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Chapter 168 Decision
When Li Chongjiu walked out of the gate, the night had already fallen, and all the squares in the city were just lit up with lights.In Jinyang city, looking up, the Xishan Giant Buddha built by Emperor Wenxuan of Qi Dynasty Gao Yang stood awe-inspiring among the distant mountains.If it is on a day like the Buddha Bathing Festival, there will be thousands of pots of fuel on the Xishan Giant Buddha overnight, which can illuminate tens of miles, and the entire Jinyang City can witness the brilliance of the Buddha's light.

Li Chongjiu was silently thinking about his situation. Since Daye's seven-year time travel, he has been involved with Li Zhiwan. With his knowledge of a time traveler, he has always had the mentality of being able to help and not be an enemy to the Li family who is sitting on the destiny.It's like when you go to the Warring States period, you want to go to Qin; when you go to the end of Qin, you go to Liu Bang;It's just like you don't want to take a broad road for you, but you have to take the narrow path.The prediction of the general trend of history is the greatest advantage of the traversers.

But it is undeniable that Li Chongjiu also has a bit of the idea in his heart that the Li family will replace him and become the master of the world.However, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, heroes emerged in large numbers, such as Dou Jiande, Luo Yi, Li Mi, Du Fuwei, Wang Shichong, and Xiao Xian, all of whom were immortal heroes, but none of them defeated the Li family to seize the world, but they were defeated. Could it be possible for him to take responsibility for the end of his life and death, and to gamble his own life and the lives of his subordinates with the big killer weapon of the traverser.

To be able to rise up in this chaotic world, and then to be the best in the world, but the inertial thinking of doing business in the previous life, instinctively wanting to avoid risks, can't help but want to bet on both sides. You can also take advantage of the opportunity to join the Li family, and give yourself, your father, the brothers who came out of Qiqianzhai, and the subordinates who followed you a way out.Especially outside Yanmen, the moment when Li Zhiwan confided her affection to herself.

When he was at the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, Li Chongjiu talked with Li Mi about the general trend of the world. If he wants to win the world, he must combine the power of Kansai and Kanto, and the support of aristocratic and poor families is indispensable.At that time, the Li Clan himself was from a family in Longxi, but he also recruited forces from the Kanto region, such as Li Shiji, who supported them in the end and ruled the world.

In contrast, Dou Jiande, the biggest opponent of the Li Clan for the world, is also an elite from a poor family.Dou Jiande started in humble beginnings, but he had great ambitions. After the uprising, all the gains from the siege of cities and lands were distributed to the soldiers, and he himself took nothing.Dou Jiande and his wife are also very frugal on weekdays, and they only eat vegetables and rice for three meals.Moreover, Dou Jiande has a very indifferent view of female sex. There are only a dozen servants and concubines under him. In history, thousands of court ladies were defeated and captured by Yu Wenhua. They were all the beauties selected by Yang Guang back then. Turn a blind eye and release all the maids.

Dou Jiande, who came from a grassroots background and has never enjoyed these things, can actually restrain himself, which shows that he has great ambitions.

Dou Jiande knew that he came from a poor family, so he tried his best to be court officials and family members, and he was respectful and virtuous.For Wang Cong, Pei Ju, Cui Junsu, Zhang Xuansu, Yu Shiji and others, Dou Jiande disregarded old suspicions, was respectful and polite, conferred official positions, and entrusted them with important positions, but in the end these people had no intention of sincere loyalty at all. Didn't people immediately change courts and surrender to Li Yuan in a hurry, and these second ministers also left their names as virtuous ministers in Tang Shu.
Of course there are other reasons for this, but one very important point is that Dou Jiande was born in a poor family, and these old court officials and descendants of aristocratic families simply disdain to be with him.So what about Dou Jiande's diligence, thrift and self-denial, no matter how courteous and virtuous the corporal is, no matter how unattractive and attractive the general is, in their eyes Li Yuan is an old colleague, but in contrast Dou Jiande is a nouveau riche who has suddenly gained his position.When the opponent's strength is strong, it is enough to surrender for a while, but if the strength is weak, the tree will fall and the monkey will disperse.Later, Li Tang fought with Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande. On Li Tang's side, there were ministers who would not surrender. On the other hand, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande.In the battle between Tang and Zheng, Li Shimin's army had just left Hangu Pass, and Wang Shichong, who ruled a wider territory than Li Tang in the pass, immediately surrendered the officials and generals who guarded the states on all sides. In the end, there was only an isolated city left in Luoyang. Could this be Li Tang? The so-called destiny.

And now if Li Chongjiu wants to make his debut, the same background means that he and Dou Jiande must go through difficulties in this way.And Dou Jiande failed, is it possible for him?
Now that the marriage with Li Yuan failed, it was not only that Li Chongjiu was temporarily unable to marry Li Zhiwan as his wife, but the further crisis was that it was impossible for Li Chongjiu to use the power of the family to gain power from the Li Clan.Unless Li Hu and Li Chongjiu bowed their heads to Li Yuan to admit their mistakes, obeyed his arrangement, and obeyed his wishes to marry the concubine daughter of the Li family.If Li Chongjiu endured the humiliation and bowed his head to Li Yuan, after he won the world, he would only regard Li Chongjiu as a meritorious dog of the Li family.Joining the Li family as one of Li Yuan's nineteen sons-in-law, the treatment of such son-in-law party is also divided into ranks.Among the big group of Li Clan who will rule the world in the future, only Chai Shao went to Lingyan Pavilion, and the rest were all hehe.

So if Li Chongjiu doesn't accept the solicitation of the Li Clan, can Li Chongjiu stand on his own, and in this chaotic world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, can he fight his way through the thorns and thorns?Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu suddenly stopped.

Boom!Boom!The gates of the squares have long been closed, and the city has begun to watch the watch, and the lights in front of each house from far to near are gradually extinguished.Outside the thick rammed-earth square walls, the hooves of Xuncheng Tiqi's horses ticked non-stop.

Li Chongjiu looked up, the night sky above the square wall, the Xishan Giant Buddha had already been immersed in the night, and it was no longer visible, but a strip of light hung upside down in the sky, suddenly came into view.With the stars shining brightly in front of him, Li Chongjiu took a deep breath and let out the boredom in his chest. The confusing and confusing road ahead was immediately forgotten.

When he was in Huaihuang Town, after he learned that Li Yuan refused his marriage proposal, he had already made up his mind, and sent a letter to his confidant to Henan early on, and it should be in someone's hands by now.When I came to Jinyang City by myself, Li Hu, Su Su and the others all thought that I wanted to think of a way with them, how to save Li Yuan and his side from falling out at any moment, or to save Li Zhiwan's marriage.But in fact Li Chongjiu came to Jinyang with other plans.

"Fortunately, I didn't put all my expectations on the Li family, otherwise I would be in trouble right now. Li Yuan, Li Yuan, I don't know if you will regret today's decision in a few years." Li Chongjiu chuckled lightly, His eyes showed a stern look in the dark night, as if a sword was hidden in a box, suddenly unsheathed, and a cold light hit his face.

Li Chongjiu knew in his heart that with this decision, the road ahead of him would be full of thorns and bumps, but how can a man be timid when he acts, looking forward and backward, what is bearing humiliation, destiny is to get out of the way.

(End of this chapter)