Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

At the beginning of the tenth year of Zhenguan, or to be precise during the Chinese New Year, Bai Sheng noticed that there were many concubines in the Da'an Palace of old man Li Yuan. The oldest was only in his early forties, and the youngest was twenty-nine years old.

But in reality, he was already powerless two years ago, and they were basically living as widows.

So just after the new year, Bai Sheng issued a special decree.

The general content is that if a childless person wants to leave Da'an Palace to marry, he will give a dowry. If he has children and the children have grown up, if he is married, he can move to his son's palace if he wants. If you go to live in the prince's palace or your daughter's princess palace, you don't need to stay here.

In order to let them have no worries, after Bai Sheng finished issuing the edict and notified his son Li Shimin, he also had a frank talk with the concubines in the harem for more than an hour, showing that he was sincerely thinking about them, so he issued this decree. Taoist edict.

In the end, I even said it very bluntly.

I am just getting older and want to accumulate some virtue.

But even so, there are still more than twenty people who are unwilling to leave. Some of them are childless, but their natal families are unreliable, or they do not trust their natal families, so they would rather stay here and be widows. Some have children who have died young and do not want to remarry and have nowhere to go. Others have children who are underage and are not in a hurry for the time being.

As for whether Bai Sheng's imperial decree is of any use?

Of course it worked. He was not interfering in major political affairs, he was just dealing with the women in his harem. Regardless of their current situation, it was unreasonable for him to be an emperor, and he had no right to interfere in his father's harem.

As the news spread and some concubines moved out of Da'an Palace and settled in their son's palace or daughter's princess palace, almost everyone in the court was filled with praise.

Even the concubines in Li Shimin's harem.

They all called him the Supreme Emperor and the Holy Ming.

The simple reason is that they also don't want to have children, but they can only end up alone in the harem.

If they are lucky enough to survive today's Holy Emperor.

Naturally, I still hope to be reunited with my children in my later years.

Therefore, when they praised the Supreme Emperor, they were actually indirectly expressing their attitude and thoughts. They hoped that Li Shimin could learn from the Supreme Emperor and do the same in the future.

In addition, those princes and princesses who have deep relationships with their biological mothers obviously also like the result.

Overall, everyone is happy.

Maybe it's just Li Shimin's emotions that are a little complicated.

How to describe it, he just hates when some things get out of control. For example, this matter this time is not under his control. It is equivalent to being forced by the Supreme Emperor to follow up. If he doesn't follow up, it seems that even he is a little stupid. , even the supreme emperor is not as capable as him.

This feeling of not being in control.

This is the key to his somewhat complicated emotions.

Therefore, after a few months, Bai Shengdu had taught the concubines who were unwilling to leave to play mahjong and pai gow, and would spend time playing cards with them when they had nothing to do.

Li Shimin also did not publicly express his attitude.

Just pretend it didn't happen like before.

It is estimated that he would not have made it clear during his lifetime that the concubines in the harem should go to his son's royal palace or his daughter's princess's palace to take care of themselves. There is a high probability that he would wait until his deathbed to leave a will, or leave this matter to the next emperor to benevolent.

After all, he is the emperor, different from the Supreme Emperor.

You can't live well, so let's get rid of the concubines first.

No one dares to have an opinion on this. After all, the concubines in the harem obviously cannot have an opinion themselves. If they do have an opinion, they dare not say it out. It is undoubtedly impossible for the officials to interfere with the emperor's harem. Without a queen or a prince, they can do it. Guoben asked for the establishment of a queen and a crown prince.

But it involves concubines.

Obviously it's not their turn to worry.

Therefore, after this incident caused a stir, it quickly faded away and no one specifically mentioned it.

And a few more months later.

No one cares about this anymore.

Because Empress Changsun was suddenly seriously ill, the doctors at the imperial hospital were helpless. Li Shimin, the prince and others, as well as standard princeling forces such as Changsun Wuji, were all worried about this matter. In addition to truly caring about Changsun, The Queen's life and death.

The impact of her life and death on the entire political structure.

Even the impact on the future.

This is the focus that many people are concerned about.

For example, once the queen dies, is it possible for the emperor to promote a new queen? If the new queen has children, then there will be many more legitimate sons, enough to compete with the children of the eldest grandson queen.

At the same time, once the queen died, the prince's support was equivalent to losing half of his country. If someone blew the pillow and said bad things about the prince, no one would help him anymore.

At least there was no one in the harem to help him anymore.

In addition, a living Queen Changsun can undoubtedly bring more benefits to the Changsun family than a dead one. These are all potential impacts on the future.

It was not that Cheng Baisheng had not tried to persuade Empress Changsun to take more of the Yangyuan Pills he sent her, or to come to Da'an Palace to learn Taoist health-preserving techniques from him, but it was a pity that neither she nor Li Shimin seemed to believe this.

Bai Sheng couldn't force her mouth to open.

He forced Yang Yuan Dan into her mouth.

So I can only let it happen.

On July 28, Empress Changsun, who had been ill for several months but had no cure, passed away in the Lizheng Hall.

He is thirty-six years old.

After that came the funeral and a series of other matters.

Bai Sheng took a look as usual and then returned to his Da'an Palace to rest. Without the middleman Queen Changsun, the relationship between him and Li Shimin had undoubtedly become more tense, and they had nothing to talk about.

At the same time, I didn’t want to irritate him at this time.

So naturally, avoid it if you can.

After the funeral, although many things seemed to be back on track, in fact, the impact of the death of Empress Changsun was still great. For example, Concubine Wei in the harem began to feel uneasy and wanted to seek a successor. The identity, the natal family behind her and the forces she represents also have similar ideas and are working hard in this direction. Another example is that Wei Zheng continued to give out his remonstrances, but without Queen Changsun's mediation, Li Shimin became increasingly impatient.

As well as Changsun Wuji, including Li Shimin, they all have increased expectations for Li Chengqian and hope that he can become a flawless and unshakable prince. This is in line with the last wish of Queen Changsun, the interests of their eldest sun family, and more in line with Li Shimin expectations.

Even they didn't think about it. Li Chengqian's fragile psychology couldn't bear such great pressure.

……

Time flies and four years pass.

This year is the fourteenth year of Zhenguan. After these four years of development, Li Ke still failed to win over the support of many officials and aristocratic families. In private, he not only relied on various advanced technologies to accumulate an extremely large amount of assets. , and also relied on cooperation from all aspects to successfully integrate many small and medium-sized chambers of commerce without family backgrounds.

In addition, relatively high-yielding grains and simpler and more convenient agricultural tools have been prepared for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity to present them and claim credit.

The plan Bai Sheng formulated for him was to win over and integrate the power of the industrial and commercial classes and gain the support of farmers.

Only in this way can a solid foundation be laid.

He would not be defeated by a powerful family member.

Compared with Li Ke's secret accumulation of information, Li Chengqian's life as a prince was really difficult. Bai Sheng sometimes felt pitiful for him when he looked at his plight.

As a prince, he had high expectations.

It's just too high.

Just like ordinary people still hope that their sons will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes, as the prince, Li Chengqian was placed with too high expectations by his father, the emperor, and even the civil and military officials of the dynasty. In Bai Sheng's view, they didn't want Li Chengqian to become a qualified prince. They wanted Li Chengqian to become an unprecedented saint. The kind of saint who could not have any flaws or flaws. He had to be a perfect prince to meet their expectations.

The house he built at the beginning of the year was not very big. Compared with the buildings Li Shimin had built in recent years, it could be described as a shabby thatched house. Then Yu Zhining criticized him for being too extravagant and stupid.

A waste of people's energy and a waste of gold and silver.

To have fun with the eunuchs, I didn't actually play any excessive games. The time spent playing games was incomparable to the time spent playing mahjong every day by the remaining concubines in the White Saint Da'an Palace, less than one-fifth of it.

Yu Zhining said that his move was like Hu Hai.

He even wrote twenty volumes of "Jian Yuan" to give advice, twenty volumes, not twenty pages, twenty sheets.

The most frightening thing is that there are more than one such remonstrators, including Li Baiyao, Du Zhenglun, Kong Yingda, Zhang Xuansu, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Liu Jie, Cen Wenwen and Ma Zhou, all of whom are assistant ministers and remonstrators of the East Palace. , and is qualified to criticize and criticize, that is, to find out what Li Chengqian did and what he should do!

In order to show one's abilities.

They even started to compete with each other.

Each word is more fierce than the last, every word is sharper than every sentence, and there is no fear of death in criticizing and criticizing.

Just put it this way, some people may not be able to relate to it. If you put it into perspective, you can probably understand Li Chengqian’s experience. That is, his father hired ten tutors for him. In addition to normal class teaching, these tutors spent their free time. Keep an eye on him.

Once they found that something Li Chengqian did was not in line with the sage's advice, or that it was not in line with their image of the perfect prince, they began to admonish him.

For example, they skipped get out of class, played for an extra five minutes after class, wasted a lot of rice while eating, or got up in the middle of the night to secretly listen to music. These were all things they did not approve of, and their advice was not gentle and reasonable. It was a direct accusation, no matter how unpleasant it sounded, no matter how hard it hurt Li Chengqian's heart.

After hearing this, my own father praised them for their responsibility!

It's my son who is bad and disobedient!

I’m so disappointed in myself! Wait!

How to describe it? When Bai Shengguang thinks about these encounters, he feels suffocated just watching them from the side!

Being in this kind of environment for a long time, going crazy or committing suicide due to depression is just a 50-50 split. Apart from that, Bai Sheng really couldn't think of any other possibilities.

Ten, many people can't even stand the nagging of their own parents, let alone being stared at and faulted by ten people.

Although the age of early twenties is not a rebellious period in the traditional sense, it is normal for the rebellious period to be a little later. Before other more drastic measures of resistance can be taken, the only thing I can do is to do what you don't let me do.

The more I do, the more I silently resist.

Li Chengqian is obviously like this.

From a psychological analysis, these actions of his are not so much rebellion as they are sending out a distress signal, hoping to gain understanding and help from others.

Bai Sheng originally didn't want to take care of it. After all, Li Chengqian was her biggest obstacle to helping Li Ke seize the throne.

But, people also have to compare their feelings with their own.

Even if you don't mention the fact that Li Chengqian is his own grandson, he has been very kind to him over the years. It can be said that since the death of Queen Changsun, he has taken over the role of Queen Changsun and become the buffer point between Bai Sheng and Li Shimin. He is usually very filial and thinks of himself whenever he gets any good things. Wei Zheng and the others attacked him some time ago because they spent huge sums of money to buy a lot of lychees.

And half of those lychees were sent to Bai Sheng.

Bai Sheng always felt guilty if he didn't help him. After all, there is an old saying that people are short-handed and soft-mouthed, but he ate and took a lot of things. Although those things are not really precious in modern society, But it’s really not easy at this time.

So after struggling for a long time.

Bai Sheng finally decided to give him a hand.

The method is very simple, just say that you miss him and ask him to come to Da'an Palace to accompany you. As long as he is willing to come, Bai Sheng can rely on his status advantage and be shameless to force him to stay, even if Unable to completely reverse the situation, letting him stay in Da'an Palace for ten days and a half would undoubtedly be of some benefit to him.

At least the tense nerves can be relaxed for half a month.

Take a breath!

Although Li Chengqian didn't understand Bai Sheng's true intention, he was still very moved by temporarily escaping from the suffocating East Palace. In addition, his imperial grandfather missed him, and it was filial piety and blameless to visit him, so he Immediately he went straight to Da'an Palace.

And as soon as he entered, Bai Sheng pulled him to play mahjong together, for no other reason than to relax him.

Then, within half a day, someone came over to ask Li Chengqian to go back. The general meaning is that there are many things in the East Palace. Many not very important national affairs need to be handled by Li Chengqian, the prince of the East Palace. He needs to go back to take charge of the overall situation. The Emperor can come at any time. look.

Then the man was driven away by Bai Sheng.

No matter how he has no real power, Bai Sheng's identity as the Supreme Emperor is always true. He holds a sandalwood crutch and does it himself. No one dares to fight back. Bai Sheng always remembers to hold back his strength and attack with all his strength. That's not true. Hitting the opponent hurts, but directly beating him to death with a cane.

"Grandfather, why don't I go back?"

Li Chengqian felt a little uneasy. He was still conceited towards his teachers and his father. Although he was dissatisfied and even fantasized about killing them after he ascended the throne, it was just a fantasy at best. He didn't have the guts to say it directly yet, let alone It's done.

"Stay here and rest. I know what you have been through. Your father may be a good king, but as a parent, he is on par with me, or even worse than me.

If this continues, I'm afraid you'll be driven crazy.

How could anyone train a prince like this?

Stay here for a few more days. It's best to stay until your father comes to find you. Then I will have a good talk with him. There are many things to play here. I just have free time today. I will take you to go shopping and experience. experience. "

As soon as Bai Sheng said these words, Li Chengqian's eyes instantly turned red. In recent years, everyone has been telling him what you should do. You must do it. No one has ever considered whether he can bear it!

To this day, how can he not be moved.