Don't be a prince

Regarding Wu Mei, Li Chengqian is no longer obsessed with driving her away.The emperor didn't attack her, and there was no reason to attack her, so the trajectory of her life had completely changed.The orthodox female emperor who may appear in the future is just a court lady directly under the Guangtian Palace in the East Palace.

Walking out of the private room, he glanced at Fang Shan who was following him, and Li Chengqian whispered, "Test her to see if she can bear the life of a court lady. If she can persist for a month, then let her live in the East Palace!"

Fang Shan nodded. In fact, even if the prince didn't order him to do so, he would still do so.Although the Eastern Palace has no backbone these years, they have subtly replaced the maids and eunuchs directly under the Eastern Palace with the alliance's own staff.Now that an outsider suddenly appeared, he couldn't relax his vigilance.

It is impossible in the world to stop because of the death of a few unfilial animals. After watching the execution, you have to do what you should do.

Strolling on the streets of Chang'an, feeling the street scene as if it had passed away, Li Chengqian knew that Datang, no, at least Chang'an had started to develop rapidly.Compared with the depression on the streets during the Wude period, Chang'an now is more like a prosperous capital.

Back in the East Palace, Li Chengqian stretched his waist and walked all the way, passing Mingde Hall, Chongjiao Hall, and Lizheng Hall, after seeing the familiar but somewhat unfamiliar scene.

Lizheng Hall was his bedroom and study, although everything remained the same, but he still felt a little uncomfortable without someone to accompany him.

Both Su Yuan and Yan Wan were taken to the palace by the queen. In her old man's words, as someone who has been here, with her personal care, the two of them can have a safe pregnancy.She had decided that one of the two daughters-in-law would give birth to a grandson for her, so she was excited.

Thinking about Su Yuan being in the Hall of Liangyi but unable to meet frequently, Li Chengqian suddenly felt lonely.

Without going back to Lizheng Hall, Li Chengqian continued to walk northward.

Yichun Palace is very lively now, the palace that was a bit deserted at first, now has a new look, many court ladies and eunuchs shuttled through it, placing all kinds of things.This place will be Xiuxiu's territory from now on.

When she was Concubine Liang before, her status was equivalent to that of a concubine, and being able to settle down in the Xiuli Pavilion was already the reason why Su Yuan was extraordinarily magnanimous.But when the queen made the decision and gave her the status of side concubine, it was different.Even, she is already qualified to live in the official palace inside the East Palace.

After entering the Yichun Palace, but not seeing the person he met, Li Chengqian couldn't help being a little annoyed.In desperation, Li Chengqian could only continue to go north and entered Yichun Beiyuan.

Just after entering the pasture of Yichun Beiyuan, a tall horse ran over neighing.

Seeing the black shadow running over, Li Chengqian couldn't help laughing.It's Ling Yun.

Now Ling Yun, who is fully grown up, has a strong body, his mane flutters in the wind, majestic and majestic.

It wasn't until he was about to approach that Ling Yun slowed down, trotted all the way to Li Chengqian, and then lowered his head and rubbed on him.

BMW is psychic, even after three years, it still remembers who its owner is.

Li Chengqian stretched out one hand to scratch its facing bone, but the other hand was already ready.

Another black shadow rushed over, and the fiery big tongue was already licking frantically on Li Chengqian's hand, it was Heitan's head.

Scratching the horse with one hand and stroking the dog's head with the other, Li Chengqian felt that all the unhappiness in his heart disappeared.

A white horse came trotting all the way, and Xiuxiu on the horse couldn't help screaming, and hugged the horse's neck tightly with both hands, making Ashina Xue who was riding the horse laugh out loud.

Pat the horse's head to get Ling Yun to step aside, pat the dog's head to get Heitan's head to go as well.Reaching out to hold Xiuxiu down, Li Chengqian couldn't help but said to Ashina Xue: "I know that Xiuxiu has never ridden a horse, why are you still scaring her like this?"

Ashina Xue pursed her lips in dissatisfaction: "She insisted on getting on the horse to play. If you hadn't appeared suddenly, Ling Yun wouldn't have come running over, and Xiaoxue wouldn't have come running along either."

The horse named Xiaoxue is Ashina Xue's horse.Looking at Ling Yun and Xiaoxue, Li Chengqian suddenly had a very strange thought.These two guys, one black and one white, wouldn't give birth to a zebra...

Ashi Naxue jumped off the horse, and seeing Li Chengqian hugging Xiuxiu in a daze, but he didn't seem to be thinking about that, she couldn't help but stretched out the whip and shook it in front of his eyes: "What are you thinking about?"

"Well, I was thinking, why don't you two be dealt with tonight!"

"what?"

Hearing Li Chengqian's words, Xiuxiu, who was already being hugged by him, softened and blushed instantly.

Although Ashi Naxue didn't react as violently as Xiuxiu, she blushed for a while and couldn't help but spit softly: "It's been less than a day since Sister Su was called away by the empress, you can't help it?"

Li Chengqian chuckled, and without putting Xiuxiu down, he ran towards the tent while holding her.

This is not a question of whether you can bear it, but a question of how long you can bear it.Again, all men in the world are LSPs, and more or less all of them have fantasized about groups of wives and concubines in the harem.As early as after he had done with Su Yuan, Li Chengqian had fixed his eyes on Xiuxiu and Ashina Xue.Now that Su Yuan is finally pregnant with a child, especially whether she can get a son or not, her child will eventually become the eldest son, so there is no need to be prudish.

Following all the way to the tent door, Ashina Xue was about to open the curtain of the tent when she heard Xiuxiu's exclamation from inside, followed by intermittent and uncontrollable gasps, until finally there was a groan, There was a death-like huh huh, but she didn't even dare to open the door curtain and go in.

It’s not going to go, it’s not going to go, it’s even a little wet somewhere.Just when she was hesitating, a muscular arm stretched out from the tent, pulling her in.

Not long after, the same thing happened again...

After spending the night in Ashina Xue's tent, Li Chengqian reluctantly left the next day.Although it's fine even if he stays there, but there are still a lot of things to deal with, and he is always greedy for the joy of fish and water, and he looks down on himself.

It is more formal that the crown prince is serving as Minister of the Book, and it should be announced at the Dachaohui.Although he had a little bit of fantasy, after dealing with various things in the East Palace, when he saw Fang Shan walking in with a lot of memorials, and Zhang Yun holding a seal in both hands, Li Chengqian still Couldn't help whimpering.

The system of the three provinces and six ministries is that the six ministries screen and decide for the first time, and then hand over to the Zhongshu Ministry. Some major decisions made by the Ministry of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China need to be reviewed by the subordinate provinces. Only those that pass can be transferred to the six departments under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Ministers for implementation.As the chief of the actual implementation department, Li Chengqian will also have the same power to refute as Wei Zheng, and is also eligible to correct the memorial.

Of course, the premise of this correction is that he also agrees with the decisions of all the people in the previous program, and found innocuous minor problems.

Although Shang Shusheng was responsible for the incident, but because Shang Shusheng did not have the formal right to review, the main culprits were Menxia Sheng and Zhongshu Sheng.As for the emperor, the emperor can't be wrong, so the only ones who are blamed are the courtiers.

Shang Shuling's work may seem complicated, but with Li Chengqian's strong reading comprehension ability, it is not so difficult.

Although it seemed that he was just going through the motions here, and even closed his eyes and handed over the memorials to the various ministries for implementation, but after some inspection, Li Chengqian still found a few unsafe memorials.

The first is about the requirements of treasuries in various places. Like the governor of Jingzhou, treasuries in various places are afraid of poverty. After receiving the military equipment allocated by the Ministry of War, they even chose to seal it up and wait until wartime.It's nothing, it's human nature, people like to use things until they can no longer be used before replacing them with new ones.But this is the practice of ordinary people, rising to the level of the country, it is stupid to do so!But the problem is that Hou Junji, Minister of the Ministry of War, agreed with Huante Niang, and Lao Fang, the emperor, and even Wei Zheng agreed.

This can't be done!

Taking out a piece of paper from the table, Li Chengqian picked up a pen and began to write his own opinions.Armament is the center of gravity of a country. Anything can be compromised, but armament cannot be compromised.Yes, it is indeed rare for military states in the mainland to mobilize troops once.There is no battle to destroy the country, and they will not even be mobilized to the battlefield.However, this is only normal.In the most rigorous attitude, as long as things are not [-]% probable, the [-]% cannot be ignored.

After finishing writing, he glanced at Zhang Yun who was waiting at the desk. Li Chengqian wrapped the note he had written in a piece of clean paper, put it in the memorial and handed it to Zhang Yun, saying: "Hurry up and send it to the emperor, by the way." Go to the six departments of the three provinces and find a few small officials for Gu, and let them run errands, and Gu will send a lot of memorials."

Zhang Yun nodded, and rushed out like a rocket holding the memorial.

The second memorial was a report from Si Nong Temple, and the reason why it was sent to Shangshu Sheng was because the emperor wanted to reward Si Nong Si Cheng.It's okay for the emperor to reward his courtiers, but the key is to reward the bragging report of Sinong Temple, which is a bit too much.

The report from Sinong Temple is that they have bred fine varieties, and the Champa rice presented by Feng An and the prince has reached the level of a thousand catties per mu through their cultivation. In this way, the world will no longer have to worry about famine.

This is nonsense. Li Chengqian is very clear about the yield per mu of Champa rice. Maybe the Champa rice cultivated by Sinong Temple has indeed reached a yield of [-] jin per mu, but this is also the result of the fertile land and poor care.And this is still Champa Rice's original ability.If it is delivered to the people for use, and the yield per mu reaches [-] catties, it will already be a first-class field.When encountering poorer fields, even if the champa rice itself is strong, it can only be three or four hundred catties at most.These guys really dare to take credit for the data that differs by two or three times!

You must know that the Agricultural College of the college has not cultivated Champa rice well until now, and the improved varieties can only bring a good direction, but the result still needs to be explored by oneself.It is not so easy to promote a new crop, and it must be confirmed before the court can officially implement it.Otherwise, as long as one out of ten people fails to plant, it will be a big problem.As the most direct representative of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court cannot make mistakes.

A thousand catties?What kind of big jump is this doing?

After sealing up and refuting this memorial, emphasizing that he would punish Sinong Temple instead of rewarding him, Li Chengqian opened the third problematic memorial....

A series of memorials were sent back to the Imperial Palace from the East Palace, and then sent back to Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province.The old house in Zhongshu Province complained a lot, but Wei Zheng in the province enjoyed it very much.He didn't think there was anything wrong with the crown prince's doing so, especially regarding the crown prince's assertion that "the imperial court cannot make mistakes" in the memorial of Sinong Temple, he respected it all the more.

The truth that the crown prince explained at the court meeting was only touching for a while, but there are still a few people who really do this.Now the prince will do what he says, which makes him extremely admired.

Chapter 413 Year-end Summary Conference

Although a large number of memorials came back, the workload increased for no reason.However, the emperor was not dissatisfied with the prince's seriousness. Instead, he issued an order to praise him, and called on all officials in the three provinces and six departments to learn from the prince.For a while, the atmosphere of government affairs was driven to become more serious.

When the first heavy snow falls in winter, the Dachaohui will also be held as scheduled.In addition, this is the last big court meeting before the year, which is somewhat of a summary of the meeting.

At Yinshi, when it was still dark, Li Chengqian was woken up by Xiuxiu, dressed neatly and prepared to attend the grand meeting.

Although there is only a big wall separating the East Palace from Hongwenguan, Menxia Province and other buildings, Li Chengqian still left the East Palace, and went to Chengtian Gate like all civil and military officials, waiting for the palace gate to open.

It is still necessary to get up early in the court meeting, but lack of sleep is also uncomfortable. Therefore, in front of Chengtian Gate, not many people are waiting in front of the gate, and more ministers are huddled in their own carriages, taking the time to take a nap .What's more, there is even a panting sound occasionally in the closed carriage, and I don't know what I'm busy with inside.

Compared with such a dear friend, Li Chengqian felt that he was still too thin-skinned.

Walking through the carriages and walking to the front, from officials at the rank of minister, no one was huddled in the carriages, and they all gathered in twos and threes to discuss something.At the last court meeting years ago, there were many major events that needed to be decided at the court, and this time was the last chance.

It is well known that the crown prince is about to take up the post of Shangshuling, or that the prince has already taken up the job of Shangshuling.All the ministers also admired some of the memorials handled by the crown prince. Seeing the crown prince appeared, they hurriedly ended their conversation and saluted to say hello.

Li Chengqian was not unruly, he returned the salutes one by one before continuing to move forward.

The forefront is naturally the territory of Fang Xuanling and others, and the topic is quite high-end.For example, if you get close to Changsun Wuji, you can hear him arguing with Hou Junji about the allocation of military funds.Of course, it's nothing but money, but it's no small matter when it reaches the million-dollar level.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were clearly chatting about family affairs, but the two of them looked solemn, no matter how you looked at it, it seemed that they were discussing important matters.It seemed that they were not prepared to participate in the debate between Hou Junji and Changsun Wuji.

Zhang Liang is now promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials. Of course he knows what the emperor means, but a minister of the Ministry of Officials is enough to exchange for the military power in his hands. It's a little bit of a loss, so he is also very proud, feeling that "this life" is worthwhile. On the one hand, he is showing his loyalty to the emperor, and on the other hand, he is showing that he has lost his aggressiveness.

Looking at all kinds of people, Li Chengqian smiled slightly. From today onwards, he will officially join them.To be honest, it's really not easy to deal with a group of old foxes.Before inheriting the throne, this is his final experience.

Seeing that the crown prince was coming, Changsun Wuji and Hou Junji stopped arguing and saluted together with Fang Xuanling and the others.No matter in terms of status or official position, the current crown prince is without a doubt No.1 in front of Chengtianmen.

Li Chengqian returned the gifts one by one, and walked to Wei Zheng's side naturally, making up his mind not to participate in the debate between Hou Junji and Changsun Wuji.

Even though Wei Zheng kept his face straight, he still smiled when he saw Li Chengqian.

"His Royal Highness, from today onwards, you will officially serve as Minister of the Book. If there are any omissions in the sect, I hope that His Royal Highness will not be considerate of the face of the humble minister. You must call back for a retrial. Just like the previous memorial of Sinong Temple After seeing the yield of thousands of catties per mu, Wei Chen went mad for a while, and didn't take into account the actual situation. It really shouldn't be! It seems that when the spring is plowing, it's time for Wei Chen to go to the folks to observe the lives of the people."

Li Chengqian said: "You are not to blame for the incident in Sinong Temple, nor can it be blamed on Fang Xiang or the emperor. If you don't even investigate carefully, Sinong Temple is not guilty. It is true that they let their experimental fields produce a thousand catties per mu. What? But, Sinong Temple should still be punished. Those who manipulate the overall situation should not define the overall situation with one area. Their report, which is eager for merit, almost framed the court in an injustice, which is the most abominable."

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "Your Majesty gave up the salary of the Xuan Award from the Secretary of the Sinong Temple, and ordered the Sinong Temple to proceed from reality, and double the punishment for such things in the future. How does Your Highness feel about this?"

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "Wei Shizhong, how the father punishes Xiangli with the prize is his own business. As a son alone, he shouldn't say anything. In fact, if it were someone else, he really couldn't afford such a crime. However, the Xiangli Xuan Award has made great contributions to the imperial court, so it should not be punished too much. Gu Ye just wants this incident to sound a wake-up call to the imperial court officials, not to the point of killing chickens and monkeys."

Wei Zheng smiled and said no more.

Li Chengqian knew very well that Wei Zheng was pleading for Xiangli's prize in disguise.But he did not think too much about it, especially after learning who Si Nong Siqing was, he didn't care much.

Officials like Tang Jian and Xiangli Xuanju who have risked their lives for the country, as long as they don't make too many mistakes, it's okay to forgive them once or twice.

The palace door opened, and those who were discussing shut up one after another. Those who were still dozing in the carriage quickly got out of the carriage without the servants calling, straightened their appearance, and hurriedly lined up.

Li Chengqian naturally stood at the top of the ranks of civil servants and took the lead, while Li Xiaogong, who was at the head of the ranks of generals, deliberately lagged behind by half a step.

Enter Chengtian Gate, pass Taiji Gate, and you will be the Taiji Hall of Taiji Palace.

The candles in the Tai Chi Hall are brightly lit. If this was in the past, who would dare to light so many candles?Don't say it's an ordinary court meeting, even a grand court meeting, it doesn't officially start until it's almost dawn.However, when the imperial court has money, people will feel distressed about improving the conditions.

Unlike the previous sunrise, the emperor was already sitting on the throne, quietly watching the ministers who filed in.

After everything was in place, Li Jian yelled at the top of his voice: "The court meeting has begun, and all the ministers bow down!"

It is a rule that the court will kneel down to worship the emperor, so led by Li Chengqian and Li Xiaogong, all civil and military officials neatly left their seats and bowed down.

"Flat body."

Sitting down again, Li Chengqian couldn't help frowning as he looked around at the Tai Chi Hall.Although it has been three years since I left Chang'an, all the pillars in the Tai Chi Hall are cracked, which is too strange!And the floor, with a lot of potholes, although it is old, it can still be seen that they have appeared recently.After all, once the floor has cracks or potholes, there are craftsmen who will replace them.No matter how short the court is on money, there is still no shortage of money to replace the floor!

Li Chengqian was not the only one who noticed the abnormality, especially Yu Chigong, who actually stepped on a floor and broke it.Sweating profusely, Yu Chigong tentatively looked at the emperor, which was extraordinarily funny.

"It's okay, Jingde, sit down, the wooden board has been in disrepair for a long time, and you can't blame it."

With the emperor's words, Yu Chigong breathed a sigh of relief and sat down.But as he sat down, the clear click sounded again.In a quiet environment where you can hear a needle drop, this sound is especially clear.

I don't know who couldn't help it first, let out a pop, and then everyone burst out laughing.Even Li Shimin, who was sitting on the throne, laughed heartily.

Yu Chigong's face suddenly turned darker, and he could only bear it with his head down.

"Okay, stop laughing at Jingde. In the final analysis, it is the reason why the boards have been in disrepair for a long time. If you were you, you would also collapse."

It was only after the emperor spoke that the laughter stopped, but many people couldn't help but raise the corners of their mouths just looking at Yu Chigong with a dark face.

Someone poked his arm, Li Chengqian turned his head, and saw Fang Xuanling whispering with a smile: "Did your Highness guess it?"

Li Chengqian nodded and said nothing more to Fang Xuanling.

There is no need to guess, it is almost explicit.Not to mention that the floor will be replaced, and it is impossible to break it. It is the emperor's two consecutive sentences "in disrepair". Anyone who is smarter can guess what the emperor is thinking.

Changsun Wuji was obviously also among the guessed people, but he was a little far away and couldn't see him, otherwise Li Chengqian would have to see his expression now.

"Cough cough."

After coughing twice, Li Shimin said, "Fang Qing, the 12th year of Zhenguan has passed, so let me tell you about what happened this year."

Since it is an annual meeting, there must be a report, and Fang Xuanling is naturally the best candidate.

After getting up from his seat and bowing to the emperor, Fang Xuanling turned around and said, "Masters, this year is another extraordinary year. I have seen the conflict between the envoys of Tang Dynasty and the Secretary of Shipping in Suzhou. Weakness of sea power. Your majesty still has the same ambition to expand the territory, but more is to attack the sea.

At the beginning, it was decided to expand the sea power and ordered the coastal states to prepare fleets for sea combat. Now, according to the latest report from the Ministry of War, the coastal states already have their own warships.Moreover, most of them are more than five ships.Among them, Dengzhou, Suzhou, Gaozhou, etc., which are the most important, have absolute combat power.

On the grassland, the herdsmen have already turned their hearts to the Tang Dynasty. As of a few years ago, there have been no rebels for three consecutive years.Although Tuyuhun felt unwilling now, he did not dare to reveal any rebellious intentions.The surrender of Tubo and Turks was only temporary, but at least they had recognized the status of the suzerain of the Tang Dynasty.

In the south, His Royal Highness sent the Lingnan Fleet to expand the sea for more than 2000 miles to the south. He also conquered the Ryukyu Island and sent officials to the island to completely incorporate it into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.From Quanzhou to Xunzhou, officials sent by the imperial court have taken over Lingnan affairs.To the west of Gaozhou, although they are still half-submitted, under the general trend, it is only a matter of time before Lingnan completely belongs to the imperial court.

In terms of internal affairs, the official roads between Chang'an, Luoyang, and Taiyuan have been repaired, and most of the official roads between Luoyang and Zhengzhou have been completed.River transportation is connected to all parts of the country, and the river transportation capacity has more than doubled compared with last year.Colleagues headed by Zheng Guogong and Dao Guogong are still perfecting the New Tang Law. Compared with the previous Tang Law, the New Tang Law is more detailed in terms of conviction. Thousands of miles, just to kowtow in front of the palace gate, thank the court for helping them clear up their grievances.

This is no longer satisfied with the scene under Mingjun's rule, but directly catching up with the era of the ancient sages.My minister congratulates His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty! "

After another salute to the emperor, Fang Xuanling continued to report on his achievements in domestic affairs.

In any case, it is already a fact that the Tang Dynasty has entered the prosperous age. Although it is a bit of a generalization, at least compared with the dynasties after the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as a school of its own.

After reporting on this year's achievements in a realistic manner, Fang Xuanling returned to her cushion and sat down, and it was Zhang Liang's time.In a prosperous age, there are naturally a large number of officials who are dedicated to serving the country and the people.The Ministry of Officials is responsible for the promotion, relegation and transfer of officials, and is also responsible for evaluating the performance of officials.Such a position can be said to be the easiest to receive bribes among the six departments in the three provinces.But Zhang Liang is decent at least for now, and all assessments are based on facts.

This year is the third year he has served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the second year he has completely taken over. However, there are still many officials who have been relegated with his approval this year.When the aristocratic family's influence on the officials was completely cut off, especially after the emperor had no shortage of talents, he finally waved the butcher's knife against the five surnames and other aristocratic families.In addition to the weakening of the noble title on the top of the family's head, at least in the capital, the influence of the family has been weakened to the extreme.

Although there are still "son-in-laws" like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, no one will choose the wrong choice between the emperor and the aristocratic family.From now on, the aristocratic family can probably only rely on their so-called "orthodox" status to marry their daughters in exchange for money.Without an absolute foothold in the court, they can only gradually decline on the stage of history.

The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Rites reported their achievements one by one.Since the tax is sufficient, they finally don't have to tie their hands and feet, and they can finally let go of their arms and do what they want to do.

When Lu Kuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, also finished his report, the report conference was considered to be over.After all, the reports of these six departments basically represent the whole, and further down, the reports are only trivial, irrelevant.

When Lu Kuan sat down, the emperor, who had been listening all the time, spoke up: "I already know about the hard work of all the dear ones. So, prince, do you have anything to say?"

"My son is here!"

He promised and got up quickly, but Li Chengqian was still confused when he stood in the middle of the field.