Dozens of butter candles in the manna hall were burning, and the hall was brightly lit, and one hundred and ten attendants stood on the left and right, listening to Hou Li Shimin's orders at any time.

Li Shimin sat on the Luohan bed in the main hall of the Ganlu Temple, holding a yellowed copy of the Book of Changes and reading motionlessly.

The candle on his desk was already very dim because no one had cut the wick for a long time, and Li Shimin's face was also gloomy, but neither Li Shimin nor the attendant standing beside him noticed it. Only the little chamberlain in the distance occasionally sneaked a glance up, and saw Li Shimin's face dark, and he trembled with fright, but he didn't dare to make any movements, and made a little sound.

The only sound in the hall was the sound of the lights burning and some rapid breathing.

I don't know how long later, suddenly there was a faint sound of armor crashing from a distance, Li Shimin Huo Ran raised his head, slapped the book on the table with a "snap", and looked at the door of the main hall with blazing eyes.

The footsteps became louder and louder, approaching the Ganlu Hall step by step, Li Shimin sat with straight eyes and glanced at the sword hanging at the head of the bed from time to time, ready to get up and draw the sword at any time......

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Shigui's voice came from outside the hall.

"What?" Li Shimin's voice was smooth and authentic.

"Zuo Wu Hou Zhonglang has brought Li Junxian back."

"Hmm." Li Shimin hummed calmly, and the attendants in the hall breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Shimin's sitting posture did not change at all, and he was still staring at the door with blazing eyes.

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"Minister Li Junxian greets Your Majesty!" Li Junxian was dressed in armor and knelt down on one knee when he was still a few feet away from Li Shimin.

"Flat"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Junxian stood up, his armor made a crisp crashing sound, raised his head to look at the solemn Ganlu Hall and the majestic and solemn Li Shimin hurriedly lowered his head, and did not dare to raise his head again.

Li Shimin looked Li Junxian up and down, and said calmly for a while: "What's going on outside?"

Li Junxian could hear that although Li Shimin's tone was calm and still eager, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, when the minister took the forbidden army out of the imperial city, there was still thunder everywhere in Chang'an City.

Seeing this, the minister divided his troops and went to various temples to check, and found that the Daxiong Treasure Hall of all the temples in Chang'an City had collapsed by lightning. ”

"Except for the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there is no other place that has been struck by lightning?" Li Shimin confirmed with a solemn face.

"Nope."

"Have you found anyone suspicious?" Li Shimin remembered Fu Yi's words.

Li Junxian didn't understand what Li Shimin meant, and he couldn't imagine that someone could create thunder, so he replied: "Last night, the lightning struck Daxingshan Temple, and two monks who were watching incense in the Daxiong Treasure Hall were stoned to death, so the monks in the temples tonight are hiding far away from the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and there is no one at all. ”

Li Shimin heard that it was useless to ask him, so he got up slowly, frowned and paced back and forth in the hall, and Li Shimin's footsteps sounded in the Ganlu Palace......

Li Shimin secretly thought in his heart that this matter obviously had something to do with Li Chengqian, a rebel, but was it Li Chengqian who instructed the Taoist priest to apply the Nine Heavens Righteous Thunder Method, or did Li Chengqian ask the Taoist priest to help him practice Lei Dan?

Jiutian Zhenglei was what he had heard, and Lei Dan was the name he gave himself according to Fu Yi's statement.

But no matter which one it is, it is related to the Taoist priest, Li Chengqian has no choice for the time being, he can only find the Taoist priest who helps Li Chengqian first, otherwise one day he will be given a moment in the Ganlu Palace, and he will have to abdicate if he does not die.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin stood still, turned to the main hall and said: "Spread my will, tomorrow the Great Dynasty will summon Xue Yi, the master of the Purple Mansion, and Dr. Taichang Li Chunfeng to the palace. ”

"Yes!" The chamberlain was busy.

Xue Yi was originally a Taoist priest, but in the Sui Dynasty, he saw that Emperor Yang of Sui, who was still a prince, had the appearance of an emperor, and quietly told Emperor Yang of Sui about it, and he was greatly favored after Sui Yang ascended the throne.

After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, Xue Yi told Li Yuan again: You have the idea of an emperor, so he was also greatly favored during the Wude period.

In the last years of Wude, there was a celestial anomaly, Fu Yi and Xue Yi both thought that this was a sign that Li Shimin would have the world, Fu Yi secretly reported the matter to Li Yuan, and after the report, all the records were burned so as not to leak out and cause trouble.

Xue Yi secretly told Li Shimin about this, so Fu Yi's official position remained unchanged during the Zhenguan period, but Xue Yi rose to prominence and became a Taoist priest trusted by Li Shimin.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and thought about the things that would go to court in a while, walked slowly to the door of the Ganlu Palace, and asked as he walked, "What time is it?" ”

An inner servant hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, now is the moment, the ministers should also come to Ouchi." ”

Li Shimin walked directly to the door of the Ganlu Hall without speaking, and saw Zhang Shigui and the generals of the forbidden army who were still standing straight, and said with a smile: "You have worked hard, you don't have to be so grassy and woody in a little evil art, you all go and rest when the day is about to dawn." ”

Zhang Shigui heard the voice, hurriedly turned around and bowed with his fists and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty cares, protecting Your Majesty is a minister's position, and Your Majesty is the true dragon Son of Heaven, and it is safer for the ministers to protect the ministers here." ”

Li Shimin smiled when he heard this, walked to His Majesty Dan and looked up at the palace that was brightly lit everywhere, then raised his head to look at the brilliant starry sky, and said for a while: "Zhang Qing's family thinks that this thunder on a dry day is really a divine thunder sent down from heaven to punish the Buddha Gate for leaking the secret of heaven?"

His Majesty Dan was quiet, and after a while, Li Shimin saw that Zhang Shigui did not answer, and looked back at Zhang Shigui.

Zhang Shigui hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Don't you dare to say it?"

"Huh?" Li Shimin is very strange.

"The matter involves gods and ghosts, and the minister's body and mortal fetus really don't dare to think about it, for fear that he will be blamed if he thinks wrongly and misunderstands the will of heaven, so the minister only believes in His Majesty, and His Majesty lets the minister do whatever he wants." Zhang Shigui hurriedly explained.

Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction, looked at the others and said, "What do you think?"

Seeing the generals, they didn't know how to answer, only Li Junxian, who was standing at the end, hugged his fists and said: "I don't know if the Buddha has leaked the heavenly opportunity, after all, the so-called earth dragon turning over is still a non-existent thing, but if the heavens don't rain down the divine thunder, hundreds of thousands of people on the dragon head will lose their livelihoods." ”

Li Shimin nodded when he heard this, and seeing that the other generals did not speak, he turned around and looked up at the sky.

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Last night's thunder alarmed the entire Chang'an City, and the ministers of the court in the morning looked uneasy, especially when they saw the five steps and one post and one ten-year-old sentry in the entire imperial city, the ministers who came to the court were very nervous.

One by one, they got off the horse outside the Taiji Palace, and stood silently at the palace gate, just waiting for the moment when the palace gate was opened.

As soon as the hour arrived, the palace gate was wide open, and the ministers of the imperial history who did not need to picket the style and discipline automatically stood in their positions and followed the people in front of them.

In silence, the hundred officials walked into the Taiji Hall and saw that Li Shimin had already taken the throne, and looked at the hundred officials who walked into the minister majestically.

Seeing this, Li Shimin raised his hand, and the attendant standing beside him said in a loud voice: "Flat." ”

Baiguan got up, found their seats, sat down, and waited for Li Shimin to speak.

"All of you are in Chang'an City, do you know what happened in Chang'an City last night?" Li Shimin's voice could not hear joy and anger.

"When you return to Your Majesty, you hear a burst of thunder, and there is nothing else?" Gao Shilian, as the prime minister, was the first to stand up and answer.

Li Shimin knew that after the hundred officials were on duty, they usually went back to their respective workshops, and when he heard that it was impossible for Lei to come out to check, he said directly: "Yes, that burst of sound knocked down all the temples in Chang'an." ”

"Ahh

……

There was an exclamation below, Li Shimin paid attention to a few Chongjiao Hall scholars, and saw that their faces were also full of incredulity, so he turned around and looked at Xue Yi and Li Chunfeng who he had specially summoned.

"What do you think of the two Qing families?"

Li Chunfeng didn't dare to say anything at this time, but Xue Yi came out and said seriously: "Your Majesty, this is the heavenly punishment of the Buddhist demon monks for the calamity. ”

"Why did God punish the Buddha?"

"Politics." Xue Yi explained the reason in one mouth.

Politics? Buddhism interferes in politics? Some Confucian scholars became alarmed.

Li Shimin was displeased, but he still suppressed the fire and asked, "I heard that the Taoist alchemy can refine a thunder pill, is there such a thing?"

Xue Yi said with a confused look on his face when he heard this: "Your Majesty, I have never heard of the matter of Lei Dan, but I am afraid that the person who can refine Lei Dan has already jumped out of the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements......

Li Shimin listened to him getting farther and farther, waved his hand to signal him to stop, and asked Li Chunfeng directly: "Does Li Qing's family know about this?"

Li Chunfeng hurriedly came out when he heard this: "Back to Your Majesty's ancient book, the alchemy fryer is like thunder, but Lei Dan has never heard of it. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin waved his hand to signal him to go down, and then looked at the ministers and said, "What do you think of this matter?"

"Your Majesty, Qi Xuan, thinks that the Buddhist demon monks are interfering in politics and calamity, and since the country is hit by the thunder, the court should order severe punishment according to the will of heaven." Zhu Suiliang hurriedly stood up and said.

Originally, Zhu Suiliang was Li Shimin's very trusted minister, but because Zhu Suiliang was close to the East Palace, Li Shimin looked at him a little unpleasantly, and said unhappily when he heard it: "Punishment is a later story, I now want to know whether the Daxiong Treasure Hall of this Chang'an Temple was struck by heavenly lightning?"

The ministers listened to Li Shimin's contradictory words, and they were all unclear, so Li Shimin couldn't jump out for Li Chengqian, and if Buddhism was punished by heaven because of this, what should I do?

"Your Majesty, the Heavenly Lightning Strike, the ministers and others have never seen it with their own eyes, but I think it shouldn't be false for everyone to say this, right?" Zhu Suiliang thought about what Li Chengqian said to Xue Rengui, and felt a little weak.

When Li Shimin heard this, his heart moved, and he said: "Okay, let's not discuss this matter first, and go to see if you want to go with your ministers." ”

Saying that, Li Shimin got up and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Li Shimin made a gesture of immediately scattering to see the miracle of the lightning strike in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and people who were not blind naturally would not jump out at this time to do something.

It's just that one minister still walked out of the train and saluted Li Shimin: "The minister has something to play." ”

Li Shimin looked at Jiang Xingben without eyes, and felt unhappy, but firstly, Jiang Xingben was a master craftsman of the third grade, and then Li Shimin also knew that he was dedicated to studying the process, so he didn't care about him.

"What does Jiang have to play?" Li Shimin sat down again.

"Your Majesty, last month I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dreamed that officials of the Qin Dynasty presented books to His Royal Highness the Prince, so he sent people to Anlu to dig up books according to the place indicated by His Royal Highness the Prince, and sure enough, he dug up a Qin tomb, and there were a thousand Qin slips in the tomb, which have now arrived in the capital——"

"What?" Hearing this, Li Shimin Huo Ran stood up and interrupted him and asked eagerly: "Jiang Qingjia, you said that the prince dreamed that an official of the Qin Dynasty gave him a book, and you sent someone to dig up Qin Jian?" Tell me more about it. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty is like this......" Jiang Xingben repeated what Li Chengqian told him in the main hall that day.

When Li Shimin and hundreds of officials in the palace heard this, they were all shocked and inexplicable when they thought that Li Chengqian might be reincarnated as Qin Shi Huang.

After a while, Li Shimin suddenly stood up and said, "Where is the book?" Show it to me. ”

Jiang Xingben was embarrassed when he heard this: "When Your Majesty Qi came to the court today, he was brought here, but he thought that these were all presented to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by the officials of the Qin Dynasty, so I asked people to send them to the East Palace first, and I wanted to come ......."

Li Shimin heard the angry "hi", flicked his sleeves, turned his face to the side and ignored him.

"In that case, Your Majesty will summon His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the palace." Yang Shidao has always wanted to ease the relationship between Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, and Li Chengqian can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye in the court because he was cut off his power and pretended to be sick.

And at this time, everyone also believed in their hearts that Buddhism must have been punished by heaven, and those with a little brightness in their heads knew that Xue Yi said that Buddhism was referring to the Yuanxue monk who jumped out to attack Long Shouyuan.

In doing so, Qin Shi Huang's reincarnation body is embarrassed, and he shouldn't be punished by heaven?

It's just that thinking that Li Chengqian may be the reincarnation of Qin Shi Huang, one by one still feels cold in the bottom of my heart.

(End of chapter)