The Leisurely Life of the Prince of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 211 He Resigned
When the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace and Princess Dongyang left, the rain did not stop even at night.
The brother and sister were not in a good mood. Old Mr. Wen Yanbo was bedridden. Although his son Wen Ting married the princess, this happy event could not dispel his sad mood.

Li Chengqian brought his sister to the Shaofujian, where many craftsmen gathered. Most of them were responsible for carving jade and stone tools, or skills, as well as the construction of palaces and temples.

Generally speaking, they acted under the orders of the Ministry of Works, and sometimes they took orders directly from the military. It all depended on who issued the order, or whether it was the emperor's decree.

If this is the research center of the Tang Dynasty, then the Shaofujian will become a powerful tool for the Tang Dynasty to dominate the world.

A few days ago, Dongyang asked the eunuch to pass a message to the Shaofu Supervisor, and today he came to collect the results.

An old craftsman carries a skeleton with wood as the middle spine.

Dongyang was delighted to see the skeleton and said, "You have excellent craftsmanship. Let the Emperor reward you."

The old craftsman smiled and bowed his back, saying: "The princess's happiness is the greatest blessing for the Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian said: "Let's build another wheelchair."

"Wheelchair?" The old craftsman thought for a moment and then said, "Your Highness, can you come and get it in three days?"

Li Chengqian nodded and said, "Okay."

Dongyang carried the skeleton with great effort. This is the main skeletal structure of the human body, and there are many joints in it.

The entire skeleton is connected with wood as a support.

Dongyang explained: "Actually, these are not real bones. Divine Doctor Sun said that real bones would rot. The Shaofu Supervisor used some white stones to polish them. Especially the skull, it took half a month to polish."

When the skeleton entered the East Palace, Li Zhi was stunned and sat there in a daze.

Li Shen still had a mouthful of water in his mouth and had not swallowed it. His eyes were fixed on the bones in the arms of his sister Dongyang, who seemed very happy.

The other three sisters also remained silent.

Seeing Dongyang happily and joyfully put the white skeleton into her Dongyang Palace, she even watched it with enjoyment.

Li Shen swallowed the water in his mouth hard, made eye contact with his brother Li Zhi, and reached a consensus.

Li Lizhi, on the other hand, didn't find it strange to see the white bones.

Li Zhi and Li Shen would be fine, but these two younger brothers were poor students in the East Palace class.

Compared with their peers outside, Li Lizhi and Dongyang have become a different kind of people in the current era, and their way of understanding things has long been different.

During dinner, Li Li questioned Mr. Wen.

Dongyang answered in detail.

After dinner, Li Chengqian returned to his bedroom.

Today's wedding of the princess was also arranged extremely hastily. The heroes of the past have grown old one by one, and the emperor wants to make up for it, whether they are the descendants of the deceased old ministers or the living heroes.

And this has been going on for many years.

Even though some things in the past have become taboos that cannot be mentioned, this still does not affect the personal charm of the current emperor. With such personality qualities, countless heroes in the world are willing to obey the orders of this emperor.

Li Chengqian sat in the East Palace looking at the ruler he had just completed. Sometimes he thought that his father could rely on his personal charm and reputation to make everyone in the world submit to him.

"What about me..."

Li Chengqian suddenly said something.

When Li Lizhi heard her brother muttering to himself, she looked up curiously and then continued to mark her younger brothers and sisters' homework.

He looked again and saw the lines of varying lengths on the ruler.

In fact, if you think about it, you will understand that you, the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, do not have the same personal charm as your father. Let's treat this question as an essay topic.

The answer is self-evident. As the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, apart from doing my job down-to-earth, I have to fight for everything on my own in the future.

The most substantial thing my father can give me is the transfer of power, that is, the throne. As for the rest of the people's hearts and power, I can only rely on myself.

Li Lizhi handed over a test paper and said, "Brother, Zhinu's understanding of thermal expansion and contraction is very good."

"You rarely compliment him."

Li Lizhi said disdainfully: "Apart from these, he is good for nothing."

Li Chengqian smiled in astonishment, "Put the test papers aside and go to bed early."

"Well, my sister is going to rest first."

The top priority of the court this year is the imperial examination, so much so that after the court session today.

It was dusk, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince called over several officials from the Secretariat and asked them to start working overtime.

If there are too many people, there will be noise; if there are too few people, it will be too busy. The prince's temper is very strange and unpredictable.

It stands to reason that more people would make things more efficient, while fewer people would slow things down. In fact, there were many ministers who were willing to stay and work overtime with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and they might even be able to eat snacks in the palace.

Prime Minister Fang and Duke Zhao had already left, and the rest of the people were in a dilemma in front of the Secretariat.

Dongyang and Lizhi are going to accompany their mother to the garden today, which means that their younger sisters cannot come to help with the rest of the work.

Li Chengqian named: "Zhang Xingcheng, Yu Zhining, and..."

After a pause, under the expectant gazes of the crowd, Li Chengqian said, "Chu Suiliang, three of you stay, the rest of you can go."

Li Chengqian looked at the others who didn't want to leave and asked impatiently, "Why? Do you want me to invite the Jinwu Guards?"

Everyone smiled awkwardly, bowed and left.

There are a lot of things piled up in the court this year. The tenth year of Zhenguan is also the busiest year in history. It is not just the imperial examination. The situation at the border is also changing, water control in Luoyang is still in progress, and memorials from various places regarding spring plowing this year also need to be approved by the court.

If you keep putting it off now, it will delay several things in the future.

After everyone left with a murmur of conversation, Yu Zhining, Zhang Xingcheng and Chu Suiliang sat down and helped the prince continue to review memorials.

There were hundreds of memorials piled on the desk of the Secretariat, and the workload was very heavy.

Thanks to the knowledge in his mind, he was able to influence changes in the political affairs of the Tang Dynasty, and these changes all started from some small details.

Even many people did not realize that they had already consciously begun to classify the memorials from various departments into several major categories: construction, money, grain, farmland, population, and military offices. After integrating the memorials from various departments, they were further subdivided.

Chu Suiliang was still feeling smug about staying to work with the Crown Prince late at night, when he looked up and saw the Crown Prince holding a scroll of memorials and refusing to put it down.

He quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to work on the matter at hand.

Li Chengqian held the memorial in his hand and said, "This year's spring rain has come. Yesterday, when he went to visit the old gentleman, there was a heavy rain in Guanzhong, and it was also a thunderstorm."

A villager was standing under a tree to avoid the rain, but was struck by lightning...

The person died on the spot.

Because of this incident, the population of the Tang Dynasty decreased by 1.
This was intolerable. Li Chengqian threw the memorial on the table in anger and shouted, "Zhang Xingcheng!"

"The minister is here."

"From now on, no one can take shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm, not even on the mountain!"

It was rare for His Royal Highness to be so angry, so Zhang Xingcheng hurriedly agreed. Yu Zhining picked up the memorial that His Royal Highness had placed on the table and took a look at it. If a person was killed by lightning, people would not go under the tree to hide from the rain.

It is not realistic to ask God to stop thundering. How about cutting down all the trees in Guanzhong? The prince has not had enough time to plant trees in the Gobi Desert, and it is impossible to cut them down.

"Your Highness, the right commander has an urgent report."

Li Chengqian nodded and asked him to present it.

The report of the Right Commander of the Eastern Palace was written by Li Jingheng. More than sixty people left the Right Commander today.

At first only one person left, and then more and more people left one after another.

This was all expected. They were children of noble families, and not many of them could be selected.

This was exactly the case with the Right Army of the Eastern Palace. Less than half a month after its establishment, Li Xiaogong upheld the style of the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace and strictly followed the Crown Prince's military training guidelines.

The document regarding the construction of Qujiangfang has come down, and we can build it here legally.

First, a lobby will be built here. The young men who remain in the right group will sit upright and read books for an hour every day. This is the rule. Everyone must also write a review and hand it to the military officer Li Jingheng. No one can be lazy or fool around.

The Right Office of the Eastern Palace, which was built by the sons of nobles, is still in the screening stage. The prince has set up many strict rules, which seem to be an attempt to drive people away.

Not to mention the problem of not getting enough sleep, even speaking a word while eating would result in being scolded and physically punished.

If you don't stand in line neatly, even if you are halfway crooked, you will be punished by standing for a whole day.

When one of the young men sat upright on the Hu stool, his back hunched, and Li Xiaogong whipped him without mercy.

The whip made a loud bang, leaving a red mark on the boy's back.

"You can't even bear this little bit of hardship? If you can't even sit down, go back to your parents and cry."

Seeing that the young man had shed two tears, Li Xiaogong shouted angrily: "Go find your mother and cry."

The child couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.

Upon seeing this, Li Xiaogong beat him up again and threw the child out of Qujiangfang. The Right Commander of the Eastern Palace was one less person.

However, just a moment after Li Xiaogong left, some people started whispering to each other.

When Li Xiaogong came back, the discussions stopped abruptly.

Seeing that these brats reacted quickly, Li Xiaogong snorted coldly: "Chu Mo, take out all those who just spoke."

"Here!"

Cheng Chumo, who had been observing the situation, brought up the kids who had just spoken one by one.

"I'm telling you, if you want to leave, Donggong Youshu will not let you stay. If you want to stay, you must accept the punishment from me."

Now that’s good, many people are running away for their lives.

Li Jingheng counted the number of people and found that there were still fifty-seven left.

There were originally 300 people, but only a few of them were left. Seeing Uncle Wang, they pulled up their belts with a smug look on their faces, as if this was a good thing.

Li Jingheng whispered: "Uncle Wang, can the East Palace Right Rate still be built?"

Li Xiaogong said nonchalantly: "The victory or defeat in war does not depend on the number of soldiers and horses, but on the quality of the soldiers and generals."

Uncle Prince of Hejian had led troops and fought in battles. He was the absolute authority of the Right Commander of the Eastern Palace and an important general in the royal family.

Li Jingheng whispered, "How do we explain this to the Crown Prince?"

"It's okay. I'll go to the Ministry of War to ask for someone. Why doesn't Hou Junji give me some soldiers?"

"With Uncle Wang saying so, I feel relieved."

When the wheelchair was completed, Wen Yanbo was able to let his son push the wheelchair and take him around, and even visit Chongwenguan.

Something happened in Weinan County, and Yan Qinli hurried to see the prince who had just left court.

"Your Highness, Pei Xingjian has resigned."

After taking the document and reading the reason, he found out that Pei Xingjian had resigned because the old servant who raised him had passed away.

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "It's nothing, just find someone to replace you."

"There is no problem in finding someone to replace him, but should Pei Xingjian be kept?"

"Haha." Li Chengqian suddenly laughed, "Everyone has their own aspirations. Besides... this is the real Pei Xingjian."

"I will go back and arrange for someone to take over, and we will make a final decision after this year's imperial examination."

This year's spring rain comes in bursts. In this weather, every cloud means rain, and the rain stops when the cloud passes.

The Chang'an nobles who wanted to go out to see the spring scenery as soon as the rain stopped were caught off guard by a sudden rain.

The lunch at Donggong was spinach, which was the last crop of relatively delicious spinach in spring.

With the mentality of eating less of the seasonal vegetables, Li Chengqian reminded: "You can skip the meat, but you must finish the spinach."

So a group of children stuffed spinach into their mouths. Since today's spring outing was important, they dared not disobey their brother's request in the slightest.

Recently, the emperor has been busy with state affairs. When he learned that the children had gone out for a spring outing, Li Shimin felt very disappointed. He even ignored the words of the generals in front of him who wanted to fight in the Western Regions.

After all the ministers had left, Li Shimin said to the queen beside him: "Actually, I also want to go out for a spring outing."

Empress Changsun whispered, "Your Majesty wants to go, can you stop him?"

"You said that these children have been in the East Palace for a long time. Have they forgotten their father, the Emperor?"

"Your Majesty!" Empress Changsun glared at her husband and scolded him, "Your Majesty gets annoyed when the child is around for too long, and you miss the child when he becomes distant."

Looking at the pile of military reports in front of him, Li Shimin temporarily gave up the idea and continued to be busy.

Empress Chang Sun knew clearly that His Majesty did not want to go on a spring outing, but wanted Cheng Qian and Li Zhi to help him deal with military reports.

The sunshine in Guanzhong is just right, and spring is the best time of the year for scenery.

Pei Xingjian resigned at this time and walked out of the county government office.

Pei Mingli started to make his way in Chang'an City last year and managed to buy a house in West Market.

In the past, Pei Mingli lived in Pei Xingjian's government office, and now it was Pei Xingjian's turn to live under someone else's roof.

However, the two of them are going to meet someone today, and this person is none other than Xue Rengui, or Brother Xue, whom they often talk about.

Pei Mingli also hired two servants for his family. In addition to growing hollyhocks, he also started a recycling business in Chang'an City and established a firm foothold.

Pei Xingjian was lying on a donkey cart, imagining himself as a dead body. He just stared at the blue sky, biting a piece of grass, and listened to Pei Mingli's scolding, all of which were words like "you shouldn't have resigned."

Pei Xingjian said: "I am not a good county magistrate."

I have trouble sleeping and sleep very lightly. I wake up after an hour or two and don’t know what’s going on. I just get up and do some more work, then go back to sleep.

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