Don't be a prince

"Uncle is grand. As for the contract of the members, my nephew will send someone to your house someday."

Changsun Wuji agreed, drank the tea in the cup, got up and said goodbye.

Merchants may use contracts, but for superiors, one sentence is enough. The more superior they are, the more they care about their reputation.

After seeing off Changsun Wuji, Li Chengqian waved his hand excitedly.

Eighty thousand coins in hand!

In fact, the money is the same even if it is given slowly, but there is no need for the Ministry of Internal Affairs Wei Wangfu and Zhao Guogong to invest like pepper noodles.Only Li Ke, a poor ghost, would choose "instalment".

Once you have money, you can prepare.Except for cement, other things can generally be bought locally in Lingnan. Although transporting cement from Chang'an to Lingnan is really silly, but in the face of the regulations of the country, it can only be so.

Damn Qiu Haiqing, you kid hasn't graduated yet, Gu has prepared such a big platform for you, if you don't work hard, it really can't be justified.

As for the handling of the money, Li Chengqian would not be so stupid as to go directly to the ship to transport the money.Nowadays, there is a lack of communication between the north and the south, and the difficulty of the road is the biggest problem.It is also because of this that the goods from the north and the south are nothing in the local area, but if the north and the south are reversed, they become precious.

Transporting a pile of gold, silver and copper to Lingnan, how can it be easy to transport a boatload of goods?In Lingnan, even if you barter, it will be a bloody profit.

"Go home and tidy up. If you feel lonely, bring your wife and children with you. Your father recommended you to Gu. Gu was unwilling to use you. After all, it is hard for you to accept that you are all working for Gu. But, Considering your ability, Gu is still willing to give you this opportunity. As long as you can handle the affairs of the seaport properly, not to mention Gu will reward you, Zhao Guogong's mansion, the two princes, and even the emperor will look at you highly!"

Li Dahai's youngest son is also an intern now, and it is his third son Li Yongshu who came to the East Palace to report today.

Li Yongshu opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Your Highness, don't say such a thing. As early as when the Li family was full of glory, you gave everything to the Li family. As long as you have a life, the whole family of the Li family will not even raise their eyebrows when they die." Although Lingnan is rumored to be a land of smog, there are many people going south, and no one is like the grassroots to make meritorious deeds."

Li Chengqian walked up to Li Yongshu, reached out and patted his shoulder.It’s good to be able to accept it. If you go to Lingnan with a tragic mood, God knows what this person will build the harbor into.

Taking out the plan and handing it to Li Yongshu, Li Chengqian warned: "If the local family dares to obstruct for no reason, there is no need to be timid, just come to the door to ask the crime. Although you are in charge of the harbor construction, the opinions of the Feng family still need to be treated. Listen to it. This plan is only a rough guide, you don’t have to follow its appearance and speed completely, and it’s up to you to decide how to choose.”

Li Yongshu nodded, and walked out of the East Palace after bowing and saluting.

Going to Lingnan this time is destined to be a difficult journey and years of hard work, but these are nothing.With hundreds of thousands of money on his shoulders, the pressure is great, but he also has enough motivation, and the trust from His Royal Highness is enough.

He walked to the door of the study and watched Li Yongshu off, knowing that he had left completely, he turned and went back to the room.

Forcibly throwing a heavy burden on others still made him very uncomfortable, and he didn't know how the emperor completed those appointments, let alone how he forced others to agree.

"Old Zhang, go tell the kitchen, let's eat shabu-shabu tonight. Eating hot pot in summer is the same as eating cold dishes in winter. It has a different feeling. I always eat cold noodles and mixed vegetables, and now my hiccups are all alike. Noodles."

After sending Zhang Yun away, Li Chengqian looked at Fang Sheng.

"Your Highness, there is news from the palace that His Majesty ordered all the things to be prepared for the trip. It is estimated that he wants to go on a tour."

Hearing this news, Li Chengqian was not surprised. Two days ago, the emperor used the excuse of being ill, stopped the morning court and ordered all the memorials to be sent to the East Palace for his own decision.

Menxia Province did not return one of the three-day memorials, which made many courtiers recognize the crown prince's ability.

Chapter 252 The Emperor Travels

Under normal circumstances, there will be no big mistakes, being recognized by others, even the emperor may not be able to cover everything, how can the prince be foolproof?

Li Shimin thinks this is very good, so that he can hand over Chang'an to the prince for a period of time, so that he can take a trip that is good for his physical and mental health.Although this trip was not too far away, even though he didn't even go out of Guanzhong, it was really rare for Li Shimin who was able to reminisce for a long time when he was out of the palace for six years.

On a tour of Qizhou, I stopped by to check whether the location of the first cement road built by the Ministry of Industry is suitable or not. This is Li Shimin's excuse for this trip.

In addition to building a concrete road between Chang'an and Luoyang, the Ministry of Industry also needs to build a road from Chang'an to Longyou.The shape of Longyou Dao is more like an arm protruding from a safe lair. With the Eastern Turks already destroyed, there is a policeman in Longyou, which is no different from Jieli rushing into Gaoling.

But even if this road is considered an important traffic route, the heart of a minister in the emperor's engineering department is a typical example of not doing business properly. Even the low-level officials cannot be fooled by the seemingly perfect excuse.

Wei Zheng had protested, but now he was thinking about his mistakes behind closed doors at home, but Dai Zhou was forced to re-examine the files of Dali Temple to ensure that there were no wrongful cases since the first year of Wude.This time, the emperor was determined to go out and have fun.

Wei Zheng and Dai Zhou didn't want to quarrel with the emperor because of such a trivial matter, so they could only see it out of sight, while the other courtiers applauded.In their view, it is already very good that the emperor can find a decent excuse for his willfulness.

It wasn't the beginning of the month, but the Great Court Meeting was held.At the court meeting, Li Shimin made arrangements for all the courtiers clearly this time.

Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong led the left Wuwei and the right Wuwei to accompany them. Only his "iron buddy" eldest Sun Wuji, the ministers of the Ministry of War Du Ruhui and Li Daliang who were indispensable for the research and judgment of the route were accompanied by the six ministers, and the minister of the Ministry of Rites, Lu Kuan, who should follow the most, was not there this column.

As for Zhongshuling Laofang, he was left to assist, the prince, and supervise the country.

"Wei Chen accepts the order."

Accompanied by Fang Xuanling's words, Li Chengqian knew that he had now been upgraded from the crown prince to the "prince supervisor".

"All the lovers can retreat to court, gather at Suzaku Street at tomorrow's hour."

After saying this, Li Shimin announced his retirement with satisfaction.

This time Li Chengqian didn't go back to the East Palace? Instead, he followed the emperor's father into the harem.

At the door of Liangyi, the emperor's father was indeed waiting for him.

Hurry up a few steps forward? Li Chengqian cupped his hands and said: "Father? The ministers in the court did not dare to say that you put the responsibility of supervising the country on the ministers? Isn't it too hasty?"

Li Shimin said as he walked: "Sloppy? If it was the beginning of the year, someone would definitely accuse me of being sloppy? But when I told Fang Xuanling and the others about this? They all insisted that there is no problem at all. Boy, Wei Zheng and others are in your East Palace Dealing with government affairs is not what I ordered, the reason why they disregarded the violations and put the office in the East Palace? It is to teach you better."

Speaking of this, it turned into a wry smile: "But what's the result? Fang Xuanling wrote three memorials about the disposal of grassland tribes, and you added a dozen more after reading it. I couldn't help but read it." Fantastic, Wei Zheng took this chapter as a model and circulated it in the imperial city? It made Fang Xuanling unable to come to Taiwan. It is a good thing to show your sharpness, but it is easy for a smart person to be mistaken by cleverness? We all know that you, the prince, are smart, but you are smart It would be too much to check and make up for Fang Xuanling's deficiencies."

Speaking of the memorial? Li Chengqian became angry: "Father, did you think Fang Xiang did it on purpose afterwards? The arrangement for the grassland? Such an important memorial? Why would such a smart person as Fang Xiang only write innocuous things?" Three? As for appearing on Erchen's desk, it's too coincidental! After this incident, people will definitely not blame Fang Xuanling for any mistakes in some memorials in the future, but will involuntarily take a look first , Did this memorial pass through the hands of the minister! They would only blame the prime minister if it had not passed through the hands of the minister."

Li Shimin laughed loudly: "Look, this is a real smart person. Last time you were tricked by Fang Xuanling and the others, didn't you fall into the trap involuntarily this time? I told you not to act too smart, otherwise it will be easy Knowing how to take the blame, just don't listen to advice, a typical teenager's mind."

Seeing the emperor's father laughing and shaking his head, Li Chengqian didn't know what to say.

In his opinion, it is simply unforgivable to tempt another person with state affairs, or to deceive another person.But in the hands of Fang Xuanling and others, it might not be so.Perhaps, this is the difference between his petite mentality and a politician's mentality.

Unknowingly, I have reached the Ganlu Hall, and when I walked into the gate of the hall, Li Shimin continued: "This time, when I go out, I leave you to supervise the country. In fact, it is a test of your ability. With Fang Xuanling here, you will do things that will harm the country and the people." If you don’t come out, no matter what you do wrong, the mistakes will fall on me. So, you can rest assured to supervise the country boldly, and listen to the opinions of Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others in government affairs, there is no harm.”

He spoke boldly, as if he was willing to take the blame for this trip because of his son.

Looking around, this was the first time he had come to Ganlu Hall.

The emperor's bedroom, in fact, was like this, not much different from other halls, even the dragon bed used to rest was worn out.

At this time, Li Shimin rarely engaged in formalism, as long as he said that the palace should save money, he would definitely save money.

"What are you staring at? Did you hear what I asked you?"

His neck was twitched, and Li Chengqian came back to his senses, and quickly looked at the emperor's father honestly: "What did the father ask just now?"

Li Shimin managed to resist his dragon claws: "I ask you, why did you have to involve Li Ke in the matter of Lingnan? You shouldn't be ignorant of his existence, and he still threatens you!"

"Father, although Li Ke and Erchen are not siblings of the same mother, they are also Erchen's younger brother. This kind of venture capital investment waiting to make a lot of money should not be left behind him. As for those speculations about Li Ke, Erchen I don't want to talk to you at all. Whenever you run out of energy, the bones of those people will melt. Unreasonable suspicion will destroy the relationship between brothers, and you should be very clear about this."

Seeing the prince's serious face, Li Shimin still had no face to say some things.

Even if King Xi didn't suspect him so much, I'm afraid he would eventually overthrow him and replace him.It's just that it won't hurt his life when the time comes.

He felt a little irritable when he thought about the past, he had obviously forgotten it as much as possible, but when he mentioned it casually, all those things would forcefully come to his mind.

Seeing that the emperor's father waved his hand, Li Chengqian could only stand up and leave.

It was really not what he wanted to evoke the emperor's father's worst memories in one sentence.

After leaving Ganlu Hall, he went to Liangyi Hall to visit his eldest grandson.Originally he thought so, but the two eunuchs walking out from the corner forced him to turn around and enter the rockery on one side.When Fang Sheng changed from Zhang Yun to follow him today, he knew that the Alliance of the Lowly Ones might have something to do with him.

A few years have passed, and Wang Sheng still looks old. He no longer has to worry about the future when he is in his position as an eunuch.If the emperor had some impressions when he died in office, he might add a "rich burial".

After entering the rockery and avoiding the sight of outsiders, Wang Sheng knelt down on the ground: "It's the fault of this old slave that I haven't greeted His Highness for many years!"

Li Chengqian sat down on a rock and said: "For the sake of secrecy, this is also an unacceptable thing. You stopped Gu today, which is really unexpected. There shouldn't be any problems with the placement of those eunuchs who are out of the palace. Besides, what else do you have to look for? "

Wang Sheng didn't get up, but lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness, now His Majesty wants to go out for a tour of the palace. You want to supervise the country. It is easy for some bad things to happen. That's why the old slave showed up here today. From now on, anyone in the palace If there is any change, the old slave will send someone to deliver a letter to you, as long as there are no problems during this period, your position as the crown prince will be more stable!"

I thought it was something, but it turned out to be this.

Li Chengqian said helplessly: "You think too much. Although the father is traveling, he will definitely leave more than one back-up man in Chang'an. We don't need to worry about it at all. Besides, don't think that your existence is so hidden. If Baiqisi doesn't Knowing your existence is a strange thing. In the future, when doing things, restrain yourself and don't get involved in these things too much. Once your existence threatens, you will be eliminated by the emperor immediately. When the time comes, you will let Is it pure if you don't see it with a single eye, or is it because of you and the emperor?",

Wang Sheng immediately became embarrassed.

Standing up and patting Wang Sheng on the shoulder, Li Chengqian said: "Live your life well. Those who have left the palace, as long as they have a way to survive, they can't ask for more. It's not that I look down on you alone. What's going on with Gao, I don't need to tell you alone, you know it too. Keeping yourself safe is the way to survive, don't reveal the slightest idea about power, otherwise, when the time comes, you will be severely punished as a group !"

Wang Sheng knew who Zhao Gao was. He could only nod repeatedly when he saw the prince's stern words.

Seeing that he had frightened them, Li Chengqian turned and left.

In almost every dynasty, there will be one or two powerful eunuchs. As people in the palace and without descendants, they will often gain the trust of the emperor.But I don't know if the history books can be vilified or it is true. The eunuchs who have gained power seem to have really done nothing serious.

Poor and hateful are always interlinked, and Li Chengqian doesn't want these poor people under him to become hateful.

Unlike the clean Ganlu Hall, Liangyi Hall is busy.The emperor wanted to travel, and he had to take the queen with him, so all the affairs basically fell on the head of the eldest grandson.

But the eldest grandson is worthy of being an empress of the Ming Dynasty, the only ones who are busy are the court ladies and eunuchs, she sits; in addition to giving orders from time to time in the Liangyi Hall, she is still in the mood to gossip about her son and daughter-in-law.

"After all, you are enlightened. When I went to the Su family to see the daughter of the Su family, I saw the letter you wrote. As a result, the girl went into the house in shame, and I couldn't call out again. This is also very good. Although the rules are broken, it may guarantee that you will have a harmonious and happy marriage. If such actions are not too shocking, I would like to implement them as a queen."

The eldest grandson's mother is all over the world, such things are indeed within the scope of her jurisdiction.But what kind of bad fun is it to make fun of your son with your daughter-in-law?

"The queen mother is very right. I don't know if you have untied her? This silly girl, when she heard that the Wang family intends to marry the royal family, she felt that the son was going to abandon her. Listening to Changle, her eyes were crying like peaches. .”

After several times, Li Chengqian's face became thicker.Isn't falling in love before marriage a little bit ahead of schedule? Many people are envious and still can't come!

"Of course I enlightened her, but Cheng Qian, Su Yuan is a kind-hearted girl. Although this is a good thing, as a queen, you still have to learn to be strict. Blindly loose, you can't manage a harmonious harem environment."

"Okay, erchen understands. You should be busy. I have to go back to the East Palace to deal with some matters. I will come to see you off tomorrow morning."

He took out two sachets from his bosom, stuffed them into each of Yuzhang and Changle, and gave a bag of beef jerky to Li Zhi, the glutton, before Li Chengqian left.

The eldest grandson's children are usually brought up by her personally and raised from childhood to adulthood.This "ordinary" is 100% destroyed in him. He was only eight years old, but he had to be separated from his eldest grandson.

But such an arrangement is good, at least his secret will not be easily exposed.

Talking in his sleep is his biggest vice, but fortunately Zhang Yun and others don't understand words like "Little Electric Donkey", "Ten Yuan Steamed Vegetable Restaurant", "The battery is dead" and so on, they just treat it as nonsense.

The afternoon was still Fang Xuanling's teaching time. Although he was in charge of the country this time, it was Fang Xuanling who made the most decisions.The seal of the Chuanguo Yuxi was kept by the emperor and was not shown to anyone, so only the seals of the prince and Zhongshu could be added to the imperial memorials during this period.

After having dinner in the East Palace, Fang Xuanling walked home with a smooth pace.

After sending Fang Xuanling away, lying on the bed in the East Palace, Li Chengqian couldn't help but fantasize about what it would be like if he also talked in his sleep on the bed of the future concubine?

She shyly looked at the slightly raised quilt, punched herself, and then started counting sheep to sleep.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Li Chengqian woke up amidst the loud noises.

There is no way not to wake up, although the Lizheng Hall is in the center of the East Palace, but people outside shouting and yelling together still disturb people's dreams.

After getting dressed, he got up and saw Yu Tai just as he walked out of the palace gate.

Yu Tai saluted and said: "Your Highness, there are a large number of Zuo Wuwei soldiers and horses hoarded outside the gate of the East Palace. The noisy sergeants have been taught by the subordinates, but the neighing of the war horses cannot be controlled."

"It's okay, we'll open the way ahead, I'm going to send my father and queen mother off alone."

He only took the emperor with him when he went out. This time, he did not intend to travel casually at all. Although local etiquette such as loess padding roads and local officials paying tribute were exempted, he did not intend to compromise on the scale of travel.

The imperial chariot that the emperor travels on is also decorated with gold. Although many places are only gold leaf, the price of this car is also very appalling.There are a total of 30 personal guards with broadswords, bows and arrows, and tail guns.But the weapons these men hold are more decorative than practical.There is one person holding a crank and a yellow cover in front of each hall holding a lotus halberd, and four people holding a clean whip.Between the canopies, besides the ten guard horses, there are thousands of guards on horseback.

Not counting the accompanying officials and the army, the internal team under the protection of the army alone was close to 2000 people.

In addition, the emperor traveled with 54 canopies and 72 holding fans...

No cuts at all.

Seeing the team parked in front of the palace gate, Li Chengqian suddenly thought of a word: "trench"!

In fact, the emperor is not much different from the nouveau riche, and he is not going to Yangzhou, but just visiting Qizhou, staying for two days, and pretending to be close to the people.

"His Royal Highness also thinks that His Majesty has made a fuss out of a molehill?"

"No, absolutely not. According to the rules of etiquette, such a battle is necessary for the emperor to be [-] miles away from the capital. Now it is more than [-] miles to Qizhou."

Surprisingly, Wei Zheng, who was supposed to be at home contemplating his mistakes behind closed doors, turned up here today in ordinary clothes, and he won't accompany him.When the emperor wants to travel and relax, he doesn't want an annoying ghost by his side.

"Hehe, the son doesn't say anything about the father's mistakes, the old man understands."

"You understand what a fart!"

Li Chengqian really wanted to say that, but he could only yell in his heart.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand the behavior of the emperor. As the emperor, in this era without TV networks, what is the difference between not showing yourself to the people and low-level officials, and walking at night in Jinyi?Hiding in the palace, what kind of emperor is he? Only when he stands in front of many people and enjoys the sound of roaring mountains and tsunami can he clearly know his status.

"Why didn't Dr. Wei accompany you? Gu heard that you were reprimanded by the emperor, but he didn't refute at all."

Wei Zheng chuckled: "This time it's just Qizhou. Not to mention Your Majesty, the heat has been unbearable recently, and the officials of the court are suffering in the official office. It's okay to go out to relax. But next time, if Your Majesty wants to make further progress, I will definitely not Will agree!"

After speaking, seeing the emperor's sedan chair coming out of the palace from a distance, Wei Zheng apologized and left in despair.He shut the door and thought about it until tomorrow, and the emperor deliberately chose to leave before releasing him.

After patting his face, Li Chengqian could only go up to meet him.

With one foot on the ground, Li Shimin saw Li Chengqian walking towards him, pointed to Li Jian and said, "I leave Li Jian to you, if there is anything that can't be dealt with, I will send Hong Ling to send a letter urgently." If you are anxious, let him deal with it. Unless necessary, don't disturb my Ya...don't disturb my inspection of the village!"

Chapter 253 Lu Dongzan