Xuande

Chapter 759 Liu Xie no longer needs to do questions

Although Liu Bei had instructed to keep things simple, make it simpler and faster, and not waste too much labor, the host of the ceremony, Liu Yu, still raised strong objections.

His opinion is that the enthronement ceremony still needs to be organized, and it must be lively, beautiful, and grand.

"There is no prestige without grandeur. If the emperor's enthronement ceremony can't be grand and grand, how can we show the prestige of our country?"

Liu Yu has a solid academic background and has also served as Taichang, so he has a good understanding of the etiquette system of the Han Empire.

And Zheng Xuan, who was the etiquette consultant for the entire enthronement ceremony, was even more outstanding. He was very clear about the etiquette system of the Han Empire, and helped Liu Yu correct many mistakes in small details.

Then let Liu Bei wear the emperor's crown symbolizing the emperor Huode.

It's really interesting to talk about the Han Empire and the Five Virtues all the time.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the imperial clothing was still red, but at the national level, it was still a water virtue.

Because the academic environment was not good at that time, Liu Bang himself didn't know which virtue the country he built was, and made a lot of jokes. The emperors and courtiers wore red clothes for a while, and black clothes for a while, and finally became confused. account.

It was not until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the Western Han Empire changed the water virtue to the soil virtue.

Later, Wang Mang, in order to create public opinion in the Han Dynasty, denied the theory that the five virtues are mutually restrained, and instead used the theory that the five virtues are mutually restrained. He claimed to be the descendant of the Tude emperor.

Afterwards, folk prophecies all accepted the theory that the Han Dynasty was the virtue of fire, and Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty also claimed to be the virtue of fire in order to prove that he was appointed by heaven. Yan Han" said.

Liu Bei's ascension to the throne and proclaiming himself emperor was a peaceful evolution in the form of the Zen position, and there were no major twists and turns. Basically, it went smoothly. He was also a member of the Han family and a descendant of the great ancestor, so there was no problem in inheriting the fire virtue determined by Liu Xiu. .

Therefore, the color of the emperor's clothes in the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty is still mainly red, and the color of the courtiers is also mainly red. When everyone is wearing a dress, the whole court is red, which is very eye-catching.

After Liu Bei changed into the crown uniform, he turned around and saw his teacher Lu Zhi looking at him with complicated eyes.

Liu Bei smiled slightly.

"Teacher, is this dress suitable for me?"

Lu Zhi pursed his lips, sighed, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

"Appropriate, very appropriate."

"That's good."

Liu Bei nodded and looked at Liu Yu: "Mr. Situ, the ceremony can be more magnificent, but it should be brief. If it takes too long, I won't be able to deal with today's government affairs. I have to stay up late and work overtime at night, which is very tiring."

Hearing this, Liu Yu smiled helplessly.

"Xuande...Your Majesty, this is the day of your ascension to the throne, and it's okay if you don't deal with government affairs."

"A country cannot be without a king for a day, and a king cannot be without handling government affairs for a day. I am slack, and it is the people of the world who suffer and suffer."

"I... bow down."

Liu Yu didn't say anything more, bowed to Liu Bei, and went to negotiate with the relevant parties of the ceremony.

Preparations for the ceremony have been in progress for a long time, but Liu Yu did not tell other relevant parties what the real purpose is for preparing the ceremony. He just vaguely asked everyone to prepare according to relatively high standards, and wait for Liu Bei to say that he can notify , just let me know.

The court officials who were preparing the items related to the ceremony were almost not frightened when they first learned about it. It took a while to react, and quickly lowered their heads and began to speed up their movements. For fear of offending the new emperor, the first fire was directed at themselves. burn on the head.

Zheng Xuan was very satisfied with Liu Bei's clothes, looked left and right, and still smiled.

"The clothes look like they were specially prepared for His Majesty."

"Zheng Gong misunderstood."

Liu Bei blinked at Zheng Xuan: "I'm not the emperor yet, so Duke Zheng doesn't need to call me His Majesty."

"That's not appropriate."

Zheng Xuan glanced at Lu Zhi, and sighed: "Once upon a time, I asked you if you wanted to become a grandmaster. Looking at it now, you should have looked down on the grandmaster at that time, didn't you?"

"It's not that I don't like it, I just think it's inappropriate."

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "In a prosperous age, he would be a master, but at that time, it was clearly the image of a troubled world, and it didn't mean much to become a master, and a sharp tongue is no match for a steel knife."

"At that time, I felt that your ambition was not here, but I didn't expect that you had already seen the image of chaos in the world."

Zheng Xuan sighed and said: "It seems that what you did is right. The big man really doesn't need more masters anymore, but he lacks an emperor who can really bring the big man back to the top. Xuande, after becoming the emperor, you must be cautious. ah."

"The teachings of Zheng Gong must be kept in mind."

Liu Bei looked at Zheng Xuan, and felt more and more that this little old man was still that interesting little old man.

Time passed little by little, and as the sky gradually brightened, Liu Bei gradually learned about the results of various actions in Luoyang City.

Zheng Tai was captured, Jia Xi was captured, Dong Zhong was captured, and Shi Changshi was executed.

All forces, families, officials, and officials belonging to them were also wiped out and wiped out, leaving no opponents to continue to exist in this court.

The most likely opponents were eradicated by Liu Bei in a simple and rude way. Naturally, they could not express any objections to Liu Bei's proclaiming emperor in the court, and the remaining people did not support it, at least they hoped to push Liu Bei is in charge.

At this point, Zheng Xuan didn't ask anything, Lu Zhi just asked how Liu Bei planned to deal with Zheng Tai and the others.

"They have no future for doing such a thing. I plan to deal with them in the same way I dealt with the Jinwen School. Teacher, don't you support it?"

Hearing this, Lu Zhi sighed.

"How can there be any support or non-support? It is still possible to violate the evil caused by the sky, and it is unacceptable to commit evil yourself. I have nothing to say. The only hope is that too many innocent people will not be implicated."

Liu Bei smiled.

"Teacher, there are no so-called innocent people involved in this matter. This is a life-and-death struggle. There is no warmth at all. I will never let them go, and I will definitely eradicate them completely. Don't worry, teacher." , they are also obstacles to Dutian."

When the word Dutian was mentioned, Lu Zhi was speechless.

Dutian is his last expectation in the court. If there is anything else he must accomplish, Dutian is definitely the most important part of it.

He has even made up his mind that after the field trip is over, he will retire and return to his hometown, and he will no longer care about worldly affairs.

He has seen enough of these years.

After changing the dresses with Han Ning, the Empress Dowager Dong was also carried on a sedan chair to the main hall where the ceremony was held.

Her health is still very bad, and the situation is very bad, but her spirit is a little better today, so she offered to participate in Liu Bei's enthronement ceremony in person, to support Liu Bei, and by the way, provide some off-court activities for the little emperor Liu Xie. assistance.

Liu Xie is 13 years old this year. According to the traditional concepts of the Han Empire, he is no longer a simple child. He has also understood many things over the years, and he is no longer the ignorant appearance he was at the beginning.

When he first mentioned that he was going to lose the throne of the Son of Heaven, he seemed to be very panicked and uneasy, and Mrs. Dong couldn't comfort him very well.

So Liu Bei went into battle in person.

He promised Liu Xie that he would no longer have to do questions or take exams.

Liu Xie's eyes lit up on the spot.

"Uncle, is it true?"

"Really, these things were done before so that you can become an emperor better. Now that you don't need to be an emperor, naturally you don't need to take the exam."

Liu Bei smiled and said: "But if you don't want to, you will have to study for another seven years, do seven years of exercises, and take seven years of exams. There will be more and more homework and higher and higher requirements. You need There will be more and more things to learn, don’t you think?”

Liu Xie thought about such a gloomy future.

To be honest, he dare not say that he can survive these seven years.

In the past five years, he has suffered a lot.

Liu Bei arranged for him a series of subjects such as mathematics, astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, etc., allowing him to receive education similar to the modern education system under the education of excellent teachers.

Then there is a lot of homework every day, basically it is difficult to complete without an hour and a half, sometimes it is not uncommon to write for two hours.

And it is time for him to finish his homework every day when the sun goes down, which means that after finishing his homework, it is time to go to bed. There is no time to play freely, and he has to take homework exams with the children who are in normal school every quarter. .

If you fail, you need to increase the number of homework, increase the number of assessments, and "make up exams" until you pass.

This was too painful for the young Liu Xie.

Normal officials have at least three or four days off a month, but Liu Xie only has two days off.

On ordinary New Year's Day, and some more traditional holidays, normal students still have a dozen or 20 days off, but Liu Xie is different, even if it is the most important New Year's day, he only has three days off.

Then there is the endless sea of ​​books.

He was in so much pain that he resisted, skipped school, and avoided homework several times, but what awaited him was more severe discipline and heavier schoolwork. In the end, he gave up resisting and could only grit his teeth and persevere.

To be honest, he wondered several times whether being an emperor is such a painful thing. If so, how did his poor father survive to adulthood?
Thinking that such painful days will continue, Liu Xie is really a little terrified.

So he gritted his teeth and decided to give up the position of emperor in exchange for Liu Bei's generous treatment of making him a marquis, and he can enjoy the highest level of salary, no longer have to worry about it, but can start to enjoy the "retirement life" of the Empress Dowager Dong up.

Liu Bei promised him that he could play whatever he wanted, eat whatever he wanted, and drink whatever he wanted.

He will never again be restricted in the amount of fried food and rose apple wine he can eat, he will never again be forced to do so much homework, nor will he be forced to give up vacations to make up classes because he failed an exam. Supplementary exam.

From now on, the hellish study life will be far away from him, and he only cares about having fun.

As for the painful thing of being the emperor, let the emperor's uncle replace you, but you have to remember to thank, you have to thank the emperor's uncle-I am the emperor's uncle, but I am very unwilling to do this thing!
In the end, Liu Xie even thanked Liu Bei in tears, poured out to Liu Bei the distress in his heart for many years, and told Liu Bei how difficult it was for him.

It can be seen that the child is oppressed by the mountain of books and the sea of ​​books. Once he is liberated, the whole person will be sublimated.

Mrs. Dong watched this scene from the side, feeling a little complicated in her heart.

When Liu Xie wiped his tears and celebrated that he was finally out of the sea of ​​suffering, Liu Bei came to Mrs. Dong, squatted down, and held the old lady's hand.

"Empress Dowager, I have something to tell you."

"Is it about Dong Zhong?"

Mrs. Dong seemed to have expected something, sighed, and said slowly: "He died?"

"No, it was just caught by me."

Liu Bei shook his head: "He is your nephew after all, I won't kill him without your permission, of course, if you don't want him to die, I don't have to kill him and to be honest, originally, if he really let go After everything, I will not touch him, I will raise him up to eat and drink, as a thank you to you, but..."

"I know, this child is dissatisfied with you in his heart, and has too many opinions on you. Sometimes, the old woman doesn't even know where these opinions come from."

The old lady sighed: "Instead of letting him be killed by you after the old woman is dead, it is better to be caught by you while the old woman is alive, so that he can save his life, Xuande, can you not kill him?" He, just don’t kill him, give him a bowl of food, and let him die of old age or illness, okay?”

"can."

Liu Bei nodded and agreed to the old lady's request, and the old lady patted Liu Bei's hand.

"Don't call the old lady the empress dowager anymore. The old lady is no longer the empress dowager. This body won't last long. If you can give the old lady a good ride, the old lady will thank you. As for the road ahead, you can It's time to go."

Liu Bei nodded slowly.

"I will never forget your teachings, but you will always be the empress dowager of the great man. No one can threaten your status, so you can rest assured."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I don't worry about anyone, and I can't help worrying about you."

The old lady smiled wryly and said: "I just don't know how I can help you tell the first emperor about this matter after I die? You don't believe in ghosts and gods, but the old woman does. The old woman has heard someone say it. If you believe it, you will. No, the old woman believes that she must be able to meet the late emperor. When the late emperor asks, what does the old woman say? Just tell the late emperor everything you said before? Will the late emperor believe it?"

"The first emperor will definitely believe it."

Liu Bei laughed and said, "Take ten thousand steps back, even if the late emperor had doubts, you are the late emperor's mother, how could the late emperor blame his own mother?"

Mrs. Dong was silent for a while, then suddenly relaxed her expression and smiled.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter, this branch of our family was originally from the small clan to the big clan, and it was originally the throne that was picked up by luck. There is no pity. It shouldn't be our family's turn to be the throne, and now it's our turn. Two people have been emperors, what is there to be dissatisfied with?"

"It's all the better if you can think like that."

"Of course you feel better."

The old lady gave Liu Bei a blank look, and didn't say anything else. She just told Liu Bei to hurry up. She was a little tired and wanted to rest.

So Liu Bei didn't delay, and after learning that Luoyang City had been fully controlled, he sent an order to let all officials and officials in Luoyang City, large and small, enter the palace, preparing to participate in the Zen throne ceremony of the little emperor Liu Xie and the new emperor. Liu Bei's enthronement ceremony.

(End of this chapter)