At the end of April of the second year of the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi, made a written order based on the theory that Li Yifu, a scholar in the middle of the book, often had merit.

When the news came, the ministers were in an uproar.

"You said that Jiro set up Li Yifu as the Zhongshu Order?!"

In the back court of Luoyang Palace, when Mei Niang was checking her schoolwork for Li Hong, she couldn't help but be stunned:

"How is that possible?!"

Ryan was worried:

"Niangniang, the holy decree has been issued, and that kid from Li Yifu is already in office immediately!"

"How is that possible...... How can it be...... How come there are no signs at all?! ”

She still couldn't believe it, and kept asking herself, asking again, and asking again. Ryan watched her walk around the room, wanting to speak, but stopping.

Not only did Mei Niang not figure it out, but he couldn't figure it out either-it was really against Li Zhi's normality.

Therefore, when Li Zhi returned to bed that night, he saw Mei Niang greet him with a sad face:

"Jiro, you ......"

"You want to ask, about Li Yifu?"

Li Zhi was slightly tired, rubbing the back of his neck and sitting down.

Seeing this, Mei Niang's heart was soft, she kept silent, walked over silently, rubbed her neck for him, and said lightly for a while:

"Jiro has always acted in a way...... Mei Niang doesn't actually have to ask. ”

"If you ask, you should be. After all, you are the queen, and you and I are also one and two lives, you should ask. ”

Li Zhi smiled, held her hand pressed on his neck, slowly led her into his arms, hugged her well, rested his chin on her shoulder, and said softly:

"But...... Li Yifu, a scholar in the middle school, will also have to be established sooner or later. Otherwise, I'm afraid that in the future, this guy will lose a big thing. ”

When Mei Niang heard this, her breathing stagnated slightly, and she said after a while:

"Jiro has already made up his mind?"

"Early, late, always. What should be cleared, what should be reasoned, always has to be cleaned up. So from next month onwards, I will no longer be as normal as I used to be...... Accompany you more, and Hong'er them, okay? ”

"Do you want Hong'er to take over the political affairs early?" Mei Niang couldn't help but roll her eyes:

"Where have I seen you so lazy Daddy!"

Li Zhi laughed and said:

"Pick up early, pick up late, this kid is going to pick up, don't you think it's better to let him pick up early than late?"

Mei Niang couldn't answer. Indeed, Li Hong will take over the throne of the Tang Emperor sooner or later. Therefore, it is naturally better to take over political affairs earlier and learn about government affairs than later.

But......

"Hello to them, Jiro really doesn't plan to ......"

"Talented, virtuous, still need to have a degree, this is the foundation of a good minister. He is talented, talented, and virtuous. However, it ......" Li Zhi shook his head and said:

"It's not like I didn't want to leave the three of them alone. But the temperament of the three of them, if they keep it in the future, it will only make Hong'er have a headache and get bored. Naturally, it was from my hands, and it was better to throw it out from the court. ”

Mei Niang was silent:

What Li Zhi meant, she understood.

In fact, from the very beginning, Li Zhi was trying to send the most important of the several ministers he was going to leave with Li Hong to the palace one by one, and he also sent the most upright and peaceful virtue award to guard by the side, secretly observing the situation of the ministers getting along with Li Hong-

After all, at the beginning of a country's government, it needs to be a monarch and a minister. And this so-called courtier's integrity, as his father Li Shimin said, is based on the foundation of mutual trust between a monarch and a minister.

If it is difficult for the king to trust his subordinates from the beginning, or if the subordinates do not obey the king from the beginning......

So what the future will be like can be imagined from the beginning.

Therefore, after getting along for more than a year, it is enough to teach Li Zhi to pick out those ministers who have a gentle personality that Li Hong can't bear.

Although Mei Niang thinks that if you are a king, you should accept it with the emperor's mind...... But in the end, she also knows better, that is, Li Shimin, who is always persuaded by the eldest grandson queen, can not avoid the narrowness of people's hearts, not to mention Li Hong, who has been raised by her and Li Zhi since he was a child, as well as his uncle Wuji Yujiao, who loves him the most, and hurts to the bone marrow?

No matter how much this child looks like his father and has a big heart, he can't help but be dissatisfied with the posture of being desperate when he admonishes Sui Liang now.

The emperor is also a human being, although he has a mind like the sea, but if his subordinates think that this sea can allow you to ignore his bottom line and blindly challenge...... That's wrong.

Li Zhi saw that she was silent, knowing what she was thinking, so he said lightly:

"Are you reluctant to let these three people go?"

Mei Niang said lightly for a long time:

"Don't say they're always doing things...... Just talking about their talent is really hard to give up. Although Yu Suiliang is too Gengjie, his material and virtue are not inferior to Uncle Yuan's ......"

"He's really far behind his uncle."

Li Zhi shook his head and said disapprenously:

"At least in terms of sacrificing his so-called reputation for Datang and throwing everything away for the peace of the world, he is far inferior to his uncle. You also know that when I was fighting with my uncle, I could only fight with him, but there was no reason to have the upper hand.

Why? It's just because my uncle is really open-minded and fearless. Even you know that my uncle can die for me, for this Tang Dynasty, with a stigma - this is unacceptable for Yu Suiliang.

He and his uncle are definitely not above the first level. He is an official and a politician, in fact, for the sake of his own name in the annals of history, which can be used for all generations.

And my uncle is an official and a politician, but it is real, it is for the sake of the dynasty, the contemporary, and the people of the world. Although my uncle also has the same name, he understands better that there are some things that are more important than a floating name.

And fame often comes only from the population. ”

Mei Niang was silent for a long time before she said lightly:

"The human heart is unpredictable, and the words of people cannot be trusted...... Really? ”

Li Zhi nodded:

"Everyone knows that his father killed his brother in order to gain power in the world—even though everyone knows that his father had been hurt by the suspicions of the emperor's uncles before this......

But in the eyes of the world, it is a fact that my father won the throne; It is also true that he killed his brother......

Therefore, his father was immortalized, and he was saddled with the name of killing his brother to seize the imperial power, and no one ever thought about it, regardless of the emperor's uncle, only about the means of the emperor's uncle, and his resentment against his father......

At that time, if my father could not ascend to the throne...... What will happen to you? ”

Although Mei Niang knew that Li Zhi had been taking this matter to heart for many years, she never thought that this matter would have such a big impact on him, and she could only be stunned and silent for a while.

After a long while, she let out a long breath and said softly:

"That'...... Jiro is going to ...... first."

"Yu Suiliang. Then came Han Jin, and then ...... Come to Ji. ”

Li Zhi's eyes were cold, and he said softly:

"Since they do not keep the rituals that should be observed, the bottom line that should be observed is observed...... Then why should I stay? ”

At the end of April of the second year of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiantan Prefecture Governor Yu Suiliang moved to Guizhou Governor.

For a time, all the courtiers were in an uproar, but the eldest grandson Wuji and the British Duke Li Ji were silent.

It's night.

The eldest grandson of the house.

Inside the back garden.

The night is like water, the cool light is like silver, sprinkled all over the garden, a bright and brilliant, straight like the jade capital in the sky.

"Sure enough...... Everyone knows that there is a good view in the garden...... When I see you today, it's not false at all. ”

Li Ji, who was dressed in plain clothes, looked at the garden with a smile and praised.

The eldest grandson Wuji smiled indifferently, and said lightly after a while:

"Mao Gong has often seen it, and it is always the yellow sand of the battlefield, so it is a garden, and it is all good in your eyes."

"Although I have seen the yellow sand of the battlefield, I have also seen the prosperity like a brocade, and I still have this eyesight."

Li Ji said with a smile.

The eldest grandson Wuji raised his eyebrows and looked at him, but nodded for a while and said:

"Yes...... Is it the negligence of the auxiliary...... Forgot. When punishing yourself with a cup. ”

"It's a punishment, you always stay in this good garden, the so-called near incense doesn't know the fragrance, and you depreciate yourself like this...... Yes, it should be punished. Li Ji laughed.

The eldest grandson Wuji took the wine jug, poured it himself, and drank it himself.

After three cups, he sighed, reached out and grabbed a chopstick side dish and threw it into his mouth, and said lightly:

"It was when the Lord was arranging the major events of the expedition to the east, but you dropped the military plane and ran back...... It seems that you can see it too? ”

"The situation in the court is treacherous, if the two of us are not watching at this time, how can we be worthy of the grace of the first emperor Tuogu?" Li Ji's face became unusually serious.

The eldest grandson Wuji was silent, and said lightly for a while:

"That'...... Do you think Dengshan ......?"

"That kid is not saved."

Li Ji shook his head and sighed:

For the sake of a little posthumous name, he can be regarded as throwing away the outline and forgetting all the ethics...... That's fine. After all, our lord is stronger than the first emperor in terms of open-mindedness, and he can still endure it before......

However, over the years, he has intentionally or unintentionally avoided His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but he is willing to accept the so-called food gifts of His Royal Highness King Yong, who is famous...... This is a big taboo. ”

The eldest grandson held his forehead and was silent.

Li Ji looked at him and said lightly:

"You ought to persuade him."

The eldest grandson Wuji was silent, and only after a while did he say lightly:

"Now that I think about it, being a brother is really a loss of virtue as a teacher. He was taught what he should have said, but he did not show it himself...... On the contrary, those bad things made him see too much and see too much......

So much so that he turned the fundamentals upside down. ”

Li Ji shook his head but sighed:

"He was originally a beautiful jade, but he was not as heartless and ruthless as jade. The Lord has always hidden his true heart in it—he is good at people's hearts, and he is the least good at figuring out...... Along the way, it was already expected that he would have such an ending. You're actually ...... Don't blame yourself too much. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji shook his head and was silent for a long time.

After a while, Li Jicai said lightly:

"Besides, things may not come to the worst. After all, he is the minister of the first emperor, and the lord will naturally let him live in his old age.

It's just where and how to spend this old age...... But we, and even the Lord himself, may not be able to imagine it right now. It depends on how Dengshan deals with himself, and whether he has this last bit of understanding. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji sighed:

"As a brother, why don't you know that the Lord is actually igniting goodness in such a move? It's just that now Dengshan can see the Lord's hard work for him, and turn back in time...... It's just that...... Over the years, his temperament has been stubborn. A few days ago, he went to persuade his brother almost every day, but he couldn't listen to it anymore. ”

"Know the destiny of heaven and do your best. You've done your best, and the rest is up to him. Come, take this one...... For the sake of Dengshan, and for the sake of our two brothers. ”

Li Ji smiled faintly and reached out to pour him a glass of wine. The two sighed and drank it all—for the sake of Yu Suiliang, and for the sake of the final fate of the two of them.