A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 66 Expedition to Longyou
East Palace.

Li Zhengdian.

The sun has risen high, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has always been diligent in administration, has not yet woken up today.

Lu Kuan, the supervisor of the palace, came, but the eldest grandson crown princess stopped him.

"It's rare for His Highness to sleep so well, so Supervisor Lu asked him to sleep more."

"The Crown Princess, all the courtiers of the Xiande Palace are waiting."

"It's canceled this morning."

Seeing Changsun's attitude, Lu Kuan had no choice but to back down.Back in the Xiande Hall of the East Palace, Yuwen Shiji, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other regular officials were still waiting for the crown prince to go to court.

"Your Highness is still sleeping." Lu Kuan said to the crowd, "The Crown Princess said that the morning court will be suspended today."

A group of ministers looked at each other in blank dismay. This kind of thing had never happened before. The prince has always been diligent, but now he is so sleepy that he does not go to court early.

Is there any inside story here?

The eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Gao Shilian, the princes' confidantes, went straight to the Lizheng Hall, while Wei Zheng, who had been promoted from the master of the Zhan Shifu to a fourth-rank advisor, was dissatisfied in the Xiande Hall, " I’ve only been the crown prince for a few days, and I’m already out of court, so I want to admonish you! Besides, when will it be the crown princess’s turn to say no to the court, how can women interfere in politics?”

Outside the Lizheng Hall.

Changsun Wuji and others met the eldest grandson's concubine again.

"Your Highness is still sleeping?" Changsun Wuji asked his sister.

"Ah."

"Your Highness didn't sleep well last night?"

"I slept very well. Since the mahogany portraits of Shubao and Jingde were pasted on the door of Lizheng Hall, and the yellow paper and cinnabar seals were pasted, Your Highness has been sleeping until dawn for three days, and has never had a nightmare. Today He even fell asleep and still hasn't woken up."

Gao Shilian, the eldest grandson's uncle, was skeptical. He raised his eyes to see the two sets of armored weapons at the door, and the two lifelike portraits on the door.

It's really the same as Shubao Jingde guarding there.

They are so similar, and they are very majestic and domineering. One is holding a four-edged gold mace and the other is holding a bamboo-jointed steel whip.

"The sun is out now, and the ministers have been waiting in Xiande Palace for more than an hour."

Concubine Changsun said: "It's rare for Your Highness to have a good sleep, so don't bother me."

"Did you really sleep till now?" Gao Shilian approached his niece and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you spoil someone and miss the morning court? Isn't Princess Qi in it?"

Concubine Yang of Qi is the wife of Yuan Ji, daughter of the Sui clan, grand-niece of King Yang Xiong of Guan, and aunt of Concubine Qi.Li Shimin's son, Li Ke's mother, Yang, is the daughter of Yang Guang.

After the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin killed all ten sons of Jiancheng Yuanji. Afterwards, Li Shimin even directly took Princess Qi into the palace for a visit, and imprisoned his sister-in-law Zheng Guanyin in the palace.

Whether the new crown prince has treated the old crown princess or not is unknown to everyone, but almost everyone in the palace knows that the new crown prince is lucky to be with Princess Qi, and even very fond of it.

In fact, there are two other Yang families in Li Shimin's palace, one of which was later made a noble concubine, and gave birth to Zhao Wang Li Fu as an adoptive son.There is also a Yang family, later named Feng Jieyu, the granddaughter of Guan Wang Yang Xiong, who is a cousin of Qi Wangfei.In fact, the four Yangs in Li Shimin's harem all belong to the Hongnong Yang family.

Li Shimin's confidantes like Changsun Wuji Gao Shilian are actually very opposed to Li Shimin's favoring Yang's family, but Li Shimin is very fascinated by this Yang family. The plan to seal the title, but did not send it away, and stayed in the palace all the time.

Gao Shilian now doubts whether Li Shimin was lucky enough to be the princess of Qi last night, so that he did not go to court early today.

Concubine Changsun also showed a somewhat helpless expression when she heard this, but she still shook her head: "Actually, Your Highness stayed up late last night to deal with government affairs."

After hesitating, she still revealed an important news to several people: "Yesterday, the emperor handed down an edict to Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Feng Deyi, Yang Rengongyu, literati and all the prime ministers, saying that I should be honored as the Supreme Emperor. Several ministers kowtowed to His Highness and told them. I advise His Highness to accept Zen and succeed to the throne."

At this time, it has been more than half a month since the palace change.

The emperor Li Yuan suddenly issued such an edict to the prime ministers, and Li Shimin couldn't understand his father's thoughts for a while. Fortunately, the prime ministers immediately reported to him after receiving the edict, but this also made Li Shimin think deeply last night.

"Your Highness will get up in a while, and you will definitely be summoned for consultation."

Li Shimin didn't wake up until after three poles in the sun.

After Concubine Changsun told him that Wuji was coming, he summoned him immediately.

"Your Highness, since His Majesty intends to abdicate, he just accepts it." Changsun Wuji couldn't wait.

Du Ruhui, who had just concurrently served as Minister of the Ministry of War, reminded the prince to be careful, "Your Majesty issued an order to all the prime ministers, this is not an easy matter, so be careful."

Who can guarantee that the emperor did not use this method to contact the prime ministers, in case the emperor also has a palace change.

"Li Yuan of Youzhou, Li Yi of Jingzhou, Li Youliang of Liangzhou, and Li Xiaochang of Lizhou, these people still hold heavy troops to seal off one side of the town, and now only Yangzhou Li Shenfu and warrior Xun are ordered to enter the dynasty, and the Turks are still in Longyou It's raging, and we have to guard against it."

Thinking back when Li Yuan borrowed Turkic soldiers at the beginning of his army, who can guarantee that Li Yuan will not borrow Turkic soldiers again in this situation?
Not long ago, Yizhou Xingtai servant shot Dou Gui, saying that Wei Yunqi, Minister of the Xingtai Military Department, intended to rebel. Cut it off.Guo Xingfang, also known as the Minister of the Xingtai Ministry of Civil Affairs, also participated in the conspiracy. Xingfang fled to the capital, and Dou Gui couldn't catch up.

While fleeing, Guo Xingfang appealed to Chang'an halfway, saying that Dou Gui framed Wei Yunqi for wrongly killing Wei Yunqi and took the opportunity to avenge his personal revenge.

This matter caused great controversy in the court.

In the end, Li Shimin ordered to stop Yizhou Xingtai and re-establish Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. While appointing Dou Gui as the Metropolitan Governor, he also sent people to investigate Wei Yun's case, and at the same time sent people to pick up Guo Xingfang.In fact, Li Shimin and others are very aware of what happened in Yizhou.

Dou Gui is Li Yuan's brother-in-law and Li Shimin's uncle. He is very brave in battle, but his shortcoming is that he is a bit cruel and kills innocent people indiscriminately.

Li Yuan asked Dou Gui to guard the newly conquered Sichuan. When he arrived, he killed his nephew and Liwei for a small incident.Then he ordered the slave not to go out, and then deliberately ordered the slave to go out to buy wine, and when the slave came back from buying wine, he said that he violated his order and killed him directly.

The supervisor believed that the slave was going out under the order of Dou Gui, and there was no reason to kill him, so Dou Gui also killed the supervisor.Because of this incident, Li Yuan sent Dou Gui to prison, but it was only as a punishment, and he was released immediately, and continued to guard Yizhou.

In Yizhou, no one is not afraid of the Demon King Dou, only Wei Yunqi and Guo Xingfang are not afraid of him, and Dou Gui is on Li Shimin's side, while Wei Guo is on Jiancheng's side.

To say that Wei Yunqi is a very remarkable person, a descendant of the well-known Jingzhao Wei family, at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, served as a doctor of the audience, and a fourth-rank position. The Khitan army who rebelled against the Sui Dynasty was even stronger than that king Xuance who later used Nibra soldiers to destroy Tianzhu in the Zhenguan Dynasty.

After entering the Tang Dynasty, he served as the governor of Suizhou, the minister of the Ministry of War in Yizhou, and was granted the title of county magistrate. He was a very capable person.

Guo Xingfang's exposure of this incident to the court had a very bad impact, especially making many old party members, especially those generals in the local area, very uneasy.

Wei Yunqi had a good family background, a famous name, high achievements, and a high official position. If he said he would kill him, he would kill him. Li Yi, Li Yuan and others were not in a hurry.

Although the palace change has passed for a long time, and Li Shimin has become the new prince, in fact, up to Li Yuan and Li Shimin, down to the prime minister and important ministers, and then to the local governors and governors, the several major factions still suspect each other and don't trust each other. reaction.

Li Yuan issued an edict to his confidant Pei Ji and others that he would abdicate, maybe it was because of Wei's killing, or of course it was a plan to fight back.

Although Pei Ji and others immediately reported to Li Shimin, Li Shimin studied it in the middle of the night.

"Tuyuhun invaded Minzhou and Hezhou, the Eight Departments of the Dangxiang invaded Songzhou and Diezhou, and the Turks invaded Lan, Hui, Qin, and Long." Li Shimin didn't want to talk about Princess Qi, and now he didn't want to study the meaning of Li Yuan's edict. Now it is the Turks who are more imminent. If the Turks cannot be beaten back, then those with evil intentions will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble.

"Gu thought hard about the countermeasures last night, and decided to take Fu Yun from Tuyuhun first. General Pingdao and General Chai Shao of the Right Guard will be the chief commander of the Longyou Dao army, Guo Xingfang will be the deputy commander, and the left leader Wei Zhonglang will be Liu Lancheng and Wu Wei Zhonglang. Use Niu Jinda as the left and right vanguard..."

"We must first hurt Murong Fuyun and force Tuyuhun and their vassal party members to seek peace, so that we can concentrate on dealing with the Turks."

Changsun Wuji and Fang Du agreed with the emperor's plan.

Li Youliang from Hexi, Li Yi from Jingzhou, and Li Xiaochang from Shannan are all very uncooperative with the imperial court. At this time, they have to deal with the Turks, guard the rear, and deal with Tuyuhun and Dangxiang who are taking advantage of the fire. It is really a headache .

Chai Shao's performance was not bad. He tended to be neutral in the struggle between Li Shimin and Jiancheng. Although he was closer to Jiancheng, he still obeyed Li Shimin's orders in the past half month.

Several people discussed for a long time in the Lizheng Hall, and decided to give Chai Shao higher authority, and set up the Longyou camp, with Chai Shao as the highest military officer in the entire Longyou region, to control the governors, governors and military palaces, including Changle King Li Youliang of Liangzhou. Under the control of Chai Shao.

Li Jing was the general manager of the Lingzhou Road marching, in charge of Shuofang Lingwu and Yuanjing, guarding against the Xiaoguan Jing River Valley, Lingzhou governor Li Daozong, and Jingzhou governor Li Yi were all controlled by him.

Give each of them about [-] troops to be controlled.

Many generals in the Eastern Palace will also be transferred to the front line this time.

Yu Chigong led [-] troops to station in Jingyang, Qin Qiong led [-] troops out of Xianyang, and Li Shimin personally went to Chang'an.

The plan has been decided, but the monarch and his ministers are still not easy.

Changsun Wuji looked at the mahogany painting in front of the palace gate and said with a smile: "I have never seen Wu Erlang's painting technique before. This painting method is too real."

Fang Xuanling was also full of admiration. His father was also a famous calligrapher in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he was naturally proficient in painting, but this kind of painting is really rare.

Li Shimin also praised it unceasingly. Brother Yan Liben's figure painting is praised all over the world, but it is a completely different painting method from this kind.

"Don't tell me, since I invited this portrait, I haven't had any nightmares at night, and I don't have to work hard for the two generals, otherwise I wouldn't be able to send them out of Beijing."

The eldest grandson said with a smile, "One day I will also ask this Wu Erlang to draw a portrait of me."

Li Shimin laughed: "Then you will have to wait for a while, Gu has already specially appointed Wu Erlang as the prince's right guard to lead the army, and sent him to follow Niu Jinda and Liu Lancheng to fight in Longyou with the army."

"This Wu Erlang is good at medicine, elixir and painting. It's not bad to send him to the battlefield to practice. Especially the battlefield medical treatment he talked about last time, maybe let him try it." Changsun Wuji said.

Li Shimin nodded: "Gu also has the same intention, this time let him check the medical practice in Longyou Road."

(End of this chapter)