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No matter whether what he said is true or false, Li Jiuzhou knew that he was worried about his own safety and wanted to follow him all the way.

But this time I was accompanying the emperor, so what danger would be on the way?

Besides, it is not that easy to add him to the emperor's entourage.

"How is it?" Old Man Zhang asked again, "I have wanted to see the scenery of Mount Tai for a long time, but unfortunately I haven't had time to go."

Li Jiuzhou pretended to be angry and said, "It's not enough to invite you to eat mutton skewers, I'll take you to enjoy the scenery."

"You owe me this mutton skewers." Old Man Zhang said it as if he were right. As he said that, he picked up the mutton skewers and started eating it.

"You..." Li Jiuzhou became angry.

The two of them talked about whatever they thought and counted wherever they talked. Before they knew it, it was Zishishi and they went back.

At dawn, an eunuch came to call Li Jiuzhou to set off.

Old Man Zhang, the descendant of the bearded guest, had extremely good ears. When he heard that Li Jiuzhou was about to set off, he hurriedly got up and followed.

Li Jiuzhou looked at the old man Zhang in front of him and joked: "At your age, can you still withstand long-distance travel?"

Chang'an is thousands of miles away from Mount Tai. Even though you walk the official road, it will take a long time to get there.

What's more, it's even slower if you travel with an imperial guard.

Old Man Zhang was excited: "When you go to see the scenery, you will naturally not be behind."

Li Jiuzhou smiled, said nothing, and followed the eunuch into the palace.

Old Man Zhang followed him as his personal bodyguard.

Emperor Li Longji, who returned to the Daming Palace from Huaqing Palace, was in the imperial study room. He did not bring Yang Guifei with him on this trip. Fengshan was a major event, and women were not allowed to accompany him according to reason.

All the officials led by Yang Guozhong have already stood outside the door to see him off.

Yang Guozhong was the prime minister and the emperor was not in the capital. He should handle the affairs in the court, so he did not follow him.

The emperor, who always believed in the words of alchemists, ordered people to open the alchemy to practice the method.

After finishing the law, the Grand Historian Fu Xiaozhong was summoned and the Young Commander Jiang Shidu was summoned.

The Taishi Bureau is responsible for testing astronomy and determining the calendar. It reports to the court every day the sun, moon, stars, wind, clouds, climate, and auspiciousness. It formulates a calendar every year, submits it to the emperor and promulgates it, selects sacrifices, weddings and other major ceremonies.

This time, the Fengshan Mountains was due to the previous observation of the astronomical phenomena of the Taishi Bureau.

"Can the auspicious time arrive?" the emperor asked.

Fu Xiaozhong likes to observe astrological signs and is the chief of the Taishi Bureau, so he should naturally speak. Jiang Shidu is obsessed with the cultivation of water conservancy and inventing, so he can't even get into anything.

"I have a stick of incense to go back to the saint." Fu Xiaozhong bowed and returned.

The emperor originally wanted to do the Fengshan event, but he just wanted the Taishi Bureau to find a strange phenomenon that had never happened in the prosperous era and use it as an example to prove his glorious past and present.

But after a question about the celestial phenomena in the Taishi Bureau, no strange phenomena were observed, so I had to find an excuse that the star on the axis of the sky had a "fantasy".

With this report from the Taishi Bureau, Yang Guozhong naturally expressed his views with his ministers that there were strange phenomena in heaven and that the saints should be the Fengshan period, and all this was in line with the emperor's wishes.

If we talk about the celestial phenomena calculated by the Taishi Bureau, they have a lot of prestige in the Tang Dynasty.

During the Zhenguan period, the Taishi Bureau produced a famous Taishi Ling - Li Chunfeng.

During the Kaiyuan period, another monk appeared.

Therefore, the court has always attached great importance to the celestial phenomena calculated by the Taishi Bureau.

However, this vision came too hasty. Although all the officials in Beijing did not see any vision in the year, it was difficult to refute it. They catered to the king's joy and came to see him off on this day of travel.

As for everyone's hearts, some people wonder where the strange phenomena came from, and some people were happy that the emperor was not here, so they could secretly pass the cups and sing in the mansion for a few days.

Some were nervous and worried about whether the decision was too hasty about Fengshan’s matter.

Except for Qin Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Guangwu of Han, as the "Tiankhan", Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, never went to Fengshan.

However, Li Shimin's son, Li Zhi, became the fourth Fengshan person.

Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi, did not inherit his father's wise and powerful spirit. His light was covered by his wife and the empress Wu Zetian. Although he was diligent in political affairs and created the "Yonghui Governance", Li Zhi was difficult to compare with the first three emperors. With Li Shimin's civil and military achievements, he did not have Fengshan, but he took this step by himself, which was why many people said that he was not qualified to Fengshan at all.

Li Longji wanted to be the fifth emperor of Fengshan in history.

The worried minister was naturally worried whether he would leave a bad reputation like Li Zhi.

When the auspicious time comes, there are many cars and horses, flags and flags, connecting them into pieces of red and yellow. They set off slowly from the palace. From a distance, the emperor was very majestic when he was traveling.

"Li Qing." The emperor lifted the curtain of the car and asked Li Jiuzhou not far away, "What do you think of the situation of this trip?"

The traveling situation was already quite bold. Because Li Jiuzhou was young, the emperor expected that he had never seen such a mighty appearance and deliberately showed off.

Li Jiuzhou gently pulled the reins of the horse, slowed down, and returned to: "No one can compare to the emperor's imperial guards."

"Then what do you think of Fengshan this time?" The emperor was happy and asked him.

Most people supported Fengshan this time, and naturally a small number of people opposed it. These opposition voices also reached the emperor's ears. The emperor's question was on the surface to seek the opinions of Li Jiuzhou, an important minister, but in fact the team had already set out, just wanted Li Jiuzhou to flatter him.

"I think it's very good." Li Jiuzhou said lightly.

The emperor frowned. He thought he would say something like his great achievements and unprecedented, but he did not expect that he would speak so calmly and boringly.

"What is good? This is God's will and a warning from God." The emperor's tone became a little heavier.

Li Jiuzhou smiled and said, "I don't understand the celestial phenomena. My duty is to protect the saints on the road."

The emperor also smiled slightly: "There are things you don't understand, and I thought there was nothing you didn't understand."

Li Jiuzhou didn't care about this joke and said modestly: "I am not omnipotent. Ordinary people will have doubts, such as God's will."

As he said that, Li Jiuzhou looked up at the sky, looking for the strange star.

"Oh!" The emperor sighed disappointed behind him. Although the voice was not loud, it was helpless.

Li Jiuzhou was waiting for him to speak, and after a little while, the emperor said, "I haven't realized that I'm old too. When I recall the past, I have been through ups and downs. It's rare to get the peaceful and prosperous times today."

Li Jiuzhou sighed silently in his heart. He could only see the prosperity in front of him, but he could not see the desolation behind the prosperity.

A catastrophe is coming soon, but this old man in his sixties is still unaware of it.
Chapter completed!