Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1145

The night is cold as water.

The hall is still brightly lit.

The emperor sat in front of the case in draped clothes, holding a vermilion pen in his hand, and approved the memorial.

Nowadays, there are thousands of memorials submitted to the memorial office in the palace every day.These were directly presented to the palace, without going through the Secretary of General Administration, or the papers of the prime ministers. If the emperor personally approved all of them, it would definitely take up more than half of the day.

Therefore, the emperor also asked the chief officials of the three inner provinces, the secretary supervisor, the palace supervisor, and the internal servant supervisor to assist in the selection. For example, the memorials of the third-rank and above officials in the frontier were all personally signed and returned by him.

Li Jing paid his respects at the memorial, and Luo Cheng replied with a pen in the back of the memorial, "I am very safe, and I feel better since autumn, how are you? I miss you a lot, and you can take care of your health. If the situation in Lingnan is stable, come to Beijing to set up a court." , the monarch and his ministers will meet."

Picked up another letter, but it was a memorial from Dongning King Luo Shixin who was entrusted outside the pass.

Shi Xinzuo asked the Holy Spirit to allow two children who had reached the age of six to study in Beijing.

Luo Cheng replied, "I sent someone to welcome you, Xiao Liu, you can also enter Beijing Chaoji together, come early, stay longer, accompany the Supreme Emperor and Empress Dowager, and go back after the first month."

Pei Chengdong, the prefect of Rinan County, changed his name and asked the emperor for permission.

Because there is a word in its name, it is necessary to avoid the taboo of the emperor's name.

Luo Cheng replied, "I have already issued an edict to announce that unless you have the same name and surname as me, there is no need to avoid changing your name. Your name Chengdong is very good. I like it very much, so there is no need to change it."

Avoiding taboos was a very common thing in ancient times. If the ancients wanted to avoid the taboos of their ancestors and fathers, they also had to avoid the taboos of the emperor. Therefore, names cannot be tabooed, and even place names have to be avoided.

For example, in the previous dynasty, to avoid the taboo of Emperor Yang Guang, Guangling was changed to Jiangdu, Guang'an was changed to Yan'an, Guangrao County was changed to Donghai, Guangdu County was changed to Shuangliu, Guanghua County was changed to Hechi, Guangzhou was changed to Fan state etc.

In order to avoid Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong's taboo on the word loyalty, even Zhongshu Province was changed to Internal History Department, Shizhong was changed to Nayan, Zhongshu Ling was changed to Internal History Order and so on.

Also, in history, Li Ji was originally named Xu Shiji, and later he was given the surname Li as Li Shiji.After Li Shimin became the emperor, the taboo was changed to Li Ji, and even the Ministry of Civil Affairs, one of the six departments of the imperial court, was changed to the Ministry of Households.

Luo Cheng was not very supportive of this kind of taboo name change. Today, if you avoid this taboo, change the name of the person and place, and next time you avoid the taboo, you will change it again. It is really unnecessary to change it, and it will easily cause confusion.

Therefore, Luo Cheng issued an edict about taboos at the beginning of his accession to the throne. Unless it has the same name and surname as the emperor, it needs to be changed. Other characters with Cheng characters do not need to be changed. .

As for the place names, there is no need to change them, and he even asked to change back those names that were changed during the Sui Dynasty, such as the Department of Internal History was changed back to Zhongshu Province, and Nayan was changed back to Shizhong.

Jiangdu was changed back to Guangling and so on.

Of course, if you want to avoid the taboos of your father in daily writing, you should do it voluntarily, but in official documents, it is not allowed to avoid taboos and change words to avoid ambiguity.

Read it for the king, taboo for the venerable, and taboo for the sage. Although they show respect, they don’t call their names directly, and they don’t write their characters directly, but the place names and so on are also avoided. Even one word in it should be avoided, so how can I avoid it completely?

It took more than an hour to read and approve all the memorials above the third rank.

Many memorials had nothing important to report, so Luo Chengtong replied later that he knew only three words. As for the memorials below the third rank, there were trusted eunuchs, eunuchs in the palace, and secretary supervisors who were responsible for screening for the emperor first. The emperor of the content will handle it himself, and the general greetings, thank you, congratulations, etc. will be given to them to reply on their behalf.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, do you still want to read the Zhang Shu Zou table handled by the Chancellors of the General Administration Department?" the eunuch in the palace asked in a low voice.

"What time is it?"

"Just after the first watch, it's about the second quarter of Xuchu."

Twelve hours a day and night are divided into Chu and Zheng, so the Qin system divides 24 hours and 96 quarters.Eight quarters of an hour, four quarters of an hour, forty quarters of a night, a period of ten quarters, and a total of five nodes together with the beginning and end are called five watch.

In the evening, the first watch is at the first hour of Xuchu, the second watch is at the second hour of Haichu, the third watch is at Zishizheng, the fourth watch is at the second hour of Chouzheng, and the fifth watch is at the fourth hour of Yinzheng.

Xu time is from seven to nine o'clock in the evening, Xu Chu is seven o'clock, and Xu Chu's second quarter is around 07:30.

At this time, it is actually not too late. The ancients called Xu time dusk. At this time, the sun has already set, the sky is about to get dark, the sky and the earth are dim, and everything is hazy, so it is called dusk.

However, after the autumnal equinox, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer, and it is already dark early.

Although it was the second quarter of the first lunar month, it was already pitch black outside.

Because Luo Cheng estimated that he had three highs, he didn't dare to eat too much at night. He didn't eat staple food at night, but mainly light food, which he had already eaten.

"It was still early."

The eunuch asked, "Does the sage want to call his concubines to serve him?"

Luo Cheng thought for a while, "Forget it, I won't read the memorial anymore today, let's go to Princess Silla's side."

This Xinluo princess came to Luoyang not long ago, and the emperor granted her a second-rank Zhaoyuan, but she has never been lucky enough.It's not that I suddenly became interested tonight, it's just that this princess has been in Qingdao Port, and Luo Chengcheng has been sending people to observe her secretly.

During this period of time, the princess performed very well, neither anxious nor irritable, neither arrogant nor arrogant, which is very rare.

In the Korean peninsula right now, wars are on the rise again, Baekje's rebel army has been transferred to the border, and Xu Shiji has also gathered Andong's elite Chen soldiers on the border.

The war is about to start.

Silla's army is indispensable to Daqin, especially the Anton Army.

Silla sent 20 troops. If Xu Shiji was willing to hand over the command, it would be equivalent to the effect of the imperial court dispatching [-] troops from the Central Plains.

Daqin needs the full support of the Silla people, but last time Xu Shibi killed Jin Yuxin, he did it too forcefully, and he was afraid that the Silla people might not be reconciled. Now seeing this Princess Deman, she acts generously and prudently. Luo Cheng believes that if he can follow If she talks about it carefully, the effect will be much better than directly forcing King Jin Baijing of Silla.

Going to Princess Deman's palace, Luo Cheng specially asked the eunuch to prepare some exquisite gold and silver jewelry, glass bottles, large bronze mirrors, etc., and also asked him to prepare some food.

When she came to the princess palace, the princess came out to greet her, and the eunuch read out the emperor's reward to her. The princess didn't look happy when she heard it, but thanked her politely.

"Why is Your Majesty free to come here tonight?"

"I've been very busy these days, so I didn't bother to come over to see you. I'll take some time tonight and come over for a sit. How about it? The layout here is all in the style of Silla. Are you still used to it?"

"Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Your Majesty, I like it very much."

Luo Cheng stepped forward with a smile, stretched out his hand to hold her and walked into the hall. The princess's face was unnatural and her body was a little stiff, but she didn't refuse. Even after walking a few steps, she took the initiative to put her hand on the emperor's waist.

Luo Cheng's smile became brighter.

(End of this chapter)