Chapter 23 The reward is heavy
Princess Taiping is dead! Princess Taiping, who is as powerful as a queen, died in Pei Min's arms like this.
As she said: She has her pride!
Although Li Dan asked Princess Taiping for a way out, let Princess Taiping survive as a loser. With her pride, it would be more enjoyable to die!
Princess Taiping has long decided on the road ahead, either living in the world as a successful person or failing to end herself, so she has prepared the poison for herself. In fact, it is not just her, but Li Longji is also the same. If Princess Taiping wins today, even if Princess Taiping can tolerate Li Longji, Li Longji will not have the face to live in the world.
They are yi people, and the Li Tang world cannot accommodate two powerful people.
Pei Min felt a little sad. Although she had no regrets about her position today, she couldn't help but imagine: What would have happened if she had asked Princess Taiping to bribe her and sincerely serve her?
It’s time to come, it’s useless to think too much!
As for Princess Taiping's advice on his deathbed, Pei Min can only remember it in his heart and pay attention to it at all times.
Li Longji's coup was successful. Faced with the five brothers who worked together, Princess Taiping could not stand alone, and she was defeated without losing or losing unjustly.
After this coup, the Supreme Emperor Li Dan was more sad than death. Princess Taiping's suicide caused him to lose his relatives. The keenness of power in his heart became hated. He even felt that he was greedy for the power and did not delegate power to Li Longji, which led to the coup. He fell into regret and blamed himself. He was completely unwilling to pay attention to political matters. He issued an edict and handed over all the power in his hand to Li Longji. He moved out of Tai Chi Palace and moved into Baifu Palace.
After a series of fierce battles, the great empire of the Tang Dynasty usurped the dynasty by the Wu clan. The two Zhang Leng Quan, Wei clan, and Princess Anle cholera, and the Taiping Party controlled the government. Each of them rose and became brilliant and finally died. Finally, in this day, everything was settled.
Li Longji also got rid of the embarrassing situation of being in name only and became a true emperor!
But what made Pei Min glad was that Li Longji did not start a massacre in the end of this coup, and the important members of the Taiping Party in the court had been cleared. Li Longji adopted a tolerant attitude towards their family, and did not kill them all, but did not choose to forgive him. Instead, he confiscated the family's wealth and demoted him in another place.
Not only that, what surprised Pei Min the most was that Princess Taiping's family was also within Li Longji's forgiveness. Pei Min remembered that in history, all Princess Taiping except Xue Chongjian, had all her sons killed by Li Longji. But this time, perhaps due to Li Dan's heart-wrenching wail, and her murderous intention was not so strong. Although Princess Taiping's mansion assets were still seized, she pardoned the death penalty of her other three sons, and only demoted them to civilians and exiled to Bazhou. She was not allowed to be an official nor returned to the capital. As in history, Xue Chongjian was specially exempted, restored to his post and given the surname Li.
Seeing that Li Longji missed Hui Fan, Pei Min specially reminded him that he is not a gentleman and will not be ruthless when he can take advantage of the situation.
Hui Fan was naturally sentenced to death. When raiding his house, the soldiers and soldiers collected 13 million yuan from his mansion. In terms of the materials for the raid, it was second only to Princess Taiping, and it was not unfair to kill him.
As night falls, the purge of the Taiping Party in the court has also come to an end.
That night, Li Longji held a celebration banquet in Wude Hall. The celebration banquet was not large in scale, but as long as there were civil officials and generals who had the merits of the Dragon, they were invited.
This is also Li Longji's cleverness.
The Supreme Emperor Li Dan was only a talented man. When Li Longji took the Tanglong coup, he first ascended the great treasure. The mountain of government affairs was piled up, which made him two big and unable to deal with it at all. Then he thought of a solution. When the government affairs came, he didn't have to think about it at all. He directly asked the ministers if they had discussed with Taiping. No, go to Taiping first. After discussing it? That would be better, just deal with it directly according to Taiping's method. Not only did the military and national affairs be all assigned to Princess Taiping, but even the power of civil and military officials who should be appointed and removed were all assigned to Princess Taiping. Because of this, officials who depended on Princess Taiping for a future are flocking to it. As a result, most of the civil and military officials in the court were the followers of Princess Taiping. Now that Taiping has been eliminated, there are countless vacancy, the court will inevitably be unstable.
What Li Longji trusted the most is the ministers who followed the dragon. These people have made great contributions and are waiting for rewards, so they are naturally extremely loyal to him. Building a team with the ministers who followed the dragon is also a must-do for wise kings in all dynasties.
The seats at the banquet are also very particular, arranged according to the achievements of the dragon.
The four kings are undoubtedly the most meritorious. The role of the four kings is obvious this time. As a prince, he has great deterrence and credibility. Even if he knows that the imperial edict may not be true, he will not dare to do anything to the emperor's son. He will not be killed for the crime of resisting the imperial edict or accepting the imperial edict, and there is no third choice.
The second is Guo Yuanzhen and Guo Yuanzhen's wisdom and step-by-step calculations demonstrated in this coup. The most successful achievements are well deserved. Next are Pei Min, Wei Zhigu, Wang Ju, Cui Riyong, Zhang Shuo and others. Zhang Shuo was far away in Luoyang, so naturally he didn't have time to attend today's banquet. Because Wei Zhigu, Wang Ju, Cui Riyong and Cui Riyong followed Li Longji for a long time, Pei Min was located below the three. After Pei Min, Wang Maozhong, Ge Fushun, Li Xianfu, Xue Jungu, Ma Xu and others responded to the call first, from top to bottom, nearly fifty people.
This group of dragon ministers, Pei Min, is the youngest and has the lowest status, but the achievements he has obtained are the most eye-catching, and no one dares to dissatisfied. Who can sit at this celebration banquet is not a human spirit? How could he not know that after today, this youngest young general has begun to turn into a dragon and soar.
Li Longji was both eloquent. As the host of the banquet, more than 50 people said his name and achievements, and toasted them all. He felt that everyone was valued, had a bright future, and was full of yearning for a beautiful life.
At the banquet, Li Longji was very popular.
Pei Min returned to the mansion, looked at the mansion given to him by Princess Taiping, and remembered the heroine who died in his arms. She couldn't help but sigh, with a faint melancholy in her heart.
When he entered the mansion, the butler Ning Ze first came to congratulate him. Today, the Taiping Yi Party was executed, which has been a hot topic. Although Pei Min's achievements are not known to the world, there are rumors.
Ning Ze and his brother Ning En were of equal talent and were both qualified to inherit the Xue family's manager. Ning Ze was unwilling to compete with his brother, so he stepped back and came to Pei's house to serve as manager. Seeing that Pei Min was very talkative and outstanding in his work, he would be generous in the future, and he would do his best to manage his mansion so that Pei Min would become prosperous in the future and would be honored. However, he did not expect that Pei Min had already made his debut in just over a month, so that he was extremely happy.
Xue Nayi was waiting for Pei Min to return, and the old man was talking about today's incident in the hall.
Listening to Li Dan's tragedy, Xue Na sighed and felt very moved. Hearing that Princess Taiping died in Pei Min's arms, he couldn't help but say: "If Princess Taiping was a man, she would have done a great job with her wisdom. It's a pity! Her daughter gave her so many disadvantages that she was addicted to power, like a moth to a fire. Don't have any pressure. The power struggles of the royal family have always been so cruel and inevitable. With my understanding of Your Majesty today, today's incident is a great thing for the Tang Dynasty."
Pei Min thought of the glory of the Kaiyuan prosperous era in history, and the melancholy in her heart also dissipated a lot.
With the punishment of the Taiping Party, a new era is coming.
Li Longji succeeded as emperor for more than a year, and he always asked about politics in Wude Hall.
On this day, I finally entered the Tai Chi Palace. The young Li family Sanlang was naturally magnificent and ambitious. He only felt that the world was in his palm, and the Tang Dynasty would take advantage of the situation.
Li Longji killed five prime ministers yesterday, and the prime minister was vacant. The first thing he did when he went to court was to decide the prime minister and maintain the operation of the Tang Dynasty: Guo Yuanzhen, Yao Chong, Zhang Shuo, Liu Youqiu and others were promoted to prime ministers. The second thing was also the highlight of today's court meeting: the reward of the heroes from Long. Faced with the countless vacancies in the court, Li Longji did not sleep at night last night. In order to arrange all the heroes who were willing to follow him into suitable positions, on the one hand, it was to help him stabilize the court and on the other hand it was to reward them for their help.
Needless to say, the four kings who were successful: However, the four kings had special identities and were originally princes, and they were rewarded without any rewards, so their real title was promoted to 5,000. Guo Yuanzhen was promoted to prime minister and to Duke Dai. Wei Zhigu was promoted to Shizhong, Duke Liang, and was granted 300 households. Wang Ju was promoted to the Minister of Revenue. His family members were special, and he participated in the great politics of Henan, and was granted the title of Ziwei Shilang, Duke Zhao. Cui Ri went to the chief of Yongzhou, and added the title of Duke of Qi. Zhang Shuozheng was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat and Duke Yan.
Everyone received rewards from Long Gongshi. After Zhang Shuo, all the civil and military officials in the court pricked up their ears.
At yesterday's small banquet, Pei Min's status as a congregation dragon was obvious. As the youngest congregation dragon, all the civil and military officials in the court wanted to know what height he would climb to ascend to the sky!
Pei Min, the head of the Ministry of War, was promoted to the position of the Censor of the Censorate and was awarded the title of Duke of Liang.
The appointment was issued, and the ministers were greatly surprised, and some even felt very upset. Although there was no whisper and so many officials were kneeling there, some people felt a little strange and felt aroused.
Everyone knows that Pei Min will step into the sky, but he doesn't expect that he will jump from a small eighth-rank mung bean official to jump several levels, becoming a sixth-rank official, and becoming a Duke. He is so kind!
But those who participated in the coup in person were calmly right. Although they had envy, they thought they deserved their reputation.
If it weren't for Pei Min, the Right Yulin Army would not be so easily subdued, and the Right Yulin Army would not surrender, and the Ten Thousand Cavalry would not be able to surrender. Without the Five Yulin Army and Ten Thousand Cavalry, what would Li Longji use to fight against the Southern Ya Imperial Army?
What's more, Pei Min also found out the Taiping fine work, saved Li Longji's life, and first proposed to attack the Nanya.
Chapter completed!