Everyone in the hall held their breaths. Most of them could feel the huge undercurrent that was opposing each other.
Kong Yan stood in the main hall, arrogant and lazy. He mocked Zhangsun Wuji and the emperor.
This was originally a path to death, but the officials in the palace realized that their Emperor's face was as black as iron, but he did not reveal it, as if he had extremely high self-restraint.
This surprised some of the officials who were good at observing people's expressions. They immediately listed Kong Yan as someone they could not afford to offend.
Zhangsun Wuji remained silent and frowned. Kong Yan's evaluation of Liu Bang was impeccable.
In fact, he had thought more about it. He vaguely felt that Kong Yan was not just mocking the shame of the Weishui Alliance by placing Liu Bang and Li Shimin in the third place in history.
After Liu Bang's death, Empress Lu became a dictator!
Even in the Han Dynasty, the power of the consorts had never disappeared!
Now that Li Shimin favored the Zhangsun family, the Zhangsun family was extremely powerful. The case of Zhangsun Shunde embezzling the disaster relief funds had just appeared. If the topic was brought up again at this time…
Li Shimin was surprised to see his brother-in-law remain silent. After thinking for a while, he understood what Zhangsun Wuji was worried about.
"How can a Guanyin maid be someone who wields power?”Li Shiming shook his head. He understood his brother-in-law's concerns, so he decided not to make things difficult for him.
"Did you think of this yourself?" Li Shi Min asked Kong Yan with narrowed eyes, then glanced at Kong Ying Da from the corner of his eyes.
Kong Yingda blinked innocently, thinking to herself that she couldn't come up with such a conclusion.
"An old teacher in history said so," said Kong Yan after pondering for a while.”
"To be able to come up with such a conclusion, he should be a person with both virtue and ability.”Li Shi Min sighed.
"He's dead." Kong Yan replied directly.
Li Shi Min's face twitched.
"A traveling merchant needs to learn history?" Li Shi Min asked with his eyes narrowed.
Kong Yan frowned. What did he not learn during the nine years of compulsory education?
After secretly despising him, he said indifferently,"What does Your Majesty think a merchant should learn?”
Li Shi Min stopped talking.
As the Emperor of the Great Tang, he was busy every day. Why would he pay attention to what the merchants were learning?
"This old man is curious. What did the halberd wielder learn to be able to do such a big business?”
Fang Xuanling asked with a smile, his eyes filled with curiosity.
Kong Yan turned to Fang Xuanling and raised his eyebrows.""Fang Pushe wants me to talk about the way of doing business here?”
"Why not?" Fang Xuanling asked.
"There's nothing wrong with that, but…"
Kong Yan glanced at the other ministers in the hall and chuckled,""This is the Town Hall. The Emperor is here, and the officials are here. The entire Great Tang is under your control.”
"I originally thought that the discussion in court would be about national affairs, but I didn't expect that Lord Pushe would be interested in the small business.”
“……”
Fang Xuanling stopped asking.
Li Shiming sighed, his interest waning. Asking Kong Yan to go to the palace today was indeed a joke, and he had shot himself in the foot.
"There's nothing else for you to do. You can leave." Li Shi Min said coldly.
Kong Yan let out a sigh of relief and cupped his hands at Li Shimin, saying,""I will take my leave."
With that, he walked towards the side door of the hall and stopped in front of it.
"Your Majesty just asked me why traveling merchants study history.”
Li Shiming frowned and looked at Kong Yan indifferently.
"Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes. Take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall of the country; Take people as a mirror, you can understand the gains and losses.”
Kong Yan's figure disappeared, and the hall fell silent.
Li Shiming closed his eyes as he recalled Kong Yan's voice.
"Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes. Take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall of the country; Take people as a mirror, you can understand the gains and losses.”
“……”
Kong Yan didn't continue his duty after leaving the hall. He walked along the corridor.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, revealing a mocking smile.
"You want my silver and want others to humiliate me? How can there be such a good thing?”
After walking for a while, Kong Yan stopped.
Or rather, he did not know what he should do in the palace.
His current situation was akin to being imprisoned in the palace by Li Shiming.
This was easy to understand. Since he couldn't kill or release them, he naturally had to imprison them first.
After the fire in Chang 'an that night, Li Shiming probably couldn't find a place safer than the palace.
"Young Master Kong, where are you going?"
Just as Kong Yan was at a loss of where to go, a familiar voice sounded from behind him.
Eunuch Wang De and four other eunuchs followed behind him.
Kong Yan turned around and shrugged.""I also want to know, where should I go?”
Wang De walked to Kong Yan's side and said with a bitter smile,""His Majesty originally wanted Young Master Kong to be on duty in front of the side door of the Town Hall for four hours every day. However, considering that Young Master Kong had donated five million taels of silver to the disaster victims in Guanzhong, he was relieved of the duty.”
"Oh? Then what does he want me to do?" Kong Yan raised his eyebrows and asked.
A strange look appeared on Wang De's face as he said,"Young Master can do whatever he wants in the palace.”
"Hmm?" Kong Yan narrowed his eyes.
"However, there must be someone accompanying him. Moreover, if His Majesty summons him, he must be at his beck and call.”Wang De quickly added.
"Can't leave the palace?" Kong Yan asked.
"His Majesty said yesterday that Young Master Kong has a chance to leave the palace once a month."”
"I see."
Kong Yan lowered his eyebrows and pondered, thinking that his performance in the hall had played a role.
"Are you accompanying me today?" Kong Yan raised his eyebrows and asked.
"This old servant will be accompanying you today." Wang De nodded and said,"I'll introduce Young Master Kong to the rules and etiquette of the palace."”
"If I need people to do something, how many people can I command?" asked Kong Yan after some thought.”
"This…Haha, His Majesty didn't mention it.”Wang De forced a smile.
"I see. Let's go then." Kong Yan exhaled and said," There's nothing coincidental about Taiji Palace. I want to go to Ye Ting Palace to take a look.”
" Cough, cough, cough…" Wang De's face turned red from coughing. He said in shock," You can't."”
"Why not?" Kong Yan narrowed his eyes and asked.”
"This…How can a man enter the harem? Young Master Kong, please don't make things difficult for this old servant.”
"You were the one who said that I can do whatever I want in the palace.”Kong Yan said lightly," Is the harem not a palace?”
"This…If you insist on going to the harem, this old servant will have to report to His Majesty first.”Wang De's old face darkened.
If he brought a man to the harem, he probably wouldn't be able to keep his head.
"Tell him that I want to see the Empress." Kong Yan said.”
"You really want this old servant to inform His Majesty?”Wang De was stunned.
"Nonsense, what's so good about Taiji Palace?”Kong Yan snorted and looked around before finding a stone block to sit on.
"Hurry up and come back." Kong Yan urged impatiently when he saw that Wang De was stunned.
"Ke ke…this old servant will go now."
Wang De looked deeply at Kong Yan, gave an order to the four eunuchs behind him, and left quickly.
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