The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1318 Drag the prince away

"It's not easy." Xuan Shijing smiled wryly, "I know I'm a liar, but I can't find any way to refute it for the time being. He claims to have lived two hundred years. What evidence do we have to prove that what he said is false? It would be fine if His Majesty is an ordinary noble, but His Majesty is not. Your Majesty is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the helm of the Tang Dynasty, and the king of a country. If you find out some medicine for longevity."

"How about I go into the palace to persuade the emperor?" Li Tai said: "The big deal is to go all out, anyway, at most I will be scolded a few times, or I will be grounded and my salary will be cut."

Xuan Shijing shook his head: "The starting point is good, but it is useless. The whole Chang'an city believes in these things, not just one majesty, it can be said that in the whole Chang'an city, [-]% of the nobles believe in these things, and some even their families believe in these things. His Majesty believes that most of the nobles believe that if you go to persuade him, you will not be happy for yourself. I am afraid that there will be no one except Mr. Wei Zheng, who is already at home and lying on the bed waiting to die. will agree with you."

Even if there are nobles who do not believe in evil, who dares to risk the disgrace of the world, contradict His Majesty, and offend most nobles by telling the truth?

"But this king is the son of my father, so I can't just watch my father being deceived by that foreign alchemist." Li Tai said: "My father is not in good health now, and those pills that the alchemist made will not be used again." Eat it, isn't it worse?"

"Does the prince know about this?" Xuan Shijing asked.

Li Tai nodded: "I know, he can't get away now, let me tell you about it, you have a bright mind, think of a way."

"Can't get away? So busy?" Xuan Shijing asked.

Li Tai sighed and shook his head: "I'm not busy, I'm just kneeling outside the Ganlu Hall, begging my father to expel that alchemist, don't believe him." Speaking of this, Li Tai's tone was very helpless.

The crown prince knelt outside the Ganlu Hall, and he used the excuse to bring his family to Zhuangzi for an outing to meet Xuan Shijing. Although it was a strategy and a cover-up, it was still a little unreasonable after thinking about it.The King of Wu was leading troops abroad, and if there was no major event in the court, he seldom stayed in Chang'an City.

"Kneeling outside the Ganlu Hall?" Xuan Shijing said helplessly: "Really, I chose the least cost-effective method, and if I kneel outside the hall to stop it, if someone adds fuel to it, the prince's image will be greatly reduced. .”

Kneeling outside the palace and begging His Majesty to expel that alchemist, that is to say, not letting His Majesty ask for the method of longevity. If the prince did this, and people figured it out, what would happen?I don't want my father to sit in that seat all the time, otherwise the prince will always be the prince, and there will be no days of success.

Being speculated like this, how can the reputation be good?
Li Tai was taken aback. He didn't think about it that much before. When the prince was kneeling outside, he quickly found an excuse to come to Zhuangzi in Dongshan County to find Xuan Shijing. It's bad for reputation.

Although Xuan Shijing didn't explicitly say that there was any disadvantage, Li Tai could guess that he was not stupid.

"No, I have to go back quickly and enter the palace." Li Tai stopped and said, then turned around and wanted to leave.

Xuan Shijing hurriedly grabbed Li Tai, and said: "You don't have to go back, take your wife and children and continue to live in Zhuangzi, you can play whatever you want, I will go to the palace, you are the prince, you are the prince, this kind of muddy water is rare. Go mix it up, I'm different, I'm a foreign minister."

At any rate, I also collected a lot of favorability in front of His Majesty Li Er, and it was worthwhile to use this favorability to save the prince once.

"This matter is simple and simple, and complicated and complicated, can you do it?" Li Tai asked.

"If I can't, I still count on you and the crown prince to save me." Xuan Shijing said: "It is much easier for two princes to save one foreign minister than one foreign minister to save two princes. Will you settle accounts?"

"I've brought you into it again." Li Tai smiled apologetically.

"Come on, before you came to Zhuangzi to look for me, you never thought of apologizing to me? Since you came to me, can I stay out of it? Hypocrisy." Xuan Shijing laughed and scolded: "Don't talk, it's not too late, I will enter the palace right away, here, you explain to Si Zi, there is no need to hide it."

Li Tai nodded.

After agreeing with Li Tai, Xuan Shijing left in a hurry and rushed to Chang'an with Gao Jun.

Gao Jun has an official position, so he can also follow Xuan Shijing into the palace. Xuan Shijing took the token rewarded by His Majesty Li Er and led Gao Jun directly into the palace on horseback, and arrived at the square outside the Ganlu Hall.

Reining in the reins, he stopped behind Li Chengqian.

Xuan Shijing jumped off the horse and came to Li Chengqian's side.

"His Royal Highness, you are still kneeling here." Xuan Shijing said half seriously, half jokingly.

"Little Jing, why are you here?" Li Chengqian turned his head and saw Xuan Shijing. He was surprised that Xuan Shijing's arrival was unexpected.

"His Royal Highness Wei Wang is now at my village, taking his wife and children for an outing. Tell me, can I not come?" Xuan Shijing said helplessly: "There are many ways to solve the problem, but His Royal Highness chose the one that is most unfavorable. One of my own, although on the surface it is showing filial piety, but in fact it is not. Your Highness should hurry up and go back to the East Palace. Although it is spring and March, it is still cold today. Don't kneel down and ruin your body. .”

"Father's place."

"I'm going to see His Majesty." Xuan Shijing said, then turned his head to look at Gao Jun: "Drag His Royal Highness back, remember, drag back." Xuan Shijing emphasized the word 'drag'.

"Yes." Gao Jun answered with cupped hands, looked at Li Chengqian, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, please cooperate."

If the prince was so easy to be persuaded by Xuan Shijing to go back, he couldn't bear it, so he simply let Gao Jun use his strength to drag the prince back directly, saving some face for the prince, which can be regarded as a step.

"Little Jing, you!" Li Chengqian looked at Xuan Shijing.

"His Royal Highness." Xuan Shijing whispered in Li Chengqian's ear, "Just give me a step to go down, don't burn yourself out, keep kneeling here, and spread the word, what will happen to some people who don't like the prince?" Trying to figure out the prince? How to spread rumors to hurt the prince? It is a good thing for His Highness to be filial to His Majesty, but you can think of other ways, and don’t involve yourself in it.”

Li Chengqian nodded: "OK."

Gao Jun 'dragged away' Li Chengqian and sent him back to the East Palace, while Xuan Shijing walked up the steps to the outside of Ganlu Hall.

"Little Xianggong, please report to Your Majesty that Prince Zhan Shixuan Shijing is asking to see you." Xuan Shijing said politely to the small yellow gate guarded outside.

"Yes, Master Xuan, please wait a moment." After speaking, Xiao Huangmen entered the Ganlu Palace, and went to tell His Majesty Li Er to go down.

Not long after, Deyi came out and bowed to Xuan Shijing.

(End of this chapter)