That night, routine banquets were still in progress in some mansions in Chang'an City. All the topics discussed were today's court discussions.

Changsun Wuji did not participate in the banquet, but was drinking alone in the study room in the backyard. Suddenly, footsteps came from outside the door, and the butler walked in and said softly: "Master, the prince is back."

"Let him come in." Changsun Wuji was already three points drunk. The housekeeper was afraid of annoying him, so he hurriedly ran out. After a while, Changsun rushed in and frowned when he saw Changsun Wuji's drunkenness.

"Why is this how my father?"

"Why is this?!" Changsun Wuji sneered, glanced at Changsun sideways, and the housekeeper hurriedly surrendered. If he heard the conversation between father and son, he would not have any good results.

"Why don't you tell me about your Majesty's summons to you? Father and son are heartless. Is this your filial piety?"

Changsun smiled bitterly and said, "My father misunderstood me. His Majesty summoned me to ask about it. I really don't know at all whether it was a matter of enfeoffment. I will set up a bachelor's and other things later."

Changsun Wuji looked at Changsun Chong, feeling angry, but he couldn't tell it. How could he not know that his son is not in the same relationship with him now? He looked at Changsun Chong quietly, and after a while, he said, "Chong'er, I'll ask you. Did you approve the loan matters of Datang Salt Industry last month or not?"

Changsun Chong said seriously: "Father, I have said this countless times. According to the rules, if there is no sufficient guarantee, such a huge amount of loan will not be approved. This is the rule, and there is no exception. Moreover, because you are my father, in order to avoid suspicion, if Datang Salt Industry wants to get a loan, it needs to pay another deposit in addition to the mortgage."

"Changsun Chong, don't go too far!" Changsun Wuji gritted his teeth in anger and said, "Do you know who I did all this for? I will grow old one day, and Changsun, the entire Longyou will be handed over to you to inherit. Now you are helping the Tang Dynasty's salt industry, just to help you win people's hearts and earn a family business by yourself. Not only do you not do your best, but you are hindering everywhere. Could it be that you really drank Li Mu's soul soup and forgot what your surname is!"

"Father! This is exactly what my son wants to say to you!" Changsun Chong rarely confronted Changsun Wuji: "Don't forget, father, everything about Changsun is given by His Majesty. Your Majesty's preferential treatment to his father is usually because of his affection for growing up with his father, and his other half is because of his aunt. Although his father's talent is of high quality, he is not outstanding! In addition to the conspiracy that year, has his father ever made special contributions to this country?"

"What did you say!" Changsun Wuji widened his eyes and shivered in anger: "You rebellious son, you speak disobedient words, you, you..."

"I'm just telling the truth!" Changsun Chong took the initiative and shouted: "In the past, although my father did not make great contributions in his work, he was loyal after all. But since the situation was initially settled, what his father did was farther away from the word "loyalty". All the plans of his father were for the Changsun family and for personal gain, and the emperor was second to him. Your Majesty was magnanimous and did not pursue his father's faults, but his father did not wake up!"

"The prosperity of the Changsun family is not about how much the father plans today, but whether the Changsun family can be simple in the heart of the emperor. The father can't see through this superficial truth! The son did not drink any ecstasy soup. The teacher taught his son how to do, but never asked his son to do anything. The son just did what a minister should do. In line with the rules, the son will definitely do it. If the rule is not in line with the rules, the son will definitely not do it. No matter who it is, even if the mentor needs a loan, he will follow the rules step by step. Even if the prince needs a loan, he should do it. The Tang Bank controls the wealth of the world and cannot be without rules!"

After saying that, regardless of Changsun Wuji's dark face, Changsun Chong bowed and said, "It is already unfilial for his son to make his father angry. A dilemma of loyalty and filial piety is the responsibility of his son..." As he said that, tears filled his eyes and he turned around and left the study.

Changsun Wuji stared at the direction where Changsun rushed away, and for a long time he didn't come back to his senses.

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But another mansion is another scene.

Chu Suiliang was appointed as a bachelor of the Literature Pavilion. Since then, he has participated in the confidentiality and is just around the corner. Someone has come to congratulate him when he heard about the news. Chu Suiliang is young and has few relationships. But his father Chu Liang has a broad range of friendships. Although he has now "retreated to the second line", his friends back then were all the best.

In the past, Li Shimin set up a literature museum to recruit talents from all over the world. Du Ruhui, the official of the royal palace, Fang Xuanling, Yu Shinan, Chu Liang, Yao Silian, Li Xuandao, the chief clerk, Cai Yungong, Xue Yuanjing, and Yan Xiangshi, consulting and signing Su Xu, the chief clerk of Tiance Prefecture Yu Zhining, the military consulting sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrific

Not only were all 18 scholars who were entitled to the fifth rank salary, but they also had fish and carts. Li Shimin also ordered Yan Liben to paint their portraits and favor them. Although, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, these eighteen people were not reused. However, the love in the past was not forgotten, and everyone was properly placed. Even if they were not in the real power department, they had a noble job and had no worries about food and clothing.

Today, Chu Suiliang was selected as a bachelor's degree. For Chu Liang, it was like his child who was admitted to a key university in later generations. Some people congratulate him, so he naturally had to have a banquet and never return without getting drunk.

After drinking for three rounds, Fang Xuanling, who had the highest official position and the most powerful authority, smiled and looked at everyone, and said with a smile: "In the past, all the counselors who assisted Your Majesty. Today, you might as well guess what your Majesty's intention is?"

No one present was outsiders, and he had no scruples in speaking. Moreover, thinking that the emperor's mind was a matter of the counselor's responsibility, even if it was heard by Li Shimin, he would not have any. With the intention of drinking, Xu Jingzong continued: "I think that what Your Majesty did was nothing more than 'centralization'."

Yu Zhining was a stern person with no expression on his face. In his early years, he felt that Xu Jingzong was cunning, so he had a lot of opinions about him. But this time, he agreed with Xu Jingzong's point of view and said: "Your Majesty's move is to collect the power to discuss politics in the cabinet. In the future, the position of prime minister was in vain. The power of decision-making was taken over to the monarch, and the government was assigned to the scholars who had no authority, and there was no worry about losing power. The administrative power was allocated six ministries, and the local government was divided into three departments, which were in charge of justice, military, and administration, and directly connected to the six ministries..."
Chapter completed!