The fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Dalong Taiping is the Lantern Festival.
He Shu sent his servants to the Liu Mansion to deliver a letter to Young Master Liu. The content of the letter did not exceed Liu Mingzhi's expectations. Li Jingyao had no objections to Liu Chengzhi's choice of an auspicious wedding date, and stated that she completely obeyed
The opinions of my uncle and my mother.
When you let yourself get married, you will get married when you want.
After Young Master Liu read the contents of the letter, he immediately asked Liu Song to hand the letter to Liu Chengzhi.
I heard Liu Songyan say that after reading the content on the letter, Liu Chengzhi, a bastard, jumped up and down with joy and almost grinned from the corner of his mouth to his ears.
After hearing this, Young Master Liu smiled helplessly and said nothing.
Slanderous words corrupt a true gentleman, and beauty consumes a crazy young man.
Liu Mingzhi could only secretly pray that Liu Chengzhi, a little bastard, would not be too obsessed with the love of his children, thereby living up to his deep expectations for him!
It was the Lantern Festival, and Young Master Liu, who had no government affairs in his hands, felt he had nothing to do, so he dragged his family to the Lantern Festival outside the south gate of the capital to hang out.
At the lantern party, Young Master Liu easily gave Liu Yunxin, Liu Lianniang, Liu Zhenghao... each of these underage children a lantern by guessing lantern riddles.
Looking at the children holding lanterns and cheering for joy, Liu Mingzhi looked at each other and smiled with the beauties, his eyes showing happiness.
In life, all you want is nothing more than fame, fortune, wealth, a noble family, and a family of children.
Young Master Liu and his family wandered around the lantern festival to relax, and did not return to the house until the lantern festival was over.
On the 18th day of the first lunar month, the New Year's rest period ended, and the first court meeting in the fifth year of Taiping began in the court hall.
Ever since Tao Ying's incident happened, Liu Mingzhi has always arrived as scheduled at every imperial gathering, and this year's first imperial gathering was no exception.
"I see your Majesty, long live my emperor."
"My dear friends, please take your seats without courtesy."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After the officials took their seats, Liu Mingzhi sat on the dragon chair and rubbed his slightly cold hands, while his eyes calmly scanned the officials in the palace.
"My dear friends, do you have any intention to report?"
Jiang Yuanming, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, took out a document from the sleeve of his official robe and stood up and walked out: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have a copy from the Ministry of Revenue that I would like to present."
"allow."
"Reporting to Your Majesty, a few days before the end of the period of rest, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs received reports from Tongzhou, Xuzhou, Lizhou, Xingzhou, Chengzhou... a total of 16 state governments.
Among them, traces of locust eggs were found in six prefectures: Tongzhou, Xuzhou, Xingzhou, Hengzhou, and Pizhou.
Lizhou, Yizhou, Tuizhou...the seven prefectures suffered heavy snowfall and collapsed people's houses. It is said that there were also casualties among people.
There are signs of drought in Yuanzhou, Yuezhou... three places. As for whether the situation will develop to a serious stage, the local officials dare not make a judgment.
Now, state officials from all over the country have written to the court to request His Majesty, begging Your Majesty to allow them to mobilize local financial officials without authorization to prepare for disaster relief."
"Where's the paperwork?"
"Here is the document. Please take a look at it, Your Majesty."
"Little Chengzi."
"We obey."
After a while, Liu Mingzhi put the reviewed documents in his hands on the dragon case, turned the ring on his thumb and remained silent for a long time.
"Yushitai, Hubu."
"The old minister is here."
“After the dispersion of the dynasty, you and other two ministries immediately dispatched government officials to go to various state capitals to verify these things. Once the situation is true, immediately order the various state capitals to prepare for disaster relief on their own.
If the local government fails to do what it wants, it will immediately send a letter to the imperial court, and then the Ministry of Revenue will spare no effort to mobilize money and food to start disaster relief."
"I obey the decree, Your Majesty is wise."
"Ministry of Industry."
"The old minister is here."
"Your Ministry of Works must also remember to take precautions regarding the matter of people's houses being crushed. Once the matter is confirmed, if local officials are unable to support themselves, you will have to take action from the Office of the Ministry of Works."
"The veteran obeyed the order. Your Majesty can rest assured. After the dynasty is dismissed, the veteran will immediately draft a plan and send it to the government offices of the Ministry of Industry under the jurisdiction of various state capitals."
"Okay, besides the Ministry of Household Affairs, do you have any other memorials or documents to the ministers?"
"The Minister of Agriculture and Agriculture has something to report."
"allow."
"Reporting to your Majesty, because of the new decree issued by the imperial court last year, the number of acres of cultivated farmland in various state capitals has increased several times. Now local officials have written to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court will allocate grain seeds..."
"According to the report. The Ministry of Finance will send manpower to coordinate!"
"Your Majesty is Holy Ming."
"Your Majesty, I have a report from the Ministry of Punishment."
"allow."
"Reporting to your Majesty, since the beginning of last year, state officials from various places..."
"Accurate performance, Dali Temple will coordinate with us to handle it."
"Your Majesty is Holy Ming."
After all the officials reported the documents in their hands one by one, Liu Mingzhi finished processing them all in the hall.
"My dear friends, who has any other books to report?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have no foundation."
"The Ministry of War."
"The old minister is here."
"Has your Ministry of War not received any new battle report documents from the Western Expedition Army?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has not yet received any battle report documents regarding the Western Expedition."
Liu Mingzhi frowned slightly and thought for a while: "Take a seat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Since you, my beloved ministers, have nothing to report, I will announce to you a matter concerning the royal family, Xiao Chengzi."
"We obey the order."
After hearing Young Master Liu's words, Xiao Chengzi respectfully held up the imperial edict on the dragon table, walked straight to the dragon platform and slowly opened it.
"The Emperor Dalong said.
Since the three emperors ruled the world, the five emperors have established their relationships. The continuation of the country depends on the incense of the descendants.
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There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and the greatest is not having an heir. How can a country with thousands of miles of mountains and rivers have no heirs and make all the people in the world worry?
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Therefore, I would like to announce to the world today that my second son Liu Chengzhi and Li Jingyao, the orphan of the late Emperor Wuzong Li Baiyu of Daxing and the princess of the Li family, Changshuo, were married on August 20, the fifth year of Taiping.
Today, it is specially given to Princess Li Jingyao of Changshuo to enjoy the honor of Crown Princess after she gets married.
I admire this."
All the officials reacted after being stunned, and they all raised their heads and bowed in salute with joyful expressions.
"I sincerely wish the Second Prince a happy marriage."
"Your Majesty, you are exempt from the gift. On the day when our two children are newlyweds, you will definitely come to support us."
"Your Majesty is joking. How dare you, your Majesty, be unreasonable about such a great joyous event that is celebrated by the whole world."
"That's right, that's right. I'm afraid that Your Majesty will keep things as simple as before and won't send you an invitation!"
"Master Du is right. I believe that the marriage between His Royal Highness the Second Prince and Princess Changshuo should be held as a state wedding in order to demonstrate the national identity of our Great Dragon Kingdom."
"I second the proposal."
"I second the proposal."
"..."
"Dear dear ministers, dear ministers, this matter will be discussed again, this matter will be discussed again, Ministry of Rites."
"The old minister is here."
"Your etiquette department will have to worry a lot about all the wedding matters.
After all matters are discussed and the results come out, I will have to go through it myself. I hope you will not disappoint me."
"I obey the order. Your Majesty, please rest assured. After the dynasty is dismissed, I will carefully discuss this matter with my colleagues in various ministries."
"Old Ai Qing, you have troubled yourself, so please retreat from the court."
Little Chengzi hurriedly shook the fly whisk and shouted sharply: "Your Majesty has ordered us to retreat from the court!"
The civil and military officials looked at Young Master Liu's figure who had disappeared from the entrance to the apse, and looked at each other in confusion.
Is this...retreating from the imperial court now?
After Princess Changshuo marries the second prince, she will enjoy the honor of crown princess. Shouldn't we discuss the matter of establishing a crown prince next?
The Minister of Rites helplessly swallowed the manuscript that reached his lips, walked up to Xia Gongming, the chief minister of the cabinet, and his colleagues and spread his hands helplessly.
"Xia Shoufu, colleagues...this...this...what should we do!"
Xia Gongming stroked his gray beard and sighed, shaking his head and walking out of the hall.
"The Sacred Heart is unpredictable, the Sacred Heart is unpredictable! Let's go and deal with the newly acquired documents in each hand. We have nothing to do about establishing a prince!"