nights, so this ceremony has always been talked about by the people. Later, the Empress Tang was also a famous virtuous queen, who understood the righteousness, and when Emperor Ruizong was old and weak and seriously ill, she twice lowered the curtain to listen to the government, and stabilized the situation of Dasheng, which is not an exaggeration to say that it will go down in history.

Duanmuxian said that it was a "precedent", but in fact, it was not accurate, the Tang Empress participated in the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, not the sacrifice of the Taimiao, but if you have to talk about it, the sacrifice to the sky is a more important sacrificial ceremony than the sacrifice of the Taimiao.

The argument is just a war of words, and no one can convince anyone.

Everyone knows that Duanmu Xianti has his selfish motives for this "precedent", but so what?

As long as there is this "precedent" as evidence, even if others want to question it, the Ministry of Rites can deal with the past in this way, and it also has an explanation for the courtiers and the people, so as not to be too maverick.

It's just a snap of his fingers, and Fan Peizhong has already made a plan for the situation.

The situation is stronger than the man.

Not to mention that Mu Yan's current status is stable, even if it is for the sake of Cen Yin's face, they only have respect for the four girls of Duanmu.

Fan Pei Center was decided, and echoed with a smile: "What Lord Duanmu said is that it is easy to do if there is a precedent, so let's refer to the etiquette." I immediately went to draw up a new charter. ”

Fan Peizhong's words were extremely ingenious, as if he came to ask Duanmu Xian not to ask whether Duanmu Fei should participate in the Taimiao sacrifice, but just worried about the ceremony.

I have heard for a long time that this Master Fan is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he really lives up to his name! Qin Wenshuo said in his heart, slowly using the tea lid to remove the floating leaves floating on the tea soup, and the corners of his mouth twitched. This is the matter of the Ministry of Rites, since Duanmu Xian, Fan Peizhong and You Junji all think that there is no problem, there is no need for him to go on the pole to offend people.

Qin Wenshuo said casually: "It's not far from the ninth day of the ninth month of September, I'm afraid it's going to be hard for Lord Fan these days." ”

"Those who can work harder." Duanmu Xian could only smile with relief, and his heart was more complicated: Hey! This is actually a double-edged knife.

On the good side, her little granddaughter is completely corrected, and she has a reputation in advance, and at the same time, it also makes people see that Mu Yan attaches great importance to her, but, at worst, the little granddaughter is tantamount to being arched in advance, and it is estimated that there will only be more people staring at her and targeting her in the future.

Thinking that the little girl knew what it looked like to tease the cat and walk the bird without heart or lungs, Duanmu Xian worried about her.

Originally, for the girl's family, life in the boudoir is the most comfortable time in life, carefree, no need to teach husband and children, no need to preside over the feed, no need to serve the in-laws......

It's good now, the little granddaughter's good life has added some unnecessary reactions.

Thinking about it like this, Duanmuxian was a little more disgusted with Mu Yan, and he didn't know how many times he complained about the emperor in his heart, and he blamed the emperor for his magic barrier and messing around with the mandarin duck spectrum!

Fan Peizhong didn't know what Duanmuxian was thinking, and said politely, "Where is it", "This is the duty to be done" Yunyun's polite words. After a few more greetings with several elders, he hurriedly returned to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

Since he has decided to do it, of course he must do his best to gain a firm foothold in the Ministry of Rites.

Fan Peizhong didn't sleep all night, and hurried to work overnight to roughly prepare the new ritual, and personally entered the palace early the next morning to present it to Mu Yan.

This time, Mu Yan was very satisfied, approved it on the spot, and handed it over to the Ministry of Rites to continue to follow up and arrange.

The Ministry of Rites was originally short of manpower because of a few Lang Zhong and the main person taking leave, but now for the sake of the Taimiao sacrifice, they are all busier, and they can't wait to grow three heads and six arms.

At the same time, the court made a fuss again about this matter, and there was a lot of uproar.

The courtiers unanimously objected, feeling that this was simply uncourteous and unreasonable, and there was no need for Mu Yan to speak, and Fan Peizhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, directly used the "precedent" of Emperor Ruizong to scold back.

The two sides quarreled fiercely, and after two days of arguing, nothing came out.

So, early in the morning of August 20, more than a dozen courtiers entered the palace together and went to the Wuying Hall to protest to Mu Yan.

"Regent, this is not the right thing!"

"Taimiao is a heavy place, non-Mu clan people can't step in! The four girls of Duanmu have not yet passed the door, and they have no heirs, so they are not in line with the ceremony! ”

"Regent, the front hall of the Taimiao Temple is an important place to worship the tablets of the emperors and queens of the past dynasties, aren't you afraid of angering the ancestors and ancestors?"

“……”

Those courtiers were impassioned one by one, and felt that Mu Yan was simply like a faint monarch who was fascinated by beauty.

He didn't want to think about it, this ordinary family's ancestral hall, during the sacrifice, outsiders are not allowed to enter, not to mention, Taimiao is a royal ancestral hall!

Mu Yan is really too child's play, everything is only based on his personal preferences.

Ridiculous, ridiculous!

The ministers condemned Mu Yan in front of them with burning eyes, and they couldn't wait for blood to splash on the spot to wake up Mu Yan.

Mu Yan drank the tea calmly, patiently waiting for them to finish speaking, and then put down the tea cup leisurely.

He looked around at everyone lightly, and said lightly: "If anyone is not convinced, why don't you take a long vacation and think about it behind closed doors at home?" ”

“……”

“……”

“……”

Everyone was dumbfounded, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on their heads full of blood, and the hall was silent.

The expressions of the ministers present were different, and their eyes were chaotic.

In the past few days, at least 30 people in the court have been sick at home one after another, and Mu Yan has never said anything about this, that is, he once went to the palace of King Jinjun with Cen Yin a few days ago, and scared King Jinjun so much that he canceled his leave that day, and there was no movement after that.

Most of the courtiers were speculating in private, and they weren't sure whether Mu Yan was killing the king of Jinjun to make an example of the monkey, so they simply responded to the changes with the same and waited to see the changes.

Listening to Mu Yan's tone now, the ministers present have a good idea in their hearts.

It turned out that Mu Yan's heart didn't care at all whether those sick courtiers continued to "sue for illness", so does this mean that Mu Yan already has any plans for this matter......

The more people thought about it, the more they felt that this was the case, some people were surprised, some people were weak-hearted, some people were angry, and some people were noncommittal.

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly froze.

Suddenly, a short and fat middle-aged minister knelt down with a "plop", looked at Mu Yan in front of him with his head held high, and said loudly: "Regent, in ancient times, the king of Shang favored Daji, and brought disaster to the country and the people; Later, King Zhou You smiled for Bo Bao, and did not hesitate to play the princes with beacon fire, and finally died in the country. ”

"Since ancient times, there have been many disasters and waters, and the sages who are near and far away are faint, and how many Ming Jun have been greedy for women and caused the country to be difficult to protect, which can be described as a book."

The more the middle-aged minister spoke, the more excited he became, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, but he didn't dare to talk about Duanmufei directly, so he could only beat around the bush, quote scriptures, and talk endlessly, but he didn't say that Mu Yan had the appearance of a dead country.

Several ministers also thought so, as if they were infected by him, and knelt behind the middle-aged minister one after another, all of them kneeling on the ground.

Mu Yan ignored it, they knelt if they wanted to.

He should drink tea, drink tea, approve the folds, and see his subordinates when he should see them......

Luo Feng on the side silently wrote down the faces and names of the courtiers present.

The next day, the courtiers were forced to "sue for illness."

This incident caused another wave of uproar, and the court was noisy and noisy.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, on the afternoon of August 22, the monks of the Ministry of Rites suddenly came to the door without warning to measure Duanmu's size, saying that they wanted to make a big dress for her to wear to participate in the Taimiao sacrifice on the ninth day of the ninth month of September.

In the past two days, Duanmu Fei didn't go out, and Duanmuxian didn't have time to tell her about it, and she didn't know anything about the Taimiao sacrifice.

"I want to participate in the Taimiao festival on the ninth day of the next month?"

Facing the arrival of the monk of the Ministry of Rites, Duanmu was stunned, and his mouth opened slightly.

The eunuch Wu Gonggong, the eunuch of Shangyi's palm print, looked at Duanmu Fei with a smile, and hurriedly said, "Fourth girl, this is what the regent meant!" It is also a piece of the regent's heart for the girl. Our family is here today to tailor for the four girls. ”

Gonggong Wu's attitude was so intimate and diligent that he almost wanted to offer Duanmu Fei as an ancestor, and did not give the officials of the Ministry of Rites a chance to speak at all.

The ninth day of the ninth month of September was the death sacrifice of Emperor Chongming, and Duanmu Fei naturally understood that this sacrifice was of great significance to Mu Yan.

Duanmu Fei said cooperatively: "Then it's bothering my father-in-law!" ”

"Where, where." Gonggong Wu smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a slit.

There are so many people in the twelve prisons of the inner court, who doesn't want to show his face in front of the four girls and run errands for the four girls, this is his blessing!

(End of chapter)