The last court meeting before Yuan Day was held yesterday, and Li Hong left all the reforms of Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Yushitai to Di Renjie and Chen Jingzhi for preliminary processing.
As for Di Renjie's recommendation of Chen Jingzhi, Li Hong did not agree to anything, so although Chen Jingzhi now has something to do, he is still a literary official who is always ready to fill in the gaps.
"What did you say? Chen Jingzhi's daughter also wants to enter the palace together? Why?" Li Hong, who had finished exercising in the morning, stood naked in the back garden, with a spear taken away from his hand and gesticulating with it.
Bai Chun, who was wearing a white fur fur, his little face was red from the cold, and stamping his feet on the ground from time to time, looked at the steaming prince, danced with the spear in his hand, and continued: "This slave didn't say anything. , it was the queen who asked Chen Qinghan to join the palace. By the way, Yang Yu was not excluded. Your Majesty said that Yang Sijian should be investigated even if his crime does not lead to death. "
"I gave you more than five million taels of silver to let you enter the palace, and then you gave me such an answer?" Li Hong held the spear tightly with one hand and made a carbine-like movement, with the tip of the spear making a sharp sound of wind. He stabbed toward Bai Chun's face like lightning.
But Bai Chun looked at the tip of the spear that was stabbing her like a poisonous snake, and said without blinking: "I have tried my best, and I have said all the good things about Wanying, but I look at you, the Queen It seems like I still want to see if someone else is more suitable.”
When the tip of the spear was less than two inches away from Bai Chun's nose, it stopped firmly. The other end of the straight spear was held firmly in Li Hong's hand. He looked at Bai Chun and sighed, then took back the spear and said: "Yang Yu, Chen Qinghan, Pei Wanying, there is no one else, right?"
Bai Chun glanced at the somewhat frustrated Li Hong strangely, pouted and said with a suppressed smile: "An Xiaohe has been designated as Chenghui by the Queen. When you marry the Crown Princess, he will marry with you."
With a clang, the spear Li Hong was holding tightly fell to the ground, almost hitting his own feet.
"What? An Xiaohe was directly granted the title of Chenghui?" Li Hong's eyes almost fell to the ground: "What about you, did your mother grant you any title?"
According to the system of the Tang Dynasty, the prince also had a harem, which was divided according to rank into one prince-concubine who was also of the highest rank as the prince, and then there were two Liangdi of the third rank, six Liangyuan of the fourth rank, and ten Chenghui of the sixth rank. , sixteen Zhaoxun people of the seventh rank, and twenty-four Fengyi people of the ninth rank.
Bai Chun stuck out her tongue playfully, then shook her head, indicating that the queen had not conferred any title on her.
"Why?" Li Hong asked.
"The Queen didn't say the specific reason. She only said that I won't suffer in the East Palace. Even the Crown Princess wouldn't dare to do anything to me." Although the expression on Bai Chun's face seemed very plain, it was more or less still. You can see a trace of pride and pride.
When Li Hong heard this, he felt relieved in his heart, but he said disdainfully: "You are so beautiful, you don't have the identity of a husband, and you don't have a class now, but you are quite beautiful."
"I'm happy." Bai Chun said coldly with a sullen face, looking at Li Hong who came over with a smile and put a fur on Li Hong.
"As you wish, are Xiaoxue and the others my people now, or are they still my mother's people?" Li Hong's cold hands, which had just finished holding the spear, suddenly stretched out to hold Xiaoxue's flawless cheeks, and asked mischievously.
Xiaoxue frowned and let the cold hands rest on her cheeks, then her little face wrinkled together, shaking her head from the cold, but she didn't even try to avoid those annoying cold hands.
"For the time being, they are still members of the Imperial Palace. Zongzheng Temple and the Ministry of Internal Affairs still provide them with salaries. They are not considered members of the Eastern Palace."
"This is the legendary secondment." Li Hong let go of Xiaoxue's face angrily, slapped Bai Chun's plump and perky buttocks, and then walked towards Li Zhengdian.
Xiaoxue looked at Li Hong's back, stretched out her hands to rub her cheeks, and then said eloquently: "Your Highness, the man named Qi Wang came again yesterday. After waiting for you for a long time last night, he didn't see you, so today here we go again."
"No." Li Hong waved his hand and walked straight into Li Zheng Hall.
I have nothing to do today. I just want to practice my mahjong skills in the Li Zheng Palace. The first day is coming soon, and I might be dragged into the palace by my father and mother to play mahjong with them one day, so now is the best time. It's better to practice skills with Xiaoxue and the others.
But what made him go against his expectations was that just after taking a bath under the service of Banmei and Xunlan, he received Wu Mei's order to enter the palace and play mahjong with him.
Li Hong counted the number of people on his fingers. He should be the same one, right? Wouldn’t it be enough to have the father, the mother, the queen, plus Princess Lanling or the vengeful Princess Xincheng? No matter what happens, Princess Chengyang will accompany you, right
But what made him a little depressed was that for the past few days, his father kept the four great masters of the East Palace in the palace every day to study music theory and dance for a dance song, and he had no time to play mahjong with the queen.
Because Princess Chengyang had something to do, the Ministry of War urgently ordered a batch of living expenses before the first day of the year, and she ran out of Chang'an City early to rush work, so now it has become three short and one missing.
Someone who accepted his fate took the banknote prepared by Bai Chun and followed Wang Lou into the palace. Before entering the Penglai Hall, he heard the chatter between his mother and Princess Xincheng and Princess Lanling. The sound, and the sound of the queen teaching Princess Lanling mahjong to Xincheng.
But as the saying goes, things turn around. When I came to my house this year, Li Hong never lost a tael of silver since he was put in the position of facing south and facing north again.
After the four people played four rounds, Princess Xincheng was neither losing nor losing today, while Long Ma and Princess Lanling were livid. Once they failed to catch a bad card, they would take turns to punish Li Hong. One lap.
In line with the truth of beating the old master to death with random punches, Li Hong won in the end and began to play cards based on Long Ma's eyes. But he didn't know what happened today. Even if he played cards randomly, even if he was playing cards, even if he was playing cards, he would still be in trouble. Nothing could stop the colorful banknotes from running into Li Hong's arms.
As time went by, Li Hong had more and more silver notes in his hands, and Wu Mei also began to turn losses into wins. Princess Xincheng once again took out nearly two million taels of silver notes, and Princess Lanling, after many years She was originally indifferent by nature. Among the three elder princesses in the royal family, she has always adhered to a simple style.
What's even more rare is that he didn't care about winning or losing at all in the end. No matter whether he played bad cards, fired shots, or lost money, he still looked indifferent, as if the banknotes on the table were not. Bai Hu's words are like a pile of paper.
Wang Lou walked in lightly from the outside and came to Li Hong's side. He glanced at Wu Mei who was calm, bowed and said to Li Hong: "Your Highness, General Peruss of Persia, the right guard general, wants to see you."
Li Hong was stunned in mid-air as he was about to play the card, and asked in confusion: "Why did you find me in the palace when you were looking for me? Who brought him here?"
"Play cards quickly." Wu Mei looked at her cards, looking at the cards in Li Hong's hand from the corner of her eye, and said anxiously.
"Two loaves."
"Nonsense." Wu Meimei smiled brightly, showing no interest in the conversation between Li Hong and Wang Lou.
"You little prodigal son, you are lighting cannon for your mother again." Xincheng looked at Li Hong who was talking to Wang Lou and angrily pushed Li Hong's shoulder to vent his frustration.
"Two royal aunts, mother and queen, I'm afraid I won't be able to play cards with you. This is a job arranged by the emperor for you, you see." From the corner of his eye, Li Hong roughly assessed the stack of cards in front of him. "How much is the banknote?" he said helplessly to Wu Mei, Xincheng and Lanling.
"It's really disappointing. I'm going to be disappointed again today, so hurry up and go." Princess Xincheng picked up a few thin banknotes. Although she lost, even though she looked like she was going to eat someone just now, it was just at the card table. superior.
Once she got off the card table, she immediately returned to her noble, generous, graceful and elegant demeanor as a royal princess, and the unhappiness of losing money just now was immediately forgotten.
Lan Ling signaled the maid next to him to put away the mahjong and other things. Wu Mei also accompanied Xincheng and Lan Ling towards the living room. Hearing Li Hong asking Wang Lou to take Belus to the East Palace, he couldn't help but stop.
Looking back at Li Hong who was about to leave, he said calmly: "Since we are in the palace, why go back again? Why don't we just meet you at the Xuanzheng Hall? When you are done, come and have dinner with me at noon."
Li Hong was stunned. That was a place where his father could only receive others. Is it appropriate for me to use it
But looking at Long Ma's face, which showed a matter-of-fact and irrefutable expression, and then looking at Aunt Lanling and Princess Xincheng, who gestured to him to nod quickly with their eyes, she had no choice but to say: "Yes, Queen Mother, I will receive you at the Xuanzheng Hall." Belus.”
Logically speaking, Li Hong was still the savior of Belus. At that time, Li Hong single-handedly crossed Tohura and reached Jiling City. When the Dashi Kingdom attacked Jiling City, he tore a hole and cut them off from being conquered. He risked his life to save him from the iron barrel formation surrounded by the Food Nation.
So no matter how you talk about it, whether it is Belus or his son, it is not an exaggeration to regard Li Hong as his savior.
The respectful demeanor and humble words and deeds of the two people greatly improved Li Hong's good impression of them. Although Belus asked Li Zhi to help him restore the country, Li Hong also disagreed, but it did not affect Belus and his son Na. Ershiye, according to Persian etiquette, gave a great ceremony to Li Hong.
What's more, for the construction of the Persian Temple in Chang'an, Li Hong ordered the Ministry of Works to allocate funds for its construction due to Li Zhi's almost tough orders.
"Let's sit down and talk. Yesterday I saw a figure wandering at the entrance of the East Palace. I didn't dare to recognize it. I didn't expect it was really you. I don't know what's the reason for coming here this time? It's the first day of the year, and the cost of living..."
"Your Highness, you are too polite. We have no problem with the expenses now. We are here today because of matters related to Anxi." Belus stood up and saluted again.
As for His Highness the Tang Dynasty's words: "I saw a figure wandering around the East Palace, but I didn't dare to recognize this sentence." '
Belus could only sigh silently in his heart: At the entrance of the East Palace, which ordinary person dares to come and hang out for nothing? As you say, this Tang Dynasty and this imperial city belong to your highness. How dare you say that you dare not recognize this when you see the figure
(End of chapter)