In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan, a lot of major events happened for Li Longji in this year.

First of all, in the court, since Yao Chong, Song Jing, Zhang Jiuling and other three helped Datang jump up and become the three virtuous ministers of the unprecedented Tang Empire, Datang ushered in a new prime minister.

is very able to figure out the mind of today's saint Li Longji, and is mature and experienced Li Linfu, Prime Minister Li Dacheng.

In May this year, Li Longji named Li Linfu as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and at the same time paid homage to the prime minister.

Li Longji has nothing to say about making Li Linfu prime minister, although he has also heard of Li Linfu's reputation over the years, in fact, he doesn't need to hear about it, don't look at Li Longji is forty-nine years old this year, and he is already an old man with gray temples, but his discerning eye has never changed.

has the talent of the prime minister, but there is no virtue of the prime minister, the mouth is honey, the belly sword, and the meat hob. Li Longji knew that this was an outsider's evaluation of Li Linfu, and he also agreed, because in his opinion, Li Linfu was such a person.

But so what? There is the talent of the prime minister, but there is no virtue of the prime minister.

Could it be that he, Li Longji, wants to find a pig-headed three good people who don't know anything to be the prime minister of his Tang Dynasty?

Therefore, in Li Longji's view, it doesn't matter what Li Linfu's virtue is, what he wants is his talent, and what he values is Li Linfu's ability to govern the country! Moreover, if a person is not a sage, it is not a big deal for Li Linfu to lose his virtue, anyway, as long as there is his own emperor above, Li Linfu will not dare to go too far.

This is Li Longji, the current Li Longji, the Tang Ming Emperor who created the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, a ...... Conceited to the extreme, a man who still thinks he is still as young as a wise and martial man.

The conceited man didn't care about Li Linfu's virtue at all, and he didn't care at all whether Li Linfu would make any big mess in the future, because he was still there, and his wise and martial Tang Minghuang was still pressing on Li Linfu's shoulders, and he didn't dare to play any tricks with me if he had ten guts.

I have to say that after creating the prosperous era of Kaiyuan and the endless prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji has changed day by day.

In fact, in the past few years, he has not been as diligent as before, and he has been a lot lazy, but he is still as confident as before, and he is as good at knowing people as before...... Hehe, but now he is not a good person, but blindly arrogant, blindly thinking that he sees people accurately, and blindly thinking that he is still as capable as when he was young.

But in any case, the current Li Longji is not too mediocre, and even the current one is not mediocre, but he is a little lazy and blindly arrogant, in addition, he is still the Tang Ming Emperor who is praised by the people.

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Li Longji, who had gray temples, sat in front of the bookcase in Daming Palace, criticizing the chapter, Li Linfu had just been sealed, I have to say that he did a very good job, as soon as he ascended to the position of prime minister, he proposed several reform measures for the benefit of the country and the people, Li Longji was very satisfied after reading his performance, and secretly thought in his heart that he really did not see the wrong person.

"Yuan Yi, is there anything interesting about this Chang'an recently?" Li Longji, who was beginning to look old, put down the music in his hand and asked lightly.

Gao Lishi, who was also much older, arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, nothing interesting has happened recently, but the slave maid heard that some time ago, several big food vendors and Tubo merchants somehow fought in the city, it seems that it is because of the problem of prices." ”

Li Longji smiled, "These foreign traders know how to compete for some small profits every day, and I don't feel ashamed when I hear that they can even argue with women for a penny for a penny." Alas, the Tang Dynasty is a dignified Heavenly Empire, and to these foreign people in the state should show the majesty and demeanor of the kingdom, tell the people of the city to teach those brawling merchants a good lesson, and then reduce their taxes by two percent, and they are always fighting for these little things. ”

"Your Majesty is merciful, and the slaves and maids thank Your Majesty for those traders." Gao Lishi patted Li Longji's ass, and at the same time he leaned on Li Longji's ear and whispered, "Your Majesty, you haven't seen a few beauties sent from Tubo Dashi some time ago, if Your Majesty finishes handling state affairs, do you want to go and see them, after all, they are also sent by those small countries to honor Your Majesty." ”

Li Longji smiled slightly, brushing the white beard on his chin, "I've been diligent in political affairs recently, but I forgot about them, but ......" Li Longji was a little embarrassed, but the embarrassment was quickly swept away, "That's it, I've been tired for so many years, it's time to relax, Yuan Yi, arrange for me to visit those exotic beauties tonight." ”

"No." Colliers smiled imperceptibly.

At this time, Li Longji suddenly patted Gao Lishi's shoulder and said with a light smile: "To be honest, how much benefit did you dog slave take from them?" ”

Gao Lishi was slightly stunned, quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and said in a trembling voice: "The slave is guilty, please punish Your Majesty." ”

"Okay, okay, stand up, you and I have been a monarch for so many years, so you don't have to say these words, after all, we ...... It's different from ordinary people. The expression on Li Longji's face deepened a lot.

"Collecting money to do things, this is a natural thing, and I am not stupid, not to mention, I have not done this kind of thing before. Yuan Yi, you have been with me for so many years, and it is nothing for you to receive a little bribe, and I don't care. But I just want to remind you that gold and silver things are not brought by life and death, and it is really useless to ask for so much, so it will be a little more in the future. Li Longji criticized Colliers in a way that he chatted with an old friend.

"The slave obeys."

Colliers is obviously used to it, and as Li Longji said, their relationship is indeed extraordinary.

"What's the matter, let's talk about it for me, hey, by the way, how is Xuanli doing? Didn't his youngest son pass away a few years ago, I remember that he didn't go to court for two months because of the death of his youngest son, and even if his mood improved later, I rarely saw him again. After a simple tap on Gao Lishi, Li Longji asked about the condition of his confidant, Chen Xuanli.

Li Longji is a good subordinate and a good emperor, and he is very concerned about the recent situation of his courtiers.

Gao Lishi thought for a while and said: "General Chen has been doing well recently, but it may be because the death of his young son has hit him harder, and over the years, General Chen has been relatively depressed. ”

Li Longji sighed, "It's okay for you to visit Xuanli on my behalf these days, and go to the treasury to pick up some gifts by the way, if Xuanli has anything urgent, you can also send it to him, and tell him that people can't always live in the past, they have to ......" Li Longji's words suddenly stopped, and his eyes looked at a volume of poems next to his desk, which was her poems.

Hehe, people can't always live in the past...... Why isn't this the case with him?

Is it really so easy to forget the past?

No, no.

"By the way, Your Majesty, a few days ago, King Shou and Princess Shou sent you some gifts, because His Majesty was dealing with state affairs, so the slave maid let King Shou and Princess Shou leave first, and the gifts sent by King Shou are not strange things, they are just ordinary objects, and the slave and maid have been included in the treasury." Colliers said with his head bowed.

I heard Gao Lishi mention King Shou and Princess Shou, oh no, only Princess Shou.

Thinking of the daughter-in-law in the white dress who had only met once, Li Longji couldn't help touching his chin, and a kind smile appeared on his face, the child was good, good-looking, and very knowledgeable, but ...... But somehow, the more he thought about Yang Yuhuan's face, Li Longji felt a little strange, and his heart couldn't help jumping a few times.

He always felt that something was wrong with Yang Yuhuan, not that she was wrong, but ...... It's that Li Longji can always feel a trace of familiarity in her, as if he has seen her before, and even talked to her.

But Li Longji knew that it was impossible, the year Yang Yuhuan was born was the year when he had just ascended the throne, and it was impossible for them to meet each other at all, but ..... But why does it always feel like the kid is a little familiar?

Too much time has passed, and with the passage of time, only a vague appearance remains in Li Longji's mind.

Over the years, for the sake of Datang, in order to turn Datang into a powerful empire, he has almost forgotten her, but it doesn't matter, people can forget, but as long as Yang Yuhuan dances once in front of him, Li Longji will remember everything.

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"Okay, if there's nothing to do, you can step back first, I have something to figure out by myself." Li Longji waved his hand and asked Gao Lishi to step back and sit on the dragon chair by himself to think about things.

Although he is beginning to look old, Li Longji is still the handsome and abnormal Li Sanlang back then, and time not only did not make him ugly, but also made him a little more charming as a mature man.

But now he, the emperor sitting on the dragon chair, is not so good-looking.

At this moment, Li Longji is not so mediocre, and he is even a wise emperor, and this is also the reason why his face is ugly.

Over the years, he felt that his Datang seemed to have changed a little, and something had become wrong. Li Longji himself can't say this kind of change, but he only knows that his Datang seems to be changing, not developing on the good side, but on the bad side.

This is also the reason why Li Longji knocked on Colliers today, if in the past he would not have cared about these little things at all, but today, he has to take care of it, and he has to remind Colliers to relent.

Intuition told Li Longji that if he didn't do something about it, Datang ....... I'm afraid I'll fall into a place of no return.

But he still doesn't know why Datang fell into a place of no return? He couldn't even say what had changed in Datang, it was just his intuition.

This is just his keenest instinct as an emperor.

And this intuition is also the most terrifying, even the most sensitive.

Tang Minghuang is wise, at least for now, and the real reason why he feels that something is wrong with Datang was last year.

Last year, in the twenty-first year of Kaiyuan, Yao Chong, the generation of virtuous ministers who helped him create the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, died of illness.

However, Li Longji did not believe that he died of illness, because ...... Because Yao Chong could still enter the palace to play chess with him the day before, he received the news of Yao Chong's death the next night.

It is said that Yao Chong died of a sudden blood disease.

But why did some family members hear Yao Chong screaming on the night of his death?

When the servants arrived in the study, they found Yao Chong dead.

Intuition told Li Longji that Yao Chong's death was wrong, but he ordered someone to investigate for several months without any results, and in the end, the matter was over.

Li Longji stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, his face becoming more and more solemn.

It's not just because of Yao Chong's death, although the Tang Dynasty seems to be singing and dancing on the surface over the years, and it is a prosperous scene, Li Longji understands from the bottom of his heart that it has changed, and his Datang is changing little by little, and the speed of this change is very fast!

Invisibly, there seems to be a black hand enveloping Datang, and that black hand is pushing his Datang into the abyss little by little, little by little.

Li Longji still didn't know anything, and he didn't connect these things to people at all.

More than 20 years have passed, and he can't even remember what the girl he once loved looks like, let alone the waste he hated to the bone, the waste that he drove crazy with his own hands.

He had long forgotten him, maybe he would still think of Huang Xiaowei in the first few years after he ascended the throne, but now....... Decades have passed, how can he still remember him, occasionally remember, in exchange for a faint smile.