Fahai travels through Tang Sanzang

Underworld.

This was Li Chengqian's first time coming to the underworld, but he was not stage frightened.

Facing the Ten Great Yamas and the Three Great Judges, Li Chengqian looked as usual, neither humble nor arrogant.

He was not too arrogant because of his cultivation and identity. He just made his appeal to Yama and the three judges, "If the people who died have expired in the book of life and death, then the poor will naturally not hinder the three realms." It is a normal cycle of life and death, but if they die unexpectedly before their yang life is over, then Pindao hopes that Lord Yan can give them a chance to return to yang. "

King Qin Guang nodded slightly when he heard this, and then motioned Cui Pan beside him to check the book of life and death.

Cui Pan took out the supplementary book of the birth and death book, flipped through it a few times, and found the page about the people in their village. After browsing it carefully, he said to King Qin Guang, who was above him: "No one should live to the end of his life today. To die for no reason."

"good."

King Qin Guang looked at Li Chengqian and said with a smile: "Since the Yang's life has not expired, then we must allow them to return the Yang."

"Thank you, King of Hell." Li Chengqian didn't expect that King of Hell would be so easy to talk to, but since the other party agreed to his request, Li Chengqian certainly wanted to thank him.

"It's just a trivial matter, nothing worth mentioning." King Qin Guang waved his hand slightly, but said to Li Chengqian, "The souls of the people can return them to the sun, but the souls of those internal servants..."

"They are killing creatures wantonly in the mortal world. What's the law?"

"Of course it's the eighteenth level of hell."

"Infinite Taoist Master." Li Chengqian recited the Taoist slogan, saying that he would not stop the Yin Division from collecting the souls of those servants of the heaven. The reason why he kept these souls of the servants was not to scatter them directly, but to keep them with the King of Hell. Let's discuss terms.

But he didn't expect that the kings of hell would agree to him very happily, and the kings of hell would not let these servants go for their own selfishness, so these souls of the servants, who were originally used as bargaining chips, would be of little use.

Li Chengqian did not stay in the underworld for long. After the matter was settled, he already wanted to leave.

Several Yin Luo indeed wanted to keep Li Chengqian to entertain them. After all, Li Chengqian had a special status. Firstly, he was the son of Li Shimin, and secondly, he was the successor of the Human Religion. For the Yinsi, these two identities were worth winning over. Make good friends with.

Li Shimin is the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei, and the other incarnation of Emperor Ziwei is still serving as Emperor Fengdu in the underworld. Emperor Fengdu once said implicitly that among Li Shimin's disciples, he still values ​​Li Chengqian the most. Unfortunately, It's a lame leg.

This is an innate flaw in the soul. Even if they, the immortals, want to cure Li Chengqian's leg, it is not that easy. It is even said that if Li Chengqian's leg is cured, his fate will be ruined.

Therefore, even if there is a way to cure it, they will not do it easily. Of course, if Li Chengqian finds a way to cure his leg by himself, that is a different matter. This is his own opportunity, and he will not ruin himself because of it. Fate, and even strengthen one's own destiny accordingly.

But this restriction can only be broken by himself, and others can only give some pointers at most.

Otherwise, with Laojun’s way of creation, wouldn’t it be possible to cure Li Chengqian’s leg?

Looking at this in the Three Realms, no one is willing to believe this.

It was obvious that there was no friendship between the Yamas and Li Chengqian, but there was indeed one person in the Yin Division who could make Li Chengqian behave obediently, and that was Wei Zheng, who came to lead the Yin Division after his death and served as one of the great judges.

"Cheng Qian met Zheng Guogong."

When Li Chengqian saw that it was Wei Zheng who stopped him, he immediately saluted him.

Wei Zheng returned the salute and said: "Your Highness the Crown Prince."

It had been a long time since Li Chengqian heard this title. He thought he had already let go of his past, but some fluctuations occurred in his heart. After calming down, he solemnly saluted Wei Zheng and said, "The student has let the teacher down. "

Wei Zheng had been Li Chengqian's teacher for a period of time, and Li Chengqian's position as Crown Prince was deposed after Wei Zheng's death. Therefore, when the Crown Prince heard Wei Zheng's words, he suddenly felt inexplicably aggrieved.

Obviously he did not make any mistakes, but because of Li Tai's repeated provocations, he fought back, and his attacks were a little more ruthless. This made his father think that after he succeeded to the throne, he would kill other brothers to consolidate the throne.

Li Chengqian actually lived in the shadow of his father Li Shimin for the first half of his life, but whether he was the son of King Qin or the prince, he always worked hard. Even if he was unable to do so, he never relaxed. Strive to do your best by asking yourself.

Even though his father doted on Qingque even more, Li Chengqian never thought of taking action against his biological brother.

But everything has changed since the onset of his leg problem.

He could see the disappointment and hesitation in his father's eyes when he looked at his inconvenient leg.

Maybe it was because his father was too obvious, or maybe this was his father's imperial mentality, deliberately letting both himself and Qingque notice this change. Finally, Qingque began to be unable to bear it. From the initial temptation, to a This provocation caused the two to officially "go to war" and the quarrel became almost unbearable——

The father took action, saying that neither he nor Qingque were suitable to be emperors.

In the past, Li Chengqian might not have understood much, but now he somewhat understands his father's methods.

After all, he was the prince, and he was deposed just because he was lame in one leg. It would be difficult for him to convince the public in the court.

And it happened that the green bird popped up, and his father used it as a knife, and cut off his position as the prince with one blow. Maybe his father was also worried that he would do something uncontrollable if he was just deposed. Therefore, Qingque also became a victim.

Perhaps my father thought that having Qingque on his back would make him feel a little better.

In fact, at the beginning, Li Chengqian's inner pain was indeed offset a lot by Qingque, who also became a loser, but this was only treating the symptoms and not the root cause.

The resentment deep inside will only become more and more deep-rooted as time goes by. Sooner or later, it will explode one day.

But before that, he first met the holy Tripitaka Buddha, the emperor's uncle, and was taken under the tutelage of his master Li Chunfeng. In addition to being unwilling to forgive his father, Li Chengqian thought that he had let go of his obsession back then. But now Wei Zheng's words of "Your Highness the Crown Prince" still pierced his heart.

Let go of your worries, but how could you forget them?

Wei Zheng was also very embarrassed about this. If he was still alive, he would definitely not let such a thing happen.

But at that time, he had already passed away. All he could say was that Li Er was indifferent and planned to "kill each other" with his two sons. Finally, he said that the two of them were incapable of mercy.

If you, the father, had given me some correct guidance instead of encouraging Qing Que to covet the Supreme, things would not have reached this point.

That is to say, this kid Li Zhi can definitely be regarded as a good emperor. Otherwise, Wei Zheng would have wanted to wake Li Shimin up in the middle of the night and ask him what he really thought.

In fact, without asking, Wei Zheng could have guessed that Li Shimin himself was the instigator. He was afraid that his son would imitate him, so after noticing Qingque's character, he planned in advance to eliminate this hidden danger, and at the same time, he could The "lame prince" was pulled down naturally.

It can only be said that Li Shimin's ability to give birth to sons is indeed outstanding. Looking at the entire history of the Central Plains, in fact, both Li Chengqian and Li Tai can be regarded as very outstanding successors. If you put it on other emperors, they would laugh out of their dreams. How could he be willing to let the two of them fight and lose both sides?

Moreover, even if Li Zhi fails, there is still Wu King Li Ke as a backup. In short, unless all his sons die, Li Shimin will not worry about having no heir.

But now, whether his sons can obtain him is still a question.

Some time ago, Li Zhi wanted to challenge the Emperor's Death Tribulation, but after Li Chunfeng tested his strength, he thought he was not qualified yet.

Li Shimin had many sons and they were very successful, but Li Zhi was different. Although he had four sons, none of them were born to the same queen as Wang. Li Shimin never expected that Li Zhi would have no problems with his child. , only something went wrong in this important national matter.

Although Li Shimin and Empress Changsun made the decision to adopt Li Zhi's eldest son to Empress Wang, because Empress Wang was not favored, even if he was adopted to Empress Wang and made the prince, he would not be affected by Li Zhi's eldest son. The love of treatment.

Queen Wang died in depression, and Concubine Xiao Shu succeeded in taking the throne and gave birth to a son for Li Zhi - Li Lian, who was named King Yong and was deeply loved by Li Zhi. Li Zhi wanted to make Concubine Xiao Shu the queen and make Li Lian the prince, but the matter was temporarily shelved because Li Shimin did not agree.

But Li Shimin took Li Lian with him to teach him personally, and Li Shimin praised Li Lian for his alertness and studiousness.

The ministers in the Tang Dynasty actually did not pay too much attention to whether Li Zhi would establish a crown prince. After all, as long as the Supreme Emperor Li Shimin was around for a day, let alone the crown prince, even the emperor was in name only.

For Li Shimin, the emperor was more like his "Minister of Household Affairs". At present, the first priority of the Tang Dynasty is to develop people's livelihood, to fill the national treasury, and to make money!

How can we fight without money?

How to conquer the Three Realms?

How to prove the Taoist King? !

It has to be said that Li Zhi did a really good job in this regard, and the Tang Dynasty's treasury was more full than ever before.

Not to mention Li Shimin, even all the previous emperors combined have probably never been so wealthy.

Li Shimin was also afraid of poverty, especially when he first came to the throne. There was a lot of waste waiting to be done, and money was needed everywhere. Even if he collected taxes and money, he could not wait for Nuan Rehu, so all the ministries had to worry about him.

The Ministry of War needs food and salaries, the Ministry of Personnel needs salaries, the Ministry of Industry needs money for repairing rivers, bridges, post roads and building imperial tombs, and the Ministry of Rites also needs money for sacrifices and various gifts.

Since you have to spend money everywhere, spend it wisely, and every penny counts.

At that time, he lived in the palace eating pickles. The entire palace lived a very simple life during that period, so much so that the ministers in the court did not dare to show off their wealth even if they had some.

The princes of the various palaces in Chang'an did not dare to go out wearing new clothes. Cheng Yaojin, an old man, even wore patched clothes when he went to court. If he hadn't known that someone in Lu Guogong's palace would be killed by a cow or die of illness every now and then. The courtiers really thought that he was so poor that he couldn't even put on any clothes.

However, this method can only be used by him. Even if Wei Zheng did have patched clothes, he would not wear them in the court. After all, it would damage the country's prestige.

Even for a period of time, what Li Shimin wanted to hear most was actually the news about corrupt officials. If it was just a small corruption and did not harm the people, Li Shimin would turn a blind eye. But if it was a huge corruption, then... I'm sorry, no matter who you are, I, Li Er, have taken a liking to your property.

At that time, Wei Zheng was a very human minister in the human world, and he was also a human Cao official appointed by the Heavenly Court, responsible for the liaison between heaven and man. Now after his death, he is in the Yin Cao, and he is only a great judge half a level lower than the Ten Great Yamas. Even in To a certain extent, Wei Zheng's authority is not under the Ten Great Yamas.

Li Chengqian had great respect for his teacher. Even though he didn't teach him for a long time, he was deeply impressed by his character.

At that time, Li Chengqian followed Li Shimin to the Wei Zheng Mansion. Such a large Duke's Mansion looked so simple. As the prime minister of the imperial court, he had a breeze in his sleeves and served the country and the people. He was actually a model for the world.

No wonder even his father hated and loved him.

Obviously, not all emperors can control ministers like Wei Zheng. From this aspect, Li Chengqian also felt very helpless towards his father. He could tolerate Wei Zheng, but he could not tolerate himself. With Qingque.

As an emperor, Li Chengqian believed that his father was impeccable. But as a father, Li Chengqian believed that he was not qualified.

This is why kings and emperors all claim to be lonely men. After all, once he sits in that position, his identity is not just the father of one person or several people, but the king and father of the subjects and people of a country.

For this reason, in some decisions, trade-offs have to be made.

Although Li Chengqian can now understand what his father did, as a son, he does not intend to forgive his father. But as a subject of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian hoped that his father could sit on the throne for another five hundred years.

As for whether foreigners want to see such a scene, that is their own business. If you have the guts, come to Datang and kill Li Shimin. If you don't, just hold back.

Wei Zheng and Li Chengqian hadn't seen each other for a long time, but they still talked about many things. Wei Zheng was very concerned about the people's livelihood of the Tang Dynasty and Li Chengqian's personal problems.

Li Chengqian also patiently answered Wei Zheng's questions one by one, and asked Wei Zheng for advice on some difficult matters.

If development continued normally, Li Chengqian would have been able to carry the Tang Dynasty, but it was a pity that His Majesty put too much pressure on him. Coupled with his leg problems and his equally outstanding brothers, he was eventually given up by Li Shimin.

But looking at it now, maybe this is his destiny. He lost his position as prince, but he became the successor of human religion and a candidate for the Eight Immortals. (End of chapter)