bastard seizes tang

Chapter 575 Chaos in the Eastern Palace
Li Ke followed Li Shimin into the East Palace and went to Guangtian Palace where Li Chengqian recuperated. Li Ke saw that he was getting closer and closer to Guangtian Palace, and felt a little anxious unconsciously.

The Guangtian Palace is right in front of you. If Li Chengqian has rebelled, then there must be a large number of people in the Guangtian Palace ready to ambush them. As long as you enter the Guangtian Palace, you will enter the Longtan Tiger Den.

Li Ke knew in his heart that, based on his guess, Li Chengqian would probably use this opportunity to force the palace to rebel today, but Li Ke was not fully sure, so Li Ke could not directly point out this matter in front of Li Shimin.

What's more, if Li Keruo really loves his brother as he showed in front of Li Shimin, he shouldn't doubt Li Chengqian, and he shouldn't know that Li Chengqian will be in the palace today. Is it sold?
Neither can tell Li Shimin directly, nor prevent Li Shimin from entering the Guangtian Temple. There can only be a way to make Li Shimin discover the abnormality. Li Ke waited and watched for a while, and finally thought of a way.

The atmosphere in the East Palace today is particularly weird. The number of guards in the palace is obviously much less than before, scattered in twos and threes, standing sparsely, which is quite different from the past.

Li Shimin didn't know the reason for this, but Li Ke knew very well that Donggong Wei led many of the sons of meritorious officials. Although these people are dudes, they enjoy the glory and wealth given by the Tang Dynasty. They are still loyal to Li Shimin and will never die for Li Chengqian. rebellious.

Li Chengqian would never dare to use the Donggong Wei rate. The only people he could use were himself and Hou Junji's confidantes. Naturally, the number of people was very limited. Excluding the ambushes, there would definitely not be more people free to pretend As the guard of the East Palace, he was on duty in the palace.

After the Xuanwumen incident, before Li Shimin ascended the throne, Li Shimin had also been the prince for a few months. Li Shimin entered the front palace from the Chongjiao gate in the East Palace, and then passed through the Lizheng Hall to the outside of the Guangtian Hall. Seeing the fewer and fewer guards, Li Shimin was very slow. Slowly also felt something abnormal.

Even if Crown Prince Li Chengqian is about to be abolished and the people in the palace are slack, but when the emperor comes to the mansion, should the people in the palace look like this?
Li Ke also saw Li Shimin's doubts, so he opened his mouth first, and asked Zhao Jie displeasedly: "Why, the prince's brother has made some mistakes recently, and was punished by the father. Have you neglected your brother?"

Naturally, Li Ke couldn't directly point out the fact that they wanted to rebel, otherwise his purpose would be exposed. Li Ke could only strike from the side, forcing them to show their feet.When Li Ke opened his mouth, he didn't directly point the finger at Li Chengqian, but asked Donggong Wei to rate him, which meant to fight for his brother's injustice.

Hou Junji and Li Chengqian were quite careful in their planning, and it was impossible for Li Shimin not to notice such a big abnormality in the East Palace. Zhao Jie replied according to the answer he had prepared before: "The prince has been depressed recently, and he doesn't see many people, so he will The Donggong guards were transferred to the Chongwen Hall and the Chongren Hall, and not much was left in the Guangtian Hall."

Generally speaking, the Six Commanders of the Eastern Palace are all under the crown prince's command. It is not wrong for Li Chengqian to mobilize them, but after the Xuanwu Gate incident, Li Shimin issued an order in order to learn a lesson and avoid such things from happening again in the future. In the future, any transfer of the Donggongwei rate must be reported to the Provincial Taiwan and Beiya.

The provincial government is the prime minister of the three provinces, and the report to the provincial government is naturally to let the prime minister who nominally controls the imperial army in the southern government know. The highest general was Zhang Shigui, the General of the Zuojian Gate Guard. It stands to reason that Zhang Shigui should be notified of the transfer of troops in the East Palace, but Zhang Shigui obviously did not receive any news.

It is a big taboo to mobilize the people and horses of the East Palace without knowing the North Yamen, Zhang Shigui should have questioned the crime, but the crown prince is critically ill now, and Zhang Shigui is inconvenient to launch an attack at this time.

Zhang Shigui frowned slightly, and while continuing to walk in the direction of Guangtian Palace, he felt a little uneasy after being the commander of Li Shimin's imperial army for many years. If this situation happened in the East Palace, even if the crown prince was critically ill, he would still have to verify it. of.

Just when he was about to walk into the gate of Guangtian Palace, with only thirty steps left, Zhang Shigui suddenly stopped, pulled a guard from the East Palace beside him, and asked, "Are you the leader of the left or the right?" People from the government?"

The soldier dressed in Donggongwei's clothes obviously didn't expect Zhang Shigui to ask such a question suddenly, and instinctively blurted out in his own native dialect: "Back to the general, the pawn is a member of the left guard."

Zhang Shigui's expression changed as soon as the words of Donggong Weisui came out, because this Weisui did not speak Guanlong dialect, but an authentic Hebei dialect.

Dong Gongwei has his own standards for selecting staff. Apart from being tall and skilled, there is an unwritten rule that he must be from Guanzhong. However, this Wei rate clearly speaks Hebei dialect. There is no taste of Guanzhong.

Naturally, the guards couldn't speak Guanzhong dialect, because they were all Hou Junji's private soldiers. They were private guards who followed Hou Junji from Shanggu and fought for many years. They were all Hebei people, how could they speak Guanzhong dialect.

Zhang Shigui immediately said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, stop, there is a fraud in the East Palace."

Zhang Shigui was quite vigilant, Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief as soon as he said that, but Li Shimin was startled suddenly.

Li Shimin hurriedly asked: "Wu An (written by Zhang Shigui) what does this mean?"

Zhang Shigui drew out the saber from his waist, put it on the neck of the soldier who had just answered, and replied to Li Shimin: "He is not speaking Guanzhong dialect, and he is not the real Zuowei rate."

Li Shimin was born in the army, and most of the forbidden troops in Chang'an were his former troops. He knew the rules of the army better than anyone else. As soon as Zhang Shigui's words came out, Li Shimin immediately understood what Zhang Shigui meant.

Seeing that Zhang Shigui's knife rested on Wei Shi's neck, Li Shimin asked, "Who are you, why are you here, and where is the crown prince?"

Even watching the Donggong guard rate being replaced by others, Li Shimin still had illusions about the prince at the first time, and did not suspect Li Chengqian, but thought that someone coerced the prince, so he did it.

This soldier has been with Hou Junji for many years, he is also a dead soldier raised by Hou Junji, he is also a tough guy, in front of Li Shimin, he still keeps silent, as if he can't listen to Li Shimin's words.

Li Ke at the side saw this and said to Li Shimin: "Father, I heard that this person speaks with a Hebei accent. I, the generals of the Tang Dynasty, have this ability, and who else is from Hebei."

The Tang Dynasty was established only for more than ten years. Although there are many military generals, most of them are from Shandong and Guanlong, followed by Hedong and Central Plains. There are not many high-level military generals from Hebei, and even fewer can mobilize private troops with such skills. Hou Junji and Zhang Gongjin are just two people, and Zhang Gongjin is under Li Ke's command, and now in the Northland, if he returns to Beijing, it is impossible that there will be no news from Li Ke, and the result will be obvious.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Ke finished speaking, Hou Junji led people out of Guangtian Palace, and more than [-] people blocked in front of Li Shimin.

(End of this chapter)