Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

There are all kinds of people in the world, and everyone has their own persistence and something to seek.

Li Shen understood this principle very well. Although he did not want to get involved in the trivial affairs of the court, he was willing to be a lone minister.

But humans are always social animals, and sometimes it is impossible for them to ignore their relatives.

What's more, getting to know some useful people will be of great benefit to me as an idle prince.

You don’t have to deal with many things yourself.

For example, business matters.

Li Shen controlled the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce, and thus indirectly controlled the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to increase the credibility of the Chamber of Commerce, Li Shen has to solve various problems for merchants.

Forced buying and selling, bullying the weak, local tyrants, local officials, local aristocratic families, princes and nobles.

Merchants are of low status and their words have little influence. Since ancient times, the people have not fought against officials, so it is common for these merchants to arouse jealousy.

There are also many people who covet their money.

The powerful will use all kinds of means to rob and persecute merchants.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty's First Chamber of Commerce needs to step forward to uphold justice, but the local branch is definitely unable to resolve the problem and can only report to the headquarters.

As a prince, Li Shen was not in a position to show up. Otherwise, if he went to see a county magistrate, he would be frightened to death.

So this job fell on the heads of the one hundred and twenty plus playboys. Some of them would do it themselves, while others would have relatives serving as officials nearby and write books to have them take care of it.

In recent years, many officials who were greedy for merchants' money and plundered others have been convicted and dismissed from office.

Many people in the officialdom had some complaints about this, but they dared not say anything. More than a hundred playboys represented dozens of princes and court officials. Who could afford to offend them?

This is why Li Shen wants to make friends with useful people. Problems can be solved without him having to show up, so why not do it?

As long as these cousins ​​and brothers-in-law have some talent, they will be reused in the future and become the backbone of the Tang Dynasty.

Making friends with them would be very helpful for Li Shen.

Unless he is a waste, but waste has its uses, not to mention that their eldest brother Chai Lingwei is not a waste.

Li Shen was chatting and laughing with everyone, in stark contrast to his usual domineering attitude. Even Li Tai frowned.

I wondered when Li Shen became so easy to talk to.

Li Shen was chatting animatedly, but Li Shimin and Empress Changsun had already left because the weather was too cold and they couldn't stay outside for long.

After more than half an hour, Wang De's godson Wang Bao came over:

"Your Majesty has ordered that everyone go to the Dragon Palace to prepare for dinner."

The voice was loud and clear, reaching everyone's ears.

Everyone started to move. The Dragon Temple was quite large and could accommodate so many people.

When Li Shen arrived at the Shenlong Hall, he saw that the female members of the family who were in the Daji Hall had also arrived here.

There were also many children being led by adults.

This was the first time Li Shen saw the palace so lively.

Fortunately, there were babies at home and they were not brought in, otherwise they would have made even more noise if they had cried here.

Li Shen followed Li Chengqian and others to the front, where Empress Li Shimin and others sat at the same table. There were five princes in total, including Li Shen.

There are also Li Fu and Li Ming. Since they are younger, they follow their mother.

In addition to the five of them, there were also Li Chengqian's eldest son Li Xiang and Li Tai's eldest son Li Xin at the table.

Although Li Xiang and Li Xin were not legitimate sons, they were both eldest sons. Li Xiang was eighteen years old and Li Xin was sixteen years old.

The others were nephews, sons-in-law, the eldest princess, and princesses, all seated according to their rank.

"Meet the eldest uncle, the ninth uncle, the tenth uncle, and the thirteenth uncle."

"Meet the fourth uncle, the ninth uncle, the tenth uncle, and the thirteenth uncle."

Li Xiang and Li Xin came to their seats and began to greet each other, but Li Xin was a little reserved.

Not as majestic as Li Xiang.

This is understandable. First, he was young and had not seen the world. Second, Li Xiang's father was the crown prince, older than everyone present.

In the future, when the crown prince ascends to the throne, he will also be a prince, so he is bolder.

However, Li Xiang's attitude towards Li Shen was very respectful, which both Li Tai and Li Zhi could see.

Both of them knew that this was because Li Shen had a good relationship with the prince.

But only Li Xiang himself knew that Li Shen's arrogance and domineering behavior when he kidnapped the prince and beat Zhao Jie in the Eastern Palace was seen by Li Xiang.

At that time, he was deeply impressed, until the end when even their Emperor Aweng did not punish Prince Ji,

Li Xiang suffered from a psychological trauma and was afraid of his tenth uncle who was only two years older than him.

In addition, he often heard rumors that Prince Ji was outside, and his father always warned him not to provoke Prince Ji when he went out, otherwise he would be beaten.

This gave the children the illusion that it would be easy to get beaten if they offended King Ji.

And this was later confirmed.

Beat the royal family, beat Zhao Jie, beat Chai Lingwu, beat Yang Yuzhi, beat the court officials, the minister of the Wang family, Cui Renzhi of the Imperial Censorate,

Beat the prince, the fourth prince, Jin Wang Li Zhi, and rushed into Jin Wang to beat him,

The most outrageous thing I heard was that he wanted to compete with his father, the prince, but he was killed and beaten up.

But he also cheated his father a lot.

These left a very bad impression on Li Xiang, so he was somewhat afraid of Li Shen.

Li Shen and Li Chengqian were unaware of Li Xiang's thoughts, nor were they aware of the misunderstanding between Li Tai and Li Zhi.

Ask the two nephews to sit down.

With a long chant from Wang De, the banquet was announced.

Figures shuttled back and forth, and dishes were placed on the table, including not only cuisine from the flavor restaurant but also imperial court cuisine.

Frying, stir-frying, and deep-frying, a whole table of food.

"Cough!" At this time, Li Shimin raised his cup and coughed lightly, and everyone immediately looked over.

“Today is the grandest family dinner since the founding of the country.

It was specially prepared by the Queen, and I hope it will make me happy."

"Thank you, Her Majesty." Everyone bowed.

Li Shimin continued:

"Everyone says that the royal family is ruthless. I think that is not true. The royal family is also human and has seven emotions and six desires.

It’s just that the royal family has the Huang family’s mission. As royal relatives and royal relatives, they all have to contribute to our Li family.

So sometimes you may do more than others, but you can also get more than others.

Among you are my sons, my prince consorts, and my nephews.

In the future, you will all become the pillars of our Tang Dynasty and be entrusted with important tasks. The reason is very simple, because you are trustworthy, more trustworthy than outsiders.

I hope you...”

Li Shimin talked a lot today, and he kept talking. Li Shen stared at the table full of dishes and drooled.

He didn't eat much at noon, and it was already afternoon, and Li Shen was very hungry.

When did my dad learn how to hold a meeting?

Smelling the fragrance, Li Shen couldn't help himself and secretly stretched out his chopsticks to eat it secretly, but Li Chengqian on the side pulled him back and shook his head as a warning.

"Okay, let's start the banquet now." After a while, Li Shimin finished speaking, and everyone stood up and saluted.

Li Shencai couldn't wait to pick up his chopsticks and start eating voraciously.

(Today is the winter solstice. We are eating dumplings. What do you eat?)