Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 340 Chapter 351: Commenting on Hundred Officials
After the banquet was over, Li Hao personally sent Li Ji out. When he got outside, Li Ji looked at Li Hao and sighed, "Poetry, I really didn't expect you... Alas, I was the one who said something wrong this time, how about you?" Let’s persuade King Jin again.”

"It's okay." Li Hao shook his head with a light smile, "Since His Royal Highness King Jin likes to live out of the palace, let him go. Uncle Li, you don't have to worry about it, it's just a trivial matter."

Li Ji saw that his expression was indifferent, and it seemed that he really didn't take it seriously, so he was relieved. He didn't expect that he would accidentally ruin Li Hao's plan. His attitude made him feel a lot better, he said slowly: "I hope you didn't try to comfort me on purpose, besides, don't forget my reminder."

"I know." Li Hao nodded, "Don't worry, Uncle Li, I'm not afraid whether they play tricks or conspiracy. Of course, I can't beat four hands with two fists. If I really can't handle it, I hope the three uncles will help you." One or two."

"That's natural." Li Ji looked around and said in a low voice, "This is not a place to talk, I'll go back first, to avoid talking, I may not come to you often, during this time, we It’s better to see each other less.”

"Okay." Li Hao cupped his hands and suddenly raised his voice, saying, "Send off Uncle Li."

Li Ji understood immediately, and raised his voice cooperatively: "Don't send me crazy poetry." After speaking, he turned around and left with a group of guards.

Watching Li Ji's back disappear into the night, Li Hao suddenly let out a long sigh. He was still very concerned about Li Zhi's move out of the Tai Chi Palace, but he pretended to comfort him indifferently to prevent Li Ji from blaming himself. At this point, it is impossible for him to dissuade Li Zhi. First of all, he has no good reason to persuade Li Zhi. Secondly, he does not want to make Li Zhi unhappy. Li Zhi discounted his affection for him, so the gain outweighed the loss.

Li Hao stayed in Dingzhou for another three days, and all the victims had already been sent home. The local officials would send people to distribute relief food to each household to ensure that every household could receive it.

The snow disaster can be regarded as the end of the governance, and Li Shimin's holy will has not yet arrived. Li Hao decided to hold a wedding for Chen Song and Jin Ling'er. After all, Jin Ling'er's parents and relatives are in Dingzhou now, and it is more convenient to hold a wedding, otherwise In Chang'an, Chen Song has no relatives, and Jin Ling'er's relatives and parents are not around, so the wedding will be too deserted.

The wedding was also a little lively. Since Chen Song had no relatives, Li Hao had the audacity to be a high official. Although he was younger than Chen Song, he had a noble status and a high official position, and the ancients valued him. status, so Li Hao has absolutely no pressure to be Gaotang.

After the big ceremony, the bride was sent to the bridal chamber. Chen Song showed off in a red robe and walked around the banquet. Whenever he saw the elders of the Jin family, he smiled and came forward to salute and accompany the wine. The cool appearance is completely different from two people.

Sitting at the wine table, Li Hao and Lu Yun looked at Chen Song who was walking in the banquet from afar, and Lu Yun suddenly sighed, "He seems to be a completely different person now."

"That's right." Li Hao said with a smile, "He has changed his mentality. Now he has a family and is no longer a ranger. That's how he is grounded."

Lu Yun said slowly: "It's not because he has a family that he changed, but because he changed that he got married. You are the one who changed him."

Li Hao grinned, raised his eyebrows again and again and said, "Am I so awesome? Do you want to change too?"

Lu Yun rolled his eyes: "Go away."

"Think about it, Jin Zhu'er is very good, think about it, you two, as my right and left protectors, married a pair of twin sisters, how interesting, Dorafeng, right..."

Lu Yun silently picked up a flagon and walked out of the courtyard.

Seeing Lu Yun's heavy expression, Li Hao sighed helplessly. This guy still can't forget his senior sister. Li Hao also knows that love is the most unpredictable thing. Sometimes you can fall in love with someone at a glance, and sometimes When he was young, he would always remember someone for the rest of his life. If no one walked into Lu Yun's heart, his heart would always be occupied by his dead senior sister.

On the third day after Chen Song's wedding, Li Shimin's holy will came, and Dingzhou Biejia took the post of interim governor, calling Li Zhi, Li Hao and Li Ji back to Chang'an to return to their orders.

On the second day after receiving the Holy Will, the three of them led the team to leave Dingzhou and embarked on the road back to Chang'an. Since Li Hao and the others brought Cui's criminals and a large amount of property, the journey was not very fast, but it was not too fast anyway. Hurry up and take your time.

Li Ji deliberately kept a distance of three or four miles from Li Hao's team. When it was time to avoid suspicion, he was still very careful.

After more than a month, they finally arrived in Chang'an. Outside the gate of Mingde, the team stopped, waiting for the order.

Li Zhi suddenly leaned over to Li Hao's side, and asked in a low voice, "Sir, do you think Father will allow me to move out of Tai Chi Palace?"

Li Hao thought for a while, and said: "Your Highness, you have made great contributions in fighting the disaster and countering the rebellion this time, and His Majesty will reward you. You don't want any rewards at that time, but you want a palace, and His Majesty will agree."

"Yes, yes, yes." Li Zhi shouted happily when he heard the words, "Mr. is smart! You are so thoughtful!"

"Hehe." Li Hao really wanted to slap himself. He clearly didn't want him to move out of the Taiji Palace, but he still wanted to help him out. He felt like he was being cheap.

After a while, Li Hao said again: "You and I have contributed to this trip to Hebei, but I hope you will give me all the credit."

"Oh." Li Zhi nodded and said, "No problem, I didn't do anything in the first place, everything was done by you, and of course I will give you all the credit."

"That's not how it was said." Li Hao said solemnly, "There is a reason for letting you give the credit to me."

Li Zhi asked puzzledly, "What is the reason?"

Li Hao pulled him aside, and said in a low voice: "For me, I have offended all the nobles in Datang, and I will face great pressure, so I need a lot of credit to support me, do you understand this?"

"Understood, I understand this." Li Zhi nodded solemnly. He knew that the nobles were very powerful. Li Hao was able to get rid of a Cui family. In fact, he had racked his brains. But there are so many nobles in Tang Dynasty, and Li Hao is alone. Impossible to deal with.

Li Hao went on to say: "For you, Your Highness, you are the prince, and you are the son of the eldest son. It is not appropriate to get too much credit right now, otherwise someone will suspect that Your Highness wants to fight for the crown."

"Ah?" Li Zhi was dumbfounded when he heard the words, fighting for the reserve?How funny?He didn't even think about it.

"I'm just in case." Li Hao said, "If there is one less trouble, then one less thing. Your Highness doesn't want to be suspected by his brothers."

"I don't want to." Li Zhi shook his head and said, "I understand what Mr. means, Mr. is here to protect me."

"Yes, Your Highness is still very smart, and you can see through it."

Li Zhi smiled innocently, a little shy: "I'm not so smart, I'm far behind my husband."

"This is incomparable." Li Hao sighed slowly, "Your Highness is simple-minded, but I am good at strategy. There is a word for strategy in the word strategy, which involves conspiracy and tricks. In short... it is not a good thing. Sometimes , I hope to live a simple and kind life like His Highness, but it's a pity..."

Li Zhi saw his gloomy expression, and heard his sombre tone, wanted to comfort him but didn't know how to comfort him, who made Li Hao so smart, his brain capacity couldn't comfort Li Hao at all.

At this moment, a team went out of the Mingde Gate and announced the decree, and a group of people hurriedly received the decree. The decree stated that Li Hao should hand over all the members of the Cui clan to the Ministry of Punishment, and hand over all the property obtained from the Cui family to the Ministry of Households for storage. , Li Hao and Li Zhi went to Ganlu Temple to face the saint.

After Li Hao received the imperial decree, he and Li Zhi led the team into the city. Li Zhi went directly to the Tai Chi Palace, while Li Hao had to go to the Ministry of Punishment first, and then to the Ministry of Household Affairs. It was almost evening when he finished his work.

When Li Hao entered the Ganlu Hall, the sun had just set, and the hall was lit. Under the light, only Li Shimin was sitting on the high seat, not even the eunuchs and maids beside him.

There is a table table in the hall, on which food and drink have been set up, Li Shimin’s dragon table also has an identical set of food and wine, after Li Hao saluted, Li Shimin smiled and spread his hands and said: "Poem mad, take a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Hao thanked him and took his seat.

Li Shimin raised his wine glass with a smile, and said: "I know that you are not good at drinking wine, this time what you have prepared is wine. Come, I will toast you a glass!"

Li Hao knew why Li Shimin respected him. The first respect was for his meritorious service in curing the disaster, the second respect was for quelling the rebellion, and the third respect was for bringing down the Cui clan. Together, the three major meritorious deeds are worthy of Li Shimin's toasting him with a glass of wine.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Hao raised his glass and drank it down.

Li Shimin also drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, paused the glass vigorously, and said happily: "Shikuang, why do you always make me so happy?"

Li Hao grinned and said, "Because a humble minister is a capable minister."

"Oh? Nengchen?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and smiled curiously, "What is Nengchen?"

Li Hao said calmly: "A competent minister naturally needs to have extraordinary talents and abilities. You can secure the country when you are on a horse, and govern the country when you are off a horse. You are loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and keep the righteous and evil. Your Majesty, may I ask which king does not like such a minister?"

"Okay, well said." Li Shimin clapped his hands with a smile and praised, "Poet Kuang, you are indeed able to secure the country when you are on a horse, and you can govern a country when you are off your horse. Your wisdom and talent are first-rate."

He paused, suddenly became interested, and said: "It's rare to have an opportunity today, why don't you comment on the officials, what kind of officials are there in the Tang Dynasty?"

"This..." Li Hao frowned when he heard the words, and commented on the officials. Is Li Shimin out of his mind? If he said bad things about those ministers, wouldn't he be remembered? Do you still want to make yourself an enemy of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty?
Seeing his hesitation, Li Shimin immediately thought of his worries, smiled and waved his hands and said, "You don't need to call names, just tell me what kind of courtiers you have."

"Since Your Majesty has an order, I will obey the order." Li Hao was not restrained when he heard the words, and said, "Above the Tang court, there are loyal ministers, loyal ministers, counselors, and incompetent ministers."

Li Shimin frowned when he heard the words, and said slowly: "I have heard of the others. Is this incompetent minister the opposite of what you said was a capable minister?"

"Probably yes." Li Hao nodded.

Li Shimin thought for a while and asked, "Then can you comment on the incompetent minister?"

Li Haodao: "Most of the incompetent ministers are people who have read poetry and books. Unfortunately, reading makes their brains stupid. They don't understand the way of governing the country and military affairs. They like to quote scriptures and make long speeches. Although they have a thousand words in their mouths, they have nothing in their hearts. One strategy is of little use in governing the country, so the humble minister is called an incompetent minister."

Having said that, Li Shimin basically already understood what Li Hao meant, and who Li Hao was talking about. In fact, Li Shimin himself already felt that there are always some corrupt scholars in the court who always sing against him in political affairs. Pulling him back, when discussing the affairs of the court, they talked about citing scriptures and classics, and they talked endlessly. However, when they really wanted to make up their minds, they either had no idea at all, or they gave him an idea that gave him a headache. Li Hao's comment is really telling the truth.

But Li Shimin was very helpless, he really didn't like this group of people, but he couldn't do anything about them, because these people were well-known in the Confucian world, and they were highly respected by scholars. Sheng is regarded as a god by the world, even though he is the emperor, he dare not oppose him.

In fact, Li Shimin’s thinking has gone into a misunderstanding. In ancient times, almost everyone has gone into such a misunderstanding. Only Li Hao knows that Confucianism and Confucius are not wrong, but it is a bit far-fetched to use Confucianism to govern the country. Confucius is a thinker. The Confucianism he created is aimed at cultivating the mind and body, not governing the country. This is like letting a scholar who only knows how to read all day to farm, and there will definitely be no good harvest. Why, the major is not right for you.

(End of this chapter)