Li Shimin was very happy.
He did not stop laughing for almost the whole night.
He was even woken up by his own laughter in the middle of the night.
After breakfast, Li Shimin went to the morning court while humming a tune under the suspicious gaze of Empress Zhangsun, who had been yawning all the time.
Empress Zhangsun couldn't help but think that something had happened to the Emperor.
Was he stupid?
As the morning bell rang.
Li Shimin appeared in the back hall of the Political Announcement Palace early. He drank tea and looked through the screen at the ministers doing morning exercises in the square outside the palace.
When he thought of the prosperous scene described by Zhang Feng, Li Shimin couldn't help but have an illusion.
Wasn't this the so-called prosperous time?
After the change of the Xuanwu Gate and the Wei River Alliance, Li Shimin had never felt so comfortable before.
At this time, he actually imagined that he didn't even need to go to the morning court at this time next year. If he could chat with Zhang Feng on Xiao Mountain every day, and then deal with the government affairs while talking and laughing, this must be the life of an immortal, right?
But when he thought of Zhang Feng's future, Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh.
At that time, if this brat were to find out my identity one day, what should I do?
How could I continue to be so heartless with that stinky guy?
"Your Majesty, it's time to go to the morning court!"
When Li Shimin was letting his imagination run wild, Xiao Guizi's voice pulled him back to reality.
Li Shimin sighed slightly and shook his head, saying, "Go to the morning court!"
"Your Majesty is here!"
"Welcome, Your Majesty. Long live the Emperor!"
On the Eight-step Ladder to Heaven, Li Shimin couldn't help but stop. He turned around, looked at the ministers holding white jade tablets, and asked, "Rise!"
"Just now, when I was watching your morning exercises, I suddenly had the illusion that I wanted to continue watching. I also thought of something a close friend once said."
"We have already written a copy of this sentence. Little Guizi, bring it up!"
Li Shimin waved his hand. Two eunuchs hurriedly walked into the main hall with a word carved from red sandalwood. Then, under Li Shimin's instructions, they looked at all the ministers.
"Did you see that? It was this saying that water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it! Eight words! "
"Today, I'm thinking, if I were the Emperor, for example, if all the people of the Tang Dynasty were water, would this lone boat be able to hold on?"
None of the ministers knew what the Emperor wanted to say.
But to be able to be here, which one of them was easy to deal with?
The moment they understood this, many ministers hurriedly knelt and turned pale with fright. "Your Majesty, we don't dare to say this!"
"Our Tang Dynasty will always be strong, and you are the Emperor. How can you be a lone boat?"
"It must be a big boat that stretches as far as the eye can see, Your Majesty!"
Li Shimin waved his hand.
"Indeed, if this small boat goes against the current, it will definitely capsize one day. That's why I need a group of helmsmen, and you are my helmsmen, the helmsmen of our Tang Dynasty."
"We obey the Emperor's order!"
Everyone loudly said in unison.
No one understood what the Emperor wanted to do.
Even Wei Zheng and the others didn't know what the Emperor wanted to say today.
Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Later, Minister Fang, you are responsible for asking the Secretariat and the Ministry of Works to make a hundred copies of this calligraphy and give them to each of you!"
"Before, everything in our Tang Dynasty was proceeding in an orderly manner, and we could even see a trace of a prosperous era. But it was an insignificant drought. Who would have thought that such a plague of locusts would break out?"
"And there was such a serious famine after the plague of locusts? Although this matter has passed, you should have seen that the Achilles heel of our Tang Dynasty is food! "
"You should have heard about what happened to General Niu earlier, right? Someone deliberately embezzled the ironware that the people urgently need for autumn planting. What is this? Although it seems to be targeting the people, in fact, each of you here has at least hundreds of acres of fertile land in your family, right? "
This time …
Wei Zheng and the others seemed to have realized something.
But at this time, even he dared not say anything.
If the Emperor used him as an example, then …
So at this time, they all closed their mouths tightly and pretended to be contemplating.
Li Shimin glanced at the crowd and then said, "The night before the Autumn Planting Worship Ceremony, Empress Zhangsun received several people who wanted me to take back the fertile land that I had previously rewarded. I won't name names here because I know your pain. But today, I will give you one more chance. After I finish this matter, if anyone still wants to take back the land, I don't care who it is, I will allow it!"
At this time, everyone was dumbfounded.
At this time, the fertile land had long been a sore point for all the ministers.
But why did the Emperor say such inexplicable words as soon as he came to court today?
At this time, an old minister in a purple robe stepped forward and said, "I, Kong Yingda, have a report to the Emperor!"
Li Shimin smiled slightly.
He waved his hand and said, "My dear minister, don't be impatient. Wait for me to finish, okay?"
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