Chapter 1 Li Yuan’s Concerns

Although Chen Ying refused to be the Duke of Guanjun County, the more humble Chen Ying retreated, the less Li Yuan could not step down. After all, the Tang Dynasty court still had shame and could not lose the hero Chen Ying.

In fact, Li Yuan was also very troubled with Chen Ying's reward. With Chen Ying's merits, it was not only for him to be promoted to another level, but it was reasonable to increase his reward. The key is that Chen Ying's age is too young.

Originally, as the general manager of Lingzhou, Chen Ying was in charge of the military affairs of the six states. He was already a third-rank official at the level of the central military commander, and then he was at least a third-rank official. The third-rank official has been at the level of a ministerial rank. Which official in the entire court has not lived for most of his life to reach this position?

If Chen Ying and these people who are the same ministers as Chen Ying's grandfather, and Chen Ying's official position will come from behind, how would these old ministers feel?

Li Yuan had just issued an order to be named the title of champion county duke, just to try whether Chen Ying knew the general and whether he knew advance or retreat. If Chen Ying didn't know advance or retreat, then he would repeat the mistakes of his grandfather Hou Mo Chen Chong.

However, Li Yuan was very satisfied with this test. Chen Ying also knew how to advance and retreat and knew the general idea. Li Yuan said: "I have governed the world with literature and suppressed the rebellion with martial arts. I have the merit of conquering the chaos in Hedong, and I have praised his virtue. If I reward his wealth, I have no reward. How can I show my fairness?"

Chen Ying said: "It is not my intention to be a marquis, I only wish that the world will be peaceful."

When Li Yuan heard this, he felt as if he was killed by thunder and was stunned for a moment.

"I am not my intention to be a marquis, I only wish that the four seas will be peaceful." This book was written by the famous national hero Qi Jiguang when he was nineteen years old when he was studying military books. However, Chen Ying temporarily changed three words for him and changed Haiboping to the four seas will be peaceful.

After these words were released, everyone in the court was shocked.

Indifference to fame and fortune was the noble pursuit of the ancient people and gentlemen, but in fact no one really did this. However, Chen Ying did it. He rejected Li Yuan’s title of Guanjun County Duke. When Chen Ying said this, his image instantly became as tall as a giant in the hearts of the ministers.

Li Yuan looked at the ministers and lowered his voice and whispered in Chen Ying's ear: "What the hell do you want?"

Chen Ying took a deep breath and whispered: "Please give Princess Pingyang to Chen Ying as his wife!"

After hearing this, Li Yuan's face was not shocked. However, Li Yuan's eyes became sharp and stabbed Chen Ying's eyes like a knife.

"Don't think about it, this matter is impossible!" Li Yuan smiled on his face and made a depressing voice from his throat. It was obvious that Li Yuan wanted to cut Chen Yingqian into pieces at this moment.

Chen Ying looked at him calmly and was not afraid: "Please help your majesty!"

"Shaoqing of Taichang Temple!" Li Yuan slowly put forward his own conditions.

Chen Ying said: "Your Majesty, if you support the weapon supervisor, you will produce at least 10 million kilograms of fine steel per year."

Li Yuan was slightly stunned when he heard this.

Ten million kilograms of steel are only 5,000 tons, which is the use of a slightly larger project. However, in the Tang Dynasty, it was an unimaginable astronomical figure. Chang'an's weapon surveillance now is not even ten million kilograms of steel, even one million kilograms of iron is difficult to achieve. In an instant, Li Yuan was moved. However, he was unwilling to be threatened by one of his ministers like this.

"Secretary Secretary." Li Yuan's face twitched.

Chen Ying knew that the Secretary-General was a very noble official position. In this official position, he could basically be in charge of the seal of each other in the future. Unfortunately, Chen Ying had no intention of spying on the position of prime minister in the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Ying said: "Please help Your Majesty. I will prepare a thousand miles to marry His Highness. As long as Your Majesty allows me, I will capture Li Gui for Your Majesty."

Li Yuan suddenly remembered that Chen Ying was the grandson of Hou Mo Chen Chong. When Hou Mo Chen Chong pacified the rebellion of the Six Towns, he was granted the title of Marquis of Linjing County with a fief of 800 households. When Hou Mo Chen Chong was promoted to General of the Cavalry, he was renamed Duke of Pengcheng County. When Li Yuan thought of this, he pondered and said, "Your grandfather was Duke of Pengcheng County, then I ordered you to inherit the title of Duke of Pengcheng County."

Li Yuan also played a word game and inherited it.

Since this, Chen Ying was not conspicuous in the court. After all, the titles he inherited, not to mention the county duke, even the Duke of the State, were inherited by Huangkou children. Moreover, in order to take care of the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong nobles, many titles left by the Sui Dynasty or the Northern Zhou Dynasty were basically recognized by Li Yuan, and at most they were re-elected.

Chen Ying was confused at this time: "Pengcheng... County... County... Duke?"

Li Yuan looked at Chen Ying's surprised expression and said lightly: "Pengcheng County Duke, three thousand households have a fief."

"Congratulations to the Duke of Pengcheng County!"

All the ministers congratulated Chen Ying together.

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Until he walked out of Tai Chi Hall, Chen Ying still felt like he was dreaming. County Duke? He got it so easily? But why did Li Yuan disagree with Li Xiuning marrying Chen Ying?

To be honest, it was actually because of Chai Shao's father Chai Shen. During the Yang Guang period, Chai Shen was Yang Guang's right-right inner ruler, and Chai Shao was the prince's companion. Marrying Li Xiuning to Chai Shao was actually Li Yuan's thoughts in order to place bets on both ends during the Yang Guang period. However, Chai Shen was a smart man. When Li Yuan became the deputy guard of Jinyang Palace, he found that Li Yuan was secretly recruiting troops, so Chai Shen contacted and ran, and jointly invested 1.75 million guan (old Tang Dynasty book), Chai Shen was the contact person in the center.

As the situation is not determined today, although the overall situation in Hedong has been determined, Hebei is still in the hands of Dou Jiande. If Li Yuan breaks with the Chai family at this time, it means that Li Yuan is untrustworthy. Losing the support of the Cui family and other seven sects is equivalent to Li Yuan breaking with the Shandong aristocratic group, and the consequences will be serious unless Li Yuan does not like unifying the world, relegating to Guanzhong and being in peace.

Li Yuan was not such a person. He wanted to unify the world and achieve the king's dominance. Therefore, even though he knew that Li Xiuning and Chai Shao's marriage was in absolute destruction, he would still grit his teeth and recognize the result.

If Chen Ying had not requested a formal marriage with Li Xiuning, even if he had any unspeakable relationship with Li Xiuning, Li Yuan would turn a blind eye. But he would never agree to break up with Chai, and would not allow such a thing to happen.

Therefore, Li Yuan would rather give Chen Ying the title of Duke of Pengcheng County, and he did not agree with Li Xiuning and Chai Shao's union unless Chen Ying's power alone could be greater than the Seven Sects and Five Hopes. Of course, this is impossible. The Seven Sects and Five Hopes in the entire Tang Dynasty was no less than the Rothschild family in later generations. Although in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the strength of the Seven Sects and Five Hopes could easily influence the world's trend.

In fact, Chen Ying was not aware that titles in the Tang Dynasty were not valuable. Li Yuan had no less than dozens of Dukes, and there were more Dukes in the county. Of course, Li Yuan’s greatest ability was not to have titles, but to turn against each other faster than to turn a book.

The inner historian ordered Dou Wei and Guanglu Dafu Hou Mo Chenqian to come out together. Suddenly, he looked at Chen Ying. Hou Mo Chenqian, who was originally unscathed, became excited.

Dou Wei whispered: "Is it a coincidence that Chen Ying is your cousin?"

"It's really not wrong!" Hou Mo Chen Qian said with an excited look: "It's not wrong to see that face. Our Hou Mo Chen family is more beautiful than Pan An. Does the Prime Minister Dou think he is old, and I think I was in Daxing City (the former name of Chang'an in the Sui Dynasty) back then... "

Before Hou Mo Chenqian could finish his words, Dou Wei smiled and said, "You should just let it go. If a timid person sees you, he will definitely be scared to tears!"

Chen Ying suddenly turned around and saw Hou Mo Chen Qianhui beside Dou Wei, then turned around and bowed to salute.

Hou Mo Chen Qianhui was shocked. He was not originally planning to let Chen Ying recognize his ancestors, but judging from Li Yuan's meaning, he clearly knew that Chen Ying was not surnamed Chen, but Hou Mo Chen.

Should we recognize each other? Or do we not recognize each other? Hou Mo and Chen Qian will immediately become entangled.

Hou Mo Chen Qian would say in surprise: "Do you know me?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Chen Ying doesn't know his senior, but he had to remind him before that Chen Ying did not make a big mistake. If you have this intention, you are just a recreation of kindness. Haven't you asked for the senior's name Gao?"

"My husband's surname is Hou Mo Chen and Qianhui!"

When Chen Ying heard the strange surname "Hou Mochen", he thought it was Hu, but when he saw that Hou Mo Chen Qianhui did not look like Hu at all, and was no different from Han people, he was slightly surprised.

"When Hou Mo Chen, I will take the lead!"
Chapter completed!