Great Tang princess

Chapter 274 Follow-up
Now that he decided to sit down, Li Yuechen suppressed the tension and hesitation in his heart, and sat down beside his father.

Li Zhi next to him smiled slightly: "Sitting here, how do you feel?"

When Li Yuechen looked down, the first feeling was that it was high, and the second feeling was that it was empty.

The Hanyuan Hall is very large, and it looks extremely empty when sitting here, with a very strange spatial extension.

At the same time, because the dragon chair is located at a high position, sitting here is equivalent to overlooking the audience from top to bottom. There is a feeling of standing on the podium imitating the teacher's appearance for the first time when going to school.

The difference is that the dragon chair is much higher than the podium, like a split-level structure in a large manor. As long as you sit here, you don't need to open your eyes, and you can easily look down at the audience even with your eyelids drooping.

This is the first time Li Yuechen has come to the high platform where the Dragon Chair is located. He used to look up from the side passage.

Sitting on the dragon chair and looking down now is a novel feeling for her.

"It feels a little strange." Li Yuechen replied, "I didn't expect Grandpa's usual perspective to be like this."

Hearing his daughter's answer, Li Zhi almost couldn't hold back his cough.

The feeling he asked was referring to the psychological feeling of sitting on the dragon chair and holding power. I didn't expect her to answer the question of perspective.

"I'm asking you, sitting here, can you feel the power of the emperor?" Li Zhi turned his head and asked.

"can!"

Li Yuechen nodded honestly and replied, "Sitting here, the power of the emperor is in your hands. Whether it is life or death, it seems that you can easily solve it by raising your hand and saying 'take it down'..."

"anything else?"

"There's also... loneliness." Li Yuechen replied softly, "It's too cold to sit here, you must be very lonely? Right now, Grandpa feels this way when I'm by my side. Presumably if I'm here alone, this kind of It will feel more obvious..."

Hearing this answer, Li Zhi turned his head abruptly, was stunned for a moment, and then grinned: "It seems that I have taught you well these years, and you are already a qualified emperor."

"Me?" Li Yuechen was taken aback, "Grandpa, don't be joking! I haven't been a prince for a day, how can I become a qualified emperor?"

"Loneliness is difficult for outsiders to understand. It is the weakness deep in the emperor's heart." The health ball in Li Zhi's hand began to spin again, "Being able to understand this means that you have learned to use the emperor's thinking to look at problems."

Having said that, the expression on his face turned into anticipation: "If Chen'er is willing to inherit the throne in the future, I don't have any worries anymore."

If it was other things, Li Yuechen would definitely not reject his father's expectations, but this matter is too big, and it is not something that can be reluctantly agreed to.

In Li Yuechen's view, the responsibility on the emperor's shoulders is too great!At the same time, fighting wits with ministers every day will take up a lot of energy, which is not conducive to one's own development plan.

She raised her head slightly and said: "But Grandpa, if I inherit the throne in the future, I will be trapped in the palace for the rest of my life, right?"

Hearing this sentence, Li Zhi was slightly taken aback, as if he had never thought about the problem from this angle.

But now that I think about it carefully, it seems that this is really the case. She nodded slightly and said, "It's true..."

"My boy has never thought of becoming an emperor, but my boy hopes that the future emperor will listen to me, and help me, support me, and make Tang Dynasty stronger." Li Yuechen revealed his real plan.

"You want to be a powerful minister?" Li Zhi asked.

Li Yuechen shook his head: "No, if the Tang Dynasty is a towering giant tree, then the emperor should be the top branch and leaf. What my child wants to do is the tree roots buried in the soil. There are many things that the emperor on the bright side can do. Inconvenience is like face and liking. But when I do it, I can have no scruples and no taboos."

Hearing his daughter's words, Li Zhi was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "Do you know that if you fail to do this, you will be infamous in the history books?"

"So what? I won't live forever." Li Yuechen put on an indifferent face, "Anyway, people will be turned into ashes by then, and I won't be able to hear the scolding."

"Not only that, your actions will cause the emperor's dissatisfaction..."

Li Yuechen grinned suddenly: "Grandpa, the remaining two elder brothers have been raised as idle princes since they were young. They will definitely listen to me very much!"

For this point, Li Yuechen is still very confident.

Dare not to be the third brother or the fourth brother, he will definitely listen to his own words.

Seeing his daughter's self-confidence, Li Zhi was silent for a while, and then nodded in relief: "Okay, if you don't want to sit on the throne, I won't force you. However, at least before I die, you have a chance to repent at any time."

……

Originally, Li Zhi's plan was to persuade his daughter to become the prince no matter what. As for what happened after becoming the prince, he was confident that he could hold down the minister.

As for her daughter's success in the future, with her means, she will definitely be able to hold the scene.

But the conversation with his daughter today dispelled his original thoughts.Forget it, since my daughter doesn't want to be trapped in the palace for the rest of her life, then let her go.

Anyway, in Li Zhi's opinion, the happiness of his daughter is more important than anything else.

With her in Datang, he doesn't have to worry about anything.

Having figured it out, Li Zhi let go of his vigilance, and for the next few days, he just drank tea and took a walk every day, not caring about anything.

Zhang Da'an and others asked to enter the palace to face the saint every day, but Li Zhi didn't answer at all, telling them to do what they should do.

Li Yuechen ate with his father every day, and even called his second brother to join him.

Although he rebelled, the matter is over now and the outcome has been decided, but after all, he is his own son, and Li Zhi didn't scold him any more.

Recently, I have been like a normal father every day, asking him to eat together, chatting with him, and at the same time telling him to work hard in Li Yuechen's military camp, etc...

It seems that this is not at all the atmosphere that should exist between the prince and the emperor after the failed rebellion, but it is true.

Although everyone knows that he will definitely not be able to do it as a prince, but the son is still a son.

This kind of atmosphere, not in the royal family, but in an ordinary family, lasted for several days, until seven days later, the news came that a strangely dressed army came to Chang'an holding a token, and then it ended.

On the third day of October, Chang'an was already a little cold, and there were not many pedestrians on the street. An army dressed in incompatible with this era rode horses. After showing their tokens, they surrounded a very luxurious carriage and slowly entered Chang'an. city.

This four-wheeled carriage is the latest Emperor Luanjia, because the road from Dongdu to Chang'an has been hardened, so this kind of carriage runs very stable.

The surrounding soldiers were dressed in black military uniforms, and they wore brass epaulettes on their shoulders, shining brightly.

Everyone's hair is very short, just tied in a small pigtail at the back of the head.

If it weren't for the fact that the horses under the crotch couldn't be too synchronized, it would even feel like an army was just a clone of one person.

None of these soldiers spoke, and each of them walked on Suzaku Street with a serious face. The serious atmosphere caused the surrounding people to avoid them one after another. While feeling a little scared, they couldn't help but sneak a look.

Many people even thought in their hearts, this must be the elite troops of Datang, it really looks unusual.

If one day I can become one of them, it should be very prestigious.

Geng Yunqiang led the troops through Zhuque Street, all the way to the gate of the Daming Palace, and after showing his token, he led the troops into the Daming Palace.

……

Hearing the troops coming from outside, Li Zhi in the Hall of Yanying raised his head and said to Li Xian, "Let's go back tomorrow."

"Yes!"

Li Xian agreed, and then perhaps because he felt that the atmosphere of the past few days was about to end, his eyes suddenly turned red, and his voice became a little choked up: "I'm sorry, Grandpa, I know my mistake!"

While speaking, he also knelt on the ground and saluted with his hands on his forehead.

After Li Zhi saw it, he didn't show any special expression, he just nodded slightly: "Okay, let's go back."

Li Xian saluted again, got up and left.

Li Yuechen, who was narrating, suddenly asked: "Grandpa, have you thought about how to solve this matter after you go back?"

"How else can it be solved? It's just an announcement to the world." Li Zhi grinned, then shook his head with a smile, "Who do you think is better for the next prince?"

In fact, it stands to reason that whether the royal family inherits the throne or the noble family inherits the title, it is the primogeniture system.

Now that the second brother Li Xian is gone, the third brother Li Xian should be the successor.

But to be honest, Li Yuechen thinks there is no difference. The two brothers have only been able to eat, drink and have fun since they were young. Each has its own special skills.

The royal family loves music, from the emperor to the prince, they all have pretty good musical accomplishments...except for Li Yuechen.

"Just follow the order." Li Yuechen didn't want to express any opinions on this aspect, just follow the rules.

But thinking about it carefully, it seems that from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present, there has not been an eldest son inheritance, right?

Taizong is the second child, and his father is the ninth child. Actually, the third brother Li Xian is actually the seventh child... and Li Yuechen vaguely remembers that Li Longji is not the eldest son... Even his mother Wu Zetian is the second daughter... …

Alas, as expected of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, which was famous for fighting with each other, it was full of fighting spirit of ignoring tradition and stealing by stealth... Li Yuechen couldn't help complaining in his heart.

In the future, I must set up a special royal academy, and all the princes and members of the royal family must come in and study hard, so as to avoid such a situation in the future where blood flows into rivers of killing each other in order to earn the throne.

……

The next day, after getting up and eating in the morning, Geng Yunqiang and others also made preparations to protect the emperor back to the Eastern Capital.

The original plan to fly back to the Eastern Capital just fell through, and Li Yuechen could only direct a group of people to put the hang glider on the carriage and go back in the carriage.

Fortunately, with the current road conditions, they can go back in about five days, so there is no need to waste too much time on the road.

Originally, Li Yuechen's idea of ​​setting up a toll station in Tongguan did not really come true, which felt a bit pity.

Mainly in this era, any businessman who can make it out has a background behind him.

Although these backgrounds are still much worse than those of the royal family, Li Yuechen has no way to guarantee that they will not suffer other difficulties in other places.

If you just charge a sum of money for no reason, it is unnecessary.

Therefore, the first thing to change is the problem of the system, and the second is to consider other things.

In Li Yuechen's view, first of all, the public money should be abolished as soon as possible, and then other systems should be changed little by little.

In the future, the expansion of the army will ensure that the military power is in hand, and as long as the future emperor can obey and cooperate with him, he will be able to speak in the court.

Li Yuechen sat in his father's Luanjia all the way, thinking about the future.

On the ninth day of October, I drove to Dongdu.

That night, Li Yuechen sat in the Hall of Renshou and watched the couple quarrel.

"To do such disrespectful things as treason is to abolish the position of the crown prince, and then go to work in the barracks?" Wu Zetian asked in disbelief.

Li Zhi originally lay on the rocking chair and pretended to be dead, but now he had no choice but to respond: "What does Mei Niang think? Kill him?"

Wu Zetian fell silent for a while, although she really didn't like the second child very much, but she was still a bit reluctant to kill him.

I don't want to talk about it before, but at least in recent years, the relationship between the family has been good, and it is a bit unbearable for her to order the killing.

But the tone is still very angry: "At least... at least you should be exiled..."

Rebellion is disrespectful, and it is unfilial for a son to actually want to fight against his parents, not to mention that once the rebellion succeeds, Li Xian will definitely imprison his parents, which is even more unfilial!

This kind of behavior, exile is indeed not an exaggeration.

Li Yuechen couldn't stand it any longer, and advised him: "Mother, I think it's better to be exiled to the military camp! After all, if someone hijacks brother to rebel, things will be very troublesome, won't it?"

"Going to your military camp is also called exile?" Wu Zetian turned his head and began to reprimand, "I haven't said anything about you yet! Your grandfather even asked you to sit on the dragon chair and begged you to be the prince, why didn't you do it?"

"If you become a prince, you will definitely become an emperor in the future. If you become an emperor, you must be like your parents today, fighting wits and courage with those ministers every day, and you don't have time to do your own things." Li Yuechen said helplessly. Picking up the teacup, "I still want to make more new utensils while I'm young, for example... Do you want to fly to the sky with Grandpa someday?"

"This……"

Hearing this sentence, Wu Zetian couldn't help but fell silent.

Think about it too, now that this daughter has made something that can fly into the sky, who can guarantee that she won't make something more powerful in the future?

Seeing that his mother was silent, Li Yuechen smiled, and immediately changed the subject: "Okay, mom and dad, don't worry about this matter, and let's go after finishing it tomorrow. I will call brothers and sisters to have a meal tonight." meal……"

Under Li Yuechen's help, all the sons and daughters came to eat at night, including Li Xian who just made a big mistake.

The other sons and daughters were surprised when they found out what had happened. They didn't expect Li Xian to rebel.

Of course, what was even more unexpected was that he was actually called over for dinner!

This kind of thing is simply unheard of, and I dare not even think about it.

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