Chapter 301: Thousands of villages and villages are everywhere, and thousands of rocks and valleys are layered in fields (final chapter)

The northern country is still a cold and cold scene, but the capital Chang'an has already sprouted spring. After half a month of sunny days and the good weather on the sun is coming, the spring breeze that rises above the Wei River has gradually faded away the chilly chill and shows a harmonious warmth. The wind of willows is not cold on the face, but the ground is indeed true. Not to mention that the willows beside the Bashui Bridge are already blooming in new green, and half of the tender leaves of fingers have grown on the old locust trees all over the streets in the city.

The wind blows the locust flowers and the fragrance of the shop is filled with fragrance, and the humble girl presses her to drink and encourages guests to taste it. I think it will take a long time to see such a beautiful scenery!

Built in the south garden of the palace city on Longshouyuan, Chang'an City, the weeping willows are blowing with the spring breeze, and the charming willow branches light up a dizzy and fine ripples on the water surface. The water waves of Taiye Pond under the willow branches are slightly buzzing. Looking around, it looks like a lake of jasper flowing. It looks like a beautiful scenery in front of you. When you catch up with this bright and clear weather, it is really an excellent day to visit the Forbidden Garden.

The compass dragon in the inner body is a regular dress, and the emperor Li Dan, who is wearing a fire fox fur cloak outside, was wandering on the path beside the Taiye Pool. He was holding a rare book "Er Ya" in his hand, followed by five or six children who were no more than ten years old. He walked along the way while enjoying the spring scenery and listening to his grandchildren playing and playing, Li Dan's depressed and irritable mood for many days finally gradually spread out.

If Li Dan really wanted to let go of the ten-day holiday in the court, which only lasted one day every ten days, and let him go for ten days and half a month, or even forever, so as not to go to court again tomorrow morning to face endless debates and debates.

When he thought of tomorrow's morning court, Li Dan's brain began to swell like a conditioned reflex. He envied those court officials these days. At least, they could still find excuses to ask for leave, but no matter how unwilling he was, he could only hold on and wait.

Troubles are like spring grass, and they will survive even further. After shaking his head, Li Dan still couldn't shake the sudden worries, so he stopped and raised his hand and pointed to the pavilion not far ahead.

The eunuchs and palace maids who accompanied him suddenly became busy in an orderly manner, sweeping, placing books, holding a stove and burning incense, and then placing the four treasures of the study and wine. A series of movements were as light and silent as flowing clouds but efficient and fast.

Li Dan decided not to let tomorrow's annoying morning court disturb the rare good mood today. He entered the pavilion and sat down in front of the book table to look at the water and willows in the distance. After looking at the fun-loving grandchildren in the rockery bamboo forest outside the pavilion, he opened the "Er Ya" that he had been playing with for a long time with a relaxed and comfortable sigh.

For Li Dan, who loves calligraphy and philology, phonological and philology works like Erya are much more interesting than piles of endless memorials. The interpretation of every word here can make him unconsciously sink into his entire mind and experience the unspeakable pleasure in this process, rather than the boredom that is always tired, endless, and increasingly unbearable.

He gently flipped the pages of the book with his left hand, and wrote down the ancient words and interpretations that he was interested in with his right hand. After three or four pages, he turned around and examined the content just now, and carefully pondered and experiencing the structure of individual words from the perspective of calligraphy. These fun that is not worthy of being used by outsiders made Li Dan deeply fascinated. The irritability that just now arose from thinking about tomorrow's morning court also disappeared naturally in this process.

When Li Dan was addicted to it with great enthusiasm, a crisp childish voice attracted his attention from "Er Ya".

Putting down the book and rubbing his wrists, Li Dan noticed that the grandsons who were calling in the pavilion had stopped the noise among the bamboo forests of rockery. At this time, he was fiddling with the books prepared by the eunuchs for today's tour of the Forbidden Garden. This childish voice was issued by one of the grandsons when he shook his head and read.

After listening carefully, this little guy is reading "Preface to the Lanting Collection":

In the ninth year of Yonghe, the year was Kuichou. At the beginning of late spring, I met at Lanting in Shanyin, Kuaiji to practice the work. After all the wise men arrived, they gathered together. There were high mountains and ridges, lush forests and bamboos here; there were also clear and turbulent flows, reflecting the left and right, leading them to be the flowing cups and curved waters, and sitting next to them. Although there is no prosperous silk and bamboo orchestra, one cup and one chant is enough to express the quiet feelings. On this day, the sky is bright and the air is clear, and the wind is smooth. Looking up at the universe and looking down at the prosperity of the categories, so you can enjoy the eyes and enjoy the visual and audio-visual entertainment, and believing in Coke...

This beautiful masterpiece by Wang Xizhi is really unique after reading it with a clear childish voice. After listening to it, Li Dan listened to it. Seeing his grandfather's attention, the little guy was proud of it and simply put his back on his back. He tried his best to erect his small breasts high while he was doing his best to say that this should be his lesson he learned recently, but now he seized the opportunity to show off in front of Grandpa Emperor.

Li Dan was so furious that he couldn't help laughing out loud again. At the same time, he felt a little regretful. If you want to talk about poetry and essays and enjoy calligraphy, you still have to be more interested in three or five masters gather together.

To say that today's weather is exactly what the weather is as clear and the wind is gentle in "Preface to the Lanting Collection". Although there are no mountains and lush forests and bamboos in front of you, the scenery beside Taiye Pool is enough to travel and enjoy the eyes and entertainment. If you call a few ministers with similar interests in such weather and scenery to argue "Er Ya" and evaluate the elegant collection of poets who praise poetry and wine, how can you not let Yu Lanting gather together?

Unfortunately, this tempting idea is just to think about it. If you want to find someone to comment on "Er Ya" together, the first person Li Dan naturally thought of was Kong Gui. As a great scholar of the world and a descendant of Confucius's blood, Kong Gui has a lot of experience in "Er Ya", which ranks among the Thirteen Classics. It would be meaningless if he didn't allow him to attend such a gathering, but if he really wanted to come... would it still be called a collection of literati's elegance?

Li Dan shook his head helplessly. The political struggles in the court were already very annoyed. He didn't want to come like this by the Taiye Pool again. This was simply a waste of the good weather and beautiful scenery in front of him.

Things in the world are so evil. The more you think, it will come whatever you want. Just when Li Dan was regretting the unfulfilled gathering of scholars, a eunuch came up to report that Kong Gui, the Minister of Rites, was asking for a meeting outside Chengtian Gate.

Li Dan's face suddenly sank, and he waved his sleeves with fear, "I'll see you."

As if he was unwilling to be destroyed by his rare good mood, Li Dan couldn't wait to re-enter the book in front of him.

No matter how he looks, he seems to be escaping.

But some people really can't escape. When Li Dan raised his head due to fatigue in his eyes, the first thing he saw was the face full of sorrow in his close eunuch.

"What's the matter?", the voice was both bored and helpless.

The eunuch came up carefully, "Since everyone refuted the invitation just now, Minister Kong has knelt in front of Chengtian Gate. It has been a while since he was exiled a few years ago and has been over 60 years old. Chengtian Gate is connected to the imperial city of various temples and prisons. If there is any disadvantage, it must be bad either the court or everyone's face."

"How much benefit did he give you to speak for him so hard?"

The eunuch naturally denied it, and the reason he gave was quite convincing: Even if I wanted to accept it, I couldn’t give it to Kong Gui!

"Let him come in." Li Dan said this while stretching out his hand and swept it. The four treasures of the study on the desk suddenly fell to the ground, "I'm so tired of being in Chang'an. I won't tolerate you again this time."

Today is a bright and clear day, and it will eventually be destroyed!

Seeing Li Dan getting angry, the eunuch quickly left the pavilion without saying a word. In order to avoid the subsequent most likely resentment, he did not even order the little eunuch to pick him up in person to avoid the limelight. While walking on the road, he complained in his heart that Kong Gui was too ignorant, and was also thinking about how to pass on the incident to Gao Lishi, so that he would express his merits in front of the Prince's Hall.

If it weren't for the care of the prince, even if Kong Gui, who was so stinky and hard, never had any filial piety, would have been considered a burning incense for him if he didn't take any harm to him?

When Kong Gui arrived at the pavilion beside Taiye Pool, the pavilion had already been cleaned up, and Li Dan, who was sitting silently, had his face full of coldness.

When singing a ceremony and worshiping, Li Dan did not say anything, so Kong Gui did it meticulously.

"I was still chasing me like this on the day of the ten-day holiday, saying, "When I looked at Kong Guihua kneeling on the ground, his old look was full of oldness, and Li Dan was angry and quite unbearable, but he did not shout at all. Ren Konggui continued to kneel down and replied: "I am here to urge Your Majesty to send troops as soon as possible. I have lived in Longmen for several years and know that the Khitan is not good. The first empress had rebelled and invaded our Hebei Road, causing trouble. If he could have fun again this time, the disaster would be so deep that our northeastern court would never have peace from now on!"

When Li Dan heard this, he felt annoyance and impatientness that had accumulated for no reason. Since he rushed to send the documents to the four ministries of Rao Le to send troops to expel the Khitan, the excitement in the court began to quarrel before the heat was enough to reach an incense stick.

Since there was a grand and upright reason, the court had no objection to sending troops. When it comes to the candidates for command, the court also said that Zhang Shouyi, the current governor of Youzhou, was too old to bear this position. However, when mentioning the new candidates for command, the situation that was still in harmony just now collapsed and disappeared. The ministers of each of their lords took turns to launch their own candidates and used all means to refute the other party's candidates.

This candidate is related to the control of the 120,000 elite border troops. The weight of the weight has made the East Palace, which has made many concessions in the past two years, have no choice but to retreat. The civil servants and military generals in both camps have finished their performance. The battle is red and the fight is overwhelming. In the end, the court meeting on this day has to fight with Deputy Envoy Yulin and the Minister of War. Li Dan was furious and turned to the end.

Even after the court meeting that day, Deputy Envoy Yulin and the Minister of War were each stabbed thirty years after the court meeting, but they could not stop the increasingly fierce quarrels during the meeting the next day. Princess Taiping, who rarely went to the palace, had a wonderful debate with Prince Li Longji, who had rarely been to the palace since Kong Gui returned to the capital.

This was the first head-on battle between Li Longji and Princess Taiping, and it also marked the official failure of Li Dan's two-year reconciliation strategy. At this point, the dispute between aunt and nephew, who were just whispering, was completely publicized.

If it were the Emperor Taizong of this dynasty, or even Emperor Yang of the previous dynasty, such a quarrel would be nothing. No matter how powerful you argue, I would choose a person who is determined by the Sacred Heart. The dispute will naturally stop. Unfortunately, when Zi Li Dan is a naturally gentle and hesitant person today, what he lacks the most is the autocratic courage. He was already wandering and unable to make up his mind, but once he had such a quarrel, he would have no idea.

As a result, this thing that should have been imminent was dragged down. This drag not only caused Tang Cheng to be far away from the romance, but even Li Dan was also frustrated by the comments and quarrels that were lingering in his ears all the time every day, and he felt aroused when he thought of the court meeting.

But the more this happens, Li Dan becomes more and more undecided. Seeing this situation, some court officials who are not trusting on both sides mutter in the dark room: No wonder the princess of Zhenguo, who was in charge of the palace transformation of the deposed Queen Wei, both kept it a secret from the present day, and did not tell the truth until the overall situation was settled. According to his current personality, if he really told him in advance, the previous palace transformation would not be successful.

"It's another old saying that I'm tired of saying," Li Dan waved his hand irritably, "I just ask you, who will be the candidate for the commander?"

"I want to be led by Zhang Shouyi. The military situation is like fire. Chang'an is thousands of miles away from Raole, so I will immediately make a choice. How long does it take to rush to Youzhou and then reorganize the army to Raole? With this point, no one is more suitable than Zhang Shouyi. Moreover, he has been in Youzhou for many years and can be said to know himself and his enemy. As for the old age and unable to command the army..." Kong Gui said this, he couldn't help but snort coldly and said hard: "It's just a statement that the East Palace and the Princess' Mansion of Zhenguo harmed state affairs with their own selfish intentions."

...

Just as Kong Gui knelt in front of Chengtian Gate to invite You to see him, a sound of horse hooves suddenly came outside Linde Gate, just south of Chang'an City.

The sergeant on the Yulin who was a little lazy due to the spring weather on the city tower took a casual look at it first. After he saw clearly the red bands tied to his forehead, he suddenly opened his eyes and ran towards the city gate below.

One of the four aisles in the gate of Linde Gate City was quickly cleared. At the same time, another sergeant who was originally on duty at the gate of the city turned over and prepared a horse to run onto the Zhuque Street.

The soldier was riding a horse and shaking constantly. The crowded passers-by showed a look of surprise when he heard the sound, and he hurriedly asked both sides of Zhuque Street, especially those with his children.

At this point, the fast rider with a red belt outside the city gate rushed through the city gate without delaying for a moment, and immediately ran along the cleared road to the imperial city Zhuque Gate without reducing the speed.

"Yu Shu, it's really Yu Shu! Has the big battle started on the border?" When passers-by on both sides of Zhuque Street were talking about this, the parents with children repeatedly explained to the curious child with a serious expression that if they encounter something like this in the future, they should avoid it immediately and never stop the Taoer in the middle of the road. Otherwise, they would be killed by the man with red stripes.

The Yushu was delivered to the Minister of War without any obstacles. After reading the Yushu, the officials immediately ran to the Political Affairs Hall, and then went straight to the palace with their husband Wei Anda on duty.

Behind the two, it was rare to be in the deserted imperial city. During the holidays, the small and medium-sized officials on duty in various temples gathered together, asking and discussing each other what news was written in the book of Yu, and even the husband on duty didn't care about the prime minister Feng Yi.

When encountering important news, the presiding assistant had the right to go directly to the palace to meet the saint, so there was no delay in Chengtian Gate like Kong Gui.

They drove straight in, and just as Kong Gui said that the princess's mansion and the East Palace harmed state affairs with their own interests, the two also came to the pavilion.

Even though Wei Anda's husband who was on duty today was praised for his courage to advise, he was shocked when he accidentally heard Kong Gui's words. He swept both of them in one sentence, and he said so heavily that the only one in the court could do it.

Although Wei Anda and Kong Gui were not close, they still had a good impression of him. Seeing that Li Dan’s face was not right, Kong Gui was about to explode. He immediately took the Yu Shu in his hand and took a step forward and said loudly: "Congratulations to Your Majesty for pacifying Rao Le, spreading the border thousands of miles, and building my martial arts that have not been seen in decades of the Tang Dynasty."

Wei Anda's sudden words made both of them in the pavilion stunned. After a while of silence, Li Dan turned around with a puzzled look on his face and said, "What is the Wei Qing family saying? Rao Le calms down?"

"That's right," Wei Anda walked into the pavilion with a happy expression and handed over the feather book containing five parts. "Your Majesty, please see, these two are the documents of the report of the war between Zhang Shouyi, the Grand Governor of Youzhou, and Sima Tangcheng, the Governor of Raole. These two are the memorials of the four tribes of Raole who invited the chiefs of Chang'an to worship and asked the court to continue serving Tang Cheng and Raole. As for the last one, it was the memorial of Tang Cheng's request to be transferred back to the capital. After a few comparisons, we can confirm that Raole's pacification should be correct."

After taking it, Li Dan put the other three memorials aside, picked up Zhang Shouyi and Tang Cheng’s famous documents on the victory and read it.

After reading the two documents, Li Dan, who looked obviously relieved, looked at Kong Gui who was still kneeling on the ground, "Get up." After saying this, he waved his hands to Wei Anda and the others, sighed in a relaxed tone: "Look at the documents of these two people who reported the victory, they all said that there were no casualties in the Youzhou border troops in the rescue of Rao Le. What do you think about this?"

"This matter is true," Wei Anda smiled, "I dared to say this after reading all five documents. In fact, in the battle to expel the Khitan and pacify Raole, the Youzhou border army did not fight with the enemy at all. There was no fight, so there were no casualties."

"A soldier who defeated others without fighting" was the only person in the pavilion who had never read the two documents for reporting victory. "The Khitans are fierce, how could they retreat without fighting?"

"It's not that I don't fight, but that the people who fought against the Khitans were Rao Lexi." Speaking of this, Wei Anda sighed with a sigh, "Mr. Kong didn't know that long before the Khitans went south, Tang Cheng, who served as the Sima of the Rao Le Governor's Office, had already become vigilant. He once submitted to Wen Honglu Temple and Hebei Observation Office to ban Silla's military and iron trade with Songmo, to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot. After that, after the Khitan army invaded the south, he further kneaded Tuduo, Pingcuo, and Dumo's three troops formed an alliance to fight the enemy. During this period, he also divided 10,000 troops to return to the remaining troops of the Chuisuo tribe, and thus achieved the four troops' joint efforts to resist the Khitan."

Although Kong Gui had already known that although Tang Cheng was young, he was actually a talented person, his understanding of Tang Cheng's talent was still more at the level of internal affairs. Wei Anda was shocked by this words. He was most likely unbelievable if it were not for the speakers, the minister of this dynasty who could not speak out. "What happened? I have lived in Longmen for several years and knew a little about the character of Rao Lexi. They have always been wary of the Tang people, so how can they follow Tang Cheng's words now?"

"There is no explanation in these five documents, and I don't know," Wei Anda smiled and shook his head, "This Tang is so expensive! Can the Minister know who the commander of these four coalition forces was launched? Yes, even Tang Cheng, he led the broken army of Raole's four troops to resist the Khitan attack on the 18th day, but the army was not broken. In the end, the state court did not hurt one person without taking a single arrow and got all the Raole's thousand-mile grassland. After this battle, at least we can ensure that our northeastern border will be safe for ten years."

At this point, Wei Anda stood up and saluted Li Dan and said with a respectful reputation: "Before I came here, I had checked the Ministry of Personnel to prepare files. I realized that the day when I promoted Tang Cheng to serve as Rao Le Sima was from Your Majesty's Holy Referring to the Pearl. It was Your Majesty's wise eyes that made it before that Tang Cheng worked hard to build our Tang Dynasty, which had not been seen in decades. On this day of victory, I would like to congratulate you!"

Kong Gui was very dissatisfied with Wei Anda's behavior of flattering while the iron was hot. However, with Wei Anda coming together, the Minister of War, who had not spoken a word yet, refused to miss such a good opportunity to make up for fun. Seeing this, he stood up and bowed and congratulated him: "Tang Cheng is the first Jinshi after His Majesty's great treasure last year. This is a perfect student of the emperor. His Majesty first promoted him to the

In the grassland and lakes, he was transferred to the position of Sima Rao Le, and finally achieved his achievements today. I also thought about this matter on the way when I came. Although Tang Cheng had talented people with civil and military talents, looking at historical records, those who were talented but were wasted their lives can be said to have endless books on history. Therefore, Tang Cheng could have achieved his achievements today. Your Majesty’s wisdom in knowing and using talents is truly a great achievement. With such a wise ruler in the court, our Tang Dynasty is just around the corner. I would like to congratulate you, congratulate you, and congratulate the world!"

It was not until the Minister of War that Li Dan vaguely remembered the whole story of Tang Cheng's transfer to Rao Le Sima. However, at this time, he naturally would not break the inside story of this matter. Therefore, he was flattered with a smile on his face, and his mood that had been ruined by Kong Gui naturally improved.

Unfortunately, his good mood did not last long. Then when talking about the follow-up of the war, that is, the reward arrangements between Tang Cheng and Zhang Shouyi, Li Danfu was as if he was fighting again. Zhang Shouyi had clearly expressed the intention of requesting to be transferred back to the capital in his letter of victory. An old minister like him had just made merits and the court had no reason to refuse. But once he was transferred back to the capital, the successor...

In addition, Li Dan suddenly realized after his happiness. Tang Cheng, who was transferred to Rao Le's term by his "smart eyes" was actually the confidant of his third son Li Longji. It is said that his "no flaw" word was taken down by the third son. Tang Cheng quietly made great achievements in Rao Le that had not been seen in decades. The Eastern Palace must have used all his strength to ask for his contributions. It is not impossible to say it. It is correct, my sister Princess Taiping is afraid that she will keep talking and talking again...

These are all things, and as long as you are still on the throne of the emperor for a day, such troubles will continue to flow, and you will never have the opportunity to read "Er Ya" quietly, let alone organize a romantic life like Wang Youjun to organize a literati to gather poetry and wine.

Li Dansheng came to be a simple person, but he had no ambitions and nostalgia for power. After the past two years of emperorship, especially after the constant struggles in recent times, he was even more bored and annoyed by his current life. Therefore, even the good news from Tuobian Qianli brought by Wei Anda did not make him excited for long. On the contrary, when the ministers were discussing the follow-up of this matter, he was thinking about Wang Xizhi's unrestrained and free and happy life.

As his thoughts extended, Li Dan naturally thought of Wang Xizhi's anecdotes of "stood the belly and bed" and also wanted to refuse the conscription of the Eastern Jin court several times. If he had not refused the conscription of the Ministry of Personnel, the prosecutor of the Ministry of Personnel, how could he have the pleasure of a Lanting gathering in a difficult situation every day?

At this point, the thought that had been brewing and fermenting in Li Danshen's mind suddenly popped up like a sudden light of inspiration:

Why can’t I do it if Wang Youjun can do it?

Since the root of all troubles is on the throne, I will give up it. So what if I follow the old rules of Emperor Gaozu to be a Supreme Emperor who enjoys honor but does not need to worry about it?

It is certainly unimaginable for others to give up the imperial power, but it is much easier for Li Dan, who has such a personality and has had the experience of replacing the throne twice.

As soon as this thought was opened, it suddenly became uncontrollable like the collapse of the Yellow River. Almost instantly, Li Dan had seen the endless benefits this decision would bring. His honor would not be reduced at all, but all the troubles in front of him would go with the wind...

At this moment, some of the young emperors who were flirting with books not far from the Pavilion were flirting with the Book of Songs, and then picked up the articles they had learned and started reading them. The slightly drunk spring breeze gently sent the young boy's chanting scriptures to:

Decline, declining!

Hu Bugui?

Because of the gentle king,

Hu Weihu Zhonglu!
To be continued...