The twice-monthly court meeting is generally held in the Xuanzheng Palace, because today the Tibetan envoys want to meet Gaozong and offer their tribute, so the place of the court meeting is changed to the Hanyuan Palace.

Early in the morning, Li Hong put on the dragon robe of the Ming Huang Tuan under the service of Zhao Hong's skirt, and then left the Cheng'en Palace, accompanied by Chen Gong and thirty personal guards, and went to the square in front of the Hanyuan Palace.

Many ministers had already gathered in the square, and Xu Jingzong and Li Ji had already arrived.

When the ministers saw the prince appear, they couldn't help but come forward to greet him.

Since Li Hong sent Helan Minzhi to the prison of Chang'an County, everyone's opinion of him has changed a lot, and they no longer ignore his existence as before.

When Li Hong walked in front of Xu Jingzong and Li Ji, Xu Jingzong was still respectful to Li Hong and behaved very decently. Only Li Ji couldn't help but snort coldly when he saw Li Hong, and said quite angrily, "Your Highness is really a good means!" ”

Since he tore his face with Li Hong, Li Ji didn't want to pretend to be a grandson in front of Li Hong anymore.

"What does the British public mean by this, I don't understand." Li Hong said in a cold tone. It is true that Li Ji is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and it is true that he is an old man who has passed seventy, but since he is on the opposite side of Ke himself, Li Hong will not leave him any more face.

"The prince assigned the 600 cavalry of Tubo to the Nanya battalion, is there no selfishness?" Li Ji asked in a deep voice.

He knew very well what the purpose of the Tibetan delegation came to Chang'an City this time, and this time they brought 600 cavalry with them, and Li Ji was also clear about what they wanted. Therefore, these 600 cavalry are a cancer, no matter where they are placed, they are a destabilizing factor that will affect the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetan mission at any time. Because this cavalry is very arrogant, very barbaric, and very undisciplined.

But Li Hong just stationed them in the Nanya camp.

Li Ji is the governor of Nanya, and the sixteen guards of Nanya are all under his control, if these 600 cavalry make any trouble in the Nanya camp, how can he get out of it.

"Yes." Li Hong did not deny his selfishness, he said bluntly, "Lone's selfishness is to use the Nanya camp to trap them, prevent them from making trouble in Chang'an City, and harm the people of Chang'an." ”

Seeing that Li Ji was about to refute himself, he continued, "British Duke, it is true that you are the Metropolitan Governor of Nanya, but you are the Metropolitan Governor of Nanya of the Tang Dynasty, the British Duke of the Tang Dynasty, and the Nanya is the Nanya of the Tang Dynasty. Is this also selfish? ”

Li Ji's face turned red, in front of so many people, Li Hong, a fourteen-year-old stunned youth, reprimanded him for being a seventy-year-old man, can he stand it? Even Gaozong and Empress Wu didn't treat him like this.

"The British Duke is a generation of famous generals and the military gods of the Tang Dynasty, how can he ignore the interests of the Tang Dynasty and the lives of the people because of his selfish desires?" Li Honglang shouted, "If the British public really thinks that Lone is doing this because of selfishness and wants to frame you, for the interests of the Tang Dynasty, and for the life and death of the people of Chang'an, Lone will not deny it!" ”

Li Hong's righteous words made it difficult for Li Ji to refute.

Li Ji was very angry by Li Hong's words, but he couldn't reprimand Li Hong in front of so many people, or attack Li Hong, so he could only glare at Li Hong fiercely and turned away.

Seeing Li Ji leaving, Xu Jingzong said in a low voice, "Your Highness, if you openly reprimand the British Duke like this, I'm afraid it will make Your Majesty and Niangniang angry, right?" ”

"Lone reprimanded Li Ji, is Xu Xiang happy?" Li Hong asked in a low voice.

"The old minister is naturally happy!" Xu Jingzong said bluntly. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, as long as Li Ji is in the court for one day, Xu Jingzong is the head of the ministers.

Today, Li Hong reprimanded Li Ji in person, which was tantamount to a severe blow to Li Ji's prestige among the ministers.

How could he not be happy?

What Li Hong likes is Xu Jingzong's really careful character, so he laughed and said, "As long as Xu Xiang is happy!" ”

After speaking, he strode in front of the ministers and stood in the first row of the ministers. Xu Jingzong was slightly stunned at first, and then a faint smile appeared on his old face.

"Knock knock—" This is, the morning bell has struck.

"Early Dynasty-" Then Zhang Dehai's voice was heard throughout the square in front of Hanyuan Palace. The ministers followed Li Hong, Xu Jingzong, Li Ji and others into the Hanyuan Hall in turn.

As soon as everyone walked into the Hanyuan Palace, Gaozong and Empress Wu stepped into the Hanyuan Palace.

"See Your Majesty, see Niangniang!" When Gaozong and Empress Wu walked to the jade steps, the ministers knelt down and bowed.

"All the ministers are flat!" Gaozong said, and sat on the dragon chair, Empress Wu sat on the chair that had been prepared next to him, and a small chamberlain was also very skilled in moving a small stool and placing it under the jade steps.

Li Hong got up with the others, and walked straight to the small stool in front of the jade steps and sat down. This was his treatment, and Gaozong gave him the treatment of this frail and sickly crown prince.

"Do you have something to play?" Gaozong asked.

"Your Majesty, the night before yesterday, Chang'an County ordered Cui Yuan to poison the prisoners in prison, and committed suicide in fear of crime, and Chang'an County Cheng Zhang Bo was imprisoned because of Helan Min's case. Xu Jingzong said.

This was ordered by Empress Wu a long time ago.

Otherwise, how could he be the first to speak? What if he was the first to speak and was refuted by the ministers? Wouldn't it be a loss of face?

"Does Xu Aiqing have the right person in mind?" Gojong asked.

In fact, he knew that this was a deal between Li Hong and Empress Wu, and the candidate had already been divided between Empress Wu and Li Hong, so he asked so lightly, just to go through the motions.

As soon as Gaozong asked, Xu Jingzong immediately said the names of three people, the county commander Luo Bin Wang, the lord Bo Fan Lubing, and another person with a very unfamiliar name, called Wei Yuanzhong.

Although Li Hong doesn't know who Wei Yuanzhong is? But he knew that the person who could be trusted by the Empress Wu to be promoted to the position of Chang'an County Cheng was definitely not a mediocre talent.

Because this personnel appointment is the distribution of interests between Empress Wu and Li Hong, Empress Wu has no opinion, and Gaozong has no opinion in order to support Li Hong, so the ministers naturally have no objections. Therefore, it only took a cup of tea to order, and Fan Lubing's master book was decided.

As soon as this matter was resolved, Le Yanwei came out and said, "Your Majesty, Niangniang, the Tubo delegation arrived in Chang'an yesterday and is waiting in the side hall today, do you want to summon them to meet you?" ”

"Announce it!" Gaozong said lightly.

Wasn't the reason why he came to this early dynasty because the Tibetan mission was going to meet him today?

"Xuantubo ambassador An Lai, deputy envoy Sang Ying, Princess Gesang to meet you!" Zhang Dehai shouted loudly, and as soon as his voice fell, another eunuch outside the Hanyuan Hall repeated, "Xuantubo ambassador An Lai, deputy envoy Sang Ying, Princess Gesang is here!" ”

After a while, I saw the Tibetan ambassador An Lai, the deputy envoy Sang Ying and Princess Gesang walking into the Hanyuan Palace.

"See His Majesty the Tang Dynasty!" An Lai, Sang Ying and Princess Gesang walked up to the main hall and bowed down. They only visited Gaozong, but not Empress Wu. This made Empress Wu very angry. Li Hong looked sideways at Empress Wu and saw a hint of anger flashing in her eyes.

"The three Aiqing are flat!" Gaozong said lightly.

An Lai, Sang Ying and Princess Gesang got up, and then Empress Wu and Li Hong bowed and saluted, "See Niangniang, see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"The three Aiqing don't need to be polite!" Empress Wu said lightly, if she didn't observe her expression carefully, there was no change, Li Hong only nodded slightly to the three of them. But he wondered why Gesang walked into the main hall and saw him with a slightly changed expression. As for what has become, he can't tell, but one day it became clear that Princess Gesang was very concerned about him.

"This is the letter of state from the king and the prime minister of our country, as well as the gift list of this visit, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to take a look." After An finished speaking, he took a jade box from Sang Ying's hand and held it high above his head.

Zhang Dehai walked down the jade steps and picked up the jade box, then walked up the jade steps, let an attendant hold the box, he opened the box and took out two scrolls of brocade scrolls and handed them to Gaozong. Gaozong didn't look at the gift list, but simply glanced at the contents of the national letter, and handed the national letter to Empress Wu. Empress Wu took the national letter and glanced at it, her brows furrowed slightly, and when she finished reading the contents, her face became very gloomy, which showed that he was trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart.

"Ambassador An, you must be very tired from coming from afar, so let's go back and rest today! In the evening, the palace and His Majesty will hold a banquet in the Taiji Palace to receive you from the wind and wash the dust, as for the content of the national letter, let us discuss it and then reply, what do you think? Empress Wu said in a calm tone.

No matter how angry she is in her heart, no matter how disgusted she is with An Lai and the Tubo Mission, as the queen of the Tang Dynasty, she still has the bearing she should have. Otherwise, according to Empress Wu's usual personality, this national letter may have been smashed on An Lai's face by her a long time ago.

An Lai also knew in his heart that the content on the national letter could not be solved by a court meeting, so he nodded slightly and said, "The minister respectfully obeys the will of the mother!" ”

"Prince, tonight's banquet is your sole responsibility, don't make any mistakes!" Empress Wu said to Li Hong again. Her previous sentence was very natural, but the latter sentence was a bit of a bad killing of Li Hong.

Don't go wrong?

The Tubo people obviously came to the Tang Dynasty to make trouble, so why don't they find fault with such a big banquet at night? And now you are saying in public that there must be no mistakes at the banquet -- isn't this telling the Tibetans that they can make small moves at the banquet?

Li Hong was very angry when he heard Empress Wu's words, he knew that this was Empress Wu's lesson to him to bargain with her with Helan Minzhi, so even if he knew what Empress Wu's original intention was, he had to get up and respectfully accept the order.

"That's all for today's court, let's go!" Empress Wu said lightly, and left Hanyuan Hall with Gaozong. As soon as the two of them left, there were chamberlains who notified the prime ministers to go to the Zichen Hall to discuss matters. This is the content of the letter of state to be discussed with the prime ministers in the Zichen Palace, Li Hong is the crown prince, so naturally he can only follow Xu Jingzong and them to the Zichen Palace.