In the Cult Temple.

Li Shimin sat on the throne that Li Chengqian usually made, looking at the simple decorations on the table without saying a word.

Li Chengqian sat down and didn't say a word, because he really didn't know where to provoke Li Laoer.

Just now in front of the Chongjiao Gate, Li Chengqian dismounted and saluted Li Shimin, and then explained that he was going to see the people who looked at Chang'an City to participate in the Qiansuo political banquet, but he didn't expect Li Shimin to just snort coldly and go straight inside, and then sat on the throne with a deep face and didn't say a word.

Li Shimin really couldn't understand what Li Chengqian was going to do, and he didn't discuss such a big matter with him in advance?

In the impression of many people, it may be said that ancient China was a feudal autocratic society or something, but the ancient Chinese also attached great importance to public opinion, and those who won the hearts of the people won the world.

In Li Shimin's view, this is a grand event, and the history books of later generations will write about it (see the Salt and Iron Conference of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty and the Qiansu Banquet of Kangxi), such a grand meeting should be led by him, the emperor, but Li Chengqian did it quietly, which made him very unhappy.

Li Shimin thought that this was Li Chengqian's deliberate offense to his authority, but such a big or small mistake was difficult to deal with in the crown prince's body, and if it was dealt with severely, Li Chengqian could be used to put Li Chengqian in a claustrophobic place, and after a while it was announced that he would be deposed as a prince.

To deal with it lightly is to reprimand it, after all, the political banquet has not yet been held.

But reprimanding Li Shimin felt light, and abolishing the prince was not advisable either from Li Shimin's psychology or from the current situation of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin could only wait for the minister while sulking, thinking about how to clean up Li Chengqian.

Just when Li Chengqian was about to be suffocated to death, someone finally came, and this time the battle was very large, and almost all the officials from the three provinces and six ministries came.

Gao Shilian has officially returned home to retire, so this time it is the Zhongshu Ling Yang Shidao and the servant Zhang Chengxing as the leaders, but Li Chengqian knows that the real power is now Shangshu Cheng and Yuwenjie who is also in charge of the Pingzhang Academy, and Zhongshu Shilang Ma Zhou.

Watching the ministers salute Li Shimin and himself, Li Chengqian didn't know what Li Shimin was going to do? Is it to summon people to declare themselves aboth?

Li Chengqian was thinking about it, when he saw Yang Shidao take a step forward and say, "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going to hold a political banquet?"

Li Chengqian nodded when he heard this: "Exactly." ”

"Such a grand event, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have made it clear to His Majesty!" Yang Shidao was deliberately shocked when he heard this.

Li Chengqian glanced back at Li Shimin's face, and Li Shimin snorted angrily when he saw him and twisted his head to the side.

Li Chengqian hurriedly got up and saluted Li Shimin and said: "Father, Erchen just wants to invite a few village sages to listen to the new policies of our court this time, and Erchen also listens to their opinions, and in the future, let them and the court do a good job in the first ten-year plan of the Tang Dynasty that we have just drawn up, and there is no intention of holding any grand event." ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince summoned nine hundred people, and I heard that one hundred elders of the imperial court will be invited, this is already a grand event that has not been seen in a thousand years." Ma Zhou smiled and continued, seeing that Li Shimin also nodded in recognition of what he said, he continued: "But it's no wonder that His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a big mind, and even the ten-year plan has been done for something that has never been done in the past, so naturally he despises this matter." ”

Ma Zhou said that Li Shimin's face was gloomy again, what does it mean that I am not broad-minded?

It's just that Ma Zhou didn't wait for Li Shimin to snort coldly, and continued: "But there is no small matter in the affairs of the imperial court, not to mention this kind of grand event involving nearly a thousand people in the entire Guanzhong, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still has to learn more from His Majesty in these matters." ”

"Hmm"

Yang Shidao looked at Ma Zhou's words and was satisfied, and admired in his heart, secretly saying that if he continued to talk about it just now, one of the two would have to offend.

At that moment, Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou untied the knot between Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, and the hall immediately became lively.

Li Shimin wants to go to Mount Tai to seal Zen wholeheartedly, isn't it just because this is a grand event to boast of his merits, and only Emperor Qin and Han Guangwu have done it in history?

And what he is doing now is also an eternal event, and he is the first to do it, can Li Shimin not be active?

The ministers in the palace also reported such thoughts and attached great importance to this matter, but as soon as this matter was taken seriously, it became chaotic, because the Confucian scholars began to argue about etiquette again.

Li Chengqian listened to what they said, how did Han Gaozu feast with his hometown elders after he became emperor......

I really couldn't listen to it, so I coughed heavily, and when everyone looked at him, I said lightly: "The agenda of the meeting has been prepared, and the etiquette has also been set, and there are gifts from the East Palace to these people......"

Saying that, Li Chengqian walked to the table in front of Li Shimin and picked up a copy of the meeting agenda he had prepared and gave it to Li Shimin, Li Shimin took it and saw that it was indeed the meeting agenda drawn up by Li Chengqian: On the morning of the first day, the conference opened, Li Chengqian delivered a speech, and then discussed in groups, and each group would arrange for officials from the East Palace to accompany them to explain the imperial court policies and ask about the people's livelihood and suffering, and then record it.

In the evening they were given a feast and invited to a play.

The next day, in the morning, Li Chengqian would talk to the old men attending the meeting about some of the new ten-year plans made by the imperial court, and in the afternoon, he would continue to discuss them in groups......

Li Shimin saw it from the beginning and finally realized that he had the opportunity to appear, which was at the dinner on the last day, when Li Shimin attended and gave wine.

After the meeting, the officials of the East Palace accompanied the Lao Suo to visit the fertile fields and new steelmaking workshops on the Longshou Plain, and then sent them home.

The agenda of the meeting is very compact and tight, and Li Shimin will not be able to find loopholes for a while, but it is really unacceptable for him to appear only once in such a grand meeting.

stared at the few pages in his hand for a long time before raising his head and saying, "Yang Qing, Ma Qing, you two redraft a copy according to this agenda." Then he threw the agenda on the table.

Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou smiled bitterly after reading the agenda of this meeting, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not only invited His Majesty to participate once, but also regarded the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty as an escort.

But looking at Li Chengqian, whose face had darkened, the two of them really didn't dare to put Li Chengqian aside, the two of them shook their heads with headaches, bowed to Li Shimin and turned around to go to the side hall to discuss.

About a quarter of an hour later, Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou walked back to the hall with a newly drafted meeting agenda, and everyone in the hall was impressed when they saw the two of them come back so quickly, and said in their hearts: "No wonder people are prime ministers, and it is not easy for the two of them to come up with such a difficult thing so quickly."

Li Shimin also craned his neck and waited, he wasn't sure if Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou understood what he meant. Seeing that Yang Shidao presented a new meeting agenda, he stretched out his hand to take it and began to look at it.

On the other hand, Li Chengqian's chest rose and fell, thinking that if he dared to treat me as an ornament, he would flip the table.

Yang Shidao watched Li Shimin's face become darker and darker, and his heart was a little worried, while Ma Zhou behind him was much calmer than him.

"Smack!" Li Shimin slapped the agenda of the meeting on the table, and through the newly drafted agenda of the meeting, Li Shimin was very sure that Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou understood what he meant, but since they understood what I meant, what are you doing with Li Chengqian everywhere?

If it weren't for the order, I wouldn't know who was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty?

"Yang Qing, Ma Qing, you go and change it." Li Shimin said coldly, although he couldn't say the words in his heart, his voice was already very clear.

Ma Zhou bowed up and saluted: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is very good, Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are the fathers of all the people......"

"Huh?" Li Shimin looked at Ma Zhou incredulously.

Seeing this, Ma Zhou was unmoved, and still said calmly: "Your Majesty, the prince is also a king!" ”

Li Shimin nodded reluctantly when he heard this, and motioned for him to continue.

"Both the minister and Lord Yang believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are many people in the world who do not know his virtues.

Therefore, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince accompanied His Majesty throughout the whole process, and His Majesty delivered a speech after His Majesty's speech, so that the people of the world could see the filial piety of the Heavenly Father, and the harmony between the two saints was really a model for all the people in the world...... "Ma Zhou's patting of the sycophants is also first-class."

"Second Sage?" Li Shimin looked at Ma Zhoudao.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also a young lord of the ministers and all the people, and naturally he is also a saint." Ma Zhou hurriedly said.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian, and after a while nodded in agreement with Ma Zhou's statement.

"Let's use a new agenda for the meeting!" Li Shimin had some tiredness in his voice, and then got up and left.

When Li Shimin walked out of the Chongjiao Hall, Li Chengqian picked up the agenda of the meeting redrafted by Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou, and found that he only added an emperor's speech in front of each crown prince's speech, and nothing else was changed.

Li Chengqian looked at the agenda of the meeting and smiled directly.

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