Tai Chi Palace.

After Li Yuan abdicated, he temporarily lived here.

Just when the people outside were shouting for Li Yuan to restore, a little eunuch quietly rushed to the Taiji Palace.

It's just that just when the little eunuch was about to enter the Taiji Palace, he was stopped by two guards at the door.

"Do what?"

"There is an order from the Holy Lord, let me come and see the Emperor."

The little eunuch said, without the slightest nervousness, the guard's expression moved slightly, and asked, "Is there an order from the Holy Lord?" ”

"It's the Holy Word."

As soon as these words came out, a guard suddenly stepped forward, and then without further words, he cut off the little eunuch's head with a knife.

The whole process took place in a very short period of time, and it was a little unexpected.

"If you want to enter the Taiji Palace, the saint will not use a verbal message."

After one of the guards finished speaking, he continued to guard the Taiji Palace.

Li Shimin had already made arrangements here in Taiji Palace, and if he was not his own person, he didn't even want to go in, let alone pass on the news.

The Royal Palace, the Imperial Study.

Li Shimin's brows were solemn, and his whole face was surprisingly poor.

He didn't expect that a smallpox would not only make all his previous efforts go to waste, but also that there were people who wanted his father to be restored, which was the last thing he wanted to see.

"Holy Lord, you are not bad for the people, not only reduce their taxes, but also have all kinds of preferential treatment and benefits for them, but because of smallpox, they are now asking you to abdicate, these people are too ungrateful, as long as the Holy Lord gives an order, the last general will lead the army to cut them down."

Hou Junji was very angry, and now he hated to slaughter the people outside the palace.

In his opinion, these people are a bit of an inch, and only when they see blood can they know peace.

Li Shimin frowned slightly, he naturally understood that what Hou Junji said was right, as long as he made a move, he could really suppress the troubles of the people outside.

But there are some bad consequences to this.

There will be no such thing as a virtuous monarch, and smallpox is terrible enough, it will make their population of Datang drop rapidly, if so many people are killed, won't the population of Datang be even smaller?

Without the population, Chang'an is unstable, Lingzhou will lose its backing, and if the Turkic soldiers and horses break through Lingzhou, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, Hou Junji's proposal is not feasible.

The anger of the imperial study was a little solemn, and soon fell into silence again, which made people's hearts panic.

Li Ji stood aside, and after a long time, he finally spoke: "Holy Lord, this matter is strange. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin was a little strange and asked, "What's weird?" ”

In Li Shimin's view, it seems normal for people to be afraid of smallpox and then make these actions, and there is nothing strange about it.

Li Jidao: "Holy Lord, smallpox is terrible, it is normal for everyone to feel scared, and even say that your merits are not good, but those ordinary people, how can they think that the Holy Emperor is not right, and how can they come up with the idea of letting the Emperor Taishang restore, such an idea is definitely not something that ordinary people can come up with." ”

When these words came out, Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that there was really something wrong with this matter, the word restoration is not something that ordinary people can hear or know, not to mention that Li Yuan's news to the outside world has always been in poor health, so he abdicated, how could the people today think of something that is not right?

Obviously, someone took advantage of this matter to provoke chaos in Datang.

"Damn, there are people who are calculating." Li Shimin scolded, but he was not too angry, from the day he became emperor, he knew that he was surrounded by enemies, and someone used the panic caused by smallpox to drive the people, and it could not make him angry.

"Holy Lord, we must not let the people behind the scenes succeed, I think that the top priority should be to issue an edict against ourselves, and then take Doctor Sun back as soon as possible, with Doctor Sun's medical skills, I may be able to cure those patients of smallpox, even if not, we can temporarily delay some time."

Speaking of this, Li Ji added: "Many people still believe in Doctor Sun." ”

The doctor's words will always have a great magic power, and it will make it easy for the patient to believe what they say.

Hearing that he wanted to make an edict for himself, Li Shimin hesitated a little, originally, whenever a big disaster occurs, the Son of Heaven will issue an edict of guilt, if he gets the throne, it is nothing to issue an edict, but the key problem is that his throne is not right.

If the edict is issued, will it make those people feel that they are not in the right position even more, and the consequences at that time may be even more serious.

"Holy Lord, the edict of the guilty self can be issued, but in addition to the edict of the guilty self, the Emperor Taishang can actually do something."

Just when Li Shimin was hesitating, the eldest grandson Wuji spoke, he naturally understood what Li Shimin was hesitating, so he naturally pointed out the problem.

"What do you mean?"

"Holy Lord, if the Emperor Taishang appears in front of the people and says a word or two for the Holy Emperor, then those people will naturally not let the Emperor Taishang be restored."

If Li Yuan can really say a few words for Li Shimin, this is naturally a good thing, but if Li Yuan doesn't say it according to their plan, then I'm afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable and even more serious.

After the eldest grandson Wuji said that sentence, everyone immediately thought of this situation, so someone quickly stood up to oppose it.

"Holy no, it's too dangerous to do this......"

Many people objected, Li Shimin frowned, he didn't know what his father would do, this was an adventure, by the way, things would be much easier, but if it was wrong, it would make the situation worse.

He needs to gamble.

Li Shimin has been gambling all along.

After thinking for a while, Li Shimin said: "Help me prepare my own edict and set up the Taiji Palace." ”

He still decided to take a gamble, no matter what, he had to gamble, someone was plotting against him behind his back, if he couldn't solve these problems as soon as possible, those vassal kings would not be at peace.

Only when his father stood up for him could he appease the hearts of the people, make his vassal kings even more jealous, and make the plans of the people behind the scenes come to naught.

Of course, Li Shimin knows better that the most fundamental solution is to find a way to treat smallpox as soon as possible, as long as the disease of smallpox is solved, all problems will no longer be a problem.

What he Li Shimin is afraid of is not the rebellion of those vassal kings, but the loss of the hearts of these people.

The people are like water, the water can carry a boat or overturn a boat, and he can't afford to offend.

After the ministers heard Li Shimin's words, Hou Junji and these generals felt very aggrieved, they all had a part in forcing Li Yuan at the beginning, if Li Yuan was restless, then they were afraid that they would suffer.

No one knew what the outcome would be, and everyone was very bad and uneasy.

(End of chapter)