Chapter 46: Persuasion
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It's still the same as it was, if you're not ready, you'll never make a move, and if you make a move, you can seal your throat with a sword!
After brewing for a long time, since the prince completely tore his face on the Golden Palace, the situation in Chang'an has been calm on the surface, and there is a surge behind it, as if the two sides of the fight are about to appear, but in private, someone has already offered odds, and the heavy money has been pressed.
The direction of profit, make people crazy, make people crazy, the gambling between the market is still exhausted, this gambling involving the Kyushu artifact does not know what these people will be crazy behind it!
Now that the army is in the city, it seems that the tricks are all over, but in fact there are many variables! And the more the gamblers get to the last minute, the more crazy they become, and God knows what they will do next!
The situation looks chaotic, but there are key contradictions, and as always, this stinky boy has once again grasped the most important thing!
All the chaos stems from the power struggle between the prince and the saint, if the two sides do not fight, and the fight is gone, what can the spectators do even if they are crazy?
This time it has come to this point, and everyone feels that there should be a result.
The Holy One is angry, his authority is challenged, life or death!
The prince has been exposed, whether active or passive, this step must always go out, and it is also necessary to divide life and death.
The rest of the people bet like gamblers who have lost in a hurry, their eyes red and they forget everything around them. Those who are waiting to bet are even more staring, seemingly analyzing the situation and waiting for the opportunity, but in fact, their minds have long been blinded by the battle, and all they think is based on the premise of the existence of the battle.
There are only a very small number of people who are on the outside and see the essence clearly. It really responded to that sentence -- the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear.
Is it really life or death between the prince and the saint?
No!
The crown prince did not dare to take that last step, what a man of great talent like Emperor Taizong did not dare to do a hundred years ago, how could the prince of today have such courage? In the same way, would the saint really depose the prince or even kill him? If he was replaced by a mediocre prince with no roots and no roots, it would be just that, the heavenly family was ruthless, and such a thing as killing his son was not undone today. However, today's crown prince is different! The golden palace scene that day shocked the world, and almost half of the courtiers and people from all factions had it, which shows that the prince has been planning for a long time and has a rich background......
Most importantly, the change in the mindset of the Holy One!
Although he doesn't want to admit it, the saint is really old! Today's saint is no longer the high-spirited Li Sanlang of the past! Compared with the vertical and horizontal scheming and balancing and balancing hundreds of officials, he wants to sing and dance lightly, get drunk and get drunk, and the prosperity of the world is naturally more interesting than intrigue.
Today's saints don't have enough pride and strength to go to war with most of the courtiers......
Many people have long been aware of these changes, but most of the people's hearts are looking forward to a situation that is beneficial to themselves, even those who are sober are also superstitious about their own strength, and they are confident enough to control everything.
Now it seems that compared to Li Linfu, he is still a little worse after all, and his busyness these days seems to be calm, but in fact, he has a lot of helplessness, far less calm than Li Linfu.
But fortunately, Li Linfu was only alone, and there was no such a demonic disciple......
Thinking of this, Xu Fan walked quickly towards Xingqing Palace, the key now is how to persuade the Holy Lord to calm the anger of this giant beast because of its majesty.
As Jaesuke, these things are what I should do! Not to mention that this situation is exactly what I expected at the beginning that nothing would change, which is simply better!
In the Xingqing Palace, Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji looked anxious, and was walking briskly in the main hall, scolding again and again as he walked.
"These damned generals, they dare to disobey the yang and the yin, and they don't obey the order, and I will definitely leave your bones in the future!"
Facing the scolding, Xu Fan walked in.
"Why are you here?" Li Longji frowned slightly, looking impatient.
Xu Fan sighed secretly: "In the end, I am old, and I can't see the calmness of the year anymore!"
After stepping forward to salute, Xu Fan didn't say much, and directly took out a map from his sleeve and unfolded it in front of Li Longji, but it was a detailed map of Chang'an.
"Holy Lord, please look!" Xu Fan pointed to the scarlet on the map and said: "These are the soldiers who are making trouble in the city at this moment! Now these rebel armies have been trapped and cannot be gathered in one place, it is a good time to divide and annihilate!"
Xu Fan is well versed in the way of persuasion, and now at this time, Li Longji is like an angry lion, he can only speak according to his heart first, and any words of disobedience and disobedience will not only not work, but will only make the situation worse.
"Okay!" Sure enough, as soon as he heard that the rebel army had been frustrated, Li Longji was overjoyed and stepped forward and asked, "Who made the move to quell the chaos?"
"Hui Shengshang, he is a student of the minister!" Xu Fan replied: "Xu Chen, who was just canonized as the envoy of the Ryukyu Festival a month ago!"
"Your student?" Li Longji squinted and asked, "Did you ask him to come?"
Xu Fan calmly replied: "Yes! As the New Year is approaching, I will let him come to Chang'an to celebrate the New Year together, and the order of the officials to allow him to go to Beijing to report on his work has been issued a month ago. ”
"How many people did he bring?" asked Li Longji with an expressionless face.
"Three hundred generals!" replied Xu Fan.
"How is this possible?" Gao Lishi on the side came over and said categorically: "There are more than a dozen places here, and there are only one or twenty people in each place divided into three hundred people, how can it be possible to stop thousands of people?"
Xu Fan replied calmly: "I don't know if there is any news from the internal guards, but the battle of Zhangzhou, which decided the victory of the rebellion in the south, was actually fought by my disciple, who was not a weapon, and the rebel sailor was also defeated by him before he met Wu Zun." ”
There is no need to hide it at such a time, and no one can guess the shocking things in just a few words.
"That's not going to work!" Gao Lishi understood what Xu Fan meant, if the chaotic army was really blocked, it would naturally be a good time to annihilate the enemy, but Xu Fan's words alone asked him to send out the only soldiers and horses he had at hand, and he couldn't take this risk!
At this time, neither he nor the emperor can believe it, and they won't believe it!
"You don't need the whole army to go out, just send some people to make a statement!" Xu Fan knew this and said flatly.
"Statement?" said Colliers, his face was full of confusion.
Xu Fan smiled, looked at Li Longji and said: "After Your Majesty sends someone to go, the situation will naturally change, and then those who are watching will naturally take action!"
Both of them were stunned, and Colliers then laughed and said, "How is it possible?
"These alone are naturally not enough!" Xu Fan nodded and bowed to Li Longji: "The minister implores the Holy Majesty to praise His Royal Highness the Prince, and give him the right to enter the court, praise and worship without a name, and go to the palace with a sword!"
Shocked!
Li Longji's face was flushed, he was already angry, and he roared: "Xu Fan, what are you talking about?"
Xu Fan's eyes were clear, his tone was indifferent, and he said it again.
Li Longji's angry cannibalistic gaze shot at him, and he roared: "Okay, you Xu Fan, I treat you well, are you going to rebel?"
Xu Fan looked at it calmly, couldn't hide his disappointment, sighed lightly, then stared at his eyes, and shouted: "Li Sanlang! Where did all the pride and courage go back then?"
A roar of rage, with lingering disappointment.
Filled with anger, Li Longji forgot his words for a while.
Xu Fan's voice was still calm, but with a hint of helpless exhaustion.
"The reason why the situation has come to this point today is that the prince and the military are involved, and it is broken! The prince has worked hard for more than 10 years, and now that the situation has been achieved, are you sure that you want to change it? Now that the state affairs are in trouble, can the government and the opposition withstand such twists and turns? Even if there is a new crown prince, who can do better than this one? In this world...... It's not your own!"
These words, which were said very presumptuously, had already crossed the bottom line of being a courtier, but they were said on an equal footing as a friend.
Li Longji was still angry, but after all, he felt the openness in Xu Fan's heart, and also heard the sincerity of his loyalty to the country, and fell silent for a while.
"Wang Zhonghei asked for battle, and he was willing to lead the soldiers and horses of the two towns in Hexi and Hedong to attack Shibao City, he wanted to ...... He wants to have a place where a general should be......"
Xu Fan's voice fluctuated for the first time, and became low, Wang Zhonghe's matter is not innocent, and the people involved in the transfer of imperial power have no distinction between good and evil, right or wrong, just a choice.
But Wang Zhonghe's choice now is somewhat sad, and the sadness of the rabbit and fox can't be said, but it is just a feeling born from the little kindness in his heart.
Li Longji is naturally not a stupid person, after his anger was infected by Xu Fan's calm and low tone and became no longer restless, he understood what Xu Fan meant after just a little thought.
The first two years of the stone castle city let Li Longji never forget, let Wang Zhongsi take his people to attack the stone castle city, if the victory is also a miserable victory, then the two towns of soldiers and horses are seriously lost, some means to clean them up, if defeated...... Then you don't even have to think about the reason to clean up.
And the reason why the prince can get to this point today is because of Wang Zhongsi's influence in the military, if Wang Zhongsi and his soldiers and horses are damaged in the national war, or only need to be requisitioned in the name of the national war, the prince who only has a group of civilian officials around him is like a tiger without claws, and naturally there is a way to clean up and beat.
As for changing the crown prince...... It's too much trouble!
Even if he was angry, thinking of the impact of changing the crown prince, Li Longji still had a big head, if he had enough soldiers and horses in his hands, it would be easy to learn from Taizong to directly crush the past, but he didn't have this condition.
Slowly drawing, step by step, not only troublesome, but also cowardly!
Rather than this, wouldn't it be more relieving to give this rebel some flashy glory, and then slowly cut off his henchmen, and let him be left out and humiliated on the empty golden palace?
Li Longji is really old, he has no sharpness, and even if he retaliates, he is so passive, like a woman hiding behind her back and stabbing a villain......
Naturally, the first to feel these changes are the ones who know him best!
Gao Lishi looked at Li Longji, who was deep in thought and his brows were gradually soothing, and there was no joy or sadness on his face.
At the entrance of the main hall, an old eunuch with a white face and beard took a few steps back from a position close to the door, stopping a little eunuch with a tea cup.
"Godfather, you ......"
"Go ahead, I'll send the stuff in!"