webnovelvip Chapter 122 Marriage Grant (recommendation ticket requested)
Chapter 122 Marriage Grant (recommendation ticket requested)
Chapter 122 Marriage Grant (recommendation ticket requested)
Tai Chi Palace, Early Dynasty
Listening to those ministers discussing the so-called "major matter" with Li Shimin, Lin Xuan felt a little drowsy.
In his opinion, many of them were trivial matters, and these ministers brought them to the court to talk about them.No wonder you need to go to court every day. (After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, it was once a day, and later it was changed to a three-day dynasty. It has not been changed yet.)
"Report to Your Majesty, I have already drawn up the law on commercial taxation, please take a look at it!" Ma Zhou said.
Li Mu stepped forward, took Ma Zhou's memorial, and presented it to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin unfolded and looked carefully.
"Well, you are very thoughtful. Do this first, and then correct it in time when you find the problem." Li Shimin said after reading it.
"Yes!" Ma Zhou bowed and stood back.
Seeing that no one was playing, Li Shimin said to Li Mu, "Declare the decree!"
Li Mu took the imperial decree and said: "The imperial edict said: Zhao Guogong's son Chong is erudite and talented, and his conduct is good. I am very happy to hear it. The emperor Gao Yang is skillful, generous, gentle and honest, and has outstanding appearance. She is at the right age for marriage. Now she is betrothed to her eldest grandson. As a wife, all the etiquette will be presided over by the Ministry of Rites and Qin Tianjian, and the marriage will be married on a good day next year. This is yours!"
Lin Xuan became anxious when he first heard about Changsun Chong. He thought that Li Shimin was going to betroth Li Lizhi to Changsun Chong, but he was happy when he heard that it was Princess Gaoyang. (Princess Gaoyang, her age is unknown in history, but due to the needs of the plot, let her be 13 years old.)
He didn't expect that because of his influence, Princess Gaoyang was betrothed to Changsun Chong in the end.
Princess Gaoyang is very famous. Historically, she married Fang Xuanling's second wife's bereavement.
Not to mention putting a cuckold on Fang Yiai after marriage, and let Fang Yiai guard the door when she was having sex, the strange thing is that Fang Yiai did it.
Because of this incident, Fang Yiai was called the Green Hat King of the Tang Dynasty by later generations.
In the end, she even instigated Fang Yiai to rebel together and was given death.
I don't know that after Princess Gaoyang married Changsun Chong, it would be fun to give Changsun Chong a cuckold.
But he guessed that Princess Gao Yang would not dare either, Changsun Wuji was not Fang Xuanling.
If she married into the Fang family, she could still live in the princess mansion. If she married into the eldest grandson's family, it was impossible for the eldest grandson's family to allow her to live in the princess mansion.
I don't know if Fang Yiai knows that because of her own reasons, letting him get rid of the title of Green Hat King is equivalent to saving his life, will she thank him.
But he could only think about it in his heart, and never had the chance to say it.
Changsun Chong was not there, so Changsun Wuji stood up and thanked him: "Minister, thank you Your Majesty!"
After Li Mu handed over the imperial decree to Changsun Wuji, he took out another imperial decree and read it.
The meaning is similar to the previous one, but this time the hosts were replaced by Lin Xuan and Li Lizhi.
But when Li Mu finished reading, Lin Xuan froze.
Changsun Chong's marriage decree said that he would choose a date for marriage next year, so why did his own decree say that Li Lizhi betrothed to him?
After reading the imperial edict, Li Mu saw that Lin Xuan was silent for a long time, and reminded him: "The uncle of Jingyang County should hurry up to accept the edict!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lin Xuan came back to his senses and quickly thanked him.
Li Shimin saw Lin Xuan's expression secretly happy, he did it on purpose.
He always felt that Lin Xuan was hiding his clumsiness and wanted to pinch him.
"Retire!" Li Shimin finished speaking and left in a hurry.
Lin Xuan held the imperial decree, and his expression was not very happy. The marriage was granted, but the wedding date has not been set yet.
Seeing Lin Xuan's expression, Cheng Yaojin smiled and said, "You don't seem to be happy? Princess Changle is famously virtuous. Your Majesty even gave you a marriage. What are you dissatisfied with?"
Lin Xuan smiled wryly and said, "The marriage is a gift, but I didn't say when we will get married!"
Who knows if Li Shimin will call off the marriage if he makes Li Shimin unhappy someday.
Although the emperor seldom backs out on his golden words, no one can guarantee that!
Yu Chigong laughed loudly: "You're not in a hurry to get into the bridal chamber, are you?"
"Haha~"
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Qin Qiong and the others also laughed.
Lin Xuan rolled his eyes, a bunch of perverts!
At this moment, Li Mu came over, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty summoned Zhao Guogong, Liang Guogong, Yi Guogong... the county uncle of Jingyang to discuss matters in the study!"
Everyone quickly put away their smiles and followed Li Mu to the study.
"Your Majesty, I will see you!" Everyone saluted.
Li Shimin said with a smile: "Excuse me, give me a seat."
After everyone sat down, Li Shimin said: "After thinking about it carefully, I found that the imperial examination has many disadvantages, and I want to reform the imperial examination!"
Many officials looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to figure out what the emperor was thinking for a while.
So for a while, no one came forward to speak.
Lin Xuan was a little speechless, it was obviously proposed by him, but he didn't expect Li Shimin to take it for himself so shamelessly.
But seeing that Li Shimin is already his father-in-law, let's take it.
In the end, Changsun Wuji was the first to speak, "His Majesty, the imperial examination system has been perfected by the former Sui Dynasty and our Tang Dynasty. It can be said to be perfect. It should not be changed lightly!"
After Changsun Wuji finished speaking, Fang Xuanling stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the imperial examination has given poor families a ladder to become an official, and it cannot be changed!"
Other civil servants agreed one after another, but this matter has little to do with generals, Cheng Yaojin and the others didn't speak.
Li Shimin shook his head. He also believed that the imperial examination had no disadvantages before, but after hearing what Lin Xuan said, he realized that the imperial examination did have many disadvantages.
Li Shimin said: "Listen to what I want to say, and then talk about whether to reform or not. The first point: the land of the Tang Dynasty is huge, and all candidates have to go to Chang'an to take the exam. The journey is too long..."
He slowly repeated what Lin Xuan said about the disadvantages of the imperial examination.
After Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others listened, they thought about it and felt that what Li Shimin said made sense.
But for a while, no one spoke, there was nothing they could do, they were embarrassed, embarrassed, just now when Li Shimin said that the imperial examination had drawbacks, when he proposed reforms, they all said that there were no shortcomings, isn't it a slap in the face for agreeing now?
Wei Zheng also felt embarrassed, but his personality prevented him from continuing to remain silent, and he said with some shame: "Your Majesty, what you said makes sense. The imperial examinations should indeed be reformed. The minister was short-sighted just now!"
Someone spoke first, and others followed suit one after another, approving the reform.
Li Shimin's face remained calm, but his heart was already full of joy.
Wei Zheng is an old bastard, he sprays him every day, he does this and that.Now I know I was wrong!
Fang Xuanling asked: "Since His Majesty has discovered the flaws, isn't His Majesty the only one who has thought of a solution?"
Li Shimin proudly explained the solution that Lin Xuan said.
"May I ask Your Majesty, money and food rewards are given out every year for those admitted to Tongsheng. Where does this money come from?"
Li Shimin glanced at Lin Xuan and hinted to Lin Xuan that it's your turn to play.
Lin Xuan secretly slandered: After you pretended to be co-author, you asked me to come to an end?
"Your Majesty, I have a method to present to Your Majesty, which can solve the money problem." Lin Xuan said loudly.
Li Shimin was very satisfied with Lin Xuan's performance, and said with a smile, "Oh? Show it to me!"
Lin Xuan took out the salt making method he wrote last night and held it up.
Li Mu immediately took it and presented it to Li Shimin.
After reading it, Li Shimin exclaimed, "Is what you wrote true?"
He didn't expect that the method Lin Xuan mentioned was to extract salt from poisonous salt mines.
"Your Majesty, this method is very simple. Your Majesty can ask someone to try it." Lin Xuan said with a smile.
"Duan Aiqing, tell someone to try this method!" Li Shimin handed the method of making salt to Duan Lun, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.
(End of this chapter)