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Chapter 1010 Li Yan’s first court meeting (Part )
Finally, after consultation with Fang Xuanling and other ministers, Li Yan decided to select some elite troops from the Right Tunwei Qinfu Zhonglang Jiang Xue Rengui, the Right Tunwei Yifu Zhonglang Jiang Liu Renyuan, the Right Tunwei Xunfu Zhonglang Jiang Sun Renshi, and the Right Leading Army Guard Zhonglang Jiang Gao Kan from their respective garrisons.

He was temporarily transferred to the imperial palace and commanded by General Chang Sheng of the Left Gate Guard to be in charge of the guarding of the Taiji Palace.

In fact, starting from the end of the court this afternoon, the original team of the Eastern Palace has begun to move to the Taiji Palace. Heng Lian, the former commander of the guards of Li Yan of the Eastern Palace, also took over Ma Xuanliang's previous position and was on duty in front of the emperor.

A series of adjustments and rotations would naturally be arranged by the ministers below.

Standing in front of Chengqing Hall, watching the carriage of Emperor Retired Emperor Li Shimin slowly leaving Taiji Palace under the escort of Ma Xuanliang and Wang De, Li Yan could not help but look up at the gradually darkening sky and the slightly empty Taiji Palace.

He clenched his fists secretly.

From then on, he became the master of Taiji Palace, the core of the Tang Dynasty.

The next day, Li Yan began his first court session after ascending the throne.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

Amid the thunderous cheers of his ministers, Li Yan, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and a crown, sat on the dragon throne.

"Everyone is safe!"

Looking at the ministers in red and purple official robes in the hall below, they slowly stood up and stood on both sides of the civil and military officials. These ministers were basically Li Shimin's team. Li Yan's former subordinates in the Eastern Palace were still standing in the middle of the crowd.

The replacement of the old with the new still requires a process.

Li Yan was right. If one wanted to truly grasp the imperial power, it would take at least a long time to manage it.

In ancient times, there was no such thing as retirement age. As long as the officials were healthy, they could work until they died. However, as the power of officials was strengthened from generation to generation, the authority of the emperor began to decline.

Li Yan took a quick glance and found that most of the people standing in the front wearing purple robes were old officials over fifty or sixty years old with gray hair.

Li Yan frowned slightly but didn't say much. The emperor couldn't do whatever he wanted.

Zuo Pushe Fang Xuanling was the first to step forward and say, "Your Majesty, I have a memorial to report."

"Please speak, Mr. Fang."

As soon as Li Yan said this, everyone knew that the new emperor's authority was not as great as the old emperor's. Li Shimin usually only needed to nod his head or directly "approve".

Li Yan was obviously lacking in confidence and even politely asked his subjects to submit memorials.

It's not that Li Yan is not determined enough or lacks intelligence. On the contrary, he is extremely intelligent, experienced, and well versed in human nature. Although he holds power over the entire Turkic region in the northern desert, no one knows it except Hou Junji.

If I act in a condescending manner at this time, I will probably be criticized as a mean man who has succeeded in his career, has no sense of the overall situation, does not know how to respect old ministers, is not fit to be a king, and is too stupid to be trained. So I can only humble myself and give enough courtesy to these old ministers.

There is no trivial matter in the field of power!

Sure enough, Li Yan's attitude aroused the approval of all the ministers. Many of them nodded with satisfaction and looked at Li Yan as if they had recognized their nephew.

Li Yan was very unhappy. He also knew that this look, which was not malicious, contained a hint of lack of royal authority.

After all, the true emperor who dominates the world only needs people to respect him, not to admire him.

To admire this kind of condescending attitude is in itself a lack of respect for an emperor and a potential manifestation of weakening the imperial power. In this silent development of the situation, the struggle between the emperor and his ministers and the power of the ministers has quietly begun.

If Li Yan had not been in a high position for a long time and was very familiar with power, it would have been impossible to discover it.

Fang Xuanling's deep and old voice sounded slowly: "The crown prince is related to the future of the Tang Dynasty. Now that the emperor has appointed his eldest son Li Xiang as the crown prince, he must be trained well. I suggest selecting a group of learned people for the East Palace to fill the East Palace and train a crown prince for the Tang Dynasty."

"Yes, what Lord Fang said makes sense."

Xiao Yu also stood up and agreed, "It was under the careful guidance of a group of respected old Confucian scholars such as Zhang Xuansu, Kong Yida and Yu Zhining that the emperor was able to continue to grow and eventually successfully inherit the throne. It can be seen that teaching the prince is the first priority for the smooth inheritance of the Tang Dynasty."

"We second the motion!" Hou Junji, Wei Ting, Gao Shilian and other ministers agreed.

Li Yan nodded silently. It was his first time attending court and he had mixed feelings.

He turned to look at Li Xiang, who was standing at the head of the kings with a happy face, and then looked at the ministers in the palace. He was sitting alone on the Danchi. Even the eunuch Wang De, who served the court, was standing on the side of the stage. He was the only one sitting on the entire high platform. For some reason, he felt a deep sense of loneliness.

When in the Qing Dynasty, Li Yan had no plans to stay for a long time because he would soon leave the world he traveled through. He was very excited and his heart was no longer in the Qing Dynasty. He would only stay for ten days and did not care about the quality of governance or whether his power would be affected.

But I may have to stay in this world for several decades.

After he no longer had the intention to withdraw at any time, Li Yan decided to start working seriously on the career of emperor, a career that had no future at all.

The emperor is the pinnacle of benevolence. The next level is the emperor emeritus, and then the next level down.

When it was the time of the Turkic steppes, there was no strict concept of hierarchy and hierarchy. I was easy-going and generals like Gurentu, Helmu and Labtu did not treat me as an outsider. We often gathered together to drink and discuss matters, just like a group of brothers.

The Turks are simple-minded and don't have that many tricks. Coupled with their true eyes, they can easily pick out those with disloyal intentions and nip potential dangers in the bud, which means they don't have to live in suspicion for a long time.

Since the superior himself no longer had any suspicion, the ministers below naturally did not have to worry anymore, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

But the situation in the Tang Dynasty was different. Those people who had fought for many years, defeated countless opponents, and reached the core hall of power had very complicated minds. Most of them were neither loyal nor rebellious to themselves, but were in an ambiguous mentality.

Moreover, when he was in the Turkic period, he would make the decision on his own as soon as he found anyone with different intentions.

They could just arrest them and interrogate them, and soon they would get solid evidence, and everyone would be convinced. The situation in the Tang Dynasty was not that simple. If the grassland was a simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problem, then the Tang Dynasty was a calculus equation in college.

Even if there are people with different intentions, they are not so easy to deal with.

By the time these people defect, they basically do so in large numbers, so it is even more necessary to solve the problem in the bud in advance.

Li Yan originally thought that after he ascended the throne, the first thing he would consider would be the development of the Tang Dynasty and the welfare of the people.

But he never expected that the first thing he thought of was how to consolidate his power, which was no different from the kings in history.
Li Yan was secretly surprised that the emperor and his subjects were really different. Even though he was the crown prince who was about to succeed to the throne, he still did not have the feelings of an emperor. When he sat on the throne himself, his thoughts were completely different from before.

Yesterday was fine, it was bustling and noisy, Li Shimin was still there, and as the new emperor, I felt a little repulsive, and even wished that Li Shimin would leave early.

But today, Li Shimin stayed in the Daming Palace to recuperate and no longer appeared in the court.

When he was actually sitting alone on the lofty dragon throne, he did not feel the excitement he had expected, nor the thrill he had thought he would. Instead, he had a deep-seated feeling of being at a high place, as if he were in another time and space, and was not on the same level as the hundreds of ministers below him.

Suddenly, he found himself standing on the opposite side of all the ministers, and even Hou Junji, who was originally close to him, distanced himself from him.

A lonely person.
When Li Yan read history in the past, he always heard emperors mention these four words, and he thought it was a bit pretentious. But when he was really in the situation, Li Yan truly understood the meaning of these four words, which is a kind of loneliness of living alone.

A deep sense of insecurity surged in his heart, as if the ministers below had all become his enemies.

He turned and looked at his son Li Xiang.

An extremely strange feeling of alienation surged in his heart, and Li Yan suddenly understood Li Shimin and understood it more deeply.

Why has it been so difficult for a crown prince to succeed to the throne smoothly throughout history?

Even though he was an absolutely transcendent and extremely powerful special being, after he became the emperor, when he looked at his son, he did not feel affection, nor was he pleased, nor did he want to train him well. Instead, his first real feeling was a strong sense of vigilance.

Li Xiang is the first heir to the empire besides himself.

His grandfather was the current Taiwei, General of the Left Guard, Hou Junji. His future father-in-law was Wei Ting, a representative of this aristocratic family, with both aristocracy and the army. If something happened to him, wouldn't he be able to easily replace him?
Maybe in the eyes of others, his power is very weak, but in the eyes of himself, the emperor, he has the righteous title of crown prince. This alone can fundamentally threaten his existence, and he needs to be on guard.

Now they have to select a group of veteran ministers for him and fill the Eastern Palace. Wouldn’t his influence be even greater?
What's more, in order to succeed to the throne smoothly, he left Chang'an for sixteen years and had never met Li Xiang. He was absent in his growth process and was not a qualified father. There was no father-son affection between the two of them that had been cultivated from childhood.

In the past half month, he had been concentrating on taking over the court, and had not gotten along well with his son. Whenever he saw him, he seemed so strange and distant. The look in his eyes when he looked at him did not have the admiration that a son normally has for his father.

There is always a price to pay for every gain, Li Yan sighed with regret.

Then he shook his head painfully. He didn't want to be suspicious of his own prince like the ancient emperors. But the idea of ​​being on guard and suspicious kept coming to his mind like a tide, making him unconsciously want to check and control and suppress him.

(End of this chapter)