A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Starting from the Village Chief

Chapter 208 Thunder Palm Li Yi

Li Yuan looked at Wei Ting lying on the case-solving table, then looked at Li Yi standing next to him, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

When Crown Prince Jiancheng saw his friend and confidant unconscious, his face turned black. He pointed at Li Yi and shouted, "How dare you hit the minister!"

Li Shimin interrupted, "Prince, let's first understand the situation."

"The man has been beaten unconscious, what else do you want to know?" Jiancheng asked.

Li Yuan waved to Li Yi, still smiling.

"Wuyi, what's going on?"

Li Yi remained calm and pointed at the two eunuchs who had been standing there in shock. "Your Majesty, these two were there to arrange the positions for me and Wei Ting. They witnessed the entire process. Your Majesty can ask them; it would be more objective and fair."

Li Yuan looked at the two young eunuchs,
The two men had already turned as pale as paper, and when they saw the emperor's gaze, their legs trembled.

"explain."

"General Wei punched Director Li, but was knocked down by Director Li's sweeping kick," one said.

Another person continued, "General Wei got up and kicked Director Li again, but Director Li came around from behind and knocked him down."

"Then, then, Director Li used, used, used Taoism, and used lightning to electrocute General Wei, knocking him unconscious."

The two of them spoke back and forth, some stuttering.

Jiancheng said angrily, "Wei Ting is good at riding and shooting, can use a hard bow, and is tall. How could he be like this?"

Li Yuan's smile widened. "Interesting, Li Yi, you tell me about it."

Seeing Li Yuan like this, he was no longer worried. He stepped forward and called one of the eunuchs over and demonstrated the scene to the emperor on the spot.

Here comes a reenactment.

From Wei Ting being dissatisfied with his seat and scolding the eunuch, to scolding Li Yi, to attacking Li Yi, and then how he easily knocked Wei Ting down twice with a hook kick and a hug throw.

"Where's the Dao Fa?"

After watching the reenactment, Li Yuan still remembered what the eunuch said.

The emperor asked the two eunuchs, and they both nodded and said that Li Yi finally used Taoism and called out the Goddess of Lightning. One of them said that he saw lightning flash across Li Yi's sleeves.
Wei Ting was still lying on the ground like a dead pig, looking extremely miserable.

"I did call out to the Thunder Goddess, but that was just to attract Wei Ting's attention. I only struck him twice."

Li Yuan laughed at this explanation.

But it is also a fact that Wei Ting lay on the ground and did not wake up for a long time.

The imperial physician finally arrived.

After carefully examining Wei Ting,

"General Wei is fine, he's just unconscious for a while and will wake up soon."

Li Yuan chuckled disdainfully at Wei Ting.
"It seems that what Li Yi said just now about Wei Ting being a silver-coated wax spearhead and only knowing how to fight and kick is true. A great pillar of the state and a general of the cavalry can't even beat little Li Yi, who just returned to secular life from a Taoist priest. It's embarrassing enough to tell others.
If you don’t have the ability, don’t provoke.

Tonight is New Year's Eve, which should be a happy day, but Wei Ting is so ignorant of etiquette."

As soon as the emperor said this, several people stood up to impeach Wei Ting.

Among them were also Palace Censors who were specifically responsible for palace etiquette.

Of course, some people also impeached Li Yi.

"Deprive Wei Ting of his title of Marquis of Yifeng County, take away his honor of being a pillar of the state, and dismiss him from his post," the emperor said with a smile on his face, but the punishment he said was not light.

Stripped of titles, honors, and dismissed from office,

He ordered the guards to drag Wei Ting out of Chengtian Gate Tower.

It was an honor to be able to attend the New Year's Eve banquet at the palace, but now being dragged out is a shame.

Crown Prince Li Jiancheng quickly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Wei Ting's fight over the seat was indeed disrespectful and a crime, but it is not serious enough. I beg for your forgiveness, Your Majesty."

Li Yuan said to his son: "A country has its own laws, and a family has its own rules. Without rules, there will be no order. Wei Ting is thirty years old, but he doesn't even know the rules. He dared to beat up the fifth-rank Fengyi Supervisor, who is also a county earl, at my palace banquet.
Such a bold and reckless person, what kind of behavior would he usually have?

As the crown prince, you must select capable officials from the Eastern Palace, and you cannot give them more important positions just because they were friends."

Wei Ting was dragged away.
The eunuchs quickly cleaned up the damaged tables, cups and plates.

Li Yuan looked at Li Yi with a smile. Although Li Yi had just said that he did not know the Daoist magic of thunder and lightning, the two eunuchs and even several onlookers said that they saw him recite the formula, and then there was a flash of lightning, and then Wei Ting completely fainted.
"Li Yi, what crime have you committed?" the emperor asked with a smile.

"I didn't know that Wei Ting, despite being a pillar of state and a general of cavalry, liked to make advances and was tall, but in the end he was just an embroidered pillow and a bag of straw. I was careless and shouldn't have fought back. I should have walked around the pillar and let him go. And I shouldn't have slapped him twice afterwards. He looked so tall, but he was so weak..."

Li Yi's answer made Li Yuan burst into laughter.

"Fortunately, Wei Ting was dragged away. Otherwise, when he woke up and heard what you said, he would have fainted again out of shame and anger. Fighting in the palace is wrong after all, but considering that it was Wei Ting who started the fight,
I won't pursue you today, but be careful next time."

"Thank you for your forgiveness, Your Majesty."

Li Yuan laughed heartily. "However, you defeated the Crown Prince's Left Guard General of the Cavalry, so you must give the Crown Prince one as compensation. Since you are such a good fighter, you are more suitable for this General of the Cavalry than Wei Ting. I will appoint you as the Inspector of the Crown Prince's Left Guard General of the Cavalry."

Before Li Yi could say no, the emperor immediately added, "Don't refuse!" The emperor ignored Li Yi and turned around.

"Keep playing music, keep dancing!"

The palace banquet continues.

Li Yi was about to sit down when the palace supervisor Lu Kuan came over and said, "Mr. Qianshui, please follow me. His Majesty will ask you to take a seat in the front."

He beat Wei Ting unconscious in the palace, but he received no punishment and was even given a fourth-rank military position.

Everyone looked at Li Yi as if he were a god, especially the officials who were right beside him and witnessed how Li Yi easily knocked down Wei Ting twice, and finally how he emitted electric light from his sleeves and chanted a spell to shock Wei Ting to death. They secretly exclaimed that Li Yi was unfathomable.
As expected of a Taoist monk, he saw with his own eyes the summoning of the Goddess of Lightning and Thunder.

Lu Kuan was also very curious about Li Yi.
"Qianshuibo's Five Thunders Righteousness is quite effective,"

"Actually, it's a palm technique called Thunder Palm," Li Yi said with a smile.

"So it's called the Thunder Palm. It's a combination of Taoist magic and palm techniques. It's quite good."

Li Yi, the Thunder Palm, after the New Year's Eve banquet tonight, this name will surely be well-known in Chang'an, and then those Chang'an heroes and Kyoto rangers will have to be in awe of him.

Li Yi also asked Lu Kuan a few questions,

It turns out that the Eastern Palace of Crown Prince Li Jiancheng also had its own military system, called the Six Rates of the Crown Prince. The six rates, including the Left and Right Guards, were responsible for commanding the internal and external troops. In addition, there were four rates that were only responsible for guarding the palace gates and serving as attendants.

The Left and Right Guards were modeled after the Left and Right Guards of the imperial court. Each of them commanded five outer courts, and also had three inner courts for personal support.

This is basically a continuation of the previous dynasty's system.
The entire Eastern Palace Guard system consists of approximately 20,000 external soldiers and several thousand internal guards.

The General of the Cavalry commanded a Cavalry House, with 1,200 men in the Upper House, 1,000 in the Middle House, and 800 in the Lower House. The General of the Cavalry in the Upper House was of the upper fourth rank, while the General of the Cavalry in the Lower House was of the lower fifth rank.

The grade is still relatively high.

These twenty-two outer prefectures of the Eastern Palace, like the military prefectures of the imperial guards, are scattered across the country and mixed with the guards. Usually, soldiers from the outer prefectures are dispatched to the capital and are under the command of the Yifu Kaifu led by each guard.

The cavalry detachment that Wei Ting originally commanded was located in Bailuyuan, also known as the Bailu Cavalry detachment of the Crown Prince's Left Guard, with 1,200 cavalry soldiers.

It is only thirty or forty miles away from Chang'an.

"I don't know anything about military affairs."

"Qianshui Bo, you were part of the army that won the Battle of Jingzhou and helped pacify Xue Ju and his son. You have nine levels of military merit."

In fact, what Li Yi wanted to say in his heart was, I don’t want to have anything to do with Crown Prince Jiancheng, and I don’t want to be an official in the Eastern Palace.

Whoever wants to get on that broken boat that will sink sooner or later can get on it, but I don’t want to.

But the emperor had anticipated that he would refuse today, so he directly told him not to refuse.

The emperor forgave him for fighting at the New Year's Eve palace banquet, and he couldn't help but give him face. If he did so, the emperor would humiliate him.

I followed Lu Kuan to his new position with some helplessness.
Move forward greatly,

Next to him was Wu Shigui, who had already sat behind the heroes of Taiyuan Yuanmou. In the front was the Crown Prince Qin Wang, then the Prime Ministers such as Pei Ji, then the heroes of Taiyuan Yuanmou, then the princes of the royal family, the Shangshu of the three provinces and six ministries, and the ministers of the various temples.

This time his position is above all the princes and nobles of the royal family.

As soon as he sat down, he attracted a lot of attention.

The two young men called out to him, "Uncle Qianshui, please teach us your Five Thunders Righteousness Method later."

Li Yi didn't recognize the two men, so Lu Kuan introduced them, "These two are the Prince of Longxi and the Prince of Bohai, nephews of Your Majesty."

The two were the sons of Li Yuan's second brother, King Shu Li Zhan. Their father died early, and they were raised by Li Yuan since childhood. The two brothers were both illegitimate children and had been Jiancheng's followers since childhood. They were idle, dandy, and arrogant. After Li Yuan started his army in Jinyang, the two brothers only cared about eating, drinking, and having fun, and did not make any achievements.
But he was also granted the title of Prince.

The eldest, Boyi, and the second, Fengci, were quite impressed by Li Yi's beating of Wei Ting. "Uncle Qianshui, you are also a member of the clan. In terms of seniority, we are brothers. Let's get closer. The one who can discharge electricity can teach us two brothers. If anyone dares to touch you in the future, tell us our names and we will protect you."

Li Yi could only laugh at these two dandy princes.

However, with these two treasures, the atmosphere is quite relaxed and lively.

The two of them talked about eating, drinking and having fun in great detail. As they chatted, the energetic Nuo dance began.

Unfortunately, she was not the beauty wearing a mask and dancing naked as he thought.

The performance was performed by hundreds of imperial guards in Chengtianmen Square.

This group of strong imperial guards wore ghost masks and dressed up as skinny ghosts. The masks were completely black, leaving only the teeth exposed white. They held whips made of straw, beat their feet barefoot, and wore red pants.
There was also yellow paper with red runes on it stuck to his body.
Amidst the strange drum beats and flute sounds, the dance steps were slow and mysterious.

A huge fire was burning in the center of the square.
This group of masked imperial guards were dancing there, and Li Yi felt that they were performing a ritual.
Not trying hard at all,
During the New Year, there should be beautiful women singing and dancing, such as the Huxuan dance of the Sogdian Huji from the Western Regions, which has been famous for a long time but has never been seen. There is also the Persian girl who is said to have a unique exotic style.
It's a bit strange to create such a gloomy and hellish atmosphere and pretend to be a skinny ghost to drive away evil spirits, plagues and evil spirits.

If he wants to exorcise evil spirits, it would be better to let Li Yi change into a Taoist robe and take a peach wood sword to dance.

Not exciting at all, not pretty at all,
It’s better to watch the Spring Festival Gala and make dumplings.
Finally, these people danced to the climax and let out terrifying screams.
Then Prime Minister Pei Ji presented the emperor with a specially made mahogany bow and arrow.
The emperor, holding a mahogany bow and arrow, stood on a tall city wall and shot three arrows at the fire in the square.
The evil spirits and diseases were driven away, and the Nuo dance ended.

Everyone returned to the temple.

Then they played music, ate and drank, and continued to stay up all night.

(End of this chapter)