Chapter 336 Oh My God, Maya

Separation from life and death are things that everyone must experience in life.

Li Xiang thought that after going through so much, he would be able to get used to it, but now he finds that he still can't deal with it normally.

On February 21st of the first year of Yonghui, Duke of Song Xiao Yu died suddenly at home at the age of 85.

He was also treated with great honor after his death. At the recommendation of Li Xiang, the court gave Xiao Yu the posthumous title of "Wenzhen".

For example, Wei Zheng was posthumously named "Wenzhen".

Of course, whether in history or here, Wei Zheng’s posthumous title is Wenzhen.

Even without the added bonus of Li Chengqian and Li Xiang, Old Li still showed preference for Wei Zheng.

As for posthumous titles, the civil one is called Wenzhen and the military one is called Zhongwu.

With the emergence of standardized posthumous titles, there are clear regulations on the qualifications for obtaining a posthumous title, the procedure for determining a posthumous title, and the standards for granting a posthumous title.

There were only four ministers in the Tang Dynasty who were given the posthumous title of "Wenzhen", which shows how precious it is to keep the posthumous title.

The four people are Wei Zheng, Lu Xiangxian, Song Jing and Zhang Shuo.

Among them, without exception, all of them had served as prime minister.

This shows that to obtain the posthumous title of "Wenzhen", holding the position of prime minister is a basic condition, and this remained unchanged in later dynasties.

Because Song Renzong's name was Zhao Zhen, in order to avoid taboo, "Wenzhen" was changed to "Wenzheng".

During the Tang Dynasty, Wenzhen, later known as Wenzheng, did not yet have the concept of "ultimate" in the eyes of later civil officials.

When it was proposed that Xia Song should be given the posthumous title of Wenzheng in the Song Dynasty, Sima Guang first proposed it: "Wenzheng is the most beautiful posthumous title, nothing can be better."

Sima Guang believed that literature is a combination of morality and knowledge, which is exactly what Jinggong holds and is the pinnacle of literati's morality.

Therefore, since the Song Dynasty, the highest posthumous title for civil officials has been "Wenzheng", and this custom has continued until the Qing Dynasty.

There is also a very interesting anecdote. It is said that when Li Dongyang, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, was dying, the cabinet minister Yang Yiqing went to visit him and said, "The court has already decided to give you the posthumous title of Wenzheng."

After hearing this, Li Dongyang jumped up in shock despite his dying illness and insisted on kowtow to Yang Yiqing.

Because Li and Yang had a close personal relationship, someone wrote a poem to satirize them: "Wen Zheng has always been posthumously named King Fan, but now it is difficult for him to be called Wen Zheng. When a strong wind blows down a phoenix tree, there will always be people who will judge its merits and demerits."

As for those who are both talented in literature and martial arts and are very handsome, they can be given a posthumous title with "忠" as the first character, and the characters that can be used to match it include 文, 武, 定, 烈, 簡, 苏, 毅, 敬, etc.

The highest level of posthumous title, "Zhongwu", is generally given to people who have stabilized the country and pacified the country.

For example, Zhuge Liang, Wang Meng, Yuchi Gong, Guo Ziyi, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, etc., all have extremely high content.

Therefore, Li Xiang did not give the posthumous title casually. Although it seemed a bit wholesale to posthumously name two teachers Wenzhen, both of them were worthy of Wenzhen in terms of their abilities and virtues.

After drafting the posthumous title, Li Xiang also said that Wenzhen should be the most beautiful posthumous title for a civil official. “Wen” means moral integrity and erudition, while “Zhen” means integrity and chastity. These should be the pinnacle of morality for a civil official.

This statement was immediately unanimously agreed upon by the court. After all, no one would not want to receive such a beautiful posthumous title.

After seeing Lao Xiao off for the last time, Li Xiang cheered up and began to build his East Palace.

New year, new atmosphere. Now that he has become the crown prince, it is natural for him to set up a small court in the East Palace.

After careful consideration, Li Xiang brought Lu Zhaolin, Luo Binwang and Di Renjie back to the Eastern Palace. Lu Zhaolin was appointed as the Prince's Left Assistant, Luo Binwang as the Prince's Right Assistant, and Di Renjie as the Prince's Secretary.

Di Renjie is still the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture concurrently. After all, if a position is useful, it should be used to the fullest. Di Pangpang has such outstanding abilities, it would be a shame not to make good use of them.

While Li Xiang was busy reorganizing his small court, a man forgotten by the Tang Dynasty had already arrived at his destination.

Since setting out from Japan last year, Li Yin has been wandering on the sea.

Looking around, all you can see is either the sky or the water. It's okay for a day or two, but drifting on the sea for several months is really despairing.

At the beginning, the people who followed Li Yin to the sea found it very novel, especially when they saw the whale floating up from the sea. People living on land had never seen such a scene before, so they called their friends and came to the deck to watch Kun.

However, not long after, this "Kun" could no longer attract their attention.

There's nothing else to it, it's just too fucking boring.

Fortunately, Li Yin listened to Li Xiang's lectures very carefully and prepared a lot of citrus fruits on the boat, so sepsis did not occur.

Li Yin has been drifting on the sea for half a year. Although he is a little dishevelled, he has not lost the demeanor of the King of Shu of the Tang Dynasty.

It's the King of Shu, not the Rat King.

If you ask him whether he regrets it or not, the answer is definitely no regrets at all.

This is the mentality of a man. Even if he dies outside, he will grit his teeth and not regret it if he jumps from here.

Li Yin was even more optimistic. Even after not seeing land for several months, he did not get discouraged. Whenever he had nothing to do, he would paint pictures of happy occasions for the crew and cheer them up.

According to Li Yin, after this ship's crew returns, they will all be rewarded based on their merits, and at least one of them will be promoted to a baron.

This statement might have boosted morale at first, but now they no longer have any vision in this regard.

As long as I can see land, it's worth dying!

Now when Li Yin encouraged others, the crew members just said "oh" calmly.

"Why are you all so listless?" Li Yan angrily kicked the crew member beside him: "You are like a woman, isn't it just drifting on the sea for a few months? Look at me, have I ever been as discouraged as you guys?"

The crew members had long lost the mood to refute. They rolled their eyes and complained in their hearts.

Can you be the same as me? You are like a chicken with blood injected...

However, before Li Yin could say anything else, he heard excited shouts coming from the mast above.

"My king! My king! Good news! We have seen land!"

As the words fell, the deck fell into silence.

Then, there was a burst of warm cheers.

"Oh my God! We finally see land!" The crew members all cried and held their heads in tears. God knows how difficult it is to drift on the sea.

In fact, they should have arrived long ago, but the route chosen by Li Yin was a bit wrong, and they were carried around by the ocean currents. At a normal speed, they would reach their destination in about three months.

I originally wanted to follow the North Pacific Current to North America, but ended up being diverted to Central America halfway.

But Li Yin was not picky now. He didn't know where he was. As long as he saw land, it would be fine.

Under the command of Li Yin's flagship, the fleet's sixteen ships gradually approached the coast.

There were originally eighteen ships in total when we went out to sea, but two ships were lost on the way and no one knew where they went. Now there are only these eighteen ships left in the fleet.

After the fleet docked, everyone got off the boat.

"May our ancestors bless us!" Everyone knelt on the ground, and some even grabbed a handful of sand and cried bitterly.

God knows how good it feels to have my feet firmly on the ground. After drifting on the sea for so long, I still feel a little dizzy now that I'm ashore.

"What should we do next?" Li Yin asked Liu Zude beside him.

Liu Zude was still grabbing the sand and howling, and didn't hear Li Yin's words at all.

Seeing that he ignored him, Li Yan kicked Liu Zude on the butt. "My lord." Liu Zude quickly threw away the sand in his hand.

"I'm asking you what to do next." Li Yan asked angrily.

Liu Zude scratched his head and said to Li Yin: "I only understand the Japanese language, not the local dialect here. If I meet the locals here, I am afraid I will not be able to translate accurately for the king..."

"Okay, I got it." Li Yin waved his hand impatiently: "Pass the order down, assemble for the time being, let's leave the boat here first, leave a thousand people to guard it, cut down trees to build a base for the time being, and the rest of you come with me."

"Let's go?" Liu Zude asked, "My lord, where are we going?"

"Are you going to stay on this beach forever?" Li Yin kicked him again. "Do you expect those high-yield crops to come to your doorstep, waving and shouting, 'Hey - look, I'm a potato, I'm a sweet potato, I'm corn?'"

Liu Zude opened his mouth and felt that what Li Yin said was right.

Just like that, at Li Yin's command, more than 500 people picked out the armor and weapons that were still intact from each ship, and followed Li Yin to move deep into the land.

Fortunately, this group of people are quite professional and are equipped with telescopes and compasses, so there is no possibility of getting lost.

Liu Zude even drew a route map as he walked in case he got lost and couldn't find those who were left behind.

After walking on land for a day and a half, Li Yin and his team finally spotted a few wisps of smoke rising from cooking fires.

"My lord, there is smoke over there!" Wang Ping said with a smile, pointing at the smoke in the distance.

The presence of smoke from cooking means there are people living there, or even a place where humans gather.

"Let's go!" Li Yin said immediately, "Let's go and take a look together. Get ready and be prepared to fight at any time!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" everyone responded.

When Li Yin and others got closer, they found that it was not the village they had imagined. Instead, it was something hard to describe, more like a simple settlement.

"Fuck, why aren't they wearing any clothes?" Liu Zude looked at the naked people in the settlement and cursed with his eyes bulging.

It’s no wonder he swore so rudely. After all, in the Tang Dynasty, people still had to dress properly in public.

This is a matter of etiquette.

The natives in front of them were all naked from the waist up, with colorful oil paints on their bodies, both men and women alike.

As the saying goes, after three years of military service, a sow becomes as beautiful as Diao Chan, not to mention that they have been drifting on the sea for so long.

There are also those young people who stare at Da Lei intently.

"You are really hungry." Li Yin glanced at a young man next to him and said with a pout.

The boy couldn't hear what Li Yan was saying at all, his mind was full of thunder.

"This bonfire is really big," he said to himself.

Li Yin reached out and patted him on the head, how embarrassing.

"Let's go, let's go out and negotiate." Li Yin turned to look at Liu Zude, and then said.

Liu Zude nodded. He originally wanted to leave first, but was grabbed by Li Yin.

"You've been on the sea for so long, and you don't even follow the rules?" Li Yin snorted.

"It's my fault." Liu Zude said with a nod and a warm feeling in his heart.

This king may say something, but he still treats us as brothers. Look, he is taking the lead and blocking all potential dangers in front of his brothers.

If the people in that settlement shot arrows without saying a word, the chances of it becoming a hedgehog would be quite high.

Li Yin and his team discovered this tribe, and the people of this Indian tribe also discovered them.

Someone immediately sounded the alarm, and dull drumbeats rang out in the tribe. The strong men picked up stone spears, surrounded the elderly, the weak, women and children, and looked at Li Yin and others with fear.

Li Yin walked forward and asked arrogantly, "Who is in charge here?"

When the people in the tribe heard the man opposite them, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked as handsome as a god, speaking words they couldn't understand, they looked at each other in bewilderment.

No one had ever heard such words.

After staring at each other for a long time, the crowd parted and an old man wearing gorgeous feather ornaments on his head walked out from the middle.

"!@#!@?" the old man said, and seemed to be asking something.

A question mark slowly appeared above Li Yan's head.

Man, I don't understand what you are saying.

Seeing that Li Yin was confused, the old man began to make gestures to him.

Li Yin looked at it for a long time and thought that he should ask him how he got here.

So he also started to gesture, and the two began to communicate across servers.

"Your Majesty, do you have this talent?" Zhang Qian asked Liu Zude in a low voice from behind.

Liu Zude scratched his head. He didn't know that Li Yin could use sign language so smoothly and chat with others so happily.

After a while, Li Yin and the old man burst into laughter at the same time.

He turned his head and pressed his hands down toward the guards.

Everyone understood and put away their weapons.

Seeing that the people of the Tang Dynasty were the first to put away their weapons as a sign of friendship, the old man also said a lot of gibberish. Anyway, they finally put down their weapons.

"maya——" The old man pointed at himself and then at the group of people.

Li Yin was also smart and immediately understood what the old man meant.

Ah...it seems that this village is called Ma Ya?

Or is it that their ethnic group is called Ma Ya?

Oh my god... His name doesn't sound good either. Li Yin thought they should be given a better-sounding name, such as Maya.

"Tang Dynasty." Li Yin pointed at himself, then at the crowd behind him, and then at the old man and the tribe behind him, and asked: "Maya?"

"Maya!" The old man nodded repeatedly, pointed at Li Yin and the people behind him, and said with a grin, "Tang Dynasty!"

Li Yin gestured for a while and asked someone to bring the goods over.

The only things that the Tang Dynasty could show off now were porcelain and silk products.

Li Yin took out an exquisite and gorgeous silk gown and had someone hold it to the old man with both hands.

There was no need to open it; just by folding it, the old man could see the beauty of the clothes.

His eyes lit up, and of course he understood what Li Yin meant.

It's about exchanging things. These people who came from nowhere didn't come to cause violence to the tribe, but to do business.

(End of this chapter)