The Twenty-Fifth Section: The Grand Ceremony of the Tang Emperor's Ascension to the Throne

  Last week when sending the contract, I heard from the signing editor that today, which is Tuesday, is the day to put up the signing label. It's three updates today, thank you for your support.

  Also, this is the last 2,000-word chapter, and future updates will start from 3,000 words.

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  Li Yuanxing wished a stone would fall from the sky and knock himself unconscious at this moment.

  Or one of those halberd-wielding guardsmen who lost his grip and had the halberd smash into his own head.

  Yesterday, Li Yuanxing spent the whole day learning about etiquette. The grand etiquette of the Tang Dynasty was absolutely more complicated than what was written in the books of the cabinet masters.

  Today, the sun still didn't know where it was hiding and sleeping, but those palace people called themselves awake from bed. To know that yesterday's etiquette study had already gone into the deep night, standing under the starry sky, Li Yuanxing really wanted a bed.

  In front of the great hall, except for Li Yuanxing leaning against a pillar and dozing off, everyone, including those surrounding the princes, were excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. After learning about etiquette, Li Yuanxing could see that two princes who were even more noble than himself were personally moving flower pots.

  Even if the time of ascension was not well prepared, this grand ceremony is still worthy of reverence for all eternity.

  At last, the old man who claimed to be the Minister of Rites stood in the front row, shouting loudly as he read something. Li Yuanxing didn't understand a single sentence and instead felt even sleepier.

  "Wǔ Láng!" A king beside him poked Li Yuanxing with his finger.

  "Not so fast!" Li Yuanxing was about to turn around, but was stopped by the other party. The king said in a low voice: "A certain, Li Xiaogong!"

  Li Yuanxing thought for a moment and nodded: "Eldest brother?"

  Within three days, avoid the Taiyuan Wang clan, Qinghe Cui clan and Fanyang Lu clan. You owe me a favor as an older brother! After saying this, Li Xiaogong's head lifted up again, looking in the direction of the grand ceremony, his facial expression making Li Yuanxing wonder if he had just spoken or not.

  Just as Li Yuanxing was about to ask again, a large hand suddenly grabbed his arm.

  Just now when the two were whispering to each other, Li Er had already started walking towards the high platform. He happened to walk right in front of Li Yuanxing and stretched out his hand to grab Li Yuanxing's arm.

  Li Er was a martial arts expert, with a pair of strong arms that were as powerful as a bear's. Before Li Yuanxing could react, he was dragged away.

  Li Er's action shocked everyone, even the few generals who knew Li Yuan Xing's identity and the two gentlemen Fang and Du were stunned, but they did not expect that Li Shi Min would actually pull Li Yuan Xing to worship heaven and earth together.

  "Besides this imperial edict, there is one more!" Li Yuan spoke up at this time: "My son, Yuan Xing, is a heaven-given child, and is appointed as the hereditary King of Qin!" After Li Yuan finished speaking, an old eunuch took out the imperial edict and read it aloud in that complicated and difficult-to-understand language. Li Yuan Xing roughly knew that this was the imperial edict appointing him as king.

  What happened next, Li Yuanxing didn't remember at all, completely bewildered, one was stimulated and the other was tired.

  The grand ceremony lasted until afternoon, and even after Li Yuanxing returned to the Qin Wang Fu, he was still in a daze.

  Li Yuan and Li Shimin saw Li Yuanxiang's muddled appearance for a long time, thinking that Li Yuanxiang was clever and pretending to be confused. Because Li Yuanxiang was sealed as the King of Qin, this matter would have an even greater impact than Li Er's ascension to the throne. Not only would Chang'an City experience a great earthquake, but the entire Tang Dynasty would as well.

  Due to the sudden rise of the Great Tang's Qin Wang.

  The entire Tang Dynasty, anyone with a bit of status, doesn't everyone understand what this title of Qin Wang represents?

  Li Yuanxing was confused, in fact it was because he was too tired and annoyed. He couldn't understand those sacrificial texts at all, and what he represented as the King of Qin, Li Yuanxing hadn't even thought about it.

  "Your Highness, Your Highness!" The old wolf whispered beside him.

  Li Yuanxing is now the King of Qin, living in Li Shimin's Qin Wangfu. As Li Er said, not even the plaque needs to be changed. It's just a change of personnel, and the old wolf doesn't dare to shout too loudly, only constantly whispering.

  Finally, Li Yuanxing reacted: "Old Wolf, have you eaten?"

  "This!" The old wolf was stunned for a moment, then said: "Your Highness, Minister of the Imperial Secretariat has arrived!"

  "He didn't go to pay respects to the emperor, what is he doing here?" Li Yuanxing asked bluntly. The old wolf acted as if he hadn't heard anything at all and just stood by listening to whether Li Yuanxing saw him or not.

  Fang Xuanling is very famous and a very good person. Can't miss him.

  After seeing Fang Xuanling, Li Yuanxing had a very bad idea in his heart, because Fang Xuanling's face was extremely poor. If it were placed in the TV series of later generations, such an expression would represent death!

  "Your Highness!" Fang Xuanling bowed deeply.

  Li Yuanxing quickly reached out to support him: "It's better for you to call me Wulang, what troubles do you have, just say it."

  "There is some trouble, Your Highness must make some sacrifices for the Tang Dynasty!" Fang Xuanling's expression became increasingly serious, and Li Yuanxing's heart sank. He thought to himself that being the King of Qin was not easy after all. Pulling on Fang Xuanling's hand: "Whatever it is, just say it, I'll frown for a moment and it won't be me, Li Yuanxing!"

  "Yes! Your Highness is righteous!" Fang Xuanling bowed again.

  Just as Li Yuanxing had mentally prepared himself for some terrible news, Fang Xuanling said: "The Emperor thinks that the King of Qin is already twenty-two years old and should take a wife."

  "Don't sacrifice for marriage!" Li Yuanxing was somewhat puzzled.

  "The title of King of Qin is noble, and to avoid complaints from the aristocratic families that the imperial family is unfair, the sage decided to let Your Highness marry one main wife and four concubines! Seven surnames, one family marries one, of course, the main wife can be chosen by Your Highness personally, but only among the three families of Qinghe Cui, Fanyang Lu, and Taiyuan Wang. That is to say, these three families must be wives, and the remaining four families are concubines!" Fang Xuanling finished speaking, kneeling with a serious face.

  Li Yuanxing cried!

  Not because of sadness, but because of joy!

  When I was young, I saw Wei Xiaobao marry seven wives and enjoy the blessings of all people. Li Yuanxing, who is still alive today, has not yet married a wife, nor does he have a formal girlfriend. The blessing of all people can only be thought about in dreams.

  Now back in the Tang Dynasty, with little contribution, he acknowledged an older brother.

  But this brother is really too good, gave himself the most noble title of Qin Wang, and once again gave himself seven wives in the seven major families. Heaven and earth, my life as Li Yuanxing has no regrets anymore.

  Seeing Li Yuanxing cry, Fang Xuanling stood up and bid farewell, he had infinite sympathy for Li Yuanxing.

  The old wolf saw Li Yuanxing cry, and he also cried. The old wolf remembered hearing the guard of the Qin Wangfu say that when the sage first met the King of Qin, the King of Qin wept for his elder brother who had died before getting married in heaven. And the King of Qin was already 22 years old and still unmarried.

  It seems that these tears are for his elder brother at this moment.