After the official edict was promulgated, the rebellion case of King Yue, which lasted from early autumn to late autumn, finally came to an end temporarily. It seems that the Yue Wangfu has collapsed, and the saint has lost one of his right-hand men, but his name of filial piety has spread farther and deeper into the hearts of the people, and it has also shocked many children of the distant branch clan. Compared with a saint who is suspicious by nature, a saint with brotherly love is certainly more desirable, more respectable and trustworthy.

And the sage's attitude of favoring the Yue Wangfu also made many people understand that it may not take a few years for the Yue Wangfu to turn over and return to Chang'an from Lingnan. However, before the people of the Yue Wangfu who were deposed as concubines set off to leave Chang'an, there were still some fragmentary matters that had not been resolved, and the sage had to deal with them at his discretion.

One is the aftermath of the prince and the placement of his wife and children. Zongzheng Temple quietly handed over the fold in accordance with the rules, set the name for him and determined the specifications of the funeral, and asked for the seal for his eldest son. The saint did not hesitate to give a vicious nickname "desolation" and let him be buried with the rites of the king. And his eldest son inherited the heir, and only gave him the position of a national prince.

The princess of Guizheng County was naturally dissatisfied, and took her young son to cry and cry to find the elders such as King Peng, King Lu and King Jing. Peng Wangzheng, who failed in the first battle, was angry and anxious, so he naturally ignored her; King Lu was unwilling to take the initiative to get involved in right and wrong, so he closed his door all day; Only King Jing, out of the duty of Zong Zhengqing, raised the matter in the great court meeting of Shuowang.

So, some of the imperial historians who finally got the opportunity to jump didn't wait for King Peng's eyes, and immediately jumped out again: "The king of Guizheng County was killed by thieves!" How can such a bad thing as 'famine' be condemned? Moreover, according to common sense, the eldest son inherits the heir, and should inherit the title of county king. ”

Although King Peng was secretly annoyed that these imperial histories made their own claims, and actually defended the Guizheng County King, who did not play a key role in the case, he was able to block the saint at this time, and he also felt more comfortable in his heart. If you can force the saint to retreat like the last time, then it will be even more comfortable.

However, this time there was no need for the saint to come forward in person. Even the King of Xin'an, who had a close relationship with him, just looked sideways and didn't speak-

Listening to a strange and familiar young voice, Lang Lang replied: "Who doesn't know that the king of the county likes luxury and spends money? After squandering his money, he tried his best to secretly make friends with businessmen and low-ranking officials and scholars, accept bribes, and do some illegal things? Not to mention that when he was serving filial piety to the first emperor, he also used his poor health as an excuse to secretly hide in the courtyard to drink and have fun. ”

"There is no valley in a fierce year; The outside and the inside are from chaos to famine; Good happiness and slack government. doesn't govern the family, is not an official, indulges in vocal music, such a person, isn't the nickname of 'wild' very compatible with him? In fact, a more accurate nickname should be "Yang", to pay tribute to the public, not to be polite, not to be pro-ellied. However, this kind of evil slander, which is mainly based on angering and denouncing his unfilial piety, is still left to the king of Langling County, who has not lived for about a few years.

The ministers looked fixedly, isn't this eloquent young man the head of the new department? The last time he took the initiative to speak out and fought the imperial history, he was still wearing a nine-grade light cyan robe, but now why did it suddenly become an eight-rank dark cyan robe? Could it be that after only ten days, he is no longer the county lieutenant of Hucao County in Wannian County?

"If it weren't for the fact that he was involved by the robbers this time, he died of his injuries, and when it comes to the past crimes, he should have been demoted to the first rank, and his son should naturally be the heir of the country. It's just that he has died, and the saint has mercy on him, so he has not reduced his title, but only his funeral. Even if his title is not reduced, there is a precedent for the eldest son to be demoted. Wei Chen thought that the sage's disposition was reasonable, but what else did the princes think was wrong? ”

The Tang clan is so huge, if every county king will not be demoted to the rank of lord, sooner or later it will be unsealable. Therefore, it is common for some county kings with poor reviews to die, and it is common for their sons to be demoted. However, this kind of thing mainly happens to the distant branch clan, and the close branch clan is not common.

Even if he fell behind, the imperial history was still unwilling, and said with a sneer: "Wang Lang actually asked, 'Who doesn't know'?" Dare to ask all the princes here, who will know what illegal things the king of Guizheng has done? Tsk, what everyone doesn't know, but Wang Lang knows it very well. Dare to ask, where did Wang Lang get the news? Do you have credentials? Otherwise, framing a county king for no reason is also a great crime of disrespect. ”

"Zongzheng Temple tried the case of King Yue's rebellion, and it was found out by the way." Li Hui, the king of Xin'an County, took over lightly, "I told Wang Lang about these things." If you don't believe it, ask King Jing's uncle and grandfather and his right servant to shoot Xu Gong; Or, if you can't even trust them, bring up the case file and read it carefully. ”

......: "Who dares to say that he can't believe the right servant and King Jing?!" A mere eight-rank superintendent of the imperial history eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, and he doesn't dare to openly offend these two!! The imperial history was speechless for a while, but when he saw the prince hooking the corners of his lips, as soon as he looked confident, he was angry, and he turned around and wanted to find his colleagues to unite with the outside world - he alone said that the tongue skills of four or five imperial historians were not as good as a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy?!

However, at this time, Yu Shi Zhongcheng squinted his eyes and coughed lightly, interrupting the tense atmosphere: "Sage, Wang Lang is really very suitable for supervising the position of Yu Shi, and what he said is reasonable and well-founded. It is a speech official, and it should be so that he can assume the responsibility of inspecting hundreds of officials and patrolling states and counties. Those who only care about rumors and events, ignore the facts, and even fabricate rumors, are indeed not suitable for supervising the imperial history. ”

Only then did the ministers know that the young Wang Zixian had indeed been transferred from the county lieutenant of Hucao County in Wannian County to supervise the imperial history. The excuse used by the sage was that he was evaluated as superior, but after only half a year as the lieutenant of Hucao County, Shangfeng and his colleagues were full of praise for him. Compared with last year, the tax income of the household Cao in Wannian County has also increased by as much as 10%, which shows its merit.

As a result, not only did his rank jump by four levels, but he also became a close confidant of the saint who "fought left and right". Right now, the Imperial History has already protected him so clearly, and all the unscrupulous supervising imperial history, the imperial history of the palace and the imperial history, etc., should have begun to tremble?

Another matter that the sage dealt with was the marriage between the county lord of Xin'an and the king of Tianshui.

Originally, the county lord of Xin'an had already verbally agreed to marry the Wang family of Qi County, and the marriage would be completed next year. However, after the rebellion of the Yue Wangfu, the Wang family of Qi County was so frightened that they denied that they had decided to get married. Not only that, but even the marriage of the king of Tianshui, who had already accepted the application period and was only about to welcome the ceremony, was also affected. After the little lady of the Wang family heard that the Yue Wangfu family had been abolished as concubines and was about to be exiled to Lingnan, she openly stated that she would rather become a monk than marry a rebellious person.

The branch of the Wang clan of the Wang family of the princess and the princess of Yue has long since declined, and there are no high-ranking officials in the court, so they don't know the truth about the rebellion of the king of Yue. Moreover, at the beginning, they repeatedly begged Li Heng to seek officials for them, but Li Heng, who was considering self-preservation, sternly refused, so the two sides were not close.

At first glance, when they heard that the Yue Wangfu had conspired against the incident, and the evidence was conclusive, they were afraid of implicating their own family, so they hurriedly drew a clear line. At that time, there were many literati who did not know the truth and praised the Wang family for being a man of character and not being associated with rebellious people. The little lady of the Wang family also won a good reputation.

Now, seeing that the saint is biased towards the Yue Palace, they say that they will turn over in a few years, and the Wang family regrets it. But since the little lady of the Wang family has already said such decisive words, it is naturally impossible to be cheeky enough to claim that this qiē is a misunderstanding, and remarry Li Jing, the king of Tianshui County. So, they targeted the county lord of Xin'an again, planning to change a Langjun to get married.

The county lord of Xin'an is a noble daughter of the clan, how can they be allowed to act so rebelliously and untrustworthy? She is the granddaughter of Emperor Taizong, the niece of the current saint, how can she be picked and picked by the people of the Wang family of Qi County? However, Princess Yue Wang thought that the exile of Lingnan was too sinful, and did not want her to follow her thousands of miles to suffer, and wasted her youth in vain, and could not find a suitable husband.

As a result, the mother and daughter disagreed, the county lord of Xin'an insisted on never marrying into the Wang family, but the Wang family intended to forgive the mother's family and let them take care of the young daughter with guilt and blood relationship.

After learning of her mother's plan, the county lord of Xin'an was furious, so she asked Princess Changning, who came to visit her, to give her a fold to the saint on her behalf, and invited herself to go to Zhaoling to guard the mausoleum.

After the sage received the excerpt, he was also very disgusted with what the Wang clan of Qi County had done. In any case, Huanniang, the lord of Xin'an County, is his niece, and Li Jing, the king of Tianshui County, is his nephew. Before the case of King Yue's rebellion was closed, they couldn't wait to break off their marriage, and afterwards they did everything possible to cling to it, which was simply disregarding the royal dignity. However, as a father, he also understands his parents' obsession with planning for their children, and does not think that Wang's concerns are ridiculous.

So, he took the excerpt to the side hall where the house arrester Li Heng was under house arrest. Li Heng summoned Li Wei and Li Jing over, and knelt on the ground together to perform a grand salute - since the case was closed, the father and son lived in the same hall, but they were still not allowed to communicate with Wang and others who were under house arrest in the Yue Wang's mansion, and the people around him were gradually reduced.

Although they were all deposed as concubines, Queen Du still provided them with food, clothing, shelter and transportation according to the treatment of the prince and the prince of the county, and never treated them slowly. However, they no longer wore brocade clothes, but plain clothes that could only be worn by civilians. Even so, the bearing of the father and son is far from being comparable to ordinary people.

"Second brother, why is this?" The sage sighed, and handed the excerpt of the county lord of Xin'an to Li Heng, but Li Heng shook his head and did not dare to take it.

Recalling his current identity, the saint was not reluctant, so he had to explain: "The Wang family rebelled and wanted to marry Huanniang. The second sister-in-law seemed to have the intention of agreeing, but Huanniang thought that they were all villains and were not ashamed to be together. In order to put an end to the idea of the second sister-in-law, she actually asked herself to guard the Zhaoling Tomb. I don't think it's appropriate to marry the Wang family or Shouzhao Mausoleum, the second brother is Huanniang's father, what do you think? ”

"The Wang family is short-sighted and is by no means a good match." Li Heng sighed, "The lady's worries are not unreasonable, Huanniang went to Lingnan, and she was indeed too wronged in the matter of marriage." ”

"With the character of the Wang family, even if Huanniang is handed over to them to take care of, I can't believe it!" Li Jing snorted coldly beside him, "It's better to let Huanniang follow us to Lingnan, that is, to find a poor scholar, who is also better than the Wang family." If you succeed in your studies in the future, you may be able to work for your uncle! ”

"No." Li Wei's voice was very hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, "Stay in Chang'an to guard the mausoleum, and do our filial piety to our grandfather and grandmother." He suddenly mentioned Emperor Taizong and Empress Wende, which made the expressions of the saint and Li Heng move slightly.

The two brothers looked at each other, as if they could detect the constant flow of love in each other's eyes.

Indeed, Shouzhaoling's filial piety is just a little harder, and I don't know how much better it is than marrying into the Wang family or being exiled to Lingnan! Moreover, after the reputation of filial piety for the elders spread, it was said that the Yue Wangfu had not yet returned from Lingnan, and the county lord of Xin'an would be able to restore the title. When the time comes, if the saint is willing to choose a good son-in-law for her niece, what young talent can't she marry?

"Just like Chisato said." Saint Humanity. It's just a matter of taking care of his niece, and he just needs to give him an order.

Li Heng bowed deeply to the ground again: "The grace of the saint is difficult to repay the sinner." I don't know if I will have the opportunity to return to Chang'an to be loyal to the saint when I go to Lingnan. However, as long as the sinner is still in the lineage, the children and grandchildren will definitely go to the soup for the saint, and they will not hesitate!! The heavens are above, if the sinners and their descendants violate this oath, they will not be human beings for the rest of their lives!! ”

Li Wei and Li Jing were stunned, and immediately bowed down: "If you violate this oath, the criminal ministers and others will not be able to be human beings in the rest of their lives!" ”

The saint sighed and helped the father and son up: "Why bother to make such a heavy oath? However, in the depths of his eyes, there was a deep sense of joy.