Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 621 Unexpected reward

This award is actually a bit unkind. After all, Li Xin has made such a big contribution. Even if it is not enough to seal a national prince, at least he should add a first-rank martial arts officer to do it, but only given A minister of military affairs, and then promoted to a first-class title.

   But Li Xin is already satisfied.

  He went to the southwest, not to get promoted and get rich, but to repay his personal grudges by the court's momentum. Now that his personal grudges are over, he is too lazy to compete with others in this regard.

   After receiving the imperial decree, Li Xin knelt down again facing the emperor, and said solemnly: "My minister, thank you for your generous reward, but there is one thing, I ask your majesty's permission."

  The Emperor said with a smile: "General Li, don't worry, the reward for you is not over yet."

   said, the emperor waved his hand again.

   "Continue reading."

"Yes."

   Xiao Zheng didn't know where he came from, so he took out another imperial decree and slowly unfolded it. Fortunately, Li Xin hadn't stood up yet, so he continued to kneel on the ground and received the decree.

   "Li Xin, the general of the Forbidden Army, is loyal and brave, and he is very fond of me. Whenever the prince is young, he needs a good teacher to teach him. Li Xin, the marquis of Jing'an, is specially hired as the Taibao of the Prince of the East Palace, and he teaches the prince's martial arts..."

   As soon as this imperial decree came out, Li Xincai, who was kneeling on the ground, frowned.

  The three teachers of the East Palace were originally from the first-rank vacant position, which means that they could be sealed, but they did not have a real position. Otherwise, if the East Palace had three first-rank teachers, it was very likely to threaten the imperial power.

   Therefore, the East Palace generally has only lecturers, teachers, and clerks, but there is not a prince and three teachers in power.

If this imperial decree is simply to designate Li Xin as the crown prince Taibao, then there is nothing special about it. After all, Li Xin's credit is also worthy of this vacant post from the first grade, but an appointment is added, and it is still in the imperial decree. It explained that if Li Xin was in charge of teaching ***, it would be very different...

   Li Xinxin was very clear that the emperor wanted that prince to really consider himself a teacher.

Thinking of this, the Marquis of Jing'an did not accept the imperial decree, but just lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is still young, and his morality is shallow. I rely on Your Majesty's blessings and General Ye's planning. His Royal Highness is studying, please take back your life..."

  The emperor frowned and said, "General Li is not willing to teach my son?"

   Li Xinxin complained.

  What I said just now is clear, I don't want to, you ask again what to do...

If it was in private, Li Xin could still argue with the emperor, but this is where all the civil and military officials of the Great Court are watching. After taking this imperial edict, he bowed his head and said, "Chen, thank you, Your Majesty..."

  The emperor showed a satisfied smile and said with a smile: "General Li just now seems to have something to tell me..."

"Yes."

Li Xinli sighed slightly, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is still young, and it is difficult to bring a forbidden army on weekdays. Your majesty asked the minister to serve in the military department. A post, please allow Your Majesty to grant…”

  The emperor frowned and asked, "What does General Li mean? The right battalion of the Forbidden Army has just made such great achievements under your hands, why did you choose to quit?"

  Li Xinxin silently despised this product.

  Why Lao Tzu quit, you still don't know...

   "Return to Your Majesty, my virtues are shallow and incompetent..."

Two years ago, when the Emperor Taikang had just ascended the throne, he desperately needed to take power. At that time, he and Li Xin made a plan and tried every means to get the forbidden army into his own hands. At that time, the position of the general of the forbidden army was the emperor. Forcing it to Li Xin.

Now that more than two years have passed, the emperor has been in this position for a long time, and his subordinates are no longer like two years ago. Except for Li Xin, no one can use them, and no one dares to use them. Therefore, it is time for Li Xin to send the forbidden army back. .

   For this, Li Xin didn't care much. Anyway, he didn't take the right battalion of the forbidden army to heart. With or without it, there is not much difference.

   The emperor said in a muffled voice: "In the capital, who would dare to say that you, Li Changan, are shallow in virtue?"

   "Anyway, this general of the right battalion of the Imperial Guard, you have done a good job. You have to do it first."

   Li Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty please read the minister's hard work over the past year, and let the minister rest..."

  The emperor stretched out his hand to help Li Xin up, looked Li Xin up and down, and sighed deeply.

   "Changan, you are indeed haggard a lot."

   "That's it, you should still sit in the position of the General of the Imperial Guard. If you feel tired, then I will find someone to take care of it for you. Someday, when you are almost resting, I will take over again, how about it?"

  Li Xin looked sincere, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, please resign."

   Emperor Taikang acted as a rogue, waved his hand and said, "I know about this matter, I'll leave it alone for now, and talk about it in a few days..."

  Jing An Hou Ye secretly complained in his heart.

   This is a trick to play three resignations and three invitations with yourself. It has to make the Chinese military officials feel that they are begging for their own death and want to resign from this position.

  Thinking of this, he didn't say anything more. He looked back at the positions of the civil and military officials. After a little hesitation, he stood at the position of the civil servants on the left, behind Zhang Qu and Zhang Haoran.

  The next step is to reward Ye Mao and Mu Ying.

   Ye Mao has made a lot of contributions, and this time he also took the title of a county prince, but this thing is of little significance to him, after all, he is the one who will take over the title of Duke Chen in the future.

The reward for Mu Ying was much simpler. The imperial court awarded him a serious five-rank Hanzhou general, and he left Beijing on another day. The emperor patted him on the shoulder and told him to work hard in the southwest. , do not live up to the trust of the court.

In addition to the rewards for these three people, there are other small issues, such as the issue of pensions for the Western Expedition Army this time, how to reward the Western Expedition Army after returning to Beijing, etc. Li Xin closed his eyes and rested, standing on the left without Interject.

   Soon, the big court meeting came to an end, and Li Xin was about to leave with Zhang Qu and the others, but as soon as he walked out of the two, Xiao Zheng appeared behind him with a flattering smile.

   "Prince Taibao, Your Majesty, please stay for a while and go to the side hall..."

  Eunuchs are all very talkative people. They will call whatever their name sounds loudly. In comparison, Prince Taibao does sound more aggressive than the Marquis of Jingan, so he quickly changed his tune.

  Li Xin, like a student who was detained, sighed helplessly, turned to Mu Ying and said, "Brother Mu, go to my house and wait for me. Let's have a drink together in the evening."

   Then he turned around and smiled at Xiao Zheng.

   "Please, Eunuch Xiao lead the way."

  Xiao Zheng bent down and took Li Xin all the way into a side hall of Weiyang Palace. He lifted the bead curtain and bent over to Li Xin and said, "Prince Taibao, Your Majesty is inside."

  Li Xingang took a step when he suddenly heard a child's voice.

   seems to be the voice of the prince.

   He frowned secretly.

   Shouldn't this guy be here, forcing the prince to apprentice to him?

   (end of this chapter)