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Chapter 204: I will lead elite soldiers back to Chang'an!

On this day, Li Yuanji was wearing the royal robe, and all the officials in the Prince of Qi's Mansion were ready. Cen Wenben had already arrived at the dock to welcome the angel sent by Li Shimin.

Li Yuanji sat quietly above, his eyes closed, his left hand clenched into a fist to support his tilted brain, and his right hand tapping gently on the armrest next to the chair.

After a while, Cen Wenben returned to the hall, and then the soldiers outside the hall entered the hall and came to Li Yuanji.

"King Qi, the angel from the Tang court is outside and requests an audience."

Li Yuanji opened his eyes with a stern look.

"Xuan."

The soldier immediately stood up and walked to the front of the palace gate: "The King of Qi of the Great Tang orders the angels of the Great Tang court to enter the palace!"

The soldiers' loud voices were heard and continued to spread outwards. These were all carefully designed by Li Yuanji. Originally, there wouldn't have been so many unexpected things.

But in such a grand occasion, one must maintain face. What does it matter to the imperial court? He and Li Er have already been in this situation, so he is not afraid anymore.

The court angel waiting outside the hall had a strange and angry look on his face. He was holding the emperor's edict in his hand. As an angel, he represented the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuanji should have been the one to greet him respectfully, but now he had to pay a visit to Li Yuanji. How could he not be angry?

The angel tried hard to control his emotions. He knew very well that he was now in Lingnan and could not act impulsively. As for Li Yuanji's arrogance, he kept it in mind and would definitely speak out about Li Yuanji's arrogance after returning to the court.

Then, at the reminder of the soldier next to him, he took out the imperial edict with his right hand, walked forward quickly, and soon entered the hall.

As soon as he entered the hall, he looked at Li Yuanji and spoke.

"The imperial edict has arrived, King Qi, please accept it!"

Li Yuanji did not move at all, and Xie Shufang stood up from below.

"How dare you! You don't follow the etiquette of respect and inferiority in front of the King of Qi. You offend the king's majesty and you should be beheaded!"

As soon as Xie Shufang finished speaking, all the civil officials and military officers standing on both sides spoke up.

"This person is extremely disrespectful. Your Majesty, please behead this man and show him to the public!"

The angel was horrified when he saw everyone trying to kill him, but he quickly calmed down. He was able to be sent by Li Er to read the imperial edict, which showed that his character was still okay.

This man did not gamble whether Li Yuanji dared to kill him. He already knew Li Shimin's attitude when he set out from Chang'an. He was not here to intensify the conflict this time.

Then he slowly retracted his gaze and bent towards Li Yuanji.

"Greetings, King Qi. The Holy Spirit's edict has arrived. Please accept it, King Qi."

After it became much softer, Xie Shufang and the others stopped talking. Li Yuanji above had a calm expression, looking at the angel without any ripples.

"Proclaim the imperial edict. I would not do this even if it was my father in person, let alone an imperial edict."

The angel fell silent upon hearing this, and after a moment he opened the edict. Anyway, his job was to read the edict out loud, and Li Yuanji was happy to sit there and do as he pleased.

"The Emperor of the Great Tang issued an edict, saying: The Prince of Qi has been in Lingnan for two years and six months. I miss him now, and the Crown Prince Jiancheng has passed away. I am very sad. My son should return home quickly to comfort me."

"King Qi, please accept the imperial edict."

When Li Yuanji heard the edict, his first reaction was to beat up Li Er. This bastard actually took advantage of him in the name of Li Yuan. My son? My son of a hammer!

However, immediately afterwards, Li Yuanji had no time to think about it. He was amazed at the content of the edict. Li Er couldn't help it and wanted to take action against him as soon as possible. Let him go back to Chang'an?

Li Yuanji could already imagine that if he accepted the imperial edict and really returned to Chang'an, he would face two possible outcomes.

Either he would be beheaded directly by Li Er to eliminate future troubles, or he would show his magnanimity by imprisoning him in the palace, or even let him accompany Li Yuan to stabilize the situation in the world.

Anyway, no matter which one happens, Li Yuanji will completely disappear from everyone's sight. Even if Li Er wants to show his magnanimity, he can always find a reason to kill him after the world is stabilized.

But if he did not accept the challenge, he would face a direct war with Li Er with the obvious loss of righteousness. If the war started now, Luzhou Prefecture, Songzhou Prefecture, and the four prefectures of Zhenla that he had captured would not be able to provide him with any help. Even Yuezhou Prefecture and Jiaozhou Prefecture would not provide much help.

It is equivalent to him using the Lingnan area to fight against the entire Tang Dynasty, which is extremely difficult for him now.

Although the army has 300,000 Type A troops, the money and food they need are innumerable. Once they are stuck in the quagmire of war, with little war potential now, this army may be difficult to maintain.

Cen Wenben and others below all had their pupils shrink. They knew that Li Er had no good intentions this time, but in the name of Li Yuan, out of righteousness and filial piety, they cut off the source of the trouble.

Everyone could imagine what kind of outcome Li Yuanji would face once he entered Chang'an.

At this moment, everyone was anxious.

Cen Wenben was covered in cold sweat, and suddenly his eyes flashed.

"Someone, come here! The angel has come from a long distance and must be tired. Take the angel down to rest!"

As soon as Cen Wenben finished speaking, the eyes of the rest of the people lit up, especially generals like Xie Shufang. They were so excited that they ordered people to take the angel away to rest. Even if the angel was angry, it would be of no use.

Li Yuanji did not stop these. At this time, he was still thinking about how to reject this edict.

Accept the imperial edict? How would he accept it? Would he return to Chang'an and leave his safety entirely to Li Er? And would the wives and concubines in the back house be taken into the harem again by Li Er?
Li Yuanji was unwilling, but at this moment he did not want to have a full-scale conflict with Li Er. If Li Er really tried his best to deal with him, he would not be able to cope with it at this time. With such a large territory, the war potential of the Tang Dynasty is not just talk.

His purpose of coming here was very clear, which was to develop here. He would try his best not to have direct conflict with Li Er until he had a chance of winning or was almost as good as the Tang Dynasty.

The current situation is indeed turbulent, and Li Er also has many difficulties. Li Er is also very afraid that he will rebel directly, but because of this, as long as he shows up, Li Er will definitely use all his strength to beat him down first.

As for the Turkic invasion, by the time he was ready to send troops, Li Er would probably have dealt with most of the Turkish affairs. By then, all the humiliation Li Er suffered at the hands of the Turks would be blamed on him.

Although he was not afraid, he did not want to fight a battle that had no chance of winning. Cen Wenben below could no longer hold back and speak.

"Your Majesty, you cannot accept the edict! If you return to Chang'an, everything will be over! This edict was clearly sent by the King of Qin in the name of the saint. The King of Qin killed his brother and imprisoned his father. As the King of Qi of the Tang Dynasty, Your Majesty should purge the emperor's entourage!
At the same time, the king should issue a royal decree to the world, organize the world's royal army, kill the King of Qin, and return power to the saint! "

Cen Benwen's face was full of ruthlessness at the moment. In his eyes, now that things had come to this, there was no need to say anything and they should just tear their faces off and start fighting. In Cen Benwen's eyes, Li Shimin's situation was not much better now. He did not believe that Li Shimin had stabilized the situation in the world.

There must be many places where Li Jiancheng's forces are lurking. As long as Li Yuanji takes the lead, others will surely respond and overthrow Li Shimin's regime.

As for whether they can win, Cen Wenben no longer thought about it at this time. Regardless of whether they can win or not, they must fight. Otherwise, will they just obediently accept the imperial edict?
If we fight, there is still a glimmer of hope. If we don’t fight, then everything is really over and there is no hope at all.

As soon as Cen Wenben finished speaking, Ning Chun, Feng Zhixun and other subordinates stood up and supported what Cen Wenben said. Even the civil servants were all asking for battle.

Xie Shufang, Su Dingfang, Xi Junmai, Xue Wanche and others stood up one after another.

"My lord, I invite you to fight!"

A number of military generals began to request to fight, especially Xue Wanche, who was very supportive of fighting Li Shimin.

Li Yuanji listened to everyone's words and did not make a hasty decision. After a moment, he said in a deep voice: "The decision now concerns the life and death of us and Lingnan. Give me some time. We should make a decision today. You wait for me here."

Li Yuanji stood up and walked back. He wanted to think seriously about whether he would win or lose the war with Li Er. If he was going to be destroyed in the end, he could only endure it for a while and find a reason to deal with it.

In Li Yuanji's eyes, Li Er was just testing his attitude. If Li Er was determined to deal with him directly, he would never issue such an edict, but would instead charge him with various crimes and send troops directly.

Thinking of this, Li Yuanji suddenly realized that Li Er also had great concerns, which led to Li Er not daring to take the initiative to attack him. This problem seemed to have returned to what he and Cen Wenben had considered at the beginning. If Li Er took the initiative to attack him, then the world would really not be at peace.

But what if he took the initiative to send troops? Li Er would have a legitimate reason. Under the righteousness, Li Er would be more powerful, and then he could destroy him directly and justifiably.

Thinking of this, Li Yuanji became even more upset. Li Yuanji was very confused and irritable. The root of all this was that he was still unable to fight a protracted war with the Tang Dynasty. If the development here was better and could support him in fighting a protracted war, he would not have hesitated so much.

Li Yuanji knew very well that once his war against the Tang Dynasty failed, the places he had destroyed, such as Zhenla, Linyi, and Luzon, would probably rebel against him one after another, and even other small countries would want to get a piece of the pie, because Lingnan had so many good things.

Even within the Tang Dynasty, those aristocratic families will unite with Li Er. Originally, they had to obtain them through trade, but as long as they destroyed him, those people would be able to directly own these technologies. Who wouldn't be tempted?

Why spend money when you can just rob?

Even if it were him, he would do the same. Before he had absolute strength to fight against the Tang Dynasty, I'm afraid those aristocratic families would support Li Er to fight him as long as Li Er was willing to give up their interests.

Compared to eliminating him and making Li Er completely worry-free, he knew Li Er was a person who might really give up this benefit.

By then, even the Wei and Yang families, who are now on good terms with him, will stand against him. The aristocratic families, to put it nicely, are nothing more than fence-sitters who try to please both sides and expand themselves.

Li Yuanji was walking aimlessly when suddenly a clear voice came into his ears.

"Sister Yang, Sister Wei, you don't know that I hate my two brothers. They are so incompetent and they only know how to bully me and my sister. They are ignorant and often fight with others outside.

One time, they asked the enemy to come out, and the enemy really came, but he brought a lot of people with him. They didn't dare to attack him, fearing that the people brought by the enemy would beat them up. So they only dared to bully us sisters, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and bullying at home!"

Li Yuanji's pupils shrank, and he no longer listened to what Wu Mei said next. His mind was full of Wu Mei's subsequent words. Suddenly, Li Yuanji laughed out loud, and he was laughing with great excitement.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Li Yuanji was really excited this time. Wu Mei's words completely inspired him, and Li Yuanji immediately had an idea.

Li Yuanji rushed in, looked at the stunned women, went straight to Wu Mei, hugged her and gave her a big kiss.

"Mei'er, you are really my lucky star!"

Afterwards, Li Yuanji left in a hurry, leaving the women stunned. Wu Mei put her hand on Li Yuanji and kissed her cheek. Her face suddenly turned red, and her ears began to turn red. She threw herself into Yang Qingwan's arms, saying nothing, and was shy alone.

At this moment, everyone in the hall felt heavy-hearted, and then they saw Li Yuanji appear above.

Li Yuanji came to the top and sat down, looking at everyone and spoke directly.

"Go and bring the angel."

Cen Wenben and others were stunned. Looking at the determined Li Yuanji, they knew that Li Yuanji had made a decision. Everyone was delighted. In their eyes, Li Yuanji was definitely going to send troops against Li Er.

As for accepting the imperial edict? They had never thought about it.

After a while, the angel was brought up again. Li Yuanji looked at him and slowly stood up. He exuded an aura and was extremely majestic.

"Go back and tell Li Er that I have received the imperial edict! I will lead 300,000 elite soldiers in armor back to Chang'an!"

The angel looked at Li Yuanji's majestic gaze with wide eyes. Not only the angel, but Cen Wenben and others also looked at Li Yuanji with wide eyes. When they heard the imperial edict, everyone was anxious, but after hearing it, no one came to their senses.

What did they hear? They accepted the imperial edict, but they had to return to Chang'an with 300,000 elite soldiers?

Cen Wenben was the first to react. At this moment, Cen Wenben was so excited that he almost danced with joy. At this moment, he was really impressed and admired Li Yuanji's wisdom immensely.

Cen Wenben even wanted to laugh. Didn't Li Shimin want Li Yuanji to return to Chang'an? Now that he had received the imperial edict, he would only bring 300,000 troops with him. With the imperial edict in hand, who would dare to stop him?
When 300,000 elite troops arrive at the city of Chang'an, let's see if Li Shimin will panic.

Cen Wen was certain that if Li Er knew about this, he would definitely try every means to make Li Yuanji stay here and not return to Chang'an. Not only would the crisis be resolved, but he could even make some money from Li Shimin.

Cen Wenben was excited and thrilled. In his eyes, this method was perfect.

Li Yuanji looked at the shocked crowd, ignored them, and spoke again.

"Send the order! The army will assemble immediately, and start preparing food and fodder, and prepare to march back to Chang'an!"

(End of this chapter)