Li Tai said with a smile through his tears: "Thank you, Father."
Li Shimin smiled slightly and asked him: "What good poems have you come up with? Let Lian comment on them for you."
Li Tai was dumbfounded when he heard this, and said that he had come up with a good poem. It was a lie.
He had an idea and said to Li Shimin: "Father, please come with me."
The father and son entered the study, and Li Tai picked up the pen on the table and wrote: If you live high in a temple, you worry about its people; if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you worry about your king. When you advance, you worry, and when you retreat, you worry. But when will you be happy?
It must be said, "Be worried about the world's worries first, and be happy after the world's happiness."
There was no way, this was the famous "Yueyang Tower" written by Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty. Anyway, after the Song Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, he didn't know about it, so it was easy to use it to fool him.
Li Tai felt uneasy in his heart, but Li Shimin shouted: "Wonderful, what a good article. What a man who worries about the world's worries first, and rejoices after the world's happiness! Tai'er, your literary attainments are getting better and better.
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"Father, I have given you such praise. Under your teachings, how dare I become alienated from my studies?"
"Okay, for your genius today, my father promises to satisfy any request you make!"
"real?"
Li Shimin looked up to the sky and smiled and said: "I am the emperor, and the emperor has no jokes."
Li Tai took a look and realized that this was not an opportunity given to him by God. He had made a promise at Yuchi Gong's house that he would make Qin Qiong's family return wherever they left.
So, he knelt down with a plop and said: "Father, I have nothing else to ask for. I just miss Master Qin Qiong so much. I just want to see him day and night."
Li Shimin took a look and thought, isn't this too much?
He had just demoted Qin Qiong's family back to his hometown in Shandong, and he wanted to reinstate him?
What does this give him as an emperor?
"Father, I know that General Qin should not station troops and practice martial arts in the palace, but he is the benefactor of our Li family after all. If you treat him like this, I'm afraid you will be called ungrateful."
Li Tai's attitude was extremely determined.
In his opinion, the opportunity cannot be missed, and if time never comes, he can only use Li Shimin's promise to realize his wish.
"Okay, as a father, I will make an exception for you. Who makes you my most beloved son?"
Li Shimin turned around and said to the eunuch who passed the order: "It is the order of the couplet to make Qin Qiong of Shandong Province the Duke of Yi State, and his official rank will be increased by one rank."
"Your Majesty, you must not do this."
Changsun Wuji stepped forward and chanted.
Li Shimin's face darkened and he asked: "Why not? Tell me? Without him capturing Yuchi Gong, where would we be today? Uncle Guo, I think you know this better than me, right?"
"But Your Majesty, if you change your order overnight, the consequences will be endless."
"What kind of future trouble? On the contrary, I feel that I wrongly blamed him this time. Just because he has stationed soldiers and set up a martial arts training ground in his house, we cannot suspect that he has any ulterior motives towards us."
Changsun Wuji wanted to continue arguing, but seeing his serious expression, he had to stop.
"Thank you, Father, for being wise."
"Haha, I can't speak of wisdom, but you wrote this poem very well. Come, please place this poem by King Wei in the Taiji Hall, and it will be used as the song of the officials every day when they go to court."
"As you command!"
Li Tai knelt down and thanked him again, then looked at Changsun Wuji and his party, looking at each other in confusion.
Thanks to his cleverness, otherwise he would really make a fool of himself today.
There are talented people in the country from generation to generation, but no one would have thought that the poems of Fan Zhongyan, a civil servant of the Song Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, would become the chants of the previous emperors and ministers.
After everyone left, Li Tai felt extremely happy.
Unexpectedly, a small trick changed the fate of Qin Qiong's family. Li Shimin's kindness to him really makes you marvel. It seems that in the future of the Tang Dynasty, the country must be outsmarted, never taken directly.
Lian'er handed him some tea and said, "When did King Wei write this poem? Why didn't I know?"
"You are a little girl, what do you know? How about you tell me about that poem?"
"Of course it's excellent, but did you do this?"
"You can check whether it was done by me. In this way, you look at the poem and I will recite it. As long as it is correct word for word, it will prove that it was done by me, right?"
Lian'er pursed her lips and smiled and said, "Why bother? I'm not a literate person, so aren't you making things difficult for me? King Wei, you have noticed that the way the emperor looks at you is different from how he looks at others."
"Oh, really? Why didn't I notice it? What's the difference?"
Lian'er was about to answer when Wang Xiaoyang came in and said, "Someone is coming from the palace and I want you to go there."
Lian'er agreed and turned around to leave. Wang Xiaoyang leaned at the door, looking at him without saying anything but smiling.
"Wang Xiaoyang, what are you doing? You're mysterious."
Seeing his malicious look, Li Tai asked with a straight face.
"King Wei, a message came from the palace that the emperor saw that you are weak and ordered someone to send you delicacies to increase your nutrition. He specially asked Lian'er to come to the palace to learn how to cook."
Li Tai looked at himself and asked him: "Is this necessary? I am so strong."
"Who says it's not the case? Your Majesty is very happy today, and he loves you very much. Your Highness, the King of Wei, is in the spotlight now."
Li Tai saw that his words were neither big nor small, and said: "What do you mean? You are really spoiled by me. You are a slave and dare to make irresponsible remarks in front of me. You can say such things. If this spreads to the East Palace,
That's something that will cost you your head. Don't do it next time."
Wang Xiaoyang said: "I'm sorry, King Wei, I am loyal to you, but I only receive a few salary on time every year. Look at Zhang Qiuhua, he follows the prince to enjoy the hot and spicy food, and..."
Wang Xiaoyang is really tight-lipped, and he speaks incoherently, even half a sentence.
"And what's wrong? Can you fart all at once?"
Wang Xiaoyang whispered: "I heard that the prince even assigned him a palace maid as his wife."
"Bah, what are you talking about? He is a eunuch, can you give him a woman? And if you cause trouble to the harem like this, you will be beheaded."
"His Royal Highness King Wei, aren't you too much? Although the laws of the Tang Dynasty are extremely strict now, he belongs to the prince. What does the prince mean? It means that he will be the emperor one day. No matter what you say, there will be people who dare to expose him.
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"Slander, you are maliciously slandering me."
Li Tai was happy in his heart, but his expression was very serious.
He only hoped that Li Chengqian would continue to act like a monster and make Li Shimin disappointed with him to a certain extent, and he would naturally consider establishing a new heir apparent.
"Really, who would dare to say such a thing without any real evidence? Moreover, he also hid the monk secretly and actually kept him by his side disguised as a eunuch."
When Li Tai heard this, he felt even happier.
Previously, in order to show his loyalty, Li Chengqian told Li Shimin that he had sent Chengxin out of the palace. Now, if such words are spread, if it is confirmed, Li Chengqian will have committed the crime of regicide.
Li Tai shouted loudly: "That's even more nonsense. Didn't that monk named Cheng Xin be sent out of the palace? Wang Xiaoyang, you must have a basis for what you say."