Chapter 126: Goodbye Locke (6,000 words)

"That's right, then you can just wait here." Li Zhen said along the steps, he knows too well what he is doing in Nanyang, he has destroyed Locke's arrangement in Nanyang, the two sides are already undying enemies, of course he will not put himself in danger, in case Locke appears when he prays for blessings, then he may not be able to get so many of them - you must know that in addition to Wu Gang, there are several masters around Locke, although he is strong in martial arts, but two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, but he may not be able to beat them.

"Yes." Everyone immediately stood by and surrounded the Sanqing Palace, while Li Zhen knelt on the futon, closed her eyes and began to pray to Sanqing for Li Shimin and Concubine Yan.

Not long after Li Zhen knelt down, Qingxu's face suddenly became pale and ugly.

And the guards surrounding the Sanqing Hall also quietly crossed Li Zhen and surrounded the Sanqing statue.

Because just when Li Zhen was praying for blessings, there was a 'clucking' sound on the wall behind the Sanqing stone statue - all kinds of signs indicate that behind this stone statue, there is definitely a cat.

"Giggles......

As the time was delayed, the stone statues rotated faster and faster, and soon the three stone statues turned into side faces of Li Zhen, revealing a large black hole behind them - this is clearly an authentic tunnel.

"Whew, finally come out......" Gao Ding took a deep breath, but before he finished speaking, he seemed to be stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say anything about the following words.

"This ......" was at this stall, and Locke and the others also walked out of the tunnel, but looking at the layers of soldiers surrounding outside, everyone was confused.

Wen Tonglin reacted the fastest, and was about to turn around and walk towards the tunnel - they were very familiar with this tunnel, as long as they entered the tunnel, they could walk back and forth with their eyes almost closed, and the army outside wanted to enter the tunnel, but they needed to prepare torches for lighting, and when they entered the tunnel, they might have gone far away, and then by taking advantage of the complicated situation underground, they would have a fifty percent chance of getting rid of the pursuers and escaping.

His idea is good, but will Li Zhen let him get his wish?

This is certainly impossible.

Li Zhen just said a word, and Wen Tonglin, who was about to escape, stiffly stood back in place.

"If you dare to go the extra mile, then I guarantee that you will be blown up by this gadget in my hand and bury you alive." Li Zhen lined up the crowd and looked at Locke with a smile: "Brother Luo, hello, let's meet again, since that day Xiaoshan said goodbye, this palace misses Brother Luo very much." ”

"If you can put down what you're doing, I can assume you're telling the truth." Locke sighed helplessly, looked at the hand-to-to-earth grenade that couldn't stop in Li Zhen's hand, and said, "Now that we are in your hands, you can draw a line, what are you going to do with us?" ”

"No, no, no, you misunderstood, I didn't mean to deal with you." Li Zhen put the grenade back on her waist and waved her hand again and again: "I really came to see you this time, and I didn't mean to arrest you." ”

"What do you mean?" Locke's brows furrowed deeply, he didn't understand what Li Zhen meant.

"I ......"

"Woo~"

Li Zhen was just about to answer, but was interrupted by a crisp gunshot, the shot was naturally not from Locke's side, but Luo Lin next to Li Zhen, I saw that the handcuff in his hand was still slowly emitting green smoke, and opposite Locke, Wu Gang fell to the ground and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, in front of him, there was also a military crossbow - the situation was already obvious, Wu Gang wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to assassinate Li Zhen, but was discovered by Luo Lin, who had been paying attention to the opposite side, and shot Wu Gang first, as for whether Wu Gang died or not, it didn't matter.

"It seems that Brother Luo, your subordinates are not very friendly to me." Li Zhen smiled lightly: "Originally, I was going to spare your life for the sake of the same clan and ancestor, but now it seems that ...... I can only say I'm sorry. ”

"Hmph, it's all come to this point, what else do you say about the same ancestor?" Locke listened to Li Zhen's words, and Locke sneered: "Since Li Shimin took away my father's throne, where is there any friendship between us?" ”

"There's no way around it." Li Zhen saw that Locke admitted his identity, and said seriously: "There must be an injury when the two tigers fight, this is inevitable, the father and the uncle are both peerless men who are one in a million, it is certain that no matter which one of them succeeds to the throne, they will be a generation of Ming Jun, but in the same way, no matter who succeeds to the throne, the remaining one will definitely not end well." What's more, at that time, the uncle was supported by the ministers outside, and the grandfather was partial, and the uncle was also aggressive towards his father, and the father was at an absolute disadvantage, so he fought to the death in desperation......"

"Shut up." Locke was furious when he heard this, and said sharply: "Now it's your world, of course you have to correct Li Shimin's name, become the king and defeat the king, I have nothing to say about this." But Li Zhen, don't be complacent, do you think you'll win? You are wrong, since I dare to come to Chang'an, the Longtan Tiger's Den, do you think I will only prepare this retreat for myself? ”

"I've never thought of it that way." Li Zhen shook his head: "According to that meeting on the mountain, I know that Brother Luo, you are not the kind of person who puts his eggs in one basket, these three Qingguan are indeed hidden enough, but if you want to pay attention to it, it is not impossible to find out, Brother Luo, how can you make such a risky strategy?" ”

"It's good that you understand, so don't show this state that you eat me." Locke unbuttoned his shirt and sneered: "What do you think this is?" ”

"Your Highness, be careful." Seeing this, Luo Lin and the fat man were immediately anxious, and hurriedly protected Li Zhen behind them, and at the same time, Li Zhen's guards also raised the muskets in their hands and aimed them at Locke and his party.

It turned out that each of Locke's struggles was wrapped in a bundle of fiery gunpowder, and it was no wonder that Rollin and the others showed such expressions.

Everyone was very nervous, but Li Zhen showed contempt: "Huh? This is the No. 3 gunpowder produced by the Shuzhong Arsenal, right? Good thing, Brother Luo, where did you get it? It's just that the biggest role of No. 3 gunpowder should be used to make propellants, Brother Luo, you put gunpowder on your waist like this, and you want to die with us, but it's overkill. ”

Locke said coldly: "Hmph, whether it's overkill or small, I only know that this gunpowder is enough to make everyone in the Sanqing Hall shatter their bones." ”

"That's right, but you're just going to die with me, aren't you reconciled?" Li Zhen shrugged and said: "I'm dead, my father has other sons to choose from, if you die, then the uncle's only bloodline will be gone." ”

"......" Locke looked at Li Zhen in surprise: "Sure enough, it is rumored in the world that although Li Zhen, the king of Yue, has an amazing view of the overall situation, he is ruthless, he has never put anything and anyone's life in his eyes, and in order to achieve his goal, he can sacrifice everything, including his own life...... Originally, I thought the rumors were exaggerated, but now it seems that the rumors are still modest. ”

Li Zhen: "......"

What is this?

Isn't that the answer?

Also, when did I become ruthless?

Who is the one who came up with this rumor?

How did Wei Zheng's newspaper come to be?

Don't you know how to defend me?

"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Locke looked at the guards behind Li Zhen: "What I'm most curious about now is, where did all these people behind you come from?" According to my information, your army in Chang'an City should still be searching for assassins, right? It must be that no one left the city, so where did they come from? ”

"This is my boys' army."

"Impossible." Before Locke could speak, Wen Tonglin preemptively said: "According to our intelligence, the Young Army is also in Chang'an City, and there is not a single one of the 10,000 people - at least they didn't make any changes until we left Chang'an City." Unless they all have wings, they can't be any faster than we are. ”

"This is ......" Li Zhen looked at Wen Tonglin, this person was handsome, his eyes were full of essence, and he was obviously also a world-shattering talent.

"Student Wen Yun, the small character is the same as Lin, I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince." Wen Tonglin smiled slightly and gave a gentle salute to Li Zhen.

"Wen Yun? Where do you seem to have heard of this name? Li Zhen lowered her head and pondered: "I always feel that I have seen you somewhere." ”

"Your Highness has naturally met the students." Wen Tonglin chuckled and said, "Father Wen Dalin, we should have met once ten years ago. ”

"Oh, by the way, you are the concubine of Yu Guogong." Li Zhen finally remembered, he had really seen this Wen Tonglin, just ten years ago, this Wen Yun had done a big thing.

Yu Guogong Wen Yanbo was first in charge of Luo Yi from Youzhou, and then descended to the Tang Dynasty with Luo Yi, who was captured by the Turks and imprisoned in the bitter cold land of Yinshan Mountain. He has a big brother Wen Yanhong, the word is Daya, Taiyuan Qiren, Tang Gaozu, Yanhong participated in machine maintenance, the official department is still the book, Feng Li Guogong, and the author of three volumes of "Tang Entrepreneurship and Living Note". In addition, the third brother Wen Yan was the official to the Zhongshu Shilang, and he was named the prince of Qinghe County. At that time, it was called "one door and three publics", which was prominent.

And this Wen Tonglin is Wen Yanbo's youngest son, and he is also a concubine, and his mother is a servant girl, who is the product of Wen Yanbo's drunkenness, from a low background, and has been repeatedly oppressed by his mother and siblings. Later, his mother died of illness, Wen Tonglin was humiliated, and ten years ago, Wen Yanbo's family was sued to the county government of Wannian County, and openly severed the father-son relationship with him, which was a sensation at the time.

At that time, this matter was very troublesome, and even in front of Li Shimin's case, Li Zhen met Wen Tonglin once at that time, so she had an impression of him.

This incident was spread in an uproar at the time, and the government and the opposition had everything to say, but in the end, it was Li Shimin who took action to appease the matter, and the matter was over. But Wen Yanbo was so angry that he vomited blood three liters because of this incident, and almost died violently, but fortunately, after the treatment of the imperial doctor, he was able to save his life, but because of this, he fell into the root of the disease, and his health has been bad, and finally died in Zhenguan ten years, since then all the three Wen brothers died (Wen Daya and Wen Dayou both died before Wen Yanbo), and the Wen family has declined since then.

However, after Li Shimin pacified the two sides ten years ago, Wen Yanbo sent Wen Tonglin back to his ancestral hometown of Qi County, and then there was no news of Wen Tonglin, and it has always been rumored that Wen Tonglin made things too big, resulting in a big loss of face for the Wen family, Wen Tonglin was actually assassinated by the Wen family, and Wen Tonglin has indeed had no news since then, and the Wen family is not clear about reason, and the reputation is even more stinky.

Li Zhen never thought that the person who disappeared ten years ago would reappear ten years later, and he was still mixed with Locke, and judging by his status, it was not too low in Chengjian Creek - this is really interesting.

If it weren't for the Wen family's bullying of Wen Tonglin too much, Wen Tonglin would not have fallen to this point today, the Wen family can at least prosper for a generation, not like now, the family is full of mediocre waste, although it has the name of the wang family, but has no right to speak.

"I can't imagine that His Highness still remembers the students." Wen Tonglin is still that personable, and compared with his current half-brother who is the head of the family, he is dozens of times stronger. Although it is not clear what his talent is, but with his bearing alone, Li Zhen has reason to believe that if the position of the head of the Wen family falls to Wen Tonglin, there may be a fourth grandfather in the Wen family.

"Of course I remember you, you did a great thing back then, and until now, there are still people in the people who mention your feat from time to time." Li Zhen said with a smile, what Wen Tonglin did was indeed a big deal.

You must know that since ancient times, Huaxia has governed the country with filial piety, and the most important filial piety, especially during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were even cases where people with pure filial piety were appointed as officials (at that time, the basic standard for raising filial piety was to see whether you were filial piety or not), and it was not much worse in the Li Shimin period, because he relied on killing his brother to force his father to take the throne, so he felt guilty about Li Yuan and paid more attention to filial piety.

However, in such an environment, Wen Tonglin dared to directly confront his father in court and ask to sever the relationship between father and son, which is really an earth-shattering big thing, and in the eyes of people, this is definitely a great disobedience and unfilial piety.

If you were someone else, it would not be strange if you were to be imprisoned for three or five years.

That is, Wen Tonglin was indeed greatly wronged in the Wen family, and he was beaten all over his body, and the wounds on his body made even Li Shimin feel distressed when he saw it, so he forgave Wen Tonglin's sins, but did not grant his request. At the same time, Wen Tonglin was also written into his blacklist, if there is no special reason, even if Wen Tonglin has great talent, he will never want to be an official and a half-time job in this life.

"What's the big deal? When I was young and frivolous, I couldn't help things, but now I think about it, if I could bear a little back then, with my talent, it would not be difficult to get ahead, and when I am successful, I will turn around and slap the Wen family in the face with my achievements, this should be the best and most painful way to punish. Wen Tonglin smiled bitterly: "Where is it like now, not only has he been deprived of his fame, but he is not even qualified to live in front of others." ”

"Actually, if you leave later, maybe your life will be the opposite of what you are now." Li Zhen said sincerely: "Because I was going to recruit you at that time, but the power in my hands was not strong at that time, and when I mobilized people to find you, you had already disappeared. ”

Li Zhen really didn't lie when she said this, you must know that those who dare to break the rules of the world and have the courage to rebel against the world are either crazy or peerless geniuses.

Wen Tonglin is obviously not a madman, so he can only be the latter. After the incident, Li Zhen actually really wanted to recruit him, but unfortunately, his power at that time was still too small, and the only Blood Dragon Guard was also recruited by Li Shimin to investigate Tuyuhun's intelligence, resulting in no one to send in Li Zhen's hands, and when his people found Qi County, Wen Tonglin had disappeared, which was also a big regret for Li Zhen.

"Thank you Your Highness for your love, but the creation makes people, Wen Yun and His Highness have no relationship between monarchs and ministers, this is also a matter of no choice, the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to talk about these things." A trace of emotion flashed in Wen Tonglin's eyes, he could see that what Li Zhen said was true, in the case of being in despair, there was still a person who was obsessed with himself, this feeling was really good, even with Wen Tonglin's character, he couldn't help but be a little moved. But just like he said, Li Zhen didn't meet him, otherwise Wen Tonglin's future would definitely go in another direction.

"Don't talk about the past." Li Zhen and Wen Tonglin chattered so much, Locke could naturally see that Li Zhen was delaying time, although he didn't understand why Li Zhen would delay time in an absolute advantage, but what Locke knew was that if Li Zhen was allowed to continue talking, then he and the others would really be doomed.

"Li Zhen, you haven't answered my question yet." Locke said impatiently: "If you can answer my question, even if I let you arrest it, what's the matter?" ”

Li Zhen glanced at him: "Arrest you?" And then let you buy the jailer to escape? ”

"Don't look down on people." Locke was furious, if he didn't remember his identity, he would probably have scolded his mother.

"Okay, okay, don't shout, in front of Grandpa Sanqing, you dare to be presumptuous?" Li Zhen said coldly: "Since you want to ask, then I'll tell you, these thousands of people are indeed the Young Army." ”

"Impossible." Li Siqian finally found an opportunity to interject: "Wen Tonglin has made it very clear just now, the total number of young soldiers you brought back to Chang'an this time is less than 110,000, and these 10,000 people are now in the youth army camp, and there is no sign of movement, unless they have inserted their wings, how can they be faster than us." ”

"Did I say you misunderstood something?" Li Zhen smiled and said: "It is true that there are less than 10,000 young soldiers I brought back to Chang'an from Lingnan, but ......"

"But...... Who told you that I only have 10,000 boys? ”

“……”

What do you mean?

Li Zhen's words were a bit tongue-twisting, and everyone was dumbfounded, and they couldn't react for a while.

"That's what I mean literally." Li Zhen chuckled and said, "It's true that I only brought back less than 10,000 young soldiers from Lingnan, but that doesn't mean that there are no young soldiers in Chang'an?" Don't you forget, where were the Boys' Army trained in the first place? ”

"Of course it's Chang'an." Gao Ding next to him said without thinking, this is something that everyone knows - since the Boys' Army became famous in the first war, many people have inquired about their origins, and Li Zhen herself has no intention of concealing it, so soon the news of the Boys' Army will be rotten on the street, including the training program of the Boys' Army, which has been known to many people.

Of course, there are people who try to imitate the training methods of the Young Army to train elites for their own forces, and there are not a few people who have such ideas, and even Li Shimin has such thoughts. But when they came up with the daily consumption of the Cadet Army's training, they all immediately closed their mouths - where is this training people, this is obviously a panic with too much money, and they are playing with silver.

Locke seemed to think of something, and was shocked: "You mean, you have trained another batch of boy soldiers?" ”

"That's right, rather, this is the second batch of Cadet Army." Li Zhen explained: "My Cadet Army is trained in batches, the previous one is the first batch, and now this batch is the second batch, in addition to these two batches of training, there are also the third and fourth batches and the fifth batch are being trained, and the sixth batch has also been selected and will be arranged for training soon......

"You madman, you train so many young soldiers, aren't you afraid that you will go bankrupt? No matter how rich you are, even if you are the God of Wealth, this money is not spent like this, right? Locke was terrified when he heard it, if what Li Zhen said was true, with the Young Army alone, Li Zhen could push the whole world. In the face of an army composed of at least third-rate experts in combat effectiveness, even if he has great ability, even if he trains an army of one million, he will definitely not be Li Zhen's opponent.

Besides, do you have an army of a million?

No.

Can Li Zhen train so many elite youth troops?

At least judging by his tone, it shouldn't look like a fake......

At least his money shouldn't be a problem......

But this plan ......

It's crazy, hey.

If what Li Zhen said was true, it would be terrible......

"No way, rich, capricious." Li Zhen shrugged and said, "And what I can tell you is that the second batch is a little more than the first batch, and the total number of trainees is 50,000, of which about 40,000 can successfully pass the training. The number of people in the third batch is even more, about 70,000, and the number of successful ones is between 50,000 and 60,000, and the number of the fourth batch is a little more than that of the third batch, which is exactly 100,000 people, and there should be about 80,000 or 90,000 who can successfully complete the training, and there are more ...... recruited in the sixth batch."

Forget it, I don't want to split it, so be it.

(End of chapter)