Datang Longya

Chapter 930 Lingyan Pavilion finally stands

Wei Zheng's life can be described as extremely rough.

In the 13th year of Daye, he served as an official under the account of Chengyuan Baozang in Wuyang County.Yuan Baozang raised troops to respond to Wagang Li Mi, and Yuan Baozang's memorials to Li Mi were all written by Wei Zheng. Li Mi saw that Wei Zheng was very talented, so he summoned Wei Zheng.However, Li Mi didn't take Wei Zheng's ten strategies to strengthen Wagang seriously.

Later, Wei Zheng returned to Li Tang and served under the crown prince.After Li Shimin took power, he asked Wei Zheng why he helped the prince to deal with him.Wei Zheng did not flatter and admit his mistakes, but used "as a minister, he should do his best to help" as an excuse, and he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong.It is also because of his stubbornness.He was able to survive Li Shimin's purge of the prince's forces.

Some people may think that Wei Zheng was left by Li Shimin on purpose to appease the officials who had close relations with the crown prince.However, if Wei Zheng didn't really have his own merits, why would he be the nurse?

In the later years of Zhenguan, Wei Zheng also demonstrated his political ability and admonishment ability many times.The Tang Dynasty can have such a prosperous age, and Wei Zheng's share of credit is absolutely indispensable.

After approving Wei Zheng's bone begging form, Li Shimin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

This guy Wei Zheng is the one with the highest ranking among the people he wants to kill.It has been 23 years since Zhenguan, and he has been angered by Wei Zheng for 23 years.But now that Wei Zheng has decided to retire, for some reason, he has a feeling of reluctance.

Clearing his throat, Li Shimin said, "Wei Zheng, you have also worked half your life for the Great Tang. Now that you are retiring, I have nothing to reward you. How about giving you ten thousand gold coins?"

Wei Zheng is recognized as a poor man in the public circle. In order to make him live a better life in his later years, Li Shimin can only make an exception and reward Wei Zheng with some gold coins.

Wei Zheng bowed to the ground: "The old minister thanked His Majesty for his kindness, but please allow me to ask, is the gold coin you rewarded this old man from the national treasury or a private treasury?"

Li Shimin wondered, "Is there any difference?"

Wei Zheng said earnestly: "If it is gold coins from the treasury, I will definitely decline. In the past, when officials retired, His Majesty never rewarded them. Why do you have to make an exception when you come to the old minister? The money in the treasury is the people's fat. Dare to use it. But if it comes from His Majesty's private treasury, the veteran will have no such worries, and I should thank His Majesty for the gift."

Leng Feng almost burst into laughter, couldn't help poking Li Jing beside him, Leng Feng suppressed a smile and said, "Let me translate for you, what old man Wei means is clearly that you don't use public funds to fool me, pay for it yourself .”

Leng Feng was not the only one, many courtiers suppressed their laughter.Forcibly holding back a laugh is uncomfortable, so shaking your body is also reasonable.

Li Shimin, who was sitting, could just see the shoulders of the courtiers, like a wave.

He never expected that even before leaving office, Wei Zheng would yell at him.

A little angry, but he wanted to laugh more.

Resisting his anger and laughter, Li Shimin said: "I paid my own money, so don't worry about it now!"

Wei Zheng didn't get up, and said loudly: "The old minister, thank you for your majesty's favor! My emperor is wise!"

Knowing this moment, Leng Feng finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

Li Shimin heard the laughter keenly. When he found out that it belonged to Leng Feng, he didn't care because he remembered that Leng Feng also owed Wei Zheng [-] gold coins yesterday.

"Get up."

Thinking that Leng Feng also lost [-] gold coins, Li Shimin was in a good mood.

Then Wei Zheng stood up, straightened his clothes, and responded to the courtiers' congratulations one by one.

When the official function reached Wei Zheng's level, not only resigned safely, but also took away [-] gold coins from the emperor, which is not unsuccessful.

After the two major events, it was the court meeting as usual, and Xiangshi Yan had obviously done his homework, and all the things that were brought up for discussion were things that the court should take seriously at the moment.

Leng Feng also specifically proposed to increase support for military training. With the previous agreement, Yan Xiangshi did not stop it, but took the lead in agreeing, and he generously increased it by [-]%.

Without civil and military struggles, and without the interference of undercurrents, the court handled things quickly. Compared with the past, which required bragging and quarreling to achieve its goals, it was obviously more efficient.

Before noon, the controversial issues were all dealt with.After asking twice if there was a performance, Li Shimin saw no one answered, and said, "Since there is nothing else to do, I have one thing to announce."

Yan Xiangshi asked, "I don't know what's the matter with Your Majesty?"

Li Shimin raised his head, with a feeling of nostalgia: "I decided to build Lingyan Pavilion a long time ago to commend the heroes of the Tang Dynasty since its establishment, but I have not made up my mind. Now that even Wei Zheng has retired, I have decided Let’s build it up.”

Yan Xiangshi replied: "Your Majesty does not forget the hard work of the subjects, and established the Lingyan Pavilion to commend them, which really convinced us. But, I don't know how this Lingyan Pavilion honors the meritorious officials?"

Li Shimin looked at a corner of the hall: "Yan Liben, come here."

Following Li Shimin's call, Yan Liben walked slowly down the steps holding a huge scroll.

With the help of the eunuch, that scroll was unrolled.

After seeing clearly what the scroll looked like after it was unfolded, the officials couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

Leng Feng, on the other hand, almost jumped up directly: "Yan, when did you spy on me and actually draw me?"

After the scroll was unrolled, it was clearly a portrait of a real person.

To the amazement of the officials, this portrait changed from the usual style, without coloring, but only using light and dark lines, it created a three-dimensional painting.The most rare thing is that if you put the picture scroll next to the Huguogong for comparison, you can hardly find a sense of disobedience.

This kind of simple strokes and realistic style was forced by Leng Feng to Yan Liben. I didn't expect this guy to figure it out to this extent by himself.

In the painting, Leng Feng is wearing fish scale armor, behind him is the city wall covered by corpses, with a broken triangular thorn in his hand, and a resolute look in his eyes.Just by looking at the picture, everyone knew that it was the Lord Protector on the Gaochang battlefield.

Yan Liben proudly said: "Since you complained that the portraits I drew have no three-dimensional effect, I have started to study according to what you said. Now, even if I am not facing the real thing, I can draw the picture in my mind exactly. Do you think I drew it simply? For the sake of realism, I made a special trip to Gaochang, and the lines of the city wall were drawn by me in comparison with the real city wall."

Li Shimin interrupted Yan Liben's words: "I am going to draw full-length portraits of the heroes since the founding of the country, and hang them in the newly built Lingyan Pavilion next to the Sanqing Hall. There are a total of 36 portraits hanging in Lingyan Pavilion, except for 26 of them. Zhang has already made it clear who it is, there are still ten free. Dear friends, do you understand what I mean?"

(End of this chapter)