Youzhou Palace.

Li Chengqian sat on the edge of a small pool, raised his eyes to look at the lake and mountains in the distance, and looked down at Xue Rengui under the willow branches by the pool.

Xue Rengui sat by the lake with a fishing rod in his hand and looked at the fish drifts in the water.

"Some people say that fishing can cultivate one's self-cultivation, and I have been angry with others these days, so I want to fish and fish to calm my mind, but it is useless.

I see, people who want to cultivate themselves by fishing are either pretending to be pretending or idle......"

Li Chengqian chatted with Xue Rengui casually.

"It's useless for the ministers, and it's embarrassing for His Royal Highness the Prince." Xue Rengui turned his head and said with a solemn expression.

Li Chengqian waved his hand casually and said: "I don't blame you, I asked you to go out of the fortress to arrest the Hu people, and you also arrested them, but now that there are so many refugees, the food in the entire Hebei Province is not enough to eat, and Yandu City can't start work at all." ”

When Xue Rengui was about to speak, he saw the fish float suddenly move, and knew that a fish had touched the hook, so he hurriedly waved his hand at Li Chengqian, while he was intently watching the fish float, waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Li Chengqian saw the sound of busyness, stretched his neck, and stared at the fish drift in the pond with his eyes.

When the two of them were intently watching the fish float, they heard someone shouting in the distance:

"His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince, something happened!"

Liu Kui ran over panting from outside.

Li Chengqian was called by him and hurriedly helped a waiter to get up, and Xue Rengui next to him also stood up with a "snort".

Li Chengqian turned his head to look, and there were water waves rippling out in circles where the fish floated, and it was obvious that the fish that was about to be hooked just now had run away.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Kui got closer, and Li Chengqian couldn't wait to ask.

Hearing this, Liu Kui hurriedly stood still, bowed down and saluted: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Xu Shangshu dug up the ancestral grave of the Fan Yang Lu family. ”

Liu Kui said that he had approached and handed Li Chengqian a piece of paper.

"Nonsense! How could Xu Jingzong order the digging of the ancestral grave of the Fan Yang Lu clan?"

Li Chengqian didn't take the paper in his hand and reprimanded him directly.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is absolutely true, the day before yesterday, Xu Shangshu presided over the criticism of Fan Yang Lu's family, Fan Yang Lu's crimes are too numerous to mention, and the people are furious, and they smashed Fan Yang Lu's ancestral shrine on the spot.

At night, they attacked some of the Lu clan's forts in Fanyang, and many of the Lu clan's disciples were disabled.

If it hadn't been for General Wang's stop, the grain in the granary might have been burned.

The common people still didn't understand their hatred, and on the second day, they dug up several ancestral graves of Fanyang Lu's family. ”

"Hmm!"

Li Chengqian listened to the scene that he could probably imagine at that time, and couldn't help but nodded.

Liu Kui and Xue Rengui looked puzzled, and said secretly: What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince mean by this?

Li Chengqian felt the gaze of the two, his face suddenly sank, and he said angrily: "Dog minion, such a trivial matter is worth making a fuss?"

The Fan Yang Lu clan has been entrenched in Fan Yang for hundreds of years, oppressing countless people, and the common people are guilty of digging up their graves and whipping their corpses, what's the big deal?"

"Ahh

Liu Kui was frightened and immediately knelt on the ground.

Li Chengqian glanced at him and continued: "Besides, King Gu did not order the digging of the ancestral grave of the Fan Yang Lu family, and Xu Jingzong did not order the digging of the grave, so this matter has nothing to do with the imperial court, what are you shouting about?"

Liu Kui finally knew what he was wrong with, and hurriedly pleaded guilty: "Slaves are guilty, slaves are guilty!" ”

"Spreading the will of King Gu, Fan Yang Lu's family hurt heaven and reason, and the crime was extremely evil, causing the anger of people and gods. He ordered Xu Jingzong to immediately record the evil deeds done by the Fan Yang Lu clan in the past dynasties into a book, and engrave and print 10,000 copies to spread all over the world to set an example. ”

"Yes!" Liu Kui was busy kowtowing and was about to go out to deliver the message, of course, the main purpose was to hide out first.

Li Chengqian was immediately furious when he saw it, and shouted: "Stop! Why don't you want to be in front of the Lone King?"

Liu Kui was almost frightened to death, and hurriedly knelt down again.

Li Chengqian ignored him and said directly: "In the name of the lonely king, I will spread the decree to the world, and summon the world's literary scholars to come to Youzhou Daxingtai to compile the "Hebei Taoist Crime Record". ”

"Yes!" Liu Kui only kowtowed this time, and didn't dare to get up.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian still said with a calm face: "Liu Kui, remember clearly, you are the slave of the lonely king, just do a good job of the things that the lonely king explains, don't worry about irrelevant people." As long as there is a lonely king, no matter what happens, the sky above you is there. If the sky falls, you will die without a place to be buried. ”

"It's the slave who knows, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the heaven of the slave." Liu Kui was busy grateful.

Li Chengqian still said with a calm face: "You can also talk to other people about these words, people who don't know where the sky above their heads are, sooner or later they will be smashed to pieces." ”

"Slave obeys!"

Liu Kui already understood the reason why Li Chengqian was angry at him today.

Xue Rengui, who was next to him, looked at all this and felt that what Li Chengqian said to Liu Kui was also said to him.

"Let's go down!"

Li Chengqian turned around and said to Xue Rengui: "It seems that there is no way to fish today, Rengui will also go back first, and the lonely king will arrange some other things." ”

It's not that Li Chengqian is moody, but because he saw Liu Kui, an inner servant, and heard that the people dug up the ancestral graves of the scholars, and they were so frightened that they forgot the rules. I am really worried that the generals under his command will not have confidence in the next battle, causing them to look forward and hesitate to act, which will be troublesome.

"Retire!" Xue Rengui bowed.

When such a thing happened, Li Chengqian was most worried about Chang'an City, and Li Shimin might not be able to accept such a thing as digging up the ancestral graves of the Shi clan.

However, if some things are not done thoroughly, the case may be overturned again in a few years, and the person who overturns the case can become a new scholar.

As soon as Xue Rengui left, Li Chengqian immediately arranged for someone to pass on the book to Chang'an Feige, taught some methods of criticizing the scholars, and asked Wang Qun, who stayed in Chang'an, to do it.

……

Since the people of Fanyang dug up the ancestral grave of Fanyang Lu's family, Xu Jingzong has never dared to go out in Fanyang County, for fear of reprisals, and he hid in the county government and did not dare to go out.

When Li Chengqian's will was delivered, Xu Jingzong was sighing in the back hall of the county government, looking puzzled.

The chamberlain of the East Palace sent Li Chengqian's will, and almost scared Xu Jingzong to death. Since the emergence of local Haoqiang in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the gate lord clan has ruled China for hundreds of years after several dynasties, and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, who dares to easily start a war with it?

Some scholars in Hebei Province rebelled, and Li Chengqian killed them without alarming the world's scholars, and the world's scholars are not monolithic, but digging people's ancestral graves, and now they have to compile the crimes of these families for generations into books?

Can the world's corporal clan watch it?

Xu Jingzong almost didn't have to think about it to know what kind of violent attacks he would be subjected to once these things got out.

Looking at Li Chengqian's order, Xu Jingzong wanted to hang up the crown and leave, but he didn't dare, because he was mainly responsible for digging up the grave.

If he leaves Li Chengqian's protection, he will die without a place to be buried.

Xu Jingzong walked back and forth in the back office for half an hour, and finally decided to follow Li Chengqian all the way to the dark.

Xu Jingzong received an order to first compile a record of the crimes of the Fan Yang Lu clan in the past dynasties, and since he decided to do it, he would do his best, so that people could not find any flaws to attack him.

……

Chang'an City.

After a few days passed, the matter of criticizing the extravagant marriage of the scholars initiated by the crown prince and personally ordered by the emperor was no longer mentioned in Chang'an City, as if this matter had never existed.

Even Liu Zheng and others also felt that there was no point in criticizing like this, after all, the Taoist clan in Hebei had been arrested by Li Chengqian, and they were now focusing on the impeachment of the eldest grandson Wuji.

It's just that the effect of impeachment is not great, Li Shimin does not let go, and as soon as the impeachment is sent to Taiji Palace, it is like a stone sinking into the sea.

However, Liu Zheng and the others did not relax because of this, because they all knew that Princess Changle was dying, and as long as Princess Changle died, Li Shimin would inevitably be angry with the eldest grandson Wuji.

Princess Changle Mansion.

Li Shimin sat outside Princess Changle's bedroom with a sad expression, and the eldest grandson Wuji and the eldest grandson Chong stood below and bowed down to accompany him.

The palace attendants inside and outside all stood with their heads bowed, not daring to make a sound, and the atmosphere in the hall was solemn to the extreme.

After a while, Concubine Yang led the imperial doctor out of Princess Changle's bedroom, and Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji's father and son all looked at her.

As soon as the imperial doctor walked in front of Li Shimin, he knelt on the ground with a thud, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the princess has run out of oil and the lamp has dried up, and there is no way to return to ......the sky." ”

Li Shimin already knew the result in his heart, but he couldn't help but feel sad when he heard this.

Sitting there weakly, all he could think about was Princess Changle.

Thinking of Princess Changle, when she was a child, she was well-behaved and cute by his side with Empress Changsun, and when she grew up, she had a kind and gentle personality. Especially in the past few years, when Li Chengqian and Li Tai were competing for the East Palace, he was always angry with those two brothers, and it was Princess Changle who entered the palace to persuade him......

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more sad he became, and at some point two lines of hot tears rolled down, and the people who were waiting next to him saw it and wept silently.

Concubine Yang saw that she was busy wiping away her tears, and persuaded with sadness: "Your Majesty, don't be sad first, let's go in and see the princess." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he suddenly got up and ran towards Princess Changle's bedroom.

After Li Shimin ran into Princess Changle's bedroom, Eldest Sun Wuji glanced back and saw Eldest Sun Chong who was about to enter, and saw Eldest Sun Chong nodding imperceptibly at him, Eldest Sun Wuji breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The eldest grandson Wuji knew what Princess Changle would say to Li Shimin, as long as Princess Changle interceded for her when she was dying, then no matter how the East Palace party impeached him, Li Shimin would not punish him heavily for Princess Changle's sake.

"Changle—"

I don't know how long it took, Li Shimin's painful cry came from the dormitory, and the eldest grandson Wuji knew that Princess Changle was dead.

The death of Princess Changle hit Li Shimin very hard, and when he returned to the palace, he fell ill, and ordered to drop out of the dynasty for seven days, and ordered the ministers of civil and military affairs to go to the princess's mansion to mourn.

In this regard, Liu Zheng and the eldest grandson Wuji were secretly happy in their hearts, Liu Zheng felt that Li Shimin was so sad, and afterwards he would definitely investigate the sin of the eldest grandson Wuji marrying his daughter Chongxi. Because the eldest grandson Wuji knew that Li Shimin had agreed to intercede for Princess Changle before he died, he must be the most taboo for someone to mention this matter again.

Neither of them noticed that the people of Chang'an City were organizing a special assembly.