"My son has met the queen of mother!" Seeing Empress Changsun, Li Chengqian, Su Mei and Kong Wen saluted together, while Cheng Lin, who was lying on the bed, struggled to get up.

"Lying down quickly and don't hurt your body." Empress Changsun glared at Li Chengqian first, and the entourage sat down to the position where his son just sat, and asked Cheng Lin to continue lying down.

After Cheng Lin lay back, without waiting for Li Chengqian and others to speak, he scolded again: "Tell me, you are so frivolous in everything you do. This is Xiao Si's nothing. If there is really something, I see how you explain it."

"Yes, my son knows his mistake!" Li Chengqian didn't dare to argue with his mother at this time and honestly admitted his mistake.

"Mother, it's not the prince's brother. Erchen doesn't know that he is pregnant. Erchen is not careful." Li Chengqian's shameful look made Cheng Lin feel a little distressed, and she defended Empress Changsun before she spoke.

The prince’s wife is of a rank, so there is nothing wrong with Su Mei, Cheng Lin and others calling themselves a son in front of Queen Changsun.

"You kids are really..." Empress Changsun also knew that this was probably not blamed on Li Chengqian. Otherwise, with his love for his wife, Cheng Lin would definitely not let him go out with him again.

But many things need to be divided into inside and outside. In this case, she, a mother, can only criticize her son first. If she uses her daughter-in-law as an example, it will only make Li Chengqian stuck in the middle and be difficult to be a human being. This is a scene that Empress Changsun doesn't want to see.

In this way, someone will ask, why did Empress Changsun punish Cheng Xiaosi last time and lock her up in Zongzheng Temple for so long? Isn’t this afraid that Li Chengqian will be difficult to do?

In fact, these two things are not next to each other at all. The last time was Cheng Xiaosi who ran away secretly, and there was no "good news" after going out for so long. This is the reason why Empress Changsun punished her.

This time it was entirely because of Li Chengqian. If he hadn't taken Cheng Lin out, there wouldn't have happened like Cheng Xiaosi almost had a miscarriage. So although Xiao Li didn't know that his wife was pregnant, he still had to be jointly and severally liable.

"Mother, why are you here for free? How are your father's health?" In order to avoid embarrassment, Li Chengqian quickly changed the topic before another wave of criticism came.

Queen Changsun glared at him again: "Your father had just taken medicine and had already fallen asleep. But what happened to Xiaotai? Why did he run to me to borrow "Preface to the Lanting Collection"? How did he know about this?"

"Ah? What's the "Preface to the Lanting Collection"? I don't know!" Li Chengqian thought to himself and quickly denied it.

Even if he beats him to death, he will not admit it on his own initiative. As long as that kid Li Tai doesn't explain everything to him, it will always be a fascination.

"Hmph, wait until your father is ready, be careful of your skin." Empress Changsun didn't believe that this matter had nothing to do with Li Chengqian, but several daughters-in-law were there, and they always had to give their son some face. It was obviously inappropriate to pull their ears.

Li Chengqian smiled embarrassedly: "Mother, that's..."

Empress Changsun seemed to know what Li Chengqian wanted to say, so she glanced at him and said, "Don't be smiling, go to your study and wait. I have something to say to you later."

"Oh, I'll go now."

Empress Changsun suddenly arrived must have something to say. Li Chengqian knew it very well. Otherwise, a good girl would not be able to alarm her when she was pregnant, and she would not be able to visit her directly in the East Palace. At most, she would send some supplements to comfort her.

...

Time passed little by little, and Li Chengqian waited for nearly half an hour in the study before Empress Changsun walked in from outside with a calm face.

"Mother, what's wrong with you? Why are you so angry?" Li Chengqian accompanied Xiaojing to support Changsun and welcomed her to the main seat.

"Do you still know that I am angry?" Empress Changsun stared at Li Chengqian and said word by word: "Can you be good at doing things with a little brain? Do you know what you did in the afternoon was almost declaring war on all the aristocratic families and gentry in the Tang Dynasty at the same time!"

Li Chengqian was speechless when asked by his mother, thinking that he didn't ignore political affairs? Why did he suddenly intervene?

"It's true that your father asked you to let go of things, and it's not a good idea to make you look like a prince, but it's definitely not a matter of strife that you don't care about the consequences."

"Since you know the situation in Wannian County, you should know the situation in the Tang Dynasty. As you do now, all grassroots officials in the Jingji area will resign collectively in three days, and it will affect the entire Tang Dynasty in less than a month. What consequences will be there at that time? Will you tell you later?!"

Empress Changsun was really anxious this time. In her opinion, Li Chengqian was a bit too much this time. Since the head of the Lu family has arrived, he should give him some face. Even if he wants to kill someone, he should not be sentenced to parade.

Such a judgment is a slap in the face, and it is a shooting left and right shot. The consequences of direct murder are much more serious. Not to mention that Lu Chengqing is still the head of the Lu family, even an ordinary person may not be able to stand this.

But Empress Changsun had her worries, and Li Chengqian also had her own plans.

The old man used the Shandong gentry to restrain the Guanlong family and used poor students to replace the children of the aristocratic families to take effect in his opinion, and it was too slow to bear.

Throughout history, the old man's method has never been successful, and the decline of the aristocratic family was still under Xiao Wu's thunderous means.

Of course, Xiao Wu did not pay the price. After the decline of the aristocratic family, the chaos in the Tang Dynasty continued for many years and was on a downward trend.

But so what? Xiao Wu failed because she was a foreigner. If she were a member of the Li clan, it would have been different, and the ending should have been fundamentally reversed.

Yes, Li Chengqian was betting that he could turn the tide with his own abilities. He was familiar with the history of the early Tang Dynasty and the people of the early Tang Dynasty. He knew who was good, who was bad, who could use, and who could not use it.

If a family wants to play, then play big. It’s useless to make small fuss every day, and it’s not a skill to plot behind the scenes. While the old man is still strong, he directly overturns the table and smashes all the jars and jars, just as Yue Wumu later said: Wait until he starts to clean up the old mountains and rivers.

With such a plan, Li Chengqian was not afraid of the aristocratic family playing any work. He didn't want to do anything big, and it was difficult to find senior managers. There were some grassroots officials. Not to mention those students, the grassroots officers in the army could replace those inaction officials with a little training. Maybe it was better than before.
Chapter completed!