A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 218 Prince Killer

Wu Huaiyu sat in the Chongwen Hall of the East Palace, waiting to meet the prince.

Today was his first day in office after he was transferred to the crown prince. After enjoying a long and relaxing wedding leave, he finally returned to work.

There are many East Palace officials in the hall.

The Chongde Hall is one of the side halls of the East Palace. To the west of the Lizheng Hall, this is where the crown prince studies.

The prince Shaobao and the prince Zhan Shi Li Gang are already 80 years old this year. They are wearing a purple robe with white beard and white hair, but they are still very energetic and have a childlike face.

The prince's teacher, who was worthy of killing the prince's killer, sat in the hall and looked at each of the officials of the East Palace with a sharp gaze.

He was a tall man with a serious face.

When Huaiyu saw this, he couldn't help but think of his glorious deeds as the prince's killer. This prince's killer was not called for nothing. In history, he assisted the prince Yang Yong of the Sui Dynasty, and the princes of the Tang Dynasty Jiancheng and Chengqian. But the three None of the princes took the crown, and none of them even died.

Before killing the three princes, when Li Gang was young, he joined the army of Qi Wang Yu Wenxian of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but his assistant Yu Wenxian was also killed.

Anyway, whoever he assists will end badly.

However, from the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the emperors of all dynasties valued Li Gang very much. They felt that Li Gang was a high-spirited, honest, honest and dare to advise. He was definitely a good teacher, and no prince could do it.

Li Gang also served as Minister of Rites in the Wude Dynasty. He was going to return to his hometown a long time ago, but Li Yuan refused.Now that he is 80 years old, Li Shimin actually invited this person out to be Chengqian's teacher, Prince Shaobao and Prince Zhanshi.

The Prince Zhan Shi's Mansion in the East Palace was set up in imitation of the imperial court's Shangshu Province. Prince Zhan Shi is naturally equivalent to the imperial court's Shangshuling, and this is the first chief executive of the Eastern Palace.

For such an important position, it is not unlucky to choose an 80-year-old man who has assisted the princes of the two dynasties and died.

Prince Chengqian has not come yet, he is already late.

Dissatisfaction gradually appeared on Li Gang's face. This energetic old man paused for a while on the floor tiles with the consonance staff bestowed by the Supreme Emperor, "You are all chosen by His Majesty to belong to the East Palace. Although the crown prince is young, he is talented and intelligent. But even Talent is extraordinary, but it also needs to be assisted by virtuous people to be good. If the people around you are not decent, you will be induced to be evil.

The crown prince is the foundation of the country, the crown prince of a country, and we, the officials of the Eastern Palace, have a huge responsibility..."

The old man's voice was full of air, and it was impossible to tell that he was an 80-year-old man.

"I know that most of you are young, either from famous families, or relatives of ministers..."

Huaiyu glanced at the other people in the palace. Indeed, as the old man said, the current Crown Prince of the East Palace is only eight years old, and it is impossible for him to arrange to study government affairs and deal with state affairs, so he did not have a real team. Start to arrange some officials.

The people in the temple are either old or young.

Prince Zhan Shi Li Gang is 80 years old, and Prince Shao Zhan Shi is concurrently held by Pei Ju, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Pei Ju is 79 this year.

The Zhan Shifu governs the three temples and ten ranks of the East Palace, but it is basically empty now. The tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the six ranks, four mansions and three guards are also led by the emperor.

Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian are two prime ministers concurrently serving as Zuochunfang, so they are not free to come today.

There are six bureaus under Zuochunfang, including Sijing and others.

The Bureau of Economics and Economics is equivalent to the Secretary of the Ministry. The two princes Xima are Wu Huaiyu and Cai Yungong.

Cai Xima is also an old man who is almost 70 years old. He was a good friend with Yu Shinan, and later entered Li Shimin's Qin Palace together as a bachelor, and he was also a colleague with Xu Jingzong.It's just that Xu Jingzong is now serving as the county magistrate in Xunyang, and old man Cai is teaching the prince to wash horses and also a bachelor of literature.

There is also a very ugly old man, that is Ouyang Xun, who is 71 years old this year. This calligrapher even inscribed the Qian Wen of Kaiyuan Tongbao, but his appearance is really unflattering.

Shrugging into a mountain character, burying his shoulders and not head, his face is like a monkey.

This old man is also one of the Eighteen Scholars of the Qin Palace, and now he is also a Bachelor of Xiuwenkan. Although he is now a master of calligraphy, his life experience is quite miserable. The family was exterminated, and later adopted by Mr. Jiang, Chen Shubao's favorite minister.

Kong Yingda and Lu Deming, who are both 50 bachelors of the Qin Palace, are in their [-]s, and they are already relatively young. They are responsible for teaching the prince Confucian classics.

Compared with most of these old men who were born as bachelors in the Qin Palace, young officials like Huaiyu are mostly relatives and descendants of aristocratic families.

"Prince Xima Wu Huaiyu..." Huaiyu stepped forward to make a brief self-introduction.

"Li Zhengji, the prince's family, the Li family in Longxi, the aunt's house." The young man in his twenties stood up and introduced himself. He specifically emphasized the Li family's aunt's house in Longyou,

Li's aunt in Longxi is Li's most prominent house in Longxi. It is also a descendant of Li Bao's six sons in 44 families with five surnames and seven sects.

The real Longxi Li of the five surnames and seven families only refers to the six sons of Li Bao. The rest are not counted. Li from Longxi should actually be called Li from Zhengzhou. Although Li Yuan's family and Li Jing's family are also called Longxi Li, they are not Li from the five surnames. They don't regard you as their own at all.

These five surnames always emphasize that they are five surnames, seven families, and 44 families.

Huaiyu had already done his homework, this tall, slender guy with a very white face, his father was Li Xuandao, one of the eighteen bachelors in the Qin Palace, Fang Xuanling always called Li Xuandao uncle, because Fang Xuanling's father was a famous scholar in the Sui Dynasty , a great calligrapher, married Li Xuandao's cousin.

Li Xuandao is a true son of the five surnames, his most outstanding ability is the so-called meat genealogy, which is the world's famous noble families, these genealogy of the prefectures, he knows them well, there is no one in the world who understands these noble family genealogy better than him.

Now he is transferred to Youzhou Governor's Mansion Chief Shi to assist Wang Junkuo.

Li Xuandao is Fang Xuanling's cousin, and the daughter of Fan Yang Lu who he married is also a cousin of the same family as Fang Xuanling's wife, so they are not only uncle-nephew, but also brother-in-law.

Li Zhengji called Fang Xuanling cousin, and he could also call him uncle.

The five surnames are very young, but they are born in Rome. His mother is Fanyang Lu, his wife is Xingyang Zheng, grandma is Taiyuan Wang, grandmother Qinghe Cui, and he is Longxi Li... ·

Li Zhengji's gestures and gestures were full of the style of the old gentry, and he also spoke with a hint of arrogance, and everyone felt that he was inferior to him.

This kind of proud son of a family like a little rooster, Huaiyu was a little disgusted at the first sight.

"The crown prince attends the eldest Sun Jiaqing."

"Prince attendant Sun Xiang."

There are two young sons again. As soon as they heard their surnames, they knew that they must be from the Queen's family. Sure enough, the eldest grandson Jiaqing was the Queen's nephew. He was already the attendant of Zhongshan King Li Chengqian five years ago. Donggongmen doctor and prince attendant.

Changsun Xiang is also the nephew of Queen Changsun, and Li Jing's sister-in-law, Changsun, is Changsun Xiang's aunt.

"Prince Qianniu Helan Chushi!"

"Prince Qianniu Yang Zhengben."

"Prince Lu Ben, don't send He Gan to inherit the foundation."

These few are also very young, and they are all military commanders. It is said that Helan Chushi is Hou Junji's unmarried son-in-law, and Yang Zhengben is Wei Zhaoyi's brother-in-law, the Hongnong Yang family.

Hegan Chengji's name sounds like a barbarian. In fact, it is said that his ancestors were also Han Chinese. The Xianbei surname given during the Northern Wei Dynasty is indeed a bit barbarian. This man was Li Shimin who joined the Tang army when he beat Liu Heitao, and he also made some contributions. .

In the previous battle at Sanyuan Longqiao, he was under Li Junxian's command, and he also fought with Huaiyu. He is a very sturdy cavalry general.

"The prince's family orders Xin Chujian!" The last middle-aged man with a wrinkled face stood up. This fourth-rank official was said to have a beautiful and celestial wife like Yang Zhengben.

Yang Zhengben's wife, Wei Tante, was called Xiao Diaochan, while Xin Chujian's wife was called Sai Xishi.

It's just that Xin Chujian's family is not as powerful as Yang Zhengben, who came from a famous family like the Hongnong Yang family. When Li Yuan first entered Chang'an, he saw the wife of Xin Chujian, the crown prince, and immediately occupied him. For the magistrate.

Xin Chujian also forbeared for nine years, and now that Li Yuan became the Supreme Emperor, Li Shimin didn't know what to think, but actually transferred Xin Chujian back from other places, and even granted him the post of the fourth-rank prince's family order.

There are also many prince sheren and prince Tongshi sheren, all of whom are descendants of Xun Qi's family.

Prince Chengqian made everyone wait for a long time before finally coming.

His Royal Highness, the crown prince, is also a lucky one. He was born with the name given by the emperor's grandfather. He was granted the title of Hengshan King at the age of two and Zhongshan King at the age of five. For His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Anyway, Li Shimin often praises the prince's intelligence, special favor, benevolence, filial piety and so on in front of the officials. He is simply the best prince in the world.

But today so many officials from the East Palace came to visit His Highness the Crown Prince, and when they met for the first time, Cheng Qian made everyone wait here for more than an hour, and did not say a word when they came.

No matter how you look at it, he is just a very ordinary child.

Crown Prince Li Gang criticized Cheng Qian sternly and vehemently when he came up, and Cheng Qian was almost crying in fright with his upright and stern speech.

"It's the first time for you to read it today. Considering that you are still young, you don't want to be too fussy today. Go back and copy all the eighteen chapters of the filial piety. I will check it myself tomorrow."

Huaiyu has been staring at Chengqian, observing his every move, including every expression.

Chengqian's carelessness and even dissatisfaction when he came out, the panic when he was reprimanded by Li Gang, and the anger that flashed in his eyes later, all were in his eyes.

The kid is very upset.

That's right, Li Gang's education method is too rigid. This method is so intimidating. It may be better to deal with ordinary students, but it is obviously wrong to use it to deal with the crown prince. He is under one person. The prince above people.

Even if it's small, you can't scare it casually, it will only have the opposite effect.

Thinking about how rebellious Chengqian was later, it seems that the key is the problem of education. Unfortunately, Li Shimin doesn't understand this. He only knows to arrange a teacher he thinks is a good teacher, a loyal and upright teacher, in the East Palace, but he doesn't consider such a teacher. Not suitable.

This is the first meeting today, and Li Gang has already offended the prince.

In contrast, Pei Ju, another Shao Zhan Shi, was almost eighty years old, but he was worthy of being Yang Guang's confidant minister, so he did not directly reprimand the education, but instead comforted the prince.

But Kong Yingda, Lu Deming, Ouyang Xun, Cai Yungong and other old scholars are all excellent in knowledge, but they are all too simple and rude in educating children, scolded and punished for copying...
Huaiyu didn't go forward, but just watched from behind. Facing this eight-year-old prince, Wu Huaiyu was not yet mentally prepared, and didn't know how to face and get along with him.

Observe and observe first.

(End of this chapter)