The emperor went to Dongdu on the 20th night, and stopped court for one day on the 21st, and held a grand ceremony for the 22nd.

There are three types of national and court meetings: major and court meetings, new and court meetings and regular court meetings.

The dynasty meeting was only two days of the New Year and the Winter Solstice, and the specifications were very large: "On the New Year, the emperor was dressed in the Taiji Hall, and the emperor wore a robe and crowned by the palace, displayed the joy of the palace, and held treasure jades and carriages from all dynasties, and prepared yellow commanders. The two queens and officials, the imperial envoys, royal relatives, and other relatives, and the court servants accompanied the throne."

The Winter Solstice ceremonies are similar to the New Year’s Day etiquette, the only difference is that the emperor wears the Heavenly Crown on this day.

The furnishings of the dynasty meeting are also of great level, such as the "March of the Palace" used only on the highest level, that is, many bells are hung in the hall; for example, the five chariots on the chariot they rode on when the emperor entered the hall, the "Huang Weizhan" at the highest level.

The so-called Jiahui Festival is the 22nd day of the birth of March.

The first birthday party was Xuanzong. He named the fifth day of the eighth month as Qianqiu Festival, and later changed it to Tianchang Festival. The emperor followed suit. Suzong set his birthday (the third day of the nineth month) as Tiancheng Diping Festival, and Daizong set the thirteenth day of October as Tianxing Festival...

Actually, because this kind of festival is really annoying and the ministers are not willing to participate, so starting from Daizong, such festivals no longer force the grand ceremony. They usually invite monks and Taoists to recite scriptures and pray for blessings. It is actually rare to hold a grand ceremony on the Jiahui Festival today.

When Shao Shude received the news, he was inspecting the Luoshui River in Yanshi County. This is the Yishui River. The Luoshui River converges, and the canals are also in this river. Therefore, it is very important. The servants were busy installing gates under the command of craftsmen.

"The saint wants to hold a court meeting, so let's do it." Shao Shude waved his hand and said indifferently: "Zhong Qing, the ceremonial guards are not complete, and the face of the court is lost, which is simply unreasonable."

Shao Shude now has a bad view of the emperor and thinks he is too hard to do anything. Thinking of all kinds of incredible behaviors in history, such as after compiling a 100,000 new army, the first thing he did was to cause trouble for Li Keyong and wanted to take back Hedong. Li Maozhen and Wang Xingyu bullied the saint. After Li Keyong defeated him, he was not allowed to completely eliminate Li Maozhen's Fengxiang army. After Keyong withdrew, Li Maozhen, who had recovered, almost broke the court.

He had no idea of ​​his own, and he didn't know which one was his own person or which one was his enemy, he didn't know the priorities, was impatient and irritable, and he was ungrateful, and he was ungrateful, which killed several prime ministers who took the blame for him.

Scare people!

"Your Highness, during the Great Court meeting, all civil and military officials must attend. During the constant dynasty, military officials in Beijing, who have attended four court meetings a month with the fifth rank and above, and seven court meetings a month with the third rank and above." Li Yixian said: "The Jiahui Festival is a major dynasty that must be attended according to the system."

"Um..." Shao Shude pondered for a while and said, "Then let's participate."

After saying that, he looked at Zhao Keyu, the Dushui Superintendent who was following him and said, "The officials in Chang'an have not all followed him. There are some vacancy, so let our people make up for it. Even if someone comes from Chang'an, there is no place for him. The Dushui Superintendent position can be taken as the Dushui Superintendent."

This is actually the magpie's nest. First, we officially appoint some of our own people to important positions and justify the replacement of the original officials. When the time is ripe, we can switch directly and seamlessly, which is convenient and fast.

"Thank you for your kindness." Zhao Keyu was also interesting. He became the water supervisor of the Tang Dynasty, but thanked Shao Shude.

"Do it well, I am very satisfied with the idea you put forward this time." Shao Shude said.

Zhao Keyu had just returned from Tang Deng and excitedly proposed a plan to pass Fangchengkou: repair the ship lock.

It’s not complicated to put it bluntly. The ones that should be dug on the Tangbai River should be dug and stopped when they dig to the water. This section is about a hundred miles, using the ancient Baihe River channel, which is the limit of the two excavations in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. Then, the locks are built here, and the ships are slowly raised by storing water, which takes about twenty meters. Then, they can directly enter the Shitang River in Wanye Corridor to connect to the water system on the western Henan Plain.

The core point is to raise the ship by storing water instead of digging the river channel.

This idea actually came into existence very early. The ship lock, also known as the steep gate, was built during the Xiantong period when the Ling Canal was built to raise the water level so as to facilitate ships to cross mountains and ridges and navigate up and down.

Similar projects are also available abroad.

In 1662, Cardinal Mazaran's successor, Colbert, built the Languedoc Canal for King Louis XIV of France. The purpose of this river was to connect waterways in the inland French region to enter the Mediterranean Sea and facilitate foreign trade. The difficulty of the project was that the canal needed to cross the peak, which was not easy.

Starting from November of that year, the Canal Committee began to make continuous argumentation, and then dug a small canal on the top of another mountain to conduct experiments. It took a long time to do it. It took fifteen years. Tens of thousands of workers worked hard every year and finally built a hundred locks to allow Toulouse to directly connect to the Mediterranean.

The most difficult part of the project is the section from Toulouse to Garon, where the canal rises 206 feet to the top of the mountain, then sails 3 miles on the top of the mountain, and then descends 620 feet to reach the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of difficulty, it is much larger than the entrance of the city. In fact, later generations of South-to-North Water Diversion were too lazy to repair the ship lock, so they directly excavated the entrance of the city to allow the canal to pass through.

The lock of the crossing canal is only part of the difficulty, and another major difficulty is how to store water. That is, after the ship enters the gate, the gate is closed, and you need to release water from above, constantly raise the water level, so that the ship can successfully enter the river section on the top of the mountain. There is no doubt that this requires a lot of water.

The French's method was to build an artificial lake on the top of the mountain and divert water from other places to the lake to store water, while reducing the number of navigation, that is, let ships gather together to pass through the gate, lift it, and release water after passing, so as to minimize water loss.

The method proposed by Zhao Keyu is also the same idea. It is actually not difficult to build a ship lock. The difficult thing is how to store water. This requires on-site inspection to see if this condition is met.

Anyway, this is a long-term project. I spent more time to argue before. Don’t slap my head like Zhao Er. When he digs to Fangchengkou, he finds that the terrain is getting higher and cannot get over. In order to pass the mountain, the French built a total of 26 locks to raise the water level step by step, and then lower it step by step. The cost is very high.

There may not be so many locks at Fangchengkou, but the cost is definitely not small. Shao Shude decided to try it, but it is not now, so he will make an argument first.

After Zhao Keyu left with satisfaction, Li Yanling came again.

"Your Highness, the affairs of the great court meeting..." Li Yanling said with anger and said, "When Prime Minister Zhu Pu heard that I was in charge of the Sinong Temple, he ordered me to prepare the food and food needed by the court meeting. He heard that he would give a banquet and reward all officials."

The Sinong Temple has various warehouses and many gardens and ponds. There are slaves farming land, which has a considerable output. Therefore, it is responsible for the tasks of court meetings and sacrifices: "Where court meetings, sacrifices, offerings to the imperial offices and the common materials of all officials, they will lead the office and the prison to provide for their affairs."

Zhu Pu is right to find the de facto Si Nongqing Li Yanling. But why are they so righteous?

"Your Highness, this dog - this emperor is too unaware of the matter." Li Yanling became more and more angry as he spoke, and said, "I ran in a hurry, I didn't want anything. I was afraid that my life would be lost. He was so good that he actually started to torture. Now I understand how correct his highness was to not want to get involved in the Chang'an incident, alas!"

Shao Shude also had a headache when he heard this. Are he too polite?

Just give the banquet to the emperor. All the sages of the country like to give the banquet. Everyone sat together, ate and drank, shouted long live the mountain, and then took some rewards home.

This system originated from the Taizong period. At that time, the country was inaugurated, with insufficient income and few salaries for officials. Therefore, Taizong often held banquets and invited civil and military officials to the banquet. He rewarded many wealth and property at the banquet, and gave people bonuses in disguise, and everyone was very happy.

Where do you get the money today? I’m talking about giving rewards lightly!

"Shang Lin Ling is looking for a successor?" Shao Shude asked.

"I've found it. Cheng Yi, the second son of Cheng Cheng, the envoy of Caizhou, was originally the Gang Governor in Shaanxi Province. I asked him to come over and serve as the Shanglin Order." Li Yanling replied.

Sinong Temple is a bit similar to the collection of grain storage, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, General Office, Guesthouse and other Chinese families in later generations. It has several large warehouses to manage. At the same time, there are field pasture orchards in the forbidden gardens of the East and West Erdus, and there are also gardens and ponds in the palace city. During court meetings and sacrifices, they have to provide their own grain, meat, fruits and vegetables, and some of the officials' grain and salary, which are also distributed by them.

The Shanglin Bureau is its subordinate agency, mainly managing the agricultural output of the ban gardens of the two capitals for sacrifices. The daily food offered to the emperor by the Shangshi Bureau is also provided by him. In addition, ice is stored in the cellar in winter and used slowly after mid-spring.

"He took Cheng Yi from the Shenduyuan Garden Pond to collect some winter vegetables, breeding geese, ducks, chickens, and pigs, and also provided them as appropriate. The saint held a grand ceremony for the first time, let him follow him." Shao Shude said.

Having said that, I'm sure I feel unhappy.

Shao Shude is not very sure whether the conflict between puppet emperors and powerful ministers in history has been accumulated bit by bit by bit?

At the beginning, the powerful ministers were tolerant, right? In the end, the little emperor was arrogant and the conflicts intensified. I really couldn't bear it anymore?

"As for the order." Li Yanling responded, and then said another thing: "Guangcheng Tang came to report that he wanted to build a warm house and plant fruits and melons in the middle of winter."

Warm houses are actually greenhouse planting in later generations. Wang Jianyou's poem says: "The inner garden is divided into warm soup, and the melons have been put into mid-February."

The essence is to use hot spring water to increase the temperature of the warm house and plant off-season vegetables, fruits and melons. Therefore, fresh fruits and melons are eaten in the palace in mid-February of the lunar calendar.

The emperor's enjoyment is so luxurious! Shao Shude sighed inwardly and said, "It's accurate."

Li Yanling responded and was about to leave, but was stopped by Shao Shude.

"There are also management of each ranch. Let me ask, how many stallions are there?" Shao Shude asked.

"Two thirty-six horses." Li Yanling said as he knew it.

Yinchuan Ranch has been cultivating new horse breeds. Basically, every time a batch is released, the results are not ideal, and they are eliminated immediately, leaving only a few stallions and continuing to be cultivated.

"I came to Dunhuang to report that a Hu merchant traveled east with his sweaty horses, and was robbed by the Gaochang Uighurs. You should make a decision with others to see if there is any other route." Shao Shude said: "In the existing horse herd, the bloodline of good horses is too thin, and it is difficult to cultivate. Please handle it quickly."

"As for the order." Li Yanling responded.

After Lao Li left, Shao Shude did not intend to delay and began to return to Luoyang.

According to the system, the governor of the vassal states could not leave his jurisdiction without hesitation. Therefore, he could be in Lingzhou, Hezhong Prefecture, and Bianzhou. There was no problem, but he could not be in Luoyang.

But Shao Shude was too lazy to care about it. I just went to Luoyang, what could I do?

When they arrived at Jirun Post, Taichang's Gun and Taifu Chen Yishen came together.

"It's another matter of the court meeting?" Shao Shude asked helplessly.

"That's right." Guo Fu replied: "The sage sent the wife of Zhao to please Yan and sent an order to prepare bells and mow them to hang them in Hanyuan Hall. Taizhu, Fenglilang, Xielulang, Le Zheng and others prepared, and summoned hundreds of people from Wen and Wuwulang..."

"The saint also sent the wife of Jin, Yang Ke, to prepare the orders for the preparation of five chariots and carriages, and the horses were so beautiful that they led the drivers to prepare for pre-reservation." Chen Yishen also came up to complain: "Xiao Xiang thought that everything was not easy to do, and all things were not easy to handle, so he advised the saint to keep everything simple. The saint refused, and said that this was the first court meeting after the Dongdu people. He wanted to announce the change of the emperor and amnesty the world, so he wanted to do it more grandly."

"The Wulu belongs to the chariots, and they are all in Taipu Temple, right?" Shao Shude asked.

"It took a year to complete the whole thing." Chen Yishen cried out: "It took a lot of effort. Your Highness, this is for you to ascend the throne."

"If a saint wants to hold a grand ceremony, let's use these chariots tightly with the saint first." Shao Shude waved his hand and said impatiently.

Li Yixian's expression moved and he keenly felt Shao Shude's emotional fluctuations.

"Forget it." Shao Shude took a deep breath and said, "I am also preparing to attend tomorrow's court meeting. Xiao Lu, Er Pei is incompetent, and I can't control this situation. The court meeting, hehe, it's fine. There are always some things that have to be the first time. If you don't learn some lessons, you won't know where the boundaries are."

It was already late March, and he could go to war at any time. Whether it was going south to attack Yang Xingmi or going north to attack Hebei, they were all victories that must be achieved before becoming emperor, and he did not want to be distracted.
Chapter completed!