On this day, there was no early court, because there was no advance notice, the ministers were waiting at the door of the Taiji Palace, and when it came to the early court, the eunuch on duty in the palace said; "Your Majesty has a decree to avoid the court today."

The ministers chattered and walked towards their respective offices.

Li Chengqian, Gao Jingming and Wei Zheng left the emperor's bed and went their own ways. Li Tai stayed outside the emperor's bedroom, waiting for Li Shimin to summon him.

About a stick of incense passed, Wang De came out and said, "His Royal Highness King Wei, Your Majesty is not going to see you today, please go back." ”

Li Tai still wanted to fight for it, and he said: "Princess, please give me another gift." As he spoke, he took out a piece of exquisite jade from his sleeve and handed it over.

Wang De did not stretch out his hand, but arched his hand to him and said, "Your Highness, please go back." His Majesty was in a bad mood and did not want others to disturb him. With that, he turned and departed.

Li Tai was very embarrassed, stayed for a while, and left unhappy.

Li Shimin was in the dining room of the dormitory, looking at the leftovers on the table in a daze. His face was pale and he was in an extremely sad mood.

Wang De has rarely seen Li Shimin like this, and he is both distressed and worried. He wanted to comfort Li Shimin a few words, but he didn't dare to disturb him, so he stood silently aside and accompanied him.

Li Shimin stayed for an hour before he stood up and said, "Let's go to the Lizheng Palace." ”

Lizheng Palace.

Li Shimin rarely comes to the Lizheng Hall in the morning, unless there is something particularly important, or he is excited about something.

As soon as Empress Eldest Sun looked at Li Shimin's face, she knew that His Majesty had encountered something troublesome again.

After Li Shimin sat down, Empress Changsun stood behind him, massaging his head while asking, "Erlang, did you encounter anything unpleasant?" ”

Li Shimin held her hand, pulled her to sit beside him, and said depressedly: "Guanyin, this kid Qingque is really too much. ”

Empress Eldest Sun didn't speak, she knew that if she didn't ask, Li Shimin would continue to talk.

Sure enough, Li Shimin said: "Qingque will be involved in a corruption case, and in order to cover up the truth of the matter, he will not hesitate to kill people and set fires." He told Empress Changsun what had happened.

Empress Eldest Sun was shocked after hearing this, and she said, "More than a dozen lives, how can Qingque do it?" ”

Li Shimin looked at his beloved wife with some concern, worried that she would not be able to stand the blow. The matter of the eldest grandson Shunde is not a small blow to the eldest grandson queen, if Li Tai has another accident, I don't know if she can bear it.

Empress Eldest Sun was silent. Li Shimin wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know how to speak.

After a long time, Empress Changsun sighed and said, "Qingque, this kid, has gone too far, and the concubine has been worried about him before. But he didn't expect him to go so far. ”

Speaking of this, she looked at Li Shimin and asked, "Erlang, how are you going to deal with this matter?" ”

Li Shimin said depressedly: "I want to protect him, but I'm afraid that Wei Zheng and others won't agree." There are also Cheng Qian, Gao Jingming and others, and they found out about this matter. ”

Speaking of this, Li Shimin said with some puzzlement: "You said that Qingque, this child, I take the most care of him." He is not short of money, so why should he embezzle? ”

In fact, Li Tai is not short of money, but very short of money. He wants to buy his henchmen, he wants to install eyes and ears in the palace, and he needs money everywhere. He is not Li Shimin, he does not have so much power, and many things have to be settled by money.

Li Shimin has been the emperor for a long time, and he forgot that when he was the king of Qin, he still did the same thing of bribing the people around Li Yuan with money.

Regarding Empress Changsun's questioning, Li Shimin answered the question. Because he really didn't think about what to do with Li Tai. He looked at Empress Changsun, and sure enough, he found that he had made some mistakes in coming here today, and he couldn't ask for her opinion on this matter.

Empress Eldest Sun couldn't give an opinion, could she let her agree to dispose of her son, or shield her son?

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "I really haven't thought about it yet. After saying that, he stood up and said, "You rest, I'll go back." ”

Empress Changsun also stood up to see him off, and she said thoughtfully: "Your Majesty, as for how to deal with this matter, the concubine hopes that Your Majesty will consider it comprehensively, and you don't have to completely care about the concubine's mood. ”

Empress Changsun did not intercede for Li Tai, nor did she say that she would deal with Li Tai, but she said that she would consider it comprehensively, and Li Shimin understood what she meant - the country is important, and family affection is taken into account.

Li Shimin nodded and returned to the emperor's bed.

The next day, Li Shimin passed the decree in advance and continued to exempt from the court.

Next up is the rest of the day.

In the past few days, Li Shimin has been very sad in his heart, and his relationship with Li Tai is too deep. The family affection of the emperor's family is different from that of ordinary people, and it has always been very indifferent.

Li Shimin has more than a dozen sons and twenty-one princesses, and he is only close to a few. The closest of them is Li Tai.

Li Shimin was a person of great affection, before he became emperor, he was very close to the civil and military officials of the Qin Palace, and he also had the same heart with the wives and concubines of Empress Changsun. However, since he became emperor, all this has been far away from him. He has supreme power, but he has lost love, family affection, and friendship.

In a sense, Li Tai satisfied Li Shimin's thirst. Li Shimin was extremely fond of him because of this.

However, Li Shimin now realizes that perhaps it is precisely because of his excessive favor for him that Li Tai's self-aggrandizement and makes him go to the abyss step by step.

These few days have been too painful for Li Shimin. He couldn't discuss it with anyone, and no one else would have an opinion on it. Because no one is stupid enough to persuade a father who dotes on his son to dispose of his own son.

That night, Li Shimin couldn't fall asleep over and over, looking at the faint dawn outside the window, he wished that the sun would never rise again.

However, it was finally dawn.

Early Dynasty, Taiji Palace.

The ministers waited for the early dynasty, and they still stood at the door in twos and threes, but they were not talking and laughing as usual.

The people were silent, and there was an unsettling atmosphere in the square of the University.

At this time, Li Tai came. Not only did he come, but he was very high-profile. He came in a sedan chair carried by four people. At that time, the sedan chair had no roof, just like a common sliding rod in Sichuan in the past.

This is what Li Shimin specially allowed Li Tai to do in order to take care of Li Tai's fat body.

Li Tai sat proudly on the sedan chair, and when he met the familiar ministers, he waved to them on it.

Li Tai could feel the disgruntled gazes from the ministers around him, and he knew that he would attract the envy of the people by doing so. But he did it on purpose today.

After the secret of "Tuodi Zhi" was revealed, Li Tai knew that his situation was very dangerous, and he promptly and decisively cleaned up the human and physical evidence, but he knew that he could not eliminate people's doubts about him.

He was afraid that the ministers would besiege him, so he specially showed Li Shimin's favor to him, so that those ministers felt afraid of him, so they did not dare to challenge him.

To be honest, his trick really worked, at least those wall grasses were unwilling to provoke, this dead fat man with a fierce father.

Finally go to court.

Gao Jingming, the head of the household department, spoke first, and he said: "Your Majesty, there is a huge loophole in the river issue of the household department, and over the years, a large amount of tax revenue has been lost. The minister failed to discover it in time and was responsible for negligence.

The minister was ashamed and betrayed His Majesty's trust. The minister asked His Majesty for his permission, and the minister resigned from the post of secretary of the household department. ”

After speaking, he held his hands high and resigned.

Wang De came over, took the resignation letter in his hand, and presented it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin lowered his head to review the resignation in his hand, but he could feel the pressure of the ministers' gaze. He knew that Gao Jingming was throwing stones to ask for directions. Take a look at your attitude towards dealing with corruption cases in the imperial court. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~