Chapter 285: The Controversy of the Imperial Council

readx; Li Longji sat on the high dragon couch, looking from a distance from the perspective of a courtier, he only saw his majestic bearing, noble and graceful, but if you look closely, you will find that his face is painted with a layer of light oil paint, although he has made a special dress, but it is still difficult to hide his mental exhaustion, it is no wonder that he took three flowers in a row last night, and he has been happy until midnight before sleeping, and now his concubine Mei has not been able to get out of bed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The effect of this kind of affectionate floral fragrance is excellent, but the consequences are also very serious, Li Longji is old, and his body is far from being compared with when he was young, he had a romantic night last night, and his energy was seriously overdrawn, even if he used a big tonic medicine, he could only make up for two or three tenths, and he would be groggy for at least five or six days, and he would not be able to have sex for a month.

At this moment, Li Longji's mind was extremely dizzy, and the thousands of ministers in front of him made him feel dizzy for a while, thinking of the complicated things of the early dynasty, he couldn't help but be extremely bored in his heart, but today's early dynasty he will have a major event announced, and he has to fight hard to deal with today's early dynasty.

"Let's start early!" Li Longji was weak and ordered in a low voice.

"Your Majesty has a will, start the dynasty early!"

According to the order of the early dynasty, the first military department announced the commendation, this early dynasty is mainly to commend the Jiannan army to quell the Nanzhao rebellion, Gao Xianzhi was in October last year to conquer Yaozhou, Ge Luofeng completely surrendered, handed over the military power and treasury, the Tang army entered the capital of Nanzhao in November, successfully completed the counterinsurgency, it should be commended on the fifth day of the first month of this year, but because Gao Xianzhi did not have time to return, it can only be postponed to today and Anxi together with the commendation, and the victory of the Longyou Army in the attack on Tubo in September last year has been commended on the fifth day of the first month, It will not be mentioned again today.

"Let's start in order!" Li Longji gave a faint order, then closed his eyes slightly, and listened to the military department read out with his ears.

Cui Ping shouted loudly: "There is a decree in the saint, starting from the military department!" ”

Lang Jiwen, the squire of the military department, stood up, holding two thick commendation books in his arms, in order, first commending the Jiannan Army, and then commending the Anxi Army.

He stood in front of the jade steps, coughed lightly, put one of the booklets on the plate of the eunuch next to him, and began to read out the commendation of the Jiannan Army.

"The Nanzhao feudal kingdom has long been blessed with holy grace, does not think of return, treachery, messes with my Tang Dynasty, so that the lives are ruined, the catastrophe of southern Xinjiang, Tianbao ten years and June, the Tang Dynasty Heavenly Army 200,000 out of the south, which lasted for several months, and finally calmed the trouble of Nanzhao, during which several fierce battles ......"

The commendation is mainly to announce the merits, only the Nanzhao commendation has sprinkled tens of thousands of words, Ji Wen read it in a subdued tone, the speed is extremely slow, only the commendation of the Jiannan Army was read for half an hour, many people were drowsy, and the officials who were standing were even more tired, constantly swapping their left and right feet to reduce the pressure on their legs.

At this time, Yu Chaoen, who was standing behind Li Longji, suddenly discovered a fatal thing, Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, actually sat on the dragon couch and fell asleep with half of his body crooked, and snored slightly, and the saint fell asleep in the morning court, which was still something that had never happened in his memory.

He couldn't help but panic and be confused, seeing that Ji Wen was about to finish reading, the following was the saint's statement, and at that time, the ministers found the saint asleep, and the problem was serious.

"The reward is 500,000 yuan, 250,000 horses of silk, and the promotion of the generals is all approved....."

Ji Wen had already read the end, and there were at most twenty words left below to finish, Yu Chaoen couldn't wait any longer, so he moved behind Li Longji, lightly stabbed him in the shoulder, and shouted in a low voice: "Your Majesty!" Your Majesty! ”

After Ji Wen finished reading, Li Longji will make a statement, but Li Longji still didn't wake up, Yu Chaoen gritted his teeth and pinched it with all his might.

"Ahh With a low cry, Li Longji finally woke up, although his low voice was not loud, but it was still heard by some ministers sitting in the front row, and the important ministers looked at each other, and they all saw that the saint was actually asleep.

Li Longji opened his eyes slightly, his eyes were still a little dazed, and he didn't seem to have reacted yet, at this moment, suddenly there was a thunderous snoring sound among the ministers, and everyone turned their heads to look together, only to see An Lushan lying on the ground, snoring like thunder.

"An Shuai! An Shuai! Several ministers pushed him desperately, and there was a whisper in the hall, some people covered their mouths and snickered, but more people were dissatisfied, this was a solemn and solemn court, discussing military affairs, An Lushan actually fell asleep, which was simply blatant contempt for the saint.

Taking advantage of the fact that the attention of the ministers was drawn to An Lushan, Yu Chaoen whispered to Li Longji: "Your Majesty, the commendation of the Jiannan Army has been read out, and now we are waiting for Your Majesty to express your position." ”

Li Longji nodded slightly, he also knew that he had lost his temper, but it seemed that someone had covered it up for him, his eyes looked at His Highness, and he wanted to know who was so good at understanding the holy will.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!"

An Lushan had already woken up, he got up with a bone, got up with a roll, and ran to the middle of the hall, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again: "The minister is obese, he actually fell asleep, it is insulting to the court, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

Li Longji said slowly: "The reading of the military department is a little long, but Aiqing is an old minister, how can he lose his temper in the court, and I will give you a year to show warning." ”

The ministers were in an uproar, and An Lushan was fined for a year because of the court's gaffe, which was not worth it, and there was a lot of discussion all the time.

Li Qingan couldn't help but secretly admire, no wonder An Lushan was so favored by Li Longji, it was really extraordinary, and he could carry the black pot for Li Longji at a critical moment, it can be seen from this small detail, he sat next to An Lushan, and could see clearly, An Lushan was not asleep at all, until Li Longji's low voice came, he immediately fell to the ground and snored loudly, clearly pretending, covering up for Li Longji, although he was fined for one year, but the harvest he will get is far from being comparable to one year.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your mercy!"

An Lushan kowtowed, slowly returned to his seat, and said with a wry smile to Li Qingan: "General Li doesn't know that fat people like us are really difficult to control themselves, hey! I lost face in front of the public, and I am ashamed! ”

Li smiled and said: "Although I lost face, I got the lining, and An Shuai didn't lose anything." ”

The two glanced at each other, both knew it, An Lushan narrowed his eyes, and laughed.

At this time, Li Longji took a nap and was in better spirits, he nodded and said, "The performance of the quasi-military department will be issued immediately!" ”

Ji Wen took another notebook, unfolded it and read it aloud: "Since the invasion of the east, the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu have lost the Tang Dynasty for a long time, the broken leaves are not there, and the west of Lingxi is like a fog and clouds.....

Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan sat together, he wanted to talk to Ge Shuhan several times, but Ge Shuhan had a gloomy face, and never said a word, Gao Xianzhi was extremely depressed in his heart, he couldn't figure out how Ge Shuhan could become so cold, when An Lushan came out to ask for guilt, Gao Xianzhi whispered to Ge Shuhan again: "General Ge Shu, this An Lushan slept quite at the right time." ”

"Humph! A clown jumping off the beam, what else will he do besides these tricks? ”

Although Ge Shuhan felt a little uncomfortable with Gao Xianzhi, his jealousy of Gao Xianzhi was nothing compared to his anger at An Lushan.

When Gao Xianzhi saw Ge Shuhan speak, he smiled again: "Ge Shu is about to be promoted to the king of the county today, why is he so displeased?" ”

"Gao Shuai is mistaken! Ascend to the king of the county, that's you, when will it be your turn to get my brother Shuhan? ”

Gao Xianzhi was stunned, he heard Zhang Yun say that Ge Shuhan would also be promoted to the king of the county at the same time, how could it change? Gao Xianzhi couldn't help but look at Zhang Yun, and it happened that Zhang Yun was also looking at him, and nodded at him with a smile to show his support.

Gao Xianzhi first found Li Linfu as a backer, but after he was transferred out of Anxi, it happened that Li Linfu also encountered a strong challenge from Yang Guozhong, but Gao Xianzhi also served as Yang Guozhong's Jiannan Jiedu envoy, at the beginning of Gao Xianzhi's tenure, it coincided with Xian Yu Zhongtong being defeated by the Nanzhao army, and the Jiannan army lost most of it, leaving less than 20,000 people, Li Longji ordered him to recruit troops on the spot, but he did not get the support of local officials in Shuzhong, and it was extremely difficult to recruit troops. Gao Xianzhi turned to Zhang Yun, the head of the household, and with the support of Zhang Yun, not only Yang Guozhong changed his attitude, but Li Longji also ordered 100,000 soldiers from Guanzhong to go south to Jiannan, so that Gao Xianzhi was able to recruit 80,000 troops in Shuzhong, plus 100,000 Guanzhong troops and 20,000 remaining Jiannan Army, a total of 200,000 troops, Gao Xianzhi and Nanzhao Tubo Coalition Army fought fiercely for nearly five months, and finally defeated the Nanzhao Tubo Coalition Army in a battle in Anrong City, killed the governor of Tubo Shenchuan, recaptured the very strategic position of Anrong City, and forced the Tubo army to retreat to Shenchuan, The Nanzhao army also suffered heavy losses, and Ge Luofeng was finally cornered and forced to surrender to the Tang army.

It can be said that it was Zhang Yun who helped Gao Xianzhi at the critical moment, so that Gao Xianzhi finally won a big victory and established his position in Jiannan, Gao Xianzhi was also full of gratitude to Zhang Yun, and Zhang Yun also enveloped him more, and when the Xiangguo Party was about to split, Gao Xianzhi slowly moved closer to Zhang Yun.

Gao Xianzhi's heart was full of doubts, Zhang Yun obviously told him that Ge Shuhan would also be crowned the king of the county, how could there be a change now, Ge Shuhan's tone didn't seem like a joke, what was going on here?

Perhaps having learned the lesson of the previous one, Ji Wen was significantly quickened when he read out the commendation decision of the Anxi Army, and he finished reading it out in less than a quarter of an hour, but the Manchu civil and military court's reward for Anxi caused a burst of amazement.

'The reward is 800,000 yuan, and the silk is 300,000 horses! These are still secondary, the key is the promotion of meritorious soldiers in Anxi, only Zhonglang General has 415 people, Lang General is 1,200 people, Lizhi Shouyu, Li Fei Yuanli, Li Siye, Duan Xiushi four people have been named deputy envoys of Jiedu, since the Tang Dynasty, it seems that no army can be so large number of officials.

An Lushan was also surprised, he has been paying attention to Li Qingan's reward, but he has not cared about the reward of the Anxi Army, in his imagination, it is nothing more than to give more rewards, and these rewards are also a quota, and in the end Anxi has to take it out himself, but he never expected that the officers of the Anxi Army could be so widely promoted, which made him jealous, if he had known, he would definitely obstruct it, no matter what, he was the first envoy of the Tang Dynasty, how could he allow Li Qingan to override him?

But now it's too late, Anxi Jun has already won a huge honor, An Lushan's heart is as uncomfortable as a cat's scratch, his face is gloomy like a cloud, and he doesn't even have the least words of congratulations.

After the commendation of the military department was read out, there was a buzz in the hall, and everyone was still talking about the glory of the Anxi army, at this time the young eunuch Cui Ping shouted loudly: "The hall is quiet!" ”

The hall was quiet for a moment, and the following was to reward the main general, Gao Xianzhi, the chief general of the Jiannan Army, and Li Qing'an, the chief general of the Anxi Army, and the two should be rewarded by Li Longji himself.

Li Longji looked at the order of rewards in his hand and said, "Gao Xianzhi!" ”

"Your Majesty has a will, Gao Xianzhi is sealed!"

Gao Xianzhi hurriedly got up, walked to the middle of the hall and bowed down and said, "Minister Gao Xianzhi see Your Majesty!" ”

Li Longji nodded slightly and said: "Gao Aiqing is loyal and brave to the country, pacified the rebellion of Nanzhao, recovered Yunnan, thanks to Sheji, you have been the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, the governor of Yaozhou, and the protector of Annan. ”

Cui Ping repeated Li Longji's appointment loudly again, although this was expected by many people, but Gao Xianzhi was officially named the king of Annan, which still made a low exclamation sound in the Hanyuan Palace, and Ge Shuhan was even more jealous with fire in his eyes, and his fists were clenched, this stimulation was too deep for him.

An Lushan also felt uncomfortable in his heart, although he was named the king of Dongping County, but he did not get the position of Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, generally speaking, the title or ministry officer, but also a corresponding Wen Sanguan or Wu San official to correspond, the county king is from the first product, then it should be sealed from the same product of the Kaifu Yi with the three divisions, or the hussar general to correspond, An Lushan is the hussar general, and Gao Xianzhi was sealed with the three divisions, according to the practice of high and low martial arts, Gao Xianzhi is slightly higher than him An Lushan.

Li Qingxin was also a little nervous, although he said that he didn't care about any county king, but in fact he cared very much, his current identity is Li Jiancheng's descendant, the title of this county king is extremely important to him, to some extent, the title of this county king can also be regarded as him as the Li clan, this is a very delicate canonization, Xiang An Lushan and Gao Xianzhi can only be called kings with different surnames, so what is Li Qingan's name? Wang with the same surname? There is no such title, but his surname is Li, so it can only be tacitly accepted that he Li Qing'an is the Li clan, otherwise, how can the Li family have two kings? Of course, perhaps Li Longji didn't realize this either.

Gao Xianzhi was so excited that tears welled up, when he left Anxi, he left with a sad mood, he thought that he lost the battle of Tocharo, which meant the end of his career, but he didn't expect that he was named the king of the county today, in the early Tang Dynasty, so many founding generals did not get this honor, and he Gao Xianzhi got it.

He knelt down and choked up, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Li Qingan, and he should be next, and the court was silent.

Li Longji glanced at Li Qing'an from afar, but said lightly: "The court meeting is too long, take a quarter of an hour off for a while, spread my will, and you will have a meeting in Qifeng Pavilion." ”

"Your Majesty has a decree, take a quarter of an hour, and all the prime ministers will hold a meeting in Qifeng Pavilion!"

...... The ministers walked out of the Hanyuan Hall one after another, the sky outside the hall was already bright, and the air was fresh, so that everyone's spirits were lifted, and the drowsiness in the hall was driven away without a trace.

Li Qingan also slowly walked out of the hall, Li Longji's sudden brake made him feel a little uneasy, it stands to reason that even if he wants to take a temporary break, it should be carried out after the end of an issue, but he stopped before the reward topic finally came to him, so that Li Qingan faintly felt that Li Longji's temporary Xiangguo meeting was aimed at him.

"General! General! ”

Someone shouted twice behind him, Li Qingan was still at a loss, he was still pondering.

"General Lee!"

Now he heard it, he turned around, and saw that it was a Hu general calling him, this person was about fifty years old, tall and thin, with a pair of eagle-like eyes, Li Qingan only felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

"General Li, have you forgotten? During the Battle of Stone Castle, we had a meeting together. ”

Li Qing'an suddenly remembered that this person was Absi, the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, and he represented the Shuofang army in the battle of Shibao City.

"It turned out to be General Absi, why are you also in Chang'an?" Li Qing'an Shili said with a smile.

Absi stepped forward and bowed his hand and said: "I am here to do business in the capital, and the court meeting requires all officials above the seventh rank in Beijing to participate, so I am also here, I want to congratulate General Li first." ”

"What's the joy of?"

Arbus smiled: "Now it's just a temporary adjournment, and in a quarter of an hour it will be the general's turn, so I'll congratulate you first." ”

Li Qingan was just about to be humble for a few words, when he suddenly saw Ge Shuhan walking out, and he hurriedly said, "I still have something, let's talk about it another day." ”

"Good! I'm going to invite the general to drink tomorrow, can I enjoy it? ”

Li Qingan saw that Ge Shuhan was about to go down the steps, so he nodded, "No problem, then I'll go first." ”

"General, please!"

Li Qing'an confessed his guilt, and hurriedly chased after Ge Shuhan, Absi looked at his back, his eyes showed a trace of worry, he turned around, but saw An Lushan and Qingwang Li Cong walked out, he was frightened, and hurriedly lowered his head and hurried to the side.

Ge Shuhan's mood was extremely depressed, if it weren't for today's dynasty, he would have gone away a long time ago, he didn't want to come out, but Gao Xianzhi next to him was crowded with congratulatory crowds, he was even more angry in his heart, and strode out, many people called him along the way, and he ignored it.

"Brother Shu, please stay!"

Someone in the future was chasing and shouting to him, but now he stopped, it was Li Qingan who was calling him, he sighed, turned around and said, "I want to congratulate the virtuous brother." ”

Li Qing'an has not been sealed for the time being, and Ge Shuhan's tone is much softer, although he can't talk about sympathy, but at least he can get by a little bit of face.

"Brother Shu, Yang Guozhong talked to you in the morning?"

Li Qing'an didn't take a detour, and went straight to the point when they met, just now when Ji Wen read it out at length, Li Qing'an had been thinking about Ge Shuhan's matter, and he slowly realized a clue that Li Longji was probably provoking the relationship between Ge Shuhan and him, so he sent Yang Guozhong to tell him about it.

Ge Shuhan nodded silently and said, "Yang Guozhong relayed to me the meaning of the saint, and today's court meeting is not ready to canonize me." ”

This was expected by Li Qing'an, but he thought about it even deeper, and said, "Brother Ge Shu thinks that Yang Guozhong will convey the meaning of the saint to you completely and clearly?" ”

Ge Shuhan was also stunned, and after a while, he said, "What does the general mean is that the Holy Lord has other words?" ”

"There must be! Did Yang Guozhong tell Brother Ge Shu why the Holy Lord didn't canonize him? ”

"This..."Ge Shuhan also remembered, at that time, Yang Guozhong only told him that only two people were sealed today, and there was no share of him, and he really didn't tell him that he was willing, and he was so angry that he forgot to ask.

"He didn't say."

"That's right!" Li Qingan sneered and said: "Why didn't Yang Guozhong say it, he just wanted to take the opportunity to provoke the relationship between you and me, so he deliberately concealed the more important words of the saint, Ge Shu thought about it, why not be crowned with one more county king?" What are the implications? Could it be that Brother Geshu is not qualified enough, but I think if Brother Geshu is not qualified enough, then An Lushan is even less qualified, where is it the turn to get me and Gao Xianzhi, the danger of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo is the most, and when will it be the turn to get Nanzhao and Khitan, the Holy Lord will not canonize you, there must be his thoughts. ”

Li Qingan's words made Ge Shuhan feel very comfortable, and his little dissatisfaction with Li Qingan also flew away without a trace.

"Can Brother Xian guess what the reason will be?"

Li Qingan smiled slightly: "If I'm not mistaken, the Holy Lord is waiting!" ”

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait for the good news of Brother Geshu's two-front battle to come."

Ge Shuhan suddenly realized, the tangles in his heart were suddenly unraveled, he patted Li Qing'an on the shoulder and said: "Thank you Brother Xian for your enlightenment, I will confirm this matter to the saint, then Yang Guozhong has a bad heart, and I will not let him go." ”

........ Qifeng Pavilion is an attic that extends outward close to the Hanyuan Palace, and another attic on the east side is called Xiangluan Pavilion, and the halls and pavilions are connected with each other by corridors.

At this moment, an emergency meeting of the political hall was being held in the Qifeng Pavilion, which was presided over by Li Longji himself, and Li Linfu, the secretary of the Zhongshu Order and the secretary of the military department, Chen Xilie, the secretary of the subordinate and the secretary of the criminal department, Yang Guozhong, the secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Zhang Yun, the secretary of the household department, Yang Shenjin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wei Jiansu, the servant of the ministry, were present in turn.

Li Longji suddenly interrupted the reward and temporarily convened a meeting of the political affairs hall, which made all the Xiangguo present feel puzzled, this is something that has never happened before, everyone has guessed a thing or two, there must be something important about to happen.

At this time, Li Longji coughed and slowly said to everyone: "Calling you Aiqing to hold a meeting when you come is because I have three important things I want to announce at today's court, and you are Xiangguo, so I want to make it clear to everyone in advance, the first thing, I decided to expand the phase." ”

(To be continued)