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Chapter 1193: Choose the East Palace today

Xingningfang and Yongjiafang are located on the north and south sides of Tonghuamen Street, Dongcheng, Chang'an. Further south is the Xingqing Palace, which was converted from the old Longqian residence of Li Longqi. Therefore, since the princes gradually moved out of the palace as they grew older, Li Longji ordered the construction of the ten king houses among these two yards, and then expanded into the Sixteen King houses and the Hundred Grandchildren Courtyard. Even after Prince Li Heng entered the East Palace, he lived in the other courtyard most of the time, rather than the East Palace in the palace. The princes and grandchildren are not short of people to serve and provide various supplies, but their freedom of movement is extremely limited, and every move is reported to the emperor by the court.

This situation continued until after Li Longji fled Chang'an, he returned from the entourage of the two armies of Anbei, Shuofang. His prestige was lost. In addition, the middle and upper eunuchs fled much, and the lower eunuch Li Longji was not familiar with it, so the central government system of the prison was in name only. However, when Du Shiyi came back this time, facing the emperors and grandchildren who blocked his own house, he reacted fiercely. Not only did he "escort" all these dragons, sons, phoenixes, and servants from Wannian County Party were ordered to guard here. The sixteen kings and Baisun Court immediately returned to their former prison conditions.

Nowadays, in the gorgeous mansions, there are countless nobles who sigh and curse Du Shiyi behind them. However, even the scolding is the most important thing that the emperor is about to take the carriage. Now everyone in these two houses is preparing in full swing. Everyone hopes that the king and father can be lucky in their mansion, because that means that the possibility of becoming the crown prince is greater.

As princes and grandchildren, they are even worse than many officials. Except for the crowds of people who kowtow to the saints during festivals, they usually have very few opportunities to say a word to their king and father. And they have given birth to so many children, Li Longji, who has long been promoted to a grandfather, may be able to count among hundreds of princes and grandchildren with one hand that can name them.

Li Longji had a strong descendants, but the princes who were ranked high were almost completely dead. The eldest son Li Cong had died of illness, and Li Yan was deposed for the crime of victory and was placed under house arrest and was worried. As for the two crown princes Li Ying and Li Heng, Li Yao, King E, Li Yao, King Rong, and Li Wan, and King Guang, whether Li Longji admitted it or not, in the eyes of outsiders, these princes could almost be regarded as directly and indirectly dying at the hands of Li Longji. Therefore, among the remaining princes, among the current surviving princes, the Yi King ranked first, but the twelfth prince did not have any outstanding features.

Therefore, when the emperor was lucky enough to travel to the Sixteenth King's House for the first time this time, he heard that he did not come to him, but the first one was to go to the Ying King's House, and King Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Amitabha, it's really worth it. I burn incense and worship Buddha every day... People come and tell me the two evil animals. If I dare to go out to hand over the ministers privately, I will write a letter to remove their clans and expel them from the house. Seeing that they dare to cheat outside under my banner."

Anyway, he never expected to be an emperor in the past, nor did he have the ability to do it. Whoever loves to be the one who is

Du Shiyi was ordered to wait in front of Danfeng Gate of the Daming Palace today, and followed Li Longji to Yingwang's house. Seeing Li Longji looking around all the way, sighing frequently, and sighing with emotion, he didn't know that this Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was pretending. The battle for seizing the throne in the Tang Dynasty was in a white-hot state, especially the ten years from the late Wu Empress to the late Congenital period. Therefore, Li Longji, who completely controlled power through the Tanglong coup, had unprecedented precautions for brothers and grandchildren. This time, Princess Cui of Guangping wrote a letter to cause such a big storm. When Li Longji is here now, how can he reveal his true feelings?

It is true that the royal family seized power, but at the same time, it was also limited to the possibility that the royal family could defend the imperial power in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Not to mention the vassal states rebelled, even the protagonists of the coup became those eunuchs.

"Du Qing."

Hearing this call, Du Shiyi immediately eliminated the distractions, and immediately stepped forward and owed, "What are your instructions?"

"I am old and now I plan to abdicate and give in to the wise. Today I specially summon you to follow me, just to ask you to help me study it together. Which prince and grandson can take over my position and turn the tide."

This was when Gao Lishi came to deliver the message, Du Shiyi had already guessed the result of eight points. At this moment, he replied without thinking: "It is the family affairs of Your Majesty and the state affairs. If Your Majesty regards it as a family affairs, it is enough to be arbitrary; if Your Majesty regards it as a state affairs, he should summon ministers above the fifth rank to discuss it. I dare not make any comments, so I would like to give up here."

Seeing that Du Shiyi wanted to leave so much, Li Longji was very anxious. Now that he needed a crutch to walk, he suddenly held the handrail and poked his body out of the car. He said in a trembling voice: "Why did Du Qing say this? I am seriously ill now, and I finally have this day of awakening, not to mention that I have no master and my heart is already in chaos. Do Du Qing not want to accompany me to walk outside the palace for the last time?"

"This... Your Majesty, please don't be excited, I'm just obedient." Du Shiyi sneered in his heart, agreed, and glanced at today's entourage. In addition to a team of Dragon Martial Army, there is also a part of the vanguard battalion under Azle. The number of people on both sides is half to half, just evenly matched.

Leaving Du Shiyi, Li Longji sat down again with the help of Gao Lishi. Seeing Du Shiyi having no choice but to ride the horse, he calmed down a little, and his hands were placed in front of him and tightly tucked together. Although his face was calm, he couldn't tell whether it was nervous or excited. He had not long since his birth, and had experienced the most turbulent period of the entire Tang Dynasty. His uncle Zhongzong was deposed, his father ascended the throne, his grandmother was deposed, his grandmother was emperor. The Wu family and the two Zhangs were arrogant one after another. Then a Shenlong Revolution Zhongzong was restored. Following him, he joined forces with Princess Taiping to kill Princess Wei and Anle, and gave his father to the throne. Finally, he ascended the throne himself with a Tanglong coup.

He fought in the bloody storm for the first half of his life. He has been so comfortable these years, but he is still a sword.

"Your Majesty, King Ying's house has arrived."

King Ying Li is the thirteenth prince. Although he is not as wise as King Rong Li Wan, he is also somewhat literary. Du Shiyi entered the room with Li Longji and saw that the house was indeed built by the Ministry of Works and was quite gorgeous, but the furnishings inside were simple. Even this time the emperor arrived, he never put on a red carpet to cushion the footsteps, which was so simple that even the Duke and Marquis' mansion was not as simple as the palace. When he led his children and grandchildren to welcome the emperor, the prince, who was nearly 40 years old, was calm and polite in his words and deeds. Li Longji, the prince who was a prince and father, smiled unconsciously.

Faced with such a scene, Du Shiyi also smiled slightly. The emperor's grandson who had blocked his own door before did not have the son of King Ying. This shows that those who are knowledgeable are knowledgeable and have a great grasp of the determination to advance and retreat. I just don't know what this King Ying thinks about the death of King Rong Li Wan, who was better than his previous literary name.

This time he came back, he had never even seen Jiang Du and Dou E, but Du Shisanniang had provided corresponding information. King Ying had entered the palace to meet the emperor many times. From this point of view, some people might say that Li Longji was quite interested in the older wise king among the princes.

But he watched the conversation between Li Longji and King Ying Li Zi in a cold eyes, but he felt that one was false kindness and the other was false filial, and the relationship between father and son, the king and the minister seemed extremely awkward. This was also very natural. I was afraid that King Ying had lived for so much of his life, and that was only these days before he had suddenly received the favor from the king and father. Li Zi was able to control himself at this time without rashly testing the ministers' support for him, which was already very steady and calm. If it were the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the past, perhaps this prince could still be a mediocre master, but now...

Just by Li Longji keeping paying attention to his expression, he is enough to judge that Li Longji is not as appreciating as he appears to be.

Li Zi's children's team was not as strong as his brothers. Only the eldest son Li Shen was granted the title of Prince of Xingyang. The other sons were either illegitimate or too young, so except for Li Shen, he just asked others to pay homage to the emperor and sent all of these children back. Perhaps because Li Zi was too cautious, Li Longji could not find too many topics to say, so he stayed in King Ying's house for only two quarters of an hour. When Du Shiyi, who had not said a few words from beginning to end, followed him out of King Ying's house, Li Longji on his shoulder suddenly asked, "What do Du Qing think of Shisanlang?"

"King Ying is humble and frugal and studious."

Such an evaluation sounded good, but Du Shiyi's tone was so calm that he could not see any clues. Li Longji did not ask any more questions, but he was quite sure. This time he was lucky to be at the Sixteen Kings House, as if he was completely happy and did not follow the rankings at all. The next visit was the Kings House.

King Sheng Li Qi is the younger brother of the mother of King Shou Li Mao. When Concubine Wu Hui was still there, he was once a pride of heaven, but as his mother passed away inexplicably, he fell into decline. The only luck is that he is not like King Shou Li Mao, who almost even took away the princess from his father. Like Li Mao, Li Qi inherited the advantages of his parents' appearance, and was handsome and handsome. In addition, he received a good education since childhood and his conversation was a bit extraordinary.

Compared with the previous King Ying Li, he obviously knew about Du Shiyi's accompanying the emperor on this trip. When he talked to Li Longji, he secretly peeked at Du Shiyi's expression from the corner of his eyes. Seeing that this important minister of the court who is still the right prime minister and the commander of Anbei Province is still calm, he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. After all, he had run to see Pei Kuan before and asked for the fight, but in the end he was sent back by Du Youlin.

Every dragon, son, phoenix grandson in the Sixteen Kings' house felt that Li Longji was lucky this time and was afraid that he would make a choice for the Eastern Palace. Although he was not the legitimate, it was Yao Chong and Song Jing who said in front of Ruizong that he had established the eldest king in prosperity and rule the chaos and established the wise king. Li Longji, who was also not the legitimate king, then, would have surpassed the eldest son, Ning and Li Xian, to enter the Eastern Palace. When his mother was alive, she kept thinking about pushing his brother, Changshou King Li Mao, to the Eastern Palace. The same is true for Li Linfu, as if he was not a noble man with golden branches and jade leaves.

Since he was not convinced, Li Qi put in some hard work before, and gradually turned the topic to the battle situation ahead and took out the statements he had racked his brains. What made him happy was that Li Longji nodded from time to time to express his reward, but Du Shiyi did not express anything from beginning to end.
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