Hanjing, Zhaowang Mansion.

After returning from the palace, Li Chao went to the greenhouse in the back garden. Although the family had left Hanjing for a long time, there were still many servants in the family and they still kept the house in order.

The weather is getting colder and the grass outside is withered and yellow, but the greenhouse is lush and lush.

Looking at these greens, I feel much more relaxed.

Walk to the rattan rocking chair and sit down, letting it shake gently.

The House of Assembly was finally established, but unfortunately the Tang Dynasty had an unparalleled king. This was not good news. Li Chao remembered that someone once said that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the emperor, especially the more powerful emperors.

The Ming Dynasty originally had a pretty good cabinet system. If the emperors were all like carpenters, the power would naturally be in the hands of the cabinet, and there would be no constant troubles like Chongzhen. Perhaps the corrupt court could still rely on inertia to maintain some time.

But Chongzhen was ambitious and loved to make trouble, so the corrupt Ming Dynasty could no longer withstand the trouble and fell apart early.

Li Chao disagrees with this statement. Of course, this statement actually makes some sense.

If an emperor is too strong, he will definitely have a sharp edge over the court and the prime minister. The monarch and ministers will definitely be completely above the power of the minister, rather than the mutual restraint and balance between the monarch and ministers and ministers. After all, the imperial power also needs balance and restraint. If an emperor is too strong, if no one is restrained, it will inevitably happen if something happens.

This is true in ancient and modern times.

But in front of the great emperor Li Shimin, the so-called prime minister was just a joke. Even though he worked hard to establish the current general general system of the Tang Dynasty, established the school of the Secretariat, and established the three institutes, and organized the power institutions layer by layer, and focused on decentralization of power and checking and balance.

But the emperor's words dismissal of half of the prime minister is the best ridicule.

The prime ministers had no room for resistance in front of the emperor.

The parliament established by Li Chao is actually the same. It is extremely fragile, but Li Chao still worked hard. It doesn’t work today, maybe tomorrow is not enough, but one day it will be useful.

He was only in his thirties, and the aristocratic group of the Tang Empire was so huge that it would become even bigger in the future. The emperor was about to be forty years old. The emperor in history only lived fifty years old, and died in the 23rd year of Zhenguan. In this life, Xuanwu Gate was three years ahead of schedule. If Li Shimin's lifespan was still only so long, then the emperor would have only thirteen years to live.

Thirteen years, it’s not long.

Thirteen years later, Li Chao was only in his forties.

He still has plenty of time to do what he wants to do.

The conversation with Li Shimin today is relatively relaxed and satisfactory. The emperor also expressed his attitude to Li Chao today. He will not expand it, and the last incident has ended here.

The prince is still the prince, but he only needs more patience. By that day, he will naturally pass the throne to the prince.

However, today the emperor also said that he would add some members of the nobles. It turned out that they were only granted to nobles who had real titles and were over twenty-one years old. However, now the emperor would give those who had titles of life-long nobles who had titles, and those who had served as third divisions and three ministers and prime ministers, and also had the titles of members of the nobles.

There is no limit on the number of nobles, and there is no additional amount of member death. However, newly-granted nobles can automatically qualify.

Now there are only two types of titles in the Tang Dynasty. One is hereditary title, also known as real title. Anyone who grants real titles must be hereditary titles. Special orders can not be reduced to inheritance. If they do not have special orders, they need to be reduced to inheritance. However, lifelong titles do not have real titles and cannot be inherited.

Anyone who is appointed as prime minister, if there is no title, the court will grant a Duke a lifetime title.

The royal family of the Tang Dynasty had both real titles and lifelong life, and the royal family was also a member of the noble family.

Members of parliament are not official positions, nor grades, and they don’t even have salaries, but this is a power. The House of Parliament is similar to some functions of the Censorate, which can discuss politics, supervise administration, and impeach officials. If these powers are well operated, they can also play a great role.

However, the number of members of the parliament is still too large. There are more than 3,000 true nobles who are over twenty-one years old, not to mention that there are many true nobles who are not yet in the same age. Now the emperor wants to make a large number of lifelong nobles become members of the aristocratic House, which is too many.

Now Li Chao is planning to create a committee or something, and then select hundreds of members or dozens of standing committee members or other things.

He now suspects that Li Shimin brought in the lifelong nobles and had bad motives.

Imagine that there were five or six thousand noble congressmen crowded in the aristocratic courtyard, and then how many people held a meeting? Then the vegetable market would not become a vegetable market, and the chickens and ducks would talk to each other?

The nobles come from all over the world, and the time they can get together every year is limited, and maybe time will be quarreling.

It is still a long way to make the noble house truly play the role of political discussion and supervision, rather than just becoming a nursing home or a party.

A sound of footsteps came.

The door was pushed open.

Li Chao sat up and a scream rang out. It seemed that his sudden appearance scared the person.

"I pay homage to King Zhao, but I don't know that King Zhao is here, so I disturb King Zhao, and ask King Zhao to forgive me."

Li Chao raised his head and looked at the little girl in front of him.

He is a little thin, about the same age as his daughter, but he looks quite handsome.

"I'm basking in the sun here, it's okay, are you okay?"

"I'll come and water and weed."

Li Chao nodded. This girl is so young, why is she responsible for the greenhouse? "How can the manager arrange for you little girl to do these?"

"It was not arranged by the manager. I used to be a maid in the Crown Princess' Courtyard. Now that the Crown Princess has entered the palace, I have nothing to do every day. Because I have helped the Crown Princess to pick up things in the greenhouse before, I know that here. I like the flowers and plants here very much, so sometimes when there is no one, I will come to water the flowers and plants." The girl said in a panic.

Li Chao found that this girl seemed familiar.

"May I have your name?"

"I'm called Mei Niang."

Mei Niang, Li Chao was stunned when he heard the name and looked at her again, "Your surname is Wu?"

“That’s right.”

"Are you the daughter of Duke Ying?" Li Chao asked in surprise.

Wu Meiniang nodded.

"I didn't expect that you are really the daughter of Duke Ying. In the blink of an eye, you have become a big girl. Let's sit down!"

Wu Meiniang sat down on the side. After she sat down, she secretly looked at Li Chao, but she happened to meet Li Chao's gaze.

The girl was frightened and the little deer lowered her head and her face turned red.

Li Chao laughed.

"I'm very smart and bold. I was also an old friend of your father back then, and I made an appointment with your father for a marriage. Unfortunately, something happened to your father later, and your Wu family also declined."

"Mei Niang also knows these past events and always remembers the care of King Zhao for our family. I have lived a good life in the royal palace over the years."

Warriors participated in the Restoration Rebellion. Although he later committed suicide, the Wu family was still liquidated in the end. The man was exiled to the frontier as a prisoner, and the woman entered the palace.

Wu Meiniang was originally engaged to Li Chao's concubine son. She was young at that time. Li Chao felt sorry for her and asked her to stay in the Li Mansion. However, her identity changed from a daughter of a priest to a lowly slave, and the engagement was naturally terminated.

He ignored this girl.

I didn't expect that they had grown up so big, and they were indeed a beauty.

When Xia Huaniang entered the palace, she didn't bring her with her, which made Li Chao relieved. If Xia Hua brought Wu Meiniang into the East Palace, Wu Meiniang and Chengqian would have sex, it was a concern that it would make people worry.

"Since you like this place so much, then the greenhouse will be left to you to manage from now on, and you will be the greenhouse manager from now on." Li Chao said to her with a smile.

Wu Meiniang was extremely happy, "Thank you, King Zhao."

Because he saw Wu Meiniang, Li Chao was a little distracted that day.

"Sanlang, I shouldn't say something, but I have to say it." Cui Yingying stared at Li Chao.

"you say."

Li Chao was still a little absent-minded.

"I heard that you met the girl from the Wu family today and promoted her to be a greenhouse manager?"

"Yes." Li Chao replied casually.

"I want to tell you, the girl from the Wu family is indeed very beautiful, tall, graceful, and especially smart. I like this girl too."

"It's good." Li Chao said.

Cui Yingying's face was already ugly. She clenched her fists, "Sanlang, don't forget. Although this girl has terminated the engagement with our Silang, she has been married to Silang before. If it weren't for the Wu family, she would have entered our Li family and be your daughter-in-law."

"Yes, this girl was really good to match the fourth child, but it was a pity."

"What a pity, then you fell in love with it, and then you were rebellious. Well, you Li Sanlang, are you shameless?"

Li Chao was shocked by Cui Yingying's sudden anger.

"What strange things are you saying? I also met her accidentally today. I felt that I owe her a little bit. I saw that she was smart and asked her to do a greenhouse management company. How could I have any other ideas? Where did you think of it?"

Cui Yingying was half-believing and half-doubted, "But you have been absent-minded today because you have fallen in love with that girl?"

"What do you think? She didn't say she had been engaged to Silang, nor did she say that I had an old relationship with her father. I just said that I was the kind of person who was hungry? The little girl who was only thirteen years old hadn't grown up."

"Then what happened to you today?"

"I miss our daughter, and I don't know if I've lived in the East Palace." Li Chao said. After seeing Wu Meiniang today, he really missed his daughter again.

but.

He wasn't entirely thinking about his daughter, he also thought of another person, not Wu Meiniang.

What he thought of was satisfaction.

In history, Wu Meiniang was first summoned to the palace by Li Shimin as a talented man, and later followed Li Zhi. Wu Mei and Li Zhi were a couple, and Li Zhi was crazy about Wu Mei. According to historical records, Li Chengqian was also crazy about one person, but he was a happy boy in Taichang Temple.

Chengqian and are satisfied with the basics!

Chengqian is his son-in-law, how could he let this happen?

He has been thinking about this matter today, and has made a decision. He will go back to Taichang Temple to find this satisfaction, and then send it as far as possible. This kind of delicate slut must not be left in the capital. Otherwise, what if he gets hooked up with Cheng Qian one day, what will happen to his daughter?

well!
Chapter completed!