Back to Tang Dynasty to be Emperor

Back in the palace, Li Ke came to the study and began to think about a few things that puzzled him today.

First of all, it was Li Xiaogong who was named Zongzhengsiqing, not the official minister in history.

Zongzheng Siqing is from the third rank, and the official minister is the third rank. From the rank, it can be seen that the official minister is higher than Zongzhengsi Qing.Compared with Zongzheng Temple, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials has greater power, and one department in charge of matters related to etiquette and diplomacy of the Tang Dynasty is a department with real power.Although Minister Zongzhengsi is in charge of the clan's affairs, but what can he take care of? Can he take care of things when it's his turn?Matters involving the clan and the royal family cannot be managed by a prince, only the emperor himself can intervene.

Therefore, Zongzheng Siqing is just an idle official position.According to historical records, Li Xiaogong was just a man of martial arts, with extraordinary courage, extravagant sex, loves to play, and supported more than a hundred singers and dancers by himself, who were intoxicated in drinking and banqueting all day long.However, he has a tolerant and kind personality, without arrogance or self-defeating.Tang Taizong Li Shimin was very close to him, and there was no second person in the Li family.Among the clans, only two brothers, Li Xiaogong and Jiangxia King Li Daozong, were most praised by people at that time.Li Xiaogong once said sadly to his relatives: "The house I live in is small and magnificent, and it is not my heart. I should sell it, don't run another house, and just fill it with rough orders.

After death.If you are talented, it is enough to keep it; if you are not talented, you can avoid others from benefiting. "It can be seen from this that Li Xiaogong was not attacked by others, or because of Li Shimin's suspicion. He can say that to his relatives, which shows that Zongzheng Siqing was sought by himself. This is just a sign of his hastily retreating. The prince no longer wants to make a difference in the center of power in the Tang Dynasty, he just wants to live an ordinary life. After Li Xiaogong retired bravely, the only person in the clan who can make a difference is the Jiangxia King Li Daozong.

Therefore, Li Ke feels that whether to establish a good relationship with Li Daozong and let Li support him is related to the attitude of some people in the Guanlong Group towards him.As for Li Xiaogong, he couldn't underestimate him either.After all, he can become a general admired by two generations of emperors, and he who has made great military exploits, even if he is not in the court, he can still affect the court situation.

Secondly, why did Li Shimin give him the former Qin Palace?This is a very sudden thing, which Li Ke did not expect.At least, Li Shimin did not do this in history.

It can be seen from this that the conversation he had with Li Shimin in the Imperial Study Room of Ganquan Palace obviously played a decisive role in giving the palace to Prince Qin this time.This also shows that Li Shimin attaches great importance to himself now, and the Qin Palace seems to be giving himself a signal.

"What kind of profound meaning does it contain?" Li Ke said to himself.

Although he was not able to be canonized as the prince, Li Shimin seemed to have his own considerations.Although the gifted mansion Qin Wang's mansion did not have the same affirmation of Li Chengqian as the crown prince, it is also an honor.

During the reign of Wude, Li Shimin was granted the title of King of Qin and Minister of State, and took the post of General Youyiwei.Therefore, the Qin Palace is no worse than the East Palace in terms of scale and decoration. At this time, Li Shimin bestowed his own Qin Palace to Li Ke.

Obviously, he was not allowed to be the King of Qin in history and imitate him in launching a coup. He killed his brothers and brothers in the coup and ascended to the throne.Therefore, he will not let the same thing happen to his son.Therefore, Li Ke was indeed a little worried while being happy to give the Qin Palace to himself.

The third is Ma Zhou, a famous minister of Zhenguan who Li Kegang met in the restaurant.According to historical records, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty once had a story about four invitations to Ma Zhou.Taizong not only paid attention to seeking talents when establishing a foundation and establishing the world immediately, but also thought of being loyal and good to assist the state affairs after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

The story of his "four invitations to Ma Zhou" to use his talents outside the rules shows his true qualities of a wise gentleman who is eager for talents.In the third year of Zhenguan, there was a severe drought in the world, and the serious disaster has endangered the national economy and people's livelihood.As the king of a country, Tang Taizong was so worried that he led his officials to pray for rain many times and condemned himself very piously.It's just that wind, frost, rain and snow are all natural phenomena and cannot be controlled by manpower. After repeated prayers for rain to no avail, Tang Taizong called a group of ministers to discuss countermeasures.

He announced that both civil servants and military generals must point out the gains and losses of the imperial government's decrees, and must have several specific opinions.This is difficult for general Chang He, he returned to the mansion, frowning.It happened that a down-and-out friend of the family named Ma Zhou wandered to Chang'an and stayed in his residence.Knowing Chang He's embarrassment, Ma Zhou leaned on the desk without thinking, and wrote more than 20 suggestions with a stroke of his pen. The diction was very beautiful.In the early morning of the next day, Chang He presented the memorial to Taizong with anxiety.

Taizong was quite shocked when he saw it. These suggestions were well-founded and well-founded.Chang He told Taizong that it was written by Ma Zhou.Taizong asked Ma Zhou what kind of person he was, and Chang He briefly introduced Ma Zhou's situation to Taizong: "Ma Zhou was from Emping, Qinghe (now Eping, Shandong). However, because of his conceited talent and outstanding learning, his personality is inevitably aloof and arrogant, so he was depressed. At first, he taught in a school in Bozhou, and was often reprimanded by local officials. In a fit of anger, he left home and traveled far away. He was impoverished and often bullied by others. He came to Chang'an through hardships and met the minister. The minister felt that he was a great scholar today, so he let him live at home."

When Li Shimin heard that there was such a genius under Chang He's family, he was very happy, and immediately wanted to meet this talent.So he ordered people to call Ma Zhou in Chang He's mansion, but he didn't expect that Ma Zhou was still very airy, and the attendant he sent came back alone.Not only was Tang Taizong not angry, but he sent people to invite Ma Zhou again. He sent envoys four times before he invited the arrogant Ma Zhou to the palace.When Tang Taizong first saw this young man with ordinary clothes but extraordinary temperament, he felt that this person was extraordinary, so he talked with Ma Zhou about the political situation and the way of governing at that time.

Ma Zhou talked eloquently, and he talked about the gains and losses of politics from ancient times to the present in great detail, which greatly surprised Li Shimin, and he sighed that he hated seeing each other so late.Immediately let Ma Zhou take up a post in the province in charge of confidentiality. Although the official position is very small, given Ma Zhou's true talents and knowledge and Li Shimin's appreciation for him, promotion is only a matter of time.

In less than a year, Ma Zhou became a supervisory censor with great power, and he was very grateful for Tang Taizong's trust when he had a place to use his skills.He felt that what he got was not only a high official and generous salary, but also an opportunity to give full play to his talents. He was like a fish in water, and made his own contribution to the development of Tang Dynasty society with what he had learned.

But gratitude is gratitude. As an official, Ma Zhou is upright and often dares to speak out.In 633 AD, Ma Zhou wrote to the emperor, criticizing Li Shimin's practice of building a palace for the overlord Li Yuan.

In 638 A.D. (the 11th year of Tang Zhenguan), Ma Zhou wrote to Li Shimin again, discussing the rise and fall of the previous dynasties, and focused on the reasons for the demise of the Sui Dynasty.He said that the main reason why the dynasties before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty existed for a short period of time (the longest was no more than five or sixty years, and the shortest was only two to thirty years) was that the monarchs of these dynasties did not know how to love the people and blindly Spend extravagantly, exploit the common people recklessly, waste the people and waste money, lose the support of the people, and the ruler is incompetent and unable to use virtuous talents, leading to the final demise.

Ma Zhou especially focused on the reasons for the demise of the Sui Dynasty. He believed that the Sui Dynasty had a solid foundation during the reign of Emperor Wen Yang Jian, and it could have been stable for a long time.However, after Emperor Yang Guang became emperor, he became corrupt and depraved, exploiting the people to a very serious extent, and finally lost the support of the people and was killed in Yangzhou.

Ma Zhou advised Li Shimin to take the fall of the Sui Dynasty as a lesson, and always keep in mind the lessons of the fall of the Sui Dynasty. He should not follow the path of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty just because the world had just settled down. From chaos to order.Through this memorial, Li Shimin saw Ma Zhou's outstanding ability in governing the country, and he used him more and more.

In 639 A.D. (the 12th year of Zhenguan), Ma Zhouqian became a member of Zhongshushe.In 649 A.D. (the 22nd year of Zhenguan), Ma Zhou became sick from overwork due to long-term work because he had been working hard for state affairs.

Before he died, he ordered his family to burn all the memorials he had given to the emperor over the past ten years, and said: "During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Guan Zhong and Yan Zi were famous for often criticizing the king's mistakes. I don't want to be such a person." After Ma Zhou's death, Tang Taizong held a high-standard state funeral for him, and specially buried Ma Zhou's body in his imperial mausoleum.

Thinking of this, Li Ke felt a little apprehensive. Ma Zhou was so talented, but he was persuaded by himself to take up the post in the Palace of the King of Han. On the surface, it seemed that Ma Zhou was working for Li Ke.Perhaps, it was just an expedient measure by Ma Zhou, he just wanted to take advantage of Li Ke's influence to go one step further to achieve his goal.

Therefore, he can't take it lightly, there are still many things to do, the next step is to deal with Ma Zhou's problem, how to make this famous official loyal to him and truly use him for his own use in the time spent with Ma Zhou in the future. It's something he has to consider.

After going through today's events in his mind, Li Ke felt that there was one more thing to pay attention to, and that was wine.In the past few days, he also tasted a lot of famous wines from Datang.Although, in Datang, this kind of wine is already one of the best.However, in Li Ke's view, this kind of wine is not good wine at all, not to mention the taste of the wine, even the alcohol content is pitifully low.No wonder there is Ma Zhou's saying of "one fight and eight liters of wine", and Li Bai's hundred poems on fighting wine.

Therefore, he tried his best to think about the formula and process of wine making in his mind, trying to come up with a recipe to make better wine.He knows the wine culture of Datang, as long as the wine is good, it is not afraid that there will be no market.There are many places for him to use his money in the future, and he can't use his power for personal gain. If he wants to earn more money, he can only make full use of the knowledge he has.

Li Ke carefully went through the wine-making knowledge he knew in his mind, and finally found a wine-making formula suitable for the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty.He immediately wrote it down on paper, and by the way listed the brewing process and some equipment.Looking at the finished wine recipe, he was full of emotion in his heart, knowledge can be used at any time, it depends on how you