"The Queen Mother can ask Sister Yuzhang to accompany the son. She has the best relationship with the Emperor's sister. After the Emperor's sister got married, she has not been to the Emperor's house yet." Li Zhi said.
"No." Empress Changsun refused without thinking, saying: "The wedding of Yuzhang and Erlang of the Fang family is approaching, and it is not suitable to leave the palace at this time."
The restrictions on princesses in the Tang Dynasty were not as great as those in the Ming Dynasty. Although Princess Yuzhang wanted to get married, it was still okay for her to go out of the palace to play. Normally she would have agreed.
However, there is still one month left for the wedding of Princess Yuzhang and Fang Yiai. At this time, Princess Yuzhang's leaving the palace will inevitably cause criticism.
Fang Xuanling is Li Shimin's right-hand man, so he will inevitably feel unhappy when the time comes.
How could Li Zhi know this? He thought Empress Changsun wouldn't let him go, so he felt aggrieved.
Empress Changsun thought for a while and said, "I will take a rest tomorrow, so let Gao Ming accompany you."
Literally, "Xiu Mu" means rest and bathing. It is also the name for the rest days of ancient officials.
Ordinary people naturally don't have a day off.
Since the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court has clearly stipulated that officials should take a bath every five days, which means that officials can take one day off after working for four days.
This system has been used by all dynasties. Although there were some changes during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the rule of bathing every five days was still used in the Sui Dynasty.
From the Tang Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, the practice was to take a bath every five days. After Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, state affairs were disrupted, so it was changed to a bath every ten days.
At this time, it was the Zhenguan period, and bathing was still practiced every five days.
On the days of rest, not only officials have a holiday, but they don't even have to attend morning court.
Empress Changsun asked Li Chengqian to accompany Li Zhi for some selfish reasons.
Lin Xuan and Li Chengqian were relatively close before, but during this time Lin Xuan seemed to be deliberately alienating Li Chengqian.
With Empress Changsun's intelligence, it was not difficult to guess that it was Li Shimin who had beaten Lin Xuan.
As Li Shimin's pillow, Empress Changsun was naturally very dissatisfied with Li Shimin.
Because of his own mistakes, Li Shimin made Li Chengqian the crown prince, but did not give him any real power.
Not only that, Li Shimin also did not want Li Chengqian to have close contacts with the ministers of the DPRK and China.
Empress Changsun asked Li Chengqian to accompany Li Zhi. She had no intention of helping Li Chengqian cultivate his power. She just wanted Li Chengqian to have more contact with Lin Xuan and build a good relationship.
Although Lin Xuan was only a county prince at this time and commanded only 10,000 troops, Empress Changsun knew very well that it was because Lin Xuan was too young and Li Shimin was deliberately trying to polish Lin Xuan.
In a few years, when Lin Xuan is older and more mature, Li Shimin will definitely make use of Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan and Li Chengqian were similar in age. By the time Li Chengqian succeeded to the throne, Lin Xuan was already an important minister in the court.
Li Chengqian had just ascended the throne, and Lin Xuan was able to assist him wholeheartedly, which was of great help to Li Chengqian in controlling the situation.
As a mother, Empress Changsun did this with good intentions.
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Li Zhi was overjoyed. He didn't care who accompanied him, as long as he could go.
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East Palace
Li Chengqian rubbed his sore wrist and said, "It's all trivial things all day long."
Starting from the fifth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin issued an order to send some unimportant memorials to Li Chengqian for review.
Li Chengqian was very excited at first. Although it was an unimportant period, he still thought carefully and worked hard, just hoping to get Li Shimin's appreciation.
But as time passed, he became a little numb and lost the energy he had at the beginning.
"Your Highness, please be careful. Your Majesty wants to hone His Royal Highness's ability to govern." Du He looked at the eunuchs and maids serving him in a vague way.
Li Chengqian reacted and said: "Of course I know my father's painstaking efforts. I just want to share my father's worries."
"Your Highness Renxiao, Your Majesty will definitely be very pleased to know this." Du He praised.
"You all go down." Li Chengqian said to the palace maids and eunuchs standing on both sides.
"Yes." The palace maid and eunuch bowed and left.
When he and Du He were the only ones left in the study, Li Chengqian said: "Gu was negligent just now, but the people in the East Palace are all old people who have served Gu for many years, so they won't talk nonsense."
"Your Highness, please be careful and make no big mistake. If these people's private discussions are overheard by others and they are taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives, you will be in trouble," Du He said.
It's okay to think about this in your mind and talk about it in private.
And once word spreads, the trouble will be big.
"I know it, and I will pay attention to it in the future. It's just that these memorials are handled by the Shangshu Province. Even if I handle them, they will still have to be re-reviewed by people from the Shangshu Province."
After the memorials are delivered, there will be a special person to sort them. Only the particularly important ones will be handled by the emperor himself. Most of the memorials are handled by the prime minister. In the end, the emperor can just look at some.
If the emperor feels that something is inappropriate, he will review it again. If he has no different opinions, he only needs to write a review.
If a country's memorials are all handled by the emperor, the emperor will do nothing all day long. He will be too busy just reading memorials and sleeping.
Of course, there is one exception, and this person is Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the prime minister had too much power. After the Hu Weiyong case, he abolished the prime minister system. Hu Weiyong was also called the last prime minister.
In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang firmly controlled the power in his own hands.
But this also has a disadvantage, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang needs to handle all memorials alone.
According to historical statistics, Zhu Yuanzhang once processed 1,160 memorials in 8 days. If one memorial is conservatively counted as 1,000 words, then 1,160 memorials are 1.16 million words, and the average number of words read in memorials every day is 150,000 words. Another memorial is impossible
Only writing one thing, the memorial covered 3391 things in these 8 days, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to deal with an average of 423 things every day, which is a bit modest to describe as managing everything on a daily basis.
Processing memorials requires reading and reviewing, as well as careful thinking.
This caused Zhu Yuanzhang to get up before dawn every day and work until late at night.
Thirty-one years have passed like this.
No matter how future generations evaluate Zhu Yuanzhang, no emperor in history can match his diligence.
The most admirable thing is that she was so busy that she didn't neglect the beauties in her harem and gave birth to a lot of sons and daughters.
But his descendants will not be as capable as Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although the Ming Dynasty later established a cabinet system, there were still many memorials that needed to be processed by the emperor every day.
The emperor dare not violate the ancestral precepts, what should he do?
So he asked the eunuch to handle the memorial.
This also resulted in the great power of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department was called the "internal prime minister", and his power was evident.
Throughout history, the Ming Dynasty had the most cases of eunuchs disrupting power in all dynasties.
Closer to home, the memorials sent to Li Chengqian for approval by the Ministry of Education are actually those parts that need to be processed by the Ministry of Education, and after Li Chengqian’s approval, they need to be reviewed again by the Ministry of Education before they are submitted to Li Shimin.
This is also the reason why Li Chengqian slowly lost his enthusiasm.
He feels that it does not matter whether he reviews or not, and the results of his reviews will not have any effect.