Li Hong handed the broken portrait to Li Zhi and complained: "Look, the emperor's grandfather asked you to break the picture." This glass was indeed a mistake of Erchen, and the original price was to maintain the rarity of the glass, as the so-called rarity is expensive. ”

"Then you tell me, what does this have to do with why it is sold to the Imperial Palace?" Li Zhi put the badly painted portrait aside and asked for a long time.

Li Hong smiled embarrassedly: "Isn't this the first time the price was set, the ministers didn't have much money, so I wanted to ...... from my father." ”

"Hmph, even if you know each other, it's easy to say that you want silver, but what do you want so much money for? Also, where did all the money you make over the years go? Don't tell me that you built the Taiyi City without walls, and then the money ran out. Wu Mei also asked for her husband in the back.

Dare to love the two of them to bully people, Li Hong said dissatisfiedly: "Queen Mother, you haven't taken less money from your sons in the past few years, and the expenses of your harem seem to have been paid by your sons in the past two years." ”

"You deserve it, you accidentally burned down the palace of Sujie and Jin, shouldn't you lose money?" Wu Mei said confidently.

"That's right, I haven't settled accounts with you yet, if you hadn't burned down their palaces, I would have wanted to build Daming Palace in two more years." Li Zhi sang with her husband on the side.

"Okay, okay, Erchen can't say you, you are powerful, you are reasonable. But Erchen also thinks about you, father, you want to build it again in two years, isn't it because there are too many objections in the court, Erchen now increases the price of glass by one percent, and this money, Erchen will return it to you, so that you can save a sum of money from the household? And the province will definitely not refute you or stay in the middle of the country, right? Thinking about it this way, did you suddenly feel that Erchen was prescient? ”

"Thirty percent, one percent less, the palace you want costs too much ......." Li Zhi bargained.

"Twenty percent, it can't be more, you build a Daming Palace, which is equivalent to Erchen building several Taiyi Cities!" Li Hong argued.

"Okay, two achievements are two, but the two palaces that are burned down must be paid for by you. I'm tired too, Your Majesty, you and Hong'er can continue painting. Wu Mei saw that the last fee of Daming Palace had been settled, and her heart was steady.

And she can also see that because of her existence, the father and son have a lot of things that they can't say in person, and when they leave, they can also talk.

"The son sends off the queen mother." Li Hong walked up to Wu Mei and helped her up, and said with a hippie smile: "Queen Mother, you see that your sons and ministers have grown taller, and you have not changed at all, and you are still as beautiful as before." ”

Wu Mei glanced at him: "Don't just pick up nice ones, Li Xian and Li Zhe (Li Xian's former name, Li Zhe is used in the novel, the difference is similar to Li Xian's. Recently, they have been more obedient than you, and if you dare to instigate them to learn badly, be careful that I let your father beat you. ”

Li Zhi turned his head to look at the two people who were supporting each other, and said happily: "As long as the queen wants to beat him, even if she tells me, I also have itchy hands, but I can't grasp his handle, which makes him get away with it all the time." ”

Wu Mei didn't even look at Li Zhi, and after walking to the door, she shook off Li Hong's arm in the crook of her arm, and said lightly: "Alas...... What is the use of just saying that it sounds good, and I don't know who it was back then, because twenty worthless crystal cards were bought. ”

Li Zhi touched his nose with ashes, and the old past was turned out again, touched his nose speechlessly, and continued to look at the portraits painted by Li Hong.

Li Hong didn't dare to laugh out loud, he was the initiator, and now every time he mentioned this matter, his father wanted to beat him.

After sending Wu Mei away, Li Hong returned to the room again, sat down next to Li Zhi, and without waiting for Li Zhi to describe again, the charcoal in his hand danced rapidly on the white paper, and after a while, a powerful and domineering middle-aged man appeared on the white paper.

"Yes, just this one is like your imperial grandfather, just use this one to make it." Li Zhi took it and looked at it appreciatively, staring at the person in the painting for a long time.

After the death of his mother, he was brought up by his father, that is, in the last dynasty, and sometimes he would take him, and the father and son could be said to be "dependent on each other".

"What are you going to do with the matter of Li Yifu?" Li Zhi put down the portrait in his hand, and the palace maid carefully took it and stored it properly, and he would use this portrait to make a bronze statue in the future.

"What else can I do, dismiss the official, and send it to Taiyi City. Erchen has already reminded you that you still thought he was an honest official. Li Hong muttered.

"This matter is the father's mistake, Li Yifu has relied on your mother's support over the years, and the court has complained, but just the dismissal of the official may be difficult to calm the court's grievances, but over the years, he has also done a lot of things in Zhongshu Province." Li Zhi shook his head and sighed, and began to become indecisive again.

Li Hong said in his heart: "If I hadn't been holding him back in the past few years, I'm afraid the court would be ten times more chaotic than now." ”

Since his father became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he has not been strong in the court. Over the years, more often than not, it was the queen mother who helped him in the harem, and it was precisely because of this that Li Yifu gradually grew up.

Although he had done his best to restrain Li Yifu's misdeeds, his father had no choice but to go his own way. Today, Li Yifu is so arrogant that he buys and sells official positions, and even his own daughter and son-in-law are involved in it.

"Father, the son thinks it's better to dismiss Li Yifu from the post of Zhongshu Ling, and then you crown him from the crown prince to the crown prince, and the second rank of the Zhongshu order is promoted from the first product, so that he can also stay away from the court, and he can also be explained to the queen mother." Li Hong looked at Li Zhi's contradictory expression and said.

"The Prince?" Li Zhi was surprised.

"Yes, now the prince and master of Erchen are Shangguanyi, the prince is Xu Jingzong, the Taibao was originally Yang Sijian, and Li Yifu has always hoped to be promoted to the "third division" or "three youths". ”

Li Zhi thought about Li Hong's proposal, so that he could indeed return the court to a clean place. But he was a little hesitant, Xu Jingzong was poached by Li Hong a few years ago, removed from all official positions in the court, and was relieved to be the crown prince, and now if Li Yifu is also brought to the East Palace, does the prince have any plans?

Li Zhi was taken aback when he thought of this, and then said quietly: "Father and Emperor will think about this matter again, if Li Yifu is dismissed, Du Zhenglun alone may not be able to support all the political affairs of Zhongshu Province." ”

As he grew older, Li Hong understood Li Zhi more and more thoroughly, and his father was an extremely contradictory person, sometimes indecisive in political affairs, and it was difficult to make a choice.

often needs others to help him get ideas, and over the years, some major events in the court, six or seven times out of ten, are the ideas that the queen mother helped him to make decisions.

And now, he obviously realizes that the queen mother is too close to the court from the harem, so he wants to get rid of this dependence.

Just like when he tried to get rid of the constraints on him in the court led by the eldest grandson Wuji. But the problem is that back then, there were queen mothers, Xu Jingzong and others who helped him deal with a group of old ministers such as the eldest grandson Wuji, but now there are fewer yin people like Xu Jingzong around him.

The only one who can give him this hope is Li Yifu, so he also connived at Li Yifu, and in the past few years, he has done nonsense in private, and even helped Li Yifu eliminate the people who impeached Li Yifu.

But after a few years, he didn't see the slightest sign that Li Yifu was inclined to him, but Li Yifu was getting closer and closer to his mother.

If it weren't for himself to contain Li Yifu, I'm afraid that Li Yifu would have replaced Xu Jingzong back then. At this time, in front of the mother's rear, it is already a position similar to that of a close minister.

Today's palace seems to be peaceful and quiet, but in this situation, it is a three-way game with an undercurrent. That is, themselves, their father, and their mother, the three of them were involuntarily pushed by the undercurrents in the court, and they came to this delicate situation step by step.

With the advantage of being young or "naïve and ignorant", Xu Jingzong had not received special attention from his mother, and before his mother was interested in the court, he stalked him from his mother.

Another reason is that Xu Jingzong is older than Li Yifu, and it is easy for the queen mother to let go.

Li Yifu originally thought that he could come over together, but he didn't expect that he would be unanimously opposed by his father and mother.

So in the end, a compromise method was adopted, Li Yifu was appointed as the prince's housekeeper, and served as the Zhongshu Provincial Zhongshu Order, and presided over the Zhongshu Province together with another Zhongshu Commander, Du Zhenglun.

As the saying goes, "a grain of mouse feces can spoil a pot of soup", it is conceivable that if there are Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong in the court, it will become such a miasma. The trend of history, I am afraid that it will still be as recorded in the history books, forming a situation of "emperor and queen competition" between the father and the queen mother.

Li Hong also knew that even if Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong were solved, there would still be Ma Yifu, Liu Jingzong and so on in the court. But thinking about it, at this time, no matter who appears in the court, the harm caused to the government and the opposition in the Tang Dynasty cannot be equated with the harmfulness of Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong.

Li Hong looked at his father's hesitant expression, he knew very well in his heart that the abilities of Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong had given his father and mother real benefits, and they would not let these two people go easily.

In the matter of the eldest grandson Wuji, the father and emperor got unimaginable benefits. The queen mother is the same, the queen's throne at least has most of the credit of Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong. And the position of his crown prince, the shadows of Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong are also the most eye-catching.

And if he wants to invite these two people to the East Palace together, it is conceivable that it is difficult for his father and mother not to be shocked and suspicious.

But fortunately, Li Hong has done everything so far that he can be exposed to the sun, and there is nothing that Li Zhi and Wu Mei don't know. And it is precisely because of this that he may finally control Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong.

"Father, the sons know that you cherish the talent of Li Yifu, but you don't have to be in the court to play, Taiyi City is now you have full authority to the sons to govern, but the sons are shallow and inexperienced, and they need courtiers like Li Yifu to help the sons govern together. What's more, it will become the foundation of my Tang Dynasty in the future, and Li Yifu can still make contributions there, even more important than in the court. ”

Li Zhi didn't know whether he listened to Li Hong's persuasion or not, but nodded thoughtfully and didn't speak. As for whether Taiyi City is as important as Li Hong said, at least he is still a little skeptical now.