Li Zhi, who was looking at a loss, looked at the arrogant figure of someone walking towards Penglai Hall. He was thinking a lot, and he couldn't help but recall ten years ago: 'Did I make a mistake in letting him serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue? If you want to spend some money from now on, won't you still have to look at his face? '
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"This... Your Highness the Crown Prince left something behind just before he left." Lian Tie picked up a stack of silver notes that was on the chair when Li Hong just stood up and said in his hand.
"I'm telling you, the little brat can't be filial to only his mother! Come on, count how much it is." Li Zhi's eyes lit up as he looked at the banknotes, although he didn't know what he wanted the money for. , but seeing that there are so many queens, wouldn’t it be a big loss for me not to have one
Someone walked to the end of the pavilion corridor, turned around and looked at Lian Tie's hands flying up and down, smiled slightly, and walked briskly towards Penglai Hall.
"My son, I see my mother, and I wish my mother to remain young and beautiful forever! She will be graceful, graceful, graceful, graceful, graceful, and charming..." The voice came before anyone else arrived, and the strong voice was heard. Wu Mei frowned for a while.
"Why are you still here in my palace?" Wu Mei reached out and slapped someone's hand that was about to pick up her cup, and asked coldly.
"It's okay, I'm just curious. Come and have a look." Li Hong looked up and down at the Penglai Hall, which was so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar.
Wu Mei didn't stop him and looked at Li Hong coldly, looking around and sniffing like a dog. Wang Lou and other palace maids and eunuchs naturally did not dare to stop this evil star from wandering around in the queen's palace.
"What did you smell?" Wu Mei asked lightly.
"I didn't smell anything, but it does look a little strange." Li Hong clapped his hands, pushed down the head of a blood jade Guanyin, and stood up.
"How much money have you paid to honor your father? Is it more than to honor me?" Wu Mei picked up the tea cup and remembered that she cheated the little brat of 20 million taels of silver, and her heart felt so beautiful that it felt like it was about to blossom.
"One million taels."
"Pfft...how much?" Wu Mei squirted all the tea on the expensive carpet. The maid next to her hurriedly handed over the silk handkerchief, but Wu Mei didn't notice it at all. Seeing Li Hong still playing with the blood jade Guanyin, she hurriedly asked.
"One million taels." Li Hong pretended to confirm as if it was a common thing.
"Your father was tricked by you again?" Wu Mei still couldn't believe the one million taels Li Hong said. She had already set an example for him, but how could she be beaten back by this bastard in the end!
"You can't say that. I have paid you 20 million taels of filial piety, and I have honored my father and rebuilt Prince Wu's palace. Calculated, it's 6 million taels. Twenty-six million taels. You said these 26 million taels of silver are worth it." How many official positions did you buy in the court? But as for Erchen, he only bought the position of Zhongshu Ling, so he still lost money." Li Hong walked up to Wu Mei and behaved well.
Then he took the silk handkerchief from the palace maid's hand and waved it in front of Wu Mei's eyes as if summoning a spirit, which finally brought his mother Long back to her senses.
"Then why are you here? To show how filial you are to your father?" Wu Mei wiped the corners of her mouth and glanced at Si Pa and asked.
"That's not true. My son came here this time for two things, no, three things. First: Li Xian came here last night, right? Second:..."
"What? Is it true that only you, Li Hong, are allowed to come to Penglai Palace of this palace? Li Xian and Li Zhe, as the princes of this palace, can't come here at will? I still have to report to you, Li Hong, right?" Wu Mei expected that Li Hong came here because of the pardon of Fang Xianzhong today.
His character of retribution for being beaten seems to have changed, but now, what he has changed is just things other than principles. After suffering a loss in Helan Minyue, Li Hong has become much more decisive now.
Today, in the court, it is a matter of continuity and continuity, cutting off all the courtiers who have a close relationship with Li Xian in the court, and then using his own people to fill the vacant positions in the court!
Now, most of the court is in his hands. Otherwise, can you expect him to happily and willingly spend 20 million taels of silver to honor himself
"Of course I can come. I just want to know, did Li Xian honor you with 20 million taels? But I looked around and found that except for the blood jade Guanyin, the phoenix blood jade bracelet on your wrist is not worth the same. Apart from the money, I didn't see anything else of value.
"How can I be a money-lover? Alas...the palms and backs of my hands are full of flesh. Didn't I tell you last time?" Wu Mei Jing Li Hong raised the bracelet and began to admire it again, looking at the jade wrist. bracelet.
"Okay, okay, this matter has been revealed. Let's not talk about it anymore. Even Fang Xianzhong can't afford to mess with him." Li Hong shook his head helplessly, then leaned forward mysteriously and leaned forward. When he came to Wu Mei, he said: "Then... Queen Mother, let's discuss something."
"Except for the Crown Princess, I can talk to you about everything else, even if you want to go to Jiangnan after the first day!" Wu Mei took Zhizi Mo Ruomu's words to the extreme.
"I... you... how do you know?" Li Hongmeng was confused. During this period of time, he never interfered or paid attention to Yang Sijian's daughter's mischief in Pei Xingjian's house. He just wanted to have a slight advantage when negotiating to break off the engagement with his mother. , now it seems that the queen mother has taken advantage of her again.
"How do I know and can tell you? If the engagement is broken off without any reason, where will you let your mother's face be placed in the court? Moreover, Yang Sijian's daughter is also well-educated, gentle and virtuous. I don't believe it. Could it be that Yang Sijian You haven't been able to discipline a good daughter in these years? Tell your mother, did Pei Wanying tell you that she wants to replace Yang Yu as the crown princess of the East Palace? Li Hong asked.
Prince Li Hong's face began to wrinkle. No matter who Pei Wanying or Yang Yu was, they hadn't gotten married yet. How could this... The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law seemed to be about to begin to show up in front of him.
But fortunately, there is no worldwide problem of deciding who you save first when your mother and I fall into the river at the same time! Otherwise, I will have no place to stay from now on.
But just when someone was thinking, the dragon mother next to him suddenly asked in a gossipy tone: "Hey, Li Hong, the queen mother asks you, if the queen mother and Pei Wanying fall into the river at the same time, who will you save first?"
“….”
After returning to the East Palace with a headache, a certain person ignored the many Tang officials standing at the entrance of Li Zheng Hall and walked straight into his bedroom on the second floor of Li Zheng Hall. He had just left the second floor in front of the Yuan Dynasty. After Yan Lingbin finished cleaning, he was carried into the bedroom by the prince who rushed in.
The sudden move scared Yan Lingbin and almost screamed, but fortunately, His Highness the Crown Prince seemed a little tired today and did not bother himself. He just hugged himself and slept until the sun went down, and then got up lazily.
Li Hong, who woke up from his dream, casually washed his face with cold water, then called Xiaoxue and the others to prepare dinner. The ministers who were still waiting in the East Palace left Ouyang Tong and Ma Zai behind, and no one else was there. Even the newly appointed right servant Pei Xingjian of Shangshu Province and the newly appointed Zhongshu Ling Shangguan Yi were turned away mercilessly and invited out of the East Palace.
It was the first time Ouyang Tong had a meal with the prince. He behaved cautiously, as if he didn't dare to touch the chair with his buttocks. After eating a meal, he didn't know if he was full, but his calves were still full. It's true that I've been shivering.
Compared with Ouyang Tong, Ma Zai was much more casual. He had followed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in Anxi for many years and had a good understanding of Li Hong's temperament, so the dinner was quite comfortable.
In the study room, with the help of Xiaoxue and others, Li Hong searched for a long time and found a lot of information about the Ministry of Industry. He first handed it to Ma Zai and asked him to look at it carefully, and then gave him a rough plan.
Then he ignored Ma Zai, who was reading the book carefully, and turned to Ouyang Tong, who was about to take office as the Minister of Household Affairs. Ouyang Tong may not be known to many people, but his father, Ouyang Xun, was one of the four masters of regular script, and was closely related to Yu Shinan. , Zhu Suiliang, and Xue Ji are known as the four great masters of the early Tang Dynasty.
Now, because of his attainments in calligraphy, he is often considered to be as famous as his father Ouyang Xun, so he is praised as: "Ouyang, the big and small."
"I heard that you often go to Chongwen Hall to study?" Li Hong looked at Ouyang Tong, who was only about forty years old. His appearance gave people a reliable and convincing look, and his black and shiny beard made him appear to be upright. .
"Go back to His Majesty the Crown Prince..."
"Sit down and say, it's not above the court or in the Ministry of Secretariat, so there is no need to be so thoughtful."
"Yes, Your Highness, I would like to thank His Highness for your trust and promotion. I... indeed often go to listen to the lectures. I learned very little, but I helped a lot." Ouyang Tong replied to Li Hong's words.
"Then what do you mean by this?" Li Hong pushed the thirty essay questions for Jinghui and Lin Shiling to Ouyang Tong and said.
"Yes, Your Highness." Ouyang Tong took it and began to examine it quietly.
Ma Zai raised his head at this time and said: "Your Highness, I think that the budget of the Ministry of Industry next year will be enough to build the road from Fan Yang to Youzhou and beyond the pass. In addition, I think that most of our business in the Tang Dynasty is to the west, including Yumen Pass, Qiuci, Shule, Khotan, Suiye and other important places in Anxi are now more prosperous due to the increase in merchant traffic from the Western Regions. However, there are also disadvantages, that is, the prosperous Anxi is easily coveted. , and I observed the map. As a grassland, as the source of our war horses in the Tang Dynasty, Yunzhong needs a direct road to Anxi. In this way, Yunzhong can be used as the rear area, enough to deter Mohe and Shiwei to the east. , or even rushing to the aid of the Andong Protectorate, and going west will be enough to provide our Tang Dynasty's troops in Anxi with abundant water and grassland, and provide a wider and more fertile grassland for the domestication of war horses. Our Tang Dynasty is invincible in both Anxi and Anton! Therefore, I believe that the most urgent task for the Ministry of Industry is to build three roads from Yunzhong to Anxi, from Chang'an to Anxi, and from Hebei to Fanyang and You. The state and the customs are all together!”
"Then do you know who is the leader in Yunzhong?" Li Hong asked with a sneer.
(End of chapter)