The Arrival of the Book of the Heavens
From this day on, the emperor became a little dazed. He often walked alone and went to the Secret Pavilion to read ancient books from time to time. Until one night, he met Du Hao, a scholar in the Secret Pavilion. This is a recognized erudition and upright scholar. "Is it true that the 'Hebei's map is produced, and Luo's books is produced'"
Du Hao didn't understand why, but he saw the emperor's distressed expression. So he said, "It's fake that the ancient sages used these gods and monsters to make the people believe it in order to educate the world."
The emperor's face suddenly became cheerful, and it was obvious that a problem had been solved. That night, Du Hao watched Zhao Heng leave, but he could not imagine that the Song Empire would fall into a complete crazy confusion from then on! Part of the reason was because of the truth he just said... this damn honesty!
Honesty? Fraud? Which one is more beneficial to this world?
The emperor wants to use auspiciousness to be the world, and he wants him to cooperate in fraud... Should Wang Dan agree or not? Which one is more important, the interests of the country, the preferences of the king, and the reputation of his personal status? How to choose?
Unexpectedly, the emperor did not mention anything about "auspiciousness" and "Fengshan" to him, but actually invited him to drink. Before leaving, the emperor also asked him to get a bottle of wine and handed it to him with his own hands, saying meaningfully, "This wine tastes so beautiful. Take it home and enjoy it with your wife and children." After arriving at home, he realized that it was not wine at all, but a bottle of pearls... The emperor's words sounded in his ears, "Enjoy with your wife and children" were promises and threats. The family's wealth or cold reception was just a thought.
But another voice rang in his ears through time and space. First, Wang Dan's own lament, "When will the world be peaceful? Only we can be leisurely and at ease." At that time, the wars with the Khitan and Dangxiang continued, which made the prime ministers and Privy Councilors frustrated. But the voice said with a smile, "It's good to have some trouble. If you are too peaceful, you will slack off. If there is no war in the future, you will miss this time. Because there will be other chaos in the court." It was Li Ying! After saying this, Li Ying said
It began to report disasters, bandits, chaos and other matters in various places, which made Zhao Heng panic all day long. Wang Dan remembered that he had opposed it, but Li Heng said the biggest prophecy in the "Saint Principal Quotes" that "the emperor is in his prime, and he should understand the difficulties of governing the country. Otherwise, he would either be fascinated by the emotions, or he would build a palace or launch a large war or pray to gods and Buddhas. I am old, I am afraid that these will not be seen. But you must be careful, in the future these will fall on you."
Sure enough, he was told by the holy emperor! These crystal and warm pearls shine brightly under the candlelight. Wang Dan didn't want them from the bottom of his heart, but did he dare? Can he tolerate himself going against the will of the supreme emperor?
But he also clearly remembered that Li Heng had also faced his current situation. That was when Zhao Heng decided to sign Liu E the imperial concubine. The Shengxiang's reaction was to burn the edict written by the emperor in front of the envoy. He asked the envoy to send a message to the emperor, "Just say that Li Heng did not agree with this matter", so the matter was really rejected by the Shengxiang. Afterwards, the emperor had no temper...
They also graduated from the exam together, and the gap between people is so big! That night, no matter how Wang Dan tossed and turned, and could not fall asleep, and how much he mourned his reputation. After dawn, he would walk into the central key area of the Song Dynasty to cooperate with all the emperor's decisions... But what he didn't know was that he was not the only one who was treated to by the emperor. That night, many of the officials of the east and west palaces of the Song Dynasty were having fun with you, but none of them were as sad as him...
Legend has it that night, Privy Councilor Chen Yaosou was on duty in Privy Council, but was suddenly taken into the depths of the emperor by the eunuch. After twisting and turning, he stopped in front of a small hall. When he went in, he saw many old acquaintances: Ding Wei, the old Hanlin Du Hao... After a while, Emperor Zhao Heng also came. The real king and his ministers had a big bag of pearls after drinking...
On January 3, 1008, the historic moment finally arrived! Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Heng, urgently cancelled the annual leave and summoned the main officials of the East and West Governments in the west side of Chongzheng Hall. "My dear friends, do you know how my bedroom was arranged?"
What? The emperor wants to expose his own gossip? Everyone present listened very piously: "There are green curtains hanging on all sides of my bedroom. If I don't light the lights in the morning and evening, I can't see anything. But in the middle of the night on November 27 last year, I just went to bed, and suddenly the whole room was bright. I was surprised when a god suddenly appeared, star-capped and crimson robe, saying to me, "You want to build a yellow seal temple in the main hall for one month, God will give you three chapters of "Dazhong Xiangfu" and don't reveal the secrets of heaven." I was frightened and welcomed the gods. But the gods suddenly disappeared. I immediately took notes and wrote down the gods' orders. From December 1st
Eat vegetarian food, built a temple in Chaoyuan Hall, built a level 9 colored altar, carved a carriage with fragrant wood, decorated it with gold treasures, waiting for the gods to reward. Now that the deadline has passed, I still dare not withdraw it," Then the emperor suddenly gave his ministers a huge surprise. "Just just now, the Imperial City Department reported that a piece of yellow silk was hung on the kiss at the south corner of the Zuochengtianmen Gate Tower. I was shocked and doubted, so I quietly sent someone to inspect it. As a result, the reply said, 'The yellow silk was about 2 meters long, and there was something like a scroll tied on it. There were three green ropes wrapped around it outside, and there was a vague word in the sealing place.' I thought carefully, this is what the gods said to be a book of heaven."
Before seeing the thing with your own eyes, I made a judgment. This fully proves Zhao Heng's worship of gods. So the prime ministers and Privy Councilors, led by Wang Dan, were immediately infected. "Your Majesty serves the heaven and earth with sincerity, benevolence and filial piety to the ancestors... (More than 40 words omitted below) My ministers once said that the way of heaven is not far away and will be rewarded. Now the gods first predict, and the heavenly book comes down to earth on time. This is all God is blessing." Then the ministers cheered in unison and bowed to the emperor. After a while, they had a new consensus, "Your Majesty, this is given to you by God. Please open the heavenly book alone, and everyone will retreat."
Zhao Heng shook his head, "If God criticizes my fault for governing the country, then naturally I will not be able to escape you. Let's study how to correct it together. If you warn me alone, you will also need you to supervise and correct me. How can you hide the will of God and not let everyone know?"
After the discussion ended, the monarch and ministers stood up together and walked towards Zuo Chengtianmen... Zuo Chengtianmen arrived, and the incense table had been set up. The emperor personally knelt down to the yellow silk, and then ordered two eunuchs, Zhou Huaizheng, and Huangfu Jiming climbed up the ladder and took down the "Shu of Heaven".
Prime Minister Wang Dan took the "Shistoric Book" and knelt down to the emperor. Zhao Heng also knelt down, took the "Shistoric Book" and put it in the super fragrant car that had been carved from the gods descending to earth. The emperor and the prime minister walked and guided him to the Huangzun Temple in Chaoyuan Hall. The Privy Councilor Chen Yaosou will start the "Shistoric Book" there to read the will of heaven!
The solemn time has come! Chen Yaosou, a talented man in Shuchuan, was extremely glorious and excitedly untied the piece of yellow silk that was more than 2 meters long. He saw that there were indeed three heavenly books inside, all written in yellow font. The yellow silk that wrapped the heavenly books also had 21 big characters of the recipient's message written by God himself - "Zhao received the order, prospered in the Song Dynasty, and paid to him. He lived in his instrument and guarded the righteousness. The world was seven hundred, nine ninety-nine were determined." It was clear that this was written for Zhao Heng, the emperor of the Song Dynasty who had endured the destiny of heaven. He wanted him to guard the magic weapon and ensure justice. The life span of the Song Dynasty would be 700 years, and the stability coefficient was the highest 99%.
Then Chen Dashumi envoy officially opened the Heavenly Book and read it aloud in public. It turned out that the writing level of God was really profound. Because the format and style of the Heavenly Book were quite close to the three volumes of "Shangshu
The ceremony that day ended in a warm and festive state, "The Book of Heaven" was collected in the famous golden box of the Song Dynasty, namely the "Golden Chamber", and became Zhao Heng's permanent collection...
According to historical records, Zhao Heng and Wang Dan both returned to the Huangzhuan Temple site, nominally paying tribute to heaven again. But which director and protagonist had to reflect on the present and plan for tomorrow after the first filming of the play began? After all, this is just the beginning...
On January 5, as the Heavenly Book came, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty pardoned the world, and added favors to all officials, and changed the reign of the Dazhong Xiangfu.
After that, there was more than 70 days of silence. The only disharmonious voice came from Zhao Deming, a Dangxiang man. He claimed that he had encountered a famine and wanted to borrow millions of grain from the Song Dynasty. Everyone thought that Zhao Deming had just accepted the letter and was playing this trick again, but he just didn't take the imperial court seriously. He should be reprimanded. Wang Dan disagreed, and he advised the emperor to reply to Zhao Deming, saying that there were millions of grains in Kaifeng City, so that you could take it. Zhao Deming sighed at the letter that "there are people in the court" but stopped. This incident was still
There is a legend that Zhao Deming's original letters had four big characters, "Tianxin takes rice". Tianxin is the heart of the Song Dynasty, and said that he was coming to Kaifeng to compete with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. As a result, someone in the Song Dynasty (I don't know who it was) added a stroke to each of these four characters, becoming "I may not dare to come" and wrote Zhao Deming back to write, which dispelled his arrogance! But I think this kind of thing is not like the capable one of Xia Taizong, but more like the work of his son Li Yuanhao, who was reincarnated by gods and demons...
On March 13, the holy land of Fengshan in Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), Yanzhou, where Mount Tai is located, was suddenly the national focus. 1,287 ordinary people, led by Lu Liang, asked the emperor to meet him. The Song Dynasty was founded for nearly 50 years, and the world was peaceful, and Xiangfu came from the sky. We invite you to Mount Tai to hold the Fengshan ceremony to thank God! Zhao Heng disagreed and gave them travel expenses. Be honest and went home to farm for me!
The first effort of the Yanzhou people failed like this. The second time, the governor Shao Hua brought all the Yanzhou officials to write a letter to request the emperor to go to Mount Tai for sacrifice. But unfortunately, the emperor was still unmoved, and the Yanzhou people failed again for the second effort.
On the 18th, a juren from Yanzhou called Kong Wei led 840 candidates from all over the country to gather in the capital, and once again begged the emperor to be loyal to Fengshan! But the emperor hit the enthusiasm of Yanzhou people for the third time. He solemnly stated: Fengshan is a rare event on earth throughout history, and not everyone is qualified to do it!
On the 21st, the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, Wang Dan, led 24,370 people from all over the world, and submitted a letter to the emperor for the Fengshan period five times, but Zhao Heng still refused...
All signs indicate that Zhao Heng was still alive in the world at this time until April 1st.
On this day, I found the second heavenly book on the Gongde Pavilion in the inner courtyard of the palace. The content was exactly the same as the first one. It was so obvious. God was blaming Zhao Heng for being ignorant and asked me to say it twice? Why didn't I go to "Fengshan" yet?
So Zhao Heng "respects the heaven and fears his destiny" like the ancient sage, he had no choice but to do what he said... He issued an edict that the Fengshan ceremony would be held in Mount Tai in October. On the 5th, Zhao Heng appointed Privy Councillor Wang Qinruo, the political affairs officer Zhao Anren, as the Fengshan Sutra system, and first went to Yanzhou to be responsible for all the specific matters of the Fengshan ceremony.
Regarding the funds for the Fengshan ceremony, Zhao Heng found the "Strange Scene" of one of the three prime ministers of the Song Dynasty, namely the Sansi Envoy Ding Wei. Ding Wei looked relaxed and said the four words that later generations considered the least inconvenient, "There is more than one plan", so Zhao Heng appointed Ding Wei to be responsible for the supply of food and grass along the way; Cao Yi and Li Shenfu repaired the road; Chao Jiong, Li Zongyan, Yang Yi, Du Hao, Chen Pengnian and other knowledgeable scholars formulated the Fengshan etiquette.
On the 6th, Zhao Heng appointed the "Five Envoys of the Fengshan Ceremony" - Prime Minister Wang Dan as the envoy of the Great Ceremony, Privy Councilor Wang Qinruo as the envoy of the etiquette, Feng Zheng as the envoy of the ceremonial guard, Privy Councilor Chen Yaosou as the envoy of the Lu Book, and Zhao Anren as the envoy of the Bridge and Dao.
Such a specification is unique in the 5,000-year history of China. Even the Fengshan of Qin and Han and Wu did not capture all the heads of the military and governments in one place, and all mobilized them. However, the top ministers of the Song Dynasty put down all the state affairs at this time and worked for this goal...
But the problem immediately arose. Speaking of which, Emperor Zhenzong of Song was the 7th (and last) emperor to play Fengshan in Chinese history. The ones ahead of him were: Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng, Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che, Emperor Guangwu of Han Liu Xiu, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi, Empress Wu Zetian (her Fengshan was Songshan), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Li Longji. But even if all the historical books were copied, they could not be found, especially the most famous two times - Qin Emperor, and the details of the Fengshan of Han Wu...
After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he went to Mount Tai on time to report his work to the heaven. But unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the middle of the mountain, there was a sudden lightning and thunder and heavy rain. Qin Shihuang was shocked. After he hid under the five big pine trees, he went down the mountain to go home. In other words, he did not seal Cheng Zen at all. The whole action was to seal the five big pine trees from then on called "Five Doctors Pines"
Chapter completed!