On the 16th day of the first lunar month, after celebrating the Lantern Festival, the seal was finally opened to go to court. The news about Handan King Li Huairen's departure for Beijing had already spread. The entire city of Chang'an, from the officials in the court to the common people, was talking about it. .
Many people speculate that Li Shan's surrender of military power and return to Beijing was directly related to the rumors a year ago. Supporting the army and self-respect was what the emperor was most afraid of.
Some people also speculate that it was Li Shan's own choice. After all, high merit is hard to reward. Even if he is promoted to king, there is actually no essential difference from the king of the county, and it is difficult to squeeze out a suitable position for the King of Handan in terms of position. .
Li Yuan didn't pay attention to these rumors. In the Liangyi Palace early in the morning, he even mentioned with great interest that the Turks might think they had succeeded.
There are not many things to discuss today, the first thing is about music.
The position of music in the government cannot be said to be important, but it is an indispensable part. After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, most of the systems were inherited from the former Sui Dynasty. The laws were all based on the "Kaihuang Code", and the same was true for music. , using the nine-part music customized by the Sui Dynasty. However, in the past two years, because he has unified the world and repeatedly defeated the Turks, Li Yuan intended to take over the new post at the end of last year.
In this regard, Prince Li Jiancheng had better connections than the King of Qin. He recommended Taichang Temple Shaoqing Zu Xiaosun. This person was from Youzhou and served as an official in the Sui Dynasty. He was familiar with the old music of Liang, Chen, Qi, Zhou and Sui dynasties, as well as the music of Wu and Chu. Wu Rong's tactics.
After considering it, Li Yuan nodded in agreement and ordered Zu Xiaosun to revise "Yale of the Tang Dynasty"... If Li Shan were present, he would definitely be very interested in the surname "Zu". It was the ancestor of Fan Yang who gave birth to Zu Chongzhi.
In fact, the Fan Yang Zu clan is full of talents. In the past two years, Li Shan was not very clear about the allusions of some idioms. He once asked about the origin of "Zhongliu Chuji", and Ling Jing told him that it came from the famous Zu Ti.
In addition to "Zhongliu hits Ji", the idioms introduced by Zu Ti also include "Dance upon hearing the chicken", "As soon as Nantang comes out", "Xian Wu wields the whip". Later, there was a child prodigy Zu Ying in the Northern Dynasty who introduced "Ying Tan Night" "Read", "come out of ideas", Zu Junyan wrote an appeal a few years ago, "too many bamboos to write down" is alluded to here.
It is simply a family of idioms.
The first thing passed easily, but the second thing... Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were at loggerheads again. Although the former was weak now, he was eloquent and did not give in. The latter still had a hidden agenda and got Chen Shuda and Feng Lun. of support.
Li Yuan actually leaned towards Li Shimin, which was determined by his status as emperor. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, because in the troubled times of the previous few hundred years, there were often precedents of generals rebelling and even killing their lords to establish the country, so Li Yuan insisted on using clan members to lead the army.
To a large extent, it was because of this that Li Shimin led the army at a young age and was undefeated on the battlefield. However, in addition to Li Shimin, quite a few clan members also made meritorious deeds, and these brothers with Li Yuan's great-grandfather, brothers with the same great-grandfather, and brothers' sons were all granted the title of Li Shimin. For the sake of the king.
Therefore, Feng Lun mentioned in a meeting at the end of last year that the unworthy prince might be demoted.
This matter was strongly opposed by the East Palace, and there was nothing that could be done about it. Prince Li Jiancheng had always been lenient to the clan members, but those who attached to the East Palace were trash like Li Shenfu, the king of Xiangyi, and Li Yuan, the king of Lujiang County, who were attached to the King of Qin. Although there is the useless King Li Shentong of Huai'an, there are also generals like King Li Daoxuan of Huaiyang.
Li Yuan knew in his heart that there were only dozens of county princes now, and there were more than a dozen princes in the harem. They would definitely be demoted in the future. No matter who took over the throne, this was for sure... This was also the result of his dissatisfaction with the prince. The reason for leaning towards the King of Qin is that the prince reportedly promised in private that he would not be demoted in the king's inheritance.
If you don't demote your title, it only takes three or four generations to create hundreds of princes and princes. Moreover, these people must have more than one son. If the eldest son inherits the title, the other sons may also have their title reduced to the first level. Sir, we will be in big trouble then.
However, at this critical moment, it was a bit unwise for Qin Wang's line to bring up this matter. Instead, it gave the East Palace an advantage... Li Yuan glanced at Feng Lun and wondered whether this was Feng Lun's own idea, or whether it was Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, or Ling I would like to advise Erlang.
In fact, Li Shimin was very angry now. He had indeed discussed it with Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Ling Jing, and the final decision was quite cruel. All the unworthy county princes were demoted to county princes... This also meant that no longer After four generations, the county marquis, county uncle, county boy, and county son became common people.
There were other staff present at that time, and Feng Lun was among them... Feng Lun had a very high status in the Tiance Mansion. After all, he was a serious prime minister and was involved in many secret affairs within the Tiance Mansion, just because he had been with Li Shan There was resentment, so Li Shimin did not let him know Li Shan's life experience.
And this matter was what Feng Lun suggested to Li Yuan without informing Li Shimin in advance. There was a reason to explain it afterwards... It was better to let His Majesty do this kind of thing. Why should His Highness take such a blame?
Li Shimin really couldn't say anything, because this suggestion was first proposed by Feng Lun within Tiance Mansion.
Pei Shiju, who was sitting in the back with his eyes half closed to rest, glanced at Feng Lun. Among the people present, only he and Feng Lun were former important officials of the Sui Dynasty. He also knew this colleague very well. He was a man who could wait and see the current situation and liked to play on both sides at the same time. Note guy.
In the former Sui Dynasty, Feng Lun was praised by Yang Su and married Yang Su's cousin. However, Yang Su was seriously ill, and Feng Lun immediately got involved with Yang Su's political enemy Su Wei. Yang Guang was not happy, and Feng Lun quickly climbed into the lap of Yu Shiji, who was most favored by Yang Guang.
Even though Yu Wenhua and Jiangdu later killed the emperor and went north to the Central Plains, they were defeated continuously. Feng Lundun, who was appointed as the internal history order by Yu Wenhua, waited and watched the situation in Jibei. In the end, Yu Wenhua and Li Mi were both defeated. In the end, he chose to vote in Tang Dynasty.
After the two sides argued for a long time, Li Yuan finally decided to put it on hold for the time being.
Now there is only one last thing left, about the successor to the general manager of Lingzhou Marching Road after Handan King Li Huairen returns to the court.
At this time, the provincial minister Chen Shuda took out a memorial from his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, I just received the memorial from Dou Gui, the deputy general of the march of Lingzhou Road."
Pei Shiju couldn't help but curse in his heart, Chen Shuda was quite attentive in complimenting King Qin's stinky feet!
Thinking about it, he knew that he was also a provincial minister, but he did not see Dou Gui's memorial. It was obviously hidden by Chen Shuda, and it was obviously aimed at him.
The position of Marching Commander of Lingzhou Road is very important, but there are not many candidates who are qualified to succeed him. Pei Shiju's repeated persuasion in the past few days made Prince Li Jiancheng finally choose to support Li Jing, the acting governor of the state.
But before Li Jiancheng's recommendation could be said, Chen Shuda took action... The others may not be counted, but Pei Shiju knew very well that it must be Li Shan's back-up plan. This was the usual method of that guy.
(End of chapter)
