Chapter 359: The Real Mastermind
Taiji Hall is the Tang Dynasty Emperor listened to the government and looked at the court, every time the court meeting, Li Yuan will meet the ministers here, but since Li Yuan was under house arrest, there has never been a court meeting here, and there is a palace on the west side of the Taiji Palace, the most important of which is the introspection of the book, mainly responsible for the drafting of the edict, before Li Shimin was once named the Zhongshu order, but since the change of the Xuanwu Gate, the affairs of the province of Zhongshu are mainly handled by the eldest grandson Wuji. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I want to see His Royal Highness King Qin!" In a pavilion in Zhongshu Province, a tall and thin middle-aged man said to the eldest grandson Wuji in front of him with anger on his face, if Li Xiu was here, he would recognize this middle-aged man at a glance as Chai Shao, but he is very old now, and he is only about thirty years old, but he looks like he is in his forties.
"His Royal Highness King Qin has not recovered from his serious injuries, and no one has seen him during this time, don't you know about this matter?" The eldest grandson Wuji didn't raise his head and said, only to see a thick pile of twists and turns in front of him, although Pei Lin and the others have resumed the court, but in order to control the government, most of the important government affairs are still handled by him.
"Then I'll see him too!" Chai Shao slapped the table a little crazily, his eyes were also red, and he looked like a sleepy beast.
Looking at the hand in front of him that was slapped on the table, Eldest Sun Wuji finally sighed and raised his head, then stared at Chai Shao, who looked crazy, and said, "Brother Chai, I know why you want to see His Highness, but now that the holy decree has been issued, even if you see King Qin, what can you do?" ”
"How did you promise me in the first place, and why did you suddenly change your mind now?" Chai Shao stared at the eldest grandson Wuji viciously and asked.
"Hmph, you still have the face to mention the beginning, how did you promise us at the beginning, but now that His Highness has been assassinated, you don't know who did it, right?" Eldest Sun Wuji sneered and asked again.
At the beginning, Chai Shao was made like a lost dog by Li Xiu, and he was almost annoyed in Chang'an City, but in the end, Li Shimin deliberately befriended him, in order to contact those big families through Chai Shao after killing Li Jiancheng, not asking for their support, as long as they didn't make trouble for themselves, but this time Li Shimin was assassinated by the Zheng family, one of the families, from this point of view, it is also Chai Shao's responsibility.
"But I have worked very hard to help His Royal Highness contact various families, most of the families have already acquiesced to the fact that King Qin will ascend the throne in the future, and even the Wang family is willing to marry the royal family, but the Zheng family has always supported the prince, and even the crown princess is a member of the Zheng family, they have invested a lot of manpower and financial resources in the prince, but the result is in vain, how can the Zheng family not be angry? It's just that I didn't expect them to be so bold as to assassinate King Qin. Chai Shao heard that the eldest grandson Wuji blamed himself for the assassination of Li Shimin, and immediately tried his best to justify it.
"Hehe, it seems that you still don't understand, do you think that the mastermind behind the assassination of King Qin this time is only the Zheng family?" Hearing this, Eldest Sun Wuji sneered again and said.
"What do you mean, is there anyone else?" Chai Shao also forgot his anger at this time, and asked with a shocked face.
"Looks like you really don't know!" The eldest grandson Wuji looked at Chai Shao with a kind of pity at this time, and shook his head with disappointment on his face, at this time he really felt worthless for Princess Pingyang, he was forced to marry someone like Chai Shao in the first place, in contrast, Li Xiu was the one who could really be worthy of her.
"What the hell are you talking about, is there anyone else besides the Zheng family?" Chai Shao was also angered by the gaze of the eldest grandson Wuji, and asked angrily again at the moment.
"It doesn't hurt to tell you, although the assassination of His Highness this time is the mastermind of the Zheng family, but several other families are also more or less involved, at least they know and acquiesce in advance, after all, for them, the success of the assassination is the best, they can take advantage of the chaos, and the assassination failure is nothing, anyway, His Highness does not dare to do anything to them, and he can also take the opportunity to warn His Highness, this is the purpose of those families!" The eldest grandson Wuji stared at Chai Shaodao with blazing eyes.
"What! How...... How can it be? Chai Shao couldn't help but be shocked and speechless when he heard the news, as a mediator between the family and the imperial court, he really didn't know that the family actually did these things behind his back, and he didn't receive any news in advance, no wonder the eldest grandson Wuji put the responsibility for this matter on him.
After a while, Chai Shao came to his senses from the shock, but he bowed his head and was silent, because he didn't know what to say, and finally the eldest grandson Wuji broke the silence and said: "Brother Chai, go back, in fact, I can tell you that even if there is no assassination of His Royal Highness, it is impossible for you to remarry the princess, firstly, the princess likes Li Xiu, and secondly, no matter from which point of view, Li Xiu is far more important to His Royal Highness than you, so you still die of this heart!" ”
Originally, Chai Shao was already a little discouraged, but when he heard the eldest grandson Wuji mention Li Xiu, the unwillingness in his heart also surged up again, and he said with an annoyed face at the moment: "What is so great about Li Xiu, he is just a little white face to coax the princess!" ”
"Little white face?" Hearing this, Eldest Sun Wuji sneered again, "Li Xiu can help His Highness repel the 200,000 Turkic army, and he can also find grain with a yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu, these two merits alone are enough to overshadow everyone in the court, if such a person is also a little white face, then I really don't know what we are?" ”
The eldest grandson Wuji's words were very ugly, but he was also angered by Chai Shao, obviously he didn't have much ability, and he messed things up, but he came to himself to shout, which was a little incomprehensible!
"I ......" Chai Shao was speechless for a while when he heard this, but the anger on his face became more and more intense, and finally snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and left, and looking at his departing back, Changsun Wuji sneered, people like Chai Shao may not have any big impact in the future.
Next, the eldest grandson Wuji dealt with government affairs for a while, and then picked a few particularly important books from the folds, stuffed them into his sleeves and entered the palace, and finally came to the Chengde Hall where Li Shimin was recuperating from his injuries, and outside the palace gate stood a tall general, it was Wei Chigong, in fact, since Li Shimin was injured, it has always been Wei Chigong who personally guarded the palace door, and other people who want to come in must be approved by Wei Chigong.
I saw the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong say hello, and then entered the main hall, hurriedly passed through the front hall, and finally came to the inner hall where Li Shimin was recuperating, and when he pushed the door open, he happened to see Li Shimin sitting there practicing calligraphy, and when he saw him, he immediately smiled and said: "Wuji, you are here, come and see how this king's writing is?" (To be continued.) )