Chapter Ninety-Six, New Year

"She? The wife of Tang Guogong Li Jiaerlang, Changsun Shi, is also the youngest daughter of the late Changsun Sheng, the general of the Right Xiaowei. Empress Xiao looked in the direction pointed by the emperor and replied, Emperor Yang had not seen the eldest grandson and little lady before, so naturally he didn't recognize her.

"Is it General Li's daughter, Li Erlang's little wife? Call her over, and I'll see her. Emperor Yang of Sui was slightly stunned when he heard this, and spoke.

Empress Xiao glanced at the emperor, didn't say anything, raised her hand to summon the eldest grandson and little lady, and after a while, the eldest grandson and little lady came over, and she asked the emperor and queen to be in order: "The Li Mansion Changsun has seen Your Majesty and seen Niangniang." ”

"Let's be flat." Emperor Yang of Sui said slowly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The eldest grandson and little lady got up and stood up, lowered her gaze slightly, and looked at her toes.

"You are the daughter of the great general Changsun Sheng?" Emperor Yang asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes." The eldest grandson replied.

"You did a good job of bowing, except for Han Sanniang, these little ladies on the court have the best ball skills, Ruyi can narrowly win a goal, most of them are because you gave in, right?" Emperor Yang of Sui said with a smile.

"Father, what do you mean? Think your daughter's ball skills and leadership skills are not good, and she needs others to give in to win? The eldest grandson and little lady have not yet spoken, and Princess Ruyi's voice has already sounded.

"Back to Your Majesty, the princess can win, all because of the outstanding skills of the players of their team, the close cooperation between the players, and the courtiers have done their best." The eldest grandson's little lady was nervous, with a slight panic.

"Hehe, okay, you are very good, the so-called Jiangmen Humen, you have not fallen into your father's majesty, step down." Emperor Yang of Sui did not embarrass the eldest grandson and little lady, he glanced at his daughter, then looked at the eldest grandson and little lady, and waved her to retreat.

Retreating from the emperor's side, the eldest grandson and the little lady broke out in a cold sweat in her heart, knowing that she was acting a little high-profile today, if she made Princess Ruyi unhappy, or let His Majesty's eyes fall on the Li family because of this......

Fortunately, her worries did not happen, the following days were calm, the emperor did not pay attention to the Li family, and Princess Ruyi did not come to her trouble, and in November, several major events happened in the court, and the emperor had no intention to pay attention to such a small person as her.

Originally, Emperor Yang of Sui made three expeditions to Goryeo, forcing the king of Goryeo to hand over Hu Sizheng, and admitted his mistake, and was quite satisfied with this situation.

In the middle of November, Sima Chang'an broke Changpingjun, the emperor ordered to send troops to conscript, at the end of November, Lishihu Liu Miao King raised the anti-flag, proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, and named his emperor as the king of Yong'an, the emperor was furious, so that the general Pan Changwen begged for it, and could not be restrained for a while, and the war was deadlocked.

At the same time, the thief Wang Deshi gathered tens of thousands of people and occupied the mountain as the king. At the beginning of December, the emperor was benevolent and appeased the people, and issued an edict in the eastern capital to grant amnesty to the world, but this policy had little effect, and soon after the decree was promulgated, the thief marshal Meng Rang led 100,000 people to try to capture Liangdu.

The emperor sent Jiangdu County Cheng Wang Shichong to lead the troops to recruit, Wang Shichong was ordered to lead the troops to resist, with Duliang Mountain as a stronghold, set up five camp fences, the enemy and I were relative to each other and did not fight, and also threatened to retreat, and the troops showed no combat effectiveness.

Meng Rang couldn't stop laughing when he saw this: "Wang Shichong is just a petty official who can only talk and look at Wen Ling, how can he lead troops to fight?" I will capture him alive and fight him all the way to Jiangdu and Luoyang. ”

At this time, the local people lived in the army barracks, there was nothing to rob everywhere, the rebels could not find food, and they blocked the way for the camp fence, the weather was cold, and they could not march to the south for a while, so they divided their troops to surround Wang Shichong's five camp fences.

Wang Shichong sent troops to fight a game every day, and when there was a slight trend of defeat, he ran back to the camp fence, which lasted for several days, Meng Rang looked down on him even more, while sending men and horses to the south to search for property, leaving only a part of the troops to surround the camp fence.

Wang Shichong saw that the enemy relaxed his vigilance and began a counterattack, he ordered the military camp to fill in the stove pit, tear down the tents, set up a phalanx, face outward on all sides, pull out the fence, and the tigers with 100,000 troops under his command rushed towards the enemy.

The enemy army was quickly disorganized and defeated, Meng Rang quietly slipped away with dozens of people, and Wang Shichong killed more than 10,000 enemies and captured more than 100,000 people.

The emperor received the good news, and Long Yan was happy, thinking that Wang Shichong had the talent of a general, rewarded him with countless gold, silver, brocade and silk, and was named a general, and sent him to lead the troops to crusade against various small groups of rebels.

Wang Xing did not disgrace his life, all the orders he received, all of them were in the limelight, and there was no difference for a while, of course, this is a later story.

Wang Shichong defeated Meng Rang, and when the good news was transmitted back to the Eastern Capital, the time was almost the New Year, and the emperor was in a happy mood when he saw the victory of Liangdu, and he did not find trouble with the courtiers, and everyone began to prepare for the New Year happily.

On the evening of the 28th day of the lunar month, in the Tang Guogong Mansion, in the study of Guogong Li Yuan, Li Yuan gathered his two sons to his side, looked at the two and said: "You all know about the great victory of Liangdu, right?" Before, this Wang Juncheng, we all thought he was a man who slapped horses. ”

"He can follow His Majesty's side and be pampered, it is because he can observe words and looks, and can please His Majesty's mind, and now it seems that this person has great talents, can bend and stretch, can be literate and martial, what do you think about this......"

"Father, no matter how capable Wang Shichong is, it has nothing to do with us, since Yang Xuangan's incident last year, His Majesty has a lot of suspicions about his courtiers, I think the most important thing for our family to do now is to keep quiet and obedient as much as possible." The eldest son built an opening.

"I agree with the eldest brother's statement, we should indeed keep a low profile at present, and try to let His Majesty pay as little attention to us as possible, but we can't be too low-key, we have to make Your Majesty feel that we are obedient and loyal, but we can also do things." The second son, Shimin, pondered for a while before speaking.

"You can be so enlightened, I am very happy for my father, okay, the New Year is coming soon, there are a lot of miscellaneous things in the house, you all go back, by the way, Erlang, your daughter-in-law made a big show in the bow competition last month."

"If it weren't for the news of the rebels coming from all over the country in the future, Your Majesty's eyes would probably fall on our Li family, let her pay attention in the future, and try not to show off the limelight."

Seeing that the two were about to turn around and leave, Li Yuan called out to Li Erlang and told him again, saying that he was not very satisfied with the eldest grandson, the little lady, the daughter-in-law who lost her father since childhood.

But after the eldest grandson married into the Li family, he was very good at being a man, not only had a good relationship with the concubines and brothers in the family, but also was good at taking care of housework, Dou died, the emperor was dissatisfied with the family, and later the men in the family went to the battlefield with His Majesty.

The Guogong Mansion is in a dilemma in Kyoto, if it weren't for her support, Zheng's eldest sister-in-law might not be able to bear it, coupled with the incident of Yuanji's trouble, which fully made him realize that his wife Dou's vision is indeed better than his own, and this second daughter-in-law is really married right.

Because he was very satisfied with the eldest grandson and little lady in his heart, he didn't say anything when the eldest grandson and little lady were in the limelight in the royal arena, but the emperor's heart was unpredictable, and in order to avoid accidents, he had to mention a word.

"I see, father." Li Erlang answered, turned around and retreated.

Next is the New Year, but the Dou family just passed away last year, the Li family brothers are in the filial piety period, and at the beginning of this year, Xuanba died again, and it is inconvenient for the family to celebrate the New Year, but fortunately, the family can be reunited, but it has passed a year peacefully.