CHAPTER XXI
No matter what era, the road of reform is always difficult to walk, especially the great dynasty of Dashang, which has accumulated disadvantages for a long time, like a building that leaks everywhere from top to bottom, is about to fall but just has a chance to recover, at this time the building is undoubtedly the most laborious and thankless to the people who will fall, and a careless is the end of the destruction of the building, even if it is difficult, it is just a reputation of being given to a sewing craftsman, far less than those who founded the country from the dragon to get the name and leave history.
As Di Yi's brother and Uncle Di Xin, Bigan naturally has the consciousness of being a sewing craftsman, and he also has the talent and self-confidence to be a big businessman. It's just that he is a mortal with no cultivation talent after all, even if Wu Zhiqi is now stepping on the Xuan Immortal Realm again, but completely washing the scriptures and cutting the marrow to make a person have the qualification to become an immortal, it is tantamount to Nuwa pinching the soil to create people, and it is the handwriting of a saint who creates spiritual things. Even if the monkey returns to the peak and steps into the quasi-saint realm, there is still nothing he can do, and he can't help Uncle Wang Bigan enter the immortal path.
People's energy is always limited, but the problems to deal with seem endless, this young man in his twenties as long as he thinks about political affairs at will, there are countless problems rushing to jump in his mind, if it is not for Wu Zhiqi to give him a drop of "Xuan Vortex Divine Water" can prolong life and calm the mind. The youngest prime minister and emperor in the history of the Great Shang Dynasty is afraid that he will not be able to escape the early death of his deterioration. Even if there are spiritual things such as Xuanxuan Divine Water, he grows Hua Hair earlier than Gan, and every time he goes to court, he carefully combs it, and carefully hides the few white hairs that are particularly conspicuous in the long black hair, after all, he will not take the initiative to cut off the parents who have received the hair and skin of the body.
It's not that he didn't want to give power to the rest of the talented courtiers, after all, the Great Shang has been in power for five hundred years, and there is always a place for it, and there are always loyal and talented courtiers who can help the dynasty run more smoothly. However, the previous rebellion that shook the foundation of the dynasty was initially decided, and he did not dare to delegate authority to others without purging the remnants of the sins, so he had to work hard day and night, and even slept for two hours a day, and spent the rest of his time buried in the mountains of heavy bamboo slips.
On this day, it was a triennial court meeting, and the rules handed down by the old elders of the Shang Dynasty were a small pilgrimage every day, a middle dynasty in January, and a large dynasty in three years. During the Great Dynasty Meeting, the princes of all towns in the outer court had to come to meet the Son of Shang in person, and even if they really couldn't get out, they had to arrange for their heirs to come and offer gifts. In this way, the national strength of the Great Shang and the control of the foreign court were demonstrated. This is the first time that Emperor Xin has held a great court meeting since his accession to the throne, and the Taishi Wenzhong, who has led the troops to subdue the barbarians for three years, will return to the court and take the good news of the retreat of the Northern Mangdi people for 800 miles to the people of the world.
Although Zishou used to go to court every day as before, Bigan, who stood aside and watched the situation in the court with a cold eye, knew that his nephew was seriously injured, and it was not until the time when the court meeting was held that it was considered good and thorough. The two of them had a secret conversation yesterday and decided to make some big moves in this court meeting, on the one hand, to select young talents to reduce the burden of Bigan, and secondly, the position left by the previous rebellious courtiers after they were purged, just enough for their favored henchmen and courtiers to go to take office.
The Shang Dynasty had an area unprecedented in the history of the human race, so the official system set up by the imperial court to manage the world was much more complicated than that of the previous Xia Dynasty. The high-ranking officials in the court are collectively referred to as "secretaries", namely: divination divination, prayer to ghosts and gods, history of recording and keeping classics, military attaché chief taishi, music chief young master, chief of hundred workers, sik in charge of grain collection, animal husbandry in charge of animal husbandry, animal hunting in charge of wine, chariot in charge of the king's chariot, clothing for the king king's chariot, national elder in charge of educating the children of nobles, elder in charge of foreign fields, and so on.
Among them, it can be roughly divided into four categories, the most important of which is the ghost and god sacrifice series headed by the high priest and supplemented by the great god blessing and the great sacrificial wine. Secondly, Taishi Wen Zhong is the leader, and the Taiwei, who has been vacant since Tao Nan's death, is in charge of the world's soldiers and horses. Then there is a cadre of Wenchen headed by Yabigan, supplemented by Doctor Feilian and Zuo Jiang. Now nearly half of the courtiers in the court are already virtuous ministers and good generals selected by them after consideration. Finally, there stood a column of princes from all walks of life who came to meet from all over the world, headed by Jiang Huan Chu, the eastern marquis, Ji Chang, the western marquis, and the northern marquis Chonghou Hu, the southern bohou Echongyu and others lined up in turn.
In general, Zishou's father, Di Yi, is a Shang king who is neither mediocre nor sage. During his reign of twenty-six years, except for the conquest of the chaotic Dongyi, there was no major action, and he could barely be regarded as a master of the defense, but all kinds of contradictions became more and more prominent under his inaction. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Shang Dynasty handed over to Zishou was a mess, so Jiang Ziya, who was only a tavern shopkeeper, could find many problems in the market. Even if there was no rebellion, Di Xin would join forces with Yaxiang to replace a large number of fresh blood for the imperial court.
Zhuhuang Palace is full of mist, auspicious light, there are blue musk caged treasure fans, and Shen Tan is sprayed with gold furnace. In the palace, there were three columns of civil and military ministers standing on the white marble pill pier. Zishou today a grand court dress, crimson as the bottom of the bronzing for the edge, painted on the eight winged birds and countless birds, all of them look up to the collar, take ten thousand birds towards the phoenix, and then there is the meaning of the king of the eight phoenix dynasty, plus the king of the merchant wearing court clothes, there is the respect of the nine phoenixes. This "Eight Phoenix Dynasty Honored Clothes", when Zishou first took office, there were skilled craftsmen in Yangzhou who began to weave, take all the luxurious materials, silkworm silk, and rush to complete it for a year, and sent it to Chaoge for several days to catch up with the court. There is a bead curtain in front of the crown to shade, and he can't really see the complexion of the child, he sits on the golden chair with a straight back, and the thin lips exposed outside the bead curtain are slightly pursed.
Taishi Wenzhong wears a high scarf hat, wears a rhubarb court dress with a right collar and narrow sleeves, a gentry belt at the waist, wears a knee cover, and holds a golden whip in his hand, and his power is as heavy as a mountain. Standing at the front of a column of military generals, he withdrew his gaze from looking at the current Shang Tianzi, and bowed his head slightly with satisfaction, and when his gaze moved to a burning golden basin next to the golden chair where Zishou was sitting, behind the golden basin was a rosewood chair, and the old man who was sitting on the chair was slightly dozing, his eyes instantly became much sharper. Wen Zhong is one of the three thousand disciples of the Shangqing Sage, the senior disciple of the Holy Mother of Jinling, and now he has the peak cultivation of Xuan Immortal, and he is a rare top master of the human race. His power was only slightly activated, and Xiangguo Bigan and Young Master Shang Rong, who were standing at the forefront with him, all felt a pressure rushing towards them. Even Zi Shou, who had entered the fairyland, frowned, but following the Taishi's eyes, he looked at the high priest who did not forget to pretend to be a ghost at the Great Dynasty Meeting, wrapped himself in a dark brown robe, smiled coldly, and after secretly scolding the old god, he stared at whether the old man would be oppressed by this power.
At this time, there was no wind in the Jinluan Palace, but the invisible pressure from the front caused the flames in the basin to suddenly sway. But surprisingly, after passing the brazier, it was like a breeze blowing, and it did not affect the old man at all. The High Priest still had his head bowed, only a strand of white hair waking out of his hood and trembling in the air, and his body was still shaky, as if dozing.
The Great Shang Priest was established by the founding emperor Tang himself, and the high priest headed by him was brilliant, and he was known as the "King of the Second Shang" among the good deeds since ancient times. Under the high priest, there are positions such as the Great God Zhu, the Young Master, the Great Priest, and the Young Priest. The priests of their line were in charge of the most important sacrificial ceremonies of the Shang Dynasty, divination and asking ghosts and gods, which were extremely noble, and were relied on by the Shang kings of previous dynasties. Regardless of the example of the high priest setting up the Shang King in the previous dynasty, it is said that a year ago, he personally provoked the two brothers Zubao, Tao Bei, and Tao Nan to try to kill Bigan and Zishou, and he was the great god Zhu who killed Emperor Yi with medicine, and he has always been the number two person in the priest's lineage. Even if he committed such a heinous crime as rebellion and rebellion, Di Xin, who had just ascended to the throne, could only kill all the people closely related to him, and did not dare to affect the old man who sat next to him on the red sandalwood chair and had protégés all over the world, for fear of causing irreparable damage to the situation of the Great Shang Dynasty that was more irreparable than breaking his muscles and bones.
Even if the high priest knew about the rebellion, he didn't dare to touch the old man. Because no matter what the original name was, as long as a person became the high priest of the Shang Dynasty, the name was always only one word:
Armor!
I worship ghosts and gods, and ghosts and gods dare not disrespect me!
Divination and sorcery armor in the world!
Hidden in a brown robe and hooded, the old man sat once every three years on the inconspicuous rosewood chair beside the golden chair in the middle of the court. From the moment he sat in this position, it was as if he was dozing off forever, his thin body was always shaky, and he never said a word about political affairs, but he never fell.
Years.
Three years and three years.
So far, there has been a Jiazi.