Will Ming

(Thanks to Da Ziwei for the reward of weaving smoke into poetry. )

Chapter 580

Li Shimin put the horizontal knife in his hand on the table. He pulled the chair that Li Yuanji sat on just now and sat down. He took out a clean handkerchief and carefully wiped the blood on his hands. Li Yuanji had already retreated to the big room. In the corner of the tent, his face was pale with fright, and he looked at Li Shimin tremblingly. His hands were groping around him subconsciously, but there was nothing that could hurt anyone.

Today he was wearing King Qi's royal clothes instead of armor without a sword, so the despair in his eyes became more and more intense.

The blood is fresh and warm.Li Shimin suddenly lowered his head and sniffed the back of his hand, and then sighed softly: "No matter how you wipe it off, the bloody smell on this hand will never be wiped off. Yuanji... I know you have always wanted to kill me, but you have been looking for me. Not a suitable opportunity. Today you are an imperial envoy representing your father, or you want to humiliate me, but whether you want to humiliate me or you want to kill me, I will not give you a chance... "

He raised his head, glanced at Li Yuanji and said seriously: "I also know that you persuaded elder brother to kill me more than once. You have always had this idea since you came to Taiyuan from the old house in Longxi, right? But now I am no longer the one who needs to kill me everywhere. Li Shimin is cautious, even humble, but you and your elder brother have not made much progress. I still pretend to be kind and polite in front of you, but the taste is different from the first time. In other words, if I want to be polite to you, I will be polite to you. If you don’t want to, you can be regarded as a passerby. At first, I was not as good as elder brother or you, but now elder brother is better than me in any way other than being a prince? As for you, you don’t need to say anything more. Do you know why? "

Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin with a deep hatred in despair.

"When you saw me kill Li Mi just now, you were extremely disgusted at the scene of the body being separated, and even said a few disgusting words... This is the fundamental reason why you and the eldest brother are not as good as me."

He raised his slender hand and smiled proudly: "You and elder brother both want to kill, but the smell of blood is disgusting. You are obviously not a good person but you don't want to be stained with blood. The smell of blood on my hands is worse than you and elder brother combined." It must be strong, and I don't hate this taste..."

He looked at Li Yuanji and said: "The smell of blood is the most intoxicating, even the 20-year-old wine is not as good as it should be. You and the elder brother are both drunk people, but I am drunk with blood. Drunk with wine makes people lose their minds, lose their minds and become limp like mud, but drunk with blood makes people more calm, cold, ruthless. This is the difference between you and me, and it is also the reason why you can't beat me in the end."

Li Shimin said: "The reason I tell you this is not because I am proud to show off because I control your life and death today, but to tell a fact. You may think that I am a villain, a poor man who is violent Fu, if you really think that way, it's too childish and boring. The reason why I say this to you is because after all, you are my younger brother, and my eldest brother is my elder brother after all. I have to find an excuse to comfort you when I kill you myself, not to comfort you."

"I said to myself that you are going to kill me too, so I don't have any burden to kill you. In fact... I'm just deceiving myself and others. From the beginning to the end, I didn't feel that I needed any excuses to kill you."

"I know what that fellow Li Xian did. He used my killing of eldest grandson Shunde to force my eldest brother to push me to a corner and then be killed or imprisoned by my father. My eldest brother needs this opportunity. Li Xian also needs this opportunity, because I am their opponent. What Li Xian wants is me, the restlessness of the Li family, so that his Yanyun Village has a chance to grow. What the elder brother wants is to eradicate me as a threat, so he can inherit that chair. It will be fine and safe."

"But you still underestimate me a little bit, and you can't push me to a dead end. But it is undeniable that you have to show all my strength in advance. I didn't want to do it so early. Just do the thing. I also want to see the attitude of my father. If he is really a cold and heartless person, I don't have to worry about family affection. If he really wants to pass on the seat to me, I will wait longer A few years is fine and you can be a filial and well-behaved son. And you can live a little longer, three or five years longer is also good, but now you have to die, in the final analysis...you are to blame."

"Li Xian put pressure on me by asking my father for two heads, which he did extremely beautifully. It's a pity...he doesn't understand me."

Li Shimin threw the blood-stained handkerchief on the ground casually, picked up the horizontal knife on the table again and walked slowly towards Li Yuanji.

"Yuanji... After you die, I will report to the emperor on your behalf. I will send the heads of Li Jing and Li Mi to the Yanyun army camp and hand them over to Li Xian. He has been running for his life for a long time. The two heads are not airy at all, not like our Li family does things."

"So I will also send your head back. Whether Li Xian wants it or not, as long as your head arrives in the Yanyun army camp, even if Li Xian throws it out immediately, he still can't get rid of it... he If he refuses to be my servant on the same journey with me, then I have no choice but to force him to do it, first to life and then to death."

"Jiangdong Sun Zhong murdered Yun Chang but gave the head to Cao Aman...I will kill you and give the head to Li Xian..."

Li Shimin said as he walked, "Don't you think it's wonderful?"

"Don't be afraid, I'm your second brother, how can I make you suffer? I will kill you very quickly and carefully, and you won't die if you feel pain... Yuanji, let me ask you, do you think I am Is it better to cut in from the left, or from the right? Second brother listens to you, you mean what you say."

He stared at Li Yuanji's neck, as if staring at a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

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On the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, lanterns and festoons were displayed in Chang'an, the capital city, and people took to the streets. His Majesty the Emperor went to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple to pray for the queen in person, accompanied by hundreds of civil and military officials. Teams of fine-armored warriors passed by and became His Majesty's The jade chariot, and hundreds of officials, both civil servants and military generals, rode behind the jade chariot, and behind them were the fine cavalry of the forbidden army in bright armor.

Early in the morning, the yamen servants and helpers of Chang'an Mansion came out in full force, but they did not dare to expel the people.The emperor's decree came to the Chang'an mansion the day before yesterday, and the people are not allowed to be disturbed.Mr. Fu Cheng of Chang'an Mansion hardly slept these two days, and dispersed all the manpower he could mobilize.Among the common people kneeling down on both sides of the street to worship, at least one out of ten is a plainclothes official.Chang'an Mansion, Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and even the City Defense Army have all transferred out their personnel, lest something might go wrong on the first official trip of the emperor after he ascended the throne.

Because the queen was seriously ill, she lost her sanity after the new year, and she vomited continuously every day in the past few days, and there were wriggling live insects in the filth that was vomited out.The imperial physician was helpless, so the emperor decided to go to Wanfo Temple to pray for the queen.

It's just that Li Yuan never thought that what he prayed for was definitely no blessing.

Just when the emperor's Luanjia stopped in front of the Wanfo Temple, Master Mingzhen, the abbot of the Wanfo Temple, led all the monks in the temple to pick him up.A galloping war horse ran to the gate of the city spouting white gas. The knight on the horse was so dirty that the original color of the clothes could no longer be seen, and his face was covered with a thick layer of dust. With a little anger, it looks like a zombie that just got out of the ground.

When he reached the gate of the city, the knight reined in his horse, and only yelled the bad news. The horse fell crookedly and could not stand up again.The soldiers guarding the gate rushed over to check, only to find that the knight had passed out, and after the horse let out a few shrill neighs, it foamed at the mouth and struggled a few times before dying. It is unknown where the man came from. Those who rushed back to Chang'an were so exhausted, and what they didn't know was that this was already the third horse that the knight died of exhaustion.

It took a lot of effort for the officers and soldiers guarding the gate to recognize the armor of the Tang Dynasty soldiers on the knight, and found out from him a clearance disc jointly issued by the generals of the Eastern Expedition Army Qu Tutong and Yin Kaishan. Unusual, the two generals used seals, and everyone vaguely guessed that something big must have happened in the Eastern Expedition Army.

Li Yuan burned incense in the Daxiong Hall, and then was invited by Master Mingzhen to rest in the meditation room at the back.Master Mingzhen made the tea himself. Before the water was boiled, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door of the meditation room, and then he heard Li Xiaogong, king of Zhao County, said anxiously and tremblingly outside the door: "Your Majesty... Important state affairs need to be handled by you, please move forward, Your Majesty."

Li Yuan frowned slightly, looked at Master Mingzhen apologetically and said to the door: "It's a big deal, let's wait until I finish drinking Master Mingzhen's cup of tea!"

"Your Majesty, please move."

This time it was Shangshu Zuopu Shexiao who spoke. He was originally appointed by Li Yuan as the supervisor of the army to accompany Li Mi, but he was temporarily replaced by Li Yuan as Fang Xuanling. His Majesty wanted to change the court situation, and everyone was guessing whether the emperor wanted to promote new people to balance the power of the court.

Li Xiaogong represents the military of the Tang Dynasty, and Xiao represents the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty. When the two men spoke outside the door, their tone was very anxious or even a little panicked. The two of them seemed anxious due to their urban cultivation, but in fact they were already very anxious. Can explain the problem.Li Yuan knew that something must have happened in the court.But he still felt that he shouldn't lose his manners in front of Master Mingzhen, so he frowned and said coldly: "I've said it, I'll talk about big things after I drink tea!"

His voice was cold, obviously angry.

There was silence outside the door for a while, and suddenly there were a few muffled sounds. It was the sound of someone kneeling on the bluestone board when someone knelt down on the ground.

Li Xiaogong and Xiao Bai fell on the ground and tremblingly said: "Your Majesty, please move!"

Master Mingzhen saw that Li Yuan's face was getting more and more gloomy, so he got up quickly and said: "Your Majesty, you are the king of a country, you should take care of state affairs first, and I will save this cup of tea for Your Majesty."

He turned around and asked the little novice to fetch a copper basin, which turned out to be the thing that made tea.