Changan.

Daming Palace.

Compared with the Taiji Palace, this new palace is more comfortable to live in.

A cup of chilled sour plum soup and a few lychees from Lingnan undoubtedly make people happy like a fairy.

Empress Wu peeled a lychee, and the freshly peeled lychee meat was tender and watery, "Your Majesty will taste another one." ”

The emperor opened his mouth to take it, expertly ate the flesh, and spit out the seeds.

"Your Majesty, Li Xiao is about to return to Beijing, has Your Majesty figured out how to settle him?" Wu asked.

Li Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly, Li Xiao, that guy has been away from Kyoto for three years.

I haven't seen Li Xiao for three years, but I can see Li Xiao's recitals every day in the palace. Li Xiao has done something in the past three years, Li Zhi knows very well. He even had a will, as long as it was about Li Xiao's recital, he would send it to the emperor as soon as possible.

The Baiqi Division also has a special group of people responsible for delivering Li Xiao's news.

It's been three years, and this kid is coming back.

"I really miss Li Xiao a little, and I can't wait to see him."

"Then does Your Majesty think about how to place him?" Wu asked, Li Xiao has been away for three years, and there has been a lot of news about Li Xiao in the past three years, and there are also a lot of comments about Li Xiao in the DPRK and China.

There are those who praise it, and there are those who slander it.

Some people say that Li Xiao is a natural Confucian handsome born in the Tang Dynasty, and some people say that Li Xiao has a backbone and says that he is plotting against Haidong.

"Li Xiao is a hero, a hero of the society." Li Zhi said a high evaluation, "With Yi Wenchen leading 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers, he not only defended the newly conquered land of Baekje, but also captured Silla for the Tang Dynasty." One person, the town of the three kingdoms, is also a very meritorious achievement. ”

Wu smiled and said, "What's more, if you really want to say that Li Xiao's credit is more than that." Li Xiao has been in Haidong for three years, but he has completely turned the land of Baekje and Silla into the place of education of my Tang Dynasty, adding 6 million new people to my Tang Dynasty, 2 million teachers, adding 35 counties in seven prefectures, and a territory of 800 li, and contributing tens of millions of dollars to the imperial court. ”

"Wen Neng, Anbang, Wu Neng, Ding Guo, even those Lingyan Pavilion heroes who founded the country in this dynasty, there are few comparable skills."

Although the queen's words sound exaggerated, they are not excessive. If you really want to talk about it, it's not too much to give Li Xiao any kind of reward, but Li Xiao is still too young after all, and he is only twenty-six this year. At this age, Kao Mingjing is still quite young, not to mention that he has already been knighted as a county prince and ranked third. ”

"Then what does Your Majesty plan to do? In the end, Li Xiao has made such a great achievement, and His Majesty really wants to let Yushitai impeach and investigate Li Xiao's plot to support the army in Haidong, right? ”

Li Zhi took a sip of the sour plum soup, which was very sour, icy and a little sweet, and the best rock sugar was added to it, which was better than frosting sugar.

This sweetness reminded him of the first time he knew the name Li Xiao, it was because of the frosting sugar. At that time, Li Xiao was just a small landowner in the countryside, offering frosted sugar to decolorize and purify the process.

Five years have passed.

Someone once persuaded him, saying that the matter of the impeachment of Li Xiao by the Yushitai was a bit of a catch on the wind and even unwarranted, but this could be used. He also cited the matter of Li Jing when Taizong was an example, when Li Jing was invincible in battle, and his merits were high, once he commanded the army to conquer the victory, and some officials impeached Li Jing and said that he wanted to rebel, although Taizong did not believe it, but he still mentioned it to him after rewarding Li Jing.

Just this sentence made Li Jing honestly stay at home and dare not go out.

This is undoubtedly the art of the emperor, knocking and beating the heroes, not letting them get carried away, not letting them do wrong things, this is also good for them.

But Li Zhi feels that this way of dealing with it is not good, he knows some Li Xiao, who is a bit strong, to put it bluntly, he eats soft and not hard, the harder you are, the harder he is.

Just like he did to the Shangliu family, the Wang family, and the Cui family, no matter what the other party came from, he would rather be broken than broken, this kind of barefoot ruthlessness that is not afraid of wearing shoes is really not suitable for beating him in this way.

"The queen approved the concert for me, and investigated this official in Dali Temple, if he can't come up with evidence, then it will be dealt with as a false accusation."

"Your Majesty is going to tell the world with this and announce Your Majesty's attitude?"

"That's right, there are clear rewards and punishments, and this is a must." Li Zhi took another sip of sour plum soup, "I am going to let Li Xiao be the secretary of the military department, and the left guard of the prince's East Palace." ”

The secretary of the military department and the left guard of the crown prince is a high-ranking official.

According to the current practice in the court, the secretary of the military department generally wants to worship the prime minister and enter the political hall, and the position of the crown prince Zuo Wei rate is one of the six guard rates of the East Palace, and the six guards of the East Palace are responsible for the military government and personal soldiers under the name of the East Palace. According to the Tang system, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty had his own army, the number of which was about 20,000 to 30,000, with twenty or thirty military offices distributed in Gyeonggi, and a certain number of prince's personal soldiers.

The left guard rate is the commander of the prince's left guard rate, which is equivalent to the left guard general in the imperial court. Although according to the current system, the Zuo Wei rate is the same as the general of the Left Guard, in fact, it is only a fictitious title, and it cannot directly command the soldiers of the Guard, but this level is high.

Especially the officials of the East Palace, they are even more different.

"Li Xiao is so young, Your Majesty wants to pay homage to the prime minister?"

Li Zhi shook his head, "It's too early to say goodbye, Li Xiao is too young after all." But let him be a secretary of the military department, I don't think there is any problem, he knows the soldiers, understands the soldiers, and understands the logistics, money and food, let him be the secretary of the military department, I believe that he will definitely make the best use of his talents. ”

"But I'm afraid that it will be too controversial, even if it is the prime ministers of the DPRK and China, I am afraid that they will not agree to Li Xiao as the secretary of the military department, right? The twenty-six-year-old military department Shangshu, as soon as this head is opened, I am afraid that it will be chaotic in the future. ”

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Under the door of the Chinese book, the political hall.

Originally, there were eleven prime ministers in the political affairs hall, but now there are only eight in Beijing, and Cui Dunli was appointed as the protector of Anxi Dadu, and the prime minister Wei Chigong has never been to the political affairs hall, even if he sends someone to ask him for advice on the handling of major affairs in the imperial court, he will not pay attention to it.

There is also a vacancy for the post of Prime Minister.

"Li Xiao is the secretary of the military department?"

Yuwenjie frowned, the position of the secretary of the military department is indeed vacant in the middle of the court, and the previous secretary of the military department is Cui Dunli, and then he went to Anxi, and this position was vacant.

But as usual, the secretary of the military department usually wants to pay homage to the prime minister.

"Your Majesty, do you have to pay homage to Li Xiao?"

"I haven't heard of this meaning, I guess it's to make him the secretary of the military department."

"That's not good, Li Xiao is only twenty-six this year, so let him be the secretary of the military department, so how can he do it?" Xu Jingzong also shook his head.

The twenty-six-year-old military department is terrible to think about.

It's even jealous.

Even Li Ji, who has always protected Li Xiao, felt that the emperor favored Li Xiao too much this time, which was not a good thing but a bad thing, just like setting a precedent before to give Li Xiao a temperance envoy, this is a bad thing.