Chapter 167 The throne belongs to the Li family, but the world is not
The prosperity passes through the beauty, and it is loneliness.
After the noisy night banquet, it is silence and disgrace.
Changsun Wuji and Changsun Chong were both wearing white linen clothes. The father and son were both ministers in the court, purple robes and goldfish bags, one was the emperor's uncle, and the other was the emperor's brother-in-law. They had reached a position where they did not need to wear purple robes to show their status. No matter what they were wearing, the words Changsun were enough.
The young Changsun Chong looked at his father in confusion, looking at the aging old man. Sometimes he didn't know what his father was still working so hard. He went to court every day, regardless of the weather, and went to the minister of the Central Secretariat to work. No matter big or small, he always had to take care of it.
There are so many prime ministers in the court, but in recent years, their father has been presided over the leadership of the court.
My father is already a great minister, so what is he still fighting for? What is he still working so hard, especially now he is still fighting with the emperor.
This shouldn't be true. This country belongs to the Tang Dynasty. Even if my father is a minister who is entrusted with the orphanage, don't forget that the person sitting on the dragon throne is the current emperor.
Although Changsun Chong is a famous family, he is not a playboy. He is a good match for his abilities and is also very capable among the younger brothers of the Guanlong nobles.
He is talented, but has a gentle personality and is very popular in the court.
"Father, your Majesty has something to say today."
"What is there in your words? The emperor dislikes me." Changsun Wuji picked up a glass of wine and drank it all in one go. This is a glass of Lanxi Medicinal Wine, which is popular in Chang'an. It is said that it is good for his wind disease. The major pharmacies in Chang'an have prices but no markets, but Changsun Wuji naturally lacks it.
The wine enters the throat, which is very strong, but it also has a unique and mellow thigh.
I don’t know if it was because I was drinking too quickly or when I was in a bad mood at this time, but his face turned red. He reached out and pulled the collar of his maroon, revealing half of his hairy breasts.
Although Changsun was a civil servant, he followed Li Shimin to conquer the world in his early years, especially when they were the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Changsun family was a general from Wei to Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties. His father Changsun Sheng was a famous grassland strategy expert in the Sui Dynasty, and his archery skills were even more amazing.
The idiom "Slaying Two Eagles" comes from his father. At that time, his father was an envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and went to the Turkic grassland for envoys. On the way, he shot two Eagles down, which shocked the Turks and conquered them.
Changsun Chong picked up a fan and slapped his father one by one.
"Why didn't my father just retreat?" Changsun Chong asked.
"Why do you think I'm unwilling to retreat? Do you love the power?" Changsun Wuji asked his son.
Changsun Chong felt that his father was a bit incest, for example, he and Chu Suiliang were both ministers of life, but in fact his father's desire for power was obviously stronger. He had to take charge of big and small matters and take care of everything.
Moreover, the older my father is, the more obvious this situation is.
Now that the emperor's brother-in-law has grown up, he obviously wants to take power, but his father just refuses to delegate power.
"I am not loving the power and unwilling to leave. I just can't rest assured that the emperor is. He is just a irritable young man who thinks he is mature, so he always wants to take over the power. But he doesn't know how heavy this power is. Before he doesn't have enough ability, taking this power too early is not a good thing for him, it will only be a bad thing."
If you want to wear a crown, you must first bear the weight.
Although Taizong had already mastered the world at an early age, he was less than 30 years old when he was the emperor. However, Taizong began to raise troops to conquer the world at the age of 16. He was fighting along the way, and he came over dangerously.
Along the way, it was extremely dangerous and it was tempered early.
But Li Zhi is different. His temperament is already weak. He is a good personality when he is a prince, but he is too weak when he is an emperor.
It’s not that Li Zhi can face everything after sitting on the throne for five years.
"I was a friend of Taizong's common people and accompanied him to conquer the Tang Dynasty. I walked step by step. It was not easy to have both bloody and bloody winds and night shifts. Now the Tang Dynasty seems stable, but how many people can see the undercurrents below the surface?"
"I am the life-restrained minister entrusted by Emperor Taizong and the emperor's uncle. I can't watch him make mistakes, I can only send him a little help."
He sighed, "Why do you think I want to hold a big rebellion case?"
Without waiting for his son to answer, he continued to murmur to himself, "The scepter of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is still full of thorns. I am the knife left by Emperor Taizong. I want the new emperor to cut off the thorns bit by bit."
The Fang Yiai case itself is just a farce of a few ignorant and stupid guys, but Changsun Wuji caught it and even deliberately fished, and then expanded it, involving countless royal family members and heroes. Why?
In order to help the emperor consolidate the throne.
He raised his knife and helped the emperor cut off many thorns.
The first sword was slashed at a new force that rose when the Tang Dynasty was founded. The Shandong Haoqiang Group, the representatives of this group were Li Ji, Fang Xuanling, Qin Shubao and others. They were all powerful landlords or small gentry members from Shandong. Unlike the Guandong gentry clans, they had a good status before. In the chaotic times of the late Sui Dynasty, they started with military achievements and had strong strength in the Tang Dynasty.
Especially Fang Xuanling has been the prime minister for decades, and his disciples and former officials are everywhere.
Changsun Wuji couldn't wait to clean up the Fang family by using the unfilial love of Fang Xuanling. It was not because he had many old grudges with Fang Xuanling. He actually respected Fang Xuanling, the old partner, but in order to stabilize the throne of the new emperor, he had to take action to flatten the Fang family, and the strong network of relationships that Fang Xuanling had established for decades, which also severely hit Shandong Haoqiang Group.
His second sword was to slash against the royal family of Li Tang, including Li Zhi's uncle Jing Wang Yuanjing and several sons of Emperor Gaozu, as well as Li Zhi's brothers, such as Wu Wangke and others. These people were the most threatening to the emperor in the royal family.
The third knife was slashed at Xunqi, and several prince-consored princes, not only prince-consored princes, but also mostly meritorious children and even famous heroes, such as Zhidui Shishi, Xue Wanche, Chai Lingwu, etc. These people are actually insiders of Guanlong Group.
Moreover, they are all famous generals, with high merits and strong military power.
Changsun Wuji cut off the people and eliminated the threats within the Guanlong Group for the emperor, and also to weaken the increasingly powerful Guanlong Group, especially the military general group.
He slashed the Shandong powerful group with one knife, the royal family members with one knife, and the Guanlong group where he was located.
Even because of these three swords, Changsun Wuji lost a lot of points in the Guanlong Group and was criticized.
Why is all this for?
For power? If it is for his own power, he would not cut these three swords. At least he would only win over those people in the Guanlong Group rather than suppress them.
But who can truly understand his painstaking efforts?
He lost his reputation, and even argued with the emperor that Li Ke was exiled to Yuwen Jie. This was not a personal grudge, but was all for the emperor.
But today, the emperor is aggressive.
The formerly gentle puppies have grown into ferocious wolf.
"Father, since the emperor is already impatient, then my father might as well retreat bravely, so that he can avoid conflicts with His Majesty."
Changsun Wuji shook his head, he had thought about this question.
But he was worried, really worried. Li Zhi was too young, born in the deep palace and raised by women, and had no experience at all. Such a young emperor would not have any good results if he controlled the power early.
"I'm not at ease, I have to help him for a while!" Changsun Wuji sighed.
"But Your Majesty is not willing to protect him. If his father is gone, there will be Li Ji, Chu Suiliang, Yu Zhining and other old ministers."
Changsun Wuji shook his head, "Yu Zhining is just a prime minister. He will never argue with the emperor in anything, whether it is right or wrong. And Chu Suiliang, how can you tolerate Your Majesty if you can't tolerate me? Besides, Li Ji may not be a loyal minister. Look at the prime ministers that Your Majesty has recently worshipped, Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong, who are these people? They were trampled by your father. These people are treacherous people, and they are definitely not loyal ministers. Such people assist Your Majesty and preside over the government are unfortunate in the world."
What's more, when is this now, and now is the most critical time.
The emperor was determined to abolish the queen and the prince, which was something he would never allow.
Especially the prince, the prince is the foundation of the country.
The prince is not at fault for being the eldest son of the concubine. It is a big mistake to easily abolish it. Since he is still in power, he cannot allow such a thing to happen.
Wu family? It was just a talented person from Taizong back then. This woman also wanted to be the queen and wanted her son to be the crown prince. It was absolutely impossible, unless he died of Changsun Wuji.
"Father, why bother? This world is the world of the Li family in the Tang Dynasty."
Changsun Chong's meaning is very obvious. Although their Changsun family is a relative of the foreign country, they are just ministers of the Li family. Those who are ministers must distinguish between the lord and the ministers of the Qing Dynasty.
"The Tang Dynasty belongs to the Li family, but not all the world belongs to the Li family." Changsun said something surprising.
This world was defeated by Changsun Wuji and many heroic soldiers. The throne belongs to the Li family, but the world is also the other heroic officials.
This kind of idea was actually not the first one that Changsun Wuji had.
This idea is actually the Guanlong basic law since the Western Wei Dynasty, and this idea has also created a powerful Guanlong aristocratic group that has continued several dynasties.
Whether it was the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties, there were emperors in each dynasty, but the nobles of several dynasties were still those people.
Since Changsun Wuji came to power, although in order to protect the imperial power, many insiders of the Guanlong Group have been eliminated, but he has been constantly expanding the Guanlong Group, and only those who are rebellious and threatening the imperial power have been eliminated.
Chapter completed!