Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 476 The Emperor and the Emperor

With the support of Gao Lishi, 72-year-old Li Longji got off the carriage and saw the majestic walls of Chang'an City, tears welled up in his eyes.

Li Longji spent most of his life in Chang'an City.

With the grandma Wu Zetian, Li Longji spent his youth cautiously. As the emperor's grandson, he could not live with his father in the East Palace, but had to squeeze into the Five Kings' Mansion with his brothers.

The internal eunuchs and palace orders sent by grandma Wu Zetian are all monitoring their brothers' every move, and if they make any mistakes, they will be impeached by the officials.

And Li Longji's biological mother, Dou Shi, was falsely accused of practicing witchcraft against Wu Zetian when he was young, and was ordered to be killed by his grandmother.

In the year of the weak crown, the prime ministers Zhang Jianzhi and Di Renjie launched the Shenlong coup, forcing their grandmother Wu Zetian to abdicate.

The prime ministers supported their uncle Li Xian to come to power, thinking that they would be able to live a stable life.

Unexpectedly, Empress Wei and Princess Anle, Li Xian's queen, joined forces to seize power again. Empress Wei wanted to do her mother-in-law Wu Zetian's affairs again, ascended the throne as the empress, and forced Li Xian's prince Li Chongjun to death.

Empress Wei and Princess Anle poisoned Zhongzong Li Xian, and Li Longji, who was weak in the crown, decisively launched a coup, killed Empress Wei, and supported his father Li Dan to take the throne.

After Li Dan came to power, he reused his aunt, Princess Taiping, who also wanted to imitate her mother Wu Zetian as the empress.

Li Longji launched a coup again, killed his aunt Princess Taiping, and finally took control of the real power.

When Li Longji was young, he was looking at the city defense map of Chang'an day and night, calculating the number of officers in the imperial army who were loyal to him, and considering the loopholes in the guards of Taiji Palace and Daming Palace.

It can be said that in Datang, no one understands coups better than Li Longji!

In the early days, he made great efforts to govern and created a prosperous Kaiyuan era. He has been in charge of the court for more than 40 years. Li Longji, 72 years old, failed in the evening and abdicated to become the emperor.

After losing the throne, Li Longji's hair became completely white, his body became hunched, and he no longer had the vigor and spirit of the former ruler of the world.

Li Longji looked at Chang'an City with mixed feelings in his heart, so he could only hold Gao Lishi's hand and weep.

Li Heng, 48 years old, was full of excitement when he saw his Chang'an City.

Like all the children of the royal family, Li Heng basically lived in Chang'an City all his life.

The unfavored son was suddenly registered as the prince because of the rebellion of the three common people, and Li Heng lived in the shadow of his father all his life.

When Lingwu ascended the throne, Li Heng had been the prince for 30 years.

People in the world say, "How can there be a prince who has been a prince for 30 years?" The last one to be a prince for such a long time was Liu Shi, the deposed prince of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

It may be that he has been living in panic for a long time, and Li Heng's health is not very good. Now at the age of 48, half of his hair is gray, and his face is also a little pale.

But at this time Li Heng's face was flushed with excitement, the Emperor of Tang finally returned to Chang'an City!
The last time I left Chang'an City, Li Longji was the emperor and Li Heng was the prince. At that time, it seemed as if the sky had fallen, and the father and son almost became kings of subjugation.

But this time when they returned to Chang'an City, Li Longji was the emperor and Li Heng was the emperor. The Tang Dynasty had already recovered the two capitals and Henan Road, and the peace of the world was just around the corner.

On the outskirts of Chang'an, all the officials put on court clothes and lined up neatly waiting for the "meeting of the two saints".

King Qi and the princes who were with him stood in the first row, followed by Li Heng's prime ministers, ministers of various ministries and speech officials and censors stood behind.

As the embassy in the backyard of the Longyou Governor's Mansion, Shang Bo stood at the back.

He turned on the camera in the game and recorded such a historic moment.

In front of Mingde's gate, the emperor was the first to get out of the carriage with the support of Gao Lishi.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor got off the carriage with the help of Li Fuguo. Li Longji did not move in front of the carriage. Li Heng walked quickly to the carriage and was about to kneel down to Li Longji.

At this time, Li Longji quickly helped Li Heng up and asked, "Is there any ritual for the emperor to bow down?"

But Li Heng raised his head and said: "A son kneels down to worship his father, it is the law of heaven and earth!"

After saying this, Li Heng gave a full salute to his father, and Li Longji also turned his body sideways, half-accepting his son's full salute.

Shang Bo admired in his heart that the father and son were indeed born politicians. There was no rehearsal for this performance, and the performance was so natural that some officials present even cried aloud.

At this time, we were in peace with Zhongshumen, and Pei Mian, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, came out and reminded the father and son of the "affectionate performance":
"The auspicious time has come, invite the Second Saint to enter Chang'an!"

All the officials also advised in unison: "Please come to Chang'an, the second sage!"

The 72-year-old emperor helped the 48-year-old emperor. The emperor held the emperor's hand and walked towards Mingde gate together.

The Second Saint walked in front, and the princes and ministers walked behind. When they came to Mingde's gate, a group of ragged people with shackles on their hands and feet knelt on both sides of the gate, making Li Longji stop.

At this time, Cui Qi, the censor Zhongcheng who greeted Shengjia, stood up and said:
"Report to the Second Sage, these are criminal officials who surrendered to the puppet Yan, and the Three Judges asked them to wear their sins to welcome the Holy Driver."

Cui Qi's arrangement was approved by Li Heng. Looking at these criminal officials, Li Heng felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

If it weren't for the persuasion of the prime ministers, Li Heng originally wanted to build a big prison.

However, considering that the world is still uncertain, many criminal officials were also forced to become officials by the false Yan, so the emperor only pursued these main culprits who took the initiative to rebel.

The pseudo-Yan Prime Minister Da Xixun and Chen Xilie were among them. Li Longji saw these faces, some of them were important officials he had used in the past, as if he had been slapped on the face.

Li Longji has been the emperor for more than 40 years, can he not know what his son means?

Da Xixun and Chen Xilie were important ministers during the emperor's time. These important ministers surrendered to the fake Yan. What does it mean? It means that your emperor appointed many treacherous ministers back then!
Xuanzong's two power ministers, Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, both continued to suppress the power of the Eastern Palace. Li Heng's 30-year prince career was spent under the shadow of the two power ministers.

These sinners kneeling in front of Mingde's gate, even if the emperor neglected to employ people, the matter of appointing traitors would be written in the history books.

Before entering the city gate, Li Longji felt the oppression of his son, the emperor.

Li Heng was very satisfied with Cui Qi in his heart, and when he was entering the city, Li Heng suddenly saw a familiar face.

Although he had already seen this person on the list of traitors, Li Heng still stopped when he saw the ragged real person.

And Li Longji followed his son's gaze, and only saw a thin middle-aged man of the same age as Li Heng, standing among a group of criminal officials.

Li Longji regained his energy immediately, and asked the middle-aged man, "Where's your brother Zhang Bo?"

The criminal knelt on the ground and said:

"Reporting to the Emperor, the guilty minister Zhang Bo died before Chang'an was restored."

Li Heng showed a displeased expression, and he asked Cui Qi: "Zhang Bo died from rebellion, what crime did Zhang Jun commit?"

This ragged criminal was Zhang Jun, the son of Prime Minister Zhang Shuo in the first year of Kaiyuan.

When Li Heng was canonized as the prince, Zhang said that he had made a decision and was Li Heng's great benefactor.

After Zhang Shuo was dismissed, Zhang Shuo's two sons, Zhang Jun and Zhang Bo, also had a close relationship with Li Heng, and advised Li Heng to escape the persecution of the prince by Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong.

Although Zhang Bo and Zhang Jun were the prime minister's children, and Zhang Bo was Li Longji's son-in-law, at that time the high positions in the imperial court were monopolized by Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, and the two brothers were never reused.

After An Lushan contributed to Chang'an, the depressed Zhang Bo simply surrendered to An Lushan and became the prime minister of the puppet Yan.

Zhang Bo was the son of the former prime minister and the emperor's son-in-law, and he knew the details of the dignitaries in Chang'an City very well.

After he was appointed prime minister, he massacred Li Tang's clan in Chang'an, seized the property of honorable ministers, and even destroyed Li Tang's ancestral temple.

Before the city of Chang'an was broken, Zhang Bo was frightened to death.

His elder brother Zhang Jun was captured alive by the Tang army, and was also identified as a rebellious minister by the Sanfa Division.

Censor Zhongcheng Cui Qi immediately said: "The guilty minister Zhang Jun once served as an official of the false Yan's false Zhongshu order, and the three judges convicted him of the second class."

Li Heng has old feelings for the Zhang brothers, and their father Zhang Shuo also owes a lot to him.

Li Heng said to Cui Qi: "The evidence of Zhang Bo's rebellion is solid. Zhang Jun is afraid that he was forced to rebel. His crime can be pardoned."

Cui Qi originally wanted to agree, but after all the emperor said he would pardon him, what else could he say as a censor Zhongcheng.

But at this time, Li Longji said:

"The Zhang brothers are thieves. I have heard it all in Sichuan. These two thieves destroyed my Li Tangzong temple and the land, and wanted my father and son to die. Such a capital crime cannot be pardoned!"

When Li Longji said this, Li Heng's situation became awkward again.

He glanced at Cui Qi, if Cui Qi hadn't organized some ceremony to welcome the criminals, how could there have been so many incidents?

Cruel officials like Cui Qi are the best at guessing Shangyi, and his cold sweat broke out all of a sudden.

Li Jin, the Shangshu in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, quickly stood up and said:

"The auspicious time for the grand ceremony has come, don't miss the auspicious time for discussing crimes!"

Li Heng nodded, and did not continue to publicly discuss the matter of pardoning Zhang Jun.

The gate of Mingde Gate opened, and the people of Chang'an were already standing on both sides of Zhuque Avenue to welcome them.

The emperor walked into the city of Chang'an through the main gate with the emperor on his arm.

The thoughts of the common people are simple and simple. It is a great thing for the emperor to return to Chang'an, and the welcome is also sincere.

After seeing the gray-haired Li Longji, the common people recalled the prosperity of Kaiyuan Tianbao.

Every year at the Lantern Festival on the 42th day of the first lunar month, Li Longji would go to the Huae Tower. He has been in power for [-] years and has been integrated into the lives of the people in Chang'an.

The people did not see the emperor Li Heng wearing the crown of the prince, but sent the most sincere welcome to their emperor Li Longji.

As the welcome of the people in Chang'an became more and more warm, Li Heng's mood became worse and worse.

When the second sage boarded the carriage and the people still bowed down to the emperor.

There was a playful smile on the corner of Shangbo's mouth.

(End of this chapter)