Chapter 104: Li Shimin Initially Determines the Situation

The battlefield where Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng fought was only in Xuanwumen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Donggong and Qi Wangfu Because of Luo Yan's suggestion, there has not been any killing at this moment, even if there are guards who try to break through with the families of the two, but Fang Du and the others have already led a large group of soldiers and horses to surround the two mansions, so these people have also extinguished the idea of breaking through, and just quietly confronted Li Shimin's men and horses.

Walking out of the Taiji Palace, the time is only as high as noon. Although the series of battles just now was thrilling, it was a stalemate for a lot of time when Xue Wanche and Feng Li led the men and horses to block the Xuanwu Gate. Therefore, after relaxing at this moment, Li Shimin suddenly realized that the time was more than an hour in the past.

Standing outside the Xuanwu Gate, looking up at the scorching sun, the gloom that had been suppressed by Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji for a long time was swept away at this moment. The unbearable scenes of the past are repeated in front of him, but Li Shimin no longer has the anxiety he had in the past.

After standing for a long time, he came back to his senses. He didn't look back, just said softly, "Let's go." Then he turned on his horse and led a group of people to the East Palace.

Naturally, there is Pei Lin in the same company. This has always been Li Jiancheng's confidant, and he is quite relied on by Li Yuan on weekdays, but at this time, he can only follow Li Shimin silently. The purpose of this trip was to persuade the generals and staff of the East Palace to surrender. And Pei Lian, who has a high status in the East Palace, naturally became the best candidate to persuade him to surrender.

To be honest, the person he has always favored and assisted died at this time, and Pei Lian's heart was indeed a little depressed. It's just that the matter has come to this point, and he can't think about it too much, in order to be able to keep a trace of Li Jiancheng's bloodline, Pei Lin has to be this bad guy.

Li Shimin promised to let the family members of the two provinces live in front of Li Yuan, but if the people of the two provinces do not know each other and arouse Li Shimin's ferocity, who can guarantee that the people will not go back on their word. Although Pei Lin is an old fritter in officialdom, after all, he has worked with Li Jiancheng for many years, no matter how indifferent he is, although he will not accompany Li Jiancheng to die, but Pei Lin is still capable of protecting his family.

There was no word all the way, and the sound of horses' hooves ran along the outer wall of the imperial city until it reached the gate of the East Palace, and then it came to an abrupt end.

At this time, outside the East Palace, there was a post of five steps, one person, ten steps, and strict guards. Along the way, seeing that even with the towering palace wall behind them, these soldiers still looked serious, and they didn't dare to relax at all, Li Shimin smiled with satisfaction.

It was Du Ruhui who came to surround the East Palace, and it was Du Ruhui who took Cheng Zhijie and a few people, because Li Shimin had greeted him first, although these people wanted to storm it several times and slaughter Li Jiancheng's family. But fortunately, with Du Ruhui, who has always been a dignified staff member in the army, after deep thought, Du Ruhui felt that he still had to rely on the families of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to recruit the old subordinates of the two, and it was really not good to kill rashly, so he persuaded a few people to die.

Seeing Li Shimin coming, Cheng Zhijie said with some indignation: "Your Highness, the rabbit cubs in the East Palace are so boring, I will wait for all the good things to say, and I will not open the palace door if I live or die." It's really not good, I'll wait for the forcible attack and kill the fuck directly. Saying this, Cheng Zhijie was still unhappy in his heart, and he spat at the gate of the East Palace.

Fortunately, Li Shimin has been staying with these reckless men for a long time, so he doesn't blame Cheng Zhijie for this rude action, and immediately turned his head to look at Pei Lin behind him.

Li Shimin's meaning Pei Lin naturally understood that he came to do this, so he didn't care that Cheng Zhijie and the other generals looked at him unpleasantly, and after getting off the horse, he said to the soldiers who were in a stalemate above the gatehouse: "Let Li Gang come out and speak." ”

Pei Lin is the old man of the East Palace, and everyone up and down the East Palace naturally knows him. And now that Xue Wanche and Feng Li are among the generals, there is basically no one who can take care of things, and the leaders in the East Palace are Li Gang, Wang Qi, and Wei Zheng. And among these people, Li Gang has the most weight to speak, who made this person who has won Li Jiancheng's trust after two dynasties.

Presumably, as long as it is said to this one, no matter how tough Wang Qi and Wei Zheng are, many generals under him will obey Li Gang's orders.

The guards guarding the door immediately went to the East Palace to report, and at this time, they saw that Pei Lin and Li Shimin had appeared, so the matter must have a result, and how to deal with it in the end is indeed up to these big men to decide. Thinking that he is waiting for a pawn, whatever the boss says is nothing, if he can save his life in this matter, it will be a blessing.

Li Gang was confronting these people with Wang Qi and Wei at this time, comforting Li Jiancheng's family. Although these relatives usually do not appear in front of everyone, but now that the bad news has come, Li Jiancheng has died, and these weak women who have lost their support naturally found these staff members in front of them as soon as possible.

I didn't say anything when I met, I cried when I had a child holding my child, I hugged and cried without a child, in short, this is a wordless begging. Li Gang and the others naturally understood what these women were crying for, it was nothing more than to save their lives. But what more could they say?

Sending all the troops of the East Palace to the various palace gates, and stubbornly guarding the stalemate with the soldiers who came to them, this is also a means for them to win vitality, just hope that it will be useful when the time comes. Hoping that they can be like Bo Yi Shuqi, it is all a joke, not to mention anything else, just him Li Gang, if he wants to die, as early as when Yang Yong, the prince of the previous dynasty, died, he followed him, how could he survive until now.

At this time, I heard that the soldiers came to report that Pei Lin came to talk to him with Li Shimin, Li Gang looked at the others, and saw that everyone nodded silently and did not speak, so he led a group of people to the palace gate.

The stakes are very high, so no one doesn't want to follow Li Gang to listen to the news. So in an instant, the palace gate was firmly stationed.

Seeing that Li Gang came with a kind of Li Jiancheng's staff, Pei Lin began to speak: "The crown prince and the king of Qi are dead, and the king of Qin promised in person in front of the sage that the prince and the family of the king of Qi will not be moved. Ladies and gentlemen, open the palace gate and descend. ”

I have to say that Pei Lian's words can capture the psychology of these people. Why?

The first is to tell everyone that Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji are dead, and everyone's support is completely gone, which is the initial disintegration of these people's antagonistic emotions. Secondly, tell these people that Li Shimin will not attack Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's families. This matter is intriguing. Since they don't do anything to the families of these two people, then they are just working under the hands of others, and naturally they will not be at the worst to the point of losing their lives. The dual meaning not only makes those who are deeply favored by Li Jiancheng feel that they are worthy of Li Jiancheng, but also makes those who are worried about their lives get promises.

In this way, everyone's resistance is basically gone.

and the many civil and military people who came with him, since people have taken care of everything that should be taken care of, these people are trapped here anyway, even if they resist again, it is meaningless, so it is better to descend like this.

When he was young, the gate of the East Palace was wide open, and a group of civil and military officers walked out of the palace gate in turn, and even the guards of the East Palace followed behind these people, came out one by one, and then threw down their weapons on the edge of the palace gate, which was taken by the soldiers under Li Shimin to take care of it.

When no one came out again, Li Jiancheng's family was basically left in the East Palace. Since he had promised not to touch these people, Li Shimin naturally had no interest in going to see Li Jiancheng's family again, so he waved his hand, summoned his own personal guards, and asked him to take someone to strictly guard the East Palace.

Of course, after these guards enter the East Palace, they will naturally check the population one by one, and report the situation to Li Shimin in detail at that time. Relatively speaking, Li Yuanji's mansion was much easier to handle, Fang Xuanling just brought people over, and the soldiers guarding the Qi Palace's mansion immediately surrendered. Li Yuanji did not have the same good reputation as his two elder brothers in Chang'an, so in the end, there was no confrontation like the East Palace.

Since Pei Lin had already dealt with the affairs of the two places, Li Shimin let him go back and report to Li Yuan.

The people in Chang'an City only heard about Li Shimin's brothers killing each other from different channels at this time. However, as soon as Li Shiminfu took over the military power, he immediately sealed all the entrances and exits of Chang'an, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. At the same time, all the Jin Wuwei were dispatched to strictly inspect the streets of Chang'an City, and they had found signs of gathering crowds to make trouble, and they were immediately arrested regardless of the reason.

Such a decisive approach naturally achieved very good results. Some rangers in the city wanted to take advantage of this turmoil and take advantage of the chaos to make profits, but they were all suppressed by Jin Wuwei's thunder. Those people saw that the people patrolling the streets were more ruthless than before, so they didn't dare to wander the streets anymore, which reduced a lot of burden on Li Shimin.

What happened in Ren Xuanwumen stirred up the sky in Chang'an City, and Li Shimin finally unloaded his strong support, and drove his horse to the Qin Palace's mansion with a tired face.

At that time, when the rebels were about to attack the Qin Palace, Li Shimin was frightened. Although the throne has always been his dream, but his wife and children are also his heart, at that time, when Xue Wanche led people to kill the Qin Palace, if Gao Shilian and them came a little later, Li Shimin would definitely be desperate and lead people to rush out.

At this time, basically everything is under his control, forcing Li Yuan to hand over the rights in his hands, Li Shimin is naturally excited and very happy at the same time. But because of this, the suffocating strength in his heart was relaxed, and Li Shimin really felt tired at this time, and just wanted to return to the palace early and have a good rest.

After all, when the dynasty is made tomorrow morning, Li Yuan will hand over the rights at hand to himself. Then the next thing is to stabilize the situation, deal with government affairs, and then officially ascend the throne, these things are busy and survive, and I can't accompany my wife and children for a long time.

Even though Li Shimin has a tiger in his heart, there is also a time to sniff the rose.