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19. The crown prince supervises the country

Previously, Lu Zhi, Yang Cheng and others took turns to make suggestions, opposing the sale and the benefit of Zhang Pang's tea and wine stripping, but the emperor simply hid in the inner palace, and even Yanying's question was not held, and he instructed Song Ruohua, Ruozhao, and several middle-aged people to prepare for his tour.

It was not until the tour of Bai Yushan that the emperor specially summoned the prince, Dong Jin and Lu Zhi in Zichen Hall.

He wants Prince Li Song to supervise the country.

There were about four modes of the prince's reign in the Tang Dynasty. One is that the prince's power can already control the country, so it further serves as a springboard for the formal ascension of the throne in the name of reign. The most typical of these are Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong. The former was forced to let Li Shimin supervise the country after the successful Xuanwu Gate mutiny. Similarly, after the killing of Empress Wei, Emperor Xuanzong received the support of ministers Zhang Shuo, Yao Chong, Song Jing, and Guo Yuanzhen, and let Ruizong be appointed as the governor; the second normal point,

That is, when the emperor goes on a war, someone needs to take charge of the court, he will let the prince or grandson superintendent superintendent superintendent superintendent superintendent. The most typical example is that when Emperor Taizong conquered Goryeo, he issued an edict to let the prince Li Zhi come to superintend the country; the third type is that before the emperor died of serious illness, he issued an edict to let the prince superintendent superintendent in hope of achieving a smooth handover of imperial power; of course, there is also the last type: the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty mastered the imperial guards and the throne and deposed the throne. Once the emperor was killed, they would welcome a prince to superintend the country, and eventually pushed him to the throne as a puppet.

What the emperor is doing now is of course the second mode.

Prince Li Song was wearing a purple shirt and a white skirt. Although he looked weak, his complexion was obviously much better than before.

The emperor asked him a few questions, probably how he was in his health recently, what books he was reading, and how good the personnel and affairs in Shaoyang Courtyard were.

Li Song made a reply one by one, which made the emperor quite satisfied, so he instructed Li Song: "I am visiting and hunting. You can choose two days every ten days, one day to listen to the reports of the inner court departments in the West Shaoyang Courtyard; one day to meet the Lieutenant of the Shenwei Army and the Privy Councilor of the Internal and External Privy Councilor in the East Shaoyang Courtyard."

However, the emperor obviously did not want the prince to interfere in the national affairs, so he told Dong Jin and Lu Zhi that the two ministers would be punished for state affairs.

This is great. After I visited the tour, the prince would deal with internal affairs and become a spiritual idol to train his political ability; while Lu Zhi would still let external affairs be handled.

Even so, Prince Li Song was still very grateful.

Finally, I, a sick and weak body, have the opportunity to display my talents.

When the prince returned to the "Shilin Pavilion" in the Western Shaoyang Courtyard, he was full of energy. When the Shaoyang Courtyard envoy Li Zhongyan and the Crown Princess Xiao came to welcome him, the prince happily told them that I was about to supervise the country.

Concubine Xiao was the daughter of Princess Gao Guo. She was also very happy at this time and hurriedly asked the prince's concubine Wang and Niu to come out together to hold a banquet at the Persimmon Forest Hall.

"Crown Prince." In the courtyard, two young officials happened to arrive and saluted Li Song.

"Two gentlemen..." The prince was very happy to see them, so he told each other that he had been in charge of the country.

These two, one of them, was named Wang Zi, from Hangzhou, and are now the "Shu Wen" of the Hanlin Academy; the other one was named Wang Shuwen, from Yuezhou, and is now the "Shu Wen" of the Hanlin Academy. They were both recommended by Li Mi to the court and served as Hanlin Academy.

Of course, Hanlin Attendant is not the same as a Hanlin Bachelor. Bachelor is indeed a type of Hanlin Academy. Later, because of his position as a wise minister, he became the emperor's secretariat. The other Attendant was just because of his skill. Wang Yi was good at calligraphy, and Wang Shuwen was proficient in chess skills, but idleness also had the benefits of idleness. The two kings soon became familiar with the crown prince, and often went to Shaoyang Courtyard, but in fact they were friends with the crown prince.

This kind of friendship relationship is acceptable to the emperor. The emperor's most taboo is the prince and the prime minister. The governors have close contacts. Kittens like Wang Zi and Wang Shuwen will not take them to heart.

Soon, the prince in the courtyard told the two kings that when I was the governor, I could handle the affairs of the palace officials. The first thing I had to do was to abolish the children of the palace and Wufang.

"The prince did this right!" Wang Qi took the lead in agreeing with the rich Wu dialect.

Because the children in Gongshi and Wufang have gone out of the palace to buy and buy for many times, they are forced to buy and sell. They have a very poor reputation in Chang'an City and are very angry. The prince can't wait to abolish him, just because he is eager to dominate his own government and make a "good start".

But Wang Shuwen was very calm and said to the prince: "No. Your Majesty is in the palace. Prince, you can pay your respects every day to visit and greet you now. Your Majesty is just asking the prince to listen to the reports of the officials every few days, and did not grant the power of punishment. The prince rashly abolished the palace market. If Your Majesty refuses, it will not only damage the prince's prestige, but will also arouse jealousy of the official, and will also make Your Majesty think that you are keen on interfering in foreign affairs. Once a treacherous minister instigates him, there will be trouble."

This made the prince wake up from his dream and hurriedly thank Wang Shuwen. Then he asked Wang Shuwen, what should he do during the reign of the country?

"The prince has won the hearts of some people in the internal and external courts. When he was in charge of the country, he would just do his own things. If he met and received more talents, he would leave it to us." Wang Shuwen and Wang Yi said.

The prince was very satisfied with Wang Shuwen's answer, and then he asked carefully: "The reason why I was able to supervise the country this time is said to be collectively recommended by King Pu, Gao Ji, Jia Pushe and Du Menlang, I don't know..."

Wang Shuwen knew what the prince wanted to ask, so he smiled and said, "Crown Prince, don't care about these things. In fact, with the status of Gao Jigong, you no longer need to have any personal contacts with the prince. Looking at the past, Duke Ji was obviously willing to support Prince Yidai. If Duke Ji was like this, there would be no problem with Prince."

In early November, at the northern garden of the Daming Palace, the emperor took a car and raised various flags. Under the escorts of the three thousand descendants of the Shenwei Army, he rushed out of the Zhongwei Bridge and headed towards Bai Yushan Mizhi.

After passing Mizhi, he turned to the west and "watched" the city of Wancheng.

After walking and stopping, about a few days later, the emperor drove through Yincheng Pass.

At this time, Gao Yue reorganized and directed the attack war against Tongwancheng.

This time, the Tang army built an extremely large new stone throwing cart in the north of the city, greatly enhancing the power of the siege.

This kind of stone throwing car is several feet high, with huge boxes hanging on the end, and huge iron blocks of the same weight are neatly placed inside. The number of iron blocks can be increased and decreased, and the stone bullets can be thrown out at different distances. The other end is extended with extremely long swing arms, tied with leather pockets and iron hooks. There is a huge wheel on one side of the base of the stone throwing car. The wheel is retracted and placed on the swing arms, and stretched the swing arms to the ground and fixed with iron hooks. At the same time, it also lifted the box filled with iron blocks on the opposite side and hung up the air. Then suddenly released the wheels. The box fell rapidly under the action of gravity, swung the long swing arms, and shot the big rock bullet pre-installed in the leather pocket.

Previously, Gao Yue asked Zhang Baobai to take people to Qiwu Mountain to cut down large trees, which was used to make this.
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