On July 17 of the ninth year of Wude, Lingzhou was in an emergency!

Yu Shot led tens of thousands of iron horsemen to drive tens of thousands of people near Wucheng to besiege Lingzhou, Lingzhou Governor, Rencheng County King Li Daozong because of the previous receipt of the will from Chang'an, had to set off into Chang'an when Yu Shot set up Chen Bing south of the Yellow River, resulting in the entire Lingzhou group of dragons without a leader, can only take the strategy used before Li Daozong left, avoid the city and trap it, resulting in the entire Lingzhou outside the city of Lingtu carbon, the people are displaced and lost, and there are heavy casualties!

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Because of the inconvenient transportation and incomplete information in ancient times, Chang'an, which was more than a thousand miles away at this time, did not know about Lingzhou at all.

After Li Chengming got up early, he went to the main hall to worship Li Yuan as usual.

The mourning period of Emperor Daxing lasted twenty-seven days, and all the civil and military officials and edicts had to enter the palace to worship according to the rules.

Li Chengming's current identity is actually equivalent to that of the crown prince, and yesterday, the edict of Li Yuan's dying had been sent, so according to the custom, he needed to stay in the palace and answer the people who came to worship Li Yuan.

Of course, with his current status, coupled with the fact that this is a special period, not only the entire palace, but also the entire Chang'an is already under his control, plus Li Yuan's edict before his death, he has actually become the rightful controller of this empire, so no one is so unsightly that he wants to kneel on the ground to answer.

Sitting on the bed on the side, Li Chengming looked carefully at these people who came to worship Li Yuan, after all, these people can come to worship Li Yuan, which proves that they almost belong to the upper class of this empire, that is, his courtiers who will control this empire in the future, as the future controller of this empire, if he doesn't know him, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous.

Even, in order to get to know these people, Li Chengming directly asked Wang Jue to come over and secretly mention it, as for why not call Xiao Yu and Wei Zheng?

This is naturally because the tempers of these two people are too stinky and too hard, if they let them handle political affairs, it is relatively easy, and if they are allowed to come over and accompany him, Li Chengming is afraid that he may shoot them to death when he will shoot them to death.

On the contrary, it is Wang Qi among the three, after getting along for the past few days, Li Chengming found that this Wang Jue's handling ability is not only no less than Xiao Yu and Wei Zheng, but the most important point is that Wang Jue, the old man, is much more interesting than Xiao Yu and Wei Zheng.

The first to come to worship is naturally the Li Tang clan, these are the old people of the old Li family, but they don't have any real power, that is, the clan elders of the family, if they open any clan meeting or something, these people have a little power, but if they are outside the Li family, there will be no more, at most they can put on the tiger skin of a royal family.

The previous patriarch of the Li family was actually Li Yuan, after all, he used to be the emperor of the entire empire, not only prestige, but also strength, and no one who was not afraid of death dared to oppose Li Yuan as the patriarch.

However, now that Li Yuan is dead, Li Shimin is dead, and Li Jiancheng is dead, only Li Chengming, a child who looks like he is only six or seven years old, is left.

Li Chengming naturally didn't know about this.

After the worship in the clan, and then there were Li Yuan's concubines and the like, these people began to cry and cry as soon as they came in, making the entire spiritual hall noisy.

Li Chengming didn't like this very much, and after they worshipped, Li Chengming directly waved his hand and asked people to take them out, and those who didn't go out were knocked out.

I have to say that Li Yuan, this old guy, is really old and strong, and there are more than a dozen of his concubines who can be named, and this is not counting any talents, show girls and the like, otherwise dozens or hundreds of people can't stop.

The so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, for these concubines, Li Chengming also has a way to deal with them, in fact, it is very simple, just like the previous dynasties, directly make a big hall and put these people in, which is the so-called cold palace.

Li Chengming doesn't have the habit of masochism, he even killed Li Yuan, can he still keep a lot of imperial grandmothers?

Next is Li Yuan's sons and daughters, yes, Li Yuan's old guy is simply the reincarnation of a stallion, there are a total of 22 sons and 19 daughters in history, although many of them are born after Li Yuan, but even now, in addition to Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, Li Yuanji's four sons-in-law, there are eight concubines, and there are twelve daughters.

After these people came in, Li Chengming found that there were a few eyes that were not very honest, and he must have been a little dissatisfied with him taking over the throne as a little kid, and he might even have secretly planned something.

However, Li Chengming didn't care about these, he even Li Yuan and Li Shimin, and a few small shrimps that even Li Shimin couldn't compare, Li Chengming said that he could take them all down with one hand.

It's fine if these people stay honest, but if they dare to make trouble for themselves, Li Chengming doesn't mind sacrificing butcher's knives to these cheap uncles and uncles.

Next is the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, in fact, since the change of Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate, for more than a month, most of the people have taken refuge in Li Shimin, but in the past few days, after the three Wei Zheng and some of the benefits handed over by these people, Li Chengming also released them and reinstated them.

In fact, Li Chengming also wants to kill all these two-faced people, but under the actual situation, it is not allowed at all, unless he wants the entire Tang Dynasty to be chaotic now, or he can immediately find someone who can take over them, otherwise he can only release some of them to let them control the government.

The so-called politics is the exchange of compromise and interests.

If he didn't sit in this position now, he could have killed these people directly, but since he was in this position, then he couldn't act willfully, his words and deeds were no longer just himself, but related to millions of Tang people in the world.

However, this incident also gave Li Chengming some wake-up call, so that he planned to put some things that he originally planned to do in the future on the agenda.

The time of the day passed quickly, Li Chengming returned to the dormitory with his head that was a little dizzy by remembering the names of those people, and as soon as he walked in, a gust of incense blew in his face, and two delicate-looking, and identical sisters greeted him, and saluted, "Your Highness, you are back, the meal is ready, can you eat a little first?" ”

Li Chengming looked up at the two sisters, it was the Miaoxuan and Miaoyu that he received in Huixian County before, Li Chengming was still nostalgic, although the two sisters did not serve him for a long time, but Li Chengming did not forget them, after the palace was laid, he let the two people take them to the palace.

After all, he is also unfamiliar with life in this palace, and there are two more familiar maidservants around him.