In the early morning, a round of red sun rushed out of the rolling sea of clouds in the eastern sky, and the gray sea of clouds was covered with a layer of hazy golden light, as if it was boiling.

The magnificent Tai Chi Palace under the red sun is solemn and solemn, and the palace maids, chamberlains, and guards are shuttling back and forth in each palace and garden, or relying on the immortals or steady as a warrior or mighty. They walked in the largest, most splendid and majestic palace complex in the world, and every step was strictly trained, and every step was taken carefully, for fear that there would be mistakes and omissions that would make the palace no longer so perfect.

But in front of the Liangyi Gate in the Taiji Palace, a group of officials wearing official robes and from a ceremonial family were clamoring to see Li Chengqian in front of the Liangyi Gate.

These officials had come to the Liangyi Gate yesterday morning and asked to see Li Chengqian and to fight for the official positions of their children.

It seems that they are not doing things for the court, but specifically fighting for official positions for their own children.

It was extremely difficult for people to fall asleep in summer, not to mention that these people had stayed in front of the Taiji Palace without taking a bath or changing their clothes, and they were covered in stinky sweat and were very uncomfortable until the second half of the night before they could barely fall asleep.

Therefore, when the sun was rising, they were still lying on the felt mats under the Liangyi Gate and sleeping soundly, without any scruples that this was the most important political place in the Tang Empire.

Dozens of small chamberlains didn't know who they had ordered, and they came to serve these people with washing water and breakfast.

More than a dozen courtiers were gently woken up by the chamberlain and rubbed their eyes, got up with a look of anger and resentment at the Liangyi Gate, and reluctantly washed and dined under the service of the chamberlain.

Maybe it's because he didn't sleep well, maybe it's because he didn't take a bath yesterday, maybe it's because breakfast doesn't have his appetite, maybe it's because Li Chengqian hasn't made any statement about their approach so far......

Taichang Shaoqing Liu Ziyi picked up a bowl of rice with oily grains and rich fragrance, and after only two bites, he fell in front of the door of Liangyi with the bowl.

This move caused everyone to turn their heads to watch, only to see Liu Ziyi, who was in his sixties, getting up and running towards the Liangyi Gate with a sigh......

While running, he shouted loudly: "The prince is deceived by the villain, and the old man will see His Royal Highness the prince even if he dies today." ”

The other ministers also stopped eating, and got up and chased Liu Ziyi to the door of Liangyi.

Liu Ziyi was born in Linhuai Liu, his father and ancestors were all from the Southern Dynasty, and only in his generation did he come out of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, because their qualifications were limited, so they stopped at a Taichang Shaoqing in their lives.

Now that his son Liu Yuanzhi has just joined the office and was dismissed by Li Chengqian, he has always called his son his family's Maxima, how can he swallow this breath?

A group of courtiers followed and ran to the gate of Liangyi Gate, but were stopped by the guards and forbidden soldiers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please come back!" The forbidden army at the door stretched out a big axle to block in front of Liu Ziyi.

Liu Ziyi, who was running forward, saw this and froze, couldn't help but take a step back, and was supported by the officials behind him before he stood firm, and then he was furious and took two steps forward and raised his hand to give him a slap to the guard.

After slapping him and still being dissatisfied, he pointed at the forbidden army and scolded: "Something like a pig and a dog, who gave you the courage to dare to stop the old man?"

The janissary only dared to bow his head and be scolded, and he didn't even dare to raise his head, and even in his heart, he felt that he shouldn't run into such a scholar official.

The movement here is a bit big, and it alarms the gods who are guarding here.

Qiu Shenji, who was fully armored, walked over slowly with an expressionless face, Qiu Shenji has always been known for his sterns, and the ministers were somewhat afraid when they saw it.

But he wasn't worried about what Qiu Shenji could do to Taifu Shaoqing, who was born in a scholar clan, and all the courtiers outside also looked at Qiu Shenji expressionlessly.

The two sides were deadlocked for a while, and Liu Ziyi and the others heard footsteps behind them, and when they turned around, they saw a group of officials in red robes walking over menacingly, led by Taichangqing Dou Lu Xianchao in purple robes.

Dou Lu Xian is over seventy years old this year, and he is familiar with etiquette, so he has always been too Changqing, and he usually does not enter the yamen at all, and only appears when there is a major ceremony in the imperial court.

I don't want to appear in front of Liangyi Gate today, and its purpose is naturally self-evident.

Walking next to him was the yellow-faced and thin-skinned Wei Tang, Wei Tang's son Wei Xuanliang was also deposed by Li Chengqian this time, and it was natural for him to come.

But the black-faced young man walking next to Wei Tang came to everyone's surprise, he was Wei Shuyu, the eldest son of the late Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng was loyal to Li Chengqian, known to the world, and until he died, he worked hard to plan for Li Chengqian, and got the supreme honor of Li Chengqian's personal letter 'Benefiting the life and death of the country' engraved on the tombstone.

How could Wei Shuyu, as Wei Zheng's eldest son, stand up against Li Chengqian?

"Duke Wei Wenzhen was also born in the Julu Wei family."

It didn't take long for someone to give an answer.

Several courtiers in front of the Liangyi Gate hurriedly turned around and greeted them.

"I've seen Doulu Boss!"

Dou Lu Xianchao didn't even look at these people when he heard this, and his wrinkled face was covered with a layer of frost and kept moving forward.

Dou Lu Xianchao walked to the door of Liangyi, straightened his waist and looked ahead, and he didn't look at the guards and chamberlains on both sides, he didn't even have Qiu Xinggong in his eyes, but said lightly: "Go and report to His Royal Highness the Prince, Taichangqing Dou Lu Xianchao has something to ask to see." ”

The tone is like a servant of his own family, this is the confidence of an official from a family in the Tang Dynasty.

And the guards and guards didn't feel offended, but went in to report the news.

Wei Shuyu stood next to Dou Lu Xianchao, his black face was also expressionless, but he was very nervous.

He doesn't have Wei Zheng's ability and Wei Zheng's flexibility, he has only one purpose for coming here today, to persuade Li Chengqian not to be deceived by villains, if he can't persuade Li Chengqian, in order to repay Li Chengqian's kindness to Wei Zheng, he decided to die to admonish him.

The little chamberlain hurriedly ran out after a while, bowing to Dou Lu Xianchao and the others with sweat on his head and saying, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has left the palace." ”

"Humph!"

Dou Lu Xianchao snorted angrily when he heard this, and the little chamberlain trembled with fright.

"Your Majesty is seriously ill, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is responsible for supervising the country, instead of serving His Majesty in the palace, handling political affairs and receiving courtiers, what kind of system does it become to go out of the palace to play?" Dou Lu Xianchao turned around and looked at the ministers and said word by word.

"That's it, that's it!"

"I must see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today......"

"There are too many traitors around His Royal Highness the Prince, and he actually lured His Royal Highness the Crown Prince out of the palace to play."

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The courtiers chimed in.

Although Dou Lu Xianchao, as a high-ranking official of the third grade, has little real power, he has a great influence in the opposition of the court, and as soon as he stops in front of Liangyi Gate, he immediately alarms Gao Shilian, Yang Shidao and others.

Gao Shilian and others went to Ganlumen to see Li Chengqian, and heard that Li Chengqian had left the palace, and wanted to go in to see that Li Shimin was blocked by the old ghost and Wang Fangyi again.

I could only go back to the office and arrange someone to take care of Dou Lu Xianchao and others, and when the person who arranged it came back, he said that many low-level officials had automatically run over to take care of them.

So Doulu Xianchao's baseless words spread all over Chang'an City within half a day.

Almost all the people in Chang'an know that Li Chengqian went out of the palace to play during Li Shimin's serious illness and imprisonment, and he was not filial, diligent or thrifty, and Jian Zhen was a sample of the faint monarch.

Many modern people think that the scholars of the Tang Dynasty are five surnames and seven families, and as long as the heads of these families are cleaned up, there will be no scholars.

Li Chengqian also thought so before the crossing, but after wearing it, Li Chengqian found that he was wrong, "Shi clan" does not refer to which family, this is a belief in power that has been formed for hundreds of years since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Those who have become a scholar will do their best to maintain the status of their family, and those who have not become a scholar will desperately turn themselves into a scholar whenever they have the opportunity.

Therefore, they all desperately elevated the status and influence of the Shi clan.

This belief not only exists between the "scholars" and the "quasi-scholars", but even the ordinary people worship the scholars very much.

Before it was said that Li Shimin and his generals in "The Complete Biography of Tang Dynasty" had not been mythologized, their reputation among ordinary people was far inferior to that of the scholars.

And even if you talk about the five surnames and seven families alone, they are not really seven families, each family has branches and leaves in various places, and these people who come out also go everywhere to report their county hopes, what Taiyuan Wang family, Boling Cui family......

The officials who came out of these families themselves have credibility, so Li Chengqian kicked the real iron plate this time.