Chapter 32: On Rewards for Meritorious Actions
After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, King Li Shimin of Qin was successfully established as the crown prince by Emperor Li Yuan, and the Xuanwu Gate Incident also began to enter the stage of rewarding merits. Originally, everyone was in order to save their lives and to be able to keep their glory and wealth, so they followed King Li Shimin of Qin to carry out the Xuanwu Gate mutiny. Now that the mutiny has been successful, everyone should go further. This step is what happened after King Li Shimin of Qin became the crown prince. In a few days, everyone can go further, but at that time, Li Shimin, the identity of emperor, came to enthrone everyone.
"I have seen Your Highness the Crown Prince!" All the heroes took the initiative to salute.
Li Shimin was also full of majesty and said: "Today is the happiest day for the Lone King. Today, the Lone King officially became the crown prince, and the father has handed over all the national affairs to the Lone King for disposal. This is the emperor's trust in the Lone King. I hope that all the beloved ministers can do their best to assist the Lone King and create a great Tang Dynasty together!"
The so-called Li Yuan handed over all the major national affairs to Li Shimin. In fact, anyone understands the internal reason. However, some things can be done and cannot be said clearly now, so Li Shimin is also saying that he thanks his father for his trust.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your praise. I will do my best to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and the Prince!" Everyone said according to the preview.
Next, an eunuch next to Li Shimin took out the edict and began to prepare for reading.
"The emperor ordered Yu Wen Shi and the crown prince Zhan Shi, Changsun Wuji and Du Ruhui as the left concubine son of the crown prince, Gao Shilian and Fang Xuanling as the right concubine son of the crown prince. Yuchi Gong was the left guard and Cheng Zhijie was the right guard..."
Listening to the rewards, everyone was happy. These were the people who made contributions to Li Shimin's participation in the Xuanwu Gate coup, and they all became the prince's officials. The prince's officials were actually a reduced-type court, which was specifically assisting the prince. It won't take long, as long as Li Shimin ascended the throne, the reduced-type court will immediately become a real court team and replace the Li Yuan's court in the past. Therefore, now he has entered the prince's officials, and he will officially become a high-ranking official in the court.
"Now, the Gu Wang continues to issue an order. The Gu Wang Wang's sister Princess Wanchun has been smart since childhood and is very close to the Gu Wang, so the Gu Wang has allowed her to choose her future husband!" Li Shimin said.
After hearing this, everyone was puzzled. Didn’t Li Shimin tell lies with him? Li Shimin’s sister Princess Wanchun is so speechless. Anyone who knows the inside story must know that Li Shimin has no relationship with his sister Princess Wanchun. Although they are brothers and sisters, they are not familiar with them. This is the sorrow of the royal family. Although they are family members or even born from the same father, they are not familiar with each other and will regard each other as enemies.
However, Li Shimin suddenly said this, which was a bit inexplicable. According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, princesses were used to marry nobles in the court. Now everyone also had a hidden rule, that is, the second son of the senior officials here would generally be able to marry Li Shimin's daughter. This was the rule of the Tang Dynasty, where the eldest son inherited the title, and the second son Shangzhu. That is, the eldest son inherited the title, and the second son married the emperor's daughter, which was actually the result of the marriage between the emperor and the nobles. But now Li Shimin proposed one of his sisters and actually wanted her to choose her husband himself. This is simply rare.
Moreover, it is not completely impossible to let the princess choose her husband by herself. But why is it just Princess Wanchun, not another princess? Is Princess Wanchun special in her identity? What articles are there? So everyone is suspicious in their hearts. However, these have nothing to do with those heroes. Since Li Shimin asked his sister to choose her husband by herself, why are she doing too much? This is actually the family affairs of the royal family, and she has nothing to do with herself.
Next, everyone started to reward one by one. However, these rewards were all officials of the fifth rank or above, and ordinary officials would not be publicly rewarded. For example, Chen Fei was just an eighth rank small official, and it was not the turn to reward him in front of everyone. Therefore, although Chen Fei was here, he was not qualified to publicly reward him.
Soon, the rewards were over, and a celebration banquet was held next.
"Drink!" "Everyone gives the Lone King to drink. Today is a great day. Everyone gives the Lone King to drink!" "Today is here with the Lone King, there are no rules, and everyone will not return without getting drunk!"
During this celebration banquet, everyone's pressure was relieved a lot. After all, things have been successful and there is nothing to regret. So everyone has relaxed and started to indulge themselves. Anyway, everyone has succeeded, so why are they going to do so much? Even Li Shimin is here to toast everyone, saying that they will not be drunk and never return.
"Yuchi Jingde, this time you will kill two traitors, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji alone. The best of merit is, the Lone King respects you first!"
Next, Li Shimin toasted everyone one by one, and even no one missed it. Li Shimin's alcohol tolerance was really not small, and after toasting one by one, they were still very energetic. When Li Shimin came to Chen Fei, his face was rather strange.
"Chen Jun, although you did not do what you promised the Lonely King, but the Lonely King has already fulfilled your request, so the Lonely King will not owe you in the future." Li Shimin took the initiative to toast.
After hearing this, people around the neighborhood turned their attention here, obviously showing a "aggressive love". Li Shimin didn't say anything extra when he was talking to others, but there must be inside information about this when he actually said this here.
Chen Fei lamented in his heart that Li Shimin didn't like him very much! Chen Fei had promised Li Shimin that if Li Shimin failed, he would take his daughter Li Lizhi away. However, Chen Fei ran back before the Xuanwu Gate Incident ended. For Li Shimin, that was that Chen Fei did not fully execute the order at that time. At that time, Chen Fei's request was that Li Shimin agreed to that condition, but now Chen Fei did not do it, but Li Shimin did it. Moreover, Chen Fei has adopted Li Jiancheng's daughter Li Wanrou. A person who is not good at doing things and adopts the daughter of his enemy, causing Li Shimin to not like Chen Fei very much.
Chapter completed!