"Who?" Li Mu's drunken eyes were blurry, he looked towards the direction where the voice came from, and said in a daze: "Who is so courageous to stand up and speak out!"
"Master Marquis, my subordinate Li Yu." Li Chengqian stood up and bowed to salute. Who can be worthy of the prince's salute? Li Tai and Changsun Chong stood up in a hurry. Fang Yiai and others were a little confused when they saw this.
Such behavior.
Li Mu remained motionless and accepted Li Chengqian's salute. He seemed to be drunk. He stared at him for a while and said with a smile: "If you are not satisfied, then tell me what you want to do?"
"Like you!"
"Me?" Li Mu chuckled: "What's wrong with me, making you so envious?"
"Make great contributions and expand your territory!"
When Fang Yiai and others heard this, they all became interested and said one after another: "Master Marquis, this is also our wish. A true man should protect his family and country and make great achievements. Even if he dies unfortunately, he must return his body wrapped in horse leather!"
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Li Mu glanced at everyone and said, "You all think so?"
"It's all, it's all!" Everyone shouted: "Master Hou, we are all bloody men of the Tang Dynasty, and we all want to make contributions!"
Li Mu smiled and said nothing. He just looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Have the urban management done enough?"
Everyone was envious. Secret Tao was indeed a relative of the Marquis. With such protection, how could others be treated like this?
Li Chengqian could understand the meaning of Li Mu's words, but he also hesitated in his heart. For more than half a year, he had been wandering around the market, met a lot of people, and seen a lot of things. Every household in the workshop he was responsible for
He knew everything about the situation. He once punished his alcoholic and unfilial son, and also secretly supported an old woman whose family was poor and could not afford to see a doctor. But the more things he took care of, the more he realized that he could not find the way.
There are so many things in one place. The world is so big, how can we manage it if we have to manage everything in such a detailed way? He tried to recall how Li Shimin handled political affairs. Although it was also very tiring and cumbersome, he saw
In the memorial, there were almost no such matters as food, rice, oil and salt. He asked the teacher in the East Palace again, and the answer he got was that officials at all levels would make selections step by step. Officials at all levels would handle small matters, but only major matters involving the world would be dealt with.
, will get it on His Majesty’s desk.
It was impossible for one person to take care of everything. So, Li Chengqian began to waver. He knew his situation. He didn't want to stay in the East Palace, so he thought of going outside the palace. But
He stayed outside the palace for half a year, wandering around in the markets, and saw scenes that he would never be exposed to in the palace. Subtly, his thoughts began to change. The naughty boy he used to be has become
Grew up quietly.
He began to understand that as a prince, he should do something. He thought a lot about what he could do. If he was not good at studies, he might not be able to succeed in the literary world, but with the martial arts, he felt that he still had some possibility.
Although the idea has not changed, I still want to be a general and make achievements, but my state of mind has changed. There is less frivolity and more responsibility.
"Well, since you don't want to be a city manager, that's fine. Go report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs tomorrow. I have informed your Majesty that I will hand over the Ministry of Internal Affairs to you."
What!
Everyone was dumbfounded! One or two of them felt that there was something wrong with their ears. Did you hear it right, the Ministry of Internal Affairs? The Ministry of Internal Affairs is so important. It spread throughout the Chang'an government and the public. The power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is now one step higher than that of the three provinces and six ministries.
Give it to a boy from outside Longxi?
Fang Yiai looked at Li Chengqian blankly, and then at Li Mu. Although he was a bit naive, he was not stupid at all. After all, he was Fang Xuanling's son. Although he was kicked out of the house, occasionally the father and son would meet each other.
Yes, he suddenly remembered that when he met his father, he hesitated several times and wanted to say something but failed to say it in the end. The most obvious one was when he met and saw this Li Yu during an inspection.
, my father looked a little unnatural. He thought it was Li Yu who had offended his father, and even scolded him a few times.
After thinking through various associations, Fang Yiai understood. He opened his mouth and said cautiously: "Li Yu, could it be that you are the Crown Prince?"
Li Chengqian heard Li Mu's words and learned that he had made new arrangements for him. The urban management team could not stay any longer. There was no need to hide his identity. After thinking for a while, he admitted: "It is indeed me, Li Yu is a pseudonym."
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"Oh my God!" Fang Yiai quickly stood up and left the table, kneeling next to Li Chengqian. Thinking that he had hit and scolded this black boy before, he wanted to slap him in the mouth. This was the future of the Tang Dynasty.
Lord, if you treat him like this, when he ascends the throne, won't the entire Fang family be executed?
Seeing Fang Yiai's behavior, other people in the urban management team also reacted. They all knelt down behind Fang Yiai, kowtowed and shouted: "I don't know your highness's identity. Please forgive me for any offense I've caused!"
Seeing his colleagues who were usually laughing and joking, suddenly turned into such a respectful look, Li Chengqian's eyes flashed with sadness, but it disappeared immediately. At this moment, he was no longer Longxi Li Yu, and changed back to Li Yu.
The prince of the Tang Dynasty could not see anything on the surface, but the sadness in his heart was only clear to him.
"You all get up, don't blame those who don't know."
"I am terrified."
Li Chengqian was a little anxious and said: "I have said that those who don't know are not to blame. In the beginning, what I did was not enough, and I deserved to be punished. You didn't do anything wrong, why do you have to apologize?" Seeing Fang Yiai and others also said
If you don't get up, Li Chengqian said anxiously: "If you don't get up, then I will kneel down too."
Whoever dared to make the prince kneel down, Fang Yiai and others shouted: "I am so scared!"
"What on earth do you want!"
Seeing the stalemate between the two sides, which seemed to be endless, Li Mu finally couldn't help but said: "It's almost done. It's His Majesty's arrangement that the Crown Prince understands the sentiments of the people. If you know about it, it will be against His Majesty's wishes."
. Now that the probation period has expired, you have made a small contribution. His Majesty has decreed that everyone in the Urban Management Brigade will be promoted to the first level. The Urban Management Brigade became independent from Jinyiwei and established the Urban Management Bureau. Fang Yiai, the captain of the Brigade, was promoted to the Urban Management Bureau.
Director, the others have been promoted one after another, and the decree will arrive soon, so can you feel at ease?"
There is no punishment, but there are rewards and promotions? After all, Fang Yiai and others are young at heart, and the city is not that deep. After carefully looking at the expressions of Li Mu and Li Chengqian, they felt that it was not sarcastic, so they believed it, and they all got up and returned.
seat.
Li Chengqian's identity was exposed, so he was naturally not suitable to sit at the bottom. He would not let Li Mu give up the main seat, so he sat with Li Tai.
Not long after Li Tai returned to Chang'an, Li Chengqian was not in the palace very much. Due to some strange combination of circumstances, the two brothers did not meet each other. When he saw Li Tai just now, Li Chengqian followed Li Mu thinking he was a member of some family, until he heard Li Tai speak.
, only then did he recognize that he was his younger brother. Now that he was sitting at the same table and taking a closer look, he still found it incredible. After not seeing him for several months, his younger brother seemed to have lost weight. Li Chengqian stretched out his hand to pull him away.
When I pulled Li Tai's arm, there was nothing unusual except that the skin felt a little loose. I couldn't help but be surprised.
"My mentor said that this loose skin can be tightened by some exercise, and it will be fine. But my brother, on the other hand, is getting darker and darker."
“Being outside in the wind and sun all day long, I don’t want to get dark, but there’s nothing I can do about it!”
The two brothers had not seen each other for almost a year, and had experienced many different situations, so they seemed to be somewhat separated. However, the close ties of flesh and blood were still there, and after a brief chat, the separation disappeared.
Regarding Li Tai's affairs, Li Chengqian had a residence report in his East Palace, and Li Chengqian knew about his change of title to King of Wei and the establishment of a literary museum. The officials in the East Palace had drafted a memorial and wanted Li Chengqian to submit it to Li Shimin to express their support.
He was dissatisfied with Li Tai's re-title and the literary museum, but in the end Li Chengqian did not do that. His mind was not on literature, and the Tang Dynasty was founded by force. In Li Chengqian's heart, he did not want to be a conservative.
As an emperor, he wanted to learn from his grandfather and father and become an emperor who opened up territory for the Tang Dynasty and went down in history.
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Li Mu was carried into the palace, and Li Chengqian happened to return to the East Palace. Li Mu was drunk and unable to handle affairs, so Eunuch Gao placed him in the East Palace and returned to Li Shimin to resume his life.
Li Chengqian is not married yet, and he usually lives alone. In terms of daily life, he is not very particular about his daily life. Moreover, he is young. Although he has been taught about men and women, he has no idea. He is usually alone.
There were not many maids sleeping around, and they were all arranged by Empress Changsun herself, so nothing unexpected happened.
Li Chengqian has always had a feeling for Li Mu that is somewhere between a master and a brother. But unlike Li Tai, he respects Li Mu as his master from the bottom of his heart. He admires Li Mu and follows his example, but he is not willing to follow his mentor.
Called. After all, he is also the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and he has arrogance in his bones. It is more of a feeling like an elder brother. He looks at Li Mu like a younger brother looking at an elder brother. He is willing to follow Li Mu's footsteps, although he also understands
, this feeling should not appear in the prince of the Tang Dynasty.
Before Li Jing destroyed the Turks, the Turks had always been the biggest concern of the Tang Dynasty. Li Chengqian also regarded the Turks as his biggest enemy. As the art of war goes, only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you fight a hundred battles without slacking off. Li Chengqian was also thorough, and he treated himself
His palace was transformed into a Turkic style. There was a tent in the palace, and he lived in the tent. The surrounding decorations were not antique calligraphy and paintings, but animal skin bows and arrows. Although these strong bows and crossbows
He couldn't pull any of them away, but when it was placed there, he felt happy, imagining how one day he would ride a horse to fight, set up a bow and shoot arrows, and fly through the poplars with a hundred steps.
Li Chengqian asked the palace people to carry Li Mu over and placed him in his tent. And he lay down on the couch outside the tent, looking at the swords, guns, swords and halberds on the wall, listening to Li Mu's snoring, and his mind wandered.
Passed many scenes.
There was a prince named Yu Zhining in the East Palace. He was sent by Li Shimin to help Li Chengqian manage the East Palace and was regarded as one of the people in the East Palace. This Zuo concubine was also very responsible and helped with everything. But Li Chengqian did not
Like him, it's not because he did anything wrong. As the official of the East Palace, there is nothing wrong with his words and deeds. The reason Li Chengqian doesn't like him is because his starting point for doing things is always the prince, not Li Chengqian. He
What he always talks about is how a prince should be. He has never asked himself what he wants.
A few days ago, Yu Zhining came to him and told him something. He didn't know where he heard it from, saying that the emperor wanted to make it easier for him to be a prince. He also gave examples, such as the emperor allowing the king of Wei to set up a pavilion and recruit bachelors. Write a book, talk about it and wait. When Li Chengqian heard this, he just thought it was ridiculous and didn't take it seriously. But today when he saw Li Tai staying with Li Mu, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Does this younger brother of his really have any thoughts about the position of crown prince? If not, how could he have the willpower to lose weight, and how could he stay with Li Mu? Is he trying to gain Li Mu's strong support?
Li Chengqian looked at the sleeping Li Mu and wondered what would happen if one day Li Mu really sided with Li Tai.
No matter how you think about it, the result is the same, you won't have any chance.
But the current situation does not seem to be that bad. He handed over the Ministry of Internal Affairs to himself today. Even the women and children of Chang'an City can tell the importance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If he really wants to support Li Tai, Absolutely not going to do that.
What was on his mind? Just as he was thinking about it, Li Mu suddenly sat up. Li Chengqian was startled, but he reacted quickly and asked softly: "Brother, do you want to drink water?"
"Watching the sword while drunk!"
"ah?"
"Dream back to the Trumpet Company!"
"Eight hundred miles away, the soldiers under my command are being burned, the sound of fifty-stringed strings rolling outside the Great Wall, and the troops on the battlefield are in autumn!"
Li Chengqian was stunned, watching Li Mu fall down again: "The horse is so fast, the bow is like a thunderbolt."
"Finish the king's worldly affairs and gain fame both before and after his death. Misfortune happened in vain!"
After Li Mu finished playing drunkenly, he fell asleep again, leaving Li Chengqian sitting alone, muttering the last sentence.
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"How can you, the poor king, gain fame both in life and in life?" After hearing what the little eunuch said, Li Shimin's mouth curved up, and he waved his hand, and the little eunuch retreated.
"Gao Gan, tell me, is Li Mu acting for me, or is he really drunk and that's what he thinks?"
Eunuch Gao bowed and said: "Your Majesty did not see that the Marquis was drunk and was already unconscious. It is absolutely impossible that he did it deliberately."
"But the wording of this poem is exquisite and so heroic. He opened his mouth and came -" Li Shimin frowned slightly and said, "Do you really have such literary talent?"
"Your Majesty, you have forgotten. The Marquis has always been like this. Does your Majesty still remember the poem 'I am born with talents that will be useful, and I will come back again after all the money I have spent'? He said it right away. I have no doubt that the Marquis has such literary talent. of."
"You, you are really in his party now." Li Shimin laughed and scolded, and Eunuch Gao knelt down quickly and said: "I always obey His Majesty's orders and never dare to form a party with others."
"It's a joke, why should you take it seriously?" Li Shimin motioned him to get up, sighed, and remained silent. After a while, Li Shimin finally spoke and said: "When Li Mu wakes up tomorrow, there is no need for him to come to see me. , the coronation matter will be fully handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs."