Chapter 237: The True Colors of the Minister
And as soon as he got on the boat and entered the warehouse, dozens of familiar faces immediately appeared in front of his eyes. "My subordinates have seen His Highness!" "Haha...... Does this king think that you are on standby in Golden State? I didn't expect to get on board early! Well, there's no need to be so polite, and I'm not an outsider, I haven't seen your brothers for a few years, and you're becoming more and more sophisticated, and you're a bit of a general! Let's all sit down and talk! ”
Li Mao patted his life as he spoke, iron hand, ruthless...... A few shoulders and heads look unusually calm on their expressions! But compared to him, the original guards of the Shouwang Mansion had already burst into tears of excitement after seeing the old master, especially the iron hand, a guy who was rigid on the outside and soft on the inside, even cried like a girl, but no one laughed at him in this situation.
"Okay, okay, you are all grandfathers, why are you still such a mother-in-law, isn't this king good? In the past few years, I haven't watched you by my side, and I don't know how happy I have been? Do you think you gave the name of the King of Freedom for nothing? ”
"Your Highness, don't talk about it, none of your subordinates know about the pain in your heart! It's just that you have suffered such a great grievance, and you can hold back without saying a word, and the brothers are really upset for you! To say something disrespectful, the saint is obviously jealous of your high merit, he is unloading the mill and killing the donkey! If you hadn't led your brothers in a bloody battle on the Tubo Plateau and fought wits and courage against the tigers in the Turkic hinterland, would our border defense of the Tang Dynasty be so bitter today? More than half of the 500,000 border troops disarmed their armor and returned to the field to enjoy the joy of reunion, isn't this all your ......"
"Chase for your life! How have you become so worldly, what is worth it or not, this king has always done things with one heart, and whoever wants this credit will take it! This king is not rare, but now there are people who are even the king's wife and children, this thing of doing the turtle king is really no longer able to do this king, do you say that this king can continue to endure it? ”
Li Mao laughed and threw out such a shocking secret, so everyone present, including the still crying iron hand, immediately stopped breathing, and then as the boss's pursuit, his eyes widened a little in disbelief, and Li Mao said again, "Your Highness, do you mean that the princess is ......?" "Yes, now, this king can't care about any face, although this first beauty of the Tang Dynasty is hugged by this king, but some people are greedy!" And this greedy man is actually a saint...... Ha ha...... Brothers, don't you think this is a big joke! This king and I are dedicated to the country and the people, but in the end I can't even protect my wife, who is going to reason with this......"
At the end of Li Mao's words, his eyes were almost bloodshot, and in anger, he picked up the teacup and smashed it directly on the floor in the warehouse.
After seeing Li Mao's move, the four guards with dozens of subordinates also got up and clasped their fists almost at the same time, and then knelt at Li Mao's feet, shouting in unison, "The subordinates are willing to be driven by His Highness, and they will not give up, and they will not give up their deaths...... The shouts drowned in the canal with the sound of the water, and the building boat seemed to be more and more stable at this time.
In the blink of an eye, Li Longji's birthday, the folk commonly known as the Tianchang Festival also passed in a hurry, and at this moment, it has already been a month and a half since Li Mao left Chang'an and Kyoto to go north, An Lushan Shi Siming and other local generals who came to congratulate him are successively on the way back to the station, of course, An Lushan, Li Longji's favorite of the heart, is still very honored to get the supreme glory of the imperial study. After listening to An Lushan's account of a few disobedient Liao tribes who swept across the border, Li Longji even rewarded An Fatzi with his royal sable fur cloak on a whim when he returned to the beggar tribe.
However, what is even more surprising is that when An Lushan and other generals of the Fan clan left Chang'an, in addition to hundreds of personal guards to follow, more than 3,000 young generals who graduated from the martial arts academy were added! Such a grand scene and unexpected operation really hooked the curiosity of the people of Chang'an, and it took more than half a month to talk about it before it slowly lowered.
In addition to logistics and supplies, Li Mao is asking for people, cars and horses, Luoyang, and several major cotton clothing manufacturers in Taiyuan were also received by the orders placed by the imperial court, so a large number of female workers were recruited in Chang'an City, and the treatment and benefits simply made those rough old men who made a living by selling coolies couldn't help but shed tears of envy.
"Zhang Xiang! It's been almost two months since King Xiaoyao went north, why haven't I seen any report from the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate! More than 100,000 stone of grain has already been delivered, as well as cotton clothes and medicines, which seem to exceed the budget of the Ministry of War! King Anxin and King Xiaoyao are old acquaintances, and he is now in charge of the military department, but whatever His Highness asks, he can do anything! Isn't this something to be explained to the saints? ”
"Master Pei, the military is the biggest in the country, in the previous period, my Tang Dynasty used troops on the Silla Peninsula many times, all in vain and the food and salary consumed are more than millions! Originally, the prime minister also did not approve of the saint's eagerness to crusade against the small kingdom of Silla, but later the center discussed the importance of the geographical location of the Silla Peninsula, as well as the key to my Tang Dynasty's overseas trade in the future, and the prime minister also seems to feel that there is some reason. I thought I was going to meet the saint just in time, and I would tell you all about what your household had played......"
"Okay, then there is Lao Zhang Xiang, and I don't know Zhang Xiang, you can hear that Princess Xiaoyao was ordered to go to Luoyang Taizhen to enter the Tao yesterday! As soon as this incident came out, there was an uproar all over the court, and everyone said that there were all the things going on, but the holy decree said that Princess Xiaoyao would stand out among the wives of many princes because of her virtue and ability, and pray for the queen mother and her old man's ......"
After Pei Min, the household servant, whispered these words, he looked at Zhang Jiuling with a long sigh, and seeing that Zhang Jiuling was stunned on the spot, he hurriedly found an excuse to leave quickly. And after Zhang Jiuling came back to his senses, he immediately accelerated the pace of entering the palace, and almost trotted all the way to the Daming Palace.
At this time, Li Longji was still chatting and laughing with the dancing girls in the pear orchard, reminiscing and immersed in the joy after the feast of the Tianchang Festival, but when Gao Lishi came over to report that Zhang Jiuling was waiting outside for the summons, Li Longji's face suddenly turned cloudy and lost his smile.
"Why is he here again, didn't he just send him to deal with the Jiangnan Daosang matter, and it was done so quickly! Saying this in my ear all day long and saying that it is really irritable...... "Maybe Zhang Xianggong is more quick to do things, then sage, do you mean to let the old slave send Zhang Xiang away?" ”
After Gao Lishi bent down and asked tentatively, he saw that Li Longji was sitting on the cushion and just blindly closed his eyes and pressed his temples and did not speak, so he immediately turned around and wanted to stop Zhang Jiuling from coming in, but before he could leave a few steps, Li Longji continued to speak, "Forget it, you go and call him in!" If it weren't for the big thing, his temperament wouldn't have been so reckless to break into the pear orchard to meet him, by the way, send someone to call Brother Nu'er, with him in that iron head will be a little more restrained, otherwise I, the emperor, will not be enough for him to say a few words......"
Gao Lishi nodded with a smile after hearing this, and as soon as he walked out of the pear orchard with his front foot, Zhang Jiuling trotted in hurriedly with the court clothes in one hand and the official hat in the other, and ran to Li Longji to make a big salute, and immediately said, "Sage, why are you so dignified and send Princess Xiaoyao to Luoyang Taizhenguan to pray for the blessing of the Queen Mother!" Wouldn't this make the princess and Her Royal Highness reconcile? This is absolutely unacceptable! ”
"I can't help it! You trotted all the way to see me, is it just for such a small thing as big as a sesame seed? Seeing that you are running so badly, I thought that the war in the north was tight! Okay, you are an old person, let's take a rest, you are still a dignified scholar of Jixian Academy, the right minister of the center of the imperial court, how can you act so undecennially, I have made a move to let the daughter of the Yang family pray for the queen mother's entry into the Tao is well thought out, the hat and the social family have merit, if his wife Princess Xiaoyao has nothing to do all the year round, wouldn't it be a joke for others, I did this to not embarrass him too much......"
"This? This...... Sage, where do you start! His Royal Highness and the princess are very affectionate, and His Royal Highness King Xiaoyao has two sons and three daughters in Xixia, such things can make the Imperial Doctor's Department diagnose and treat before making a conclusion, why do you have to act so hastily! Sage, I am afraid that your actions will displease His Royal Highness the King of Care! He is leading hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northland to fight hard against the enemy at the moment, which is ...... This...... Didn't you make him feel uneasy? ”
"Presumptuous! Zhang Jiuling, I thought that you were of good character, and you were honest and honest as an official, but today you are so ignorant of humility to come to confront me in person, what does it matter if he is a little prince happy or unhappy, do you still want to let me, the emperor, to accommodate him? ”
Seeing that Li Longji was angry like thunder, and he was furious on the spot, Zhang Jiuling realized that he was a little anxious and didn't choose to speak, so he immediately got up from the cushion and knelt down at Li Longji's feet, and pleaded guiltily, "The saint is angry, and Weichen will only say such inappropriate words when he is quick to speak, but Weichen, what Weichen thinks in his heart is ......" Just when Zhang Jiuling was so spitting and didn't dare to get out of what he was thinking about everything, Li Linfu's meat waist knife and smiling tiger also ran into the pear orchard in time.
"Wei Chen knocked on the sage ......" "Okay, Lin Fu, you came just in time, you came to listen to what he Zhang Jiuling just said, and actually said that I acted recklessly, is he the emperor or I am the emperor......" Li Longji was so emotional that he almost didn't leave any face for Zhang Jiuling, so when he said such a heart-wrenching word, poor Zhang Jiuling really had nothing to say except kneeling on the ground and kowtowing desperately.
"Sage, Weichen has just entered the pear orchard, although he has never heard Zhang Xiang say anything, but Weiche knows that Zhang Xiang is a person on weekdays, maybe he blurted out something inappropriate, but it was also caused by a momentary impatience, and I hope that the sage will forgive him this time for the sake of Zhang Xiang's dedication to state affairs in the past!" Li Linfu was secretly happy in his heart, and he still knelt aside very interestingly and said good things for Zhang Jiuling.
And Li Longji saw that Zhang Jiuling was reprimanded by himself as the ruler of a country, and he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and he instantly felt that he had lost his national body, so he immediately took the steps sent by Li Linfu, and his face eased, and he knelt down on the cushion and sat down again. "Okay, one of the two of you is my Zaifu, and the other is my Shangshu, it's unseemly to kneel down and speak like this, get up, this is the place to play in the pear garden, you don't need to be so exquisite, sit down and talk!"
After Li Longji said soft words, Gao Lishi, who was standing on the side, immediately ran to Zhang Jiuling with great discernment, bent down and stretched out his hand to help help him up, because Lao Zhang, who had just been too frightened, was already sweating and his legs were weak. "The sage, the micro-minister, the micro-minister just said that the words are indeed not well thought-out, but some of the words are related to the stability of the society, and the minister, as the head of the hundred officials, has to make a direct admonition! The matter of the princess of the free king is really ......"
"Zhang Xiang! This is Your Majesty's family affair, although you and I are courtiers, but we are also outsiders! It's better not to talk rashly, besides, the saint's move is really for the good of His Royal Highness the King of Freedom! You ......" "Li Shangshu, you are a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and you are so short-sighted...... This...... This Princess Xiaoyao is His Royal Highness the most beloved! He is now on a journey, but if one day he returns victorious, how can he be willing to rest, don't you still have such a simple truth? Now that Datang has finally leveled down all over the world, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and ...... How can it be because of ...... The saint is planning for the sake of the society and the people of the world, and the minister has the courage to implore you to take back your fate......"
"Enough is enough, Zhang Jiuling, I have repeatedly tolerated you, but you actually pointed out that Sang scolded Huai, do you think I am that stupid person, and I can't hear your words at all? What kind of virtue and victory can not be good at returning to the dynasty, it is true that you are my son, but he is also my courtier of the Tang Dynasty, you are still afraid that he will make trouble in the heavenly palace like that grandson monkey...... There is no joke, there is no possibility of change, if you have nothing else to do, quit quickly! The Yaxing that took advantage of me hasn't been completely disturbed by you......"
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