Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

Li Shimin left. The three servants seemed to wake up from a trance suddenly, and quickly and quietly followed behind their master in ordinary clothes, without disturbing even a single leaf.

Li Xin knew that there must be a small group of elite guards outside the palace. Li Shimin came to the palace quietly under the escort of this group of people, and now he plans to leave without taking a cloud.

The wind was a little cool, and when it blew on the face, it made people suddenly wake up.

Li Xin stood there for a while, then slowly sat down on the edge of the recliner. What Li Shimin said just now, as well as the expression on his face, were all rippling in Li Xin's heart, and he couldn't be calm for a long time. If it wasn't for Li Shimin's personal visit today, Li Xin might not have noticed this problem: he is too conceited and willful.

Although he kept saying that he didn't want to enter the court because he had self-knowledge and knew that he couldn't beat those courtiers who had been immersed in officialdom for many years with his own brains, but was that really the case? Maybe not.

Li Xin comes from the era of information explosion in later generations. Although at that time, he was not a top scholar, he was just an ordinary person with a wide range of interests and hobbies who had reached an upper-middle level of common sense. However, in the eyes of today's Tang people, the knowledge he has mastered is already unimaginably vast and profound. He was different, unique, and he knew it.

On the surface, Li Xin is "respectful and far away" towards the court, but from the bottom of his heart, the attitude of "far away" is very clear, and "respect" is not necessarily the case. Frankly speaking, he doesn't have much respect for the court, he just thinks it is a quagmire, a dirty Vanity Fair. Countless top intelligent people from the Great Tang Empire gathered in this quagmire, fighting and fighting each other, and the ugliness in it was not something that outsiders could comprehend.

Li Xin doesn't want to enter such a place, just like a white swan doesn't want to swim in a lake formed by sewage. Yes, the fundamental reason for his refusal to court is that he despises this place and this quagmire. He felt sorry for the smart people who got stuck in this quagmire, and for their wasted ingenuity. This is not humility, but ego.

He clings to his sense of superiority as a reborn person, thinks he has excellent knowledge, and disdains the next fight. He just wants to stand on the edge of the quagmire, watch others fight to the death with a clean body, and occasionally laugh at the blood-stained or muddy courtier. He thought it was clever. Until just now, he suddenly realized that this was despicable and superficial.

In fact, the reason why he can stand cleanly on the edge of the quagmire is because of Li Shimin, because of Cheng Yaojin, and because of a series of elders who care about him and love him, they are silently protecting him. That's why he wasn't dragged into the mud. It is precisely because of the tolerance of these elders that he can walk on the edge of the court so willfully and do what he wants to do. The funny thing is, he still thinks it's all due to his cleverness.

Li Xin patted his forehead and murmured, "Smart ass!"

In this world, if you want something, you have to do it with your own hands, instead of asking others to do it with your mouth, and at the same time, you have to dislike the dirty way of doing things. Isn't this despicable what is it? Thanks to Li Xin's good luck, he crossed over and found Li Shimin, such a rare and generous king, who even came to Chu Palace to talk with him, and said that he would not force him. For a mediocre emperor, who would care what Li Xin thinks?

This is no longer a courtesy that ordinary emperors can give. If Li Xin didn't know what to do if someone showed face like this, then he really didn't know what's good and what's wrong, and it would be shameless to show face.

To put it bluntly, as a human being, you still have to be more or less the same.

So, in the early morning of the next day, Li Xin put on clean clothes, took Run Niang out of the palace gate, and went straight to the yamen of the household department. At the gate, the gatekeeper stopped Li Xin. Seeing that Li Xin was neatly dressed, the porter didn't dare to neglect, and asked politely, "My lord, this is the office of the Ministry of Households. You must not trespass. If you have anything to ask the adults inside, please show your proof. .”

Li Xin was stunned for a moment. I forgot about this one.

The function of the Ministry of Households is almost equivalent to a mixture of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other departments in later generations. It can be said that it is a very important institution. Of course, it is impossible for its yamen to be open to everyone. It must have a certificate or some officials. The concierge will only let people in if they have letters, official documents and other things in hand.

Unfortunately, Li Xin didn't have any of these things.

The position of "consultant" was originally thought up by Li Shimin with a slap in the face, no matter whether it is an official seal or official uniform, it is nothing. In addition, he announced the news in public in the court, and he did not make up an imperial decree or note afterwards. Where did Li Xin get the appointment document in his hand?

In other words, all the ministers standing above the court at that time knew that Li Xin was the newly appointed "Household Advisor", but others may not. The small concierge in front of me probably doesn't even know that there is a new position called "consultant" in the household department for no reason, right?