Although Zhao Jie was impatient, he was simple-minded and loyal to Li Chengqian, so Li Chengqian sent him to find Xue Rengui, and sure enough, he brought Xue Rengui back on time according to Li Chengqian's request.

Zhao Jie, who was in the dust, led a man who was as dusty as him into the Hongjiao Palace, Li Chengqian was still a little excited in his heart, according to the history he knew, there were not many people loyal to Li Chengqian in the East Palace now, and if he wanted to change this situation, he could only find someone from outside.

So he grasped the fault of the left and right supervisors, that is, to vacate the cage for the birds, and the cage was vacated, where did the new birds come from?

In the early Tang Dynasty, there were indeed countless stars, but those famous generals either had the same other thoughts as Hou Junji and Zhang Liang, and they couldn't control it at all, or they were afraid that Li Shimin would not dare to support Li Chengqian.

But Xue Rengui is different from them, Xue Rengui has not yet set foot in the officialdom, he has him by his side and gives him high-ranking officials, if he does not follow him with all his heart, he will never think about anyone using him in the future.

Xue Rengui is strong in martial arts, both civil and military, and he is a rare general, so he doesn't have to worry about his safety after he is in the East Palace.

Zhao Jie was a little dissatisfied when he entered the Hongjiao Palace, and felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always changed places recently, for a while in the Lizheng Palace, and for a while in the Eight Winds Palace.

"Meet His Royal Highness the Prince, Wei Chen is fortunate to have invited this Xue Li to you." Li Chengqian was looking at Xue Rengui behind him at this time, and didn't care about his little emotions.

Twenty-seven-year-old Xue Rengui was dressed in an old white robe, his face was covered with dust, and only his two eyes were unusually bright. He is not an official now, and when he saw Li Chengqian, he hurriedly pushed the golden mountain and poured the jade pillar and knelt down and kowtowed.

"Grass people Xue Li to meet His Royal Highness the Prince." Xue Rengui's voice was loud, and the people in the entire Hongjiao Hall looked at him.

Li Chengqian hurriedly stepped down from his seat, helped him up, looked up at his eyes and said, "You and I have met again!" ”

In a word, except for Pei Xingjian, everyone was stunned, and Zhao Jie and the old ghost thought: When has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seen this Xue Li?

Xue Rengui was even more puzzled in his heart, he had never seen His Royal Highness the Prince, what did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince mean by this?

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the grass people have never visited His Royal Highness the Prince, maybe His Royal Highness the Crown Prince recognized the wrong person, right?" When Xue Rengui said this, he was already very disappointed, thinking that someone had recommended him in front of the prince, but he didn't want to be the wrong person for His Royal Highness the Prince, and his enthusiasm was like being poured cold water.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian laughed and said: "Rengui, it doesn't matter if you don't remember the past, don't mention these things, you just need to remember that in this world, we monarchs and ministers will work together to do a great cause." ”

Xue Rengui heard the words as if he was falling into a fog, he was almost thirty years old, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

"Okay, I'll go wash up after traveling all night, eat something and sleep for a while, and then the lonely king will give you a banquet at noon." Li Chengqian said that he wanted to reach out and pat Xue Rengui's shoulder, but because Xue Rengui was too tall and inconvenient to shoot, he changed his hand to wave.

Glancing at Zhao Jie, who was enlightened, he said: "Zhao Jie, you can go too, take a good rest all the way, and let you see Rengui's skills in the afternoon." ”

This set of rhetoric is a way that Li Chengqian has long thought of to subdue Xue Rengui, and with Zhao Jie's quick mouth, he will immediately tell Xue Rengui about the dream of the gods, so that Xue Rengui will definitely be loyal to himself.

Watching Xue Rengui and Zhao Jie walk out of the main hall, Li Chengqian said to the old ghost: "Arrange a banquet here at noon, call Du He, Xu Jingzong, Hao Chujun and Qiu's divine achievements, and let the dining room kill one more sheep, this Xue Rengui has a lot of food!" In addition, he added food to Chongxian Pavilion, and told Mr. Zhang that he would not invite him if they were all young people. ”

"Yes." The old ghost promised to go out and give orders.

"Have you finished reading Pei Xingjian's military strategy?" As soon as Li Chengqian turned around, he saw the thoughtful Pei Xingjian in a daze.

Pei Xingjian's face turned red and he wanted to say something, but Li Chengqian ignored him, lowered his head and began to write his plan for the future.

At noon, everyone gathered in the Hongjiao Hall.

Li Chengqian introduced Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian to everyone, and everyone saw that one of them was a young descendant and the other was a man like a farmer, but they didn't take it to heart.

Li Chengqian only smiled slightly in his eyes, and said secretly in his heart: The people sitting here are all heroes for a while, and their morale is very high, and it is impossible to easily recognize others, but when you see Xue Rengui's ability, let you know how much the Lone King is favored by God.

"Everyone knows each other, and in the future, I will ask you to work together with the lonely king to build a prosperous Tang Dynasty." Li Chengqian said, got up and led everyone to the side hall.

When everyone walked into the side hall, they saw a large round table in the middle, on which food and fruits were placed, and a circle of chairs were placed on the periphery.

There are also two small strips next to the round table, one has a small tripod on it, and below the tripod is a brazier, the soup in the tripod is still steaming, and a little eunuch is dividing the soup. On another table was a roasted fat sheep, and several little eunuchs were cutting and dividing the meat.

Li Chengqian walked over first and sat down on the main seat.

Then he waved his hand and said, "Everyone sit down!" ”

"Hmm" Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, you're dumbfounded. I have heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince likes to mess around, but today it seems that it is not groundless, and even eating is different from others, but how can I sit down?

Li Chengqian saw that everyone was hesitant, and knew that they had scruples, so he stood up and said to everyone: "You all sit down around the table, and the Lone King will treat guests to dinner according to the Lone King's method." ”

Everyone had no choice but to sit down in order, Li Chengqian saw that everyone was sitting down, raised his chopsticks and said, "You all have errands in the afternoon, so I won't invite you to drink at noon." ”

Du He, as Li Chengqian's confidant and brother-in-law, hesitated and said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you have a banquet to entertain you, why bother ......?"

"It's not that the lone king wants to sweep everyone's interest, it's really an extraordinary time. The things at hand are also very important, and in a few days, when the "Renshou Palace" is arranged, the lonely king will put a wine to thank you. Li Chengqian said solemnly.

"In the past few days, Weichen has often eaten with His Royal Highness in the Eight Winds Palace, and seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince every day is a bowl of meat, a vegetarian and a bowl of soup, and today is already very rich." Xu Jingzong said and ate it calmly.

However, Hao Chujun, Pei Xingjian, Xue Rengui and Qiu Shenji couldn't help but look at Li Chengqian, and couldn't help muttering in their hearts: His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's reputation outside has always been bad, and he doesn't want to be such a self-disciplined and thrifty person, it seems that people's words may not be true.

Li Chengqian saw Xue Rengui in a daze, and said with a smile: "Rengui, you let go of eating today, King Gu knows that you have suffered in the past few years, so he specially asked them to kill a sheep, and in the afternoon, I want to help King Gu clean up the children of the left and right prison rates and the left and right inner rate mansions." ”

"Ah, grass people, thank His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for his great gratitude." Xue Rengui had already heard that 'Li Chengqian found him in a dream entrusted by a man of God', and in the morning, he saw Li Chengqian's attitude towards him as an old friend, and he had already decided in his heart that Li Chengqian was his heavenly master.

"Since you are working for the lonely king, you will not be a grass person in the future, so let's be a thousand first."

Li Chengqian said lightly, but everyone's jaws dropped, Donggong Qianniu Beishen is a military attache of the sixth grade!

Here, Xu Jingzong is also a fifth-grade bachelor, Hao Chujun is a sixth-grade straight bachelor, and Pei Xingjian Zhongming Jingke is just an eight-grade Cangcao who joined the army.

As soon as Xue Rengui came, he sat down to prepare for the sixth grade of Qianniu, why is it so valued by His Royal Highness the Prince?

Even Du He, Zhao Jie, and Qiu Shenji unconsciously looked towards Xue Rengui.

This look is terrible, I saw that Xue Rengui had already eaten the food in front of him, and the two little eunuchs were bringing the cut mutton to him one by one from the case over there, and a large plate of mutton Xue Rengui picked up three handfuls and put them in his mouth to chew and swallow.

Although the two little eunuchs kept sending it to his table, they obviously couldn't serve him food.

So everyone stopped eating, and all watched Xue Rengui eat.

Pei Xingjian, who was sitting next to Xue Rengui, saw that the little eunuch couldn't serve him food, so he brought the untouched dishes in front of him to Xue Rengui and whispered: "Brother Xue eats a lot, these are all things that the little brother has never touched, if Brother Xue doesn't dislike it, please eat it together." ”

Xue Rengui didn't say much, and said, "Thank you!" "I began to eat like a whirlwind.

In this way, in less than a quarter of an hour, Xue Rengui ate all the meals of himself and Pei Xingjian, as well as twenty or thirty catties of roast mutton.

Li Chengqian watched Xue Rengui eat, remembering that he had seen the big stomach king in various competitions on the news in his previous life, but those so-called big stomach kings couldn't walk with a shy stomach when they ate something, but Xue Rengui ate so much, and his body shape didn't change at all, you don't know where he ate.

Li Chengqian saw that Xue Rengui had finished eating, and he was busy giving the old ghost a look, but the old ghost twitched the corner of his eye and personally brought the untouched dish in front of Li Chengqian.

As soon as Xue Rengui saw the old ghost personally bringing the food over, he hurriedly got up and caught it with both hands, and said to Li Chengqian: "Thank you for the kindness of Prince Palace, the last general has already eaten enough, and he can't move if he eats any more." ”

"It's okay, you just have to eat enough, is there a way that the emperor's family also sends hungry soldiers?" Li Chengqian said with a smile.

"Then the general will eat this plate, and if he eats it again, he really can't get on the horse-drawn bow." Xue Rengui stood and ate the dishes brought by the old ghost as he spoke, and everyone laughed when they saw that he was eating cutely.

Xue Rengui smiled innocently and didn't care.

Everyone only cared about Xue Rengui eating, and they forgot to eat, and when they saw that Xue Rengui was busy eating, they all put down the dishes and chopsticks after a few bites.

Li Chengqian got up and said, "The herald will gather the people on the left and right prison guards and the internal guards to the square in front of the Xiande Palace. ”