At the time of Li Shimin's attack, Xue Ju was indeed nearby. He stood tall on a tall building in Huaiyuanfang, which happened to bring the street where Li Shimin and his party were located into the field of vision. So just now, Xue Ju was almost all bearded and tailed, and witnessed the whole process.

"Awen!"

Xue Rengao's face was pale, and he stood behind Xue Ju with a weak breath, with a slight amount of unwillingness in his eyes.

"The opportunity just now is still very good, and they may not be able to find it afterwards. ”

He knew that Xue Ju had some secret shooting methods, and he could shoot out of thin air without concealing his identity.

"Opportunity? Where is the opportunity?"

Xue Ju shook his head: "You have fought with Li Shimin, can't you still see this, in fact, you have always left some spare strength? and Zhang Yurou's portable Taoist soldiers, I always feel that this thing is not as simple as it seems on the surface." In addition, don't underestimate the embroidered guards, although their performance in the past two years has been unsatisfactory, but this is more due to the fact that Sikong Wuji is pulling his hind legs. Once you breathe down, you still can't be underestimated. But if we leave a trace here, then my Xue clan will have no other way to survive except for rebellion. ”

"But—"

Xue Rengao frowned, knowing what his father was afraid of.

Once the Son of Heaven thought that they were involved with these traitors of the Demon Dragon Babu, it would be absolutely impossible for them to allow the Xue clan to continue to exist.

For this, Xue Ju himself also thinks deeply,

No matter how proud he was, no matter how arrogant he was, he didn't think that the current Jincheng Xue clan would be able to compete with the entire Great Sui Imperial Court.

In fact, just some of the border military towns arranged by the Great Sui in the area of Longxi and Hexi were already unbearable for their Jincheng Xue clan.

"Nothing!"

Xue Ju's face was condensed, and his eyes were sharp enough to cut off Jin Tie: "Don't you still know the consequences? If you can't give us a chance to achieve our goal, then it won't be called a chance." Rengao, if you don't even understand the basic trade-offs, you are not qualified to become the master of the future Jincheng Xue Clan. ”

Xue Rengao's expression immediately turned grim: "The child understands!"

But at this time, his mood was even heavier.

In fact, as far as Xue Rengao's heart is concerned, he is also more willing to personally ask Li Shimin to recover the old accounts after recovering from his injury, and he will be ashamed.

But the problem is that now their Xue family's situation is getting worse.

Not to mention that after Li Shimin entered Chang'an, the local government of this Kansai land has continuously increased the intensity of several levels of strength against all the industries under their Xue name. The situation of their old nest Jincheng alone is not optimistic.

The big horse thief 'Blood Tornado' is still around the side, and the horse thieves under his command are constantly expanding. Many people heard the wind and joined the command of the 'Blood Dragon Scroll', trying to bite off a piece of flesh and blood from their Jincheng Xue clan to satisfy their hunger.

Li Liang also seemed to have made up his mind and was ready to take advantage of the danger of others to enter the Xue clan. The number of soldiers and horses gathered by this person in Hoeryeong has reached 7,000.

There are also Turks, the ** princess Minghui, who is so bold and reckless that it is jaw-dropping. Not long ago, they had spotted some Turkic rangers to the north of Jincheng Pass.

According to the news they had recently received, although Shibi Khan and Princess Yicheng had rejected Asna Minghui's absurd request, the princess Minghui had disappeared from the Turkic court a few days ago, and her whereabouts were unknown.

Suddenly, the dignified Jincheng Xue clan actually had a bit of a stormy meaning.

This made Xue Rengao feel upset, discouraged, and even remorseful and blamed himself - the crisis that Xue was facing was provoked by him himself.

For the first time, he realized that there were still problems in this world that could not be solved by his own force.

"Then Ah Weng is next, but he plans to cooperate with the Duke of Chu?"

"The Duke of Chu Mansion?" Xue Ju's lips twitched coldly, but then he didn't answer and asked: "Then what do you think?

Xue Rengao heard Xue Ju's words, which seemed to imply the school examination. He was not in a hurry to answer, but after thinking carefully, he replied, "The child thinks it is impossible!"

"Then the reason?" Xue Ju asked lightly: "It won't be because of the Duke of Chu that this time it calculated you." ”

Xue Rengao thought that this was also one of the reasons, he was very unhappy and even disgusted with Yang Xuangan, the Hongnong Yang clan.

Those people clearly regarded him Xue Ju as an unattainable fool and teased him.

Compared with Li Shimin, who confronted them head-on with the Jincheng Xue clan and avoided them in an embarrassing situation, Xue Ju even felt that this Chu State Mansion was even more hateful, annoying, and hateful.

However, in addition to this, Xue Rengao does have his own thoughts: "I see that the brothers of the Yang family are sneaky and unpredictable, and the children really can't understand what they are thinking." Father, since you are unwilling to cooperate with the Demon Dragon Babu, then it is better to stay away from this Chu State Mansion. ”

"You're right, Mr. Chu Hao said the same thing. ”

Xue Ju smiled slightly, and his eyes revealed a little satisfied: "Mr. Chu sent a letter to me, saying that he was cooperating with the Duke of Chu, which was nothing more than jumping from one pit to another. ”

Xue Rengao was not happy at all: "But if we reject Li Mi, then what should we do next? ”

Now Xue Shixiong, the head of the Xue family, the prince of Wuyin County, is serving as the general of the Right Yiwei, and whether it is the degree of closeness to the Son of Heaven or the authority and momentum in the court, he is not inferior to Li Yuan, or even more victorious.

If the Hedong Xue family is willing to help, presumably all troubles can be solved. But the problem is that even if his father is willing to bow his head to the Xue clan in Hedong, he Xue Rengao can't swallow this breath.

"It's not that the Taiyuan Wang clan is unreliable, it's just that this time-"

Xue Ju thought of the news he had received not long ago, and his mood was complicated. He believed that with the influence of the Taiyuan Wang clan and his own financial resources, sooner or later they would be able to smooth out their Xue clan's disadvantage in the official face - at least not in such a one-sided situation as it is now.

But if the Son of Heaven is also inclined to this battle?

The impeachment of several local officials of the Yingyang Mansion by the Taiyuan Wang clan is said to have been sent to the front of the Son of Heaven case by Menxia Province, but there is no movement in the palace until now. It seems that none of these movements ever existed.

Optimistically guessing, this is the result of Yuwenshu's intervention, or those big eunuchs in the palace have done something.

But both Chu Liang and Hao Ying are more worried, this is likely to be 'out of intention'.

However, there was no need to tell him about this child, so next, Xue Ju's tone changed: "The so-called asking for others is better than asking for yourself, this Li Shimin still has to be solved by ourselves." ”

Xue Rengao's mood sank again.

He believes that if he can solve Li Shimin regardless of the cost. Even if he continues to persevere, then Li Shimin will be defeated sooner or later. It is impossible for Qinglong Villa to come up with endless money for it to squander, and it is impossible for this person to maintain this intensity for the offensive organized by this person inside and outside the government and the opposition.

However, the former method will bring the Jincheng Xue clan into a state of destruction, and the latter method may be destroyed and usurped before they can survive until Li Shimin collapses.

But at this time, Xue Rengao couldn't say anything to refute, so he could only barely cheer up: "That's exactly the reason! When the child recovers from his injury, he will definitely let the bastard know how powerful the child is,"

This battle must have been triggered by him Xue Rengao, Xue Rengao couldn't quit, and he didn't have the face to say discouraged words.

"Rengao, you probably don't look at it, right?"

Xue Ju laughed, and then his expression was solemn, and he said solemnly: "Rengao, you have remembered for me that in this world, strength is everything! If your strength is enough, then no matter what conspiracies and conspiracy, it will actually be useless." ”

Xue Rengao was not only stunned for a while, he felt out of place when he heard Xue Ju's words.

If the Jincheng Xue clan could have the strength to crush Li Shimin, it would never have fallen to this point.

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"These traitors are simply lawless!"

In front of the chaotic Jingzhao County Ya, Qu Tutong rode on a bloody war horse, looking at the scorched earth and ruins around him with an ugly face.

"In Daxing City, they actually dare to use meteorites to descend from the sky, this is a lot of guts. ”

Qu Tutong usually looks very kind, but at this time, his breath is cold, and under his slightly beating eyelids, there is murderous intent.

- They can ignore the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people around them in order to get rid of Li Shimin alone. One can imagine how crazy and unscrupulous these people are. What contempt for the imperial power and the law and discipline of the dynasty.

Qu Tutongzhi was a pity that he was shocked to find that he arrived too late, and those shooters had almost evacuated. Otherwise, he wouldn't have left this place with the help of any of these people.

"The last general didn't expect that they would lose their conscience to this point!"

After Li Shimin sighed slightly, he asked in a loud voice a forbidden military captain who was passing by: "Brother Hu, dare to ask what happened to the West Courtyard of the Ministry of Officials?

This person's surname is Hu Mingcheng, and he is a Xianbei nobleman. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen ordered the Xianbei tribes to change their names. Among them, the Sugu clan, which was listed as the 'Xianbei Eight Kingdoms' with the Tuoba clan, changed his surname to Hu.

This person served in Luoyang before and worked with Li Shimin, but he was not transferred to Chang'an until not long ago, so Li Shimin is familiar with this person.

After the evacuation of those assassins, this Hu Cheng and his subordinates were responsible for the clean-up and search and rescue of the western courtyard of the Ministry of Officials.