At this time, there were more than a dozen royal families gathered in the Tang Imperial Palace, half of them were slightly older people, and some were younger generation figures.

The Li elite is almost all about it.

Older people, such as Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, known as the often defeated general of the Li family, have fought bad battles all his life, but looking at the entire heroes of the late Sui Dynasty, no one dares to underestimate him.

The reason why no one dares to underestimate him is precisely because he can fight bad battles.

The reason why he lost every battle was because he had to carry the most difficult battle every time, although he lost, but the rest of the Li family won, this seemingly mediocre old man, has been paying for the Li family all his life.

He doesn't care about fame, and he takes his ability to the mean.

He is bound to lose every battle, and he is always defeated without losing.

It is said that this old man once had a famous saying, which was aimed at the heroes of the whole world at that time, and said: "You may have earned, but I will never lose, you won one game with me, but lost ten games to the Li family in other places, the old man is good at hiding needles in the cotton, and he will slowly drag you all to death, if you don't accept it, come and beat me......

A perennial defeated general, releasing this kind of wild words, you can imagine how angry those heroes are, once they can't hold back their anger, they will lead their troops to fight.

So, I happened to fall for this old man's trick.

So although this old man has lost all his life, and almost every time he is defeated and fled, no one can chase him to death, and can only watch him do things around.

Therefore, people give nicknames, the first-stirring stick at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

In addition to this Huainan prince, the Li family also has another old man, who used to be the elder of the Li family, and now serves as the secretary of Zongzheng Temple, responsible for managing the genealogy of the entire royal family, and he is indispensable for the sacrificial affairs.

This old guy has a very low sense of existence, and he rarely shows up on weekdays, but no one dares to underestimate him, because this old guy is a well-known hob meat.

is quite unreasonable, likes to lie down, the old guy's most famous thing is to go to Xingyang Zheng to borrow military rations, borrowed as much as 50,000 stones at a time, and swore to promise huge profits.

But a few years ago, when the Tang Dynasty was founded, Xingyang Zheng took the deed of loan to ask him for debts, but the old guy turned his face directly and did not admit it, and pretended to be a dead dog and said: "I borrowed the grain, it has nothing to do with the Li family, you can recover the debt, pull the old man to the East Market to sell, the old man weighs more than 100 and can be sold for a lot of money." ”

Xingyang Zheng was furious, how could he bear this loss, it is said that it was the young head of the family who went to ask for debts at that time, and he had to call him an uncle according to his seniority, after all, the family has a marriage, and the Li family used to be a gate valve, so the two sides are in-laws, and they are very close.

Seeing that this old thing wanted to repay the debt, the head of the Xingyang Zheng family was furious, and scolded him: "Old thing, don't think that you have become a royal family now, my Xingyang Zheng family ranks five surnames and seven wangs, and this debt is not so easy to rely on." If the Li family refuses to repay the debt, don't blame the Zheng family for turning his face......"

As a result, the old man didn't listen to this, but when he heard this, he was overjoyed, and laughed: "Little rabbit, are you so crazy?" Then don't blame my uncle, I'm lying down! ”

After speaking, he really kicked his legs, and directly lay on the ground with white eyes, and beckoned his subordinates, and immediately dressed him in linen and filial piety, and then got a coffin of the prince, and carried it to Xingyang Zheng's family.

This old thing directly 'lay the corpse' in the Zheng family for three days, making people spread the strange words that the Zheng family forced him to death everywhere, but whenever it was time for dinner, the old thing immediately crawled out of the coffin and served on the table, and the Zheng family head was extremely tired, as if he had eaten a fly and was disgusting, but he couldn't beat or scold, and he had to shout to his uncle with a smiling face, wait for the old man to eat and drink, and continue to return to the coffin to lie on the corpse.

In the end, it was the older generation of the Zheng family who came forward and persuaded this old thing to leave, and the interest on the 50,000 stone military rations was completely waived, and there was no need to pay the huge profits promised at the beginning, as long as the capital was paid off, even if the debt was paid off.

But even so, the old guy still didn't pay his debts. In order to compete for the world, the Li family owed too many debts on credit, and if every debt had to be paid off, I am afraid that two or three generations would not be able to pay it off.

So this old thing often defaults on its debts and becomes the most disgusting hob meat of the family.

He and Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, are two old guys, who are the foundation of the Li royal family, and they are the core of the core.

In addition to these two old men, there are also the younger generation who gather in the palace today, such as Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, who is also the core figure of the Li family. (Note: At this time, he is not yet the King of the River).

The world only stares at Li Shimin's great military exploits, and only sees Li Xiuning's sweep of the north, but many people will ignore it, in fact, Li Xiaogong of the Li family is also very capable of fighting.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, this goods swept away Bashu with his own strength, captured more than 30 states, directly captured Zhu Cang, and later attacked the south, it was even more ****, the first war supported the Liang King Xiao Milling, the third war pacified the entire Jiangnan, and also suppressed the rebellion of Fu Gongyou, and even led the troops to appease the Lingnan states, in fact, in ancient times, how to appease a saying, are carrying a knife to find someone to negotiate, fight a battle first, and then talk after the battle, the reason why the whole Lingnan is obedient is nothing more than to be subdued by Li Xiaogong.

This guy is only thirty-five years old this year, only seven years older than Li Shimin, but he has made great contributions to the Li family, and he may not be less than Li Shimin, who has attracted the attention of the world.

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There are so many royal families gathered in the palace today, and even the two old men and Li Xiaogong are all present, but there is an extremely important one missing among the people, that is, Li Yuanji, who will also not be underestimated by the world.

This product can be called brave, but unfortunately the temperament is perverse, especially after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has gradually become poor and extravagant, and paranoid in doing things, and short-sighted, in recent years, for some reason, it has been very close to the family.

He still couldn't figure it out that the Li family was no longer the gate valve it once was, but had become a royal family in charge of the world, and it had stood on the opposite side of all the families.

The Li family had persuaded him many times, and even hinted at the Li family's plan to him, but he didn't want to help, so he ran away to tell the family, but fortunately he didn't reveal the truth to him, otherwise the Li family's plan would have been exposed.

Due to Li Yuanji's special situation, the royal family rarely calls him every time they discuss secretly, especially today's matter, and they can't let him get involved, otherwise this goods will leak again, and the Li family's efforts will be in vain.

But it was said that it was noon at this time, and it was said that it was already time for dinner, and the palace wrestlers cautiously came to ask if they could send meals to the royal family, but unfortunately everyone shook their heads although they were hungry.

Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, said slowly and logically, a good meal is not afraid of being late.

Dazong is smiling and saying that it is okay to eat less.

Li Xiaogong also didn't have the heart to eat, he glared at the wrestler viciously.

As for Emperor Li Yuan, he kept looking out of the door, and suddenly sighed lightly, and said sadly: "Every time you need to be embarrassed, it's the boss who goes, alas, let's wait for him." He is smiling outside, how can we eat and drink at home. So let's wait for him to come back and start the meal, and let's sit and eat together as a family. ”

The royal family present all nodded, and the younger generation stood up one after another, led by Li Xiaogong, and bowed and saluted together: "Uncle (uncle) is right, we have to wait for the eldest brother." He has suffered too much for our Li family. ”

Since today is a secret family discussion, the juniors do not call Your Majesty, but their respective uncles and uncles, but this title is not rude.

Li Yuan glanced at everyone, his face seemed to be very pleased, and suddenly for some reason, his eyes showed bitterness, as if sighing: "The eldest is very good, the second is very good, Xiuning's girl is also very good, even you little guys, all of them are close to the heart of the Li family, but there is a bastard, and there is a bone ...... on the back of the head."

This discourse refers to it, everyone knows that it is Li Yuanji who is talking about it, and it is inconvenient for the juniors present to speak, so they each cough twice and pretend not to hear it.

But Li Shentong and Da Zongzheng's faces turned cold, and they suddenly snorted coldly, stared at Li Yuan and said, "If you can't make up your mind, we will help you make this decision." The entire Li family of hundreds of people can't all die because of him. ”

This was said headless and brainless, but Li Yuan's face was full of bitterness, and after a long time, he sighed again and said, "There are still three years to go, and the boss can live for three years." If the fourth child doesn't turn back by then, let him go with the boss. ”

Li Shentong and Dazong softened their faces, and they both sighed suddenly.

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of footsteps outside the door, but saw that Li Jiancheng had finally returned, and everyone hurriedly stood up to greet him.

Not only did the younger generation greet him, but even the older generation got up, and even Emperor Li Yuan also stood up.

Li Jiancheng seemed to be in a hurry, so he kept coughing after entering the door, he first nodded to everyone, and then arched his hand to a few elders, and then said: "Don't worry, let me drink saliva." ”

As he spoke, he grabbed a tea bowl, raised his head and poured it violently, where did the posture of drinking water look like a prince, it was even worse than the common people of the people, but seeing that he poured it violently in one go, he still did not quench his thirst after drinking a bowl, so he grabbed another tea bowl and drank it with his neck tilted again.

After drinking the tea, he suddenly stacked the two tea bowls together, and then whispered to one of the guards in the house, and carefully instructed: "Burn the two tea bowls that I have used, smash them according to the custom, and bury them deep in the earth, so that they must not be infected, lest my heart be very disturbed." ”

The guard hurriedly knelt on the ground and choked up, "Your Highness, you don't have to be like this. ”

Li Yuan's eyes were obviously unbearable, and he also spoke: "Boss, don't say this kind of thing again." ”

A group of peer princes next to him also persuaded him again and again, and each said: "Big brother, your illness can't be passed on, we are not afraid, there is no need for this." ”

However, Li Jiancheng waved his hand and signaled everyone not to dwell on this matter.

He walked away a few steps slowly, almost habitually distancing himself from the crowd, feeling that his cough foam would not spray others, and then he spoke again, and suddenly laughed: "Everyone, those people have been deceived by me again. ”

His face was full of relief, and he coughed suddenly, and everyone present felt sour in their hearts, and they felt uncomfortable looking at his smile.