The lights in the Ganlu Hall were bright, and Li Shimin had already come out of the dormitory, half lying on the Arhat bed in the main hall.

Gao Shilian sat on the brocade pier in front of the bed, Li Chengqian stood on the other side with a cane, and the two reported to Li Shimin in detail the process of colluding with Li Yuanjing, the king of Jing, to conspire with the Chang'an Shi clan to rebel, and part of Li Chengqian's arrangements.

Li Shimin listened and looked at Li Chengqian with unkind eyes, but Li Chengqian treated him indifferently.

Gao Shilian wanted to go out, but he was afraid that Li Chengqian would make Li Shimin angry, so he tactfully persuaded: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince responded very appropriately this time, even if Dou Fengjie did not expose it, King Jing would not be able to enter the Xuanwu Gate." ”

Li Shimin snorted coldly when he heard this: "Cheng Qian himself didn't go to the Xuanwu Gate, and King Jing actually wanted to come in from Xuanwu, which was really a miscalculation." ”

When Gao Shilian heard this, he stopped talking.

At this moment, the old ghost walked quickly into the main hall, saluted Li Shimin, and then walked directly to Li Chengqian's side and whispered: "His Royal Highness the Prince......"

Li Shimin interrupted him angrily when he saw it and said, "Reply loudly, let me listen to it too!" ”

Seeing this, the old ghost was so frightened that he didn't look at Li Chengqian and said directly: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness King Jing led people towards Xuanwu Gate." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he looked at Li Chengqian's eyes even more unkindly.

When Li Chengqian heard this, he said to Gao Shilian: "The minister in front of the Chengtian Gate of the Duke of Shen Guo may not be a rebel henchman, please go and persuade them again, tell them that Your Majesty is healthy, let them go back!" ”

When Gao Shilian heard this, he looked up at Li Shimin and didn't react, so he got up and saluted Li Shimin and said, "The old minister went to Chengtianmen to persuade him, does Your Majesty go back to the back hall to rest first?"

Now in this situation, he really doesn't dare to let Li Shimin and Li Chengqian get along alone.

Hearing this, Li Shimin waved his hand lazily and said, "I know how to pay attention to my body. Go and preach my will, and if they do not leave me, they will not spare me. ”

"Yes!"

Gao Shilian bowed again and withdrew, and when he walked outside the hall, he took Ma Zhouyu, Suiliang and others to Chengtianmen.

Li Shimin in the hall watched Gao Shilian walk out, and shouted to the attendants in the hall: "You all retreat!" ”

Hearing this, the old ghost glanced at Li Chengqian worriedly, and Li Chengqian motioned for him to just go out.

When all the attendants in the hall withdrew and closed the door from the outside, Li Shimin shouted angrily: "Cheng Qian kneel!" ”

Hearing this, Li Chengqian reluctantly knelt down and put the crutches horizontally in front of him with a "snap".

Li Shimin looked at his face becoming more and more ugly, and endured it before he said in a deep voice: "How many people do you want to kill?"

Li Chengqian didn't know why Li Shimin said this, and couldn't help but look at him in astonishment.

"King Jing's every move is under your control, you should have taken him down a long time ago, but you issued an edict to force him to cause trouble, didn't you just want to take the opportunity to implicate some more people who oppose you?"

"It's all at this time, you ordered Shi Lian to persuade them to go back, can they still go back?"

It turned out that Li Shimin thought that all this was designed by Li Chengqian, and the reason why King Jing came to this point was to kill more people who opposed him.

Li Chengqian wanted to understand what Li Shimin meant, and said angrily: "My father thinks too much about his sons, because his sons want to change the official system, and some ministers of the scholar clan can't tolerate their sons.

They are bent on destroying the reputation of their sons, saying that they are the kings of the Emperor, how dare they make King Jing rebel without conclusive evidence?

Even if there are no ministers outside, King Jing's affairs will also implicate many noble families, and it will definitely be a big case to handle.

If Erchen directly arrested King Jing and others and dealt with them in the court, these people outside would definitely not believe King Jing's rebellion.

At that time, the ministers are speechless, what will the people of the world think? How will the history books of later generations be written?

The imperial court will inevitably lose its prestige, and the edicts of the imperial court may not be useful at that time. ”

Li Shimin listened and looked at Li Chengqian silently for a long time, and then said, "You have an injury on your foot!" ”

Li Chengqian slowly got up with his hands on the ground.

Li Shimin pointed to the Luohan bed and asked him to sit down, and said earnestly: "Cheng Qian, don't think that everyone in the world is stupid if you are smart, when Emperor Yang of Sui was in power, several brothers rebelled and were put down, but what happened in the end......

Li Shimin really didn't know what to expect Li Chengqian to take away so many ministers, so he told Li Chengqian a lot and told him to be kind to the ministers......

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No matter what Li Shimin says, there is no way to change the things outside, even if Li Shimin goes out now, the minister in front of Chengtianmen will also ask him to imprison Li Chengqian in the East Palace.

Therefore, the persuasion of Gao Shilian and Yu Suiliang, Ma Zhou and others was doomed to be in vain.

"This is Your Majesty's will, let you go home quickly, do you want to disobey the will?" Gao Shilian was very angry, no matter how much the following ministers persuaded him, it was useless, that is, he thought that Li Chengqian was afraid, so he used Li Shimin to bluff.

"Since Your Majesty is in good health and can make a decree, then please send Your Majesty a decree to send the prince back to the East Palace to study." Wei Siqian replied loudly below.

Yu Suiliang couldn't help but ask angrily: "What's wrong with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince supervising the country, why do you want to go back to the East Palace to study?"

"How can Li Chengqian say that he is not at fault when he arbitrarily dismisses officials and fabricates charges to brutalize ministers?" Cui Jingsi also replied hatefully.

"Humph! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince deposed the incompetent and brought down the corrupt and punished the corrupt, what is wrong with eliminating harm for the people?" Gao Shilian also spoke up.

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Just as the two sides were talking to each other, suddenly a group of armored soldiers rushed out from the direction of the imperial city and attacked Chengtianmen.

The leader of the general is Helan Chushi, the son-in-law of Hou Junji, the former Donggong Qianniu general.

Li Shiji saw Helan Chushi's people appear, and knew that Li Yuanjing, the king of Jing, was not far from Xuanwu Gate, so he ordered: "Release the signal given by His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Gao Shilian and the others knew that this matter must not be good, so they retreated to the back and gave up the front to Li Shiji and Qiu Xinggong.

As soon as he retreated, he saw that Li Shiji's guards had lit up a few Kong Ming lanterns and were swaying and flying into the sky, thinking that this was a signal for the soldiers on Xuanwu Gate and Suzaku Street.

Watching Kong Ming's lantern gradually fly higher, he couldn't help but sigh: "It is said that Zhuge Kongming is smart, but the wisdom of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not weaker than Zhuge Kongming at all!" ”

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Xue Wanche personally led his troops to the Ascension Workshop to grab something at such a critical time, and it was none other than the gunpowder produced in the Ascension Workshop.

It's just that he didn't know that the year before last, Li Chengqian handed over the gunpowder to Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian to manage separately.

Later, Li Chengqian went out to take Xue Rengui away, and Li Shimin went out to take Pei Xingjian away.

If such an important military weapon as gunpowder was not in the hands of these two people, Li Shimin would naturally not put it in the Shengdao Workshop anymore, and he had already sent someone to transfer the place where gunpowder was made to Yushan, and there was only an empty shell in the Shengdao Workshop to confuse outsiders.

Xue Wanche and his party were walking forward in the dark, when they suddenly heard a loud shout from the front.

"Zhang Sizheng of the East Palace is here, who dares to break into the Ascension Dao Fang?"

As soon as a question came out, I saw countless torches suddenly lit up on the dark road in front of me, and a team of East Palace guards under the torches were lined up here.

Xue Wanche immediately became happy when he saw it, there are really treasures in the Ascension Workshop, otherwise the people in the Ascension Workshop have all been sent to Suzaku Street to quell the chaos, why are the guards of the East Palace still here?

And he has also heard of this Zhang Sizheng, it is the East Palace Zuowei Zhonglang General and Li Chengqian's henchman, since he is here, gunpowder must also be here.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing, and said extremely arrogantly: "Xue Rengui is not in Chang'an, what can the generals of the East Palace do?"

As he spoke, he rushed forward with people to fight with the guards of the East Palace led by Zhang Sizheng.

As soon as the two sides exchanged hands, the shouts of killing reached several miles away.

Xue Wanche is a brave general in the Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Sizheng can't resist it even if he tries his best in less than half an hour.

Xue Wanche laughed excitedly when he saw this, and slashed through the East Palace general who was blocking in front of the horse, and rushed out of the East Palace guards with a lifting of the horse reins and the prancing horse.

As soon as Xue Wanche rushed over, he flew forward, and when he ran more than a hundred steps, he was still followed by three or four hundred people, while Zhang Sizheng and a group of East Palace guards were still fighting with the people behind Xue Wanche.

Xue Wanche looked back and thought that from now on, he mastered the number one artifact of the Tang Dynasty, and whoever he wanted to fight would be above ten thousand people in the court.

I was dreaming when I suddenly heard someone in front of me laughing and saying, "But Xue Wanche sent his head to the old man?"

This person's tone of voice was extremely relaxed, as if Xue Wanche didn't care about it at all.

Xue Wanche was about to shout and scold when he heard this, but he saw hundreds of torches lit in front of him, and a group of Tang troops lined up to treat each other.

The leader was wearing bright light armor and riding a tall horse, and under the light of torches, he was leisurely caressing his snow-white long beard and looking at him with a smile.

After seeing who it was, Xue Wanche couldn't help but gasp.