Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Before the Zhengdan Great Court Meeting, Princess Yanguang brought a music and dance troupe to Guanglu Temple.

Guanglu Temple is the yamen in charge of royal ceremonies. Guangluxun ranks second and is a first-class high-ranking official in the imperial court.

It's just that these high-ranking officials have been decorations of Li Tang's royal family since Li Mi, the first Guangluxun in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Tan, the king of Anping County who is currently serving as Guang Luxun, belongs to Li Tang's clan. Li Tan is the son of Li Longji's younger brother Li Ye, and is regarded as the uncle of Princess Yanguang in terms of seniority.

Li Longji is very harsh to his son, but very magnanimous to his brother.

Perhaps it was because of the brotherhood established when Li Longji and his brothers were trapped in the Ten Kings' Mansion during the Wu Zhou Dynasty. Several of Li Longji's brothers were named princes after he became emperor, and they all died well in the end. .

Among them, Li Ye is Li Longji's most beloved younger brother. After Li Ye's death, Li Longji even fainted in pain, and asked the ceremony officer to pursue Li Ye so that he could be buried in the imperial tomb and wait for him to meet his brother a hundred years later. See.

Li Tan is Li Ye's direct son, Li Longji loves the house and Wu, and takes great care of this nephew.

Now Li Tan is the highest official in the clan and enjoys the treatment of a super-ranked county king.

Seeing Princess Yanguang, Li Tan did not put on airs of an elder, but said with a smile: "I heard that the princess will present dance music to the emperor at the Zhengdan Grand Court?"

"The royal uncle is really well-informed, and my niece is here today for this matter." Princess Yanguang saluted, and Li Tan immediately said: "The princess is very filial, and no one in Chang'an knows about rehearsing dances and music for Your Majesty. Uncle Huang will definitely cooperate with you once!"

Although Li Tan belongs to the clan, Princess Yanguang is the emperor's most beloved daughter.

But Li Tan and the emperor are already cousins, not to mention that Li Tan was reused during the emperor's time. You must know that in the court today, people who were reused during the emperor's time are not taken seriously.

Compared with grace, Li Tan is definitely not as good as Princess Yanguang.

Although he, Guang Luxun, is a senior official of the second rank, he is even higher in rank than some prime ministers.

But this position has always been used to place those high-quality officials who are not reused, and it has almost no use except for managing state ceremonies.

Li Tan's attitude towards Princess Yanguang can be regarded as quite cooperative, but Princess Yanguang has read a lot of books these days, and she has restrained her temper. She said in a discussing tone: "I have a musical instrument. It may be too late to move to Hanyuan Hall that day, can the emperor let me move this musical instrument into the palace first?"

Li Tan hesitated a bit. If it was something else, he would directly agree to Princess Yanguang, but as it was about the palace guards, he, Guang Luxun, couldn't guarantee it.

Li Tan thought for a while and said: "My good niece called the emperor's uncle, and the emperor's uncle will help you anyway. I will go and discuss it with the palace gate doctor!"

Princess Yanguang smiled to express her gratitude.

As the most favored princess by the emperor's side, Princess Yanguang can of course go directly to her father.

However, Princess Yanguang still wanted to surprise her father, so she asked Guang Luxun and Li Tan.

Gongmen Langzhongling is the Zhonglang general in charge of the palace guards. Since it is the request of Guang Luxun and the princess, Gongmen Langzhongling naturally has no reason to refuse. He even proposed to let the shence army guarding the palace help the princess Set up the instrument.

If someone is willing to work as a coolie, Princess Yanguang naturally wants it.

Before the Zhengdan Great Court Meeting, a stage was set up in front of the Hanyuan Hall, and a stage for performances was set up next to the stage.

According to the practice of the Tang Dynasty, the period from the end of the Zhengdan Dynasty to the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month is the long holiday that all officials are most looking forward to.

During this period, the yamen will be closed and the official seals will be sealed. Only the Zhengshitang and the Sixth Department will have officials on duty.

The Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting is also a ceremonial court meeting. The emperor will give a speech similar to New Year's blessings. The court ministers congratulate the emperor on the New Year, and then there will be a performance in the Hanyuan Hall. At noon, the emperor will give a banquet to the officials.

It is normal to build the stage, but seeing the craftsmen carrying strange parts into the square, the rest of the craftsmen still couldn't help but sneak a few glances.

In the princess mansion, Yu Xiaoxiao is doing the final rehearsal for the dancers.

"Cheng Ji's attention! Qin Wang's Breaking the Array Music is a military dance! It's a combination of strength and beauty! It's not a Hu Xuanwu!"

"The connection of this paragraph is too slow! The second group will enter the stage when the music starts!"

"How many times have I corrected you for this movement? If you can't do it, just change it!"

When instructing the dancers to dance, Yu Xiaoxiao seemed to be a different person. Her usual gentleness was gone, and she became the strictest teacher.

Even Cheng Ji, who has a good personal relationship with her on weekdays, is afraid of being reprimanded by Yu Xiaoxiao, and has to be extremely careful every time she rehearses.

Here Yu Xiaoxiao is doing the final training for the dancer who will be performing on stage tomorrow, while Su Nuan and the musicians are also doing the final rehearsal on the other side.

When Princess Yanguang came here, she couldn't help frowning.

She is very relieved of the dancers under Yu Xiaoxiao's guidance. After the guidance of Yu Xiaoxiao, the descendant of the grandson, the dancing skills of the dancers have been greatly improved.

But when it came to Su Nuan's side, she kept asking the pipa player to play the ensemble repeatedly, and the drummer to play the monotonous drum beats, and she couldn't hear the melody of King Qin's Breaking the Array at all.

To play the full version of King Qin’s Breaking the Array, two complete sets of chime bells and bells are required. Princess Yanguang once heard the musician’s performance at the Emperor’s Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting, and it was a majestic performance.

But now the entire city of Chang'an can't find musicians who can play chime bells, so Princess Yanguang can only place her hope on Su Nuan's mysterious instrument.

In front of the Hanyuan Hall, a craftsman player is instructing other craftsmen to build various long copper pipes.

A whole team of soldiers from the Shence Army assisted the craftsmen in fixing these copper pipes.

The soldiers of the Shence Army were very puzzled. They were ordered to assist Princess Yanguang's craftsmen in carrying musical instruments. How did they carry these strange brass pipes?
However, this was all assigned by the doctor of the palace gate, and the soldiers did not dare to neglect, and built these copper pipes under the command of the craftsman player.

Just when the craftsmen outside the Hanyuan Hall were busy setting up the site, a puff of white smoke finally rose from the alchemy room of the Eastern Palace.

The scent of medicine permeated around the elixir room, Prince Li Chu quickly stood up, and asked a miscellaneous old Taoist: "Master Yuan Tian, ​​is the elixir ready?"

All I saw was the old Taoist holding a plate of freshly baked elixir on a jade plate, and came to the prince.

"Congratulations Your Highness, congratulations Your Highness, the pill is ready!"

Li Chu was overjoyed!

The original method of using people to make alchemy was disturbed by Jing Zhaoyin Cui Guangyuan, and Li Chu had to use a more expensive method.

In order to refine such a furnace of elixir, Li Chu almost used up all the savings of the East Palace for many years.

Thinking of this, Li Chu hated Cui Guangyuan even more, and secretly made up his mind that after he succeeds to the throne, he must relegate Cui Guangyuan to Danzhou!

No, relegation will be cheap for him!Must kill this guy!

The Taoist held the refined medicine and said: "Your Highness, this longevity pill uses the best cinnabar as the main ingredient, takes the aura of heaven and earth, and combines the essence of plants and trees. It's a pity that the medicine of the five elements was not used, and the effect is poor. A little bit, but it can also prolong life."

Seeing the medicinal elixirs and the blood-like red shell on the surface of the elixirs, Li Chu couldn't help reaching out and grabbing one of the elixirs.

At this time, Cheng Yuanzhen, the eunuch beside him, immediately came up and said, "I would like to test the medicine for Your Highness!"

He only saw Cheng Yuanzhen take a pill into his mouth, and soon his face flushed, and he felt light and comfortable all over his body.

After Cheng Yuanzhen swallowed this "elixir", he felt warm in his stomach, and he didn't feel cold even standing in the courtyard of this pill room.

Li Chu was surprised to see Cheng Yuanzhen's face turned red and his brows relaxed, and couldn't help but ask, "How do you feel?"

Cheng Yuanzhen knelt down and said, "Congratulations, Your Highness, Congratulations to Your Highness, the old god practiced really an elixir!"

Li Chu was overjoyed, and also grabbed an elixir and stuffed it into his mouth.

Sure enough, he and Cheng Yuanzhen felt that after swallowing it, his stomach was warm and his limbs felt extremely comfortable. Standing in the snow, he didn't feel cold at all. This elixir is really extraordinary!

Li Chu quickly ordered Cheng Yuanzhen to put the elixir into the bottle, holding this bottle of "elixir" in his hand, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Chu's mouth, he was definitely the most brilliant prince at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting!
In Prince Qi's mansion, King Qi Li Xi was looking at a red coral tree.

The whole body of this red coral tree is bright red, and the entire coral tree is as tall as a person. What's more precious is that there is no broken branch on the coral tree. This is a complete coral tree.

Tang people also like red coral very much. This kind of red coral can be polished into red gemstones and decorated on jewelry and ring surfaces.

How many red coral gemstones can such a huge coral tree produce?

The eunuch next to Li Xi said: "Your Highness, Envoy Pei Jinglue of Annan found this at the seashore. Envoy Pei Jinglue ordered his subordinates to transport it to Yangzhou by sea ship, and then to Chang'an by ship. It took a lot of thought!"

Li Xi lowered his head slightly. Pei Xing is the envoy of the Annan Economic Strategy. The Annan Economic Envoy governs Lingnan Road, and the government is located in Guangzhou. Although Lingnan is not as developed as later generations, it is still a barren area where miasma prevails. However, the Annan Economic Envoy is also a top place. member.

After Pei Xing became the envoy of Annan Jinglue, he immediately presented this red coral tree to Li Xijin, and Li Xijin was going to present this coral tree to his father at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting.

Li Xi touched the coral tree, with a reluctant expression on his face, he said: "With such auspicious offerings, the royal father must be very happy, and this time it must be the most eye-catching gift from the lonely king!"