Chapter 37: Three Provinces, Six Ministries, Nine Temples, and Five Prisons
Chang'an is divided into an outer city and an inner city. The so-called outer city www.biquge.info the place where the people live, and the inner city is where the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty is located.
The palace consists of Yong'an Palace, Xingqing Palace and Taiji Palace.
Yong'an Palace is located on the north side of Chang'an, which is composed of three halls: Hanyuan Palace, Xuanzheng Hall and Zichen Palace.
At this time, in the Hanyuan Palace, hundreds of civil and military officials gathered, and even those officials who usually pretended to be sick and pretended to be stupid also came. Today is a "good" day, because today will be a day of major adjustments of Datang officials, all thanks to Li Muyun and Zhuo Yifei, as well as those with ulterior motives.
At the top of Hanyuan Palace, Xuanzong, who was wearing a gold-colored five-clawed golden dragon mansion, was sitting on a dragon chair made of gold and decorated with countless precious jewels, I don't know how Li Muyun would feel when he saw the dragon chair.
At a glance, the most significant is Xuanzong. It's just because of his clothes sewn with gold wire, and the "crown" on the top of his head.
There is a "extension" at the top for the crown, and the front circle is behind it, which is the meaning of the sky and the earth, and the meaning of the top of the sky, and the meaning of being ordered by the sky.
Under the crown is a hanging bead, connected by a five-color thread, and the white jade is a bead. The emperor, the twelve beads, and the twelve branches of the earth are for the meaning of ruling the world, and there is also the meaning of "covering the light". The so-called concealment is the meaning of insight into the general inclusion of flaws.
The crown is the one who has twelve pearls of the ninety-five, the ten pearls of the mother of the world and the nine pearls of the prince are for the heavenly certification, just waiting to ascend the throne, and the rest of the princes, princesses, and princes are five pearls, meaning the son of the emperor. (This is pure fiction, please don't be real)
The one who crowns is the emperor, and the one who honors the sword is the minister.
The iron law of the Tang Dynasty, the crown can only be worn by the emperor and the direct bloodline, unless the emperor is rewarded, it is regarded as a rebellion against the nine clans.
The subjects of the Tang Dynasty, at the time of their coming-of-age ceremony, their parents would give a ceremonial knife to be able to stand alone. Most of the ordinary people are wooden and iron. Most of the children of the rich are made of copper and gold. Some high-ranking officials pay special attention to their ceremonial knives, which will be specially made of precious and rare things as raw materials, which are status symbols and decorations, and are mostly made of gold.
The royal family, nobles, and the three grades and above all use jade as a ritual knife, and it is wonderful to ask the master to make it specially, in addition to wearing a jade pendant to show the preciousness of the identity.
When the officials got the official jade medal, most of them would kneel in front of the study and ask the emperor to give them a ceremonial knife.
And this special gift of ritual knife can ensure that no matter what is committed, you can save your life.
But who is the emperor, and who can get or be given a sword so far is not an official of the third rank or above.
And the royal family's crown, the ritual knife for the ministers came to this, making people forget that the ritual knife is just a gift from parents to their children's adulthood.
The ritual knife is not a small knife, it has long and short, most of the folk are long knives or swords, the only thing that can be determined is that the royal family's ritual knife is usually twenty centimeters, although the name of the knife is a dagger, the decoration is gorgeous, and its handle is usually engraved with a unicorn, a golden dragon, and a jade phoenix.
There is a folk saying that those who wear jade daggers and jade are treated with the above courtesy, and everything is given priority before.
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Those of the third rank and below are dressed in the Suzaku court for civil officials, and the white tiger court for warriors.
The three divisions and the first grade, the second-grade officials are the unicorn court clothes, and the princes and county kings are all three-clawed pale yellow gold dragon court clothes.
There is an unwritten rule among those who can enter the palace to discuss state affairs, that is, to bring a ceremonial knife and a jade pendant. In short, everything that can reflect one's benevolence, filial piety, loyalty, etc., will be carried on the body, and it will leak out, so that the emperor and other officials will not find excuses to get themselves.
And to prevent accidents, these big officials all carry jade daggers, which are pinned to their waists, and they also wear jade pendants to indicate that they are from that family, so that other officials will not be mistaken when they see it. Well, I guess I just won't get my own people.
There are nine orders in the Hanyuan Palace, and Xuanzong is in the highest ninety-five ranks.
The second order is the third division, the prince, the hussar general, etc. are the first product, and the people of this level, even if they are generals, have no real power, and are mostly ornaments.
In the third order, the officials of the second rank, as well as the prince of the county, the general of the auxiliary state, etc., the concentration camp of real power, and the officials below the second rank are all ordered by these people. The rest knelt everywhere according to the product.
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At this time, Xuanzong looked at the people below and smiled, and sure enough, they all came, only to see Xuanzong give Gao Lishi a look.
At this time, Gao Lishi wiped the rouge gouache, and suddenly shouted in a sharp voice: "The ...... of the upper dynasty" is in stark contrast to the appearance last night, which is incomprehensible.
I saw that except for the first-grade officials below, the rest of the people bowed three times and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." ”
Xuanzong said: "Excuse me" The ministers got up and knelt with blankets in turn.
"I don't know if you Aiqing have anything to say?" Xuanzong said with a smile.
All those who should have come have come, and those who shouldn't have come have come, everyone understands, but no one wants to be a leader!
Seeing the silence below, Xuanzong was not in a hurry. He has very little time but time, which may be the sadness of him as an emperor.
At this time, Du Shaoling looked at Zhuo Shichang and nodded, not knowing what it meant.
"Your Majesty, the minister has something to do. I saw a man in a Suzaku costume kneeling on the left.
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Three provinces, six departments, nine temples and five superintendents, Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxia. Officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and the Ministry of Works. Taichang (sacrificial wine), Guanglu (doorman), Weiwei (ceremonial account), Zongzheng, Taifu (groom), Dali (trial), Honglu (diplomacy), Sinong (treasury), Taifu, these nine temples (salt, mining tax). Guozi, Shaofu, Jiangzuo, military weapons, and the five supervisors of Dushui.
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Xuanzong looked at Shaoqing (Sipin) of Dali Temple and asked, "What's the matter!"
The man looked a little nervous, and then said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, the prisoner said that the food in the prison is unpalatable, and the food should be improved." ”
Originally, everyone thought that a bird had appeared, but after listening to the words, they were all shocked, and then surprised, including Du Shaoling, Zhuo Shichang and Xuanzong.
Gao Lishi looked at that Shaoqing a little curiously, what a guy who can joke.
Xuanzong smiled and said, "Shaoqing thinks that I can allow you?"
The so-called ugly people are more weird, and the bad guys have a lot of faults, and when you look at the guy who says that the food is unpalatable, it is definitely not a good tiredness.
After hearing this, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple knelt down and said, "The minister is guilty." ”
"Haha" Xuanzong smiled and said, "Since you are guilty, then let's subdue the law." Someone came, took off his court clothes, and took back the official document and jade seal. ”
"Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life. Shaoqing of Dali Temple knelt and begged bitterly.
But no one spoke for him, and no one pleaded for him. As the saying goes: "A king is angry with a million corpses, and the floating corpses are thousands of miles away." ”
Here and now, in this situation, he still said something like that, he has been given up by the imperial court, maybe he has good intentions, but he chose the wrong time and place, and Xuanzong took off his court clothes, maybe he can still leave his life. Such a scheming lies in the fact that the court is nothing more than a dead end.
Xuanzong's move still smells of shock, he is forcing these people to mention last night's incident, although his power is hollowed out, but he is better than the open.
Du Shaoling and Zhuo Shichang looked at each other and smiled, silently hoping in their hearts that no one would mention this, so that they could get through the chaos.
It's a pity that there won't be so lucky, at this time, suddenly a eunuch said a few words in Gao Lishi's ear, Gao Lishi went to Xuanzong's ear and said a few words, Xuanzong nodded.
I saw Gao Lishi say loudly: "Accurate, Princess Weiguo hangs the curtain and proves it." ”
I saw that after Gao Lishi finished speaking, someone had already lowered the gauze curtain on the right side of the highest position. Where is the existence of a special position, it is usually the place where the queen hangs the curtain and listens to the government.
Listening to politics and not interfering in politics is just a precaution or the emperor misses something and then mentions it when he sleeps. Well, it's not a big deal, but it usually ends with a few deaths.
When Du Shaoling and Zhuo Shichang heard this, they frowned and thought in their hearts: "What do you want to do in the future, as long as you don't bring it up today, everything can be treated as if it didn't happen, and everything that happened last night won't spread to the people." ”
It's a pity that Li Ying has Li Ying's plans, although the cost of doing so will be very high, but maybe only then is the best for her.
Keep others away from you to prevent others from harming yourself.
In fact, Xuanzong was also very entangled, and he didn't want to do it, after all, it was about the royal face year, but thinking of the benefits it would bring, he couldn't help but do it.
In fact, Li Ying has been listening to the movements of the court, and there have always been eunuchs to tell her, which is also a special arrangement of Xuanzong.
And when Li Ying heard that Xuanzong was forcing those people to talk about last night's incident, she wanted to let others say that it was better to keep something herself.