first-class champion

Slices of knives are rising and falling sharply, and now all the knives are still unrolled. Every Tang swordsman here has the physical strength of a bull. Like harvesting wheat, reaping human lives recklessly and joyfully.

The war is over, and this palace coup is over. Duan Mingyu's last chess piece played a perfect role. This army was lent by Duan Mingyu to Yang Fugong during the Battle of Shouchun. The soldiers under his command only obey Duan Mingyu, Yang Fugong generally does not Will intervene in this army, at this last moment, no one thought that the famous Tang Dao formation would become a powerful bargaining chip for Ding Ding.

"Your Majesty," Yang Fugong knelt in front of Li Xuan, shouting tremblingly.

"Yang Aiqing, you and I are a king and a minister, are you following my last will?" Li Xuan's eyes were blood red, his face was black, the poison was too deep, and it was difficult for the gods to save his life, "Since I ascended the throne, I am ashamed of my ancestors and my father. Now that the prince is young, I want to go back to Chang'an, and pass it on to my seventh younger brother. Song Wentong will temporarily lead the army in Qizhou, and Wentong, "

"The last general is here," Song Wentong said with nails all over his body, bowing his head and respectfully listening to the order.

"You have made great achievements this time, and Li Changfu has already been awarded the head. I will make you the Jiedu Envoy of Longyou and give you the name Li Maozhen. I hope that your family will not be the second Li Changfu..."

"At the end of the day, Xiao will die in the Tang Dynasty, and Xiao will die in Sheji,"

At the last moment of his life, Li Xuan showed strong vitality. Although Li Xuan was unconscious on the way from Qizhou to Chang'an, Li Xuan woke up when the seven princes greeted him at Weiqiao outside Chang'an city. Come.

"Brother Huang," Li Jie, the seventh prince, couldn't help crying when he saw Li Xuan's bony appearance. Although Brother Huang was a mess in political affairs, he was still a brother of flesh and blood. At this moment, the two brothers held each other's hand tightly.

"Seventh brother, the burden of being a brother will be entrusted to you, brother..." Li Xuan seemed to have a thousand words to say, but he didn't speak in one breath, and died suddenly.

After three days, the new emperor ascended the throne.

There is a vast expanse of whiteness over the mourning hall, but the Golden Luan Hall has returned to its glorious appearance. The royal family is not comparable to ordinary people's homes. Family affairs are also state affairs. The new emperor's enthronement is a big day for the whole country to celebrate. A trace of bad luck came.

The enthronement hall is extremely grand. From the inner court, the outer court, to Niumen and Yujie, all the mourning sheds have been removed from the white silk and replaced with colored silk. They are decorated with colorful flowers. Only the mourning hall still wears filial piety and wears white clothes. Palace servants and servants wearing white belts are also temporarily restrained in the mourning hall, and are not allowed to move around during the ceremony.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor, and senior ministers all entered the palace one by one in sequence, and paid homage to the palace. Amid the sound of the mountain shouting long live, Li Jie carefully placed his butt on the emperor's throne, thinking I finally got more solid.

Today, all eyes are on him. He is the only protagonist. His every move, every word and deed is in accordance with the will of God. The feeling of the ants under their feet is really ecstasy.

After paying homage to the new emperor, Jiang Xuanhui, Cui Yin, Kong Wei, Zhang Jun, Du Rangneng and other important officials of the court are leading Zhongshu, Menxia, ​​Privy Council, First Academy, Six Departments, and Jiuqing to invite Your Majesty to change the year name.

Following the old rule, the reign name will not be changed in the year when the former emperor passed away, and the new emperor will propose a new reign title on the first day of the first month of the next year. It is said that it will be in the shadows for another year, and it will not be possible to carry out drastic reforms, so it does not care about the old rituals. Under his instruction, the three ministers led all the officials to ask for the year name, and Li Jie, who had already prepared, pretended to be After a while, the year name was changed to "Longji".

Immediately, Li Jie changed his name again.

His real name was Li Jie, and the Seventh Prince secretly invited a famous physicist in the capital to draw up a new name for himself, the single name Ye. From now on, Li Jie will be called Li Ye.

The Tang Dynasty rejuvenated the country with fire and virtue. This word Ye has a sun in Huazhong, which is in line with the fortune of the Tang Dynasty. In his opinion, it is auspicious. Although the theory of fate and geomantic omen is a bit false, but for Li Ye who is eager to consolidate the political power, anyone who can write poems is auspicious. Now he doesn't tire of bothering about the things that make a lot of money, and he is good at it.

After setting up the year and name, the whole world will be amnesty, and the new policy will be promulgated.

At the same time, the Chunwei Imperial Examination was in full swing. Li Ye decreed that the number of candidates for this subject, Chunwei, would be expanded. Hundreds or even thousands of people, and it was stipulated that from then on, they would follow this example. This move naturally won the enthusiastic support of scholars and their families who had thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge and only wanted to become an official.

In the imperial examination, the Jinshi of the same subject and rank call each other the same year, call the chief examiner the master, master or benefactor, and call themselves disciples. In this way, a very special teacher-student relationship is established between the new Jinshi and the chief examiner. New scholars often regard their grades as a kind of kindness from the examiners and are grateful to them, so the imperial examinations have become a channel for the examiners to form cliques for personal gain and establish and cultivate their own power. an example.

In view of this, Li Ye transferred the power to decide whether candidates can be admitted to his own hands, thus forming the third level of the imperial examination: the imperial examination, the emperor became the final chief examiner and the candidate for all new scholars. Enmen, all the new Jinshi have become the emperor's students, the disciples of the emperor, and the only object of their gratitude is the emperor. In this way, the emperor firmly grasped the power of selecting scholars for the imperial examination in his own hands.

Li Ye's massive expansion of the number of candidates for scholars has added a lot of fresh blood to the ranks of officials. These Jinshi will all serve in the government in the future. This is equivalent to suddenly mastering a huge team of reserve officials who are loyal to him. The skill is very clever, and it is Duan Mingyu and Kong Wei who will be appointed as the new prime minister who offer advice.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ye rewarded all the ministers wantonly.

Of course, the generals who are on expeditions all have rewards, and the Chinese and military in the court are no exception. Kong Wei, Zhang Jun, Du Rangneng and others are promoted to ranks. His grandchildren and nephews are officials.

Duan Mingyu has also been promoted, from a third-class prince to a first-class prince, King Jing was changed to King Song, and concurrently served as the envoy of soldiers and horses from all over the world, and the prince Shaobao.