Just a few steps ahead from the gate of Prince Jin's Mansion, you can directly exit the gate of Fangshi and merge into Zhuque Street.
At this moment, there was another scene on Zhuque Street.
Although the entire Chang'an City is still shrouded in black mist, on both sides of Zhuque Street, from time to time, a flaming red motorcade merges into Zhuque Street.
After a while, the entire Zhuque Street, from north to south, was filled with light, like a fire dragon, slowly crawling out of the markets on both sides and winding towards the Tai Chi Palace in the middle of Chang'an City.
They gathered all the way to the palace gate, and Li Xuan was in the car, finally finishing breakfast.
At the gate of the palace, when they saw the Jin King’s motorcade arriving, all the ministers couldn’t help but express their gratitude.
From time to time, he would look towards King Jin's carriage.
Although yesterday, when King Jin entered the city, they had already guessed that King Jin would visit the court.
But seeing King Jin really coming, all the ministers, especially those from aristocratic families, still felt some pressure, and many ministers subconsciously remained silent.
After waiting for a while, with the sound of several clear drums, the Fujian Gate on the east side of Chengtian Gate opened wide.
The supervisory censor led the civil and military officials and walked in one by one.
At Zheng Fu's call, Li Xuan also took out his ivory wat, which was two feet six inches long and three inches wide, from the carriage. He got off the carriage and stood outside the door to look at it curiously.
On both sides of the door, there are two gate guards, each holding a sect book in their hands. Every time an official's name is shouted, another official shouts in response.
It was not until all the officials had gone in that the two prison guards shared the same residence.
Then, he followed the courtiers and walked a long way to Xuanzheng Gate. Civil servants and military generals were divided into east and west gates. Li Xuan stood at the gate and looked at it for a long time. He was dragged into the west gate by Li Xiaogong who was passing by.
He followed a group of generals and walked in.
Here, there are actually ten junior high school captains chanting their family status at the same time.
After everyone entered, he stopped.
Then, in the Tai Chi Hall, officials are arranged according to their rank, starting from the first rank and going backwards.
As a prince, Li Xuan was of the first rank, and his position was at the front. He was already guided by the servants in the palace.
Wait until all officials are in their places.
A civil servant yelled a few words, and Li Shimin, who was followed by a row of fans as a guard of honor, walked out of the Xixu Gate and sat on the throne, with three gorgeous large fans on the left and right behind him.
Seeing this, Li Xuan looked happy, thinking that after spending most of an hour, the court meeting could finally begin.
Unexpectedly, the generals of the Jinwu Guards behind him started to stand up again with solemn faces, reporting that everything was safe inside and outside the left and right compartments.
Then, a general secretary started another set of etiquette, and then led a group of officials to salute Li Shimin. After another half an hour of tossing, the court meeting finally started to get on track.
However, the atmosphere at today's court meeting was strange.
Tongshisheren shouted for a long time, and all the officials sat quietly where they were. No official stood up to report on the government affairs.
There was silence in the entire hall.
Many officials looked at the figure at the front from time to time.
Seeing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were shocked.
Before, they had only thought that the King of Jin had a great deterrent effect on officials from these aristocratic families.
But he didn't expect that King Jin's intimidating power would be so great.
After meeting the King of Jin, the officials of these aristocratic families were like mice meeting a cat, and they did not dare to take a breath.
Li Xuan, on the other hand, did not notice this.
He got up so early in the morning and had to go through such a complicated procedure when he got here. It was already good that he could follow these officials and walk in smoothly.
Therefore, after sitting down, Li Xuan involuntarily put his hand under his chin, leaned on the small eucalyptus table and fell asleep in a daze.
At first, Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others did not notice that anyone dared to sleep at the court meeting.
After waiting for a long time, but still not waiting for any reaction from Li Xuan, Li Xiaogong, who was behind Li Xuan, finally noticed something was wrong. His face became anxious, and he quickly stretched out his ivory wat and poked Li Xuan gently.
Fortunately, there were a group of warriors on both sides of Li Xuan. They were all tall, round-waisted, and burly, and they directly wrapped Li Xuan tightly.
Although the civil servants on the side noticed something was wrong, they could not see the specific situation.
"Um?"
Li Xuan, who was sleeping fragrantly, was awakened by Li Xiaogong's tickling, and subconsciously snorted.
Soon, I was startled and realized something was wrong.
It's too quiet.
Looking up, everyone in the entire hall was looking towards him.
"What does King Jin have to report?"
Above, on the throne, Li Shimin asked solemnly.
After hearing this, Li Xuan suddenly realized that he seemed to have been tricked.
However, it would be in line with his wishes to end it as soon as possible.
He stood up directly, held up the ivory wat in his hand, and cupped his hands towards Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, I am here to honor the master craftsman this time!"
All the officials in the entire hall couldn't help but look shocked when they heard this.
"oh?"
Li Shimin seemed to have just learned about this, and asked curiously: "Who does the King of Jin want to knight?"
"Lijiazhuang is the master of Mohism!"
Li Xuan said.
"Why did the King of Jin confer a title on Letai, the master of Mohism?"
Li Shimin asked again: "The King of Jin is the prince of our Tang Dynasty. You should know that in our Tang Dynasty, those who have not made great achievements cannot be ennobled!"
"Your Majesty, Le Tai invented and forged glass, cement, pens, steel-making, iron-making, bombs, refined salt and other miraculous objects, which can make our Tang Dynasty stronger several times. Such great achievements deserve a knighthood!"
Li Xuan said.
Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded subconsciously, "These are indeed great achievements!"
Below, all the ministers of the aristocratic families were anxious and in an uproar.
Regardless of their inner fear of King Jin, all the ministers from aristocratic families hurriedly stood up with anxious expressions on their faces.
"Your Majesty, I object!"
"Your Majesty, what King Jin said is wrong!"
"Your Majesty, the status of scholars, farmers, merchants, and craftsmen is low. My title in the Tang Dynasty is so noble. How can those craftsmen be knighted?"
In an instant, half of the civil servants stood up to oppose it.
Seeing this, Li Xuan finally understood why Li Shimin had been hesitant and even procrastinating on the matter of knighthood in the past few days.
It turns out that such a small title is so envied by others.
Even though many of the titles in the Tang Dynasty were already in name only, without the privileges of previous dynasty titles, the officials of these aristocratic families still wanted to hold on to them and not let them go.
Even the officials belonging to Li Shimin's faction were vaguely resistant to granting titles to the craftsmen.
Because the privileges obtained by the nobles who are ennobled are really important!
According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, if a knighted noble committed an ordinary capital crime, he could not be directly tortured and sentenced. The emperor and a group of ministers had to hold a meeting to discuss the crime before he could be convicted.
Moreover, the crimes committed by knighted nobles can be directly reduced by one level because of their status.
Even when nobles were serving their sentences, they could use money to atone for their crimes, or their official titles or titles to compensate for their crimes.
Of course, if there is a rebellion, these will be discussed separately!
In fact, in addition to their noble titles, there is another important factor why these Confucian civil servants are so desperately opposed, and that is the dominance of Confucianism!