Man Tanghong

Chapter 444 Zero and Countless Times
Li Yuanji said to Ling Jing, "You should go too."

Ling Jing asked in surprise, "The minister is going too?"

Li Yuanji nodded.

Ling Jing asked puzzled, "Why?"

Li Yuanji pondered and said: "I always feel that this matter is not as simple as you said. Xie Shufang may not be able to see why, so you should follow along."

Ling Jing was stunned for a moment, then thought about it and said: "Your Highness means that His Highness's people make things difficult for Marquis Yuwen, not for revenge, but for other purposes."

Li Yuanji nodded again.

Ling Jing wondered, "What kind of plot is that?"

Li Yuanji didn't hide from Ling Jing either, and said frankly: "If my expectations are correct, the reason why my elder brother asked his subordinates to make things difficult for Yuwenbao was to squeeze Yuwenbao away, or to turn Yuwenbao into a The deaf and the blind, and then secretly do some shady things.

If not, why would he let his subordinates make things difficult for a brother's retainer? "

Ling Jing is also a smart person. Hearing this, he immediately understood the subtext in Li Yuanji's words. His expression changed slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Your Highness means... His Royal Highness wants to borrow a letter from Guguan to send troops?"

Li Yuanji nodded and said, "Eight or nine is not far from ten."

After all, as Li Jiancheng, if he wanted to make money through Hangu Pass, or gain power for his subordinates, there was no need to make things difficult for Yu Wenbao, let alone make Yu Wenbao deaf and blind.

Therefore, what Li Jiancheng wanted to plan with the help of Hangu Pass must be something shady.

Only in this way, he will let the people under him to make things difficult for Yu Wenbao, make Yu Wenbao deaf and blind, or just leave in anger.

Judging from the situation Li Jiancheng is facing now, the only thing Li Yuanji can think of is... Li Jiancheng wants to march through Hangu Pass.

As for the soldiers passing through Hangu Pass, if they pass through Tongguan, which is jointly controlled by Li Yuan and Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng already has a countermeasure.

Otherwise, if the soldiers passed Hangu Pass but could not pass Tongguan, it would be a waste of work.

Ling Jing said in shock: "His Royal Highness wants to..."

Li Yuanji said indifferently: "He has killed once, and he won't care about the second time."

Ling Jing hesitated to speak, obviously feeling extremely restless.

Li Yuanji glanced at Ling Jing and sighed: "There are only zero or countless times of this kind of thing. Now that we have already started, we will never stop until we achieve our goal."

Ling Jing couldn't help but said: "But he just killed His Royal Highness King Qin. Although the rumors have been calmed down by the saint, the waves are still there. If he kills His Highness King Qin again, won't he be afraid that the holy man will be angry and abolish his crown prince?"

Li Yuanji looked at Ling Jing like a fool.

Ling Jing hurriedly said again: "I know that once he kills His Royal Highness King Qin, no one will fight with him anymore. But whether he can continue to be the crown prince, whether he can inherit the big position, is not determined by him killing His Royal Highness King Qin." What can be decided is decided by the sage.

As far as I know, the saint has always hoped that your brothers can live in harmony, and also hope that your brothers have a good death.

Once he did the act of slaying the wall, it was against the will of the saint.

The sage may not let him continue to be the crown prince, nor may he let him inherit the throne.

After all, even if His Royal Highness the King of Qin is dead, the saint does not have to be him. "

Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Ling Jing to think so, and immediately mocked: "Maybe he just thinks that once my second brother dies, my father will have to choose him. Maybe in his heart, I am the younger brother." Yes, it has never been his opponent, nor can it be his opponent."

Ling Jing couldn't help but said, "Your Highness has been humiliated."

Li Yuanji laughed and said, "Let's just be Xiaoxun. Sometimes it's a good thing to be Xiaoxun. At least you won't be targeted as an opponent, and you won't be killed openly or secretly."

Ling Jing laughed, "That's really the truth."

Li Yuanji talked to Ling Jing about the business again, "You are going to Hangu Pass, just remember to listen and watch more. As long as the deputy general of Hangu Pass no longer trips Yu Wenbao or makes things difficult for Yu Wenbao, no matter what he wants Whatever you do, you can act as if you can't see it."

Ling Jing pondered: "Your Highness means... as long as the lieutenant general is interested, we don't care what they want to do?"

Li Yuanji nodded slowly.

Ling Jing couldn't help but said: "Your Highness is going to let the soldiers and horses of His Highness the Crown Prince in?"

Li Yuanji smiled and said: "I don't know if it's his soldier or not. As for whether to let it in or not, it's actually not important to us. Because my elder brother is targeting my second brother, not me.

If we stop it, he will use other methods to get those soldiers and horses to Chang'an City.

So we stopped it in vain.

There is also the possibility of being targeted by my elder brother because of this.

Maybe my elder brother will practice with me first before targeting my second brother.

So there is no need to stop it, just pretend not to see it. "

Ling Jing nodded and said, "Then do you want to send someone to watch?"

Li Yuanji nodded and said: "Watching must be done. After all, the soldiers my elder brother summoned this time may not be mediocre. If we don't know their movements, we will be very passive.

If they quietly appeared in Jiulongtan Mountain, if they hit us hard, we would also be injured.

So we must send someone to watch, but we can't use people from your house or mine. "

Ling Jing said thoughtfully: "Use the dark son who is lurking beside His Royal Highness?"

Li Yuanji smiled knowingly, and said with emotion: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using them for a while. Now is just the time to use them."

Ling Jing also laughed, cupped his hands and said: "I know what to do, I will do it now."

Li Yuanji nodded with a smile, waved his hands, and asked Ling Jing to go down to work quickly.

This kind of thing cannot be delayed, and if it is delayed, nothing can be grasped.

Therefore, people must be arranged in place as soon as possible. As soon as Li Jiancheng's people show up, they will immediately follow and bite.

They must not be given any chance to escape from sight.

Once you let them out of sight, God knows when and where they will suddenly appear and kill you by surprise.

Li Yuanji doesn't care about his own safety. After all, as long as he puts on heavy armor, almost no one can do anything to him. Let alone Li Jiancheng borrowed a soldier from Li Yi, even if Li Yi came in person, he would have to Return with a broken halberd.

What Li Yuanji cared about was the safety of other people in the house.

After all, if hundreds or thousands of armored soldiers suddenly rush out, the destructive power they can cause is huge.

The Jingshe at the foot of Jiulongtan Mountain, the Xinglu in Chang'an, and the Tanshan Cultural Museum cannot withstand the destruction at all.

Maybe it only takes a quarter of an hour, maybe two quarters of an hour, but it will definitely not exceed three quarters of an hour, and the ordinary people at the foot of Jiulongtan Mountain can be slaughtered.

Although Li Yuanji is not a gentleman, he still has character.

If you sleep with Yang Miaoyan, Wang Ruan, or a beautiful woman from Silla, you can't ignore them, let alone sit back and watch them in danger and ignore them.

……

Ling Jing left Jiulongtan Mountain at noon, and appeared at Xie Shufang's residence in the evening, conveying Li Yuanji's order to Xie Shufang.

When the moon showed its head slightly, Xie Shufang and Xie Shufang rode fast horses and rushed to Hangu Pass in the starry night.

At noon the next day, Ling Jing sent back the news.

The situation in Hangu Pass was exactly the same as what Li Yuanji had guessed, and it was even three points more exaggerated than what Li Yuanji had guessed.

The lieutenant general of Hangu Pass who came from Li Jiancheng's sect was indeed going to secretly transfer troops through Hangu Pass, and it was indeed because of this incident that he made things difficult for Yu Wenbao.

He promised Yuwenbao great profits, and maybe Yuwenbao's high-ranking officials and generous salary, in an attempt to make Yuwenbao pretend to be deaf and dumb, as if he couldn't see anything.

But all of them were rejected by Yu Wenbao.

In his desperation, he made things difficult for Yu Wenbao and opposed Yu Wenbao everywhere.

However, with his title and official position, Yu Wenbao couldn't be in trouble, so he borrowed a letter from Li Jiancheng.

It was precisely because of Li Jiancheng's handwriting that Yu Wenbao was completely stumped, unable to pass any news out.

It's not that Yu Wenbao was intimidated by Li Jiancheng's handwriting. When Yu Wenbao saw Li Jiancheng's handwriting, he didn't care about it at all.

The lieutenant general used Li Jiancheng's letter to persuade several school lieutenants in Hangu Pass to evade Yu Wenbao's military power and strictly control Hangu Pass.

Just like this, Yu Wenbao made a small fuss every three days, and made a big fuss every five days. If he had nothing to do, he would find fault with the lieutenant general and several school lieutenants.

According to the news sent back by Ling Jing, Yu Wenbao broke the arm of the lieutenant, blinded one eye of a school lieutenant, and several other school lieutenants' legs.

Yu Wenbao himself didn't please him, he was beaten half disabled, unable to get up and down on the bed.

"Those who dare to put me under house arrest dare to be cruel, that's great."

Li Yuanji sat sideways on a bamboo mat in the side hall of the Nine Dao Palace, squinting his eyes and talking to himself while looking at the long letter sent back by Ling Jing.

After weighing the pros and cons of going to Hangu Pass to kill people, Li Yuanji said with emotion: "Let you live a few more days..."

After saying this, he read the letter again.

Ling Jing's letter was very long, and the one about Yu Wenbao was only part of it.

The other part is about how he and Xie Shufang settled the matter of Yu Wenbao after they arrived at Hangu Pass, and what they saw.

It was roughly that he and Xie Shufang arrived at Hangu Pass during the starry night and knocked on the pass. The lieutenants and captains inside the pass kept the two of them outside the pass for most of the night on the grounds that they were not allowed to switch on and off after dark.

After dawn, they continued to close the gate tightly on the grounds that there were burglars in the pass and stole the seal of the general guarding the pass, that is, Yu Wenbao.

It was useless for him and Xie Shufang to shout a lot, so he returned to Beijing to invite His Royal Highness King Qi and His Royal Highness Huai'an to come to Hangu Pass to see what kind of snitches came out of Hangu Pass, forcing the deputy general and The lieutenants opened and closed the door.

After all, what the lieutenant generals and school lieutenants have done is not to be seen in the light, and the generals who guard the customs are taken away, and the generals who are guarding the customs are beaten up, no matter which one is brought out, it is enough for them to die three times.

So when Ling Jing and Xie Shufang said they would go back to Beijing to invite Li Yuanji and Li Shentong, they had no choice but to open the door.

(End of this chapter)