Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 446 Secret Discussion

Such a suggestion... Li Shimin glanced sideways at Ling Jing, who understood what it meant, shook his head and said: "Huiren didn't mention it in the letter, but Yuan Junzhang was recruited, and many of his subordinates knew that Cao Chuantuo was killed by the Turks. A matter of capture."

"Definitely not!" Du Ruhui said in a clear voice: "The crown prince may be able to win over the king of Zhaojun, the king of Xiangyi and other clan generals, but His Royal Highness can't."

Li Shimin nodded slightly. Among the generals of the clan, Li Daoxuan and Li Shentong were his hardcore supporters. Rencheng King Li Daozong participated in the Battle of Baibi and the Battle of Hulaoguan in Luoyang successively under his command, and they also had a lot of connections.

Li Xiaogong, King of Zhao County, and Li Shenfu, King of Xiangyi, have always been neutral, only loyal to His Majesty, and even leaned slightly towards the East Palace because of the crown prince.

And these two are also the two most powerful generals of the Tang army in the world today.

The only one who can really be regarded as a subordinate of the East Palace is Li Yuan, King of Lujiang.

In order to balance the power between the East Palace and the Qin Palace, Li Yuan may tolerate the crown prince recruiting Li Shenfu and even Li Xiaogong, but he will never allow Li Shimin, who already has unparalleled prestige in the army, to take these two under his command.

Changsun Wuji said quietly: "In this way... next year the Turks will invade Hedong again, will His Majesty allow His Highness to go out of Hedong?"

Li Shimin's face became more and more ugly, he also thought of this.

Last year, Jieli Khan almost penetrated the Hedong Road. The prince led a large army to attack the Turkic divisions that invaded the Guannei Road, and he wanted to confront Jieli Khan's Turkic main force head-on.

If this happens again, maybe the crown prince can go to Hedong for a turn and earn military merits, even if he goes out of Hedong by himself... Li Shenfu, the general manager of the Daizhou, is under the command of the Eastern Palace, and Shi Wanbao almost killed Li Daoxuan The story may not repeat itself.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said sharply: "The king of Xiangyi will never be allowed to stay in office!"

Ling Jing sighed slightly in his heart, could Li Shan really be able to predict?
He made accurate judgments on everyone's reactions and choices.

Fang Xuanling, who kept silent all this time, said softly: "The Turks are committing massive crimes in the South. At least after April next year, the general management of the Hedong Army should be abolished."

Ling Jing added: "It is mentioned in Huairen's letter that Hou Shou Mayi of Yiyang County is most afraid of the king of Xiangyi..."

Li Shimin nodded in agreement, "Uncle Wang of Xiangyi and Liu Shirang have the deepest hatred. If Liu Shirang can't transfer, then Uncle Wang of Xiangyi can only be wronged."

"Your Highness means..." Changsun Wuji heard a different meaning, "The governor of Bingzhou?"

Theoretically, the general manager of Bingzhou cannot directly control Yanmen Pass, but the general manager of the East Road Army can.

What Fang Xuanling and Ling Jing meant was that the post of Head of the East Road Army must be revoked... Don't think about grabbing it, neither His Majesty nor the East Palace will allow anyone from King Qin's lineage to succeed.

But Li Shimin wanted to do everything right, and directly expelled Li Shenfu, the king of Xiangyi, from Hedong Road, and he didn't even keep the position of governor of Bingzhou.

Du Ruhui has always been decisive, but now he hesitated, "His Royal Highness, use the matter of Cao Chuantuo to make trouble?"

Li Shimin's eyes wandered, although he made up his mind, how to act was a problem.

Fang Xuanling said in a low voice: "If the East Palace really wins over King Xiangyi, if His Highness uses this to make trouble, I'm afraid..."

The conflict between the East Palace and Tiance Mansion has long been publicized and has not intensified. The main reason is that the two sides have always been jealous of each other, coupled with Li Yuan's undisguised favoritism... But if Li Shimin used the Cao Chuantuo incident as a source of trouble, the conflict would be very serious. It may intensify rapidly, the seizure of the heir apparent will soon become intense, and the situation is likely to get out of control.

Compared with the original time and space, the current situation of Li Shimin is much better. Although Li Yuan is still partial to the East Palace, the crown prince has not succeeded in pacifying Shandong. As a result, the power of the East Palace has not been greatly expanded, and the prestige of the crown prince Li Jiancheng has suffered a lot. .

The fact that Princess Pingyang did not die also had a profound impact. It is impossible for Li Jiancheng in history not to have considered the possibility of Li Shimin's rebellion. For this reason, he set up the Changlin Army.

However, Princess Pingyang was in charge of the Beiya Forbidden Army, which gave Li Jiancheng a certain guarantee and confidence in this regard, which also eased the situation.

In general, in a word, at this time Li Shimin still has not given up the hope of entering the East Palace through normal means, but once the conflict intensifies, for the sake of Xiangyi King Li's talisman, the Tiance Mansion is likely to have a direct confrontation with the East Palace. Conflict... Once things get serious, Li Yuan may be forced to make a choice.

This is what Li Shimin doesn't want to see.

The five people in the room fell silent, Li Shimin thought in his heart, it would be great if there was some movement in Daizhou or Shuozhou at this time.

At this moment, the story of Ma Yi's appeasement has been spread in the court, and the legendary story about Li Shanxue's night attack on the camp, capturing Yu Shexi alive, and forcing Yuan Junzhang to surrender has spread throughout Chang'an.

Regardless of the snow still falling in the air, Zhang Wenguan galloped all the way, reined in the horse outside an exquisite courtyard, got off the horse, and strode inside.

"Mr. Zhang." The servant at the gatehouse saluted respectfully.

"Where's aunt?" Zhang Wenguan rushed all the way in, "Uncle has news!"

Although the house is exquisite, it's not big, and it only goes forward and backward. When Zhang Wenguan yelled, Cui Xin's wife, Mrs. Zhang, stepped out quickly, "Zhigui, how is your uncle?"

As soon as her husband left, there was no news, so Zhang made many inquiries, but found out from a caravan that Liu Shirang had defected and the Turks had been killed in Mayi. Since then, Zhang has shed tears almost every day.

Zhang Wenguan grinned and said with a smile: "Don't worry, aunt, uncle is well."

Miss Cui who followed came out with a crisp voice, and raised her voice to ask: "Third Cousin, did you hear that the Turks came to Mayi?"

"It's true." Zhang Wenguan said with a smile, "Turks prevented Yuan Junzhang from surrendering to the Tang Dynasty. Brother Huai and his uncle set off to return to Mayi. .”

Mrs. Zhang was stunned for a moment, and Miss Cui smiled first, but then her face changed slightly, "Is your father injured?"

"I'm safe and sound. I'm in Dai County now. I'm leaving for Beijing in two days." Zhang Wenguan coughed twice, "I just came back from Sun Moon Lake, and I asked the messenger. It's Brother Huai's personal guard... Before sending troops, Brother Huai sent his personal guards Send uncle back to Yanmen Pass."

Miss Cui's voice trembled slightly, "Father..."

"Uncle refused, and then read out the imperial edict outside the Turkic camp to appease Yuan Junzhang." Zhang Wenguan glanced at Zhang from the corner of his eyes, "My uncle's famous family, regardless of others, is really good at knowing people."

Mrs. Zhang was a little confused, "Zhigui..."

Although Miss Cui was young, she was very intelligent. When she saw Zhang Wenguan's strange and congratulatory eyes, her cheeks immediately became dizzy.

At this time, a servant woman from outside came to report, "Ma'am, Mrs. Changsun is visiting."

"Eldest grandson?" Mrs. Zhang asked in surprise, "Is it the Marquis of Nan'an County?"

Zhang Wenguan coughed twice, "It should be Mrs. Changsun, the wife of Li Keshi, the wife of Li Keshi, the third left guard of Tiance Mansion, Danyang House of the Li family in Longxi."

At this moment, Mrs. Zhang finally sensed the smell, and connected the two things together... When life and death were at stake, the husband did not abandon him, apparently he had chosen a son-in-law.

The Li family invited Master Li’s wife Changsun, on the one hand because of the close relationship between Li Shan and Li Keshi’s family, and on the other hand because Li Keshi and Cui Xin are also in-laws... So, Changsun was the matchmaker. is the most suitable.

(End of this chapter)