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Finally, bad news came from the front line, and Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, was killed.

Li Yuan was very sad, this was his favorite cousin, and he was also the highest-ranking general to fight against Liu Heimin's death. Before the battle with Liu Heimin officially began, he encountered such resistance, which made the court fall into a deep unease.

A few days later, the body of the young general who sacrificed his life for the country was transported back, and Li Shimin, dressed in plain clothes, took hundreds of generals out of the city to greet him, personally carried the coffin back to the palace, and hosted a funeral for him.

Li Jiancheng's twists and turns put all the blame on Liu Jun, and did not mention any mistakes by Tang Jun, and the cause of death is impossible to verify, Li Yuan still shifted the key to Li Daoxuan's funeral.

Li Yuan posthumously named Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, as the general of Zuo Xiaowei, and was nicknamed King Zhuang. Because Li Daoxuan was young and childless, he made his younger brother Li Daoming, the prince of Wudu County, the heir of Huaiyang.

No matter how the mourning is after death, the deceased is gone, there are ancient and modern, and there is also the present and the ancient, but there is never such a thing as a resurrection, which is the irreversibility of life.

Li Daoxuan's death hit Li Shimin very hard, in a sense, in his mind, this younger brother's status is higher than Li Yuanji.

"Dao Xuan is covered with scars, he can't look at death, his fists are clenched, and he seems to be unwilling." Li Shimin said to Yuan Ziyan with a haggard face, which was also what he saw with his own eyes when he restrained Li Daoxuan.

"Shimin, why don't you tell your father the doubts in your heart?" Yuan Ziyan asked puzzledly: "Since you love Li Daoxuan so much, don't you want to avenge him?" ”

"The secret agent in the army told that, as you guessed, Shi Wanbao did not move, and the rescue was not timely. It seems that he is deliberately trapped in the place of death. Shi Wanbao is narrow-minded and has clashed with Dao Xuan many times, but he will not be so bold as to dare to ignore the King of Huaiyang. Li Shimin said coldly.

"You mean, there's a mastermind behind it?" Yuan Ziyan asked.

"Otherwise?"

"The world is stable, but the bloody storm in the court has begun. Are you afraid, Shimin? Yuan Ziyan turned around and asked.

"I'm afraid, but I'm definitely not going to back down!" Li Shimin said in a firm tone.

In the duel with Liu Heimin. Although the fall of a high-ranking general. But with the assistance of Wei Zheng and others, Li Jiancheng joined hands with Li Yuanji to defeat Liu Heimin.

Interception of waterlogging. When Liu Heimin tried to cross the river, he opened the sluice gate and released water, drowning tens of thousands of Liu Heimin's soldiers at once, and his strength was greatly reduced. After that, the Don army took advantage of the victory to attack. Defeated Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin was outnumbered and eventually fled to the Turks with a few hundred people for refuge. After that, Liu Heimin tried to make a comeback. was betrayed by his subordinate Zhuge Dewei, injured and captured.

Seeing Liu Heimin himself, Li Jiancheng was overjoyed, and he couldn't wait to escort him to Chang'an to wait for his fate. Instead, he couldn't wait to kill all the people and others, and only teleported Liu Heimin's head to Chang'an.

Subsequently, Li Jiancheng defeated Xu Yuanlang and other forces who echoed Liu Heimin. At this point, Datang has finally determined its hegemony.

After that, some people tried to raise their heads, such as Fu Gongyou, Zuo Youxian and others. took advantage of the chaos to claim the emperor and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, of course, some people rebelled and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Xu Maogong was unwilling to meet with Li Shimin all day long, so he asked for orders to lead troops to conquer Danyang, and finally succeeded in killing Fu Gongyou, which meant that the Jiangnan region was also completely pacified.

These are the foundations laid by Li Shimin and other generals leading their troops, and no matter what, they cannot cover up this truth.

Looking back, Li Jiancheng triumphantly led the troops back to the court, originally thinking that his father would lead hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city for dozens of miles to greet him in person, but when they all arrived at the palace, they didn't see a single person.

Li Jiancheng unwillingly decided that his father should be overjoyed, so happy that his feet were weak, and it was possible to greet him at the gate of the palace at this time. However, in front of the palace gate, except for the soldiers standing guard, there was no superfluous person, and Li Jiancheng's face became gloomy.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, congratulations on His triumphant return!" When the guards saw the group, they hurriedly kowtowed.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand impatiently and asked, "Where is my father?" ”

"This ......" The guard hesitated for a moment, but still said tremblingly, "Your Majesty has just ordained a concubine today, and a canonization ceremony is being held. ”

What the? Li Jiancheng was furious, suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist, and the cold light flashed on the guard's neck, gritted his teeth and said: "This prince has been fighting for several months, how can my father ignore it, it must be you who are here to confuse the public and provoke my father-son friendship." ”

The guards were so frightened that they couldn't even speak, Wei Zheng hurriedly said: "Prince, don't be angry, forgive him and he won't have the courage to deceive the prince, presumably Your Majesty really has, and he is entangled in important matters." ”

"Something important?" Li Yuanji laughed sarcastically: "My father married a newcomer, and he can even ignore such a major event as the prince's return to the dynasty, is the beauty more important than the country?" ”

"Yuanji, don't talk nonsense!" Li Jiancheng immediately reprimanded, there are many people with mixed mouths, if this word reaches the ears of his father, there will be no good fruit to eat.

The group entered the palace lonely, and Li Yuanji muttered: "Big brother, all the limelight has been robbed by Li Shimin." Everyone is used to his earth-shattering behavior, but they completely ignore our fighting, which is really chilling. ”

"My father will not forget us and others, Xu is the Tang Dynasty has finally settled down, and it is unknown if he drank too much at the celebration banquet." Li Jiancheng said with a frown.

The two were talking, and suddenly saw a group of people coming to them, the first one was heroic, with his chest held high, it was Li Shimin, a woman on the left hand, smiling lightly, Arnold was colorful, those bright eyes always flickered inadvertently, making people unable to see through their hearts, who else except Yuan Ziyan?

Li Shimin was not followed by generals or civil and military officials, so he walked over majestically under the escort of the guards, and when he saw Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin smiled and arched his hand: "Shimin is here to welcome the prince on the orders of his father!" Congratulations to the prince on his victory, even the battle has been victorious, the prince has worked hard! ”

Li Shimin is a prince, although he can't find out the reason, but it sounds very awkward, and Li Shimin's welcome speech is also problematic, for the sensitive Li Jiancheng, it is very like the master's tone.

"Take me to see my father!" Li Jiancheng's face was gloomy.

"My father is busy with Concubine Liu's canonization ceremony, and Concubine Wu is about to give birth today, my father promised her to accompany her, the prince should go back to the palace to rest first, and it's not too late to see you tomorrow morning!" Li Shimin said with a smile.

You?! Li Jiancheng is very faceless, Li Shimin won the battle on weekdays, which one did not greet him with a smile, and praised him like a god, but now that he is back, he is cold and lonely, which is worse than usual.

Under Wei Zheng's pushing, Li Jiancheng finally didn't dare to go directly to Li Yuan, in case he disturbed his father's Yaxing, it was tantamount to asking for hardship.

"Prince, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan. Don't get angry! Wei Zheng was afraid that Li Jiancheng would make an astonishing move, so he kept persuading all the way.

Hey, Li Jiancheng sighed slightly, waved his hand and said, "Mr. go back to rest first, I have my own ideas." ”

After Wei Zheng left, Li Yuanji said unevenly: "Big brother, I said a long time ago that my father only has that Li Shimin in his heart, and there is no you at all!" ”

"I never thought that my father would treat me like this!" Li Jiancheng said hatefully.

"Big brother, we have to think of a foolproof plan in the future, even if you become the emperor smoothly, if Li Shimin doesn't get rid of it, this dragon chair will not be able to sit steadily!" Li Yuanji said.

"What the fourth brother said is very true, you and I have a good discussion!"

The two hooked shoulders and completely became people on the same line, but in fact, they made people, and Li Jiancheng really thought too much.

As the foundation becomes more and more solid, Li Yuan is also a human being, it is inevitable that he will be a little arrogant and lascivious, and in the later period, he expanded the back court, widely selected the world's beauties to enter the palace, and gave birth to more than a dozen little brothers and * little sisters for Li Jiancheng and others in one go.

Yang Guang has very few sons, only three, and those who died young, Yang Huangjiang was killed, Yang Gao saw through the world and escaped into Buddhism. There are only two daughters, one is Yu Wenshi and his ex-wife, who has become a nun, and the other is Li Shimin's side concubine Yang Zhao.

It is not a good thing to have fewer sons, the minister's focus will be obviously biased, and Yang Guang couldn't make up his mind to make up the prince at the beginning, but he couldn't determine which son was better. The second child is rich and strong, beautiful, and extremely smart, but his style is constant, and he has all five poisons, so it is difficult to say whether he can correct it.

Yang Gao is good in everything, but he was born a few years late, and it is difficult to convince the public.

On the other hand, an emperor with extremely fertile ability like Li Yuan is not without a little trouble. First of all, the more sons there are, the competition is fierce, and the same territory is average to everyone, and there is less land. Another distinction between concubines and concubines is becoming more and more serious, causing these princes and their mothers to move closer to the crown prince or the king of Qin, and still form a distinct faction.

Therefore, in order to consolidate the position of the crown prince, Li Yuan handed over the figure of Liu Heimin to Li Jiancheng, and the price paid was painful, Li Jiancheng did not make good use of soldiers, and the number of casualties among the soldiers exceeded 30,000, including Li Yuan's most relied on nephew, Li Daoxuan.

But on the whole, Li Yuan is still happy, after all, his son won the battle, and it sounds good to say. Li Yuan didn't think about holding a grand welcome ceremony, but considering the importance of being a crown prince, it is also essential to keep a low profile. Therefore, Li Yuan deliberately did this, showing that he was very strict with the prince, but it happened to meet happy events such as canonization and Tianzi, which still made Li Jiancheng misinterpret a father's painstaking efforts.

For Li Shimin, at first the soldiers were beaten, and then the cousin fell, directly or indirectly related to the prince, Li Shimin thought that his eldest brother was inhumane, and he excluded dissidents and even vented to his cousin, and he had resentment in his heart, so he had a cold attitude, but it did not reach the point of losing the etiquette of the monarch and the minister.

Li Jiancheng connected this series of things, and then based on his own guesses, he finally concluded that his father was going to have signs of changing the crown prince. (To be continued)