Chapter 359
On the Ganlu Palace Gate Tower, Li Chengqian sat on the throne with a faint expression.
Xu Suiliang and several other senior ministers of Pingzhang Academy and Liu Shi and several other senior ministers stood around a large square table in the hall with a calm face. The large square table was filled with piles of two or three feet high memorials.
Each of them frowned and looked at it with a memorial in their hands, and they couldn't help but snorted.
Among them, Ju Suiliang was the most angry. He looked at his hands and the graffiti and his face were ashen, and his hands were trembling slightly. He picked up a piece and read a few words, threw it on the ground and picked up a piece from the big table to read it.
People in the Tang Dynasty were good at calligraphy. These memorials were written in neat small regular script. The parallelism was straight and beautiful, and they were definitely a work of art today.
If it weren't for the content of these memorials, Li Chengqian, who scolded him, wanted to collect it.
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Li Chengqian did not expect that his edict would cause both sides to immediately pull their swords to open. As Li Daozong speculated, Jing King Li Yuanjing was indeed ready to launch an attack in advance.
But what Li Chengqian did not expect was that King Jing launched a literary attack first, causing a large number of officials to write memorials to be accused of being foolish and injustice and harming loyal and kind-hearted.
After scolding Li Chengqian, he also made a request to release the ministers who were imprisoned in the prison and wait for interrogation. All the dismissed gentry children were restored to their posts and stopped inspecting the six ministries. Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace to study and was not allowed to participate in the government affairs again. During Li Shimin's serious illness, the government affairs were jointly led by Gao Shilian, Yang Shidao, Zhang Chengxing, Li Shiji, Li Daozong, and Zhu Suiliang.
Zhu Suiliang threw the memorial in his hand and turned around and clasped his fists at Li Chengqian, and said angrily: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is a rebel minister, so you must not forgive me lightly!"
Li Chengqian nodded and said, "This is exactly the rebellious minister who forced the palace, but don't worry too much. Although there are many memorials here, someone actually wrote several copies in a row. The Lone King was worried that the loyal ministers would come to force the palace later."
The ministers in the palace were stunned. How could the loyal ministers come to force the palace?
"I heard from the Crown Prince King Jiangxia, Duke Shen, Duke of England, Yang Zhongshu, and Zhang Shizhong's Hall to ask for a visit."
Li Chengqian glanced at the lazy ministers, raised his head and said loudly: "Xuan them enter the palace."
Gao Shilian and his friends quickly walked in and went around the table in the middle to salute Li Chengqian.
"See Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Everyone is calm!"
Several people stood up and saw Li Chengqian looking at them with a smile, as if waiting for them to speak.
Gao Shilian was stunned at first but still clasped his fists and said, "I am old and weak, and ask His Highness the Crown Prince to let him go home to take care of his old age."
When Changsun Wuji was exiled, Gao Shilian resigned and allowed him to accept the officialdom. This time he became an official because Li Shimin was not from Li Chengqian's school in the north, so he was worried that he would stay in Chang'an, so he forced him to take him with him.
Li Shimin returned to Chang'an and was seriously ill. He was left in the Secretariat as a founding elder and was in charge of government affairs. Originally, Gao Shilian wanted to resign from Li Chengqian when Li Chengqian stabilized the government. However, since Li Chengqian supervised the country, he began to fight with the gentry. It was natural that Gao Shilian was not at ease in the court.
Now the ministers are forcing the palace and ask him to take charge of government affairs. Gao Shilian, who has been in the court for decades, can see at a glance that this is a trick to sow discord, but even so, he has to behave like this.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince recently relapsed, and he also wanted to go home and stay home to recuperate..." Li Daozong was the one who followed Gao Shilian's resignation.
"The Crown Prince reported that yesterday that Khitan and Goguryeo had frequent exchanges. I asked for an order to go out to the capital to patrol the border..." Li Shiji wanted to hide.
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Li Chengqian didn't say a word, but looked at the few people looking for various reasons to leave Chang'an. The last few people felt embarrassed and slowly stopped the words in their mouths and looked at Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian slowly walked off the throne and came to the already stunned Ju Suiliang and said to the ministers: "Mr. Feng has been reading these memorials just now. He gritted his teeth and scolded these rebel ministers who were forcing the palace with hatred."
Gao Shilian and others heard this and looked at Zhu Suiliang and the memorials on the table. They didn't know what Li Chengqian said meant.
Just as he was about to ask a question, Li Chengqian slowly said: "In my opinion, Mr. Zhu scolded him wrongly. He only knew that these people were rebels who forced the palace, but forgot that these people wanted him to take power with the Qing family for the orphan king!"
When Zhu Suiliang heard this, he was anxious and blushed and said, "I, I have no intention of this."
Li Chengqian raised his hand to signal him to stop, then pointed to Suiliang and said to Gao Shilian and others: "Mr. Feng is just a matter of planning for the country!"
Gao Shilian and others were no longer able to speak after hearing Li Chengqian's last words, and they looked at Li Chengqian and Ju Suiliang, unable to speak.
Seeing this, Chu Suiliang bowed to Li Chengqian and said excitedly: "I am just stupid by nature, and I am definitely not superior to others!"
Li Chengqian helped Chu Suiliang up and walked to the throne to look at Gao Shilian and others and asked, "I heard that those rebel ministers have stopped dealing with government affairs in order to force the orphan king to hand over power?"
Gao Shilian and others looked at each other and bowed to apologize, "I am guilty."
Li Chengqian waved his hand and said, "You are all calm!" Li Chengqian saw them straight up and said to Li Daozong directly: "Uncle Jiangxia, Wang, finished telling everyone what you know!"
When Li Daozong heard this, he looked embarrassed at the ministers who had come in with him, and then he said to everyone what he said to Li Chengqian yesterday and what Li Chengqian responded to.
Gao Shilian and others no longer asked for resignation at this time, and were thinking about countermeasures to deal with the current situation.
"Your Highness, this matter is coming in a fierce manner. Why not ask Your Majesty to come forward to shock the little girl?" The attendant Zhang Chengxing thought for a while and said.
Li Chengqian said sadly when he heard this: "Your Majesty's health has just improved a little, how could he be disturbed because of this little thing?"
The ministers were silent when they heard this, obviously they had no confidence in dealing with such a thing.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian laughed, stood up and said to the ministers: "I'm so bored sitting here. Let's go out with the Lone King."
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, the traitor, hide in the dark. You should not go out easily, so that the traitor can take advantage of the opportunity!" Li Daozong said with concern.
"If you don't go out, just take a look at Chengtian Gate." Li Chengqian waved his hand.
Just now, the weather was not very hot, so Li Chengqian and his group walked towards Chengtian Gate.
Li Chengqian walked forward slowly and asked, "Do you know why they didn't ask for the Lone King in front of Liangyi Gate this time?"
Li Shiji smiled badly when he heard this, "Maybe he is afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will beat them to death in front of Liangyi Gate!"
When the ministers heard this, they couldn't help but look at Li Chengqian with a wry smile, thinking that they would beat the minister who was admonishing him to stick out. Only the one in front of them could do such a thing!
Li Chengqian nodded slightly and then asked, "Are they not afraid that the Lone King will beat them to death in front of Chengtian Gate?"
Li Shiji was stunned when he heard this, "There should be no problem with Chengtian Gate being protected by General Qiu, right?"
Li Chengqian slowly said, "I hope this is the case!"
But I was wondering what these officials had to rely on?
Chapter completed!