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

Chapter 678 Revealing the truth and revealing identity

Northwest of Chang'an, above the Wei River.

The drizzle fell on the surface of the river, splashing ripples one by one.

A black-covered boat stopped on the north side of the Weihe River. At some point, the number of boats on the Weihe River suddenly decreased, and finally he was the only one left.

At this moment, a fast boat sailed quickly from the direction of Chang'an, heading towards Wugong County at high speed.

Just when the clipper was about to arrive in front of the awning boat, there was a cold shout: "Stop the boat, stop the boat immediately."

A figure rushed to the bow of the boat in the blink of an eye, and without the slightest hesitation, he smashed the air with his right palm and directly hit the river surface.

With a "boom", a wave of water suddenly exploded on the surface of the river, and a cross-river chain with a length of tens of meters suddenly appeared on the Weihe River.

Under the powerful anti-seismic force, the Clippers spun extremely fast on the Weihe River, but soon stopped completely.

At this moment, the black-covered boat by the river slowly moved forward.

At the same time, a faint voice resounded in the wupped boat: "The spring rain is as expensive as oil, and it rains down the streets, slipping and falling on Bachelor Luo, and laughing at a herd of cows."

"Xiaguan Wugong County Lord Bo Luobin has seen the King of Nanchang!" The middle-aged scribe-like King Luo Bin, who looked elegant, stopped his movements early. He stood on the deck and looked calmly into the wupped boat: "The King of Nanchang just now In that way, do you think you are a cow?"

Inside the Wupeng boat, Li Xuan sighed softly and said, "At this moment, whoever is watching me is the bull!"

King Luo Bin quickly looked around with vigilant eyes. There was obviously no one in the surrounding area, but King Luo Bin always felt like someone was watching all the time.

……

The drizzle dripped from the top of his head and landed on the back of King Luo Bin's neck, making him feel cool and vigilant for a while.

"Isn't it because the King of Nanchang is waiting in the imperial city today? Today is the last day of the imperial examination. I heard that those in your mansion wrote well." King Luo Bin looked relaxed, but his eyes were fixed on Li Xuan , and his right hand pressed silently on the handle of the knife at his waist, hiding it under his clothes.

"Chunyu is as expensive as oil, Mr. is a great talent, but he didn't feel the slightest touch, which really disappoints me." Li Xuan's emotional voice came from inside the black canopy boat, but strangely, King Luo Bin was still indifferent at this moment.

Li Xuan chuckled lightly, and then said: "If what I remember is correct, Mr. Dao Wangshu established it when he first became an official. Mister is ashamed of showing off himself, and refuses to obey orders. Mister, can you tell this king, is this really the case?"

Dao Wang, Dao Wang Li Yuanqing, during the Yonghui period, served as governor of Huazhou and Xuzhou.

In the first year of Linde, the king of Dao passed away, and his posthumous title was filial piety.

No matter what, it is difficult for a clan prince with the posthumous title of filial piety to have anything to do with Zixuan when he asks about other people's talents and lets them show off.

Especially for a scholar who has done several scientific examinations and achieved nothing, no matter how conceited he is, he shouldn't be like this.

There must be something hidden in this.

King Luo Bin looked at Li Xuan indifferently, without the slightest haste in his expression, but the hand holding the handle of the knife behind his back did not relax at all.

Li Xuan chuckled lightly, and then continued: "Sir, he did not accept Uncle Dao Wang's enlistment, but soon after, he directly worshiped Feng Lilang at the central center, and awarded Dongtai a Bachelor of Xiangzheng. Although Mr. had participated in the imperial examination in his early years, But it has not been the first, but in the Yonghui period, he was suddenly appointed an official. What kind of benefactor did you encounter? "

Although the official Fengli Lang is not very big, he is in charge of the etiquette of the court meeting. It can be said that only the emperor's cronies can take up the post.

Is King Luo Bin the emperor's confidant? The answer is naturally not.

Then the person who can let King Luo Bin take up this position is probably not ordinary.

King Luo Bin ignored Li Xuan, and the fast boat under his feet began to retreat slowly.

At the same time, King Luo Bin still looked around vigilantly, as if someone was secretly watching him from a place he couldn't see, which made him extremely vigilant.

"In the last years of Yonghui, Mr. was suddenly demoted because of something. This king originally thought that Mr. was demoted by His Majesty because of his disobedience and daring to remonstrate. What kind of role did you play in this matter?" Li Xuan's words made Luo Binwang's expression more and more cold, although he was still holding the knife handle tightly, but at this moment, the clipper under his feet had already turned around.

The drizzle dripped from the sky and landed on Luo Binwang's body, but it didn't wet his clothes.

The distance between the boat and the awning boat was slowly widening. King Luo Bin looked at Li Xuan while keenly observing his surroundings.

At this moment, Li Xuan was still in the black boat, and there was no one in sight.

Although the awning boat is moving forward slowly, the distance between it and the clipper boat is rapidly widening.

"Being relegated to join the army in the Western Regions, sir, what you did in the first place is not a trivial matter." Li Xuan's cold voice still lingered in King Luo Bin's ears.

Back then, even Wang Bo's father, in order to intercede for his son's capital crime, was no more than assigning Jiaozhi as the county magistrate, while King Luo Bin was assigned to the Western Regions to join the army directly.

From Feng Lilang, Dongtai Xiangzheng Bachelor, directly sent to the Western Regions to join the army, it seems that it has been more than three thousand miles from Chang'an to the Western Regions.

"What happened back then, my lord can ask anyone to ask me the truth, and I can find out the truth." King Luo Bin stood firmly on the deck, and the distance between him and Li Xuan was rapidly widening. At that time, King Luo Bin finally breathed a sigh of relief. , looked at Li Xuan and said: "The lower official was framed and put the wrong sacrificial vessel that day, and then when he was guilty, he voluntarily applied to go to the Western Regions to serve in the army, but he was not involved in any incidents that should not be involved."

During the Yonghui period, the biggest event between the government and the opposition was the power struggle between the emperor and Changsun Wuji.

Although King Luo Bin denied it, Li Xuan still guessed that King Luo Bin must be involved in the power struggle between the emperor and Changsun Wuji.

If he was just an ordinary low-level bureaucrat, then Li Xuan might think that it was because of his talent that he encountered the envy of his colleagues. However, he is the king of the East China Sea and the son of the hidden prince Li Jiancheng, so he would provoke Li Zhi and his eldest grandson Wu Avoiding internal fighting is what they like to see most.

The relationship between Li Zhi and Changsun Wuji has reached the last step, and I am afraid that these people will inevitably contribute to the flames.

Naturally, King Luo Bin would not tell Li Xuan about these things, especially now that the malice among them has become clear.

"Mr. has been in the Western Regions for many years, I'm afraid he has a lot of business operations." Li Xuan's casual words made King Luo Bin's expression change slightly.

He looked deeply at Li Xuan, and finally stopped denying it, and said softly: "It seems that the king of Nanchang has studied the officials quite deeply."

"Western Region, the land of wealth." Li Xuan sighed softly, seemingly saying nothing, but actually said everything.

Too many people have set their sights on the Western Regions.

The reason why the Tang and Tubo fought endlessly was because of the wealth of the Western Regions.

But in Datang, Li Jingye, Li Xuan, Luo Binwang, and even Neiwei all set their sights on this piece of wealth.

Of course, there is also Li Xuan.

In the Western Regions, no matter how much power you hide, the court has nothing to do with it.

But once the foundation of your power in the court is broken, all your power is in danger of being swallowed up by others.

Just like Li Xuan and King Luo Bin now.

……

King Luo Bin stood on the deck and stared at Li Xuan. Although the distance between the two was still widening rapidly, King Luo Bin felt that Li Xuan's threat was increasing rapidly. ...

Will the King of Nanchang let him go so easily?
King Luo Bin was on the fast boat, traveling eastward quickly, and Li Xuan's voice had already rang in his ear: "This king is a little puzzled, it is no longer the former Sui Dynasty, why is your Excellency You also want to use the power of foreigners to destroy the Tang Dynasty... Silla, Turks, Tianyin Sect, and Tubo, do you really want to see the mountains and rivers laid down by your ancestors be trampled by foreigners like this? , and then, so that they can reward you with some pitiful leftovers."

In the cynicism, full of irrepressible anger.

Even Li Xuan never thought about borrowing the power of foreign races to realize his ambitions, but this person, as if he really didn't see that Datang might fall into an extremely dangerous situation at any time, he kept making troubles .

Li Xuan's voice clearly entered Luo Binwang's ears, and he clenched his fists tightly in an instant.

He wanted to say something, but in the end he gritted his teeth and stopped.

"What I can't figure out the most is what do you want those two prince seals for?" Li Xuan's voice still rang in King Luo Bin's ears, but at this moment, their fast boat was already far away from Li Xuan's black-topped boat. It was a long distance, but Li Xuan's voice still sounded very clearly.

Is the other person really in the black awning boat?
King Luo Bin's expression suddenly became solemn. He raised his head and looked towards the upper reaches of the Wei River.

Although there was light rain today, there shouldn't be any other boats on the Weihe River besides the two of them.

Unless, Yongzhou Dushui Division is helping to intercept the boat.

King Luo Bin didn't know what he thought of. He waved his hand, and the fast boat under his feet suddenly stopped moving forward.

Turning his head, King Luo Bin looked at the phantom of the black-covered boat in the distance, and said coldly: "I am just going to get something that belongs to me."

The prince's seal originally belonged to the hidden prince Li Jiancheng, so it was naturally inherited by him.

"Is that really yours?"

Li Xuan's abrupt rhetorical question made King Luo Bin frowned deeply.

"What happened back then, in the final analysis, was nothing more than a life-and-death struggle for power, a game between the winner and the loser, Kou. Although this king has not experienced what happened back then, I also know that after that, all but a few hidden people in the whole world The prince and former ministers, there are not many people who scolded the emperor Taizong for not doing that, the clan court, and the number of ministers who died because of this incident did not exceed ten. This king really admires the emperor Taizong, but the winner is Uncle Xi Wang ?”

Li Xuan sneered, and said in disgust: "I am afraid that under the instigation of Uncle Qi, he will massacre the entire clan. They will be forced to flee south for their lives."

If it is said that there are praises and criticisms for Li Jiancheng, but for Li Yuanji, no one inside or outside the court praises him.

Trampling on the people, plundering people's money, harming people's wives and daughters, playing with people's lives, abandoning the city and fleeing privately, incompetent on the battlefield.

Back then when the Turks went south, Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng resolutely moved their capital to Xiangyang, which was short-sighted.

There is even the case of Yang Wengan's rebellion by accumulating troops...

These all happened during the reign of Wude, which can be found in history books.

Even Concubine Yang, who was later brought into the palace by Emperor Taizong, had tipped off Emperor Taizong before the Xuanwumen Incident.

Li Yuanji has been a man so far, Jian Jiancheng almost obeys his words, Li Xuan's sympathy for Prince Yin has long since disappeared.

"But no matter what, it's not the reason for him to kill his brother and brother, force his father to abdicate, and take over his sister-in-law." King Luo Bin stood on the Wei River, Li Xuan was full of dissatisfaction, and he stopped everything with one word.

(End of this chapter)