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Chapter 801 Rebirth
In the evening, the sun set slowly from the peak of Lishan Mountain.The evening photo of Lishan Mountain is one of the eight scenic spots in Chang'an. Since ancient times, countless tourists have come to Lishan Mountain to enjoy this beautiful scenery.

But at this moment, no one was in the mood. There was a rush of horseshoes on the Lishan Palace Road, and hundreds of cavalry rushed forward with a carriage.

There was no one on the road of Lishan Palace, only the sound of horseshoes echoing lonely and constantly on the whole road.

Sitting on the carriage was Prince Li Jiancheng of the Tang Dynasty. Now he, King Qi Li Yuanji, and his confidants were riding in the carriage to Lishan Palace.

Originally, he listened to Wei Ting and planned to refuse the city to defend himself, but then Qiao Gongshan suddenly appeared.Li Jiancheng suddenly felt as if he had grasped a life-saving straw. He changed his mind and decided to go to Lishan to explain everything to Li Yuan in person.

Now Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, and Qiao Gongshan are sitting in the car and heading straight for Lishan Mountain.Li Jiancheng was worried that things would change, so he kept urging on the road to make the carriage go faster.

"Slow down, stop, stop immediately!" Li Jiancheng shouted suddenly.

Outside the car, the six soldiers of the East Palace reined in their horses and stopped, and took up their bows and arrows to guard their surroundings.General Feng Li, the guard of the Eastern Palace, stopped his horse and asked, "His Royal Highness, what's the matter?"

Li Jiancheng was sweating all over his head, he grabbed Feng Li's hand and said, "Feng Li, you said that Gu brought so many people to Lishan to meet the emperor father, would father think that he came here with an army and his intentions were wrong? "

After hearing this, Feng Li hesitated and said, "His Royal Highness, this is somewhat possible."

Li Jiancheng immediately said: "Then what are you waiting for, stop quickly, ride alone to Lishan Mountain, and explain to Father Huang."

As soon as Li Jiancheng said this, Feng Li immediately objected: "His Royal Highness, this move is too dangerous, you go on the road alone, if you meet someone from King Qin..."

"Needless to say, the lonely will has been decided. If King Qin really wants to kill the lonely, let him kill him!"

Li Jiancheng jumped off the carriage immediately, pulled a guard beside him off the horse roughly, and rode up on the stirrups himself, shouting: "None of you are allowed to follow."

After speaking, Li Jiancheng walked away, Li Yuanji met him and said: "Since the crown prince is afraid of his father's suspicion, then Feng Li, you immediately lead a dozen people to catch up and stay here alone to wait for news."

"No!" Feng Li led a dozen people and galloped away.

Lishan Hot Spring Palace.

The roads were firmly guarded by Li Tang's court guards.Every palace avenue is guarded by armored Li Tang imperial guards.

Li Yuan sat upright in the palace, looking at the mountains in the distance, expressionless.But he understands that he is very sad at this moment, not only because he is the emperor of Tang Dynasty, but also because he is the father of two sons.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived at the foot of the mountain." The eunuch in the palace reported to Li Yuan happily.

After hearing this, Li Yuan asked indifferently: "The prince is here? How many soldiers did this rebellious son bring?"

"There are no followers, only him."

Li Yuan nodded and said with a sigh of relief, "Bring him here to meet me."

After a while, footsteps came, but Li Jiancheng was seen entering the hall.

"Father!" Li Jiancheng burst into tears, then fell to the ground and bowed, kowtowed and bumped his head: "Father, my minister is wronged, my minister is wronged!"

Seeing Li Jiancheng's behavior like this, Li Yuan couldn't help being heartbroken and sad.He got off the dragon chair, walked in front of Li Jiancheng, kicked Li Jiancheng fiercely and cursed: "As a prince, you are the prince of a country, how can you be so careless?"

Hearing Li Yuan scold him angrily, Li Jiancheng was not only not afraid, but happy instead.Li Yuan's temper, he knows that if he blames you face to face, then there is something to do, if he doesn't blame you, but talks to you with a pleasant face, then the situation is already too bad to be irreversible.

Li Jiancheng raised his head, his forehead was dripping with blood.

He cried and said: "Father, someone framed my minister in this matter. I asked Yang Wenqian to pick people from Qingzhou to serve as the guards of the East Palace, and also meant to send armor to Qingzhou, but my minister was alone. It just means no rebellion."

"Then what do you mean by choosing guards and forging armor?"

Li Jiancheng cried: "Father, you don't know. The second brother has been pushing me so hard these past few years. As soon as I choose guards, he will also increase the number of guards in the Qin Palace. As much as I increase, he will add as much. As for the armor, it is also very small. I want Yang Wengan to have some ability, so I can flatten Liang Shidu for my father, so that I can make my son look good in front of my father."

"But what I'm dealing with is not my father, but my second brother. As for the eradication of Duan Decao, it's Yang Wengan's intention alone, and it has nothing to do with me. I haven't even thought about it."

After hearing this, Li Yuan slapped the table and said angrily: "You bastard, as a prince and heir of a country, you should be in harmony with your brothers, how can you fight openly and secretly with the King of Qin."

Li Yuan did not expect the battle between his two sons to be so fierce.He has always believed that although King Qin is powerful, he may not necessarily be a supervisor to this cowardly prince.

But today the situation has deteriorated to this point.

Li Yuandao: "Then Er Zhuhuan came to harm you at King Qin's will. Why don't you even know that your confidant guards have been infiltrated by others."

"My son is confused, my son is confused."

Li Jiancheng kept knocking his head on the ground, and then he almost fainted. Li Yuan took a slow breath and said, "Okay, there is no need to kowtow again."

Only then did Li Jiancheng stop. Seeing Li Jiancheng in such a mess, Li Yuan couldn't bear it in his heart. The nature of father and son overwhelmed the emperor's ambition for a while.

Li Yuan wiped the blood off Li Jiancheng's forehead with a silk handkerchief and said, "You are now in a place of suspicion. You say that the King of Qin framed you, but I can't make a judgment based on your one-sided words. You step back first, and stay in the house." In this hot spring palace, I will investigate this matter to the bottom."

"Thank you, Father, my son thanked Father." Li Jiancheng kowtowed in surprise and joy.

"That's enough, no need to kowtow anymore, let's back down!"

At the moment Li Jiancheng walked out of the hall, dozens of palace guards were waiting in formation.

"Prince, please!"

All the guards said together.Li Jiancheng smiled wryly and was taken away by the guards.

Li Yuan walked with His Highness behind his back for a while and said, "Come here."

"Xuanqiao Gongshan entered the palace, and I personally interrogated him. In addition, I will announce that Si Nongqing Yu Wenying will enter the palace to have an audience."

"In addition, King Xuanqin will go to the Hot Spring Palace to have an audience."

"Your Majesty, do you want to announce it now?"

"Yes, immediately."

In the middle of the night, two guards escorted Qiao Gongshan out of Li Yuan's hall.Just now Li Yuan interrogated Qiao Gongshan for half an hour, Qiao Gongshan told Li Yuan everything except that he concealed what he did as Zhao Jun's spy.

During the confession, Qiao Gongshan did not dare to lie to the shrewd Emperor of the Tang Dynasty at all, and he said that what he said was also the truth.It's just that he escaped from the custody of the guards of Prince Qin's Mansion, which was explained because the other party didn't guard him well.

Li Yuan was not suspicious either.

When Li Yuan interrogated himself, Qiao Gongshan could feel that the more Li Yuan questioned, the more angry he became. Obviously he believed his own words, and he tended to agree with Yang Wenqian in his heart. It was Li Shimin who framed Li Jiancheng.

Qiao Gongshan was imprisoned. He knew that his mission had been completed. He completed the mission assigned to him by the Department of Rumors and rescued Li Jiancheng.Since then, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin have reached the point of immortality.

As long as the two continue to fight to the death, Li Tang's power will be further internalized, so for Da Zhao, of course, he is happy to see the result.

But for him, his use value for Li Tang has been lost.If the value to Li Tang is lost, then the value to the Department of Rumors is also lost.

And this place is likely to be Qiao Gongshan, the place where the Rumor Department broke into Li Tang's highest-level espionage.

He is now being imprisoned in a shabby house in the Hot Spring Palace. Before he came, he covered his face. After he took off the blindfold, he was in this room.

The guards outside the house were very dense, and the patrolling footsteps of the guards rustled past the door from time to time.

Qiao Gongshan knew that he must be under strict surveillance at this moment, and he would definitely not be able to escape.Don't expect the previous incident to repeat itself. If the Department of Rumors could casually save people in the hot spring palace, they would have gone to assassinate Li Yuan long ago.

After thinking about it, the only person who can save him is Li Jiancheng himself.

But Qiao Gongshan didn't expect the cool prince to remember this kindness to save him, and for the cruel Li Yuan, his own existence was the ugliness of Li Tang's royal family.

No matter what kind of punishment Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin receive in the future, he will only end up being silenced.And the outsiders only cared about the dispute between King Qin and the crown prince, who would come to ask themselves about the life and death of an insignificant person.

Thinking of this, Qiao Gongshan stood up, and he said to himself: "It's time to act according to the plan. I wonder if the pill Cao Biejiang said is really effective?"

Then Qiao Gongshan tore off a piece of his clothes, bit his fingers and wrote a bloody letter, and then he took an inconspicuous black pill from the clothes room.

Qiao Gongshan stared at the pill, gave a wry smile, gritted his teeth and swallowed it.

In the hot spring palace late at night, Li Yuan was talking with a man in his 40s, who was Sinong Qing Yu Wenying.

Li Yuan said to him: "I know that you and Yang Wenqian are old, now you take my will and go to Qingzhou to persuade Yang Wengan to come back with good intentions. Remember to persuade him to come back and tell him that I will guarantee him nothing. thing……"

"Your Majesty, Qiao Gongshan committed suicide by taking poison in prison." The leader of the guards of the hot spring palace outside the gate reported to Li Yuan.

In the middle of speaking, Li Yuan stopped, and then he asked: "Why did you commit suicide? Did someone instruct you?"

A cold light flashed in Li Yuan's tiger eyes.

"The place where Qiaogong Mountain is located is strictly guarded, and no one approaches it. He also left a blood letter, saying that everything is his own sin, and that the prince was wronged. He said that he had no face to see your majesty and the prince again, so he died. I implore your majesty. Take good care of his family and give him a whole body."

After hearing this, Li Yuan said in relief: "This man is a smart man, well, let's do as he said."

This matter did not cause much disturbance to Li Yuan, but continued to say to Yu Wenying: "I just said it, do you remember it?"

"Wei Chen has remembered." Yu Wenying nodded quickly and accepted the order.

When Yu Wenying and his party left Gyeongju on fast horses, in a remote place in the hot spring palace, two guards were walking along a mountain path carrying a dead body wrapped in a hemp mat.

"Old Shen, what did this brother do?"

"Hey, it's hard to say. This brother is really unlucky. He got involved in Prince Qin's matter!"

"What's the big deal?"

"Don't ask nonsense, don't you want to die? This person's rank is several levels higher than your brother and me, and he died. How many lives do you and I have?"

"Yes, yes." The other person didn't dare to make a sound.

Immediately, the two walked to a remote mountain col, but heard the sound of wolves howling from all around, which was creepy.Both of them shuddered together and stopped.

"Just here, in a few days, the corpse will be taken away by wolves."

"Yes, yes, I don't know if I will run into a ghost if I leave."

"Brother, we didn't harm you. If you are wronged, you will have a debtor. You will have a good pregnancy in the next life."

The two guards bowed to the corpse for a few times, threw it on the mountain, and then left. They didn't know that the person in the straw mat was not actually dead.

This medicine can make you die in suspended animation. Even an experienced imperial physician will mistakenly think that you committed suicide by taking poison. In fact, you will wake up after six hours.

These six hours are a chance for you to save your life. You can’t wake up late or early, but your luck after waking up depends on you. If someone cuts you or damages your body during the period , then you can’t be rescued. It’s very dangerous to go to the East Palace to find the prince to defend yourself. You should think about it clearly. If you refuse, we won’t force you. We will let you go home and give you a sum of money. After all, it has to be done willingly.

A few hours later, Qiao Gongshan woke up slowly in the forest a few miles away from the Lishan Hot Spring Palace, these words kept spinning in his mind.

Qiao Gongshan opened his eyes and looked at the rising sun, surrounded by dense forests, and several cute elks were grazing nearby.

Seeing this scene, Qiao Gongshan couldn't help laughing.He knew he had saved his life.

A few years later, Qiao Gongshan has become a rich man, living in the warm south of the Yangtze River, living an ordinary life incognito.

It's just that when he occasionally heard others talk about the sensational Li Tang coup, he would eventually show a smile.As the so-called good fighters have no great achievements, except for a few people in Da Zhao, no one knows how big a role Qiao Gongshan played in this matter.

In Chang'an, outside a business called Risheng Rice Shop, countless people lined up outside the door, waiting eagerly to buy rice.

At this time, a waiter in the shop held a wooden sign with the price of rice and hung it high in front of the shop.People holding sacks outside the door and waiting to come in to buy rice complained endlessly when they saw the price of rice.

"Why did the price of rice rise again?"

"How did you do it? It was still 73 cents a bucket yesterday."

"Yeah, I can't live through this day."

"Let's go, let's go, a month's hard work is not enough to buy a bucket of rice."

Many people looked at the rice price sign, sighed, and then dragged their bodies away from the rice store with the rice bag in hand. Before leaving, they kept looking back at the rice price on the sign, hoping that the number above could be changed change.

But the figures of these people were immediately submerged, and more people rushed in.

"The rice shop is open!"

"The rice shop is open!"

Life is still going on, people still have to eat, no matter how expensive rice is, there are still people who have to buy it.

While the people in front were queuing up to buy rice, at the back door of the rice shop, Bie Jiang Cao Wen of the Rumor Department walked into the rice shop.

Today, the Risheng Rice Store is the five important strongholds of the Dazhao Fengwen Department in Chang'an City.From the boss to the staff of the rice store, they are all from the Rumor Department.

After Cao Wen entered the rice shop, there were guards on all sides to monitor the place.

Cao Wen walked in, and the current owner of the rice shop, who is in charge of the liaison station, came out and bowed down: "The humble Liu Mo pays homage to Cao Biejiang."

"Liu Canjun, I have said several times that this is the enemy's territory, and we don't need to greet our superiors and subordinates."

"promise!"

Cao Wen stepped inside and asked Liu Modu, "Liu Canjun, has the price of food in Chang'an reached this level?"

Liu Modu replied: "Yes, last year when Li Tang took advantage of my Great Zhao to use troops against the Turks, he borrowed money from the people to buy a lot of military food, and the price of food in Chang'an soared all the way. In addition, this year's situation is worse than last year. After the news came out, , Many merchants in Chang'an are already hoarding, not just our family. Today's grain price was jointly agreed yesterday by more than [-] merchants in Chang'an."

Speaking of this, Liu Mo smiled triumphantly and said: "Besides, the increase in food prices in the pass also shows that our Luoyang's long-term blockade policy against Chang'an is very effective and effective? Credit."

Cao Wen took a look at the crowded scene outside, the people of Chang'an crowded in line, waving the rice bags in their hands, flocked to the grain store.Cao Wenqiang suppressed the unbearable emotions in his heart, he knew that this should not be the emotion he should have.

Cao Wen immediately asked: "After the prince was taken to the hot spring palace, what happened in Tiance Mansion?"

"Humble and incompetent, the Tiance Mansion is still very careful in its affairs, and we can't detect any shred of information." Liu Modu lowered his head and reported.

(End of this chapter)