Grandpa Chen hurried over. Qing'er hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Qing'er salutes her father-in-law!" "Qing'er, you hurry up and start preparing, the emperor will feast the ministers in the afternoon!" Pressed for time! Don't delay at all! ”

"Yes!"

Qing'er saluted.

Chen Gonggong left in a hurry!

Afternoon tea feast.

The emperor sits in the middle of the hall, high up!

The ministers sat down on the left and right sides.

Qing'er and many maids preparing tea were busy making tea.

Li Chun, the king of Guangling, tasted tea arbitrarily, with an uninhibited attitude, so leisurely and casual, not caring at all about the ministers who glared at him angrily.

Suddenly, a rude-looking, fat man in his fifties, dressed in a fancy costume, barged in, and saw that his head was wrapped in gauze, and his face was full of anger.

Seeing that the dress is not a prince, but also a prince.

I saw him hurriedly running to the emperor and kneeling.

"Your Majesty, my brother is really wronged! The minister is also the prince you have been crowned! was beaten violently by his own nephew, the minister really hated that he didn't die on the battlefield back then, he sacrificed his life for the country, and he was a heroic hero, and he had to suffer such a shame and humiliation to live to this day! ”

The emperor's eyes were full of majesty, "Respect the king, seventeenth brother, what's the matter?" Get up and speak! ”

King Jing still knelt there and refused to get up, "Please let the emperor be the master of his courtiers!" ”

Lin Mu, the counselor, stepped forward and saluted, "Your Majesty, the ministers think that the King of Guangling is indeed too reckless to levy silver this time, so that they complained for a while, and the ministers participated in his three crimes. ”

The emperor asked majestically, "What are the culprits?" ”

Lin Mu said: "Arbitrarily levying silver is detrimental to the emperor's benevolence; beating and insulting the king violates the filial piety of the prince; Blatantly arson and robbery violated the laws of the imperial court. If there is a violation of the three articles, please ask the emperor to take heavy responsibility, these are the recitals presented to the emperor by the provincial officials and ministers. ”

As he spoke, Lin Mu raised a large stack of thick pieces with both hands.

Gonggong Chen walked down and accepted the recitals of the provincial officials presented by Lin Mu.

The emperor asked, "How many officials?" ”

Lin Mu said: "Five hundred and ninety-nine officials. ”

The emperor turned his face and looked at Li Chun, the king of Guangling, "Li Chun! ”

Li Chun, the king of Guangling, stepped forward and saluted.

The emperor said, "Have you seen it all?" ”

Li Chun smiled indifferently, "When Erchen led this mission, he expected this result, but Erchen originally thought that there should be at least half of the officials in this Chang'an City!" Let the minister really do what a thousand people point to, but what the minister didn't expect was that he couldn't even get together six hundred people. ”

Li Mao, the king of letters, turned to Luo Lingze and whispered, "It's really a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water!" ”

The emperor's majestic deep eyes smiled slightly, "It turns out that you don't think there are enough people to participate in you!" I also refer to you, let you make up a whole number, Chun'er, when was my edict for levying silver promulgated? ”

Li Chun is neither humble nor arrogant, "Fourteen days ago." ”

The emperor said, "Then when did you know that there were more than 100,000 taels of silver in King Jing's mansion?" ”

Li Chun said: "Ten days ago. ”

The emperor said, "When was the silver collected?" ”

Li Chun said: "Today at noon! ”

The emperor smiled coldly, and every sentence was majestic, like a thunderclap, sacred and inviolable.

"Fourteen days ago, I issued an edict to levy silver, and you knew ten days ago that there were more than 100,000 taels of silver in King Jing's Mansion, why did it drag on until today? There is an urgent shortage of military salaries at the border passes, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers are hungry every day to guard the border for our Tang Dynasty. Can you afford the consequences? ”

Li Mao felt that the situation was wrong, Li Chun, who should have been guilty, had a credit at this time.

Although the emperor reprimanded, every word was recognition and commendation.

King Shu squinted slightly, glanced at Li Mao, and tasted tea elegantly.

The crown prince also looked at Li Chun.

Guo Jiayan smiled brightly, looking a little handsome and a little ambitious.

Li Chun said: "Erchen is guilty! ”

The emperor said, "I am visiting you, not because you shouldn't have done this, but why didn't you do it ten days ago?" ”

King Jing, who was kneeling on the ground, saw that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to him, so he hurriedly kowtowed and shouted affectionately, "Your Majesty, starling......"

The emperor looked at King Jing who was kneeling on the ground, "Li Yuanjia, do you still have the face to sue your nephew?" Do you think I don't know that little bit of your thoughts? In your fiefdoms, you have plundered the people's fat and people's ointment, bought and sold officials, and done evil, and your six mansions have a total of more than 300,000 taels of silver. You keep saying that Li Chun is not filial, where is your loyalty, and where is your filial piety? Are you right to call yourself king? For the stability of the Tang Dynasty, I have been worried all day long, and I can't sleep at night, but what about you. Only care about your own wealth, forget the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, ignore the country, so insatiable, the eyes of the rats, you don't want to think about 'the skin does not exist, the hair is attached', if the Tang Dynasty is dead, you are greedy and fat, where are you going to stand up? ”

King Jing originally came to sue Li Chun, but now when he heard that the emperor was full of accusations against him, he felt that he had nothing to say and was full of shyness.

The emperor shook his head and sighed.

The emperor Long Yan was angry, pointed at the minister and said, "And you, Li Chun took two people to work hard for half a month to collect more than 500,000 taels of silver, but you gathered 599 officials to join him!" It has been half a month since my edict to levy silver was issued, and it was transferred from the Hongwen Hall to the Jingzhao Yin Bureau, how come none of you have stood up and spoken in this matter! Have you let the dogs eat your hearts? Li Chun's levy for silver not only has no fault, but has merit, and he will be promoted to the prince immediately! Li Yuanjia didn't know how to levy 100,000 taels of silver as a punishment, and he didn't investigate it deeply, and after he went back, he thought about it behind closed doors and saw what this prince should do in the future? ”

King Jing was stunned.

The emperor looked at him majestically, "Don't thank you yet?" ”

"Thank you!"

King Jing himself never thought that he had come to ask for an explanation, but the emperor not only accused himself in front of the civil and military ministers, but also fined himself 100,000 taels of silver.

If you knew this at the time, it would be better to take the initiative to hand over the silver to the court, but now it is good, not only was taught a lesson by your nephew, but also humiliated by the emperor, in the future, how should you gain a foothold!

The emperor said: "As for the person who participated in Li Chun, Prime Minister Wei Zhiyi, you should check it out for me, who instigated it, and why did you do this?" ”

Wei Zhiyi stepped forward and saluted, "Minister's order!" ”

Lin Mu hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty knows that you are wrong!" The minister is willing to take back the concerto! ”

The ministers involved in a small number of ministers hurriedly got up and seconded Lin Mu.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates know that you are wrong!"

The emperor said: "You take the money of the imperial court, not only do you contribute to the imperial court, but also dare to disrupt the government, you can change your mistakes, and you are very good." It's an eventful time now, don't forget your duty as a courtier! Sit back! ”

"Emperor Xie!"

Looking at this qiē in front of her, Qing'er only felt that above the court, it was really changing rapidly.

There is a way that the holy face is unpredictable, and the sky was clear just now, and it instantly became cloudy.

But looking at the emperor's style of doing things, it is a wise gentleman!

Li Chun, the king of Guangling, is above this court, but he seems so lonely and lonely!