Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

In Chang'an City, the ongoing New Year's Eve is not a very good atmosphere. Although the office has been dismissed, the memorial about the unfavorable war made by the governor of Longzhou, Guo Xiaoke, caused a lot of trouble in Chang'an.

Li Zhaode and Zhang Wenguan can see it, and others can see it even more clearly... Although they didn't name them, this is actually a memorial to the impeachment of Handan King Li Huairen.

The army went out in a snowy day, but failed to attack Guyuan. There was no time, no favorable location, and no one to make peace with.

In fact, this memorial did not have much influence. On the one hand, Guo Xiaoke was only the governor of Longzhou. Because of the battle of Tiantai Mountain, most of the courtiers had a relationship with Li Shan, at least with good intentions.

The key is the memorial service sent to Chang'an. Just as Li Shan and Li Ke's father and son expected, the Prince of Handan led his elite soldiers to Xiaoguan on a snowy night, Su Dingfang camped in the snow, and Guo Xiaoke died after a small setback. Withdrawing the troops, and even writing a letter to the court to blame the king of Handan, this contrast is too stark.

Speaking to Xiaoli, Guo Xiaoke is stupid, the meat is already on his lips, and he insists on turning his head away and refusing to eat it.

Not only is it stupid, but it's also bad. If you don't want to eat it, let it go, but you have to bite the hand that gave him the meat.

Speaking of Dali, Guo Xiaoke is called a subordinate and a superior. This does not mean that he is just a county magistrate, far inferior to Li Shan, the county prince, but that Li Shan is the head of the Lingzhou Road Marching Army, and he is ordered to control the army. , Lingzhou, Jingzhou, Yuanzhou, Huizhou, Longzhou, and Ningzhou were all under its jurisdiction.

The army under Li Shan's command is mainly directly subordinate, and there is only one partial division, which is the government soldiers led by Guo Xiaoke and Yang Ze stationed in Longzhou and the southwest of Yuanzhou.

From this perspective, Li Shan is Guo Xiaoke's serious boss.

The next offense is to put it nicely, but to put it seriously is to disrespect military orders.

And Guo Xiaoke happened to be the favorite general of Qin Wang Li Shimin, so in this case, eight hundred sharp men went down to Xiaoguan. Although such legendary deeds are circulated in the market, more people pay attention to Guo Xiaoke...or what they pay attention to It is King Qin and the prince behind Guo Xiaoke.

What Guo Xiaoke will encounter next will largely affect the court situation this year... To put it more directly, the decision will reflect Li Yuan's attitude and preference for the situation of seizing the heir.

To put it bluntly, this is a weather vane.

Countless people, including the officials of Tiance Mansion and East Palace, were watching to see what Li Yuan would do this time.

In Princess Pingyang's mansion, Chai Shao couldn't help laughing when he thought of the two memorials, "It was appointed by His Majesty that day. Guo Xiaoke made great achievements under the command of King Qin back then. This time..."

"Greedy for merit, and prevaricate for defeat." Princess Pingyang snorted coldly, "It's what I deserve!"

"Greedy and aggressive?" Chai Shao was a little curious, "Was there a letter from Huairen?"

"It was mentioned in Zhang Zhigui's letter to the Qinghe county magistrate, but Huairen did write and just arrived." Princess Pingyang took out the letter from her sleeve and handed it over. Far inferior to the husband-in-law.

After receiving the letter, Chai Shao glanced at it a few times, then frowned slightly, and said in surprise, "Huiren is going back to Beijing..."

Princess Pingyang didn't say a word, but she frowned even more than her husband.

"We will sweep Huizhou and Lingzhou next, why are you returning to Beijing at this time?" Chai Shao looked back a few times, and the corners of his mouth could not help curling up slightly, "Being wounded and sick... and taking wounds and sick?"

This sentence obviously meant something. After the Tang army defeated the Turks three times the year before last, Li Shan asked himself to return to the court on the grounds of being wounded and sick. Chai Shao suspected that Li Shan was pretending again...

This look fell into the eyes of his wife, and the heroine couldn't help but stare, "It's so windy and snowy, it's hard to see people from five steps away. In three days and two nights, [-]% of the [-] warriors were lost on the way, isn't it? Should he bear the wound and carry the disease?"

In other words, Li Shan is also surnamed Li, and his ancestral home is Chengji in Longxi, and he is also his wife's lifesaver. Otherwise, Chai Shao really felt a little uncomfortable. After thinking about it, he asked dryly, "Your Majesty knows?"

Princess Pingyang shook her head, "I will enter the palace tomorrow and tell my father to listen."

Chai Shao, who just came back from the palace, said with a smile: "It just so happens that His Majesty sent an order today, and tomorrow's Linhu Palace will discuss matters, which is about the follow-up to this battle."

Princess Pingyang was stunned and asked, "Guo Xiaoke?"

"Who knows..." Chai Shao coughed twice, "Are you going to persuade His Majesty to call Huairen back to Chang'an?"

"Uh..." Princess Pingyang thought for a while, then said softly, "The current situation in the court is unspeakably complicated, if Huairen returns to Beijing... it's better to lead the army outside, at least to protect himself."

Chai Shao was silent for a while, then clicked his tongue and said, "If it wasn't for Li Dewu, I would have thought that Huairen was your biological younger brother..."

"You..." Princess Pingyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Should Huairen go back to Beijing or stay in the army?"

"Can you control him?" Chai Shao yawned, "Huairen is a man with a firm mind, and he is not someone who can be easily persuaded by others. I'm afraid he is determined to return to Beijing."

Seeing his wife's silence, Chai Shao said with a smile: "Before, it was still a vague guess, but now it can be concluded that Huairen will definitely vote for the King of Qin."

Princess Pingyang frowned, "How can you see that?"

"If you don't stay in the army and ask yourself to return to the court, it may be because of the previous gossip, but if you say that Huairen has not been involved in the struggle for the heir, do you believe it?" Chai Shao said with a smile: "Now that the East Palace is weak, The King of Qin is hopeful, but Huairen can't just return to the court and turn the tide for the prince, right?"

"Impossible, both Pei Shiju and Li Dewu are in the East Palace." Princess Pingyang pondered for a while, "So Huairen returned to court for the sake of his second brother?"

"Probably." Chai Shao thought for a while, "Maybe King Qin called him back to Beijing."

"what?"

"That guy Luo Yi is a little restless." Chai Shao said with a smile, "Huairen can't be Secretary of Agriculture when he returns to Beijing, can he?"

"Second brother intends to make Huairen check and balance Luo Yi?"

"Maybe there is still hope to restrain the Beiya Imperial Army." Chai Shao rolled his eyes, "It would be good to transfer it to him."

Princess Pingyang was in a complicated mood, pinching the letter paper tightly with her dry and strong fingers, she didn't know what to say for a while, and then asked in a low voice: "If Huairen returns to Beijing, do you want to ask..."

Chai Shao put away his smile and shook his head slightly, "If you have asked clearly, then you have to choose."

"Naturally the second brother." Princess Pingyang resolutely said: "The prince is cold-hearted, how can he be the great treasure!"

"But Huairen may not think so..."

"Didn't you assert that Huai Ren has voted for the second brother?"

"What I mean is that the matter of seizing the heir is extremely dangerous. No one dares to say the outcome until the day when the truth comes out. Huairen hopes that you and I stay out of it."

After a pause, Chai Shao said: "You treat Huairen kindly, so Huairen will reciprocate."