Since the day the prince was born, Kyoto has been immersed in joy.
This kind of celebration will probably last until after the Lantern Festival.
In the days before the New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival, the court has always been closed in previous years, but this year government orders are issued frequently.
First of all, the registration of the prince is naturally a major event related to the livelihood of the people.
Then, the imperial court announced its assistance to Zhao State, helping Zhao State and resisting Qi State.
The official establishment of diplomatic relations with the Wu Kingdom, since then the two countries are equal and mutually beneficial, can be regarded as the third major event.
Zhao Yi's abacus was in vain, and Yang Yanzhou was about to return without success.
"This time, I'm afraid I won't be able to send Brother Li off."
Yang Yanzhou will leave in three days, and Li Yi will stay a few days longer than him.
Li Yi looked at him, shook his head and said, "Isn't it okay to guard your Qi country honestly? You have to make such a fuss..."
Yang Yanzhou smiled and said: "Your Majesty often says that a person's life is only a few short decades, and after it has passed, you can't look back. In this case, you might as well be bold, meet the people you want to see, do what you want to do, don't worry about it." It's useless to walk around in this world."
Why didn't Li Yi realize that Zhao Yi had the potential to be a philosopher, and he was also a chicken soup philosopher.
However, that is his business.
A queen concubine is not qualified to laugh at an emperor concubine, what Zhao Yi wants to do is his freedom.
He nodded and said, "Then I wish him luck..."
Yang Yanzhou nodded, and said: "Since your Majesty ascended the throne, you have worked all day and night, and the dragon's body is ill. After several months of wind and cold, it has not recovered, so I will accept Brother Li's auspicious words..."
Wei Liang left the day after Yang Yanzhou left.
Both Wu State and Qi State have just stabilized their regimes, but the directions of the two countries are completely different.
Zhao Yi wanted to increase national strength through foreign wars, while Yang Liuqing took the path of stabilizing Anbang, which was also the plan Li Yi made for her at the beginning.
"When we left, the people in the country had almost returned their hearts to His Majesty. Some big families in the imperial capital provided great assistance when His Majesty entered the capital. If not for this, we would not have been able to capture the imperial capital so quickly."
Wei Liang said something, shook his head again, and said: "However, after His Majesty ascended the throne, those big clans united and formed a lot of constraints on His Majesty..."
Wu State and Jing State and Qi State are different. When Yang Liuqing rebelled, he used the contradiction between landlords and peasants, clan and gentry, and fundamentally speaking, it was the interests of those powerful families.
Under such a historical background, it is impossible for those big clans that occupy a huge amount of resources to be wiped out. There needs to be a balance between them, and this balance is not so easy to achieve.
Li Yi had received news a few days ago that Ruyi had already gone to Wu Kingdom.
When things happen in Kyoto, they will go back to Ruyi City first, stay for a few days, and then go to Wu Country.
Li Yi nodded and said, "In a few days, I will go to the imperial capital to have a look."
Wei Liang showed joy on his face, and said, "That would be the best."
After Wei Liang left, Li Yi also walked out of the small courtyard, and voices came from the roof.
"Xiaorui, I'm leaving soon, you miss me..."
"Father said, when my younger brother grows up, I will be able to find you..."
"When you grow up, how big do you grow?"
"Oh, soon..."
"One month?"
"At least, at least one year..."
"Ah, it took so long..."
"It's been a long time, but by that time, we will all grow up, why don't you marry me, so that we don't have to separate..."
"OK!"
"What if Uncle Li disagrees?"
"Then, then we'll elope..."
…
Li Yi didn't know that the young master of the Li family had already planned to elope with the eldest princess of the royal family, so he came to the palace after he left the palace.
He and Mingzhu stand in front of a palace.
It was a detached palace enclosed by high outer walls forming an enclosed courtyard.
In fact, there were not many people living in the palace anymore. Li Xuan and the others lived in Furong Garden, the queen mother and concubine also lived in Furong Garden, and the other concubines of the late emperor were also arranged by Li Xuan in other gardens.
The palace has become a cage.
And this palace is a cage within a cage.
In the cage, there will naturally be prisoners.
"Let me out, you rebels, you rebels!"
"Help, save, where is the forbidden army, hurry up and save!"
"Open the door for me, I want to go to court, this court can't do it without me, I can't do it without Jingguo!"
…
This was a voice that Li Yi had almost forgotten.
When the King of Shu was captured, his madness was feigned.
Li Xuan locked him here, and he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking. Every once in a while, he would send some books in to relieve his boredom, but he couldn't step out of this palace.
Except for a small hole at the bottom for delivering meals and things, the gate of this temple has not been opened for a long time.
Li Mingzhu looked at an eunuch in front of him and said, "Open the door."
"Yes!" The eunuch took out the key from his pocket, inserted it into the keyhole, and opened the lock.
Li Yi stepped forward, put one hand on the door of the palace, and pushed it open forcefully.
squeak...
Soon there was a heavy, almost decaying sound.
A man sitting in the front courtyard was disheveled and unkempt, looking like a beggar.
He stared blankly at the opened palace door, with ecstasy on his face, and said with great joy: "Is someone coming to save you? When I get out, I will make you the prime minister!"
He quickly got up from the ground and ran outside.
Halfway through the run, when he saw the figure in front of the door, his footsteps suddenly stopped, with a terrified expression on his face.
As if seeing some man-eating monster, he ran to the rear at a faster speed than when he came, ran into the main hall, and quickly closed the door of the hall.
"Don't come, don't come!"
Inside the palace gate, there was a terrified voice.
Li Yi didn't force it in, although it was very easy for him.
He stood at the gate of the hall for a while, put a jar of wine in front of the gate, and left with Mingzhu.
After an unknown amount of time, the palace door slowly opened.
The king of Shu leaned against the door, picked up the altar of wine, and after a moment of stunnedness, pulled out the cork and poured it vigorously.
The wine poured down his neck, he raised his head and laughed, but tears came out of his eyes.
He slammed the wine jar into pieces and said loudly, "I want to see Li Xuan!"
…
The king of Shu no longer clamored to be emperor, he walked out of the prison-like palace and entered a mausoleum, in which his freedom was no longer restricted.
It was a royal cemetery. After Concubine Cui Gui hanged herself, Li Xuan specially allowed her to be buried there. Except for the empress, noble concubine and concubines who were particularly favored, all the concubines of the emperors of the past were buried there.
And where Li Yi is located is the real imperial tomb.
He brought a large jar of wine, several side dishes, and a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup.
The tremella and lotus seed soup was overheated, and the tremella was boiled, which greatly affected the taste. With Li Yi's cooking skills, such a mistake should not have occurred.
However, the first meal the late emperor invited him to eat tasted like this.
Chang De stood behind him, slightly absent-minded.
There was also a pair of bowls and chopsticks opposite Li Yi, but no one was sitting there.
He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it's been so long since I brought food and drinks to see you. I hope you won't be offended..."
He unpacked the jar of wine and poured the smaller half of the jar on the ground.
"Jingguo is getting better and better, it's all thanks to you..."
"This guy Li Xuan doesn't want to be emperor, and I can't force him. I may not be able to do what I promised you before..."
"Also, I admit that you are very wise, but you really gave birth to a stupid son..."
"But the daughters I gave birth to are all fine..."
…
Li Yi muttered to himself while drinking to himself, and unknowingly drank most of the remaining jar of wine.
He lay down on the table with drunken eyes, and murmured: "No one dares to bring wine here on weekdays. This time you can have a good drink. From now on, I will try my best to visit you once a year..., but don't come here again in your dreams." Kick me."