Man Tanghong

Chapter 267 The Old Fox's Old Tail

The position that Li Yuanji was concerned about guarding Anrenmen belonged to the Youjianmen mansion.

The Right Prison Mansion is under Li Yuan's nose, and any position changes inside may be magnified by Li Yuan and carefully considered.

Li Yuanji doesn't have anyone who can stand Li Yuan's thinking, so he can only wait and see.

However, when Li Shimin puts people in, he can observe carefully to see who Li Shimin puts in, and whether he can stand Li Yuan's consideration.

If the person Li Shimin puts in is not an outstanding person and has withstood Li Yuan's thinking, then he can follow the map and avoid many detours.

"Keep two birds with one stone..."

Li Yuanji lay down on the beauty in a happy mood, and for a moment he felt that the wind blowing by his ears seemed to be sweet.

Feeling the moisture brought by the breeze, Li Yuanji's thoughts began to fly wildly.

"Pfft..."

I don't know that it was that naughty boy who threw a stone into the pond, which disturbed Li Yuanji's mood.

However, Li Yuanji didn't go to settle accounts with that naughty boy, but in the sound of 'plop', he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a possibility.

"The position of You Tunwei is not prepared by my second brother for Chang He, is it?"

Li Yuanji's eyes sparkled.

Yuan Congjun, led by Youtunwei, is Li Yuan's pro-army, and has always been regarded as a taboo by Li Yuan. Although Li Yuan is generous to his son and doesn't care about his son's crazy sharing of his power, he still cares about Yuan Congjun.

Especially after Zhang Jieyu sued Li Shimin and Li Chengzong happened to die at this time, Li Yuan was quite dissatisfied with Li Shimin.

Otherwise, he wouldn't say that Li Shimin is not like him in public.

For an emperor to say this in public is basically declaring that this son has no chance of succeeding him.

This shows how dissatisfied Li Yuan is with Li Shimin.

Under such circumstances, it was not easy for Li Shimin to place his own people among Li Yuan's pro-army, and the positions he could get were even more limited.

In this matter, Li Yuanji did not take advantage of his foresight to interfere too much.

So everything is developing according to the process of history.

Li Shimin is now sending people to win over Chang He, and when Li Yuan doesn't like him, he is taking the risk of planning a position among Li Yuan's pro-army.

Both are carried out almost simultaneously.

That means that there is a great chance that Li Shimin's planned position in Youtunwei was prepared for Chang He.

"It's just that Chang He seems to be the duty guard of Xuanwu Gate in history. Although the two guards are in the same position, there are also distinctions between inside and outside."

Li Yuanji began to verify the probability of his guess based on Chang He's experience in history.

"It's very possible that my second brother made some changes when he decided to exchange the position of the guard at the right guard for the position of the guard at the left prison gate. , and replace it with a built-in door guard."

"It's not easy for him to plan for a position as a guard on the right, and it's even more difficult to freely switch between the guard positions of the Xuanwu Gate and the Built-in Gate."

"Based on my father's current attitude towards him, it is impossible to allow him to install people in Youtunwei, let alone allow him to change positions at will."

"How my father sees him is how he sees the people in his house. So it's impossible for the people in his house to help him in this matter."

"So...he found foreign aid..."

"..."

Li Yuanji was completely happy, the smile on his face was brighter than ever, and he muttered faintly, "Pei Ji... finally let me catch your little tail."

Li Yuanji can almost conclude that Pei Ji must be helping behind the scenes.

Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for Li Shimin to act casually in Youtunwei while Li Yuan still hates him.

In the absence of Li Yuanji, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Xiuning, Pei Ji was obviously more favored by Li Yuan and could influence Li Yuan more.

Even on some private topics, Pei Ji had far more say than Li Yuanji, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Xiuning.

After all, there are some things that Li Yuan can't tell his sons and daughters, but he can tell his confidant Pei Ji.

Pei Ji could also follow Li Yuan's thoughts and talk with Li Yuan.

When necessary, he can also guide Li Yuan to make some decisions he wants.

Although Li Yuan was not a foolish emperor, but Pei Ji had been by Li Yuan's side for many years and had always been favored by Li Yuan, so he probably had a thorough understanding of Li Yuan's temperament.

Li Yuan might not be affected by Pei Ji on some important matters that mattered to life and death.

But in other small matters, Li Yuan is likely to be influenced by Pei Ji.

Especially when Pei Ji often speaks according to Li Yuan's thoughts and thinks for Li Yuan's sake, it will be easier to guide Li Yuan to make the decision he wants once or twice for personal gain.

After all, if a person who always tells the truth occasionally tells a lie, no one will doubt it.

A person who tells lies all the time, and once in a while tells the truth, may also be suspected.

"I'm not in the mood to argue with you yet, and it's not the time to argue with you, so let me remember the tail you showed this time."

Li Yuanji made a note of Pei Ji in his heart with a smile.

Now the situation has not developed to the point he wanted, and he can't go to the stage, let alone take the risk to use a small tail to deal with a person who is on three feet.

Yes, from now on, Pei Ji can be regarded as stepping on three boats.

His allegiance is Li Yuan, he waving the flag for Li Jiancheng on the surface, and hooking up with Li Shimin behind his back, not stepping on three boats, what is it?
The owners of the three boats he stepped on were very capable.

If the biggest one among them didn't care, then even if Li Yuanji revealed his little secret, he wouldn't be able to fall.

So Li Yuanji must act cautiously.

To deal with an old fox like Pei Ji, who is scheming and calculating, and has not capsized while stepping on three boats, he should plan carefully, gather strength slowly, and kill him at a critical moment.

Otherwise, sooner or later he will be devoured.

Liu Wenjing is an example.

"For the position of Zuo Jianmen Mansion, my second brother did not hesitate to exchange the hard-won position of You Tunwei. It seems that he is determined to win the position of Zuo Jianmen Mansion."

"Then, what my second brother is planning may not be as simple as infiltrating and controlling the Liangyi Sect."

"..."

After temporarily putting aside Pei Ji's question, Li Yuanji analyzed Li Shimin again.

According to Li Yuanji's memory, during the Xuanwu Gate's change in history, the role played by the right guards in the Xuanwu Gate was one of the cornerstones of Li Shimin's success.

Such an important position, but Li Shimin exchanged it for the position of the Zuojianmen Mansion. It can be seen that in Li Shimin's heart, the position of the Zuojianmen Mansion is above the Right Tunwei.

That is to say, Li Shimin's plan in Zuojianmen's mansion is probably more important than that in Youtunwei.

In history, there is no record of what Li Shimin did through the Zuojianmen Mansion during the Xuanwumen Incident.

I don't know whether the method Li Shimin prepared was useless, or whether it was used but not recorded in history.

"However, it's no secret to me whether it works or not."

Li Yuanji smiled knowingly.

With Li Xiaogong watching, Yu Wenbao guarding, and Li Shimin inserting someone in, no matter what they do, they will be investigated clearly.

Even if Li Shimin transferred Yu Wenbao to avoid him, he still couldn't transfer Li Xiaogong.

Li Yuan gave Li Xiaogong the position of General of the Zuojian Gate, not really wanting Li Xiaogong to be a general of the twelve guards, but that among the capital officials in Chang'an City, except for General Tiance and Zong Zhengqing, other real positions, I can't let go of such a great god as Li Xiaogong.

Unless Li Shentong died and gave up Zong Zhengqing's position, or Li Shimin became impatient as the chief strategist and gave up to Li Xiaogong.

Otherwise, Li Xiaogong would have been able to stick to the position of the General of Zuojianmen without moving his nest.

Li Yuan probably also hoped that Li Xiaogong could sit down in his position as the General of the Zuojian Gate in peace and stability.

After all, Li Yuan didn't have any other suitable position to place his accomplished nephew.

"However, we can't relax our vigilance just because we have to prevent my cousin from being drawn over by my second brother."

Li Yuanji roughly understood what he should do and how to do it.

After seeing Li Shimin's plan clearly, and with Li Shimin's help, he got what he wanted, Li Yuanji stood up in a very happy mood, and ordered the servants guarding the pavilion to clean up everything in the pavilion and take them back to the abode go.

He happily put his hands on his back, walked to the pool outside the gazebo, grabbed his nephew, let Li Xiaotong and Li Chongyi hold him down, and slapped two bamboo sticks hard.

"Is it because I didn't beat you hard enough to teach you a lesson, or did you never see me in your eyes, and you don't even know what my lesson is?"

After Li Yuanji finished smoking Chai Lingwu, he questioned Chai Lingwu with a pitiful expression covering his buttocks and tears in his eyes.

Chai Lingwu opened his mouth quite aggrieved, "I..."

"Um?!"

"Nephew! Where did your nephew mess with you again?!"

Chai Lingwu spoke quickly with a resentful tone.

Li Yuanji pointed to the gazebo not far away, "I'm discussing and thinking about things in the gazebo, and you're here to make fun of me?"

Without waiting for Chai Lingwu to speak, Li Yuanji said again: "It's fine if it's just water floating, but later on you feel that water floating is not enough, so you throw rocks into the water again.

Did you not see me, or did you see me and disturb me on purpose? "

Chai Lingwu didn't know what to say.

He saw it, and he didn't take it seriously.

He felt that Li Yuanji would not punish him for such a trivial matter.

So act recklessly on the edge of the pool.

Now that he was caught and dealt with, how dare he say that he didn't take it seriously?

If he dared to speak out, he would probably be dealt with even worse.

"Nephew, nephew didn't mean it."

After hesitating for a while, Chai Lingwu readily admitted his mistake.

Li Yuanji snorted twice, and said: "For the sake of your good attitude of admitting your mistakes, I will not argue with you this time. For the sake of your being in vain, but not harming others, I will give you tonight." For extra meals, I will add two more meaty dishes for you."

The eyeballs of Chai Lingwu and the three of them stared straight, and they almost shouted 'Long live uncle'.

The pain in Chai Lingwu's buttocks seemed to be cured all of a sudden, and he quickly ran to the direction of the jingshe.

Li Chongyi and Li Xiaotong pursued closely.

(End of this chapter)