Wei Zheng, the doctor admonishing Yi, secretly glanced at the emperor and thought to himself, where did the emperor hear this from? Although the words were ordinary, the spirit was quite impressive.
Yan Shigu looked up and saw that the emperor was composing poetry again... couldn't he?
Daily Note Xue Yuanjing was startled and quickly wrote it down, but he said in his heart that it was just a fragment of a sentence. The emperor really just picked it up wherever he thought of it and never completed it. It was a pity.
These close ministers had been with the emperor for a long time, and they had developed a lot of resistance to the emperor's strange poetic talents that appeared from time to time. They made many speculations, but there was no evidence.
Just as Li Po thought, if he copied some poems now, no one would dare to question him. At most, they would just murmur in their hearts.
Cen Wenwen immediately followed suit, finally seizing the opportunity, and naturally praised him fiercely, but he still wanted the emperor to work harder and complete the whole poem.
Li Po angrily wrote a small account for him, and impatiently drove him back to write again.
Li Po does remember a lot of poems, but like most ordinary people, he remembers most of the popular fragments. There are complete poems, but he will only take them out when the occasion arises.
Just like going into battle to kill the enemy, you should always keep the most capable ones as a reserve team.
After sending Cen Wenwen away and reading the memorial for a while, Li Po asked the eunuch to let in the people he wanted to see today one by one.
Mainly those who surrendered from the Liang Kingdom.
The person who saw it first was Xiao Lang, the Liang Domestic Shiling, Xiao Xian's relative and favorite.
The powerful ministers after the fall of the country were so prosperous before, but now they are in a miserable state, and Xiao Lang is undoubtedly the best among them.
He kept his word in the Liang Dynasty court, and his image as a powerful official gradually became apparent. In recent years, he had been involved in almost everything such as expelling Cen Wenwen, killing Zhang Xiu and other kings, sending Zhou Faming to lead troops outside, and so on.
In terms of political skills, he is really unambiguous.
Li Po just made some side inquiries and lost interest in this man. This man was not only Xiao Xian's uncle, but also a powerful official of the Liang Kingdom. He was unpopular in every aspect.
Besides, Xiao Lang didn't seem to have any other special talents besides liking to eat river fish.
So Li Po met him symbolically and left this person behind. There was no place for Xiao Lang in the Chang'an court, and it was inappropriate for him to be an official.
Give him a title and raise him up. He seems to be lacking some qualifications. It can be said that he is too good to be too good to be too low. Li Po completely forgot about him in the blink of an eye.
The next person he met was Li Xizhi, Minister of Industry, and Li Po spoke to him more seriously.
In fact, Li Po had already made a decision on how to appoint this person before meeting him. Now when he met him, the first thing he wanted to do was to see his personal attitude.
Don't worry about your homeland and don't want to serve as an official in this dynasty. There's no need to force it. Let the people from the Li family in Longxi persuade you. If it doesn't work, just stay in Chang'an for ten or eight years. Well, let's see who suffers.
The second is to take a rough look at the person's speech, behavior, character, moral character, etc. For example, Xiao Lang is not very good. He has no iron bones and cannot lower his head to offer a flattering smile, which makes himself and others uncomfortable.
Very awkward.
Li Po didn't know how he looked in front of Xiao Xian. Anyway, he didn't see that this person had the qualities to become an internal historian.
Compared with the two old foxes Feng Deyi and Changsun Shunde, Xiao Lang looks very weak.
Li Xinzhi's personality was much more distinct. After careful observation, he said some words. Perhaps because of preconceptions, Li Po liked his frank and cheerful temperament.
As for talent, it can't be seen in person or in conversation. Moreover, Xiao Mian was destroyed in more than three months, which made Li Po have great doubts about the abilities of Xiao Mian's subordinates.
He thought Cen Wenwen's suggestion was very good. Xiao Mian's surrendered ministers were more suitable for governing the local area, rather than putting them in the court to fight over each other.
Li Xinzhi was somewhat in a daze when he walked out of the Tai Chi Hall. It was very different from the scene he had imagined. The emperor was not so... harsh (rude and violent), and treated him very gently and approachably.
The emperor was easy to get along with, not as fierce as the rumors say... This was the impression the emperor left on him after seeing him for the first time.
The emperor didn't ask anything too important. He just asked him to talk about some customs and customs in the south. What surprised Li Xizhi was that the emperor seemed to be no stranger to those places.
He only started many things, and the emperor already knew what he was talking about. With the emperor's age and experience, it is impossible for him to have been to Shannan, and it is not like he has heard people talk about Shannan. It is difficult to describe
It was a strange feeling, like meeting a fellow villager who hadn't been home for many years.
He talked a lot with the emperor, but did not say anything important. The emperor did not ask about his family background, nor did he praise his political achievements in the south, nor did he ask him to express his loyalty.
After chatting for a long time, they let him out. Li Xizhi let out a long breath, but felt lost because he had been mentally preparing for this meeting for a long time.
People who visited him also told him that this meeting with the driver was very important, but the result was that he had been accumulating energy for a long time, but it was all in vain, which made him somewhat uncomfortable.
The eunuch led him out of the Tai Chi Hall. Li Xizhi finally came to his senses when he was blown by the cold wind outside, but the people from Taichang Temple were already waiting for him outside.
He will be temporarily appointed as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple. After that, Taichang Temple will prepare a place for him so that he will not have to return to the Zuotun Guard Station again, and he is already mentally prepared.
Because Li Daoxing told him that he would serve in no more than three places in the future, Taichang Temple, the Ministry of Industry, and the Shaofu... The Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, the fourth rank, was much worse than the minister in terms of rank.
Ministry of Industry weight.
Of course, Li Xinzhi didn't care too much about this. As the New Year was getting closer and closer, he felt a little homesick. He didn't know how long he would have to stay in Chang'an and whether he could go back to his hometown in Shannan...
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In one morning, Liang Guojiang had met almost everyone. After all, there were only a few people who could come to see him in front of the emperor. Those who interested the emperor and wanted to say more were even rarer.
Xiao Xiansheng's impression on Li Po was quite good. Everyone was somewhat bookish, and some of them were gentle and reserved. He was used to seeing ambitious northern heroes, and when he took a look at them again, he felt fresh and new.
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When it was time for lunch, Li Po planned to go back to Liangyi Palace for dinner. He didn't plan to come over in the afternoon. The weather was nice today, so he just happened to go out of the palace to hang out.
As soon as they were escorted out of the Tai Chi Hall, Feng Deyi appeared, obviously coming here for lunch.
Seeing Feng Deyi, Li Po remembered the Six Strategies of Talking and Shang, and while walking towards Liangyi Palace, he asked: "Where is the warrior Yu? Let him come here while you are free."
Feng Deyi looked at the emperor's face with some surprise, and thought to himself that it seemed that the Supreme Being was in a good mood today, and it was not easy to be disturbed by those descendants.
"He has been waiting for a long time, so I will send someone to bring him here."
Only after entering the Tai Chi Hall did Feng Deyi realize that the warrior Xun was so lucky. He was able to dine with the emperor on his first meeting. Such a blessing was unmatched by ordinary people.
The warrior Xun did not feel that he was very lucky. He got up early and waited outside the palace for more than an hour before Feng Deyi sent someone to take him to the lower province of Nanyamen.
He had been away from the court for a long time, and few people in his household recognized him. Even if they did, they would not come up to talk to him at this time. There is no such thing as friendship.
Feng Deyi obviously didn't specifically ask him to entertain him, so he waited there for a long time without even drinking water, but he was still very grateful that Feng Deyi didn't let him freeze outside, otherwise he would come down all morning.
Let alone meeting the driver, it's hard to believe whether he can even speak the truth.
In fact, this is the most common process when meeting the emperor. There are many people who want to meet the emperor, but very few people can actually meet the emperor.
For people like Samurai Yu, who only had to wait for more than ten days for an audience, it would still be light if the wait was longer. Some people may have lost the opportunity to see the emperor by waiting.
He couldn't complain about Feng Deyi, because he did help you get the opportunity to meet the driver and fulfilled your original promise. As for whether you can win the emperor's respect, it depends on your own ability.
The two of you are neither relatives nor friends, so just do this. If you help further, it will be a favor. If you don't help, you can't complain.
As Yang said, if you don't help, you will harm others... It's not wrong, everyone just sees things from a different perspective.
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The warrior Xun was indeed very lucky. When he entered the Liangyi Hall, the food was already on the table and a place was left for him.
Li Po didn't make any special arrangements before, and Feng Deyi didn't help him fight for it. It happened to be lunch time. What do you think it's not luck?
"Your Majesty, Warrior Yu, see you, Your Majesty." Warrior Yu bowed to the ground.
Li Po waved his hand, "No courtesy, please sit down and talk."
In any case, Samurai Yun was once a minister of the Ministry of Industry and had walked beside Li Yuan, so he would not be as frightened as those who met Li Yuan for the first time.
After saluting Feng Deyi again, he carefully sat on the empty seat.
Three dishes and one soup were relatively simple. As one of the most wealthy men in the world, Samurai Yu made a little judgment. If the emperor's lunch was always like this, it would indeed be much simpler than Li Yuan's.
Li Yuan likes to be lively, and he always has his close ministers by his side, especially Pei Ji, who seems to spend much longer time with Li Yuan than the concubines.
The current emperor... seems to be rumored to be a bit lecherous, and he also likes good food? Food, sex (harmony), too?
If Li Po knew what he was thinking, he would definitely ask him, where the hell did you hear that we are so lewd?
Feng Deyi sat opposite him and nodded to him cheerfully, which seemed to mean that the emperor was in a good mood and you could speak freely.
The samurai will not believe him, this guy is very bad...
Even though he was really hungry, he just sat still, looking at the emperor from the corner of his eye from time to time, secretly comparing it to Li Yuan...