It's night.

Tai Chi Palace.

Inside the Hall of Ten Thousand Springs.

Looking at Li Zhi who was sleeping beside him, Queen Wang's eyes were full of complexity and joy.

After so many years of husband and wife, although Li Zhi has never really taken herself to heart, she has a deep understanding of Li Zhi.

Therefore, even if it is every word and deed, every move, she can taste his mind from the inside.

At least, that's what she thought.

So when Li Zhi came today, he said that she was not surprised, but it was false.

To say that she is not surprised is also false......

And what surprised her the most was that she didn't expect that Li Zhi's attitude towards her today would be unusually gentle and soft.

Yes, she had to think more and guess, this son of heaven, today's gentleness, why did it come from?

……

Thinking about it, thinking of the sound of the third watch, she didn't come up with a reason.

Oh, yes......

What else does he need from her right now?

No......

Suddenly, a beautiful face flashed in front of her eyes.

A face so beautiful that she wanted to catch flowers immediately.

Is that her?

Is it because of her?

Queen Wang pondered:

It was because of her request...... Is it?

Thinking about it, no matter how unwilling she is, she has to admit that she can ask Li Zhi to treat her like this now, and she can persuade Li Zhi to treat her like this......

Only her.

And......

I'm only afraid of the things of Zhong'er...... She also bothered a lot.

Tightly, she clenched her fists, and even though the sharp nails were digging into the flesh and even oozing blood, she didn't seem to realize it.

In this world, the last thing she wants to owe is her love......

So......

Queen Wang's gaze suddenly turned cold, and gently, she opened her mouth and said a silent promise:

"This palace won't owe you a favor......

Hongu will return it to you...... Whether you like it or not, Hongu will give you back ......"

Next.

After the early dynasty.

Tai Chi Hall.

The Imperial Study.

Li Zhi was worried about his brother's illness, so he summoned King Pu, who had recovered to his health, to comfort him, and rewarded him with all kinds of medicinal bait and food to show his favor.

After Li Tai thanked him, he took all the things and the little waiter Qinghe around him to take a step forward and bring them back to the house, but he stayed behind to play chess and drink tea with Li Zhi and have a good talk.

"Seeing that the fourth brother is well, I can be regarded as relieved."

Li Zhi laughed, but made Li Tai a little uncomfortable:

"Really......

It's just that he is greedy for rare things, and he hurts his body a little by eating......

The Lord is concerned about this, and it is not the minister's. ”

Li Zhi couldn't help but smile:

"So you told the public that you were injured by the cold?

Ha ha...... Fourth brother, fourth brother, you are really the same as when you were a child, you have no change of heart! ”

Li Tai didn't mind, stroking his belly, which was getting rounder and rounder, and even fatter than before, with a smug smile on his face that was so round that he could almost pinch out two meat balls with both hands:

"Alas...... Fourth brother, since he was a child, he has been the person who thinks he knows the most in the world.

Now I have some minor illnesses because I have eaten too many treasures......

That's not a bad thing.

Anyway, I will know some moderation in the future. ”

Li Zhi shook his head and couldn't help but smile helplessly:

"It's good if the fourth brother knows...... In the end, you are also a bit of an old disease, don't call it a reciprocal offense.

Take care of it! ”

Li Tai thanked Li Zhi for his care, and then said:

"But today, the Lord summoned his ministers, although he was worried, but it may not be the only one?"

Li Zhi smiled, pinched a chess piece and rubbed it in his hand, and then said:

"Fourth Brother Zhizhi......

Yes, I invited the fourth brother into the palace this time, but I wanted to ask, in the opinion of the fourth brother......

Mei Niang's concubine, how about it? ”

Li Tai thought about it, but said:

"How's the Queen?"

Li Zhi thought about it for a while, but said lightly:

Now that she has just had an heir, she is naturally overjoyed.

But because of this, I'm afraid that she may not be willing to give Mei Niang this opportunity to take the position in one step.

After all, in her eyes, the biggest threat at the moment is Mei Niang. ”

Li Tai also nodded and said:

"Exactly......

And I'm afraid that the queen also knows that once the lord has the heart to make the martial lady a concubine and a concubine, the first person to face must be her.

Yes, I'm afraid she is also prepared. ”

"Ready?"

Li Zhi raised his sleeves and frowned, and he didn't raise his head, but he groaned in his mouth:

"Fourth Brother means ......"

"It is a foregone conclusion that the Lord wants to establish a martial lady. Don't say that she is a queen who is in name only, and she is not even fully in the hands of the harem at the moment, even those old ministers of the previous dynasty are also acquiescing.

Especially my uncle......"

In the curling green smoke, Li Tai's mellow and amiable face became more and more solemn:

"There's a good saying. The family should know about the family.

So I'm afraid that she also understands that if she wants to take the initiative in this martial lady's matter, it is best to preempt the lord or anyone else, and it is best to ask the lord for her life.

For her own sake and for her future plans, this is the means she will have. ”

Li Zhi raised his head, glanced at his brother, and then said slowly:

"But the fourth brother doesn't seem to think that it's a good idea to wait for her to speak, and then take advantage of the situation."

Li Tai nodded, and then he said:

"As the saying goes, if you eat other people, it is difficult to return your mouth, and if you take other people's food, it is difficult to manage your hands......

What's more, the queen is half-hearted and wants to keep her position......

If it is only for the sake of establishing the martial lady as a concubine, and the opportunity to be a queen...... There is no doubt that drinking water quenches thirst. ”

Li Zhi put down the son in his hand, grabbed another one in his hand, and said slowly:

"What does the fourth brother think, what should I do?"

"Take the lead in controlling the enemy, take the lead in anyone who has the intention to seek the establishment of the martial lady, take the first step, and establish the martial lady as a concubine.

This is the right way. ”

Li Zhi glanced at Li Tai unexpectedly:

"What does the fourth brother mean......

In addition to the queen, there will be other people who want to take advantage of Mei Niang's establishment to take some benefits? ”

Li Tai also looked up, looked at Li Zhi, and suddenly smiled mysteriously:

"Isn't it?"

Li Zhi's eyes froze, staring at Li Tai fixedly, and then suddenly a smile burst out:

"You know, you can't hide it from the fourth brother."

Li Tai laughed and said:

"In fact, such a design by the Lord is really unpredictable.

Qingque just said this, but in fact, he didn't have confidence in his heart-

But in the end, the brothers are long, and the thoughts of the Lord can be seen to some extent. ”

With a smile, Li Taizheng said in a low voice:

"But my lord, are you sure that the one in the Qianqiu Hall will take the bait?"

Li Zhi didn't raise his head, his eyebrows didn't move, and he said lightly:

"If this plan is for the queen, it will inevitably fail-

Speaking of which, the queen is really a rare smart person among the women in this Taiji Palace, except for Mei Niang and Sister Xu.

But if you ...... to her,

More than enough. ”

Li Tai thought about it, but also nodded and said:

"That's right, that girl is a slave born in her family, and she has accompanied her to adulthood since she was a child, and she has accompanied her into the palace......

No matter how she thought about it, she couldn't have imagined that the person who betrayed her in the end was the person she trusted the most? ”

Li Zhi smiled coldly and said:

If it weren't for her at that time, Mei Niang wouldn't have suffered those......

It's time for her to taste what it's like to be betrayed by everyone and ruined her own life. ”

Li Tai nodded and said:

"That's right. Over the years, in order to be able to win those empty names, she has used vegetarian festivals as a pretense...... A good smart child, she brought it like that......

Let her suffer a little.

But Lord, after all, she is also the mother of three children, and if you can spare her, it is better to spare her more. ”

Li Zhi snorted coldly:

"It's because of my three children that I allowed her to live so long......

Otherwise, a glass of wine would have been given to her earlier!

Over the years, she relied on my mercy to act recklessly in the palace, tortured and collected treasures......

I remember it for her little by little!

Since she entered the Taiji Palace, all the girls in the palace who have some looks cannot be seen by her. Otherwise, she will either die, or be injured, or even more tragic, and she will be forced to fall into the prostitute and fall into the abyss......

I didn't kill her, I was already looking at the faces of Su Jie and my two daughters!

But what about her?

He never knew how to restrain himself, not only acted recklessly, but even got the idea of what the queen mother left in the treasure house......

How can I tolerate her!? ”

When Li Tai heard this, his expression also changed:

"She's so daring?!"

Li Zhi snorted coldly, but said:

"A few days ago, she asked someone to ask me for the golden phoenix crown left by the queen mother, saying that she was born with a heart disease and needed the rare pearl on the crown to recuperate......

Hum! She is willing to treat herself as a self, but it also depends on whether I am willing to become a businessman! ”

Li Tai also sighed-

He has also heard a lot about what Li Zhi said.

This Concubine Xiao Shu is fortunate to be favored by Li Zhi on weekdays, but there are a lot of misdeeds.

And among them, the most annoying Li Zhi, and even the ministers of the former dynasty, and the people in the royal family were disgusted, were the three cases.

One is that he was too greedy, and he openly coveted the treasures of the former queen Wende Niangniang.

The second is that he was suspected of becoming a murderer because of jealousy, and he has been mutilating the more outstanding girls in the Taiji Palace for many years.

The third is to use the only son Yongwang Sujie to design in every way to invite Li Zhi's favor. As a result, Su Jie was trained to be a child who did not know the height of the sky and acted viciously.

And she thinks that she has been favored for many years, and some small requests are fine. didn't know that these three of her were the biggest hateful of Li Zhi.

Since Li Zhi is the Son of Heaven and has always tried to be on par with the former emperor Taizong, who loved the people like a son, he naturally puts the people first in everything. Not to mention the food and clothing on weekdays, he can save and be simple.

At least since the Jin Dynasty, the monarchs of all countries have never heard of a monarch like him, who spends less than 300 wen on a daily meal.

But Concubine Xiao Shufei alone, it will cost a full two yuan of ingredients to stop! You need to know that these things can't be eaten at all, and half of them are wasted in the Qianqiu Palace.

This is also a trivial matter, but because of this wasteful method, her reward is naturally not enough, so she actually relied on Li Zhi's favor and started the idea of the things in the treasure house left by Empress Wende, how can Li Zhi not be annoyed? !

(Here's a little bit of an explanation of the Tang Dynasty currency, so that you can understand the Tang Dynasty economy, which, like Li Zhi, has been talked about by some scholars who insist on distorting history.)

The currency of the Tang Dynasty was a dual system of silk and currency. That is to say, money is a universal currency, and silk or fabrics are also universal currencies. And this has become the main reason why the economy of the Tang Dynasty was sickened, what "if you don't have to use fabrics as currency, the lives of the people in the Tang Dynasty will not be poorer than those of the Sui Dynasty...... or something, that is, from here.

And what are the facts? In fact, aside from the silk token system, because the landlord really hasn't studied this. However, the purchasing power of the coins of the Tang Dynasty was quite strong. Why? If you casually flip through the history of the Tang Dynasty, you can see that there is a saying that there is a Tang Dynasty rice, and one stone is five dollars.

Five pennies and one stone...... What a concept! According to the money-guan-silver-gold algorithm at that time, one or two pieces of silver at that time, even the most worthless period from the late Tang Gaozong period to the late Wu Zetian period, was quite modern more than 2,000 yuan! And how much is Wuwen equivalent to the current RMB?

The landlord remembers very clearly, and the teacher calculated it when he was in history class, which is equivalent to more than three yuan in modern times. In other words, at that time, the rice was only five or six cents a catty!!

And what about the silk system at that time?

Because copper coins were basically used in towns at that time, and in the countryside, bartering was still practiced. Especially silk items, so later Li Zhi or Wu Zetian, there are certain historical requirements for the implementation of the dual system of silk and money.

Otherwise, the rural economy or rural income at that time would have fallen into a huge vicious circle. Why? Think about it, at that time, the countryside used silk as currency. Once the government demanded that copper coins be used as coins, the silk currency system was abolished. In order to pay taxes and rents, the peasants must change their money for money. Under such circumstances, there will inevitably be another exploitation of peasants' incomes, and this will also greatly damage the peasants' enthusiasm for labor.

Although it is said that it is not a feudal exploitation system, in the end, there are still certain advantages to insisting on the implementation of the silk currency dual line during the period of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian -- but in the late years of Wu Zetian, when the economy has developed substantially, it is indeed a situation that Wu Zetian did not expect, or she can no longer control.

Finally, a horse of silk, if counted, was about two hundred dollars at that time. In this way, it also greatly stimulated the production desire and enthusiasm of the working people at that time -- as long as they weave a silk horse at home, it is equivalent to two hundred yuan, and they must have energy. Therefore, the landlord privately thinks that this is also one of the reasons why the status of women in the Tang Dynasty was relatively high - who said that men can't weave silk? Ha ha! ）