The best idlers of the Tang Dynasty

After discussing with Li Ke, Quan Wanji acted quickly, and within a few days, more than a dozen memorials were sent to Taizong.Taizong flipped through one by one, with an irritable look on his face, and finally couldn't help but overturned the pile of memorials to the ground with all his strength. He could see the motives of these people at a glance, and also saw who was behind them. .

How could a dead General of Zuo Tun Wei Zhong Lang make such a move?What they did was to get the crown prince out of the East Palace!This matter really disturbed Taizong, he cursed secretly, what is the benefit of this chair in the Tai Chi Hall, it makes people disregard their family ties, Jian Jian was afraid that he would prevent him from sitting on this chair, He kept stumbling, shooting cold arrows, and even poisoned the wine. In the end, he went into battle naked and wanted to ambush him with swords and axes to kill him, forcing him to launch the Xuanwu Transformation. One generation has passed, how can the next generation go on the same path? What about this old road?

A gust of wind blew the windows and made Taizong even more restless. If the truth about the Taicang incident was revealed, in the worst case, Li Chengqian might become the second prince to be deposed in this dynasty.But Datang has only been founded for a few years!Thinking of this, Taizong's uneasiness turned into sadness. He reached for a memorial on the table, but his fingers were trembling, and he couldn't pick it up.

At this time, Wang De hurried in and handed over a few papers: "Your Majesty, side newspapers from Suizhou and Bingzhou."

Taizong took it over and looked it over. The report said that at the beginning of the month, 10 horses from Jieli appeared in Suizhou and near Bingzhou. They camped for three days and then suddenly withdrew.

Taizong's thoughts were drawn from the Taicang matter to the military situation in the north. He thought to himself, what is Jieli doing to mobilize the troops so much?He went to a map and looked it over carefully, then suddenly raised his head and said to himself: "At the beginning of the month, the grain and grass should go to Suizhou and Bingzhou, and the mutiny of the Zuo Tunwei army was also because of the grain and grass. Could there be some mystery hidden in it? ?”

This matter is only Taizong's guess now, but he can't tell anyone, because after all, several of his sons are involved in it. If it is not handled well, it will cause another wave of turmoil in the court.

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of the connection. Taizong suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a person. Maybe he could think of the mystery! ?

Having made up his mind, Emperor Taizong immediately ordered someone to drive him around, because he wanted to go on a visit in a modest manner, so Taizong only brought Ma Xuanliang by his side, got into a small sedan chair, and left the palace.

After exiting Mingde Gate, the sedan chair went directly to Chang'an West Market, and stopped at the Du Mansion Gate. As soon as Taizong opened the curtain of the sedan chair, he called for a person to get off from a carriage in front, and a figure appeared in front of Taizong's eyes. Suddenly, I found out that it was Princess Ankang who ran into the gate of the mansion.

Taizong shouted: "Ankang!"

No one responded, Taizong smiled and scolded: "This crazy girl, what's the matter with this all the time, are you talking about it?"

During these days, Ankang sneaked out of the palace almost every day to learn the rhythm with Du Rui, and learned more than a dozen pieces of music from later generations in one go.Although Du Rui liked melody in his previous life, he didn't know much about it. Now he teaches Ankang a famous song called "Swordsman", who would have thought that the weird and elf princess couldn't learn this song at all? .

Du Rui asked in surprise: "Your Highness is gifted and intelligent. You can learn the first dozen or so songs in no time. Why can't you learn this song "Swordsman" after three days?"

Ankang smiled mischievously, and replied: "Ah, because this song "Swordsman" is difficult!"

He said this on his mouth, but he said secretly in his heart, you are so stupid, if you learn it, how can I come to you.

Hearing the sound of flute in the yard day by day, even the honest and dull Du Gui saw something, he smiled and said to Du Zhong: "Father, isn't this Princess Her Majesty taking a fancy to our young master?"

Hearing this, Du Zhong glared at Du Gui, and reprimanded: "Shut your mouth, you dare to say such nonsense, who is she, she is the most beloved princess of the emperor today! The jewel in the palm of the emperor!"

Du Gui was puzzled and said: "Master, didn't you often say that the reason why the young master was sent out from the Lai Kingdom Mansion was because he had no backer? If we can marry the princess back, we will not only have a backer, but also a big backer." , what's wrong with that?"

Du Zhong shook his head and said: "What do you know? This princess is so easy to marry? Since ancient times, the marriage is well-matched. Although the young master is the son of the Duke of Xianlai, but now he is just a white body after all. He insists on climbing the throne of the emperor. My family, what will happen in the future? Now the Holy Majesty’s daughter runs here every day, who knows if it’s a blessing or a disaster!”

uh-huh!

Taizong coughed, and Du Zhong and Du Gui were taken aback, and turned their heads quickly. Du Zhong had seen Emperor Taizong before, stunned for a moment, and hastily knelt down on the ground.

With a wave of Taizong's hand, Taizong stopped them from saying "Long live my emperor, long live, long live". With the support of Ma Xuanliang, he walked to the window of the study room, and heard Ankang sighing inside: "Oh, I am so sorry. Stupid, still can't play it."

How could Taizong fail to see Ankang's careful thinking, so he couldn't help laughing secretly, pushed the door of the study open, and said, "You girl, you are stupid in your brain, and you are obviously stupid in your heart!"

The two people sitting opposite each other in the study were startled, seeing that Emperor Taizong had arrived, they hurriedly bowed down: "Caomin (Ankang) see the emperor (father)!"

"stand up!"

Taizong responded casually, and with the support of Ma Xuanliang, he walked to the Hu bed and sat down. It turned out that Du Rui was not used to sitting on his knees. In addition to the Hu chair, there was also a Hu bed in the study for Du Rui who was tired from reading. When resting.

Taizong looked at Ankang, who was standing beside him with a bright red face, who was a little nervous, pretended to be angry, and asked, "Ankang! Why are you here too!?"

Hearing this, Ankang hesitated for a while. Although she is an emperor's daughter and has a naive temperament, she is a girl after all with a thin skin. She can't open her mouth at this time, so she can only say: "Daughter is here The one who asked Du Rui to learn the rhythm, didn't the father always teach his daughter to ~~~~~~~~~~"

"What do you want?" Taizong couldn't bear to blame Ankang. How could he, as a father, not know what kind of careful thoughts his daughter had, "Okay! Don't learn today, you go back to the palace first!"

Ankang, as if he had been pardoned, turned around and wanted to flee.

"Wait!" Taizong issued an order, then changed his loving expression, and said, "Next time you leave the palace, remember to bring your guards with you!"

Hearing the words, Ankang let go of his hanging heart, and responded charmingly: "Observe the order!"

After Princess Ankang left, Taizong asked Ma Xuanliang to go out as well, and stood guard at the door of the study. Looking at Du Rui, he didn't know what to think, and said in a deep voice, "Du Rui! Do you still know me?"

Du Rui bowed his head and said: "That day, the grassroots didn't know that it was the Holy Majesty who was in front of them. They offended me so much. Please forgive me!"

Taizong smiled slightly, waved his hands and said: "Forget it! Forget it! Those who don't know are not guilty. Speaking of which, I would like to thank you very much! If you didn't take action this time, the crown prince would really break the sky. Yes! But even so, I don’t know how to deal with him, selling military rations privately and causing mutiny, this crime is not light!”

Du Rui hurriedly said: "The prince is benevolent, filial, and generous. Even if there are occasional minor faults, they are all out of filial piety to the Holy One. Who in the world would blame their children for their filial piety!"

Taizong smiled when he heard the words, and said: "Hey! You have taught me a lesson!"

Du Rui said: "The grassroots don't dare! Your Majesty is a wise master, so he naturally knows how to deal with it!"

"Yes! I know the priorities, and I also know that the prince made such a big mistake because of his filial piety to me!" Taizong said, sighing, "But those ministers in the court are not as good as you A young man with a lot of knowledge, can't tell the priorities, he wants to force me to make a choice!"

Du Rui was startled when he heard the words. He had already guessed that once this matter got out, someone would definitely take the opportunity to stir up trouble and attack Li Chengqian, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Taizong pondered for a moment, and said, "Du Rui!"

"The grass people are here!"

"You are a smart man. I came here this time to ask you to help me analyze it!" If it weren't for the doubts in my heart involving the prince, and it was really inconvenient to tell the courtiers, Taizong would not have come to find a ten-year-old The young man at the age of [-] made up his mind, thinking about Taizong's transfer of Turkic troops, and said it out.

The more Du Rui heard it, the more frightened he became. He thought it was just someone provoking and Li Chengqian's eagerness to make contributions, which caused the incident. Now that he put everything together and looked at it again, Du Rui found that things were not that simple at all. , The things hidden in it are even more shocking.

"My lord! Please forgive the grassroots for lying!"

"I forgive you for your innocence, say it!"

"Caomin thought, is there some connection between the prince's theft and sale of military rations and the Turks this time!? Caomin boldly guessed that this matter may have been a big conspiracy from the beginning to the end, and the Turks were close, perhaps because they knew that my dynasty The political situation in China is about to be in turmoil. Perhaps they knew about the mutiny of the Zuo Tunwei army. The mutiny was caused because the soldiers ate moldy rice and died. The person who came up with this idea was Jiang, the Minister of Industry. Bai, the coercion is Wu Qing, the commander of the Zuo Tunwei Army, and Jiang Bai was the one who encouraged the prince to sell food before, so~~~~~~~"

Taizong was shocked when he heard the words, and before Du Rui finished speaking, he said: "You mean, Jiang Bai used the prince to build the Cuiwei Palace for me, deliberately encouraged the prince to sell the army rations, and then made people dig up the Dragon King Temple. The dam caused no food to fill Taicang, and then came up with an idea to transfer grain from the Zuo Tunwei Army, and colluded with Wu Qing to let the soldiers eat moldy rice, which eventually led to a mutiny, but Wu Qing was clearly a member of the Zuo Tunwei Army Killed!?"

Du Rui said: "Perhaps this is the most dangerous part. The grassroots boldly speculate that Wu Qing is likely to be the dead man in the whole conspiracy. According to the military law of the Tang Dynasty, anyone who kills the commander without authorization will be beheaded. Wu Qing is very likely It's just desperate to die and drive the entire Zuo Tunwei Army to a dead end."

It was Emperor Taizong. Hearing this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If it was really like what Du Rui said, wouldn't the Tang Dynasty be on the verge of life and death every day these days, with soldiers chaotic inside and Turks outside? Gong, it's no wonder that Datang's country is not in chaos!

Du Rui saw that Taizong was silent, and in order to save Li Chengqian, he didn't care so much at this time, and said loudly: "My lord, what happened, as long as Jiang Bai is interrogated, everything will be clear!"

Taizong also knew that Du Rui's analysis was very reasonable, so he pondered for a moment and said, "If it's really what you said, how should we deal with the admonishers of the Manchu Dynasty!"

Du Rui replied: "Thank you Wu Qing!"

"Grace to Wu Qing!" Taizong was stunned for a moment, then he understood Du Rui's meaning, "That's right! Only by rewarding Wu Qing can we force those admonishers to stand on my side. If that happens, the Crown Prince will steal and sell military rations." No one will pursue the matter!"