Chapter 423: Li Tai's assassination

Whether it is Li Chengqian or Li Tai, they can be said to be indifferent to the younger brother of Li You, the king of Qi. Except for a little blood relationship, their closeness to Li You is even worse than that of their own subordinates.

So when Li Shimin asked Li Chengqian and Li Tai successively how to deal with Li You, both of them answered ambiguously.

Of course, before such an ambiguous answer, they always came to talk about brotherhood first, so as not to disgust Li Shimin.

Li Shimin and the hundred officials were quite satisfied with this answer. However, even though the answers of the two were similar, Li Shimin still praised Li Tai and ignored Li Chengqian.

When Li Chengqian looked at Li Tai, he was facing the smile on the other party's fat face. This kind of smile was extremely dazzling in Li Chengqian's eyes.

Back in the East Palace, Li Chengqian had a straight face, clearly telling the people around him that the prince was very angry, and the consequences were serious.

Seeing this, Helan Chushi, who was the first close minister next to the crown prince, stepped forward and asked, "Why is Your Highness like this today?" ”

Li Chengqian heard Helan Chushi ask, and Li Tai's smile immediately appeared in his mind, and he said angrily at the moment: "Why else, it's not that Li Tai bullied me too much!" ”

When Helan Chushi heard this, he was immediately silent. Almost every time Li Chengqian said this, his face was always full of resentment, but when he inquired about the contradictions between the two later, it was mostly Li Shimin's unfair rewards and rewards that made Li Chengqian dissatisfied. Whenever he heard this, Helan Chushi always smiled bitterly, and then, Li Tai probably had to review the contradiction between himself and Li Tai!

Sure enough, Li Chengqian began to babble about what Li Tai was like when he was a child and how he competed with him for favor. What happened after the fight, and now he is still forming a party to plot his position in the East Palace, which is really hateful.

As he spoke, Li Chengqian's face gradually distorted, and the resentment in his words became heavier and heavier, and finally, Li Chengqian slapped a few cases: "This Li Tai deceived me too much, and he was determined to send someone to kill him!" ”

"No, Your Highness, this must not happen!" When Helan Chushi heard Li Chengqian say this, he hurriedly spoke, "Your Highness, this King of Wei is the prince of the country, if he is assassinated, His Majesty will be furious, and he will be investigated, in case it is found out that it was done by the East Palace, I am afraid that His Majesty will be angry and will demote His Royal Highness to a concubine." Besides, this is the eve of our event, so it's better to have fewer extraneous branches! ”

Li Chengqian pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If Lone can directly kill Li Tai, then there is no need to take the risk of committing this rebellious act!" Even if you can't kill it, as long as you act carefully, you won't be discovered by your father! At that time, we didn't have anything to lose, so why not? Don't say anything more, the lonely mind has been decided! ”

Hearing Li Chengqian say this, Helan Chushi had no choice but to smile bitterly and stop talking. Li Chengqian continued: "Chu Shi, you go and call Su Gan Chengji!" Hmph, last time Lone asked him to kill that Yu Zhining, he didn't do it, which disappointed Lone for a while! Hopefully he won't disappoint Lone this time! ”

When Helan Chushi heard this, he had no choice but to open the door of the store and go out to find Na Gan Chengji!

Lee Tae has been very proud lately. At the end of the 16th year of Guanguan, there were ministers of the DPRK and China and folk elders who talked about it, saying that Li Shimin was preparing to set up another prince, and he Li Tai was the number one candidate. Although at the beginning of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin stood up and said two sentences What although the prince has a foot disease, he does not waste his steps, and the eldest son is five years old, and he will never replace the sect with evil, and he will peek into the source of the kiln! Although these words said that they would not consider abolishing Li Chengqian's position as the crown prince, the meaning revealed between the words was that Li Shimin did not abolish his position in the East Palace because of Li Chengqian's foot disease and the fact that his eldest son was five years old. This means that as long as he Li Tai works harder, he will be able to live in the East Palace as he wishes.

Therefore, these days, Li Tai has been running extremely diligently with various ministers in the DPRK and China.

Li Tai was fat and it was very inconvenient to ride a horse, so every time he went out, he went out in a carriage. Of course, the only people who can make Li Tai personally visit are those important ministers in the court, at least at the level of the six squires. The officials under him directly sent their cronies to visit with a large number of gifts.

Today, Li Tai is going to visit Ma Zhou, the imperial historian. This Ma Zhouping is upright, never forms a party for personal gain, and stands on a neutral position for the current competition between the East Palace and the Wei Palace, that is to say, what Li Shimin says, he will do! Of course, many ministers of the DPRK and China use this attitude.

Li Tai attached great importance to this visit, so he brought a large amount of belongings to come in person. However, to Li Tai's disappointment, he ate a closed door outside the door of Ma Zhou's mansion, and he didn't even see a single figure, only a child about six or seven years old looked at Li Tai and others timidly, saying that Ma Zhou was sick in bed and couldn't see guests.

When Li Tai tried his best to see Ma Zhou and took out the gift to give to the little boy, the little boy tilted his head and thought for a moment, then took the gift and went in to report to Ma Zhou.

After a long time, the little boy returned to the door with tears on his face, and after returning the gift to Li Tai, he handed out a letter. Then he closed the door with a "snap".

Li Tai opened the book, took a cursory look at it, and his face immediately sank. It turns out that this epistle is full of excuses. At the same time, he also admonished Li Tai in the letter not to have too much contact with foreign ministers.

Li Tai looked at it and smiled coldly.

Just when Li Tai was about to call home, an accident happened.

There were three steps up the stairs to the carriage, and in front of the stairs stood a royal guard with a horizontal sword. Li Tai got into and out of the carriage behind him.

When Li Tai was about to get into the carriage, he suddenly remembered that since he had brought a gift and Ma Zhou didn't accept it, wouldn't he give it to others? And the house of a criminal squire was just less than ten steps away from Ma Zhou's house.

At that moment, this Li Tai stopped, turned around and walked in the direction of the house of the servant of the criminal department.

At this moment, two feathered arrows shot at a rapid pace. A feathered arrow accurately hit the royal guard who was wielding a horizontal sword. Another feathered arrow flew past Li Tai's face, and after cutting a bloody mark on his white and chubby face, it was nailed to a willow tree next to him.

The palace guards reacted very quickly, quickly rushed up, surrounded Li Tai, pulled out their weapons, and looked at the direction where the feather arrows were fired.

However, after these two arrows, there was no more movement from the other side.

Just when the guards were full of vigilant vigilance, Li Tai, who was protected by them in the middle, suddenly let out a loud shout: "Ah-"

The middle guard suddenly jumped down, and when he looked back, he saw Li Taizheng looking at the blood on his hands with a shocked face, and shouted in his mouth: "It's bleeding!" Bleeding, this king is bleeding! ”

Next, of course, he couldn't visit any more of the servants of the Criminal Department, Li Tai hurriedly drove a carriage to the palace, but the blood on his face was not treated, so the blood flowed into the palace for a long time.

"Father, you have to be the master of your sons!" As soon as he entered the Taiji Palace, Li Tai cried and rushed to the main hall where Li Shimin usually was.

"Qingque, you are ......" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai suspiciously.

Li Taigang hurriedly revealed the blood mark: "Father, the child has been assassinated!" ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he was taken aback: "Why are you assassinated!" Tell my father what's going on? ”

"Erchen led the guards to visit Nama Zhouma, but in the street outside his house, two feathered arrows flew out of nowhere and shot at Erchen. Fortunately, Erchen's life was great, and one shot Erchen's palace guards, and the other wiped Erchen's cheeks and shot into the tree! Now that scene is being guarded by Erchen! Father can send someone to check! Li Tai said with a sad and indignant face, "It must be that Erchen is favored by his father, which has caused some people's displeasure, so he sent someone to assassinate Erchen!" ”

When Li Shimin heard this, his face became gloomy: "Okay, Qingque, my father has already known about this matter, and he will definitely send someone over to check it well, and strive to catch the real murderer as soon as possible!" ”

"But Father, isn't it obvious that this is really a murderer? The only one who really wants to do it to his sons is ......"

"Enough!" Li Shimin raised his voice and said.

Seeing this, Li Tai had no choice but to hang his head stupidly and remain silent. But my eyes rolled, and I didn't know what I was thinking.

"Alright, Qingque, you go down and take care of your wounds! What kind of body does it look like with a blood mark on your face? Li Shimin saw Li Tai hanging his head, his tone softened, and he said lightly, "I will give you an explanation!" ”

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Li Tai had no choice but to clench his fists and leave, leaving the palace.

As soon as he left the palace, Li Tai looked at the rows of palaces in the east, and his eyes couldn't help but show a hint of fierceness.

And in the palace behind him, Li Shimin looked at the palace gate in a daze, why did these sons of his not let themselves worry about it so much?