First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 413
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Seeing that Pei Ju, who was used to flattering and pleasing, spoke, Wang Gui snorted coldly, "Qiao Gongshan must have sent someone to report to the saint, what's the use of stopping Gao Chong."

During Pei Ju's stay in Jiangdu, he flattered Yang Guang, framed Zhongliang, and ruined his good reputation of dividing up the Turks and managing the Western Regions. The upright Wang Gui despised him very much.

"To stop Gao Chong and send back Bingjia first. If there is no physical evidence, it is just Qiao Gongshan's one-sided statement and cannot be taken as the truth."

Pei Ju glanced at the resolute Wang Gui, and said slowly: "Then it will be Qiao Gongshan's false accusation."

Compared with the upright Wang Gui, Pei Ju is much stronger in these conspiracies and tricks. In the complicated forms of the Turks and the Western Regions back then, Pei Ju still made contributions with ease, which shows his ability.

Hearing Pei Ju's words, Li Jiancheng looked remorseful, but it was too late.

Li Yuanji stood up abruptly, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go, I'll lead the troops to catch up with Gao Chong, kill him, and grab the ordnance back."

"Bastard, let the soldiers kill officials? You want to rebel," Li Jiancheng angrily reprimanded.

"Why not?" The loud voice suddenly sounded, everyone was shocked when they heard the words, and looked for the sound, only to see Xu Shimo, the prince's servant, rising up against the case, aggrieved, spit saliva and plausible words.

"Your Highness, as the eldest son of the direct line, is the crown prince. He is a sage appointed by God. His name is right and proper. However, everyone knows that King Qin's dissent has become more and more rampant in recent years, and the persecution is too severe. Your Highness, why don't you just do the same thing and do it directly?" Raise troops, occupy the capital, respect the sage of Renzhi Palace as the overlord, and use the righteousness of the Qing emperor to eliminate traitors and rule the court."

The voice fell, and the whole hall was silent.

Li Jiancheng's complexion gradually turned pale.

Raising troops... Thinking of these two words, Li Jiancheng's heart beat wildly.

"Bold", Wang Gui trembled angrily, pointed at Xu Shimo and scolded angrily: "Good thief, how dare you deceive His Highness the Crown Prince, such a rebellious and immoral act, how can a gentleman do it."

"Confused, Your Highness is the orthodox heir. As long as you follow the rules, you can inherit the great rule. Once you raise an army, forgive you how loud the excuses of the Qing Dynasty are. After all, you will be a traitor, an unfaithful and unfilial traitor." Wei Zheng blew his beard and stared, loudly refuted.

The rest of the people, looking at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses, silently lowered their heads and muttered nothing.

Li Jiancheng was panting heavily, as if he hadn't recovered yet.

At this time Wei Ting sighed quietly: "If you listen to what Xu Sheren said, I will die without a place to bury me."

Everyone looked at Wei Ting when they heard the words, Wei Ting looked sad.

"The Sixth Commander of the East Palace has no more than ten thousand men, and has been in the capital for a long time without going into battle. His combat power is far inferior to the veterans of the Qin Palace.

And among the twelve guards in the city, how many of them are willing to join us in raising troops?With no soldiers and no generals, raising troops hastily, is it possible to seek death? "

It is well known that the military power of the East Palace is weak, and it is far inferior to the peak martial arts of the Qin Palace. It is a consensus that all the strong soldiers and generals are in the Qin Palace.

Now hearing Wei Ting speak out so openly about the disparity between the two sides, everyone couldn't help but feel very sad, and suddenly understood why Li Jiancheng took the risk and hid his soldiers secretly to organize an armed force.

It's hard to do things without soldiers and generals.

Li Jiancheng's face was ashen when he heard the words. Although he had no plan to raise an army at all, he felt very uncomfortable when he heard Wei Ting bluntly said that if he raised an army, he would die.

"Although your highness lacks martial arts skills, his martial arts are excellent and he is deeply respected by his subjects. Now that he has committed a crime in a moment of confusion, why must he use the most extreme method to solve it?" Zhao Hongzhi, the chief secretary of Zhan Shi, who was sitting in the last row, sighed softly.

Li Jiancheng paused, with hope in his eyes, "What can Master Zhao teach me?"

Zhao Hongzhi asked lightly: "How does the saint treat His Highness?"

"This, very, very good," Li Jiancheng replied in a daze.

It has to be said that Li Yuan was really kind to Li Jiancheng. As soon as the country was established, he canonized Li Jian as the prince, and let Li Jiancheng supervise the country when he went out for a walk from time to time. He trusted him very much.

Zhao Hongzhi nodded, "Since it's very good, why worry about it? Although it is a serious crime to hide armor privately, it was an unintentional mistake of your highness. You must know that your highness has never had the intention of treason, why don't you take the crown yourself? Shall I go to the Renzhi Palace alone to find the saint and confess my sins sincerely?"

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, Wang Gui's eyes lit up, and he said bluntly: "It is possible, the saint loves his son deeply, as long as His Highness sincerely confesses his sins and repents sincerely, the saint will not be cruel to pursue responsibility."

"Knowing mistakes can make things better. If Your Highness can move the saints, saints are always lenient and can forgive sins." Wei Zheng also nodded and said.

Wei Ting also nodded in agreement, "This method is indeed feasible. Firstly, His Highness sincerely repented and moved the saint with sincerity. Second, His Highness's private hiding of the armor was not out of selfishness, but because of consideration that Qingzhou is often faced with Turkic plunder, and worried about Yang Wengan's old relationship. You can’t do this wrong thing.”

"No", Zhao Hongzhi shook his head and directly denied it.

"Don't make excuses, the sage is not stupid, how can he not see it, His Highness can say bluntly, bestowing Qingzhou Bingjia is a favor to Yang Wenqian, and also intends to strengthen the power of the East Palace, just say so.

As an orthodox heir, it is normal for His Highness to strengthen his team, and the reason for this is well known to the saints, and if he continues to find excuses to get rid of the crime, he will appear out of his mind."

When everyone heard the words and chewed them carefully, they felt that what they said was true.

Throughout the dynasties, the East Palace has its own team. The emperor allowed the prince to recruit officials in order to strengthen the power of the prince and consolidate the status of the prince. Other vassal kings made friends with officials, which was plotting against the law and forming a party for personal gain. Otherwise, the prince is the prince and the future emperor.

Even now, the Six Rates of the Eastern Palace are still a military force directly under the Eastern Palace. The left and right spring squares of the Eastern Palace are like the Menxia Province and the Zhongshu Province of the imperial court. The Eastern Palace has its own administrative team, which is a small imperial court.

This is just in case, once the country changes and the prince succeeds to the throne, the officials of the East Palace can quickly enter the court.

If Li Jiancheng said that the smuggling of soldiers was to resist the Turkic invasion, such a clumsy excuse, Li Yuan would know it was an excuse as soon as he heard it, he might as well admit it sincerely and move Li Yuan with his true feelings.

The subtext is: Aye, my boy is really wrong, I shouldn’t violate the law because of my own selfishness, but my boy is afraid, there are too few people in the Six Commanders of the Eastern Palace, and as the heir of the Tang Dynasty, my boy does not have his own armed forces, my boy This is restless, really confused for a while, Aye, forgive me...

After thinking about it, Li Jiancheng's eyes suddenly shone with hope, "Master Zhao is right, just follow what you said, without further delay, I will go now, and the sage will forgive me."

(End of this chapter)