Great Tang Southern Emperor

What's more, a serious offender like Gao Ding is still a high-ranking officer of Cheng Jianxi, who holds a lot of secrets of Cheng Jianxi. Of course, such a person will be safer if he is placed in the secret prison of Taohua Internal Guard.

"Zhen'er, you did a good job this time."

Sending off Gao Ding, Li Shimin said approvingly.

"Father has praised you, this is what son-in-law should do." Li Zhen said modestly.

"You know what the father is talking about." Li Shimin said softly: "I was young and energetic in the past, and I did things so badly that King Xi didn't even have any offspring...I'm afraid that you will also arrest Chengke this time. ...you are fine."

"Thank you, Royal Father. In fact, this is not the original intention of my son." Li Zhen was a little ashamed. He didn't keep Locke for the reason of leaving a blood for Li Jiancheng.

"No matter what your original intention is, I only need to look at the result." Li Shimin waved his hand lightly: "As a king, if everything is penny-pinching, then this king will not live long. You must be exhausted—on the contrary, delegate all affairs to the people below, and pursue the results without looking at the process, so that you will not be too tired, and you will be able to live longer."

Li Zhen bowed and said: "Yes, my son understands, thank you for your teaching."

However, Li Zhen disagreed with Li Shimin's ideas. Delegating all affairs to his subordinates can indeed make life easier, but at the same time, it is easy to cause the subordinates to use chicken feathers as arrows to cause harm to the people-this is very easy He was scolded as a fool.

Just like Song Huizong Zhao Ji, he liked beautiful stones, so he set up a flower and stone outline.

And how do the people below do it?

At that time, the "Zaozao Bureau" in Hangzhou and the "Yingfeng Bureau" in Suzhou were in command of Huashigang. They were ordered by the emperor to search for rare cultural relics in the southeast.As the Huashi fleet passed by, the local people had to provide money, grain and civil service; in some places, bridges were demolished and city walls were destroyed to allow the fleet to pass.Therefore, the people in the south of the Yangtze River are often miserable. "Song History" records the battle of Hua Shigang: "The poisonous state and county lasted for 20 years."

This is definitely not Song Huizong's original intention. He just likes to collect beautiful stones, but he never thought of harming the people.But it was because the people below distorted his meaning and handled Hua Shigang as a major military affairs, which led to public resentment.

So decentralization is fine, but there must be limited decentralization, otherwise it will easily lead to the loss of control of the executors, which will lead to catastrophe.

The reason why such a situation didn’t happen during Li Shimin’s period was that besides the cleanliness of officials, more importantly, he had very strict control over his subordinates—I did put all the rights in your hands, but you yourself have always been Under my control, as long as you dare to lose control even a little bit, then I can destroy you physically.

This is the main reason why Li Shimin dared to delegate power.

"Stop talking about this, you go down."

"Yes, Erchen retire."

Chapter 768 Leaving Chang'an

Chapter 131 Leaving Chang'an

Cars rattled, horses rustled, and the spring breeze in February was like scissors.

Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, a group of egrets go up to the blue sky.

Ah bah... Wrong, it should be the high wind howling in the autumn of August, rolling up the three-storey thatch on my house... It's not right, Li Zhen is not so miserable.

The blue sky, the yellow leaves, the waves of autumn colors, the cold smoke and emerald green on the waves.

This sentence can better describe the situation Li Zhen is facing at this time.

It was late autumn in September at this time, and Li Zhen was sitting on the bow of the boat, looking at the scenery on both sides of the Grand Canal, and the thousands of sails racing in the canal.

That's right, Li Zhen has already left Chang'an, and is now at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yellow River, preparing to return to Lingnan.

After the three grand ceremonies in August (prisoner presenting ceremony, queen conferring ceremony, and crown prince ceremony), Li Zhen is already the legal heir of the Tang Dynasty and the future heir to the throne. As long as he doesn't kill himself, If there is no accidental death, succession to the throne is a certainty.

Originally, as the crown prince, Li Zhen could not leave Chang'an. In fact, most of the people in the court were against it. Even Li Shimin and Concubine Yan were unwilling for Li Zhen to leave.After all, the crown prince has a noble status and is the future master of the country. Of course, he must be in the most protected place, otherwise he is away from home. If something goes wrong, it will be a national mourning.

In the end, it was Li Zhen who insisted, all kinds of facts and reasons, and made countless guarantees that he would never go to dangerous places. Only then did he get Li Shimin's support, and thus escaped from the prison of Chang'an. With the leap of the fish, the sky is high and the birds fly.

Fan Xueyi came out and put a cloak on Li Zhen's body: "Your Highness, it's windy outside, you'd better go in, don't get cold."

Li Zhen grabbed her little hand, put it on her heart, and said with a smile: "It's okay, but you are pregnant, so don't come out."

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I have nothing to do with me. It's still early before the child is born." Fan Xueyi happily rubbed her stomach - although it was still flat, there was no sign of swelling.

That's right, following Wu Meiniang, Fan Xueyi is also pregnant - I have to say that Li Zhen's strength, he took Fan Xueyi back after offering prisoners in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it's only the end of September, but it's only been more than a month. It was found out by the imperial physician that she was pregnant, which was amazing.

"Your Highness, the Marquis of Xiangyin County seeks to see you."

While the two were warming each other, Xiao Fuzi reported.

"Rengui is here? Let him come over quickly."

When returning to Chang'an this time, Li Zhen was not the only one who benefited, those generals who followed Li Zhen also received awards, among which Xue Rengui received the highest awards - General Yunhui (Wu Sanguan), Zuo Hujun (Xun) , Xiangyin County Marquis (jue), and General Zuo Xiaowei (general with real power).

As soon as the award was released, there was an uproar in the court. No one said anything about the title. The problem was the last General Zuo Xiaowei—this is one of the sixteen generals. Generals are usually fake Under the circumstances, the general is the real power officer of the sixteen guards.

How old is Xue Rengui?

Only 29 years old.

The 29-year-old general?

Tang Yichao really never appeared.

The government and the people are boiling, and the whole court is full of opposition, not only the government and the people are opposed, but also the army is also opposed.

Of course, the opponents in the military mainly appear in the middle and high levels-you are already at the peak of your life at the age of 29, so how can you make us old people who have been in the army for more than ten or twenty years feel embarrassed?

Until Li Zhen's words appeared-when did my Tang army reward based on seniority?

As soon as these words came out, the voice of opposition suddenly fell silent...

Indeed, in the military, the truth has always been the one with the biggest fist, and only the losers will be ranked according to their seniority.

Xue Rengui's performance in these years, everyone is in the heart.

Since he followed Li Zhen on the Turkic battlefield more than ten years ago, Jieli was captured alive in the battle of destroying Turks, Xue Yantuo and Huihe fought bravely to kill the enemy, and later he charged into battle in the battle of Tuyuhun, captured Ju Wentai alive in the battle of Gaochang, and the battle of Tubo. Three arrows set the country, the battle of Linyi raided Fuchun, accompanied Li Zhen to destroy the 40 troops in Chenla... until the final battle of Tianzhu, Xue Rengui participated in all the battles of the Tang Dynasty in the past ten years, and He must win every battle, and lead the army alone to destroy countless countries. With such military exploits, even if he is given a general of the guard, it is not a problem to be canonized as a prince.

Li Shimin only considered that he is Li Zhen's person, and it would be better to wait for Li Zhen to come in person after Li Zhen succeeds in order to confer rewards, so he suppressed his credit, but he may feel that it is not good to just suppress, so he gave him a reward. General as compensation.

In fact, not only Xue Rengui, but also the old people who followed Li Zhen, such as Fang Yiai and others, were treated in the same way. Fang Yiai, Du He and Xi Junmai, they have even been conferred the titles of founding county magistrates, proper second-rank officials—although this official has no rights.

But Fang Yiai was very happy. According to what he said, after being suppressed by Xue Rengui for more than ten years, he finally surpassed him once in rank. It was a great joy.

Li Zhen was speechless...

Except for Li Zhen's confidants, everyone else also had their own rewards. For example, Xue Wanche finally took off his title of Duke of Wu'an, and further obtained the title of Duke of Teng.But Liu Hongji and Hou Junji were already extremely human ministers, but they didn't have much promotion in official positions, and Li Shimin could only reward some money, cloth and silk.

But among all those who received the reward, there was one person who soared into the sky, from a small seventh-rank official to a full-time third-rank official.

No need to ask, this person is Wang Xuance.

Today's Wang Xuance's achievements are more brilliant than his in history. In history, he just destroyed a small country, but now Wang Xuance has single-handedly caused the huge Jieri Empire to fall apart and wiped out the Great Tang Dynasty. Tianzhu made great contributions.

This kind of great achievement, even the few people in Lingyan Pavilion have never done it, and through this contribution, Wang Xuance also showed his terrifying ability.To put it bluntly, with Wang Xuance's ability, as long as he doesn't commit suicide, within ten years, the position of Prime Minister will definitely fall to him.

So this time Wang Xuance received a lot of rewards, not only the official position changed from a small seventh-rank official of Honglu Temple to the official fourth-rank Zhongshu servant, he was awarded Ziqing Guanglu doctor, and he wore a purple gold fish bag in an unusual way. From the second rank of the founding county magistrate, it can be said that he is extremely honored and favored-you must know that even if Xue Rengui fought so many battles for Datang and made so many contributions, he was only named a founding prince, and his rank was even higher. Two grades lower than Wang Xuance.