Princess Yongchang seems to have never slept well in her life, and after being woken up by the horse that was squeezed into the bed that day, the princess disliked the horse and fell asleep again.

Song Jing: "......"

The colt couldn't help but hold the princess's face and look around carefully, she woke up three days ago, and fell asleep again, but compared to the previous situation when she slept darkly, now she would cry out hungry, but it was only limited to eating and sleeping, waking up and eating.

Song Jing let go of the hands holding the princess's face and looked at the sun sprinkled outside. The sun was not fierce in winter, and she slept on the couch these days, probably basking in the sun too. So Song Jing didn't say a word, asked Yang Zhiganlu and others to prepare hot tea and snacks in the courtyard, and then helped the princess change her clothes, and then brought a snow-white fox fur to wrap her into zongzi, and then carried her out of the courtyard.

The sudden light outside made the princess, who had slept peacefully, frown fiercely, as if she were swinging on a small boat. Her eyes narrowed a slit, and she saw Song Jing's very beautiful chin line. She lifted a hand and touched his chin, her voice like a dream, "Where are you taking me?" ”

Awake?

Song Jing looked down at the princess and said softly, "Go to the yard to bask in the sun." ”

"Don't go, I'm sleepy." The princess's head tilted, and she pillowed on Song Jing's shoulder, and as soon as her eyes were closed, she was about to fall asleep again.

"Yongchang, don't sleep. Princess Taiping said that she would bring Wanquan to see you today. Song Jing was afraid that she would fall asleep again, so she hurriedly said.

While talking, he carried her to the courtyard, Yang Zhiganlu and the others saw the princess and the horse coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to serve, serving tea and dim sum.

Li Chen slept for many days, at first he was really sick, and the high fever did not go away, and then after the high fever subsided, he kept sleeping. I slept intermittently for more than half a month, and the bones in my body were soft, and when I saw the maid walking around, I felt dizzy in my eyes.

She frowned, "Don't all walk around, you don't need to serve here, go down." ”

After the people around him retreated, Li Chen cheered up, "Have I slept for a long time?" ”

Song Jing nodded, "It's been almost twenty days, and the saint has come to see you, but you haven't woken up yet." Then you woke up once, but you still kept sleeping, are you so sleepy? ”

Li Chen yawned, his eyes were cloudy, and he nodded, "Sleepy, I actually think about it, but I can't open my eyes." After a pause, she smiled again and said, "Guangping, I have had many dreams. ”

Song Jing raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

With a slight smile on Li Chen's pale face, he said softly: "I dreamed of my father, and I dreamed of my mother. They were still the same as when they were young, and the two of them walked in my garden of envy, and they were very harmonious. When I saw them, I was very happy and wanted to catch up, but in any case, I couldn't catch up, so I had to turn back. ”

Song Jing reached out and touched her cheek, but fortunately she didn't catch up, but she caught up?

When she was asleep, the imperial doctor was helpless, and when she had a fever, she could say that the princess was seriously ill, but then the fever subsided, and she just couldn't wake up. No matter how much the imperial doctor used medicine, he could only say that she was suffering from a heart disease, and some people told Song Jing that it was a ghost and a god, so Song Jing invited Master Wuyun of Lingyin Temple to chant scriptures and exorcise demons.

Emperor Li Xian also had no way, and also told Song Jing that Ah Mei had been so seriously ill when she was young, and she couldn't wake up, and later her father invited the Taoist of Sanqingguan and the master of Ganye Temple to chant scriptures for Ah Mei, and later Ah Mei's illness was cured.

So after the emperor finished speaking, he hurriedly sent Master Wuyun of Lingyin Temple and Master Tai of Ganye Temple, saying that he wanted to pray for Li Chen, which made Song Jing laugh.

Song Jing looked at Li Chen and suddenly said, "Yongchang." ”

Li Chen raised his eyes and looked at him.

Song Jing smiled and said, "You don't care about those things in the future." ”

Li Chen blinked and looked at Song Jing.

Song Jing didn't say what it was, but Li Chen understood strangely. He was talking about the things of the imperial court.

Song Jing took her in his arms and told her what had happened in the past month. Although Li Xian has been in good health in recent years, he and the queen have been childless, and the emperor seems to be downsized, and plans to make Li Longji, who succeeded from King Xiang, the crown prince. It's just that the princess is sick these days, the emperor is worried about Ah Mei, and the matter of establishing the prince is just on the agenda, and it has not yet been determined when it will be established.

But Li Xian made Song Jing Li Longji's teacher and taught him his homework.

and a minister suggested that the sage release all the princes and princes who had been recalled in the past back to various places, but Li Xian refused.

Song Jing rubbed his chin against the top of Li Chen's head, wrapped his hands around her waist, and told her about the court affairs without delay, as if he was telling her some story.

"I have thought about the new deal you told me before, and I have also mentioned it to the sage, and he seems to be quite interested."

Li Chen lowered his head and rubbed his fingers carefully while listening to Song Jing's words.

Regarding the new policy that Song Jing said, Li Chen just put forward a similar idea. It is not a separation of powers that checks and balances each other, as in later generations, but a strengthening of centralized power.

Whether it is Song Jing or Li Chen, starting from the period when Li Zhi was in politics, to the period when Wu Zetian came to power, there were so many ups and downs, the emperor was abolished, and the ministers could check and balance the emperor and contain the imperial power, in the final analysis, but it was all because the power was not only concentrated in the hands of the emperor, but also a considerable part was distributed to the ministers.

And Zhang Cambodia and others staged a coup d'état in order to allow Li Xian to take over the throne smoothly, which also made Li Xian vigilant. The emperor is not omnipotent, and if too much power is divided in the hands of these ministers, it will also endanger the imperial power.

So, Li Xian tentatively said to Song Jing, the chief prime minister he trusted, that he should not have too much power in the hands of ministers, and it is good for the monarch to be virtuous, but what if the monarch is not clear and the minister is not virtuous?

Not every emperor is a Ming monarch, throughout the ages, there are a lot of faint monarchs who can grasp it casually. But the minister can casually stage a coup d'état and depose the emperor, is this like a word?

Song Jing gave some opinions that were quite in line with the emperor's mind on Li Xian's tentative words, Zhang Khan Zhi and others were meritorious, and they were great achievements, Cheng Wuting and others were military generals, and they could not be in a hurry if they held military power. And this kind of thing of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge will inevitably make the minister feel cold, it is better to go step by step, don't put the princes and princes who were recalled in the past, there are more places in Chang'an, let them stay in Chang'an.

Song Jing also proposed the establishment of a military aircraft department, which would stand side by side with Zhongshu Province and be responsible only to the saints. In this way, the Zhongshu Province and the Military Aircraft Department can also play a role in checking and balancing each other, so as to prevent the power of the prime minister's group from being too great and overriding the imperial power.

Song Jing's idea, Li Xian was very satisfied. What should be done at present is to set up a military aircraft department, and after the military aircraft department matures, it can gradually weaken the power of Zhongshu Province. In this way, it can also give the ministers a process of adaptation.

It's just that the implementation of the new policy will inevitably affect the interests of many people, and how to solve the counterattack of these forces and the voices of various discontents? At this time, Song Jing gave Li Xian another candidate, saying that the British Duke Li Jingye might be able to serve the saint in the reform of the army.

"While the New Deal is feasible, it also has drawbacks." Song Jing said lightly.

Li Chen yawned in his arms, and his tone was a little lazy and sober, "I understand what you mean." There are good and bad things about the supremacy of imperial power, but you don't need to think too much, if the new policy can be implemented, the benefits will inevitably outweigh the disadvantages. Now my second brother is no worse than others no matter what. ”

She was quite surprised that Song Jing said that the new policy had drawbacks, she knew what the drawbacks were, the imperial power was highly centralized, and if she wanted the country to be stable and prosperous for a long time, the personal ability of the monarch would be very high. What Song Jing was worried about was that after the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, if he succeeded in weakening the power of Zhongshu Province, then if the emperor was a mediocre and incompetent person, the country might be in danger.

Song Jing rubbed her hair and didn't speak.

Li Chen rubbed it in his arms and said: "Many things are not something you and I can worry about, the implementation of the new policy, I think this thing can be done by the second brother, and you can also do it." ”

"The princess trusts Jing so much, she is really flattered."

After Song Jing finished speaking, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "Don't worry, even if the Tang Dynasty can't usher in a prosperous era in my hands, then in the hands of the next Zhongshu Order or the person in charge of the Military Aircraft Department, it will always usher in the prosperous era you are looking forward to." ”

When Li Chen heard this, he smiled dumbly: "In my lifetime, may I see it?" ”

Song Jing was silent, and then nodded solemnly, "I definitely can." ”

As long as the country is still the same, there will always be generations of enthusiastic young people who are full of ambition to come forward and ask for the lives of all the people and create a prosperous world for the Holy Lord.

Li Chen didn't speak again, just sighed and slowly closed her eyes, in fact, she was already very satisfied. The Li family was not wiped out, her brothers and sisters were all fine, and now the second brother, whom her father has always admired, has ascended to the throne, and history has been rewritten since then.

Li Chen thought that the worst she had envisioned didn't happen, so nothing worse would happen. That's great, as for whether you can see the arrival of prosperity in your lifetime, just let it be.

As long as the country is safe and the people live and work in peace and contentment, if she can see her father under Jiuquan in the future, she will have to show off.

Li Chen thought about it, and was about to fall asleep in a daze, when someone suddenly grabbed her shoulder, "Yongchang, don't sleep." ”

It was Song Jing's voice.

The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, and her voice seemed to whisper, "It's okay, I won't sleep for long." ”

She knew he probably had something else to tell her, but she was so sleepy that her eyelids couldn't hold it anymore. Let her sleep a little longer, and when she wakes up again, she will listen to him slowly.

Song Jing looked at the princess in his arms and slowly closed his eyes.

Many years ago, when he was in Lingyin Temple, he saw the noble Mingyue Xiaolangjun for the first time, and he never thought that she was Princess Yongchang held in the palm of the emperor's husband and wife, let alone that he would have such an entanglement with her in this life.

Along the way, she has overcome obstacles, but fortunately, she has lived up to the trust of the emperor, and he is now strong enough, strong enough to protect a person.

The hand that the horse put around the princess's waist tightened, and the princess had been too preoccupied before, and although all kinds of kind words seemed to be given away without money, she never gave him a promise. Now that she has finally fulfilled the wish of the first emperor, it is always his turn to fulfill his wish.

Song Jing thought that when she woke up this time, she would have to make a promise with her.

I wish to have one heart, and the white head will not be separated.

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