There are countless pavilions and towers in the Huaqing Palace, including the Hall of Changsheng, which is dedicated to the Emperors of the Tang Dynasty, and the Yichun Pavilion, which is dedicated to Li Longji's singing and dancing. In addition, there are also lakes, ponds, water pavilions, and long bridges. Of course, the biggest feature of Mount Li, is the hot spring soup.

The palace towers are so gorgeous and luxurious, and the magnificent and majestic, they are still better than Xingqing Palace.

Many years later, the Huaqing Palace was destroyed by war. The Huaqing Palace in Mount Li, which tourists later saw, was rebuilt. Not only did the layout and architecture change a lot, but it also lacked the original momentum of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Longji spent most of his later years in beauty and singing and dancing. After working hard for half his life, the world is safe, and how to enjoy the rest of his life has become his most troublesome and happiest thing.

In Yichun Pavilion, Li Longji was sitting or not, half paralyzed and half lying on the cushion, barefoot and crossed his legs and his temples were messy. In the middle of the attic, a group of dancers were dancing to the music. Li Longji was slightly drunk and laughed in a daze.

The flowers are so scattered that you can't see the eyes and drink and sing, life seems to be without any shortcomings.

A eunuch hurriedly through the graceful bodies of the dancers, walked to Gao Lishi, who was standing in fear, and whispered in his ear. Gao Lishi's originally smiling face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly approached Li Longji.

"Your Majesty, there is a hurry to report in Chang'an."

Li Longji opened his slightly drunk eyes and smiled drunkly and said in a naive manner: "What's the matter? Leave it to Chen Xilie and Yang Guozhong for treatment, don't disturb my interest."

Gao Lishi took another step forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, Duke of Jin, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Right Prime Minister Li Linfu, died at the age of this morning."

Li Longji was stunned and looked at Gao Lishi in shock.

Gao Lishi looked straight into his eyes and nodded slowly.

Li Longji frowned and waved his hand irritably, causing the singing and dancing in the hall to stop.

Gao Lishi whispered: "Does Your Majesty have set off and returned to Chang'an to pay condolences to Li Xiang?"

Li Longji was just waiting to nod, then he paused, shook his head slowly, and said in a deep voice: "It is not in line with the courtesy of the monarch and the ministers. I cannot go there in person. I can send the prince to the Li Mansion to pay condolences..."

The king and his ministers in the same palace have been in the past for decades. No matter how open and secretly fought between Li Longji and Li Linfu in the later period, they finally had decades of love for the king and the ministers. Li Longji was silent for a moment, his eyes soon turned red, and tears were rolling in his eyes, but they didn't flow down.

Taking a deep breath, Li Longji held back his tears, and his expression returned to his cold and arrogant emperor appearance. He pondered for a while and said slowly: "Li Xiang passed away. I want to make some statement. General Gao, pass on my order, posthumously named Li Linfu as the Grand Marshal and the Grand Governor of Yangzhou, and awarded Li Mansion a hundred taels of gold and a thousand pieces of silk and silk, and allowed a grand funeral with a prince's tribute."

Gao Lishi bowed to receive the order, and then slowly retreated from the hall.

Li Longji sat cross-legged in the hall, his expression still gloomy and silent.

The emperors were all heart-warming. Li Linfu's death only made Li Longji feel short of sadness, and his emotions quickly calmed down. At this moment, Li Longji was thinking about the situation in the court.

Right Prime Minister Li Linfu was ill for several months and basically stopped caring about the government affairs. However, his party members still regarded Li Linfu as the head of the court faction. Simply put, it is not important whether Li Linfu handles the government affairs. What is important is the symbolic meaning he represents. As long as Li Linfu is alive, even if he does nothing, the various factions in the court will remain stable.

Li Longji has been planning for a long time, and what he wants is nothing more than the word "stability". Only when the court is stable can people's hearts not be turbulent, people's minds are stable, and things in the world are at the premise that the court is stable, and the world is stable.

However, with Li Linfu's death, the power of the court, which was originally the right prime minister, collapsed suddenly. This faction was extremely powerful and once suppressed the prince of the East Palace so much that he could not raise his head. As soon as Li Linfu died, his party members under his command would either resign, be attracted by other factions, or wait for the crazy liquidation of the prince and Yang Guozhong factions. It can be imagined that the court would fall into chaos again.

What Li Longji has to do now is to stabilize the situation in the court at a very fast speed. When the court is in chaos, he is busy with the emperor, who is too brain-working and physically consuming, and delaying his life in his arrogant, extravagant and lewd life. This is unbearable.

After Li Linfu's death, the Chang'an court was divided into three factions, one was the Eastern Palace, the second was the emerging faction of Yang Guozhong, and the third was the neutral and free-spirited faction. In addition, the military generals had their own small hills, and the powerful and noble Dukes also had their own small groups. In addition, the ten-town Jiedushi stationed on the border, there were also those unscrupulous princes who were secretly stirring up troubles. The seemingly calm court was actually always undercurrents, and many unspeakable things were hidden in the darkness by all parties.

Putting aside the Xiaoyao neutral faction, the two largest factions in the court are the East Palace and Yang Guozhong. Li Longji has always been wary of the East Palace. Since the day when Li Heng was appointed as the crown prince, Li Longji has been deliberately or unintentionally suppressing the development of the East Palace power. After all, the crown prince is the only person in the world who can inherit the throne with justification. Li Longji was afraid that the crown prince would suddenly not be calm and gathered the army to create tricks such as "clearing the king". This kind of thing has happened too many among the emperors of the Tang Dynasty.

Because of Yang Guozhong, Li Longji could be trusted by Yang Guifei. Unfortunately, Yang Guozhong's ability was too poor. The emerging faction he represented was unable to compete with the East Palace. So a few days ago, Li Longji had to help Yang Guozhong hit the prince hard by using the matter of Ji Wang to enclose land. Originally, it was just a referee on the sidelines, but one of the players was too weak, so the referee had to take action to fight and not tell him, but also helped the players beat another player himself...

It was so tiring to be a referee. Yang Guozhong was not good at it, and in the end, Li Longji took everything alone.

At present, Yang Guozhong alone cannot compete with the prince. Li Longji thought about it and thought that he should support one person. However, although there were many talents in the court, there were no one who could truly form a faction to help Li Longji balance the court. Although Chen Xilie was the left prime minister, his personality was weak and unscrupulous. Others, such as Li Mi, Fang Guan, Wei Jiansu, Cui Huan, etc., had either already stood in the camp or had a little lack of talent and courage.

There are not lacks talents, but the talents in Li Longji's eyes are more or less flawed. It is okay to benefit one party, but it is not enough to influence the situation in the court.

The more Li Longji thought about it, the more irritable he became. He sat in the hall and filled a glass of wine, then drank it all, sighing with a gloomy expression.

Li Linfu's death really caused a lot of trouble to the Tang Dynasty's court.

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In the evening, Gu Qing also received news of Li Linfu's death.

Gu Qing was neither sad nor happy about Li Linfu's death. Strictly speaking, since he came to Chang'an, he had never seen the infamous treacherous minister, but he had several confrontations openly and secretly.

At this moment, Gu Qing’s only thought was to be glad, to be glad that he was lucky.

Judging from the number and intensity of Gu Qing offending Li Linfu, if Li Linfu had no health problems and had energy and time, Gu Qing's weight would probably be killed by Li Linfu.

The title of "Sword with a sweet mouth" was not in vain. Li Linfu was much better than Gu Qing in terms of strategy, wisdom and struggle experience. Fortunately, when Gu Qing arrived in Chang'an, Li Linfu was already terminally ill. Even if Gu Qing offended him a few times, Li Linfu had no intention of calculating him, a little man. Later, the corruption case of Zuowei offended Li Linfu harshly. However, at that time, Li Linfu was at the forefront and did not dare to take revenge on Gu Qing. Gu Qing escaped.

Later, Li Linfu was already dying and had no energy to take revenge. Until Li Linfu passed away today, Gu Qing had to be glad that he had done nothing and endured an enemy to death.

Therefore, if you cannot avenge your enemies in life, you must take care of yourself. If you are strong, you will not only prolong your life, but also occasionally you will get some unexpected surprises. It is also very pleasant to endure your enemies to death.

Once the Prime Minister passed away, Gu Qing didn't even feel any sadness. After being secretly grateful, he immediately threw this matter away.

Sitting cross-legged in his room, Gu Qing was eating the dinner from Yuxi in great distress.

An eunuch outside the door whispered softly: "Chief Gu, Your Majesty wants to visit Mount Li, so the courtiers should follow you."

Gu Qing sighed and said to the door: "I'm having a meal, can I be a little later?"

The eunuch said politely but firmly, "Gu Changshi, the king and his subjects are polite and lawful, and there is no reason for His Majesty and other ministers. Please go and follow him immediately."

Gu Qing looked at the food in front of him and it tasted badly. He simply gave up. He couldn't die of hunger. He went back to Chang'an to eat roast lamb legs every day to compensate himself.

So Gu Qing put down the dishes, sorted out his clothes, opened the door and followed the eunuch to Yichun Pavilion.

As soon as I arrived at the square in front of Yichun Pavilion, the emperor's ceremonial guards were slowly underway.

Li Longji was wearing a regular suit and surrounded by two or three hundred Yulin Guards, and walked towards the mountain expressionlessly.

Behind the ceremonial guard, several court officials and eunuchs followed, and everyone followed silently without saying a word.

Gu Qing was late and followed the team in a low-key manner, but he secretly complained in his heart.

The emperor just took a walk after dinner, but he actually had such a big show. Are you tired?

Following the mountain road behind Xingchen Tang in Lishan, the team grew longer and longer. There were dozens of Yulin Guards leading the way in front. Li Longji walked in the middle, followed Gu Qing and other court officials, as if he felt Li Longji's gloomy mood, and the team of hundreds of people was silent.

When it was almost dark, everyone had already walked to the hillside of Mount Li, surrounded by dense forests. This was an undeveloped wilderness, with only one small path leading up and down.

Gao Lishi, who was accompanying him, saw that it was getting late, so he stepped forward and advised: "Your Majesty, it's already dark, so why not go back to Huaqing Palace."

As he went up the mountain, Li Longji kept thinking about the situation in the court. It was not until Gao Lishi reminded him that Li Longji came to his senses. When he looked down at the mountain, he had walked so far without realizing it. The courtiers who accompanied him could no longer hold on.

With his eyes casually swept through the court officials, Li Longji saw Gu Qing in the crowd.

There was no way, Gu Qing was too conspicuous in the crowd. He was the youngest and looked the most unbearable after walking half of the mountain road. At most, others were breathing heavily, but Gu Qing was already out of breath. He bent down to support his knees, his clothes were messy, his hair was loose, and his temples were like a man who had just gotten off him.

Li Longji frowned and said, "Gu Qing, come close."

Gu Qing was stunned, but moved step by step to Li Longji.

Li Longji looked him up and down, shook his head and said, "Gu Qing, your body is not good. I am in my sixties and I still have the courage to walk on the mountain road. Those court officials who follow you are older than you, and they are not as unbearable as you. At a young age, why are they so weak?"

Gu Qing smiled bitterly and said, "I dare not deceive Your Majesty. I am busy with my journey and I don't have time to eat dinner, so I am exhausted. Besides, Your Majesty is fierce, and I am still in my sixties. You have also held the seal of the commander and practiced in the army. Your Majesty's dragon body has laid the foundation. It is a bit false to say that you live long live, but I think that it is not a big problem for Your Majesty to live for 150 years. I do not have the glorious experience of Your Majesty, so how dare you compare your Majesty with Your Majesty."

After the explanation, he even flattered a few words. While the court officials behind him secretly despised him, Li Longji was very happy and laughed twice. His gloomy mood all day long also relaxed a lot with Gu Qing's flattery.

"You are so good at speaking. Every time you say something to please, I feel sorry for your clever words if you don't reward you." Li Longji laughed, and his mood became much happier.

Gu Qing smiled and said, "I don't need any other rewards for eating my king's salary. I just hope to share your worries with you and let me fulfill my duties as a minister, so that I can be worthy of the salary, grain and rice that the court gives me every year."

Li Longji sighed: "Yes, people in the world want to be an official, because being an official has power and being a official is dominant. In the civil and military affairs of the court, how many people can really think of sharing the worries for the king?"

As the sky became darker, Gao Lishi couldn't help but persuaded in a hurry: "Your Majesty talked with Gu Changshi to a speculation. If you don't go down the mountain to return to the palace, how about talking with Gu Changshi at a banquet?"

Li Longji waved his hand indifferently and said, "Let all the court officials accompanying him go back. I don't need them to follow him. Gu Qing, you and I are here to appreciate the scenery and see the afterglow of the sunset in Mount Li, how about it?"

Gu Qing actually wanted to go down the mountain, but when Li Longji spoke, he still had to say: "I obey the order."

Gao Lishi had long seen that Li Longji was in a bad mood today, so he did not dare to persuade him anymore. He turned around and asked the court officials who followed him to go down the mountain. More than a hundred Yulin Guards were left behind Li Longji.

Li Longji turned around and looked at the sunset that was sinking west at the end of Mount Li. There was only one afterglow left. He was struggling to resist the invasion of darkness. Gradually, only a dim halo remained in the sky.

"You have heard of Li Xiang's death?" Li Longji said slowly.

"Yes, I have heard of it."

"You are similar to Li, and I want to know, how do you evaluate Li Xiang?"

Gu Qing lowered his head and said, "My destiny is humble and he dare not argue with the prime minister."

"It's okay, just treat it as a chat. I won't blame you for saying the wrong thing."

Gu Qing thought for a while and said, "Li Xiang was in charge of the Tang Dynasty for 19 years. He had outstanding administration and extraordinary strategies, but his pattern was incomplete."

Li Longji smiled with interest and said, "'There is a loss in the pattern'? Tell me carefully."

Gu Qing whispered: "Your Majesty, although the power of the monarch and the power of the prime minister are mutually auxiliary, they also conflict with each other. Your Majesty is the monarch and the prime minister is the minister. The will of the monarch often looks at the overall situation, but the will of the prime minister is not certain. What he sees in his eyes is selfish and selfish, which is a common human nature and cannot be avoided by anyone. Therefore, the prime ministers of all dynasties have all clinging to him. The gangs are powerful and full of wings, and they are often disobeying the slander."

Li Longji's smile gradually calmed down and his eyes looked at Gu Qing strangely.

This was the first time he had formally discussed the government affairs with Gu Qing. Li Longji did not expect that Gu Qing, a boy under the age of 20, had such knowledge of the court, which really surprised him.

"Why do you feel selfish and disobey your own deeds?" Li Longji asked with a serious expression.

"Because selfishness and justice are in opposition and conflict. Once there is a party dispute in the court, it is inevitable to be nepotist. People who are obviously not suitable for this position insist on putting him in this position. Can this person do his duty in this position? People who form party members will not consider so much. What he wants is that the party members occupy this position and hold this power, and do not consider anything else. This has led to more and more people playing power in the court, and fewer and fewer people who are willing to do things steadily in their position."
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