When the father and son broke up in front of the palace, Li Shimin was still stunned in disbelief, he didn't expect that he could persuade Li Yuan so easily. originally thought that this time, it would still take some words, and even persuade the Dou family and the uncles to put pressure on his father. The result is only a few words, and the goal has been achieved.

And then in Li Shimin's mind, a wave of enlightenment rose. I thought that the reason why he was able to get Li Yuan to nod so quickly this time was because the entry point of his persuasion was exactly what his father wanted and relieved Li Yuan's concerns;

But now, he has become the third secretary of Shangyi, the founder of the country, and has the position of the capital of Chongwen Pavilion, and he has a great future. Even those important ministers of the court had to look down on him, and his father would not be able to ignore him any longer.

So this official position and power are really a good thing-

Soon after entering the palace, Li Shimin met Zhuang Shicheng, the head of the Zhuang case in front of the queen. Led by the eunuch in charge of the case, he went to see Empress Xiao.

The latter seemed to be extremely pleased with Li Shimin's victory over the three Turkic princes last night. In addition to words of encouragement, there is also a generous reward. All kinds of goods alone are as high as 100,000 yuan, in addition to a grange with 200 hectares of land outside Luoyang City.

According to Zhuang Shicheng's statement afterwards, it was he, Li Shimin, who did give Empress Xiao a hard boost in face this time, and relieved the evil anger encountered by Shi Shilang's birthday banquet that day. However, this time after all, the reason is special, Your Highness, she is not good at rewarding with her official position, so she can only give money generously, which can be regarded as compensation.

In addition, Empress Xiao also asked about the original agreement: "More than ten days ago, this palace promised Erlang that after you defeated this, I could give you some more grace." And yesterday you really didn't live up to the high expectations of this palace, so now it is time for this palace to fulfill the agreement, Erlang might as well talk about it, what do you want as a reward?"

Li Shimin did not hesitate and half-knelt down: "Your Majesty has taken a fancy to a thing on the fifth floor of the Vientiane Building before, and I beg Your Highness to give this thing to Weichen!"

"Fifth floor?"

Empress Xiao seemed slightly surprised, and continued to ask: "Are you sure that what you want is indeed on the fifth layer?"

Although there are a large number of rare treasures in Vientiane Tower, the things on the fifth floor should not be in the eyes of a wealthy child like Li Shimin.

You need to know that this is her promise of the mother of the country-

But then Empress Xiao got confirmation from Li Shimin, she immediately smiled dumbly, and ordered her side: "Inform Manager Yuan, let someone take him to take that thing away." Tell him that there is no need to alarm the Son of Heaven with a little thing. ”

In her mind, the six floors of the Vientiane Building were just some things worth two or three hundred thousand yuan. If Li Shimin hadn't deliberately mentioned it, it wouldn't have been worth her at all.

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Half an hour later, Li Shimin walked out of the Vientiane Pavilion with a wooden statue about half a person high.

Yuan Wenshu was behind, and he squinted at him with a strange gaze: "You little guy, you should have remembered it when you came here the last time, right? This eye is very sharp, this good thing has been on the fifth floor for so long, but no one can see it." ”

"Yuan Gonggong praised it falsely! I just happened to read a few miscellaneous books and knew the origin of this thing. ”

Li Shimin replied with a smile: "Actually, I'm even more strange, how could such a treasure be placed on the fifth floor of the Viane Pavilion?"

"It's not surprising that there aren't many well-read people like you, and even fewer who have the opportunity to enter the Vientiane Pavilion. ”

Yuan Wenshu crossed Li Shimin and walked alone in front of him, with fluttering sleeves, like an immortal.

Li Shimin narrowed his eyes: "What about Gonggong Yuan?"

He didn't believe in Yi Yuan's insight, and he couldn't recognize the origin of this thing.

"I—I'm just the caretaker here, is it good or bad, and who ends up in the wrong hands? What does it have to do with me-"

When Yuan Wenshu finished saying this, he had already widened the distance between the two to more than fifty zhang. Li Shimin couldn't catch up no matter how he chased him, so he simply stopped and looked at Yuan Wenshu's back helplessly.

However, he understood the latter, and was reluctant to answer his next question.

Then Li Shimin's gaze fell back to the humanoid wood carving on his chest, and his face finally couldn't suppress the ecstasy.

It's a pity that although Li Shimin wanted to see the true face of the treasure in the wood carving, he didn't dare to do it before leaving the palace.

What if His Royal Highness Empress Xiao, or the Son of Heaven, repents?

Therefore, Li Shimin could only return to Chongwen Pavilion with this thing in his arms, and then spent the whole day teaching Yang Ying, explaining martial arts, calligraphy and ink armor skills, etc.

But the latter kept holding his chin with both hands, looking at him with stupid eyes, and Li Shimin didn't know if the little princess listened to it or not. He could only ask questions occasionally, and when he took the school examination for Yang Ying, he found that Yang Ying could answer everything he asked, so Li Shimin had no choice but to let it go.

But at the same time, he also endured the resentful and accusatory gaze of the eldest grandson Wuji. Ten days ago, he promised the latter, and after the Qianqiu Saving War, he would be officially the director and stick to the things of Chongwendu.

But today he was on duty again, but he couldn't fulfill the agreement, and all the official affairs of Chongwendu still had to be piled on the eldest grandson Wuji alone.

The eldest grandson Wuji naturally refused to stop there, but as soon as he mentioned the matter in front of Li Shimin, the little princess's gaze full of dissatisfaction and pleading looked at him fixedly.

The latter was helpless, between sitting back and watching Li Shimin break the contract and abandon the promise, or bear the anger of this demon king of the mixed world, he still chose the latter very bonelessly.

When the two of them left the palace together in the evening, the eldest grandson Wuji had the opportunity to vent the anger in his stomach.

"You guy, you must give me an explanation this time! At the beginning, I said that after the Qianqiu Festival, I will take over all the things that should be in your charge in our Chongwen Capital! Do you know how tired I am now? Originally, it was just a matter of Chongwen Capital, but if I want to build a Xiaoguo Army today, I am really busy at the end of this day. I have to go out in the morning to select soldiers, and in the afternoon I have to sort out the roster of soldiers, but this should be your errand Li Shimin!"

——Just twelve days ago, when the Son of Heaven returned from Taiyuan, he issued an order to recruit strong and brave people in the pass to think that it was "Xiaoguo".

This matter is being taken care of by the Left and Right Reserve Mansions, and since seven days ago, their yamen has changed its name, called the Left and Right Xiaowei Mansions.

"I can't help it, the little princess's ability to entangle people, don't you know? If you really want to provoke her, we don't want to do anything. ”

Li Shimin could only respond with a sneering expression: "Uncle, you can hold me up for two more days, and when you are free, I will invite you to drink." ”

But he didn't say the three words of the eldest brother, and after saying it, the eldest grandson Wuji was even more upright: "Okay, I will help you with this Chongwendu matter." But what did you say about that incident last night? This time, you have ruined my family style, and you have to give me an explanation no matter what. You need to know that my eldest grandson's family, generations of hairpins—"

"A piece of ink armor! Within twenty days, it will be tailor-made for you, uncle. ”

Li Shimin didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and raised a finger: "I know that Brother Wuji, you also won one hundred and twenty thousand guan this time, and this time I will give you a black armor with a market price of at least 800,000 guan at the cost of 150,000 guan." If the material money is not enough, I will pay for it. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji immediately swallowed the words that came to his mouth, and smiled for a while: "That's it!"

He knew that the money Li Shimin made this time was at least ten times as much! In addition, this guy would sell a handsome ink armor of a lot of money almost every seven or eight days, so he didn't plan to be polite to Li Shimin.

As for the family style of the eldest grandson's family, what is it, can it be eaten?

"By the way, it is said that this time, the Son of Heaven will also set up left and right Tiger Ben Lang generals in our left and right Xiaowei Mansions, three people each from the left and right Zhichong Lang Generals, and Guo Yilang and left and right Guo Yi Lang Generals, a total of eighteen Lang Generals, who will receive Xiaoguo. Virusha, you're good enough for now, are you? Can you get one of them?"

At this time, Li Shimin was already the founder of the country, which was extremely rare in the entire left and right preparation mansions.

Among all the thousands of reserves, none of them can match Li Shimin in terms of honor and merit. Therefore, the eldest grandson Wuji, I feel that my future brother-in-law is very promising to go further.

The Son of Heaven built the Xiaoguo Army, obviously for the second expedition to Liao, and the position of a Lang general can at least command 10,000 troops, and it is an elite forbidden army. On the battlefield, it is already a big force, if he is lucky this time, Li Shimin may be able to win the position of prince for his family.

For his brother-in-law's skills in the battle array, the eldest grandson Wuji has no doubts.

"I don't know! We are left and right in the Xiaowei Mansion, but there were four Zhizhai and six Tiger Benlang generals before, and there are not many places left. The Son of Heaven may have to select a few generals from the foreign army, and I don't have much chance. However, I think that this left and right reserve mansion will not be abolished just yet, and the Son of Heaven will still have someone to guard the palace for him after all. I think if I stay in the palace, I might have a better chance. ”

Li Shimin has some insincere remarks, and he is actually quite enthusiastic about the new Xiaoguo Army set up by the Son of Heaven. Raising 10,000 elites to fight on the battlefield is the dream of many Great Sui boys, and it is also an excellent promotion level.

I heard before that the Great Sui was defeated in Liaodong, and Goguryeo built a Jingguan with the heads and corpses of the Sui army, and he was also empathetic and indignant, eager to fight with the army, so that those Goguryeo people knew how powerful they were in the Great Sui.

But Li Shimin understands better that staying in the palace and staying in the Eastern Capital at this time will give him a better chance to avenge his third brother Li Xuanba.