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Chapter 1: Li Yuan's scruples

Although Chen Ying resigned as the duke of the champion county, the more humble Chen Ying retired, the more Li Yuan could not take advantage of the slope to step down, after all, the Tang Dynasty still wanted to have face, and it was impossible to thin Chen Ying, a hero.

In fact, Li Yuan also had a headache for Chen Ying's reward. With Chen Ying's merits, it is not enough for the official to be promoted by one level, and it is reasonable to increase the reward by one level, the key is that Chen Ying's age is too young.

Originally, Chen Ying, as the governor of Lingzhou and the military of the six states, already belonged to the third-rank lower-level officials at the level of the governor of the Chinese army, and then rose to at least the third rank, and the third-grade official was already at the ministry level, which ministerial-level official in the entire imperial court did not live for most of his life to survive to this position?

If Chen Ying is allowed to be in the same palace as these people who are enough to be Chen Ying's grandfather, and Chen Ying's official position will come from behind, how will these old ministers feel?

Li Yuan just began to issue an edict to knight the champion county duke, just to try whether Chen Ying knew the general situation or not, and whether he understood advance and retreat. If Chen Ying didn't know how to advance and retreat, then he would repeat the mistakes of his grandfather, Hou Mo Chen Chong.

However, Li Yuan was very satisfied with this temptation, and Chen Ying also knew how to advance and retreat, and knew the general situation. Li Yuan said: "I rule the world with literature, fight chaos with force, and have the merit of Dingding the chaos in Hedong, praise and virtue, reward its wealth, no reward, how can I show my fairness?" ”

Chen Ying said: "It's not my intention to seal the marquis, but I wish the four seas to be peaceful." ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he was stunned for a moment as if he had been struck by thunder.

"It's not my intention to be a marquis, but I wish the four seas to be peaceful." This was inadvertently written by the famous national hero Qi Jiguang when he was nineteen years old when he was studying military books, but Chen Ying temporarily changed three words for him, changing Hai Boping to Sihai Jing.

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.

Indifference to fame and fortune is the noble pursuit of ancient people and gentlemen, but in fact, no one has really done this. But Chen Ying did it, he refused the title of Li Yuan's champion county duke, and when Chen Ying said this, his image instantly became as tall as a giant in the hearts of the ministers.

Li Yuan looked at the ministers with his eyes, lowered his voice and whispered in Chen Ying's ear: "What do you want?" ”

Chen Ying took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Please Your Majesty give Princess Pingyang to Chen Ying as his wife!" ”

When Li Yuan heard this, his face was not shocked. However, Li Yuan's gaze became sharp, stabbing at Chen Ying's eyes like a knife.

"Don't think about it, this is absolutely impossible!" Li Yuan had a smile on his face, and a suppressed voice came out of his throat, it was obvious that Li Yuan was eager to slash Chen Ying with a thousand knives at this moment.

Chen Ying was calm and fearless: "Please Your Majesty!" ”

"Taichang Temple Shaoqing!" Li Yuan slowly put forward his own conditions.

Chen Yingdao: "Your Majesty, if the minister is to support the weapons prison, the annual output of stainless steel is at least 10 million catties. ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he was slightly stunned.

10 million catties of steel is only 5,000 tons, that is, the amount of use of a slightly larger project. However, in the Tang Dynasty, it was an unimaginable astronomical number. The weapons prison in Chang'an is now not to mention 10 million catties of steel, and even 1 million catties of iron is difficult to do. In an instant, Li Yuan's heart moved. However, he did not want to be blackmailed by one of his courtiers.

"Secretarial supervisor." Li Yuan's face twitched.

Chen Ying knew that the secretary and supervisor were a very noble official position, and if he did this official position, he would basically be able to take charge of Xiangyin in the future, but unfortunately, Chen Ying had no peep at the position of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Yingdao: "Please Your Majesty, in order to marry Her Royal Highness the Princess, prepare a land of thousands of miles, as long as Your Majesty allows, the minister will capture Li Liang for Your Majesty." ”

Li Yuan suddenly remembered that Chen Ying was the grandson of Hou Mo Chen Chong, Hou Mo Chen Chong was in the pacification of the Six Towns Rebellion, he was named the Hou of Linjing County, with 800 households, and when Hou Mo Chen Chong was promoted to the general of the hussars, he was renamed the Duke of Pengcheng County. Thinking of this, Li Yuan muttered: "Back then, your grandfather was the Duke of Pengcheng County, and I ordered you to inherit the Duke of Pengcheng County, your grandfather. ”

Li Yuan also played a word game, inheritance.

Since then, Chen Ying has been inconspicuous in the court. After all, the inherited titles, not to mention the county duke, even if it is the national duke, there are also Huangkou children who inherit it. Moreover, in order to take care of the Guanlong nobles and Shandong nobles, many titles left over from the Sui Dynasty or the Northern Zhou Dynasty were basically recognized by Li Yuan, and at most they were retitled.

Chen Ying was confused at this time: "Pengcheng...... County...... County...... Public? ”

Li Yuan looked at Chen Ying's surprised expression, and said lightly: "Pengcheng County Prince, there are 3,000 households. ”

"Congratulations to the county prince of Pengcheng!"

The ministers congratulated Chen Ying together.

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Until he walked out of the Taiji Hall, Chen Ying still felt like he was dreaming. The county prince? It's so easy to get your hands on? But why didn't Li Yuan agree to Li Xiuning marrying Chen Ying?

Speaking of which, it is actually because of Chai Shao's father Chai Shen. In the Yang Guang period, Chai Shen was Yang Guang's prince's right inner rate, and Chai Shao was the prince's companion. Marrying Li Xiuning to Chai Shao was actually Li Yuan's order to bet on both ends during the Yang Guang period and paralyze Yang Guang's mind. But Chai Shen is a smart person, when Li Yuan became the deputy guard of Jinyang Palace, he found that Li Yuan was secretly recruiting troops and horses, Chai Shen contacted and ran, and jointly invested 1.75 million yuan (old Tang book) with Qinghe Cui's and Taiyuan Wen's family, and Chai Shen was the central liaison.

If it is undecided today, although the overall situation in Hedong has been decided, Hebei is still in the hands of Dou Jiande, if Li Yuan breaks with the Chai family at this time, it means that Li Yuan is untrustworthy. Losing the support of the Cui clan and other seven sects and five wangs is equivalent to Li Yuan's break with the Shandong aristocratic group, then the consequences will be serious. Unless Li Yuan is not like unifying the world, he retreats to Guanzhong and favors the safe side.

Li Yuan is not such a person, he wants to unify the world and achieve Wang Tu's hegemony, so even if he knows that Li Xiuning and Chai Shao's marriage is really alive and dead, he has to grit his teeth and admit this result.

If Chen Ying didn't ask to marry Li Xiuning, even if he had any ulterior relationship with Li Xiuning, Li Yuan would turn one eye open and close one eye. However, he would never agree to break with the Chai clan, let alone allow such a thing to happen.

Therefore, Li Yuan would rather give Chen Ying the title of Duke of Pengcheng County than agree to Li Xiuning and Chai Shao merging, unless Chen Ying's strength alone can be greater than that of the Seven Sects and Five Hopes. Of course, this is impossible. The strength of the Seven Sects and Five Hopes in the entire Tang Dynasty is no less than that of the Rothschild family in later generations. Although in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the strength of the Seven Sects and Five Hopes could easily influence the general trend of the world.

In fact, Chen Ying didn't know that the title was really not a valuable thing in the Tang Dynasty, and there were no less than dozens of princes under Li Yuan's seal, and even more as for the county dukes, of course, Li Yuan's biggest ability was not to be knighted, but to turn his face faster than turning a book.

The internal history made Dou Wei and Guanglu Doctor Hou Mo Chen Qian come out together, and suddenly looked at Chen Ying, and Hou Mo Chen Qian, who was originally not shocked, became emotional.

Dou Wei said in a low voice: "Could it be such a coincidence, Chen Ying is your cousin?" ”

"You can't go wrong!" Hou Mo Chen Qian said excitedly: "When you see that face, you won't be wrong, our Hou Mo Chen family is better than Pan An, Dou Xiangguo Mo doesn't think he is old, I think I was ...... in Daxing City (the old name of Chang'an in the Sui Dynasty)"

Without waiting for Hou Mo Chen Qian to finish speaking, Dou Wei smiled and said: "Just forget it, the timid people will definitely cry when they see you!" ”

Chen Ying suddenly turned his head and saw Hou Mo Chen Qianhui beside Dou Wei, and then turned around and bowed.

Hou Mo Chen Qian was taken aback, he was not going to let Chen Ying recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, but looking at Li Yuan's meaning, it was clear that he already knew that Chen Ying was not surnamed Chen, but surnamed Hou Mo Chen.

What about recognition? Or do you not recognize each other? Hou Mo Chen Qian was suddenly entangled.

Hou Mo Chen Qian was surprised and said, "You know me?" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "Chen Ying doesn't know his predecessors, but he was reminded by his predecessors before, Chen Ying didn't make a big mistake. Haven't asked your seniors for their names? ”

"The old man's surname is Hou Mo, Chen Mingqianhui!"

When Chen Ying heard the strange surname "Hou Mo Chen", he thought it was the surname Hu, but when he looked at Hou Mo Chen's piety, he didn't look like a Hu person at all, no different from a Han person, and was slightly surprised.

"Hou Mo Chen will meet again, Chen Ying should take the first step!"

"Hey......" sighed, helpless.