After the howling autumn rain, the weather became cooler. The flowers and trees in the palace were withered, and the dead leaves on the trees were fluttering and falling in all directions with the breeze.
The yellow leaves, red walls, and black tiles, the solemn and majestic atmosphere of the past gradually faded away, adding a bit of poignant and graceful poetry and painting...
Inside the Dragon Palace.
His Majesty Li Er wears a red-yellow robe with narrow sleeves and a round collar, a black gauze double-winged mantou on his head, a nine-ring belt around his waist, and a pair of Liuhe boots waiting at his feet, making him look like he is attending the court to listen to politics...
Fang Jun entered the room, stepped forward to salute, and said loudly: "I am a humble minister, Fang Jun. I have an audience with Your Majesty."
His Majesty Li Er raised his eyes, waved his hands casually, and said calmly: "No need to be polite, just sit down and wait for the palace guests to serve you tea."
"Here."
Fang Jun agreed, took two steps forward, and sat down in front of the emperor. He lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes without saying a word.
His Majesty Li Er is in his early forties this year. This is the age when a man's physical strength, intelligence, and experience have reached their peak. Just sitting there normally, he has a majestic and majestic demeanor, a square face and thick eyebrows.
, his eyes were like lightning, full of imperial majesty.
The monarch and his ministers sat opposite each other, but they seemed not to see each other and neither spoke.
The atmosphere in the hall was a little stagnant for a while...
It wasn't until the palace maid brought the steaming tea and put it on the table that His Majesty Li Er waved his hand and said, "Everyone, please step aside."
"Here——"
The maid serving tea and the interior of the store responded in unison, bowed and took three steps back, then turned and walked out.
His Majesty Li Er ignored Fang Jun and poured a cup of tea by himself. He took a sip and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if savoring the taste of the tea. After a long while, he slowly said: "That poem
,very nice."
Fang Jun had already drank a lot of water in the Ministry of War Yamen, but he was not thirsty at the moment. He bowed slightly and said respectfully: "Your Majesty's compliments are ridiculous. I am ashamed that I can't deserve them."
"Ha..." His Majesty Li Er sneered, looked at Fang Jun playfully, and said, "Is there anything else that your Fang Er doesn't dare to do?"
Fang Jun ignored the emperor's ridicule and said seriously: "Poetry expresses ambitions, and songs express eternal feelings. If it does not touch the emotions of people's hearts, how can poetry be sung all over the world? I think of the deep love between your majesty and Queen Wende as husband and wife,
Although I have never seen the happy love between the two of them in the past, I can still know the deep and pure love from others. God is jealous of the beauty, and Queen Wende flies to the west. Your Majesty will never lose your beloved, and the sorrow and longing in my heart will last forever.
I couldn't sleep at night, my heart was gnawing at my bones, and I felt the same, so my thoughts surged, and I composed the next song "Remembering a Dream" to comfort Your Majesty's pain of lovesickness, and to honor the spirit of Queen Wende in heaven..."
Speaking of which, His Majesty Li Er and Empress Changsun have a rare deep affection in history, so this poem sent to him can be regarded as complementing each other.
Brother Dongpo, who could only speak out after suffering for four hundred years, has "stealed" many of his famous works, which have been passed down through the ages. I wonder if Mr. Dongpo will stop here and lose everyone.
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But it doesn’t matter if you think about it. Su Dongpo was a truly amazing and talented person. Even if he couldn’t write poems, he could stew a stew that would go down in history...
His Majesty Li Er was silent.
He didn't laugh at Fang Jun's flattery, nor did he scold him for going further and further down the road of sycophancy. He just held the tea cup and was slightly distracted.
Fang Jun closed his mouth, feeling a little suspicious. His Majesty was so unusual today that he couldn't figure out what he was thinking at the moment...
It's too much to say and it's wrong, so it's best to shut up.
After a long time, His Majesty Li Er asked quietly: "Fang Jun, are the gods you said in ancient legends true or false?"
Fang Jun sighed, as expected...
After thinking for a while, he said: "Since it is a legend, it must have been spread for a long time. During this period, it must have been misrepresented and misrepresented. The older the legend, the greater the distance from the truth. This is common sense. From the perspective of Wei Chen, gods and ghosts
It's just a figment of the imagination of the ancestors, and then later generations have to go through it and interpret it as a conclusion. It must not be taken seriously."
His Majesty Li Er glanced at Fang Jun and said casually: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas says that there are five mountains on the sea: Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fanghu, Yingzhou, Penglai, Daiyu and Yuanqiao. The two mountains have drifted away without a trace.
Only the three mountains of Fanghu, Yingzhou and Penglai are left... Dongfang Shuo of the Han Dynasty also said that Penglai Mountain faces the northeastern coast of the East China Sea, and it goes back five thousand miles.
Ye. There is no wind but the waves are hundreds of feet high, and it is impossible to go back and forth. There are nine old father-in-laws and the Jiuzhen Palace, where the real Supreme Being lives. Only Feixian can go there... So many classics have recorded overseas events.
There are immortals in the fairy mountains. Is it possible that they are all made up out of thin air?"
Fang Jun was so worried that he wanted to hit the wall...
It's like asking a college student to explain addition and subtraction within ten to primary school students. There is no sense of accomplishment at all, only impatience.
If you are talking about whether there really are fairy mountains, it is really difficult to confirm this. What if those fairy mountains are a door that breaks through time and space, and behind the door is another parallel world?
But when it comes to whether there are so many fairy mountains above the Bohai Sea, in this era, there is really no one more confident than Fang Jun...
There is a hair!
After thinking about it, I felt that His Majesty Li Er was a very strong-willed person. If I told him simply and rudely, he would not believe it. If he was thinking about such mysterious people all day long, something would happen...
Then he said: "Your Majesty clearly knows that whether there is or not is not decided by the ministers, nor by Your Majesty. The Bohai Sea is so big, with a radius of only more than 4,000 miles. Our navy has hundreds of ships, divided into several groups.
"Son, if you go through this from south to north and from east to west, how many islands and mountains are there on the sea? Isn't that clear?"
This is definitely a stupid method.
No matter how small the Bohai Sea is, with the current navigation technology and ship quality, if you want to sail through it, it will not only consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but also take several years.
But although the method is stupid, it is still better than the emperor's random thoughts all day long, right?
What if one day this guy does something stupid out of a hot head, it would really be a headache...
When His Majesty Li Er heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up!
He almost jumped up and hugged Fang Jun for a kiss! This boy was really quick-thinking and amazingly talented. Countless alchemists in the world spent their whole day reading the scriptures, hoping to find evidence of the existence of the fairy mountain from those ancient books, but they failed.
No one has ever thought of us directly crossing the Bohai Sea...
But then, another melancholy thought occurred to him: "But when Qin Shihuang sent the alchemist Xu Fu to go out to the Bohai Sea by boat, he never returned and there was no news. I was wondering if this fairy mountain was only seen by those who were destined.
If you don’t have the wisdom of immortal roots, even though the immortal mountain is right in front of you, you still turn a blind eye and pass by?"
Fang Jun was stunned.
I won’t obey anyone, but I will obey you!
He is worthy of being a man who can become an emperor. With such leaps of thinking and broad mind, who in the world can match him?
You said you didn’t know if there were fairy mountains on the sea, and we sent people to look for them. But then you said that those mortals don’t have fairy roots and eyesight, so they knew the fairy mountains were there but couldn’t see them...
Fang Jun was silent for a moment and asked: "Your Majesty, this idea... is it serious?"
His Majesty Li Er was puzzled: "Of course it is true. The land of gods and immortals cannot be seen by the naked eye, and that is what it should be. What do you mean by this?"
Fang Jun asked back: "Your Majesty is right, so it is best to send such a person to go with the fleet. Then, Your Majesty, do you think who has immortal roots and who has a wise eye? Do you think Wei Chen can succeed?"
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"you?"
His Majesty Li Er looked Fang Jun up and down, and sneered: "Forget it! Do you think that you can write a few poems and study some strange techniques, and you can be called an immortal? In my opinion,
This kind of person should at least be favored by God and have great luck. Many difficulties in the world will not exist in front of him.
"well said!"
Fang Jun stroked his hands and said, "There is someone right now who fits your majesty's description!"
His Majesty Li Er asked curiously: "Who?"
Fang Jun pointed at His Majesty Li Er's nose and said: "Of course a person with such great luck must be your Majesty!"
His Majesty Li Er was stunned, pointed at himself and said: "Me?"
Fang Jun said with determination: "Your Majesty rose up in the late Sui Dynasty, and the world was at war with all the heroes. In terms of bloodline, strength, and current situation, it is impossible for Li Tang to be his turn in this world, right?"
His Majesty Li Er nodded subconsciously. He could not deny this. No matter how conceited he was, he could not tell lies with his eyes open. Dou Jiande, Liu Heitai, Wang Shichong, even Yuwen Chengdu and Xiao Xian were all more likely than Li Tang at the beginning.
The tripod determines the country.
In the end, Li Tang clarified that Huanyu unified the universe. If anyone said that there was no luck to help him, His Majesty Li Er would be the first to spit in that person's face...