Chapter 190: Carry the sun and moon on your shoulders, carry the stars on your back
Gao Yan seemed to have guessed Yang Ming's intention from the beginning, and went straight to the point:
"Any job?"
Before Yang Ming even broached the topic, someone made it clear. I had to admire this powerful official who had been in charge of the Central Committee of the Sui Dynasty for 20 years from the bottom of my heart. He had a clear understanding of the matter.
"Uh..." Yang Ming hesitated, embarrassed to speak.
Seeing this, Gao Jiao smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I have already prepared it. It should be below the fifth grade."
"That's not the case," Yang Ming was quite embarrassed. Taichang Qing's position is still very important, otherwise Taichang Temple would not be the head of the eleven temples.
"It's the actual job of a third-level official," Yang Ming said.
"Haha..." Gao Hongde was obviously very dissatisfied with this answer and felt sorry for his father, because in the first year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, Gao Jiong had served as the second-rank minister Zuopushe. Later, after he was granted the title of Duke of Qi, he
It’s from Yipin.
Now I'm just giving him a third rank, and I'm still in charge of Taichang Temple, which is equivalent to sending away beggars.
Because Gao Jiong has always been in the Shangshu Province, and the Shangshu Province is the highest administrative agency with the greatest power. It is said that everything is in charge, and elections, punishments, and rewards are all decided by the Shangshu.
In other words, Shangshu Province can take care of everything.
Gao Jiong frowned and glared at his son, obviously dissatisfied with his son's attitude. Then, he looked at Yang Ming and nodded:
"It's higher than I expected. It seems like the purple robe can't be taken off."
Yang Ming hurriedly said: "I definitely can't take it off."
During the Sui Dynasty, the court uniforms for officials above the fifth rank were purple, and below the sixth rank were scarlet and green, for minor officials were cyan, for soldiers were yellow, and for merchants were soap.
Since those of rank five and above all wear purple robes, how do they distinguish between official ranks?
The answer is the crown.
The crown worn by civil and military officials in the Sui Dynasty was called the Jinxian crown, which was similar to a tall hat. It was made of iron wire and fine yarn. There were raised vertical beams on the hat, like this丨丨丨.
Above level three, there are three beams.
Level five or above and two beams,
One beam below the fifth grade.
So, how to distinguish the first grade, the second grade, and the third grade?
bead.
The Heavenly Crown worn by the emperor has twelve beads on it, the crown prince and the first-rank officials have nine beads, the second-rank officials have eight beads, the third-rank officials have seven beads, the fourth-rank officials have six beads, the fifth-rank officials have five beads, and there are no beads below the sixth-rank officials.
Gao Jiong thought that he could wear a purple robe and seven beads.
But... Yang Ming won him a Tutor.
The Taifu is one of the Three Masters and Three Masters. He is of the same rank as the Prince and belongs to the first rank. He can wear nine beads.
In addition, Gao Jiong had a nine-ring gold belt given by the late emperor Yang Jian. When he went to court, it was very eye-catching because he and Yang Su were the only ones in the court who had nine-ring gold belts.
There is a poem by Deng Su in the Song Dynasty: Who is like a clan with heavy mountains and a nine-ring golden belt called waist.
This is what I am talking about. Unless you are an important official who has made great contributions to the country, the emperor will not give it to you.
The crown on Yang Ming's head has eight beads, and when he becomes a prince, there will be nine.
As for his court uniform, after his father succeeded to the throne, it was changed to dark black with nine chapters on it.
The first thing Yang Guang did when he ascended the throne was to change the shape of his dragon robe and the imperial robes of all officials. According to the weekly system, he put the twelve chapters of the imperial robe on his dragon robe.
He was also the first emperor in Chinese history to place the sun and moon on his shoulders and the stars on his back, which is the famous saying of "carrying the sun and moon on his shoulders and carrying the stars on his back."
Since him, all Chinese emperors have followed this approach.
The so-called twelve chapters are the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, Zongyi (yi), algae, fire, powdery rice, 黼(fu), 黻(fu).
Yang Ming only has nine chapters, missing the sun, moon, and stars.
Zhang means decoration.
It happened to be noon now, so Gao Jiong ordered his servants to bring the food.
The three of them chatted while eating.
After learning that Yang Ming had won the position of Tutor for his father, Gao Hongde was very excited and frequently toasted to Yang Ming.
Only Gao Jiong remained as calm as ever.
After twenty years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he knew that all his titles were just false names. His own Duke of Qi had been dismissed, so the empty position of Tai Tu meant nothing.
"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about why Your Majesty asked you to invite me?" Gao Qiao chewed slowly.
Yang Ming also chewed the vegetables and said, "What can you say?"
Gao Jiong swallowed the food in his mouth, drank some water to smooth it down, and said, "Why do you think His Majesty asked me to go back?"
Yang Ming pretended to be silent and said: "Of course I respect Mr. Dugu and can't bear to leave you idle at home."
Gao Yan smiled and said: "You are a smart man, and I am not stupid. Let's not play tricks and tell the truth."
Yang Ming smiled: "Yue Gong is lonely and lacks a companion."
"Haha..." Gao Qiao laughed on his back, and after a moment he stroked his beard and said:
"Speak quickly, Your Highness is indeed easy to like. No wonder he is as conceited as Pei Ju, and he has a heart-to-heart relationship with you. He would rather marry off his daughter if he cheats on her."
Yang Ming also laughed and said: "When the late Emperor was here, he once taught that those who move others with sincerity will be responded to with sincerity."
Gao Jiong shook his head: "The Supreme Being would not say such words. His Highness must have made it up privately, but this sentence is very good."
Yang Ming chuckled and did not deny it.
Gao Jong said again: "Your Highness, have you figured it out now? Why is it you who came today, and not the prince or someone else?"
Understand, Yang Ming just figured it out, Gao Jong and Yang Su are two mortal enemies. If you are close to Gao Jong, you will be neglected by Yang Su, and if you are close to Yang Su, you will not be trusted by Gao Jong.
Dad asked him to come today because he wanted to dismantle the relationship between him and Yang Su.
Sigh...why bother? I am your son, what do you want to do with me?
Yang Ming nodded helplessly.
Seeing this, Gao Jiao continued: "From now on, Your Highness will come to me as little as possible. If you really need something, you can ask someone to message you privately."
Yang Ming understood what he meant. Gao Jun was suggesting to him that while staying away from Yang Su, he should also stay away from Gao Jun. This was the way to protect himself.
But Gao Jiong left a way out for him, hinting that if he really needed help, he could secretly send him a message.
This is also a kind of goodwill, which is rare...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, Yang Ming knew what to do without Gao Yan's reminder. His future role in the court is actually the role that Wei Wang Yang Shuang once played.
It doesn't require you to do anything practical, nor does it require you to have much ability. It's still what Yang Lihua said at the beginning: The strong suppress its strength, and the weak support its branches.
He, Yang Ming, was a troublemaker in the court, and he would stir up whatever Yang Guang asked him to do.
...
For more than ten years, Chen Shubao's life in Daxing has been filled with fear and caution.
When wandering around the city, even Wu Houwei didn't want to mess with him. He kept a low profile and had no sense of existence.
But during this time, he felt something was wrong. Guo Yan, the general of Zuo Wuwei, invited him to his house for banquets on rare occasions.
Chen Shubao recommended it several times and went there twice.
Showing courtesy for nothing, being either a traitor or a thief. He and Guo Yan just knew each other and had no friendship. The other party was in a high position. There must be a reason for such a sudden show of kindness.
Chen Shubao thought that there was nothing worth using in him. If this was the case, then Guo Yan did not want to use him, but to deal with him.
After falling into despair, his clever IQ finally returned to the subjugated emperor who was criticized by history books for being worthless.
Perhaps out of timidity and caution, Chen Shubao felt that he could no longer stay in Daxing City.
So he asked people in every possible way and found Xiao Yu, Empress Xiao's younger brother.
Thanks to his sister's blessing, Xiao Yu directly performed a pole vault and entered the Neishi Province. He was appointed as the Minister of Neishi and was promoted to the fourth rank.
Chen Shubao hoped that Xiao Yu could help speak for him so that he could leave Daxing and go anywhere.
The Xiao family of Lanling was the largest clan in the south of the Yangtze River and had many marriages with the Chen family. Xiao Yu was also a happy person and agreed immediately. After all, he received many benefits from Chen Shubao.
In Xiao Yu's view, after so many years, Chen Shubao has become an insignificant and marginal figure. Let alone the emperor, he has almost forgotten the existence of this person.
Everything went smoothly. Xiao Yu was the Minister of Internal Affairs and the emperor's brother-in-law, so he was able to speak in front of Yang Guang.
Yang Guang was also very happy and allowed Chen Shubao to leave Beijing, but he could not go far and could live in Luoyang.
After Chen Shubao got the news, he was overjoyed and immediately started preparing to move.
But before leaving Daxing, he still wanted to see his biological daughter whom he had always missed.
.......
Chen Shuyi has not returned to Hedong Palace during this period of time, but is staying with her grandmother Liu Jingyan.
Because of this, she had not had time to go to Renshou Palace to accompany her aunt, Mrs. Xuanhua.
Liu Jingyan is seventy-four years old this year. This old woman is not an ordinary woman. Her father, Liu Yan, was very powerful during the Qi Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. Her grandfather, Liu Shilong, even served as the minister of the Southern Qi Dynasty.
It's the Southern Qi, not the Northern Qi. The royal family of the Southern Qi is surnamed Xiao and comes from the Xiao family in Lanling, while the Northern Qi belongs to the Gao family.
Historically, the Southern Qi Dynasty only existed for twenty-four years. It was a short-lived dynasty that wrested the throne from the old Liu family of the Southern Song Dynasty. The founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was the famous Liu Yu.
The Southern Qi Dynasty led to the Song Dynasty, and then Xiao Yan usurped the throne and established Nan Liang, the ancestor of the Xiao family after Yang Ming's mother.
Liu Jingyan's mother is the Great Wall Princess Xiao Yujie, the daughter of Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan. In other words, Xiao Yan is her biological grandfather.
My grandfather was a minister, my grandfather was an emperor, my husband was an emperor, and they gave birth to a son, Chen Shubao, who was also an emperor.
This woman can be said to be extremely wealthy and has considerable influence in both He Dongliu and Lanlingxiao.
"Your father is about to leave Daxing and move to Luoyang. He came yesterday, but since you refused to see him, I didn't tell him that you were here."
Liu Jingyan has silver hair on his head, but his face is rosy, his body is very strong, and he has no illness or disaster.
Chen Shuyi sighed and said: "He is really good. In order to leave Daxing, he gave away his two daughters."
Xiao Yu did successfully help Chen Shubao leave Daxing, but there was a price.
Chen Shubao's fourth and sixth daughters were famous beauties. Yang Guang had heard of them a long time ago, so he took the opportunity to ask Chen Shubao for them.
The two daughters were both concubines, so Chen Shubao didn't care, so he readily agreed. Of course, he didn't dare not agree.
Among them, the fourth daughter, Chen Fei, is one year younger than Chen Shuyi and is 19 years old. The sixth daughter, Chen Ting, is 16 years old.
Comrade Yang Guang understands women. He knows what age women are most attractive.
Now that he is the emperor, he can find women at will without the supervision of Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo. Of course, no matter how many he finds, they will not threaten Empress Xiao's status in the harem.
The reason is very simple. Empress Xiao had three sons, and Yang Guang only regarded these three sons born to her as his biological sons.
Liu Jingyan knew that his granddaughter was deeply prejudiced against Chen Shubao, so he did not try to persuade her again.
She is a very open-minded person, and only those who can think openly can live a long life.
Chen Shubao failed to find his mother, so he found the Hedong Prince's Mansion.
Yang Ming had some sympathy for this dying man, and in his opinion, it was only natural for a father to want to see his daughter, so he asked Xu Jing to go out and bring Chen Shuyi back.
After Chen Shuyi came back, she knew that Chen Shubao was there, so she ran directly back to her dormitory, locked the door, and refused to come out.
Yang Ming had no choice but to go find her in person.
"Let's meet. Maybe this will be the last time you father and daughter see each other. Luoyang is far away from the capital, and we won't be able to see each other again if we want to," Yang Ming persuaded outside the door.
Chen Shuyi stood just inside the door, separated from Yang Ming: "Please, let him go, I don't want to see him."
Yang Ming said patiently: "There are no bad parents in the world. He had no choice but to do it. Without him, where would you be? If you really want to hate him, just treat it as an end to this father-daughter relationship."
Chen Shuyi still refused and begged: "I can do anything you ask me to do, but please don't force me to do this."
Yang Ming sighed: "If you give me a child in the future, and the child asks who my grandfather is, what should I say?"
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After a while, the door was opened. Chen Shuyi wiped away her tears and said:
"Let's go, you can always convince me."
Yang Ming smiled, lightly brushed her face with his fingers, and said:
"Your mother, Shen Wuhua, is also here. Your biological parents are about to move to the Central Plains. You need to see them eventually."
Chen Shuyi nodded and went to the living room with Yang Ming.
In the hall, Yang Ming wanted to leave to give the family a chance to be alone, but Chen Shuyi refused to let go and held on to his sleeve.
After Chen Shubao and his wife saw their daughter, they burst into tears. No matter how much they wanted to say, they couldn't say it out right now.
Chen Shuyi also cried, hiding behind Yang Ming, making his back wet with tears.
Yang Ming took the initiative to comfort the three people and said:
"It's rare for family members to reunite, so you should be happy."
"Yes, yes, what His Highness said is true," the fifty-two-year-old Chen Shubao burst into tears and looked at Chen Shuyi and said, "It's all my fault. Heng'er, you have to bear grudges. Just grudge me. Don't blame you.
mother."
Chen Shuyi, whose real name is Chen Heng, is also known as Shuyi. Because the woman does not reveal her real name to others, she has always used the name Chen Shuyi.
Heng means Chang'e, also known as Chang'e. Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the image of Chang'e was a human head with a snake body. After the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chang'e was changed to a peerless beauty.
Chen Shubao gave his daughter this name, which means that her daughter is a peerless beauty.
After all, Shen Wuhua couldn't help it, and slowly stepped forward, tentatively approaching her daughter. Seeing this, Yang Ming grabbed Chen Shuyi's wrist and pushed her out.
After fifteen years, mother and daughter were finally able to see each other up close.
Shen Wuhua cried loudly and rushed over to hug her daughter into her arms. Chen Shuyi only struggled a few times symbolically, then she also hugged her mother and cried bitterly.
Yang Ming saw the opportunity and quietly retreated.