In the East Palace, Li Shimin has now begun to live in the East Palace of the Prince, and Li Shimin has begun to prepare for the so-called enthronement ceremony. Maybe in a few days, Li Shimin will be able to call himself "I", instead of calling himself "Lonely" now. And these days others are the busiest, but Li Shimin, the prince, is the most idle. Everyone else is arranging the so-called enthronement ceremony, worrying about whether the enthronement ceremony will come out of the basket. Once out of the basket, it is the biggest problem. Then Li Shimin was the most leisurely, because this is like a general asking a staff officer to draw up a battle plan, and when he has reviewed it, once he signs it, he can be relatively the most leisurely.

Just like when Eisenhower signed and approved the historic battle plan for the Normandy landings, he was the most idle. He has done everything he can before this, and the next thing is to do his best to obey the destiny of heaven. So at that time, maybe everyone else was busy, preparing to carry out the battle plan, but as the supreme commander, he was relatively the most idle, because he did everything he could, and then either succeeded or failed, and in the end, he could only let time and history test it, and he couldn't affect anything.

Therefore, in the past few days, Li Shimin has completed the biggest process in his life. In the next enthronement ceremony, he has done everything he can do, it is nothing more than a process. As for him, he can't have much impact, because he has done everything he can, and no matter how hard he tries, it will not have a better effect. Therefore, he is the most idle, he doesn't have to worry about anything, everything is arranged by his subordinates.

"Prince, which palace are you going to spend the night in today?" A palace maid asked.

Li Shimin said: "It's good to go to Gao Huitong, she has recovered from a long illness, and she will go to him alone!" ”

When Li Shimin came to Gao Huitong and was about to warm up in the same room, Gao Huitong suddenly said: "Prince, I don't know if I should talk about something?" ”

"Say it!" Li Shimin said.

"Prince, my life was saved by Shi Xiao Shulang, and he also saved your daughter, Prince. And Shi Shulang wants me to help him say something in front of you, so I can't refuse. Gao Huitong replied.

Li Shimin frowned, but he still said: "You can be honest, but you can be direct." But you say, whether you agree or not depends on Lonely! ”

Gao Huitong said so directly and frankly that it was time to speak, which actually reassured Li Shimin, because if Gao Huitong deliberately knocked on the side to affect himself, then Li Shimin was worried. Gao Huitong said so frankly that he spoke for Shi Bufan out of the grace of saving his life, which reassured Li Shimin. Because this shows that Gao Huitong still focuses on Li Shimin, the husband and the king, rather than the so-called life-saving grace. In fact, there is no contradiction between taking the husband and the king as the main object and repaying the grace of saving life. Gao Huitong directly made it clear that he helped Shi Bufan to speak because of the grace of saving his life, which made Li Shimin feel a lot more relieved. Since it is honest, it can not only take care of the relationship between the husband and wife and the concubine, but also maintain it to a certain extent.

If you help Shi Bufan to hide his words, it is the most fatal, which will not only affect Gao Huitong, but also affect Shi Bufan. And Gao Huitong directly admitted that it was to repay Shi Bufan, which made Li Shimin feel understandable, after all, if the kindness of saving lives is not repaid, then is this still a "person"?

So Li Shimin felt understandable because Gao Huitong was so honest, so he didn't continue to say anything.

And Gao Huitong saw Li Shimin's bland but no blame, and then finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Today, Li Shimin's eldest daughter Li Lizhen conveyed the news for Shi Bufan, asked Li Lizhen to give a document to Gao Huitong, and then asked Gao Huitong to convey it to Li Shimin. And can Gao Huitong not know the danger of interfering in politics in the harem? If Li Shimin worries that he is a harem politician, then he will be in trouble. Gao Huitong only entered the Qin Palace's mansion when Zhenguan was five years old, and it is not the so-called first marriage, Gao Huitong is three years older than Li Shimin!

The relationship between them is not as deep as that between Li Shimin and Empress Changsun, and Empress Changsun will not fall out of favor no matter how much she makes a mistake. But if you make a mistake, you may be completely left out. However, Shi Bufan is a lifesaver after all, and she is not easy to refuse, so she is very embarrassed. However, Shi Bufan obviously knew her concerns, and directly attached a note to the back of the document, and then the note told her what to do.

Shi Bufan directly told Gao Huitong to tell the truth directly and don't hide it. directly told Li Shimin that Shi Bufan asked her, and asked her to say that it was to repay Shi Bufan for saving his life. In this way, when Li Shimin heard such "frank" words, he would understand it. After all, it is just to repay the grace of saving his life, and there is no factor of his own political position, but it is what makes Li Shimin the most reassured.

The emperor is afraid of the harem, but in fact, he is not simply afraid of the harem. What they are afraid of is not that women are in politics, but that these women have their own political positions. The significance of being afraid of the harem is not whether the concubine is involved in government affairs, but that the concubine is afraid that she has her own political position, which is very uneasy for the emperor. If Gao Huitong showed that he was just repaying the grace of saving his life, then Li Shimin would not say anything, because this does not mean that Gao Huitong has his own political position, but just out of repaying his kindness. Anyway, the final decision is in Li Shimin's hands, not in Gao Huitong's hands.

And Gao Huitong also understood things very well, and did not take the initiative to say anything that would affect Li Shimin's judgment.

"Why did he ask you to do it? Aren't you just in the palace? If you want to go to the book, you can go through the normal process! Li Shimin said.

Gao Huitong replied: "It's a private matter, it's a private matter of Sister Shi Bufan, and it's also a private matter of his lover's property, and he hopes that the prince will help!" ”

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, since it was just a private matter, it made sense to go through this abnormal channel. If it's a business matter, then Li Shimin has a headache! If it's just a private matter, then it's not completely unforgivable to let the concubine convey it.

In fact, Li Shimin did not know that Shi Bufan's document was related to the interests of many people, especially to many interest groups. Shi Bufan knows very well that the place in the world that cannot be kept secret is actually the palace. Although on the surface, there are no less than thousands of guards in the palace, plus more than 20,000 troops from the North Gate, etc., all kinds of protection seem to be extremely strict.

Moreover, all officials are confidential and disciplined, and it is strictly forbidden to leak official information. However, these so-called secrecy disciplines are not effective at all. Every official represents his or her own political group and his or her own interest group, especially those of the central government. If they see any news, they will definitely try to make their interest groups prepare for it in advance. If it is favorable news, they will hope to make their own interests greater, and if it is unfavorable news, they will also try to avoid evil and reduce losses.

Everyone in the world is staring at the palace, the core area of politics, and the spies of various forces and all kinds of spies are drilling into it with their heads sharpened, so it is strange that they can keep it completely secret. On the contrary, there are so many spies here, and the most transparent place is the palace, and there will be countless eyes staring at every step.

Therefore, if you go through the normal document process, there are too many processes in the middle. It took at least seven or eight times, or even more manpower, to pass it into Li Shimin's hands. I'm afraid that before it reaches Li Shimin's hands, it will be passed out.

Therefore, Shi Bufan plans to take the "lady route", that is, to help himself pass through Li Shimin's daughter and concubine. In this way, there are many times fewer people to handle it, and those Li Shimin's daughters and concubines are all of the same mind as Li Shimin, so naturally there is no need to be afraid that they will do something unfavorable to Li Shimin, which is the safest.

Li Shimin looked at the document, and then frowned.

At home, Shi Bufan, his fiancée, Dugu Daxue and his lover Qin Jiarui were quite idle here, and obviously the three of them were a little speechless here.

"Well, the three of them, it doesn't seem to be anything fun, it's obviously three missing one! Am I going to find another woman to come back, so that the four of them just make a mahjong! Shi Bufan joked.

However, Dugu Daxue and Qin Jiarui's faces also changed, obviously although they didn't care what that mahjong was, they were more concerned about Shi Bufan actually joking that he wanted to find another woman? So you don't take them seriously?

"Hmph, you have to find a woman, you can afford to raise it yourself! Don't want me to pay for you to raise a woman! Qin Jiarui snorted coldly.

Dugu Daxue also said politely: "Me is the same, can you afford to raise it yourself?" ”

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Shi Bufan's face was embarrassed, even if he wanted to find a woman, he didn't seem to be able to raise it! I am a poor Beijing official with nine grades, and I can afford to raise so many women there! At present, the tea business and so on are hung up on Qin Jiarui, if Qin Jiarui does not allow Shi Bufan to use it, then Bufan will have no power to use it, because Qin Jiarui is not his concubine, so naturally he does not have to be bound by the so-called patriarchal system of the Tang Dynasty.

As for Shi Bufan, although he has a baronial title, but that baron is also an empty barrel, there is no actual income at all, his real income is also the income of the nine-grade petty official, and there is no oil and water in it on weekdays, and it is not fat, how can he make money? As for Dugu Daxue, his income is much higher than that of Shi Bufan, five times that of Shi Bufan. Therefore, Dugu Daxue will not pay to help him raise a woman, not to mention that Shi Bufan can't be so shameless, let his wife pay to help him raise other women, this is too embarrassing and undisciplined.

Therefore, even if Shi Bufan dares to accept it, he can't afford it!

However, Dugu Daxue finally found the topic and said, "Wouldn't it be too risky for you to ask Gao Huitong to convey this document?" If the prince thinks that you have a relationship with the concubine, and thinks that your ministers have befriended the concubine privately, will this make the prince angry? ”

What Dugu Daxue said about having a relationship with the concubine is not the so-called relationship between men and women, but refers to the formation of an offensive and defensive alliance between the ancient officials and the emperor's concubine. The officials needed the concubine to help them blow the pillow wind in front of the emperor, and the concubine hoped to strengthen her position through the support of the foreign ministers, so as to form an offensive and defensive alliance.

"Daxue, you've been in the Shang Palace for five or six years, can't you still see through this? Since ancient times, the heavenly family has been selfless, where can the emperor's concubine be alone. To put it mildly, even if the eldest grandson princess who claims to be not involved in politics, it is actually about the same, because she represents the eldest grandson family and the Guanlong group behind her. The same is true for Wei Qi and Concubine Wei, who represent the Guanlong Group to a certain extent. Moreover, Du Ruhui represents the Guanlong Group to a certain extent in the imperial court, but it is not so profound. And Fang Xuanling is a Shandong scholar, but Shandong's high-ranking scholars are unwilling to marry with the royal family, maybe there may be some small Shandong scholars and royal marriages in the future. Therefore, it is impossible for the imperial concubines to completely get rid of politics, the meaning of their existence is politics, and if there is no politics, they will not need to exist. ”

"So, isn't it ridiculous to say that the harem doesn't interfere in politics at all? As for you saying that I should be evasive and be careful, but I don't see it that way. Since I'm going to take the route of the concubine, then I might as well go in an upright and upright manner, and never sneakily make people suspicious. I went to take the lady's route openly, and the one I walked was called a dignified and upright person, and everything was exposed in front of everyone and the emperor. So what am I afraid of? If it's sneaky, that's what worries the emperor? I walk with dignity and do not shy away from anyone, that is selfless in my heart, not afraid of being discovered. If you are more sneaky, the easier it is to arouse the suspicion of others. ”

Shi Bufan has studied some psychology, and sometimes he is sneaky, even if it is for good things, people will think that you are doing bad things and will be suspected. Since ancient times, it has been believed that to influence the emperor through the route of the concubine, it must be kept secret, and it must be kept secret from the emperor.

But few people who can be emperors are fools, and Li Shimin is not a fool. If you go sneaking up on your own, it will be easy to be discovered. Once discovered, he really can't tell if he's really full of mouths. Instead of being unlucky after being found out secretly, it is better to tell Li Shimin openly that I just want to influence you through your concubine, and understand that this tells Li Shimin that I want to help me pass on some news to you through your concubine and solve some problems that cannot be solved in daily work.

Shi Bufan's "lady route" is open-minded, and he does not hide it from the emperor himself or anyone. I'm not afraid of anyone saying it, I'm not afraid of being seen by anyone, anyway, I'm not guilty.

In this way, everything is also exposed under Li Shimin's eyes, Li Shimin will be relieved, very relieved. As long as the concubine doesn't say anything that affects his judgment, and only acts as a setter, then Li Shimin will not have any opinions. Because as long as his concubine does not have her own political position, coupled with the fact that Shi Bufan walks openly, and exposes himself to the world in front of the world, including the emperor, then Li Shimin will not worry about any problems.

"Therefore, any speculation and suspicion comes from opacity, from the opacity of information, which gives many people room for reverie. If I make everything transparent, then it's easy to reassure. I exposed everything I did in front of everyone, let the emperor personally watch, and exposed all my actions in front of him, so what else did he have to worry about? A lot of times, you're scared and end up making things worse. You might as well go and tell the emperor everything in a dignified manner, so that the emperor will think that you are honest, do not deceive him, and do not have any conspiracy in his heart, so that he will be more at ease with you than anyone else, and will not be suspicious of you. Shi Bufan said.