Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace to find Li Ke first and asked him to write a letter to Li You, telling Li You that no matter what mistakes he made, as long as he did not rebel, he would be the son of his father.

The letter clearly told Li You that his only way out now is to return to Chang'an under the pretext of illness, don't believe anyone's words, his father will see that he is sick, no matter how angry he is, it will disappear.

While Li Chengqian sent out the letter, he was also making preparations to clean up the assassins left by Li Chengqian.

As soon as Li Ke was sent out, Qiu Shenji came.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Qiu Shenji still had a wooden face like when he first saw Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian knew that Qiu Shenji's coming here must be something in Chang'an City, so he glanced at the old ghost, and the old ghost waved his hand and the little attendants in the palace quietly went out.

Li Chengqian saw that there were no more idle people in the hall, so he asked, "What's the matter with Qiu Qing's family?"

Qiu Shenji said in a calm voice when he heard this: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Cheng Mingzhen has been in Beijing for three days, and his son Cheng Wuting has also come with him. ”

Li Chengqian was overjoyed when he heard this: "Why didn't they come to see King Lone?"

"Cheng Mingzhen doesn't seem to plan to come to see His Royal Highness the Prince, as soon as he arrived in the capital the day before yesterday, he went to the Ministry of Officials to submit documents, and he has been waiting for the imperial edict in the post house for the past two days, and he has no intention of coming to the East Palace."

Li Chengqian was stunned when he heard this, this Cheng Mingzhen must not know that he was recommended by himself, why didn't he come to the East Palace to worship the horse's head when he entered Beijing?

After a while, I figured out that Cheng Mingzhen's personality reaction was originally half a beat slower than that of people, and he was very upright, and he didn't think of coming to worship the horse's head at all.

In the end, he could only smile with relief, but thinking that Cheng Mingzhen was going to be the governor of the Ministry of Civil Affairs when he entered Beijing, Li Shimin should summon him soon, because he asked, "Why didn't Your Majesty summon him either?"

A strange expression flashed on Qiu Shenji's face when he heard this, although it was only fleeting, it still made Li Chengqian see it, and he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is there anything new in this?"

"Well, Cheng Mingzhen didn't give the little official a reward when he went to the ministry to submit a book."

Li Chengqian shook his head helplessly and said: "Send someone to pass Cheng Wuting to come to the East Palace tomorrow, let Rengui compare archery with him, and by the way, tell Cheng Mingzhen that tomorrow is the tenth day of the second month and let him go to the Taiji Palace to go to the court."

Tell Hao Chujun about the ministry and ask him to try to let his uncle know. ”

"Yes!" The old ghost was next to him and went out to make arrangements.

Li Chengqian saw that Qiu Shenji had no intention of quitting, so he asked, "Is there anything else?"

"At noon today, the Guanzhong clan gathered at Zhining's house, I don't know what to plan?"

Li Chengqian sneered when he heard this and said, "It's nothing more than scolding the lonely king behind his back." "Li Chengqian is not afraid of these Guanzhong clans at all, because he now has the support of Li Shimin above and the real power of Pingzhangyuan, and he has already contacted the low-level people in various states and counties in Yongzhou. Those Guanzhong clans who originally relied on connecting up and down to maintain their status were now a group of paper tigers in front of him.

However, after experiencing the Li Tai rebellion, he didn't dare to take it lightly now, and immediately ordered: "Continue to keep an eye on them, as long as they don't collude with the military, let them go, and the Lone King wants to see what tricks they can play." ”

"Obey the order, the minister retires!" Qiu Shenji listened to the salute and was about to withdraw.

Li Chengqian suddenly remembered what he wanted to hand over to him, and hurriedly said, "Slow down." ”

Qiu Shenji was busy and stood respectfully waiting for Li Chengqian's orders.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has gone down as you said." The old ghost who had finished arranging things walked into the Lizheng Palace.

Li Chengqian glanced at the old ghost and said to Qiu Shenji: "Qiu Qing's house go first!" Leave this matter to the old ghost first! ”

"Obey the order!" Qiu Shenji withdrew.

"What else does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince command?" The old ghost hurriedly bowed down and asked.

"You go and raise pigeons in the East Palace, and then train them to deliver letters." Li Chengqian had already wanted to get an extensive intelligence system, and he only wanted to raise pigeons when he saw Qiu Shenji just now.

When the old ghost heard this, he laughed and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is joking again, how can the pigeons be stewed in soup?"

Li Chengqian only realized in recent days that every time the old ghost questioned him like this, he deliberately teased him, so he said angrily at the moment: "This is the right matter, you go and raise the pigeons first, and the lonely king will tell you how to train." ”

The old ghost smiled and said, "Obey! ”

Li Chengqian saw that everything was arranged, so he returned to Cheng'en Hall to accompany the crown princess Su, who was not in good health these days, so Li Chengqian went to accompany her more when he was free.

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The next day was a small court meeting on the 10th day of the first month of February, and recently Li Chengqian listened to Li Shimin's instructions, and if there was anything to do, he either greeted Li Shimin in advance or asked Yang Shidao to say it in the palace, so he usually sat obediently next to Li Shimin when he went to court.

After the civil and military officials finished saluting, the court meeting began, and Yu Zhining was about to play Li Chengqian, who was greedy for money and goods, opened a grain store to compete with the people.

But I saw a burly fourth-grade official coming out of the class, and seeing that his robe was a foreign assassin's history, I don't know if he came to Beijing to report on his work or what he did.

Yu Zhining saw that someone came out first, so he had to temporarily set up in the class, but as soon as he saw Li Chengqian sitting on it, his heart was full of contempt.

Cheng Mingzhen walked to the hall and bowed, and said in a loud voice: "Minister Cheng Mingzhen sees Your Majesty." ”

Li Shimin heard that it was Cheng Mingzhen, so he looked at it carefully, and saw that Cheng Mingzhen had an ordinary Chinese face, and he couldn't find anything special except for his two bright eyes.

Then he said lightly: "When did Cheng Qing arrive in Chang'an?"

Cheng Mingzhen still said in a loud voice: "The minister is Chang'an City who arrived on the sixth day of the second month. ”

Li Shimin nodded, and then thought about it wrong, so he asked: "It's been four days since Cheng Qing entered Beijing, why didn't he come to the palace to see him?"

"The minister delivered the documents to the ministry on the sixth day of the second month, and has been waiting for His Majesty to announce the summons in the post house for the past few days, but he has never seen anyone from the palace coming.

Yesterday afternoon, someone from the East Palace asked the minister to enter the court today, and the minister entered the palace to go to the court. After Cheng Mingzhen finished speaking, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty felt uncomfortable, and secretly said in his heart: Where did such a vulgar villager come from, he couldn't say a word of "back to His Majesty", and he didn't understand the etiquette of the emperor at all.

Li Shimin heard the rudeness between his words, but he was conceited that he was a son of heaven, so he naturally would not care about these things in person, but he just said to Cheng Mingzhen that he had submitted documents in the Ministry of Officials three days ago but had not been able to enter the palace, and he was a little suspicious that Li Chengqian had done it, so he turned his head to look at Li Chengqian.

When Li Chengqian saw Li Shimin looking over, he smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "Erchen only learned about Cheng Qing's family entering Beijing yesterday, and my uncle should know more clearly about this matter, so my father might as well ask my uncle." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he turned his head suspiciously and asked the eldest grandson Wuji: "Why hasn't the auxiliary department reported that Cheng Qing's family entered Beijing?"

The eldest grandson Wuji heard from the people of the Pingzhang Academy yesterday that Cheng Mingzhen's documents were detained by the scribes of the Ministry of Officials and did not believe it, thinking that Li Chengqian was tricking him, so he immediately sent his henchmen to the Ministry of Officials to verify it.

After checking it clearly, he wrote to Hou Junji asking Hou Junji to severely punish the scribes of the Ministry of Officials, but he had a knot in his heart about Li Chengqian's recommendation of Cheng Mingzhen, so he did not report it to Li Shimin in time.

At this time, when he heard Li Shimin ask him if he knew that Li Chengqian wanted to praise Cheng Mingzhen through his mouth, he sneered in his heart, walked out of the train with a smile on his face, and said to Li Shimin with a smile: "This matter is also our Lord Cheng's, he went to the Ministry of Officials to submit a book and did not give the scribe a reward, so Lord Cheng's documents were suppressed." ”

Li Shimin snorted coldly when he heard this, he was dissatisfied with the scribes of the ministry, Hou Junji and Su Xun were about to list and ask for guilt when they saw this, but they were stopped by the eldest grandson Wuji shaking his hand.

I saw that the eldest grandson Wuji still did not change his face and smiled lightly: "As far as the minister knows, Lord Cheng wore a torn robe when he went to the ministry, and he didn't bring a subordinate.

The minister knew that Master Cheng was an informal person, so he checked and verified that the clerk's department had severely punished the scribe who received the document that day. ”

The monarchs and ministers of the full palace heard the eldest grandson Wuji say to his face that Cheng Mingzhen was a mountain village man who did not know the number of etiquette, and they all gasped, Cheng Mingzhen is the prime minister recommended by His Royal Highness the Prince, is it appropriate to slap his face like this?

Li Chengqian was also furious when he heard this, and said in his heart, your eldest grandson Wuji is so insidious and vicious, but he knew that Cheng Mingzhen had his own way to deal with it, so he didn't say anything.

However, Li Shimin felt that he couldn't go, and after signaling the eldest grandson Wuji to step back with his eyes, he comforted Cheng Mingzhen and said: "Cheng Qing's family is simple and shallow, and he has no knowledge, so the Qing family doesn't have to mind." ”

"Obey." Cheng Mingzhen said.

"I have heard that the Qing family is good at leading troops and has been in Youzhou for many years, I wonder what Qing thinks of Goguryeo?" Li Shimin: This is the beginning of the school examination, Cheng Mingzhen.

Cheng Mingzhen didn't think about it when he heard this, and replied directly: "Goguryeo with a minister's view is really a big trouble for my Tang Dynasty, but the small people in his country are few and easy to break ....... ”

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Suiliang stood up and said loudly: "Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent millions of troops to Goguryeo on the third expedition, so that the country could not be destroyed, how dare Lord Cheng speak lightly?"

Li Shimin heard Cheng Mingzhen say that Goguryeo was a big trouble for the Tang Dynasty, and when he met his bosom friend, he was interrupted by Zhu Suiliang when he wanted to hear how he broke Goguryeo, because he said loudly: "Zhu Suiliang!" Let Cheng Qing finish speaking. ”

Zhu Sui Liang hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The minister is dead!" Li Shimin waved his hand impatiently and motioned for him to stand down.

The ministers of the palace were dumbfounded, Zhu Suiliang is a scholar of the Chongjiao Palace, and the Pingzhang Academy is Li Chengqian's confidant, and this Cheng Mingzhen is also the prime minister recommended by Li Chengqian, why did the two of them bite it first?

Only Cheng Mingzhen saw Zhu Suiliang retreat, hugged his fist at Zhu Suiliang and said: "The adults said that Emperor Yang of Sui died because of the conquest of Goguryeo, this is wrong, Emperor Yang of Sui died because he was cruel and unkind to the people, if Emperor Yang of Sui treated the people with benevolence and righteousness, not only would he not lose the country, but Goguryeo would have been destroyed a long time ago." Cheng Mingzhen said and hugged Li Shimin and said: "The reason why Your Majesty said that Goguryeo is easy to break is that its foundation is the same as that of the Tang Dynasty, and it has cities and grain fields.

If the grassland tribes are about to collapse at the touch of my Tang Iron Cavalry, they can travel thousands of miles away, and come to Koubian after recuperation, it will be difficult to get rid of them.

As long as Goguryeo destroys him once, the Tang Dynasty will set up a state county to govern its people, and there is no possibility of it rising. Cheng Mingzhen finished speaking and shook upward.

"Good! Cheng Qing's family is really a talent, and I will reuse it. These words really spoke to Li Shimin's heart.

Li Shimin said and looked at Cheng Mingzhen with a smile, waiting for Cheng Mingzhen to thank him and then give him an official, but Cheng Mingzhen returned to the train the same way, and Li Shimin's smile was instantly frozen.

This is embarrassing, but Li Shimin can't be severely punished if he wants to use Cheng Mingzhen, so he can only turn around himself, smile bitterly in his heart, and say with a fake anger on his face: "A mountain village wild man in Kanto, if he gets a position of assassination, he thinks that he is extremely rich!" You dare to speak rudely and rudely in front of me, and you don't thank you! ”

When Cheng Mingzhen heard this, he looked up and saw Li Shimin's face full of anger, and hurriedly walked out of the train to calmly bow down and apologize: "The minister was originally a careless person, and he has never personally served His Majesty's question, just now he only thought about how to answer, so he forgot to thank him." ”

Li Shimin looked at Cheng Mingzhen's free demeanor, answered clearly, and sighed: "Fang Xuanling has been by my side for more than 20 years that day, and every time he sees me scolding others, his face is terrified and he can't help himself.

Cheng Mingzhen has never seen me in his life, I blame him in person, he has no fear, and his words are not wrong, what a strange person! ”

So Li Shimin turned his anger into joy and said loudly: "The prince recommended you to be the prime minister, I am still afraid that he will recommend a non-person, and today I see that the Qing family really has the style of an ancient minister." After a pause, he said loudly: "Cheng Mingzhen received the order, "Serving as a manager, serving as a staff member, not accepting virtue at the top, and not being able to deal with talent at the bottom." Cheng Mingzhen, the assassin of Shi'er Zhouzhou, Zhou Min, and the enlightened ...... It is to use his life to participate in the governor's political affairs and inspect the school and the Ministry of Civil Affairs,......。

The full hall of civil and military people is speechless when they see this, we usually serve carefully but are not as good as such a rude person!

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