The travel of the Son of Heaven has always been extremely grand. Although this is just a simple emperor and queen out of the palace, go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to listen to the Buddha's recitation, but the required etiquette and pomp, is also quite cumbersome and grand, although not as grand as the annual Son of Heaven sacrifice to the heavens, but this time out of the palace is also clean water splashing the street, blocking the road and closing the street.

Zongzheng Temple has always been a pedigree for the royal family, clan relatives, and relatives, guarding the imperial family mausoleum and so on.

And because Li Shimin once said: "Lao Tzu is the ancestor of the imperial family", Lao Tzu is the ancestor of the Li family, Taoism is the state religion of the Tang Dynasty, and the Taoist priests and monks have always been managed by Zongzheng Temple.

And today is also the busiest time for Zongzheng Temple, the Taichang Temple, which has been in charge of ceremonies in the Zongzong Temple since the beginning of the Yin period, the Weiwei Temple that is in charge of the honor guard and the tent, and the Taifu Temple that is in charge of the chariot and horse are busy in the royal family.

Naturally, the palace was also brightly lit early, and the attendants, guards, left and right Qianniu guards, palace maids, and eunuchs all began to get up and run back and forth in the palace for today's two protagonists.

"Liantie, you go...... Forget it, I'm afraid he won't see him if you go, he'll listen to you, you send someone over, urge the prince, don't let him be late. In the past few years, all the people in the East Palace have been accustomed to him, and because of his temperament, today is not more than usual, urging a little. Wu Mei sat on a chair, in front of a huge mirror, the beauty in the mirror looked at the palace maid helping her hair, and said with some concern.

Lian Tie, who was respectfully serving on the side, immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he would not let him go, if he went to urge, he was afraid that he would be beaten out by the sleepy-eyed prince.

So he hurriedly found a palace maid who was usually favored by the prince from among the palace maids around, and motioned her to rush to the East Palace to urge the prince.

"You are smart-minded, and you know how to send a palace maid who is favored in front of the prince, but it's okay, so that the leather monkey won't really get angry." Wu Mei looked at the departing palace maid from the mirror in front of her and said.

It's no wonder that Wu Mei, as the master of the harem, is so concerned about the prince's affairs, she knows better than anyone that whenever the royal family has any major ceremonial activities, in the entire palace, there is no one more idle than him.

And the most annoying thing about this kind of thing is him. It is the spring ploughing every year, starting from the age of four, to now has experienced seven spring ploughing, and the skin monkey has six times on the day of spring ploughing, all have a headache, brain fever or diarrhea.

So since he was named the crown prince, he has participated in this spring ploughing once, and as for other royal ceremonies, the skin monkey can run and run, and he can hide if he can, and he can't hide to deal with a scene.

On the other side, the prince was being served by Bai Lu and Xiaoxue to bathe and change clothes, and someone with sleepy eyes stood there and staggered, letting Bai Lu and Xiaoxue fiddle.

Bai Chun looked at the arrival of the palace maid, smiled slightly, pointed to the inside and said: "You go back and tell the queen, the prince will wait for His Majesty and the queen at Chengtianmen on time, no, he is bathing and changing clothes now." ”

"Yes, there's Miss Laobai." After the palace maid saluted timidly, she hurriedly ran back.

After Li Hong was waited for by Bai Lu and Xiaoxue, he ran out with long hair: "Did the queen mother send someone to urge just now?" ”

"Yes, the queen can't rest assured, so she sent someone to urge you." Bai Chun replied with a smile.

Li Hong yawned and sat down on the chair in front of Bai Chun, looked at the unclear sky outside, and said helplessly: "Don't tie your hair too tightly, your scalp hurts." ”

"It's not proper, today's matter, but the Ministry of Rites and Zongzheng Temple presided, I heard that there are also people following the Yushitai, if you are like this, the Ministry of Rites and the Yushitai will have to trouble you again." Bai Chun smiled playfully, stroked Li Hong's long black hair, sniffed it and said.

"It's really unlucky in the past two days, I was cheated by Xu Jingzong's old bastard yesterday, and today I have to stay with the Ministry of Rites and Yushitai who have never dealt with each other for a day, alas...... It's a miserable life. Li Hong let Bai Chun tie his hair and complained.

These three provinces, six departments, nine temples and five supervisors, as well as the Yushitai, and Li Hong are the most upset about the Ministry of Rites and the Yushitai.

Needless to say, every day every month, every day, every year, if you don't impeach the prince a few times, you always feel that every day of the year is not finished and incomplete, as if something is missing.

And Li Hong and the Ministry of Rites have always been unpleasant to anyone, and Dai Zhide has been even more inseparable from Li Hong since he moved to the Ministry of Rites.

The Ministry of Rites has always been in charge of the imperial examination and learning matters, so in Li Hong's unauthorized reform of the Chongwen Pavilion, including the reform of the Guozijian and Hongwen Pavilion, it is natural that he has formed a lot of bonds with Dai Zhide.

In addition, the Ministry of Rites is also in charge of guest ceremonies, as well as foreign or foreign affairs, and Li Hong has always been a coercive policy towards the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, Baekje or the countries of the Western Regions, and has never given a good face.

This is incompatible with the moralization policy that Dai Zhide has always admired, so as long as Dai Zhide and Li Hong meet, they will pinch each other without a few words.

Yesterday, after Li Hong was named the head of the household department, some officials joked with Dai Zhide after the next court: "Dai Shangshu, Your Majesty, is it not fun to watch you two pinch in private, so you will be brought to the court, so that you can be pinched to him openly?" ”

"Dai Shangshu, you are in your fifties, what do you say you are talking about with a child? Isn't this a haven't you taken the Guozijian and Hongwenguan under the knife? Besides, Yang Sijian is not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry. ”

Dai Zhide naturally didn't care about these jokes, his old face darkened, and he said, "The old man is not afraid that he is the prince." ”

As long as he thinks of students being educated, not learning the ancient books of the sages, but fiddling with those messy things, he feels that he has a responsibility to defend the next generation of students in the Tang Dynasty and defend the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty.

Although there are many jokes among the court officials, everyone is still looking forward to how the two high-ranking and powerful Shangshu will fight in the court.

Thinking about the old and the young in the court, each insisting on each other's words, and arguing with each other, they suddenly made them look forward to it.

"You just don't have to say a few words, so why bother, this Guozijian and Hongwen Pavilion, isn't Your Majesty still doing what you want?" Bai Chun said while helping him tie his hair.

"Alas, that's different, Dai Zhide now gives me the feeling of being a bit like Wei Zheng, old-fashioned." Li Hong couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of Dai Zhide.

"Don't move, your hair is just done." Bai Chun reminded softly: "Then you won't always quarrel with him, some time ago, every day when the two of you quarreled in front of the Guozi Prison, a large number of people could come to see, and now it is something that everyone knows about." ”

"Forget it, don't talk about it, I'll be honest today, just don't give him a handle. By the way, who is going to the Imperial Observatory? Don't tell me it's Wang Yifang! ”

Li Hong finished the crown, the bright yellow prince's costume was worn on his body, the dragon-shaped jade pendant on his waist was shining in the light, and the whole person looked much more energetic and handsome than usual.

Of course, except for the slight evil smile at the corner of his mouth, as if it was a sign, it was still hanging on his lips, even if Bai Chun saw it at the moment, he had a kind of idea of whether this guy was stabbing Lou Zi again, and it was no wonder that every time the queen saw his evil smile, she couldn't help but want to beat him.

"The hour is almost up, wait at the gate of Chengtian, this royal standard etiquette is really fatal." Li Hong muttered dissatisfiedly, Xia Solstice and Xiaohan, who were already waiting at the door, were already guarding there.

The eastern skyline was slightly lit up with fish belly white, and the prince's chariot had already stopped at the door before the emperor and the empress came out, and the relevant personnel of the Ministry of Rites and Zongzheng Temple were also waiting in line at this moment.

Dai Zhide and Zongzheng Siqing were waiting in the palace, Li Hong heard Bai Chun's signal, and no one from the Yushitai and the Ministry of Rites was there, so he immediately got out of the carriage and jumped out of the car.

The entire royal travel team, compared with the royal grand sacrifice to the sky and other activities, is still much simpler, but in Li Hong's eyes, this is already a ceremony that makes him feel a headache.

For him, every time he participates in this kind of activity, he has an urge to be possessed by gods and ghosts, coupled with his strange identity of the original nine and ten lives, he is originally atheistic, and for some reason his heart has become a little awe-inspiring.

On both sides of the Chengtian Gate, Qianniu Wei wearing bright light armor stood on both sides, the horizontal knife on his waist was unsheathed, and the guard of honor in his hand reflected the cold light.

Suddenly, the sound of ritual music was remembered in Chengtianmen, and first six quotations and twelve large sailfish ran out, and the county orders of the two counties of Chang'an were mixed in. Then the Qing tour team held bows and crossbows and horse lances, and cleared the road for the last time in front, and the banners of wind, rain, thunder, lightning, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth led the Ministry of Rites, Zongzheng Temple, and other temples and ministers to open the way in front.

Omitting the ritual of leading the twelve, and then the emperor's dragon chariot and the queen's phoenix chariot came out, and the surrounding area was naturally indispensable to the strict protection of Qianniuwei. Behind the two carriages, there are naturally still lile and various fan screens, small group fans, peacock fans, square fans and other wing screens, which are dazzling.

The royal majestic guard of honor stopped at the gate of Chengtian for a while, and Dai Zhide, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, ran to the front, and turned his tongue in a long way.

At this time, it was also Li Hong who hurriedly marched from the side of the carriage, accompanied by officials at all levels of the prince's mansion, to the emperor's dragon chariot to salute and bow down, followed by the queen's phoenix, one by one, kneeling and standing below, waiting for the Son of Heaven's chariot to start moving, before returning to his own chariot and following closely.

Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu, Shangguan Yi and the three young masters of the Prince's Mansion followed the prince to ask for peace, and after the salute, Li Hong looked at Xu Jingzong next to him and whispered: "Why did you run here?" Stay away from me today, I'll be angry when I see you, you know why! ”

Wu Mei looked through the window and watched Li Hong and Xu Jingzong bite their ears, knowing that this kid definitely didn't take this trip to Ci'en Temple seriously, but seeing that there was no yawning and dying, she was still somewhat comforted in her heart.