The rain was falling heavily, and it had been raining heavily for a day and a night, filling the streets of Chang'an with mud.

Affected by the heavy rain, there are very few pedestrians on the street, and even some people are holding large umbrellas and walking slowly on their toes.

The sound of the carriage was reeling, and one or two luxurious carriages came from far and near...... Slowly sailed to the Tang Palace, Chang'an!

When he arrived at the door, a majestic sixty-year-old man got out of the car and walked into the Tang Wangfu with the support of his attendants!

He is the head of the Dou family and the secretary of the ministry, Dou Wei!

As expected, Guan Long's magnates have become the big winners of Li Yuan's entry into Chang'an, and the Dou family is the best. Not only Dou Wei was named the secretary of the ministry, Dou Jin was named the secretary of the ministry, Dou Kang was named the master craftsman, and several Dou clansmen were also named county guards.

Dou Wei is Li Yuan's most trusted person, he holds the real power of the ministry, and is in charge of the appointment and dismissal of civil officials, examinations, promotions, honors, transfers and other affairs, as soon as the guards saw Dou Wei, they hurriedly reported, "Your Highness, Dou Shangshu is here!" ”

"Please come in!" Li Yuan's voice came from the room.

Dou Wei walked in quickly, and saw that the prince Li Jiancheng was also in the room, and he bowed down and said, "Weichen see His Royal Highness the King of Tang!" ”

"Lord Shangshu, please take a seat!" Dou Wei is Li Yuan's elder, so he has to be commensurate with his official position, although he is a little rusty, but he is also formal.

Dou Wei nodded to Li Jiancheng again, he felt a little strange in his heart, why wasn't Li Shimin here? Generally discussing important matters, Li Yuan will definitely get together the eldest son and second son.

Li Yuan understood his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Shimin went to inspect Longxi, there were people in Jincheng County who made trouble and beat Taishou to death, the news of midnight last night, so Shimin rushed there overnight." ”

Dou Wei frowned, he was able to beat Taishou to death, this is not an ordinary person making trouble, it is likely to be related to Xue Ju, and the fact that Li Shimin set off overnight is enough to see that Li Yuan attaches great importance to it.

It's just that Dou Wei also knows that there are more important things to discuss at the moment, such as the consequences of the mass attack brought about by the begging letter, he said in a low voice: "Your Highness is looking for me, but is it for the sake of the whole city?" ”

Li Yuan said worriedly: "Now that Guanzhong has not been completely pacified, and the entire territory of Hedong is under the threat of the Sui army, Yuanji's daily distress letters are like snowflakes, and now there are crowds, and this king is worried that the generals and soldiers in the army will make trouble." Alas, I, the king of Tang, am not right now, nor should I be! Very passive. ”

Dou Wei said: "This is a conspiracy, which is impossible to resist. It is the same as Yang Tong's plot to seize His Royal Highness's army. ”

Li Yuan snorted coldly, "This is Yang Tong in the name of righteousness to put this king in such a predicament!" This person is young, but the far-reaching vision, the clever means, and the prudence of the scheming make me really willing to bow down, not only guessed that we would have an accident early, but also allowed it to happen, and finally made people feel that he was exterminating Liu Wuzhou, killing Shibi, saving Hedong, saving the nation, and so we are evildoers, he is now planning to pick peaches and implement his series of new policies. ”

Dou Wei's face changed, he savored it carefully, and felt that Li Yuan was right, when Yang Tong gained a foothold in Jizhou, he was afraid that he had already been fighting the idea of Hedong Dao, he sat back and watched Li Yuan's uprising, and now he is attacking Li Yuan's reputation with public opinion, obviously preparing to completely eliminate the Hedong family gate valve in the name of counterinsurgency, and the Hedong clan headed by the Taiyuan Wang clan!

Dou Wei also sighed silently in his heart, this step by step accumulation of the general trend, steady and steady, step by step, I used to think that there was nothing, but almost silently, unconsciously, Hedong Road has become like this...... This foresight is truly heart-wrenching!

His Royal Highness the King of Qin may seem young on the surface, but there are hidden peaks and valleys in his chest, as if he is the best chess player, and he has already laid the foundation for a big victory with only the first move, and such a character is the most terrifying!

Judging from what this King of Qin does, he always has an amazing plan, knowing when to do what to do and what not to do!

You think you can stop him, and even see through him, but in the end, you find that he didn't follow your routine at all! All kinds of tricks and strange tricks make you unguardable, but if you say that he is insidious, it is not all, because he uses the 'potential' such as the righteousness of the court and the righteousness of the world as weapons, interspersed with some small means that make people unguardable.

Whether you go along or go against it, it's all the chess pieces placed on his chessboard......

Dou Wei shuddered......

"What does Your Highness mean? How do we respond? Dou Wei had already vaguely guessed what Li Yuan meant: the Great Sui decided that he was a traitor, which led to the failure of his intention to recruit Sui Dynasty officials in the name of Sui ministers. This broken jar and broken rebellion is no longer controlled by others!

Li Yuan sighed, "It was a mistake to set up Yang Huai to ascend the throne in the first place, if I were like Yang Tong, not the king of Tang, only as a general, and wait for a few years, when the time is ripe, and then become the king and establish a new dynasty, I estimate that the effect will be much better than today!" ”

Li Yuan's voice became lower and lower, and now there was actually no point in complaining.

Li Jiancheng on the side was silent, this result was actually expected by him and Liu Wenjing! At the beginning of the incident, the two of them did support it, but the object was Yang Guang's grandson Yang Yu, not Yang Huai, who was nothing, or Yang Hang, who died... Because these two so-called clan relatives are too far-fetched and too far-fetched... Therefore, when Yang Yu ran away, the two immediately changed their minds and persuaded Li Yuan to exercise the real power of the emperor as a general, as long as he did not support and claim the king, he would not lose his righteousness.

However, Li Yuan, who originally wanted to be the king, was persuaded by Li Shimin, Pei Lin and a group of Guanlong magnates, so he got up and stood up, and then became an extremely funny Tang king. Up to now, the territory has not risen by an inch, but has ended up in shame, what a bother. If Yang Huai is abolished now and he becomes the emperor himself, it will not be a matter of following the trend, but tearing his face in annoyance, others will think that Li Yuan is very fake, very hypocritical, and a joke that is crowned with a monkey.

For a while, the room was very quiet, and Li Yuan paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands.

Li Jiancheng and Dou Wei glanced at each other, both of them felt the worry in Li Yuan's heart, this worry not only came from the etiquette, but also the pressure brought by Yang Tong and his reputation, Li Jiancheng especially understood his father's feelings, since the begging letter was exposed, his father couldn't sleep for two days in a row, which shows the huge pressure brought by Yang Tong's hand to his father.

Dou Wei comforted: "The Sui army has only been established for more than 30 years, and it is not orthodox in the world, the people of Jiangnan have always refused to accept it, and the Kwantung Shi clan is indifferent to it, just like the Qin Dynasty, Qin destroyed Han Sheng, maybe of course some people say that Han Gaozu is not orthodox, but now? Who else said that the Han Dynasty was unorthodox, His Royal Highness was majestic and strategic, and if he wanted to do great things, how could he look up to the Sui Dynasty under the snort! Now it is difficult to advance and retreat, it is better to establish your own dynasty, and the history books have always been written by the victors, as long as His Royal Highness rules the world and reproduces the glory of the Han Dynasty, who will say that His Royal Highness is a thief? Who will say that His Highness is unorthodox after a thousand years? ”

Dou Wei's words made Li Yuan feel a lot more comfortable, in fact, he did not resist ascending the throne at all, his heart knot came from the pressure of Hedong Dao, and from the fear of destroying 300,000 Turkic elite horsemen Yang Dong in a snap of his fingers...... He was like a climber who was pushed to the top before he found his way up the mountain, and his heart was indescribably hesitant and dazed......

Li Jiancheng next to him also persuaded: "Father, Dou Gong is right, Yang Guang is dead, the Great Sui is dead in name, the child feels that the time is ripe to establish a new dynasty, father don't hesitate anymore." ”

Li Yuan sighed and said: "I sent Erlang out, in fact, I just didn't want to listen to him nagging in my ear, why are you the same as Erlang?" ”

Dou Wei and Li Jiancheng couldn't stop crying and laughing, the reason why Li Shimin was blown away in the middle of the night was because of this.

Dou Wei said sincerely: "If Your Highness has any ideas, you might as well say them and let us understand, I think communication is more important." ”

Li Yuan said: "The Yu culture who killed the monarch and the monk knew that the establishment of a monarch was shameful, the body of the first emperor was not cold, and we set up Yang Huai, if Yang Huai was abolished and self-reliant, wouldn't it be more disdainful than Yu culture and the people of the world?" This also gave Yang Tong an excuse to attack me. ”

Li Jiancheng and Dou Wei both understood.

Yang Guang is dead, the Great Sui exists in name only, it is a good opportunity to establish a new dynasty, if there is no strong opponent Yang Tong, Li Yuan will not hesitate to ascend the throne, it is the Great Sui and Yang Dong This hard bone, so that Li Yuan does not dare to replace the Great Sui.

But if it drags on like this, it will only be passive.

Dou Wei groaned: "Simply follow the decree of the Empress Dowager, dismiss Yang Huai, dismiss King Tang!" So that morality is not lost! Then we mourned for Yang Guangju as a courtier of the Great Sui, and then established a new dynasty after the expiration of the one-month mourning period, so that we could do our best to be benevolent to the Great Sui and be able to block the mouths of the people of the world. ”

Li Yuan's eyes lit up, this method is really amazing!

Ha ha!

I am a Sui minister, so of course I have to listen to the words of the Empress Dowager, and the dismissal of Yang Huai and the King of Tang shows that Li Yuan is a loyal minister of the Great Sui!