Wei Zheng's life can be described as extremely bumpy.

In the thirteenth year of the great cause, he became an official under the treasure account of Chengyuan in Wuyang County. Yuan Bao raised troops to respond to Wagang Li Mi, and the notes of Yuan Bao to Li Mi were all written by Wei Zheng, and Li Mi saw that Wei Zheng was very literate, so he summoned Wei Zheng. However, Wei Zheng's ten strategies to strengthen Wagang were not taken seriously by Li Mi at all.

Later, Wei Zheng surrendered to Li Tang and served under the crown prince. After Li Shimin came to power, he once asked Wei Zheng why he helped the crown prince deal with him. Wei Zheng did not admit his mistake every time, but on the grounds of "being a minister, he will do his best to help", and did not feel that he had done anything wrong. It is precisely because of his stubbornness. He was able to survive Li Shimin's purge of the prince's power.

Some people may think that Wei Zheng was a childcare that Li Shimin deliberately left behind to appease the ministers who had friends with the prince. However, if Wei Zheng doesn't really have his own merits, how can he be this nursery?

In the later Zhenguan years, Wei Zheng also showed his political ability and admonishment ability many times. Datang can have such a prosperous era, and the credit is absolutely indispensable to Wei Zheng's share.

After approving Wei Zheng's begging table, Li Shimin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Wei Zheng is the top-ranked one of the people he wants to cut. Zhenguan has been twenty-three years now, and he has been angry with Wei Zheng for twenty-three years. But now that Wei Zheng has decided to retire, I don't know why, but he has a feeling of reluctance.

Clearing his throat, Li Shimin said: "Wei Zheng, you have also worked hard for the Tang Dynasty for half your life, and now that you are retired, I have nothing to reward you, so I might as well reward you with 10,000 gold coins, how about it?" ”

Wei Zheng was recognized as a poor man in the Guogong circle, and in order to make his old age better, Li Shimin could only make an exception and reward Wei Zheng with some gold coins.

Wei Zheng bowed to the ground: "The old minister has thanked Your Majesty for your kindness, but please allow the old man to ask, is the gold coin you rewarded to the old man from the treasury or the private treasury?" ”

Li Shimin wondered: "Is there any difference between this?" ”

Wei Zheng said seriously: "If it is a gold coin from the treasury, the old man must refuse." In the past, when officials retired, His Majesty did not reward them, so why did he make an exception when he came to Lao Chen? The money in the treasury is all the people's fat and people's anointment, and although the old minister is grateful for His Majesty's good intentions, he does not dare to use it. But if it comes from His Majesty's private treasury, the old minister will not have this concern, and he should thank His Majesty for his gift. ”

Leng Feng almost laughed out loud, and couldn't help but reach out and poke Li Jing beside him, Leng Feng held back a smile and said: "I'll translate it for you, what Old Man Wei means is that you don't use public money to fool me, pay for you out of your own pocket." ”

Leng Feng was not alone, many courtiers were holding back laughter. It's hard to force a smile, so it makes sense to shake your body.

Li Shimin, who was sitting tall, could just see the shoulders of the courtiers rising and falling, like ocean waves.

He never expected that even before leaving office, Wei Zheng would scold him.

A little angry, but he wanted to laugh more.

Holding back his anger and laughter, Li Shimin said: "I took out my own money, now you can rest assured!" ”

Wei Zheng didn't get up, and said loudly: "That old minister, thank you for Your Majesty's grace!" My Emperor Shengming! ”

Knowing this, Leng Feng finally couldn't help laughing.

Li Shimin keenly heard the laughter, but when he found out that it was Leng Feng, he didn't care, because he remembered that Leng Feng also owed Wei Zheng 10,000 gold coins yesterday.

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Thinking that Leng Feng also lost 10,000 gold coins, Li Shimin was in a good mood.

Wei Zheng stood up at this time, tidied up his clothes, and responded to the courtiers' congratulations one by one.

When the official ability reached the level of Wei Zheng, not only did he leave office peacefully, but he also rubbed the emperor with 10,000 gold coins, which cannot be said to be unsuccessful.

After the two major events, it was the usual court meeting, and Yan Xiangshi obviously did his homework and proposed things for discussion, all of which the court needs to take seriously at present.

Leng Feng also deliberately proposed to increase support for military training, and with the previous agreement, Yan Xiangshi did not stop it, but took the lead in agreeing to it, and generously directly increased it by two percent.

There is no civil and military conflict, and there is no interference from each other, and the court can handle things quickly, which is obviously more efficient than the previous need to quarrel to achieve the goal.

By noon, the controversial issues were all settled. After asking twice if there was a performance, seeing that no one answered, Li Shimin said: "Since there is nothing else, I have one thing to announce." ”

Yan Xiangshi asked, "I don't know what happened to Your Majesty?" ”

Li Shimin raised his head, with a feeling of reminiscence: "I decided a long time ago to establish the Lingyan Pavilion to commend the heroes of the Tang Dynasty since its establishment, but I have never made up my mind, and now, even Wei Zheng has retired, I decided to establish it." ”

Yan Xiangshi replied: "Your Majesty does not forget the hard work of your courtiers, and the establishment of Lingyan Pavilion as a commendation is really convincing to us. It's just that I don't know how this Lingyan Pavilion commends the heroes? ”

Li Shimin looked at the corner of the main hall: "Yan Liben, come here." ”

With Li Shimin's call, Yan Liben held a huge scroll and slowly walked to the bottom of the steps.

With the help of the eunuchs, the scroll was unfolded.

When they saw clearly what the scroll looked like when it was unfolded, the ministers couldn't help but let out a sigh of amazement.

And Leng Feng almost jumped up directly: "The surname Yan, when did you spy on me and actually draw me?" ”

When the scroll is unfolded, it is clearly a life-size portrait.

To the amazement of the ministers, this portrait changed from the usual style, did not color, but only used light and dark lines to draw a three-dimensional painting. The most rare thing is that if you put the picture scroll next to the protector and compare, you can hardly find a sense of disobedience.

This kind of stick figure and realistic style was still given to Yan Liben by Leng Feng, I didn't expect this guy to explore it to this extent.

In the painting, Leng Feng is wearing a fish-scale armor, with a city wall hidden by corpses behind him, a broken three-edged thorn in his hand, and a resolute look in his eyes. Just by looking at the picture, everyone understood that this was the protector of the country on the Gaochang battlefield painted in the painting.

Yan Liben said proudly: "Since you complained that the portraits I painted have no three-dimensional sense, I have started to study according to what you said. Nowadays, even if I don't look at the real thing, I can draw the picture in my mind perfectly. Do you think I'm drawing simply? For the sake of realism, I deliberately went to Gaochang, and the lines of the city wall were all drawn by me compared with the real city wall. ”

Li Shimin interrupted Yan Liben's words: "I am going to draw life-size portraits of heroes since the founding of the People's Republic of China and hang them in the newly built Lingyan Pavilion next to the Sanqing Palace. There are a total of thirty-six portraits hanging in the Lingyan Pavilion, and in addition to twenty-six of which have been clearly identified, there are still ten free. Aiqing, do you understand what I mean? ”