reborn monarch

Gu Zhen was dressed in an emperor's auspicious attire, and led all the officials to pay homage to their ancestors.

Starting from the Tai | | ancestors, all the way to the first emperor, all the officials have gradually become less solemn from solemn.Fortunately, the tablet of the Ninth Prince did not enter the Taimiao, and the life and death of the late emperor was unknown, so it was enough to look at his tablet to be solemn, not to mention the Ninth Prince who laughed himself to death, if he laughed out loud, he would lose his head.

Not to mention the officials, when Gu Zhen himself worshiped the late emperor, he was a little impatient.

In the previous life, Gu Zhen didn't know the life and whereabouts of the late emperor until the country was destroyed.He doesn't care, and the officials don't care. This kind of emperor who is self-willed enough to run away is really too weird. Unless he has a grudge against the late emperor, everyone will forget him as soon as possible, and they don't bother at all. remember.

As long as the late emperor had the day to meet his ancestors, Gu Zhen and all the officials felt that even if Tai||Tao Zu failed to teach this wicked thing well, Cheng Zu and Wu Zong could beat him to death again together.

Facing the memorial tablet of the late emperor, Gu Zhen should have prayed to the ancestors to bless the Great Chu, wishing for good weather or peace and prosperity for the country and the people.

He thought about it, and it was impossible to ask for these things from the tablet of the late emperor, so he silently read a word to the tablet of the late emperor, "Get lost".

Although there is a ten-day rest for the Lantern Festival, those who should have work still have to do it, let alone the officials of the Ministry of Rites.The emperor Qiyuan couldn't just let it go. He was the leader in the Taimiao worship ancestors, and he was the protagonist in the ceremony of enshrining Zen in Xiuyun Temple.

The day before, Sanbao went through the process on behalf of Emperor Qiyuan, and when he came back, he told them one by one that Gu Zhen had lived in Xiuyun Temple for more than ten years. As soon as Sanbao said, he knew what to do in the Fengchan ceremony, and he was too familiar with it.

The elder of Xiuyun Temple is a smart and understanding person. He specially found a talented person who specializes in this field to design a new style of monk's clothing. It not only retains some of the characteristic patterns, materials and tailoring of the monk's clothing, but also improves it. How to wear it is better. How to change it in a chic way, and then made it with the best fabric allowed to be used in the monk's clothing, blessed by the master, and sent it to the palace respectfully.

Including three sets of full sets of Buddhist monk's clothes worn in the Fengchan ceremony, from the cassock to the inner shirt, one set of black, one set of yellow, and one set of magnolia, among which the set of magnolia color monk clothes, which is as deep as ink, is the most beautiful, so I also made several sets of straight gowns of the same color with the soft material in the palace, smoked sandalwood, and blessed them before the Buddha.

Gu Zhen tried one set at a time. He originally had an aura full of aura, but also had an aura of being out of the world. Even though he was not shaved, he wore a monk's robe, and his whole body was indescribably quiet. Even the Three Treasures couldn't help but say: " Your Majesty looks really good in this dress, but it is really too high-spirited, so you should wear it less, it's so cool and cold, you might be afraid that Your Majesty will catch a cold."

What he said was rough and reasonable, Xie Jiuyuan kept his head down, and couldn't help but echo what Eunuch Sanbao said.

Gu Zhen walked towards him, and said strangely: "The guard Xie kept his head down and didn't even look at it. Why are you following Sanbao?"

For the reason of "soul boy", the elders of Xiuyun Temple deliberately did not prepare monk shoes, saying that the soul boy should walk barefoot like Buddha, so Xie Jiuyuan looked at a pair of thin and beautiful bare feet, which were suddenly covered by the monk's clothes as Gu Zhen walked around. Now, he has come under his nose.

Xie Jiuyuan moved his eyes away from those bare feet, looked up at Gu Zhen, deliberately looked up and down, and then said helplessly, "I see. I still think that Eunuch Sanbao is right."

Gu Zhen raised his eyebrows, ignored him, changed back to his normal clothes, and took Xie Jiuyuan to the imperial study to handle political affairs.

Usually, Gu Zhen is very serious in the imperial study room, doesn't talk often, writes like a dragon, and handles things quickly and attentively. Today, I don't know if there are too few things or what, he didn't read the memorial, let Xie Jiuyuan move it by himself Sit down on the stool, as if to have a heart-to-heart talk between the monarch and his ministers.

"You are Tanhualang in the late emperor's last years. You are from the same family as you. How many people are there in the court?" Gu Zhen asked about Xie Jiuyuan's background.

Xie Jiuyuan answered truthfully: "There are a few people in total. I don't know how many people there are. Ding You, a humble official, has been away from the court for a long time. I don't know. Some people have acquaintances. Wang Ze, who is on the same list, is now the Shaoqing of Dali Temple; Zhang Yuan is now the priest of the Ministry of Rites. Langzhong; Ou Maozhu, is now the right servant of the Ministry of Officials. A few days ago, I followed His Majesty to the court, and I saw several adults from the Imperial Academy who are familiar, and they are probably on the same list."

Gu Zhen nodded. If Ding You hadn't returned to his hometown, Xie Jiuyuan would have been the same as his No. [-] and No. [-] candidates, and his life and official career would have been involved in the battle for succession.

Gu Zhen asked again: "It is said that Jiangnan's examinations are too difficult, what's Xie Weiwei's opinion?"

Xie Jiuyuan reckoned that this topic had something to do with the imperial examinations in early spring, and answered carefully: "There are many talents in the south of the Yangtze River, so it is naturally difficult."

"Ten years of studying hard in the cold window", Gu Zhen sighed, then changed the subject, and asked: "In the Jiangnan imperial examination bribery case in the previous dynasty, the three chief examiners were all imprisoned, and the wronged student fell to the pole and died. | Chaos. Thank you guard, what do you think?"

Xie Jiuyuan frowned and closed his eyes, and said solemnly: "Disregarding the laws of the country, protecting each other for selfishness, and disregarding the feelings of the people, this is really the sound of the previous dynasty before the country fell."

Gu Zhen: "If you are the presiding officer, how should you deal with it?"

Xie Jiuyuan thought for a while, and answered with one word: "Kill!"

Gu Zhen: "If you go to the south of the Yangtze River with the chief examiner to supervise the imperial examination, how should you deal with it?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Participate."

Gu Zhen: "The examiner is a powerful minister and a heavy party?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Participate."

Gu Zhen: "The emperor is so stupid that he listens to the powerful ministers?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Admonition."

Gu Zhen: "Will the king accept the advice?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Death remonstrance."

Gu Zhen: "Then, if the emperor is incompetent, and the powerful ministers form a clique, you are a soft-spoken supervisor, and the supervisor is equipped with Shang Fang's sword, what should you do?"

谢九渊：“杀！”

"Okay." Gu Zhen met Xie Jiuyuan's eyes and asked, "So, what happens after killing?"

He has the air of an emperor, his eyes are light and clear, but his expression is unspeakably fierce. Xie Jiuyuan hesitated for a while, but actually told the truth to Gu Zhen: "Kill in the downtown, express your feelings to the people, and at the same time, plead guilty, Lock yourself back to Beijing."

"Pretty!"

Gu Zhen leaned on the back of the chair, instantly lost his aggressiveness, and smiled, "Aiqing, Jiangnan is good, do you remember Jiangnan now?"

Xie Jiuyuan pulled up his clothes and knelt down, closed his eyes and said frankly: "My minister, the dream belongs to the capital."

Eunuch Sanbao listened to the laughter coming from the imperial study room, and felt at peace in his heart. He felt that after the guard Xie came, the Holy Majesty was much looser than before. smile.

The next day, under the watchful eyes of the common people, a 20-person palanquin draped with Buddhist banners was slowly carried out from the palace. In the palanquin was Gu Zhen, who was wearing a set of yellow Buddhist monk clothes. When the wind blew away the curtain full of Buddhist scriptures, They could see the conspicuous scarlet relic bead chain on his wrist. Many people followed and kowtowed all the way, just to worship Master Fan's relic for the moment when the wind blew the curtain.

Xie Jiuyuan was wearing a specially made Jinwu Guard Yuebai Jifu, riding a horse and following the sedan chair. Behind him were the Jingsu Two Guards led by the commander of Jingwei.

Therefore, Xie Jiuyuan and Gu Zhen shared most of the limelight along the way.

Xie Jiuyuan has sharp eyes and ears, and when he heard some people laughing and saying, "It's better than marrying a bride", he unconsciously thought that he would ride a horse to follow the bride's sedan chair, but the groom should ride a horse to lead the way.When he came back to his senses, he was extremely helpless to himself, so he shook off his miscellaneous thoughts and rode his horse to follow.

Behind him, the old guards and the Jingwei were gossiping.

Jingwei guards the capital, and Suwei guards the palace. They are destined to be influential figures in the capital. As a result, His Majesty casually sealed up the Jinwu Guard, and within a few days, they stole their limelight.

In good conscience, they didn't want to follow His Majesty like Xie Jiuyuan did every day. After all, being with a king is like a tiger, and not only do they have no holidays, they can't go out of the palace a few times, and they can't even drink flowers|wine. Isn't this limelight for nothing?

But they paid attention to Xie Jiuyuan, although most of it was because Xie Jiuyuan stole their limelight, and a small part was because of the sword given to him by the Holy One.

Jingwei and Suwei are mostly passed down from father to son, or the children of aristocratic families came in to make military achievements and familiar faces. It can be said that they are all people who have seen the world. Pulling a Jingwei out will be able to appraise treasures, bet on stones, match horses, and walnuts. This is the confidence of the aristocratic family.

So, Xie Jiuyuan's sword, they all saw that it was a good thing. The strange thing is that after all these days, none of them figured out where it came from, let alone the name of the sword.

They feel challenged in dignity.

So the gamble continued, whoever figured out the origin of Xie Jiuyuan's sword first would win 300 taels of silver.

It can be described as a gamble.

The sedan chair stopped outside the gate of Xiuyun Temple, and the two guards of Jingsu blocked the surrounding people from getting too close.

The ground of Xiuyun Temple has been covered with a pure white felt blanket. Two monks bowed to the sedan chair, walked around from outside the blanket to the front of the sedan chair, and opened the curtain.

Wearing a monk's uniform and hanging a relic, Emperor Qiyuan stepped out of the sedan chair barefoot like an expert outside the world, stepped on a felt blanket, and walked towards the gate of Xiuyun Temple step by step.

The elder stood at the gate of Xiuyun Temple, clasped his palms to Emperor Qiyuan, and chanted the Buddha's name, "Namo Amitabha".

Gu Zhen stopped, clasped the relic bead chain with his thumb, joined his palms together, and echoed the Buddha's chant, "Namo Amitabha".

His voice was clear and cold, like the voice of Yunwailun.

Some people bowed their heads and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty the Soul Boy! Long live Your Majesty!"

Someone raised his head, and the dumbfounded people also knelt down on the ground and shouted.

The shouts of all the people shocked the hearts of the people. Even the unscrupulous two guards of Beijing and Su got off their horses and knelt down. Xie Jiuyuan also got off his horses, lifted his clothes and knelt down, and followed the shouts of the people in a low voice.

Gu Zhen seemed to have sensed something, stopped, turned around and looked around, and saw Xie Jiuyuan who was kneeling and worshiping him.

The people all thought he was looking at them, and their shouts became louder.

There is no reason for the king to salute the people, so Gu Zhen nodded slightly to express his heart. After receiving such "courtesy", the people became more and more crazy.

When Gu Zhen entered Xiuyun Temple, the people still knelt on the ground and refused to leave, they wanted to wait here for His Majesty Lingtong to come out.

In the temple, Gu Zhen changed into a black Buddhist monk's uniform, and under the protection of several eminent monks, he enshrined in meditation. Xiuyun Temple's nine-nine-eighty-one bell rang throughout the capital, announcing that His Majesty Lingtong had officially received the recognition and protection of the Buddha. More and more people came to kneel outside Xiuyun Temple. Except for the area around Xiuyun Temple, the rest of the capital was like an empty city.

When he left the temple, Gu Zhen was wearing the magnolia-colored monk uniform that was as deep as ink, which made his white skin and black eyes dazzling like light, and he was so handsome that he didn't look like a real person. No one shouted slogans, everyone just knelt quietly and reverently on the side of the road where the sedan chair passed.

Such a scene of silence and frenzy was not expected even by the elders of Xiuyun Temple who initiated it, and the officials of the DPRK and China and even the two guards of Beijing and Suzhou were terrified by such a scene. They believed in nothing and feared nothing at first. People, in the face of such pious power, the guilty and timid will naturally lose their breath.

After this incident, the incense of Xiuyun Temple flourished, and more importantly, the people's worship of Emperor Qiyuan spread from the capital to the outside.

It was night, Xie Jiuyuan couldn't help but asked: "Your Majesty, I have a question, I don't know if I should ask it or not."

Gu Zhen: "Say."

Xie Jiuyuan: "Your Majesty, do you believe in Buddhism?"

Gu Zhen unconsciously covered his heart, and after a long silence, he replied: "I respect Buddha, but I don't believe in Buddha. If I want to believe, then I only believe in the one who helped me and left me this red mark." A god or a Buddha, no matter whether he is a god or a Buddha, a demon or a ghost."

Unknowingly hearing a trace of bewilderment from Gu Zhen's answer, Xie Jiuyuan softened his voice and replied, "I understand."

Gu Zhen looked in his direction and asked, "Do you believe it?"

Xie Jiuyuan replied decisively: "I don't believe it. I believe in the right way of heaven, I don't believe that there are immortals in the sky, and I don't believe that the heaven is the master."

Gu Zhen laughed softly, and then asked: "How many people are there in Aiqing's family?"

Xie Jiuyuan replied: "My father died when I was young, and there are mother and younger brother at home."

Gu Zhen: "With such a Tanhua elder brother, Aiqing's younger brother must also be a pillar of talent, but has he ever taken the exam?"

Xie Jiuyuan replied: "The family rules are strict, you can end at sixteen, and you only took the provincial examination last year."

Gu Zhen: "How many?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "First name."

Gu Zhen: "That's true. Can I take the national exam in spring?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "It is said that it will be postponed this year, and I want to travel for a few days to increase my knowledge."

Gu Zhen: "Smart and assertive. What's your name?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Xie Guang, I haven't taken the character yet, but I'm the eleventh in the clan, so I'll be called Xie Shishi."

Gu Zhen: "Eleventh, but it's cute. Where's Aiqing?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Ninth."

Gu Zhen: "Is there a name like Eleven?"

Xie Jiuyuan: "Yes, Jiulang."

"Kuro."

Gu Zhen seemed to be calling him, or just repeating what he said, Xie Jiuyuan was uncertain and helpless.

With a smile, Gu Zhen called him again: "Jiulang. I'm calling you."

Xie Jiuyuan opened his mouth, but in the end he just answered "Yes" blankly.

Gu Zhen was in a happy mood, so he said: "Don't make noise, I'm going to sleep."

I don't know who it was who asked how many people were in the family just now.

Ten days of Xiumu passed in a blink of an eye, and when he went to court again, all the officials avoided Gu Zhen's eyes and did not dare to meet his gaze.

The elders of Xiuyun Temple started preparations at some point, presenting petitions with fingerprints of faithful men and women from all over the country, saying that it is His Majesty's kindness to the soul boy, and the Buddha's mercy. Your Majesty prays for the great Chu.

No objection.

Looking at the civil and military men who dare not speak, Emperor Qi Yuan pursed his lips and said, "Sure."