Tang Dynasty

In February, on top of the original land equalization system, the imperial court stipulated that every Ding should be paid to the imperial court every year with two stones of millet, two zhangs of silk, and three taels of cotton, which is called the "zuyong adjustment method".

"Once this decree comes out, it will definitely be beneficial to people's livelihood and recuperation, and the restoration of farming." Li Yuan looked at the accounts presented everywhere, nodded in satisfaction, and raised his eyes to Li Jiancheng, "The prince has really worked hard on this matter for the past few months. That's a lot."

After days of busy work, Li Jiancheng's complexion was slightly pale, but he said respectfully after hearing the words: "It is the duty of sons and ministers to share the worries of the father and the emperor."

Li Yuan put down the accounts in his hand, and said with a smile: "As the prince of the country, this is the only way to go."

Li Jiancheng thought about Pei Ji's suggestion that day, he couldn't help but paused slightly, cupped his hands and said: "I would like to follow the teachings of my father."

Li Yuan paused and said with a smile: "I heard that the day before yesterday I captured a few Japanese people for their secret work. How did you go about it?"

"I have personally tried it, so there is no doubt that it is meticulous." Li Jiancheng replied, "The case is closed, and I will send someone to send the completed case file, please look at it."

"It doesn't have to be like this," Li Yuan waved his hands and said with a smile, "Since the matter is entrusted to the crown prince, I can trust it."

Knowing that he did this just to examine himself casually, so Li Jiancheng didn't say too much, just replied in a low voice: "Yes."

After a few gossiping words and quitting, Li Jiancheng returned to the mansion a little tiredly, but he listened to the humane, and the King of Qin was already waiting in the room.

He has never paid any attention to the rules of his Prince's Mansion, and Li Jiancheng has become accustomed to it, so he has no intention of pursuing it.It was only after hearing the servant's words that he suddenly realized that since Liu Wenjing's death, although no one has mentioned this matter again, Li Shimin seldom came to him in this way.

He thinks that this matter has been done impeccably, and he doesn't know why, he just feels that there seems to be something strange hidden in it.

After a moment of pondering, he opened the door and walked into the room.

Li Shimin was sitting on a chair flipping through the scrolls, and when he saw this, he stood up immediately and said with a slight smile, "Brother."

But after a few days of separation, today he is dressed in a pale blue brocade robe with dark patterns, and besides being handsome, he actually shows a bit of dignity and calmness.Li Jiancheng looked at him, quickly recovered his expression, approached and said, "I heard that although the people of the world stayed in Chang'an for a while, they never neglected many affairs of Changchun Palace. Even though they wanted to recuperate, they were actually not idle."

"Since my father has entrusted me with a heavy responsibility, I can't let it go. However, how can the mere matter of Guandong be compared to my brother's concern for the world?" Li Shimin smiled lightly, looked up at him, and said slowly, "It's just a Taoist platform in eastern Shaanxi. The post of Shang Shu Ling should not be left for too long. The people of the world have already written to the father and emperor, requesting to return, and they will leave in a few days."

Li Jiancheng paused for a while, but quickly smiled, and said, "Since that's the case, the people of the world should take care of themselves."

The voice fell, and the two were speechless for a while.After a while, Li Shimin stepped forward, and the two stood face to face.

Li Jiancheng did not dodge or dodge, raised his eyes, but saw that the other party did not look at him.

Li Shimin's stature is slightly taller than him, but his eyes are downcast, looking from top to bottom, lingering on Li Jiancheng's face.From the depth of the skirt, to the collarbone, to the neck, to the jaw, to the lips, to the nose, to the face...

His face was exceptionally quiet and serious, as if looking at him carefully.It wasn't until the end that Li Jiancheng's gaze passed through Li Jiancheng's slightly drooping long eyelashes and fell into his eyes.

Li Jiancheng looked into his eyes all the time, never opened his mouth, and never looked away.

Looking at each other, Li Shimin stretched out his hand to caress Li Jiancheng's side face, and slowly clasped the side of his neck firmly, fixing the entire face in the palm of his hand.

Li Jiancheng's face was still as usual calm, even if he stared intently like this, he couldn't lose any emotion.

"Brother..." Li Shimin opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he could only call out these two words in a hoarse voice.

Li Jiancheng lowered his eyes slightly upon hearing this.He slowly stretched out his hand, grasped Li Shimin's wrist, and gently pulled it away.

Then he clasped the opponent's face with his backhand, leaned forward and kissed him.

A kiss is like the touch of a dragonfly on water, with the breeze and drizzle, there is no trace left in an instant.

Li Jiancheng let go and separated the two very quickly, but the other's lips and teeth followed closely.

When he touched Li Jiancheng's breath again, Li Shimin reached out and clasped the opponent's waist, pulling him closer and clinging to him.

The shallow kiss suddenly deepened, turning into an attack between lips and teeth.

Li Jiancheng couldn't avoid it, and knew that there was no need to avoid it, so he just closed his eyes, let the breath become chaotic in the exchange with each other, let his body and mind trust the horse, and didn't need to worry too much.

Only at this moment can the tight string in my heart be temporarily let go.

During the kiss, the two had already moved to the bedside.Li Shimin pressed the person under his body, and stared at it for a moment, with the flame of lust dancing in his eyes.

The next moment, he tore open the skirt of the other party, leaned down and spread the kiss, kissing inch by inch, still calling "big brother" indistinctly as usual.

This time, the kisses all over the body came extremely violently, almost like gnawing.Li Jiancheng tensed his body slightly and raised his jaw.He clearly felt the difference, but he was already trapped bit by bit by this madness, unable to extricate himself.

It was clearly a severe winter day, but where the two touched, a thick flame had already ignited.Wherever the flame passed, the body and mind were burned to ashes.

Feeling the slight emotional movement of the person under him, Li Shimin's heart trembled, and he could no longer restrain himself.He didn't hesitate anymore, he stood up and merged the impatient two into one.

Even though they are already too familiar with each other's bodies, the long-lost fit for many days has come to be extraordinarily deep.

Li Jiancheng groaned uncontrollably, and then exhaled very slowly in the air where the severe pain subsided.

Although he raised his face, his long eyelashes were drooping down, making it hard for people to see the expression in his eyes clearly.However, even so, the fragility that cannot be concealed at that moment is still so beautiful that it can teach people's hearts.

Li Shimin buried himself in the deepest part of the other party, and what slowly emerged in his mind was just the fleeting look just now.He was obsessed with this look, because only the eldest brother at that moment was without any disguise.

Just that moment.

After that moment, the epiphyllum withered and replaced it with a flower that was equally beautiful but no longer real.

Li Shimin stared fixedly at the person below him who was panting slightly, without any trace.It is clear that she has had such skin-to-skin kisses countless times, but she...has never seen him clearly.

——Brother, what are you thinking in your heart, why have I never seen clearly?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's heart darkened slightly.He pulled himself out suddenly, and the next moment, he pushed forward with all his might.

So forward and backward, so back and forth.It's like lashing out, like catharsis.

Li Jiancheng clasped the opponent's shoulders in a daze, feeling as if he was not tied to a boat, full of stalks and floating weeds.He could feel Li Shimin's abnormality today, but when a thought surfaced, it was covered by layers of waves, which finally disrupted his thoughts...

The next day, when Li Shimin got up and put on his clothes, it was still dark.He straightened his clothes and stood by the bed, but in the dim morning light, Li Jiancheng was lying inwards wrapped in a quilt, and his figure looked extraordinarily thin.The blue hair crawled messily by the pillow, like a blooming flower.

Li Shimin bent down and hugged him gently through the quilt.Li Jiancheng didn't seem to wake up, his breath was light and steady, as calm and calm as he was.

"Brother?" Li Shimin leaned closer again, calling in a low voice.

Li Jiancheng didn't respond, presumably because he was too tired.

"Shimin lost his importance last night." Li Shimin stayed for a moment, smiled silently, kissed him lightly on the back of the neck, and said in a low voice, "Brother, I'm sorry."

The voice fell away, he stopped lingering, turned and left.

He closed the door and stood facing the yard.Li Shimin raised his face, looked at the sky that was already getting brighter, and smiled lightly, only feeling self-deprecating.

Almost last night, I opened my mouth and asked.However, after all, it fell short.

——Brother, if I don't get an answer from you personally, I... won't believe it.

——As long as you deny it, the people of the world will believe you.

——But... what if you admit it?

In fact, he understood that with Li Jiancheng's nature, if he did it, he would never deny it.Because of this, he was afraid to ask the final answer.

Or maybe, he already knew in his heart that the answer was already in front of him, and whether he believed it or not was only up to him.

He stubbornly chose not to believe it, but in the face of the facts, he became more and more powerless.

With a low sigh, he felt for the first time that he was in too deep.Maybe really... you should calm down.

At the same time, in the room across the door, Li Jiancheng sat up and slowly put on his underwear.After this night, it seemed as if all the strength in his body had been drained, and he was still sluggish for a while.Holding the edge of the underwear, before putting it on, the fingertips loosened and fell in front of him.

Li Jiancheng followed it and lowered his head, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the faint purple color on his chest.Recalling the out-of-body madness last night, he stretched out his hand and slowly pressed the position of his heart.

Inside the chest cavity, a heart was beating evenly and powerfully.

——But Li Jiancheng, have you already forgotten how this heart was pierced by an arrow?

——How can you... forget?How dare you forget?

With a self-deprecating laugh, he leaned back against the head of the bed and let out an inaudible sigh.

----

Three days later, Li Shimin returned to Changchun Palace with Liu Wenjing's coffin.Liu Wenjing is from Pengcheng, Suzhou, and he will be buried in his hometown.

Li Jianjian stood at the head of the city, silently watching the chariots and horses leave without saying a word, only the sound of his robes and cloak fluttering in the wind was particularly obvious.

"Your Highness, King Qin has already gone far away." Wei Zheng stayed not far away for a long time, and finally came forward and said softly.

At this time, the deep winter has passed, the vegetation sprouts, and some emerald green colors are sparsely added between the sky and the earth.And the chariots and horses just now disappeared without a trace.

However, Li Jiancheng still stared into the distance, and after a long time, he lowered his eyes and said, "I underestimated Shimin after all."

Wei Zheng was taken aback when he heard the words, then paused, as if he had already understood.

"King Qin..."

"The people of the world already know that Liu Wenjing's death is inextricably related to me." Li Jiancheng said, his tone changed from the trance just now to affirmation.

Wei Zheng raised his eyes to look at him, and said: "Then what does His Highness think, according to King Qin's nature...how?"

"He knows it, but he still keeps his face. This is beyond my expectation." Li Jiancheng laughed, his voice was unusually calm, "What will happen to him... Actually, I am also very curious."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Wei Zheng to say another word, he turned around and walked down the wall.

"Let's go", as light as a low sigh.

Wei Zheng shook his head behind him.Whenever he thought he was about to see through Li Jiancheng's mind, the next moment, the other party seemed to be looking at flowers through a fog, already separated by thousands of clouds and mountains.

Wei Zheng faintly felt that he seemed to be hiding something in his heart all the time, which he had never told anyone before.The secret is hidden in the deepest part of the heart, no light is allowed, no one is allowed to peep.

Just for this reason, he will never get close to anyone, always alienated and lonely.

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng suddenly hated him, hated him so deeply, hated himself for not being able to put a knife on his neck and force him to confide it all.However, he also knew that with Li Jiancheng's nature, even if he was driven to a desperate situation, he would not utter a single word.

However, with such a backlog in my heart, will it become a disease after a long time?

My heart tightened slightly, but in the end I just sighed helplessly, followed Li Jiancheng's pace, and walked down the tower.

----

Not long after Li Shimin left, there was a storm in the north, and there was no longer peace.

Turkic Shibi Khan died, and his younger brother Ashina Tulif was appointed to take over the position of Khan as Chuluo Khan.After Chuluo Khan came to power, Mingli still followed the old agreement with Li Tang, but secretly colluded with Mayi Liu Wuzhou, and his army marched south.

Liu Wuzhou was very ambitious, and it happened that not long after Li Yuan started his army in Taiyuan, because of the rumor of invading Taiyuan, there was a debate in the army about whether to advance or retreat.But at this moment, Liu Wuzhou has been dormant for several years, and after finding a strong backer, he finally couldn't hold back and sent troops to attack.

Qi Wang Li Yuanji had guarded Taiyuan for a long time. Hearing that Liu Wuzhou had stationed troops at Huangsheling, which was only a short distance away from Taiyuan, he immediately sent several generals to lead his army to fight.However, Liu Wuzhou came in a menacing way, and his main general, his rival in love, returned home in a big defeat. He taught the enemy army to take the opportunity to break through Yuci, and then seized Shizhou and Pingyao. Taiyuan has become surrounded.

In June, Liu Wuzhou dispatched general Song Jingang to attack the city with 3 troops. At that time, Li Yuan, who had received a request for help, had already sent a large army to meet the enemy.Under the confrontation between the two armies, the Tang army was defeated again.Li Yuan was angry, and sent Pei Ji to be the general manager of the Jinzhou Road, and fought against Song Jingang in Jiezhou.However, Song Jingang was resourceful, witty and brave. He sent people to cut off the Tang army's water source, and then led the army to attack when he moved the camp to get water.Even Pei Ji was overwhelmed, so he had to retreat in a hurry.

After losing three times in a row, everything north of Jinzhou, except for Xihe, has already fallen into Liu Wenjing's hands.This situation, compared to Liu Wenjing's defeat by Xue Ju that day, can be said to be even worse.

A few days later, Li Yuanji hurried back to Chang'an from Taiyuan. When he saw Li Yuan, he immediately kowtowed to plead guilty.

Seeing big and small wounds all over his body, Li Yuan couldn't help sighing when he thought that the child was only in the age of dancing elephants: "The Liu Wuzhou people are fierce, and the generals like Song Jingang are both wise and brave. It is not your fault that you underestimated Liu Wuzhou and did not take strict precautions."

Li Yuanji stood up when he heard the words, but his expression still blamed himself.

Li Jianjian stood aside, but he was stubborn, seeing that he was still pleading guilty, he rushed to say: "Father, my son is willing to lead the army to conquer Liu Wuzhou."

"No," but Li Yuan shook his head when he heard the words, "The crown prince is the prince of the country, and you don't need to go out to lead troops to fight."

Li Jiancheng was silent when he heard the words, but he clearly knew in his heart that even though Li Yuan never recalled Li Shimin from the Changchun Palace for a while, in fact, he was the best candidate for the general in his heart, but there was no one else.

only……

Li Jiancheng frowned slightly, but took a step forward, and said again: "Father, Liu Wuzhou is just a reckless man. Today, he can be so rampant because of the help of the Turks." After a pause, he looked up at Li Yuan, "Father I still remember that when it was completed, it was promised that if the Turks invaded the country in the future, they would be willing to take full responsibility for it.”

Li Yuan naturally understood that what Li Jiancheng was referring to was the matter of letting the tiger go back to the mountain that day.He pondered for a while, and said: "Of course I remember your promise that day, and I know that you should have your own considerations. However, things change at any time. At this moment, your crown prince is the foundation of the country, but you should not act rashly. Yes." Seeing that Li Jiancheng seemed to want to say more, he simply waved his hand and said, "This matter...will be discussed at the court tomorrow, and then we can think about it."

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Li Jiancheng had no choice but to agree, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In fact, he already had a feeling in his heart, since the Chuluo Khan had already become a brother and sister, and ascended the Khan's position, the current Dubi is already the most noble prince of the Turks.

This battle depends on him, I'm afraid he can't get rid of it.

—Brother, are you... are you back?

The author has something to say: Er Dai seems to be a bit of a ghost...

And when I was writing, I suddenly remembered a conversation with a certain author X:

X: Do JJ’s boat scenes have to turn on the lights now? I don’t know how to write.

Me: No need, the crackdown has not been so severe recently.Just find an unlocked one for reference.

X: I read yours... You obviously turned on the light.

Me: Huh?I didn't turn on the light?

X: Obviously pulled...

(Silence for a while)

Me: (°ー°〃) Mo, Mo Fei... I always thought that I didn't turn on the light... In the eyes of others, it was just... just turning on the light...

X: Cough cough, it seems...it's like this...

Me: ... OTLLLL

snort!Not at all! !

Have you ever seen a H who is as fragrant and completely unaware as I am?Heh heh heh heh!It's impossible! ! !