The best idlers of the Tang Dynasty

Just now when Li Chengqian and Du Rui suppressed the mutiny of the Zuo Tunwei Army, Taizong had already arrived. Seeing Li Chengqian successfully suppressed the mutiny, Taizong's anger also eased a little.After all, Li Chengqian can be regarded as responsible. Under such a dangerous situation, he didn't shrink in the East Palace and let him, the emperor, come over.

Earlier, Emperor Taizong had already sent people to summon the forbidden army back to the city. In the middle of the night, more than 3 forbidden soldiers from Beiyuan were summoned back to the city, guarding various important places. Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and other important officials also came one after another. Only then did Taizong enter the central tent of the Zuo Tunwei Army under the escort of the brigade Wuwei Army.

Li Chengqian was sitting on the main seat, when he saw Taizong arrived, he hastily bowed down: "I will see my father."

Du Rui also hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground: "Grassmen refer to the Holy Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Taizong glanced at Du Rui first, and then walked to the main seat. Thinking that Li Chengqian was not afraid of danger just now, and suppressed the mutiny of the Zuo Tunwei Army by himself, he also comforted himself in his heart: "Dear! You did a good job this time Alright! Go back to the palace to rest! Here I will take care of myself!"

Li Chengqian wanted to tell the truth of the matter, but Du Rui pulled his sleeves. Although he didn't know why, he knew that Du Rui must have deep meaning, so he didn't say anything else, bowed to Emperor Taizong, and went down.

If Li Chengqian pleads guilty to Taizong at this time, in front of so many important officials in the court, Taizong has the heart to protect Li Chengqian, and he has no choice but to deal with it. If one party seizes on the handle and attacks aggressively, Li Chengqian's position may be shaken.

Pleading guilty at this time is not the courage to admit his mistakes, but to put Taizong on the fire to roast, to give the truth, and force Taizong to make the decision to abolish the prince.

At this time, the ministers in the tent also found Du Rui. Although they were surprised how this little boy was here, they thought it was just Li Chengqian's attendant, so they didn't think much about it.

On the other hand, Taizong looked at Du Rui with some deep meaning in his eyes. He knew very well that the things that Li Chengqian had done these few times, including going to the Turks and suppressing the mutiny, were all due to Du Rui, and it was also for Li Chengqian to have such a capable person I feel relieved, but Du Rui has such insight at a young age, and it will be fine when he grows up. Can Li Chengqian hold it back?

But this is not the time to think about these things, the mutiny must be resolved as soon as possible, and it cannot be used by those with ulterior motives, the soldiers who took the lead in causing trouble will be captured soon, as for Duan Ying, seeing that the situation is over, she committed suicide in fear of crime.

After some investigation, Taizong found out that the officers and soldiers of the Zuo Tunwei Army had been eating moldy rice for four days. This surprised Taizong, and he immediately ordered a strict investigation of the origin of the moldy rice.Seeing that Taizong was tired all night and his body was very weak, Ma Xuanliang advised him to go back to rest earlier, and Taizong went back to the palace.

It was noon when he woke up, and Taizong was thinking about the Zuo Tunwei Army, so he asked Ma Xuanliang if he had found out the origin of the moldy rice.Ma Xuanliang reported back that the guard of the granary of the Zuo Tunwei Army confessed that Wu Qing brought in the moldy rice, and he handed over all the good grain in the granary a few days ago to Hu Cheng, the general manager of Taicang, and Jiang Bai, the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Taizong's surprise was no small matter. The matter was actually related to Taicang. The East Palace has always been in charge of the food affairs. Could it be related to Li Chengqian?If the matter involved this level, it would be really careless, he hurriedly ordered Ma Xuanliang to prepare a car, and he wanted to go to Taicang immediately.

Taizong's car arrived at Nan Dacang soon. After he personally inspected the grain in a warehouse, the fat Hu Chengcai ran over in a panic when he heard the news, saluted in a hurry, and then accompanied Taizong to inspect the food. Opened two warehouses.What made Taizong feel at ease was that nearly 30 dans of high-quality white rice were stored in the warehouse.

Hu Cheng smiled and said: "My lord, our warehouse is full of Yangzhou rice. The terrain here is high. Although it rains continuously, it is not damp at all."

Taizong took out a few grains of rice with his fingers, put them in his palm, chewed them in his mouth, and said, "Well, not bad!"

At this moment, a cat suddenly jumped up from a corner of the granary, only to hear a scream, apparently a mouse fell into the cat's claws.

Taizong said: "Hu Cheng, you have a lot of rats in Taicang."

Hu Chengdui said with a smile on his face: "There have been rats in warehouses since ancient times. There is no cure, so we have to raise more cats."

Taizong listened and walked out, suddenly remembered something, stopped, and told Ma Xuanliang: "Go and see, has the cat finished eating that mouse!" Then he walked to Hu Cheng's Taicang office to sit Down.

After a while, Ma Xuanliang brought up a small pottery bowl with a small ball of rice grains in it. Ma Xuanliang said, "My lord, these are rice grains taken from the belly of that mouse."

Taizong picked up the bowl and inspected it carefully, his expression became serious.He raised his eyes and glanced at Hu Cheng, and found that Hu Cheng was nervous, and beads of sweat kept dripping from his forehead.Suddenly, Taizong slammed the bowl on the table and sneered: "Hu Cheng, Taicang really raises a good cat!"

Ma Xuanliang brought the bowl in front of Hu Cheng, Hu Cheng took the bowl, looked at it, and his face turned earthy.

Taizong said angrily: "Since the rice in your Taicang is all good rice, why do the mice in this warehouse prefer to eat moldy old grain?!"

Hu Cheng's face was pale, and the bowl fell to the ground with a "slap" and broke into several petals. His body softened, and he knelt down, kowtowing like a chicken pecking at rice, and said repeatedly: "My lord, I deserve death for my crimes!" !"

Then, under Jiang Bai's instigation, Li Chengqian, who had already been frightened out of his wits, told Li Chengqian from beginning to end about conspiring to sell grain to earn the difference to build Cuiwei Palace for Taizong.

Only then did Taizong know that his eldest son, whom he had always loved, had done such an earth-shattering event behind his back, which almost brought a catastrophe to the court.

He was so angry that he wanted to summon Li Chengqian to kill him immediately, but when Hu handed over a picture of Cuiwei Palace drawn by Li Chengqian himself, his heart suddenly softened again.He seemed to have seen the scene when his son was holding the firebox to bake his sick leg, but he couldn't send out the decree that came to his lips. After all, it was his son's filial piety!

Taizong suddenly thought of something, and asked: "The prince came that day, but there was a young man by his side!?"

Hu Cheng hurriedly replied: "I followed a young man. His Highness the Crown Prince sometimes called him Chengming, and sometimes he called him Good Brother. When Mr. Jiang encouraged the Crown Prince to sell grain, the young man tried his best to dissuade him, but the Crown Prince was also out of filial piety. Did not listen."

Taizong let out a long breath, waved his hands and said, "Come here, detain Hu Cheng and wait for his punishment!"

Anyway, Du Rui hasn't let him down yet. If Du Rui also participated in this incident, Taizong would try his best not to feel sorry for Du Ruhui, but also to execute Du Rui. It is absolutely impossible to stay.

At this time, the news of Hu Cheng's arrest had already spread to the East Palace, and the wind blew the curtains of the East Palace, creating a desolate atmosphere in the palace.Li Chengqian kept muttering on the chair in despair: "This is bad, this is bad! Father already knows everything, now it's all over!"

Yesterday, Du Rui stayed in the East Palace for a whole night, knowing that the food that was transported into Chang'an from various places was transported to the South Dacang. Du Rui just left. When Hu Cheng was arrested, the matter had been leaked, and Li Chengqian still couldn't help but panic for a while.

Li Chengqian sighed for a long time, picked up the pen, and wrote a few lines with tears.Heng Lian, who was not very literate, saw his strange expression and asked, "Your Highness, what are you writing?"

Li Chengqian said in despair: "I, I am asking Father Emperor to abolish my reserve! So as not to embarrass him."

"What a bastard!" A voice came from the door, which made Li Chengqian tremble in shock, and his pen fell down with a "slap".