Chang'an City is full of fallen leaves, a little calm, but the court is surging, with the prince and the king of Wei competing for the crown as the fuse, the court of the Tang Dynasty finally attracted a greater turmoil.

It is said that on the day when the envoys of the Western Regions met Li Shimin, the crown prince and the king of Wei had a disagreement over the handling of the countries in the Western Regions, and they quarreled with the court.

Then the controversy between the two gradually led to the controversy between the two factions, so a fierce war of words broke out between the two factions headed by the crown prince and the king of Wei in the court.

A good court will be made into a miasma by two groups of people, and the places where the two sides don't like each other take advantage of this opportunity to all explode at once, making a lot of noise.

In such a place, the Tang Dynasty lost face in front of the envoys of various countries, and the angry Li Shimin's face was pale, patting the dragon chair, and calling off the ministers' tearing war with a black face, and the final result was that the court meeting broke up unhappily, Li Shimin retreated from the court with a black face, and the matter in the Western Regions was not resolved.

After the dispersal of the court, the courtiers looked at each other, knowing that they had caused a big disaster, and the atmosphere was dull for a while.

Li Chengqian and Li Tai glared at each other very inappropriately, and then left the court meeting, each of them convened the ministers, wanted to plan, and thought about how to bring down the other side.

The court that has been quiet for a long time finally ushered in the beginning of chaos, and now that the Tang Dynasty has solved the great enemy in the north, the countries of the Western Regions are not to be feared, and they are not worried about the outside, everyone has finally let go of their vigilance against the outside world, and they have aimed at the court, and the struggle for power has opened the naked curtain.

Before the court meeting ended, the affairs of the court had already spread through various means, and the upper nobles of Chang'an City were in an uproar.

Everyone had a hunch that the struggle between the crown prince and the king of Wei had just begun, and the court would face a bloody storm next.

Is it Li Chengqian who wins and continues to sit firmly on the throne of the crown prince? Or did the King of Wei counterattack and trample the prince under his feet? It's hard to say. The prince has a congenital advantage, and he is not so easy to be overthrown, and many old ministers support the prince.

And King Wei is not a vegetarian, he has been quite popular with Li Shimin in recent years, and there are vague signs of surpassing the prince in terms of food and clothing, and from Li Shimin's attitude, it seems to be more inclined to King Wei.

Therefore, the king of Wei also relied on this to attract many ministers to support him, and he was able to compete with the crown prince.

Both of them have a great possibility of going to the final throne, but the strength of the two is equal, so the odds are also half, so many ministers have been hesitating and don't know how to choose.

Among so many ministers nowadays, the easiest is the eldest grandson Wuji, because no matter which one becomes the emperor, it is his nephew, he has nothing to lose, and his status will rise.

Countless people are jealous of the eldest grandson Wuji, who has a good sister and a cheap brother-in-law, and now he is at ease.

In fact, the eldest grandson Wuji is not as relaxed as it seems, the crown prince and King Wei are his nephews, and he is Li Shimin's right-hand man, which is quite important to Li Shimin, and has such a special relationship with Li Shimin.

It can be said that the attitude of the eldest grandson Wuji is likely to affect who will be appointed as the prince in the future. So he is naturally the object of the prince's courtship with the king of Wei.

No, as soon as he retired from the dynasty, King Wei ignored anyone, just straightened his round body and walked towards the eldest grandson Wuji with a smile. A mouthful of "uncle" is so intimate.

Then he "logically" went to the eldest grandson Wuji's house as a guest. Because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, the prince did not walk to the eldest grandson Wuji for the first time, so he watched the king of Wei and the eldest grandson Wuji leave together, and after returning angrily, he overturned several kinds of porcelain.

However, in the evening, after the king of Wei left, the prince visited the door again, euphemistically expressing his intentions and showing goodwill.

The eldest grandson Wuji was sandwiched between the two, only to remain neutral and impartial, to put it bluntly, it is central heating and air conditioning, which is the same for everyone.

If you talk about Taoism, the eldest grandson Wuji absolutely threw off the prince and the king of Wei for several streets, wandering between the two, unhurried, and easy.

The crown prince and the king of Wei did not get the desired results and returned disappointed. They knew that according to the eldest grandson's prudent temperament, he would not take sides until he was sure.

Therefore, what the two of them have to do now is to win over the minister, strengthen their strength, and prepare for the future court to have more weight to speak.

Many ministers who had been neutral had become the targets of co-optation, and all kinds of name worship posts continued, all of which were lobbyists sent by the crown prince and the king of Wei. Some important ministers, such as Fang Xuanling, Cheng Yanjin, Niu Jinda, Kong Yingda and others, the crown prince and the king of Wei even went out to visit in person.

This is forcing everyone to make a choice! The crown prince and the king of Wei are both accumulating strength and preparing for the final fight.

They know that when the final victory is revealed, either he dies or I die, and one of them will inevitably fall, so they can only win, not lose!

The crown prince and the king of Wei began a fierce struggle for power, and in the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin was alone in a nightgown, standing alone by the window, looking at the waning moon outside the window, and he didn't know what to think.

Perhaps the saddest thing about being a father is to see his sons destroy each other, right? For the sake of power, life and death are the last things he wants to see, and he doesn't want to face the last.

Now Li Chengqian and Li Tai are like this, which reminds him of the day when Xuanwu Gate was stained with blood thirteen years ago.

Thirteen years passed in the blink of an eye, and in the dead of night, Li Shimin would always ask himself over and over again: "Is it worth it?" Is it worth it for the sake of the throne? If time came again, would he still choose to do so? ”

The answer is obvious, for the sake of the throne, he will inevitably make the same choice, and which scene from thirteen years ago will inevitably be repeated again.

But in the face of his brother and brother, will he still be so cold-hearted to death? He didn't dare to guarantee that maybe he would spare their lives, maybe he would........

Li Shimin closed his eyes, and many of the once good times reappeared in his mind, but they were just memories, and many people were destined to never see each other again.

"Qian'er, Tai'er, you shouldn't learn to be a father." Li Shimin sighed lightly. He was extremely disgusted with Li Chengqian and Li Tai repeating his mistakes, and he didn't want the two brothers to live and die against each other, but he set a bad example first, and now he doesn't know how to let the two stop.

No one knows that the crown prince and the king of Wei are fighting, but the saddest thing is that he is the father. The reason why he didn't choose to express his position for a long time, but put the two in a balanced state, was that he didn't want one party to be too strong and make the other party threatened. This is what he does not want to see.

But the development of things was a bit unexpected for him, and the current situation is that it is difficult for the two of them to stop.

In the dead of night, Li Shimin sighed sadly in front of the window alone.

"Ahem, ahem!"

The sound outside the window interrupted Li Shimin's thoughts, and a little girl coughed and cried. "Father... Mingda misses his father. ”

(End of chapter)