"Xin'er, get up by yourself!"

Seeing the fleshy Li Xin lying on the ground and looking at him after falling, Zhang Wenyi did not hesitate to stop the palace people who were going to step forward to help him, and encouraged Li Xin.

The daughter Li Ruyi stood quietly beside her mother, looking at her brother who fell to the ground.

Although they are twins, their son Li Xin and daughter Li Ruyi are not at all similar except for their appearance.

Li Xin is simply a perpetual motion machine with unlimited energy, able to stand in seven months and run around in nine months. The milk of the two nurses was not enough for him to eat alone.

Li Ruyi is a quiet and obedient girl, she opened her mouth for eight months, and the first time she spoke was called "Dad", and she was so happy that Li Zhi didn't sleep well all night.

As long as she is there, Zhang Wenyi and Li Xin will generally be ignored by Li Zhi, and playing with her daughter is a compulsory course for Li Zhi every day. Even if it is the turn of Concubine Xiao, Concubine Yu, and Concubine Su, Li Zhi will come here to see his daughter first.

Li Xin lay on the ground and watched his mother have no intention of helping him, so he had to get up from the ground and pat the dust on his body casually.

ran to Zhang Wenyi's side aggrievedly and stretched out his hand to ask for a hug. Zhang Wenyi just squatted down to look at Li Xin and reached out to hug him.

kissed his son's fat face and said, "Xin'er is so brave, she will definitely be able to protect her mother and sister when she grows up." ”

Li Xin threw himself into Zhang Wenyi's arms, hugged his mother's soft body, and did not speak sullenly. Li Ruyi walked to Li Xin's side flatteringly and gently supported his back.

After Zhang Wenyi waited for Li Xin's feelings to calm down, he asked him: "Xin'er, he is a boy, and in the future, he will be a hero like his father and uncle, who will go to the horse to level the world and rule the people." Have you ever seen a crying and squeamish hero? ”

Li Xin smiled embarrassedly in his mother's arms, he straightened up and looked at his mother and laughed twice, then turned around and ran away with his sister.

Li Ruyi used to be very well-behaved, but as long as she met Li Xin Xingxing and was willing to play with her, the little girl immediately turned into a fart worm and tried every means to keep up with her brother's pace.

Zhang Wenyi looked helplessly at the two children running on the garden lawn.

Last year, it experienced a series of events after the death of Emperor Taizong, the accession of Li Zhi to the throne, and the enthronement of Zhang Wenyi.

During this time, in addition to participating in the coronation of the queen and moving from the East Palace to the palace, Zhang Wenyi focused most of her energy on her two children.

Li Zhi has become busier since he ascended the throne, and the communication between husband and wife is much less than when he was in the East Palace. Zhang Wenyi has to take care of Li Zhi and the child, so she is naturally a lot negligent in the management of the palace.

Li Zhi saw that Zhang Wenyi's management of the harem was too lenient, so he suggested that Concubine Xiao assist in the management. Most of Concubine Xiao's two children were brought up by the palace people, and she had too much energy, so Zhang Wenyi naturally would not object.

However, Zhang Wenyi did not intend to give up her right to be the queen, and it happened that Concubine Yu and Concubine Su were not so busy, so Zhang Wenyi asked the two to also participate.

Although Concubine Yu was an assassin, the assassin was naturally proficient in the techniques of tracking, lurking, infiltrating, and assassinating, which was extremely beneficial for arranging the defense of the palace.

Concubine Su was cultivated according to the model of the eldest daughter of a wealthy family, and she was naturally good at presiding over the middle feed. As the saying goes, one person counts short, and two people count long. With Concubine Su by her side, Concubine Xiao will definitely be like a fish in water.

When there is a major event in the palace, the four people discuss and solve it, and if it is still difficult to decide, then ask Li Zhi to intervene.

Faced with Zhang Wenyi's plan, Li Zhi felt that the feasibility was very high. At present, there are only these four people in the top row in the palace, although Chu Suiliang proposed to choose nuns to enrich the harem, but this matter was vetoed by Zhang Wenyi.

Zhang Wenyi's reason for vetoing this matter is very simple: if you want to enrich the harem, who will pay for it? If this fee is from Lord Chu Suiliang Chu or the civil and military officials who agree with this matter, the queen has no opinion.

If you want to be out of the emperor's private money bag, I'm sorry I don't have any money. Shaofu's money has to maintain the personnel in the palace, and the maintenance of the palace has to repair the Daming Palace, and the money in Shaofu is not enough at all.

If your ministers have to be drafted, then the money should come from the household department.

As soon as the queen said this, Hubu Shangshu was the first to be anxious. In recent years, the Tang Dynasty army has spent countless money on the east and west to kill soldiers, and the rewards of grain and grass have spent countless money, and the expenses of building cities, controlling water, repairing bridges, opening roads, etc. are huge. The household treasury is empty all year round, and it is beyond the reach of the household department to list the harem draft and maintain the daily expenses of these people.

Chu Suiliang proposed to increase the endowment, and Li Zhi asked how to increase the endowment, how much he was going to increase, how to increase it, and how to implement the charter.

Ancient officials really didn't know anything about mathematics, like Chu Suiliang, who was endowed with poetry and songs, had no specific concept of numbers, and it was okay for him to give him a rough answer to Li Zhi's question.

Compared with other courtiers, the household officials had a much better concept of numbers, but when they heard Li Zhi's question, they immediately realized that the new emperor was more powerful than the old emperor in this regard, and they should be careful in the future.

With Chu Suiliang's dumb fire, the matter of the court draft was put on hold.

The second thing is that the new monarch proposed by the eldest grandson Wuji to succeed to the throne should reduce taxes and amnesty the world, and this matter has also become a reward for hundreds of officials and tax reductions under Zhang Wenyi's intervention.

The reason there is no amnesty is that since these criminals have been found guilty, then they should pay for their actions. Moreover, these people are all factors of social instability, and if they are not done well in the world at will, they will become a great chaos.

Li Zhi felt that what Zhang Wenyi said was good, so he turned the amnesty into a reward for hundreds of officials. Since everyone has money to take, then there is no amnesty for the world, and the courtiers are naturally embarrassed to object.

The few who tried to grant amnesty to the world had no choice but to silence in the face of opposition from the new monarch and most of the courtiers. Moreover, the reasons for opposing amnesty are still relatively sufficient, and these people are even more difficult to insist on.

However, Li Zhi's attitude aroused the vigilance of the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang, who were both ministers arranged by Li Shimin. The recital of the two was also decent and did not go beyond the scope of the past, but Li Zhi rejected the recital of the two one after another, which was obviously a move to show the imperial power and suppress the relative power.

So what exactly was Li Zhi thinking? Is it to monopolize power? Because there is the shadow of the queen in both things, especially the recital against Chu Suiliang, the queen even jumped out to oppose it in person.

According to the understanding of Li Zhi, he is relatively weak, not like a person who is eager to take power, so the two of them invariably turned their attention to Queen Zhang Wenyi.

However, what is surprising is that in addition to the two things of the draft and the amnesty of the world, Zhang Wenyi has been shrinking in the harem to teach her husband and children, and she even lets go of the management of the harem and takes care of the other three concubines together.

If it weren't for the previous two things, Zhang Wenyi's current style would be completely a virtuous woman from a good family. But the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang didn't dare to think so, as veteran politicians, both of them really felt the threat of the queen.

Lingnan's Ja Jie finally got a letter, and it was basically Chen Juan who kept in touch with the palace all these years. Ja Jie's personal letter explained that the matter was more complicated, and Chen Juan was no longer able to accurately express the original meaning.

The gist of Ja Jie's letter is: As expected by the queen, the eight major families of Lingnan basically control the land, population and maritime trade of Lingnan, and most of the local government offices are bought by these eight families.

Over the years, Ja Jie has fought endlessly with the eight major families, but he has never gained the upper hand. If it weren't for the army in hand, I'm afraid that he, the envoy, would have been driven out of Lingnan by the Eight Great Families a long time ago.

Although his subordinates had developed the most advanced 320-material ship, they were unable to convert the results into money because there was no one to order them. And because of the huge amount of money spent on the trial production of the big ship, now the Changle Jingluo Mansion is beyond its means, and the queen needs to find a way to make up for the shortfall.

In the evening, Zhang Wenyi handed over the letter from Jay Jie to Li Zhi to see, and after reading it for the first time, Li Zhi absentmindedly returned the letter to Zhang Wenyi, saying, "The queen can just look at it herself." ”

At noon the next day, Li Zhi came back to re-read the letter, and when he came back in the evening, he asked Zhang Wenyi seriously about his plans.

Zhang Wenyi said to Li Zhi very unhappily: "Your Majesty, the concubine handed over this letter to you, and you still haven't understood what the concubine meant?" ”

Li Zhi frowned and said, "Of course I know that this is your loyalty to me and the Tang Dynasty. ”

Zhang Wenyi is still very happy that Li Zhi can understand his own heart.

She stood up, walked to Li Zhi's side, looked at him and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine said that you are the concubine's heaven, the concubine's only relative in the palace, and everything about the concubine." However, His Majesty was never able to fully trust his concubines. ”

Li Zhi walked back and forth in front of Zhang Wenyi for a few steps, turned his head, and said, "It's not that I want to doubt you, it's just that why are you so interested in provoking Jie?" No matter how strong the troops are, once they become bigger, they will inevitably lose their tails. ”

Zhang Wenyi said with a straight face: "Doesn't the situation in Lingnan have a little enlightenment for Your Majesty? ”

Li Zhi looked at Zhang Wenyi and saw her calmness. Only then did he say: "The situation in Lingnan is very similar to that of the Tang Dynasty, where wealthy families control a large number of land and population, and the treasury is becoming increasingly empty. The Western Regions is the lifeblood of the entire imperial court, and in order to maintain this lifeline, the imperial court has to rely on the Guanlongshi people. However, the Guan Longshi people gradually became bigger, and now that the government is controlled by them, I am gradually unable to do it. However, if the Guanlongshi people are attacked, it will be difficult to protect the Western Regions. ”

Zhang Wenyi didn't expect so much, for her, "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" This is an unbreakable truth that has been proven by later generations.

It is also a reflection of this truth that Ja Jie has not fallen so far, but the situation in Datang is definitely much more severe than Zhang Wenyi expected.