Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Opening of the House
The prince of the Tang Dynasty actually did not have anything to envy, especially the early Tang Dynasty, to be exact, the prince of the Tang Dynasty since Li Shimin ascended the throne.
One by one, they are like mascots, and there is no real power in their hands.
In order to prevent the same tragedy from happening, Li Shimin took care of these princes meticulously.
Li Yuanjing is quite satisfied with his situation, compared to his little brothers, life is much better than theirs.
As everyone knows, the Sixteen Princes' Mansion is already overcrowded, and the owners inside are all younger than Li Yuanjing, like little lambs in captivity.
As for the adult prince will be allowed to go out of the palace to open the palace, hehe, the date of the real palace opening is from the king, unless there are special circumstances, for example, Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, during the Qin Dynasty, the two brothers, even Li Yuanjing, Xuanwumen lived in the Sixteen Wang's Mansion before, and after Xuanwumen, Li Shimin recalled him back to the palace.
Those princes will only wait for them to become adults, and they will be exiled.
These people will only get some of the things that the prince should enjoy in name, but in fact, these people are at most literate, real knowledge or something, and they don't know much.
This was also to make it easier to control them in the future and prevent the feudal lords from rebelling.
Li Shimin's idea is that since he can't kill them, he will turn them all into idiots, and then arrange his own people to keep an eye on them in the future, and if there is a slight change, he will make a game to kill him.
But even Li Shimin probably wouldn't have thought that the frequency of rebellions launched by the princes was indeed much lower, but his princes couldn't jump one by one, and the wonderful dramas similar to Xuanwumen have been constantly replayed throughout the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years.
This is a bad era, but it is also a best era, and the living space of the princes is far less tragic than it was decades later.
"It's snowing!" In the imperial study, Li Shimin stood in front of the windowsill with his hands behind his back, looking at the heavy snow falling in the air, and a satisfied smile finally appeared on his face.
Although the snow came a little late, it still came, unlike the previous two years, which came even later, and it stopped just after the ground was wet.
Li Yuanjing rolled his eyes and did not respond.
"I heard that you have gone through the library of the Ministry of Industry in the past six months?" Li Shimin turned his head to look at Li Yuanjing.
"The younger brother is not very comfortable living in the palace, so I thought about whether I could build a house that is warm in winter and cool in summer? There's nothing to do anyway, so it's better to read more books on this subject, so as not to be fooled by some people! Li Yuanjing replied with a single eye.
There is nothing to hide in this matter, his every move is under Li Shimin's supervision, and this prince is far from being as comfortable as he imagined.
Half a year ago, I was unrestrained a few times, but unfortunately I played big for the last time, or rather, Li Yuanjing has been thinking, if he doesn't let those fools to recover his losses, will he be so miserable?
"You're interested in kinky techniques?" Li Shimin's eyes stared at Li Yuanjing with embarrassment.
"Idle is idle, and I can't go out anyway, so I have to find something interesting to relieve my boredom! However, the younger brother found that this is actually quite interesting. Li Yuanjing spread his hands, he couldn't figure out Li Shimin's routine, could it be that he let himself come here just to chat?
Idle eggs hurt, right?
Even if you want to chat, when can't you talk? Today's half-year lockdown is over, and I just want to chat today?
Anyway, Li Yuanjing would not be so naïve as to really think that Li Shimin was here to talk to him.
"The palace of Chongrenfang has been built, you go and see what is missing, let the palace add it!"
"Brother Huang, I'm going to open a mansion?" Li Yuanjing was stunned for a moment, and some didn't react.
Opening a mansion is a process that every prince has to go through, not that only the prince is qualified to open a mansion, the prince and the prince open a mansion at different levels, but the purpose is the same.
After the East Palace officials ascended the throne of the crown prince, the top-notch ones could basically be promoted within ten years, in order to avoid breaking the dynasty or something, the East Palace officials are generally old, middle and young, and they can be perfectly connected.
The prince's palace is also qualified to open a palace, but their officials are used to follow the prince to the vassal in the future, and the other purpose is to facilitate the emperor's surveillance.
Generally speaking, the government will be opened a few years before the prince becomes a vassal, and some important positions are directly arranged by the officials, so as a prince, the power to arrange some people is still there, but they are all salted fish roles.
"Well, is there anyone you like? I'll let you take it with you! Li Shimin nodded, now he doesn't need Li Yuanjing to cover.
This year's drought measures have made his reputation among the people rise a little, and it is no longer of much intention to keep Li Yuanjingqiang in the palace, but it is better to let him go to the palace in Chongrenfang, which can make Li Yuanjing closer to the people.
In other words, it is to let more people see that Li Yuanjing, the half-brother who is the same brother as Li Shimin, is living a chic life now, so those who maliciously slander me, wash and sleep as soon as possible.
Li Yuanjing's eyes kept moving......
It is impossible to rebel in rebellion, there is no room for rebels to survive, if you want to live like a prince and have a little dignity of a prince, you must take the initiative to give up some of the power that belongs to the prince.
It seems to be very beautiful to release the feudal domain, and you can do whatever you want on your own one-acre and three-point land, but in fact, there are not many things that the prince can really do, and at most he will do something wrong in his own imperial village.
As long as you don't work properly, the prince can mess around in the fiefdom, as long as you don't make the people in the place miserable, the emperor will not only not blame, but will happily reward you with something.
Rather than going to the fiefdom, Li Yuanjing prefers to stay in Chang'an, anyway, he doesn't rebel, it's the same everywhere, and it is more conducive to his own play in Chang'an.
"Brother Huang, can you discuss the matter of opening the mansion?" Li Yuanjing looked at Li Shimin cautiously, this suggestion was too bold, he was afraid that Li Shimin would slap him, and his small body would be able to slap Wang Xiaoyi at most.
"Tell me about it!" Li Shimin smiled, it is best to be able to put forward opinions, as long as it is not excessive, Li Shimin is still very willing to agree, and this is the most powerful evidence of brotherly harmony.
"The family mansion and the tent mansion can not be moved, just follow the rules, after all, it is the face of the royal family, and the younger brother is not good, the younger brother has thought about this problem, and feels that the configuration of the prince's mansion is not suitable, and it is useless......"
There are not many people in the family house, a total of thirty-six people, it is the Tang royal honor guard, and they need to come out to support their faces when they travel.
The scale of the tent is much larger, and all the officials plus the small soldiers, a total of 667 people, this is the prince's guard, responsible for guarding the palace, protecting the prince's safety, and so on.
Generally speaking, the emperor will insert some eyes in the guard, but he will not deliberately arrange personnel in key positions, if the prince can't even decide on the candidates for his own guard, it is basically equivalent to directly planting the root of the rebellion.
"What do you think?" Li Shimin was stunned, but the most important prince's mansion was said by Li Yuanjing to be the most useless department, which made Li Shimin's temperament fall to the ground.
"That's what my brother thinks......"