Chapter 0511 Its time for Li Jiancheng to take action...
"Father is gone?"
As soon as Li Yuan left, Yang Miaoyan appeared in the room.
Li Yuanji took out a breath, nodded and said: "Let's go..."
Yang Miaoyan walked to the bed, and while gathering the feathers and threads hanging above Li Yuanji's head, she asked in a low voice: "Did he find out that you were pretending to be sick?"
Li Yuanji stretched his muscles and listened to the rattling sound of bones colliding with each other. He sighed and said: "He had doubts before he came here. The reason why he created this thing is to test me."
As he said that, he pointed at the feathers and silk threads that Yang Miaoyan was gathering.
Yang Miaoyan finished packing the feathers and threads, covered her mouth and snickered: "I have told you long ago that if you do this, your father will expose you sooner or later."
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Yang Miaoyan and said angrily: "It can be hidden for a while."
His purpose in doing this was not to hide Li Yuan's secrets, but to escape Li Yuan's recruitment.
Now that Li Yuan has exposed it, I can't hide it anymore, so I won't hide it anymore.
He had nothing to lose anyway.
Yang Miaoyan sat down next to Li Yuanji and asked with a smile: "Then what will you do next?"
Li Yuanji pinched Yang Miaoyan's rosy cheeks and said fiercely: "What can we do? Of course we just wait and see what happens."
Anyway, he has made it clear to Li Yuan how much he has.
If Li Yuan still cared about Li Tang's power, it would be absolutely impossible for him to send him to fight the Turks.
Although his pretending to be ill has been exposed, his goal has been achieved, and he doesn't need to do anything from now on, just wait and see what happens.
He didn't believe that Li Jiancheng could still endure it when Li Yuan begged Li Shimin.
"You pinched me so much!"
Yang Miaoyan slapped Li Yuanji's hand away and said angrily.
Li Yuanji said fiercely: "I want you to see my joke..."
The first thing he heard when he woke up was Yang Miaoyan urging Li Yuan to rest, which meant that Yang Miaoyan had discovered that he was awake at that time and was helping him out in this way.
Yang Miaoyan just tried to persuade me for a few words and then stopped trying.
This shows that Yang Miaoyan guessed that he would be exposed and deliberately wanted to laugh at him.
After all, with Yang Miaoyan's status, even if Li Yuan issued a decree, she could still say a few more words.
Because she was Li Yuan's daughter-in-law, she shouldered the responsibility of being filial to Li Yuan from the moment she entered the Li family's door.
Therefore, whether she advised Li Yuan to rest or paid filial piety to Li Yuan, she was still performing filial piety.
It was not good for Li Yuan to shout and kill her because of this, let alone to reprimand her because what she said was contrary to his will.
Because she respects filial piety, even if it goes against the holy will, others will support her if she says it.
This is the era of respecting filial piety and the privileges that can be enjoyed by respecting filial piety.
"I didn't see your joke..."
Yang Miaoyan defended herself with a pitiful look.
Li Yuanji glanced at Yang Miaoyan and said angrily: "Yes, yes, you didn't see my joke, you just made me a joke."
Yang Miaoyan bit her red lips lightly and said hesitantly: "Then I...make it up to you?"
Li Yuanji suddenly became energetic, sat up straight and said: "How to compensate?"
Yang Miaoyan quickly stood up, took a few steps back, and said with a sweet smile: "I'll let you sleep alone tonight..."
After speaking, Yang Miaoyan giggled and fled the study like a gust of wind.
Li Yuanji was left alone, looking at the empty study and sighing.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning.
Li Yuanji was catching up on his sleep, while Ling Jing hurried to Jiudao Palace.
While Li Yuanji was wandering around the lake, he told Li Yuanji a piece of news, "Your Highness, during this morning's court meeting, the saint issued an order to extend your stay until the end of the year."
Li Yuanji rubbed his sleepy eyes, yawned and said, "What did I think it was? It's just this, don't worry about it."
Anyway, since he traveled so far, he has either been banned or on the road to being banned.
So there's nothing to worry about.
Even if the ban is extended to next year, or longer, it will not affect him in doing anything.
As long as Li Yuan does not depose him from his title, other punishments will be the same to him.
"The saint was also promoted to the title of His Royal Highness the King of Zhongshan!"
Ling Jing said in a somewhat urgent voice.
Li Yuanji suddenly woke up, stared at Ling Jing and said: "If you are promoted, you will be the prince..."
Prince is the title of Li Chengqian's uncles, and even some of his uncles have not yet become princes.
Li Yuan suddenly raised Li Chengqian to a level comparable to his uncles, which meant that Li Yuan wanted to use Li Chengqian's father, Li Shimin.
What to do with Li Shimin is self-evident.
Li Shimin has now reached the point where he cannot be sealed. If Li Yuan still wants to use Li Shimin, he can only start with Li Shimin's sons.
Ling Jing nodded and said: "Yes, you are the prince. During the morning court today, the saint promoted His Royal Highness the Prince of Zhongshan County to Prince Yong in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, and the number of households was increased to 6,000."
Six thousand fiefdoms have reached the peak of the fiefdoms that the prince can have.
Excluding the two special cases of Li Yuanji and Li Shimin, Li Chengqian suddenly stood on top of all the princes.
It can be seen that Li Yuan spent a lot of money this time.
"Didn't my elder brother stop me?"
Li Yuanji asked in disbelief.
If Li Jiancheng could agree to this kind of thing, then there would be no need to seize the direct descendant.
The combined households of the two younger brothers have reached seventy or eighty thousand, and the combined households of other uncles, brothers, sisters, nephews, and dignitaries have also reached nearly two hundred thousand.
The Tang Dynasty only had a population of more than 1.5 million, and nearly one-fifth of them were sealed off at once. So what's the point of seizing the direct descendants?
Seize it and make it a housekeeper for your brothers, sisters, uncles, nephews, and powerful people?!
Ling Jing couldn't laugh or cry and said: "If you stop it, how could you not stop it? It's just that the saint has his own way, and nothing the prince says will work."
Li Yuanji said in disbelief: "Then the matter is settled like this?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Ling Jing smiled bitterly and shook his head: "That's not true. When the decree was transmitted to Chengqing Hall, His Highness King Qin and Princess Qin went to Taiji Hall to plead guilty to the saint, saying that King Zhongshan
Your Highness is young and ignorant, and has not made any contributions to the Tang Dynasty, so he cannot deserve such a generous reward."
Li Yuanji nodded thoughtfully and said, "Then, did my father take back his life?"
"How can it be?"
Ling Jing smiled bitterly and said: "The saint's move is to allow His Highness the King of Qin to lead the troops to go on an expedition. If His Highness the King of Qin does not take the initiative to ask for help, how could the Saint withdraw his orders?"
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "Speaking of it, this matter is also beneficial to my eldest brother. My eldest brother should not stop it."
Ling Jing glanced at Li Yuanji, dumbfounded.
He felt that Li Yuanji could only stand and talk without pain in his back.
Li Yuan brought Li Chengqian up to the level of his uncle in one breath, which made Li Jiancheng how to be named after he ascended the throne.
Granting him a prince title is no different than not granting him a title.
If you close your account again, it will hurt your body again.
Moreover, Li Yuan made such a start. After Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, he not only had to designate princes to his brothers, but also to his nephews, and uncles would inevitably have to be mentioned first.
There are many people in the Li family.
Li Jiancheng has sealed off all the places in the Tang Dynasty that he can seal. Who will he rule then?
Moreover, the more households the brothers, nephews, and uncles held, the more authority they had, which was not conducive to his rule at all.
Therefore, even if Li Yuan's promotion of Li Chengqian to prince was beneficial to him, he would not agree to it.
Li Yuan was the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Many of the rules he set and the things he did would be regarded as ancestral laws.
If Li Jiancheng recognized some of Li Yuan's practices that were harmful to the Tang Dynasty, he would be looking for trouble for himself.
Li Jiancheng is not stupid, how could he create trouble for himself?
"You asked our people to keep an eye on my eldest brother. If my prediction is correct, it's almost time for my eldest brother to take action."
Li Yuanji finished teasing Li Jiancheng with a smile and gave instructions to Ling Jing.
In order to allow Li Shimin to lead the army, Li Yuan began to make an exception to confer kingship on Li Chengqian. If Li Jiancheng hadn't made any move yet.
Then Li Yuan can promise to go out more.
If Li Jiancheng doesn't want to be deposed or become a puppet emperor, he must take action.
"I understand, but the matter regarding the Li family in Zhaozhou..."
Ling Jing agreed and said hesitantly.
After the last banquet in Quchi, Li Yuanji never asked about the Li family in Zhaozhou.
It seems that he no longer cares about it.
The Li family in Zhaozhou has now had a chance to breathe under the protection of Li Jiancheng. They are currently negotiating with the bandits in Zhaozhou and seem to be ready to turn around.
So Ling Jing must ask.
Li Yuanji put away his smile and said calmly: "Let them jump around for a while first, and then we will deal with them when we have our hands free."
Ling Jing pondered and said: "If Your Highness doesn't want to let them go so easily, you can let Gao Yaxian deal with them."
Gao Yaxian is good now, and he will not be needed for what he will do next. Letting him deal with the Li family in Zhaozhou is considered a waste.
Although Gao Yaxian's fighting skills are mediocre, he is still somewhat capable in politics.
Otherwise, he would not have been reused by Dou Jiande and treated as a distinguished guest by Liu Heitai.
Li Yuanji said thoughtfully: "Do you think Gao Yaxian is suitable?"
Ling Jing nodded without hesitation: "Absolutely suitable."
Li Yuanji shook his head slightly and said: "Forget it..."
Ling Jing looked at Li Yuanji in confusion.
Li Yuanji said calmly: "If my second brother is frustrated in Chang'an City, he will definitely use the means he arranged outside Chang'an City. At that time, the soldiers and horses of Hebei Province will have a battle with the soldiers and horses of Duji Road and Shaanxi Province.
When the time comes, we will choose Zhaozhou as the battlefield."
Ling Jing's heart trembled and his eyes widened in shock.
If this is the case, then there is really no need to send Gao Yaxian to deal with the Li family in Zhaozhou.
Because once the soldiers and horses of Hebei Province go to war with the soldiers and horses of Duji Province and Shaanxi Province, let alone the Zhaozhou Li family, even if there is a big family that is not defeated by the Zhaozhou Li family, they will still be crushed.
