Chapter 158: The Peak Showdown (1)
The ministers in the palace were speechless when they looked at Li Chengqian who was suddenly full of momentum. His pretending to be sick was as good as Sima Yi.
"Prince, please pay attention to your words and deeds!" Li Shimin's voice was filled with chills. It was too much not only to pretend to be sick, but you didn't pretend to be a little bit like.
Li Chengqian was angry when he heard that Li Shimin also called him the "Crown Prince", but he didn't care. Today he had already arranged to use the help of attacking Buddhism to establish his authority. Unexpectedly, Jiang Xingben sent someone to send Yunmeng Qin Shop this morning, which just happened to prove that he was in charge of God's will. In this way, he would write a letter to ask for a reduction in the rent later, which would be much less trouble.
At this time, Yu Zhining hit the gun, of course he would not miss such a good opportunity to establish his authority.
Anyway, Li Shimin couldn't do anything to him at this time, so he just stood up and bowed to Li Shimin to show his teachings, and then sat down and continued to stare at Yu Zhining.
Li Shimin didn't know what Li Chengqian was going to do, so he just snorted coldly without saying a word when he saw this.
Yu Zhining was not a brave and resourceful person. He didn't know what to say when he was squeezed by Li Chengqian.
Only when he heard Li Shimin talking, he became bolder and asked with courage: "I wonder how the Crown Prince is going to bet?" After that, he looked up at Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian was about to speak and saw the old ghost leading the eunuch in two boxes of bamboo slips, so he got up and walked down the throne to the center of the hall. He picked up a roll of bamboo slips and looked at Yu Zhining with a smile and said, "Yu Shuzi, you said that these are all books that harm the country by cruel officials. The lonely king said that this is a good book written by a good official that is beneficial to governing the country and governing the people.
The Gu Wang bet on you. If these bamboo slips were written by cruel officials to harm the country, the Gu Wang not only took back the memorials I just wrote, but also lit the fire to burn all the bamboo slips.
If these bamboo slips are all good books written by good officials that are beneficial to governing the country, you will resign from all your official positions and go to Zhongnan Mountain to build a house for retirement."
Yu Zhining was so angry that he heard this. I lost and resigned from his post. Li Chao. If you lose, you are just doing something you should do. Yu Zhining blushed and said, "Is this unfair to Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
"Ha!" Li Chengqian sneered and looked at Yu Zhining and said in a cold voice: "What's unfair? If you want to bet on the position of the prince of the Lone King, you have to use the lives of your nine clans to bet?"
Yu Zhining looked at Li Chengqian's expression and didn't know what to do. No matter what Li Shimin thought, Li Chengqian was the crown prince at this time, and he could not be offended by a minister.
What's more, Changsun Wuji and Xiao Yu both offended Li Chengqian for their words and were impeached and convicted by Li Chengqian's party. They are no longer in the hall.
"Nothing! It's my business to choose a virtuous person and appoint talents, how can you let you play like this?" Li Shimin was furious when he saw Li Chengqian not taking him seriously.
Li Chengqian hurriedly bowed to Li Shimin and said, "Father, my son is just a joke with Yu Shuzi, why do you care so much?"
"Is the Tai Chi Palace where you are joking? As the crown prince, how can I feel at ease to hand over the Tang Dynasty to you?" Li Shimin was right and didn't make people say it.
As soon as he said this, the officials in the hall were shocked. This was because the officials clearly stated that he was not satisfied with Li Chengqian being the crown prince.
Yang Shidao hurriedly walked out and said, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is also a little frivolous. Just teach him slowly."
The other ministers hurriedly followed and said, "Please calm down your anger!"
When Li Shimin saw the ministers persuading him, he clicked it. After all, he could not depose Li Chengqian just because he said something wrong. He just said angrily: "The prince hasn't read the bamboo slip yet, so why do he think that what is written in it must be a good thing that is beneficial to governing the country?"
Li Chengqian smiled slightly when he heard this, bowed and said, "Go back to my father, I saw this Anlu Lingshi Xi when I was dreaming that day. When I saw that he was loyal and honest, I knew that he must be a filial son and loyal minister.
And my father, please think if he hadn't been a filial son and loyal minister, how could he have died for thousands of years and could he have traveled thousands of miles from Anlu to the East Palace to ask his son ministers to dream of him?"
While Li Chengqian said, he handed the bamboo in his hand to an eunuch and submitted it to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin took the bamboo slips and listened to Li Chengqian's words as he was reasonable, so he stretched the bamboo slips and looked down. However, as soon as he stretched them, a few bamboo slips fell off and hurriedly placed them on the table and slowly stretched them out. He saw that not only the bamboo slips looked very old, but the ropes worn on the bamboo slips were also rotten and broken.
Knowing that these bamboo slips have been at least a few hundred years, it was impossible for Li Chengqian to find someone to do it. He believed in Qin Chen's dream of offering a book, but his vigilance towards Li Chengqian became even deeper.
When Li Chengqian saw Li Shimin lowering his head and read the book, he said, "There are not many bamboo slips in my father, so why not share them with the ministers to read them separately and see if there are any cruel officials harming people."
The volume Li Shimin took was "The Way of Being an Official". He saw that the beginning of the article said, "All the Way of Being an Official must be clean and upright, cautious and steadfast..." He thought that there was no evil saying, so he said "hmm" and continued to read.
Li Chengqian then signaled the other ministers to come forward to take bamboo slips and read them. The Yunmeng Qin slips were only tens of thousands of words in total. More than 20 ministers from the Secretariat Monks and Secretariat came forward and each one took a volume of only more than one thousand words on average. Everyone sat down and finished reading it quickly. After reading what they had in their hands, they exchanged their contents and found that this joy was indeed a good official, and the contents recorded were indeed referenceable.
Especially the part about Qin's law is almost completely different from other historical books. Except for the more refined than the current Tang law, it is not harsh at all than the current Tang law. It is considered generous compared to the laws of the former Sui Dynasty.
Several ministers who read the bamboo slips, including Gao Shilian and the former Shangshu Youcheng, Yuwen Jie, who was appointed by Li Shimin yesterday, were presided over Pingzhangyuan, and others, looking at Li Chengqian, who was sitting next to Li Shimin, all of them increased a bit of awe in their eyes. After all, being able to receive such a sage to offer books, it can be seen that Li Chengqian's virtue was recognized by his sages.
After a while, Li Shimin sighed and raised his head, looking at the ministers below with a complicated expression, "What do you think?"
As the prime minister, Gao Shilian was the first to come out to play: "I will give you a comment on Your Majesty. The fonts of these Qin simplified scripts are between small seal script and official script. The bamboo simplified scripts should undoubtedly be Qin simplified scripts."
Li Shimin nodded after hearing this, saying, "Is it trustworthy for Gao Qing to see these contents?"
"Although the content of Your Majesty is somewhat different from that of historical books, the things he recorded are detailed, and the Qin rules are even more clearly stated, which should be historical facts." After Gao Shilian said that, he returned to the train.
Li Shimin looked at other ministers again, and when he saw that other ministers also nodded in recognition of Gao Shilian's words, he couldn't help but look back at Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian was very satisfied with Gao Shilian's reply and the ministers' performance, and his face couldn't help but look a little proud.
When Li Chengchao saw Li Shimin, he hurriedly stood up and bowed to him and said, "Since the books presented by Xi are indeed good books that are beneficial to governing the country, I also asked my father to approve Xi's memorials from his sons to posthumously named Chu Duke of the Tang Dynasty."
When Li Shimin heard this, he picked up Li Chengqian's memorial and felt extremely complicated. He thought that Li Chengqian was the reincarnation of Qin Shihuang and that the country he had built up with hardship would be destroyed in Li Chengqian's hands. He thought that he issued an order to postpone the title of Anlu Ling Shixi as Duke of Chu, which was equivalent to explaining to the people of the world that Li Chengqian was a person who inherited the will of heaven...
However, according to the book presented by Xi, it is common sense that Li Chengqian submitted a memorial to ask for a title for him. Moreover, since Xi's heroic spirit is immortal, if he does not posthumously, he will cause trouble to the Tang Dynasty?
Li Shimin was silent for a long time, and Li Chengqian stood there and waited patiently. He knew that Li Shimin must take into account the emperor's identity at this time, and this decree must be issued.
"Since this is the case, according to the words of the prince, he posthumously conferred Xi as Duke of Chu and ordered Anlu to be buried again with the court ceremony. The letters offered by Xi were handed over to Chongxian Hall for seals..." Li Shimin squeezed out this passage and wanted to retreat immediately, but he didn't want to report in a hurry at this time: "Your Majesty, the patrol of the streets on both sides of Chang'an City, and the people on Longshouyuan captured all the monks in the temples in Chang'an City and went to work as a coolie."
"What?" Li Shimin was shocked when he heard this. He looked at the eunuch who came in to report the news and was full of disbelief. He paused for a while and slowly turned his head to look at Li Chengqian. He understood the meaning and asked Li Chengqian to give him an explanation.
Chapter completed!