Fu Tang

The four assistant ministers of the cabinet were stunned for a moment. The name of this mausoleum is relatively unfamiliar, and they didn't think of it for a while.

After all, Wei Renpu was more knowledgeable, and soon he realized: "The mausoleum of Shatuo Tang Taizu?"

Li Congjia nodded. Originally, the Tang Kingdom established by Li Keyong of the Shatuo tribe was called the Later Tang Dynasty, but now the Tang Dynasty does not recognize the Tang Dynasty established by Li Yuan, except for the Tang Dynasty established by Li Yuan. But they are indeed Tang was used as the country name, so we simply called them Sha Tuo Tang.

Jianji Mausoleum is the mausoleum used by Shatuo Tang Taizu Li Ke. Of course, when he died, he was only the king of Jin, and the emperor was also named by his son later.

So his mausoleum is in Dai County, Qizhou. According to the method of later generations, it should be in Shanxi. The distance between Chang'an and Dai County is not close. How did these people... how did they manage to bomb Chang'an and Li Cong Jiazu's mausoleum while running? Went to Shanxi to blow up the mausoleum used by Li Ke?

Just because of this doubt, Li Congjia's expression looked very strange.

Everyone's expressions were surprised, and they didn't understand what rhythm this was.

After looking at each other for a while, Shi Xueting suddenly said: "In the early Tang Dynasty... most of the imperial tombs were built on the hills and guarded by guards, so it might not be easy to enter."

Li Congjia turned his head to look at him, not only him, but also other ministers were looking at him, Shi Xueting was not a little nervous, he continued to organize his thoughts and explained slowly: "Because of the scuffle in the Central Plains before, there were many national titles, Shatuotang, and my predecessor, the Southern Tang, are all Tangs, and this kind of succession is beyond the understanding of the Turkic people, so...no matter what Tang, in their eyes, they may... all belong to the same group?"

After hearing this, Li Congjia clapped the case: "It's really possible."

If you explain it this way, you can understand it. Li Congjia sent people to protect the imperial mausoleum of the former Tang Dynasty. These people may not be able to sneak in. What's more, the mausoleum is surrounded by mountains, and it is not easy to blow up the mountain.

As for Shatuotang's imperial mausoleum... Li Congjia would definitely not send someone to protect it. Of course he would not dare to dig up other people's ancestral graves, but he would not pay too much attention to it.

Then the Jianji Mausoleum was destroyed, but I think these people have done their homework, otherwise why don't other people's mausoleums be bombed, but Li Ke's tombs must be bombed?Isn't it because he is Shatuo Tang Taizu?

For a while, Li Congjia felt a little sympathetic to Li Keyong, because he was shot even while lying down, oh, it should be a model of being bombed even while lying down!

Sympathy belongs to sympathy, he was relieved, but he immediately said: "There is no response from our side, the other party will soon find out that the wrong place was bombed, and it is estimated that they will return to Chang'an, so Chang'an should be under martial law or martial law. How is the inspection at the mausoleum going? Has the main tomb been damaged? How is the repair work going?"

Shunling is Li Jing's mausoleum, even if he doesn't like him, Li Congjia can't ignore him.

Ji Chun used to be the Minister of the Household Department, and this time he was in charge of the Shunling, so he immediately replied: "Your Majesty, the tomb was built solidly at the beginning, so the main tomb was not damaged, it's just... that of Empress Guangmu. The mausoleum was affected a little, and a corner of the main tomb collapsed."

Li Congjia's expression changed instantly: "What?"

Li Congjia, who didn't react when he heard that Li Jing's mausoleum was bombed, looked angry now, as if he really wanted to catch the murderer and cut him to pieces.

Ji Chun was taken aback, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, calm down, Empress Guangmu's coffin is intact! It's just that some funerary objects have been lost."

Li Congjia's face is still gloomy. He has no feelings for Li Jing, but Empress Zhong is really kind to him, and Empress Zhong is very smart. Even if she becomes empress dowager later, she will never dictate government affairs, nor will she interfere too much The matter of his harem, otherwise, if a mother insists on arranging a concubine for her son, Li Congjia really wouldn't be able to refuse.

If he had known that he would be implicated, he shouldn't have listened to the minister's request to move Empress Guangmu's mausoleum there. Originally, he wanted to build Empress Zhong's mausoleum not far from his own mausoleum, but he was chanted by a bunch of people This is against the rules. After all, the Hou Tomb is attached to the Emperor's Tomb. How can there be a separate tomb?Even if it is attached to the emperor's tomb, there is no reason to attach to the son's emperor's tomb!

In desperation, Li Congjia had no choice but to have someone build a rear mausoleum that was not inferior to Li Jing's mausoleum. At that time, when someone said that it was not in accordance with the etiquette system, Li Congjia directly slammed it: "The mausoleum of the first emperor cannot be incited, but in the Tang Dynasty The national power is weak, even if the whole country is exhausted, the mausoleum is not luxurious, and now the Tang Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, so why should Hou Mausoleum be so wronged?"

If you feel wronged by Empress Guangmu, you can also rebuild the imperial mausoleum together to expand the scale.

This idea is in many people's hearts, but most of them didn't say it out. Of course, there were also some people who spoke uprightly, but Li Congjia said righteously: "I have never been humble, because A Niang Going to the mausoleum to disturb father is a sin, and it is also against the rules of etiquette, you were shouting for reason before, why are you violating the rules of etiquette now?"

There are really very righteous words here, yes, it is true to be humble, but the expansion of the mausoleum is obviously for Li Jing, not for Queen Guangmu, but everyone can see that Li Congjia just doesn’t want to give it to his father. He has clearly shown his distaste for building a majestic mausoleum, who would dare to touch this bad luck?

Therefore, the mausoleum of Empress Guangmu is very well repaired. The only regret is that it is difficult to repair it in the Western Regions.

The result is that the mausoleum of Empress Guangmu is too spectacular, and the actual size is only a little smaller than the imperial mausoleum. Basically, it is put on the drawing and everyone knows a little less. When you really look at it, it will be because of the position or the line of sight. , I feel that the mausoleum of Empress Guangmu is a little bigger than the emperor's mausoleum.

Those Muslims took it for granted that this was the emperor's tomb and the other was the Hou's tomb. As a result, Li Jing escaped unharmed because of this, leaving Li Congjia speechless.

Seeing that Li Congjia was a little anxious, Shi Xueting said softly: "They will always pay the price. If you make yourself angry because of this, wouldn't it be what they want?"

Li Congjia could still listen to Shi Xueting's persuasion, so he took a deep breath and asked Ji Chun: "You haven't said how the mausoleum restoration work is going? Don't worry about it, Empress Guangmu's mausoleum must be carefully repaired!"

This bias is so obvious that he didn't even explain much about his own father's mausoleum.

Ji Chun's expression became very difficult, but he didn't hold back or hesitated to speak. After all, these cabinet ministers had already developed their courage in front of Li Congjia. Everyone knew that as long as the words were not too excessive or without any basis, the emperor Impossible to be angry.

So he said directly: "Your Majesty, now... the Ministry of Household Affairs may not be able to allocate money."

Although Zhao Kuangyin is not fighting now, so many people are eating horse chews at the border. The daily consumption is not a lot, and they don't fight, which means that the military supplies are not much consumed. Those things are prepared by the Privy Council. It doesn't matter to the department.

And Tubo is also fighting, and now it has entered the final moment of the decisive battle. The king of Lhasa is on the verge of madness. If it is another Tubo king, he may have surrendered at this time. I don’t know what he is thinking. He just refuses to surrender. Knock to the end with Datang.

Since he chose to fight to the end, how could Datang not let him get his wish?

Two-line warfare means double rations, and the household department is under great pressure. At this time, it is an accident to allocate funds to repair the mausoleum. The most important thing is that Li Congjia is still very demanding. Seriously, these two sons are still there, dare to neglect their parents?Don't want to live?

Empress Guangmu, in particular, suffered heavy losses and needed a lot of money to repair it.

Li Congjia originally wanted to say that I paid the money, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was not particularly good. His money had always been separated from the court's money, and he had always paid attention to it. Ku does not belong to the emperor, but to the court. It is hard to say whether Li Zhongyu or Li Zhongyu's son will have the right to use the money in the future.

He couldn't ask for money directly, so he got along with another way: "Stop building my mausoleum, and focus on building the mausoleum for Emperor Xian and Empress Guangmu."

The four members of the cabinet looked at each other and didn't know what to say for a while. They should persuade them at this time, but how?A son should honor his parents, but they also want to stop him?Or do you think the tombs of the first emperors are not as important as the mausoleums of today's saints?

Li Congjia raised his chin and said, "I'm in good health. I guess I can live for decades. It's okay to stop for a while. If it's really too late, it doesn't matter if I reduce the scale."

Li Congjia is not the first emperor to say that he wants to reduce the size of his mausoleum, but he is definitely the least caring one. Other emperors have a purpose in reducing the size of their mausoleum, either for show or to let the people recuperate. After all It also takes a lot of money to build a mausoleum.

As a result, when it came to Li Congjia, he didn't need to do this at all, but he just didn't care.

The ministers of the cabinet were also convinced by him, and began to wonder if all the emperors who were favored by the heavens were like this, and they didn't care about the affairs behind them at all. After all, these days, death is like life.

After Li Congjia finished this sentence, he asked again: "Where is the deceased emperor and empress now?"

The answer was still Ji Chun, who told him to do this errand, he said: "I have already stayed in Anning City."

In Anning City, Li Congjia's eyes softened. This is another soft and special place in his heart. If there was no Anning City, perhaps there would be no Tang Dynasty today.

He thought for a while and said decisively: "Someone get ready, I'll take a quick trip to the Western Regions."

Wei Renpu couldn't keep silent at this time, he asked, "What is Your Majesty going to do?"

Li Congjia took it for granted, "Apologize, because my father and mother were both implicated in the dispute between me and the Kara Khanate. The two of you must be very angry. Naturally, I am going to apologize."

Reasonable and sufficient.

However, the ministers of the cabinet all disagreed, and other ministers were subtly persuading. Only Zhao Pu said very directly: "If the first emperor and later have a spirit in heaven, I certainly don't want your majesty to be in danger because of this. If your majesty wants to plead guilty, why not Wait for the situation to stabilize before going.”

Li Congjia shook his head resolutely: "That's not okay, A Niang may be fine, but Dad... If I neglect, maybe I will have a dream tonight."

Everyone in the cabinet: What do you think of your father?

Just like this, while persuading, while insisting, both sides are very reasonable, and no one can persuade the other. In the end, the cabinet ministers had no choice but to turn their heads to look at Shi Xueting and wink at the national teacher: Your words are useful, you Hurry up and persuade me.

Shi Xueting is a good person in the eyes of the ministers of the cabinet, but he will agree to any request that comes to his head as long as it is not particularly excessive, so at this time he really opened his mouth to speak, but Li Congjia blocked him before he could say anything She turned back: "Don't talk, you will go with me later."

Why go together?Show your parents "daughter-in-law".

Li Congjia reckoned that if there were ghosts, his father might be pissed off, but his mother would understand, right?Even if he doesn't understand, Li Zhongyu has grown up so much, there is no need to be angry with him when he sees that the child is about to be born.

Before Shi Xueting could open his mouth, he was blocked and could only look innocently at the ministers, expressing that there was nothing he could do to help.

Several ministers looked at each other and decided to retreat temporarily. Of course, this does not mean that they did not insist. They just wanted to go back and think of a better way to stop Li Congjia.

After the cabinet ministers left, Li Congjia said softly to Shi Xueting, "Just now I suddenly remembered that you haven't paid my respects to my father and mother seriously, and you can't avoid this visit this time."

In the past, every time people were sent to worship the mausoleum, they were Shi Xueting's subordinates or apprentices. Unless it was the tomb of a particularly important person, Li Congjia would go to see it himself. Need to preside over the festival.

This time Li Congjia decided to ask Shi Xueting to worship with him.

Shi Xueting didn't say anything to dissuade him, but he wanted to pay homage to him himself, so it was impossible to stop Li Congjia. This could be considered as Li Congjia had passed his identity in front of his parents, or the two of them had no way to tell the world, but It is also good to be able to get parental consent.

Well, it's impossible for the two elders to talk anyway, so accepting his worship is equivalent to agreeing!On this point, Shi Xueting was very concerned.

So when the cabinet ministers went to find Shi Xueting and wanted him to persuade Li Congjia, Shi Xueting shook his head decisively and said: "Your Majesty is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. His decisions rarely change. This time he is determined." It's useless for me to say it."

The cabinet ministers persuaded him for a long time, and found that the national teacher had probably been persuaded by the emperor, and they refused to persuade the emperor, so they could only retreat and turned to another person to persuade Li Congjia, who was naturally the crown prince Li Zhongyu.

Li Zhongyu agreed, so he took the opportunity to ask Li Congjia to talk about this matter, and said: "Daddy's daily affairs are full of opportunities, and the Western Regions are not stable. If you really want to ask your grandparents for your sins, why don't you just ask your grandparents?" Let the son go, it just so happens that the son just came back from there and is very familiar with it."

Li Congjia smiled helplessly: "No matter how familiar you are, will I still be familiar? I'm afraid I'll almost forget what Anning City looks like?"

Li Zhongyu didn't speak, but muttered in his heart: more than ten years have passed, that place has changed a lot, how familiar are you?

Of course, he didn't dare to say it, so he just said: "It doesn't matter if you are familiar with it or not, why don't you let your son go."

Li Congjia said with a serious face: "Nonsense, even if it's dangerous, I'll go, and you, if you go...wouldn't it be possible for me to have another one?"

Li Zhongyu was immediately embarrassed. Although he felt that what Li Congjia said was a bit silly, but thinking about it, it seemed that it really meant... this.

The most important thing is that it is not difficult for Li Congjia to be born again, but if he is carefully raised until he is in his teens or 20s, wait for him to inherit?

How old was Li Congjia at that time?How can you go to visit famous mountains and rivers with Shi Xueting?He would definitely not do this kind of thing, not to mention how dangerous the Western Regions could be?Zhao Kuangyin was guarding the border, and Shi Xueting was beside him. If he wanted to move him, he had to kill these two first, otherwise it would be just a matter of thinking.

Seeing that Li Zhongyu was silent, Li Congjia took the opportunity to say: "This time you are still in charge of the country, I will leave you the tiger talisman, you can be regarded as knowledgeable about military affairs, if there is an emergency situation at that time, I will allow you to be arbitrary."

After hearing this, Li Zhongyu was so frightened that he knelt down. The military power has always been a forbidden area for Li Congjia to touch. Even Li Zhongyu didn't dare to think about it. Now Li Congjia actually wants to give him the tiger talisman. What does this mean?Temptation or sincerity?

Li Zhongyu didn't dare to think about it, so he was frightened, so frightened that he knelt on the ground, almost fell down.

Li Congjia felt helpless, hey, the identities of royal father and son are really embarrassing, if they were ordinary people, his son would probably ask in surprise, "Are you serious?"

When it comes to the royal family...he is the emperor first and then the father. The older Li Zhongyu is, the more he is in awe of him, that's why this scene happened.

Li Congjia patted him on the head and said: "Get up, this is a necessary process, what you need to do now is to let go as much as possible to experience various situations, one day I will not be here, rather than you being in a hurry at that time If you are not careful, you will be controlled by the veterans, I hope you are familiar with these now. Do you understand?"

After Li Zhongyu's initial panic passed, he heard what Li Congjia said, and he had a clue in his heart. What Li Congjia said was right, there would be a day when he would not be around. At that time, Li Zhongyu had better be able to take over everything with familiarity.

Of course, Li Zhongyu couldn't accept it calmly, so he still said: "My son is terrified, but father will surely live forever."

Li Congjia smiled: "Thousands of years? A thousand-year-old king and an 8-year-old tortoise, what do you think is a good thing? Don't mother-in-law, you can take it if you want, but you don't have to show it to others. If someone refuses to accept your allocation, you can take it out again." Well, you can also happen to see if there are any unsuitable officials of the Privy Council who have been promoted recently."

Li Zhongyu was thoughtful, what is not suitable and what is suitable?Since they have been promoted, how could they not be suitable?

It's just that this time he didn't dare to say any more, so when he reached the East Palace, he was frowning.

Seeing him like this, the crown princess couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with you? What problem have you encountered?"

Li Zhongyu felt that his husband and wife were one, and said directly without concealment: "Father said that he is going to the Western Regions to pay respects to his grandfather and grandmother's tomb, and he will give me the tiger amulet for safekeeping, allowing me to be arbitrary."

"Ah!" The Crown Princess grew up, and naturally understood the meaning of the Tiger Talisman, so she couldn't help being very surprised.

Li Zhongyu said inexplicably: "Father also asked me to see if there is anything wrong with the recently promoted officials of the Privy Council."

The Crown Princess said thoughtfully: "This is... Dad allowed you to put people in the Privy Council?"

She said it bluntly, but that's what she meant. Li Congjia must have agreed to those officials being able to sit in that seat. If Li Zhongyu raised something wrong, it must be because she felt that these people were not on the same page with her. This kind of thing should be done secretly. , Li Congjia suddenly asked him to observe so openly...I always felt that something was wrong.

Li Zhongyu took a sip of tea and said: "I...I feel a little uneasy in my heart, I always feel that Dad is preparing something, he...he is in the prime of his life, how could he just watch my wings spread all over the court and the public?"

No emperor could bear this, at least Li Zhongyu himself could not bear it.

Sitting aside, the princess said thoughtfully: "The old man's current behavior is very similar to what my father once said before, to put him on the horse and see him off."

Li Congjia is currently trying his best to help Li Zhongyu onto the horse, and as for this farewell...it may be the tiger charm in his hand.

Seeing that Li Zhongyu was in a dilemma, the Crown Princess couldn't help but said: "If you are not sure, you don't have to do anything drastic. If you think it's wrong, write it down. If Dad didn't ask, just treat it as if it didn't exist. If you asked Yes, you can answer too."

Li Zhongyu frowned, and he really meant that, no matter whether his father asked him or not, he had to pay attention now, and if in the future...he could respond in time.

Li Congjia doesn't care what Li Zhongyu thinks, Shi Xueting naturally doesn't care how Li Congjia educates his son, the two of them are happily preparing...to travel.

At first Li Congjia really wanted to simply go to worship, but later he had a little desire to revisit his old place.

As a result, at this moment, Ali Musa, who was pushed to the extreme, actually shouted to Li Congjia from the air: "Does Emperor Tang dare to fight me fairly?" !