In the first year of Qianfeng (AD 666), His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and his Queen came to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and left Prince Li Hong in Chang'an City to supervise the country.
In the meeting hall of the Chongwen Hall of the East Palace, Pei Yan and Cen Changqian frowned and looked at each other, and said: "Your Highness, this time you kill first and then show off. You can't do this every time. If you do this..."
"Oh, urgent matters need to be followed. Look at the rain outside. It's like splashing water. If we wait for your two provinces to sign and the Shangshu Province to issue an order, I'm afraid the Daming Palace will be flooded." Now fourteen years old Li Hong has grown into a handsome and handsome young man.
The whole person looks energetic and heroic. With a bronze complexion, a stern face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a body that has become stronger and stronger due to years of exercise, he looks like a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old.
But the evil smile at the corner of his mouth is still so obvious after so many years.
And it was this evil smile that, for more than ten years, still made Wu Mei's palms itch involuntarily every time she saw it, and now she had to stretch her arms to pull her ears.
Fortunately, my son was very cooperative. Every time he pulled his ears, he would bend down and hand over his ears before he could reach out.
"But you are not in compliance with the regulations. If the Yushitai finds out, they will impeach you, and... Shangshu Sheng and Zuo Pushe don't know about it, right?" Cen Changqian suddenly asked suspiciously in the middle of his sentence.
"I plan to tell them later, you two sign this first." Li Hong knocked on the table and gestured.
The chiefs of the two provinces, Zhongshu and Menxia, looked at each other helplessly and said, "Sign it, otherwise what else can you do?" Moreover, this is not the first, second, or third time.
So the two shook their heads with a wry smile, picked up the pen and signed on it.
After Li Hong saw the two people signing, he immediately grabbed it, looked at the handwriting, flicked the two documents, and said to Ren Yaxiang, Minister of the Ministry of War: "Chengwuwei will cooperate with the relocation and evacuation of the three squares." By the way, Jinghui, which temples are the people of Sanfang going to arrange?"
Halfway through talking to Ren Yaxiang, Minister of the Ministry of War, he started to ask his left minister Jinghui. And his every move always made Pei Yan and Cen Changqian feel that His Highness was so anxious that he must have some agenda.
"Back to Your Highness, the people of Sanfang Land will be arranged to enter Ci'en Temple, Daxingshan Temple, Dazhuangyan Temple and Anguo Temple according to the emergency mechanism you formulated in the Ministry of Household Affairs. When it snowed last year, I had I have visited several temples and they are completely suitable for resettling the people.”
"Okay, that's good. Okay, it's okay. Do you have anything else to do?" Li Hong patted the table lightly and asked.
The few people present could only shake their heads helplessly. You could say that His Highness the Crown Prince has exclusive power. He usually never cares about other things. He works conscientiously and does his duty and only guards the government affairs of his household department. He does not participate in other government affairs.
But if it came across, for example, the construction of the official road from Chang'an to Yumen Pass two years ago, His Highness the Crown Prince would almost dismiss Yan Liben, the Minister of Industry.
It's not like Yan Liben was sulking at home every day during the holiday. He should go to the Ministry of Works. Going there seemed to make him more leisurely! So he wandered around Chang'an City like a lonely ghost every day, but he had nowhere to go.
Then there is Dai Zhide, his mortal enemy. The relationship between the two has deteriorated even more in the past two years, and there is a tendency that they will never be in contact with each other until they die.
At that time, the envoys sent by the Japanese state to the Tang Dynasty rushed into the sea in anger and asked them to wait for the ship to return to the Japanese state. Because of this, the Japanese state sent countless waves of envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask His Majesty to allow the Japanese state to Envoys from the Tang Dynasty were sent to study in the Tang Dynasty, but they were all rejected by His Highness the Crown Prince, who was in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs and was too nosy.
So the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, the Minister of Rites, and the Honglu Temple, basically except for government affairs, it is rare to see them smile when they meet on the street. Most of the time they look at people with their nostrils when they meet.
So now, no matter whether they are as big as the assistant ministers or as small as the junior officials in the branch, they all dislike others and would like to bite them when they meet, so as to vent their anger on their masters.
But this is also limited to this wealthy household, which is protected by the prince of the Tang Dynasty.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple were in a miserable state. They lived in fear every day. They could not afford to offend their superiors. After all, they had to work under others.
They can't afford to offend the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and they don't dare to offend him. After all, he is the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty. If you offend him, you are really seeking death! Therefore, the officials of the two departments secretly scolded their superiors many times.
Every once in a while, the Ministry of Household Affairs would extend their monthly salary to every two months. Although they were not short of money, no one would feel good if they could not get any money after working for a month.
Because of the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty, Zhongshu and his subordinates did not dare to comment randomly, and directly asked the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple to open the temple. Every time they met the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty, or looked at the notes from the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple, they would hold back. Play.
Or maybe Li Zhi was happy and approved it, but they kept it and didn't make it. It's not for any reason, because even if it was made, it would be gray.
His Highness the Crown Prince has given up. If you send them the documents, I will send you to Lingnan. If you don’t believe me, give it a try!
But apart from the above-mentioned things, His Royal Highness is still very reasonable in normal times. Regarding today's flood, even if His Majesty is in Chang'an, I am afraid he will do the same.
Just when several people smiled bitterly and were about to salute Li Hong and leave, Hua Meng hurried in again and said: "Your Highness, the ministers Zhao Renben and Zhang Wenguan of Shangshu Province are asking for an audience."
"Oh? Cao Cao will be here soon. Let them come in. Just in time. You can leave later." Li Hong said to Pei Yan and others.
Two powerful figures in the Shangshu Province, Yu Zhining, were found out for doing business privately in Taiyi City, so they chose to resign and retire, not wanting to die of illness the next year.
When Li Hong learned of this, he and Wu Mei were teasing their newly born little sister: Princess Taiping Li Lingyue.
As for this sister, after her father and mother gave birth to several "evil sons", they finally got their wish and got a princess, and the one they loved was no longer lawless.
After hearing the news that Yu Zhining had passed away due to illness, Wu Mei was still stunned. Looking at the presence of the old god Li Hong, she thought it was him who had used tricks.
Unexpectedly, Li Hong said innocently: "What did I do with him? It has nothing to do with me. I thought he was bored to death. I thought that when he was the minister Zuopushe, he had all the power in the world. Now Yifu is at home." , Naturally, I couldn’t adapt to it, so I just died.”
His irresponsible words naturally caused Wu Mei to slap him on the back of the head.
When I was in a daze thinking about the past, I vaguely heard Zhang Wenguan saying that the Yunzhong Protectorate was rushed eight hundred miles away. Yunzhong suffered a rare natural disaster in a hundred years. Langshan, Yunzhong, Sunong, Dingxiang and other prefectures suffered a total loss of horses. There are as many as four thousand farts, and the cattle and sheep are countless.
"What? How did it happen? Have you checked it out? Are you sure it's a natural disaster?" Li Hong almost jumped out of his chair.
"This is an autographed letter from Yunzhong Protector Xue Tai. I think there is no falsehood in this matter." Zhang Wenguan took out a secret letter and handed it to Li Hong, who looked confused.
Li Hong took the secret letter, read it carefully, and asked: "The night before yesterday, we rushed eight hundred miles, and we also caught up with the heavy rain in Guanzhong. Well... I calculated the time, and it was indeed right."
He scratched his head and waved for Zhang Wenguan and Zhao Renben to sit down first. He thought for a moment and said, "Jinghui, please go first. Arrange the people in Chang'an Sanfang as soon as possible, activate the Qing-level alarm, and collect supplies. Zhongshu and the disciples issued a message. Jinyang and Mayi were ordered to use their troops to prepare to take over the victims. Also, the Anbei Protectorate was ordered to strictly prevent the East Turks from escaping in the direction of Silla after entering Anbei, and to collect supplies at the same time. Sent to the cloud as soon as possible.”
After finishing speaking and watching Jinghui leave, Zhongshu and the two assistant ministers also listened to their respective superiors' orders, saluted to themselves, and ran out in a hurry, preparing to draft documents.
"Xue Tao didn't say he was going back to Chang'an, right?" Li Hong asked, stroking the scar in his clothes on his left shoulder.
"Xue Tao will not come back. He needs to stay in Yunzhong to guard. His deputy Li Jun will come to Chang'an together with Ashina Tele. I'm afraid it will take two or three days to arrive." Zhao Renben said.
Li Hong nodded silently, Ashinatler! It's been four years. We have to settle this debt. How can we bring you to death? Can this natural and man-made disaster exempt you from punishment? If you are exempted from punishment, then how can I turn you khans into civilians? If you don't become civilians, you will still have influence in East Turkestan.
Li Hong took a deep breath, shook his head, looked at the three high-ranking officials, and said, "Is that Che-nose Khan Ashina Hubo dead?"
"I'm seriously ill, but I haven't heard any news recently." Cen Changqian said leisurely.
"If this old guy doesn't die, Yunzhong will always be concerned about us." Li Hong shook his head and sighed.
The year before last, my father wanted to change the name of the Yunzhong Protector's Palace to the Shanyu Protector's Palace. In the end, Li Hong persuaded him hard and did his homework 800 times. He also made a deal with his sixth brother, Li Xian, before Li Zhi gave up on changing the name of the Yunzhong Protector's Palace. The Central Protectorate is the Shanyu Protectorate.
In Li Hong's view, changing it to the Shanyu Protector's Palace would allow the Eastern Turks to always remember their ancestors and not be able to wipe them out from the roots.
Moreover, just when Li Zhi was about to be convinced, Li Xian, the sixth bastard, ran over crying and yelling, saying that the Yunzhong Protectorate's Palace did not sound as big as the Shanyu Protector's Palace, and he knelt on the ground and insisted on changing it. .
In the end, he had no choice but to promise Li Xian a perfume workshop, which he reluctantly agreed to.
There is no other way. As a prince, Li Xian leads the Yunzhong Protectorate from afar. Although he is only a remote leader, as a prince, he has to listen to other people's opinions.
(End of chapter)