Li Ke was anxiously waiting for news from Chang'an in the Northern Palace. Chang'an sent a express report to him one day, but even so, Li Ke was still very nervous, afraid that this matter would be messed up by himself! However, more than ten days have passed, and the information reported by Chang'an was completely as expected by Di Zhixun. As he said, Li Shimin did not express his own opinions on the matter in the court, nor did he stop the quarrel between the Jiangnan Scholar Group and the Dongshan gentry. Instead, he summoned several court officials to ask for their opinions. (_%%) Regarding the specific content of Li Shimin's summoning ministers to ask for opinions, the secret guards in Chang'an did not have the ability to obtain this matter. Li Ke could only refer to Di Zhixun's opinions and analyze the matter. During this period, the issuance of paper money by Beifu Bank also entered a normal track. Di Zhi

The burden on Xun was much lighter, so Li Ke summoned him to the Beiwang Mansion to organize the news from Chang'an and analyze the situation in Chang'an. As for the others, they were all in their own duties, and Li Ke did not allow them to participate in this matter for the time being. Moreover, Li Ke also wanted the governors of all the governors' offices under the jurisdiction of the Northern Mansion to issue the official documents of the Northern Mansion, which was issued by the North Mansion's military headquarters, which was to let the Governors' office start preparing for war and start to rectify the troops. Li Ke was not worried at all about whether his actions would stimulate the Tuyuhun people. The thoughts of Tuyuhun people are now known to everyone. Tuyuhun and the Tang Dynasty are preparing for war urgently, and Tuyuhun is waiting for the best time to start the war when the severe winter comes. Therefore, in this case, both did not hide their intentions and allowed various actions to each other.

During this period, the commercial group of Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Li Yan developed very rapidly, transplanting poppy to the surrounding area of ​​Yingzhong. Because Yingzhou is far away from the Tang Dynasty, it is sparsely poppy and has fertile land. Therefore, the planting area of ​​poppy has increased many times and the output has also increased a lot. In this case, Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Li Yan discussed and formed a fleet with Liu Rengui to transport opium to Fusang, apart from Goryeo, making the Fusang Island Country a second page after Goryeo, and made a lot of money. In particular, Fusang produced a lot of gold, so Chai Zhewei only needed to trade in gold, which made the Beifu Bank's gold reserves amazing. Secondly, Chai Zhewei joined forces with the Grand Governor of Tongzhou Tuli, borrowed the front line of Tongzhou, and transported the opium to the Western Regions countries, which also made a lot of profits.

Suddenly, the financial resources of the commercial empire formed by Li Ke reached an unprecedented height.

So, in this case, Li Ke asked Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Li Yan to Chang'an in the name of funding a batch of money and grain. He developed the economy in the Northern Prefecture and reported to Li Shimin in this regard when he was in Chang'an. Therefore, in this case, when the Tang Dynasty was preparing for war, he sent money and grain to Chang'an in the name of the Northern Prefecture, and Li Shimin was naturally very happy. This time, Li Ke asked Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Li Yan to go to Chang'an not only to transport money and grain, but also to convey his opinions to the forces represented by the three of them, like the royal family behind Li Zong,

Behind Chai Zhewei was a military general led by Chai Shao, while Li Yan was mainly to clear Yang Fei. In fact, giving money and grain had another purpose for Li Ke, which was to cage the military and gain some support in the army. The Tang Dynasty started a war in Tuyuhun, and the importance of supplies and grain was self-evident. With money and food, the soldiers could fight hard and fight bloody battles. Li Ke was naturally very clear in the meaning of sending these things at this time. But during the preparations for the war, no one dared to say that Li Ke sent supplies and grain, but he could only praise his righteous deeds, which instead improved his image in the army.

Therefore, Chai Zhewei and Li Zong and Li Yan who arrived in Chang'an completed the money and grain, and each completed their own tasks after the Ministry of Revenue handed over the money and grain.

Li Ke was closely watching the situation after Chai Zhewei and the other three went to Chang'an in Taiyuan. Chai Zhewei and others were also reporting the situation to him at any time so that Li Ke could control the situation remotely. In this way, Li Ke waited hard for more than a month, and finally sent information to him that made him happy, that is, Li Shimin began to publicly express the issue of the court gate that the court could begin to discuss the enthronement of Concubine Yang.

When Li Ke received this information, he immediately told Di Zhixun the news.

After thinking for a long time, Di Zhixun began his own arrangement. The first was that the Guanlong gentry, led by Li Yan, wrote a letter to support the enthronement of Yang Fei as the empress; the second was that Ma Zhou, the censor in Chang'an, began to impeach the Shandong gentry's crime of usurpation during the negotiation of enthronement of the empress; the third was that he joined forces with Li Ke's local forces to convey local support opinions to Chang'an. Among them, the second was the most important point, whether it could be used to crack down on the arrogance of Shandong gentry's arrogance in the court of enthroning the empress depends on whether Ma Zhou's impeachment of the empress was powerful. As for the content of the impeachment, Di Zhixun mainly chose three points. The most important thing was that the act of the Shandong gentry's usurpation of the empress in this court of enthronement of the empress, thus pointing out that some people must have ulterior motives and want to disrupt the court order arbitrarily. This crime is said to be big or small, but it happens to be the most powerful weapon against the Shandong gentry this time.

Because for such a great national affairs as appointing the empress, the court officials wrote a letter to see the emperor's attitude and whether they need to discuss it. Only after the emperor should accept it can everyone start discussing and discussing it. The Tang Dynasty is relatively open, and the royal family affairs are state affairs. Since someone has written to the emperor, the ministers can discuss and explain their own problems. However, the Shandong gentry is not court officials after all, they are only gentry members, and they cannot discuss the government affairs, especially before the emperor issued an order for discussion. However, this time, the Shandong gentry intervened in a high-profile manner before Li Shimin ordered the court discussion, which gave Ma Zhou an excuse to impeach, saying that the Shandong gentry intervened as a commoner, and despised the court as a member of the gentry, and wanted to make the court a court for the gentry.

Ma Zhou's words were very sharp. Even the Shandong gentry dared not bear such a crime. They could only refute Ma Zhou, but without sufficient reason, they could only retreat in the debate with the Jiangnan scholar group, which made Da Zeng, the power to enthrone Yang Fei as the queen, and formed a one-sided situation. At this time, Li Yan's letter, local officials and military generals' attitude was icing on the inside, which added weight to Yang Fei's enthronement of the queen.

Li Shimin's original intention was to not express his attitude at first. He asked the court officials to discuss and quarrel, wanting to see the reactions and attitudes of various forces, and then analyze from it whether this is a conspiracy or a letter of truth, and then make a decision. Because he knew the personalities of Li Tai and Li Chengqian. They did not hate Concubine Yang but had no good feelings. Empress Changsun, as her biological mother, had just passed away for a year, and according to their personality and nature, she would definitely not be included in such a letter of nationality.

But what he didn't expect was that except for the Jiangnan literati group headed by Cen Wenben, the ministers in the court expressed silence. Even Li Ke in the north and the Guanlong gentry who had a strong relationship with Li Ke in Taiyuan City remained silent. On the contrary, Shandong gentry who had no conflict of interest with Concubine Yang had all attacked, which made the inside story that he tried his best to find out became more confusing. In addition, Concubine Yang took the initiative to confess to him that he had not been the queen, and also said so many sincere and sufficient reasons, which made Li Shimin even embarrassed.

While awkward, he felt increasingly unable to understand what the real purpose behind this matter was? Therefore, he had been thinking and waiting hard until he could not get the result he wanted, and then ordered the court to discuss. However, the memorial of Ma Zhou and the Censorate to impeach Shandong gentry surprised him and gave him a hint of enlightenment. He had already noticed the signs that the gentry wanted to control the court through various forces. This time, the Shandong gentry opposed Yang Fei as the queen, and participated in the debate by usurping the ancestral system. This was why he felt the influence and ambition of the gentry.

You cannot compromise, and you must not compromise with such a gentry power! Li Shiminjian made up his mind. When he thought of the Shandong gentry, the Shandong gentry always looked down on the Guanlong gentry, and even did not even feel proud but ashamed of intermarriage with the royal family, he even denies the various reasons why the Shandong gentry opposed the enthronement of Concubine Yang as the queen. In addition, most of the ministers in the court supported the ministers and few opponents, and the central ministers were basically either neutral or supportive. It can be seen that Concubine Yang was deeply loved by the people. After weighing the pros and conscience for a few days, Li Shimin had thought about it and issued an edict to enthrone Yang as the queen on July 15th.

When the imperial edict was issued, the court was filled with joy, and Chang'an City was filled with joy.

At this point, Li Shimin even issued an enthronement ceremony on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.

Suddenly, the whole country celebrated!
Chapter completed!