Chapter 8: Dilemma
The ministers of the ring, eight buckets are not as good!
Hearing this, the group of people in the Warm Pavilion of the Liangyi Hall couldn't sit still in an instant, although the crown prince just now was highly educated, but he only appreciated a few words of praise without pain, and His Majesty the Emperor now spoke so highly of this case file.
What a strange thing!
Who is the prime minister of Zhenguan for four years, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, the two important ministers, who are the existence of laying the foundation of the prosperous era, and the other Gao Shilian and the eldest grandson Wuji are not famous ministers who influence future generations, Xiao Yu is the elder of the Three Dynasties, and Wei Zheng, a big troll, can be called the rule of Zhenguan has half of the credit.
Well, even according to His Majesty, they are the other two buckets. But aren't the other courtiers powerful?
Because Li Shimin's ministers included all the courtiers, then ...... In addition to helping people write, who else can there be?
"Your Majesty, who is this person writing on your behalf?" Xiao Yu snorted, slowly got up from the stool, walked slowly to Li Shimin's side, and stretched out his hand to take the case file.
Earlier, he was still a little dissatisfied, and His Majesty said too much. But when he saw the case file, he even kept his cane aside and read it quietly.
The rhetoric of this case file is not ornate, but it is unremarkable, but it is full of simplicity, and between the lines is a policy of governing the country. In the eyes of the prime minister, it suddenly became clear to him, the government that had accumulated defects.
With this one person, he is better than Wang Ji and other talents I don't know how many times. Talents are easy to obtain, and talents such as Xiao He and Fang Xuanling who govern mountains and rivers are too difficult to get.
Xiao Yu sighed lightly, time flies, time flies, he is too old to walk. It is gratifying to see young emerging talents being promoted under his gaze, but there is always a faint sense of loss in my heart.
There are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.
Lao Ji is difficult to ambush......
"The era that belongs to us will eventually fall, Shude ......" Xiao Yu's cloudy and dim eyes gradually brightened, as if he saw the Qianniu standing outside the palace decades ago, how heroic that figure was, but now it is just an old man in Da'an Palace.
Shude is the word of Emperor Li Yuan. It's just that the people who remember this word are either buried under the loess, or they forget it early, and they don't dare to call it directly.
After that, he handed the case file back to Li Shimin, sat on the chair, and began to close his eyes and think about life.
The next case file was handed to the prime ministers under the transcription of the eunuchs. Although the signature in the blank space is Li Ke, the third son of the emperor, anyone understands that someone must have written it on his behalf.
His Majesty the Emperor's purpose is very clear, and he will greet the ministers in advance, and he will focus on cultivating this talent in the future, in order to be of great use.
Time passed slowly, and by the time they had finished reviewing it, the twilight drum had already sounded three times, and the tall palace lamps on the left and right of the main hall had also been filled with wax oil a few times.
"Your Majesty, the case files have been reviewed, and if there is nothing else, we will retire first." The prime ministers glanced at each other and said.
Today is a celebration feast, and there are many things to follow. But after all, you can't sweep away the excitement, Li Shimin has always been a generous person, and he will not squeeze officials like Zhu Yuanzhang in later generations.
So, when they asked for resignation, they immediately agreed.
The old eunuch Wang Zhen sorted out the case files that were evaluated by the prime ministers after reviewing, piled them up on the emperor's case, personally held the palace lamp, and waited carefully.
But....... Just when Li Shimin was immersed in the heartiness of reviewing the case file, he suddenly seemed to remember something, sighed softly, frowned, and thought carefully.
Only then did it occur that during the banquet, the Emperor Taishang seemed to have said that he would also write a ......
Although I didn't care about it as a joke at the time, I still have some expectations in my heart now that I think about it, what did the emperor write?
But Li Shimin flipped through the pages, but he didn't see the case file written by the emperor.
Lost?!
This is unlikely.
So where the hell did it go?
The Emperor Taishang has a noble status, and even if the case file written by the prime minister is accidentally seen, they do not dare to review it, so they can only present it to the emperor.
So since there is no reminder from the group ministers, there must not be one in this mountain of accumulated case files.
"Your Majesty is looking for the case file written by the Emperor Taishang, and the old slave didn't dare to take it out when he saw that there were many people at that time." The old eunuch Wang Zhen fumbled for an envelope with a seal from inside his sleeve robe and handed it to Li Shimin.
"You've got a heart."
What the Emperor Taishang wrote, it really can't be easily unsealed in front of the prime ministers. Wang Zhen really thought about this very thoroughly, if the words written by the Emperor Taishang to scold his son were spread to the market, I am afraid that it would cause an uproar in an instant.
It's better to settle these private matters in private.
Li Shimin nodded, indicating that he did not blame him for his assertions, the old man who had followed him for more than ten years, and he still had this trust. Gently tore open the envelope, took out the case file, spread it on the case, and read it carefully.
But the more he looked at it, the heavier his face became.
"Your Majesty, but the Emperor scolded you? After all, the Emperor Taishang is old, and now he is sixty-three years old, and he will inevitably be similar to a child, the more this person lives, the more he looks like a child, as the saying goes, there is no taboo in children's words, Your Majesty is still relaxed...... "Wang Zhen comforted beside Li Shimin.
Li Shimin's face was cloudy, he urgently grabbed the snow-white case file, and even pinched out a few light yellow sweat stains on it, and said in a low voice: "Father, this is the Sect of the World...... How to behave! ”
He stood up, put his hand on his belt, and looked out of the temple door with a deep gaze.
The moon is like a hook, and the night is as dark as ink.
On the corridor stood two rows of burly Jin Wuwei, with solemn faces, carved railings to cover the fine willows in the courtyard, like a beautiful and graceful figure, from time to time walked by a few palace ladies with lanterns, looking strange and fascinating......
The three poisonous schemes proposed by the Emperor Taishang are certainly the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and he Li Shimin also faintly agrees with it in his heart. But as early as a few days ago, when the good news came back to Chang'an, he and Wei Zheng talked about the 'Huayi Distinction' in the Forbidden Garden!
What is Huaxia? What is Siyi?
Those who wear the left are all barbarians, and they are not wrong, but they are called the emperor's people, and they are also the people of the Tang Dynasty, how can they distinguish between them?
This is his Li Shimin's answer!
Even if Wei Zheng insisted that "if it is not my race, its heart will be different", even if he is forced to die again, he will answer like this.
Eighteen roads against the king, forty-two roads of smoke and dust. Are there still few Han people who betray and make enemies of him?
But during the Weishui Alliance, those Turkic tribes that he had once subdued even dismounted and bowed down, claiming to be the king of Qin for ten thousand years.
Today, he ran into this problem again.
If other family officials raised this question, Li Shimin might still laugh and deny it, but at this moment it was his father, they were all with Xianbei blood, and the mother of the Emperor Taishang was a Xianbei person!