On this day, Li Shimin was playing chess with Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, and talked about the problems that Shangxue Dading of the Ministry of Industry was encountering.

Li Shimin held a chess piece in his hand, looked at Li Daozong, who was staring down at the chessboard and still undecided, and sighed: "Cheng Qian is still too young, thinking about things too simply, the Yi River has been flooding for thousands of years, and the past dynasties have not been completely governed, he wants to rely on a Xue Dading to want to govern the Yi River?"

Xue Dading, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was sent by Li Chengqian to control the Yi River in Yichuan County, a tributary of Luoshui.

In order to build a steelmaking plant in Luoyang, Li Chengqian needed to transport coal from Yichuan County to Luoyang, and the Yihe River was the waterway for transporting coal.

However, the banks of the Yi River in Yichuan Prefecture are mountainous, the riverbed is very different, and the river course is extremely unstable, and flooding occurs every summer.

Xue Dading came here to conduct on-the-spot inspections and decided to build a reservoir in the upper reaches of Song County, and then dredge the downstream so that coal can be transported out all year round.

It's just that this series of projects was stopped by the local gentry, and Xue Dading alone couldn't carry it out at all.

Li Shimin, who is in Luoyang, is naturally clear about these things.

Li Daozong carefully landed the chess pieces in his hand on the chessboard, looked up at Li Shimin and slowly persuaded: "Why don't Your Majesty write a decree and send someone back to Chang'an to guide His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." ”

Li Shimin had been waiting for Li Daozong to play chess, but when he heard this, he snorted angrily, stopped playing chess first, looked up at Li Daozong and said, "Can he listen to my instructions?"

After that, seeing Li Daozong's careful face, he sighed again, lowered his head and put the chess pieces on the chessboard, and said helplessly: "He doesn't listen, let him learn a lesson first, and then he will know the meaning of the Eastern Crusade." ”

Li Daozong also nodded when he heard this, believing that only when the imperial court has absolute prestige can it effectively govern the locality.

As he was talking, he saw an attendant leading Ma Zhou to the door of the hall, and Li Shimin saw that Ma Zhou was going to stand and wait for the attendant to come in, so he said loudly: "Let Ma Qing come in directly." ”

The two outside walked in directly when they heard the words.

"Your Majesty." Ma Zhou came in and saluted Li Shimin first.

Li Shimin had already put down his chess pieces and turned to Ma Zhou, and Li Daozong also got up and stood aside when he saw Ma Zhou coming in.

Li Shimin raised his hand and said, "Ma Qing is flat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Ma Zhou straightened up and played to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has sent Liu Xiangdao, a servant of the Ministry of Officials, to present poems to His Majesty." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he didn't ask Liu Xiangdao, but asked directly: "What kind of poem is it?"

Ma Zhou replied: "Returning to Your Majesty is a poem about Jia Yi, and the young man is only ,...... in the temple" Li Shimin stood up and paced slowly in the hall while listening to it.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has written good poems."

As soon as Ma Zhoushi finished reading, Li Daozong opened his mouth to praise.

Li Shimin was pacing casually in the main hall, Ma Zhou finished reading the poem, and lowered his head to feel the artistic conception of the poem.

Hearing Li Daozong's praise, he raised his head slightly proudly to look at Li Daozong and Ma Zhou, and then said to the waiter outside: "Xuan Liu Xiangdao will come in." ”

Watching the waiter walk out, he smiled at Ma Zhou and Li Daozong and said: "Then Liu Xiang Dao I have seen it before, the talent of Langmiao may be too famous, but he is indeed a person who works hard." ”

When Ma Zhou heard this, he hurriedly praised: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sees that people have obtained the true inheritance of His Majesty, so naturally he will not be mistaken. ”

Li Shimin laughed when he heard this.

Li Daozong looked at Ma Zhou and said in his heart: The sycophants surnamed Ma are all experts.

After a while, Liu Xiangdao came in and presented the recital they had written about the reform election to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin looked at the song for a while and sighed: "Du Qing and Liu Qing are indeed talented in Langmiao, but if you do this, don't you want the prince to break the blood?"

Liu Xiangdao was very frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "It's the crime of the ministers." ”

Li Shimin looked at him and said lightly: "Du Zhenglun and you are also ministers of the public and loyal country, and I can see that there is nothing wrong with these questions, but they are not the right time to raise them." ”

"Your Majesty, a number of decrees of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have been blocked recently, and I am afraid it will be difficult to clean up." Ma Zhou's expression was solemn.

When Li Shimin heard this, he first nodded and wanted to say something, but suddenly paused, and said lightly: "I'm not afraid, in short, there is still me, although Cheng Qian is smart, he also lacks Duan Lian, so let him receive some Duan Lian in Chang'an." ”

Seeing this, Ma Zhou didn't say anything more.

"Ma Qing pay more attention to the situation in Chang'an."

"Yes!"

Li Shimin waved his hand to signal everyone to retreat, and everyone saluted and withdrew when they saw this.

After Liu Xiangdao followed Ma Zhou out, he anxiously asked Ma Zhou, "Your Majesty Ma Zhongshu, what does this mean?"

Ma Zhou smiled and said, "Lord Liu doesn't have to worry, Your Majesty wants Duan Lian Duan Lian, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Duan Lian, and he won't say anything about this matter for a while." ”

Liu Xiangdao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and hurriedly went to the East Palace's station in Luoyang, and used flying pigeons to pass on the book to Li Chengqian.

Looking at Liu Xiangdao's obvious relieved appearance, Ma Zhou felt even more amused in his heart.

Li Shimin was bent on conquering Goguryeo in order to establish supreme prestige and solve the internal problems of the Tang Dynasty one by one.

Now I am also pleased to see that Li Chengqian has raised these questions in the same way, and I do not mean to blame Li Chengqian. However, at the same time, he also believed that Li Chengqian's current prestige alone would never be able to do such a thing, so he chose to watch the fire from the other side.

wanted to wait for Li Chengqian to run into a bloody head, and then turn to support him in his eastward expedition to Goguryeo, and the father and son worked together to deal with the internal and external enemies.

The next day, Ma Zhou also sent Zhang Xingcheng and Liu Dewei's recitals to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin still didn't say a word after reading it.

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East Palace Chongjiao Hall.

Two days have passed, and the content of Du Zhenglun's recital has spread in the officialdom of Chang'an, and the recital that attacked Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao was sent to the East Palace like a snowflake.

In this regard, Li Chengqian will not be sent to the middle school.

This made Zhang Xingcheng and Yu Suiliang both breathe a sigh of relief, and there was no need to go to war for the time being.

Early that morning, Zhang Xingcheng came to the Chongjiao Hall, saw Li Chengqian and the others arriving, and hurriedly confessed to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian didn't say much, just waved his hand and motioned for Liu Kui to show him an edict.

Zhang Xingcheng Xue Dading added the edict of the second rank of the official 'special advance', and he was very puzzled.

The loose rank represents an official rank, which is equivalent to the current high-ranking officials to the stock level, and has no real power in itself, and the power of the officials comes from the officials, such as the county magistrate or something.

Xue Dading is the ministry official of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu is the third grade, and he should be crowned as the 'Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor' of the third grade, or the 'Guanglu Doctor' of the second grade who is a higher level, but it is a bit too much to directly seal the 'Special Jin' of the second grade.

You must know that it was Wei Zheng who had enjoyed such honors before, although Wei Zheng was the servant of the third grade when he was crowned 'Tejin', but he was one of the prime ministers, and his authority was slightly higher than that of the six Shangshu, so he was crowned as a second-grade official.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I haven't heard that Xue Shangshu has made great contributions recently, I'm afraid it's not good to suddenly overtake him!" Zhang Xingcheng cautiously reminded him, for fear that this would cause Li Chengqian to be disgusted.

Li Chengqian didn't care when he heard this, but said expressionlessly: "Xue Shangshu has many difficulties when he goes out of Beijing, and he raises the rank to be effective with the Yamen. ”

In fact, Li Chengqian wanted to add the scattered ranks of the six Shangshu to the special advance, but he was worried that the change would be too big for a while, and it would cause discussion among hundreds of officials, and now Xue Dading was running an errand, so he added it first.

When Zhang Xingcheng heard this, he knew that this must be some trouble that Xue Dading encountered when he was on an errand abroad, and Li Chengqian wanted to oppress the local government by raising his rank.

Thinking of this, he drew a seal in the edict and prepared to go back to use the seal.