The fifth is sent!

Daxing outside the city.

In a small courtyard in the corner of the city, Li Yuan was sitting under the front porch of the court playing chess with his son Li Shimin, who had just arrived from Luoyang.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, Erlang, your chess strength has risen again, this move just now is fierce, very good." Li Yuan was dressed in a relaxed robe, and praised his second son with a smile, who was becoming more and more heroic.

"My father has won the prize, and my son learned these tricks from the great monks in the temple when he raised his eyes in the Great Sea Temple, but he didn't learn them well, and he couldn't get into his father's eyes."

Li Yuan said, "A group of monks who are monks do not burn incense and recite scriptures, but they study chess. Let's play chess, but this chess move is still so murderous, this look is six impurities. ”

"Father, if there is a hustle and bustle today, even if it is a Buddhist family, it is difficult to keep that side of the pure land from being disturbed by the vulgar, if they want to protect themselves, they will naturally be able to blindly eat fast and chant Buddha."

"Yes, the world is in turmoil, and the world is going to be chaotic."

"Father, my son came all the way from Luoyang this time, and it was really like fire and water to see all parts of the Kanto region. It has been less than ten years since the Son of Heaven succeeded to the throne, and the world was in chaos. ”

"Shimin, it's better not to say some things, beware of misfortune coming out of your mouth, your father and I are now being snubbed by Your Majesty, and I don't know how many people have fallen into the well." Li Yuan sighed.

As he spoke, a butler delivered a secret letter.

"Ah Lang, Wang Jieyu sent it from the Wheel Palace." The butler whispered.

Li Yuan's hand trembled, took it, opened it, and read it carefully, under normal circumstances, the news that his niece passed on to him was passed on by word of mouth, and he would never leave it on paper. But this time, I actually wrote a letter, which is a lot of risk, and you can see how important the content of this letter is.

If someone finds out, Wang will fall into a major crime of leaking the forbidden Chinese language and privately befriending foreign ministers, which is a capital crime. And Li Yuan is also going to be convicted, and he can't escape the charge of befriending the harem.

After reading the letter, Li Yuan's face fell.

His hand trembling even more with the letter, and he asked the butler to fetch a lamp, and then set it on fire, soaking the ashes with water and shattering them.

Wait for the housekeeper to leave.

Li Shimin couldn't help but ask his father, "Aye, what did my cousin say?" ”

Li Yuan sighed, "The emperor knew that I was sick and asked me when I would die." ”

"Lack of gratitude!" Li Shimin couldn't help but say.

"Is the emperor so disgusted that he wants me to die now?" Li Yuan shook his head.

If the king wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die.

At that time, Yang Su helped Yang Guang to win the throne, and then to become the emperor, and made great contributions, but after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne and became the emperor, he stared at Yang Su every day.

Yang Su was sick, and Yang Guang sent a doctor every day to ask for medicine.

Those who don't know think that the emperor values Yang Su a lot, but only Yang Su knows that the emperor wants him to die immediately. So Yang Su got some extremely private news of the ban, and after hearing the emperor's own words that he wanted him to die immediately, he knew that Shi Wu refused to take the medicine, and then died.

Yang Su died, but because of his knowledge of the times, he saved the Yang family.

Now that the emperor actually asked him when he would die of illness, Li Yuan was terrified.

"Erlang, in case your father is gone, you brothers have to take good care of each other, listen to your brother more, and take care of your sisters and them."

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Li Shimin asked in surprise.

"O people of the world, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, and if the ministers do not die, then they will invite the disaster of extermination."

"Dad, how did things come to this point, after our family's eight-pillar country, our family is still a relative of the emperor and the country, and there are so many in-laws from famous families?"

Li Yuan smiled bitterly.

"Erlang, don't you still understand, it is precisely because our family is a country of eight pillars that we have been suppressed by the imperial court, from the first emperor to the present, our Tang State Mansion has a false title, but there is no chance to get ahead. For his father, he has served as a local assassin and a keeper many times, and he has served in many places, which place is not outstanding in political performance, and has won praise from the local people, but is it useful? Still not promoted. ”

"And once something goes wrong, the emperor will immediately be demoted."

"Dad, isn't it because we couldn't persuade Xincheng to surrender, Dad, we can't persuade us to surrender, so let's go and fight hard. I've studied that new city for a long time, but it's just a city with only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and it's not difficult to attack it. ”

"But my father is just a young eunuch in the palace now, what will he do to fight the new city. Besides, that new city is not as easy to fight as you said, otherwise, the general Guo Yan would not have fought for so long. ”

"Dad, how can Xincheng be difficult to fight, Guo Yan can't beat it, it's because he is incompetent. You see that Luo Cheng was just a few thousand men and horses at the beginning, but he insisted on beating the Goguryeo army of the entire new city, and the city lord of the new city, Yuan Jiantu, became his prisoner, and Yang Wanchun succeeded as the city lord, and he also cut off an arm. ”

"Luo Cheng blackmailed Xincheng, Yang Wanchun didn't dare to refuse, he was already extremely weak." Li Shimin said loudly, "Father, if we have 20,000 horses, we guarantee that we can build a new city." ”

Li Yuan pondered, if they could really build the new city, maybe they could change the situation in front of them.

"Maybe we should go to Luo Yi."

"Dad, do you really want to marry the third sister and the fourth sister to the two brothers of the Luo family?" Li Shimin said dissatisfied.

"Erlang, I know you're not satisfied with this marriage, but this matter has already been decided."

The voice just fell.

A girl rushed out.

"Dad, if I don't marry, I won't marry that Luo Siye, a country farmer and blacksmith, how can I be worthy. Dad, I'm not married, I'm not married! ”

Li Yuan looked up and saw that it was the fourth daughter who rushed over.

"Nonsense, the marriage of children is not up to you."

"I don't care, I won't marry. If I want to marry, I will marry the eldest grandson Erlang, even if I marry Duan Dalang, but I don't marry Naluo Laosan. ”

Li Siniang is very beautiful, but what she said made Li Yuan a little headache.

"If you don't marry Luo Sanlang, then you can change it with your third sister and go to be a concubine for Luo Wu." Li Yuan said angrily.

"I won't say yes!" Li Siniang didn't even want to be Luo San's wife, how could she be willing to be a concubine for Luo Wu.

At this moment, a voice came.

"Dad, my daughter is willing to marry, my father hopes that the Luo and Li families will marry, and my daughter understands her father's hard work, but since the fourth sister is unwilling to marry the Luo family, then Dad might as well discuss it with the Luo family again, and say that his daughter is willing to marry, hoping that they can agree to marry only one person and get married."

"Sanniang, how can Luo Yi be willing."

"Dad, didn't Luo Yi say before that he wanted his daughter to be a concubine for Luo Cheng, and told him that his daughter was willing to be a concubine for Luo Cheng, as long as they no longer asked the fourth sister to marry into the Luo family."

Li Yuan was surprised, "What nonsense are you talking about, you are the concubine of my Tang State Mansion, how can you be a concubine for Luo Cheng." ”

"Dad, my daughter has grown up in the Tang Mansion for 16 years, and she has been in the shade for 16 years, now my father is in trouble, the Guogong Mansion is in trouble, my daughter can't patronize herself, as long as my daughter is a concubine for Luo Cheng, I can really help my father get through this difficulty, and my daughter doesn't feel wronged. Besides, Na Luo Cheng is also a young hero, I don't know how many aristocratic ladies in the capital of Xijing are admired and praised, and his daughter also admires such a hero. ”

Li Shimin's face turned red, "Third sister, why do you have to wronged yourself, besides, our family has not reached this point." ”

"Dad, Shimin, don't say it, this matter is settled, I will be a concubine for Luo Cheng, the fourth sister can still marry the eldest grandson Erlang or Duan Dalang she likes, and my father also asked the emperor to attack the new city, and then ask Luo Yi to be the deputy general, with his help, I will be able to capture the new city and resolve the crisis."

Li Yuan sighed.