Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 990 Candidates

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, after the Lantern Festival, the seal was finally opened to go to the court, and the news about Handan King Li Huairen's departure to Beijing has spread. The entire Chang'an City, from the court officials to the public, is full of discussions .

Many people speculate that Li Shan's self-disarmament and return to Beijing is directly related to the rumors and rumors years ago. The emperor fears the most for supporting the army.

Some people also speculated that it was Li Shan's own choice. After all, high meritorious service is hard to reward. Even if he is promoted to the heir to the king, there is actually no essential difference from the county king, and it is difficult to squeeze out a suitable position for the Handan king in terms of position. .

Li Yuan didn't care about these rumors, and in the Liangyi Hall after the court early in the morning, he mentioned with great interest that the Turks might think they had succeeded.

There are not many things to discuss today, the first thing is about music.

The position of music in the government cannot be said to be important, but it is an indispensable part. After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, most of the systems followed the former Sui Dynasty. , used the Jiubu music customized by the Sui Dynasty, but in the past two years, because of the dominance of the world and repeated defeats by the Turks, Li Yuan intends to assume the new position at the end of last year.

In this regard, Prince Li Jiancheng has stronger connections than the King of Qin. He recommends Xiaosun Xiaosun, the Shaoqing ancestor of Taichang Temple. This person is from Youzhou. He was an official in the former Sui Dynasty. Wu Rong's trick.

After thinking about it, Li Yuan nodded and agreed, and ordered his ancestor Xiaosun to revise the "Gala Music of the Tang Dynasty"... If Li Shan was present, he would definitely be very interested in the surname "Zu". It is Fan Yangzu's family who came from Zu Chongzhi.

In fact, Fan Yangzu's clan is full of talented people. In the past two years, Li Shan was not very clear about the allusions of some idioms. He once asked about the origin of "Zhongliu hit Ji", and Ling Jing told him that it came from the famous Zu Ti.

The idioms elicited by this Zu Ti include "dancing at the sound of the chicken", "once the Nantang comes out", and "first I hold the whip" in addition to "the middle stream hits the boat". A few years ago, Zu Junyan also wrote an essay, "It is too difficult to write a book" is here.

It is simply a family of idioms.

The first thing passed easily, and the second thing... Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are on the pole again. Although the former is weak now, he is plausible and does not back down. support.

Li Yuan actually leaned towards Li Shimin, which was determined by his identity as emperor. At the beginning of the founding of the country, because in the previous hundreds of years of troubled times, there were often precedents of generals rebelling and even killing their masters to establish a country, so Li Yuan insisted on using clan children to lead the army.

To a large extent, it is because of this that Li Shimin led the army at a young age, and he was undefeated in the battlefield. However, besides Li Shimin, quite a few clan children also made meritorious service, and these sons of Li Yuan's great-grandfather brothers, same-great-grandfather brothers, and brothers were all enshrined. For the county king.

Therefore, Feng Lun mentioned in a meeting at the end of last year that the Prince of Wugong County might be demoted.

This matter was strongly opposed by the Eastern Palace, and there was nothing to be done about it. Prince Li Jiancheng had always been lenient to the clan's children, but those who attached to the Eastern Palace were such trash as Xiangyi King Li Shenfu and Lujiang County King Li Yuan, who attached to King Qin. Although there is Huai'an King Li Shentong who is also very useless, there are also generals like Huaiyang King Li Daoxuan.

Li Yuan knew in his heart, there are only dozens of county kings now, and there are more than a dozen princes in the harem, who will definitely be deposed in the future, no matter who takes over the throne, this is for sure... This is also because he is dissatisfied with the crown prince. The reason for leaning towards the King of Qin is that the prince promised in private that the county king would not be deposed as a prince.

If you don’t lower the title, you only need three or four generations, then hundreds of princes and county kings will be created, and these people will not only have one son, the eldest son will inherit the title, and other sons may also be lowered. Jue, then there will be big troubles.

However, at this critical moment, it is a bit unwise for King Qin's lineage to bring up this matter, and it will make the East Palace cheaper... Li Yuan glanced at Feng Lun, wondering whether it was Feng Lun's own idea, or Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Ling Ling, etc. Please advise Erlang.

In fact, Li Shimin is now full of anger. He did discuss with Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Ling Jing, and the final decision was quite ruthless. Down the county marquis, county uncle, county man, and county son, after four generations, they will be civilians.

There were other aides present at the time, and Feng Lun was among them... In the Tiance Mansion, Feng Lun has a very high status. There was resentment, so Li Shimin didn't let him know Li Shan's life experience.

And this matter was suggested by Feng Lun to Li Yuan without informing Li Shimin in advance, but there is a reason to explain it afterwards... It is better for His Majesty to do this kind of thing, why should His Highness take the blame?

It's really hard for Li Shimin to say anything, because this suggestion was first proposed by Feng Lun in Tiance Mansion.

Sitting in the back half-closed his eyes, Pei Shiju glanced at Feng Lun. Among the people present, only he and Feng Lun were former officials of the Sui Dynasty. He also knew this colleague very well. Note guy.

In the former Sui Dynasty, Feng Lun was praised by Yang Su and married Yang Su's cousin, but Yang Su was seriously ill. Feng Lun immediately got involved with Su Wei, Yang Su's political opponent. Yang Guang didn't like it, and Feng Lun quickly climbed onto the thigh of Yu Shiji, who was most trusted by Yang Guang.

Even though Yu Wenhua and Jiangdu killed the emperor later, and Beishang was defeated continuously in the Central Plains, Feng Lunton, who was appointed by Yu Wenhua and the internal history order, watched the situation in Jibei, and finally did it when Yu Wenhua and Li Mi were both defeated. Finally chose Tou Tang.

After the two sides debated for a long time, Li Yuan finally decided to put it aside temporarily.

Now there is only one last thing left, about the successor of the head of the Lingzhou Xingjun Road after Handan King Li Huairen returned to the court.

At this time, Chen Shuda, the provincial servant under his door, took out a memorial from his sleeve, "Your Majesty, I just received the memorial from Duke Dou Gui, the deputy chief of the Lingzhou Road march."

Pei Shiju couldn't help cursing inwardly, Chen Shuda is very gracious in flattering King Qin's stinky feet!

After thinking about it, he knew that he was also a provincial servant, but he didn't see Dou Gui's memorial. It was obviously hidden by Chen Shuda, and it was obviously aimed at him.

The position of the Chief of the Lingzhou Road Marching is very important, but there are not many candidates who are qualified to succeed him. Pei Shiju's repeated persuasion in the past few days made Prince Li Jiancheng finally choose to support the Chief of the Daizhou and the Duke of the State Li Jing.

But before Li Jiancheng's recommendation could be spoken, Chen Shuda made a move... There may not be many others, but Pei Shiju knew that they must be Li Shan's back-up.

(End of this chapter)