"Phew!"

"Phew!"

"Phew!"

Fang Laique carried the gong and beat it vigorously. He didn't know how serious this matter was, but he felt that it was very beautiful to be watched by a large number of melon-eating people in Chang'an City.

On both sides of the more than 120-meter-wide street of Chunmingmen Street, people stood and watched them pass by.

The corpse of the "Three Kings" who was given to death dared to violate the ban and drag it away for burial.

Most of the onlookers expressed their admiration for the courage of Fang Chongyong and his party, and at the same time they were worried that they would be settled by Li Longji and even "settle the account on the spot", and finally did not dare to express support for them all the way.

So I can only watch the play from the sidelines.

The most embarrassing thing is Jin Wuwei, who maintains the order of Chang'an City on weekdays.

If they block the way of Fang Chongyong and his party, they will not only be despised and condemned by the current mainstream public opinion, but also very likely to be angered by Li Longji, who has come to his senses.

The holy decree was very brief, and did not say how outsiders would dispose of the three corpses when they buried them, mainly because when Li Longji gave the order, he didn't expect that there would be such a "bastard" person in the world.

If Jin Wuwei's people followed Fang Chongyong and his party together, they would look like they were guarding these "troublemakers", which was equivalent to directly slapping Li Longji in the face.

Fang Chongyong: They are outsiders, and doing these things will be considered "righteous"; And Jin Wuwei is a forbidden army, as long as the slightest sign of something is wrong, he will be vigorously rectified by Li Longji immediately!

You are a close confidant of the former prince's henchmen, so "see him off"?

Or are you cronies of other princes, so you follow the coaxing?

Or are you dissatisfied with the saints, so you follow those people to demonstrate and slap them in the face?

In this case, it is very similar to in the crowded subway, there is a little fairy who falsely accuses the middle-aged greasy man next to her.

You put your hands up to touch me.

You put your hands down to sneak up on me.

When you put your hands around your neck, you're doing nasty gestures to rape me.

Anyway, it's all your fault, the greasy man is a real shrimp head!

Although the greasy man is greasy, he is not a pervert, and it is only because some "unwarranted" rules have been broken that some ridiculous situations will occur.

In the same way, under the unspoken rule of the imperial power's "no mistake will be let go", these Jinwu guards who show off their might and scenery in Chang'an City on weekdays are like hiding from the plague god, and they dare not approach behind the ox cart.

At least 100 meters apart.

It is not okay not to follow, and if you don't follow, Li Longji will think that it is "deliberately indulging thieves and humiliating the royal family", and you will have to eat and hang.

At this moment, a young man in the distance, wearing a gray round-necked linen robe and a cyan hat, ran to Fang Chongyong's side and whispered to him: "The monks of the Changshou Fang, the coffins and Mingjing of Huaiyuan Fang, and the paper money and Taoist priests of Fengyi Fang are all ready. Go to the Xianfang to wash the body into the coffin, and then go to the city to bury it.

This time you played really big, and you are already famous in Chang'an. ”

ran to the four squares near Yanping Gate in one go, and gathered all the one-stop services needed for the funeral of the Pingmin people, but he was tired.

This person is Li Kui, who can only climb into a relative relationship with Fang Chongyong a few years later!

As for why the monk is invited to do the work, and the Taoist priest is invited?

Li Kui didn't understand, anyway, that's how Fang Chongyong explained, the funeral expenses for a corpse were calculated to be five hundred yuan, and he couldn't bargain.

These unscrupulous businessmen are all looking for excuses to sit on the ground and raise prices, anyway, if they offend the emperor's business, I won't do it, and no one will do it!

Fang Chongyong was able to take out half of the wealth in the small treasury in one go, which was not unpretentious.

"If you get on this boat, you can't get off until you reach the end. Now you are miserable, the Son of Heaven is angry, I think you are going to finish the imperial examination. ”

Fang Chongyong couldn't help but tease Li Kui and said, if he could, he didn't want to drag Li Kuo into the water.

The reason for dragging Li Hua into the water was just to let him be a witness, to prove that he had made great efforts to operate Wang Zhonghei to return to Chang'an, and even was entrusted with a heavy task to go to the frontier, and even risked his life to "open up the channel".

By the way, I also let Wang Zhonghei's wife Li, that is, her mother-in-law, and the people in the Li family's Guzang room in Longxi understand: You have also been dragged into the water, don't stand by and watch when something happens, you have to do your best to rescue me!

"I heard that Zhang Xianggong may be dismissed, I will take the path of Zhang Xianggong, even if I don't come, the imperial examination is probably hopeless. It's better to bet on this. ”

Li Kuai leaned into Fang Chongyong's ear and whispered: "This kind of scenery, even if you are killed by a cane immediately, you will go down in history, why can't you gamble?" ”

Your political consciousness is very high!

Fang Chongyong glanced at Li Kui with some surprise, and nodded slightly in agreement.

Li Kui's political vision is indeed far greater than that of Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan. The two of them participated in this matter purely because of justice, and Li Kuo saw part of Fang Chongyong's plan.

This wave of political investment seems to be extremely risky, but in fact it is as stable as Mount Tai, and not everyone can see the key points.

A person's emotional decision-making is often diametrically opposed to a long-term rational analysis. Now Li Longji is facing a similar situation.

Coolness is temporary, and pain is long and lasting.

The crown prince, even if it is the predecessor, was abolished and given death, even including those royal princes, it is not something that the people of Chang'an Shengdou can watch and ridicule! This is natural class oppression!

Fang Chongyong's previous life when the guards of the corrupt country trampled on the little girl is a typical representative. The royal family is born with eyes above the top, which is the face that Li Longji must maintain.

Sooner or later, Li Longji would discover that the brutal act of killing three sons in one day not only did not frighten people with bad intentions, but set an extremely bad precedent for the tragic political struggle during the Tianbao period.

Tiger poison does not eat children, what is the saint called?

This is an explanation that Li Longji must give to the people of the world, and it is also related to the foundation of his "legitimacy in power."

If you don't say anything about killing your son, you have to expose the body at the post station for passers-by to observe, it will be even more tyrannical.

Those gossips that ridiculed Li Longji's cruelty and inappropriate people would surely reach his ears. At that time, the only group of people who stood up to collect the bodies of the "Three Kings" at the beginning, how should they be treated, do they need to say more?

I believe that as long as Li Longji can calm down, he will definitely guess this link.

Moreover, Fang Chongyong also took into account another point, that is, their behavior of collecting and burying the bodies of the three dead princes was in line with the social order and good customs of the Tang Dynasty at this time.

It is the tacit unspoken rule in society that people are killed for their crimes, the coffin is closed, and the earth is safe. From the nobles of Tianhuang to the small people of Shengdou, they all agree with this.

Even if the enemy is destroyed, he generally can't do things like humiliating the corpse and throwing the bones into ashes.

The world will only worry about Fang Chongyong's future, and have general sympathy for the tragic revenge they may encounter, but will not feel that Fang Chongyong is meddling, let alone that they are frantically kneeling and licking the Li Tang clan and bending down to deal with the powerful.

Fang Chongyong vaguely remembered that Li Heng, the later Tang Suzong, seemed to have rehabilitated Li Ying and the others, and re-selected the cemetery for burial. This aptly illustrates that it is the common and simple desire of the people to return things that are in line with social order and good customs to their original tracks.

At this time, Gao Lishi had already watched the ox cart pull the corpse of the "Three Kings" towards Yanping Gate, but he did not step forward to stop it.

Gao Lishi is very reliable, and stepping forward at this time is like an evil young man robbing a people's daughter in broad daylight, which will make Li Longji's reputation stink for 300 miles.

He guessed that Fang Chongyong and his entourage would definitely stop at the four squares near Yanping Gate, handle the funeral, and then go out of Yanping Gate to the cemetery outside the city for burial. Now there is no hurry to convey Li Longji's will, and it is not too late to come to them after Fang Chongyong and his party bury the bodies of Li Ying and others.

That's right, Gao Lishi also believes that Li Longji's incident has greatly damaged the face of the Li Tang clan and hit the centripetal force of the royal family, which is actually a very unnecessary move.

The former prince, that's also the prince! It's also the face of royalty! How can he be like a wild dog dead in the gutter, hanging on the beam of a suburban inn?

Isn't this telling those with bad intentions, even if it is a child of the clan or even a prince, as long as there is an opportunity, they can trample on it at will?

trampling on the corpses of the children of the clan today, do you feel that tomorrow you can come and sit in the position of the emperor?

"Well, why not."

Gao Lishi sighed, quietly shuttled through the crowd of onlookers, and finally watched them enter the longevity square near Yanping Gate.

……

The entire process of funeral in the Tang Dynasty, if you want to subdivide it, has a total of 26 steps, each step has clear and strict content regulations, and the overall process is very complex.

But Fang Chongyong obviously didn't have that much time to complete all this.

The pre-steps such as the beginning and the end, the conjuring of the soul, the mourning, the mourning, and the placement of the funeral seat are all omitted, and the coffin is directly treated.

The funeral shops and temples belonging to the four squares took action together! It's busy in the waiting room!

Money can make ghosts grind, and fifteen hundred times to bury three people, this kind of business is not common.

Bathing, attacking corpses, meals, Mingjing, small collection, large collection, and dressing, all in one go! A group of people are doing their jobs, alternating.

When everything was finished, the three people lying in the coffin had already put on their longevity clothes and put on makeup on their faces, as if they had slept peacefully, not as hideous and terrifying as they saw for the first time at the Chengdong Post Station!

From ancient times to the present, the funeral industry has endured for a long time, not only because of feudal superstition, but also because it contains people's thinking about life and death, as well as care for the deceased.

Fang Chongyong watched the three corpses change from hideous to serene, and had many life insights that were not enough for outsiders to say.

This thousand five hundred buy a few life philosophies. Is it a gain, or is it a blood loss?

A strange thought appeared in Fang Chongyong's mind.

Of course, he couldn't wake up Li Longji, a man who pretended to be asleep, by doing this.

It's just that the fundamental purpose of this trip is not for this in itself.

The operation of Wang Zhonghe's affairs requires channels. At this point, Fang Chongyong also admitted that Li was right. Fang Chongyong knew that he had no channel, or that the channel was his father's virtue.

Therefore, he must rely on his own strength to open up channels that can influence the central decision-making. The matter of abolishing the prince is the only chance at present, otherwise he can only go to Li Linfu and be manipulated by him.

"Lang Jun, Bu Zhai Zhao, Bu Funeral Day, Funeral Dynasty, Funeral Chen Parking Space, Chen Utensils, Hair Introduction, Chen Ming Vessels, these steps ......"

Li Kuai leaned over and asked with some hesitation, the implication is that these steps are either not allowed by time or financial resources, so it is better to save them.

For example, "Chen Mingqi" and the like, which are to be added to the funeral goods.

It's easy to say that ordinary people accompany funeral goods, but these three people are not ordinary people. If the funeral goods are shabby and not in accordance with the etiquette system, they will also be criticized, so it is better not to give them. If it is to prepare a precious weapon, Li Longji may have an idea.

It's good to hold funerals for the three deposed princes, but isn't it ironic that Li Longji shouldn't kill these three people?

If you don't grasp the strength well, you will find death if you don't do it too much.

"All of them are saved, let the funeral procession set off and prepare for the burial."

Fang Chongyong said immediately, not ambiguous at all.

"Well, there is also a funeral Xiyan who is willing to provide free elegy services, is Lang Jun ......?"

Li Kuo asked with some interest. The so-called "elegy" service is to send a group of people to sing an elegy during the funeral and burial process.

Chang'an is not only the center of politics, economy and culture, but also in many other aspects, and even the level of funeral is outstanding.

Among the many self-employed individuals who specialize in this kind of business, there are two of the largest, and they are in a monopoly position in the same industry. This kind of industry was called "fierce" at the time, and it was actually a funeral center.

One of the two fierce rampants is in the east and the other is in the west, so they are called the east and the west.

Now the one who helps Fang Chongyong deal with these funeral affairs is Xiyan, and the four surrounding squares are all engaged in related supporting businesses.

"Well, no. The play is over, and now is the time to keep a low profile. ”

Fang Chongyong whispered to Li Kui.

After a while, the funeral procession had already set off, and Fang Laique, who was in the limelight and addicted to the limelight, leaned over and asked excitedly:

"Lang Jun, do you still want to ring this gong?"

"If you don't want to die, shut up for me, and don't put away the gongs and drums! Beware of the saint knocking your dog's head! ”

Fang Chongyong scolded with a blank face.

"Oh."

Fang Laique was very unwilling to put away the gongs and other things.

Fang Chongyong watched the funeral procession set off like this, standing quietly in front of the Xiyan Gate alone, looking at a couplet written on both sides of the gate:

On the left is a thousand years old.

On the right is my place where I have immortality.

"This couplet is sincere, I don't know how the saint will feel when he sees it."

Fang Chongyong couldn't help but say with emotion.

"The saint also knows that people have no longevity, but it is you who surprised someone."

A slightly shrill voice came from behind Fang Chongyong, and he turned his head to find a middle-aged man in a pale yellow palace robe, looking at him with a smile.

"Who is the elder?"

Fang Chongyong asked hesitantly, he had already guessed the identity of the other party.

"It's just a saint's family slave, but you, the son of Fang Quanzhong, how could you do such a thing?"

The man who spoke was none other than Colliers!

"If the elder knows, why bother asking."

Fang Chongyong sighed and said.

"I also met you back then, and I just thought you were stupid and unteachable. When I saw it today, I was taken aback. ”

After speaking, Gao Lishi waved his hand slightly, and several Jinwu guards stepped forward to surround Fang Chongyong.

"Brought into Dali Temple to await trial, don't be lazy."

After speaking, Gao Lishi turned around and returned to Daming Palace, ready to go to Li Longji's life.