Today can be described as both happy and sad for Xu Mingzhu.

The good thing is that the husband was given an official position, and he was able to enter the province at the age of twenty, which is already an unprecedented record.

It's just that although the official position of "Shangshu Province Metropolitan Affairs" has entered the province, it is not big, there are only six grades in terms of rank, its function is equivalent to the prime minister's deputy, and it is the deputy who runs errands.

The capital also has a function, that is, to supervise the seal, the prime minister needs to use the seal, and the capital is served with both hands, so that the prime minister can cover it happily.

It seems that this official position is really just an errand, and the task is just to run between the prime minister and the monk with the documents, but after Li Shimin gave Li Sufeng the official position, he added four more words, "Participate in political affairs".

The weight of these four words is relatively heavy, specifically, if Li Su goes to the post, the local handover of the document, Li Su can run errands for the prime minister at the same time, while opening each note to take a look, if the prime minister is a little hesitant about the disposal of a certain state affairs, then Li Su can come forward to put forward his own suggestions for the prime minister's reference, whether to adopt or not to adopt is the prime minister's business, but to be able to reasonably and legally express the handling of state affairs in Shangshu Province is a great honor in itself.

This official position is not an idle official on the periphery of power such as the supervisor of the Firearms Bureau, but has really entered the center of power, and almost every decree of the Tang Dynasty governing the world will be passed back and forth through his hands, and if Li Su can stay honest in Shangshu Province in the past few years, and his opinions are pertinent and sophisticated in dealing with some state affairs, or he will bring forth the new, then it will be more than ten years. Li Su's status will achieve a qualitative leap, from the capital to Langzhong, and then to the left and right, with the ability shown by Li Su, if he can get rid of the bad problem of laziness, wait for Fang Xuanling's eldest grandson Wuji and these important ministers to grow old. The next person to take over as prime minister of the Tang Dynasty is most likely Li Su.

This is Li Shimin's expectation of Li Su.

Since Li Su experienced the baptism of war in Xizhou and sharpened his character, Li Shimin arranged Li Su's future official path, for Li Su, Li Shimin does have high hopes, and it is precisely because of high hopes that Li Shimin will choose to send him to Xizhou to hone and boil, after life and death. has a bright future waiting for him.

Xu Mingzhu doesn't understand the hidden meaning behind the official position, she is a very simple person, she simply thinks that her husband is a big man when he enters Shangshu Province as an official, a very, very big person, and even the logic is very simple, because Shangshu Province is to help His Majesty the Emperor govern the world, so the husband is to govern the world.

However, it was accompanied by the happy event of the official seal. What followed was the bad news that her husband was about to go to prison, and her husband was completely involved in prison. The husband opened his hand and helped her block the disaster, and Xu Mingzhu felt that she was not only useless, but also caused trouble for her husband.

At the beginning, she traveled back and forth through the desert for her husband, the wind and sand outside the plug, and the hardships of the road. The sinister nature of the sword soldiers, these have honed her character, and after returning to Chang'an, Xu Mingzhu is obviously much more confident than when she first married into the Li family, and her character has more tenacity. Persistent, unyielding things, these things can't be touched or touched, but they are really dormant in her blood, living and coexisting with her, these days, she often tells herself that she can finally be barely worthy of her husband.

But today, when Li Shimin's punishment came, Xu Mingzhu was dejected to find that she was still the weak person who was useless and could only cause trouble to her husband, and always needed her husband to protect her.

"Concubine...... After all, I can't help my husband. Xu Mingzhu lowered her head, and tears fell silently down her cheeks: "Husband, the concubine really wants to help you, but the concubine really doesn't know what to do to help you, the concubine thinks it's right, but after doing it, she still causes trouble for the husband, what should the concubine do......"

The carriage swayed, the team was very quiet, so quiet that only Xu Mingzhu's low sobbing could be heard, the hundred veterans in front of and behind the carriage could hear clearly, Fang Lao Wu walked in front of the carriage, pursed his lips, and then waved his hand, and the veterans were very tacitly away from the carriage. The family affairs of the main family, everyone is very interesting and does not disturb.

Li Su heard the deep self-blame and inferiority in Xu Mingzhu's tone, sighed secretly, and said with a smile: "Madame's presumptuous is not right, do you know what Your Majesty said to me in Qujiang Garden today?" ”

Xu Mingzhu was depressed and shook her head with tears.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Li Su smiled to herself: "Your Majesty said, I am so blessed in my life, I married a good girl who is affectionate and righteous, and will never give up, and I have a good wife in my family, and the day when the Li family will prosper is not far away." ”

Xu Mingzhu still hung her head, and there were still crystal tears hanging on her long eyelashes, and her eyelashes trembled slightly, and the tears fell down.

"If Your Majesty really praises me, how can he punish you to prison?" Xu Mingzhu said sullenly.

Li Su sighed: "You and I are husband and wife, how could I lie to you? Your Majesty did say so, when we returned to Chang'an three months ago, Your Majesty promoted you to the title of Marquis of our county, and at the same time promoted you to the Lady of the Five Grades, Xizhou was held by me and my brothers in bloody battles, do you think Your Majesty promoted you to the rank of Destiny for no reason? ”

Xu Mingzhu quietly raised his head at this time, obviously listening carefully.

Li Su continued: "...... Because Xizhou can hold, not only me and my brothers will go to the rescue, but more importantly, your credit, if you don't have you to travel thousands of miles to ask for help, Xizhou can't hold it at all by relying on our thousands of remnants, Your Majesty's reward will is your affection for me, as well as the hard work of traveling thousands of miles back and forth through the desert, madam, you ...... More important than you think. ”

Xu Mingzhu's tears stopped, and her apricot eyes gradually bloomed with light, like a spring breeze thawing, peach and plum contending, and the whole person seemed to be suddenly injected with a vitality of life.

Li Su hit the railway while it was hot: "...... As for His Majesty's punishment of me in prison, it is because of the law of the country, not because you caused trouble, Madame might as well think like this, if you don't hold the Yumen guards hostage, what awaits me may be the sword and neck of the head of Xizhou City, and you and I can only see each other under Jiuquan, although Madame's move is not tolerated by national law, but it saved my life. In exchange, the price is just ten days in prison, if time goes back to the beginning, before Mrs. hijacked the Yumen guards, what would you choose? Did you obey the laws of the country and kill me, or did you save me from fire and water as you intended? ”

Xu Mingzhu blurted out without thinking: "The concubine body will still hold General Tian hostage!" ”

Li Su smiled: "Look, that's it." Is Madame enlightened? Since I have no regrets about the original choice, then I should be more fearless of today's result and squat in prison for ten days in exchange for my life, is it worth it? ”

Xu Mingzhu still had tears on her eyelashes, but she also smiled: "It's worth it!" Husband, the concubine didn't do anything wrong. ”

"Not only did you do nothing wrong, but you also saved my life, because of you, our Li family did not break the incense. If you hadn't held the Yumen guards hostage, that would have really hurt me. ”

Xu Mingzhu nodded vigorously.

After being silent for a long time, Xu Mingzhu suddenly lowered his head and said softly: "The husband just said that the concubine is ...... Really heavy or? ”

Li Su smiled: "Yes, you are very important, to me, to the Li family, very important." In the future, you can no longer be presumptuous, the Li family's royal seal is the order of the lady. Everywhere you go should be dignified, majestic, people dare not look up, today you are the hostess of the garden party, and those powerful families come and go generously, courtesy and thoughtful. I also did a good job, and I will live as I am today. ”

Xu Mingzhu smiled shyly, and suddenly felt that the whole person suddenly brightened, and the confidence that had just disappeared quietly returned to his body and merged into his blood.

In fact. Li Su said so much, and the only thing she really listened to was the sentence "You are very important".

In his heart, "you are very important", this is enough, whether it is "the death of a confidant" or "the appearance of a woman who pleases herself", after devoting himself to it, what he wants to hear is nothing more than this sentence.

She lives only for him.

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The prince was drunk, and the matter of scolding Zhining and Zhang Xuansu finally spread irrepressibly.

This incident happened in front of everyone in the East Palace, and it was impossible to hide it. The next day, the court suddenly exploded.

This is a big thing, and it is a big crime, to say small, the prince lost his morality and mourned, the dignified prince was obsessed with the clothing and customs of the enemies of the Tang Dynasty, and he also did the absurd thing of pretending to be dead to hold a funeral, it is simply absurd and frivolous, to the big one, the prince cane is responsible for admonishing the loyal ministers, and the two celebrities today are dying, which is a vicious event that has never been heard of since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, from Emperor Gaozu to His Majesty today, the national policy that has always been upheld is to open up the way of speech, and the news is heard, the two generations of emperors have always listened humbly to the ministers who admonish, whether they accept the advice or not, the attitude must be correct, the etiquette will never be sloppy, the monarch is so virtuous, so the famous minister Wei Zheng in history will now be mixed in the court, jumping up and down, Li Shimin has wanted to cut the old man with a thousand knives countless times, and finally had to accompany the smiling face and treat the countryman, because the emperor connived at the ministers, So much so that Wei Zheng, the old man, intensified his admonition, up to the national policy and the outline, down to trivialities, but whenever what he saw and thought made him unhappy, he gave advice, never caring what Li Shimin felt, he liked Li Shimin and hated him so much that he hated him but he looked helpless, very perverted psychology, playing with a heartbeat.

In today's environment where the soil for the ministers to live is so fertile, the current prince reprimands the ministers with a rod, and even puts the two to death, which is simply angry and resentful, and people and gods are angry, this ...... I can't bear it.

So, Wei Zheng, the servant of Shangshu Province, jumped out first, and he was angry.

Advice is Wei Zheng's old business, and he does it very professionally, it can be described as a columbarium-level old player who challenges the limit of survival, this kind of player is good at making a face, pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth, and seeing that his peers are planted, so the old player is angry, everyone plays well according to the rules of the game, but suddenly the rules of the game are changed, this sign is not right, it must be strangled in the cradle, besides, now it is not your turn to change the rules of the game, you don't have that strength!

So Wei Zheng jumped out, and the court was in tears, and he was scolded and written, saying that the prince was unkind, violent and unreasonable, and the future of the Tang Dynasty was worried.

In the end, it is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and it is an old player who plays extreme sports, and it is extremely professional to coax the seedlings, Wei Zheng raised this matter to a political level as soon as he opened his mouth, and it was directly related to the future society of Datang, and it was involved in the society of the country. Immediately hit Li Shimin's ...... directly That's something.

The atmosphere of the court meeting was very solemn that day, from Wei Zheng to a cadre of ministers came out to accuse the prince of his unjust and unkind mistakes, the eldest grandson Wuji looked solemn, silent, and a veteran showed anger on his face, and was silent. As for Li Shimin, who was sitting high on the dragon chair, his face was gloomy from beginning to end, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The more Wei Zheng said, the more serious it became, not only that, but some of the old accounts of the prince's words and deeds in the past few years were also turned over by him, and he counted down for an hour. asked Li Shimin to severely punish the crown prince and not set a precedent for punishing the ministers, otherwise the country would not be a country......

The words are said clearly, and those who have a heart can hear it without pondering, Wei Zheng seems to have the intention of advising Yi Chu.

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, the corners of his mouth foamed at the corner of his mouth and returned to the court class satisfied, but Li Shimin's face became even more gloomy.

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"It's a mess!"

Under the ginkgo tree at the entrance of Taiping Village, Wang danced with his hands. The eyebrows flew and danced, telling Li Su the scene of today's Chang'an court.

“…… Scattered towards the court. Several old generals returned to their homes and immediately ordered the door to be closed, and no one was seen, and the civil officials such as the eldest grandson Wuji and Kong Yingda were the same, as if a plague had suddenly spread in Chang'an City, and the ministers' mansions were gone. Within two hours of the dispersal of the dynasty, there was movement in the Wei Wangfu, tsk, jumping up and down, and Li Tai, the king of Wei, personally sat in a carriage to visit the elders of civil and military officials. As a result, after eating closed doors everywhere and touching an unknown number of nose ashes, King Wei hurried into the Taiji Palace, and was courteous in front of his father, pretending to be a filial son, as for the East Palace, there has been no news until now, I don't know what the situation of the prince is now......"

Wang Zhi said, smiling maliciously, and laughing very happily.

The ground was too dirty, and the stones were also dirty, so Li Su had to squat under the ginkgo tree, his legs were a little numb, he stood up and kicked his legs, moved a little, and then glanced at Wang Zhi.

"Just talk well, you don't have to use expressions to set off the atmosphere, let me ask you, your aunt next door gave birth to a big fat baby, are you happy?"

Wang Zhi was stunned: "Why am I happy?" I didn't do it......"

"So, what are you so happy to do in the court? Originally, the appearance was not welcome, the flies flew on your face, and now there is an eyebrow flying dance, tsk! Li Su showed an extremely disgusted expression: "...... You're freaking out the baby. ”

Wang Zhi: "............"

My heart hurts, I feel like I've been hit by an arrow......

Ignoring Wang Zhi's gloomy sadness, Li Su touched his chin that was a little prickly, and muttered with a smile: "I didn't expect that Xiangxin actually did this, hehe, it's a little interesting, this guy is born with a beautiful appearance, and he is still a talent......"

Wang Zhi belonged to the type of person who had no heart and no lungs in front of Li Su, and after a short period of sadness, he immediately recovered his mood and continued to dance with his eyebrows: "You said that you secretly cheated the prince this time, the prince should be replaced, right?" Although I don't understand the government, I heard that the ministers take the matter of scolding the ministers very seriously, and Wei Zheng's old man almost didn't scold the street in the Taiji Hall today, and even the prince's own uncle, the eldest grandson Wuji, was not embarrassed to come out to help his nephew speak......

Li Su shook his head and sighed: "The prince is the foundation of the country, it is related to the society, it is not so easy to shake, this matter can only be regarded as drilling an ant hole in the thousand-mile embankment, if you really want to pull the prince down, there is still a long way to go......"

Wang Zhi said disappointedly: "This can't defeat him, what's the use of us using this trick?" At most, the satisfaction can only go so far, and if it goes too far, I am afraid that the prince will detect it, and then we will be pulled out by the vine and the melon......"

Li Su kicked him and said angrily: "You are the melon, you are the melon!" Who said this trick didn't work? It's just that its usefulness won't be put on the surface for you to see, do you think I'm full of food to make this happen? ”

"Where's the use?"

Li Su looked around left and right, his voice was very low, and he said slowly: "This matter is just a reason, you know?" The purpose is to expose the prince's truest temperament to the public, and then it is up to others to judge whether the prince is suitable to be the emperor of the next generation...... I planted 'hesitation' in the hearts of the monarch and the prince, and 'resentment' in the hearts of the princes, and that's enough......"

"It's so profound, but ......" Wang Zhi's expression gradually changed from dazed to worshipful, and the two little mung bean eyes shone brightly: "...... That's amazing! ”

I don't know where this obsessive worship comes from?

Li Su sighed and squatted on the ground boredly watching the ants under the roots of the tree move.

This time, it was he who took the initiative to take action.

Li Su and the prince actually can't say that they have a deep hatred, at most it is just a little friction in the past, but Li Su knows that Li Chengqian's heart is not big, and the consequences of being remembered by this kind of person are very serious.

Time is always the best catalyst for events, some things may disappear after the washing of time, and some things will be infinitely magnified due to the passage of time, magnified to the extent of death.

Therefore, the world is like this, unconsciously, just because of a little friction at the beginning, Li Su and the prince formed an endless situation, in order to survive, Li Su had no choice.

With a thousand things in his head, Li Su had a little headache when he thought about it.

There was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves at the entrance of the village, Li Su looked up, but saw that in the billowing smoke and dust, a horse galloped over, and more than ten zhang away seemed to see Li Su, and hurriedly stopped the horse.

The person who came was wearing a cyan errand uniform, with a cautious smile on his face, especially the closer he got to Li Su, the more careful his expression became......

"Master Hou, the villain is polite." The visitor stopped a foot away and saluted.

"What for?" Li Su squatted on the ground and bared his teeth, his tone was very bad, and his expression revealed a fierceness that was not tied to the reins around his neck.

The people who came became more and more like walking on thin ice, trembling and laughing: "The villain is an errand of Dali Temple...... Well, this morning the palace province sent His Majesty's will, saying that Hou Ye would go to Dali Temple to confess, and Sun Zhengqing didn't see Hou Ye's people until noon, so ...... Send a villain to ask Lord Hou ......"

Before he finished speaking, he paused, and the messenger looked at Li Su silently, his eyes were very condemning, and he said Okay, what about the guilt? Prisoners should also be honest...... (To be continued.) )