Chapter 422 Daming Palace
"My dear, what do you think of my Daming Palace?" Li Chengqian asked.
"It is majestic and magnificent!" Liu Renyuan said.
"This Daming Palace is the largest palace in my Tang Dynasty, larger than the Western Palace. The Daming Palace is a huge project. In order to build this palace, it cost a lot and took several years to complete. Naturally, it is magnificent." Li Chengqian smiled and took Liu Renyuan out of the Hanyuan Hall.
When the Hanyuan Hall was built, the high ground of Longshouyuan was fully utilized, making the Hanyuan Hall look down from a high place, majestic and magnificent, and the vision is extremely broad.
Standing in front of the Hanyuan Hall, you can overlook the entire Chang'an City and take in everything.
Hanyuan Hall is the main hall of Daming Palace, and is mainly used for grand court meetings. Only here can the emperor's majesty and the royal family's style be demonstrated.
In addition to grand court meetings, the emperor's title, changing the reign and granting amnesty are also held in this venue.
Liu Renyuan looked at the majestic Daming Palace and was speechless for a long time. It was really too majestic. He was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.
"Looking up, it looks like a dragon's head and spreading its wings like a phoenix. Looking back, it looks like a treetop and the end of the clouds. Looking up, the jade throne seems to be in the sky. Looking down from the railing, the Nanshan Mountain seems to be in the palm of your hand."
Li Chengqian stood in front of the towering palace and the majestic hall, with his feet on the most magnificent palace of the Tang Dynasty, and recited a few lines of a poem written by Li Hua, a poet during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
As an emperor, he plagiarized other people's poems without hesitation, without blushing or beating his heart. He was really shameless!
Of course, Li Chengqian was not afraid that the other party would come to him to argue. As an emperor, he didn't need to be afraid of a poet.
Moreover, Li Hua is not even a tadpole now, so what can plagiarize a few sentences from Hanyuandianfu written by Li Hua do?
Li Chengqian is a man of conscience. He only copied a few sentences and read them out. In the future, Li Hua will still have the opportunity to write a complete Hanyuandianfu, and his reputation will not be damaged.
Compared with those who traveled to ancient times and directly plagiarized the entire poem and song as their own, Li Chengqian is very conscientious.
"Good! Wonderful! Your Majesty's sentences are really wonderful!" Liu Renyuan applauded after hearing it.
"My dear, what do you think of the good and wonderful sentences I just wrote?" Li Chengqian turned around and asked with a smile.
Liu Renyuan's mouth twitched. He was a rough warrior, how could he understand these poems and songs? He just thought they sounded good, and he was flattering the emperor. How could he know what was good about them?
"Your Majesty! I am just a military general. I know nine out of ten tricks about music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and songs, but I don't know one trick. I just think they sound good, but as for what is good about them, I really don't know. Your Majesty, why don't you ask Shangguan Yi? They are intellectuals, and they will definitely know." Liu Renyuan said.
"Then, Shangguan, do you know what is good about these sentences? And what is wonderful about them?" Li Chengqian asked.
"Then I will dare to guess one or two." Shangguan Yi saluted. The emperor asked him to speak, so he dared not not speak.
"You can speak freely! I want to hear your profound opinions." Li Chengqian said.
"Then I am so embarrassed! The first sentence, 'When you approach the Hanyuan Hall and look up, you can see a dragon's head and phoenix's wings spread', means that when you approach the Hanyuan Hall and look up at it, you can see a dragon's tail road on each side that winds upwards, and the Qifeng Pavilion that looks like a phoenix with its wings spread out."
"Your Majesty is using this to compare the buildings on both sides of the Hanyuan Hall to be high and spread out, like a flying dragon with its head held high and a phoenix with its wings spread out. The subtlety of it is..." Shangguan Yi said a lot of words.
In addition to explaining the meaning and the subtlety of these sentences, he also did not forget to flatter Li Chengqian.
This was very useful to Li Chengqian, and the best proof of this was that he couldn't stop laughing.
If there was a camera, you would have found that the great emperor was almost laughing because of the flattery of his ministers.
"Good! Shangguan Aiqing's explanation was on point, and he hit the nail on the head. He said the essence of the few sentences I just chanted. Very good! Very good! You are worthy of being a talented man of the Tang Dynasty." Li Chengqian praised after coming to his senses. "
The main thing is that your majesty's sentences are so exquisite that people will feel like they are lingering on the beams for three days after listening to them. It is really endless. I suggest that your majesty write a poem for Hanyuan Hall." Shangguan Yi took the opportunity to suggest that Li Chengqian write a poem.
"Forget it, I just said a few sentences out of inspiration!" Li Chengqian rubbed his hands and said.
He doesn't have that ability. These few sentences are plagiarized from someone else's poem about Hanyuan Hall. If he plagiarized the whole poem, it would be too shameless. He is the emperor, how could he do such a thing.
Rejected by Li Chengqian, Shangguan Yi didn't say anything else. After all, he was just a minister and couldn't influence the emperor. Even if he said anything, he couldn't influence him.
"Okay! Let's not talk about this!" Li Chengqian said.
This Hanyuan Hall embodies the supremacy of imperial power and the solemnity and sacredness of the empire, but it is a bit difficult for ministers to go to court.
Li Chengqian, Liu Renyuan and Shangguan Yi walked in the Daming Palace and visited the palaces of the Daming Palace. The previous dynasty was built in imitation of the Taiji Palace.
Directly north of Hanyuan Hall is Xuanzheng Hall, where the emperor usually holds court and hears government affairs.
On the left and right of Xuanzheng Hall are Zhongshu, Menxia, Hongwenguan, Shiguan, Yushitai and other government offices, which are convenient for ministers to work after the meeting. In front of
Xuanzheng Hall are three parallel Xuanzheng Gates, and to the north of Xuanzheng Hall is Zichen Hall, which is the inner court among the three courts.
It is the place where the emperor usually holds court and sees government affairs. The ministers here meet the emperor, which is called entering the pavilion.
"Your Majesty! After I returned to Chang'an, I heard that the barbarian chieftain Wu Junjie of Liuzhou rebelled against the Tang Dynasty."
"Tubbo and Tuyuhun are fighting, and each sent envoys to Chang'an to write a letter to argue right and wrong and ask for help from the Tang Dynasty." Liu Renyuan said.
Li Chengqian stopped and looked back at Liu Renyuan. Liu Renyuan bowed hurriedly and did not dare to look up and look at Li Chengqian. In his heart, he was trying to figure out what the emperor was thinking.
Did he say something inappropriate that would make the emperor unhappy?
Liu Renyuan secretly raised his head and took a peek, then hurriedly lowered his head, fearing that he would be discovered by the emperor. His heart was beating fast, but he really wanted to know what the emperor was thinking.
Li Chengqian continued to walk forward, turned a corner, and headed towards the Purple Palace.
Liu Renyuan looked up at the limping figure in front of him, raised his head with a puzzled look, and looked at Shangguan Yi on the side, wanting to ask him something.
Shangguan Yi shook his head and said nothing more, and hurriedly followed the emperor's footsteps. Liu Renyuan sighed and followed the emperor to the Purple Palace.