Chapter 37: Triumph
The Guanlong nobles, the Shandong Wang clan, and the Jiangzuo scholars, no matter how they fought with each other, would eventually pose a threat to the imperial power, and the most fundamental threat came from the land.
Li Shimin suddenly felt that he had grasped the root of the problem, but what should be done to make land no longer the greatest threat to imperial power?
After pondering and meditating, he still couldn't find a practical way, and Li Shimin walked around the room irritably. Since the death of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin feels that he is much older. In many cases, I have no intention of doing political affairs, and even if I want to do something, I will often give up halfway due to lack of ideas.
Now he is almost seizing the threat of the wealthy family to the imperial power once and for all, but his thinking is broken. This made Li Shimin extremely angry, and just when he was almost on the verge of going berserk, a pair of small hands pressed on his temples and gently massaged him, helping him relieve his emotions.
"Xu Hui," Li Shimin called her name softly.
The girl responded with a "hmm", did not speak, but concentrated on massaging Li Shimin until his mood calmed down.
This is the woman who is most like the eldest grandson queen! can be appeased in time when she is close to rage, Zhang Wenyi is just a little girl.
In Xu Hui's exclamation, Li Shimin picked her up and strode towards the dragon bed behind.
Looking at the direction in which Li Shimin was walking, Xu Hui knew what was going to happen next. Since entering the palace, Li Shimin has often come to her to talk about poetry and songs, especially His Majesty has a beautiful flying white body. He is an emperor immediately, and he can still have such a good literary style.
In front of Li Shimin, her talent seems to have become a small skill of carving insects, and there seems to be nothing in the world that he doesn't know, Xu Hui unconsciously fell into a fanatical worship.
However, His Majesty has taken care of her, and Li Shimin has never been messy with her since entering the palace, mainly because of her age. Xu Hui was actually looking forward to this, but today it happened too suddenly.
Xu Hui was in a trance for a while, and only reacted after a while: "Why do you want to become Your Majesty's woman?!" Xu Hui thought shyly, almost subconsciously hugged Li Shimin's neck and buried his head in his shoulder socket......
The days passed day by day in the dullness of the occasional small waves, and the expedition of the Tang army seemed to have become a knife to kill chickens, and along the way it was like a bamboo to annihilate Gao Changguo in one fell swoop.
What is surprising is that all the generals are willing to give the first credit to Li Zhi, and people are impressed by his ability to allocate grain and grass. Li Zhi is a newcomer, this can't be faked, in the initial period of time, Li Zhi still made a lot of jokes because of laymen. However, he entered the role very quickly, and it didn't take long for him to become familiar with the process of grain and grass allocation.
In the whole war, none of the armies were hungry because of the lack of food and grass, and the expeditionary army unanimously believed that His Royal Highness the King of Jin had worked hard and was the first to win the war.
As the emperor who once conquered the world, Li Shimin absolutely did not believe that Li Zhi had such a talent, he repeatedly vetoed Li Zhi's request to make the first contribution, and he even issued an order to reprimand Hou Junji, the commander of the three armies, and Qi Bi, the general manager of the marching army. As a result, the two of them petitioned for guilt, and along with the petition came a plea letter from the officers and men of the three armies.
It was only at this time that Li Shimin really believed in Li Zhi's talent, so he was very happy to let Zhang Wenyi cook a table of dishes and call the prince, King Wei, and Jinyang Xincheng sisters to get drunk in Jinyang's dormitory.
The day of the return of the army is getting closer and closer, and the entire Chang'an City is talking about the battle of destroying the country on this expedition of the Tang Army. Zhang Wenyi will sort out Li Zhi's clothes from beginning to end every day.
Caiyi expressed extreme incomprehension of Zhang Wenyi's demented performance, King Jin is always coming back, it's useless to be anxious now, people are still on the way. This really doesn't look like the shrewd Princess Jin when she subdued her.
The army is finally about to enter the city, and this time it was Zhang Wenyi who took the initiative to avoid it. Caiyi hated her so much that iron could not become steel, and the reason why Zhang Wenyi did not go to the welcoming ceremony was that she had grown taller, and she was afraid that her height would affect his image if she was taller than King Jin.
The army entered the city with gongs and drums and firecrackers. The cheers of the crowd were deafening, and even Zhang Wenyi, who was in the depths of the palace, could hear it.
Li Zhi rode a war horse in clear armor and walked at the forefront of the team, originally his height was a cut behind a group of halberd-wielding men, which was very eye-catching.
I don't know who said: "This is His Royal Highness King Jin!" ”
So screams broke out on the side of the road, and women's ornaments such as sachets, handkerchiefs, and hydrangeas flew towards Li Zhi like raindrops. Li Zhi, who was attacked, did not panic, although he blushed, he still waved around.
Li Zhi's demeanor suddenly made the screams of the surrounding women doubly loud, and all kinds of items flew out more densely than just now, Li Zhi squatted and stood still, smiling to meet all this.
Li Shimin, who was watching the ceremony on the Chengtian Gate, heard the noise of people in the distance, and didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly sent someone to investigate. After a while, the forbidden army who went out to investigate came back to report that the king of Jin had been warmly welcomed by the women of Chang'an, and Li Shimin laughed when he heard the words and thought of Li Zhi's embarrassment and the ministers.
The crown prince Li Chengqian and the king of Wei, Li Tai, glanced at each other, with a disdainful smile on the corner of their mouths. The Tang Dynasty has now entered the era of Wenzhi, and military merit is no longer so important. Even if Li Zhi is in the limelight again, it will be nothing more than that, and he will be forgotten by people in a few days.
Li Chengqian didn't mind this, because Hou Junji, the commander of this expedition to the west, and Niu Jinda, the general, were both vassals of the East Palace, and their meritorious service played a very big role in consolidating his position as the crown prince.
Li Tai, the king of Wei, has always been not interested in military exploits, he is famous for his writings, and the compilation of the "Chronicles of the Ancient Lands" compiled by him is nearing the end, and the emperor can be presented after the proofreading is completed, and this credit is greater than the western expedition.
The 200,000-strong expedition to Gaochang with a population of less than 50,000, although the high-level knew that at this time in order to prevent the Turks from making trouble, but after all, in the eyes of outsiders, it was a stone to hit the egg, and the Tang army had never conquered Hulu more than 100,000 in the past, so this battle was somewhat of a victory.
When they were about to reach Chengtianmen, the formation of the Tang army entering the city changed, and the commander Hou Junji and his people came out of the crowd and walked in front of Li Zhi. They were the main generals of this battle, and there was no mistake in these orders when meeting His Majesty.
Zhang Wenyi knew that the ceremony of entering the city would not end for a while, so she could only suppress the mood of being anxious to see Li Zhi, and took the palace maids to tidy up the dormitory again, and went to the kitchen to rearrange the dishes to be cooked.
Everyone knew that the princess was cowardly in her hometown, and everyone was secretly funny, and they all cooperated with her to work blindly for a day. When it was time to hold the lamp, Li Zhi had not come back, and everyone looked at Zhang Wenyi, who was leaning against the door, and couldn't help but secretly feel guilty.
After the entrance ceremony, there was a celebration banquet, and all civil and military officials would participate, Zhang Wenyi thought that Li Zhi would come back relatively late, but he didn't expect it to be so late.
Caiyi was closest to Zhang Wenyi, watching her keep pulling the handkerchief in her hand, as if she had a grudge against it. I heard her muttering something in a barely audible voice, and hurriedly signaled the other palace maids to silence.
Listening attentively, I finally heard clearly, Zhang Wenyi kept saying: "This one has no conscience, this one has no conscience"
Caiyi hesitated for a moment, but still told Zhang Wenyi's words to the palace maids in dumb language. The palace maids who knew what the princess was talking about did not laugh, they could understand the princess's mood at the moment.
In the year when King Jin was away, their lives did not receive special attention from Li Shimin, and they were also His Majesty's sisters-in-law, and the use in the palace of King Jin could not be compared with King Wei at all. Their lives are not much better than those five-grade talents, and the princess has to take care of Princess Jinyang's sisters every day.
They were a little indignant, but the princess never cared about this, she always happily persuaded everyone: "Actually, we are already good, I have had more difficult days, these are nothing, it is better than the days when the common people can't eat enough." ”
Everyone knows that this is not a question of whether life is bitter or not, but that this life is too aggrieved. In the past two days, King Jin is coming back, and their living standards have improved a lot, and the regulated clothes, food, and monthly rules can be distributed normally.
It was easy to look forward to the army entering the city, but the king of Jin did not return for a long time, so it is no wonder that the princess waited anxiously.
When the time was almost approaching, Zhang Wenyi gave up waiting, maybe Li Zhi stayed elsewhere tonight. Due to the problem of her background, the people in the palace often did not take her seriously, and the matter of Li Zhi staying elsewhere and no one coming to pay homage had happened before.
Just as he was about to let everyone retreat to rest, they heard a noise outside the door, and strangely enough, in addition to human voices, there was also the sound of rippling metal.
When he saw Li Zhi's figure finally appear at the gate of the palace, Zhang Wenyi, who was still full of resentment just now, suddenly lifted her skirt and rushed towards Li Zhi.
Li Zhi was wearing a suit of armor and wanted to show his wife his military appearance, but he couldn't help but throw a soft body into his arms. Fortunately, this more than a year of military career has made him stronger, and if he had been put in the past, he would have been knocked over.
Smelling the familiar body fragrance, of course Li Zhi knew who it was, and he hugged Zhang Wenyi with his backhand. Regardless of the pain in the armor, Zhang Wenyi firmly hugged Li Zhi's waist, as if he was afraid that he would disappear as soon as he let go.
Just now, I was thinking about whether to let Li Zhi kneel on the couch or think of a top ten torture to deal with him, but as soon as I saw people, these messy thoughts ran out of the clouds. secretly scolded "cheap", and turned his head to become: cheap is cheap, anyway, my man is back.
Looking at Li Zhi, who was half a head taller than himself, Zhang Wenyi began to regret not attending the ceremony when the Tang Army entered the city. In fact, Zhang Wenyi's worries are not unreasonable, her height is indeed much taller than girls of the same age. If Li Zhi's height is still as high as before, it is difficult to say that Zhang Wenyi's height will not surpass him.