Chapter 9: The General of the Cavalry Versus the Prince's Groom
“Yes!”
Xie Shufang bowed and prepared to carry out Li Yuanji's order.
Li Yuanji waved his hand and said, "Come closer and listen."
Xie Shufang was stunned for a moment, but still walked closer to Li Yuanji.
Li Yuanji whispered: "Go and help me send a group of people..."
Li Yuanji whispered something to Xie Shufang.
Xie Shufang's eyes widened in astonishment, and he exclaimed, "This... this is inappropriate, right? If the Saint knew, he would definitely punish Your Highness."
Li Yuanji glared at Xie Shufang and shouted, "I have already imprisoned myself in the Wude Hall, how else can he punish me?"
Xie Shufang hesitated for a moment and laughed dryly: "That's true..."
Li Yuan was not too strict with his sons, and was even a little protective of them. If his sons made a mistake, he would just scold them if it was not too serious. If the mistake was serious, he would demote them, but they would be given back their titles after a short while.
Although the person Li Yuanji asked Xie Shufang to investigate would offend Li Yuan, it was not a big mistake.
Li Yuanji has already imprisoned himself in the Wude Hall, so Li Yuan really won't do anything to him.
Li Yuanji waved his hand and said nothing more.
Xie Shufang bowed and left the hall.
After Xie Shufang left, Li Yuanji suddenly felt a little hungry. Then he realized that he had not eaten anything since yesterday.
Li Yuanji immediately prepared to tell the maid to prepare food.
But before Li Ji could speak, Chen Shanyi walked into the hall quietly, holding a square mahogany tray.
Chen Shanyi seemed to have cried, and her eyes were slightly red.
Li Yuanji wanted to ask, but Chen Shanyi quickly placed the square mahogany plate on the long table in front of Li Yuanji and quickly left the hall.
Li Yuanji opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
After a long while, Li Ji frowned slightly and ordered outside the hall, "Someone come!"
The guards outside the hall immediately appeared inside and knelt on one knee.
"Go and ask who in the mansion bullied Madam Chen."
The guard was stunned, and immediately understood what Li Yuanji wanted to ask, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, no one in the mansion bullied Empress Chen. Empress Chen has been wandering outside the palace since yesterday evening, and has not seen anyone else."
Now it was Li Yuanji's turn to be stunned.
After a brief thought, Li Yuanji probably understood, "Did Empress Chen hear what Liu Shaojian and I said?"
The guard immediately said, "Yes, Your Highness."
Li Yuanji waved his hand and asked the guards to leave.
Fortunately, when Li Yuan lifted his house arrest, he strongly requested to continue the house arrest.
Otherwise, what Chen Shanyi sent might not be food, but poison.
Although Chen Shanyi didn't speak to him just now, the spirit in his eyes has recovered a lot and he looks more energetic.
Li Yuanji was very happy.
He didn't force Chen Shanyi to recover immediately, as long as he could recover slowly.
Li Yuanji lowered his head and glanced at the food Chen Shanyi brought.
There was a plate of green vegetables, a plate of cooked lean meat, and a plate of soft, strip-shaped pasta. Li Yuanji had never seen what it was.
This is the breakfast of a Tang Dynasty prince.
It looks a bit shabby, but in this era, it is a luxurious meal.
The reason is simple, there is a plate of green vegetables.
It is winter now, which is the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. It is the coldest time of the year and it is not easy to eat green vegetables.
There were no vegetable greenhouses during this period, so probably only the royal family could eat vegetables in the winter.
Li Yuanji stared at the food, hesitating whether to eat it or not.
He didn't touch the soup that Chen Shanyi sent him yesterday.
He knew what had happened to Chen Shanyi and sympathized with her.
But precisely because of this, he was worried that Chen Shanyi would turn evil after experiencing his adopted son's disobedient behavior.
Historical records are of no use at this point.
Historically, Chen Shanyi died on the spot when he was dismembered by his predecessor, and he did not survive.
Li Yuanji did not doubt Chen Shanyi's love for her predecessor, but he had also seen the news that she loved her own children and even jumped off a building with her children.
Although his conversation with Liu Jun this morning could resolve a lot of Chen Shanyi's resentment, he still decided to be cautious.
You only have one life, and this is a palace where people are eaten without leaving any bones.
"Why don't you have anyone to serve you?"
Li Yuanji suddenly shouted outside the hall.
A maidservant immediately walked in from outside the hall.
It was the maid who reminded Li Yuanji of his impoliteness yesterday.
Li Yuanji waved his hand at her and asked, "What's your name?"
The maid stuttered, "My maid...my name is Ajiu."
Li Yuanji smiled and ordered, "Go get me a puppy from the mansion."
The maid was stunned for a moment, then immediately agreed and went out.
Not long after, he returned to the temple holding a yellow puppy.
My predecessor loved hunting, so we kept a lot of dogs at home.
Finding a puppy is easy.
Li Yuanji took the puppy, and after the maid left, he immediately took out some of the food on the plate and fed it to the puppy.
Although the puppy usually ate well, it was still not as good as a prince's meal, so he immediately started chewing the food while wagging his tail unceremoniously.
After eating, Li Yuanji put it on the ground and then it ran around Li Yuanji happily.
Li Yuanji waited until the puppy had run for two incense sticks of time and confirmed that the puppy was fine before he started to eat the food that Chen Shanyi had brought him.
After eating and drinking, Li Yuanji hesitated for a while, then rushed to the bedroom with the puppy in his arms.
Li Yuanji not only wanted to clean out the female officials and subordinates in the mansion, but also wanted to replace the palace servants in the mansion.
Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin each placed people in his mansion. Those among the female officials and subordinates have been found, but no one knows whether there are any among the palace maids and how many there are.
In that case, we might as well change the subject.
Anyway, there is no shortage of palace maids in the palace.
The female relatives of the enemies captured by Li Tang were either palace maids or reserve palace maids, and their number was quite large.
Li Yuan could not use it all, and the rest was available for his sons to use at will.
There are people who just go there to pick their bed partners for no reason.
For example, a man named Li Shimin sent people to the Ye Ting Palace some time ago to pick up Wei Nizi, the widow of Wang Shichong's son Wang Xuanying.
However, Li Yuanji could not personally deal with such matters, so he sent other people from the mansion. Who knows whether that guy is loyal or treacherous, and whether he will select a group of treacherous people for him.
So we can only ask the Princess of Qi to take action.
The Princess of Qi and the King of Qi share the same fate, and she will not choose a group of treacherous people to harm him.
Although she was forcibly taken away by Li Shimin in history, she was the Princess of Qi until her death.
Just as Li Yuanji rushed to the bedroom, there was a great shock inside and outside the palace because of him.
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Ganlu Temple.
While comforting the crying King of Feng Li Yuanheng, Li Yuan listened to Liu Jun reporting what he saw and heard in the main hall of Wude Hall.
When Li Yuan heard Liu Jun say that Li Yuanji imprisoned himself in Wude Hall just after he left and set the sentence according to Chen Shanyi's mood, he felt ashamed and angry.
Li Yuan did not treat Chen Shanyi as a human being, but Li Yuanji did.
Li Yuanji used his actions to tell Li Yuan that gratitude has nothing to do with status.
Li Yuanji also used his actual actions to tell Li Yuan that Li Yuan was a bit ungrateful.
Chen Shanyi has done a great favor to the Li family. Li Yuan cannot just ignore it because of his background.
It can be said that Li Yuanji taught Li Yuan a lesson.
"Go, order the secretary to draft an imperial edict to enthrone Chen Shanyi as Madam Ciyi!"
Li Yuan gave the order.
Li Yuan did not want to embarrass himself in front of his son. His son taught him a lesson, and he immediately remembered it.
However, Li Yuan still didn't care about Chen Shanyi.
Li Yuan only gave Chen Shanyi the title of Madam Ciyi, but did not explain what her status was.
Liu Jun was Li Yuan's confidant and knew what Li Yuan was thinking, so he knew very well how to convey the message to the Secretariat.
Liu Jun left Ganlu Palace.
Feng Wang Li Yuanheng hugged Li Yuan's legs and wailed, "Father, father, I have no food to eat..."
Li Yuan was in a dilemma.
He issued an imperial decree to demote Yin Ashu from his official position, and ordered that Concubine Yin De be confined to her house, and also demoted Li Yuanheng to a fiefdom. Concubine Yin De then asked Li Yuanheng to come to him to make trouble.
Li Yuanheng is only three years old and doesn't understand anything yet. How could he know what a fiefdom is?
How could he possibly know that if the household registration was cut, the income would be reduced and there would be less food to eat?
It was obviously taught by Concubine Yin De.
"Alright, alright, stop arguing."
Li Yuan picked up Li Yuanheng and said helplessly.
Li Yuanheng didn't care what Li Yuan said. He lay in Li Yuan's arms and cried and made a fuss.
Li Yuan looked at Li Yuanheng's pitiful appearance, and his heart softened all of a sudden. "Alright, alright, stop crying. I'll give you the bonus back."
When Li Yuanheng heard the three words "add it back", it seemed to be similar to what his mother had instructed, and he stopped crying instantly.
Li Yuanming knew that Li Yuanheng was instigated by Concubine Yin De, but because of Li Yuanheng's pitiful appearance, he forgave Concubine Yin De.
Li Yuan managed to deal with Li Yuanheng, but it was not so easy for Li Jiancheng in the Eastern Palace to deal with Li Sixing.
Li Sixing was studying a volume of books from the pre-Sui Dynasty collection that Li Shimin had brought back from Luoyang at home. He had just studied it a little bit when Xie Shufang came to his door and conveyed Li Yuanji's order.
Li Sixing was not very fond of Li Yuanji, but he was an official of the Prince of Qi's Palace after all, and he had to obey the Prince of Qi's orders.
Immediately, he took his collection of research books and rushed to the East Palace.
When he arrived at the Eastern Palace and told the palace his purpose, the palace knew that he had ill intentions.
Li Jiancheng immediately sent Wei Zheng to deal with him.
As soon as Wei Zheng showed up, Li Sixing stepped forward and saluted, "Li Sixing greets Wei Xima."
Wei Zheng was startled. He avoided Li Sixing's salute and hurriedly saluted Li Sixing, "This humble official greets Li Huqi."
Wei Zheng cried and said, "What are you doing, Li Huqi? In terms of age, I am a generation younger than you, and in terms of official rank, I am also lower than you. How can I accept your courtesy when you bow to me?"
Wei Zheng and Li Sixing had similar body shapes, both were thin and had goatees.
Both of them have strange tempers and are very stubborn.
It’s just that Wei Zheng is stubborn and upright, while Li Sixing is stubborn and weird.
When Wei Zheng faced Li Sixing, he couldn't use his upright style because Li Sixing would harm him to death.
As soon as they met, Li Sixing gave Wei Zheng a warning.
When Li Sixing heard Wei Zheng's words, he straightened up slightly and said with a smile: "I heard that the Qi Wang Mansion where I work has now been incorporated into the Eastern Palace. You are the Eastern Palace's groom, and as an official of the Eastern Palace, I naturally have to greet you when I see you."
Wei Zheng asked hurriedly: "Where did you get this from?"
