Taiji Palace in Chang'an City.

In Chang'an City, in front of the Chengtian Gate of Taiji Palace, more than 3,000 officials and students from various academies in Chang'an stood in front of the Chengtian Gate, looking at the majestic city tower with solemn expressions.

At this time, it is the early spring, and there is a strong chill in the spring breeze, and it is very uncomfortable for people to stay out for a long time.

But these people didn't have the heart to pay attention to their robe that was blown up by the cold wind at this time, and they all stared at the movement inside the Chengtian Gate with solemn expressions.

They are here today to give Li Shimin a warning, and they are asking Li Shimin to severely punish the Taoist priest of Jinbiaomen, who is disrespectful to the crown prince Li Chengqian.

For the Taoist priests of Jin Biaomen, they don't want them to live for a day, as long as they have a little knowledge of history, they all know the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who forced Prince Wei to rebel, Prince Wei was forced to rebel in Chang'an at that time, not to mention that now Li Chengqian has a heavy army?

If it is not handled properly, there is a real possibility that the world will be in chaos.

Harem Salt Pond Hall.

The doors and windows in the salty pond hall are tightly closed, and the inside is covered by curtains and is impermeable.

There are also more than 20 large copper stoves in the hall, and the whole hall is like a stove, and the ministers who come in from the outside will soon see sweat on their foreheads.

Li Shimin was dressed in a single coat in the color of the Ming Emperor, and sat laboriously on the Luohan bed.

His eyes were bloody, his face flushed, and he was panting heavily, like a lion ready to burst out and eat man.

Li Zhi sat on the edge of the bed with his ass and helped Li Shimin to prevent him from falling down.

The eldest grandson Wuji, Ma Zhou, Chu Suiliang, and Li Daozong stood below, looking at Li Shimin's different thoughts.

After a while, Li Shimin seemed to have eased up a bit, gritted his teeth and said: "A group of chaotic ministers and thieves, I haven't died yet, they are thinking of joining a new master——"

The eldest grandson Wuji and Ma Zhou were silent when they heard this, only Yu Suiliang couldn't help frowning, but he didn't say anything.

Li Shimin scolded the ministers outside a few times, and then he couldn't lift his breath, so he had to stop and take a few breaths before continuing to scold: "I ordered people to refine elixir, and I never thought that I would live forever alone, but these unfilial sons and grandsons all hope that I will die as soon as possible, so that they can sit on my dragon chair." ”

Li Shimin's unfilial descendants are very obviously referring to Li Chengqian and Li Xiang.

Yu Suiliang's face sank when he heard this, and he bowed and said: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been supervising the war in the bitter cold land of Youyan in recent years, and he doesn't know about the affairs of Chang'an City, and the fall of Goguryeo is imminent, all of which are the work of His Royal Highness the Prince——"

"Hmph-"

Li Shimin interrupted Yu Suiliang with a heavy snort, stretched out his hand to point at him, gasping for breath but unable to speak.

"Your Majesty! Today's elixir has been refined. ”

Just when everyone looked at Li Shimin in horror, afraid that he would do something crazy, they saw a Taoist priest walking in with a pure gold plate.

Everyone in the hall knows this Taoist priest, it is one of the three Taoist Dao of Jin Biaomen, this Taoist Yi looks only in his forties, white and pure, with a long white beard, always calm in front of people, giving people a detached temperament, fairy wind and bones.

It is rumored in Chang'an City that this Taoist is cool and good for men, and the little Taoist priest who was killed by Li Xiang is his disciple and his male favorite.

Yu Suiliang was interrupted by Li Shimin, and his calm face was about to scold Li Shimin again, but when he saw Dao Yi floating in, he regarded these court ministers as nothing.

Immediately pointed at Dao Yi and shouted angrily: "I and other ministers are here to discuss state affairs with Your Majesty, you dare to come in without permission, come here, beat this demon Dao out with me." ”

The ministers of the Tang Dynasty have always paid attention to the body of ministers, and they have always looked down on such people, and Wu Zetian's male favorite was beaten for entering and leaving the palace through the same door as the prime minister.

Yu Suiliang has always been upright, and when he saw Dao Yi at this time, he naturally wouldn't be polite to him.

"Indulgence!"

Li Shimin trembled when he saw this.

"Your Majesty-" Yu Suiliang looked at Li Shimin with a painful expression, his mouth trembled and he couldn't speak, so he heard Li Shimin pointing at him and saying loudly: "Someone came to drag him out." ”

Li Shimin said that he trembled and leaned on Li Zhi.

"Your Majesty is angry."

"Your Majesty is angry."

"Your Majesty is angry."

In the bitter persuasion of the ministers, Li Shimin looked at Yu Suiliang with a blue face, although he was a little mentally abnormal, but he cherished Yu Suiliang and wanted to make Yu Suiliang soft.

Yu Suiliang was also pale, silent, the two chamberlains walked up to Yu Suiliang and wanted to put him out, but Sui Liang saw that Li Shimin had not spoken, and his face showed a sad look.

"I'll go by myself."

Yu Suiliang shook off the inner servant and turned around and walked out.

Li Shimin looked at his heart and was somewhat awakened, and did not issue an order to cure Suiliang's sin.

"Your Majesty is angry, take some immortal medicine first."

Dao Yi was not surprised by this, as if nothing had happened, he gently walked up to Li Shimin and knelt down on his knees.

Li Shimin's face softened when he looked at Dao Yi's plate, and his eyes revealed eagerness and excitement.

Li Shimin held back his desire and tried to hold the shelf, and said "um" lightly, which was a response to Daoyi.

When Dao Yi heard this, he didn't even raise his head, and gently lifted the red silk on the top of the gold plate, revealing a small bowl carved of mutton fat jade below, and the jade bowl contained some unknown black ointment.

Seeing this, Li Zhi hurriedly picked up a cigarette gun from behind him and handed it to Li Shimin, Li Shimin took the cigarette gun and half-lay on the Luohan bed, waiting for Dao Yi to light it for him.

Dao Yi picked up a small golden knife, picked out a piece of black ointment the size of a fingernail from the jade bowl, and put it on the smoking gun in Li Shimin's hand.

Li Zhi hurriedly bent down to light it for him, and a puff of gray-white smoke swirled and rose in everyone's complicated gaze.

Li Shimin took a deep puff of smoke while holding the cigarette gun, slowly closed his eyes, and showed a very happy expression on his face.

If Li Chengqian is here, he must be able to see that Li Shimin is smoking = big smoke, but although the ministers in the palace know that this black ointment is not a good thing, they don't know its harm.

Li Shimin took a few puffs of cigarette and was in better spirits, and his face softened.

opened his eyes and slowly raised his head, and said lightly: "I heard that Ji'er is sick again?"

Ma Zhou hurriedly said: "The day before yesterday, His Royal Highness Taisun knelt outside the palace all night, and finally fainted, and now he is recuperating in the East Palace. ”

"Humph!"

Li Shimin snorted angrily, obviously very dissatisfied with Li Ju's intercession for Li Xiang.

Ma Zhou listened to it and continued quietly: "His Royal Highness the eldest grandson is also interceding for the eldest grandson as a younger brother——。 ”

Li Shimin interrupted Ma Zhou with an angry snort again: "I made him the grandson and taught him personally, this is not a small favor, but he interceded for the animal who wanted me to die, it is really unreasonable."

After kneeling all night, I was so sick that I was sick to death, which made the ministers outside feel that I was not kind to my juniors. ”

Hearing Li Shimin's selfish and unreasonable words, Ma Zhou sighed in his heart, his face remained impassive, and continued: "His Royal Highness Taisun was personally taught by His Majesty and knows the righteousness of filial piety.

The eldest grandson of the emperor is his eldest brother again, no matter what, His Royal Highness the grandson must come forward to intercede, otherwise the world will say that he does not understand filial piety. ”

Li Shimin listened to Ma Zhou's words with a smug look on his face, so he said indifferently: "What I said is also true, the children I personally taught should naturally know the way of filial piety, otherwise people in the world will say that I teach badly." ”

The eldest grandson Wuji hurriedly patted his ass and said: "Your Majesty is a person of great benevolence and filial piety, and His Royal Highness the Taisun is naturally well aware of this principle after being taught by you. ”

Li Shimin's face became even more proud, as if Li Ju's behavior could help him clear up the unkindness and unfilial behavior of killing his brother and slaughtering his brother and captifying his father.

Li Shimin said indifferently: "Go and pass on the son to see me, and I want to tell him about the way of filial piety again." ”

Ma Zhou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, although Li Ju was still sick, he couldn't care so much about it at this time.

The ministers and students in front of the Taiji Palace were on a par with Li Shimin, wanting to make Li Shimin soften, but Ma Zhou knew that Li Shimin at this time could not take care of everything except for immortality.

Li Chengqian is not in Chang'an City, and if something happens, there will be no one to clean up the mess.

By persuading Li Shimin to appease Li Ju, he gave a signal to the ministers outside that Li Shimin would not listen to the words of the demons, and Li Shimin still attached importance to the prince.

After a while, a chamberlain led a young man into Li Shimin's bedroom.

Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that Li Ju, who was thin and weak, was still wearing a thick fur coat, and walked in with a wooden expression, and there was no blood on his pale face.

Seeing that Li Ju, who was already eleven years old, was only as tall as a child in eight or nine miles, Ma Zhou and the others felt a pain in their hearts.

When Li Zhi saw Li Ju coming in, he hurriedly got up and walked in front of Li Ju, and saluted Li Ju in a dignified manner.

"Minister Li Zhi see His Royal Highness Taisun."

The other ministers in the palace also followed and saluted Li Ju.

"Your Royal Highness."

Seeing Li Zhi saluting himself again, the originally godless Li Ju showed fear in his eyes and hurriedly returned the salute to Li Zhi.

He said in a low voice: "Little nephew, see Uncle Jin Wang." ”

Li Zhi and Li Ju, one big and one small, fought each other, and they couldn't bend over.

Li Zhi deliberately did not get up first, but Li Ju did not dare to get up when he saw that Li Zhi could not afford it, for fear of arousing Li Shimin's disgust.

"Humph!"

Looking at all this, Li Shimin snorted coldly with an expressionless face, and the frightened Li Ju hurriedly got up, and then saw that Li Zhi hadn't gotten up yet, and hurriedly went to help him.

Li Zhi led Li Ju to Li Shimin's bed with a spring breeze on his face.

Li Ju walked up to Li Shimin and knelt down on his knees and kowtowed to Li Shimin.

"Sun Chen, see Your Majesty."

Li Shimin looked at Li Ju expressionlessly, and said "um", and Li Zhi next to him hurriedly pulled Li Ju up.

Li Shimin saw that Li Zhicai's face softened slightly, and said with dissatisfaction: "I have told you many times, although you are the grandson, but in the end, you are the junior, and you still have to perform family salutes with your ninth uncle." ”

"Sun Chen wrote it down." Li Ju hurriedly bowed and said.

"Written down!" Li Shimin muttered, obviously still dissatisfied with this.

Li Ju wrote it down, but how could he be Li Zhi's opponent as a child, Li Zhi saluted first every time he saw him, and he also stopped him!

"Father, the emperor must be blamed for this matter, His Royal Highness the grandson, the name of the monarch and the minister has been decided, and the sons and ministers should act according to the etiquette." Li Zhi Zhengse.

Li Shimin was very happy to see that Li Zhi knew the role of the monarch and the minister so well, and he felt even more unpleasant when he saw Li Ju.

"I heard that you are sick, and I am also sick, and I can't go to the East Palace to see you, so I will send you to see you, lest people say that I don't care to take care of you."

"It's all Sun Chen's badness, which makes His Majesty worry about it." Li Ju saluted again.

"Your parents are not in Chang'an, I should teach you, get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Li Shimin looked at Li Ju, who was submissive, and felt uncomfortable, so he said directly: "Since you are sick, go back and rest." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Ju hurriedly saluted.

"Hmm."

Li Shimin hummed again, and when Li Ju got up and stepped back, he turned his head and said to Dao Yi: "Give Taisun some immortal medicine." ”

"Yes!"

Dao Yi hurriedly got up, hurriedly picked up the gold plate and walked out with Li Ju.

Li Shimin watched them walk out, and then said to Ma Zhou lightly: "I have poured out my heart and lungs for these children and grandchildren, and I am willing to give them everything." ”