Wei Zheng died, Chang'an City was shaken, although the funeral was done simply, but the impact on the court and the people was far-reaching, after more than ten days, Chang'an City returned to its previous peace. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Shimin has been immersed in grief and has been unable to extricate himself for a long time.

His feelings for Wei Zheng are quite complicated, on the one hand, he doesn't like Wei Zheng very much, in the eighteen years of Zhenguan Dynasty, Li Shimin has killed Wei Zheng more than once, because Wei Zheng's nasty mouth deeply restrains the wanton behavior of the imperial power, so that Li Shimin has scruples, but on the other hand, Li Shimin also knows the importance of Wei Zheng to the country's society, a real prosperous era, there must be people like Wei Zheng, his existence can make the country more stable, less detours, one only knows that the emperor is submissive, And no one dares to stand up bravely against the emperor's misdeeds, Guozuo will never last too long, Wei Zheng is the catfish in the spring water of the pond, hateful, but can not be without.

Now that Wei Zheng has passed away, it has brought Li Shimin a lot of blows, and the grief in Li Shimin's heart is difficult to suppress, Wei Zheng has been buried for several days, his mood has still not recovered, and he has been depressed and misanthropic.

The eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and other important ministers were anxious in their hearts, and they entered the palace many times to meet and consol, but finally returned in vain.

In these days when Li Shimin was depressed, Li Tai seized the opportunity to enter the palace every day to greet Li Shimin, pretended to be a filial son in front of Li Shimin, and tirelessly reported what books he read yesterday, what insights and gains, and what gains and losses would he have if he used it for social activities.

After confessing like this for three or five days, it is estimated that Li Shimin can't stand Li Tai's numbness, and finally gradually recovers from the grief of Wei Zheng's death.

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The emperor is no longer depressed, and of course it is a happy event for the courtiers.

The person at the helm of the state should not allow too much time to get caught up in personal emotions, because governing the country requires absolute calm.

After the resumption of the court meeting, the huge state apparatus of the Tang Dynasty began to continue to rotate slowly, and various matters and issues of the three provinces and six ministries were selected from the hands of the eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling, and then submitted to Li Shimin for a summary ruling.

The days seem to be back to being as calm as ever.

However, the word "calm" itself exists to be broken.

Without warning, without any reason, Shangshu Province received a note.

This note comes from a supervising imperial history, surnamed Feng, Mingdu, is an inconspicuous low-grade petty official, but although the official grade of "supervising the imperial history" is low, it is very annoying, their duties are the same as Wei Zheng, responsible for picketing the emperor, princes, courtiers and state affairs, that is to say, they have the right to play whatever is not pleasing to the eye, and they can hold on to trivial things for a year and a half, and the words they say are often difficult to hear.

This imperial historian named Feng Du said something that everyone didn't care much about, or everyone didn't dare to ask, that is, the issue of the prince being a vassal domain.

This issue is very sensitive, according to the Tang Dynasty etiquette system, whether the prince is a descendant or a concubine, he must go to the domain to take office when he becomes an adult, and the princes have basically been sealed a specific position before they become adults, such as Li Tai, in addition to the identity of "King Wei", he was also named the governor of Xiangzhou, leading Xiangzhou, Weizhou, Lizhou and other seven states military, but there is a prefix in front of these positions, that is, "remote collar", to put it bluntly, it is an empty title.

The same is true for the rest of the princes, such as Li Ke, the king of Wu, who led the governor of Anzhou, Li Zhi, the king of Jin, who led the governor of Bingzhou, and so on.

Regardless of adult or underage princes, they basically have a specific position outside the identity of the prince, the difference is that the underage prince is "remote leader", and the prince who has become an adult, he must go to the local office, not to stay in Gyeonggi, of course, Li Tai, the king of Wei, is an exception, because of obesity and other reasons, Li Shimin specially allowed him to "not be an official", which means to stay in Chang'an for a lifetime, and he can not go to the local office.

However, rules are dead, people are alive.

The local state capital is obviously not as beautiful as Chang'an City, and the princes are all delicate people who grew up pampered, so they are naturally reluctant to leave Chang'an and run to a place thousands of miles away to live a boring life of faint birds, so they have found reasons to delay and play Lai, anyway, all kinds of reasons are not to go in Chang'an City, among which the most experienced in playing Laipi is none other than Li Ke, the king of Wu.

Not only Li Ke, in fact, most adult princes are the same, trying all kinds of ways to stay in Chang'an City, even if they can delay one more day, they really can't drag it out, and there is no way to avoid it, so they left Chang'an on the road with a miserable face, and stayed in the local area for less than half a year before they were sent to Chang'an together, and told their father that they were uncomfortable here, and there was something wrong there.

The courtiers were accustomed to seeing the princes' way of leaning, and at the beginning, there were Wei Zheng and others who didn't like it and said a few words, but then no one squeaked at all, because everyone knew that the rules of the feudal domain were almost equal to a fictitious, since Li Shimin didn't care, the courtiers naturally wouldn't do this kind of thankless work at both ends, and not only did it not do any good, but offended all the princes.

Over time, this matter has become a layer of window paper in the court, and everyone knows it, but it is very tacit and not broken.

Unexpectedly, today's imperial history named Feng Du actually pierced the window paper.

Feng Du's recital was very verbose, and he talked about the clouds and mountains and fog at length, and the recital fell into Fang Xuanling's hands, and Fang Xuanling struggled to open his presbyopia eyes for a long time before he understood what Feng Du really wanted to express.

Feng Du wants to express the meaning in the final analysis is actually only one sentence, that is, the Tang Dynasty etiquette law cannot be abolished, those who die in Chang'an City find all kinds of reasons not to go to the place to go to the place There are more and more, it is because these adult princes die in Chang'an, they cause trouble inside and outside Chang'an City all day long, either Qinglou buys drunk trouble, or hunts outside the city and tramples on farmland to plague the people, causing a lot of instability to the security of Chang'an City, is it time for Your Majesty to clean up the portal, drive them to the place, and let them harm others?

After understanding the content of the recital, Fang Xuanling's eyelids jumped, and then he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

This matter is too sensitive, Fang Xuanling is an old and cunning old fox, so naturally he will not express his position easily, so he immediately threw Feng Du's performance to the eldest grandson Wuji, which is an obvious dumping behavior.

The eldest grandson Wuji looked at it fakely, and then ...... threw it back very unjustly and gave it back to Fang Xuanling. - I don't carry this pot, not only do I not carry it, but I also have to treat it as if I didn't see it, what should I do with your room.

The two prime ministers slandered each other in their hearts for being insidious and cunning, and after turning around in the hands of the two prime ministers and finding that the pot had failed, they reached a consensus very tacitly and threw the pot to the emperor.

So, it was logical that he was sent to Li Shimin's desk.

The things in the court are like this, sometimes the outbreak of things has a brewing period, often an inconspicuous trivial matter, and then slowly fermented under the operation of someone with a heart, and finally the matter is bigger than the sky, and the result is naturally the planner to achieve the goal.

Others were purely accidental, without any foreshadowing and without warning, and just happened suddenly.

After Li Shimin saw this recital, the first thought in his mind was not the content of this recital, but the root of this recital.

Was it conceived by someone with a heart, or did it happen just by accident and suddenly?

This note made Li Shimin smell a hint of conspiracy, after all, he is not a confused faint king, and if anything falls into his hands, even if there is no evidence, he will have a little premonition after all.

Twisting his eyebrows and being silent for a long time, Li Shimin felt a little embarrassed.

The fact that the princes are unwilling to take up their posts in Chang'an for all kinds of reasons, Li Shimin is of course clearer than anyone else, it can be said that among the more than a dozen princes he gave birth to, none of them are willing to take the initiative to leave Chang'an to take up their posts, and even if they take the initiative to take office, their original intention is to behave in front of him and curry favor in order to gain their favor.

Seeing a lot of the princes' various strange reasons for delaying, over time, Li Shimin simply didn't bother to investigate, knowing that they were fooling himself, he also turned a blind eye and let them go, after all, he had already made arrangements for the people who really held real power in each local state capital, and they were all civilian and military generals that he trusted very much.

The monarchs and ministers all have a tacit understanding of this layer of window paper, but they didn't expect it to be pierced by this guy named Feng Du today......

The person obviously doesn't know how to play the game, or maybe he's deliberately breaking the rules for a purpose.

After reading the recital, Li Shimin thought for a moment, then threw the recital to the side of the case at will, took another copy of the recital and continued to read it, as for Feng Du's recital, he naturally ignored it, which is commonly known as "staying in the middle and not sending it".

Whether it has been premeditated for a long time or sudden, things have a process of fermentation and spreading.

A few days later, three more superintendents of the imperial history went up at the same time, saying the same thing,—— Your Majesty, do you want to consider kicking those scourges of your family out of Chang'an City?"

Li Shimin still ignored it.

The imperial historians were very dissatisfied with Li Shimin's indifferent attitude.

It's only been a few days since Wei Zheng died, and no one is nagging you, you're going to heaven, right?