Ji Tang

Chapter 932 Let’s laugh today

"His Majesty is here!"

"I respectfully welcome your Majesty. Your Majesty will live forever, and the Tang Dynasty will live forever!"

Li Shimin strode to the middle of the banquet, held his hands up, and said with a smile: "I love you!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After everyone was seated, Li Shimin also sat in his seat and said loudly: "Tonight is the Lantern Festival. Here, I set the rules."

"Today is just a banquet, no distinction between superiority and inferiority, all my dear friends can drink as much as they like!"

After finishing speaking, he said to Chen Shou beside him: "Let's start!"

Chen Shou bowed in salute, came to the front, and said loudly: "Your Majesty has decreed to have a banquet!"

After Chen Shou finished speaking, other eunuchs passed on his words, and soon the huge banquet started moving!

Different from the past, today's palace music seems much more lively, which matches the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival and the joy of the people.After word spread that the banquet was about to begin, the people at the Qujiang Pool also had to bow and salute, wishing His Majesty the Emperor good health and a long and prosperous Tang Dynasty.

At this time, there were more than tens of thousands of people at Qujiang Pool?At a glance, under the lanterns, there were all crowds of people, probably no less than 10 people.

In order to cope with possible accidents tonight, there were [-] soldiers at Qujiang Pool to maintain order. This still made Yuchi Gong, who was in charge of this matter, very worried.

Ji Song sat in a relatively front seat. Although his title was at the forefront in the Tang Dynasty, if he really didn't know what to do and sat next to those old guys, he would probably have to lie down and go out tonight.

Although nothing can be done to him, a group of people are using the name of drinking, how dare Ji Song not drink?If that were the case, rumors would spread tomorrow that he, Ji Song, was arrogant.

So, the eunuch who refused went directly to the place arranged by Li Tai and Li Ke.

Just when they were bragging and arguing about the singer's softer waist, Li Chengqian suddenly ran over with a wine glass.

"You are at ease. Unfortunately, I treat you as brothers. Those bastards know how to bully me, the prince. How can you do this? They drank several kilograms of wine and you didn't know how to help me."

Faced with Li Chengqian's complaints, no one sympathized with him.

You might have a lot of fun with it. What a great opportunity it is to be able to drink with all the ministers on behalf of His Majesty?They didn't believe that Li Chengqian didn't know this truth.

"Tch, stop pretending in front of us. If His Majesty lets the two of them go tonight, I'm afraid you won't even be able to sleep, right?"

Ji Song wouldn't get used to his bad habits. He just played the harp on his own, but he came to play the harp in front of them?If it weren't for your status as the prince, I would have beaten you long ago. How could you wait until now?
Seeing the disdainful looks of his two brothers and Ji Song, Li Chengqian smiled awkwardly and quickly drank to apologize!

"I said if you don't go drink with those veterans, why are you here with us?" Ji Song asked.

"Hey, forget about it!"

Li Chengqian's face was covered with black lines, and he said angrily: "You don't know those guys? They are no different from lunatics when they drink. If I don't leave, I will be drunk to death by them!"

Brothers Li Tai and Li Ke looked at their poor eldest brother, patted him on the shoulder, and nodded vigorously, which was regarded as encouragement.

"Hey, let me tell you, can you have some sympathy? What does this mean?"

Li Ke sighed and said consolingly: "Who made you the prince? They don't dare to fight with father for a drink. If they don't ask for you, who will they ask for?"

"Yes, but you need to practice your drinking. It's not a problem to stay in Furong Garden all day long. It's good to exercise more."

Li Tai also agreed, but the only thing he didn't have was sympathy!
Now they are very comfortable in the academy. They don't have to fight for the position, and they don't have to rack their brains to please their father. They reprimand and reprimand the students every day, and teach the second and third best.In my free time, I met up with two or three friends, set up a fire among the green mountains and green waters, hunted a few prey, and chatted with Zhenliang from Zuixian Tower. I lived a small life that would not be changed even if I gave it to an emperor.

Ji Song was right. His father's position was unfair. If he was fighting with his eldest brother, there would be another Xuanwu Sect incident.

Li Ke is the third child and he is the fourth child. As long as the two of them don't fight, who of the remaining brothers will dare to explode?
Another point is that the eldest brother will be the emperor in the future. As the eldest son, if he dares to persecute his brothers, the world's public opinion will be enough for him to bear.If other brothers come to power, can the elder brother above and the younger brother below have a good life?
Therefore, they also thought that they and others were just teaching, and they didn't even want to deal with the back cover.If this happens, the eldest brother will still be worried in the future. The worst they can do is go to sea and establish a country overseas. There is nothing wrong with being the founder of the country.

"How is the book revision going now? I heard that you have started finalizing it three times? How long will it take to complete it?"

It was Ji Song who suggested the book repair, and both Li Chengqian and the emperor were quite satisfied with it.Li Chengqian was respected by a large number of scholars because of his book repair, and a large number of masters and scholars supported him and received too many honors.

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief. The prince had something to do and would not think about what he had and what he didn't have.Li Chengqian will be almost thirty this year, which is the time when he is most young and powerful in his life.

Now that he is distracted by the matter of repairing books, there has been no fight between the emperor and the prince in many years.When the book was finished, the emperor was getting older. No matter what he thought in his heart, he was reluctant and reluctant.But for the sake of the overall situation and the voice of the government and the opposition, he had to slowly give the prince all rights, which was regarded as a transition before the handover of the throne.

Therefore, in these years, there has been no major conflict between the prince and the emperor, and the relationship between father and son has been very harmonious.This is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty has always been stable.

In peaceful times, as long as the transfer of the throne goes smoothly, there will be no turmoil between the government and the opposition.

No matter whether it is the prime minister or officials at all levels, they do not want any turmoil to occur at this time.If anyone dares to disrupt this situation now, the people below will tear them apart without the emperor having to say anything.

The position of crown prince has been stable for many years. Among the others, the most competitive kings of Wei, Li Tai, and Wu, Li Ke, withdrew from the competition.Among the legitimate sons, Li Zhi was young and was not within their scope of consideration.

Under such circumstances, the courtiers had already reached a consensus on the prince, working together to stabilize the government and survive the turmoil before the transfer of the throne.

Of course, there will never be a shortage of careerists.There are always people who want to take shortcuts, but it depends on whether there is an opportunity.

Even if Li Shimin was unwilling, he would not do anything to Li Chengqian as long as the prince made no mistakes.

Therefore, the stability of the court is hard-won now, and everyone hopes to complete this smooth transfer of the throne, which will lay a solid foundation for the transfer of the throne in future generations.

"almost!"

Li Chengqian sighed and said helplessly: "Isn't it your good idea? How many years has it been? I thought it would be almost done within ten years, but now it is finalized, and it is estimated that it will take almost three years." Ji Song was stunned. , said in surprise: "What? It's not finished yet? Impossible? According to my calculations, it should have been completed a few years ago. Why is it not finished yet?"

No wonder he was surprised, it only took five years for the Yongle Dynasty to build the Yongle Ceremony.But considering that there are not as many scholars now as there were back then, and many classics are in the hands of aristocratic families, it would take a lot of time to even ask for these classics.

Unlike later generations, where the imperial power was supreme, although the aristocratic families existed at that time, they no longer had the power they have now.How dare those people disobey an imperial edict?
But it doesn't work now. The aristocratic families really dare to resist the decree, and the emperor will not do anything to them.As for the people who edited books, the people employed by Emperor Yongle before and after him were at least several times what they are now. Even if Li Chengqian recruited most of the learned scholars in the Tang Dynasty, there would only be more than a thousand people, and there is no comparison at all.

But the good thing is that these people are not the scholars of later generations who rely on imperial power.Today's scholars are extremely noble, and even the emperor has a hard time changing his mind.Therefore, the credibility of the compiled "Zhenguan Dadian" is not comparable to that of the later "Yongle Dadian".

As long as this "Zhenguan Grand Ceremony" is completed, it will surely become the most dazzling treasure in the history of Chinese civilization.It contains all the classics that can be found in China from ancient times to the present.

Whether it is classics and history, the Five Books and Four Classics, musicians, architecture, divination, medicine, hundreds of craftsmen, and hundreds of schools of thought.To put it bluntly, this will be a great encyclopedia of the 5000-year history of Chinese civilization.

Moreover, the Chinese heritage has been preserved intact to this day.It was never truly unified for foreigners.There are a vast number of various classics, and although the theories of each school are not obvious, they really exist.

The heirs of the hundreds of families who were hiding in the world at the time heard that the Tang Dynasty was going to compile a grand canon that connected ancient and modern times and included Yu Nei.Without hesitation, he handed over a copy of his own classics, and he was still the kind of person who couldn't accept it.

This includes the long-lost Mo family, the farm family, the Yin Yang family, and even the Za family.At that time, Chang'an City gathered countless descendants of the hidden school.

At that time, Confucianism was as if it were facing a formidable enemy and was on tight guard, fearing that these people would re-emerge and attack the existing Confucianism.

In the end, for unknown reasons, after all parties compromised, the descendants of the Bai family were not appointed by the emperor, but went to the academy. This may be the best for them.

"How many words are there in total after three final drafts?"

Ji Song swallowed his saliva and said a little dull.

The Yongle Dadian contains about 7000 million words, and this is the result after many revisions and deletions.But the "Zhenguan Dadian" compiled by the Tang Dynasty now takes three times as long as the "Yongle Dadian". Even if the number of people is small, the number of words can never be less than this number.

Hearing Ji Song's words, Li Chengqian said proudly: "Actually, it's not that much, less than [-] words. If I give the lonely king more time, maybe there will be more."

Li Chengqian's voice became softer and softer, and he even became a little worried in the end.

Because in front of him, whether it was Ji Song or his two younger brothers, they all looked at him blankly, their eyes dull, as if they were stupid.

Just when he was thinking about calling the doctor, Ji Song suddenly grabbed his shoulder, stared at him, and whispered: "Say it again, I didn't hear you clearly just now!"

"How many words are they?"

"It's less than [-] to [-] words!"

"How many words are they?"

Ji Song was going crazy. The significance of this matter was too great.What an achievement it would be to surpass the ancient books of Yongle Dadian?To put it bluntly, this ceremony will tell the story of the most important event in the history of civilization in China to this day.

none of them!

It’s crazy to think about a grand canon that collects the culmination of Chinese civilization.

Based on his previous thoughts, it would be good if the number of words in the compilation of the canon this time could reach half that of the Yongle period. However, Li Chengqian told him that the latter, which had already surpassed the number before the completion of the compilation, had already reached five. Thousands of words?This is a total of [-] million!

Li Chengqian also saw Ji Song's abnormality in this matter, thought for a moment, and said: "If I remember it well, it should be more than 630 words."

"This is the number after the second final draft, but in the third final draft, the classics you got from outside the territory were added. This part is definitely 3000 million words left, so..."

"So, after this completion, it will exceed [-] words?"

Seeing Li Chengqian nodding, Ji Song was dumbfounded. He was thinking about the impact of this incident.To put it bluntly, as long as the entire "Zhenguan Dadian" is stored in the academy, it will be an unprecedented feat.

The academy now has tens of thousands of students studying in the academy every year.There are all kinds of talents among these people, and it is impossible to develop the potential of these students with just Confucian classics.

But if there is a "Zhenguan Dadian", with the vast number of hundreds of schools of thought recorded in it, and when these students fully understand the above content, the cultural flourishing age of the Tang Dynasty will come to an end.

This is not the prosperous age of a few poems, but the arrival of the most prosperous era of Chinese civilization from ancient times to the present.

"Good good!"

Ji Song laughed unrestrainedly, and his rich voice instantly covered up the noise of the entire banquet, scaring many people into sitting on the ground.

"Who the hell is smiling so much? Are you going to let me drink?"

"Who is it? If you have the ability to stand up for me, it seems that I don't."

But when he saw the source of the laughter, the drunken man shut up in an instant and fell to the ground with a thud. A loud snoring sound suddenly sounded. Everyone at the banquet where you could hear the drop of a pin dropped in admiration. look!

"Hahaha, okay! Hahaha!"

Ji Song's laughter continued, and Li Chengqian was already frightened and wanted to grab Ji Song and make him wake up.But who is Ji Song's opponent?Before he could get closer, he was pushed aside.

The two brothers Li Tai and Li Ke were much smarter. They threw away the prince and Ji Song and ran away immediately.After that, he still stood with the others and pointed at Ji Song and the prince, with an expression that said I was not involved.

Normally, Ji Song would have to teach them a lesson, but at this time, apart from joy, there was no other emotion in his heart.

Seeing that trying to dissuade Ji Song failed, Li Chengqian could only let it go. He glared at the two brothers Li Tai and Li Ke and walked towards the emperor.

Li Shimin's face was as dark as water now, and he was obviously dissatisfied with Ji Song's interruption of today's banquet.If there is no reasonable explanation today, Ji Song may not be able to think about it.

(End of this chapter)