It has been twenty years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Many civil servants and generals are elderly.
Every time there was a court meeting, Su Mingzhe sat on the dragon throne and looked down. The court hall was full of white beards.
When the court is controlled by a group of white beards, there are advantages and disadvantages.
The good thing is that Whitebeard likes stability and dislikes disputes, so when encountering problems, he settles them quietly and rarely takes the initiative to cause trouble.
With the help of these white beards, Su Mingzhe's idea of not wanting to be tired and wanting to manage things easily came true.
And there are many disadvantages. Once Su Mingzhe has any new ideas, these old guys will always point to the previous government to tell Su Mingzhe not to think wildly and not to make random reforms.
This also led to Su Mingzhe not liking staying with them very much.
On July 15th, the imperial meeting ended in a hurry.
Su Mingzhe was about to go back to Ganlu Hall to rest. Halfway through, he was caught up by Zhang Ananda, who was panting:
"Your Majesty, Duke Liang is asking for an audience at the entrance of Hanyuan Hall."
"knew."
When Su Mingzhe heard that it was Fang Xuanling who was asking for an audience, he could only turn back to Hanyuan Hall.
After a while, the monarch and his ministers entered the palace.
"Give Xuanling a seat."
After Su Mingzhe smiled and asked Fang Xuanling to sit down, he took the lead and said before the first prime minister of the dynasty could speak:
"Xuanling, if you don't come to me, I will prepare to come to you."
Fang Xuanling was blocked when she wanted to speak, so she could only ask according to etiquette:
"I wonder what your Majesty has to do with the old minister?"
"It's like this. It's been two years since the queen passed away. In three months, the filial piety period for the prince and princess in the harem will expire, and their marriage should also be put on the agenda. I heard that you have a daughter and a son at home. , we are about the same age, and I just want to ask you which son or daughter of mine do you like, so that we can become in-laws."
Su Mingzhe's words with a smile moved Fang Xuanling so much that he quickly stood up from the cushion and bowed before saying:
"Your Majesty has entrusted me with state affairs for ten years, and the eldest daughter is the Princess of Han. She is extremely powerful and favored..."
"Xuanling, you and I have known each other for many years, so there is no need to say these words. I know your heart, and you know mine. If you and I get along well with each other, it will be a good conversation for eternity."
Su Mingzhe smiled and told Fang Xuanling not to think too much, and asked him again which royal princess he wanted to marry and which prince he wanted his daughter to marry.
Seeing that the emperor insisted on getting married, Fang Xuanling hesitated again and again, then sighed, cupped her hands and said:
"I would like to marry my daughter to be His Majesty's wife. As for the old minister's sons, they are really naughty and can't wrong the princess."
Being married to the emperor is both more glorious and more dangerous.
When Fang Xuanling married his daughter to the King of Han before, it was already a forced marriage.
Now, the emperor gave another difficult question, and Fang Xuanling was really unwilling to accept it.
However, the emperor had spoken, and Fang Xuanling had to make a choice.
In the end, Fang Xuanling chose to marry a daughter rather than find a princess daughter-in-law for herself.
Su Mingzhe's choice of Fang Xuanling is also understandable.
Historically, when Princess Gaoyang married Fang Yiai, she caused misfortune to the Fang family.
In this case, Su Mingzhe did not force Fang Xuanling and asked again:
"I now have princes of the right age, King Jiang, King Yue, and King Jin... Forget it, King Jiang, this boy is also very naughty. If you let your daughter marry this boy, I am afraid that I will not have the face to see you in the future. Xuanling, you are still the best. Choose one of the kings of Yue and Jin to be your son-in-law."
After hearing Su Mingzhe's words, Fang Xuanling burst into tears of gratitude.
He said that his son was naughty and could not become a princess because he was afraid that the princess would make the family restless.
However, when the emperor said that his son was naughty, he was really thinking about his daughter.
After thinking about these reasons, Fang Xuanling finally chose to marry his second daughter to Yue Wang Li Zhen.
Li Zhen was granted the title of King of Yue, her fiefdom was changed to Hangzhou by Su Mingzhe, and her mother-in-law was Concubine Yan.
When Su Mingzhe saw that Fang Xuanling had chosen his son-in-law, he smiled and asked him to sit down, and began to ask him why he came to see him.
Fang Xuanling then said seriously:
"Your Majesty, I heard a few days ago that Your Majesty asked the Imperial Medical Office to collect a lot of medicinal materials. Recently I heard that Your Majesty personally went to the Imperial Medical Office and refined a lot of elixirs. I don't know if this is true or not?"
"It's true."
When Su Mingzhe saw Fang Xuanling asking about this, he immediately smiled and apologized quickly:
"Xuanling, you can't blame me for this. I've made inquiries and found that no one in your house is sick. That's why I didn't leave two pills for you."
"Your Majesty has misunderstood me. I came to your majesty not to ask for elixirs, but to ask you to give up refining elixirs."
As Fang Xuanling spoke, her face became extremely serious and she said:
"Your Majesty, since ancient times, the talk of alchemists and alchemists has been illusory. Please don't put your hope in this."
"I know what Xuan Ling said. What I practice is not the elixir of immortality, but the Peiyuan Pill that nourishes health and replenishes qi."
Su Mingzhe breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Fang Xuanling was not here to ask for pills.
Ever since he traveled to the Tang Dynasty, Su Mingzhe knew that the medical conditions in ancient times were not good, and he was afraid that his child would die because of a cold and fever.
In order to recuperate his child's body, Su Mingzhe asked the Imperial Medical Office to prepare medicinal materials and personally refined several batches of high-grade Yuanyuan Dan.
Just these few batches of high-grade Peiyuan Dan have squandered all the medicinal materials collected for several months.
Su Mingzhe, who loved his children, gave all these batches of high-grade Yuan-Pui Yuan pills to the prince, princess, and children of the prince and princess. Not even the concubines in the harem got a single pill.
Although it is said that people will be destroyed by heaven and earth if they don't do it for themselves.
However, Su Mingzhe also knew that by doing this, he owed something to the ministers of the DPRK.
However, for some purposes, when Su Mingzhe rewarded the elixirs, he still ordered the eunuchs who sent the elixirs to watch the princes and grandsons in person before they could come back and take the elixirs.
The courtiers only knew that Su Mingzhe was refining elixirs, so they thought that Su Mingzhe wanted to learn from the old stories of Emperor Qin and Han Dynasty, and that the emperor became obsessed with immortality and became mediocre, but they did not know that these pills were really effective.
Faced with Fang Xuanling's advice.
Su Mingzhe could only smile bitterly and agree again and again, saying that he would never go to the Imperial Medical Office to refine elixirs again.
Fang Xuanling didn't pay attention to the trap in Su Mingzhe's words, and immediately confessed and left.
After all, the emperor agreed, and Fang Xuanling was too embarrassed to continue chasing the emperor to express his position.
Afterwards, Su Mingzhe did not stay in Hanyuan Hall any longer.
The weather in July is really hot.
When Su Mingzhe returned to the Ganlu Hall, he saw that Fa Deng was only wearing a bra wrap and a thin silk gauze garment. The thin and fair figure immediately made the man's body feel hot.
Just when Su Mingzhe was about to teach the magic lantern some new moves, the loud shouts of two girls came from outside the door.
"Wang De, let them come in."
Su Mingzhe waved his hand quickly, motioning for Fa Deng to hide aside first. She was wearing too little and would teach the children bad things.
After a while, two little kids, Li Mingda and Li Yanran, came in first.
However, after the two little brats came in, they were followed by five or six princesses including Linchuan and Changshan, as well as the two little princes Li Shen and Li Fu.
Su Mingzhe had naturally noticed these little guys a long time ago. He smiled and waved to them to come and sit next to him, and then asked softly:
"The weather is so hot. If you don't rest in your own palace, why do you come to see my father?"
"Father, we came here to ask you if you still have the Peiyuan Pill from yesterday?"
As the emperor's favorite and most well-behaved princess, Li Mingda was the first to ask:
"Many ladies in the palace want to ask, if there are any left, can you give them one?"
Yesterday, after each of these princes and princesses took a Peiyuan Pill, when they got up today, they felt that their bodies were full of strength and felt very comfortable.
Especially the three little princesses Li Mingda, Li Yanran, and Chang Shan. The three of them have been frail and sick since childhood, and they don't eat much, so they are very weak.
Now when I wake up, I am no different from a healthy naughty child, jumping and jumping, and my whole body is full of energy.
The concubines in the harem were not Fang Xuanling. They worshiped the emperor very much.
The Peiyuan Pill that the emperor gave to the prince and his work did not need to be tested to see if it had any effect. These concubines wanted to have it and take it.
"Gone!"
Su Mingzhe flatly refused, and after several children showed disappointed expressions, he coaxed against their will:
"It is extremely difficult to refine this kind of Peiyuan Dan. It took my father a lot of time to collect all the medicinal materials. Now if I want to refine it, it will not only take several years to collect the medicinal materials, but also a lot of money." Get it together again.”
"Oh, it turns out that this Peiyuan Pill is so precious. If I had known it, Si Zi wouldn't have eaten it."
Li Mingda is really well-behaved and filial.
The other princes and princesses knew that there was no more Peiyuan Pill, so they didn't bother and left quickly.
After sending these children away, Su Mingzhe was about to pull the lantern over and continue. As a result, Wang De reported that it was Princess Changle who was seeking an audience at Hanyuan Hall.
Princess Changle is Li Lizhi, the eldest daughter of Queen Changsun.
"Why are you asking for an audience in Hanyuan Hall?"
Although Su Mingzhe was surprised, as a princess, why Changle did not come to the harem but went to the main hall where state affairs were discussed, but after thinking about it, he still asked Fandeng to tidy up his regular clothes, then sat in the chariot and went to Hanyuan. Go to the palace.
It's not too far from Ganlu Hall to Hanyuan Hall, but you still need to pass through two palace gates.
By the time Su Mingzhe arrived at Hanyuan Hall, Princess Changle had been waiting for more than half an hour.
"My son, I pay homage to my father and pay my respects to him."
Li Lizhi knelt down and saluted solemnly.
Su Mingzhe quickly stepped forward to help him:
"You, my child, have just given birth. If you need anything, you can just ask the consort to come to the palace to tell you. Why do you have to go all the way on a hot day?"
"Father, I come here this time to personally thank my father for the elixir."
Li Lizhi, like Li Mingda, inherited Empress Changsun's wind disease and was frail and sickly since childhood. She had been married to the consort Changsun Chong for five years before giving birth to a son at the beginning of this year.
After giving birth, Li Lizhi's body has always been sick.
However, like Li Mingda, she was very well-behaved and filial. She didn't want her father to worry about her, so she never told others about her frail health.
Even if she was seriously ill and needed to consult a doctor for medicine, Li Lizhi would always look for doctors outside.
Yesterday, Su Mingzhe had finished practicing the Peiyuan Pill, packed two pills himself, and asked Zhang Ananda to deliver them to Princess Changle's Mansion in person, and watched Li Lizhi and his grandson Changsun Yan take them.
Today, when Li Lizhi woke up, she felt that her body was very different from before.
She looked at her son Changsun Yan again and found that her son, like her, had a ruddy complexion and a loud voice.
At this time, she naturally understood that her good health was because the Peiyuan Pill given by her father yesterday had taken effect.
As a child, Li Lizhi did not dare to enter the palace when she was in poor health, for fear of frightening her parents and making them worry about her.
Now that she is in good health, Li Lizhi naturally hurriedly entered the palace to say hello to her father.
