I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

When Wang De told Li Shimin what Li Shen said, Li Shimin laughed and shouted happily. Li Shen's Achilles' heel is that he cares too much about money.

Li Shen was banned again, and he was banned for no apparent reason. No one knows what mistake he made.

However, after Li Shen was confined for half a month, the news was transmitted to the palace, and it was transmitted directly to Daji Hall. As soon as he entered the front hall of Daji Hall, he saw Li Shimin and Empress Changsun there.

"Aye, I don't know why I called my son here. He is currently being grounded and thinking about his mistakes behind closed doors." Li Shen was very dissatisfied with Li Shimin's inexplicable grounding fine.

"Then I'll go back and think about it later. I have something important to tell you." Li Shimin was too lazy to argue with him.

"Oh. Aye ordered."

"You are already 14 years old. You will be 15 next year. I am going to arrange a marriage for you and find a princess." Li Shimin said while drinking tea.

"Aye'er is still young. Let's wait a few more years." In this era, it is common to get married at the age of 15, but Li Shen is from later generations and does not want to get married too early.

"Shen'er, you're not young anymore. It's time to find a princess. And the princess Aye found for you is a beauty." Empress Changsun said with a smile.

"Who is it?" Li Shen asked curiously

"The legitimate daughter of Lu Shuang, a doctor in the Ministry of War, is said to be beautiful and beautiful, and her beauty was unparalleled at that time." Queen Changsun said.

Li Shen thought hard and couldn't figure out who this Lu Shuang was. He must be an unknown person, so he said, "Can you take a look at the goods first?"

"Bastard, do you think you are buying something? You want to see the goods first?" Li Shen's slip of the tongue made Li Shimin furious.

"I'm used to it. I mean, can you look at people?" Li Shen immediately changed his words.

"It's okay to look at it, but things can't be changed by parents' orders and matchmaker's words." Li Shimin said firmly to Li Shen

"Aye, isn't it settled?" Li Shen turned to look at his mother and asked

"I'm done with Lu Shuang. His wife is not engaged to anyone else. I've also gone to see her. She is indeed beautiful, talented, dignified and steady," said Concubine Wei.

"Okay, what's the use of telling me that it's already settled anyway? How old is Mr. Lu?" Li Shen had actually been mentally prepared. In this era, it was not his turn to choose the princess, so he told Wu Mei earlier that she would keep him as a concubine.

"I'm 12 years old. We'll get engaged this year and we'll get married when we turn 13 next year." Li Shen exploded as soon as Wei Guifei finished speaking.

"How old are you? Only 12 years old?" Li Shen asked with an incredulous look in his eyes.

"Isn't it normal for a woman to get married at the age of 13? What's the fuss?" Li Shimin looked down upon Li Shen.

"That's too small. Isn't there someone about the same age as me?" Li Shen cursed in his heart that he was a beast.

"Isn't he going to be 13 years old next year? I asked you to come here today just to inform you, not to ask you what you want. We must decide on the choice of the princess. As for Wu Mei in your house, you can give him a concubine." Li Shimin said seriously. said

"Aye, it's too young. It will be very dangerous to give birth. Sun Simiao said that it is best for women to have children later, otherwise it will be very dangerous and people will die." Li Shen tried his best to defend.

"Your mother also married me when she was 13 years old. Besides, if you think it's dangerous, you can wait a few more years to regenerate. When you marry Mr. Lu, you can stay in Nawu Mei.

Wu Mei is already here, and when the time comes, I can give Mr. Wu Mei one. Remember that as a member of the royal family, spreading your branches and leaves is also a contribution to the royal family. "Li Shimin could not tolerate Li Shen's refusal.

Li Shen went back with a sad face. Li Shimin's attitude was very tough, so he could only passively accept it. On the way back, Li Shen cursed himself as a beast more than once.

It turns out that Li Shen in history married such a young child as a princess. Li Shen was really a beast.

Returning to the palace, Li Shen called Wang Xuance, who had returned from Xuzhou, and asked him to find out what Lu Shuang, the doctor in the Ministry of War, was, so that Li Shimin could be so interested in him that he allowed himself to marry him.

A few days later, Wang Xuance hurried to the palace and brought a big melon to Li Shen. I originally thought that this Lu Shuang was some kind of outstanding person, but I didn't expect that he had nothing to do with him.

In the second year of Zhenguan, Empress Changsun accidentally contracted a physical illness. What Changsun thought about while he was ill was still the happiness of her husband Li Shimin.

He was already old and his appearance was fading. Although there were countless beauties in the palace, there were not many that Li Shimin could really remember, so the Changsun family began to look for outstanding women among the people for Li Shimin to enrich the harem.

The hard work paid off. After many efforts, Changsun finally found out that there was a beautiful and virtuous woman named Zheng in Chang'an City, who fit Li Shimin's aesthetic needs very well.

Zheng was the daughter of Zheng Renji, an old minister of the Sui Dynasty. She was fifteen or sixteen years old. She was "unparalleled in beauty at that time" and could be called the most beautiful woman in the Tang Dynasty. She was also talented and good at calligraphy.

Being called into the palace to serve Taizong is definitely a beautiful thing in the world. When Li Shimin heard about the beauty of such a beautiful woman, he immediately smiled and issued an edict to the Zheng family, conferring the title of "Chonghua" on Zheng family and summoning her to the palace.

After the summons for canonization was issued, it attracted the remonstrance of a courtier. That courtier was the famous Wei Zheng.

The news that Wei Zheng found out was that Zheng had already been betrothed to a scholar named Lu Shuang. Although the marriage had not been consummated yet, he had already received a betrothal gift. According to the ancient etiquette system, a married woman was considered a married woman after receiving a betrothal gift. .

If Li Shimin wanted to rape the Zheng family, he would be taking away the wife of his minister. This is obviously not what a virtuous emperor should do. So Wei Zheng directly stepped forward to prevent Li Shimin from accepting new ideas.

Li Shimin was now in a panic. After being shocked, he had no choice but to take back his orders. He quickly recalled the envoy who issued the certificate and returned the Zheng family name to her fiancé Lu Shuang.

The news that Li Shimin had broken off the engagement aroused opposition from another group of ministers. Zuo Pushe Fang Xuanling, Zhongshu Ling Wen Yanbo, Minister of Rites Wang Gui, Yushi Wei Ting and other internal and external officials reported: "Xu Shi Lu's family, without It is obvious that once the great ceremony has been carried out, it cannot be stopped." The issuance of an imperial edict to register concubines is a major event. Moreover, there is insufficient evidence for Zheng's marriage to Lu Shuang. How can it be canceled midway just because of Wei Zheng's few words?

What's even worse is that the scholar named Lu Shuang also came forward to refute the rumors, saying that he and the Zheng family were not engaged, and that the two families were just very close friends. The so-called marriage contract is just a rumor spread by outsiders.

The "suffering masters" came out to clarify, and the ministers became more energetic. They persuaded Li Shimin to take back his fate, struck while the iron was hot, and quickly brought Zheng into the palace. With such a turn of events, Li Shimin was also shaken, and Wei Zheng stepped forward to strongly resist.

The reason why the Lu family denied the engagement was not because they sincerely wanted to clarify the truth, but because of pressure and fear. As a scholar, how could he have the courage to compete with the emperor for a woman? And one thing that happened not long ago is a lesson from the past.

Wei Zheng also used it specifically to embarrass Li Shimin. He said: "The Lu family is just afraid of repeating Xin Chujian's mistakes." What is Xin Chujian's mistakes? It turns out that it has something to do with Li Shimin's father, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan.

Li Yuan had a concubine who was once the wife of Xin Chujian, the crown prince. After Li Yuan took away his wife, he fell in love with her and hated her. The unlucky Xin Chujian lived in fear all his life, fearing that he would lose his life.

After hearing this, Li Shimin reluctantly canceled the wedding, and publicly issued an edict to admit his mistake: "I heard that Zheng's daughter had been hired by someone before. On the day when the document was issued, the matter was not reviewed in detail. This is my fault. It is also the fault of the director. Those who teach "Chonghua" should stop.

In the end, Zheng married Lu Shuang and gave birth to a daughter, Li Shen's future princess Lu. Li Shimin himself couldn't marry the most beautiful woman in Zhenguan, so he let his son marry her daughter. This is also a good story.