At noon, the coffin of the Crown Princess's Su family slowly came to the Mingde Gate.

More than 1,000 people wore a heavy filial piety procession, and the flags and banners were lined up, which could be said to be a grand funeral, but this team did not make any sound except for the footsteps.

It's a team that is a little scary in silence!

The people of Chang'an outside the city were also affected by this atmosphere, and they all watched in silence.

Suddenly, a group of people who were also dressed in heavy filial piety ran out of the city, and as soon as they ran to the funeral of the crown princess, they lay on the ground and cried bitterly.

This group of people is the palace maid and others who stayed in the East Palace headed by the old ghost, and only they are slaves and are not valued by Li Shimin, so they can continue to stay in the East Palace.

The people of Chang'an do not have deep feelings for the prince [Literature Museum xguan.xyz] concubine, and they are very fond and sympathetic to Li Chengqian.

At this moment, someone in the crowd shouted:

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is fighting outside, the crown princess gave birth to the grandson of the first emperor and the grandson of the third emperor, the merit is in the community, and now that he has passed away and returned to Beijing, there is no official in the imperial court who went out of the city to greet him, how rude? How immoral? How unfair is it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? ”

When the concubine's coffin returned to Chang'an, the imperial court did not arrange officials to greet her, of course, the eldest grandson Wuji did it for the people of the world to see, and wanted to let the people of the world see the form.

But what kind of world can the people of Chang'an City do, as soon as they heard this, they couldn't help but turn their heads to look around, and when they found that there were no court officials to greet the coffin of the crown princess, the tears in their eyes were immediately dried up by the anger in their hearts.

shouted angrily: "The eldest grandson Wuji is not a son of man, and he even cares about etiquette. ”

"Yes! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has made great contributions to the world, the eldest grandson Wuji and others bewitched His Majesty and brutalized the minister, and now they don't even care about the coffin of the crown princess. ”

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Hearing that the people at the gate of the city were cursing the eldest grandson Wuji, Liu Zheng, who was hidden in the funeral, turned around and walked to Wang Liangdi's car.

After a while, everyone saw a beautiful woman in filial piety clothes holding a child wearing heavy filial piety calmly walked out of the depths of the funeral procession.

Wang Liangdi and the Three Emperor Sun came to the old ghost and others, and there was an attendant, who shouted loudly: "The Three Emperor Sun and Liangdi Niangniang have arrived." ”

The surrounding people saluted when they saw it, and the old ghost lying on the ground was shocked and said secretly: What did Liangdi Niangniang do when she came out?

But this is not the time for him to think about these things, so he reflexively got up and paid homage to Wang Liangdi and Li Bai.

"Why didn't King Yan Li Xiang come to greet the crown princess's coffin?"

Wang Liangdi was born very beautiful, and at this time, a filial piety dress made her look as beautiful and luxurious as a hibiscus. She was born with a noble temperament, graceful and self-controlled, at this time, the phoenix eyes were slightly open, and she opened her mouth lightly, and she had an awe-inspiring and inviolable noble majesty.

The old ghost didn't dare to be perfunctory when he saw it, and said with a sad expression: "The eldest grandson Chong said that His Royal Highness King Yan conspired to kill the emperor's grandson, and His Majesty ordered to take away the title of His Royal Highness King Yan and lock him up in Zongzheng Temple......

Wang Liangdi didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and then reprimanded loudly: "Nonsense! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has long made it clear that the Imperial Grandson was murdered by the Demon Dao, what does it have to do with His Royal Highness King Yan? ”

Although the old ghost didn't know why Wang Liangdi came here, he nodded cooperatively: "Yes, yes, yes!" ”

Wang Liangdi ignored him and said directly to everyone: "The imperial grandson was killed by the demon road, and the crown princess died because of the injury of the imperial grandson, and now the third emperor grandson is too young to preside over the funeral." King Yan is still locked up in Zongzheng Temple, does the crown princess not even have a filial son in front of the spirit? And the tears began to fall.

Originally, the people of Chang'an felt that the court was unfair to Li Chengqian, but now the orphans and widows stood up and cried, which was tantamount to adding a fire to the hearts of the people present.

At this moment, Wang Liangdi hugged Li Bai and bowed slightly to the people around him, and wept: "His Royal Highness the Prince's life and death are uncertain, but he once wrote a letter to the palace to order the palace to take care of His Royal Highness King Yan and the three emperors' grandsons. Now that the crown princess will set up a spirit in the East Palace, can there be no filial son in front of the hall?

The palace wants to go to Zongzheng Temple to pick up His Royal Highness King Yan to guard the soul of the crown princess, I don't know what you think of the sages? ”

Many people in the crowd stood up and shouted: "I am willing to go with Liangdi Niangniang!" ”

"Go Together, Go Together"

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Seeing that the people were so enthusiastic, Wang Liangdi blessed everyone again, and turned around and walked to the car. Everyone saw her from behind her, Li Bai had been wiping her tears for her, and they were all concerned.

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Wang Liangdi's approach is very Li Chengqian, it is an upright conspiracy, no matter what, it is difficult for ordinary people to crack it by pressing people with the general trend.

When a group of newly replaced officials in Chang'an City heard that Wang Liangdi was going to lead Wanmin to pick up Li Xiang, they suddenly became anxious.

If Wang Liangdi held Li Chengqian's handwriting, that is, Li Shimin could not force Sun Chong in front of the people, and insisted that Li Xiang killed Li Ju.

Some ministers who also supported the East Palace were overjoyed, thinking that Wang Liangdi had some wisdom and could replace Li Chengqian by rescuing Li Xiangzu, but Li Jing, who had been sick in the palace recently, was shocked after hearing the news.

"Wei Shuyu, hurry, go see General Li Anyan and tell him that the eldest grandson Wuji wants to kill His Royal Highness King Yan!"

Wei Shuyu, who came to report the news, looked at Li Jing, who was still lying on the bed just now, half-dead, and sat up suddenly, first startled, and then said puzzledly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the father of the emperor's grandson and His Royal Highness King Yan, Wang Liangdi has his handwritten letter, and there are all the people who follow him, who dares to harm His Royal Highness King Yan?"

Li Jing hurriedly said: "Because of this, the eldest grandson Wuji wants to harm His Royal Highness King Yan. ”

"Huh?"

Wei Shuyu was still puzzled.

Li Jing knew that his life would not last long, and he couldn't care about other hurried words: "If Your Majesty had a way to bring down Prince Yin back then, how could he do the change of Xuanwu Gate?"

"Ahh

Wei Shuyu screamed when he heard the words and ran out.

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Wang Liangdi and his entourage had the coffin of the princess in front of them to open the way, and there were thousands of East Palace guards, and finally followed tens of thousands of Chang'an people along the way like a torrent, breaking through the gate of the imperial city, until the gate of Zongzheng Temple stopped, and the officials of Zongzheng Temple heard that they were all frightened and pale and came out to greet them.

Even Zong Zhengqing and Li Chongyi, who had been on sick leave, also came.

Li Chongyi is the son of Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, and the prince of the country, Li Xiaogong died suddenly in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, and Li Chongyi, who was less than 30 years old, was recalled to Chang'an by Li Shimin to be Zong Zhengqing, no matter how the court fluctuated over the years, it did not affect him.

This is this time, Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji belittled the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee in large numbers, and they did not move him at all, but for some reason, he took sick leave and was absent from work before Li Xiang was imprisoned in Zongzheng Temple.

Originally, everyone thought that he was afraid of being accused of murdering the emperor and grandson, but seeing that he came out to greet Wang Liangdi at this time, he had obviously made a decision.

A group of officials first paid homage to the coffin of the crown princess Su, and Wang Liangdi had already knelt in front of the coffin with Xiao Li Bai in her arms and returned the salute one by one.

Then Wang Liangdi was invited to salute.

After the two sides saw each other, Li Chongyi asked with a sad face: "The princess unfortunately passed away, His Royal Highness the crown prince is fighting for the country, Liangdi Niangniang, you and the three emperors and grandsons have come back from Yandu for thousands of miles, and if you don't go back to the East Palace to stop your spirit, what is the matter with coming to Zongzheng Temple?"

Shaoqing behind him realized that something was wrong when he heard it, and hurriedly turned around to look at a small official behind him, and ordered him to invite the eldest grandson Wuji.

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If there was such a big thing, why did he have to invite the eldest grandson Wuji, if Li Shimin hadn't sent Li Zhi to Shangshu, the high-ranking official Sun Wuji would have ridden a horse a long time ago.

"Uncle, my father said: Cheng Qian's life and death are uncertain, and it is defenseless to release Li Xiang first." Li Zhi spoke for Li Shimin very obediently.

When the eldest grandson Wuji saw Li Zhi's appearance, although he was disdainful in his heart, he said very kindly on his face: "This is Your Majesty's will, what does His Royal Highness the King of Jin think?"

Li Zhi's face darkened when he heard this, and he sighed: "The eldest brother is the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and now the ending can be regarded as loyalty and filial piety, Li Xiang is his eldest son, alas——"

Li Zhi sighed when he said this, and he didn't go any further, and the eldest grandson Wuji thought that he was a woman's benevolence, so he said indifferently: "Back then, the first emperor intended to pass on the world to His Majesty, and Prince Fengyin went to Yizhou to be a prince of peace, and he didn't interfere in government politics from then on, but ......, in short, His Majesty and Prince Yin didn't believe it, so there was a change in Xuanwumen." Speaking of this, the eldest grandson Wuji looked at Li Zhi and asked, "Do you think Your Majesty did something wrong back then?"

"This, this, this ......"

Li Zhi looked panicked, as if he didn't want to hear about this kind of fratricidal thing, and as if he didn't want to mention Li Shimin's fault, he didn't say the second word for a long time.

"Of course, Your Majesty was not wrong back then, the only way to survive that the old man and others could come up with."

Seeing this, the eldest grandson Wuji looked down on Li Zhi more and more, and his tone was not as gentle as just now.

Li Zhi's eyes flashed with joy, and he hurriedly lowered his head and said resignedly: "Uncle Yi." ”

The eldest grandson Wuji looked at the back of Li Zhi's head, looked contemptuous, and continued: "A few days ago, Your Majesty sent all the ministers of the East Palace to go overseas, obviously wanting Li Chengqian to go overseas to establish a country. But this is all wishful thinking on the part of His Majesty, the general trend of the world has always been in the East Palace, how could Li Chengqian and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs who are interested in the East Palace abandon China and go overseas?"

Li Zhi saluted again and said, "What my uncle said is true! But the eldest brother is like a fierce man, and there is little luck ......"

The eldest grandson Wuji showed a proud look on his face, and he was very satisfied with Li Chengqian's results.

However, when he looked down and saw that Li Zhi still didn't say anything to kill Li Xiang, he was a little displeased.

"Li Xiang is Li Chengqian's eldest son, and he has been personally taught by Li Chengqian in Youzhou for many years, so he has a lot of skills, otherwise how could Li Chengqian arrange for him to go overseas early?"

Now that Li Ju has died young, Li Chengqian is ...... again Hum! The generals of the East Palace must be interested in him, which is also the reason why Wang Liangdi is in a hurry to save him.

Therefore, Li Xiang must not be kept. ”

Li Zhi's face turned a little paler when he heard this, and he neither said that he would follow Li Shimin's will, nor did he say that he would let the eldest grandson Wuji kill Li Xiang.

The eldest grandson Wuji looked at him for a long time, and sighed the most: "It's not early, I'll go to Zongzheng Temple first, lest Li Chongyi let Li Xiang go." ”

Even if you don't look at Li Zhi and leave, it is impossible to see Li Zhi practice the Dafa of changing his face after he leaves.

The eldest grandson Wuji had long known that Zong Zhengqing Li Chongyi was dissatisfied with him, and if he hadn't been pretending to be sick before, he would have sent him overseas a long time ago.

Therefore, I heard that Wang Liangdi went straight to Zongzheng Temple with the hope of all the people, and the eldest grandson Wuji was most worried that Li Chongyi suddenly came out and released Li Xiang.

Don't look at the fact that Chang'an City is in his hands now, but once Li Xiang leaves Zongzheng Temple, the eldest grandson Wuji really has no confidence that he can be arrested again.

So I sent someone to Zongzheng Temple to deal with the unexpected.

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The eldest grandson Wuji guessed correctly that Li Chongyi came to Zongzheng Temple today to let Li Xiang out, if Li Chengqian really died this time, and the East Palace won the victory in the next struggle, he would be equivalent to saving the next Tang Emperor.

Some people may ask, is Li Chongyi not afraid of Li Shimin?

Of course he was afraid, as long as Li Shimin didn't die, he was afraid, but Wang Liangdi took Li Chengqian's letter, followed by tens of thousands of ordinary people in Chang'an City, and Li Shimin was also afraid of such a situation, so there was a matter of Li Zhi going to see the eldest grandson Wuji.

Li Chongyi calculated this point before he came out, and now he listened to Wang Liangdi's words, and even excused himself, and directly turned back to Duan Yan, Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple, and said: "Duan Shaoqing, have you heard what Liangdi Niangniang said?" Don't hurry up and invite His Royal Highness King Yan out and follow Liangdi Niangniang back to the East Palace to guard the soul of the crown princess. ”

Shaoqing Duan Yan was sent by the eldest grandson Wuji, and he didn't pay attention to the people and things in front of him at all, and said sarcastically: "Li Siqing, Li Xiang has been taken away by His Majesty's decree, and being locked up in Zongzheng Temple is also an edict issued by His Majesty himself, who would dare to release people without His Majesty's will?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the people in the East Palace defiantly.

Li Chongyi didn't seem to hear Duan Yan's ridicule, and said bitterly: "Your Majesty was deceived by traitors, and blamed His Royal Highness King Yan for it, now there is a letter from His Royal Highness the Prince, who else does Your Majesty believe if you don't believe His Royal Highness the Prince?"

Duan Yan almost laughed when he heard this, and said triumphantly: "Your Majesty doesn't believe in the prince, of course you believe it......" But after years of officialdom, he knew that if he dared to say the following words, the immortals would not be able to save his life.

Duan Yan hurriedly stopped, looking at Li Chongyi, a disciple he had always looked down on, with a horrified expression.

Li Chongyi's expression remained unchanged, but he just said loudly: "Come and invite His Royal Highness King Yan out, if Your Majesty blames this father, he will bear it." ”

Duan Yan was transferred by the eldest grandson Wuji, and he didn't listen to Li Chongyi's words, but there were still two temples in Zongzheng Temple, and they were originally Li Chongyi's henchmen. The two of them were standing behind Duan Yan at this time, and when they heard Li Chongyi say this, they knew that Li Chongyi had made up his mind, so they turned around and walked to Zongzheng Temple, wanting to let Li Xiang out.

It's just that the two of them haven't entered Zongzheng Temple yet, they were stopped by someone, and the eldest grandson Wuji sent someone to arrive first.

Li Chongyi was murderous when he saw it, and he scolded him very domineeringly: "What are you guys, dare to be presumptuous in Zongzheng Temple?"

The guards behind him pounced viciously without commanding them, and arrested the two men who had stopped them.

Duan Yan hurriedly hugged his fist at Li Chongyi with a smiling face and said, "Lord Siqing, at this time, the stakes are very important, and the lower officials thought that they still had to ask the eldest grandson to shoot and make a decision." ”

When Li Chongyi heard this, his face suddenly sank, and he said loudly: "Although Shang Shufu is powerful, he can't control the head of Zongzheng Temple, and the matter here is his own master." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the two temples and said, "Go and invite His Royal Highness King Yan!" ”

Hearing this, the two temple officials hurriedly walked to Zongzheng Temple again.

"Zong Zhengqing, why doesn't the old man know that there is a His Royal Highness King Yan in the Tang Dynasty today?"

Before the words fell, everyone saw that the eldest grandson Wuji was slowly coming to the field under the protection of a group of guards.

Li Chongyi is young in the end, and he is a second-generation official, although he usually uses his father's exploits in Chang'an City to be five or six, but when he sees an old fox like the eldest grandson Wuji, he can't help but get nervous.

Because he didn't want to weaken his momentum, he stepped forward and said loudly: "Eldest grandson, this is the Zongzheng Temple is in charge of the royal family, you don't have a good advantage in Shangshu Province to handle official business, what are you doing here?"

Seeing this, the eldest grandson Wuji didn't care, he smiled and continued to walk forward, and said lightly as he walked: "It stands to reason that the old man shouldn't come to Zongzheng Temple, but Li Xiang plotted to kill the emperor's grandson, and someone wanted to release him privately, so the old man couldn't help but come and see." No matter who you dare to disobey Your Majesty's will, the old man will do you on the spot. ”

In the end, it was already very loud.

"You-"

Seeing this, Li Chongyi's momentum immediately weakened.

"The eldest grandson shoots!"

Wang Liangdi shouted weakly, took a step forward with Li Bai in her arms, and said softly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has made it clear that the imperial grandson was recommended by you to His Majesty, and the demon path was killed, and it has nothing to do with His Royal Highness King Yan. ”

When the eldest grandson Wuji heard this, he immediately moved with killing intent, and he was about to speak with a flash of murderous intent in his eyes, but he heard a voice from Zongzheng Temple:

"Oh no—"

The voice was in a hurry, obviously something happened in Zongzheng Temple.

The eldest grandson Wuji, Wang Liangdi, and Li Chongyi were all shocked when they heard it, and they all looked towards the gate of Zongzheng Temple.