People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1462: The prince and the prime minister are brothers and sisters, what can happen?

As the sun sets, the night lights begin to turn on.

Li Xuan, dressed in red clothes and gold armor, calmly walked out of the Youwei official office, then got on his horse and headed towards Duanmen.

Just as they passed Chengtian Gate, a carriage followed from behind.

Li Xuan immediately stopped his horse, waved his hands slightly, and the dozen soldiers behind him immediately retreated.

The carriage came to Li Xuan's side, the curtains were raised, and Pei Yan poked his head out with a smile: "Prince Peng, how about we go together?"

"Dare you disobey me!" Li Xuan nodded in agreement.

Pei Yan smiled, and the carriage slowed down invisibly.

"I heard that the prince has entered the palace since afternoon and went to Zhenguan Hall to meet with His Majesty." Pei Yan looked straight at Li Xuan with a dull look in his eyes.

Li Xuan nodded calmly and said: "The prince is not worried about your majesty's health. From now on, he will serve your majesty with medicine every day. He will take care of your majesty in the morning and dusk. If there is nothing in the political hall, your highness will always stay in the Zhenguan hall to serve your majesty."

"The prince is kind and filial." Pei Yan praised, a trace of vigilance flashed in the depths of his eyes, and asked: "So how is the situation at the Prince Xiang's Mansion?"

"What's going on in the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Li Xuan looked at Pei Yan with a calm face and said softly: "The Crown Prince and the Prime Minister are respectful brothers, what can I do?"

Pei Yan was stunned for a moment, and a hint of amusement arose in his heart: "What King Peng said is true. The prince and the prime minister are brothers and sisters, so what can happen?"

Li Xuan smiled, and then said: "I heard that Duke Zhao Guo was in Ganzhou and the weather was not suitable. He wanted to apply for an official position. The position of the minister's right servant was vacant, and the concurrent appointment of the crown prince guest would also be vacant. I wonder if Pei Yan is interested. As a guest of the Crown Prince.”

The prince has four guests, Li Jingxuan, Pei Xingjian, and Li Xuan.

In addition to Liu Rengui, who resigned as the crown prince's guest and was promoted to the crown prince's tutor, they are the crown prince's four guests.

The position of the crown prince's guest has been vacant for a long time, but at this time, Li Xuan specifically mentioned Li Jingxuan, and naturally he was not talking about the crown prince's guest.

"The position of the Crown Prince's guest is important and must be decided by Your Majesty and the Queen." Pei Yan nodded calmly, but then he changed his tone and said: "But this matter is ultimately beneficial to the country. Your Majesty and the Queen are interested, so I naturally dare not refuse. ”

"In this way, Xuan looks forward to being in the same palace as Pei Yan in the future." Li Xuan smiled and bowed slightly.

Pei Yan nodded and turned to ask: "Does the prince know what is going on with the Zheng family? I heard that the Prime Minister and the Zheng family have a private engagement?"

"There is no such thing as a private engagement." Li Xuan glanced at Duanmen in front of him, then shook his head with a smile and said, "It's just some nonsense, Prime Minister Pei doesn't need to pay attention to it."

"That's it." Pei Yan nodded, and then said: "Stability comes first when it comes to the affairs of the government and the public. It seems that the prince is quite good at it!"

"Excuse me, Prime Minister Pei." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, and then said: "If everyone in the world can do this, it will be a great blessing for the government and the public."

"That's true." Pei Yan glanced ahead and saw that the carriage had arrived at Duanmen. Pei Yan nodded and said, "That's it, Your Majesty, see you tomorrow."

"Prime Minister Pei, let's go slowly." Li Xuan watched Pei Yan leave, and then stopped for a moment. When Pei Yan left the Duanmen, he slowly led others to follow.

……

In the south of Tianjin Bridge, Pei Yan went west and Li Xuan went east.

A group of right guard cavalry has been guarding Li Xuan's side. Their long spears are so sharp that ordinary people dare not approach him.

It is already the time of dusk, and the gates of every village will be closed soon, and the people are anxious to go home.

In the Luoyang market, everything is business as usual.

On the bank of the Luo River, Li Xuan rode forward with a calm expression. On the other side of the Luo River, the palace wall was tight.

Li Xuan glanced at it and continued forward. Li Xuan was not surprised at all when Pei Yan blocked him in the palace city.

Now in the East Palace, the emperor, Empress Wu, various prime ministers, ministers, and even Li Dan have people stationed in the East Palace. It is not surprising that some news has been leaked.

Especially now that the East Palace has made a big move to retaliate against the Prime Minister's palace for spying on the position of the crown prince, the news is spreading all over the sky.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that there were one or two reports that the East Palace was trying to win over Prime Minister Pei.

Yes, the news that Dong Palace wanted to win over Pei Yan was spread by Li Xuan.

Because Pei Yan's behavior in the political hall today was telling Dong Palace that he could be won over.

But who can see through the meaning behind these actions and who will take action is another matter.

Li Xuan deliberately spread some news, and Pei Yan immediately came to the door.

Although it was said on the surface that everything would be decided by the Emperor and Empress Wu, he did not dare to refuse.

The conditions proposed by Li Xuan were to be appointed as the right servant of Shangshu and to be the guest of the prince. Pei Yan also expressed interest, but this was just a preliminary contact.

If the two parties really want to cooperate in the future, there will be more back-and-forth games between them.

It doesn't end that easily.

Moreover, within the East Palace, Xue Yuanchao did not want Pei Yan to take up the post of Minister Zuopushe.

Once Pei Yan is allowed to sit in this position, Xue Yuanchao will basically have no hope in the next ten years.

From the bottom of his heart, he was unwilling. He even did not want Pei Yan to become a minister of the East Palace.

But when he was asked to go out and fight with Empress Wu on behalf of Li Xian, he was unwilling and unable to do so. Even when he fought with Pei Yan, he couldn't win.

Li Xuan couldn't help but shake her head.

If Xue Yuanchao hadn't been the emperor's disciple, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to sit in the position in front of him.

It seemed that there was no reason why he sympathized with Li Yifu and was demoted.

But Xue Yuanchao is not that difficult to deal with.

Li Xuan pressed her sleeves, and there was a memorial to impeach Cui Mi hidden inside. After Cui Zhiwen read this memorial, he returned it. After that, he didn't care whether Li Xuan impeached Cui Mi.

The reason Cui Zhiwen sided with Li Dan this time was because he saw Li Xian's obvious shortcomings, so he cared about siding with Cui Mi.

But in fact, both parties have made different bets, and even the future benefits will be different.

Of course, if Li Xuan impeaches Cui Mi now, it will not cause much harm to him.

It just so happened that he now needed to clear up his relationship with the Prime Minister.

Li Xuan originally planned to hand over the impeachment memorial against Cui Mi to Li Xian, but Xue Yuanchao's unusually firm opposition to Pei Yan made Li Xuan decide to keep it alive.

Perhaps in the future, he could ask Pei Yan to send this memorial to completely antagonize Empress Wu's party, or he could personally hand it over to Cui Mi in the future.

In any case, this memorial will not have much effect on the front.

……

Li Xuan glanced at the Luohe River next to him, and there were dots of fire reflected on the water.

In this time of year, no one has the same determination as before.

All kinds of calculations and fights, even to the point of going into battle in person.

But think about it, at this juncture, every step you take is related to the fate of the family in the next decades, or even hundreds of years, and no one dares to ignore it.

Normally, I would be cautious, but now, every opportunity is extremely important.

All the prime ministers understand each other very well.

When something happens, each other loses even room to maneuver, and can only fight bare-chested.

It doesn't look much different from the market, but...

Fights between merchants would rarely hurt lives, but when it came to them, dozens, hundreds, or even a family of ten thousand people would be directly annihilated with just one move.

At this time, it is inevitable that some people will be impulsive.

Li Xuan glanced in the direction of the palace, then turned to look in the direction of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Finally, Li Xuan glanced at the west side of the city, smiled lightly, waved his hand, and returned to Jade Dragon Garden under the escort of the entire team of right guards.

……

On the long street, King Wu patrolled.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Dan stood in the middle hall, smiled seriously at Dou Sitai, and said with a wry smile: "Brother, please don't listen to other people's nonsense. How can the Zheng family and the imperial brother come to see Si Lang at the same time when they are married? This kind of thing, Si Lang It's too late to hide, how can you get close to me?"

Zuo Si Lang, Dou Sitai, nodded expressionlessly, cupped his hands and said, "That's the best. Then please don't interfere in the affairs of the Dou family and the Zheng family."

"No, no, definitely not. This has nothing to do with me." Li Dan seriously handed over his hand.

"In this case, I will retire." Dou Sitai bowed deeply, then turned and left the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Li Dan turned around, looked at Yuan Wanqing who was standing on one side, and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Qing, the affairs of the Zheng family must not be known to the princess."

"Here!" Yuan Wanqing cupped his hands solemnly with a stern look on his face.

"How is the situation now?" Li Dan walked back to the table in the middle hall and sat down. He raised his head and looked at Yuan Wanqing with a solemn expression.

Yuan Wanqing pondered for a moment, then said: "According to the news that just came back, most of the officials in the East Palace have already taken action, either by themselves or using the power of their families to keep a close eye on every official in the Prime Minister's Mansion, looking for them. Where there have been mistakes, once the opportunity is seized, they will be impeached immediately.”

"It's nothing." Li Dan relaxed a little. Li Dan has always been strict with the people in the Prime Minister's Palace. In addition, he is not a prince, and there are not so many messy people who want to stuff people here. Others want to It's not easy to grasp the handle.

Li Dan raised his head and said with emotion: "Brother Huang is still considerate of me and behaves according to the rules."

After all, Li Xian was the prince, so even if he was able to catch Li Dan, he was just looking for loopholes and impeaching him.

"The prince is a prince after all. He will not be so mean, nor will he use those methods of frame-up and frame-up." Yuan Wanqing comforted him and said: "Prime Minister Zuo, Prime Minister Xue, and Prince Peng are all people who act brightly. It’s no big deal if you block their front, but..."

"But even if you don't have to resort to cruel tactics, Prime Minister Zuo, Prime Minister Xue, and Uncle Wang are still very powerful." Li Dan turned to look in the direction of the palace and said softly: "Just like Uncle Wang, let the emperor serve my emperor Around me, this kind of conspiracy has surpassed everything."

"Perhaps Prince Peng is really just imitating His Majesty's action of serving the late Emperor." Yuan Wanqing comforted him in a low voice, but there was infinite solemnity flashing deep in his eyes.

The prince was in the political affairs hall, and they could communicate directly with Empress Wu across the political affairs hall. But now, the prince directly bypassed empress Wu and stayed directly with the emperor.

This is the prince's advantage, and this move amplifies this advantage to the limit.

If Li Xian was entangled in the fighting game with Li Dan, then he would have given up his biggest advantage. But now, Li Xian has been staying with the emperor, which means that if something happens to the emperor, the prince can immediately ascend the throne. There are no variables at all.

The most important thing is that Li Xian is filial enough, which is the most reassuring thing for the emperor now.

People who see this clearly will completely give up their support for Li Dan at this time.

At least as long as Li Xian was with the emperor, they would not support Li Dan.

"It's easy to talk about the rest." Li Dan waved his hand and said, "Brother Huang is a kind and filial man. The fact that he can be by my father's side is enough to reassure me."

"Your Highness!" Yuan Wanqing's expression became serious and he looked straight at Li Dan.

Li Dan waved his hand and said: "If I don't think so about this kind of thing, other people will think so. It doesn't matter. The most important thing at the moment is two things. Find out what changes happened in the political hall today, and what changes happened in the political hall today?" There is the letter from the Zheng family."

The Zheng family was willing to convince Cui Zhiwen that apart from their own intentions, the key was that Li Dan had sent the engagement letter.

Yuan Wanqing bowed and said: "I tried to get it back, but Mrs. Tong'an hid it very tightly. I believe that others can't get it so easily."

"So best."

(End of this chapter)