Became a prodigy in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 383 Funny Oolong Incident

The next day, Li Shimin's last court meeting in the Tai Chi Hall.

Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair, Li Chengqian and Li Tai sat beside him.

Below, except for Cheng Chuli and Li Yuan, who were not present.Almost all other civil and military officials arrived.There are a total of four hundred and seven officials.

This is an unprecedented grand meeting.Almost everyone who should come has arrived.

Li Shimin was a little emotional, and said to the officials below: "My dear friends, I think everyone already knows. The main topic of today's court meeting is to elect the next emperor of the Tang Dynasty."

Below, all the officials nodded.

Li Shimin said again: "Wait a minute, Wang De will bring someone to send you a blank piece of paper and a pen, each of you will have a copy. You just need to write your favorite emperor candidate on it, and then hand it in. The candidate is Li Chengqian , Li Tai, and I. Do you have any objection to this rule?"

Changsun Wuji stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, is this election anonymous?"

Li Shimin replied: "Yes. You only need to write the name of one of the three of us on a piece of paper and hand it in. After counting, whoever has the most votes will be elected as the new emperor of this term.

Once the new emperor is elected, he will ascend the throne immediately, and cannot be changed for any reason. "

Changsun Wuji asked again: "What if two of them have the same number of votes? So what should we do?"

This one.

Li Shimin was speechless.

Although the probability of this is not high, it can even be said to be almost equal to zero, but what if, what if?
Li Shimin said: "If this happens, then choose between the two of them again."

Well, that is to say, the one with the lowest number of votes is eliminated.

"Okay! That minister has no objection." Changsun Wuji finished speaking with his hands clasped, and retreated to his seat.

Li Shimin asked routinely: "Is there any Aiqing who disagrees? If not, then we will start directly."

heard.

Li Chengqian was a little nervous.

After all, this time, only he and Li Shimin are popular candidates.If he is accidentally elected, the good times in the past five years will be gone.

Now he knows what it's like to be an emperor.Being an emperor is not an enjoyment, but a heavy responsibility.

Only Li Tai seemed careless and very relaxed, because he knew that he was here to make soy sauce this time.

All the officials below nodded, expressing their agreement to start.

Under Li Shimin's instruction, Wang De led a group of eunuchs down the road with paper and pens, and distributed them to the civil and military officials one by one.

The civil and military officials were also a little emotional, and it was the first time that they felt the huge power in their hands.

Who will be the emperor?It all depends on what they mean.This is really wow.

"My lord, who do you choose?"

A civil official standing next to Changsun Wuji started communicating with Changsun Wuji there.

The civil and military officials below also chattered there.

Li Shimin slapped the table and shouted loudly: "No communication is allowed. This is choosing the emperor, not a joke. A person who even asks others to choose the emperor, what subjective consciousness does he have? What ability is there to be an official?"

All the officials were silent immediately.

Yes!

This is an anonymous election. Why do I ask people? I will write whoever I want to be the emperor. Why should I ask others for their opinions?

The officials were stunned.

After thinking about it one by one, he wrote down his favorite name on the paper without hesitation.

In just a few minutes, the eunuchs collected the A[-] papers with names written on them.In the end, they were put together on a table next to Li Shimin.

After everything was ready, Li Shimin asked routinely: "Is there any Ai Qing who hasn't handed in the paper?"

Seeing that no one answered, Li Shimin said decisively: "Then, let's start counting! Auxiliary machine, you come up to supervise Wang De's name. Xuanling and Ruhui are responsible for recording and counting."

"Minister, honor the order."

Changsun Wuji came out, cupped his hands, and walked up.

Next, the exciting moment finally arrived.

The new emperor of the Tang Dynasty will be born in the next moment.

A eunuch moved out two low tables and placed them in front of Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, asking them to sit down and count.

When everything was ready, Wang De took out the top piece of paper and read aloud: "One vote for Li Tai."

Forehead?
Hearing this name, everyone in the audience was stunned for a moment.

It stands to reason that Li Tai is an unpopular candidate, and the probability of his name appearing is very low.

The first one pronounced his name, which seemed a little weird.

But everyone was just stunned for a moment, thinking it was just an accident.

But then Wang De continued to read: "Li Tai has one vote."

What the hell?Is this product repeated?
The officials were stunned again, looking at Wang De in disbelief.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian also looked at Wang De in shock.

Changsun Wuji subconsciously glanced at the slip of paper in Wang De's hand, seeing that Li Tai's name was indeed written on it, he couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.

However, Li Tai was not calm anymore.He was so startled that he stood up from his seat, stretched his neck to look at the piece of paper, and sure enough, his name was written on it, which made him a little bit blind.

No, no, it must be a coincidence.

As a result, Wang De continued to read, and still read Li Tai's name one after another.

After reading more than a dozen sheets of paper in a row, they were all Li Tai's names.

In other words, Li Tai came to strike first.

However, the names of Li Chengqian and Li Shimin never appeared.

How is this going?How could this be?
A group of people are you look at me, I look at you.All of them looked suspicious.

Wang De continued to read: "Li Shimin has one vote."

call……

Fortunately, okay, His Majesty's name finally appeared.This shows that the appearance of Li Tai's name is just a coincidence.

It is possible that the eunuchs grouped the same names together.

But at the next moment, Wang De read out the words Li Tai Yipiao again.

What's the situation?

This time Li Tai was completely restless.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian also looked shocked.

This is not scientific!
Li Tai is just an unpopular player.Why does his name appear so frequently?

what does that mean?Or, what does this mean?
Under everyone's shock, Wang De read out fifty names in one breath, Li Shimin's name only appeared twice, and the rest belonged to Li Tai.Li Chengqian's but not once.

Li Tai was about to cry, what the hell is going on?

"stop……"

Li Tai immediately yelled to stop.Ran over in a little panic, took the thick dozen of papers from Wang De's desk, and started flipping through them quickly.

As a result, the more I watched, the more frightened I became, and the more I watched, the more confused I became.

"Li Tai, Li Tai, Li Tai, or Li Tai..."

It only took Li Tai a few minutes to completely sort the four hundred pieces of paper into categories.

The result shocked him badly.

On those pieces of paper, there were only two with Li Chengqian's name written on them.

There are only 28 pieces with Li Shimin's name written on them.

The rest are all written with his name Li Tai.

In other words, he, Li Tai, was elected as the current emperor with 370 votes.

What the hell, with such a high number of votes, do you still need statistics?
"What the hell is going on here?"

After reading those votes, Li Tai was completely uneasy, and angrily questioned the ministers below.

Li Chengqian was confused.

Li Shimin was even more confused.

The ministers below are also confused!

You ask me, who do I ask?

Could it be that someone has tampered with it?This is impossible, right?
These are not fools above the court, there are more than 400 people standing there!And these are all human beings.

What kind of international jokes are you playing in front of more than 400 people?
But who can explain clearly, what happened here?

In fact, the ministers below all knew what happened, but it was hard for them to say it.

You, Li Shimin, are not the emperor!You, Li Shimin, are unfair!You, Li Shimin, are biased!

Why are only a dozen officials able to receive [-] yuan in benefits?And we have nothing.

In order to buy a house, we spent a full 20 yuan!

And the dozen or so officials got a house of 20 yuan without spending a penny, which is too unfair.

In other words, it is better to be close than far away.

What does this sentence mean?

In other words, no matter how much enmity the two have, the past is over.If you really want to take revenge, you have to think about it in the long run.Whether it will be paid for in the end, no one can say for sure.

But the air is different.

Now the two of you have a quarrel, it may only be a matter of one dollar, but if you can't help but start a fight, it may kill you.

These officials are angry!In addition, Li Shimin has made a strong comeback and suppressed them for more than a year.

They feel that if Li Shimin becomes emperor again, their life will be difficult.

Although they also felt that if they didn't choose Li Shimin, it wouldn't make much difference?
However, he just didn't want to write about Li Shimin.

If you don't choose Li Shimin, who should you choose?
Choose Li Chengqian?

Are you kidding me, who is Li Chengqian?Li Chengqian is an arbitrary emperor.

Over the past few months, they have seen his methods.

It would definitely not work to elect him as emperor.It is better to choose Li Shimin than to choose him!
Li Shimin cannot be elected, and Li Chengqian cannot be elected.

These two have been ruled out, so which one to choose, the answer is self-evident.

The funny thing is, he's not the only one who thinks this way.

Therefore, these people all chose Li Tai unanimously.

Li Shimin was dumbfounded.

Didn't you agree that this is just a formality?In the end, it was Li Shimin who was the emperor.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to explain to the old man!

He couldn't figure it out.All the civil and military officials in this hall have worked with him for so many years, and they are all his humerus ministers. Why don't these people choose Li Shimin?

This is so weird, isn't it?

Li Chengqian reacted, stood up and applauded with a hearty laugh.

"Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to the third senior brother for being elected emperor this term. Since there is no disagreement on the number of votes, I think we should proceed to the next stage and let the fourth brother become the throne."

Li Chengqian already seemed a little impatient.He must take the opportunity to make this matter real.Otherwise, he may be in danger.

"I……"

Li Tai was speechless, and now he still can't believe it.

"how can that be?"

The next moment, all civil and military officials knelt down and shouted: "I respectfully invite the new emperor to ascend the throne."

Li Tai looked confused: "What's the situation? Who can tell me?"

Li Tai stared at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin looked innocent.Don't stare at me, I don't know what's going on!
It's really not my fault, can you trust me?

Next, I don't know how to explain to the old man?

Although Li Tai was very reluctant, this system was implemented by his teacher.

He knew in his heart that this was a pretty good system, and for the sake of Datang, this system could not be abolished.

If you are elected but refuse to take the throne, then this electoral system will become a trifle.

So, surrounded by hundreds of officials, Li Tai ascended to the throne of the emperor.

There were many rules in the enthronement ceremony, and Li Tai didn't leave the court until noon.

During this period, Li Chengqian was the first to come to Chengjia Village.

Li Chengqian told Cheng Chuli what happened in the court hall, and Cheng Chuli was also shocked.

The two of them analyzed and analyzed and analyzed for a long time, but they couldn't analyze the reason.

This can be said to be Datang's biggest oolong incident.

However, no one can tell the reason for this oolong incident.

Immediately afterwards, Li Shimin also came.The purpose of his coming was to ask Cheng Chuli how to deal with the old man next.

Cheng Chuli didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Your Majesty! It's useless for you to ask me about this problem. How do I know how to deal with it?"

Yes, a thing that no one could have imagined happened like this, and no one was mentally prepared for it!
Cheng Chuli said, what can I do?I am also very desperate!

Then, Li Tai came over in the presidential car with a few guards.It really doesn't have the airs of an emperor at all.

Cheng Chuli came out with people to welcome him, and he cupped his hands in congratulations from a distance: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, on your enthronement!"

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian also congratulated him with strange faces.

Li Tai was about to cry, and after greeting Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, he started talking to Cheng Chuli.

"Teacher, don't laugh at me, think of a way to help me!"

Cheng Chuli said inexplicably: "You have become the emperor, how can I help you?"

Li Tai said with a sad face: "Teacher! Now that I am the emperor, I will lose my freedom from now on!"

Cheng Chuli said: "Are you stupid? Who told you that you will not be free if you become the emperor?"

heard.

Li Shimin was stunned.

Li Chengqian was also stunned.

Li Tai was even more confused, what does this mean?

Cheng Chuli said: "Come on, let's talk inside."

Soon, the four of them came to the restaurant.After ordering the chef to serve, the four of them sat down.

Cheng Chuli said: "Hey! In fact, the teacher doesn't know how to be an emperor. But in my opinion, being an emperor is just a profession. He is no different from being an official. In this case, being an official has freedom. , why is there no such thing as emperor?"

Yes, being an official has freedom, why not being an emperor?
Li Shimin, Li Chengqian, and Li Tai all looked at Cheng Chuli with piercing eyes, waiting for his next words.

(End of this chapter)