Not long after Li Shimin's will came down, the news of Li Shimin's illness came out in the Taiji Palace, and Li Chengqian had to sit and walk to the Ganlu Hall to ask for an attendant. It's just that Li Shimin didn't even let him enter the palace this time, but just sent a message to let him go back and handle the rent reduction well.

With Li Shimin's will, Li Chengqian immediately sent a large number of people summoned from various localities to return to his hometown to do propaganda, and in addition, officials in various localities did not dare to offend Li Chengqian, so the matter of reducing the rent went very smoothly.

It's just that other things didn't go as smoothly, such as the matter of the crown princess Su personally writing to ask Wang Ye Dan to be Liangdi, and Li Shimin has not replied.

Li Shimin did not make a decree that the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang family would naturally not enter the East Palace easily, which made Li Chengqian very annoyed, he didn't care if there was Wang Yedan or not, but since the crown princess was on the song, it would be too embarrassing for Li Shimin not to approve it, and the dignified prince would not even be able to get a woman.

So Li Chengqian mobilized people to impeach Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining, Cui Dunli and others, but there was no response to these slurs like a stone sinking into the sea.

Later, Li Chengqian learned through some channels that Li Shimin was not sick at all, but he was in a very bad mood, so some things were not so tight.

There are two reasons for Li Shimin's bad mood, one is Li Chengqian himself, and the other is Li Zhi.

Because Li Zhi added a grandson to Li Shimin, the grandson's biological mother is an ordinary palace maid in her twenties, if it is just this one Li Shimin also admits it, but after a check, there are two palace wives in their twenties who are pregnant with Li Zhi's species.

This made Li Shimin very annoyed but didn't say anything, thinking of his three sons-in-law, one rebel thought about seizing power all day long, and the other rebelled and died, and now even the youngest Li Zhi, who has always been clever, lives so inappropriately, Li Shimin's heart is very angry.

In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan in history, Li Shimin looked down on these women who conceived children for Li Zhi, so as soon as Li Zhi was established as the prince, he issued an order to choose a good family to enrich the East Palace.

Li Zhi also resigned under the guidance of his masters, and Li Shimin replied to him directly: I don't want my descendants to be from humble backgrounds.

Now that Li Zhi has not yet become the crown prince, this incident still makes Li Shimin very dissatisfied.

This is just one thing, but his original quasi-princess of Jin was taken first by Li Chengqian, and the crown princess personally asked Wang Ye Dan to be Liangdi. Although he is not allowed for the time being, he will finally agree to it.

Li Shimin thinks about Li Chengqian's henchmen, Pei Xingjian of the Wenxi Pei family, and Xue Rengui of the Xue family of Fenyin, if he accepts Wang Yedan, then the Taiyuan Wang family and the Hedong Liu family will become Li Chengqian's relatives......

There is also the fact that Li Shimin has not thought about how to exonerate the eldest grandson Wuji, and he really doesn't want to send the eldest grandson Wuji to Qiongzhou, which is tantamount to killing the eldest grandson Wuji. So he could only pretend to be sick and live in the harem, except for the occasional meeting of Fang Xuanling, no one else was seen.

Fortunately, Li Chengqian created a cabinet system, and although he pretended to be sick, he could use it to prevent the government from getting out of his control.

Li Shimin lived in the harem in a depressed mood, and the concubines in the harem naturally had to find ways to make him happy.

Some TV series and Li Shimin's harem are constantly fighting, which is nothing.

The imperial concubines of the Qing Dynasty gave birth to children and were raised in the palaces of other concubines, and Li Shimin did even better, except for the three concubines, the other sons rushed outside early to let them take up the domain.

Especially the few little ones born later, their mothers are still young and favored, but their sons are all out at what age, in this case, which concubine dares to be a demon in the harem?

It has come to the end of March and the beginning of April, the peony of Chang'an City is in full bloom, Li Tang people like peony, especially the royal family, it is a symbol of peony status, these days Taiji Palace, East Palace and Ye Court are full of peony flowers.

Concubine Xu Xian discussed with Concubine Yang to hold a peony party in the thousand-step corridor of the harem, and invited Li Shimin to enjoy the flowers and relax.

According to Concubine Yang's idea, let all the concubines with positions freely choose a pot of the best peony they look at in the harem and the court, and bring it to the Qianbu Corridor for Li Shimin to enjoy and taste.

On the day of the flower festival, the entire thousand-step corridor is filled with all kinds of blooming peony flowers, making the harem, which is already full of flowers, more fragrant and fragrant here, and the colors are charming.

Li Shimin didn't want to come, but when he saw Concubine Xu Xian personally go to ask her, he didn't want to refute her face, so he walked with her, and saw the spring just right along the way, and then thought that spring was about to pass in a blink of an eye, just like him, every time he remembered that when he rebelled against Sui, it seemed that it was still yesterday, but in a blink of an eye, his son had already begun to grab power with him......

However, when Li Shimin came to the Thousand Steps Corridor and saw a group of warblers and Yanyan wearing colorful dresses, watting through the purple and red peony flowers, Li Shimin's mood was also much better.

When Li Shimin sat down on the throne, the palace ladies first offered tea fruits, and then Concubine Yang told him about their rules for evaluating flowers, and asked the concubines to come forward one by one and point out that they had selected peonies for Li Shimin to evaluate.

Li Shimin smiled and nodded, "Okay!" Then you can get started. ”

The first one to step forward was Concubine Wei, she chose a big red peony, this peony should be more than ten years old, the branches and leaves are dense and the flowers are numerous, and more than ten big red flowers the size of the bowl are blooming.

Seeing this, Li Shimin slowly walked down and walked around this pot of peonies twice, nodded and sighed: "This peony is as graceful and atmospheric as Concubine Wei's person." ”

Concubine Wei on the side laughed when she heard this, and Concubine Yang also had a faint smile on her face behind him, just waiting for Li Shimin to see Concubine Wei's strain and carry up the golden pavilion he chose.

At this moment, I heard a fluttering sound, and a white pigeon landed on the red peony and cooed.

Li Shimin watched the snow-white pigeon fall on the peony, which happened to form a red flower, green leaf and white pigeon was also very harmonious, so he laughed and said: "This little thing will fall." ”

Everyone also followed suit, and after a long time of seeing that the pigeon did not fly away, the attendant next to Li Shimin quietly stepped forward and grabbed the pigeon.

"Your Majesty, this is the pigeon raised by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you see that there is a bamboo tube tied to this foot......"

Before the waiter finished speaking, Li Shimin sank his face, walked to the throne, only glanced at the pigeon in the hand of the waiter, and said, "Take it and kill the stew, and I will drink it at night." ”

The waiter was startled when he heard this, everyone knew how precious Li Chengqian was his pigeon, although he was the waiter next to Li Shimin, but everyone wanted to leave a way back for themselves.

When I was trying to excuse the pigeon, I suddenly found a small paper roll in the bamboo tube on the pigeon's feet.

He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there is a note on the foot of this pigeon. ”

"Read!"

When the chamberlain heard this, he was puzzled: "Your Majesty's slaves and maids are illiterate."

Concubine Yang next to her hurriedly stretched out her hand to take the note and read: "Minister Liu Liu knocks on His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness King Wu Wan'an: The minister will bring one hundred and twenty pigeons to Luoyang on March 25, and after a few days of feeding, thirty will be released back to Chang'an at the beginning of the second hour of April......

Concubine Yang realized that there was something about her son King Wu here, and she hurriedly looked at Li Shimin.

Seeing this, Li Shimin asked, "He said that this pigeon flew from Luoyang?"

Concubine Yang glanced at the note again, nodded and said, "Exactly." Then he walked to the edge of Li Shimin's throne and handed over the note: "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

Li Shimin took it and saw that it was indeed written that this pigeon was released from Luoyang at the beginning of the second day of April, and there were some characters he didn't recognize, and suddenly remembered that the second day of April was today, and hurriedly raised his head and asked, "What time is it?"

"It's time to return to Your Majesty." The waiter hurriedly said.

Li Shimin was shocked when he heard this, and flew from Luoyang to Chang'an in just over two hours, and hurriedly said: "Go and pass on King Wu to see me." ”

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