What Li Shimin failed to accomplish at the beginning, Li Chengqian completed.

Leng Feng successfully became the king of Xiaoyao, without a fief, but the title is a real king, and even the Zongren Mansion has a record.

Crowned king, this is a grand event, the matter of the protector of the country being crowned the king of Xiaoyao spread all over Chang'an, and people all rushed to tell each other. Many people were waiting for King Xiaoyao to hold a banquet for ascension, but what they were waiting for was only the succession banquet of Leng Jing, the secretary of the military department.

For the king, the Leng Feng Cup does not attach much importance to it. In the final analysis, this is just Li Chengqian's sycophancy to his master.

Over the years, Li Chengqian always hoped for guidance from his master, but he never explicitly told him what to do and what not to do. is obviously in good health, but he has no intention of making a comeback.

The new Leng Mansion is still the same, because the guard of honor used to be the king's, and there is no need to change it.

"Lord Wang, our family has been promoted to the king, and we don't even have a banquet, isn't it too low-key?"

In the garden, Leng Feng was concentrating on pruning the branches, and after hearing Lao Yuan's words, Leng Feng put down the big scissors and sighed: "The emperor is coming here, to be honest, it is really useless for this prince to come." What our family needs is low-key, and I have gone into hiding, and I can't always show my sense of existence. If you are crowned king, you will be crowned king, we don't need to be too high-profile. To be honest, Xiao Jing's heirloom duke title of protector is the real glory of our family, and the princes of this generation are more of a product of sycophancy. ”

Lao Yuan nodded and said no more.

Now the head of the Leng family is Leng Jing, but the old patriarch Li did not follow the young master, but followed Leng Feng to the new courtyard, so that his sons could continue to be loyal to the new family master.

Seeing that it was about to be noon, Leng Feng instructed Lao Li to prepare lunch, and it was no surprise that Li Shimin and his wife should come here for dinner.

After the Zen position, although Li Shimin's physical fitness has been declining, his spirit has become more and more vigorous. As soon as the intelligence department sent new news about Wakoku Island, he would bring those retired veterans together to study it. In the days when there was no information, he would travel around Chang'an.

The guards knew his temperament, and he usually traveled in casual clothes, so a few old men sitting in the shade of a tree to enjoy the shade may be mixed with a Taishang Emperor.

The eldest grandson Empress Dowager is also becoming more and more free, since she likes to raise flowers, she always takes Concubine Yang and others into the mountains to look for wild flowers and plants. When you are interested, you will find a clear river to swim in.

The days in the palace are compared with the current days.

There is a royal dining room in the palace, which is the hands of the old people in the palace. However, Li Shimin just likes to eat here with Leng Feng.

Sure enough, as soon as noon arrived, Li Shimin and his wife entered the door, carrying a bamboo basket full of wild vegetables.

Looking at their ordinary clothes, you can tell that they are digging wild vegetables themselves. I don't know what kind of mood those people felt when they knew that the Empress Dowager was grabbing wild vegetables with them.

Handing the basket to Lao Yuan, Li Shimin said: "I used to be afraid of eating wild vegetables, but after becoming the emperor, as long as I eat wild vegetables, I will feel uncomfortable." Recently, I've wanted to eat again, so that the cook can make it a little more delicious. ”

Lao Yuan nodded, and went to the back kitchen with the guards.

Seeing that Leng Feng was pruning the branches, the eldest grandson Empress Dowager went to find Liu Shuwen, while Li Shimin sat on the flower bed on the side and watched Leng Feng work.

"The dignified King of Freedom actually did the work of a gardener."

"Each other, your dignified emperor, didn't you also take the queen mother to dig wild vegetables?"

Leaning on the shelf, Li Shimin sighed: "When I was in power, I never thought that I would be able to live like this in my old age. Although his health is getting worse day by day, it is indeed much more interesting to leave the palace wall and see Chang'an becoming prosperous, watch the people live and work in peace and contentment, and watch the prosperous era continue or even rise in the hands of Cheng Qian. Tell me, are you really going to go into hiding? You're in your early fifties, and you don't sweat much on horseback, so it's a shame to go into hiding. Cheng Qian is your apprentice, but are you just a cold looker and don't give him any advice? ”

Knowing what Li Shimin was talking about, Leng Feng said helplessly: "Cheng Qian is decentralizing power, to be honest, although he is in the wrong direction of decentralization, there is nothing wrong with it. Since Qin Shi Huang, centralization has indeed been an effective means, but that is also in the past. The current territory of the Tang Dynasty is vast, there are no ancients before, and it is estimated that there will be no one in the future. Lingnan's recitals can only be delivered to Chang'an in nearly 20 days at the fastest speed. Decentralization is necessary, but to what extent it will not have a bad impact, no one can tell, and I can't. ”

Some things can be said, some things can't. What is now leading to the decentralization of power by the central government is the excessively vast territory of the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang had to read 300 catties of bamboo slips a day, and now the number of pieces burned in Zhongshu Province in one day has almost reached 2,000 catties.

It is imperative to delegate power, and Li Chengqian's arrangement has a sense of developing toward a constitutional monarchy. In fact, he should give some autonomy to the local government, instead of deliberately setting up a prime minister-like existence in the central government.

No matter what the system is, as long as the power is distributed to all civilians, then the country can be completely stabilized, and no generosity can have an impact.

This is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and Datang is now facing unprecedented turbulence, although it will not capsize, but if it is not good, it will lose some goods.

Li Shimin said leisurely: "I don't care what it becomes, anyway, the throne is now inherited." Since you said that there is no big mistake, let's see how far Cheng Qian will go. ”

Seeing that Li Shimin got up to eat, Leng Feng also put down the scissors and followed towards the restaurant.

The military department is still out of the level of the book, and the power is almost the same as that of the prime minister. The power of the household department and the official department has also been promoted.

Leng Jing is the secretary of the military department, the eldest grandson Wuji is the secretary of the household department, but the secretary of the ministry is replaced by Chu Suiliang, and since Yan Xiangshi died of old age, there is no position of prime minister.

Chu Suiliang became the secretary of the ministry, which shows that the position of the secretary of the ministry, although it is one of the three greatest powers, is not a fixed candidate, and belongs to the one that will be replaced at any time.

Although he had reached an alliance of interests with the eldest grandson Wuji before, after becoming the secretary of the ministry, Chu Suiliang did not dare to unite with the eldest grandson Wuji. The emperor's meaning is obvious, the three powers should be completely independent of each other, the military department and the household department are opposed, and the official department is in the middle. But if it is obvious that the officials want to help which side, it will usher in a simple replacement.

Now the elites are opposed to each other and have equal strength, probably the Leng family and the eldest grandson family.