Chapter 58: The Cunning Li Yuan
Princess Nanyang was also a remarkable woman with a clear distinction between love and hate and a decisive character.
It is understandable that Yuwen Shiji could not forget her.
But Li Yuanji had to criticize Yuwen Shi and this behavior.
Because Yuwen Shiji's current wife is the Princess of Shouguang County, a member of the royal family of Li Tang.
As the girl's family member, Li Yuanji must stand on the side of his girl.
"Yuwen Shiji is also a senior official of the Tang Dynasty. How can he have been obsessed with a nun from the Sui Dynasty? He doesn't care about face, but the Tang Dynasty still needs face."
Li Yuanji grumbled in dissatisfaction and ordered Qu Tutong: "Send someone to Fuqing Temple and ask Yuwen Shiji to come to Luoyang Palace to see me as soon as possible."
Qu Tutong smiled bitterly and sent someone to Fuqing Temple to pass on the message.
It is understandable that Li Yuanji wanted to vent his anger for his own girl.
Li Yuanji, as a member of her husband's family, did a good job. He dared to stand up for his daughter when she was wronged by her husband's family.
After Qu Tutong sent his men away, he approached Li Yuanji and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin has already led the army out of Luoyang City. How to deploy defenses in Luoyang should also be put on the agenda."
Li Shimin led the army away, and the matter of guarding Luoyang had to be put on the agenda.
To guard a place does not mean that you just sit in the main city, but you have to allocate troops and deploy defenses everywhere. You have to guard not only against foreign invasions, but also against internal rebellion.
When Li Shimin was in office, all places in Luoyang respected his orders. Once Li Shimin left, Qu Tutong had the final say on the defense of Luoyang.
Li Yuan did not send troops to Qu Tutong, and Li Shimin did not send troops to Qu Tutong.
Qu Tutong now only had his own troops, personal soldiers, and hundreds of wounded soldiers left by Li Shimin.
Although Li Shimin had not yet gone to war with Liu Heita, many wounded soldiers appeared during the march from Chang'an to Luoyang.
Those wounded soldiers either had their legs broken by being thrown to the ground by their horses, or were accidentally injured by their brothers in their hurry to travel, or had their feet covered with frostbite and were not suitable for going to the battlefield.
The clothes of the Tang Dynasty soldiers were actually very thin. Except for the personal troops of Li Ji, Li Shimin and others, as well as the troops and personal soldiers of various governments, most of the soldiers were not issued thick clothes.
Under their leather, plate, and cloth armor, they were mostly wearing the clothes they usually wore at home.
So almost everyone had frostbite, either their ears were cracked or their hands were cracked, and only a few people had feet so frozen that they could not walk.
The reason why Li Shimin stayed in Luoyang City until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was to wait for Yuan Yi.
Yuanyi can not only help soldiers resist the cold, but also reduce their battle losses and improve their combat effectiveness.
Li Shimin was well aware of the importance of Yuanyi to his soldiers, so he would rather deal with Liu Heita later so that his soldiers could wear warm clothes first.
Qu Tutong said that it was time to put the deployment of defenses on the agenda, but in fact he was reminding Li Yuanji that it was time to give him some troops.
Li Yuanji had no interest in Luoyang's defense, nor did he think of controlling Luoyang, so he said generously: "I will send a message to the governor of Shanzhou and ask him to obey your orders.
The defense of Luoyang is left to you.
If there is merit, we will share it together, if there is guilt, you will bear it alone."
Li Yuanji spoke of the matter of taking credit for others' achievements and shifting the blame in a righteous manner.
Qu Tutong was not disgusted at all. Instead, he smiled and bowed, saying, "Yes!"
People who have been in the military for a long time actually don’t like to play tricks on others. They prefer people who are straightforward.
You want to take credit for them and shift the blame to them. You have made it clear.
Even if they are angry, they are unlikely to blame you.
Because they think you are an open person who speaks openly about the situation when you want to trick them and does not treat them as fools.
They like open-minded people the most and hate being treated as fools the most.
Just because they don't like to play tricks on others doesn't mean they don't have any tricks.
Ever since the publication of "The Art of War", there have been few fools among those who can become generals or officers in the military.
Even though they look fierce on the outside and can't even read a single word, they actually have a lot of evil thoughts in their minds.
Qu Tutong took the military power from Li Yuanji and hurriedly led his men to deploy defenses.
Li Yuanji sat in the front hall of the Luoyang Palace, quietly waiting for Yuwen Shiji, and waited until the evening.
In the evening, Yuwen Shiji, wearing a thick black cloak, hurried to the front hall of Luoyang Palace.
Without waiting for Yuwen Shiji to greet him, Li Yuanji said sarcastically, "Duke Ying is quite busy. You have only been in Luoyang for two days and you are nowhere to be seen. I have been waiting for you here for most of the day."
Yuwen Shiji looked embarrassed and said, "Your Highness, I am Yuwen Shiji. I am honored to meet His Majesty the Prince of Qi."
Ever since Li Yuanji became smarter, he has become less noisy than before, speaking in a sarcastic way that hurts people's ears .
Li Yuanji stared at Yuwen Shiji and said indifferently: "You are now the son-in-law of my Li Tang, not the son-in-law of the former Sui Dynasty. In the future, don't run around those nuns of the fallen dynasties of the former dynasties. Otherwise, others will think that you still miss the former dynasties."
Yuwen Shiji's face changed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The matter between me and Nanyang is known to the Saint and His Royal Highness the King of Qin. The Saint and His Royal Highness the King of Qin have not blamed me, so why should Your Highness interfere?"
Li Yuanji was amused. "You want to say that what happened between you and Nanyang is a family matter, and it's not my turn to ask about it? You want to say that you and Nanyang have a deep relationship, and father and second brother didn't stop you from being together, so I shouldn't ask about it?"
Li Yuanji stood up suddenly, and before Yuwen Shiji could speak, he shouted: "If you really love Nanyang deeply, you should learn from Yuchi Gong, who has not yet found a wife.
But you didn't. You have already married a second wife, a daughter of the royal family of Li Tang.
As a member of the royal family, if I see my daughter being humiliated, shouldn't I intervene?"
Yuwen Shiji widened his eyes and was about to refute.
You are my mother's family, and so am I.
I married a daughter of the Li Tang royal family as my concubine, but your father also married my sister.
Li Yuanji did not give Yuwen Shiji a chance to speak, and shouted again: "You have no shame, but I, the Li Tang royal family, still have it."
Li Yuanji's words were very serious.
Yuwen Shiji repeatedly asked Princess Nanyang to remarry him, so what about Princess Shouguang?
Where will the Li family put their face?
The reason why Li Yuan and Li Shimin ignored the advisors was that in their eyes, among the women of the royal family, except for those born to them themselves, the rest were not their own people.
As long as it doesn't come to their attention, they will definitely not care.
But Li Yuanji didn't mind taking this opportunity to teach Yuwen Shiji a lesson.
On the one hand, it can help you gain popularity among the royal family.
Secondly, it can suppress Yuwen Shiji in momentum.
He will gain popularity among the royal family members, such as Li Shentong, Li Xiaogong, Li Daozon, etc., who will definitely have a good impression of him.
He is superior to Yuwen Shiji in momentum, and he will be able to take a dominant position in future cooperation.
Yuwen Shiji raised his head and stared at Li Ji, "Did the saint tell you to say this? If the saint told you to say this, then I am willing to plead guilty."
Li Yuanji bared his teeth and stared at Yuwen Shiji with a half-smile, "Are you going to use my father to pressure me?"
When Yuwen Shiji saw Li Yuanji baring his teeth, he felt a chill in his heart.
Li Yuanji is going to hit him? !
Li Yuanji dared to beat Yin Ashu in front of Li Yuan, so beating him in private didn't seem to be a big deal.
A wise man never suffers a loss in front of him.
This time he endured it.
"No...I don't dare."
Yuwen Shiji forced a smile on his face.
Li Yuanji hummed and said, "Then do you know you are wrong?"
Yuwen Shiji nodded reluctantly.
Li Yuanji smiled with satisfaction, "If you really like the nuns in Fuqing Temple, you can ask the Grand Historian Fu Yi to have them return to secular life. They have no other choice but to become your concubines."
Yuwen Shiji was stunned.
Li Yuanji smiled and said, "Remember, she is a concubine, not the principal wife."
Yuwen Shiji hesitated for a moment and nodded heavily.
Fu Yi was the anti-Buddhist pioneer of the Tang Dynasty. As long as he could go against Buddhism, he would be at the forefront.
He helped a group of nuns return to secular life, and he will definitely do it for you in a very smooth way.
As for whether this action would lead to impeachment by the censors, Fu Yi didn't care.
If you are not satisfied, you can argue in class.
What's the matter? Our Great Tang has a small population, and those women don't think about adding children to our Great Tang, but instead run to the Buddhist temple to chant Buddha's name and do those useless things. What good do they bring to our Great Tang?
Does Buddhism have any objection?
That's just perfect. We can have all the monks and nuns in all the temples in the world return to secular life and have them add children to our Tang Dynasty.
Buddhism is gone, what else can I complain about?
Fu Yi is this kind of person. He dares to play like this and dares to say this.
"Thank you very much, Your Highness."
Yuwen Shiji thanked Li Yuanji with a complicated expression.
Li Yuanji slapped him and gave him a sweet date.
Not only did he receive the slap, he also had to eat the sweet dates given by Li Yuanji with a smiling face.
The thoughts are so complicated .
"You know what you are going to do in Luoyang City this time, right?"
Li Yuanji stared at Yuwen Shiji and asked quietly.
Yuwen Shiji's expression became even more complicated. Li Shimin had already told him what he was going to do in Luoyang City this time, so of course he knew it.
It is because he knew this that his expression became more complicated.
Li Shimin forced him to take the blame, and he had to do it.
He also went to Li Yuan to plead for mercy, hoping that Li Yuan would come forward and make Li Shimin give up this idea.
But Li Yuan not only did not agree, but asked him to bear Yin Ashu's share as well.
After all, Yin Ashu's status, position and reputation are too low to bear the blame.
Anyway, his sister is Zhaoyi, and his status is higher than Yin Ashu. What Yin Ashu can do, he can do, and what Yin Ashu cannot do, he can also do.
However, Li Yuan would not let him take the blame for nothing. Li Yuan had already issued an edict to confer the title of King of Song on his nephew Li Yuanjia, and appointed him as the Governor of Songzhou, with a fief of 700 households. He also appointed his son as the Imperial Nian Fengyu.
Li Yuan had already given the benefits he deserved, and he had to take the blame.
But this pot is so dark that it could crush someone to death, and he really doesn't want to take the blame.
Li Yuanji didn't know that Li Yuan had given benefits to Yuwen Shiji. If he knew, he would laugh to death.
Even if Yuwen Shiji did not take the blame for Li Yuan and Li Shimin, Yuwen Shiji's nephew could still be named King of Song and Governor of Songzhou.
Li Yuanjia was first and foremost Li Yuan's son, and only secondarily Yuwen Shiji's nephew.
