The air was filled with smoke.

The usual rich fragrance in the hall is mixed with the smell of embers after the burning of paper money.

Wearing a white mourning uniform and being in such smoke, Wu Meiniang felt her chest tightness and couldn't help but want to cough.

However, looking at the coffin in front, she tried her best to suppress the urge to cough.

Beside her is the new emperor Li Hong, who had just succeeded to the throne.

Li Hong, twelve-year-old, is actually a child. This child looks very much like Li Shimin, but he is not as strong and brave as an emperor. On the contrary, he is a little weak. His pale face, thin body, and thin arms and legs are kneeling there and coughing from time to time.

"Your Majesty, is it okay?"

"My mother, I'm fine." Li Hong coughed from time to time by the dirty air, but in the face of the Empress Dowager's concern, he still lied and said it was very good.

"Say a glass of water."

The emperor has passed away for a while, but he has not been buried yet. Because Li Shimin was dying, he once made a will, saying that he would not be buried after he died, and would be sent back to the Central Plains for burial in the future. One day, the Tang Dynasty could not counterattack and return to the Central Plains, and he would not be buried for a day.

Before Li Shimin died, he held his son Li Hong's hand and handed the three golden arrows to Li Hong in front of Wu Meiniang, Xu Shiji, Yuchi Gong and others.

"The first arrow is to attack the Mayan city-state of China and the United States. If you don't conquer the Mayan city-state of China and the United States first, then South America cannot be taken. Only by unifying the entire America can we have the opportunity to accumulate strength and fight back to the Central Plains in the future. Otherwise, the longer the Chinese army will occupy South America, the more passive we will be."

"The second arrow, you want to conquer Australia. Australia was once the exiled place of your brother Li Zhi. He refused to surrender to Zhang Chao and committed suicide. He had the character of my Li family. You want to conquer Australia and avenge your brother. Use Australia as a bridgehead for the future counterattack of the Central Plains."

"The third arrow, you want to kill Zhang Chao and eliminate the traitor, the traitor of the rioters, Ba Shang, Zhang's family. If you can fulfill these three wishes and restore the Tang Dynasty, I will die without regrets."

Now these three golden arrows are placed in front of Li Shimin's coffin.

Li Hong, who was only twelve years old, had three golden arrows and three wishes. Even for Li Shimin, these three wishes were like ascending to the sky, and for the young Li Hong, it was even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

When Li Shimin died, people were in panic.

Not to mention fighting Maya, occupying South America, capturing Australia, and counterattacking the Central Plains. Even in San Francisco, people were in panic. Everyone was spreading a rumor that the Emperor Dahua of the Central Plains had sent an expeditionary fleet and was coming across the sea.

"Taishou, Taifu."

Wu Meiniang said to Xu Shiji and Yuchi Gong on the side, "Now the Yin tribes are ready to move because of Your Majesty's death, and they are very unstable. The two are the ministers appointed by the Emperor to His Majesty before his death. What do you think should you do now?"

Xu Shiji and Yuchi Gong were both grand tutors and grand tutors, and they also served as prime ministers of the Central Secretariat and Shizhong. One even served as the Marshal of the Northern Ya and the Marshal of the Southern Ya. It can be said that they were in charge of military and political affairs.

As soon as the emperor died, the military power is basically in the hands of these two people. Although the Wu family ruled behind the curtain, it would be unstable without soldiers.

Xu Shiji's answer is very simple.

"It is true that some Yin people are uneasy, but it is easy to deal with them. Kill one to warn a hundred, kill a few chickens to show those monkeys, and those monkeys will be settled."

Li Shimin used tough measures to conquer the tribes of the Yin people over the years and forced them to surrender to the Later Tang, but after all, there were too few Han people in the Later Tang. There were not even 100,000 people in total, but there were no less than 3 million people in the Yin people. It was a very difficult thing to rule the three million people with 100,000 Han people.

Even though Li Shimin had used the method of using barbarians to control barbarians before, and even supported a number of loyal Yin people to help rule the Yin people, the Yin people did not truly integrate into the Later Tang Dynasty.

In fact, many Yin tribes still nominally surrendered to the Later Tang Dynasty, but they lived their past lives, hunting and planting.

In the Later Tang Dynasty, except for a very few towns, its territory was basically backward and barbaric tribes, relying on force to deter them.

But now when the tough emperor died, it would be normal for some Yin people to become restless.

Yuchi Gong also supports killing the chicken to scare the monkey. The more you are, the less you cannot be weak.

Wu Meiniang nodded.

She is now very afraid of these two kings, for fear of being bullied by two important officials with real power, their orphans and widows, but she is helpless.

Of course, the biggest crisis now is the Central Plains.

In recent years, Dahua has blocked North America and ignored them. They were cautious and secretly lucky in their hearts. But now that the emperor is dead, who knows what the attitude would be like in the Central Plains?

Whether it is the Wu family or Xu Shiji Yuchi Gong, they all know the true strength of the Tang Dynasty in North America. It is okay to bully the loose Yin tribes, and they even have the ability to go to war with the Mayan city-state. As long as they don’t go to war with the entire Mayan city-state, they can still fight.

But if they start a war with Dahua, even if Dahua travels across the ocean to conquer, they will find it difficult for them to deal with it.

Not to mention anything else, the current several important cities of the Tang Dynasty in North America are all on the west coast, while the Navy of Dahua is the most powerful.

"Taishi, Taifu, Ai's family thought about it and planned to move the capital."

"It's good to move the capital. His Majesty originally planned to move the capital to the Jinshan River Valley Plain, but before there was time, His Majesty had already made a big move." Xu Shiji also agreed to move the capital.

At that time, Li Shimin also considered the power of the Central Plains Navy and was always worried about the arrival of the Dahua Navy. The Tang Dynasty was capitalized on the San Francisco Peninsula, close to the sea. If the navy attacked, wouldn’t it be directly captured by someone?

Moving to the Kingsoft Plain is at least an inland plain, which can be safer.

"The address has been selected. Now I will send people to build the palace and capital, recruit more people, and it will be possible to move the capital in one year."

It took a little tight a year, but it would be fine to build the walls of the palace and the outer city first, and then build some palaces and houses.

"The posthumous teacher, have the temple name of the old emperor chosen?" Wu asked again.

"I discussed with the Taifu and others that the posthumous title of the late emperor was chosen as the Saint Emperor of Civil and Military Affairs, and the temple name was Taizong."

The Saint Emperor of Civil and Military Affairs.

Generally, the posthumous title is one character, but Xu Shiji and Yuchi Gong gave Li Shimin three characters, which are both literary, martial and saint, which is a very beautiful posthumous title.

This shameless way of flattery is really shameless.

Wu thought for a while, "How is it better to postpone the Great Saint of the Civil and Martial Emperor than the Great Saint of the Civil and Martial Emperor?"

There is not enough civil and military saints, so I have to add another big character.

Now even Xu Shiji and Yuchi Gong were embarrassed. This posthumous posthumous method is indeed a bit too far.

"Your Majesty, what do you think?" Xu Shiji asked Li Hong.

Li Hong coughed twice, wiped his eyes that were a little uncomfortable by the fireworks, and said, "My Tang Dynasty has always established a country with filial piety. I think the posthumous title of the late emperor should be given the word filial piety."

"The Great Sage and Filial Emperor of Civil and Military?"

Li Hong nodded, "How about adding the word "Zhuang"?"

"The Great Sage of Civil and Military Emperor Xiaozhuang?" Yuchi Gong felt blushing after reading it.

It is really ironic to say that the Tang Dynasty governs the country with filial piety. Who doesn’t know that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have been constant civil strife. The Xuanwu Gate Incident alone happened three times, two of the Supreme Emperor and two of the deposed princes were released. Li Shimin’s palace transformation usurped the throne, first seizing the throne of his brother, and then seizing the throne of his father. Then Li Yuan later restored the throne and seized the throne of his son.

Later, Li Chengqian launched a palace change and seized his father Li Shimin's throne.

It can be said that the Li family is really messy, and there is no filial piety at all. It can be said that the father is not kind to the son is unfilial, the father and son turn against each other, and the brothers are tragic.

But if you want, add whatever you lack. Just like people’s names, those poor people like to choose wealth and noble, while those families like to name their sons, and those who are loyal and noble.

Now Li Hong wants to give him the posthumous title of Xiao and add Zhuang, which is normal.

The great sage of civil and military emperor Xiaozhuang.

"How about adding two more words to Emperor Xiaozhuang, the great sage of civil and military affairs?"

"Okay." Li Hong nodded.

Xu Shiji thought about it and said, since the posthumous title has been written in eight words, then just do one. Don’t use Taizong to use the temple name, but a louder one.

"How about the temple name using the Holy Ancestor?"

No matter what, the ancestor is always higher than the ancestor. Li Yuan was named Gaozu by Li Shimin and was posthumously named Emperor Wu. Now Li Shimin has set the temple name, and it is still a bit insufficient if he only sets a ancestral. After all, Li Shimin's life was too magnificent, especially when he ascended the throne for the second time in North America and built the Tang Dynasty again, it would be no exaggeration to call him ancestor.

Generally, there are Taizu and Gaozu. Shizu is usually founded by the generations, connecting the past and the future, and also creating foundations, but it is not the founder of the dynasty. This is true for the founders of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu.

The Emperor Shizu was not enough to demonstrate Li Shimin's achievements in rebuilding the Tang Dynasty, so Xu Maogong created a temple name that had never been before.

Anyway, the posthumous title is eight characters, so it is nothing more to innovate the temple name.

The Holy Ancestor, the Great Sage of Civil and Military, Emperor Daguang Xiaozhuang.

This is really long and cool. Li Hong thinks it's very good. Wu Meiniang originally thought Taizong was good, but when her son agreed, she didn't say anything more.

The emperor's posthumous title and temple name were decided, and at the same time, he also decided to build a new capital in front of the spirit and prepare to move the capital inland.

But after all, one problem cannot be avoided.

"Does the Grand Tutor and the Grand Tutor think that Zhongyuan will send troops to come?"

"It should not be that the emperor did not commit a mourning ceremony." Xu Shiji said. According to the rules, the emperor should not send troops to conquer at this time.

But Wu Meiniang didn't think so. After all, they were actually rebels in the eyes of the Central Plains. Therefore, there was no rule that the two countries would fight and not fight against mourning.

Yuchi Gongze said, "Since the time of starting a military force, Zhongyuan has never sent a soldier to come. He should not send troops to come now, right?"

Wu Meiniang shook her head.

"Not sending troops at the beginning does not mean that there is no sending troops now. The Ai family always has a sense that Zhongyuan will definitely send troops to come this time."

Xu Maogong and Yuchi Gong couldn't help but frowned.

The Central Plains sent troops to attack, which was a sharp sword that had been hanging over their heads for several years, which made them worry all the time, but the sword never fell down.

But Wu said it well, the sword may be about to fall now.
Chapter completed!