Wentang

Chapter 21 each with their own minds

Li Shimin turned his head and saw the person calling him, he was stunned, this person was actually Pei Ju.

He said respectfully: "It turned out to be Pei Zhanshi. I don't know what advice you can give me?"

Pei Ju is a person who makes Li Shimin regret every time he thinks about it.In the fourth year of Wude, he captured Dou Jiande alive, but he ignored several important officials under Dou.Originally, he had the opportunity to take these people into his pocket first, but Li Jiancheng preempted him with an oversight.

Not only Pei Ju, most of Dou Jiande's important ministers such as Wei Zheng were invited into the East Palace by Li Jiancheng, and they were deeply trusted.

What Pei Ju was striving for was to pacify the Western Regions, and Li Jiancheng specially organized a working group against the Turks with him as the core.From the four years of Wude to the present, he can be seen behind the court's various means against the Turks in the past two years.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for Li Shimin to poach him.

Why did he call me to stop today?Could it be... Thinking of the beauty, his heart became eager.

"The king of Qin offered Wu Deli to benefit the common people, and I am here to thank you." Pei Ju said with a solemn salute.

"I can't do it, I can't do it, Pei Zhanshi really upset me." How could Li Shimin accept his gift, and hurriedly stepped aside.

Pei Ju got up with a smile, it was enough for the 77-year-old him to make sense of it, as for whether others were willing to take him or not, he didn't force it.

"Pei Zhanshi, I have a lot of questions about the Western Regions and I want to ask you for advice. I wonder if I can go to your house to listen to the teachings." Li Shimin hesitated, and finally made a test.

"Hehe... I'm old." After leaving such a sentence, Pei Ju turned around and left without delay.

Li Shimin was both disappointed and admired as he watched his back going away.Pei Ju rejected his solicitation in a tactful way, and at the same time stated that he was old and only wanted to do something practical before he died, and did not want to get involved in the power struggle.

Li Shimin's heart is full of respect for this person who single-handedly split the Eastern and Western Turks.If it weren't for him, the current Central Plains would probably be the Turkic horse grazing land.

As long as he really does not intervene in the struggle between himself and the prince as he said today, then let him go.Li Shimin thought secretly.

After returning to the palace, Li Shimin went directly to the back garden, and sure enough, he saw Changsun Wugou and Li Lizhi here.

Thinking of her daughter being crowned princess, all those troublesome things disappeared immediately, she stepped forward and hugged Li Lizhi and said with a smile: "Our little princess, do you miss Daddy?"

The little girl was already happy to see her father, but she couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear when she was held up high.Two small white arms spread out to imitate the flapping of wings, and they shouted: "Fly, fly, fly..."

The eldest grandson Wugou was very happy to see her husband come back, but his expression changed when he heard the word "little princess". He looked around and found no outsiders and said in a low voice: "Second brother, what nonsense, if it spreads out, it may cause trouble. Gossip."

"Haha...what are you afraid of, our beautiful princess was conferred by my father himself." Li Shimin laughed loudly.

"Ah, what the second brother said is true?" Changsun Wugou asked in surprise.

"Of course it's true..." Li Shimin told her everything that happened in the court today.

"Fortunately, Second Brother handled it properly, otherwise a good thing might turn into a bad thing." Hearing the crown prince's disturbance, Changsun Wugou said with lingering fear.

"That's not the case. Father won't believe such an obvious provocative statement." Li Shimin shook his head and said, "It's just a pity that Yue Shan has only won the title of Longshou Mountain Man after his great efforts."

In the early Tang Dynasty, the title system was quite chaotic, and there were countless numbers of parallel imported titles, and Longshou Shannan belonged to the no-name army.Because the formal titles are men of a certain county, sons of a certain county, and so on.

It was not until the 11th year of Zhenguan that Li Shimin re-defined the title system and abolished these miscellaneous titles, leaving only nine levels of titles such as county male, county son, county prince, and state prince.

"It's because I can't live with him. In the future, Second Brother must make up for him." Changsun Wugou said regretfully.

Especially when he thought that his own daughter had won the title of princess of Changle County, Yue Shan, the number one hero, had only won a miscellaneous noble, and felt even more guilty.

Li Shimin and his wife looked down on this title because they were in too high a position, and speaking carefully, it was a bit like why not eat minced meat.

For ordinary people, being able to be knighted is already a matter of glory to the ancestors, who cares about the title, at least Yueshan is not picky.

The timeline was pulled back to more than half a month ago.

After Changsun Wuji and his party left with Qu Yuanli, Yue Shan and Yang Goudan returned home.But both of them had no mood to work anymore, and each parted ways with their own concerns.

Yue Shan was thinking about what kind of reward Li Shimin would give him.It would be a lie to say that he doesn't expect much, isn't he doing so many things just for the sake of glory and wealth.

Money is most likely just a question of how much, it would be even better if a loose official could be granted.As for being knighted, it's not that he hasn't thought about it, but it's just thinking about it.

In his impression, after the prosperity of Confucianism, technological inventions are mostly regarded as strange skills and obscene skills.Although the improvement of farm tools may be more tolerant, the possibility of being knighted is not high.

Yang Goudan was thinking about Qu Yuanli, and about the group of nobles riding horses today.Is the one who took the lead really King Qin's brother-in-law?The kid from the Yue family actually knows such a noble person?

Later, he told the villagers the news, and it only took one meal for the news to spread throughout the village.

The second ancestor of Yueshan, Yueerwa, was the first to come to the family.

"Second Uncle, why are you here?" Yue Laosi and his wife were packing up the fish they had just caught, when they saw Yue Erwa get up quickly and said.

Yue Erwa swallowed hard, he still remembered the smell of that big herring.After finally taking his eyes off the fish, he said unhurriedly, "Is Shan Zi there? I'll ask him something."

"Shanzi?" Yue Laosi and his wife suddenly became nervous: "Second Uncle, what happened to Shanzi? Did something happen?"

"You don't know?" This time it was Yue Erwa's turn to be surprised.

"I don't know, what's the matter with his second uncle?" Yue Shanniang asked anxiously.

"This... let's talk together when we see Shanzi." Yue Erwa saw the anxious look of the couple, and added: "Don't worry, Shanzi didn't cause trouble."

How can a light and fluffy sentence make the two of them feel at ease, Yue Laosi didn't even wash his hands, and welcomed Yue Erwa into the house after wiping his clothes twice.

Yue Shan was lying on the bed thinking about something, and he heard Yue Laosi yelled twice, got up quickly and said, "Second Patriarch, you are here, you were thinking about something just now."

"Shanzi, I heard some rumors this afternoon, and I came to ask you if it's true." Yue Erwa's attitude towards Yue Shan was much more kind.

"Tell me." Yue Shan said.

"Yang Goudan spread everywhere that you built a very powerful plow, but it was taken away by a group of nobles? He also said that those nobles are the brothers-in-law of the King of Qin, and they have a very good relationship with you."

(End of this chapter)