Chapter 428: The dynasty is the chess piece, the people are the pieces, playing against the heaven
The queen had a miscarriage, which surprised everyone present.
"Quick, go get the doctor!"
Li Shimin shouted loudly.
Li Daoxuan pointed his finger and five-colored divine light swept across the queen, balancing the five energies in her chest. The effect was immediate, and Empress Changsun quickly calmed down and no longer looked painful.
"Taichong, what's going on with the Queen?"
Li Shimin asked hurriedly.
Li Daoxuan frowned slightly, stared at the queen's bulging belly, hesitated for a moment, and ultimately did not open his third eye to look.
After all, the other party is the queen, and doing this is too blasphemous.
"Your Majesty, the Queen may have been thinking too much just now, which caused the imbalance of the five qi. An ordinary person would just suffer from insomnia and dreaminess, but the Queen is pregnant, so it is inevitable that it will affect the fetal qi."
Anger hurts the liver, joy hurts the heart, worry hurts the lungs, thinking hurts the spleen, and fear hurts the kidneys. Just now, when Empress Changsun talked about the woman who was forced to marry, she was so sad that she even had a miscarriage. It can be seen that she really felt sorry and had compassion in her heart.
However, Li Daoxuan still had a trace of doubt in his heart, as the queen's pregnancy did not seem to be very stable.
According to the time calculation, the child she was carrying in her belly was the next emperor after Li Shimin, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi. Li Zhi in history was not in good health and died of illness in his fifties. Could this be related to the appearance of the fetus when the queen was pregnant?
"Empress, do things like today happen often?"
Li Daoxuan couldn't help but ask.
Empress Changsun answered truthfully: "It was fine before, but in the past two months, I have had abdominal pain from time to time. It will go away after a while."
After a pause, she continued, "Changle once gave me a protective amulet, saying it was given by a real person. I carried it with me and it healed me for a while, but unfortunately it recurred frequently afterwards."
Little Changle shook Li Daoxuan's sleeves, raised her little face and pleaded, "Sir, can you give my mother a few more amulets?"
Li Daoxuan did not hesitate and immediately took out ten amulets and gave them to Empress Changsun.
This was a false alarm, so Li Shimin summoned the imperial physician to take the empress's pulse. What the imperial physician said was basically the same as what Li Daoxuan said, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The banquet continued.
After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the atmosphere gradually became lively.
In order to please his precious daughter, Li Shimin actually went on stage himself and danced the famous "The Qin King's Battle Music". He was wearing golden armor, looked handsome and heroic, and his dance was heroic and imposing.
It seems that there is an artistic element in the blood of the Li Tang royal family. "The Qin King's Battle Music" was originally a military song in the early Tang Dynasty. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he personally choreographed this music into a dance, and incorporated the tunes of Qiuci into the original melody, making it gentle and pleasant to listen to, high-spirited and very appealing.
With the accompaniment of a large palace orchestra, the sound of the drums was deafening and could be heard for hundreds of miles. It was majestic and moving, making people's emotions surge and their blood boil.
Gazing at little Changle's bright eyes, Li Shimin smiled after the dance.
Now you should know how powerful your father is. Don't always talk about "sir, sir". You used to be the jewel in my father's hand, but now you almost forget that you have a father.
"Do you like the dance performed by Father?"
Changle nodded and said, "I like it!"
Li Shimin laughed heartily , then peeled an orange and gave it to her, saying with a smile: "This is a tangerine tribute from Nanzhao. It is sweet and delicious. Come and have a taste."
The Nanzhao Kingdom was located south of the Yunling Mountains. It had a hot and humid climate with abundant rainfall. The tangerines grown there were juicy, crispy, fragrant and had an excellent taste. Many of them were tributed to the Tang Dynasty palace every year.
However, the tangerines of Nanzhao Kingdom have not yet matured this year, and there are not many left in the palace now. They are all the royal stock. In order to keep them fresh for a long time, they even use Taoist magic to seal them.
Changle took it with joy, tasted a slice and found it was indeed sweet, so she immediately ran to Li Daoxuan and handed him the orange as if offering a treasure.
"Sir, sir, please try it, it's really sweet!"
Li Shimin's mouth twitched and his face was full of black lines.
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The banquet continued. Since it was a family banquet, many royal relatives were more relaxed. Some even imitated Li Shimin and took part in the banquet themselves, playing the pipa, singing a cappella, or performing a graceful and passionate dance.
There were even some unmarried princesses who were 28 years old and boldly invited Li Daoxuan to dance with them.
It is hard to imagine that this scene is an ancient imperial family banquet. It can only be said that the Tang Dynasty was indeed much more open than later generations and did not have so many complicated rules.
Li Daoxuan naturally declined the kindness of those princesses. He drank his wine quietly, watching the scene in front of him silently, and suddenly felt a little emotional in his heart.
Who could have imagined that more than a hundred years later, in the imperial palace, an emperor who led the Tang Dynasty to the Kaiyuan Prosperity would be completely obsessed with art and neglect state affairs?
When Li Longji was intoxicated in the opera world and lost himself in the light and unrestrained dance of Hu Xuan dance, an empire that was once brilliant in art finally began to decline.
Sit and watch the clouds rise and watch the flowers fall.
Li Daoxuan was in the middle of a situation, but he always had an aura of transcendence. He suddenly felt that perhaps the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty over the past 300 years was his own practice.
"Sir, sir!"
Little Changle knelt before him without knowing when, holding a cup of tea in both hands, and said respectfully: "Sir, please accept Changle as your disciple!"
Everyone around was looking at this scene with a smile .
Li Daoxuan stretched out his hand to take the cup of tea for his apprenticeship, but paused slightly in the air.
He had a vague premonition in his heart that after drinking this cup of tea, he would have an irreconcilable karmic connection with Li Tang. This game of chess would take three hundred years, and he could not yet tell who would win or lose.
He couldn't even be completely sure who was actually playing against him.
Do you really want to take on this heavy burden? Wouldn't it be better to be a carefree immortal?
To be honest, Li Daoxuan was a little hesitant at this moment, but he quickly took the cup of tea and took a sip.
There are many reasons, such as the kindness deep in one's heart, the fantasy of slaying demons and monsters when one was a child, the densely packed tombstones in Yingling Mausoleum, and the eyes that were brighter than the stars when Lou Xiaoyun saw "Erlang Zhenjun" before his soul dissipated.
But the most important thing is that he wants to play this big game.
Use the dynasty as the chessboard and the people as the chess pieces. Make your moves without regrets. Play against the heaven.
As Li Daoxuan drank the tea of apprenticeship.
There was deep joy in little Changle's eyes, like two crescent moons.
Li Shimin and Empress Changsun looked at each other and could see smiles in each other's eyes.
The princesses looked at Changle with eyes full of envy. Who in Chang'an had not heard of Li Daoxuan's name?
Being able to worship Li Daoxuan as a teacher is equivalent to directly jumping out of the constraints and cage of the royal family and possessing an extremely unique status. With a strong backing, even the emperor may not be able to decide Changle's fate at will.
"Adhere to the Dao and show benevolence, Quanzhen will restore peace. Changle, since you have entered my Dao sect, you should have a Dao name. From now on, you will be my, Li Daoxuan's, first disciple, the tenth generation disciple of Longhu Mountain, Hejia."
