Chapter 977 Engagement
King Li Xu of Song died in the end.
Although Lin Zhao was present to witness from beginning to end, Li Xu did not open his eyes to look at him, nor did he say a word to him.
He quietly left the world with exhaustion.
Li Xu's life has brought some tragic colors.
He grew up in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and his bones were full of the pride of being the royal family, family glory and dynasty glory throughout his life.
He shines brightly and dies in silence.
This is a process that every dynasty has to go through in the late years. There are always people who are immersed in the afterglow of the dynasty's old days and cannot extricate themselves. There are always people who die until they die. They are also remnants of the old era and have never changed.
Lin Zhao was somewhat impressed by people like Li Xu.
Although my senior brother is not the same as him from beginning to end, no matter what, he has done everything he has done and has done everything he wants.
Such people are admirable no matter what.
Therefore, when the entire Song Palace was abandoned by Chang'an, the funeral of His Royal Highness the Song Dynasty was still very glorious and was buried with a prince's gift.
His royal tomb was chosen by Lin Zhao to the side of Emperor Gaozong of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, the Great Zhou gradually reached its peak, and the entire Gaozong Dynasty and the Great Zhou were in a process of becoming stronger and stronger.
Burying Li Xu beside Emperor Gaozong's tomb, His Highness, the King of Song, might be able to dream of the prosperous Great Zhou, as a member of the Li family who was proud of life to death.
However, the glory of the Great Zhou Dynasty will always slowly disappear.
As Lin Zhao officially entered the Political Affairs Hall to serve, all civil and military affairs in the entire court were controlled by the Yue Palace. Under the operation of think tanks such as Lin Zhao and Shen Hui, just two months later, that is, February of the fifth year of Hongdao.
Zhao Fuping was promoted from the General of the Imperial Army to the General of the Imperial Army, and was in charge of the Imperial Army.
At this time, the Pinglu army entered Guanzhong one after another, and the number of Pinglu soldiers in Guanzhong had reached 100,000.
At this time, the entire Guanzhong was almost completely under Lin Zhao's control.
Because even now, everyone in the court is standing opposite to Lin, the Pinglu army in Guanzhong has enough power to break up the entire Zhou court and start over.
What's even more terrible is that during the process of entering Guanzhong, the Pinglu army was always "communicating" with the imperial guards. At this time, the Pinglu army among the imperial guards had at least 40% of the imperial guards.
This very obvious behavior naturally cannot be concealed. In fact, since the Shangyuan Festival in the fifth year of Hongdao, the censor of the Censorate wrote a letter to Lin Zhao to steal the sky and change the sun, and his intentions were ill-behaved.
But unfortunately, the memorial of the censor was not handed over to the emperor.
Even if it is handed over to the emperor, it will eventually be returned to the Political Affairs Hall and sent to Lin again.
Soon, the censor was transferred from the censorate and sent to Lingnan to be the magistrate.
There are countless officials in the entire Chang'an City, and of course more than one censor discovered this problem. In fact, people from the court military discovered that Lin Zhao was tying into the imperial guards to lie in the hands of Pinglu soldiers.
But at this moment, no one dared to jump out to stop Lin Zhao.
Even if there are really loyal and righteous people, they are still chariots by a mantis arm.
At this time, unless a second Fan Yang army emerged and drove the Pinglu army out of Chang'an, it would be possible to shake Lin Zhao's status. Otherwise, even Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong of the Great Zhou Dynasty would be resurrected and would not be able to fight against Lin Zhao in Chang'an City.
When no force can stop Lin Zhao from doing anything in Chang'an City, as the protagonist, Lin, did not rush to take that last step. Instead, he followed Chen Hui's suggestion and honestly went to and from get off work every day in front of his prime minister of the Great Zhou.
At this time, even if he put the former Wang Fu in Lin Zhao's current position, Old Man Wang probably couldn't stand it and sat directly on the throne.
However, Lin Zhao was surprisingly patient. Not only did he behave in front of Zhou Chen, he even did not even open the palace, but he still went to work in Tai Chi Palace to handle political affairs.
Because of the strong army, the security and order of the capital were ensured, and Chang'an City was slowly recovering and its withering situation was stopped.
In a trance, this powerful Prince Yue seemed to have become another prime minister of the time to save him.
But anyone with discerning eyes knows that this Prince Lin is completely different from the old Zheng Xiang that year.
On the surface, the Yue Palace did not do anything out of order, but secretly, the entire Yue Palace was unscrupulously annexing all the forces in Chang'an City.
In a sense, Lin Zhao was not accepting Chang'an City, but was transforming Chang'an into Qingzhou and becoming the base camp of the entire Pinglu Army.
No one knows what this powerful Prince Yue will do tomorrow, and no one knows where he will sit tomorrow.
In March of the fifth year of Hongdao, this low-key King of Yue finally announced a major event to the public.
The Yue Palace will hold an engagement banquet on March 15th.
The protagonists of the engagement are Lin Qing, the prince of the Yue Palace, and Qi Mei, the eldest daughter of Jingzhao Yin Qixuan.
After the news spread, the entire Chang'an City caused a sensation.
You should know that although Jingzhao Yin Qi Xuan, although his surname is not Li, was half a royal family. Moreover, his mother, Princess Danyang, has a very respectful status in Chang'an City over the years. Therefore, although this Qifujun cannot be considered a royal family, his actual status is not different from that of a royal family, and may even be higher than that of an ordinary royal family.
This mansion master, getting married to the Yue Palace, means that the Qi family has officially turned to the Yue Palace.
It can even be imagined that the eldest princess of Danyang from the Li family might have already secretly turned to the Prince Yue Mansion!
What’s even more terrifying is that there is more than one Jingzhao Yin in the Qi family, and there are 70,000 to 80,000 Shuofang troops in Shuofang. It can be said that they hold heavy troops!
In this way, the Qi family and the Yue Palace had to make everyone think deeply about it.
Although everyone in Chang'an City is considering the deep reasons behind this marriage, Lin Zhao, as the protagonist, is happily preparing for this engagement banquet.
As the absolute central figure in Chang'an City at this time, Lin Zhao's purpose of holding this wedding banquet was actually very simple. First, it was because he had to abide by the agreement he made with Qi when he was young, and second, his boy Lin Qing did get along with the eldest daughter of the Qi family. After meeting him once, he often played together.
The prince Lin Qing himself has no objection to this marriage.
The protagonist had no objection, so Lin Zhao naturally agreed happily and decided on his future daughter-in-law in advance so as not to tell others about it.
After all, it was too early to get married in this era. If you are not careful, this daughter-in-law might have promised it to others.
Because it was his son's engagement, Xie Danran, as the princess, was also very happy and personally prepared various details of the wedding banquet in the royal palace.
Soon, the time came on March 12, the fifth year of Hongdao, and there were only three days left before the Qilin family's wedding banquet.
That evening, Qi Fujun, who had gotten off work, did not go home, but came to the palace of the King of Yue and sat with His Royal Highness, and drank with His Highness.
The two of them are very close friends, so they naturally have a lot of topics to talk about when they sit together. Every time they drink, they feel warm.
Qi Fujun picked up the wine glass, clinked a glass with Lin Zhao, then tilted his head and drank it all, and said dizzyly.
"My Erlang is also back to Chang'an... to participate in this wedding banquet."
Lin Zhao held the wine glass and was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Qi is too disgusting, there is no need to do this."
Qi Fujun's eyes were blurred.
"What doesn't have to be like this? His eldest niece is engaged and he is back, not..."
"Not for granted?"
Chapter completed!