In the Chongjiao Hall.

Li Shimin sat on the throne that Li Chengqian usually made, looking at the simple decorations on the table without saying a word.

Li Chengqian sat down and said nothing, because he really didn't know where he had offended Li Lao Er again.

Just now, Li Chengqian dismounted and saluted Li Shimin in front of Chongjiao Gate, and then explained that he wanted to see the people who came to Chang'an City to attend the Qiansou Political Discussion Banquet. Unexpectedly, Li Shimin just snorted coldly and walked in, and then sat under the throne with a calm face and said nothing.

Li Shimin really couldn't figure out what Li Chengqian was going to do. He didn't discuss such a big thing with him in advance?

In many people's impression, they may say that ancient China was a feudal society, but the ancient Chinese also attached great importance to public opinion, and those who win the hearts of the people won the world.

In Li Shimin's view, this banquet for the Qianshou Conferred Political Consultation of the Thousand Elders this time was a grand event. Later history books would be written in special books (see the Salt and Iron Conference during Emperor Zhao of Han and the Qianshou Banquet during the Kangxi period). Such a grand event should be led by him, the emperor, but Li Chengqian did things quietly and made him very upset.

Li Shimin believed that this was Li Chengqian's intentional offense to his authority, but such big or small mistakes are difficult to deal with in the crown prince. If he dealt with them heavily, he could use this to keep Li Chengqian secret and announce that he would be deposed as a prince after a while.

To deal with it lightly means to scold it. After all, the Qianshou political discussion banquet has not yet begun.

However, he felt that he was lighter in scolding Li Shimin, and the dethronement of the crown prince was not advisable in terms of Li Shimin's psychology or the current situation of the Tang Dynasty court.

Li Shimin could only wait for the minister while sulking, thinking about how to deal with Li Chengqian.

Just when Li Chengqian was about to be suffocated, people finally came. This time, the crowd was very big, and almost all officials from the three provinces and six ministries came.

Gao Shilian has officially returned home to retire, so this time he was led by the Secretary of the Secretariat Yang Shidao and the Minister of the Secretariat Zhang Cheng. However, Li Chengqian knew that the real power was Yuwen Jie, the Secretary of the Secretariat and the Secretary of the Secretariat Ma Zhou, who was in charge of Pingzhangyuan.

Seeing the ministers saluting Li Shimin to him, Li Chengqian didn't know what Li Shimin was going to do? Could it be that he summoned people to declare that he had deposed himself?

Li Chengqian was thinking, but saw Yang Shidao step forward and say, "I heard that His Highness the Crown Prince is going to convene a banquet for thousands of old men to discuss politics?"

Li Chengqian nodded and said, "That's right."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince should have reported this to Your Majesty long ago!" Yang Shidao said deliberately shocked when he heard this.

Li Chengqian looked back at Li Shimin's face. When Li Shimin saw him, he was so angry that he snorted and turned his head to the side.

Li Chengqian quickly stood up and bowed to Li Shimin and said, "I'm telling you my father. This time I just want to invite a few old people from the country to come and listen to our court's new policies. My ministers will also listen to their opinions. In the future, let them and the court make the first ten-year plan for the Tang Dynasty that we just formulated, and there is no intention of holding any grand event."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince summoned 900 people and heard that he would invite 100 seniors from the court. This is a grand event that has not been seen in a thousand years." Ma Zhou continued with a smile. Seeing that Li Shimin nodded in agreement with what he said, he continued: "But it is no wonder that Your Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness, has a broad mind and has done such a ten-year plan that has not been seen in history. Naturally, he will despise this matter a little."

Ma Zhou said that Li Shimin's face became gloomy again here, what does it mean that I am not broad-minded?

But Ma Zhou did not wait for Li Shimin to snort coldly, and then continued: "But there are no trivial matters in the court, let alone such a grand event involving nearly a thousand people in Guanzhong, so His Royal Highness should learn more from His Majesty in these matters."

"Um"

Yang Shidao was satisfied with Ma Zhou's words and said in his heart that he was very impressed and thought that if he continued to say something just now, the two of them would have to offend one of them.

At that moment, Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou untied the knots between Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, and the hall immediately became lively.

Li Shimin was determined to go to Mount Tai for the Fengshan Mountains. Isn’t it just because this is a grand event that boasts about achievements? In history, only Qin Emperor and Han Wu and Han Guangwu have done it?

And what he is doing now is an event that has been through the ages, and it is the first one he did. How can Li Shimin not be proactive?

The ministers in the palace also expressed this thought and attached great importance to this matter, but once such matters were taken seriously, it became chaotic because Confucian scholars began to argue about etiquette again.

Li Chengqian listened to them about how Emperor Gaozu of Han had a banquet with his hometown after becoming emperor...

I couldn't listen anymore, so I coughed heavily. When everyone looked at him, I said lightly: "The agenda of the meeting has been prepared, and the etiquette has been decided, and there are gifts to these people in the East Palace..."

As he said that, Li Chengqian walked to the table in front of Li Shimin and picked up a meeting agenda he had planned to give to Li Shimin. Li Shimin took it and saw that it was indeed the meeting agenda planned by Li Chengqian: the first morning of the meeting opened, and Li Chengqian delivered a speech, and then discussed it in groups. Each group arranged officials from the East Palace to accompany the officials to explain the court's policies and ask about the people's livelihood and suffering, and then recorded it.

A banquet was given to them in the evening and they were invited to listen to the opera.

The next day, Li Chengqian met to tell the old men attending the meeting some new ten-year plans made by the court, and continued to ask him to discuss in groups in the afternoon...

Li Shimin saw it from the beginning and finally realized that he had the opportunity to appear. It was at the last day of the dinner and gave him wine.

After the meeting, officials from the East Palace accompanied the old man to visit the fertile fields and new steelmaking workshops that were reclaimed on Longshouyuan, and then sent them home.

The agenda of the meeting was very compact and strict. Li Shimin would not find any loopholes for a while, but it was really unacceptable to let him appear only once in such a grand event.

He stared at the pages in his hand for a long time before looking up and said, "Yang Qing, Ma Qing, you two re-produced one based on this agenda." Then he threw the agenda of the meeting heavily on the table.

After reading the agenda of the meeting, Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou smiled bitterly. His Royal Highness not only invited His Majesty to attend once, but also treated all the ministers in the court as accompaniment.

But looking at Li Chengqian whose face had turned dark, they didn't dare to put Li Chengqian aside. They shook their heads with headaches, bowed to Li Shimin and turned to the side hall to discuss.

After about a quarter of an hour, Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou walked back to the hall with a newly-planned meeting agenda. Everyone in the hall was impressed by the fact that they both came back so quickly, and thought to themselves: "No wonder they are prime ministers. It's really not easy for them to draft such a difficult thing.

Li Shimin also stretched his neck and waited. He was not sure whether Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou understood what he meant. Seeing that Yang Shidao presented a new meeting agenda, he reached out to take it and started looking.

On the other hand, Li Chengqian's chest was undulating, thinking that if he dared to treat me as a decoration, he would turn over the table.

Yang Shidao looked at Li Shimin's face getting darker and darker, and his heart felt a little bit like a soybean, while Ma Zhou behind him was much calmer than him.

"Bang!" Li Shimin slapped the meeting agenda on the table. Through the newly planned meeting agenda, Li Shimin was very sure that Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou understood what he meant, but since they understood what I mean, why did you raise Li Chengqian everywhere?

If there is no order, I don’t know who is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty?

"Yang Qing, Ma Qing, you go and change it again." Li Shimin said in a cold voice. Although he could not say what he said in his heart, his voice had already been expressed very clearly.

Ma Zhou bowed and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think it's so good. Your Majesty and Your Highness are both kings and fathers of all people..."

"Hmm?" Li Shimin looked at Ma Zhou incredibly.

Seeing this, Ma Zhou was unmoved and said calmly: "Your Majesty, the crown prince is also!"

Li Shimin forced himself to nod and signaled him to continue speaking.

"My minister and Lord Yang both believe that His Royal Highness is rich in spring and autumn, and that many people in the world still have his virtues that they do not recognize.

Therefore, His Highness the Crown Prince accompanied His Majesty throughout the journey. After His Majesty delivered a speech, His Highness the Crown Prince gave a speech. This will allow the people of the world to see the kind son and filial son of the Heavenly Father, and the harmony of the two saints is a role model for all people in the world..." Ma Zhou was also first-class in flattery.

"Two Saints?" Li Shimin looked at Ma Zhou.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince is also a young master of the ministers and the people, and naturally he is a saint." Ma Zhou said hurriedly.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian, and after a while, nodded in agreement with Ma Zhou's statement.

"Let's use a new agenda!" Li Shimin's voice was a little tired, and after that, he got up and left.

When Li Shimin walked out of Chongjiao Hall, Li Chengqian picked up the meeting agenda re-planned by Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou and found that he only added an emperor's speech to each time the crown prince gave, and nothing else was changed.

Li Chengqian looked at the agenda of the meeting and laughed directly.
Chapter completed!