In Taiji Palace, the crown prince reported to Emperor Li Yuanyu: "Father, son-in-law hopes to marry Zheng Guanyin of the Zheng family in Xingyang as his crown princess. ”

Emperor Li Yuan looked at the crown prince in surprise and said, "Who? Zheng Guanyin? Xingyang Zheng's? Shandong Hao? ”

Emperor Li Yuan couldn't understand why the crown prince Jiancheng would marry a woman from a wealthy family in Shandong? Why did Prince Jiancheng have anything to do with the wealthy family in Shandong? In Li Yuan's heart, he is very disgusted with the wealthy family in Shandong, it is a group of guys who have nothing to do, and they are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo, and the wealthy clans of Shandong secretly supported the rebels in Hebei and Shandong behind the Sui army, and repeatedly cut off the grain routes of the army, resulting in the millions of troops who conquered Goguryeo three times, and all three times were defeated. Less than 10,000 of the millions of troops fled back to the Central Plains. After that, their Shandong wealthy clan supported Li Mi of Wagangshan, Wang Shichong of Luoyang, and Dou Jiande of Hebei to repeatedly oppose the Tang Dynasty, causing war and chaos in the entire Tang Dynasty, and the people were in dire straits.

Prince Jiancheng said: "Xingyang Zheng's Zheng Guanyin is virtuous and virtuous, and she is really a rare good woman in the world. The son wanted to make her the crown princess, and asked his father to agree. ”

Emperor Li Yuan groaned and said to the crown prince: "This matter is very important, and Rong Zhen has thought about it deeply. ”

The crown prince Jiancheng left the Taiji Palace unhappy.

Emperor Li Yuan looked at the back of the crown prince who was gradually moving away, clapped his hands, and the Nighthawk Commander emerged from behind the pillar.

Emperor Li Yuan ordered: "Find out the movements of the wealthy family in Shandong, and find out why the prince wants to marry the wealthy family in Shandong?" ”

The Nighthawk Commander turned and disappeared into the Taiji Hall.

A few days later, the commander of the Nighthawk reported to Emperor Li Yuanyu: "The wealthy clan of Shandong secretly supported the traitor Liu Heimin, and was discovered by the crown prince. The crown prince Xian Ma Wei Zheng went to the mansion of Zheng Renji, the general of the Right Wuwei, hoping that the wealthy family of Shandong would give up supporting the traitor Liu Heimin and support His Royal Highness the crown prince instead. After some discussion, the wealthy family of Shandong decided to support His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. In order to get closer to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Shandong Hao family proposed a political marriage. ”

Emperor Li Yuan suddenly realized: "It turns out that behind the traitor Liu Heimin, it is the Shandong wealthy family who is supporting. These dog things, holding my Datang's Yulu, dared to secretly oppose him Datang. I'm afraid my two sons already know. A 30,000-person exterminating the traitor Liu Heimin in a month, and a 20,000-person exterminating the traitor Liu Heimin in a month, I have been wondering where they got so much confidence? It's all hidden from me. Good, good, good, all my good sons. ”

The Nighthawk Commander asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, do you want to teach the Shandong Hao clan a lesson?" ”

Emperor Li Yuan waved his hand and said: "Now that the prince is crooked, he has obtained the right to lead the army, and Wei Zheng has helped him subdue the wealthy clan in Shandong, just wait for him to destroy the traitor Liu Heimin, and his position as the prince will be stable." Now the wealthy family of Shandong is the supporter of the prince, and teaching them a lesson is to weaken the prince's wings. The prince is still too weak. ”

The Nighthawk Commander asked, "The prince is too weak?" His Majesty and His Royal Highness the King of Qi all support the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now very loud. ”

Emperor Li Yuan said: "The army is the most important thing. In the face of a heavily armed army, what use can those civilian officials who tend to be inflammatory? ”

The Nighthawk Commander asked again, "Didn't King Qin hand over the Tiger Talisman?" The crown prince controls the tiger talisman, how can the king of Qin control the army? ”

Li Yuan said: "What can a tiger talisman say, it is people who really control the army, not objects." If you are obsessed with things, you will make a big mistake. ”

With that, Emperor Li Yuan looked at the Nighthawk Commander with a slight dissatisfaction.

The Nighthawk Commander immediately kept silent, he had too many words today, he was just a knife in the emperor's hand, a knife without his own thoughts, and all actions needed to be arranged by the emperor, and he couldn't ask why. Today, he forgot his duty.

For the Nighthawk Commander, Emperor Li Yuan still trusts him very much. The Nighthawk Commander, although people don't like to use their brains, but he is cautious, meticulous, and still very loyal and trustworthy. Li Yuan said to the Nighthawk Commander: "Pay close attention to the movements of the wealthy clan in Shandong, if they dare to defect to the crown prince, they are secretly supporting the traitor Liu Heimin. I have to uproot them. "Yes." Nighthawk answered his promise, turned and vanished.

Soon, the crown prince was summoned to the Taiji Palace by Emperor Li Yuan.

Emperor Li Yuan said to the crown prince: "Xingyang Zheng Zheng Guanyin, I have inquired, and I am indeed a good match for you." Pick a day, you will marry her into the East Palace. ”

The crown prince Jiancheng said happily: "Erchen, thank you for your father's permission." ”

After that, he left the Taiji Palace happily.

A few days later, the news that the crown prince was going to marry Zheng Guanyin of the Zheng clan in Xingyang was officially announced to the entire Tang Dynasty.

In the Qin Palace, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, did not feel the slightest joy because of his brother and the prince's wedding, but his face was gloomy and seemed to be able to drip water. He knew that political marriage was a common method used by the wealthy families in Shandong. Now that the prince has received the help of the wealthy family in Shandong, the future power will inevitably be stronger, and the suppression of himself will inevitably be more violent.

Si Tiantai, one of the two sets of the Datang Supervision Agency. Si Tiantai was responsible for supervising astronomy, observing and analyzing celestial phenomena, and admonishing the emperor; The Imperial Historical Observatory is responsible for supervising hundreds of officials.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, a generation of famous Confucians, put forward the idea of "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", which was adopted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Confucianism is more of the art of the emperor, for officials, for the people have a lot of requirements, for the emperor is a lot less constraints, so Dong Zhongshu ingeniously put forward the concept of "heaven and man induction", "heaven and man unity", all kinds of strange celestial phenomena and the emperor's governance linked, and gradually formed a kind of supervision of the emperor by the courtiers and the people, and reached a political balance. Whenever a major disaster occurred, the courtiers would ask the emperor to review his administration and force the emperor to issue an edict of 'guilt'; whenever disasters were frequent and the people were struggling to make a living, the people would think that God was very dissatisfied with the emperor at that time, and they would rise up and gather people to revolt.

The highest official of Si Tiantai, Yuan Tiangang, who is the supervisor of the fifth grade, heard that the prince was married to Zheng Guanyin, and sighed and said: "The way of heaven is clear, those who follow it prosper, and those who go against it die." Everything is running according to the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao. Zheng Guanyin, unspeakably expensive, should enter the emperor's house, under one person, the prince of the Tang Dynasty above 10,000 people marries her, but unfortunately she has never been reborn through the fire and became the phoenix of the king of birds, it is the will of heaven and the number of fate. Li Xuan, the king of Yong'an, is a little strange, his life is not within the five elements, and Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, is temporarily out of the arrangement of fate because he is also temporarily out of the arrangement. Variables, Li Xuan is a variable, worthy of my careful study. ”