Tang Dynasty good brother

Chapter 20 Li Shimin and Wei Zheng
Changan.

Before the morning drum sounded, there was a thunderous sound of galloping horses in Tai Chi Palace.

The bow was full of strings, and hundreds of feathered arrows pierced the night sky at dawn. With the sound of breaking the wind, they shot on the arrow target in the direction of the sun. No, looking at it again, these hundreds of people shot a volley on horseback at high speed, and none of them missed the target.

"it is good!"

With a loud shout, a young man in yellow robes rushed out from the crowd, with a curly-haired sweat horse under his crotch, holding a big bow as tall as a man in his hand, facing a row of archery targets that the crowd had just shot. , his right hand was like a phantom, whizzing and whizzing and non-stop firing nine arrows, the arrows were like thunderbolt lightning, and there was only a sound of dodo, and the nine arrows actually hit the red hearts in the middle of the row of nine targets.

The sun has risen.

"Holy Arrow!" "Holy Arrow!"

The young man was obviously in a good mood, and said: "You guys are doing well today, and each of you will reward you with a piece of silk."

This young man is the sage of the court, and historians call him Li Shimin, the eternal emperor.

Every day before dawn, Li Shimin would get up and leave the gentle township of the harem, and come to Xiande Hall to train soldiers. This is an ambitious emperor. It seems that he is the only emperor who has personally trained soldiers in the palace for thousands of years. This alone shows the grandeur of an emperor through the ages.

This is also the reason why he never worried about Li Jing and others having any unruly intentions. In fact, the No.1 general of Datang has always been himself. Therefore, even if Li Jing, Li Ji and others have made great achievements in destroying the country many times, they have never made great achievements.

Sweating all over after shooting the arrow, Li Shimin was in a good mood, and the eunuch at the side hurriedly put on a robe and said, "Everyone, it's time to go to court."

Li Shimin walked up to a palace lady carrying a copper basin, reached in and washed his face, to get rid of the scorching heat, he dragged a silk scarf and wiped it on his face, then threw it into the eunuch's arms. Walking tiger pace, accompanied by the sound of the morning drum that wakes up the people of Chang'an in the morning, they walked slowly towards the Hall of Tai Chi.

Behind him, the rising sun stretched his shadow very long, and that resolute face seemed to be stained with a little golden light.

To be honest, the emperor Li Shimin has been the emperor for the past two years. To describe it in one word, life is worse than death.

In the morning, I get up before dawn to practice with the soldiers, and I go to court when it is dawn. Because of the catastrophe, the workload of the center is very heavy. It would be good if the meeting can be over at noon. Xiaohui, when the little meeting is over, he has to review the memorial, and when everything is over, he doesn't even have time for the queen XXOO, because tomorrow he has to get up early to train soldiers.

There is really no way to do this. The emperor has been in office for more than a year, and he hasn't stopped for a day. First, the Turks came to bully him. Later, it didn't rain. I have nightmares, and when I am awake, I am extraordinarily diligent and conscientious, for fear that he will become Yang Guang's second by accident.

To some extent, Zhenguan Shengshi was forced out in this way.

In the main hall, civil and military officials once again made noise. They were obviously important ministers of the country, and their cursing words were sometimes much vulgar than the aunts who bought vegetables in the market. This also made Li Shimin's temples throbbing, but he got used to it.

Firstly, everyone who founded the country and conquered the world came from a rough background, and secondly, these are the robes of Li Shimin who lived and died together, and he is not easy to put on airs.

But the most important reason is poverty.

The country had just been founded, with no family background, and all the gold leaf in the treasury was given to Jieli Khan. If such a catastrophe happened, the house would leak and it would rain overnight.

Because of poverty, the contradictions between civil servants and military generals are extremely sharp, especially after the destruction of the Liangshi capital, some of them were finally seized. And military generals are generally not good enough for civilian officials. In the end, it's either Cheng Yaojin or Yuchi, and one of them can't help scolding his mother first, and then he becomes like this.

It was like this every time, Li Shimin couldn't stop until he stood up, patted the table and scolded his mother. Sometimes he wondered why he was trying so hard to grab the throne.

God actually left a glimmer of life for Datang. The natural disasters here, but the disasters on the East Turkic side are actually more serious. In this way, it is a great opportunity for Datang to actively prepare for the war. Li Shimin even regarded the shame of Weishui as a great shame, and he is an emperor on horseback, so the balance in his heart is actually quite inclined to the military. The capture of Liang Shidu is actually not too much, but it can be rebuilt a racecourse.

Everyone is so familiar, who doesn't know who, Fang Xuanling took advantage of Li Shimin's silence, and quickly stood up and said: "I have something to play."

"speak."

"I heard that among the disaster victims in Luoyang, there is now a group. There are two leaders, one big and one small. The big one is Xu Jie, who is a regiment trainer of Zuo Xiaowei, and the young one is Qin Hao, who is a storyteller. , the identity is still being checked."

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment, and immediately couldn't sit still, he hurriedly asked: "How big is it, and what is the prestige of the two?"

"Back to the saint, until three days ago, there were as many as 5 victims of disasters following these two people, of which about 1000 were young and strong. The leader Xu Jie recruited more than [-] soldiers to help maintain order. It also punishes evil and promotes good, and is highly respected among the disaster victims."

Li Shimin's face turned green in an instant, more than 2 young and strong, and more than 1000 government soldiers, this force is probably enough to beat Luo Yang, which made him cautious all of a sudden.

"If I assassinate him with a hundred horses, what will Ai Qing think?"

Before Fang Xuanling could speak, Wei Zheng jumped out and said loudly: "I don't know what crime these two committed and why they were punished for no reason. If they were guilty, why didn't they arrest them and hand them over to Dali Temple for interrogation. "

As he said that, Wei Zheng's eyes widened, his face was flushed, and the veins on his neck were bulging. He even took a step forward and sprayed at Li Shimin: "Saint, I have heard of these two people, so Xu Jie is here to conquer Master Liang. The meritorious ministers in the capital, who had not been rewarded because the treasury was empty, fled to Luoyang with their mother and younger brother to eat. Because they couldn't understand the bullies and hooligans on the road, they gathered some soldiers and taught them a lesson. It is the shame of the court that a strong man serves the country but flees the famine, so why should he be punished for his narrowness? This kind of black and white is unclear, and even the emperor and the king have never heard of it."

"Then Qin Hao, who was twelve or thirteen years old, led some half-grown children to flee the famine together. He earned some money by storytelling along the way, but used it to help orphans of the same age. Therefore, even though he was young, he also got the sincerity of the victims. Respect, the disaster victims all say that he is virtuous, but I don’t know why the sage punished this virtuous person for not teaching him?”

Li Shimin was so choked that he couldn't utter a word, seeing Wei Zheng's righteous indignation, he was inexplicably ashamed.

At this moment, Qin Hao, who was talking endlessly about the Three Kingdoms, of course didn't know that he had already walked around the gate of hell. If it wasn't for Wei Zheng, he might have entered.

(End of this chapter)