First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 484 Changchun Palace

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After the edict of appointment was issued, Gao Chong was on the cusp of the storm again, and many people were secretly watching Gao Chong's movements closely.

When the city of Chang'an was full of turmoil, Gao Chong simply followed with a light car. He only led dozens of guards including Kaohsiung, and went out of the city overnight without knowing where he was going.

Changchun Palace was originally the seat of Daxingtai in Eastern Shaanxi Province, the frontier headquarters for attacking the Central Plains. After Wang Shichong was put down, Li Shimin moved the Daxingtai Administrative Office in Eastern Shaanxi Province to Luoyang.

Changchun Palace faces the Yellow River in the east, faces Pujin Pass, overlooks the three rivers of Huang, Luo, and Wei, and guards the main road from east to Guanzhong. The geographical location is very dangerous.

If there is a loss in the Changchun Palace, you can go directly to Guanzhong from Hedong. When Li Shimin attacked Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, Li Yuan was in charge of the Changchun Palace in person.

Li Shimin led his army across the river and out of the pass. After attacking Luoyang, he ordered his confidant Zheng Rentai to stay in the Changchun Palace to ensure that he would not lose his way.

Until the Central Plains were pacified, and Daxingtai on Shandong Road was moved to Luoyang, Zheng Rentai was still staying behind in Changchun Palace.

However, after Li Shimin ascended to the throne, he promoted the old man and consolidated his power. While appointing Zheng Rentai to concurrently serve as the supervisor of the Changchun Palace, he worshiped as the commander of the government's military government and increased the strength of Zheng Rentai's troops.

In the first year of Wude, Jiangzhou General Manager's Mansion was established, governing [-] prefectures including Jiang, Lu, and Gai, and almost the entire Hedong.

According to the original trajectory, after Luo Shixin died in the battle of Mingshui, Jiangzhou General Manager’s Mansion was abolished. However, due to Gao Chong’s message sent across thousands of miles, Zhang Shigui crossed the river to support, Luo Shixin escaped from death, Jiangzhou General Manager’s Mansion still existed, but in the seventh year of Wude, Li Yuan changed the general manager's mansion to the governor's mansion, and Luo Shixin still served as the governor of Jiangzhou.

So far, Zheng Rentai stayed in Changchun Palace to the west of the Yellow River, and Luo Shixin sat in Jiangzhou to the east of the Yellow River. At least the barrier of the Yellow River was impenetrable to Li Shimin, because these two were Li Shimin's confidantes.

The Changchun Palace is not just a simple palace. The palace is built according to the terrain and has multi-functional partitions, such as grain depots and arsenals.

In normal times, it can be used as a temporary palace for emperors. In wartime, the palace is a solid military fortress.

In a palace, there is one prisoner, one deputy prisoner, and one master bookkeeper and one recorder for the rest.

Back then, Li Yuan was concurrently the supervisor of Jinyang Palace, and Pei Ji was the deputy supervisor. Even now, when the love is deep in private, Li Yuan still calls Pei Ji the Supervisor Pei, because he misses the days when the two spent their days in Jinyang Palace.

According to records in the classics, there are at least 38 palaces with testable names built in the Sui Dynasty.

Such as Jinyang Palace, Fenyang Palace, Linshuo Palace, Jiangdu Palace, etc., it can be seen that Emperor Yang Guangda really "sympathized with the people".

After all, the Sui Dynasty only lived in the country for 37 years. In this way, an average of one year is to build a new palace, which still has a name to test.

The remaining palaces such as Renzhi Palace, Renshou Palace, and Changchun Palace were not built in the Sui Dynasty, but existed before the Sui Dynasty. Of course, they were more or less repaired during the Sui Dynasty.

In the Changchun Palace, there is a small paddock in the back mountain. This is the training ground where Otsuka Zai Yuwenhu stationed his troops in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

After Yuwenhu crossed the river, he saw the majestic terrain of this place, so he built a city here to guard the Yellow River and guard the pass. Because it connects the three Jins, it was named Jincheng.

Later Zhou Wu Emperor Yu Wenyong stayed here. After climbing to the top of the mountain, he overlooked the two Taihua Mountains in Zhongtiao and the three rivers of Huangluo and Wei.

The military training ground back then is now a paddock, in which some prey were raised for entertainment when the emperor was stationed.

In the paddock at this time, Zheng Rentai could not hide his worry. Not far away was a man galloping and shooting, wearing a riding and shooting hut. Young and strong.

Waiting for these two grey-haired men to shoot ten thousand bullets in their hands and drive their horses to the front, seeing Zheng Rentai's appearance, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Rentai is still worried about this old man?"

Hunting is not all with bows and arrows, there are also bow-shaped slingshots, just add a leather pocket to the bowstring, replace the arrows with projectiles, and the lethality is also not small.

Zheng Rentai, whose first name is Guang, and whose name is Rentai, this person should be in his fifties or sixties, he calls himself an elder in his words, and judging by Zheng Rentai's respectful appearance, this person should be an elder of Zheng's parents.

Sure enough, Zheng Rentai smiled wryly after hearing the words: "Uncle, it's already wrong for you to go out of Beijing privately, and it's even more illegal to go hunting in the paddock privately now. If the court knows, what can we do?"

Hearing this, the man shook his head and sighed, got off his horse, sat down on the ground, pointed at Zheng Rentai and said, "Rentai, you are the prince's confidant, and you are the direct descendant of my Zheng family, but your brain is too weak." It's stupid."

Zheng Rentai didn't know why.

"Do you think that I, Zheng Shanguo, left Beijing privately and fled to you to avoid crimes?"

The man shook his head and sighed, "You think it's an extra crime for me to hunt in the paddock? Don't just limit yourself to the situation in front of you."

It turned out that this person was the former prince Zuo Shuzi, Zheng Shanguo, Duke of Xingyang County.

Seeing Zheng Rentai's bewildered face, Zheng Shanguo said slowly: "The construction was abolished, and none of us princelings will be spared. Only when we temporarily avoid the King Qin's edge, will he completely forgive us when he completely takes power and seeks a stable name." .

"Then the crown prince has issued an edict, let the past be ignored, why is uncle still here?" Zheng Rentai was still puzzled.

"You idiot, if you take the initiative to go back now, wouldn't it prove that you absconded in fear of crime, then where will I put the face of the Zheng family head?" Zheng Shanguo scolded with a smile.

"Then why did you insist on coming to the paddock to hunt after you heard that General Gao Youzhi was inspecting the states today?" Zheng Rentai continued to ask.

He is not very old, he is good at military affairs and weak in strategy, so he is very puzzled by the plans of old foxes like Zheng Shanguo.

"Although I don't know the exact whereabouts of Gao Youzhi, but Hedong and Hebei are waiting to be done. He will definitely go. I made such a publicity today. Gao Youzhi is not a mediocre person. He will definitely notice that when the time comes, a trespasser Impeach me for the crime, and the old man can return to Beijing."

The paddock is a royal paddock, and as a courtier, he dared to trespass without a crime of disrespect.

Seeing that Zheng Rentai frowned and said nothing, Zheng Shanguo took the trouble and continued to guide and said: "This is just a reasonable reason. For me, for the prince, and for the inspector Gao Youzhi, we are all decent reasons."

Zheng Rentai was stunned, "Can Gao Youzhi think of this? What if he finds out that his uncle is here, trespasses on the paddock, and directly arrests you as the second evil traitor?

Uncle is here, nephew is ashamed of the prince, if Gao Youzhi directly strikes, then..."

Zheng Shanguo's smile gradually disappeared, staring at Zheng Rentai shaking his head and sighing.

"This is why you are not as good as Gao Youzhi. If you are loyal to the crown prince, you should hand me over when the old man comes. If you are loyal to the family, you shouldn't be in such a dilemma.

Although the construction was abolished and Guanyin'er was abolished, the Zheng family in Xingyang is still there, and you, the nephew of the former concubine, can still be appointed as a marquis, which means that the prince will not do anything to my Zheng family, and he can't do anything."

(End of this chapter)