Tiantang

Chapter 83 Can I be willing to let go, can I be ruthless? (The second asks for a monthly ticket)
Chapter 091 Can I be relentless, can I be ruthless?

At dusk, Li Heng in disguise hurried out of the palace with two guards. Although the East Palace is currently facing a crisis, the crown prince Li Heng has not been abolished after all. As for blocking and not letting go.

Li Heng pretended to be an eunuch, and when he left the palace, he drove straight to the meeting place set in Zhang Xuan's secret letter—the secluded courtyard where Xiao Shisanlang and Li Susu lived in seclusion in the southeast corner of the city.

Zhang Xuan and Xiao Shisanlang were drinking and chatting, although they were very anxious, but on the surface, Zhang Xuan didn't show anything.

Hearing a light knock on the door, Xiao Shisanlang stood up and smiled faintly, "Brother, your prince is here..."

The door was opened, and the three of Li Heng rushed in quickly, and the door was closed tightly again immediately.

Li Heng looked up, and saw Zhang Xuan standing aside with a smile in his cloth clothes, his eyes were red, his lips trembled, and he softly called out, "Zizhan..."

Zhang Xuan sighed, went up to pay homage, "Your Highness, the subject is safe and sound, I thank you for your highness's condolences."

"Your Highness, please enter the room and discuss in detail."

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Li Heng told the current situation and all the information he could know inside and outside the palace. The more Zhang Xuan heard it, the more gloomy his face became. The matter was indeed more complicated and dangerous than he imagined.

Li Wan has already fully activated.Fan Zhen Gao Xianzhi, Pei Dunfu, Minister Xue Dewang, etc., more than a dozen princes and princesses, plus Li Wan's own influence and energy, this is already a force that can affect Li Longji's decision-making!If Li Wan was drawn to Yang Guozhong again, then it would be a foregone conclusion that Li Heng would be deposed.

Seeing Zhang Xuan's gloomy and changing expression, Li Heng's heart sank. He was forced to the front of an abyss, and an invisible knife lay across his neck. As his last psychological support, if Zhang Xuan has no power to recover, he can only go back to the palace honestly to be slaughtered, or resign himself to fate.

"Zizhan, I should immediately write a letter to my father to apologize, that nasty woman, otherwise I will divorce her..." Li Heng gritted his teeth and said softly.

"Your Highness, whether to plead guilty or not is irrelevant." Zhang Xuan glanced at Li Heng, "It is not His Majesty who is persecuting His Highness, but the Rongwang party."

"As for Zhang Liangdi, His Majesty should only be furious for a while, and won't pursue it too much. Let's let this matter go for now."

Zhang Liangdi was an ambitious woman, and later caused troubles in the court, and she was one of the important figures who caused Li Heng's tragedy.Zhang Xuan knew it well and didn't have a good impression of her.

But at this moment, it is not the time to pursue Zhang Liangdi's responsibility.As for the emperor, it can actually be ignored.Because Zhang Liangdi's grandmother, Dou, was the younger sister of Xuanzong's mother, Empress Dowager Zhaocheng, who once raised Xuanzong, and had a very prosperous life. For Dou's sake, Li Longji should not be cruel.

As long as Li Longji didn't attack Zhang Liangdi cruelly, Li Heng would not be able to use this matter to blame Li Heng.

"Currently, the crisis is imminent—the King Rong, together with many courtiers and royal families of the feudal towns, wrote a letter to force the palace, intending to force His Majesty to abolish His Highness and replace him with King Rong..." Zhang Xuan paused and glanced at Li Heng.

Li Heng's face was extremely pale, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said in a trembling voice, "Zizhan, why did you teach me? Why did you save me?"

Zhang Xuan sighed softly, "Your Highness, although the situation is critical, it has not yet reached a desperate situation. We still have a chance."

"First, although King Rong is aggressive this time, with His Majesty's temperament, he must feel disgusted. Of course, King Rong understands this, but he is just clearly trying to force the palace. But the key is whether His Majesty will buy King Rong's account."

"If you want to win His Majesty's support, the role of one person is crucial."

"Who?"

"Yang Guozhong and the Yang family. At this moment, only if Yang Guozhong and everyone in the Yang family stand unswervingly on His Highness's side, can His Majesty change the holy will." Zhang Xuan said softly.

Li Heng couldn't help being very disappointed when he heard the words, and said in a trembling voice, "Yang Guozhong has always despised me, and I have nothing to do with the Yang family... To get the Yang family to support me, at this juncture, it may be as difficult as heaven. .”

"On Yang Guozhong's side, I will do my best to operate. If Your Highness trusts me, I will leave the rest of the matter to you."

When Zhang Xuan said this, he stared deeply at Prince Li Heng, lowered his voice and said in a low voice, "At the time of life and death, between swords and swords, it's either you die or I live. We can only have a chance if we fight a bloody road. I can't tolerate His Highness's hesitation and indecision... I just ask His Highness: Can you be willing to let go, can you be ruthless?"

Li Heng trembled in his heart, and slowly raised his head to look at Zhang Xuan. The flickering light in his eyes gradually solidified into a touch of crazy determination. He nodded resolutely, and said with emotion, "Zizhan, there is no way out for this palace. Back off It's a dead end, it's better to fight to the death than to sit and wait!"

Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and nodded silently, "Your Highness, it is not too late, we will start to split up. This is a secret letter written by the minister, and please find a way to give it to the imperial concubine alone no matter what... ... Whether or not our actions can be successful depends on whether His Majesty can persuade the imperial concubine to leave the palace!"

Li Heng gritted his teeth, "Of course, I understand. Zizhan, I will immediately return to the palace to write a blood letter. If I can escape this catastrophe, I will tell the court and the public that I will worship the imperial concubine as my mother... he When the Japanese Palace ascends to the throne, it must respect the empress dowager as the empress dowager."

"Okay, what His Highness said is very true. As long as His Highness persuades the empress to leave the palace, I will be sure to persuade Yang Guozhong to stand up and publicly support His Highness."

"Besides..." Zhang Xuan pondered for a while, the cold light in his eyes flashed away, and he said in a low voice, "Your Highness, I heard that King Rong has close contacts with Concubine Mei of Shangyang East Palace, which is quite ambiguous..."

Li Heng was taken aback, looked at Zhang Xuan in shock and frowned, "Zizhan, where do you start with this? Although Concubine Mei was demoted, she is still the concubine of my father... Although King Rong framed and persecuted me, But this Palace can't ignore the Dao of Human Relations and ruin the reputation of the royal family..."

Concubine Mei's surname is Jiang and her name is Caiping. Li Longji's early favorite concubine is also extremely beautiful.It was only later that Li Longji fell in love with Yang Yuhuan again. After Yang Yuhuan became favored, Concubine Mei was thrown into the cold palace because of her failure in the fight for favor, and she basically faded out of the Tang court's sight since then.If Zhang Xuan hadn't mentioned it this time, Li Heng would have forgotten about this former emperor's concubine.

Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart, thinking that the current emperor can even occupy his daughter-in-law, what kind of human relations do you Li royal family talk about.If you say that your royal family of the Li family values ​​ethics, I am afraid that even the dogs in Chang'an would not believe it.

But I thought this way in my heart, but I couldn't say it with my mouth.

Zhang Xuan sighed and looked at Li Heng pretending to be disappointed and shook his head, "Your Highness, just now I asked His Highness if you can be willing to let go, can you be ruthless? Your Highness replied that I will fight to the death, but His Highness is always like this woman. Ren, what should the minister do?"

Li Heng's expression changed, he hesitated for a moment, then stared deeply at Zhang Xuan and said in a trembling voice, "Zizhan, where did you get the news? It's about the majesty of the father, you can't fabricate it out of thin air, or else..."

"Your Highness, since I entered the East Palace, have you ever said a lie in front of Your Highness?"

"Never."

"Your Highness, I sent people to ambush outside the Shangyang East Palace more than half a month ago...According to the report, Rong Wang Li Wan secretly disguised himself as an eunuch and entered and exited the Shangyang East Palace six times within ten days. About an hour. His Highness must know better than this minister what the meaning of a prince going in and out of the cold palace to meet the concubine privately."

Li Heng couldn't help taking a breath when he heard the words, and looked at Zhang Xuan in shock, unable to say a word.

Zhang Xuan smiled, but did not explain further, he knew that Li Heng needed some time to digest this sudden shocking news.

Zhang Xuan once read a ridiculous story in a wild history in his previous life, saying that Li Longji's former favorite concubine Mei Fei accidentally got entangled with Rong Wang Li Wan and had an affair because she was thrown into the cold palace.Later, when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Li Longji fled Chang'an in a hurry, forgetting the concubine in the cold palace; and Li Wan, the king of Rong, died of illness suddenly on the way to conquer the rebels, and lost his care for Concubine Mei, so that Concubine Mei died tragically in the chaos in the army.

Zhang Xuan didn't really believe this kind of thing.But later, because Li Wan's pursuit of the imperial concubine was approaching day by day, on a whim, Zhang Xuan secretly dispatched several guards from the Eastern Palace to lurk outside the deserted Shangyang Eastern Palace in a remote northeast corner of the imperial city, to monitor Concubine Mei. movement.

Fortunately, on the third day, news came from the guards that Rong Wang Li Wan entered the cold palace in disguise to meet Concubine Mei privately.Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, so he asked the guards to continue to monitor and secretly investigate, and finally found out that Li Wan and Concubine Mei must have had an affair for many years.

Originally, Zhang Xuan didn't want to make a public announcement, because this method can only be used as a last resort.

But now Li Wan's mobilization was too early, too hasty, and too swift, leaving no time for Zhang Xuan to calmly arrange a response, so Zhang Xuan thought of this attack.And since Li Wan had murderous intentions and ruthless attacks on him, Zhang Xuan was not a sage and gentleman. If someone stabbed him, he would of course not hesitate to retaliate!

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Li Heng sighed, and said softly with difficulty, "Zizhan, what do you want me to do? Just say it bluntly, there is no need to beat around the bush. I have nothing to say when I am forced to this point. Since Li Wan is not benevolent, Then don’t blame me for being unrighteous.”

Zhang Xuan leaned close to Li Heng's ear and said a few words softly.

The corner of Li Heng's mouth twitched, but he nodded silently.

Seeing that Li Heng agreed, Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.He clapped his hands lightly, the door of the living room opened, and the tall and tall Xiao Shisanlang walked in slowly.

"Your Highness, this is Xiao Shisanlang, my brother-in-law. His martial arts are strong, chivalrous and courageous, and he is absolutely reliable. This time, the minister was able to escape from the assassin, and it was all saved by his brother-in-law. What I mean is to let him enter the palace with His Highness." , on the one hand to protect His Highness personally, and on the other hand to share his worries and do things that His Highness cannot do."

(End of this chapter)