Li Shimin summoned Wei Chigong on the second day and made two orders, one is to summon all the officials accompanying Shuo Fang to the camp, it turned out that Shuo Fang was very important as a transit station for grain and grass in the rear during the war, and now the war between Datang and Xue Yantuo has been fought, so there is no need to leave a large number of central officials.

Therefore, in addition to arranging for Gao Shilian and the few officials to stay behind, a large number of officials such as Fang Xuanling came to the camp and began to deal with the surrender of the various ministries in Mobei.

The second is that he wants to take the prince and hundreds of officials to lead the army to patrol Lingzhou, and at the same time summon all the assassins inside and outside the Hetao in Lingzhou.

After four or five days, the Shuofang officials led by Fang Xuanling arrived, and Li Zhi came with him.

In Li Shimin's big tent, Li Zhi and other ministers saluted Li Shimin and Li Chengqian.

"Zhongqing returned to his seat" Li Shimin has always been very happy because he killed Xue Yantuo.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The ministers thanked each of them for their seats,

"The pheasant slave has come to Brother Wei." Li Chengqian looked at Li Zhidao expressionlessly.

The tent immediately fell silent, and all the ministers looked at Li Chengqian.

Li Zhi subconsciously glanced at Li Shimin, and Li Shimin didn't know what to do, so he motioned for Li Zhi to go over.

Li Chengqian always looked at Li Zhi ruthlessly, and Li Zhi watched Li Chengqian slowly move forward with fear.

"What's wrong with you? Every time Li Ju made any mistakes, he walked in front of me like this. Li Chengqian looked at Li Zhi more and more seriously.

Li Zhi didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly took three steps and made two steps to Li Chengqian, and he clasped his fists and saluted again: "I've seen my eldest brother." ”

Li Chengqian got up and looked Li Zhi up and down, and asked lightly: "I heard that you will be sick when I leave Chang'an, and you can't even go to Longshouyuan to learn farming?"

"Hmm," Li Zhi whispered when he heard this.

Hearing this, Li Chengqian returned to his seat and sat down, looked at Li Zhi and sighed and said gently: "Since you are sick, you shouldn't go north out of Chang'an again, if you have a good one, how will I explain to my mother in the future!" ”

Before Li Zhi could say anything, Li Shimin next to him turned his face to the side first.

At the beginning, he forcibly took Li Zhi, who was pretending to be sick, to the north because he was responsible for Li Zhi to cause chaos in Chang'an, and of course he couldn't say this in public.

Li Zhi was shocked when he heard this, turned his head to look at Li Shimin and said in a low voice: "At that time, when I went out of Chang'an with my father, my body was already well. ”

Li Shimin turned his face and glanced at Li Zhi appreciatively.

Li Chengqian sighed in his heart that it was a pity, and he still made a worried expression on his face and said: "I see that your face is still not very good, and your voice is so low. ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Jin thinks that he has been tired all the way here, and the old ministers have not taken care of His Royal Highness the King of Jin on the road, so please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to surrender." Fang Xuanling walked out and said.

Li Chengqian glanced at him and ignored him, and said directly to Li Zhi: "In this case, you should go to my tent to rest first, and let someone make you some light diet to recuperate." ”

As he spoke, he motioned to Liu Kui to take Li Zhi away.

The ministers in the tent watched Li Chengqian regulate Li Zhi in public, Li Shimin didn't say a word and pretended not to see it, and when Li Zhi went out, it became lively again.

Only Fang Xuanling was bored, but fortunately, others were old and refined, and when he saw that Li Chengqian ignored himself and just laughed at himself, he walked back and sat down.

After Li Chengqian controlled Li Zhi, he turned a blind eye to other things, which made Li Shimin very happy, so he didn't embarrass him.

Seeing that the ministers had arrived, Li Shimin ordered the camp to set off for Lingzhou on the second day.

At sunrise and sunset, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the grass in spring is windy and rainy, which is very suitable for marching.

Along the way, Li Chengqian rode a horse or rode a wheel, slowly admiring the beautiful scenery of the grassland, and sometimes wrote some poems to teach the soldiers.

"Leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered. Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate. ”

"Hmph, they all say that he is good at writing, so he writes such a simple poem?" Li Shimin rode on a horse and listened to Fang Xuanling read Li Chengqian's poems, and said with some indignation.

Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile on his face when he heard this: "Although His Royal Highness the Prince's poem is plain, it is widely sung, and tens of thousands of soldiers can read it in two days. Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also said: The barbarians of all ethnic groups in the north and south of the desert are like the weeds on this grassland, and it is not easy to destroy a Turk and a Xue Yantuo will come out. ”

Fang Xuanling said that he was a little worried, and as soon as Li Chengqian came, he controlled Li Zhi and obviously noticed something. Now that he is working with Li Shimin to set up the Hui and other tribes as a prefecture, Li Chengqian has released such a rumor again, and he is obviously very dissatisfied with him.

"Xuan Ling rest assured, when he arrives in Lingzhou, he won't be able to make any waves." Li Shimin frowned when he heard this, and comforted Fang Xuanling.

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At the same time, Li Chengqian, dressed in gold armor and wearing a long red cloak, rode a tall horse, and walked on the edge of the military formation in a very stylish manner, so that the soldiers in front and behind could see him.

Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling in front of him riding on horses to discuss government affairs, his eyes gradually narrowed, his poems had been written for a few days, and it was impossible that they had not reached Li Shimin's ears.

There has been no response so far, which means that Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling did not plan to listen to his opinion.

"Go and pass the king." Li Chengqian commanded Wang Fangyi in a low voice.

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No matter how long the road is, there is a time to go, and on this day, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and Li Shimin and his party came to the outside of Lingzhou City.

Zhao Daoxing, the governor of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office, led the civil and military officials in Lingzhou City out of the city for fifty miles to greet him.

Li Shimin rode on a horse and glanced at Zhao Daoxing's heart, and the fire in his heart rushed up, most of the soldiers and horses in Li Chengqian's hands now came from Lingzhou, and in this war of the Tang Dynasty to destroy Xue Yantuo, the Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion at the forefront did not play any role.

Before Li Shimin entered the city, he made a decree: Zhao Daoxing, the governor of Lingzhou's Metropolitan Mansion, was incompetent and demoted to Jingzhou Assassin. Zhang Shigui, the general of the Right Tun Guard, made many meritorious deeds and entered the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, and handed over immediately after entering the city.

An edict went down, and Zhao Daoxing and Zhang Shigui were both scared half to death.

Zhang Shigui was originally a confidant general guarding the Xuanwu Gate for Li Shimin, and he took over the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion very smoothly. But Zhang Shigui began to frown, and his brows were tightly locked, and he did not have the joy of being promoted from the third rank to the top military general of the second grade.

All because the 30,000 troops of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion had long been borrowed by Li Chengqian, and the first thing he did when he took office was to get back the 30,000 troops from Li Chengqian.

Zhang Shigui sat on a martial arts arena in Lingzhou City and sighed mournfully, thinking about what to say when he went to see Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian killed many ministers when he was in Chang'an, but those people were all civil officials, so the generals at that time were not afraid of Li Chengqian.

However, since Li Chengqian led the army north to the Tang Dynasty, it has been rumored that Li Chengqian is killing people, killing tens of thousands of barbarians along the way.

The ministers of the camp could see that Li Shimin intended to empty Li Chengqian's power, and Zhang Shigui, as Li Shimin's confidant general, knew it for a long time, but the more he knew it, the more he was afraid, and the more he didn't want to get involved in the battle between the two dragons.

Just when Zhang Shigui was at a loss, the guards came to report, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent an attendant to summon the Metropolitan Governor to go there.

Zhang Shigui didn't expect Li Chengqian to come to the door first, bit and stomped his feet, and followed the chamberlain of the East Palace to the east courtyard of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

Now the entire Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has been requisitioned by Li Shimin, and Li Chengqian lives in the east courtyard.

Zhang Shigui entered the east courtyard and went to the main courtyard where Li Shimin lived, and saw that the front door was heavily guarded and knew that Li Shimin was in the main courtyard, so he boldly walked into the side courtyard to see Li Chengqian.

In the courtyard on the east side, Li Chengqian was playing Go with Li Zhi, Li Chengqian had already lost a few games in a row, and this one was about to lose, and when he saw Zhang Shigui coming in, he pushed the chessboard and looked at Zhang Shigui with a smile, looking at Zhang Shigui with a smile in his eyes.

Zhang Shigui was frightened and hurriedly bowed.

"Minister Zhang Shigui see His Royal Highness the Prince." The sweat on Zhang Shigui's forehead came out.