Chapter 279: Exploring the Imperial Mausoleum
The moon was at its zenith when Zhao Yushu finally walked out of the Chen residence. The ancestor worship ceremony would begin on the second day of next month, which was an auspicious day calculated by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory. Before that, Mr. Chen would probably gather the ten people on the final list for one or two rounds of training to work out the process and techniques for the Tang Dynasty's annual debate competition.
But I may not have time to chat with you guys about all this. When the time comes and there is a chance, I will directly use Assassin and Shadow Step to take down the prince as soon as we meet. There is no point in arguing.
After some inquiries, it turned out that Prime Minister Di, who came up with this compromise plan, was not on either side. Old Di was a capable person just like his cousin in the previous life, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time. If he were in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he would definitely be a famous prime minister, but now he can only be a paperhanger, putting out fires everywhere and trying to keep this broken ship from falling apart, and he even has to consider such trivial matters as the royal face.
Several princes were caught off guard by the prince, but the forces under their control were no pushovers and were determined to make a big move during the ancestor worship ceremony. The best outcome was to get the prince out, and the worst outcome was to use the name of ancestor worship to get the masters of each family out.
No one could afford to let a group of first, second, and third rank officials do such a dirty thing as swearing in front of other people's ancestors, so they chose two teams of young and stupid boys to do the quarrel.
Zhao Yushu chuckled twice. If he didn't know that Prime Minister Di was neutral, he would have thought that this was an opportunity deliberately arranged for him by the academy.
After wandering back to Yong'anfang, Zhao Yushu knocked on the door honestly, explained the situation to the Fangzheng and returned to the courtyard. He pretended that no one was at home. The wolf girl naturally would not turn on the lights, so when Zhao Yushu entered the room, he saw a pair of green eyes staring at him.
It really is a wolf.
"How was the chat?"
"It's almost done. On the second day of next month, the prince will go to the imperial mausoleum to worship his ancestors. I have a great chance to get close to him." Zhao Yushu took out the map: "Why is there no mark on where the imperial mausoleum is?"
The wolf girl rolled her eyes at him and said, "Of course the imperial mausoleum is outside the city, and which imperial mausoleum are you looking for?"
"Which one?" Zhao Yushu was a little confused. Could there be so many?
"If I remember correctly, we should go to the mausoleum of Taizu first, then the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong, and finally the mausoleum of the late emperor. The late emperor, that is, the previous emperor, was imprisoned in the Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains. His tomb is probably not repaired yet, so we have to go to his grandfather's mausoleum. But his grandfather was not the emperor, and the last emperor, that is, Second Senior Sister's father, was killed by them. It's hard to say who will be sacrificed in the end."
Zhao Yushu felt as if a group of golden stars were shining before his eyes. He wanted to go to the supermarket at the entrance of the community in his previous life, throw in a big coin, and then get on the car and shake the wheel to understand what father means and what grandfather means.
Then the wolf girl hit him hard again: "By the way, these mausoleums are more than a hundred miles apart. I'm afraid I can only go to one place a day."
This is a problem. Lao Zhao originally wanted to check out the terrain in advance so that if the little wolf girl couldn't hold on, she could run away by herself when necessary. Who would have thought that there might be more than one battlefield.
But you only have one chance.
"It's okay. You can go and see them all. At least you must go to the mausoleums of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong. Besides, I am also an inner viewer after all. What are you afraid of?"
After listening to Zhao Yushu's concerns, the wolf girl gave direct suggestions and was quite disdainful of Zhao Yushu's concerns.
Of course I have to go. Zhao Yushu never fights an unprepared battle.
The academy fights often because they are indifferent and strong enough. No matter how you target them, they can always hold on. But except for Wei You, everyone in the academy has a strong inner world. How can a mere fifth-level person like me have the confidence to play the game of waiting for the enemy to tire themselves out?
"I'm going to visit Emperor Taizu's mausoleum tomorrow." Zhao Yushu asked the wolf girl about the location of the imperial mausoleum and declined her company.
I was just going to explore the environment and try to see if I could find a way to escape in an extreme situation. I wasn't going to fight.
I wanted to set off right away, but the walls of Chang'an were monitored by the same formation as the Eastern Capital. Once I climbed over the wall, an alarm would be sounded. Perhaps I could slip away with the Shadow Step, but it would be disadvantageous to alert people for nothing.
The next morning, Zhao Yushu followed the crowd leaving the city, and rode out of the city gate on horseback the moment Guanghua Gate opened.
Outside Guanghua Gate were the ruins of a capital of a great dynasty in the past, but now only a few ruins remain.
Taizu's mausoleum is located due northeast of Chang'an, more than a hundred miles away in a straight line. Now that I have reached the fifth level of heaven, I cannot run as fast as I can on horseback.
So Zhao Yushu handed the rented horse directly to the nearest post station outside the city, found a secluded place, started off in a flash, and the whole person turned into a residual shadow and rushed straight to the Xianling Mausoleum.
Unlike the history of the Tang Dynasty in the previous life, the Gaozu of this world is not abstract, but a real heroic ruler. After he raised his army, he overthrew the previous dynasty with great force. Unfortunately, he fell seriously ill and died within a few years of becoming emperor.
Later, Emperor Taizong followed in his father's footsteps and wiped out the opposition forces in the Central Plains. He also turned the defensive strategy with foreign tribes into an offensive strategy, and then set a precedent for the emperors of the Tang Dynasty to focus on internal affairs from generation to generation. In the eyes of later generations, these two were extremely remarkable ancestors.
Zhao Yushu now suspects that A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is also related to the legendary Emperor Taizong.
Let's do it in order. Today we will first explore Taizu's mausoleum, and tomorrow we will go to meet Taizong. By then, we will have figured out the route. The mountains stretching for hundreds of miles are enough to provide sufficient cover for ourselves. If it really doesn't work, we will go back to our old business as the Beimang lineage and hide in your ancestral mausoleum. Perfect.
Not long after running, Zhao Yushu was forced to stop. In this era, other than the official road, other roads could not be considered roads at all. It was even more impossible to walk through deep mountains and old forests, so Lao Zhao kept running along the official road.
If they were all ordinary people, it would be fine. At most, they would feel a blur in their eyes and something passed by. But now, a team appeared in front of the official road.
An envoy from the Liao Kingdom congratulating the new Tang emperor on his accession to the throne.
There must be monks in the Liao delegation, and they brought a lot of gifts. If they were accidentally discovered, it would be a lot of trouble.
Zhao Yushu chose to temporarily take shelter in the nearby mountains and forests, and then he found that someone else was also taking shelter in the mountains and forests.
The Liao delegation split into several people at the fork in the road and turned towards this side without any warning. If they had not quickly found a hidden place to stop, Zhao Yushu would have suspected that his identity had been discovered.
They looked like they were waiting for someone.
Who are you waiting for?
It is often said in novels of the previous life that the most important thing in cultivating immortals is not aptitude, not inheritance from a teacher, but opportunity.
You will encounter adventures wherever you go. Others jump off a cliff and delete their accounts to start over, but you can buy the cheats for jumping off a cliff for free. You are commonly known as the son of the plane and are blessed with good luck.
Only the protagonist can enjoy this kind of treatment.
Zhao Yushu believed that he was the protagonist today.
There are secrets behind anything that goes against common sense, and if you master these secrets, you may have the upper hand over your enemy.
Zhao Yushu imitated the black deer and slowly squatted among the lush branches and leaves in the forest, completely restraining his breath.
Let me see what you Liao people are trying to do.