Chapter 32: The Storm is Coming
This time, Li Jiancheng failed to win over Wei Chigong, and then failed in the assassination, but he did not lose heart, but increased the purchase of the generals of the Qin Palace, but this time, he also changed his way of doing things and changed the object of wooing.
Li Jiancheng listened to Li Anyan's suggestion and thought that the main reason why he had failed to win over Wei Chigong before was that Wei Chigong had followed the King of Qin for a long time, and the King of Qin trusted him and reciprocated the favor, and he was also loyal to the King of Qin.
Li Jiancheng felt that Li Anyan's words were reasonable, so he also changed the object of wooing, no longer focusing on the main generals of the Qin Palace's vassals, but on the generals with slightly inferior status, including Cheng Yanjin, Duan Zhixuan, Li Anyuan and others.
To Li Jiancheng's surprise, these people also rejected Li Jiancheng's invitation, and what made Li Jiancheng even more annoyed was that these people all chose to reject Li Jiancheng after receiving his gifts, and resolutely expressed their willingness to continue to follow Li Shimin, the king of Qin.
At this time, no one knew that these people had rejected Li Jiancheng, and when they saw that he had accepted the prince's gift, they all thought that these people had turned their heads to the prince, that is, the saint looked at the prince in the early dynasty and also had a hidden warning in his eyes, the prince's actions were too urgent, and he was in a hurry to develop himself and cut off dissidents in order to get the throne, and he had no regard for face.
If this matter is done in private, Li Yuan will definitely not ask, after all, the princes also have their own way to go, he still arranged the path he should take for the king of Qin, and the prince is also the future prince, almost can be judged like this, a discerning person can know at a glance that the heart of the Son of Heaven is here with the prince, but the prince alone does not know it.
The crown prince Li Jiancheng's strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle ended in failure, and it was not until this time that Li Jiancheng finally realized that King Qi's suggestion was right.
The King of Qin and the vassals of the Tiance Mansion are already as stable as a mountain and are inseparable, if they want to disintegrate the mountain, the only way to destroy Li Shimin himself is to directly destroy them by forceful means, otherwise, the vassals of the Tiance Mansion have absolutely no intention of switching to him Li Jiancheng.
"Big brother, now that you understand, why can you still hold it? Why don't we get rid of King Qin immediately? Li Yuanji, who was on the side, listened to Li Jiancheng's worries and thought that the time was ripe, so he persuaded from the side.
"What is the plan of the fourth brother?" Hearing this, Li Jiancheng looked at Li Yuanji on the side, and asked after a moment of silence.
"Where do you need any clever plan, just need the eldest brother to transfer it out of the Qin Palace, and I will order someone to intercept and kill it on the way." Li Yuanji's voice was very rough, and he didn't restrain himself at all when he said the words of killing his brother.
"Fourth brother is cautious." It's not that Li Jiancheng wants to reprimand Li Yuanji, but at the same time as he is trying to win over the vassals of Tiance Mansion, he also suspects that there are also Li Shimin's people in his Prince's East Palace, and he has no clue whether it is serious, if so, who this person is, so he can only be cautious.
Li Yuanji also knew the worries of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and he was silent when he heard it, but a pair of big eyes stared at Li Jiancheng tightly, and the implication was self-evident.
"No." After thinking about it again and again, Li Jiancheng finally rejected Li Yuanji's suggestion, "The fourth brother's plan is not guaranteed, and the King of Qin has experienced a hundred battles, and his martial arts are unfathomable, it is difficult for ordinary people to subdue and kill him, if the person sent out fails, it is good to be killed by the King of Qin, if he is captured alive, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not involve you and me, it is too risky." ”
"At this time, it is already a critical juncture, and we must not leave a handle in the hands of King Qin, otherwise, it will be difficult for you and me to have a foothold, and it will be difficult for my father to explain it." In this way, Li Jiancheng still understood Li Yuan's intentions, even if he wanted to kill Li Shimin, he didn't dare to be so blatant.
"Your Highness hastily summoned me here, I don't know why?" At this time, it was late at night, Chen Feng had already slept in loose clothes, but he was woken up from his sleep by the little servant sent by King Qin, saying that if King Qin had a consultation, please go over as soon as possible, Chen Feng hurried over, and saw Li Shimin sitting behind the table with a sad face.
"The crown prince has ordered someone to go to Goguryeo." In a hurry, Li Shimin didn't mind that Chen Feng didn't see the courtesy, so he spoke directly and motioned for Chen Feng to sit down.
"The crown prince wants to emulate His Royal Highness and befriend Goguryeo?" Chen Feng's first reaction was like this, but then he thought that this was not reliable, Goguryeo was in the northeast, far from Chang'an, even if the prince was lost, he could not help in time, it was far better to befriend Tubo in the south, and the Tubo army could reach Chang'an through Maozhou, through Qinzhou or through Liangzhou.
If he was in a different place and chose one side to make friends, Chen Feng would definitely choose to break through, rather than Goguryeo, which could not quench his thirst from far away, and although the area of Tubo was far less than that of the Tang Dynasty, it was more than ten times more than Goguryeo in a remote corner.
Chen Feng thought that this was not a difficult problem, so the prince's summons of Goguryeo this time was by no means as simple as friendship, but the distance was long, it was 800 miles urgent, and it took three days and three nights to arrive, according to the normal situation, the time required should be six days.
Chen Feng closed his eyes and secretly wondered what kind of medicine was being sold in the prince's gourd.
"Unless, the prince doesn't want to befriend Goguryeo, but ......"
"Exploit!" Chen Feng spoke almost at the same time as Li Shimin.
"Could it be that the prince is repeating his old tricks?" Li Shimin had already learned the truth from the mouth of the Turkic Khan, so it was difficult not to make this association when he saw this situation.
"It's not impossible." Chen Feng pondered for a while, and then asked, "When will the prince's people leave?" ”
"At noon today, one person and three riders, non-stop." Ordinary rush is a person and a ride, not only the horse to rest, people also to rest, if it is urgent, it is a person and two horses, the horse is more and less rest, and at this time the prince chose a person and three horses that rarely appear, and the horse is resting, which fully illustrates the urgency of this matter in the prince's heart.
"Your Highness will rest tomorrow?" Chen Feng seemed to have asked an inconsequential question, and although Li Shimin was puzzled, he also nodded.
"In this way, I would like to ask Your Highness to invite Lord Feng De and Yi Feng to come over tomorrow evening." Chen Feng finally made a decision, and Chen Feng, who was familiar with history, finally realized that history had become very different from the records in the history books because of his intervention.
However, he is familiar with history in the end, and his political sensitivity is a little stronger than ordinary people, even if the King of Qin in front of him is playing a conspiracy, he does not feel that the King of Qin is his opponent.
But at this time, he couldn't guess what the prince meant, before the prince used a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle to the king of Qin, trying to break the foundation of the Qin palace by winning over the generals of the Qin palace, but obviously this matter was not successful, and the prince would not give up without a problem, and the depression before the storm has become more and more obvious.