Man Tanghong

Chapter 478
Li Yuanji glanced at Li Shimin, and instead of answering in a hurry, he asked instead: "How is Second Brother going to deal with it?"

Li Shimin pondered for a moment, then said with a smile: "Naturally, I want to protect my elder brother. Father is confused, so we can't be confused. Elder brother is our brother. How can we just watch father hurt elder brother?"

Li Yuanji suppressed a smile in his heart, and said with a kind smile on his face: "Good!"

Li Shimin is really high-sounding, what about siblings, will siblings frame each other?Will siblings kill each other?
What is said to try to protect Li Jiancheng without losing, isn't it to try to protect Li Jiancheng's life.

As for Li Jiancheng's position as prince, it is obviously no longer within the scope of protection.

"How did you learn how people in the Buddhist sect speak? Do you believe in Buddhism?"

Li Shimin looked at Li Yuanji in astonishment and asked.

Li Shimin didn't believe in Buddha, especially after Li Jiancheng welcomed the Buddhist leaders in Chang'an City into Guangtian Temple to give a lecture, he didn't believe it even more.

Deep down in his heart, he had the same views on Buddhism as Neishi Ling Fu Yi.

He believes that what Buddhism does is not only useless to the country, but also useless to the people, and has a history of reselling the king, so it must be strictly controlled and strictly demanded.

Killers can also be ordered when necessary.

Of course, if the Buddhist sect gave up being close to Li Jiancheng and chose to be close to him, then he could relax some of the control and strict requirements on the Buddhist sect.

If people in the Buddhist sect are willing to be driven by him and run for him, then he doesn't mind giving some special treatment to some virtuous and eminent monks.

But the premise is that these great virtuous monks won't hurt him after being given special treatment, otherwise, he doesn't mind letting Fu Yi supervise the Buddhist sect.

With the degree of Fu Yi's "love" for Buddhism, after supervising Buddhism, he will definitely work hard to make Buddhism grow stronger.

Of course, he just thought about these things in his heart, after all, Buddhism has no intention of getting close to him so far, and no one has jumped out to be driven by him and run for him.

So when he heard Li Yuanji speak in a Buddhist tone, he subconsciously wanted to correct Li Yuanji's political mistakes.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was a political mistake for members of the royal family to believe in Buddhism.

Because the state religion of the Tang Dynasty was Taoism, the royal family of the Tang Dynasty recognized Li Er, one of the founders of Taoism, as their ancestor.

As a descendant of Li Er, he naturally believed in the sect founded by Li Er.

Believe in other sects, that is to betray the family.

There is also a bit of self-disclosure.

After all, there is no conclusive evidence for the Tang royal family to recognize Li Er as their ancestor, and they are often criticized for this. If they do not believe in Taoism, it will be completely untenable.

Therefore, believing in Taoism is the duty of every member of the royal family.

This is a political need, and it is also the price Li must pay for recognizing Li Er as his ancestor.

"Believe in Buddhism? How is it possible?"

Li Yuanji clearly knew what political correctness he believed in in Datang, so he shouted without hesitation.

Li Shimin asked in confusion: "Then how did you learn to speak like a Buddhist?"

Li Yuanji asked rhetorically, "Don't you think that people in Buddhism are very sincere when they say the word 'good'?"

Li Shimin's face turned dark all of a sudden, and he finally understood why Li Yuanji would imitate the way people in Buddhism speak.

Li Yuanji was secretly ridiculing his hypocrisy.

He immediately gave Li Yuanji a vicious look.

Li Yuanji pretended not to see his eyes, and ordered the servants in the palace to add more tea.

During the next few cups of tea, Li Shimin didn't come up to say a word, obviously he didn't want to make fun of himself, and he didn't want to come up to scold him.
Li Yuanji was also happy and quiet, and ate tea and drank tea on his own. When he was happy, he praised the servants who served him, and when he was unhappy, he scolded the servants who served him.

No matter whether the palace people are facing praise or scolding, they all respectfully wait on the side.

After about seven or eight cups of tea, Li Gang arrived, was carried into the hall unsteadily, got off the soft sedan chair, bowed to Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, and walked to his own seat to sit. Down.

Neither Li Shimin nor Li Yuanji dared to trust him, so he stood up and saluted Li Gang.

This salute is for Li Gang's age, as well as Li Gang's knowledge and virtue.

Logically speaking, Li Gang has already been crowned by Li Yuan, and his official uniform has been pulled out, so he is not qualified to appear here, but he still came. Given his age and reputation, Li Shimin and Li Yuanji are not qualified To drive people out.

Of course, if Li Yuanji brushed off his temper, he would be able to drive him away, but it wasn't necessary.

Whether the matter to be decided in the court today has much to do with him, he has no need to offend a veteran like Li Gang who is destined to stay in the court forever.

After Li Yuanji returned the gift to Li Gang, Pei Ju arrived just as he sat down. He also sat in a soft sedan chair and sat directly in the hall, but the sedan chair was not as luxurious as Li Gang's.

But Pei Ju would definitely not care about this, after all, Li Gang's soft sedan chair was given by Li Yuan, and it should be more expensive than ordinary sedan chairs.

If it is not as luxurious as the ordinary sedan chair, then there will be a problem.

After Pei Ju entered the hall, he also bowed to Li Shimin and Li Yuanji first, but he didn't rush to sit down in his seat, but walked towards Li Shimin and Li Yuanji.

After Li Shimin and Li Yuanji got up to return the salute, they slowly opened their mouths and said: "Today's court meeting, please be merciful to the two highnesses, after all, this matter is related to the life of the crown prince, and the crown prince is the elder brother of the two highnesses. The two Highnesses do not wish to see His Highness the Crown Prince in danger."

Li Shimin nodded his head almost without hesitation and said, "It's only natural..."

Li Yuanji really wanted to ask Pei Ju if he wanted to use righteousness to kidnap him, but seeing Li Shimin agreeing so happily, he didn't want to worry about it, so he nodded immediately.

Seeing this, Pei Ju cupped his hands gratefully and said, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness, on behalf of the Crown Prince."

Li Shimin smiled and said: "We should be the ones who should thank you. Mr. Pei is old, and he is still working so hard for our elder brother. We should pay respects to Mr. Pei."

Saying that, he bowed to Pei Ju.

Pei Ju waved his hands and shouted that he didn't dare to take it.

Li Yuanji really couldn't stand this hypocritical scene, so he ignored the two of them, and went back to his seat and sat down.

For this reason, after returning to his seat, Li Shimin complained that he did not know etiquette.

He directly chose to ignore it.

Not long after Pei Ju arrived, Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and other bigwigs from the three provinces also arrived, all wearing purple robes or red robes.

But all of them have one thing in common, and that is their age.

The oldest one is more than 80 years old, and the youngest one is more than 50 years old.

In comparison, Li Yuanji is undoubtedly a little younger.

But when Li Shentong, Li Shenfu, and Li Xiaogong arrived with other members of Li Tang's royal family, this situation was broken.

Some old men went early, and the county king of the county king's mansion where the underage son set up a household is younger than Li Yuanji.

One by one, they walked up to Li Yuanji, bowed and saluted, and called them elder brothers, as if they were asking for new year's money.

Li Yuanji nodded lazily no matter whether he faced someone he knew or didn't know.

They didn't dare to blame Li Yuanji for being rude, let alone complain that Li Yuanji was domineering.

Because Li Yuanji was not only older than them, but also had a higher status than them.

In this place where status is discussed, even the older generation Li Shentong, Li Shenfu and others would salute Li Yuanji when they saw him.

However, Li Yuan has always paid more attention to seniority, especially the seniority within the Li family.

Therefore, even if Li Shentong and Li Shenfu did not follow the rules to salute Li Yuanji, Li Yuan would not care about it.

Relatively speaking, Li Yuanji would not rush to salute them either.

Speaking of which, isn't Li Shenfu the important task of guarding a part of the pass in Bingzhou?How could it appear in Chang'an City, and also in the Tai Chi Hall?
Could it be that Li Jiancheng asked for reinforcements?

Li Yuanji's eyes lingered on Li Shenfu, Pei Ju and others, and seeing that Pei Ju and others looked surprised after seeing Li Shenfu, he understood.

The Li talisman should not be the reinforcements Li Jiancheng asked for.

That is Li Shimin?

Li Yuanji subconsciously looked at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin also happened to look over.

The two looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts.

It wasn't Li Shimin, and Li Shimin was sure it wasn't him.

"That's my father..."

Li Shimin said something in a low voice, his expression was somewhat incomprehensible.

However, even if Li Yuanji didn't think about it, he could guess what Li Shimin was thinking.

At such a time, Li Yuan called Li Shenfu back to help him speak, which shows that Li Yuan is determined to abolish the prince Li Jiancheng.

This is undoubtedly good news for Li Shimin.

After Li Gang and Pei Ju gagged him and tied his hands and feet, Li Yuan spared no effort to fight for the abolition of Li Jiancheng's crown prince, which meant that he was half a step away from the crown prince.

As long as Li Jiancheng falls, he will be able to sit on the crown prince smoothly.

Li Yuanji was sure that Li Shimin must have prepared a backhand against Li Jiancheng.

Therefore, the subsequent court decision must be Li Shimin's secret action to help Li Yuan deal with Li Jiancheng.

And Li Jiancheng is dying, and he will inevitably use all the means and use all the contacts and relationships.

Therefore, this court decision will be unprecedentedly exciting.

After all the dignitaries in the palace had arrived, the bell calling the officials to go to court on the wall of the Taiji Palace was rung, and the officials outside the Taiji Palace rushed to the Taiji Palace in groups of three or four.

After arriving at the Taiji Hall, there is no need to enter the hall, just find a place to stand outside the hall according to the rank.

If you are called in the hall, you can go to the hall to talk. If you are not called in the hall, you can just stay outside the hall and blow the cold wind.

The area of ​​the Taiji Hall is quite limited. After accommodating the huge Li clan and the huge group of nobles, it cannot accommodate others.

Others who wanted to enter the hall had to wait for the call, or wait for the people inside to vacate their seats.

(End of this chapter)