Last year, during the Shangyuan Festival, Pei Xingjian and Wan Niang made a marriage contract, Li Xiu also promised him, as long as he did not regret it after a year, he agreed to him and Wan Niang to marry, and Wan Niang has been in touch with Pei Xingjian for a year, sometimes she will sit there alone in a daze because of her thoughts, although she is at home, but the soul of the whole person has flown to Liaodong.

"What are your plans to come back this time?" Li Xiu pondered for a moment at this time and said again, he was also very cautious about this matter, after all, this was related to the happiness of Wanniang's life, so he had to figure out what Pei Xingjian thought?

"I know what the horse is worried about, but after he kept the promise and went back, he told me all the things about him and Wan Niang, and as I know, he is a very emotional person, since he has identified Wan Niang, he will never regret it, and the reason why he came back with him this time is actually to marry Wan Niang!" When Su Dingfang said the end, he also showed a solemn look on his face.

In fact, Su Dingfang was also entrusted by Pei Xingjian, mainly to try Li Xiu's attitude, as long as Li Xiu was willing, he could marry Wanniang at any time, in fact, just before he came back, he had already passed a letter with Wanniang, and now Li Xiu nodded.

Hearing that Pei Xingjian still kept his original promise, Li Xiu couldn't help but be silent again, and after a while, he let out a long breath and said: "Okay, since there is no regret in keeping the contract, then I will naturally not break my promise, if Wan Niang agrees, I can let them get married after the New Year, but I am afraid that it will have to wait until the queen is buried, after all, during the wake period, all nobles must prohibit marriage." ”

"Ha~, that's great!" Su Dingfang saw that Li Xiu agreed, and he couldn't help but want to laugh at the moment, but then he thought that this was the Taiji Palace, and Li Shimin was also sitting on it, so he immediately stopped laughing, and then said in a low voice, "Then this matter is settled, I will give Xingjian a holiday next year, and let him return to Liaodong after he gets married." ”

"Well, the conditions in Liaodong are too hard, Wanniang has been relatively weak since she was a child, I'm worried that she won't be able to stand the climate in Liaodong, so can she not go to Liaodong in the future?" Li Xiu thought for a moment at this time, and said again, Wan Niang has been raised by him as a daughter since she was a child, and she is naturally reluctant to let her daughter follow Pei Xingjian to the bitter cold place of Liaodong.

"Don Ma, you went with Xingjian, he followed me to fight in the east and west, and he rarely even went home, his mother is old, and his health is not very good, so he also wants to serve in front of his mother's bed, plus he is going to get married again, and he is even more reluctant to stay away from his family, so he mentioned it to me before, and I also promised him, and after this Goguryeo incident, I will arrange a stable official position for him, so that he can have time to spend with his family." Su Dingfang immediately said, there is an old mother to support at home, a wife and a bride, and there may be children in the future, so Pei Xingjian is quite human.

"This is very good, you have been in Liaodong for two years, according to my estimate, at most in another two years, Your Majesty will raise troops to completely solve Goguryeo, and then it will not be difficult to arrange the duties with the credit of abiding by the contract." Li Xiu immediately nodded when he heard this.

There are too many things this year, and the time to strike at Goguryeo is too short, plus the New Year is coming soon, so it is definitely impossible to send troops, and even next year is unlikely, but it is not necessarily the year after tomorrow, with Li Shimin's temper, it is very likely that he will send troops, after all, there are not many things that can make him worry about it now, and destroying Goguryeo is one of his wishes.

Seeing that Li Xiu had no objection to Pei Xingjian's marriage, Su Dingfang was also very excited, and immediately began to discuss the details of the marriage between the two with Li Xiu, speaking of which Pei Xingjian's father died early, and in addition to his mother, there were no male elders to help him Zhang Gong marriage, but Su Dingfang was Pei Xingjian's teacher, as the so-called teacher for one day and father for life, so Su Dingfang was also very concerned about his student's marriage.

Although the court meeting was not as lively as in previous years, it still lasted for most of the day, and according to the previous rules, there must be a banquet in the evening, but now it must not be celebrated, so after nearly half of the afternoon, the court meeting finally ended.

Li Xiu and Su Dingfang haven't seen each other for a year, and they have had a meeting for most of the day, and they haven't even eaten lunch until now, so the two were going to go out to eat something, and by the way, they can also catch up, after all, there were too many people at the court meeting just now, and there were many things that were inconvenient to chat.

However, what Li Xiu didn't expect was that after the court meeting was dispersed, Li Shimin named several important ministers to stay in the deliberations, including him, which made him reluctant to say goodbye to Su Dingfang, and then stayed to continue to accompany Li Shimin to discuss matters.

In fact, Li Shimin did have important things to discuss when he left them, the most important of which was the funeral arrangements for Empress Changsun next year, which was the responsibility of Changsun Wuji, so he also personally made a detailed introduction.

Originally, Li Xiu was also in charge of the funeral before, but later because of the reconstruction of the printing office, the funeral was completely in charge of the eldest grandson Wuji, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the funeral anymore.

However, it is worth mentioning that the mausoleum where Empress Changsun is buried is only temporary, and then the Zhaoling Tomb will continue to be built, and the scale will be larger and more luxurious, this is the mausoleum prepared by Li Shimin for his death, and the coffin of Empress Changsun will definitely be buried with him.

In addition to the funeral, there are several other important things, such as the situation on the border this year, which focuses on the merits of Su Dingfang on the side of Goguryeo, and Li Shimin also specially named the Ministry of War to prepare a reward for Su Dingfang and others, which also made Li Xiu more sure of his guess, at this time Li Shimin did not forget the matter of Goguryeo, I am afraid that the real attack on Goguryeo will be these two years.

In addition to the above two things that Li Xiu is more concerned about, most of the rest are very boring things, such as Fang Xuanling is going to make laws and delete some unreasonable provisions in the law, while Wei Zheng wants to correct etiquette, stipulate all aspects of etiquette in the Tang Dynasty, and name it "New Rites" and so on.

Li Xiu was not interested in the above things, and finally stayed up until it was almost dark, Li Shimin let them leave, Li Xiu was going to go home immediately, but just after he walked a few steps out of the Taiji Palace, he suddenly heard a rush of carriage behind him!