Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 403 Empress Zhangsun's Warning

Chapter 399

Sitting in the study, Li Chengqian didn't know what Changsun Wuji wanted from him. Normally, Changsun Wuji would not say that he had important matters to discuss with him.

"Uncle, what's the important thing?" Li Chengqian asked after pouring tea for Changsun Wuji while sitting there.

"Well, the old man wants to know, are you very close to Wei Hao?" Changsun Wuji stared at Li Chengqian and asked.

"Here, uncle, Shen Yonggu's brother-in-law, and his own brother-in-law, Gu can't alienate him, besides, he is one of the courtiers that the father relies on, so Gu can't ignore him, right?" Li Chengqian smiled when he heard it. , asked to Changsun Wuji, knowing in his heart that he came to him for something.

"Your Highness, listen to Gu's advice and stay away from him. You don't want this person to be favored now, but once he loses power, he will implicate many people at that time. This person's behavior is Meng Lang, and sooner or later he will have a big fall. You want Just think carefully, don't get close to him just because he is in power now!" Changsun Wuji directly explained to Li Chengqian.

"Here, uncle, Gu's association with him is not because he gains power or loses power, but because he is Gu's brother-in-law. This is family affection. You know, Gu and Lizhi have a very good relationship. And, um, although Shen Yong's character On the one hand, there are indeed deficiencies, but in other words, I didn't make any big mistakes, and my father is still very satisfied with him. Uncle, if there is any misunderstanding between you, how about I make peace with you? " Li Chengqian sat there, looked at Changsun Wuji and said.

"There is no misunderstanding, but I think that if he does this, he will suffer a long time ago. It is very dangerous to be with such a person, and it will even threaten your crown prince. You are not young now. Your Majesty is in his prime. If you don't go well, it's very easy to be suspected by His Majesty,

Your Royal Highness, you still have to listen to my advice, and you must never associate with him. This person needs to stay away. Of course, I also know that he is a capable minister, but now, he can only To be used by His Majesty is not to be used by you. If His Majesty finds out that you are close to him, he will definitely suspect you. Your Highness, you need to think carefully! "Changsun Wuji continued to persuade Li Chengqian and said,
But Li Chengqian didn't believe what he said in his heart. One was that he had a good relationship with Wei Hao, and Wei Hao had helped him a lot.

The other one is that the queen mother has personally confessed to herself that if she wants to teach him well, he will become her right-hand man, and the emperor father also confessed to himself that Wei Hao will help him a lot in the future, and he can solve the problems that many ministers in the court cannot solve. For things, you have to pay attention to Wei Hao yourself. Now that Changsun Wuji said so, Li Chengqian is very suspicious of his motives.
However, now that Changsun Wuji has said that, it is difficult for Li Chengqian to refute him, so he can only smile and nod his head and say: "Well, uncle is right, I will seriously consider it, Shen Yong's character is indeed a problem !"

"Well, Your Highness must remember that it is best to stay away from this person!" Changsun Wuji was also very satisfied when he saw Li Chengqian nodding his head.

"Yes, but it's unrealistic to stay away completely, after all, he is an orphaned brother-in-law." Li Chengqian continued.

"That's true, but as long as you can save face, after all, he is also the Duke of the court, and also your brother-in-law, but don't let him know about the East Palace. I know that Liu Zhiyuan is recommended by Wei Hao. Reuse, I am worried that Liu Zhiyuan will tell Wei Hao about the East Palace, which will be bad." Changsun Wuji continued to speak,
And Li Chengqian was a little unhappy when he heard what he said. He was involved in the personnel arrangement of the East Palace. Let alone whether Liu Zhiyuan is capable or not, he should not say this, even if Liu Zhiyuan is Wei Wei. Hao's people can't be replaced easily, this one was sent by Li Shimin,
On the contrary, when Liu Zhiyuan was in the East Palace, when he assisted Li Chengqian in handling local affairs, he was very experienced and handled it very well. Now that Changsun Wuji said so, it was tantamount to interfering in his own personnel arrangements.

"Well, probably not. I have investigated Liu Zhiyuan. If this person is said to belong to Wei Hao, he would have been promoted a long time ago. It is because he asked Shen Yong's brother-in-law. Shen Yong went to the Ministry of Officials to find out. There was no interference. Originally, the Ministry of Officials was planning to send him to the East Palace. Uncle, please rest assured.

In addition, Liu Zhiyuan, Gu also discovered that he is indeed a bit capable. He has been a county magistrate for 15 years, and his evaluation is good. Therefore, this person is in the East Palace and can assist Gu in handling state and county affairs! "Li Chengqian immediately spoke for Liu Zhiyuan.

"Your Highness, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case. What if he belongs to Wei Hao?" Changsun Wuji sat there, staring at Li Chengqian and said,
Li Chengqian looked at Changsun Wuji with displeasure in his heart. How could he belong to Wei Hao? If Wei Hao had such scheming, he would still quarrel with those ministers. Besides, Liu Zhiyuan's matter was indeed his own. I heard Gao Shilian said that it was not arranged by Wei Hao at all, but now Changsun Wuji wants to kick Liu Zhiyuan out of the East Palace by himself, which is a bit too much, just because of Wei Hao, it is impossible to kill all the people around Wei Hao, This Li Chengqian could not agree.

"Uncle, you are overthinking, it's okay, uncle, come to drink tea, don't talk about these things, I know, you said these things for my own good, I thank you, but I will take care of Shenyong's matter, Don't worry!" Li Chengqian said to Changsun Wuji while holding tea,

Changsun Wuji also took a look at Li Chengqian, knowing that Li Chengqian would not listen to him, and felt even more grief and indignation. If he could not control Li Chengqian and make Li Chengqian completely rely on him, then it would not be worthwhile for him to keep a low profile all these years. I can serve as the six ministers or even the left and right servants,

But because I am the elder brother of Empress Changsun, in order to prevent my relatives from being too powerful, I deliberately avoid suspicion, instead of serving in the court, I work in the East Palace, hoping to control the prince and let the prince rely on me, the same is true.

Unexpectedly, since last year, Li Chengqian hadn't listened to his own words very much. Of course, he would still listen to his own suggestions when dealing with government affairs, but apart from this, he basically didn't listen to other things.

"Uncle, let's not talk about Shenyong. I know that you look down on Shenyong for doing things. Let's not talk about him. Let's talk about my cousin and cousins. Cousin is at the iron workshop now. I heard that He did a good job, his father praised him several times, his cousins ​​and uncle should recommend them, and it is time to start exercising!" Li Chengqian didn't want to continue this topic, so he started talking about Changsun Chong and the others.

Changsun Wuji felt uncomfortable when he heard it, but he didn't dare to show it, so he could only talk about Changsun Chong and the others.

After chatting for a while, Changsun Wuji left,

As soon as he returned to his Duke of Qi's mansion, a eunuch came to report that the Empress wanted to meet him in the Lizheng Hall, so Changsun Wuji immediately went to the Lizheng Hall. Sitting in the sun room.Sizi and Li Zhi were also playing in it.

"Brother, come, let's drink tea. It's been a while since I've had a good time with my brother." Empress Changsun said to Changsun Wuji, while she was pouring tea for him.

"Thank you, empress!" Changsun Wuji said very respectfully.

"Well, I have everything at home, how are my sister-in-laws, and how are my nephews and nieces?" Empress Changsun continued to ask.

"Okay, it's good to entrust the empress's blessing!" Changsun Wuji immediately nodded and said.

"Well, that's good. On my sister's side, I can't go out of the palace at will. I thought I'd go home and have a look, but it's cold now. My sister thought, when the weather gets warmer, I'll go home and see Look at sister-in-law and nephew!" Empress Changsun continued to speak with a smile.

"That's good, if you go back, others will not dare to bully our family when they see it." Changsun Wuji said with a smile.

"Brother, is someone bullying our family?" Empress Changsun heard the voice-over and immediately asked.

"Hey, ma'am, someone doesn't take you seriously now!" Changsun Wuji sighed deliberately, and said very melancholy.

"Brother, you can't, who doesn't know that you are my elder brother, who dares to bully you? Who is so short-sighted?" Empress Changsun couldn't believe it, unless it was a blind person, otherwise, who would dare to bully you? Dare to bully Changsun Wuji, even if Changsun Wuji has no credit, no one would dare to bully, not to mention, Changsun Wuji has a lot of credit for following His Majesty.

"Well, it's Shenyong. Shenyong has been at odds with this old man. The old man is talking about the matter. However, Shen Yong thinks that the old man is deliberately targeting him. He said that the old man retaliated against him outside the Ganlu Palace yesterday, ha!" Ji said with a wry smile,

After hearing this, Empress Changsun realized that he came here to sue Shenyong. This was not the same as what she had heard. Moreover, Changsun Wuji and Hou Junji were the ones who advocated cutting the title yesterday. , Of course, there are some unremarkable ministers, but now, he actually sued first,

Hearing this, Empress Changsun felt a little unhappy.

"Brother, how talented is Shen Yong, and what does he know? You, don't argue with him. It's unnecessary. Besides, he has made a lot of contributions to His Majesty, and he can be regarded as a capable minister. My sister also hopes that you can be with Shen Yong." Let's support each other, big brother should not cause conflicts with him." Empress Changsun still said with a smile, although she was unhappy in her heart, she still smiled, after all, the person in front of her was her own brother, and when her parents After his early death, he was brought up by his elder brother. Empress Changsun still respects this elder brother very much.

"Ma'am, it's not that I don't want to support each other with him, but that this person is completely a villain, a businessman, look, what's going on in the court now? Many craftsmen don't work in the Ministry of Industry. Instead, he went to start a workshop. Also, besides Changsun Wuji, he has a better relationship with the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty. How many times did he have a good relationship with those civil servants?

Wei Hao's doing this is tantamount to humiliating all our civil servants, and he also said that our civil servants are ignorant and incompetent. This, the minister really can't bear it! "Changsun Wuji sat there, and continued to complain to Empress Changsun. When Empress Changsun heard it, she looked at Changsun Wuji with a sigh in her heart.

"Brother, let's talk about ourselves, are you worried about the matter between him and Lizhi? Because of this, you have been doing something against Shen Yong, impeaching Shen Yong several times, and even framed Shen Yong." Yong once?" Empress Changsun was about to cut straight to the point, he didn't want the two of them to continue fighting, it would be bad for him, and it would be bad for Li Chengqian, so he wanted to make things clear.

"This, nothing!" Changsun Wuji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said immediately.

"I think it is, big brother, you are usually very shrewd person, and you also have a lot of credit for the court, why can't you get by with Shen Yong? No matter how bad Shen Yong is, he is a beautiful future Your husband is my son-in-law and your nephew,

There's no way Lizhi can't be with Chong'er. Besides, it's good for the eldest grandson's family if the two of them are not together. Why don't you understand?I just hope Lizhi and Chong'er get married,
Don't think that this palace doesn't know that Chong'er has a woman outside, and even has children. Brother, there are some things that my sister doesn't want to tell the truth. After all, you are my own brother. I just turn a blind eye to many things. One-eyed, but this time, you treat Shen Yong like this, I am very unhappy, very unhappy! Empress Changsun stared at Changsun Wuji and said in a very stern tone. Changsun Wuji looked at Empress Changsun dumbfounded!

"You just said all kinds of wrong things about Shen Yong, well, haven't you seen Shen Yong's achievements?" Empress Changsun continued to stare at Changsun Wuji and asked,

But Changsun Wuji was in a daze at the moment, he didn't expect that his sister called him here just to criticize him, and she was so severe, this was the first time in history.

"Of course, Shenyong must be credited!" Changsun Wuji said immediately, still not convinced.

"The credit is great. The credit you have seen has disintegrated the family. Now the court is picking up scholars. There are many poor families who know how to enter the court as officials. This is something that has not been done for many years and generations. Shen Yong has done it, and Now the family is completely suppressed by His Majesty,
Also, there are many credits that you don’t know about, His Majesty didn’t announce them, big brother, Shen Yong’s ability, you are clear, why do you want to offend such a person, I have never understood why Li Jing picked up this cheap Go, let Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Jingde, Fang Xuanling pick it up,
You also have a daughter, and you also need money. If you had a good relationship with Wei Hao at the beginning, and we have this relationship with us, the cheapness can still go to them. Now you look at their situation, and then look Look at you, brother, didn't you realize that His Majesty let Wei Hao do this on purpose?
Because doing so is the most beneficial for the court. Now the court has a lot more taxes, and a lot of money is not earned from the Central Plains, but from the surrounding countries. In addition, the straight road has been repaired. You also know how much help Tang will have in foreign wars in the future, and you need money to do these things!
Brother, don't continue to embarrass Shen Yong. If you continue like this, the eldest grandson's family will suffer, not Shen Yong!Don't regret it when the time comes! "Empress Changsun warned Changsun Wuji, and Changsun Wuji stared at Empress Changsun.

"Empress, I don't understand why you and Your Majesty trust Wei Hao so much. This person is not as simple as he appears on the surface. He looks like a fool, but he is actually smarter than anyone else!" The eldest grandson Wuji sat there, looking at the eldest grandson. The queen said in a low voice.

"Smart? That's good. I'm worried that he's not smart, and he will suffer a loss. As for you saying that he is not as simple as the surface, brother, this child, from ordinary people to the Duke, has suffered so much. He will still suffer so much." If you have a long memory, won’t it be over if you don’t have a long memory?

I know better than you how this child is. It can be said that my sister has watched him grow step by step to the present. My sister is very happy to have the ability he has today. From a child who knew nothing to now a The important ministers of the court, elder brother, Gao Ming is still young, younger sister and His Majesty, all have to choose some talents for Gao Ming, right?
Now Chong'er and the children of Fang Xuanling's family are good candidates, and so is Shen Yong. Shen Yong's ability to handle affairs is incomparable to all of you ministers. Brother, Shen Yong was chosen by me and His Majesty personally for Gao Ming. Minister, I hope that after the two of us leave, there will be someone in the court who can help Gao Ming. Now that Shen Yong is Gao Ming's brother-in-law, if Shen Yong doesn't help him, who will he help?Is it impossible to help King Wu?
Brother, you have also done a lot for Gao Ming, and you also hope Gao Ming is doing well, right?Now His Majesty is still in his prime, but Gao Ming is grown up, hey, brother, you have never considered what accidents will happen when the Emperor is in his prime and the Crown Prince is young, my sister has always been very careful, hoping to strengthen Gao Ming's position in His Majesty's mind, Don't let people easily shake Gao Ming's status, I believe brother you think so too! "Sitting there, Queen Changsun looked at Changsun Wuji and said in a very low voice. At this moment, Changsun Wuji was also shocked, but he still didn't want to reconcile with Wei Hao just like that.

"Brother, if Gao Ming fails to succeed to the throne, will the eldest grandson's family still be able to maintain that glory? You and Shen Yong can be said to have the same goal, so why can't you get along well? Shen Yong has helped Gao Ming do a lot of things, He also helped Gao Ming to say a lot in front of His Majesty, otherwise, Gao Ming would not be where he is today, and Gao Ming would not be so mature now!" Empress Changsun continued to speak to Changsun Wuji.

"Hey!" Changsun Wuji sighed.

"Brother, my sister doesn't want you to conflict with him the most. My sister doesn't worry about who you conflict with, but he can't. There are many things you don't know. Shen Yong has helped His Majesty do a lot of things. There are a lot of credits that cannot be said publicly, if you are so hostile to Shen Yong, His Majesty will only snub you at that time!" Empress Changsun continued to warn Changsun Wuji.

(End of this chapter)