Chapter 454 Justified

Li Sanlang's words made Li Yuanhui smile, but he also made a few hypocritical retorts. Some things had already been revealed earlier, so there was no need to hide them. In a sense, the two were allies, but in another sense, they were rivals.

But for now, both of them, including Li Er in Chang'an, need to act within the framework of brotherly love.

Sometimes internal and external troubles can help you become respectable and make you more united. The Li brothers' current ideas tend to be the same, and the meat is rotten in the pot.

The next day is the Shangyuan Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival. It is also called the Lantern Festival in folk culture.

The whole city of Luoyang became extremely lively because of this. Many more lanterns appeared in the streets and markets overnight. Some of them looked very crude, probably because they were made in too tight a time frame.

On the other hand, the official lanterns on the Imperial Street and in front of the palace gates were still exquisite, especially the lanterns paid for by the King of Qi and the Duke of Wu, which looked grand and exquisite.

After Li Yuanhui got up early, he first shot twenty arrows as usual to make sure he had the feel for it, and then had breakfast with the princess.

Li Yuanhui saw the breakfast on the table. In front of him was meat pie and mutton soup, and in front of the princess was porridge and side dishes.

He couldn't help but frowned, "You don't eat meat at all now?"

Murong Jiayin smiled and said, "I've been feeling a little heavy lately."

Li Yuanhui shook his head when he heard this, because he remembered what was going on. This person in front of him was a devout Buddhist who often became a vegetarian to fulfill her vows. However, her chin was almost pointed, and she had been a vegetarian for these days.

He wanted to say, don't believe this, it's useless, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't say anything, just nodded again.

That’s it for now, let’s eat first.

In fact, there are quite a few Buddhists in the Li family, including the eldest brother and his wife, the second brother and his wife, and Empress Dou Taimu who passed away early. In fact, Li Yuan also believed in it, but for political considerations, he directly declared Taoism as the state religion after the founding of the country.

Only Li San and Li Si basically do not believe in gods or Buddhas.

Li Si sometimes feels that his own existence is a very mysterious thing, but no matter in the previous life or this life, after you get to know most of the temples and most of the monks, it will be difficult for you to believe in that theory on some things.

As for the Taoists, as long as they don't take drugs, it doesn't matter. It's good to learn their health-preserving methods. But the golden and silver pills they make are not good to eat.
But as a ruler, this Buddha has a conflict of interest with the emperor.

Now that the world is in chaos, we cannot act recklessly, but when peace is restored, some things must be done.

If we really have no other choice, we can also believe in Buddha. But when we have no money, doesn’t Buddha have to lend some money to his disciples?
Thinking of this, Li Yuanhui suddenly smiled.

The princess was very surprised, but she didn't ask you why you were laughing, because she was familiar with this kind of laugh, usually before asking for a favor.
The couple had breakfast together. Before Li Yuanhui left, he casually asked a eunuch to come over. When he got closer, he found that it was Gao Lishi, the most useful eunuch in front of the princess.

"What have you been busy with during the time I was away at the battle? Have you been chanting sutras in the Buddhist temple all day long?"

Gao Lishi heard this and nodded with a smile, "My king, that is indeed the case."

After hearing this, Li Yuanhui didn't say anything, but left. What's the point of reciting scriptures all day? It's nothing more than praying for him. Although he didn't say anything, he still felt warm in his heart.

After leaving the palace, he rode on his horse and headed straight for the Shangshu Province in the imperial city. Now the Tiance General's Mansion and the Shaanxi East Xingtai are all here.

Entering into General Tiance's mansion, all the subordinates and generals were waiting there. Li Yuanhui began to discuss with everyone the post-war rewards and the current organization of each army.

Zhao Jiong, who had just been appointed as the Protector-General of Tiance Palace not long ago, was attending the military meeting of Tiance General's Palace for the first time.

The reason why Li Yuanhui promoted him to the Tiance Palace was mainly because he took a fancy to the 6,000 elite soldiers left by Zhao Da. These were all veterans who had fought with him for many years. This was meat at his fingertips, and it would be too much not to eat it.

Li Yuanhui planned to promote Zhao Er to Tiance Mansion in the name of military merit, and then naturally bring those old subordinates into the direct jurisdiction of Tiance Mansion. Now Zhao Da himself went to Chang'an to serve as an official, and there were many capable generals among his old subordinates.

As for Zhao Er, this kind of person is the most reliable to have under your nose.

Zhao Da's path to power was actually planned by Zhao Er. Later generations only saw Zhao Er getting the position and thought he took advantage of his elder brother. But in fact, Zhao Er was no longer under Zhao Da's control when he was alive.

Otherwise, why did a founding emperor have so few supporters when he wanted to move the capital to Luoyang?
Don't you see whose territory Kaifeng is?
If these two brothers were together, it is hard to say what great things they could accomplish, but now, one is in Guanzhong and the other in Luoyang, so they can't make any waves.

The reason why Zhao Da separated from his old friends was actually because Li Er wanted to use this famous general from the previous dynasty and probably entrusted him with important tasks in the future.

But these elite soldiers and generals are now in the hands of the Prince of Qi's Palace.

From these people's perspective, serving the King of Qi is a very good choice.

What are you still hesitating about? And this is not abandoning the old leader for glory. The old leader is also a minister in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, you can't go wrong by following His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the two kings.

After determining the levels of military merit of the heroes, Li Yuanhui had a rough idea in his mind after looking at the long list.

Afterwards, he discussed with everyone the next content of the army reorganization. All the generals said that Your Majesty, please do as you please and they would not argue about any way of reorganization.

Li Yuanhui was quite satisfied with everyone's attitude, as they were all very tactful.

A meeting was being held in Tiance Mansion, while Li Sanlang was in Taiji Palace where Li Yuan was, talking to him.

Li Yuan was still very concerned about the situation in Hedong and Guanzhong. After hearing from Li Sanlang that the Turks were making a lot of trouble, he gave up the idea of ​​returning to Guanzhong.

Although Chang'an in Guanzhong was prosperous, it was not as prosperous as Luoyang. Luoyang had developed water transportation, which meant that it was easier for specialties and rare treasures from all over the country to enter Luoyang.

Moreover, the previous dynasty spent a huge price to build this city, and it is still unclear how many people died in its construction.

But one thing is certain, that is, this city was built on piles of bones.

"Although Silang won the battle and Liu Xuanji retreated, he will not send out troops again in the short term. However, Luoyang and Henei are only separated by a river. When Hebei has sufficient troops and food, he will naturally move south again."

"Then in your opinion, when will the Tang Dynasty be able to recover Hebei?"

"Although Liu Xuanji was born in a humble family, he has the talent of Emperor Gaozu of Han and the courage of a hegemon. He is also a heroic ruler. Now he has taken over Hebei and the people's hearts are loyal to him. The trend of the North and South resisting each other is complete. Instead of competing with Liu Xuanji in the river, it is better to destroy the two Wei states first."

The father and son talked about the general situation in the world, and Li San spoke eloquently.

"What Third Brother said is exactly what I want."

As they were talking, Li Si walked in from outside the hall with a list of meritorious officials in his hand. He had come to see Li Yuan to go through the procedures to finalize the promotion and title conferment of titles on these meritorious officials.

Although Li Yuan didn't care now, Li Si was still willing to give the old man face on some matters, and pretended to ask for instructions, just to make him happy. After asking for instructions, it became legitimate, more formal than the edict issued by the prince in Chang'an.

From this point of view, Li Yuanhui still liked Li Yuan's continued stay in Luoyang.

Justice is at hand.

(End of this chapter)