Man Tanghong

Chapter 246
Li Yuanji rode up to Li Xiaogong, with a look of dumbfounding.

Li Xiaogong looked impoverished, people who didn't know would think that his family had fallen into poverty.

Li Xiaogong wiped the wine beads on the goat's whiskers, his eyes were cloudy, he raised his head with a complicated expression, and looked at Li Yuanji, "Now that things have happened, you still treat me like an older brother, and others are afraid to avoid me."

Li Yuanji jumped off his horse, handed the reins to the guards, climbed into the carriage of the bullock cart, sat cross-legged with Li Xiaogong, and said a little funnyly: "No matter where we go, elder brother is elder brother, this will not change Yes. Our relationship is based on blood, not status. So whether you and I are beggars or princes, brothers are brothers."

Li Xiaogong fell into silence and didn't speak any more. Instead, he raised his long whip and threw it on the ground, scaring the old cow pulling the cart and started to move forward step by step.

The frame of Prince Qi's Mansion, as well as the entourage, started to move and followed behind.

Li Xiaogong waited for a long time for the bullock cart to go out before speaking again, "You are right, but only you think so."

Li Yuanji ordered someone to bring the wine, took a sip himself, and handed the wine bag to Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong took the wine and poured it into his mouth vigorously.

Li Yuanji looked at the wine beads splashing around Li Xiaogong's mouth, and said, "My father definitely thinks so."

Li Xiaogong paused while drinking, and stared straight at Li Yuanji with red eyes.

"Holy... If the saint really thinks so, why does he treat me like this?"

Li Yuanji stared at Li Xiaogong and questioned, "How did my father treat you?"

Li Xiaogong approached Li Yuanji little by little, and said in a tone full of unwillingness: "How the saint treats me, don't you know?"

Li Yuanji said seriously: "Is there anything wrong with taking care of what you eat and what you drink, giving you a salary, making you a prince, and letting you surpass tens of millions of people?"

Li Xiaogong's eyes widened all of a sudden, "Don't pretend to be deaf and dumb to me anymore."

Li Yuanji said sincerely: "I didn't pretend to be deaf and dumb with you, what I said was the truth."

Li Xiaogong wanted to stand up, but was pushed back by Li Yuanji.

Li Xiaogong was shocked.

He is not weak, so he can't get close to him, let alone push him back with one hand.

Li Yuanji firmly held him down with one hand, his strength was abnormal.

However, he didn't care too much about this matter, he just wanted to know why Li Yuanji held him down.

Li Yuanji stared at Li Xiaogong and asked seriously: "Cousin has been back to Beijing for a few days, don't you understand the joints?"

Li Xiaogong stared, but did not speak.

Li Yuanji didn't know whether he had figured it out or not, so he could only say frankly: "My cousin is majestic and majestic in the south of the river, and he killed all the young people in the south of the river, and made a group of snakes and rats at both ends People bow their heads to my Datang.

Everyone knows the cousin's contribution to Datang. "

Li Xiaogong gritted his teeth and said, "Why did the saint humiliate me like this?"

Li Yuanji asked back without hesitation: "If my father wants to humiliate you, do you think people in the government and the opposition will avoid you?"

Li Xiaogong was taken aback.

If Li Yuan wanted to humiliate a person, the people in the government and the opposition would not avoid him, but would only try to find fault with him and make him suffer more humiliation.

What he is facing now is that no one dares to come to the door, just like avoiding disaster.

He roughly guessed some reasons.

Previously, he only thought about the credit he had made for Datang and the grievances he had suffered, but he neglected to pay attention to other people's reactions and the deep meaning in their reactions.

Seeing that Li Xiaogong didn't speak, Li Yuanji asked himself and answered: "No, people in the government and the public will only try to embarrass you and humiliate you with my father."

Li Xiaogong's face darkened and he didn't speak.

Li Yuanji continued: "So, what you are suffering now has nothing to do with humiliation."

Li Xiaogong's eyes fell on Li Yuanji's face, but he still didn't speak.

Li Yuanji sighed, and said again: "My cousin is in the south of the river. He is called the chief manager of Jingzhou. In fact, he controls Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, and half of Yizhou. The prefectures and counties under control are all over the south of the river. With fierce generals like clouds and thousands of soldiers and horses, it is not an exaggeration to be called the king of Jiangnan.

When my cousin dreamed back at midnight, didn't he think deeply?
This Jiangnan king, can you sit still? "

Li Xiaogong stared suddenly, and said in a low voice, "I never thought of being the king of Jiangnan."

Li Xiaogong is not a fool, Li Yuanji said this, if he still doesn't understand why he was neglected by Li Yuan and shunned by civil and military officials, then his life will be in vain.

Li Yuanji nodded and said, "You never thought of being the King of Jiangnan, but when you were in Jingzhou, you were already a veritable King of Jiangnan."

Li Xiaogong gritted his teeth and said: "Everything I do is worthy of the saint and my ancestors of the Li family."

Li Yuanji asked seriously: "What are you thinking, you know it yourself, the problem is someone else?"

Li Xiaogong's face became gloomy again, so gloomy that he could bleed.

Li Yuanji continued: "Especially after the rumors of the second day came out, my father looked around the Tang Dynasty, and the only thing he saw was you.

Because only you, with enough troops, can make this matter come true. "

Li Xiaogong stared and shouted: "As the heir of the Li family, it is absolutely impossible for me to betray the Li family."

Li Yuanji nodded and asked, "Then what if someone puts a uniform on you?"

Li Xiaogong's pupils shrank.

"Then I'll kill him."

Li Yuanji asked again: "Then if you go up and down south of the river, you will be honored to wear badges?"

Li Xiaogong's face changed drastically, but he didn't speak.

Li Yuanji asked again: "What if the people under your command raise your troops for you?"

Li Xiaogong's eyeballs suddenly rounded.

Li Yuanji sighed and said: "Cousin should know that my father was like this when he raised his troops in the past. At that time, my father only wanted to be a vassal king. It was my second brother, Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing and others who thought my father could be called God, so I planed in private and lobbied my father together.

Finally, with their help and lobbying, my father successfully raised his troops and established Datang in one fell swoop.

My cousin thinks that if the same thing happens to you, can you still deal with it safely? "

Li Xiaogong fell into complete silence.

Li Yuanji ordered someone to take another wine bag, took a sip of the wine, and sighed, "That's how my father got into trouble, how could he let you follow his old path?

If you are under the coercion of others, you do something rebellious.

You and my brother are not drinking in this bullock cart, but fighting each other on the battlefield. "

Li Xiaogong's body trembled slightly, but he still didn't speak.

He didn't have the intention of fighting with Li Yuan, so he knew exactly how terrible what Li Yuanji said would be after it happened.

He only looked at the problem from his own standpoint before, so he ignored these.

Now looking at the issue from Li Yuan's standpoint, I understand why Li Yuan neglected him.

Because his power is too great, it has already threatened Li Yuan, and it is enough to make Datang split anytime and anywhere.

If it's in a different place, he probably has already used a knife.

It is impossible for him to allow such a big threat to exist under his hands.

Just like Li Jing under him, his ability is far beyond him, so the soldiers and horses he gives to Li Jing will always be only three thousand.

If there are too many, none will be given.

Because he was worried that after Li Jing became a university, if he had a different heart, he would threaten him and Datang.

In contrast, Li Yuan was already very restrained.

Not only did he not use the knife, but he was also allowed to live in peace until now.

Li Yuanji accompanied Li Xiaogong in the bullock cart, and sat for a long distance, and when he could see the general outline of Jiulongtan Mountain, Li Xiaogong spoke again, with an inexplicable sound in his voice.

"But I... have already returned to Beijing."

"So you're still alive."

Li Yuanji smiled lightly.

Li Xiaogong glared at Li Yuanji, "Why did the sage still neglect me? Why did the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty still avoid me?"

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Xiaogong, and said a little funny: "Because you are still the chief executive of Jingzhou. Although you have returned to Beijing, Jingzhou is still your Jingzhou. You can't even understand this point, can you?"

Li Yuanji didn't believe it.

Li Xiaogong opened his mouth, but did not speak.

It's not that he can't see through, he just wants to pretend to be confused.

Because he was reluctant to bear the authority of the chief executive of Jingzhou.

He is only in his thirties now, and he still has decades to live.

If you hand over your authority now, you don't know if you will have a chance to regain power in the future.

He didn't want to waste the next few decades.

He has no intention of rebelling, he just likes the feeling of fighting on the battlefield.

If possible, he hopes to help Datang fight until the day he dies of old age.

Li Yuanji has been staring at Li Xiaogong's reaction, seeing some depression on Li Xiaogong's face, he roughly guessed Li Xiaogong's thoughts.

Because of the same decline, Li Yuanji also saw it on Qu Tutong's face.

"Cousin, the reason why my father neglected you was because he was waiting for you to come to the door. The reason why the officials avoided you was because they were afraid that you would not come to the door on their own initiative.

How old are you? "

Li Yuanji said slowly.

Li Xiaogong nodded silently and said nothing.

When Li Yuan waited for him to come to the door, he was waiting for him to come to the door to hand over his authority.

Li Yuan also thought that he was a nephew, so he didn't force him, nor did he take back his authority arbitrarily, just waiting for him to figure it out.

All the officials were afraid that he would not take the initiative to come to the door, because they were afraid that he would not be able to figure it out and would not hand over his authority, forcing Li Yuan to use force.

Once Li Yuan used strong words, he would not care about the feelings of his uncles and nephews.

At that time, if the killer is killed and the grass is wiped out, the officials will be implicated if they get close to him.

"Cousin is not reconciled? Afraid that after handing over the post of chief executive of Jingzhou, he will never have the chance to take power in the future, and he will never be able to fight again?"

(End of this chapter)