Liang Chongru's words have already revealed his own plans and the plans of the Kamakura shogunate. If you want to sum it up, it is six words "If you can't beat it, you can kneel and lick it".

Although the first stop of Hojo and Liang Chongru's visit to China was the Southern Song Dynasty, they only came to contact and study, and they would not conclude any "anti-heaven Taoist international agreement" with the Southern Song Dynasty. After visiting the Southern Song Dynasty, they had to go straight to Yanjing to kneel and lick the Ming Emperor Chen Dexing...... The brains of these samurai are not stupid, and they know that the key to the victory or defeat of the current domestic turmoil in Japan is the attitude of the Ming Empire!

If the Ming Dynasty resolutely supported the Heiankyo side, Kamakura would not be able to resist. If Daming's support for Heiankyo was limited, then Kamakura still had a chance.

Therefore, at the same time that Hojo arrived in the Great Song Dynasty in real time, the Kamakura shogunate was selecting a noble-born, beautiful-looking, and well-informed young woman from among the imperial family to prepare to send her to study at the Heavenly Dao Academy in Yenching...... Chen Dexing is waiting for a pile of love poems!

The attitude of the Kamakura shogunate also gave Liang Chongru a lot of inspiration. These Japanese samurai, who usually look like they are dancing with their teeth and claws, can actually bow down at the feet of their invincible strong enemies without hesitation.

So, why can't you, a great Confucian, follow suit?

It seems that among the people who are officials in the Ming Dynasty today, the number of Confucian scholars is not small, right? Not to mention others, Chen Huaiqing, the biological father of Emperor Chen Dexing of the Ming Dynasty, is a Confucian student who is a high school jinshi in the same subject as himself!

During this time, the Ming Dynasty established official offices in various parts of the north and recruited officials, and I don't know how many Confucian students in the north found jobs.

The Confucian scholars in the north can quickly find their place in the Ming Empire, so the Confucian scholars and doctors of the Southern Dynasty can't follow suit?

Now Jiangnan is clearly difficult to defend. The Confucian scholars and doctors of the Southern Dynasty were really strong enough to the point of martyrdom? Liang Chongru won't believe it. He himself is one of the Southern Confucians......

Liang Chongru said this, and there was no need for Liao Yingzhong to be tense anymore.

Half an hour later. Liao Yingzhong replied lightly: "It's still too early to talk about this matter, the Great Song Dynasty still has half of the country, and the Zhao family still has an army of 300,000." ”

Liang Chongru smiled: "Taishi Jia and Brother Qunyu are both loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, and they are favored by the official family, if they easily descend to the Ming Dynasty and become the ministers of the two masters, I am afraid that they will leave a bad reputation in the history of the Qing Dynasty, right?" However, Liang had long been dismissed from his official position by the official family, and the Zhao family had severed the grace of the monarch and ministers, and now he is free. It may be possible to travel between the north and the south. Mediation from one or two? ”

These words are to provoke the power of Jia Nidao. Otherwise, why would he go back and forth between the north and the south and mediate between them? Without Jia Yidao's authorization, what can he talk about with Chen Dexing? Even if Chen Dexing has a lot of money, regardless of the various tricks that Liang Chongru made to him that day, he can still give him an official and a half-position, but how big an official can he be? Liang Chongru is now in his early forties, is he going to be a sesame official for Beiming?

If there was Jia Yidao's authorization, the situation would be very different. He, Liang Chongru, was the key figure in recruiting Jiangnan for Chen Dexing -- although there were many honest people among the Jiangnan scholars, they were willing to martyr Zhao and Song Jiangshan. It's really rare. Most of them would kneel down in front of the iron hooves of the Ming Dynasty, and now they are putting on a posture of resistance, just to bargain.

Liao Yingzhong's face was solemn. Almost word for word, he asked, "Yifu, what are you going to say to Chen Dexing?" ”

Liang Chongru smiled faintly: "Naturally, it is to protect the pure land of Zhao Song!" ”

"Zhao Song Pure Land?" Liao Yingzhong raised her eyebrows, "Calling the minister Nagong?" ”

The Zhao family has already done this once in history. Declared a vassal to the Jurchen Dajin Kingdom. Now there is no problem in replacing the master with Da Ming.

"It's a tribute!"

"Chen Dexingken?" Liao Yingzhong asked.

Of course Chen Dexing agreed. It's just that the Zhao family is to be kicked away from Jiangnan, and the king of the Great Song Dynasty will be replaced by Zhao Lin'er......

Of course. Liang Chongru did not know this condition. He just saw that Chen Dexing asked Li Yanguo to continue to stay in Shandong as the king of Tang, and felt that it was possible for Zhao Song to follow this precedent. If the Zhao family can be preserved, then the Jiangnan scholar will have steps to go down, and he Liang Chongru will also be able to gain a reputation through the ages, and he can also get a real official position - from the Zhao family or from the Chen family.

"Liang tried his best to talk!" Liang Chongru said, "If you want to come, you can always protect a piece of land for the Zhao family." ”

"Is it enough to have a letter from the Grand Master?" Liao Yingzhong had a calm face, "Today's Pingzhang military and state affairs are Jiang Guxin!" ”

Liang Chongru smiled, "Let's make peace with war...... Moving the flood capital is to abandon the two Zhejiang, lose the two Zhejiang, the terrain of Jiangnan West Road is dangerous, how long can it hold on? Jiang Guxin's purpose of delaying time is probably also to seek peace, right? ”

These words fully exposed the true face of the so-called War of Resistance in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was just to seek peace. The Zhao family wants to keep a piece of territory, the Jiangnan scholars want to keep their net worth and privileges, and the Confucian scholars who don't have much wealth also want to kneel and lick the steps of the new dynasty.

Although Zhao Song can't beat Chen Ming, Chen Ming's territory is not rich, and now Jiangnan is engaged in a sea ban, which will definitely further weaken Chen Dexing's financial resources. In this case, a quick fix is the best policy!

In order to win early, Chen Dexing may not be willing to give in, right?

"Good!" Liao Yingzhong nodded heavily, "Yifu, come with me to see the Taishi tomorrow." ”

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"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The day after the Song official family left Lin'an in a bleak wind and rain, that is, the first day of the seventh month of the Jiazi year of the Ming Dynasty.

The sound of cheering long live resounded in Yanjing City.

The rain has ended, and Yanjing City has been deliberately cleaned and dressed up. Especially around the Zhaoming Palace and the Tiandao Palace, all the buildings have been painted. The bluestone slabs on the street have all been turned over, and a layer of fine sand has been paved under the stone slabs, and the whole road seems to be newly built.

The renovation of the Zhaoming Palace was also completed before the last rain, and the Imperial Palace, from the outside, seems to have been restored to its former grandeur. It's just that within this appearance, only three or four tenths of the houses that can really be renovated can live in people. Even these houses are mostly empty.

The Tiandao Palace on the side of Zhaoming Palace is newly built, and the style is a bit like a Taoist temple, which is divided into three parts. Close to Zhaoming Palace, and Zhaoming Palace is connected to the Ming Palace, that is, Chen Dexing's residence in Tiandao Palace. The chief Heavenly Dao envoy Mo Ying Niang and her student Xiao Ai also live here, and this place is like the dormitory of the Heavenly Dao Palace.

On the left side of the Ming King Hall is the Heavenly Dao Palace, which is where the Heavenly Dao envoys hold meetings, and the Heavenly Daoist Divisions also have their own office rooms in the Heavenly Dao Palace. It is equivalent to the administrative center of the Celestial Taoist religion.

On the right side of the Ming Palace, there is the most magnificent and splendid Taiyi Hall built in the three halls, and there is a huge square in front of the Taiyi Palace, which is also a part of the Taiyi Palace. The Taiyi Hall is the place where the Heavenly Taoist Sect holds religious activities, including preaching, sacrifices, religious ceremonies, and of course, enthronement ceremonies!

Chen Dexing takes Tiandaoism as the state religion, and Tiandaoism is a monotheistic religion, and it respects Taiyi alone, so naturally there is no ritual of sacrificing heaven and earth. The enthronement ceremony and various religious ceremonies in the future can be handled in the Tiandao Palace next door to Zhaoming Palace, which is much more convenient and faster.

Chen Dexing's Son of Heaven ceremonial guard is also very simple, not inherited from the Tang and Song dynasties, but started anew, following the principle of simplicity, solemnity and majesty. There were brigades of steel-armored cavalry and steel-armored guards to open the way, and they also fired a salute - not firecrackers, but genuine three-inch bronze cannons, loaded with H medicine and empty. But the earth is shaking, which is enough to shock people's hearts.

In addition, the steel armored samurai of the brigade, the armor on their bodies, and the weapons in their hands, all glowed with a dazzling light in the sun.

This scene really made the princes and foreign envoys who watched the ceremony, as well as the representatives of the gentlemen and gentry of the Ming provinces, all hold their breath. Seeing Chen Dexing dressed in steel armor, riding on a horse, and coming out of Zhaoming Palace escorted by a group of steel armored cavalry, a burst of cheers broke out in all directions: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Chen Dexing smiled slightly and bowed his head slightly. Such a scene, it is false to say that it is not exciting - this is about to ascend the throne and become the emperor!

Although his treatment as an emperor seems to have shrunk a little. The number of harem beauties is very small, only a few people. The daily diet is also simple, just the standard of ordinary rich people. I am also plagued by all kinds of annoying things all day long.

But this feeling of breaking new ground, above hundreds of millions of people, and controlling everything alone, is really intoxicating!

In front of the Taiyi Palace, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, the representatives of the envoys who came to watch the ceremony, the members of the Ming Consultative Assembly (elected by the parliaments of the eleven provinces and two prefectures, a total of 218 people), the Taoists of the Tiandao Sect, the teachers and students of the Tiandao Academy, and the teachers and students of the Army and Navy Academy were all lined up. Seeing Chen Dexing's horses approaching, they all knelt on one knee.

Chen Dexing dismounted at the main entrance of the Taiyi Palace, and Li Cuixian, who followed all the way, also dismounted.

"Greetings to the saints!"

The ministers cheered in unison.

Chen Dexing took a few steps forward, and saw Prime Minister Huang Zhishen, the army secretary Ren Yijiang, the navy secretary tall, the advisory council presiding officer Zhao Fu and the chief heavenly envoy Mo Yingniang, all kneeling on one knee closest to the door to greet Chen Dexing.

"Zhu Qing is flat!" Chen Dexing said loudly.

Everyone stood up one after another, and there was no thanks—it was not a grace to stand with Emperor Lao Tzu in the midst of Chen Ming, and there was no need to thank him.

"Saint, the minister leads the way." Mo Yingniang, who was dressed in a white Taoist uniform, stepped forward in a few steps, bowed down at Chen Dexing, and then turned around and walked towards the Taiyi Palace. Chen Dexing also strode to follow, but the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, including Li Cuixian, did not follow.

The Taiyi Hall of Nuoda was also empty. In addition to the world's largest tablet of Taiyi God and thousands of neatly placed futons, it seems to be Chen Dexing and Mo Yingniang. According to the regulations in the "Chen Li", the king must pray and worship before the throne of Taiyi before ascending the throne, and only one heavenly envoy can be present. No one else is allowed to watch.

After the prayer is completed, the heavenly envoy will personally put the royal robe or royal robe on the king, and also put on the crown for the king, and then the ceremony is completed, and the king will be considered to have ascended the throne. (To be continued......)