Chapter 57: The Locusts Are Coming
Li Er showed a sure look, this Wei Zheng must be against him to the end, I don't know how many times this is the year, today is Shangyuan, this day of jubilation for the whole country, although he opened this court meeting by the way because of inquiring about the national fortune, but he couldn't get off the stage! I don't know if to hate him or reuse him! Sometimes, Li Er even thought about sending this stinky and hard guy to Yazhou and traveling three thousand miles, so that he would never have to see his iron-blue face again. However, he dispelled this idea again and again, because after calming down, Li Er always felt that when Wei Zheng refuted him, the decision he made at that time was indeed inappropriate. So it was tolerated again and again, and it was contradicted again and again.
"Wei Qing, what do you think, just say it!" Li Er maintained his majesty and said calmly.
"Holy Lord, disaster relief is not a trivial matter, and it is natural to send troops to do so, so how can you use this as a condition to reduce the allocation of household funds? I'm afraid this will stir up public indignation! The treasury is empty, so why is there a lot of construction work in the palace? Is that going to build a new palace? At this time, the country was not strong, why did the Holy One do such a luxurious thing? This is not done by the Son of Heaven! Look at your majesty and think twice! Wei Zheng bluntly explained that Li Er built a palace in the palace, which was a move to work the people and hurt money, and it was not to be done, and luxury and pleasure were not done by the King of Shengming.
"You...... Makes sense! Li Er wanted to scold, but he couldn't spit out the words in his mouth, Wei Zheng was right, he was preparing to repair the palace, preparing to repair the Taiji Palace, and also preparing to build a palace on the northwest highlands of Taiye Pond, and he had thought of the name and called it Lin De Palace. This is the preparation of the re-dà event feast of the ministers. Or a place where some religious ceremonies are performed, like this one. This major event of praying for the fortune of the Tang Dynasty was actually only carried out in a shabby small courtyard. There is no special place, and these rituals are shabby. But now that I think about it, it's still too hasty, building a palace costs a lot of money and silver, although the inner government will help spend a part, but most of the part still has to be paid by the treasury, is this time a good time to repair these things? It's better to put it on hold for the time being.
"Holy Wisdom!" When Wei Zheng's goal was achieved, he retreated.
After dealing with political affairs, Li Er's body was a little sore. Towards Liangyi Palace, the eldest grandson gave birth to a daughter to him last year, Li Er gave him a title, called Princess Chengyang, this is the fourth child born to Li Er by the eldest grandson, and now the eldest grandson who is lactating has a maternal brilliance, which makes Li Er very nostalgic.
A few small yellow doors led the way in front of them, and Li Er walked all the way, looking at the scenery of the inner courtyard of the palace. Although it was the middle of winter, it was not a cold year. Although there are withered yellow plants and trees everywhere, there are also evergreen lone pines and cypresses. In the imperial garden, several plum blossoms are blooming, and the fragrance of flowers spreads far and wide. Let Li Er's eldest daughters wander under the tree. When they saw Li Er, they saluted respectfully one by one. Only Li Lizhi and Xiao Yuzhang stepped forward directly and took Li Er's hand. Let him pluck a few sprigs for himself and stick them on his head. Grimacing at his father.
Li Er smiled and rubbed a few times on the little heads of these children, and kneaded their hair into a chicken nest. Only then did he laugh and leave. After the amusement of these children, the depression in Li Er's heart was eliminated a lot, and his steps became even brisker.
Although Li Er is very fond of his eldest grandson, he still has a huge harem, and there are not only palace maids and eunuchs, princes and princesses, but also many concubines along the way. In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Er's harem achieved fruitful results, not only Concubine Wei gave birth to the seventh prince Li Shen, but also Concubine Yan left the eighth prince Li Zhen. In addition, there are several princesses who have come into the world, among which the thirteenth is Li Jing, the princess of Qinghe, who will marry Cheng Chumo's younger brother Cheng Chuliang in the future, and Qinghe is the daughter-in-law of the old goblin. It is also worth mentioning that Old Seventeen, Princess Gaoyang, this is not a fuel-saving lamp, and in the future, marrying Fang Jun with the divine power of the gods will bring the entire Fang family into the bottomless abyss. Of course, both of them are still swaddling babies now, and they don't know anything.
Just when Li Er was about to arrive at Liangyi Palace, Li Kuan didn't know where to come out. Standing respectfully on the side of the road and saluting Li Er.
Li Er stopped: "Kuan'er, but something?" Li Er still has a certain understanding of this second son, although he still hasn't touched the side of the master behind him, but he has analyzed his son very thoroughly. I had always been in a daze, just thinking about enjoyment, which can be known from the things he had made in the past few years, what Taishi chairs, what chaise longues, what carved beds, and what quilts. These things are all for enjoyment, and it was not until they ascended the throne that they walked along that road that they began to change, but they were messing around with those generals in Chang'an City.
Li Er didn't care about this, because after all, he didn't do anything big, Li Kuan just led those military generals' children to bully the children of the Wenchen family. Although the one who was bullied the most was Changsun Chong, this guy Li Kuan should call his cousin.
"Erchen really has something to report to his father!" Li Kuan said, looking around for a while.
"Tell me, what's the matter? These are trustworthy people! "Li Er doesn't know what Li Kuan cares about, the little yellow doors around him are all Li Er's henchmen, and they were also trained by Dark One in this year, plus these people had a certain kung fu foundation before, and now they are still useful.
"Father, the son and uncle have news!" Li Kuan once again lifted out the great god behind him, who told him to say it himself is not convincing.
"Which uncle are you?" Although Li Er didn't know how many uncles Li Kuan had, he didn't think about it, so he asked.
"It's Uncle Liu Bowen!" Li Kuan replied.
"The one who can predict the prophet?" Li Er was surprised, the last time that trick made Li Er very surprised, those two sentences were completely in line with what happened later, if he didn't know those two sentences, he deliberately couldn't get along with him, and insisted on changing a dark horse, he would really have been hit.
"Exactly!" Li Kuan didn't expect that Liu Bowen, who was the leader of the country, could actually scare Li Er, it was really incredible, to know who Li Er was? How could he be frightened by a little name, if it weren't for the fact that Li Kuan did something shocking to the world with this name, how could Li Er be like this?
"What's going on this time?" Li Erwen shook his mind for a moment and asked out loud.
"Father, please take a look!" Li Kuan took out a fold book from his cuffs and handed it over with both hands.
Li Er took it, opened it and looked at it, his eyebrows wrinkled involuntarily, just because if the things written on the fold were true, it would be a great disaster, and for Datang, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, this was just loosening the noose around his neck, and he tightened it again.
The fold reads: Today, from the side of Jingzhou, 764 locust eggs were found; Gyeongju took soil and found 812 locust eggs............
After that, all of them were taken from where the soil was taken, and how many locust eggs were found, and so on. These numbers were all fabricated by Li Kuan, but the location was obtained at a great cost, and it was absolutely true and reliable.
"What does that mean?" Although Li Er understood, he couldn't believe it.
"Father, don't you understand? There will be a catastrophe in this world! At that time, the land of Guanzhong will be completely lost, and I hope that my father will prepare early to meet this disaster! Li Kuan bowed and bowed. He reminded Li Er like this, in addition to expressing himself, it was also a signal to Li Er that his master still had deep feelings for Datang, and he would not do anything unfavorable to Datang. Give Li Er a reassuring pill to eat, so as to facilitate his own actions in the future.
"Really! I haven't met a single good thing today! Strike, strike...... Since you are on this throne, you have to pay some price! Li Er's good mood was ruined, and the celebration that Shangyuan had originally prepared was also canceled by his order, although Jin Wu couldn't help it, but the atmosphere of the whole festival was much lighter.
Li Kuan didn't care about these, anyway, he didn't have much time on the Shangyuan Festival, but he made a dumpling by himself during the New Year to treat himself, although he was eaten a lot by Li Lizhi and Xiao Yuzhang who came to eat, but he and Tianxiang still had a full meal, and Xiao Gray also ate a lot.
Back to his hall of talent, this name Li Kuan is very painful, no matter how it sounds, it looks like a pickle shop, but this is set by Li Er's relatives, what to say Li Kuan's mother is a talented girl, only such a name is in line with her wisdom.
As long as Tianxiang Li Kuan goes out, if he doesn't take her, he will definitely sit on the stone steps in front of the main hall and wait for Li Kuan to come back, even if it is late at night, he will not go to rest by himself. This made Li Kuan very distressed, because once he went out hunting with Cheng Chumo, but he went to the depths of the Qinling Mountains with great interest, and did not return overnight, when he came back from the morning dew the next day, the little girl was still sitting on the stone steps, her whole body was soaked, and the dew-soaked clothes were close to her thin body, which made Li Kuan's heart tremble for a while, and there was an inexplicable feeling of feet.
"Your Highness, you're back!" Xiao Tianxiang stepped forward to greet Li Kuan and saluted him as standard.
"You girl, didn't you say, don't you want those trivial etiquette! No matter how you say you don't believe it, you have the same virtue as Little Gray Gray, all of them are disobedient, and they should be beaten! Li Kuan said and tapped her little head.
"Your Highness!" Xiao Tianxiang's big eyes flashed aggrievedly, and the hanging expression made Li Kuan's heart soften for a while.
"Okay, it's up to you to go, I'm happy now!" Li Kuan couldn't help her.
"Your Highness!" The little girl's face changed immediately, her big eyes narrowed, and her eyebrows, which looked like a crescent moon on the horizon, were also curled up one by one, very proud.
Li Wan walked into the hall with Xiao Tianxiang, the cleaning here is very clean, these are all done by the little girl herself, Li Kuan is not the one who does these things, what he hates the most is tidying up the room, which is one of the common problems of all single men. Little Ash lay in a corner of the main hall, where there was a nest made specifically for it. This big dog finally doesn't grow tall anymore, and now Li Kuan doesn't dare to take it to the street, because it looks like a fierce beast at the same level as a tiger and lion, and the little gray gray looks like a lion because of the mane, but the tail is not like it, Li Kuan doesn't know what breed this guy is. (To be continued......)