Ji Tang

Chapter 1444 The monarch and his ministers gossip!

In Wuying Pavilion, General Yuchi is in charge today. He was dozing off and frowned when he heard the noise outside. Who is this that doesn't allow people to sleep well in broad daylight? Don't want to die?

Since Ji Song stepped down as the head of Wuyingge, the powers of Wuyingge have been redistributed. There is no longer a so-called chief, but they have been redistributed to other members.

Every month there is a general of the Sixteenth Guards who sits in charge. If there is a major matter, everyone will be summoned to discuss it. If you really can't decide, go to the emperor for a decision.

Li Ji is still the top officer of the Military Justice Department, but he has two deputies. It is self-evident who he is.

In short, although Wuyingge has great power, he is a headless tiger, which makes people fear but not afraid of him.

"What the hell are you making a fuss about outside? Come in and say something!" Yu Chigong roared angrily.

It was quiet outside, and soon I saw a school captain coming to the hall cautiously.

Yuchi Gong was startled when he saw the person coming, because it was his subordinate.

"If you can't tell me, I'm afraid today's meal will be inevitable. Tell me, what happened?"

Yuchi Gong drank tea and said indifferently.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is at peace, and there are no unsighted people emerging, what big things can happen?
The captain of the city gate gave a wry smile and told old Yuchi everything he saw at the city gate. Before he could finish listening, he sprayed the tea in the face of the captain of the city gate.

"What did you say? King Wei and King Wu came out of the city with hundreds of soldiers fully armed?" Yu Chigong thought there was something wrong with his ears, so he took out his ears and said in disbelief.

"This is what my subordinates saw with their own eyes. They wanted to stop them at that time, but they rushed out directly. We didn't dare to actually shoot arrows, so..."

"So they left in such a grand manner?" Yuchi Gong suddenly felt a toothache, rebelling? Impossible. Whoever has such thoughts will die. King Wei and King Wu are both smart among the princes and it is impossible not to know.

"Let's go with me to see His Majesty. This is nonsense!"

Okay, it hasn’t even started yet, but Yuchi is calling it nonsense? The captain of the city gate has a lot of black marks on his head. Is he just meddling in his own business?

"What are you still doing? Let's go!"

"Oh, I obey!"
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And just as Old Yuchi hurriedly walked towards Taiji Hall, Chang'an City was in chaos. Not only the defenders at the East City Gate, but also the Chang'an County Magistrate were alarmed. When he learned that the two princes had led their troops out of the city, the Chang'an County Magistrate almost fainted and was about to enter the palace without caring about anything else.

In Wanmin Palace, after Li Shimin and his eldest grandson dismissed all the princes and grandsons, they were accompanied by Li Chengqian to spread around the palace.

When the eldest grandson saw the white hair on Li Chengqian's temples, he stepped forward and stroked it gently, saying distressedly: "Even my son has gray hair!"

Li Chengqian smiled brightly: "My son is now in his mid-forties today. He has passed his forties, how can he not have gray hair? My mother is looking much younger!"

"Bah, you are such a mouthful, you are already an old woman!"

When the eldest grandson heard this, he lightly slapped his son's fist, but he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes. Li Shimin curled his lips and thought to himself, if that bastard hadn't been in trouble, I would have given you the hard-to-find skin care products. Can you protect it so well?
But this must not be said, otherwise he would have to stay alone in the empty room tonight.

"This is my child's sincerity. If you don't believe me, just ask your father!"

Li Shimin froze, and when he saw the expectant look in his eldest grandson's eyes, he nodded quickly and said, "Of course, who can be better than my Guanyin?"

The eldest grandson suddenly smiled and gave him a knowing look, which made Li Shimin sigh in relief.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good, King Wei, King Wu and others"

Suddenly, Chen Shou ran in anxiously, and the three of them were stunned when they saw his impatience.

"Chen Shou, what's the matter with you? You've always been very steady in the past, why are you so rash today? If you don't get the end result, just wait and see!"

Li Shimin was angry. Ji Song's incident had shocked him before, so where did this come from?
"Your Majesty, King Wei and King Wu have led their troops out of the city. Now the whole of Chang'an is in chaos."

Li Shimin: "."

Li Chengqian: "."

The eldest grandson was also stunned, and quickly asked Li Chengqian: "They didn't go to you to ask for the Tiger Talisman?"

"What tiger talisman? I don't know either!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin's face suddenly darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I just received the news that that bastard Ji Song was driving dozens of large ships in Mingzhou and said they were gifts for me. These two boys hurriedly said that they would go and see them. Well, the province has been embezzled from the royal tribute."

"So, they just left the city like that?"

Changsun held his forehead and smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that's it!"

slap~
Li Chengqian slapped his forehead and said, dumbfounded: "So these two bastards went south directly with their guards?"

Everyone nodded. Now it was Li Chengqian's turn to have a toothache. I am afraid that the courtiers will take turns to go to battle tomorrow morning. If the vassal king does not go, it will be against the court system, so he and his father will stop him. Otherwise, the courtiers will long ago drive him out of the Chang'an District fiefdom.

It's better now, I gave the courtiers a reason directly.
"Your Majesty, General Yuchi asked for an audience and said that an ambassador came to report!"

The eunuch beside Li Chengqian hurriedly came over and said.

Everyone looked at each other, and Li Chengqian said helplessly: "That's it, the general is probably here to talk about this too, and he can't hide it even if he wants to!"

"Please come over, General!"

The eunuch glanced at Li Chengqian, and when he saw that there were no instructions, he quickly went to pass the message.

Yu Chigong, who was already very old, was still walking like a tiger, and walked over with the same momentum as before. After saluting the three of them, he looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Your Majesty, have King Wei and King Wu asked you for the Tiger Talisman?"

Li Chengqian opened his mouth and wanted to say it, but he couldn't hide the matter at all. The tiger talisman not only had to pass through himself, but also had to be confirmed by Qilin Pavilion and Sansheng before it would be effective. Now it's too late even if I try to make up for it.

"Oh, Yuchi, this is my fault. These two bastards went south to Mingzhou on my orders. Maybe they forgot about it for a moment. Look,"

Then Li Shimin told him about Ji Song's arrival in Mingzhou, and he was shocked when he heard that Ji Song brought dozens of ships of tribute. This guy has robbed several countries!

"Your Majesty, I believe this, but can others believe it?"

Yuchi Gong's words made Li Shimin's face turn black, and he cursed those two bastards in his heart. If it was too late now, he would like to give him a good beating. He is so old and he still doesn't have a sense of proportion in what he does. But now it's too late to say anything, all we can do is think about how to deal with the aftermath. "Okay, I'll go explain this to the courtiers!" Li Chengqian said helplessly.

Yuchi Gong, who wanted to remonstrate, saw that he didn't even take it seriously, so he was just trying to remonstrate. After that, he was about to say goodbye and leave, but was held back by Li Shimin.

"Since you're here, come and talk to me. This old brother can walk and go home. I don't even think about this person talking. Don't leave today. How about taking a look at the real Wanmin Palace?"

Yuchi Gong glanced at Li Chengqian. Li Chengqian immediately understood and said with a smile: "Since the father has said so, Duke E will stay. I will let Li Ji take care of the affairs at Wuying Pavilion first, and there will be no mistakes."

"Then the old minister will obey the order!"

Li Shimin burst out laughing when he heard Yuchi's promise. He waved his hand and told Li Chengqian to get out, and asked someone to prepare drinks.

Li Chengqian had no choice but to leave with Xizhi.

On the way back, Xizi hesitated many times, and finally couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, you are just worried."

"What are you worried about?" Li Chengqian paused and asked.

Then he looked at Xizi and said quietly: "The current situation is hard-won. King Wu and King Wei are both my brothers, and I trust them."

Looking directly at Xizi, he said: "Don't say such words from now on, and don't even think about it. Do you understand?"

Xizi and his wife knelt on the ground and said in fear: "I deserve to die. I shouldn't..."

"Okay, I know your loyalty, but some things cannot stand the test. As long as they still recognize me as their brother, then they will always be true brothers. Remember this!"

"My slave understands!"

Li Chengqian glanced at him and walked out without looking back. Only then did Xizhi wipe the cold sweat from his face. He had almost been frightened to death just now.

Here, Li Shimin and Yuchi Gong had been drinking for thirty years. Looking at the wine on the table, Li Shimin sighed: "I thought I was also an expert at wine back then, but now I can only drink this bland fruit wine? What a joke!"

The eldest grandson who was accompanying him angrily took a few glasses from his hand, rolled his eyes and said, "Just be satisfied. The imperial doctor has warned you not to drink too much even if it is fruit wine."

Li Shimin glared at his eldest grandson and said angrily: "Then what's the point of living for me?"

But he regretted it after he said it. Sure enough, Changsun stared at him stubbornly with red eyes.

"That's it, that's all. Get out of here!"

After saying that, he looked at Yuchi and said with a bitter smile: "You have also seen that I am under strict control now, and my life is meaningless!"

He stood back and looked at the blue sky, as if he saw faces appearing in front of his eyes. The pharmacist, Shu Bao, all the familiar faces are gone.

"You are so cruel, leaving me to live a boring life in this world is not as good as before"

"His Majesty!"

Yuchi Gong stood up abruptly, stared at him and said: "In the hearts of us veterans, you will always be the invincible commander who led us to conquer the country and conquer the Tang Dynasty. You were before, you are now, and you will be in the future. "

"The old brothers are gone, but they are waiting underground, waiting for Your Majesty to continue to lead us to conquer another Tang Dynasty. Only with you here can they feel free to expand territory for Your Majesty. When we go, they I will definitely leave a huge empire to Your Majesty!"

Now that Yu Chigong is no longer as cautious as before, and half of his body is buried in the ground, what else can he look away from?
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, then he slammed the table excitedly and said: "Okay, hahaha, then I will try to live for a few more years. I want to see how big a country they can conquer when I go there. If it is too small, I can't see it." Come on!"

"Hahaha, okay, then you will sit at the rear, Li Jing will command the army, and Chen and Shubao will be the vanguard. Let's see if you can capture the edge of our army?"

Speaking of this, Yuchi was a little reluctant and said: "Without that guy Ziyi, others get older as they live, but he gets younger as he lives. I heard that he even took a concubine when he was in Xuanzhou?"

"If that guy can provide logistics for our army, even Tianbianchen can defeat him!"

Li Shimin said indifferently: "It's okay. Just wait until then. If you can't wait any longer, just entrust him with a dream and ask him to come down and meet us."

"I didn't think so before, but now I think about it, if that guy had been older back then, and Wu had strong generals like you, Wen had Xuanling, Ruhui, Wuji and the others. If we added that guy, we might have been able to dominate the world in a few years. !”

Yuchihe sighed: "Who says otherwise? I have never seen anyone who can match him in strategizing. During the Western Region War, when they learned that the Allied Forces of a million people were coming in force, both the veteran minister and Zhijie could not sleep at night. Not to mention Lao Liu and the others, they are like dead parents. "

"But what do you think that guy is doing?"

Li Shimin asked curiously: "What are you doing? I really don't know these things. At that time, I just remember watching him killing everyone!"

"Hehe, you wouldn't have guessed it. Not only was that guy not worried at all, but he was still thinking about fishing. He even went hunting late at night, sitting in a wheelchair while hunting. I have seen what it means to be shameless."

"He just came back, and he showed off in a big way, saying that he was the one who did the fighting, and that he wanted to give extra meals to the soldiers. Damn, hundreds of thousands of troops are not enough to fill the gap between your teeth!"

Thinking of this Yuchi, he had a toothache and said with a dark face: "But the soldiers just did this to him. Lao Cheng and I lost three layers of our skins for them, and we didn't even see them look at it. But for that guy Each bowl of broth looks like it’s been injected with chicken blood?”

"Are you angry?"

Li Shimin didn't smile when he heard this, and said solemnly: "This is what people admire about that guy. He can be extremely optimistic at all times without changing his expression. This is something that even I can't compare to!"

"But you don't know that his hair turned gray overnight, and the thoughts in his heart have already exhausted all his efforts." Changsun said: "Changping has told me that he doesn't go to bed until midnight every day, and he is not looking at the map to make plans. Military strategy is just writing and painting, but there is a bitterness that others cannot understand under his cynical smile!"

Li Shimin and Yuchi Gong were silent. Li Shimin felt dark in his heart and lamented: "I failed him and the soldiers. When you were fighting the enemy, it was those sisters and daughters who took down the great military weapon of the Tang Dynasty." It was given to the master to deal with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were protecting them."

"Ziyi turned gray all night and vomited blood and fell into a coma. When I learned about this, I wanted to cut them into pieces. But I couldn't. If this matter spreads, how can I, the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, have any dignity?"

"I'm sorry for you!"

Even emperors like Li Shimin shed tears for this. Yuchi Gong clenched his fists but loosened them again.

"Your Majesty, I have never blamed you, nor did Ziyi, nor did the soldiers. We all understand your difficulties!"

Yes, if I make a big fuss, it will really be out of control. Those are members of the royal family, so what if they are killed? It just makes the soldiers and the court alienated. That is the real source of trouble!

However, they also got the punishment they deserved. After Princess Pingyang came back, she personally brought people to the door to teach them a lesson one by one. In the days to come, she kept a close eye on them and severely punished them if they made the slightest mistake. Now, one by one and Quail Same, I wish I could stay in my house and never come out
(End of this chapter)