Li Qian's first postponement was scheduled for late April. Not only the civil servants needed to prepare, but he also needed to prepare in advance.
Because he felt that for this Jingyan, he had to pay much more than the civil servants...
In the front hall of Qianyuan, Li Qianzheng looked at Lu Pheasant beside him with a sad face. At the moment, she was helping His Majesty the Emperor make his new schedule.
"Your Majesty, the first daily lecture will be on the 21st, the sutra extension will be on the 22nd, the morning meeting on the 23rd, and the daily lecture on the 24th..."
Lu Pheasant was writing, and when he turned his head and saw Li Qian's expression, he couldn't help but cover his red lips and laugh out loud.
"Why should Your Majesty be so sad? It's just a day of peace talks and an extension of time?"
"It's just...that's all..."
Li Qian snorted a few times: "What you said is very light. In the end, it will be me who suffers."
The daily lectures are lectures on weekdays, while the Jingyan, as the name suggests, is the extended banquet of the classics and its meaning. It is a slightly larger scale daily lecture. At that time, the prime ministers, senior military officers, six ministers, Kedao Yanguan, etc. will be present.
There are fixed days for Jingyan, and it is held every two days in spring and autumn when the weather is mild.
That is, on the 2nd, 12th and 22nd of each month, three times a month.
As for the daily lecture, it will be carried out as long as there is no morning dynasty and no adjournment.
What Li Qian hates the most is that the daily lecture starts at the same time as the morning session! In other words, Li Qian will have to get up at around 4 a.m. almost every morning in the future!
Of course, he didn't have any holidays.
Whenever there is bad weather such as wind or rain, or the emperor is not feeling well, he can send an edict to stop the lecture.
In addition, Li Qian also has winter and summer vacations.
The daily lectures that begin in spring last until the summer solstice, while the daily lectures that begin in autumn last until the winter solstice.
It’s time to relive the school days.
"Your Majesty, at worst, I will wake up with you."
Lu Zhi covered her mouth and smiled softly. She also knew that what Li Qian didn't like the most was having his sleep disturbed by others.
Now he has to get up early every day to listen to the civil servants lecture on the scriptures, which can be said to be the most uncomfortable thing for him.
"What's the use of waking up with me?"
Li Qian sighed softly, it would be best if he could get up for him... Unfortunately, this is impossible, there is no need to even think about it.
"Since Your Majesty is unwilling to get up early, why did you agree to those people to resume the daily lectures and Jingyan?" Lu Pheasant leaned towards Li Qian curiously.
Li Qian did not answer her immediately, but remained silent for a moment.
"Eshan, what do you think of my knowledge?"
"In addition to reviewing memorials every day, His Majesty often goes to the Tibetan library to study. Now he is naturally talented and knowledgeable." Lu Pheasant replied without hesitation.
"Ha ha……"
Li Qian smiled, and after listening to Lu Pheasant's answer, he suddenly thought of Zou Ji's deeds.
Zou Ji asked everyone around him, but he couldn't get a true and pertinent answer. He didn't expect that he himself would be in the same situation now.
However, good words will always make people feel better. Li Qian smiled and shook his head and said: "I'm still far from it."
"The civil servants are all people who have read poetry and books and passed the imperial examination step by step. How can I compare with them?"
He has never been so arrogant as to think that what he learns in one year is as good as what others learn in half a lifetime.
"But His Majesty is short in talent and wisdom, and his wisdom has already been revealed..."
Lu Pheasant opened his mouth to say something else. According to the consensus of the world, the emperor's dragon species is naturally different from normal people.
"Even if you are naturally good, you still have to study hard."
Li Qian shook his head and interrupted her: "Since ancient times, there has never been a person who became talented without learning."
"What I said to those civil servants that day was just a moment of anger. In fact, I never thought about it that way."
"Only by studying hard will I not be fooled by those civil servants."
The expression on Lu Zhi's pretty face was a little complicated, and she nodded gently: "Your Majesty, I understand."
After saying that, he returned to the other side and continued to help Li Qian organize his schedule.
Li Qian began to think seriously about the affairs of the civil servants.
From the founding of Daqian to the present day, the civil service group has been constantly evolving, iterating, and updating.
As they gradually became stronger and optimized, they were also crowding out generals, eunuchs, and even emperors, and gradually took over power from these people.
However, due to the continuous wars in Daqian, wars broke out frequently from the borders, the Western Regions, and even the vassal states. As long as there were wars, the military generals' group would gradually become stronger, and even the civilian officials could not do much with them.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
In the struggle between eunuchs and civil servants, the civil servants had the upper hand, but although the eunuchs declined, they would not be completely defeated by them.
In the end there is the emperor.
Although the civil servants claimed to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, most of their actions were intended to restrict and take over the emperor's power.
Therefore, in their inheritance from generation to generation, with the efforts of successive civil servants, the act of "governing the country" has long been turned into a task with extremely high thresholds by civil servants.
Those who have passed the imperial examination and entered the court are all elites selected from a million scholars, with the most agile minds and the most profound knowledge...
But this is not the case for the emperor. Although the royal family passed down by blood enjoys the best educational resources, there is no guarantee that every generation can keep up with the footsteps of civil servants.
As long as they couldn't keep up, or became tired and bored, the emperor would have to rely on civil servants to govern the country, or even entrust the matter entirely to them.
The previous Yingzong and Mu Zong were examples of this.
Now Li Qian doesn't want to make the same mistake as those two people. They can just let it go because there was a strong and powerful Dagan created for them at that time.
But if Li Qian still lets it go, then Da Qian, who is now too bad to die, will definitely teach him a lesson... maybe at the cost of his life.
Although the current situation in the Daqian court, vassal states, and grasslands is relatively calm, from Li Qian's current perspective, this situation similar to a high-pressure confrontation must be unstable.
Maybe it only takes one spark to explode directly.
What Li Qian had to do was to dismantle the gunpowder barrel without causing an explosion, pour out all the gunpowder inside, and slowly eliminate the danger.
So he can no longer act like a fool, nor can he let these civil servants mess around...
As April comes to late April, spring is gradually coming to an end, and summer is getting closer and closer.
On April 20, Li Qian’s first daily lecture will also begin.
At six o'clock in the Yin hour, Li Qian woke up from his sleep with difficulty at the call of Gong E.
Under the gentle service of the unknown concubine beside him, he put on his clothes, washed himself and left the palace.
The eunuchs accompanied His Majesty the Emperor's sedan chair and drove all the way south.
"His Majesty."
The old eunuch came to the sedan rather awkwardly and handed Li Qian a warm food box: "The Wenhua Palace said that the civil servants who are serving as lecturers are coming soon."
"good."
Li Qian nodded listlessly, opened the lid, picked up a few snacks and ate them wholeheartedly.
Although there is a rule that you are not allowed to eat or drink before the lecture, these nonsense rules are only for the people below, and Li Qian will never abide by them.
If you don't even have enough to eat, how can you have the energy to listen to the class?
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Li Qian still wanted to fill his stomach, but his teachers on the other side were not in such a mood at all.
Not to mention there is a rule against eating in advance, even if there is not, they must be too nervous to eat.
The location of the day's lecture was in the Wenhua Hall, which was where Qin Hui and his fellow paper readers used to review the palace exam papers.
The bright red palace walls and golden glazed eaves were looming in the dark mist in the early morning. Several eunuchs, carrying palace lanterns that flickered on and off, led a group of civil servants forward in the deserted mist.
Qin Hui, dressed in a scarlet robe and wearing a black gauze on his head, walked first, followed by Ding Rukui, the left servant at his side.
Behind them are four Japanese lecturers.
Zhuge Liang, Li Gefei were in one row, Bao Zheng, and Tang Si were in one row.
Although these four people have not yet reached the fourth rank, the robes they wear today are all bright red.
Not only the clothes, but also the head was replaced with a red gauze hat, bright red wings, a bright red belt...even the boots were red.
This is also the rule of the imperial court. All Japanese lecturers must wear red when they give lectures to the emperor for the first time.
It's just that in the past, one of the four people wore red. If we go back to the last time when all the officials wore red during the four-day ceremony, I'm afraid it would have been at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
When the group of people arrived in front of the Wenhua Hall, Qin Hui stopped and turned around to look at the four people behind them.
"I have read your sermons before and put some thought into them."
Qin Hui's tone was cold and he said in a low voice: "But this is your Majesty's first daily lecture after the postponement of the reopening. You can't be too cautious."
The four of them were speechless for a moment. Tang Situi, the general secretary of Zhongshu Province, wanted to nod, but lowered his head again under Qin Hui's cold gaze.
"Yes, Prime Minister Qin."
After Qin Hui expressed his attitude, he stopped talking nonsense and turned around to walk into the Wenhua Hall.
Zhuge Liang and Li Gefei behind him held the sermons in their sleeves tightly and followed him.
Although the daily teaching sermons are written by the lecturers themselves, after they finish writing, they have to be handed over to the Prime Minister to read and make corrections before they can be lectured.
The prime minister and his assistant should not only dominate, but also assist the left, which is reflected in this.
Assisting the Zuo Emperor with his knowledge and helping him eliminate all unstable factors can be considered a form of assisting the Zuo.
In addition, before the daily lecture begins, the prime minister will also stipulate the scope of the content of the day's lectures to the daily lecturers. The daily lecturers cannot make any deviations during the lecture, otherwise the consequences will be settled.
Logically speaking, Yan Song, the left prime minister, should be mainly responsible for this job, but now that he is not in the capital, it can only be done by Qin Hui and Yan Song's deputies.
Qin Hui and others did not stop in the palace, but walked all the way through the main hall, the rear hall, and came to the north of the rear hall to wait for the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor.
The few people had just stood there for a moment when three consecutive quiet whip sounds were heard from the north direction, and then two eunuchs holding whips came out of the mist in the distance.
Behind them are two rows of eunuchs holding palace lanterns, as well as ceremonial guards and the silhouette of sedan chairs looming in the mist.
Several people stood by the road, bowed and waited: "I will see your Majesty."
When Li Qian heard the noise outside, he waved to the eunuchs to stop their sedan chairs, and he stepped down one step at a time.
The sounds outside sounded familiar to him just now, and now he saw Qin Hui as soon as he came out.
"Prime Minister Qin?"
Li Qian was still a little surprised: "Why are you here?"
He then looked at Ding Rukui on the left side of the road: "Servant Ding, are you there too?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Ding Rukui was about to speak, but was interrupted by Qin Hui on the other side.
Qin Hui cupped his hands and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the Japanese lectures have not been held for decades. Today is the first time for several lecturers to give lectures. It is also the first time that the imperial court has held daily lectures in recent years."
"No matter in the court or in other places in the palace, there is not much experience, so I came to listen to avoid any accident and offend His Majesty.
Ding Rukui opened his mouth, then cupped his hands and said, "The same goes for me."
Li Qian nodded thoughtfully after hearing this. First of all, the civil servants definitely don't want any accidents to happen.
But just look at the two people they selected.
Zhuge Liang and Li Gefei, one was someone Li Qian often summoned to the palace to lecture on scriptures, and the other was Li Gefei whom he personally summoned.
The civil servants selected two people who had the best impression on him to come and give lectures. Doesn't this mean something?
Of course, if Qin Hui knew what Li Qian was thinking, he would definitely say that His Majesty's guess was too right.
In fact, not only he and Ding Rukui wanted to come, but also ministers from the six foreign ministries of the DPRK wanted to come and participate in this first Japanese lecture.
Today is a daily lecture, and tomorrow will be a large-scale extension. Even if it is just a rehearsal, it is good to accumulate experience for tomorrow.
It's just that there are differences between internal and external affairs, and they still can't come because of their status.
"I was only focused on asking questions, but I forgot about the real business."
Li Qian smiled and said: "Everyone in your family, please be safe."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After everyone thanked them, they followed Li Qian's footsteps and walked into the hall.
The day lecture was held in the corridor between the Wenhua Hall and the rear hall. Li Qian sat in the main seat, and on the side were Qin Hui, Ding Rukui, and the two living officials.
The two lecturers, Zhuge Liang and Li Gefei, had to stand in front of Li Qian's royal eucalyptus to help him explain.
Copper lamps were lit on the knee platforms on both sides of the corridor, emitting a faint light through the morning fog.
After Li Qian sat down, he raised his head and looked at the two people in front of him with a smile: "Which of the two gentlemen will lecture on scriptures? Which one will lecture on history?"
Zhuge Liang came out and handed over his hands: "Your Majesty, I am responsible for explaining the scriptures to your Majesty."
Li Gefei was stunned for a moment when he met Li Qian's half-smiling eyes, and then hurriedly followed suit: "Your Majesty, I am responsible for giving a history lecture."
"Without further ado, let's get started!"
Li Qian nodded, and the old eunuch on the side hurriedly came forward and placed books, palace lanterns, and gold rulers on the table.
Li Gefei also hurriedly stepped aside, leaving only Zhuge Liang in front.
"Your Majesty, what I am telling you today is about Shun's virtues. Virtue is a saint, he is revered as the Son of Heaven, he is rich all over the world. The ancestral temple feeds him, and his descendants protect him. Therefore, a great virtue must get his position, he must get his salary, he must get his name, You will surely live long..."
Zhuge Liang's explanation was as serious as a minister giving a lecture to a monarch, but it was not tense. The whole process was very smooth, and he even gave a few vivid examples from classics from time to time. Li Qian was very fascinated when he listened.
Qin Hui and Ding Rukui on the side also nodded slightly, choosing Zhuge Liang was indeed a very correct decision...
Daily lectures are generally divided into two classes, one on classics and one on history.
According to the rules, Li Qian could not speak when Zhuge Liang was explaining. It was not until Zhuge Liang finished speaking that the Q&A interactive session began.
Li Qian asked Zhuge Liang a few questions, and then turned his attention to Qin Hui unreasonably...