Li Yuan received this secret recital, attached great importance to it, and found some close ministers in the court, as well as Jiancheng and Yuanji, to come to discuss.

Li Yuan asked, "You say, why are the people of the Qin Wangfu so willing to go to Luoyang?" ”

Yuan Ji stepped forward, "Father, do you remember Zhang Liang?" Although there was no evidence to convict him at that time, he was indeed the person sent by the second brother to run Luoyang. In fact, the second brother already had plans in Luoyang, when he took Luoyang, Erchen was also present, he did not withdraw the army and return to Beijing as soon as possible, but scattered money and wealth to build personal favors, so the second brother has long been ambitious. Now that his father ordered him to go to Luoyang, of course he is happy, it has long been his territory, and now he can build the Son of Heaven banner east of Shaanzhou, and he can't do whatever he wants, how can he not be happy? ”

Xiao Yu said: "Your Majesty, what King Qi said is just speculation, and it cannot be said that King Qin is ambitious. Maybe the people of the Qin Wangfu are happy to go to Luoyang, because they don't want to fight in Chang'an, and maybe they want to live a quiet life! ”

Li Yuan was noncommittal about what the two of them said, and turned his head to ask Pei Lian: "Pei Lian, what do you think?" ”

Pei Lin said: "Back to the emperor, regardless of why the people of the Qin Palace's mansion are willing to go to Luoyang, the minister thinks that the emperor let the king of Qin build the Son of Heaven banner east of Shaanzhou is very inappropriate!" ”

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment and said, "Tell me, what's wrong with my move?" ”

Pei Lin said: "The emperor has already set up a crown prince, and now he has asked the king of Qin to go to Luoyang, and the east of Shaanzhou is all ruled by the king of Qin, so that after a hundred years of the emperor in the future, won't there be two monarchs in the world?" As the saying goes, 'There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two masters in the country'. The emperor arranged for two monarchs, isn't this artificially creating a dispute? Isn't the land that my Datang finally unified divided into two? ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he was shocked, knowing that Pei Lian's words were reasonable, and he almost made a big mistake, he only thought about how to solve the dispute between his brothers, but he didn't expect that after he did this for a hundred years, it would inevitably be a vicious battle between the brothers. At that point, it won't just be a struggle between royalty. That is to tear the land apart and the lives of people to be destroyed. The consequences are unimaginable!

Li Yuan said: "What Pei Aiqing said is very true, this matter is not considered by me, and I immediately ordered the cancellation of the matter of letting the people of the world go to Luoyang. ”

Yuan Ji snorted: "Father, you can think about this before you do it." Otherwise, the second brother will blame his father for going back on his word. To this day, the people in the Qin Palace's mansion are still saying that the father is capricious. At the beginning, he promised to change the second brother to the crown prince in Renzhi Palace. Now I don't say a word about it. ”

Li Yuan was so angry that he slapped the dragon case, "Bold! How dare they criticize me behind their backs! ”

Pei Lin saw the opportunity to strike while the iron was hot, "Your Majesty." King Qin has made great contributions to the world, and the subordinate officials of the Qin Palace's mansion are consciously superior, and it is not impossible to speak wildly. It's just that I'm afraid it's not a good thing in the long run, today they dare to criticize the emperor behind their backs, and I don't know what else they will do tomorrow. The minister thought that unless the emperor wanted to change the king of Qin to the crown prince, it would be better to deal with it properly in advance. ”

After hearing this, Li Yuan asked, "What is the proper handling?" ”

Seeing that this was an opportunity, Yuan Ji hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Father, it is better to abolish the title of the second brother or exile him, so that the people under him will naturally lose their arrogance." ”

Unexpectedly, Li Yuan's attitude turned one hundred and eighty degrees, reached out and pulled Yuan Ji's collar, and looked at him with round eyes, "You want to say, why don't you give him a cup of poison bar?" Don't think I don't know, you don't want his life for a day or two! Shimin has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, he is my son, if you want to kill him, I will never agree! ”

When Jiancheng heard this, he knew that his father was still blaming him for this, so he knelt down and said: "My father is angry, it's all because his sons are not good, and as the eldest brother, he didn't handle the relationship between his brothers. ”

Pei Lin also hurriedly persuaded: "The emperor is not angry with the dragon body, the intention of the king of Qi is only to depose the king of Qin, and there is no intention to harm the king of Qin." ”

Chen Shuda, who has always supported the people of the world, saw that if this continued, perhaps the emperor really wanted to abolish the King of Qin for peace, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the King of Qin cannot be abolished!" The King of Qin has made great contributions to the world, and his character is strong, and he is deposed for no reason, and the King of Qin will be angry. ”

Chen Shuda said this cleverly, abolishing the King of Qin is equivalent to asking for the life of the King of Qin, don't you feel sorry for your son, Your Majesty? Don't kill him!

Li Yuan also understood his words, and let go of Yuanji's neck, "You all go down first, I have my own opinions." ”

On the way back, Yuan Ji said to Jiancheng: "Big brother, my father still thinks about the second brother and the second brother, it seems that it is impossible to expect my father to help us kill the second brother or depose the second brother, the only thing my father can help us is to suppress the second brother." However, as Ziyi said, this can't break Zixuan's hexagram at all, so we have to figure it out ourselves. ”

Jiancheng replied, "That's what you said. ”

Over there, Zixuan had already told the people of the world that the emperor would definitely regret not letting him go to Luoyang. Therefore, the people of the world did not order anyone to clean up their things at all. Sure enough, after a short time, the edict not allowing him to go to Luoyang was delivered.

However, the subordinate officials of the Qin Palace's Poisoned Wine Incident and the Luoyang Incident were even more panicked, and the people of the world had to hold a meeting in the Zichen Hall again, and Fang Xuanling asked Zixuan to be present, and the people of the world also agreed.

The eldest grandson Wuji took the lead and said: "Second Highness, now that the crown prince and the king of Qi want to take your life, they have done everything they can, and we can't sit still like this." ”

"Yes, Second Highness, the prince's knife is on your neck, if you don't fight back, it will be really dead." Cheng Biting Jin shouted.

Du Ruhui said: "Second Highness, it is your life and death to seize the heir, you can't have the kindness of a woman, let alone be soft, I will build yì to strike first." ”

Shimin sighed: "You let me start first, the question is how to start?" We can subdue Big Brother and Motoyoshi by force, but what next? Spare them life, and it will be a curse; If I don't stay, it's really hard for me to attack my own brother. ”

"However, has the Second Highness ever thought that when the crown prince and the king of Qi attacked you, did he not bear it?" Qin Qiong also persuaded.

Shimin's expression was gloomy, he wanted to win, he wanted to take the heir, but he was still not ready to kill his brother, so he said: "Actually, I also want to know how the eldest brother and Yuanji managed to do it to me, and how they managed to completely ignore the brotherhood." Why is it so hard for me to be careless? ”

Fang Xuanling said: "This is the second highness with benevolence in mind......

"No, it's because His Second Highness hasn't figured out his situation yet." Zixuan interrupted Fang Xuanling's words.

Shimin was stunned, "Zixuan, what do you mean by this?" (To be continued......)