(Because there are too many comments, the comments on previous chapters cannot be seen. If you want to interact with the author, you can circle the author.)
If it were a normal princess wedding, Li Shen would not participate at all.
It would be nice to have someone give you a backup gift, but Li Shen had seen a TV series where Princess Nanping married Wang Gui's son.
Wang Gui said: "Now the emperor is wise and behaves according to etiquette. I accept the princess's visit not for my own glory, but to show the virtue of the court." He and his wife sat on the table and let the princess bow.
From then on, when a princess gets married, if her parents-in-law are still alive, they must perform maternal rites. If Li Shen were an ordinary person, he would think so.
But this person has different opinions depending on his status. Li Shen is now a royal and a prince.
To tell the truth, Li Shen was not willing to support everyone's equality. I finally feel superior to others, but why should I go back?
Moreover, even future generations will not be able to achieve equality for everyone. There is no era without class.
Since ancient times, princesses have not knelt down when getting married. Wang Gui said it was for virtue, but in fact it was to show how capable he was.
You see, even the princess knelt down for me, so today Li Shen is here to prevent this from happening, otherwise officials will not take the royal family seriously in the future.
In the early Tang Dynasty, marriages were usually held in the afternoon or close to evening, but later in the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to the morning. Li Shen planned to follow the procession to send off the bride.
Li Shen didn't want Wang Guixing to erase his princely status, so that fool Li Tai apprenticed himself to Wang Guixing just to become his disciple. Li Shen believed that asking you to teach Li Tai was a sign of respect for you, as you were a great scholar in the court.
People are selfish, and this has been the case throughout the ages.
If you are an ordinary person, you think that everyone should be equal, why should they have special treatment?
But if you are a wealthy businessman, official, or celebrity, you will not have such thoughts.
So most of us will scold special people when we watch videos every day. Li Shen was also an ordinary person in his previous life and did not have any noble sentiments.
Now that he has finally traveled through time and become a human master, some people want him to become an ordinary person, but Li Shen cannot accept it.
Li Shen came with Li Mengjiang. Li Mengjiang had a good relationship with Princess Nanping, so they came here to send her bride.
Now Li Mengjiang's status in the Princess Palace is definitely rising step by step, because Li Shen is rich and can talk to Li Shimin and the prince.
Sometimes when Li Shen left the palace, he would buy a lot of delicious food and bring it back to Li Mengjiang, and Li Mengjiang would share it with his sisters.
So the princess in the Princess Palace and Li Mengjiang are very good, and Li Mengjiang also knows that he has a good brother.
When you get married in the future, you won’t be bullied. Moreover, Li Shen said more than once that he would save a dowry for Li Mengjiang, which made Li Mengjiang feel happy.
The auspicious time has come, and the newlyweds worship heaven and earth, just as Li Shen expected. Wang Gui started to make trouble. It was Li Xiaogong, King of Hejian, who saw off his bride. Wang Gui was quite reluctant to let her parents-in-law worship the princess, and asked the princess to kneel down and worship her parents-in-law like the common people.
As a member of the royal family, Li Xiaogong spoke first: "After all, the princess is from the royal family and has a noble status. If she kneels down to worship the minister, it will be against the principles of a monarch and a minister. If the feudal countries know, they will not laugh at me for my lack of etiquette in the Tang Dynasty."
Wang Gui said: "The Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette. Why are the etiquettes that common people still know turned upside down in the court? Aren't they afraid of being laughed at by outsiders? Today's monarchs are wise, if the princess starts to kowtow to her parents-in-law, wouldn't it show the virtue of the Tang Dynasty even more? ?" Wang Gui was so eloquent that everyone had nothing to say.
Li Shen saw this scene and couldn't help but fight. So I stood up
"What Wang Shangshu said is wrong. The princess is the king and you are the minister. Now you want to equate the king with the common people. Are you saying that my Li family is not worthy of being the king?
And I don’t think it is a virtue for the king to worship his ministers. This is against the rules and regulations and shows that the ministers are ignorant of etiquette.
The king is the king, and the minister is the minister.
If I preach to a foreign country, my royal family will be a laughing stock. Since ancient times, there has been no principle of king worshiping ministers. I don’t know that Wang Shangshu, as the Minister of Rites, doesn’t even understand this bit of etiquette.
Or maybe Wang Shangshu wanted to show off his status. I want to gain a reputation as someone who is not afraid of the imperial power and bows to the imperial power."
Li Shen's words were sharp and straight to the point, leaving Wang Gui speechless for a moment, but Li Shen was not ready to let him go.
"Wang Shangshu, you are the Minister of Rites, do you really not understand the etiquette of monarchs and ministers?
Throughout the ages, from the Qin Dynasty to the present, have you ever seen a king bow down to the people? You seek many excuses for fame and reputation.
We still want to follow the example of the private sector, so why don’t you follow the private sector and pay taxes? Have you forgotten that you enjoy higher treatment than ordinary people?
If you think you are talented and learned, you will not fail to understand: the king should treat his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers should treat the king with loyalty.
You first advised the king not to worship him, and then asked the king of Wei to worship him as a disciple.
Now you still want the princess to kneel down and worship me? As a minister, you have repeatedly weakened my royal status. Are you so loyal to me?
Or do you think that I, the king, Aye, am not courteous enough to you, the minister? Not worthy of your allegiance, or do you have other motives for weakening the imperial power? "
Every last word Li Shen said was like a knife, slashing at Wang Gui's head. Wang Gui felt that this King Ji wanted his life. If this is confirmed, then everyone must be executed.
"Prince Ji, Your Highness Prince Ji, I have absolutely no intention of doing this. I am loyal to the Tang Dynasty and to Your Majesty. I am loyal to Your Majesty. I... I... I just feel that if we follow the example of the people in kneeling down to worship their parents-in-law, the people will definitely act like the royal family. Set an example. Since ancient times, filial piety has governed the world."
"Well, what you said makes sense. We should imitate the people and set an example for the people. Well, in that case, you are right.
Tomorrow I will report to the court, and Wang Shangshu advises the princes and nobles to follow the example of the people, pay grain and taxes, and cancel the tax-free privileges of the gentry.
Set an example for the people, and let Aye Chuandi newspaper praise Wang Shangshu's righteousness. Uncle Emperor, please continue, today our royal family will set an example for him." Li Shen said and returned to the crowd.
Wang Gui was very frightened. If this matter was really brought up in the court, all the princes and nobles in the country, including the famous families, would hate him to the core.
In less than three days, his official position will be impeached. If Li Shimin adopts it, his whole family will die unknown one day.
These nobles will not reason with him. This is ruining people's wealth.
Li Xiaogong nodded to Li Shen, which means you are still bad. Then he shouted in an awe-inspiring manner: "Princess kneels..." Before he could even say goodbye to the high hall,
"Wait a minute, King Hejian, I think His Highness Prince Ji is right. The king is the king, and the minister is the minister. It was my fault.
Since ancient times, monarchs and ministers are different, and they should not be the same as the common people. Forget this link. "Wang Gui said sweating profusely.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he was also afraid of death. If this thing is really done forcefully, it will offend Li Shimin, and even more terrifyingly, it will offend the noble family. The aristocratic family could dig up all the ancestral graves of his family.
"In that case, let's worship heaven and earth, first to heaven...and second to earth...husband and wife bow to each other." Li Xiaogong also felt that the time was too long.
Not wanting to waste time, he immediately completed the etiquette and sent the bride into the new house. The guests began to sit down, accompanied by their parents-in-law and family members.
As princes, Li Shen and Li Xiaogong sat at the head of the table, while Li Mengjiang and his sisters were naturally accompanied by their female relatives.
