Man Tanghong

Chapter 559
"Tell me, why did you run away when you saw me?"

Li Yuanji automatically ignored Chai Shao's spoiled expression, staring at Chai Shao and asking.

Chai Shao gritted his teeth and shouted: "What if I don't run away, waiting to be humiliated by you?"

Li Yuanji pretended to be puzzled and said, "Have I ever humiliated you? If you don't tell me, I'll forget it."

Chai Shao glared at Li Yuanji angrily.

Li Yuanji smiled dryly: "Okay, okay, don't look at me like that, I'm not your father-killing enemy. Don't worry, I will never humiliate you again."

Chai Shao still stared at Li Yuanji angrily, not believing Li Yuanji's words at all.

Li Yuanji had no choice but to reiterate: "What I said is true..."

Chai Shao gritted his teeth ferociously and said, "Are you so kind?"

Li Yuanji smiled and said: "We are not life and death enemies. I have bullied you twice because of my third sister. I think you have learned a lesson. Why am I still staring at you?"

Chai Shao gave a cold snort in doubt.

Li Yuanji continued: "Although you are not a good husband or father, you are a good general. You should be very clear about the current situation in Tang Dynasty.

We are about to face the biggest difficulty since the founding of our country.

After the crossing, I am still my Royal Highness Qi Wang, and you are still your consort and captain, and we can continue to enjoy our glory and wealth.

If we can't make it through, we are likely to die together.

So we need to stick together and get through this. "

Chai Shao savored Li Yuanji's words for a while, and said with a cold smile: "What is going through difficulties together? It's really nice to say. I think you don't have enough people in your hands, so you think of me, a useless person."

Li Yuanji didn't hide anything, and nodded slowly.

There are indeed reasons for this, but it is not the main one.

Chai Shao continued to sneer and said, "I tell you, stop dreaming. You turned me into a useless person and humiliated me in every possible way. It is impossible for you to want me to be used by you."

Li Yuanji stared at Chai Shao and said with emotion: "Don't talk so full..."

Chai Shao raised his neck and said stubbornly, "I'm going to say so full."

Li Yuanji stared at Chai Shao and said seriously: "Then you don't care about the safety of my three sisters, Zhe Wei, Ling Wu, and everyone in your Chai family, and everyone's wealth?"

Chai Shao was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Why, you want to threaten me with them? You're such a scumbag!"

Li Yuanji shook his head slowly and said: "I never thought of using them to threaten you, and everyone in your Chai family didn't say anything, my third sister is my sister, and Zhewei and Lingwu are also my nephews.

How could I threaten people with them?
Then who am I? "

Chai Shao snorted coldly and said, "You know who you are!"

Li Yuanji asked back, "Do you know who you are?"

Chai Shao was taken aback.

Li Yuanji continued: "You are the Patriarch of the Chai Clan, the pillar of my three sisters, Zhe Wei, and Ling Wu, and you are an upright seven-foot man.

Can you really sit back and watch all of them in trouble?
Can you really sit back and watch your wife and children become someone else's prisoner? "

Chai Shao stared at Li Yuanji angrily.

Li Yuanji continued: "If my guess is correct, the Turkic people will definitely take advantage of this civil strife in the Tang Dynasty to go south, and they will definitely dispatch a group of troops to attack Chang'an City by surprise.

If the city of Chang'an is breached, we will all be prisoners of the Turks.

You should be very clear about how the Turks treat their prisoners. "

Of course Chai Shao understood.

In the past, when the Li family had not yet become a royal family, and the Chai family did not respond to Li's rebellion, the Chai family had many business contacts with the Turks.

I have seen the way Turkic people treat their prisoners.

That's pretty cruel.

It is crueler than the way the Han people treat slaves.

Because in the eyes of the Turkic people, the prisoners are not human at all, worse than animals.

The Turks not only let the prisoners do the hardest and most tiring work, but also let the prisoners live in an open-air pen like cattle, horses and sheep.

Every grand festival or important sacrifice, the prisoners will be pulled out to dig out their hearts and livers to respect the gods.

In every war, when the enemy's strength needs to be consumed, the prisoners will be driven to serve as cannon fodder.

The most important thing is that in Turkic, cattle, horses and sheep can eat grass and eat to their fullest, but for prisoners, it is good to have something to eat. As for being full, it is simply a luxury.

If the Turkic people show mercy one day and prepare to feed you, then you have to be prepared to die, and you have to be prepared to become a demon.

Because the main food of the Turkic people is meat, and they are reluctant to give their prisoners their cattle and sheep, because that is their most valued wealth, so the only thing they can let you eat is the corpses of your own kind.

That's it, we have to wait for a war to happen and the Turks need you as cannon fodder.

Therefore, no matter what Chai Shao said, he would not let his wife, son, or clansmen become prisoners of the Turkic people.

So he yelled at Li Yuanji sadly and angrily, "Li Yuanji! You are a bastard!!"

When Li Yuanji heard this, instead of being angry, he was happy. He stared at Chai Shao and said with a smile: "It seems that you agreed..."

Chai Shao stared at Li Yuanji sadly and angrily, clenching his back molars.

He didn't want to agree, and 1 didn't want to agree.

But he didn't agree.

Because he is a man, an upright seven-foot man, a man with a family, a house, a wife and son to take care of.

It is impossible for him to watch his wife and son become prisoners, let alone watch his wife and son being abused.

So even if there are 1 people in his heart who don't want to agree, he has to agree.

Li Yuanji said with a smile, "That's a good promise. The promise is just right. I happen to have an important task to entrust to you, and this important task must be done by you."

Chai Shao looked at Li Yuanji as if he was an enemy, but didn't speak.

Li Yuanji continued: "I need you to help me appease the Eighth Commander's Mansion under my second brother's command. You have been under my second brother's, they should be familiar with you, and they should listen to you. They have no leader now , it is easy to cause trouble, and maybe it will become an accomplice of the Turkic people in breaking down Chang'an City.

So I need you to appease them well, and reorganize them so that they can become the help of my Great Tang, not a cancer of my Great Tang. "

Chai Shao stared in disbelief, his eyes were full of grief and indignation, his teeth were clenched and he roared: "You want to use me?!"

Speaking of this, Chai Shao finally understood Li Yuanji's sinister intentions.

Li Yuanji didn't have the right manpower to appease Li Shimin's Eighth Commander's Mansion, and because of the threat posed by the Eighth Commander's Mansion, he was approached.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that he had served as a general under Li Shimin's command to recruit the Eight Commander Mansions under Li Shimin's command, and then take it for his own use.

So far, this matter is indeed only suitable for him.

Because whether Li Shimin or the generals under Li Shimin's subordinates had "injured" him badly before, it was impossible for him to serve Li Shimin anymore.

Like Li Shimin's generals who Li Yuanji had just recruited to surrender, they were loyal to Li Yuanji or traitors, and Li Yuanji couldn't tell the difference in a short time.

So Li Yuanji didn't dare to use them to appease the Eight Commander Mansions under Li Shimin's command.

There is actually no harm in this matter itself. If it is done, it will only be good for the current Datang, and there will be no harm.

So the incident itself didn't make him angry, it didn't make him feel incredible.

What really made him angry, what really made him unbelievable, was that Li Yuanji asked him, a man who had worked under Li Shimin, to do this.

Li Yuanji wanted him to dig out the foundation of the old master.

This is not authentic, it is very low, and it will have a great impact on his reputation.

Those officials who advertise themselves as moral models will use this incident to spray him for the rest of their lives when they confront him.

Faced with Chai Shao's roar, Li Yuanji sighed and said, "Don't speak so harshly, what is taking advantage of? Taking advantage of others for profit and not telling the other party the truth is called taking advantage.

I told you clearly what I need you to do.

Besides, it's not only my idea, but also my father's idea to ask you to appease my second brother's Eighth Commander's Mansion.

My father wants to flip the soldiers and horses in his hands from his left hand to his right hand. Who can say that he is wrong to do so? "

Anyway, Li Yuan is also the ruler of Tang Dynasty. Even if Li Yuan gave all the things in his hand to his son and wanted to take them back, no one would say that Li Yuan was doing something wrong.

Because in name, everything in Datang belongs to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan gave it as he wanted, and took it back as he wanted.

No one could say that what Li Yuan did was wrong.

In order to persuade Chai Shao to be the person who appeases Li Shimin's eight commanding army mansions, Li Yuanji made a small fuss.

However, Li Yuanji was not afraid that Chai Shao would go to Li Yuan for verification, because Li Yuan was indulging to his heart's content now, and he was in no mood to pay attention to his deposed son-in-law.

So even if Chai Shao ran to Liangyi Hall, he still couldn't see Li Yuan.

Even if he tried his best to meet Li Yuan, Li Yuan might not have the time to discuss this issue with him.

Maybe it will force him to let loose together.

With his half-paralyzed body now, let alone his unrestrained behavior, even a little big movement could take half his life.

"Then you are using me too!"

Chai Shao had no way to refute Li Yuanji's words, because Li Yuanji's words were indeed reasonable, so he could only stubbornly stick to his own opinion in order to maintain his last stubbornness.

Li Yuanji saw that the reasoning did not make sense, so he said angrily: "If you insist that I am using you, then you can just think that I am using you."

Chai Shao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Li Yuanji to be 'convinced' so soon.

I didn't know what to say for a while.

He really wanted to yell to Li Yuanji, 'Even if I die, I won't be used by you'.

But he couldn't say the words.

Because he knew very well what the Eight Commander Mansions under Li Shimin's command meant to Datang when the Turkic people attacked.

This is related to whether his wife and children will live in peace and joy in the future, and it is also related to the wealth of his Chai family.

So even if he knew that he was being used, he could only bear the humiliation and be used by others.

(End of this chapter)