Chapter 32: The Impenetrable Prince
Seeing Liu Xun bowing his head, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should be fine today, right?
"The big things have been arranged, and the snow in Chang'an City must be cleared, and the people will be mobilized." Li Chengqian said and looked at Gao Shilian.
"What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is very true, if the people in Chang'an City are requisitioned out of the city, it will be a big problem to clean up the snow in Chang'an City!" Gao Shilian nodded and sighed.
"The Lone King and all of you also live in Chang'an City, and this can't 'each family sweep the snow in front of the door, regardless of the frost on the tiles of others', so the Lone King wants to go out with you to clear the snow on Suzaku Street.
Other officials working in the Yamen as long as they are less than 55 years old have come out to clear the snow, and let the people of Chang'an City know that the snow disaster is not terrible, and we will definitely be able to get through this difficult time with one heart! ”
Everyone here knew that the prince wanted to appease people's hearts as soon as they heard it, these were originally what the imperial court should do in times of disaster, there was nothing to fight, even if they couldn't fight.
Therefore, as soon as Li Chengqian finished speaking, he gladly accepted the order.
"Since you all agree, then the Zhongshu Province will draw up the decree, let's go out from the East Palace, and when we walk through the imperial city, we will call all the people from the yamen to go to Suzaku Street together.!"
"Your Honor." As Yang Shidao spoke, he got up and went to draft the purpose.
"Since you are going to go to Suzaku Street with the Lone King to clear the snow, then you will all write a letter and go home, and ask the family generals and family members to go to Tonghuamen before the end of the day, and start clearing the snow outside the city early tomorrow morning.
Uncle Daozong, you will go to Tonghuamen now to prepare the tent charcoal fire. ”
After Li Chengqian finished speaking, the needles in the hall could be heard, and no matter how dull the person was, he understood that Li Chengqian was going to transfer the generals and palace guards of each family out of Chang'an City.
"What's the matter, the Lone King didn't arrange it properly?" Li Chengqian asked knowingly.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, is this a little too anxious?" Li Daozong asked tentatively, and the others also nodded.
"The most important thing now is to welcome my father back to Beijing and rescue the people of the surrounding counties, which is not an urgent matter?" Li Chengqian asked.
Li Shiji snorted and said, "Of course, these are all urgent matters, but there is no need to rush this night, right?" Well! Well! Wei Chigong and Li Jing also nodded in agreement.
Li Chengqian saw that although he suppressed the civilian officials just now, he couldn't suppress these generals, and he said today that everything could not be done.
He sighed deeply and said, "Uncle Daozong Wang and Li Shangshu, please follow the lonely king to the side hall!" ”
Li Chengqian got up and said to everyone: "Everyone, wait a minute. ”
Li Chengqian took a few steps forward, feeling strange, and when he turned around, he saw that everyone in the hall stood up and looked at him with a complicated and incomprehensible look.
Li Daozong and Li Shiji stood there, their faces changed, they were regretful, hesitant, frightened, and determined not to know what they were thinking.
Li Chengqian only realized at this time that he had frightened them, and he always felt that these battlefield generals were all wise and scheming, and they should have seen his good intentions earlier.
I never thought they would have such a deep misunderstanding of themselves.
"Don't worry, the Lone King didn't ambush the sword and axe!" Li Chengqian said angrily.
"Uh" that's embarrassing.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please make it clear here." Li Shiji hugged his fists.
"Can't say it here! What are the generals afraid of?" Li Chengqian scoffed.
Looking at Li Chengqian's smiling eyes, the two of them blushed and followed silently, and the other people in the hall also watched them silently as they walked into the side hall.
As soon as Li Chengqian entered the side hall, he directly found a chair to sit down, and pointed to the chair next to him: "Please sit down!" ”
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please say it clearly." Li Shiji stood there unmoved, he had already made a decision in his heart, so he was very calm at this time.
"A few days ago, someone found the lonely king and said, 'There are changes in astronomy, and great things should be done'."
"Prince......" Li Daozong shouted, but was stopped by Li Shiji, who calmly waited for Li Chengqian's next words.
"King Lone has already arrested people, and when his father returns to Beijing, he will hand it over to his father to deal with. But the lonely king doesn't know how many Taoist priests are sent behind this person? Whose houses have they gone?"
"Your Highness is worried?" Li Shiji's eyes flashed as he spoke, and he looked at the side of the main hall.
Li Chengqian ignored him, and continued: "Before Zhang Liang went to Luoyang, he secretly told his father that some ministers were going to rebel, and his father told him that you are a meritorious minister, and there is no evidence for the two of them in private, so they cannot be punished with this. ”
Li Shiji and Li Daozong both gasped when they heard this, but Li Shiji regained his composure and said, "Then what is the Prince's Palace going to do?"
"Keep Chang'an City stable, and welcome my father back to Beijing as soon as possible!" Li Chengqian said without hesitation.
"The minister is willing to obey the orders of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Li Shiji said calmly, although he didn't fully believe Li Chengqian's words, he also knew that Li Chengqian couldn't move the left and right guards in Chang'an, so he turned over and didn't make waves.
"Chen, let's go to Tonghuamen!" Li Daozong's face was a little red.
"You better talk to those people outside first, and ask them to send someone to Tonghuamen!" Li Chengqian said angrily.
"Uh" Both of them were a little embarrassed, there were several people outside who were higher than them and couldn't use their power to suppress people, and Li Chengqian couldn't tell them what he said to outsiders, so he could only beg for help.
"King Lone thought that you were all henchmen of your father, and you should come first when the court was in trouble, but I didn't expect to come so late, and it was so difficult for King Lone to even say a word alone?" As soon as Li Chengqian complained, the two of them were even more embarrassed, the father and son regarded you as confidants, and you were left behind when the country was in trouble?
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this is going to them to ask for someone!" Li Daozong was really afraid that Li Chengqian would say something to complain about, so he fled in a panic as he spoke, and Li Shiji hurriedly followed.
"Wait!" The two turned around in amazement and looked at Li Chengqian in confusion.
Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Don't tell your father what the lonely king told you, otherwise your father will think that you are the henchmen of the lonely king, and then it will be a big trouble." ”
Li Shiji and Li Daozong went out because their attitudes changed too quickly, and the ministers thought that they had been bought by Li Chengqian, and their suspicions were even heavier.
Li Chengqian asked people to change into regular clothes for themselves, and beckoned everyone in the hall to go to Suzaku Street, although everyone already had different thoughts, they still chose to focus on the overall situation and go with Li Chengqian to appease the hearts of the people in Chang'an.
Walking to the Jiafu Gate, Li Chengqian said loudly: "Uncle and Grandpa Yang Zhongshu are on duty in Shangshu Province and Zhongshu Province, and Wei Guogong and Song Guogong are too old to go home and rest first." ”
"Haha, is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince old and useless?" Li Jing said and turned over cleanly on the horse. "If you can't do anything else, it's okay to sweep the snow." As he spoke, he rode forward on horseback.
"Although the old minister is old, he can still move, and he has to walk around Chang'an City more these days." Xiao Yu blew his beard and glared, and then turned over and got on the horse.
Li Chengqian was a little surprised, Li Jing is seventy years old this year, Xiao Yu is also sixty-seven, and the tall horse of one meter five or six is on it!
However, Li Chengqian soon became uncomfortable, and everyone who came out together was not a martial artist, but young and old, and they all got on the horse, one by one. Looking at his right foot, Li Chengqian thought to himself: No wonder Li Shimin looked down on Li Chengqian in history, and he had to practice horseback riding in the future.
The old ghost helped Li Chengqian into a small carriage, and everyone rode around, each thinking about the East Palace just now, and their hearts were somewhat uncomfortable, but they were soon attracted by another thing.
Xue Rengui, dressed in a white robe, rode majestically on a tall horse, carrying a strong bow on his back and carrying a big gun, and escorted Li Chengqian's car with a 2,000-foot guide to the left and right prison gates.
The two thousand people walked forward in a row of four, their movements were in unison, and their military boots stepped on the ground "popping and ......popping" like a person.
Originally, everyone thought that this was a show off by His Royal Highness the Prince, and it would be chaotic if they walked a few steps, but they didn't expect that they walked more than two miles from the Jiafu Gate of the East Palace to the Chengtian Gate of the Taiji Palace, and they didn't go in any chaos. Turn a corner, half of the people have to run to go to the front center first, and half continue to follow. Everyone rode on their horses and looked at the thousand people running in front of them, still moving in unison and in unison, and there was no sign of scattering when they ran out of the imperial city.
"Papapa......" The footsteps of them walking on the long street seemed to be stepping on everyone's hearts, especially Li Jing, Hou Junji and other people who led the troops, looking at this army had a unique taste in their hearts.
Turning his head to look at Xue Rengui, who was riding on a tall horse, he was thinking in his heart, not to mention this person's archery skills, and such a training ability, how could no one know about it when he was almost thirty years old, and how did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know, could it really be that the rumors said that 'it was a god and a man who dreamed'?
Thinking about what happened in the East Palace just now, looking at the slow and leisurely carriage that Li Chengqian was sitting in, I felt more and more incomprehensible.