Unlike civil servants, when military generals are out in the field, no matter how much money they make, they are honest. When it comes to military power, there is no other way to go except aboveboard.
As for the emperor, under normal circumstances, he would not care about how much money the generals made for him. As long as he did not make too much money and turned over enough loot, it would be enough.
After reading the gift list again, Li Xian wrote acknowledgments to the three families.
There is no need to get a special copy of the Prince's Order, as long as the receipt has the Prince's seal on it.
After receiving the receipt, the housekeepers of the three families left happily.
Sitting in the Mingde Hall, Li Xiancai was about to get up and go out for a look, when he saw Li Yun walking in. He cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, the Xiao, Kong and Qi families of Liangdi in the East Palace have sent their personal maids to inquire if they want to come." I’m here to pay my respects to you. Do you think we should ask the Crown Princess to come over? Also, what should we do with these maids? Will Your Highness accept them?"
"Go and pick up the crown princess. As for these maids, I am not interested. Ask them what they want. If they don't want to stay, the East Palace will give them a dowry and go out to get married. If you want to stay, just Just let them continue to serve their masters."
Li Yun agreed and went down to make arrangements.
In fact, the personal maids of the three of them are actually part of the dowry, just like the common maids who are married to each other. However, they entered the East Palace. Even if Li Xian wanted them, they would not get their status.
You can't have too many women, and now you add three more, which brings it to seven. Li Xian thinks that he doesn't have that much energy, so he just doesn't want them.
Soon, the crown prince in full attire also came to Mingde Hall and sat next to the prince.
Seeing that Fang Furong was trying very hard to pretend to be domineering, Li Xian was happy and said: "Silly girl, you are the princess. You don't need to scare them, they will be in awe of you."
Fang Furong pouted and said, "This is what the Queen Mother specially told me to do. I also think it is better to be more dignified, so as not to lure your soul away again in the future."
Li Xian smiled helplessly and said it was impossible not to be nervous, so he could only cover it up a little by drinking tea.
Outside the hall, three figures were walking side by side. Because of their green clothes, they were particularly obvious in the sun.
Li Xian looked at the palace door intently and saw three beauties slowly walking in with a hint of awe and fear.
Once they were close, the three of them stood still and bowed down one after another:
"I'm Xiao Xiao. I'm going to pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince. I'm going to pay my respects to the Crown Princess."
"I am Qi Lan, and I would like to pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince, and to pay my respects to the Crown Princess."
"My body and Kong Xinyu say, pay homage to His Highness the Crown Prince, pay homage to the Crown Princess."
Li Xian nodded and said, "Get up. Remember from now on, you don't have to be too polite in front of me."
After listening to the prince's words, the three people stood up.
Seeing the three Liang Di who were much younger than herself and not weak in appearance, Fang Furong wanted to continue to pretend to be dignified. However, seeing the obvious traces of make-up on the faces of the three people, she finally managed to accumulate a little dignity. , disappeared immediately.
Standing up, she walked up to the three of them and sighed: "I know that you are very sad to leave home, but we women always have to leave like this."
Upon hearing the Crown Princess's comfort, the three people quickly bowed and thanked her.
Looking back at her husband, Fang Furong smiled slightly, stretched out her hand to hold the hands of Xiao Xiao and Kong Xinyu and said: "It should be my husband's time to practice martial arts now. Since we have met, we'd better go back and not disturb your husband." .As for Qi Lan, you can follow your husband from today on."
After saying that, Fang Furong left with Xiao Xiao and Kong Xinyu who looked surprised. As she walked, she said to them: "The place where you live needs to be arranged, and your rules must also be worked out. The East Palace is very Da, today I will take you to get acquainted with it."
Xiao Xiao and Kong Xinyu left, leaving Qi Lan alone, wondering what to do.
Her eyes shifted to the prince, but she didn't dare to look any further and could only lower her head slightly.
Seeing Qi Lan's frightened look, Li Xian sighed, stood up and said, "Raise your head and answer, your father is General Yunhui Qi He? I heard that you followed your father to practice martial arts when you were young. Is this true?" "
Qi Lan replied: "To report to Your Highness, I have been fond of practicing martial arts since I was a child and disliked female celebrities. My father was helpless, so he took me with him to make Your Highness laugh."
"Don't be ridiculous. Did you know that when I was young, I was very resistant to practicing martial arts. Now I have suddenly realized that if I continue to practice, I will only get twice the result with half the effort. It can be said that it is too late to regret it. After all, every morning is the time to practice martial arts alone. Just follow me. If you like, you can practice with me."
Hearing this, Qi Lan's eyes widened. Her eyes were already big, so if they were wider, the surprised expression would be too obvious.
After opening her mouth, she dared to raise her head and look at the prince's husband: "You mean, I can continue to practice martial arts?"
Li Xian nodded: "Yes, since you have never fallen behind in martial arts, now that you have arrived at the East Palace, you can't let it be abandoned. Besides, I heard that General Qihe is a famous spearman. Now I have learned how to use the Hengdao, and I have learned a lot. I really want to Let’s see how the gun works.”
Speaking of guns, Qi Lan's fear of the prince disappeared immediately, and she said happily: "Since you want to learn, I can teach you. Even my father said that I am ready to become a master of spear skills."
After saying this, she was surprised to realize that her voice was louder and quickly shut her mouth.
To be honest, when I learned that I was selected and entered the royal concubine selection list, what I was most afraid of was that I would enter the royal family in the future. No matter what kind of concubine she becomes, I am afraid that she will have no chance of practicing martial arts at all.
This time I was selected to be sent to the East Palace and became Liang Di. My mother always told me not to let go of my martial arts skills. The dignified prince Liangdi actually practices martial arts. How unbecoming is this!
She also knew that at the moment, women were not involved in politics. It can be said to be everyone’s opinion that women do not practice martial arts. My behavior is wrong in the eyes of many people. I originally thought that I would marry into a military family in the future, but who knew that I would become Liangdi of the East Palace out of nowhere.
Seeing Qi Lan's eggplant-beaten look, Li Xian immediately smiled, reached out and patted her on the head and said, "Okay, I really don't care about this. You are wearing a skirt. It is inconvenient to go to the martial arts field to change clothes." Well, I need to change my clothes, and I’ll be waiting for you at the martial arts arena.”
After saying that, Li Xian left Mingde Hall with his hands behind his back.
Xiao Xiao, the Xiao family of Lanling; Kong Xinyu, the Kong family of Shandong; Qi Lan, the daughter of General Qi He of Yunhui.
Originally, he had thought that these three people were Liangdi, the Queen of Heaven and the Crown Princess, selected according to his interests.
However, if you think about their origins carefully, you feel something is wrong.
Apparently, it was the Queen who really made up her mind, and even the emperor behind the Queen was involved.
These three candidates can be said to reflect the emperor's attitude. Blindly suppressing the five surnames failed. Perhaps the emperor planned to borrow the power of aristocratic families other than the five surnames and the emerging nobles to unite against the five surnames.
Although the direct officials from the five surnames can no longer occupy high positions in the court, the five surnames still have great control over the court.
It seems that perhaps the emperor will be completely relieved only if the five surnames are completely expelled.
After changing into the linen clothes worn for martial arts practice, and when Li Xian walked to the martial arts arena, he happened to see Qi Lan who was led by the palace maid.
She put on men's clothes and looked particularly dashing.
When she saw Li Xian, her sassy spirit disappeared immediately. Wearing men's clothes and performing a squatting salute, coupled with a coy look, it looks weird no matter how you look at it.
She waved her hand to indicate that the maids could leave, leaving only her personal maid.
Li Xian walked into the martial arts arena with his hands behind his back. When he turned around and saw Qi Lan following cautiously, Li Xian continued walking inside.
In the martial arts arena, because Li Xian specially sent Li Yun to give instructions, the guards who were training all crowded into the new venue on the side of the flower bed, leaving the empty space here for His Highness the Crown Prince.
As for Li Xian, although this guy was also on the list of being kicked out, he was like a paparazzi, squatting in the flower bed and peeking over.
Pretending not to see the big head in the flower bed, Li Xian walked to the tree stump and began to practice cutting with the horizontal knife.
This tree stump is about 2 inches thick, but due to continuous chopping, a large piece of it has been dented.
Seeing that the prince's husband was starting to practice, Qi Lan walked aside and took down a long spear from the weapons rack.
Long spears have appeared since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but compared with mainstream weapons such as Hengdao Modao and halberds, long spears are not very popular. Because, on the battlefield, if you want to use a long gun to kill enemies, it still has many shortcomings compared to weapons such as the Mo Dao.
However, this does not prevent some real masters from using it. At least Qi Lan had heard his father say that although the spear was difficult to control and seemed not as useful as the Mo Dao on the battlefield, once he truly mastered it, he would not delay using it and could still use it to kill the enemy.
Although his father once told him personally that his spear skills were ready to be mastered, Qi Lan still felt that he was still far behind. At least, he had never killed anyone with a long gun, and his father's spear skills were truly learned on the battlefield.
On the other side, seeing Qi Lan also starting to practice marksmanship, Li Xian stopped training and started peeking from the side.
To be honest, Qi Lan is very tall and thin. If you just look at his appearance, you really can't tell much about him.
However, now that she is dancing with a spear in the open space of the martial arts arena, she is particularly attractive. His spear skills are very high, but there is also a hint of dexterity in his roughness.
Sure enough, after the spear thrust forward again, it suddenly changed its path, and the spear head was like a poisonous snake spitting a message, strange and changeable.
Qi Lan, who was concentrating on practicing martial arts, inadvertently saw the prince looking at him in front of the tree stump. In his excitement, the spear in his hand suddenly flew out of his hand and flew towards Li Xian.
However, the spear was firmly grasped by a withered hand before Li Xian even took ten steps closer.
Zhou Quan had a gloomy look on his face, feeling the strength and direction of the spear before putting away the dagger in his right hand. He turned to the prince and said, "Liang Di's gun is indeed out of hand."
After saying that, he turned around and returned behind an inconspicuous tree. Just now, he jumped out from behind this tree and intercepted the flying spear.
Such speed is really not something that an old eunuch can possess.
Seeing that she almost hurt the prince, Qi Lan quickly stepped forward and knelt on the ground: "I almost hurt the prince, please punish me!"
After taking a look at the place where Zhou Quan was hiding, Li Xian came back to his senses. To be honest, he was not frightened by the spear, but by Zhou Quan. The spear came out of his hand. With his current reaction ability, avoiding it was not a problem. The reason why he didn't avoid it was because he planned to block it aside with his horizontal knife.
And I originally thought that this old guy was still training eunuchs, but who knew that he had been hiding near him.
However, when he saw that Li Yun was not there, but went to arrange affairs in the East Palace, he understood. It seemed that the two of them had agreed to take turns guarding him.
Taking a few steps forward to help Qi Lan up, Li Xian smiled and said: "It's okay, it was just a false alarm. Besides, even if no guards appeared, I could avoid it. On the contrary, I scared you, I'm sorry."
Qi Lan never thought that these three words, "I'm sorry", could be uttered in the prince's mouth.
Patting Qi Lan's side face, Li Xian continued: "It seems that you will be scared looking at you alone. In that case, just go ahead and practice archery alone."
After saying that, Li Xian turned around and walked in the direction of the target.
Passing by the place where Zhou Quan was hiding, Li Xian glanced at Zhou Quan, who was so calm that he seemed to blend into the big tree, and asked, "How are Qi Liangdi's skills?"
Zhou Quan bowed and said, "Liang Di's skills are indeed good, but she is a little restrained because she is around you."
Being able to get a "good" evaluation from Zhou Quan shows that Qi Lan's martial arts is still very good.
To be honest, he never thought that his little wife would actually have a strong martial artist.
But that's fine. If there is such a day in the future, at least the harem itself doesn't need to worry too much.
The military revolution has always been the most direct type of coup.
The Xuanwu Gate Incident sounds like a myth. In fact, Li Shimin found an opportunity to rush into the palace, kill his elder brother and younger brother, and then sent troops to control his father.
Although military power is now concentrated in the hands of the emperor, and the Qianniu Guard has never let go of its control over the Imperial City's imperial army, who can guarantee what will happen in the future?
Taking precautions is very necessary.
As for Qi Lan...
Li Xian could see that at this stage, she was still mostly in awe of him. However, after spending a morning together every day, we gradually became familiar with each other.
Just when he walked to the target, Li Xian, who was practicing archery, came over and said coquettishly: "Brother Six, your newly adopted Liangdi is actually a martial artist. It's really unexpected. Besides, You look good and have a good figure, you are very lucky!"
