Man Tanghong

Chapter 307 Killing Jie's King, Zhu Yi's Son

Li Jiancheng was so ashamed of being scolded by Li Yuan, he lowered his head in shame, his hand holding the secret book kept shaking.

He couldn't refute Li Yuan's words, and he didn't have the face to defend himself, because he also felt that he was extremely stupid.

He actually accepted a few rebellious guys as his confidantes, and entrusted them with such an important matter as raising private soldiers.

Now they not only betrayed him, but also faintly turned against Datang.

It made him feel ashamed.

The words 'to raise bandits, to have eyes but no pearls' kept circling in his mind.

Li Yuanji looked at Li Jiancheng's ashamed look on the verge of death, craned his head curiously, glanced at the secret book in Li Jiancheng's hand, and saw that there was only one sentence written on it.

On the thirteenth day of the winter month, when Ying arrived in Qingzhou, he declared a decree to call Wengan back to the court, and Wengan pretended to respond to it. After a banquet, Ying got drunk, Wengan killed him, and wanted to rebel. '

A simple sentence describes all of Yu Wenying's encounters after arriving in Gyeongju, and also describes Yang Wenqian's reaction after learning that the matter of raising private soldiers was revealed.

No wonder Li Jiancheng looked ashamed and dying.

Yang Wenqian should be his confidant, otherwise he would not be able to entrust Yang Wengan with the task of raising private soldiers.

Now Yang Wenqian not only killed the angel sent by Li Yuan to proclaim the decree, but also prepared to rebel.

It was a slap on his face, and a slap on Li Yuan along the way.

Li Yuanji felt that Li Jiancheng was not only ashamed at the moment, but also should have countless regrets, hating why he lost his head to support private soldiers, hating why he didn't know people well.

Li Yuanji himself didn't feel much about this, because what Yang Wenqian did was within his expectations.

More importantly, if his guess is correct, Yang Wenqian should have fallen to Li Shimin very early on, and became Li Shimin's sharp knife against Li Jiancheng.

If Yang Wenqian, in his capacity as an official of the prince, led the private soldiers supported by the prince to rebel, there would be a lot of enthusiasm in the Tang Dynasty.

Those who support Li Jiancheng among the officials will waver.

Those who do not support Li Jiancheng will ask Li Yuan to punish Li Jiancheng severely.

Those who support Li Shimin will naturally spare no effort to ask Li Yuan to abolish the prince.

Li Jiancheng will usher in the biggest crisis after he took the position of prince.

This should be Li Shimin's complete plan for Li Jiancheng after he learned that Li Jiancheng was secretly raising private soldiers.

Unfortunately, Li Shimin is doomed to failure.

The matter of Li Jiancheng raising private soldiers in Gyeongju did not cause such a violent incident in history.

Li Yuan obviously had no intention of abolishing the prince.

Otherwise, if Yang Wengan wanted to turn against him, Li Jiancheng would not be able to stand here safely.

Seeing that Li Jiancheng was so ashamed that he couldn't help himself, Li Yuan gave Li Jiancheng a vicious look, and said through gritted teeth, "Wang Gui planned this for you, right?

I dismissed Wang Gui as the official, and let Wang Gui go to Yizhou to serve as Sima. You should have no objections, right?

Xu Shimo also contributed a lot in the middle, right?
I dismissed Xu Shimo as an official, and asked Xu Shimo to go to Chunzhou to assist Feng Zhidai in governing Chunzhou. You should have no objection, right?

Xu Shimo has so many eyes, after arriving in Chunzhou, he should be able to accomplish a lot, right? "

Li Yuan seemed to be discussing with Li Jiancheng, but there was no intention of discussing in his words.

Li Jiancheng suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Yuan in horror.

Although Xu Shimo did not participate in the planning of raising private soldiers, after the incident was exposed, Xu Shimo once suggested to him that he should simply do nothing and let Yang Wengan and his people defect from the Tang Dynasty in the name of being instigated by the Turks, and then borrowed a Turkic army. , rushed to Youzhou, and hid under Li Yi's hands.

After the limelight has passed, contact Li Yi and ask Li Yi to secretly send him to Chang'an.

In this way, the crisis can be resolved, and it can also test whether Li Yi really wants to help him.

This was said by Xu Shimo in private. At that time, there was no one else present except two eunuchs he trusted.

How could Li Yuan know?
"Why, do you have an opinion?"

Li Yuan looked directly at Li Jiancheng and asked coldly.

Li Jianguo lowered his head, "I dare not..."

He knew without guessing that one of his two confidant eunuchs belonged to Li Yuan.

In this way, Li Yuan knew every move of his in the past.

"Li Shouzu! You should die!"

Li Jiancheng roared hysterically in his heart.

He has already analyzed the two confidant eunuchs, the one is Li Yuan's secret son.

"Don't dare to be the best!"

Li Yuan snorted heavily, "As for Wei Zheng and others, you should have no objections to being demoted to three ranks, confiscated to one rank, and fined for a year, right?"

Li Jiancheng lowered his head and didn't speak. He listened quietly to Li Yuan's sentence. He had already started to dismember that eunuch named 'Li Shouzu' in his heart.

Li Yuan changed the subject, and said with a little distaste: "The crown prince gave up Zhao Hongzhi, who barely looks like a minister, so let him succeed Wang Gui's crown prince Zhong Yun in the future.

By the way, I will enter the first class of Jue, and as for the closure of the household, I will not add it. "

From Li Yuan's words, it's not difficult to hear that he is not too satisfied with Zhao Hongzhi, the crown prince's friend.

Li Jiancheng suppressed all kinds of emotions in his heart, and thanked Zhao Hongzhi, "On behalf of Zhao Hongzhi, I thank my father for his love."

He knew very well why Li Yuan promoted Zhao Hongzhi alone after punishing all the officials in his palace.

Because Zhao Hongzhi was the only one among his subordinates who asked him to confess his mistake in front of Li Yuan after the incident in Gyeongju was revealed.

Li Yuan stared at Li Jiancheng with hatred and said: "After this incident, I hope you remember that you can't trust everything that literati say. Especially when it comes to military affairs, everything they say is just on paper.

If you use literati to plan military affairs, you will die in the hands of literati sooner or later. "

In this era when the status of military officials is much higher than that of civil officials, Li Yuan's attitude towards civil officials is very ordinary.

Especially in military matters, Li Yuan would never take any suggestions from civil servants.

The culprit for this situation was Pei Ji.

When Pei Ji was in the Great Tang Dynasty, when he fought in the South and North, and pacified the Quartet, he saw many inconspicuous people, with their rich harvest and supreme military exploits, they were rewarded time and time again.

Some people even faintly climbed to the point where the officials and ranks stood shoulder to shoulder with him, so they were a little jealous and wanted to lead the army.

Then he took the initiative to ask Li Yuan to lead the troops to fight.

As a result, for the first time in the battle, he was beaten, threw away his helmet and armor, ran away with his head in his arms, and lost the land of two states.

Finally, he took the initiative to plead guilty to Li Yuan, and Li Yuan forgave him and let him guard the place.

Then he was beaten again, throwing away his helmet and armor, and ran away with his head in his arms.

In the end, he was recalled to Chang'an by Li Yuan and sent to prison.

If it wasn't for Li Yuan's consideration of his old love, plus his ability to follow the dragon, and being good at trying to figure out Li Yuan's thoughts, and flattering Li Yuan, he might have died long ago.

It was precisely because of Pei Ji's lesson from the past that Li Yuan never let civil servants intervene in military affairs again.

He even felt disgusted with civil servants discussing military affairs in court.

"My son, thank you for your father's teaching."

Li Jiancheng bowed deeply to Li Yuan, as if he had listened to Li Yuan's words.

Li Yuan didn't know whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied and snorted, then looked at Li Shimin.

"You're not as stupid as he is, but you're brave enough."

Li Yuan said to Li Shimin sarcastically.

Li Yuan's attitude towards Li Shimin is completely different from his attitude towards Li Jiancheng.

To Li Jiancheng, he is like a strict father who hates iron but not steel.

To Li Shimin, he is more like an elder with a bad mouth.

Later generations called it the 'Yin Yang family'.

Li Shimin held the secret book in his hand, but said nothing.

Li Yuan sneered and sneered: "Soldiers besieged Chang'an, stormed the imperial city, admonished Wude with blood, and the side of the Qing emperor, isn't it a bit incomplete?"

Li Shimin only felt his scalp go numb and didn't know how to answer.

Li Yuan said again: "Would it be comprehensive if we add 'the king who kills Jie, the son who kills Yi'?"

Sweat broke out on Li Shimin's forehead.

This is too scary.

It is far scarier and more heartbreaking than what Li Yuan scolded Li Jiancheng.

The king who killed Jie meant to kill a foolish emperor like Xia Jie.

Zhu Yi's son means to kill heirs like Emperor Yi's son Zi Shou (that is, King Zhou).

Xia Jie here is naturally referring to Li Yuan himself; Zishou is naturally referring to Li Jiancheng.

Although there are contradictions in the whole sentence, this does not prevent it from being scary.

Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin's scared out of his mind, and wanted to see what was written in the secret book in Li Shimin's hand.

But Li Shimin held the secret book too tightly, almost into a ball, and Li Yuanji couldn't see anything.

I can only speculate based on the words I heard.

The guy who spread rumors in Chang'an City, claiming to be on the side of the Qing emperor, probably has some direct or indirect relationship with Li Shimin.

However, it should not be Li Shimin's confidant, nor can it be someone Li Shimin values.

Li Shimin's confidants are not so stupid, and the people Li Shimin values ​​are even less likely to be so stupid.

It should be a small official who has just joined a certain yamen under Li Shimin's control, or it may be Li Shimin's subordinates, who made such a move for the sake of success and prosperity.

Of course, it is also possible that they were tricked out and used as cannon fodder, so as to test the reaction of the palace, to see if they could get some news they wanted from the airtight palace.

Among the officials, there are many people who like to do this kind of thing, especially those who are high-ranking and powerful. They cherish their lives and are afraid of causing trouble. Therefore, in order to achieve a certain purpose, they often fool some stupid young people and fools who have just entered the officialdom Come out to be cannon fodder.

There are more such things on the battlefield. Some guys who have become veterans, in order to avoid becoming cannon fodder, often fool some recruits to lead the battle.

There are things like cherishing the younger generation and being desperate for the younger generation, but they are the real younger generation.

Either father and son, uncle or nephew, or brother.

(End of this chapter)