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Chapter 736 Canonization
Xinhai (28) in February of the second year of Yuanyou.

Zhao Xu personally left the palace and, surrounded by the prime ministers, senior nobles, and royal family relatives, came to the Jingling Palace to inspect the completed Xuanguang Hall.

Xuanguang Hall is the temple of his father.

It is also the place where his portrait is enshrined.

Before this year, because the Xuanguang Hall was not completed, the portrait of his father could only be temporarily enshrined in the Wende Hall of the Ren Temple.

Zhao Xu led the ministers, civil officials and military officials to carefully inspect the Xuanguang Hall inside and out.

After confirming that there were no omissions, Zhao Xu led his ministers to the Wende Hall in front of the Xuanguang Hall, and offered sacrifices in front of the portrait of the late emperor that was temporarily enshrined there.

Naturally, this was a lengthy ceremony.

First, a grand memorial ceremony must be held in the Wende Hall to worship the spirit of the former emperor and the spirit of the Ren Temple.

Then, an official from the Ministry of Rites will read the sacrificial text to inform the ancestors that the Xuanguang Hall has been completed today and that the spirit of the late emperor should be placed in the Xuanguang Hall on the anniversary of his death.

Then, Zhao Xu, as a filial son, personally read out the edict drafted by the Ministry of Rites to honor the late emperor.

Therefore, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty was given the posthumous title of Liewu Shengxiao Emperor.

From the English title of Liewu Shengxiao Emperor, he became the English title of Liewu Qinren Shengxiao Emperor.

This was the feudal dynasty's deification movement.

By deifying the deceased emperor, the current emperor can gain divinity.

Since the Tang Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties have followed suit.

But the effect has been minimal.

Not to mention the common people, even Zhao Xu himself didn't believe it.

Therefore, up to now, giving a posthumous title to the former emperor has already become a procedure.

When should we add it? There are rules for adding a few words.

By the time all these procedures were completed, it was already evening.

Zhao Xu returned to Funing Palace, rested for a while and ate something.

Feng Jing came to report: "Everyone, Mr. Guo has arrived. He said that he is here on behalf of the two palaces to report on the arrangements for the ministers' audience with the emperor in March."

"Yes!" Zhao Xu opened his eyes and said, "Ask Mr. Guo to come in and talk."

"promise!"

A moment later, Guo Zhongxiao was brought in front of Zhao Xu.

When he saw Zhao Xu, Guo Zhongxiao bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, I am here to present the schedule of ministers to see Your Majesty in early March in accordance with the order of the two palaces..."

As he said this, he presented a memorial to Zhao Xu. Zhao Xu asked Feng Jing to take it, and then he took it in his hand and looked at it for a while, and then he let out a sigh of relief, which was somewhat mixed with nervousness and excitement.

First on this schedule is March Jiayin (the second day of the first lunar month), when Lu Huiqing, Grand Secretary of the Zizhi Palace, will meet the Emperor in the Chongzheng Palace.

Lü Huiqing was later reinstated by imperial decree, so the Chief Censor Shu Tan met with the Emperor in the afternoon.

Next is the third day of March, Yimao.

The tribute envoy from Goryeo, the chief monk Yicheon, met the emperor in the Purple Palace.

On the same day in the Purple Palace, the newly appointed civil officials and the newly appointed military officials of the ambassadors in the second year of Yuanyou were led to see the emperor by the Tongjiansi and Juntouyinsi respectively.

Then comes the Wuwu day (the sixth day).

The officials who took the imperial examinations in the second year of Yuanyou, recommended by the Ministry of Personnel and the Capital, were presented to Your Majesty in the Purple Palace.

Then on the seventh day of the first lunar month, the military officials, nobles, and sons of relatives of the emperor's wife who were nominated by the Privy Council to take the imperial examination this year were presented to the Emperor in the Chuigong Hall, and the Military Head Introduction Office arranged for them to perform martial arts in the back hall of the Chuigong Hall.

Immediately afterwards, on the Gengshen day (the eighth day).

The newly appointed Zhongshu Sheren Kong Zhongping, the newly appointed Zuo Jianyi Doctor Liang Tao, and the newly appointed Trial Minister of Works and Acting Director of the Yuanyou Hunyun Bureau Han Gonglian met with the Emperor in the Chuigong Hall.

It is no exaggeration to say that the arrangement of such frequent and large-scale audiences with the emperor is as frequent and large-scale as the normal schedules of ministers attending court and prime ministers meeting the emperor and receiving imperial decrees.

These, then, are the daily government activities of a normal adult monarch.

At least, it was able to catch up with the daily government activities of Ren Miao, who was gradually becoming ill during the Jiayou era.

In practice, this means that Zhao Xu will gradually move from behind the scenes to the front stage.

The transition period has already begun.

Putting down the shift table, Zhao Xu said to Guo Zhongxiao: "What you suggested is very reasonable, so I will follow your schedule!"

"I respectfully obey your Majesty's will!"

Zhao Xu thought for a moment and ordered, "Send me a copy of the letter from Scholar Lu begging for an audience tomorrow. I must take a look at it so that I can understand this scholar..."

Although Zhao Xu was very familiar with Lu Huiqing.

But in this life, he had never seen it, let alone come into contact with it.

Of course, I still have to pretend to understand.

"promise!"

The next two days were Zhao Xu's busiest days.

Because, from February Ren Zi (29) to March Guichou (st).

He needed to leave the palace, go to Jingling Palace, and preside over a series of tedious, lengthy and arduous ceremonies.

It includes but is not limited to enshrining, paying homage, comforting the spirits, offering sacrifices to ancestors and going to the imperial shrines of the ancestors one by one, reading out the sacrificial texts one by one to inform the ancestors that the spirits of the late emperor will be in the Xuanguang Hall.

Given his current physical condition, he can only barely hold on.

Every time after a busy day, he would collapse from exhaustion when he returned to the palace.

But he enjoyed it.

Because, the most important affairs of a country are war and sacrifice!

……

Hunhe River, the palace tent of Liao ruler Yelu Hongji.

At this moment, a royal meeting is being held.

"I'm so angry!" Yelu Hongji said in front of all the ministers, looking furious.

"The people of this country have no king and no father! They are disloyal and unfilial!" He said almost gritting his teeth.

When the ministers around saw this, they all looked at each other.

Xiao Wuna, one of Yelu Hongji's most trusted ministers and also a leader of the Liao Dynasty, stepped out and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, I beg you to temporarily calm your wrath..."

"The country should now focus on conquering Goryeo..."

Prime Minister Liang Ying also advised: "Your Majesty is a great emperor, how can you get angry because of a clown?! I beg Your Majesty to temporarily calm down the wrath of heaven..."

Xiao Wuna and Liang Ying naturally knew that Yelu Hongji had suddenly thrown the entire Japanese delegation into prison and sent several famous cruel officials in the country to torture them for interrogation.

They also heard about the results of the interrogation.

Xiao Wuna and Liang Ying have both heard some details of the interrogation.

The ruler of Japan calls himself the emperor, and calls his country the "Land of the Rising Sun" and regards the Central Plains as the "Land of the Setting Sun"...

There was also the powerful Fujiwara clan in the country, who manipulated the ruler of the country and forced him to become a monk, and then supported the young ruler...

They naturally knew that these things did indeed violate the taboos of their own emperor.

"Calm down..." Yelu Hongji sneered, "How can I not be angry?"

"Japan deceived and deceived me, thinking that I was a child?"

Xiao Wuna hurriedly said, "Your Majesty...I heard that in the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the ruler of Yelang asked the Han envoy, which one is greater, Han or Yelang?"

"The Han envoys did not take it seriously, and Emperor Wu of Han did not accuse them of anything..."

"Japan is a small country, living in a remote corner. It is blinded by a leaf. I beg Your Majesty not to bother with such clowns..."

Other ministers agreed, and one after another began to excuse Japan. Their purpose was obvious - to stop the old emperor from rashly using military force against Japan!
You must know that the main force of the Liao Kingdom’s Pi Shi Army is basically in the Korean Peninsula.

Under the command of Grand Tutor Yelu Dilie, there are now more than 200,000 cavalry and infantry troops.

In order to support the actions of this army of more than 200,000, the Liao Kingdom's treasury was basically emptied.

The Han people in the South Courtyard and the Khitans and Xi people in the North Courtyard all shouldered heavy burdens.

There have been quite a few complaints in junior high school.

In other words, conquering and destroying Goryeo was the politically correct course for the Liao Kingdom. At the same time, the tax pressure had not yet been increased to a level that was unacceptable to the public.

In addition, the Jiaozi trade between Song and Liao brought a large amount of commercial goods to the Liao Kingdom, stabilizing the economy to a certain extent.

Otherwise, not to mention the Han people, the Khitans and Xi people in the North Courtyard would have jumped up long ago.

Now, Goryeo has not been pacified yet, and Yelu Hongji is in a hurry to open up a second battlefield, and it is a second battlefield that requires crossing the sea to attack?

After hearing the news, Xiao Wuna, Liang Ying and others were so scared that they broke out in cold sweats.

He quickly went to Yelu Hongji to persuade him.

Yelu Hongji just sneered when listening to what these ministers said.

He knew in his heart that these ministers were right!

Japan, a small country in the East China Sea, is isolated and trapped on the sea.

It’s just that this marginal land in the world is not even as important as the mountains and forests of Shengnuzhi!

Under normal circumstances, the Japanese would not call themselves the emperor behind closed doors.

Even if he claims to be the Supreme Being of the Universe, the Three Pure Ones and the Buddha Tathagata are still alive.

No one will care!
After all, since the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, there has been no supreme ruler or Khan in the world.

So, for a while, in the former Tang Dynasty, from the Western Regions to Jiaozhi, there were countless people who claimed to be kings and emperors!

Not to mention anything else, the Xia Kingdom established by the Dangxiang people was a country that closed the door and proclaimed itself emperor/Wu Zu.

The Dangxiang people not only had their own reign title, but also their own calendar.

They even established a system, system, writing system, and laws that were completely different from those of the Song and Liao dynasties.

Both Song and Liao countries were well aware of this, but they just pretended not to know.

Therefore, the Japanese closed their doors and followed the example of the Tang Emperor, calling themselves the Emperor.

If it were in the past, even if Yelu Hongji knew about it, he would at most laugh and scold: "Foolish country of Donghai, you don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is!"

But it’s different now!
Da'an Island produces at least a thousand taels of silver a month.

By analogy, how much silver should the entire country of Japan have?
But he is short of money now!

Without silver, it would be extremely difficult to destroy Goryeo.

But as long as you have enough silver, you can go to the Southern Dynasty and buy in large quantities!
He used the Southern Dynasty's commercial goods to reward the three armies, win over the Jurchen and Bohai tribes, and extend favors to the officials and civilians of Goryeo.

So, Yelu Hongji looked at Xiao Wuna, Liang Ying and others and asked: "Even if what you gentlemen said is reasonable...but the powerful ministers in their country, Fujiwara clan, have established the ruler of the country, committed crimes and turned the social order upside down..."

"As the ruler of the world, am I going to turn a blind eye?"

This made Xiao Wuna, Liang Ying and others speechless for a moment.

After all, everyone knows the taboos of the Liao emperor!
The older His Majesty gets, the more he fears and fears powerful ministers being in power, disrupting social order, and even deposing and enthroning the emperor!
Because he really had an underage crown prince!

Because he really experienced the crisis of powerful ministers disrupting the government and stealing the country!

But there is no way!
Xiao Wuna could only bite the bullet and say, "Your Majesty... the people in the country are having a hard time!"

"The soldiers and civilians of the Eighteen Prefectures of Youyan suffered from drought the year before last and last year, and the crops failed..."

"Now the royal army is stationed in Goryeo again..."

"If you cross the sea to attack another country..."

"I am afraid that there will be unrest in the country, and others will take advantage of it!"

Liang Ying and others also gave advice.

Yelu Hongji listened and laughed: "I know what you are worried about..."

"But... there is one thing that the husbands have forgotten..."

Yelu Hongji grinned and said, "Japan is a country where the people are at peace and the military is lax..."

"With just a small army, we can easily capture it!"

"Just like what Xiao Butaye did last year!"

Last year, Xiao Budaya led two to three thousand troops across the sea to pursue the fleeing Goryeo rebels all the way to Japan.

Then it was a killing spree!

When they came back, the Liao emperor and his ministers were shocked!

Because Xiao Budaye and his men not only suffered minor losses - only two or three hundred people were killed.

And most of them fell into the water and died.

But the spoils they brought back were so numerous that they were dazzling.

Not only were there a large amount of wealth, but there were also thousands of women and children.

Moreover, these properties, women and children were all voluntarily sent by the Japanese, in exchange for the withdrawal of their troops!

At that time, the Liao army had considered invading Japan.

But he was suppressed by Yelu Hongji - at that time, his mind was completely on Goryeo, and he didn't care about the small country of Japan at all (the main reason was that he had seen the Japanese women and children brought back, and they really didn't meet his aesthetic standards, they were too short, too thin, and too shriveled. The quality of Japan's goods was also not good, and compared with the commercial goods of the Southern Dynasty, they were simply garbage).

In addition, the Japanese immediately came to the court, presented tribute, spoke humbly, and declared themselves vassals of the Liao Kingdom.

Yelu Hongji's face was satisfied, so he naturally didn't want to cause trouble.

Xiao Wuna and others certainly knew about this matter, but they really didn't want to create any more trouble and take any risks, so they were about to continue persuading.

Yelu Hongji said, "To be honest with you, my lords, Xiao Budaya's army has already reached Japan!"

"Under the leadership of Taira Masamori, the loyal Japanese minister, we are conquering the traitorous Fujiwara clan to rectify the situation and uphold justice!"

"Xiao Budaya sent someone to report yesterday that he had taken over the so-called Chikuzen and Chikugo countries in Japan, and was leading his army to march towards the so-called Feng and Fei countries... Wherever the royal army passed, no one was harmed, and the Japanese people were all well fed and well fed!"

The ministers were stunned.

The fight has already started?

Moreover, he has already conquered two countries?

Xiao Wuna, Liang Ying and others were all amazed.

In their concept, the country is still very big.

However, they don’t know that the so-called country of Japan is not much different from those small countries of hundreds of miles in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Yelu Hongji was also unclear.

But it doesn't stop him from being happy!
"Therefore, I have decided to appoint Xiao Butaye as the Japanese Recruiting Envoy and the Japanese Gold and Silver Prospecting Envoy, and to lead the army to conquer Japan and rectify the situation!"

"In addition, the Japanese loyalist, the descendant of the king of Japan, Taira Masamori, the governor of Iki, was appointed as Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Chikuzen Governor, and Guannei Observation Envoy..."

As he said this, he looked at Wang Shiru, a Hanlin scholar standing beside him and said, "Please ask the scholar to write an edict for me, and then send an envoy across the sea to Japan to confer the title!"

Wang Shiru looked at Xiao Wuna and the others, and finally bowed and said, "I will obey your orders!"

I've already been beaten, what else can I do? I just have to accept it! But...

I hope everything goes well for Xiao Budaye...

Otherwise, if something goes wrong and affects the military...

Xiao Wuna swore that he would skin him alive and hang his head in public to serve as a warning to others!
(End of this chapter)