Chapter 184: The power of the Wang family
"His Royal Highness the Prince, when the thief was caught by his subordinates, he committed suicide directly, and his subordinates failed to complete the task."
The killer actually committed suicide? Li Chengqian was a little surprised.
Empress Eldest Sun no matter what Xue Rengui said, she cared about something different.
But she said: "Xue Rengui! What did you do, why didn't you stay by Qian'er's side, if Cheng Zhijie hadn't arrived in time just now, then he might have died here. If he really dies, this palace will definitely break you into pieces! Xue Rengui, are you guilty? ”
Empress Eldest Sun had a fierce expression and was very angry!
At the moment, no one is more important than his children, not even Li Shimin, who is more important than Li Chengqian. This is the act of caring for the calf as a mother.
This is the greatness of motherly love.
And Li Chengqian was a little moved.
But then again, he asked Xue Rengui to go out to chase after him just now, it's none of his business, and there is no reason for him to take the blame.
When Xue Rengui heard this, his whole person was stunned.
Admit your mistake immediately.
"Damn it!"
He must be very remorseful in his heart, if he persuaded Li Chengqian to maybe stay, Li Chengqian would not encounter any danger! The crown prince's life was more precious than that of an assassin, and a thousand assassins were not as precious as a Li Chengqian.
But it wasn't his fault, it was Li Chengqian who asked him to do it.
Therefore, Li Chengqian said: "Queen Mother, this is the negligence of the sons. It was Erchen who asked Xue Rengui to go after the other assassins, and Erchen didn't expect that things would be like this, nor did he expect that the assassins would have two groups. A group deliberately attracted Xue Rengui! ”
"It seems that this person who wants to kill you is not small!"
Empress Eldest Sun said.
Listening to what she meant, she didn't blame Xue Rengui anymore.
Because there is no point in blaming, Li Chengqian also said so, there is no point in her pursuing it again!
Xue Rengui also said with some shame: "His Royal Highness the Prince, please condemn the crime, it is the incompetence of the subordinates, if the subordinates could have left all the six people earlier, this kind of thing would not have happened, it would have frightened you!" ”
Xue Rengui actually blamed himself.
It's really hard for him to think like this.
Li Chengqian said: "I don't blame you, don't go to your heart, this king is blessed with a great life, and the blessing of the father and the queen mother, it will be fine, and you don't have to blame yourself!" Okay, that's it! ”
It's comfortable.
Empress Eldest Sun wanted to say something more, but in the end she didn't say anything more.
After all, this was what Li Chengqian asked Xue Rengui to chase, and she was not an unreasonable person.
"Okay, Xue Rengui, don't let this happen again in the future, otherwise you are the only one who asks!"
Empress Eldest Sun finally said.
Xue Rengui responded directly: "Yes!" If this is the case in the future, Rengui will apologize with death! ”
That's it.
Then, Empress Changsun asked again: "This palace thinks that this time, if it is Xu Jingzong, then it is not only Xu Jingzong who dares to do it!" I suspect there are still some people in the background. ”
Empress Eldest Sun is really not a simple character.
She is in the deep palace, and she knows a lot of things, such as this kind of palace fight.
So, she has reason to be suspicious.
It's not easy.
But everything without evidence can only be guessed.
Li Chengqian said intentionally or unintentionally: "Erchen thinks that this matter is related to the Wang family!" ”
It's just a few words about the Wang family, which made Empress Dechangsun fall into deep thought.
"The Wang family? The ambitions of this Wang family are very big, and since they have mastered the economic lifeline of my Tang Dynasty, the emperor has always had no way to deal with them. This time, this palace heard that you want to use a plan to attribute iron to the imperial court, which is a good thing, if a country even has iron in its hands, then what kind of face does this country have to stand in the world? Could it be because of this? ”
Empress Eldest Sun is well aware of the righteousness and the importance of these things.
That's why she came up with so many.
"It's also possible to be iron, but Erchen has just begun, unless someone knows in advance......"
Empress Eldest Sun didn't speak, because she was also suspicious.
And Li Chengqian said deliberately: "Will there be some relationship with Wang Guifei?" ”
When these words were spoken, Empress Eldest Sun pondered again.
"It's not impossible. The backstage of this Wang Guifei is the Taiyuan royal family, and her position in the Wang family is very important. Could it be that this royal family wants to covet the crown prince? Make them equal in power and power? If that's the case, I'm afraid this Datang will change his surname! ”
Empress Eldest Sun was very indignant.
You must know that the power of these five surnames and Qiwang in the later period was very large, so big that the officials in the court were proud to marry the daughters of the family, which formed a crooked trend at that time.
To say that among these five surnames, it was not the surname Li that was the first at first.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the surnames of Shandong County were still Cui, Lu, Wang, and Zheng, and Li Yuan set out to raise the Li family. After Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne, he immediately organized the compilation of the "Clan Chronicles". After Gao Shilian and others accepted the task, they still ranked the most prestigious Shandong Cui clan as the first class according to the old concept of the family. This made Li Shimin very unhappy, he said: "They have long been declining, but they are still conceited, marrying and asking for more money, abandoning honesty and forgetting shame, I don't know why the world still values them!" I have pacified the four seas, the world is one family, do you look down on my officials? ”
After that, he changed his surname Li to the first.
Such a deliberate behavior can reflect Li Tang's embarrassing situation at that time.
Therefore, Li Shimin tried every possible means to weaken the power of the family, and this time Li Chengqian's behavior obviously helped him.
That's why Li Shimin was so happy, and he also said that with Li Chengqian's existence, Datang is stronger.
Empress Eldest Sun's words also reminded Li Chengqian, and he finally knew why he was not treated by Wang Guifei.
That Xu Jingzong was also bought to a certain extent.
You must know that Li Shimin's harem seems to be ordinary, but when it comes to palace fighting, it is more ferocious than the other.
As long as it doesn't involve interests, it's easy to say, but once it is related to interests, it's a big deal.
I often have to fight you to the death.
"Queen Mother, if this is the case, then Wang Guifei is afraid that she will not be able to stay!"
Li Chengqian said.
"No matter what, she is also the emperor's favorite concubine, if there is no strong evidence, it is not very easy to get rid of it. And she has a Wang family behind her, so if you want to get her, you have to start with the Wang family! ”
"What the queen mother said is consistent with what her sons think!"
Li Chengqian also said.
Empress Changsun looked at Li Chengqian, a young man who was less than ten years old, who knew the situation so well.
Let her have the illusion that in front of her is a scheming adult.
Suddenly, someone came to report.
"Report!".
"What?"
Empress Eldest Sun asked slowly.