Chapter 0234 An old man who wants to die in front of Li Yuan
Li Yuanji's letter to Li Xiuning was very simple, just one sentence.
'Sister, we must bring Li Jing and others under our command and wait for the opportunity to be transferred to Hebei Province.'
Since Li Yuanji cannot grasp the soft power of Li Shentong, he can only work hard on the hard power of Li Jing and others.
Li Yuanji originally planned to gradually bring Li Jing and others under his command.
Now it seems that we have to speed up the pace.
Li Yuanji did not place his hopes on Li Shentong's loyalty to their "Neutral Alliance".
As long as there is a possibility of Li Shentong's betrayal, then he must be prepared for Li Shentong's betrayal.
Li Yuanji must ensure that the power he has in his hands can ensure his own safety.
"Your Highness, the Heavenly Official from the Ministry of Rites has arrived."
After Li Yuanji wrote the letter and sent it out, the female officer guarding the front hall hurried to the main hall to report it.
Li Yuanji ordered the female officials to bring the officials from the Ministry of Rites to the main hall.
Three days later it was the day of his crowning ceremony, and there was a complicated set of rituals to go through.
The Ministry of Rites must send someone over to talk to him about the rituals and tell him some rituals that he doesn't know.
He is the only legitimate son of Li Yuan who was crowned as a prince.
Therefore, the ceremony for his crowning was more complicated than that for Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.
After Li Yuanji and the officials from the Ministry of Rites arrived at the main hall, they talked about the ritual process, which roughly consisted of four steps: worshiping ancestors, making resolutions, reporting rewards, and presenting gifts.
There are more rules, more etiquette, and more people watching the ceremony.
An official from the Ministry of Ceremonies revealed that Li Yuan had issued an order that all officials in Beijing should attend the ceremony.
Anyone who is absent without reason (to observe filial piety) will be dismissed from office and given a title.
Li Yuan also issued an order to all envoys from various countries in Beijing to attend the ceremony.
Those who are absent without excuse will be excluded from Datang's list of candidates.
Li Yuan rarely issued such harsh orders, which shows how seriously Li Yuan took this matter.
After Li Yuanji finished talking about the ceremony with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he sent someone to send the officials of the Ministry of Rites to leave Wude Hall.
In the next three days, Li Yuanji prepared for the crowning at his residence.
During this period, Zheng Guanyin brought a set of hand-made dresses, and Changsun also brought a set of hand-made dresses.
Li Yuanji doesn't have to wear it, but they must give it to them.
Because they are Li Yuanji's sisters-in-law, when Li Yuanji is crowned, they must add Li Yuanji's outfit.
And it must be sewn by one's own hands, not by others.
Because it is sewn by hand, it can better reflect the views of the Li Yuanji brothers and the respect between brothers and sisters.
Although some of them wanted to kill each other, they still managed to get along in a harmonious manner.
After Li Yuanji made preparations at his house for three days, on his birthday, he wore a nine-stringed robe on his head, a green robe, a light red skirt, embroidered with nine chapters, a pair of jade pendants around his waist, and a sword on his shoulder.
Surrounded by everyone in the house, they rushed to the temple.
The main temple is located inside the Anshang Gate on the southeast side of Taiji Palace.
When Li Yuanji arrived at the temple, it was still dark, but a group of civil and military officials had already arrived.
All the civil and military officials wore crowns and ceremonial clothes, with different colors, different beads, and different accessories according to their rank. They were all equipped with ceremonial swords. Even the civil servants were the same.
Officials of the Tang Dynasty rarely wore this set of clothes on weekdays, and they would only wear them like this on such important occasions.
At least, it was the first time for Li Yuanji to wear a crown and something like a skirt.
This was also the first time I saw the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty wearing crowns.
After Li Yuanji arrived, he found his position and lazily stayed there without greeting the officials.
Not long after, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin both brought their subordinate officials and arrived in front of the temple in a very grand manner.
As an elder brother, he encouraged Li Yuanji in public.
They say that after today, you will be an adult, and you can do whatever you want.
Li Yuanji basically goes in through the left ear and out through the right ear.
Because Li Yuanji knew in his heart that no matter how nice what Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin said, they didn't think so in their hearts.
They may even hope that they can hang themselves in the temple today.
That way, they can 'fight' each other with more confidence.
Not long after Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin arrived.
Li Yuan faced a streak of fish-belly white on the horizon and appeared in front of the temple sitting on his own dragon.
Twelve beautiful hats, dark cyan tops, bright red lower skirts, twelve chapters of patterns, and golden swords all look very blinking.
Among the people in front of the temple, his clothes were the most gorgeous and beautiful.
Other people can only be envious, because this is not something you can wear if you have money.
It's no wonder that Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin fought fiercely for the throne. Maybe they just wanted to wear the clothes Li Yuan wore, maybe.
Li Yuan disembarked from the Dragon Boat Festival and accepted the courtesy and worship of the ministers.
He shouted happily: "Where is my son?"
Li Yuanji, with a feeling in his heart, walked out of the train and walked to the middle position in front of the temple.
He became the most handsome boy in the whole room.
But Li Yuanji didn't pay too much attention.
Because Li Yuan's greeting made him inexplicably think of the sentence 'Where is my son Fengxian?'
Fortunately, his cousin's name is not Fengxian, otherwise Li Yuan would be in danger.
"My son, come forward quickly and let your father take a good look."
Li Yuan looked like a loving father and greeted Li Yuanji to go up the stairs.
After carefully observing Li Yuanji, he asked about Li Yuanji's condition.
It was not until officials from the Ministry of Rites carefully reminded him that the auspicious time was coming soon that Li Yuan stopped talking.
Li Yuanji could see that Li Yuan urgently needed to find a well-behaved son to confide everything in his heart.
After Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin started fighting each other over the position under his butt, he was the bigger one.
Seeing his two sons pinching each other more and more vigorously, he couldn't stop them no matter how hard he tried. He was the older of the two and had a lot of things in his stomach that he needed to talk to.
Li Yuanji felt that when Li Yuan looked at his son before, he always thought he was a bastard, but now when he looks at him again, he must feel that he is handsome and handsome.
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When Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were frantically creating trouble for Li Yuan, even if he was a bastard, Li Yuan still looked at him with a clear face.
Li Yuan reluctantly let go of Li Yuanji and started the process.
Even the Heavenly Official from the Ministry of Rites gave a compliment and went through a process.
First, various propaganda groups began to play music, and then Li Yuan entered the temple, paid homage to his ancestors, told his ancestors that he had a grown-up son in his family, how he could be so successful, deceived his ancestors, burned incense and burned them.
After receiving the sacrifice table, he summoned Li Yuanji into the hall.
When Li Yuanji entered the palace, he was faced with a bunch of Li family ancestors who had turned into ghosts, and he was also fooled.
Then, with Li Yuan's warning, he offered incense to his ancestors.
After Li Yuanji offered incense to Li Yuanji, he told his ancestors without conscience that he had little talent and little knowledge, had not accomplished anything great, and had no shame in crowning his son.
Then he invited Yan Zhishan, a descendant of Yan Hui, the head of the seventy-two sages of Confucius and one of the five great saints of Confucianism, to crown Li Yuanji.
Yan Zhishan is almost eighty years old. He walks unsteadily, as if he could be hit by a gust of wind.
After being forcibly invited to the temple by Li Yuan, when he saw the curly and brown hair on Li Yuanji's head, he wanted to die on the spot.
At Li Yuan's urging, when crowning Li Yuanji, he kept saying that he was a sinner of Confucianism and a sinner of the Han family.
He was not afraid of offending anyone, so he said it in front of Li Yuan and Li Yuanji.
Li Yuan and Li Yuanji could only pretend not to hear.
Not to mention that he is really the kind of disciple of a saint whose knowledge is so profound that people look up to him. Just because of his age, there is no way that Li Yuan and Li Yuanji can have evil intentions towards him.
He is almost eighty and has already lived a prosperous life.
If someone breaks the law, it's the same as if they didn't. What can you do against them?
People even criticized the Li family in front of Li Yuan for taking control of the Central Plains, introducing Hu Xue into the Central Plains, and disrupting the bloodline of the Han family.
Li Yuan could only listen, and when the time came, he had to send someone to take him back to his house to greet him.
After Yan Zhishan crowned Li Yuanji and left a nondescript epithet, he strongly requested Li Yuan not to leave a word about the incident and to pretend it never happened, otherwise he would die in front of Li Yuan.
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Li Yuan agreed with a depressed look on his face, and asked Li Jiancheng to take action and send the person back to his residence respectfully.
Before leaving, he made a special statement that he must serve him well, and if he missed a hair, he would be held accountable.
After Yan Zhishan left.
Li Yuan sighed and patted Li Yuanji on the shoulder and said: "In order to ask the Yan family to crown you, my father had to bleed violently."
When Li Yuan approached Yan Zhishan for the first time and asked Yan Zhishan to crown Li Yuanji.
Yan Zhishan felt that the Yan family had been humiliated, so he asked his children and grandchildren to beat out the people sent by Li Yuan.
Li Yuan finally invited Li Gang, Pei Ju, and Kong An, the 31st generation grandson of Confucius, to come forward to speak out, promising huge profits that would benefit poor students all over the world, and then invited Yan Zhishan.
Within three years, official schools in various places will nearly triple their enrollment.
The money and food needed have doubled several times.
Not a small amount of money.
If this matter had not been beneficial to Datang, Li Yuan might not have agreed.
"Thank you very much, father, for your love. So, can I not use the name Wu Yi?"
Li Yuanji said a little depressed.
Yan Zhishan disgusted him so much that he gave him a very representative nickname.
Wuyi obviously refers to the Wuhu who rebelled against China.
It means he is a bastard.
How could he accept it.
Li Yuan also knew very well how ambiguous this title was, so he said without hesitation: "I don't like this title either, so I won't use it. Anyway, Yan Zhishan also said that there is no written word for his crowning you."
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I'll ask Li Gang to get another one for you later."
Although Li Gang now focuses on teaching other royal heirs, he also taught Li Yuanji for two years at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
He is qualified to give Li Yuanji a surname.
Since Yan Zhishan didn't want the father and son to mention this matter, he would definitely not mention it to anyone, so Li Yuan declared to the outside world that Yan Zhishan did not choose a surname for Li Yuanji.
Yan Zhishan would also hold his nose and recognize it.
Because if this kind of thing spreads out, others will only praise Yan Zhishan for not being afraid of power and for his character.
After all, in the eyes of the people, anyone who dared to confront the emperor was a sign of being unafraid of power and having character.