"Li Siye? You sound familiar to me. How did he get into the crown prince's position?" Li Longji asked casually.
Gao Lishi reminded in a low voice from the side: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten? There is a strong man who offers you the Liangpi recipe. This man's name is Li Siye."
"oh."
The emperor remembered that this man had merit in offering cold skin and had martial arts skills, so he sent him to the prince to lead a thousand oxen. Unexpectedly, this man was unwilling to be lonely and appeared in his ears again.
Li Longji suddenly became interested and wanted to have a discussion on this matter, so he looked at everyone and asked lightly: "Everyone, what do you think?"
Yang Hui couldn't help but attack first: "Your Majesty, this Li Siye is a lowly businessman who uses wealth and goods for profit. It is really not a wise move to send him to His Highness the Crown Prince. If it weren't for this person's temptation, the Crown Prince wouldn't be able to do this.
An act of doing business to make money."
Li Linfu shook his head slightly, Yang Hui's accusation did not make sense.
Li Longji ignored it, looked at Zhang Jiuling and asked, "Jiuling, what do you think?"
Even when Mr. Zhang was sitting at the banquet, his shoulders were always straight and his back was straight, his posture was solemn, and he was as majestic as a lying green pine. He folded his hands and said to the emperor unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, in my opinion,
, this emergency plan is comparable to Sun Bin’s teaching Tian Ji to race horses.”
After hearing this, Li Longji nodded and did not ask Pei Yaoqing, but turned his attention to Li Linfu: "Lin Fu, what do you think?"
Li Linfu clapped his hands in agreement and said, "No, it's much better than Sun Bin's plan. Congratulations to your majesty and congratulations to the prince. This man is a great talent! He is comparable to Sun Bin and Kong Ming!"
When Zhang Jiuling heard this, his face was a little unhappy, and he was about to retort. Pei Yaoqing took over the words first and said: "As far as this plan is concerned, it is indeed superb, but it is just a clever little trick, not a great talent."
Yang Hui couldn't speak at this time, but he winked at Li Linfu frequently. Li Linfu raised his head and looked straight ahead, pretending not to notice.
Li Longji showed a slightly embarrassed smile, nodded and said: "He is indeed talented. After the prince returns, he must promote and reward him, and don't let the talented people feel cold."
Li Ying felt relieved and quickly bowed down: "My son, I obey."
"In that case, Prince, please step aside and return to the East Palace."
Li Ying had been in an atmosphere of worry and tension just now and didn't pay much attention to the performance of the big guys at the table. Also, in such an awkward position, he would never learn the essence of struggle.
After the prince left, Li Longji's mood gradually became depressed. He dismissed everyone, and even Concubine Wu Hui did not let her accompany him. He took a chariot and returned to the Daming Palace along the Jiacheng City, escorted by Gao Lishi and the palace ladies.
…
In a secret pavilion in the northwest corner of Longchi in Xingqing Palace, Concubine Wu Hui and Yang Hui secretly met Li Linfu, the Minister of Rites.
This official of the Tang Dynasty, who pursued the peak of power all his life, had eyes as narrow as a falcon, a slightly raised nose, but always maintained a friendly and calm smile on his face.
He stepped into the dark pavilion, immediately bowed and crossed his hands to Concubine Wu Hui, and nodded to Yang Hui who was standing aside.
Yang Hui was impatient, so he came up and accused Li Linfu: "Didn't I promise to help Prince Shou in the past? Why do you want to speak for that princeling today?"
Li Linfu raised his head slightly arrogantly. He felt that in terms of intelligence and intelligence, he was qualified to raise his head in front of Yang's consort.
In order to express her trust in Li Linfu, Concubine Wu Hui reprimanded Yang Hui: "Consort, you must not be rude to Mr. Li!"
Yang Hui naturally retreated to one side and waited for Concubine Wu Hui to speak first.
"Ms. Li, I'm just a woman and don't understand the affairs of the court. It's just that Yang Hui and I have the same views. You praised the prince's close ministers at the banquet today. Isn't this the majesty of the eldest prince?"
Li Linfu squinted his narrow eyes, stroking his beard and smiled: "Have you ever heard, Concubine Hui, that disparagement will not necessarily make a person weak, but excessive praise will definitely frustrate him! This is called flattery."
"I don't understand. Please ask Mr. Li to help me understand."
"Concubine Hui has been with His Majesty all day long, so she must know what His Majesty is taboo about. Now that the prosperous age has come, and the people are safe and the country is strong, what is needed is talent for governing the world, not talent for troubled times. I praised the prince's close minister Li Siye as Sun Bin with excessive praise.
Kong Ming, these two are both talented people in troubled times, how can your Majesty not be wary of such people staying with the prince?"
When Concubine Wu Hui heard this, she was immediately overjoyed. Li Xianggong was worthy of being Li Xianggong, and his level was very high. Such a compliment was worth ten times of complaint from Yang Hui.
Yang Hui next to him couldn't help but marvel, and at the same time he felt scared. If he was an enemy of such an old fox in the court, he wouldn't know why he would be punished.
Concubine Hui finally learned a trick from Li Linfu and made many promises verbally. For example, if King Shou succeeds to the throne in the future, he should remember Li Xianggong's contribution to the throne and will give him the title of Third Master.
Li Linfu crossed his hands and thanked him, and the offensive and defensive alliance between the two sides became more stable.
…
Everyone in the East Palace was worried, and they didn't know whether the prince's departure would be bad or good. Suddenly something unusual happened, and these officials lost their good looks towards Li Siye.
Prince Zhan's ministers showed an attitude of suppressing people at the top of the official hierarchy, pointed at Li Siye and scolded: "You are just a reckless businessman who came up with such a bad idea to mislead His Highness the Crown Prince. If His Highness has any shortcomings today, we must first deal with it."
Get it!"
Li Siye didn't want to argue with these people, but they poked their fingers in the face, so he had to respond shamelessly.
"How do you know that the prince was summoned to be punished, or maybe to be rewarded? You started to accuse me before the situation was clear. When you paid off the money in the treasury, you were happier than the other. Now that something has happened, your expressions have changed.
, are you chameleons?”
"Nonsense!" A Zhan officer pointed at Li Siye and said, "I have disagreed with this from the beginning. If you hadn't bewitched the prince, how could he have done such a thing for a merchant?"
"Also, do you still have a distinction between superior and inferior? We, the fourth-grade Zhanshi, are all sitting below you! You are only a Qianniu from the seventh-grade, don't you know how to be humble and humble!"
"Yes, we are all imperial scholars. How can you, a businessman with no talent and only a little cleverness, be higher than us!"
"I'm talking about you! Why are you so thick-skinned? Hurry up and get down from the upper right."
While everyone was quarreling, the palace attendant's voice suddenly came from outside: "The prince has returned to the palace."
At this time, no one could care about the quarrel with Li Siye and ran out of the palace in a hurry. They crossed their arms and bowed to greet the returning prince. They took a look at the prince's face. If it was a little gloomy, it would be good. If it was dark clouds, it would be bad.