Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 169
After Cheng Zhijie harvested the grain in autumn and winter and stabilized the hearts of the people in Lingnan, he wrote to the court and prepared to leave Lingnan.

And the imperial court didn't intend to let Cheng Yaojin stay in Lingnan, after all, it was enough for the south to stabilize.

The imperial court did not expect anything from the Lingnan region, as long as it did not cause trouble for the imperial court, that would be enough.

At least for now, it is unrealistic for the imperial court to carry out large-scale development in Lingnan, and too many resources need to be invested.

To be honest, whoever wants to give the imperial court an opinion on developing the southeast is afraid that he will be kicked out of the imperial court.

Therefore, after playing at the Cheng Zhi Festival to ensure that the Lingnan area had been suppressed, he was called back to the court by the court.

After all, although the soldiers cannot be said to be all soldiers from the north, they are more or less homesick, so it is a good thing to be able to go back early.

However, even though they were in the territory of Huaxia, it took them two months to return from Guangzhou. It was not easy to go back and forth this way, and during this time, rumors gradually started to spread in Chang'an City.

It's not that there was any trouble in the court, or that any trouble can't compare to Li Chengqian's trouble.

A month or two passed, and Li Chengqian's leg injury began to recover slowly. Although he was still able to walk, his lameness was unavoidable.

This kind of thing naturally became rumors in the court, not only the court, but even the people below knew that the prince fell off his leg while riding a horse for some reason, and then became limping!

The existence of this kind of objective fact cannot be blocked, especially after a month or two of precipitation, it soon spread to the ears of Li Chengqian, who was already trying to recover and walk. Li Chengqian directly threw the imperial staff at fifty, and threw it in the mass grave if he died, and threw it in Ye Ting if he died, so this matter was not discussed in the East Palace.

But even so, these rumors made Li Chengqian's mind very irritated, after all, he couldn't control the outside world.

At this moment, Xu Jingzong took the manuscript to the East Palace, and frankly said to the person at the door,

"Xu Jingzong, a scholar of the Hongwen Museum, brought three volumes of "Sui Shu" for correction by the crown prince."

Hearing this, the guards of the East Palace went over to report, and Xu Jingzong was immediately invited in by Li Chengqian.

To be honest, with the period of time when he was injured, Li Chengqian felt the warmth and coldness of human feelings deeply.

At the beginning, some people still cared about themselves, but after knowing that their feet might be lame, the people who used to be by their side, not to mention walking cleanly, but they also became more or less indifferent.

After all, according to ordinary people's understanding, no emperor would choose a lame person to be emperor, after all, it would be too detrimental to Tianwei.

It can be said that apart from Li Tai, Chang Le and his parents, no one else came to greet him, which really made Li Chengqian feel cold.

At the beginning, those who approached him seemed to be just followers of power, which made Li Chengqian feel it hard.

Now, Xu Jingzong came here with the "Sui Shu" he was editing. No matter what, Xu Jingzong still respected himself.

In fact, it was purely Li Chengqian who became sensitive because of his foot injury, as anyone would when they were sick.

Even under normal circumstances, there is no reason why officials often go to see the prince.

If it weren't for Li Chengqian's burden of compiling the "Sui Shu", Xu Jingzong would not have found a reason to come here!
"Yanzu! How is the repair of "Sui Shu"?" Li Chengqian asked weakly after being helped up to sit on the bed.

"Prince, please don't worry, Jingzong is afraid that the revision will be wrong, so he sent three volumes for the prince to review.

These days the crown prince is not in the Chongwen Museum, making Jingzong worried about the quality of the "Sui Shu".

Recently, I heard that the crown prince has recovered, so I immediately sent the manuscripts I have accumulated over the years, and I hope the crown prince will work hard! "

Xu Jingzong said to Li Chengqian respectfully.

Hearing this, Li Chengqian felt a little warmth in his heart unconsciously, and said, "If everyone in the world is as loyal and loyal to the country as you are, the widows will also have a lot less troubles!"

"It seems that the crown prince has also heard the words of the recent disturbances, the words of the cliff for no reason!" Xu Jingzong said.

"Huh? The words are indeed disturbing, but it may not be Wuduya!" Li Chengqian sighed when he heard Xu Jingzong's words.

Xu Jingzong looked around, and Li Chengqian signaled for everyone around to back off.

Xu Jingzong said, "If the crown prince is worried, try it and it will be clear."

"How to try?" Li Chengqian was a little curious when he heard Xu Jingzong's words.

"Just leave this matter to the minister!" Xu Jingzong said respectfully to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian looked at the swearing Xu Jingzong, and couldn't help tears in his eyes, feeling that this is really the most loyal man in the world.

When Xu Jingzong left, he couldn't help but clenched his fists, because he felt that his plan still had a small risk and a high reward.

After all, the reason why I waited for one or two months to find a way to meet Li Chengqian was not because I looked at the direction of the wind. It seemed that Li Shimin didn't want to abolish Li Chengqian because of Li Chengqian's lameness.

That being the case, so what if you do a political speculation by yourself, if you want to prosper in the court, doing political speculation and becoming a servant of the dragon is the kingly way.

As for how to make this matter safe, it is even simpler. Since there are already rumors, it is enough to add fire to it.

For example, "The prince is lame and lame on the jade steps, and the king of Yue divides the fields and the world", who can't do it with some material!
As these rumors began to spread, the entire imperial court just heard the news, and it was a bit jittery.

After all, it has only been a few years since Xuanwumen, and everyone is very impressed with what happened back then.

As long as normal people know that these rumors are aimed at Li Tai, but it is difficult for Li Tai to explain it!
As for the court officials, as long as they have a normal IQ, they don't want to get involved in this matter.

After all, the current Li Shimin can be said to be at the peak of his age, not to mention living for 20 years, at least ten years is absolutely no problem.

Under such circumstances, what is the purpose of taking the risk to participate in such a head-losing thing.

No matter what, we have to wait until the princes have grown up and they have really entered the stage of seizing the heir.

"In other words, someone poured dirty water on me!"

Li Tai came to the final conclusion after looking at Ma Zhou, Du Chuke and Lu Cai in the Palace of the King of Yue.

"Perhaps because the prince's leg was injured, he lost his prestige, and what the king of Yue has done is quite popular, so the prince is expected by everyone!"

As a bad coach, Wei Xu is qualified to listen to the discussion.

And to a certain extent, although the army of bad people is said to be government servants, it is actually more inclined to Li Tai's government soldiers.

At least Wei Xu is a soldier of Wei Wangfu, unless he is an undercover agent who has been placed next to Li Tai from the beginning, he is Li Tai's man.

After Wei Xu said this, he saw that all three of them were looking at him. He couldn't help but feel the pressure, and said:
"I said the wrong thing, King Yue, you know that I'm a rough man, I... I won't speak anymore!"

"Go and guard the gate with An Shou, don't let anyone overhear!" Li Tai waved his hand.

"Oh, let's go!" Hearing this, Wei Xu quickly ran out to be with Lu Anshou.

Then Li Taidao, "Don't worry about how this rumor came about, as it is a method of the East Palace, it can't be wrong in all likelihood!"

"But the dissemination of this message will also damage the majesty of the East Palace!" Lu Cailue said with some doubts.

"It doesn't matter, it is his responsibility as the prince to push all the things that are harmful to us to him!"

Li Tai said calmly, "And I can also take this opportunity and go to Youzhou to avoid the limelight."

"King Yue, you have to think carefully. It will not be easy for you to return to Chang'an after you retire!"

Du Chuke heard Li Tai's words and said, "Especially the industry you created in Chang'an, I'm afraid it will dissipate a lot."

"As long as Gao Ling is at the Agricultural Academy, I can leave and come back naturally!" Li Tai said calmly,

"And it's a good thing for many parties that I leave at this time. The agricultural college needs time to settle!"

When Du Chuke and Lu Cai heard Li Tai's words, they saluted with both hands to show that they understood.

Li Tai glanced at Ma Zhou and said, "Prince Bin? What's the matter, you haven't said a word until now!"

"King Yue thought about it, so Ma Zhou didn't say anything more. It's just that Ma Zhou was thinking that maybe the rumors in the capital didn't come from one family!" Ma Zhou smiled and said, "Perhaps your departure will not come from one family." It’s really something everyone hopes to see.”

"Oh?" Li Tai was taken aback when he heard this, and smiled and said:

"Renovate the Zhengguo Canal, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is still waiting for you to implement the water transportation plan.

No amount of conspiracies or tricks these days can match a healthy body and heavy achievements.

As long as we live well, these ghosts and ghosts will eventually be crushed by us one day! "

"Zhou understands!" Ma Zhou replied calmly after hearing Li Tai's words.

"Everyone, I'm going to Chang'an today, don't you just want me to leave Chang'an and seal it off.

One or two really thought they had seized this opportunity. If I hadn't originally planned to leave Chang'an, I would have shown them what a navy is! "

Li Tai shook his head, and said to Lu Anshou, "Anshou, prepare the horse for me, I'll go to Chang'an!"

"Horses?!" Lu Anshou was stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, but he immediately agreed.

Li Tai naturally knows how to ride a horse, after all, he also has riding training in the process of practicing martial arts.

Although I don't know how Li Chengqian fell off the horse, but with the sign of the previous car, Li Tai is naturally serious about learning horse riding skills, so he can't follow in Li Chengqian's footsteps.

Li Tai rode a horse to the Yuewang Mansion in Chang'an, and rode to the palace again the next day.

To be honest, Li Tai came on horseback, which surprised the guards in the palace.

But after Li Tai asked Lu Anshou to settle the horses, he came to the side hall next to the Liangyi Hall and waited patiently for Li Shimin to summon him.

However, when Li Shimin knew through his servants that Li Tai came riding a horse, he didn't call Li Tai into the Hall of Liangyi to meet him, instead he set off to meet Li Tai in the side hall.

"Hey, Aye, why are you here?" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin's arrival, somewhat unexpectedly.

"You came here on horseback today, apparently to show that you have grown up...how childish!" Li Shimin said.

"Eh..." Li Tai was a little stunned when he heard Li Shimin's words, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Speak up!" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai and said, "You come to see me on horseback, doesn't it mean that you have made a decision!"

Li Tai opened his mouth when he heard Li Shimin's words, and finally said, "I'm going to Youzhou!"

"This decision is not only stupid, but also cowardly! Do you need to force you, the King of Yue, to leave Chang'an for mere rumors!"

Li Shimin's eyes sharpened when he heard Li Tai's words, and he said, "What you have to do is find out who is behind the rumors!"

Li Tai looked at Li Shimin, calmly:

"Just treat it as me, rather than making the rumor more treacherous, I might as well leave Chang'an for Youzhou.

After all, compared with the destruction of Goguryeo, this is nothing more than a trivial matter! "

"..." Li Shimin was taken aback when he heard the confidence in Li Tai's words, and said, "Do you want to go to Youzhou?"

"As long as there is a place where I can display my talents, by the time Zheng Baiqu is completed, unless I join the center, Gao Ling will already limit my ability.

So take advantage of this opportunity to go to the place where Datang needs me, so there is nothing wrong with it. "

Li Tai said frankly, "Compared to this, no matter who spread the rumors, it is also in line with my intention to leave Chang'an."

At this time, it is naturally impossible to let Li Tai join the center, otherwise, I am afraid that the rumors that the prince will be abolished and the king will be established will be confirmed.

In comparison, as Li Tai said, letting Li Tai go to the fiefdom is the best choice.

Even in my opinion, apart from Li Tai's loss, I am not happy, but for the rest of my side, it is the best choice for Li Tai to leave Chang'an.

Of course, if Li Tai directly chooses to thank guests behind closed doors, it is not impossible to let time wash away the rumors.

But Li Tai himself is not a master who can relax, he himself wants to use this excuse to go to places where he can display his talents, as if he is fighting against the sky to display his talents.

"You are only 12 years old. Although Youzhou is not a frontier fortress, it is also located in the frontier, and it is a place of bitter cold!" Li Shimin said with some reluctance.

"For the country and the family, it is the responsibility and obligation of the Tang royal family to turn the bitter cold land into a prosperous place. Otherwise, we only absorb the people's fat and people's anointing from the people. What's the difference between a rat and a rat? Why don't such people die? Why!" Li Tai proudly said with his head held high.

"Crack!" Li Shimin knocked Li Tai's forehead with his hand unceremoniously, and said angrily,

"You're fine with everything, just take good care of your mouth, because it hasn't caused enough trouble!"

"Oh!" Li Tai hugged his forehead with both hands, feeling that his forehead was a little wider.

Li Shimin's hand quickly touched Li Tai's head, and said, "I won't stop you if you want to go to Youzhou.

However, how you convince your mother is up to you, if you can't convince me, just stay in Chang'an obediently and don't go anywhere! "

"Aye...you are a saint!" Li Tai protested weakly when he heard Li Shimin's words.

"A saint can't be a human being!" Li Shimin said bluntly, "Think about your pursuit, you can handle it yourself!"

(End of this chapter)