The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 62
"Why isn't it dawn yet?"

Li Zhi was sleeping on the big bed in his palace. He then got up and looked at his personal eunuch Deng Bao and asked: "What time is it now?"

"Your Highness..." Deng Bao rubbed his dazed little eyes and replied: "It should be the third watch, and it will be dawn soon. Your Highness, you'd better sleep for a while."

"I am not sleepy at all today. By the way, where is my horseshoe?" Li Zhi quickly found the horseshoe.

Deng Bao hastily walked to Li Zhi's side in three steps at a time, and picked up the horseshoe under the bed.

"Oh, this is my king's treasure. How can I put it under the bed? If I lose it, how will I live? Come on, come on. Put it next to my king." Li Zhi carefully put the four horseshoes on the bed. Beside his own pillow, he smiled and said: "Little babes, I will see you tomorrow, so that my father will look at me with admiration, and I will surprise my brothers."

With that said, Li Zhi lay down again.

It turned out that just when Li Zhi knew the role of horseshoes and wanted to use it to deal with his schoolwork, back in the palace, Li Zhi got the news that this time Ma Zhengwen would be brought to the court to answer.

Li Shimin's purpose of doing this was to let the ministers see that he cared about Ma Zheng. At this time, Li Zhi was pleasantly surprised. He had a horseshoe in his hand. If he presented the horseshoe at the court meeting, he would shout that he would contribute ten dollars to the Tang Dynasty. Ten thousand war horses, you don’t need to guess to know that you will be glorious that day.

Thinking about his father's pleased expression, and thinking about the surprised looks of his brothers and ministers, Li Zhi couldn't wait any longer, but time is like this, the more anxious you are, the slower it will go.

Just after Li Zhi slowly fell asleep in the excitement.

The sky in Chang'an City has finally dawned. Early the next morning, the sun has just risen. At this time, the most spectacular scene in Chang'an City is about to appear. The bells and drums throughout the city announce the dawn!
What is the sound of bells and drums throughout the city?

As we all know, Chang'an City has a curfew. After the curfew, you can no longer walk on the main city road of Chang'an City. The gates of each lane must be closed. The bells and drums throughout the city remind everyone that the curfew is over. .

At three o'clock on the fifth watch on a winter night, and two o'clock on a summer night (in ancient times, a night was divided into five watches, and one watch was further divided into five o'clock). On the tower of Chengtianmen, the main entrance of Taiji Palace, the first dawn drum sounded, and each line The drum towers on the north-south street followed suit.

As the sound of drums spreads from inside to outside, the gates of the palace, the gates of the imperial office area (imperial city), and the gates of each neighborhood are opened one after another.

At the same time, dozens of temples in the city will also ring morning bells. The exciting beating drums and the deep and distant bells are intertwined, waking up the entire city of Chang'an to welcome the morning sun bursting from the eastern sky.

How many times should the dawn drum be beaten?There are records of three hundred tones, and there are records of three thousand tones.

However, no matter how many times there are, the knocking is not done in one go. Instead, the knocking is divided into several waves, and the duration is relatively long.

At this time, the people of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty would also get up one after another. Some residents were awakened by the first wave of drums in their sleep. They slowly got up, put on clothes, washed their faces, combed their hair, went out, and walked to the gate of the square. It might be the second or third wave. When the drums sounded, the gate had just opened not long ago.

If there are those who like to stay in bed and get up when the fourth drum beats, and rush to clean up, they may be able to leave the workshop before the fifth drum is finished.

Of course, there are also those who like to get up early and rush out of the workshop.Before dawn, there are often some people in each workshop gathered in front of the gate, waiting for the sound of Dongdonggu (the Changan people's oral and common name for Street Drum) to open the door and let them go.

Beside them, the snack bar in Fangmenli started doing business.

The firewood danced brightly and warmly under the stove, and the shirtless Hu master was banging the sesame cakes; the white steam in the steamer was steaming; the sesame biscuits just out of the oven were golden and bright, fragrant and crispy; the steamed buns with fillings The pancake will flow smoothly in your mouth when you bite it; you can add sour or spiciness to the big bowl of soft noodle soup as you wish.

I'm so busy on my way that I don't want to miss this moment. My guest, would you like to have some breakfast first?If you are in a hurry to go to the Hajj and are afraid of being late, the store also provides takeaway service!Of course, if your appearance of eating pancakes on a horse while going to court is unfortunately seen by the censor, and you are impeached and demoted, that has nothing to do with the shop. ——Excerpted from "Tang Dynasty Travel Guide"!
Of course, Li Zhi is the one who gets up at the first bell, morning court, early court. That is, the place where Li Shimin goes to court is the Tai Chi Hall, and the ministers in the early morning have to come to the palace early to go to court.In the Tang Dynasty, not all the upper courts knelt down. Kneeling should be during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, when it was very popular. In order to enslave the people below, in the Tang Dynasty, the ministers still bowed to the emperor, because there was a little time in the morning court. long.

So they stood at first. After Li Shimin asked some questions, around 7 o'clock, everyone's physical strength reached the limit. Then the little eunuchs would bring soft cushions. At this time, the ministers could sit down.

This is the human nature of the Tang Dynasty.

After some table and settlement, it was finally time to sit down. The little eunuchs brought the cushions one by one. At this time, Li Zhi also took advantage of the situation and sat down. In front of Li Zhi were Li Chengqian, Li Ke , Li Tai, Li You, Li Yin, Li Yun, and Li Zhen are followed by Li Zhi. Although Li Zhi is the first son, he is still ranked ninth at this time.

Li Chengqian, Li Ke, Li Tai. Everyone is familiar with them.

Everyone is familiar with Li You. Among Li Shimin's sons, he was the only one who was deposed as a commoner.

But in fact, this Li You is not too bad. The reason why he fell into the abyss of rebellion is not entirely his responsibility.

According to historical records, Li You had one shortcoming - he liked field hunting.In fact, both the Li family and his son like hunting, which is really not a shortcoming. He is much more restrained than Li Ke who trampled on people's crops.

The problem lies with two people, one is Li You's uncle Yin Hongzhi, and the other is his long history Quan Wanji.

Li Min is Li Ke's sibling, but their personalities are quite different. Li Min commits crimes and commits crimes as usual. He doesn't care about political affairs, hunts excessively, harms the people, and is as good as a knife. This The guy and Li Zhi were very at odds with each other, and he didn't know why. Li Min didn't like Li Zhi at all times, and would target him whenever he had the chance.

If you want to ask who Li Zhi hates the most, it is definitely Li Min.

Jiang Wang and Li Yun can be summed up in two words: greedy and extravagant, they like to plunder and amass wealth, and they go to great lengths to be extravagant. Even if they only have 400 cars equipped with equipment, they are not a good thing.

King Li Zhen of Yue, whose biological mother was Concubine Yan De, had limited talents. Although the "New Book of Tang" said that he was good at riding and shooting, involved in literature and history, and had talents; the "Old Book of Tang" also recognized Li Zhen's talents, but during the period when Wu Zetian was in power There was the "Eight Kings Rebellion".

It was eight kings, Li Zhen and Li Chong and his son; Li Yuanjia and Li Zhuan and his son; Li Lingkui and Li Ge and his son; Li Yuangui and Li Xu and his son as the core, who secretly organized an anti-military alliance.

In the fourth year of Chui Gong, the famous hall in Luoyang was built. Wu Zetian ordered the kings to attend the celebration. Li Yuanjia was keenly aware that Wu Zetian wanted to take the opportunity to massacre the clan's children, so he secretly trusted Li Zhen and immediately launched an army.

Unexpectedly, due to poor communication, Li Chong took the lead in attacking. By the time Li Zhen hurriedly responded to his son, Li Chong had already been defeated.

Obviously, the Li family father and son are not good at using soldiers. Li Zhen actually relied on the protection of Taoist priests to resist the official army.

After only 20 days of raising troops, the city was captured by the army. Li Zhen committed suicide by taking poison, and most of his family committed suicide.This incident also implicated two princes-in-law, including Wu Zetian's son-in-law Xue Shao, who was starved to death in prison.

It can be seen that Li Zhen is not very good, and this is the time when these princes are in their youth. What will happen to them in the future is exciting.

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