The door of the palace was closed, and the windows were covered tightly. It was pitch dark in the palace, and you couldn't see your fingers.
Suddenly there was a "click" sound, as if someone had opened a box or something. Then with a "xiao" sound, several green lights appeared out of thin air, illuminating the main hall like a ghost.
Once you get used to the light, you can see clearly that five or six beads of different sizes are arranged in a row, all emitting a bright green light.
It's indeed amazing, but to say how beautiful it is...that's a bit of nonsense!
Yuan Ke didn't see anything good. Instead, he felt that Liu Teng and others were like ghosts in the green light reflected by the fluorescent lights. He was extremely frightened. After a few breaths, he ordered Liu Teng to open the door of the palace and took off the window lattice. silk tent.
The hall suddenly became bright, and you could see the whole picture: there were several jade boxes on the imperial desk, the boxes were lined with silk, and each of them contained large or small orbs.
The largest one is as big as a child's head, and the smallest one is as big as a chicken. Without exception, they are all green beads.
And these are all belongings to the royal family’s inner treasury.
Li Chengzhi pretended to offer one of Li's two remaining stones to the emperor, but Yuan Ke refused.
He is not Yuan Yong, so he is not good at this at all... To put it more broadly, Yuan Ke has almost no special hobbies.
Because I was born with liver disease, I don’t have much appetite for food. And because I was weak since I was a child, I am not very fond of women. I am good at martial arts, but at most I can only live with my eyes.
My only wish is to live a few more years...
Looking at the few orbs, Yuan Ke sighed softly: "If it weren't for Li Chengzhi, I wouldn't have known how strange it would be if it broke. It's still just a pile of debris..."
Fall?
Liu Teng's heart trembled when he heard this: "Your Majesty, this is a priceless orb, and there are only a few of them in the palace. When I was waiting to take it away, I didn't even dare to let out my breath, and even touched it a little bit. If you do it, your legs will become weak from fear, how dare you fall?"
The emperor chuckled: "Then tell me, why doesn't Li Chengzhi feel distressed?"
Liu Teng froze suddenly, as if he was frozen.
That's a lunatic... God knows?
It’s no wonder that Liu Teng is usually so clever, but he is speechless at this time.
The emperor did not expect Liu Teng to tell the truth: "I have always felt that I cannot see through Li Chengzhi: seeing how he dares to offend all the princes, noble families, high-ranking officials, and instigating me to sell ice, it can be said that he is greedy for money!< /p>
But when confronting Yuan Yi, a treasure that was so priceless and worth tens of millions of gold was dropped at a drop of a hat, but there was no trace of regret on his face?
What about greed for power? He has made so many achievements, but I have always suppressed him. If it were anyone else, even if he didn't dare to complain, he would have already shown his abnormality. But Li Chengzhi has always been careless and didn't care. ?
If we talk about lust, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. In the past two decades, we should have been at our peak and full of vigor. In the kalou theater without Luobian water, these young people are the most nostalgic and forget to leave, but why?
Never heard of Li Chengzhi going there?"
The emperor sighed leisurely: "Everyone must have good things, but I really can't see what is good about Li Chengzhi? If you say that Li Chengzhi is cunning and scheming, and can hide his thoughts from me, I don't really believe it."
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Li Chengzhi is so scheming?
As long as there is only one or two points in the city, it is impossible to slap two teeth of Yuanyue when he first entered the capital. It is also impossible to offend him even if he knew that the Hu family was about to gain power.
It is even more impossible that just a few words to the Emperor can render His Majesty speechless and angry.
To say that Li Chengzhi is as fierce as fire is to praise him. He is like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard, and will explode if you touch it...
I don’t even know where Jingzhou Shilin’s comment that he was “as cunning as a fox” and “treacherous and slippery” came from?
Cursing in his heart, Liu Teng muttered: "In my opinion, Li Chengzhi is still good at everything, and he is good at everything: good for money, good for power, good for sex, good for fame...
Just because there are geniuses, they rely on their talents and are arrogant, thinking that everything that comes is easy, so they seem to be careless at all times, and even if they give up, they don't feel a pity...
Just like this Xuanli Baozhu, in the eyes of the ministers, it is extremely precious. But in the eyes of His Majesty, it is just a good-looking stone at most..."
The emperor was stunned.
If you think about it carefully, is this the truth?
It came so easily, so naturally I didn’t care...
Yu Zhong continued: "Your Majesty, do you still remember Li Jingzhen and Li Shenjun of Longxi?"
Yuan Ke immediately sneered: "How could I forget such a madman without a king and a teacher?"
Li Jingzhen is the younger brother of his uncle Li Shao, and Li Shenjun is the son of Li Shao. Both of them are from the Li family in Longxi. They both studied at Taixue, where they studied under Liu Fang and Cui Guang.
Li Shenjun was fine, but during his tenure, when he refuted the violation of official decrees, he often stood up to the emperor and was unable to step down. In the end, he simply turned out to be out of sight and out of mind, and was kicked out by the emperor to Xiazhou.
But Li Jingzhen can make the emperor's teeth itch when he hears this name.
He has been famous since he was a child and is praised as a child prodigy by the world. He is also extremely alert and good at eloquence. He is involved in hundreds of classics and history and is expert in everything.
At the age of fourteen, he was appointed as a senior staff member by Yuan Xie, who was then the Taiwei. Later, he was promoted to the Minister of Zhongshu, transferred to the Secretary of Nong Shaoqing, and was added to Shizhong...
Talented people are really talented, but arrogance is also really arrogant. Li Shenjun only supported the emperor and refused to step down, but Li Jingzhen made the emperor want to vomit blood every time.
However, he was very eloquent and extremely knowledgeable. He quoted classics and classics when explaining his theory and spoke it in a coherent manner. Not to mention the emperor, Liu Fang, Cui Guang, You Zhao and other famous Confucian teachers were all rendered speechless by his arguments.
And as the saying goes: Cui Bo is not good, Liu is good but not Bo; I am both good and knowledgeable, and I have two talents in learning...
The emperor used this mistake to accuse him of not respecting teachers and sent him to the secretary's department to compile history!
In comparison, Li Chengzhi was extremely obedient and submissive. At least he knew how to politely resign when admonishing, instead of stretching his neck to argue with the emperor like Li Jingzhen and Li Shenjun.
When he thought of this, Yuan Ke suddenly felt a lot more comfortable. He also roughly guessed what Yu Zhong wanted to say: the more talented people are, the more they are arrogant and arrogant, and they think they are superior to others, so they are very aloof.
In addition to relying on one's own integrity, the things that ordinary people strive for but cannot obtain are regarded as nothing in their eyes.
Just like these two people, they were high officials in the palace and close ministers of the emperor when they were prominent, and they could do it when they were humble in the north. Therefore, they can still do the hard work of searching for history in piles of paper and enjoy it...
Yu Zhong added: "Just like people like Li Jingzhen, they have a sense of arrogance in their chests just because they rely on their own talents. In their view, being able to feel comfortable is what they want in their lives. Therefore, they can be unfazed by favors and humiliations and ignore everything... Minister
I think the best thing about Li Chengzhi should be this..."
The emperor's eyes moved slightly, as if he was a little surprised.
Unexpectedly, Yu Zhong, who has always been dull, not good at speaking, and not very knowledgeable, could say such a thing?
Is it really like this to wake up the dreamer with just one word?
The emperor has always been puzzled: Li Chengzhi loves money but is not greedy for money, is treacherous but also seems to be loyal, is both ruthless and seems to be kind to a woman, etc., which make people contradict each other, because Yu Zhong actually has it all.
Basis?
Do you have pride in your chest?
Isn’t this what Confucianism calls awe-inspiring spirit?
For example, Li Jingzhen often said boldly: Everything except "Minben" is fallacy.
What is people-oriented?
The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important...
To put it bluntly, not to mention their own personal gains and losses, even he, the emperor, has to be moved to the back of the queue.
If you think about it carefully, Li Chengzhi really has many similarities:
Speaking of soldiers, can you waste your wealth and fight against thieves resolutely?
When it comes to helping people, tens of thousands of stones of food are donated without any ambiguity?
And those smoothies and tofu products can obviously make a lot of money, but they have to be sold at a low price, and they have to go through so much trouble. How can they "benefit the people"?
Yuan Ke really felt that Li Chengzhi treated the people much better than he treated the emperor...
He is indeed a traitor!
No wonder the sentence on the left says "I am a Confucian believer and does not believe in Buddhism" and the sentence on the right "does not talk about strange power and chaos"?
No wonder he had never known each other before and had no connection at all, but when he first entered the capital as an official, Liu Fang, Cui Guang and other Confucian leaders appreciated him so much?
Although he was scolding, the emperor was very happy.
Whether he is upright and upright, whether he is upright and upright, whether the people value the monarch over others, these are all principles of benevolent government. It proves that Li Chengzhi has good things, and it also shows that he has the great ambition to assist the monarch and govern the country, so he can use it with confidence and boldness.
If he is really a talented person who has no desires and desires but is capable of governing the world, the emperor will have to think carefully about it...
"What Yu Qing said is very reasonable!"
The emperor was in a good mood, praised Yu Zhong, and asked: "What about Li Chengzhi, has he ever trained troops outside the city?"
How can Li Chengzhi have time to train?
Liu Teng glanced at Yu Zhong and saw that he was indifferent, so he lowered his eyes and said respectfully: "At dawn, as soon as the palace door opened, Her Royal Highness the Queen issued an edict, ordering Li Chengzhi to bring the Guo family and Zhang family into the palace.
To see the priceless jade of hanging Li...
After that, His Highness also issued an order to serve food. A banquet will be held in Liangfeng Hall in the evening, and Huangmen will be informed that Gao Sikong will enter the palace later..."
The queen is going to host a banquet in the palace for Li Chengzhi’s mother?
Do you want to invite Gao Zhao?
Now that the two parties have met, it will be Li's turn to visit Gao Zhao at his door soon, bringing gifts. After that, it will be natural to accept...
Gao Ying has always been careless, but this time he is so concerned about Gao Sanniang?
When he thought of having a banquet with Gao Zhao, the emperor thought: Isn't this what his uncle meant?
Isn’t it that I wasn’t very fond of Li Chengzhi before because I thought he was from a low family background, so I had been hesitant and wavering, and I didn’t even want to see Li Chengzhi, so why did I suddenly take the initiative?
Just like yesterday, I was in front of the palace to appease Mrs. Guo, and in the palace, I was arguing for Li Chengzhi. Isn’t it okay to do your best?
It’s really too abrupt.
There is also Yuan Yong. Maybe he saw that Gao Zhao was anxious, so he said such shameless words in the palace yesterday.
The emperor’s uncle is really trying to find every opportunity!
But why not use this talent on the right path?
Yuan Ke secretly sneered: "I have passed down my oral instructions and warned me: The Guo family and the Zhang family are both waiting for punishment. Instead of imprisoning themselves in the palace to think about their mistakes, they went to the palace. What do you think of the imperial power and laws?
In two days, there will be a battle in front of the imperial army. Li Chengzhi doesn’t think about countermeasures or train his soldiers, but he is actually interested in attending the banquet? He really treats my guards as nothing but wine sacks..."
Liu Teng didn't know that these words were meant for Gao Ying, so he quickly responded: "I will go immediately!"
The emperor nodded and asked Yu Zhong: "Where is Yuan Yi?"
"I am selecting soldiers with King Jiangyang at Zuowei Camp."
"You're quite interested?"
The emperor sighed leisurely: "Yu Zhong, it's not that I won't give you a boost in prestige. According to my estimate, there are seven to eight ten percent chance that Yuan Yi will be defeated!"
Yu Zhong raised his head fiercely: "How could it be?"
Even if the Li clan is capable of conquering and fighting, they are all ordinary people. As long as Li Chengzhi and the Guo clan do not participate in the war, there is no way the Imperial Guard will lose...
The emperor smiled and said: "Just wait for two more days and see!"
Although Yuan Ke didn't know whether the Li family's retainers were as powerful as the rumors, the emperor knew Li Chengzhi.
If he didn't have the will to win, how could Li Chengzhi have the intention to enter the palace, attend the banquet, and spend the whole day?
So what if the queen has an edict?
This rebellious minister doesn't have much respect for me, the emperor. If he doesn't want to come, do you think that Li Chengzhi would not think of using me as a banner for him and then rejecting the queen?
It seems that I really can’t wait. I wish I could get married to Gao Sanniang today?
Yuan Ke's eyes moved slightly and he said loudly: "The order is sent to summon Aunt Zang Bo Li Shao to the palace..."