The Song Dynasty inherited the system of the previous dynasties, and held large court gatherings on New Year's Day, the first day of May (the first day of May), and the Winter Solstice, even though New Year's Day was a holiday.
However, the Great Court Meeting will still be held.
The Great Court Meeting is more of a ceremonial meeting and hardly deals with practical matters.
Therefore, after the court, all the officials went back to their homes to continue their vacation.
However, although the imperial gathering is important, it will still be suspended if there is a national mourning.
Due to the new mourning of Zhenzong, not only will this year's Great Court be canceled, but next year it will also be suspended. It will not be restarted until twenty-seven months later.
Of course, if the imperial meeting is not held, the edict to change the Yuan Dynasty will still have to be issued.
As early as before the New Year's Day holiday, the imperial edict to change the Yuan Dynasty was written by Liu Yun, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and this was also Liu Yun's last post.
As soon as the New Year is over, Liu Jun will be transferred to Yushi Zhongcheng, that is, the head of the Yanguan and the head of the Taijian system.
Although Liu Jun was promoted by Yang Yi in his early days, his reputation was no less than that of Yang Yi. Both he and Yang Yi were leaders of the Xikun style poetry school.
The edict written by him is naturally full of flowers.
However, after the edict was promulgated, the first thing the courtiers paid attention to was not the wording of the edict, but its content.
Change the second year of Qianxing to the first year of Tiansheng!
The word "Heavenly Saint" immediately makes people think about it.
By now, it is no longer a secret that the reign title of 'Tian Sheng' came from Qian Weiyan.
Everyone knows how Qian Weiyan left.
Logically speaking, the new era name should not use the era name written by the "demoted official". When the end of the year is approaching, the officials who submit the new year name are like the crucian carp crossing the river.
There are countless year names filled with beautiful meanings.
Huangyou, Longxing, Qiandao, Deyou, Shaosheng, etc., which one is not better than Tiansheng?
The Shangyuan Lantern Festival has a tradition of guessing lantern riddles, and the word split is a classic among classics. Anyone who has guessed lantern riddles can understand the hidden meaning of the word "Tian Sheng".
Two saints!
Although the meaning of "Heavenly Saint" is also very good, it is the light of heaven, the former emperor is heaven, and the official family is holy.
But compared to ‘Tian Sheng’, an era title that can easily lead to misunderstandings, isn’t Shaosheng better?
Shao, Jiye!
It also has the meaning of receiving heaven's blessing and making officials and families holy.
In the new year and new atmosphere, in the first month, in addition to the major event of changing the Yuan, there is another thing that is particularly important.
There has always been a tradition of compiling the "Records" after the death of ancient emperors. In November last year, Li Jie and Liu E issued an edict, ordering Li Wei and Yan Shu to compile it, and Sun Xi, Song Shou and Chen Yaozuo to compile it.
Now that one month has passed, the preliminary preparation work has been completed and the compilation work is about to begin.
The fourth day of the first lunar month.
Li Jie summoned the editing team to the palace. For this meeting, he did not call Liu E, but chose to summon her alone.
When the news came out, Li Wei, Yan Shu and others couldn't help but gather together to discuss the meaning of the official edict.
"Tongshu, you are the most friendly with the official family. Do you know why the official family urgently summoned us to the palace?"
Among the people present, Li Wei is the most senior and the oldest one, so the right to speak is naturally in his hands.
And what he said is correct. Yan Shu was a former official of the Guan family. When the Guan family was still in the East Palace, Yan Shu was the Guan family's teacher.
"Even my subordinates don't know."
Yan Shu smiled helplessly: He is also confused now.
Why did the officials summon them to the palace today?
He was puzzled not because of the holiday, but because there was a banquet tomorrow.
The day before yesterday, the Khitan sent envoys to report first. Xiao Shigu, the Zhen'an Jiedu envoy, and Han Yu, the Xianzhou observation envoy, will arrive in the capital.
Their trip was to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday.
Last year, officials issued an edict to designate the Queen Mother's birthday as the Changning Festival. The Queen Mother's birthday is on the eighth day of the first lunar month. Although it is a period of national mourning, the Changning Festival will definitely not be a big event.
But the Khitan still paid enough attention to the Queen Mother's first holy festival.
In fact, whether it is important or not can be determined simply by looking at the identity of the envoy.
Xiao Shigu himself is nothing, but don't forget his last name.
The Khitan people have two major surnames, one is Yelu, which is the national surname, and the other is Xiao. The origin of the Xiao surname is because Taizu Taizu of the Liao Dynasty admired Emperor Hangao.
Therefore, the surname "Xiao" was given to the Yishi and Bali families. The surname "Xiao" is Xiao He's "Xiao".
The Xiao family did not disappoint Taizu Taizu of the Liao Dynasty. The Xiao family almost monopolized the positions of queen and consort, and the successive prime ministers of the Beifu were all Xiaos.
(The official system of the Liao Kingdom is divided into north and south. Most of the officials in the north are from the same ethnic group, and most Han people can only serve as officials in the south.)
The most distinguished of the envoys this time was Xiao Shigu, the prime minister of the Khitan Northern Mansion and the nephew of Xiao Pai'an, King of Dongping.
With Xiao Shigu's status, even if birthday celebrations should not be held during the mourning period, the court should still hold a small banquet to entertain him.
After all, Khitan and Song Dynasty are brotherly countries.
You have to follow the etiquette.
Of course, the people of Song Dynasty would never admit that it was because of 'fear'.
Although tomorrow's banquet is a small banquet, considering the etiquette of the country, other courtiers do not need to go, but the attendants must be present.
And among the people present today, one by one, they are all attendants.
They will all go to the palace tomorrow. Even if it is not convenient to discuss it during the banquet, you can call them alone to discuss matters before or after the meeting.
Therefore, Li Wei, Yan Shu and others were completely puzzled by the matter of being called into the palace today.
"Uncle Tong, don't even you know?"
Chen Yaozuo looked surprised and said in a surprised tone.
"I really don't know."
Seeing Chen Yaozuo's surprised and suspicious expression, Yan Shu felt a pain in his heart.
He really doesn’t know!
It is true that he was one of the teachers during the East Palace period of the Guan family, but the current Guan family is completely different from that of the past.
In the past, officials' thoughts were written on their faces. They were easy to understand and easy to teach.
What now?
He had no way of guessing what the officials were thinking.
Sometimes, he would even have the illusion that the imperial power of the officials seemed to be higher than that of the late emperor?
Yan Shu did not dare to evaluate the merits and demerits of the late emperor, nor was he qualified to evaluate them. However, in all fairness, the late emperor was definitely a qualified emperor.
In terms of power alone, even Emperor Taizong could not compare to him.
Blue is better than blue!
Just when everyone was confused, a surprising voice sounded from their ears.
"Fellow bachelors, please come with me to see me."
The visitor is none other than Lei Yungong, the chambermaid!
Lei Yungong personally introduced them, which only aggravated their doubts.
Who is Lei Yungong?
As one of the leaders of the chamberlain, it was not Lei Yungong's turn to do the reception.
About ten minutes later, under the leadership of Lei Yungong, several people arrived at the small hall at the inner east gate.
"The officials are already in the palace, all bachelors, please come in."
When they arrived at the entrance of the inner east gate of the small hall, Lei Yungong stopped and raised his hand with one hand, his attitude was very respectful, and he seemed to have no intention of leading them in.
If something goes wrong, you will become a monster!
In the spirit of doing more than doing less, several members of the editorial team pretended not to notice, nodded and stepped into the hall one after another.