When all the officials entered the hall, the officials heard the bell ringing, so they shouted loudly in a high-pitched voice unique to eunuchs: "Go to court." ”

Then the ministers saluted, and the prince also stood up from his chair, waiting for the emperor and empress to come to the court.

The guard of honor, the wing screen, the palace maid, the eunuch, and the Yale cooperated tacitly, and slowly walked out from behind the screen at the same time.

The ministers held different boards according to the size of the official products, and Li Hong naturally drooped his empty hands, and followed the ministers to salute the emperor and the queen together, because today is basically the last court meeting before the first day, and this court meeting is mainly a celebration, supplemented by listening to politics and deliberations, so the appearance of the queen did not make the ministers feel that they exceeded the etiquette system.

What's more, when His Majesty and the prince fought in Liaodong, and when the prince conquered Anxi, and when His Majesty's dragon body was not safe, the queen had presided over the government many times, so the appearance of the queen today has long been accustomed to the courtiers above the court.

Different from the Great Dynasty Meeting, today's Dynasty Meeting is more like a work report meeting, with the Zhongshu Order playing the local chapters, and the Shangshu Order summarizing the situation of the entire Tang Dynasty for a year.

As a result, there is a lack of the Huangmen Shilang who should have on the first day of the auspicious auspicious omen, the household department Shangshu plays the contributions of various states, and the Ministry of Rites plays the tributes of various states and foreign countries.

The wind opens the festival, and the gray rhythm moves the early sun. Hundreds of barbarians are devoted, and all countries are not young. Although there is no trace of Shunyu, fortunately Tiandikang. The track is the same as the eight tables, and the books and texts are mixed in all directions. He Yi is full of crowns, and he is full of clothes. Yu Yang galloped on, and the bells and drums shook the rock corridor. The group practice is glowing, and the frost halberd shines brightly. The morning supper is reasonable, and the end is ashamed of the famine.

Pei Yan started with the first emperor Li Shimin's "Zhengri Approaching the Dynasty", and after nearly half an hour and sonorous and powerful expressions, he made a simple summary of the situation in the Tang Dynasty in a year.

"Please Shangshu Ling Chenyan ......." The voice of the ceremonial official sounded again in the main hall of the Xuanzheng Palace.

Li Hong slowly stood up from the chair, today's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very different from the behavior of the court in the past, everyone, including Li Zhi and Wu Mei, has felt that Li Hong is different.

Today, he looks the same as usual, but a pair of deep eyes flickered with calmness, an impenetrable light, making it impossible to see through what secrets were hidden in those eyes like an abyss.

"Qi Qi's father, mother, courtiers, and sons have not been in the court for half a year because of their father's expedition to Liaodong, so today's Shangshu Province has a left servant to urge Yuan Zong." Li Hong's face was calm, and he looked at Li Zhi with a curious face.

And Wu Mei was like Li Hong who was sitting on the chair just now, with her eyes drooping and calm, like an old monk sitting still, without saying a word.

"Exactly." Li Zhi secretly glared at Li Hong.

Li Hong continued to sit back in his chair without saying anything, urged Yuan Zong to slowly come out of the group of ministers, and after saluting Li Zhi, Wu Mei, and Li Hong, he began a brief chapter of Shangshu Province.

As the recital of Urging Yuan Zong came to an end, Pei Yan looked at Fang Xianzhong, but Fang Xianzhong ignored Pei Yan's eye inquiry when he was aware of it.

Today's calm is abnormal, and next, I'm afraid it's time for the prince to make trouble.

But from beginning to end, Li Hong has been sitting on the chair and not moving, as the recitation of the urging Yuanzong was finished, and with the sharp voice of the ceremonial official rising again, among the ministers, Fang Xianzhong was the first to stand up: "Your Majesty, please ask for sin." ”

"Please? Zhongshu ordered Pei Yan and Zuo Servant to tell me about the prosperity and peace of the Tang Dynasty in a year, but you want to ask for guilt in the name of the Ministry of Works? Li Zhi glanced at the court curiously, but he didn't expect that it was Fang Xianzhong who took the initiative to confess.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister knows that the blame is hard to escape, but in fact, the minister is forced to helpless, His Majesty ordered the minister to start rebuilding the Wu Wangfu immediately after the first day, but now the Ministry of Industry in charge of the minister is unable to come up with the silver to rebuild the Wu Wangfu, and please ask Your Majesty to punish the crime." Fang Xianzhong glanced at Li Hong, and saw that Li Hong was still unresponsive, so he had to bow his head and wait for His Majesty to ask.

"What about the silver?" Li Zhi was not angry, he glanced at Li Hong casually, and then looked at Fang Xianzhong again.

Fang Xianzhong glanced at Li Hong again, Li Hong still didn't look at him, and involuntarily muttered in his heart, can he really save his life by doing this?

But he had already reached the court, and he couldn't help but retreat, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Back to Your Majesty, the silver of the Ministry of Industry was privately appropriated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and allocated to the Ministry of War, and the whereabouts of the silver were given to the Quanzhou Dock. ”

"Your Majesty, what Lord Fang said is good, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not misappropriating it privately, but misappropriating it when the Ministry of Industry has a surplus of silver, this year's disaster management along the Yellow River, the Prince once led Lord Fang to inspect, at that time, the silver taels of the Ministry of Industry were still very surplus, and before that, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already embezzled the silver taels of the Ministry of Works." Ren Yaxiang, the secretary of the military department, stood up and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that His Royal Highness the Prince, as the Shangshu Provincial Shangshu Order, should not arbitrarily embezzle the original silver taels of the various ministries, but should explain clearly why he embezzled the silver taels and went to Quanzhou." Di Renjie, the secretary of Dali Temple, stood up and said after being glanced at by Li Zhi.

And Wu Mei didn't raise her head to look at the court from beginning to end, as if none of this had anything to do with her, just the ordinary courtiers fighting above the court, and it didn't involve the prince.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu glanced at Di Renjie and said lightly: "Master Di, since Lord Fang has asked His Majesty for guilt, should you first let Lord Fang explain why the Ministry of Industry has so much deficit?" Lord Ren has already said that after the prince's embezzlement, the silver taels of the Ministry of Industry are still surplus. ”

Di Renjie was calm and unhurried, and said with a smile: "Whether it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first or the Ministry of Industry Shangshu, in short, the silver of the Ministry of Industry must be clearly stated, as for who comes first and who comes last, His Royal Highness the Prince, as my Tang Dynasty Prince, is the first to make it clear, and then it is not too late for Lord Fang to say the whereabouts of the other silver two, right?" ”

Yushitai Li Qiao stood between the ministers with a smile, and said lightly: "The difference between what Lord Di said, since Lord Fang asked for guilt, then naturally Lord Fang took the lead in stating his guilt, as for His Royal Highness the Prince's misappropriation of silver taels to Quanzhou, it was not used to the East Palace in any case, so I think it is better to let Lord Fang say the guilt first?" ”

"Fang Xianzhong, five million taels of silver, you know where I used it, right?" Li Hong saw that Di Renjie was about to speak, waved his hand, and interrupted Di Renjie's speech.

Above the court, the people who clearly support you are naturally the ones who support you, and the people who don't support you are not necessarily the ones who don't support you.

Regarding Di Renjie's reaction, Li Hong didn't think that Di Renjie didn't support him, on the contrary, he wanted to know what he talked about with his mother last night?

Now his actions seem to be to relieve Fang Xianzhong, but in fact, he is testing whether Fang Xianzhong can be trusted.

"Yes, the minister knows how much you use your silver, but the five million taels of silver from the Ministry of Industry, plus the silver taels that you have embezzled from the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of War, are worth more than 10 million taels, but Quanzhou can only go to sea with five giant ships, and before that, there were three same giant ships that went to sea for five to seven days, all of which sank in the sea, and the third one only lasted ten days, so it also followed in the footsteps of the first two giant ships and completely sank in the sea. After all, the minister is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, not the governor of the navy, but the minister is proficient in the canal, the five-tooth warship, and only a hundred thousand taels can build a luxuriously decorated giant ship, and the Quanzhou giant ship is obviously worth only a hundred thousand taels, and the rest of the silver does not know where His Royal Highness has spent it. Fang Xianzhong's eyes were firmly on the ground, but a pair of feet slowly appeared in his sight.

The sweat on his forehead became closer and closer to his feet, and it was getting more and more, and he had even squinted into his eyes, and the bitter and uncomfortable feeling made him dare not reach out to wipe it, so he had to lower his head and blink his eyes vigorously.

"You're right, but four were sunk, not three, and the cost of these four is more than double the price of the five that can be sailed today. But do you know why it's so expensive? Li Hong patted Fang Xianzhong on the shoulder, so frightened that Fang Xianzhong trembled and almost fell to the ground.

"The minister doesn't know, so the minister hopes that His Royal Highness can give the minister a reasonable explanation." Fang Xianzhong continued to lower his head, feeling Li Hong's fingers, rhythmically afraid of hitting his shoulder.

"Okay, I'll explain it to you, but I'm done, can you explain it to me?" Li Hong faced Fang Xianzhong again and motioned for Fang Xianzhong to raise his head and look at him.

Fang Xianzhong wanted to see signs of the transaction in Li Hong's eyes, but those deep eyes, like an endless whirlpool, not only could not see his intentions clearly, but made himself even more flustered.

Pei Yan watched all this quietly, Fang Xianzhong went to Di Renjie's mansion yesterday, although he was never invited by Di Renjie to enter the mansion to narrate, but the time of half a pillar of incense at the door was enough for the two to make a deal.

Today's Di Renjie's words in the court are obviously biased in favor of Fang Xianzhong, it seems that Di Renjie and Fang Xianzhong reached an agreement yesterday, so do you want to add fuel to the fire at this time, so that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can not say more than 10 million taels of silver clearly?

Thinking of this, Pei Yan quietly observed the expressions of Li Zhi and Wu Mei, and saw that the attention of both of them was on Li Hong, so he took two steps forward and said in his heart: "Your Majesty, as the so-called 'prince should be guilty of the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law', the minister believes that no matter what purpose His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has embezzled the silver giant ships of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, it is obviously impossible to explain that His Royal Highness the Prince's move is for the consideration of my Tang Dynasty, and it is obviously His Royal Highness the Prince's other selfish intentions. ”