Chapter 666: Returning to Chang'an
Li Su never dared to underestimate the people of this era. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
They are not the pedantic, dull, conservative and ignorant images in film and television dramas after a thousand years, in fact, they are smarter than most people after a thousand years, especially the group of old killers who jumped out of the sea of corpses and blood, one is more slippery than the other, and the slightly stupid ones don't live to the age of grabbing gifts from younger generations on the street.
Of course, when it comes to the degree of shamelessness, this batch of old killers has greatly exceeded the lower limit of imagination, no matter how high they are, what they advocate is still the natural law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest, the respect of the strong, and the absolute force value to determine who is the distributor and beneficiary of resources, so Cheng Biting Jin snatched Li Su's gift without any pressure, and even the cow pulling the cart was led into the backyard, seeing that a pot of fragrant beef would be served out tomorrow, but Cheng Biting Jin can take it for granted with a face, you are weak, so you deserve to be robbed by me.
Cheng Biting Jin has more than just force value, he also has a sober and wise mind that is more terrible than force, but many times his wisdom is hidden under the rude appearance, making everyone think that he is just a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill.
Li Su knew a long time ago that Cheng Yanjin was by no means a reckless man, even if tomorrow was the end of the world, Cheng Yanjin would definitely be the group of people who lived to the end with their brains and laughed the most. This point was clearly realized by Li Sugang when he first met this old rascal.
However, Rao is Li Su never dared to despise him, but at this time today, he was still so shocked by Cheng Yanjin's words that he almost jumped up.
The rude and even a little crazy old killer looked like a wise man who had experienced the vicissitudes of life at this moment, and his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the fog of the world, and tell all the details hidden in the fog himself.
Looking at Li Su's stunned expression, Cheng Yanjin smiled.
"I know that your little baby has a bad stomach hidden, hehe, from the beginning of the murder of the merchant surnamed Huang in Dongshi, the old man noticed that someone behind the scenes was pushing the case in another direction, until the case was in the court, His Majesty ordered the three divisions to be tried, and then the Han Wangfu was pushed to the forefront, and the direction of the case took a sharp turn, and it died down inexplicably, the old man knew, there must be someone behind him, and then later, the case was dug up again, and the old man understood better, this is the beginning of the counterattack, In the end, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made a faint move, and inexplicably said that bastard word, which was heard by Zhang Xuansu at the right time, and then the court completely blew up, and the prince fell into an embattled situation, turning from offensive to passive defense, and the situation became more and more dangerous, until recently, His Majesty finally summoned the eldest grandson Lao'er and others to discuss Yi Chu......"
Cheng Biting Jin squinted his eyes and smiled: "Baby, the old man has combed through the whole thing, I don't know if he is wrong?" These few things that happened seem to have no connection, but if you touch them carefully, there seem to be inextricable links inside, and if you look a little further, from the overall point of view, several key events in it happened coincidentally, such as the Han Palace, which was shaken out, such as the bastard words that the prince said inexplicably, and happened to be heard by Zhang Xuansu...... Tsk, turn defense to offense, no trace, His Royal Highness the Prince's good situation has turned into passive step by step, it can be said that the city has lost its land, and it has been defeated, baby, don't tell the old man that these things have nothing to do with you......"
Li Su was dumbfounded, and then his eyes blinked quickly.
Wicked, old demon, why don't you go to heaven?
Facing Cheng Biting Jin's smiling gaze, Li Su swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and said with a forced smile: "Uncle Cheng, these things really have nothing to do with the kid, the kid heard that His Royal Highness the King of Wei did it......"
decisively sold the fat man of King Wei, and the dead friends are not dead and poor.
Cheng Biting Jin smiled: "It turned out that King Wei did it, well, it makes sense, everyone in the world knows that King Wei wants to take the position of the East Palace, but it's just ...... Since it was done by King Wei, what kind of sweat do you shed? Tsk, my little face turned white......"
Li Sumian did not change his color: "The kid drinks and his face is white, and the more he drinks, the whiter he becomes." ā
Cheng Yanjin snorted and said: "Your father is a farmer, I don't know much about the danger, your kid's wings have hardened over the years, and your father can't take care of you anymore. As an elder, it is also the right thing to teach you on behalf of your father, come to someone, take my Cheng family's family law! ā
"Uncle Cheng is merciful, the kid is wrong." Li Su hurriedly softened.
He didn't think that Cheng Biting Jin was scaring him, Lao Ji said that he wanted to teach him a lesson, he would definitely teach him a lesson, he had seen with his own eyes how this old killer beat his own son, the eldest son of the Cheng family, who was going to inherit the title of Duke of Lu Guo in the future, was hung up by him and screamed, thinking about that picture, Li Su estimated that if he changed himself, he might not be able to hold up a stick of incense and hang up.
Seeing that Li Su was soft, Cheng Biting Jin's expression suddenly changed and became fierce.
"Did you kid take the wrong medicine? Dare to plot against the prince of the East Palace! Li Su, do you think everyone in the world is stupid? ā
Li Su's eyelids jumped, and he lowered his head and said, "Uncle Cheng is angry, kid ......"
"Rest the rage! Fortunately, the old man saw it, because you have the closest contact with the old man, and the old man knows a little bit about your temperament. ā
Li Su suddenly smiled: "Uncle Cheng, who do you think the kid is?" ā
Cheng Biting Jin was stunned, looking at him in a daze and not speaking.
Li Su sighed: "The kid is just a small person in the prosperous world, even if the marquis enters the province, it is just a small person who is a momentary ambition, in the eyes of the real powerful people, the so-called county marquis like me, that is, the role that can be easily erased with the use of his brain, as easy as dusting off a grain of dust, Uncle Cheng, a small person and a small role do not mean that he is born to die, Uncle put himself in his shoes, from the time he offended the prince to the present, if you are me, what should you do?" At the end of the Sui Dynasty, you were also a good man from Wagangzhai, and you must not be honest and killed, and when faced with the situation of steel knives and necks, you still have to resist after all, right? ā
Cheng Biting Jin was a little angry, his lips squirmed a few times, but he still didn't squeak.
"Uncle Cheng should know, when the kid entered the court as an official, it was not my wish, it was a holy decree of His Majesty who forcibly sealed my official title, since he has entered the court, his identity is different, and the way of doing things should be different, the court of all dynasties will never be clean, if I want to live, live a better life, I can only fight a bloody way in the intrigue, the kid is naturally gentle and lazy, and he can't survive in a too drastic way, so he can only secretly plot some conspiracies...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has provoked more than one incident against me and my family in recent years, and my uncle must know that he later calculated that I would fail, so he sent someone to assassinate my father, and set up treacherous schemes to frame my father-in-law, and the spearhead was aimed at my close relatives and relatives again and again, Uncle Cheng, the matter has come to this point, do you still have a choice? Can you still back down? ā
Cheng Yanjin said coldly: "So you dare to gamble the lives of the whole family and take this risk?" If it fails, do you know what the consequences will be? ā
Li Su said with a smile: "If I don't do anything, and when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inherits the throne in the future, Uncle Cheng, what will happen to me at that time?" ā
Cheng Yanjin: "............"
Li Su sighed: "There is a cliff in front, and a knife formation in the back, Uncle Cheng, if I want to live, I will eventually take a step, either forward or backward, no matter which step I take, I have to take risks, not to mention...... Uncle Cheng asked himself, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really ascends the throne, do you really have no guilt and are you willing to support him? Although the bastard words spoken by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were designed by me, but that sentence was said by him himself, presumably he also thought so in his heart, if this person is the monarch, you and Uncle Niu and these old ministers from the dragon, I really don't know how much he will slaughter, once the Son of Heaven is a courtier, this future Son of Heaven is not a benevolent monarch and a holy monarch......"
Cheng Yanjin's face changed continuously, and it was obvious that Li Su's last few words hit the deepest worry in his heart.
The bastard words that Li Chengqian said have basically become a hidden worry for all the old ministers, and that sentence is too lethal, and it is precisely because of that sentence that Li Chengqian has lost all the people's hearts, especially the group of old ministers who followed Li Shimin to fight the country. That kind of frivolous and arrogant "killing 500 people is not certain", not only lost their hearts, but also hurt everyone's hearts, the status of the courtiers in Li Chengqian's heart can be seen, basically equivalent to livestock, kill if you want to, without scruples, if this kind of person becomes the emperor, it will undoubtedly cause chaos in the world, to put it more realistically, at least it will greatly harm the vested interests of these new magnates.
For every gate valve, "vested interests" are never allowed to infringe on a single trace, because every trace of their interests is obtained by playing with their lives, and whoever dares to touch their interests, they continue to play with whomever they want. Li Chengqian is still only the crown prince, but he has already indicated that he will inevitably harm the interests of the powerful after ascending the throne in the future, and later the courtiers who stood in the prince's camp abandoned him one after another, and it is fundamentally for this reason.
Now that Li Su has pierced the layer of window paper that everyone tacitly knows, Cheng Yanjin suddenly fell silent.
It's not about loyalty or betrayal, it's the reality, you see me like a dog, why should I be loyal to you? Your Majesty has so many sons, is it difficult to give up one and go to the other?
Seeing that Cheng Biting Jin's attitude gradually turned from anger to silence, Li Su smiled, and saluted him with a cup: "Uncle Cheng, we are still loyal to Your Majesty, as for who the prince is, our courtiers don't have to worry about it, and the kid can't be disloyal to His Majesty if he plots the East Palace, even if he changes someone to be the prince, after all, it is His Majesty's blood and blood, if you can choose a person with both ability and political integrity to be the prince, whether it is for the Tang Dynasty or for the various family valves, it must be a good thing, at least it will not be worse than now, Uncle Cheng thinks?" ā
Cheng Yanjin glared at him fiercely, and then snorted heavily, but in the end he drank it all.
Li Su smiled more and more brightly, this glass of wine can be regarded as Cheng Biting Jin's attitude.
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Today, Li Su walked out of Cheng Mansion with unprecedented soberness.
Cheng Yanjin's face was not very good-looking, and he only said that he would be locked in the house and think about it again, so the banquet naturally couldn't continue, and he waved his hand impatiently and drove Li Su away.
Li Su also breathed a sigh of relief.
In the face of this old demon, Li Su had to fight up the spirit of twelve, racking his brains to persuade Cheng Biting Jin, at least not to let him stand on the opposite side of himself, military generals have never participated in politics, Cheng Biting Jin and Niu Jinda Li Ji have always been just a decoration when they hold court meetings, and rarely participate in discussing the political affairs of the Tang Dynasty, but these generals are also very stubborn, with a tendon in their minds, do not turn their tendons in the other direction, Li Suzhen is worried that he will have a bad relationship with those old generals in the future.
Now that Li Su has determined Cheng Yanjin's attitude, the big stone in his heart has finally been put down, and the next thing is the confrontation with the prince.
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It is autumn, the harvest of the Mid-Autumn Festival has been completed, the fields outside the city are vast and gloomy, and the smoke of the farmhouse in the distance is curling and swaying, accompanied by bursts of dogs barking and roosters, which adds a little vitality to Xiao Ran's autumn.
At noon, outside the Jinguang Gate of Chang'an City, more than ten horsemen came from afar, the cavalry team was not vast, and even dressed a little downcast and shabby, the first person was full of beard, cold eyes, and the dark face was sharp and angular, as if the knife was as cold and hard.
On duty at the city gate was the Zuotun guard, a captain yawned, lazily paced out of the city gate, looking at the pedestrians entering and exiting like a torrent, and couldn't help but sigh happily.
"It's a business trip in two hours, it's so cold today, don't hurry back to the camp after the business trip, I invite you to go to Lao Liu's wine shop in Xicheng to drink a few bowls."
The soldiers guarding the gate smiled happily when they heard this, and thanked them one after another, and the captain smiled, turned his head to look outside the city gate, and then frowned.
"The dozen or so riders in front, looking at their horseback riding skills, like men in the army, I'm afraid it's not an ordinary road, go up and stop them first, and then let them into the city after checking."
The soldiers of the government hurriedly responded, stepped forward with their weapons, and stopped more than ten horsemen.
The captain leaned against the city gate from afar, lazily watching the soldiers under his command surround the more than ten horses, who knew that the soldiers stepped forward and did not say a word, the man at the head suddenly raised the horse whip, and whipped it down, when the first government soldier was pumped up, the soldiers were stunned, the captain was also stunned, and then he was furious, and he rushed to the front of the horses in three or two steps.
Raising his angry eyes, he found that the knight at the head was quite familiar, the captain squinted his eyes and looked carefully, seeing his familiar eyebrows and eyes, and his cold expression, the captain was stunned for a long time, and his whole body was suddenly agitated, and he quickly bowed down and saluted with his sword.
"The last general will meet General Hou!" (To be continued.) )