Li Hong understood the meaning of Li Yifu's gesture, which was to cut off the connection between Luoyang and Chang'an, and then resolve the matter as quickly as possible.
"It was you who recommended Li Yiyan back then, wasn't that right?" Li Hong looked at Xu Jingzong and asked.
"Now I don't know if he will remember my recommendation back then. Moreover, since it concerns matters of the court, I am afraid my influence has been minimal." Xu Jingzong's gray hair was exposed under his futou.
Li Hong nodded thoughtfully, he really shot himself in the foot. Now the two of them no longer have the influence that they had in history to overwhelm the court. If he wanted to count on the two of them to use their relationship to persuade those officials who can participate in politics, it would probably have little effect.
"No matter what, you two need to convey my meaning to them privately today." Li Hong took a deep breath. It seemed that he would need to debate with the crowd in the court tomorrow!
But he still needed to consider Li Yifu's proposal. How could he cut off the news between Luoyang and Chang'an? How could he do it without anyone noticing and without Luoyang suspecting that it was his motive?
In the evening, as soon as Li Hong finished his meal, Bai Chun hurriedly rushed to the East Palace from Taiyi City, and brought the two of them back with him.
In the room, Li Hong frowned, but Bai Chun looked confused. When she first heard that someone had privately minted the new money, she was also surprised.
But after careful consideration, she knew where the problem lay, which was the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
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Li Hong frowned and curled his lips. There was no need to ask now, as it seemed that the template was taken away from his father.
Because my father asked Bai Chun for a template, saying that he wanted to observe it carefully, and now he went to Changlefang to observe it.
As for who could have taken the template from Li Zhi, it was a very simple matter. Apart from Lady Korea, it must be her daughter.
"Have people in Changlefang come into contact with these?" Li Hong asked Bai Chun.
Four years have passed, and Bai Chun, still wearing a white dress, has become more and more beautiful. She is less enchanting and more elegant and calm, and looks more and more like a fairy who is not of this world.
"They have never been exposed, otherwise I would have known it long ago." Bai Chun said lightly.
"How is the Chamber of Commerce now? We need to pay attention to Tubo. I have already sent Jingzhe and Liebao out. I am afraid there may be unusual movements in Tubo, so I found some merchants in the Chamber of Commerce and secretly transport some supplies over there. Let Wufawutian deliver the things in the herbal medicine room, and they will cooperate with Jingzhe and Liebao over there." Li Hong looked at a glass of boiled water on the table and spoke in a dull voice.
"Your Highness, what do you mean?" Bai Chun's heart was shocked. She felt something was wrong.
"I have finished my work recently and I plan to go to the Western Regions after my father comes back." Li Hong said to Bai Chun who was squatting in front of him with one hand on his knee.
"Why? Have you already planned this?" Bai Chun continued to ask.
Li Hong nodded silently. He had already made this plan. After meeting Concubine Xiao Shufei today, she said that a bystander can see things more clearly, which made him more determined in his plan.
Perhaps, only when I step out of the circle of Chang'an City and look at the court from another perspective, can I know whether I am really as stable as I seem on the surface, and can I see who will harm me.
"But will His Majesty agree to let you go?" Bai Chun asked doubtfully.
"I don't know. Let's see when the time comes. Maybe he will agree." Li Hong reached out and stroked Bai Chun's cheek, saying lightly.
"Let me go with you." Bai Chun said suddenly.
"You need to stay in Taiyi City. If I go to the Western Regions, you and Jingwei will have to deal with everything that happens after I leave." Li Hong leaned back on the sofa and said.
If he wanted to surpass his grandfather, he had to leave Chang'an. If he was really determined to become the Minister of the Chancellery, he had to leave Chang'an. If he wanted to see clearly whether Chang'an was in crisis, he had to leave Chang'an.
Military power has always been a sharp sword in the hands of an emperor, and has always been a powerful weapon to ensure the stability of the throne. If he does not go out and take a look, even if he can sit firmly on the throne in the future, he will probably always face a vague military threat.
Similarly, only by staying away from the court and Chang'an can he see those people who are eyeing his position as crown prince.
"If you go out now, aren't you afraid that the position of the East Palace will change?" Bai Chun made a great decision and asked with courage.
"If I don't go out, I will never see who are coveting this position." Li Hong let Bai Chun lie beside his legs like a well-behaved cat.
"By the way, please keep an eye on two people for me and find them for me in the next few days. I will be useful to them. These people should be in their teens now. As for where they are, we have to look all over the Tang Dynasty." Li Hong laughed after he said this. In this era with underdeveloped information, finding people is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
"Who is it?" Bai Chun asked motionlessly, resting his head on Li Hong's legs.
"Yao Chong and Huan Yanfan." These two later became the world-renowned prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, they were the initiators of the abdication of Empress Wu Mei, which was called the Shenlong Change in history.
But Li Hong didn't know that he had met Yao Chong and Huan Yanfan when he was moved there by Xu Jingzong to rescue Xu Yanbo.
He was ten years old at that time, Yao Chong was only eleven years old, and Huan Yanfan was one year younger than him, just nine years old.
The two people he saw at the beginning who were eager to try and were about to rush out to argue with Helan Minzhi were Yao Chong and Huan Yanfan.
Bai Chun frowned her jade-like eyebrows, raised her head from Li Hong's legs, and looked at Li Hong with her head slightly tilted. She really couldn't understand why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to have the ability to predict the future and always looked for people she had never heard of.
Moreover, these people who were found did indeed demonstrate extraordinary abilities after being hired.
Just like Ming Chongyan and Du Yuanji who followed Xiao Shoudao and Xiao Shougui in Taiyi City back then. After being found by Li Hong, they were put into the medicinal food room. After being promised the position of guests of the Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace, the two of them plunged into the medicinal food room.
Now, in Taiyi City, besides her and Ren Lao Renyuan, there are two very influential figures.
There is also Suo Yuanli from the Princess Qianjin Mansion, who had attracted his attention at the beginning. Now he finally recognized his true face. His methods were very cruel. In order to add bricks and tiles to the industry of the Princess Qianjin Mansion, he did everything he could in Luoyang in the past two years.
"Don't look at me like that. Even if I tell you that I can predict the future, will you believe it?" Li Hong looked at Bai Chun's questioning eyes. He couldn't tell her that he had been reincarnated nine times and ten times, and knew when someone would die, when someone would be born, and what they would experience in this life.
The arrival of Yang Jiong and Xu Yanbo also interrupted Bai Chun's questioning look.
Bai Chun lazily stood up from the carpet, holding Li Hong's knees, and said calmly: "I'm going to sleep first. I've been traveling all day and you called me back in a hurry."
"Next time, even if father wants something, you must tell me in advance. Although I have already guessed this matter, when Di Renjie came here today, he regarded me as one of the suspects in the East Palace!" Li Hong looked at Bai Chun's lazy and tired back and warned.
"Got it." Bai Chun didn't even turn his head and smiled at Yang Jiong and Xu Yanbo who were about to enter, as a greeting.
"Your subjects, Yang Jiong and Xu Yanbo, greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." The two men bowed respectfully.
"Don't be shy, sit down and talk." Li Hong sat on the sofa and waved his hand.
The two looked at each other and slowly sat down opposite Li Hong. Yang Jiong said, "Your Highness, this is the document prepared for tomorrow's meeting in the Council Hall according to your wishes. In addition, the data you requested are now being sorted out by Yanbo and others in Chongwen Hall. It should be ready before your meeting tomorrow."
Li Hong took the document handed over by Yang Jiong. This was the topic of the meeting to be sent to the court officials tomorrow. He didn't want the discussion to go off topic again tomorrow.
There were too many examples of people going off topic in the meeting hall. He had encountered the same situation during his time as regent.
By the time I realize I have gone off topic, I no longer have the energy to discuss the original topic, so I have to send them back and discuss it again the next day.
Sometimes the topic goes off without you realizing it, and sometimes some people don't want to discuss the subject, so they deliberately change the subject to prevent you from getting the satisfactory result you want.
Li Hong sometimes had to wonder whether his father Emperor Li Zhi's headache was caused by these idiots.
In short, nowadays whenever issues such as the fubing system and the equal-field system are involved, topics like this always come up to prevaricate. These two topics have never been truly discussed in the court.
So Li Hong came up with this trick. In order to confirm the Goryeo reinforcements and the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty as early as tomorrow, he had to make a document on the theme of the meeting again, making it difficult for them to go off topic.
To use the words he used to explain to Xia Zhi, Yang Jiong and others, that is, "I put muzzles on their mouths one by one, and I see they are still going off topic like this."
After using it once or twice, I found that this method was indeed feasible and it greatly improved the efficiency of the court.
But it also provoked the court officials to come up with countermeasures. The small tablet was no longer enough for them to write down everything they wanted to say, so they began to take out the small paper pages that Li Hong had specially made and started taking notes before the meeting.
Because of this incident, Li Hong was praised by the ministers and his father in the court, saying that his little creation improved the efficiency of court meetings.
Naturally, some people would hate him in their hearts because some people wrote down some words during the meeting but did not use them.
But out of curiosity, Li Zhi asked for the small paper notebook. After seeing the words on it, Li Zhi was so angry that he pulled the notebook to his face, because it said: You must drink a few more cups after the court session to cool down your anger in the court today.
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