Concubine Yang heard that Li Shimin was going to summon King Wu, so she proposed that the concubines disperse and let their father and son talk about business.

After a while, Li Ke, the king of Wu, came to the Thousand Steps Corridor of Taiji Palace, and Li Shimin saw that Li Ke came so quickly and knew that he was in the East Palace just now, so he was a little unhappy and said, "What are you doing in the East Palace all day?"

On the way here, Li Ke asked the chamberlain who had passed the decree, and knew that it was a pigeon that flew back from Luoyang and flew to Li Shimin by mistake.

Why do you say that you are in the East Palace all day as soon as you open your mouth!

However, Li Ke has always been respectful in front of Li Shimin, and hurriedly saluted and replied: "Back to my father, my sons have recently been helping His Royal Highness the Crown Prince train carrier pigeons. ”

Li Shimin glanced at the white pigeon when he heard this, and said lightly: "This pigeon was trained by you?"

"Back to my father, the sons and daughters mainly control the layout and personnel arrangements of pigeon stations in various places." Li Ke replied honestly.

Li Shimin nodded and pointed to the pigeon in the hand of the waiter and said, "This pigeon flew back from Luoyang?"

When Li Ke heard this, he took the pigeon, looked at the bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's legs, and replied: "Back to my father, this is the pigeon flew back from Luoyang." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded again and said, "What does that rebel want to do when he trains these pigeons?"

"Back to my father, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to use these pigeons to convey military information and some major court affairs."

Li Shimin said in his heart, sure enough, this rebel is going to grab the military power. Immediately, he said, "Where else do your brothers want to unite with the army?"

Li Ke was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Erchen doesn't dare!" ”

Li Shimin snorted coldly when he heard this: "You don't dare, that rebel dares." ”

When Li Ke heard that he was going to make a misunderstanding, he hurriedly knelt down on his knees and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has no such intention, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just wants to think that the vast border line of my Tang Dynasty is long, and now the speed of military intelligence transmission is too slow, so he asked his son to train carrier pigeons in the East Palace, thinking that it is for the purpose of transmitting military information."

Moreover, he was going to use a year or two to arrange the east of the Tang Dynasty to prepare for the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, and now he was going east to Luoyang, and he had no intention of colluding with the border army privately. ”

Seeing that Li Ke was so cautious, Li Shimin thought that Li Chengqian would not tell him even if he really wanted to do something rebellious, so he sighed and helped Li Ke up: "Then look at what is written on this note?"

Li Ke took it and replied truthfully: "Back to my father, what I said above is that Li Shangshu of the military department put down the rebellion of the king of Qi and returned triumphantly, and he led his troops to the outside of Luoyang last night. ”

Li Shimin remembered Li Shiji's performance a few days ago, and it was time to go outside Luoyang City after calculating the time and distance, so he nodded and asked, "What is written on this, and how can you understand it at a glance?" This is what Li Shimin is most concerned about.

"Back to my father, it's just some numbers on it." Li Ke walked up to Li Shimin as he spoke, pointed to those small numbers, and told Li Shimin one by one that the Arabic numerals corresponded to one, two, three, and four......

Li Shimin recognized it for a long time and said: "Even if these are numbers, how do you know what is written in them?"

Li Ke heard the words and said, "Bring this book." ”

The attendant who was waiting next to him hurriedly brought a copy of the Analects.

Li Ke told Li Shimin that the first two numbers represent the number of pages, the third number represents the number of lines, and the fourth number represents the number of words.

Li Shimin was busy looking for the Analects in the book according to the numbers for a long time, but when he wrote out all the words, he found that it was nothing, and he couldn't help but look at Li Ke angrily, thinking that Li Ke was lying to him.

Seeing this, Li Ke smiled bitterly and said: "Father, the password on this piece of paper does not correspond to this book, but a book compiled by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself, which is in the hands of two chamberlains. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin angrily threw the Analects and the note in his hand on the table and said, "Then how can you know what is written here at a glance?"

Li Ke hurriedly said: "Back to my father, Luoyang released thirty pigeons today, and twenty-four have flown back when Erchen came. ”

Li Shimin said in his heart that the rebel really didn't trust anyone, and Ke'er was so loyal to him that he was guarded against him.

Thinking of this, he sighed and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that, it's noon now, so you can have lunch with me." ”

"Thank you, Father."

Five days later, Li Shiji, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Liu Dewei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, won the victory in quelling the rebellion, and escorted Li You, the king of Qi, and a group of traitors who followed Li You's rebellion back to Chang'an.

Li Shimin summoned them in the Liangyi Palace, and Li You's rebellion was not a glorious thing for the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin, so the three people in the Liangyi Hall just said a few words and revealed the matter.

Then Li Shimin looked at Liu Dewei and said: "Since Liu Shangshu has returned to Chang'an City, let's go back to the ministry to work after a few days, the prince is impatient and has recently done a lot of gentry in Guanzhong, and Liu Qing's family will be lenient when they go to the criminal department to see if they can be forgiven." ”

Liu Dewei just came back and didn't know how far Li Shimin and Li Chengqian had quarreled, and when he heard Li Shimin's face-to-face orders, he hurriedly agreed: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Li Shimin was in a bad mood, so Li Shiji and Liu Dewei got up and retreated, but Li Shiji didn't think anything when he stood up, and hurriedly took out a letter from his arms, presented it with both hands, and said: "Your Majesty, this is a letter from King Wu to King Qi that was searched in the Qi Palace."

Xinchen has already read it, it was written after Quan Wanji impeached King Qi, and in the letter, His Royal Highness King Wu tried hard to persuade King Qi to come to Chang'an as soon as possible to admit his mistake......"

When Li Shimin heard this, he hurriedly signaled the chamberlain to accept the letter, and when he opened it, he saw that it was indeed written by Li Ke, the king of Wu, and the content was indeed to persuade Li You to return to Chang'an to admit his mistake, and the letter stated that as long as Li You came back, Li Chengqian would also speak for Li You.

After reading Li Ke's letter, Li Shimin also remembered that when Quan Wanji impeached Li You, Li Chengqian's seemingly nonsense criticism. Secret Dao: If Li Chengqian was allowed to mess around at that time, there would be no need to kill Li You now.

After a long sigh, Li Shimin raised his head and said, "It is rumored that Li Ke, the king of Wu, is here to see." ”

After a while, Li Ke came to the Liangyi Hall to salute, and Li Shimin gave him a seat and handed the letter to Li Ke and said, "This is the letter you wrote to Li You?"

Li Ke took it and nodded hurriedly: "Exactly." ”

"Why did you write to persuade that animal to return to Chang'an?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke's eyes and asked.

"Back to my father, it was written by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his sons." Li Ke replied truthfully.

"Oh!" Li Shimin was even more puzzled.

"At that time, when Quan Wanji wrote to impeach Lao Wu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince saw that this matter was true, but he thought that there were too many villains around Lao Wu, and he could give him ideas to assassinate Quan Wanji, and he could also give him some other ideas.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is afraid that the fifth child will make some big mistakes again, so he wants to persuade the fifth to return to Chang'an, and then His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will kill the villain around the fifth child, and then strictly control the fifth child.

It's just that the fifth child's wife is Wei Ting's daughter, and at that time, Wei Ting's family had just been dealt with by His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was afraid that he would be too careful, so he asked his sons to write this letter to the fifth child. ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and asked again: "What you said is true?"

Li Ke hurriedly saluted solemnly when he heard this: "What Erchen said is true, otherwise Erchen would not dare to write a letter to the fifth child at that time." ”

Li Shimin believed it when he heard this, nodded and said, "I heard that the fourth wife's wife lives in your house?"

Li Ke hurriedly said: "This is also the arrangement of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

"Oh!" Li Shimin was even more curious when he heard this, and said for a while: "Although he is to blame for the death of the fourth child, he should not torture him, but he is still conscience, let you take care of the fourth child's wife." ”

When Li Ke heard this, he realized that Li Shimin's misunderstanding of Li Chengqian was so deep, so he hurriedly got up and walked to the middle of the hall and knelt down and said: "Father Qi, when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered his sons to take in the wife of the fourth child, he wanted to let the fourth child have a way to go to Zhaoling to guard the tomb for his mother. It's just that I'm worried that someone will make a fuss about the fourth child again, so I ordered someone to break the fourth child's legs, so that the fourth child can live the second half of his life in peace.

It's just that I didn't expect that the fourth child was arrogant and didn't want to live so hard, and even committed suicide in prison. ”

"What? Cheng Qian broke Qingque's legs in order to let him live?" Li Shimin couldn't believe it.

Seeing Li Ke nodding, Li Shimin still couldn't believe that he had misunderstood Li Chengqian, and waved his hand for a while to signal Li Ke to withdraw.

"Go and bring the suicide note written by Qingque to me and Yu Zhining's secret recital." Watching Li Ke walk out, Li Shimin said with a gloomy face.

Li Shimin took the suicide note written by Li Tai to him and did not open it, the content of this suicide note was already deeply rooted in his heart, put down Li Tai's suicide note and picked up the secret note written by Yu Zhining to him, in this secret note, it was clear that Li Chengqian forced Li Tai to frame Yu Zhining and the eldest grandson Wuji to participate in the rebellion.

Li Shimin looked at Yu Zhining again, and said in his heart: "Bring the file of the Qingque rebellion case in Li Yi's mansion." ”

When this dossier was played by Li Yifu, because Li Chengqian had already killed all the prisoners at the Suzaku Gate.

The angry Li Shimin didn't even look at it and threw it out, and then the inner servant put it away and put it away.

At this time, Li Shimin opened it for the first time, Li Shimin saw the neat and neat fly-headed small letters, the exquisite sentences and the rebellion against each thief were all well-founded, there was really no flaw, and the last important thing was that Li Shimin had read all the files, and there was nothing about Zhining and the eldest grandson Wuji, even if it involved their clansmen, they were not implicated in the slightest.

Li Shimin was very puzzled in his heart, with Li Chengqian's strong and domineering, if he really wanted to use the case of Li Tai's rebellion to climb Yu Zhining and the eldest grandson Wuji, even if there was no evidence, he would rely on three points and let them shed a layer of skin.

Li Chengqian did not have the slightest obstacle to Yu Zhining and his eldest grandson Wuji in the trial of this case or in the file, but Li Tai left a suicide note to slander Li Chengqian when he was dying, and Li Tai hated Li Chengqian the most, and he would naturally not let Li Chengqian go even if he died.

But how did Yu Zhining know about this?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he snorted coldly and wrote: The villain is in the column, and the beetle is deep; The giant cunning is the card, the evil will be great, the right concubine Liyang County Gong Yu Zhining, from Lu Wu, words and deeds are rare, there is no trickle of labor in the country, in the old of the bandits. …… Regarding this crime, he was killed together, but he couldn't bear to hang his life with his dreams. It is advisable to avoid the tiredness of the family and give him suicide.

After Li Shimin finished writing, he raised his head and said, "The king of Jin has come to see me." The chamberlains of the temple went out to deliver the message.

After a while, Li Zhi came in and saluted: "The son of the emperor sees his father." ”

Li Shimin didn't raise his head when he heard this, but said lightly: "Pingshen, you go to Yu Zhining's mansion to announce the decree, watch Yu Zhining cut himself, and then go to the Criminal Department to pass on my message, so that they can quickly send the eldest grandson Wuji to Qiongzhou." Li Shimin said without emotion.

Li Zhi's face turned white when he saw Li Shimin so frightened, and he was about to speak, but he saw Li Shimin waving his hand and said, "Go quickly." ”

Li Zhi didn't dare to say more, he was stunned, and walked out of the Liangyi Hall in despair.

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