Chastity Layman

Li Shimin looked at the melody in front of him, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned.

This is a seal, that is, a secret memorial, which is directly presented to the emperor in front of the imperial court, without going through the silver stage, the three provinces, the Zhongshu, or the Imperial Academy.

The person who signed the letter was Li Suli, who is currently the governor of Xiangzhou and the governor of Xiangzhou. Because the governor of Xiangzhou was led by Wei Wang Li Taiyao and not in charge of actual affairs, Li Suli, a doctor of Jinzi Guanglu, was appointed as the governor of the long history.

The governor of Xiangzhou is the governor's office of the central capital, and the military governors of the seven prefectures of Xiang, Wei, Li, Wei, Ming, Xing, and Bei are very important.

Xiangzhou was called Weijun in the Sui Dynasty, and the prefecture was Anyang, and the ancient city of Ye was located in this area. It has always been an important place in the southwest of Hebei.

In the sixth year of Jiande, the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Qi, and set up a group of administrative offices in the old Qi. Among them, the three prefectures of Bing, Luo, and Xiang were the most important. .

In the Northern Zhou and Sui dynasties, the General Manager's Mansion was changed to the Dudu's Mansion in the Tang Dynasty. The Dudu's Mansion often supervised the military and civil affairs of several states. Anyone who served as a Dudu often also served as the governor of the state in which he was stationed, and generally used the full name of the state in which he was stationed as the head of the Dudu's Mansion. Names, such as Xiangzhou Dudufu will be stationed in Xiangzhou Heyang.

However, because the Tang Dynasty had the tradition of the clan vassals leading the governors from a distance, when the princes led the governors and governors away, they used the long histories to do the governor's affairs, and these long histories were the actual chiefs.

Luozhou was originally the governor's mansion, but now it has been upgraded to Henan Prefecture and is the accompanying capital of Tokyo. Xiangzhou is located in the northwest of the Eastern Capital, facing each other across the Yellow River and leaning on the Taihang Mountains. Therefore, before moving the capital, Li Shimin granted him the most beloved King Wei became the governor of Xiangzhou, which enhanced the importance of the governor's office of Xiangzhou.

He also specially chose Li Suli to be the governor of Xiangzhou's governor's office. This Li Suli is a senior official and very capable.

Itself is the Li family of Zhaojun, the son of five surnames, the great-grandfather of the governor of Liangzhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the ancestor of Sanqi, and his father was a doctor of the Ministry of Water in the Sui Dynasty.

Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan and marched into Chang'an. Li Suli greeted him at the Changchun Palace in Tongzhou. At that time, Li Yuan was very satisfied with the reception of Li Suli and other officials and scholars, so he directly appointed him as the supervisory censor. Later, when his mother passed away, Ding You was required to resign from his post to observe filial piety. Li Yuan made a special decree to win the favor, and he had to be awarded the seven-rank Qingzhi by the secretary.

At the beginning, the Ministry of Officials planned to grant Yongzhou Sihu to join the army. Li Yuan said that the official was not clear, and the Ministry of Officials changed it to be Secretary Lang. And again.

Since Zhenguan, he has been transferred to Yongzhou Sima and Puzhou Governor.

With such an old qualification, it is certainly not a trivial matter to move the emperor with such a secret performance now.

After closing Li Suli's secret memorial, the emperor picked up another one. It was the secret memorial of Yang Zuan, the founding viscount of Chang'an County, who was currently the Shaoyin of Henan Province, the doctor of Jiayin Qing Guanglu, and the founding viscount of Chang'an County. It is the same thing as Li Suli's letter to seal the matter.

Yang Zuan is also a son of a famous family, the son of Hongnong Yang, who was demoted in the Yang Xuangan rebellion case at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Later, he and Li Suli paid homage to Li Yuan in Changchun Palace.

He successively served as the county magistrate of Chang'an, Shangshu Zuocheng, minister of the Ministry of official affairs, and school inspector Yongzhou Biejia.

The two important ministers both reported the same thing in Fengshi.

Li Suli impeached Qin Lang, the prime minister of the state of Wei, saying that he was disrespectful by beating the prince, deceiving the emperor and committing crimes.

Yang Zhuan wrote a secret letter saying that Qin Lang was rude to the prince, disrespected Wei Wang Li Tai, and would not get off his horse to salute when he met Wei Wang on his way.

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Imperial City, Zhongshu Province, Zhengshitang.

The prime ministers are holding a meeting.

"Gentlemen, everyone is here." Nei Changshi came in to announce.

The emperor came suddenly, and the prime ministers had to interrupt the meeting to greet the emperor.

Li Shimin came in in a casual robe, with an unhappy face, and sat down after entering, without calling the prime ministers to sit down.

"Recently, there are officials who have reported that the ministers of the third rank and above in the court are disrespectful to the prince, and they will not dismount to salute when they meet the prince. How can this be reasonable?"

The emperor scolded his head and covered his face.

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian and others were at a loss.

Qin Lang, Ma Zhou, and Xu Jingzong, the three prime ministers, immediately understood what was going on, and they probably ignored Li Tai's consequences at the gate of the bamboo garden.

Li Shimin didn't mention his name, and Qin Lang didn't bother to stand up.

Waiter Wei Zheng couldn't stand it any longer, and directly crossed his hands to speak.

"Your Majesty, since the Han and Wei dynasties, the treatment of the princes has always been lower than that of the three princes. In this dynasty, the ministers of the third rank and above are all relatives and nobles. They are not the prime ministers of the court, but the sons of heaven and the heads of the eight chiefs."

"It is completely unreasonable to require ministers of the third rank and above to dismount and salute the prince. There was no basis for this kind of thing in the past, and there is no rule to follow in the present. It is a violation of the Tang Dynasty's legal system. .”

Wei Zhengpun's level is still very high, why should the third-rank minister dismount the prince to salute? Can they afford it? The third-rank officials in the Tang Dynasty were either prime ministers or ministers, and the prince could not afford to dismount and salute the prince.

Emperor, you are making trouble for no reason at all, shut up now.

Li Shimin was not happy when he heard it, "You five ranks are noble, and three ranks are relatives. In order to show your dignity, do you want to despise my prince Wei Wang?"

Originally, he only talked about dismounting the prince and saluting, but now Li Shimin simply mentioned Wei Wang Li Tai directly.

Wei Zhengyu was even stronger, with high fighting spirit.

"Among the princes, only the crown prince is the crown prince. Even the prime minister has to behave like a monarch and a minister. If he encounters someone on the road, he will naturally dismount and salute. If the other princes are only court officials, they are ministers of the same court as the third rank. When they meet, they only need the etiquette of colleagues. Why not?" Want to dismount and salute?"

"Wei Wang is my beloved son!"

"The king of Wei is only a prince, a minister, not a king!" Wei Zheng replied with a reply.

Li Shimin was furious, "The reason why the country established a prince is for me to inherit my throne in a hundred years. However, the survival of a person does not depend on the old and the young. If the prince is gone, we must have a grandson. If there is no grandson, we will have a second son. For this point, you should also respect King Wei."

Li Shimin's face was red, his eyes were wide open with anger, and he stared at Wei Zheng fiercely, but his big eyes swept towards Qin Lang from time to time, and also swept over Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, etc. a few times.

Wei Zheng didn't care about the emperor's anger at all. On the contrary, his fighting spirit became more high-spirited, and he directly pointed out that the emperor was talking nonsense.

What does it mean to assume that the prince is gone? How can a father curse his own son? Besides, even if Chengqian is gone, wouldn't there still be a grandson? Didn't the emperor let Princess Su raise Li Xiang as his son?

Even if Li Xiang didn't grow up, the prince doesn't only have one son, Li Xiang, the prince now has two sons, because the other son was also born by a concubine, so he was also adopted under the name of the concubine. The same is the grandson.

The eldest grandson is not here, and there are also second-in-law grandsons. When will the emperor's second-in-law succeed to the throne?

The patriarchal clan system is based on establishing a descendant and not establishing a virtuous person. It is only inherited in the Dazong lineage. How can the King of Wei have anything to do with it? Unless Chengqian's line is completely extinct, then it is possible for Li Tailai to inherit.

The relationship between Wei Zheng and Crown Prince Chengqian is actually not good, and he also worked part-time in the East Palace before, but he doesn't like the crown prince very much, but every penny counts for one.

Now the emperor openly told the prime ministers that Li Tai had the right to inherit, this must not be tolerated.

Why does Li Tai have the right to inherit?

The emperor has to be responsible for saying this. If you say this, won’t the king of Wei have the reason and confidence to fight for the heir? Those officials and nobles in the court will also have many people follow suit. To support Wei Wang?

Isn't the emperor going to personally provoke the prince to fight for the heir, and the court and the Chinese party?

This is not nonsense or something, this is dizziness, and it is going to cause chaos.

"Your Majesty, speak carefully!"

Wei Zheng remonstrated loudly, "Your Majesty said that brothers will end up with younger brothers, that was the practice in the Shang Dynasty, and now only the barbarians on the grasslands can do this. Since the Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains China, all dynasties have been adhering to the establishment The patriarchal system that must grow up, so that we can cut off the coveting heart that shouldn't be there, as the king of a country, His Majesty must be very cautious in speaking and doing things."

"The left historian records the words, and the right historian records the deeds. His majesty's words and deeds will be recorded in the volume by the historian for future generations to watch."

Wei Zheng is not forgiving, the emperor, you are talking nonsense today, it is absolutely unacceptable, you must take back what you said wrong in front of everyone.

Never give King Wei any wrongful thoughts.

Originally, Li Shimin was talking about ministers disrespecting the prince, but later he said disrespecting Li Tai, and even said that Li Tai might become emperor in the future. When he originally said this, he just wanted to say that Li Tai is the son of the emperor after all, and everyone should respect him. point.

However, his words also inadvertently revealed the emperor's love for Li Tai, and even his intention to establish a prince, especially when it comes to the special situation that the prince is injured and crippled, and the emperor has banned him from the East Palace. of.

Wei Zheng is neither the Wei Royal Party nor the Wu Royal Party, nor is he a princeling, but he firmly opposes the emperor's release of such a signal.

Li Shimin said that the crown prince will be gone in the future, but this does not mean that the crown prince is abolished. After all, birth, old age, sickness and death are common things, and it is not impossible for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person. This time the prince injured a leg, what if the prince dies unexpectedly next time?

This was right in the first place, and it was true that the prince did not have the eldest grandson, but the mistake was to add a superfluous sentence later, if there is no grandson, it is the second son.

If there is no eldest grandson, there are also second-in-law grandsons, and if there are no second-in-law grandsons, there are also concubine grandsons. How can it not be the turn of the second-in-law son.

According to the patriarchal system, only the Dazong side is eligible for the right of inheritance. Although Li Tai is the second son, he already belongs to the Xiaozong. passed down to his sons and grandchildren.

Unless Chengqian is deposed as the prince, his sons will naturally lose the right to inherit the throne, and then it will be the turn of the second son. This is the patriarchal system and the foundation of the country.

Wei Zheng was relentless.

Qin Lang finally stood up.