Chapter 664: When the rain passes and the rain passes
There has been continuous drizzle in Shendu these days. After summer, although Shendu had some rain in previous years, this year it actually rained more than usual.
The wet streets made the people of Shendu very irritable, so during this period there were several minor conflicts in Shendu, and one time it almost turned into a fight. Fortunately, there were enough yamen officers.
Quickly, a fight was avoided.
Li Si is a police officer in the yamen, and he happens to be responsible for the security of Anlefang. This place is called Anlefang. It has been very peaceful for the past ten years. Li Si is also responsible for the security of this place, and has avoided a lot of trouble.
At this moment, Li Si pressed the handle of the knife and looked at Zhang Da, the pork seller on the street, with some helplessness, "Uncle Zhang, although you are a pork seller, you are always easy-going. Why are you asking for it today just because Uncle Liu asked you not to be short of money?"
A fistfight with Uncle Liu?!"
Zhang Da is a butcher from Anlefang. Although he is a butcher, in fact Zhang Da has never had a bad temper. On the contrary, he is very easy-going. In the past ten years, he has never had any conflicts with his neighbors.
Listening to Li Si's words, Zhang Da said angrily: "I have been selling pork for so many years and I have never been short of money. He, Old Liu, has to talk like this and be so evil. Why don't we fight him?"
Liu Ying, who was standing opposite Zhang Da, was a jewelry vendor in Anlefang. After hearing this, he said unwillingly: "Who knows if you have any?"
Maybe you have been short of money all these years!"
After hearing this, Zhang Da picked up the butcher's knife on the butcher's table and was about to chop it at Liu Ying. Fortunately, Li Si had quick eyes and quick hands. He held Zhang Da down and snatched the butcher's knife from his hand. Then he sighed:
"Uncle Zhang and Uncle Liu have been neighbors for decades and have been friends for a long time. Who doesn't know how we are in ordinary times? Everyone is a little dissatisfied during this time. I know it, but how can such a big thing be done?
Can we, the common people, control this?"
Hearing this, Zhang Da frowned, but Liu Ying burst into tears, "Your Majesty... How could such a good person like you leave like this..."
Seeing Liu Ying crying, most of the people watching also had red eyes.
The people of Shendu are feeling restless these days. In fact, it’s all because of the imperial court’s official report. Many of them are illiterate, but fortunately, some people are literate, so they don’t even know the contents of such official reports. The above contents
It's simple, it just means that His Majesty the Emperor is traveling north and does not know when he will return, so the state affairs must be handled by the Crown Prince.
In the eyes of ordinary people, such an official announcement means that His Majesty the Emperor has passed away. Coupled with the rumors in Shendu in the past few days, the people of Shendu are really uneasy.
"Those monks who were killed by God, why don't they die? Do they have to let our Majesty die?"
Someone pointed at the sky and cursed: "God doesn't care, why do you always let good people die?"
Zhang Da also fell to the ground at the same time, trembling and crying: "What will we do without Your Majesty!"
More than ten years ago, His Majesty the Emperor led troops into the divine capital. In the eyes of history and those courtiers, it was not a glorious thing. But to the people, no matter how His Majesty the Emperor sat on the throne,
As long as his surname is Chen and as long as he wholeheartedly works for the people, then he is good.
In the past ten years, the Liang Dynasty has also been visibly different from before. The people lived better and had more backbone, which was not comparable to before.
They were even thinking about better days, but they never imagined that His Majesty, who was so sacred in their hearts, would just disappear.
How can this not make people sad?
How can this be accepted?
The people of Daliang now don't care who sits on that dragon throne. They just want their Majesty to come back.
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On the sixth day of His Majesty's northward journey, the capital of the gods was already
The first court meeting was held. At that time, the civil and military officials walked into the imperial city along the palace gate. They were deeply moved when they saw the Daliang Imperial City, which had been repaired by the Ministry of Industry but was still somewhat damaged.
At that court meeting, the young Crown Prince showed unprecedented composure and methodically dealt with the current situation.
Several difficult political affairs faced this huge dynasty, and then he expressed extremely humbly that he wanted the Prime Minister to shoulder more responsibilities. There were also some veterans in the court who also had a lot of voice. As for the one who had been named Ning
The king's eldest prince was also entrusted with important responsibilities by His Highness the Crown Prince.
The young Crown Prince seemed not very interested in the fact that he would be the only voice in Daliang from now on.
However, judging from the current situation, it is true that if he wants to let Daliang make a decision, he does not have the ability or the prestige.
All he can do now is try to maintain the status quo.
It's just that some thoughtful people discovered some problems. In that court meeting, many ministers in the court played an important role, but Emperor Liang had high hopes for it. The current Zuowei commander, Chen Chao, not only did not appear at the court meeting, he even did not appear at the court meeting.
No names were mentioned.
This will suddenly cause many people to speculate whether this young military attache who was highly admired by the Emperor of Liang will stay away from the center of power in Daliang.
However, if you think about it carefully, it actually makes sense. After all, the Chen Dynasty has a special status. Not only is it of royal blood, but its prestige is far greater than that of the current Crown Prince. If
If he continues to play an extremely important role in the court, it won't be long before the Liang Dynasty will not know about His Highness the Crown Prince, but will only know about this young military attaché.
I am afraid that no matter how generous His Highness the Crown Prince is, he would not want to see such a thing happen.
But at the same time, many people are still worried that if these two Chen royal families, who share the same blood, fight openly and secretly, it will definitely not be a good thing for Daliang.
Most of the courtiers understand the current situation of the Liang Dynasty. I hope these two can really work together, otherwise it will only be Daliang who suffers.
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After Taishi Ling dismissed the court that day, he returned to the History Pavilion, took down the history books from the bookshelf, and spread them out on the case.
The records in the history books have already been recorded before the battle in the divine capital on that day, and the rest has not been written yet.
Taishi Ling looked at the words on it and was silent for a long time.
As a historian, he has never had the slightest hesitation in writing in the history books in his life. He writes whatever happens and has no other ideas. But now, he hesitates.
It wasn't that he didn't know how to write about what happened that day, but he could almost guess that the emperor who had been on the throne for more than ten years probably left his last story to Daliang on that day.
The fall of his own history will bring the life of Emperor Liang to a complete end.
There are so many emperors in the annals of history, all of them have become stories in history. In fact, adding one more is not a big deal.
Taishi Ling, who has read the history books since he was a child, should have no feelings about these things, but for some reason, he can't write about them.
I don't know how long it took before Tai Shiling slowly started to write down what happened that day.
After finishing writing, Tai Shiling looked out the window, wondering what he was thinking.
After a long time, he came to his senses, stood up slowly, went somewhere, and took out a book he had written a long time ago.
This booklet records the contents of the first year of Tianjian.
The first sentence is very straightforward.
"The emperor, as a vassal king, raised an army to rebel. This lasted for several years and finally entered the divine capital."
This is what Taishi Ling wrote here on the second day after the fire that deposed the emperor.
Did I really write these contents from an extremely objective perspective back then?
Tai Shiling looked at the text he had written for a long time, and finally picked up the pen and crossed out this paragraph.
He took out a new booklet, thought about it, and wrote: "Destroying the emperor for lack of justice, the emperor raised an army to attack him. It took several years to clarify Yuyu."
After writing this sentence, Tai Shiling put down his pen, breathed a long sigh of relief, and smiled. This was probably the only tenderness he could give as a historian.
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Chen Chao has been in that bamboo building these days.
He did two things.
The first thing is to teach that cheap disciple, and the second thing is to practice to touch that threshold.
During the Battle of the Divine Capital that day, he had already felt that he was standing in front of the threshold, but he had not been able to enter it yet. The feeling had been very subtle these days, and he vaguely felt that he was not far away from breaking through.
These two things alone prevented Chen Chao from thinking about anything else, so he didn't pay attention to what happened in Shendu these days.
Xie Nandu has rarely appeared here recently. A lot of things have happened in the academy. As a close disciple of the dean, she needs to come forward.
The main reason is that the dean is no longer in the academy, and Wei Xu, Mr. Wei, will never appear in the academy again.
The academy is in urgent need of a backbone.
In fact, Zhou Gouqi is the best candidate. Even though his identity is a bit complicated, he is a Confucian saint after all. In terms of realm and qualifications. In addition,
He was also the disciple of the dean, so he was qualified to preside over the academy. However, no one had seen him since he left the city that day. Some people speculated that he was recuperating somewhere at the moment, but there was no conclusive evidence.
This morning, the Bamboo House welcomed a familiar guest.
The head of the chamberlain, Li Heng.
Chen Chao walked up the steps to greet the head of the chamberlain, and then invited him into the building to drink tea.
Sitting by the window, it happened to start raining again, and there was a constant sound in the bamboo house, tinkling, tinkling, tinkling, crisp and sweet.
Li Heng, who looked pale, said with emotion: "This is the residence of gods. No wonder you can't bear to come out now."
Chen Chao heard that there was something in Li Heng's words and just smiled and said: "Now is the time for His Royal Highness to show his ambition. It would not be a good thing if I step out."
Li Heng frowned slightly, "You shouldn't care about these small details. Your Majesty entrusts the world to you. This is a big deal."
Chen Chao smiled bitterly and said, "You're not in a hurry, are you?"
Li Heng said: "Zhou Xianshan has given you the greatest credit, and coupled with His Majesty's words before leaving, no one in the Liang Dynasty can easily touch you."
With the prestige Chen Chao has accumulated over the years, indeed nowadays, there are not many people who can compare with him, especially when he is still so young.
"It's very troublesome to be arrogant due to favor. Besides, His Highness the Crown Prince is not His Majesty."
Chen Chao waved his hand.
Li Heng said with a straight face: "But how can Daliang be without you now?"
Chen Chao smiled and said nothing.
In many cases, I can't do anything to hit the young man in front of me. After all, he is no longer the boy he was before.
Li Heng was silent for a moment and took out the things he was carrying.
The first is a token that looks like gold but not gold, and looks like jade but not jade.
Chen Chao looked at this token and felt a very familiar feeling.
Li Heng saw what he was thinking and said with a smile: "Yes, this is the same material as your knife. It is a thousand-year-old cold stone."
Listening to these words, Chen Chao was a little silent. It is self-evident that the thousand-year-old cold stone is cherished, but now it is used to make a token. So what is the meaning of this token? I'm afraid it is self-evident.
Li Heng turned the token over, and there were two words on it.
