Chapter 45: Behind the Prosperity
When he returned to the official post, Li Xuansheng gave him the intact sword of merit. For him, only the gun was his favorite weapon.
Zhang Xu, a native of Licheng, Qingzhou, entered the Imperial Army of Anjing from Qingzhou Prefecture at the age of 19. Although he was only 30 years old, he was already a fifth-rank imperial guard. As Yu Hang's deputy, he has always been careful in his work and is highly valued by the Crown Prince Li Min.
Li Xuansheng has always rarely asked about trivial matters in the palace. Now that he has nothing to do, he starts chatting with Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu didn't want to gossip, but he couldn't resist Li Xuansheng's repeated disturbances. He had to tell him about the matter in the palace.
As long as this person opens up his conversation, he often gets interested and says everything he doesn't say normally. Zhang Xu is such a person.
From the moment he entered the palace as an imperial guard, he talked until now. If he didn't say it, he would definitely write a masterpiece of the gossip in the palace.
In Li Xuansheng's eyes, his emperor grandfather was a serious and stinky person who was always silly. However, he was not as resourceful and humorous as Zhang Xu said.
Emperor Wen Li Chongyan was able to become emperor in the past. Although he had the help of others, he relied on his own abilities. When Emperor Gaozong was alive, the old ministers in the court, all the civil and military officials were simple figures, but the relationship between these old ministers and Li Chongyan was quite harmonious.
It was precisely Emperor Wen Li Chongyan’s way of governing ministers that allowed those old ministers who had been outstanding in their past to enjoy their old age. However, Li Xuansheng did not know that Emperor Wen Li Chongyan was already thirty-five years old when he became emperor.
When he was twenty years old, Li Chongyan was made the crown prince. Emperor Gaozong Li Long issued an order to deal with all political affairs and initiated the crown prince to handle it. Then he reported to practice national affairs and assisted Emperor Gaozong Li Long in handling daily government affairs. Only after fifteen years of personal administration can he have his own throne now.
When Li Chongyan was founded by the Han and Tang Dynasties, Emperor Wen Li Chongyan could definitely be called the crown prince who was not in the throne but was already the emperor. When Emperor Gaozong Li Long passed away, Emperor Wen Li Chongyan had already held the court firmly in his hands.
Twelve years ago, when the King of Wei was rebellious, Li Chongyan was concerned about his brotherhood and did not suppress it at first. Unfortunately, the civil and military ministers of the court wrote a letter to wipe out the King of Wei, the traitor, and the later Youzhou War.
After the King of Wei was killed, Li Chongyan named his only daughter a princess and married to Tubo. As for the other family members, they were demoted to common people and were not allowed to become officials in their lifetime.
In Li Xuansheng's eyes, just from the fact that Zhang Xu was proud of himself as an imperial guard, it is enough to show that Emperor Wen Li Chongyan is a virtuous king.
During the six months in Gusu, he did not listen to his classmates' privately belittle Emperor Wen Li Chongyan.
Liu Huaiyong told him that it is easy to be an emperor, but it is difficult to be a virtuous king! Throughout history, the emperors who can be regarded as legendary are not those who are diligent in national affairs, but those emperors who kill all directions.
The most praised emperor's way is to attack the outside, to cultivate domineering the king's way. Very few of them can be done in all dynasties, and Emperor Taizong of the Han and Tang Dynasties was one of them.
The Han and Tang dynasties conquered the country and the three generations governed the country. Emperor Taizong opened the prelude to the prosperity. Emperor Gaozong Li Long inherited it and transferred it to Emperor Wen. It took nearly three hundred years for five emperors to create the current situation of prosperity in the Han and Tang dynasties.
As he spoke, Zhang Xu was even more excited. Li Xuansheng could read that kind of passionate belief from Zhang Xu's eyes. The world of the Han and Tang dynasties needed them to protect. Only by protecting Anjing, the lives of all people in the world will not be broken, and the people can rest at sunrise and sunset.
Therefore, when dealing with Ouyang Yan and Zhang Xu would be so ridiculed when he spoke. If it weren't for the sword of merit given to him by Li Xuansheng, he might have thrown it away directly.
Zhang Xu continued to preach, "Ouyang Yan, there was a problem with a batch of weapons produced in the past, and this book is understandable. It happened that this batch of weapons was to be supplied to the Anyang Yulin Army. Sima Yi, the commander of the Anyang Yulin Army, wrote a letter and scolded the military weapon supervisor without mercy. After Ouyang Yan was captured by Dali Temple, Dali Temple punished him. As a result, when forging the weapon, he used the inferior iron ore in Liangzhou."
"Liangzhou Iron Mine?"
"Yes, my subordinates are not very clear about the details! Ouyang Yan pleaded guilty and the emperor thought he was a hero, so he dismissed his official position and demoted him to a civilian."
"Zhang Xu, what is the official position of the Military Equipment Supervisor? How much does it earn in a year?"
Zhang Xu thought for a while and replied, "The fourth-rank official position has a salary of 200 silver strips, 280 stones of material, 700 mu of land, and 80 servants."
Li Xuansheng was shocked, "Then you think it's so beautiful, Ouyang Yan would lose his wealth for such a little money."
Zhang Xu was not stupid either, and immediately understood what Li Xuansheng said, "Ouyang Yan confessed to guilty at that time, and the evidence was conclusive, and Dali Temple also recorded the case of the seal."
"I know, do you still remember Ouyang Yan's hands? Those hands obviously couldn't hold the wine jar. He used his wrists." Li Xuansheng demonstrated to Zhang Xu.
"Crown Prince, what do you mean?"
"I heard Mr. Xu talk about the Ouyang family at Wolong Academy. They forged weapons for generations, and their persistence in forging weapons is comparable to ordinary people. They will destroy weapons that are unsatisfied with again."
Zhang Xu looked at Li Xuansheng in surprise, "Criminal, you seem to be very interested in Ouyang!"
Li Xuansheng nodded and smiled, "I want to have a magic weapon from the Ouyang family, but the Ouyang family leader has been sealed for decades. Now the only person who can match him is probably the only one who can match him."
"Yes, prince! Ouyang Yan is the younger brother of the current Ouyang family leader. Ouyang family leader has no son but only daughters. Therefore, the most profound forging skills of the Ouyang family is only Ouyang Yanhui. It's just his son!"
Li Xuansheng sighed and said softly, "You, you! Who said he is a man?"
"What?"
Li Xuansheng couldn't help but smile and said, "Then Ouyang Guyue is a woman. Don't you think he doesn't have this?" Li Xuansheng pointed to his throat, "And there is also an aromatic smell on his body."
"Ah! I only paid attention to the weapons at that time, but I really didn't show up!"
At first, Li Xuansheng didn't know that Ouyang Guyue was a woman. She should be about eighteen years old, but she didn't have an Adam's apple. As for the aromatherapy, Li Xuansheng had done it for Yin Ruoli, so he knew that this aromatherapy tasted very light but lasted for a long time and could not be dissipated, as if it was called the Begonia Fragrance.
At this time, Wang Hai put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on Li Xuansheng's desk, "Crown Prince, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone you want is here!"
Seeing Li Xuansheng pick up his pen to write, Zhang Xu and Wang Hai walked out of the wing room. The content Li Xuansheng wrote on the paper was for his father, one for his mother, and the other for Yin Ruoli.
Fengqizhai, Tianshu Building, Wolong Academy, Gusu, Yin Ruoli carefully read the letter Li Xuansheng gave him. After reading it, a happy smile appeared on his face, "This kid is quite conscientious, hehe!"
Zhao Wenjun saw Yin Ruoli smirking alone, and enviously said, "Oh! Why, what did the little love man write to you? Look, I'm so happy!"
"Go and go! What a little lover! He is my guard and money bag!"
Zhao Wenjun burst out laughing, "Haha! Guard! Money bag! If Li Xuansheng knew that you called him that, would he be angry?"
"Xiao Xuanzi won't be angry. Do you know that he is just a fool who is a knife-like mouth and a tofu heart but a hard heart! Don't worry."
Zhao Wenjun couldn't help but smile, "I just called the guard and the wallet, but now I've changed it to Xiao Xuanzi. Will you call me husband another day?"
Yin Ruoli's face turned red, "What husband! If you don't deal with you for two days, you will become itchy, right?"
Zhao Wenjun stood up and said to Yin Ruoli, "Husband, Li'er knows his mistake!"
Yin Ruoli snorted, picked up the book, and chased Zhao Wenjun.
"Xiao Junjun, don't run away!"
Chapter completed!