For the first time since the crossing, Li Shimin was summoned to see Li Chengqian, and Li Chengqian chose to avoid it.

I will go to see Li Shimin at this time, and I am willing to be beaten, as for the matter of the Criminal Department, tomorrow is the fifth day of the first month, and there is a middle dynasty in the Taiji Palace, and then the prince will go to the court to reason with you.

The next day, the Taiji Hall was in the early court, this time it was not like the first and fifteenth days of the new year, this time only the officials above the fifth grade came to the court, so the personnel were much smaller and the etiquette was relatively simple.

This is the second time Li Chengqian has gone to court, and he is much more calm than when he went to court for the first time, standing there calmly and just waiting for Li Shimin to speak.

But gradually, Li Chengqian found that the atmosphere in the Taiji Hall was not right, and it had been a long time since he saluted, why had no one said that the court had begun.

When he looked up, Li Shimin was staring at him with a gloomy face, and Li Chengqian was a little uncomfortable, so he looked up and looked at him.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and seeing that Li Chengqian's eyes were always calm, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Did the prince recover from his illness yesterday?"

Yesterday, Li Chengqian replied to the eunuch who came to deliver the decree that he was sick and could not see the driver, and Li Shimin picked on it at this time.

"It's not a serious illness to return to my father, the main thing is that I felt uncomfortable when I went to the disaster settlement that day and saw so many innocent people who were frozen to death, and every time I saw the hardships of those disaster victims, I felt uncomfortable.

Erchen came back from the disaster settlement yesterday and went to the Criminal Department to judge the case, seeing that so many officials had violated the law for personal gain, Erchen could only endure the pain and severely punish them, thinking that these officials had committed serious crimes because Erchen neglected to teach them on weekdays, Erchen's heart ached...... "Li Chengqian said and kept beating his chest, obviously breaking his liver and intestines.

Of course, few people in the court believed Li Chengqian's statement, but he couldn't say anything to question it?

Li Shimin's face turned slightly pale, and he said slowly: "Since the prince is sad, why should he be punished so heavily?"

Li Shimin asked the key point, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were waiting for Li Chengqian's answer, and all the officials wanted to know what he would think of the former Wei Wang and his party in the future, because in the eyes of most people, Li Tai had been degraded, and those so-called Wei Wang and his party should also be forgiven, just like Li Shimin reused Li Jiancheng's party after Li Jiancheng's death.

"It's not that the sons want to sentence them heavily, but that they themselves have committed such a crime, and the sons have to be sentenced like this." Li Chengqian's words are righteous and stern.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have a benevolent heart for the king!" Cen Wenwen couldn't help but say.

"The lonely king has always had a benevolent heart for the people, and who is not praised by the people of Chang'an who is not the lone king of benevolence?" Li Chengqian retorted directly.

"Prince—" Li Shimin was about to speak, when he saw a chamberlain hurriedly come in and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty's servant asks to see you."

"Declare him to the temple."

Fang Xuanling went to the palace to salute Li Shimin, walked up to Li Chengqian and saluted him, and said: "Thank you His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for giving me poems, so that the minister knows that he should be more filial to his mother, so the minister came to ask His Majesty for his resignation today." ”

Originally, as Fang Xuanling, he shouldn't have had anything to do with Li Chengqian, but Li Chengqian first poured dung in front of the door, so that the entire Chang'an City was rumored that he was a traitor.

Then he sentenced Fang Yiai to a decisive sentence, Fang Xuanling couldn't bear it, and he was going to teach Li Chengqian a lesson when he went to the palace today.

"What prince persuaded Fang Qing to resign, why?" Li Shimin really exploded like a powder keg that had been ignited.

"It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not going to let go of the party of the king of Donglai County!"

……

Some of the unwitting ministers below began to whisper.

"Your Majesty is angry!" Fang Xuanling said and hurriedly knelt down and continued: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, the old minister's old mother has not lived for a few years in her eighties, and if the minister doesn't go home and serve her old man for a few years, there will be no chance in the future."

Moreover, the old minister has been the prime minister for 16 years because His Majesty does not abandon him, but his talent is limited and he can barely support it, if he is old and weak, his negligence is increasing day by day, and in the long run, he will mislead the state affairs, and he can indeed no longer serve His Majesty. In the past few days, Chang'an City has said that the old minister is a traitorous national demon, and please let your majesty let the old minister go! Fang Xuanling said that he fell on the ground and cried bitterly, Fang Xuanling, the minister who was crying all over the hall, was also concerned, and his eyes were a little cold when he looked at Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin hurriedly stepped off the throne, helped Fang Xuanling up with both hands and said, "Xuanling, don't be sad, it's all my godson's mistake!" ”

Li Shimin said and turned his head and said to Li Chengqian: "Rebel! Why are you doing this? And who told you to do that?"

Li Chengqian said calmly: "Back to my father, my son did write a poem to Fang Xiang and asked him to resign." ”

"Rebel!" Li Shimin heard Li Chengqian's admission and was about to step forward, Li Shimin was really angry this time, he had worked with Fang Xuanling for more than 20 years, and he was ashamed and painful to see him being forced to cry by his son.

"Father and Emperor listened to his son's words." Li Chengqian took a step back and continued: "The Lone King knows that there must be many people at this time who think that the Lone King did this because Fang Yiai framed the Lone King, then you are wrong."

The reason why King Gu persuaded Fang Xiang to resign from the phase was because he had been the prime minister for too long, which was of course nothing in the current dynasty, because his father could suppress him, but in fact, he couldn't control it, for example, what Fang Yi loved to do, his father may not approve of it.

But please think about it, what will happen to future generations if they meet a person who has been prime minister for 16 consecutive years?

Either this prime minister is the emperor's favorite minister, or this prime minister is a powerful minister, will there be party disputes at this time?

Either way, I'm afraid it's not good for my Datang's generations, right?" Li Chengqian asked a few questions in a row, leaving the entire hall speechless for the monarchs and ministers.

Li Chengqian's gaze swept over the ministers, and finally turned to face Li Shimin and said: "Father, Emperor Gaozu has been in constant war for nine years in power, so he did not set a feasible ancestral precept for future generations to follow, so this burden falls on the shoulders of your father." Li Chengqian knelt down at the stunned Li Shimin and said: "Please ask my father to approve the resignation of the prime minister, and set the rules, after all my prime minister of the Tang Dynasty shall not serve for more than five years, and all the prime minister's term of office for five years must be written by the officials above the fifth grade of the Tang Dynasty to evaluate the gains and losses of the five years, if you do well, you can continue to do it for another five years, if you do not do well, you will go directly."

However, no matter whether the prime minister does well or not, he shall not serve more than two terms, that is, ten years, and after ten years, he shall not serve in the center or go to Luoyang or go to Jiucheng Palace for retirement.

Please ask my father to issue an edict and erect a monument to record this matter for the sake of my Tang Dynasty, if the emperor of later generations violates this precept and dies, he will not be allowed to enter the Taimiao, and if the prime minister tries to serve for more than ten years, everyone will be punished. ”

The Taiji Hall was very quiet, and all the ministers did not expect His Royal Highness the Prince to say such a paragraph, because this involved the thousands of generations of the Tang Dynasty, and for a while, no one dared to say whether the ancestral precept that the prince said was good or bad.

Li Shimin's heart also stirred up turbulent waves, he has also read some history books in order to be a vassal in order to be elegant over the years, and naturally knows that the last days of the dynasty often produce powerful ministers.

With his arrogance, of course, he would not think that future generations may be better than him, and he doesn't know this, even if he doesn't know, since he knows, he must set up this rule for future generations.

But let him give up Fang Xuanling now, he is reluctant, how much he thinks now that Li Chengqian did not say it in front of the ministers in the Taiji Palace, so that he can wait until he dies to establish this rule.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Shimin couldn't come up with an idea.

In the end, Li Shimin had to grit his teeth and reprimand Li Chengqian loudly: "It's nonsense, you just want to squeeze Xuan Ling away." Although it was a reprimand, no one could hear that Li Shimin's confidence was insufficient.