Chapter 70: A Counterattack

Li Jing was silent, Li Hongji felt that something was wrong, and he hurriedly said: "Father, the Hailing Yang clan is just an ant-like existence, what can you do if you kill it?" Father Don't want to listen to Yang Lian's quibbles, he doesn't dare to kill, he must have a ghost in his heart. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

Yang Lian suddenly sneered, he has been patient with what happened today, just to see what Li Hongji's purpose is, and now that he has revealed his minions, Yang Lian feels that it is time to fight back.

"King Yan, you said that I want to subvert the Tang Dynasty, just by killing a child, you can see the clues, Yang Lian really doesn't dare to agree. Thinking that Goujian, the king of Yue, did not hesitate to taste the feces of his husband in order to survive, so in this way, Goujian is loyal to his husband? Yang Lian said lightly.

Li Hongji knew that this was a matter of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period Wu Yue fighting for hegemony, and Yang Lian gave an example to show that even if he killed a child, he may not be loyal to the Tang Dynasty. Li Hongji was about to refute, but Yang Lian spoke again.

"Whether you are loyal to the Tang Dynasty or not depends on whether you serve the country and share your worries for the king. Yang Lian was not talented, sent an envoy to the Han State, got dozens of war horses, gold and silver money, and the emperor of the Han State even regarded the Son of Heaven as his father; In Haichu and Haichu Prefectures, Yang Lian stabilized the people's hearts, cleared the bandits in the south, and ensured the economic development of Haichu and Haichu Prefectures; went south to Fuzhou, captured Li Hongyi with hundreds of people, and captured Wu Yueguo's envoy, and now Wu Yueguo is in dispute over this. King Yan, do you want to tell me about it, are there such people who are obviously serving the country, but they are framed as ministers who seek the country? Yang Lian asked.

Li Hongji said: "Yang Lian, you have to quibble, you are the old prince of the former dynasty, intending to subvert the Tang Dynasty." ā€

"What about the evidence?" Yang Lian asked.

Li Hongji was about to speak, but Yang Lian preemptively said: "Just because I don't kill children, do you think so?" King Yan is like this, it's too child's play. Moreover, King Yan is bent on murdering the good ministers of the country, is it Wu Yueguo's internal response? ā€

"Yang Lian, you spew blood!" Li Hongji was furious.

"King Yan, you are so angry, could it be that I said something in your heart?" Yang Lian smiled faintly.

Li Hongji snorted coldly, saluted Li Jing, and said, "Father, Yang Lian is slandering his sons, and he also asks his father to give his sons justice." ā€

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Okay, you two don't have to argue, just forget this matter." Li Jing had a headache, and now it seems that there is no result at all, and Farr has made a mess.

Li Hongji was very unwilling, he was about to speak, but Yang Lian spoke first.

"Your Majesty, Weichen doesn't want to argue, but Weichen has evidence, King Yan collaborated with the enemy and treason!" Yang Lian made a loud noise.

Li Hongji's face changed and said, "Yang Lian, do you know what kind of crime it is to frame the prince?" ā€

"Haha!" Yang Lian laughed twice, took out a letter from his arms, bypassed Li Hongji, handed it to Li Jing, and said: "Your Majesty, when Weichen went to the Han Kingdom and returned to China, he was close to Xuzhou, but he was ambushed. ā€

Li Jing's face was solemn, he reached out to take the letter, opened it and looked at it, and immediately frowned, Yan Wang's handwriting, he naturally recognized it, although it was possible to be counterfeited, but Li Jing found that it was at the bottom, stamped with Li Hongji's seal. After a closer look, Li Jing felt that the seal was genuine, and when he read the contents of the letter clearly, he was even more surprised.

In the letter, King Yan told Wu Yue that Yang Lian went to the Han State to discuss the alliance, and if the Tang Dynasty formed an alliance with the Han State, Yang Lian's meritorious service would obviously be unfavorable to Li Hongji. And the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and the Han State was also unfavorable to Wu Yueguo. Li Hongji suggested in the letter that the Wu Yue people sabotaged this alliance, as long as Yang Lian was killed in the territory of the Han State, the relationship between the two countries would inevitably deteriorate, and if the alliance could not be formed, there would be a tendency to use troops, if so, it was obvious that the situation was favorable to the Wu Yue people.

After Li Jing finished reading the letter, his face turned pale, he threw the letter on Li Hongji's face, and shouted: "King Yan, what do you explain? ā€

Li Hongji picked up the letter in some surprise, unfolded it, and his face changed, how could the letter he wrote to Wu Yuezhong and Wu Jiedu's envoy Qian Wenfeng be in Yang Lian's hands? Although the evidence is conclusive, how could he possibly admit it? Li Hongji said: "Father, this is definitely someone who faked the handwriting of his sons and privately engraved the seals of his sons, the purpose of which is to assassinate his sons." ā€

"Li Hongji, at this point, you still don't admit it. You must not understand why Qian Wenfeng sent this letter to me, that's right, Wu Yueren also hopes for civil strife in Datang, so he would rather send this letter to me, wanting to make Datang infighting. This letter has been in my hands for more than half a year, and I have not taken it out, the purpose is to want Datang to be stable and not to fight infighting. Yang Lian was righteously speaking, scolding Li Hongji.

The incident happened suddenly, Li Hongji didn't expect Yang Lian to have this letter, and he became very nervous.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Li Jing glared at him with hatred, and said, "King Yan, what else do you have to say?" ā€

"Erchen, Erchen......" Li Hongji wiped the sweat from his head.

"Your Majesty, things are not so simple, Weichen still has something to tell." Yang Lian said again.

Li Jing was stunned and said, "Yang, Yang Aiqing, what else do you have to do?" As he spoke, his voice trembled slightly, King Yan was very angry when he did such a thing, but this is not over, does Yang Lian still have any evidence?

Yang Lian nodded and said, "Your Majesty, rumors have been spreading in Jinling City recently, in fact, Weichen has also heard about it, and asked people to inquire, and just caught a person, Your Majesty can see it." ā€

Li Jing said: "Okay, announce his audience." ā€

Yang Lian walked quickly to Gao Ze's side and said, "In this way, there is Lao Gao's father-in-law." As she spoke, she winked at him.

Gao Ze nodded, and Yang Lian told him that that person would be imprisoned in the mansion, just go to his personal soldier Zhu Qi. Gao Ze hurriedly walked out of the imperial study and began to get busy again. At this time, the atmosphere in the imperial study has changed greatly, Yang Lian is still strolling leisurely, Li Jingsui breathes a sigh of relief, Li Hongji is sweating profusely on his forehead, worried to the extreme, and he doesn't know what Yang Lian has to do at all, which is what worries him the most.

Xiao Yan's face was pale, Yang Lian didn't knock him down, but King Yan didn't seem to be able to do it, this thing changed too fast, so that his brain couldn't turn around.

Li Jing was in a complicated mood, sat on the chair sullenly, drank a few sips of tea in a row, and was still depressed in his heart.

This time the wait was longer, and when Gao Ze came back, he brought not a child, but a man about forty years old. The clothes on the man's body were a little tattered, and at first glance he was an ordinary person, knowing that it was the Tang Dynasty Emperor in front of him, and after coming in, he knelt on the ground with a "poof", crying and crying, and said: "Your Majesty, spare your life, the villain is only instructed by others to spread rumors." ā€

Although Li Jing had been prepared, when he heard this person speak, his face became even more gloomy, and he said, "You raise your head and talk carefully, what is going on?" ā€

"Yes." The man raised his head, and suddenly saw Li Hongji, his face changed, he kowtowed again and again, and said, "King Yan, don't kill me." Don't kill me. ā€

Li Hongji glanced at Li Jing, suddenly raised his foot, kicked the man in the chest, and shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?" ā€

The man rolled twice on the ground, the kick was not fatal, but he still coughed.

Li Jing snorted coldly and said, "In this Tang Dynasty, I am the master, I will not kill you, you have made everything clear." ā€

The man got the promise, his face retreated with horror, he breathed for a while, the pain in his chest subsided, and he was finally able to speak, he fell to the ground and said slowly, it turned out that this person was the disseminator of the song, it was he who taught the children on the street, so that in just a few days, the streets of Jinling were spread "Li Hua falls, Yang Hua blooms, Yangzhou in March is extraordinarily clear." ā€

The special meaning of this ballad made Li Jing very concerned, and when the man said that the ballad was taught to him by a relative in the Yanwang Mansion, and promised to give him money and silk after the matter was completed, Li Jing's face suddenly changed, he stood up suddenly, patted the table in front of him, and shook the tea set to fall down, and the tea flowed all over the ground, but Li Jing couldn't care about it.

For Li Jing, what he can't bear the most is that this matter was actually done by his son, and he also pushed this crime on Yang Lian, that is to say, this time the plan to assassinate Yang Lian was all controlled by him. The ballad was passed on by him, and the Yingzhou Cave was also played by him, so thinking about it, the body of the old prince of the previous dynasty was missing, and it was also made by King Yan!

"King Yan, your courage is too big!" Li Jing drank loudly, and the shaking room was buzzing.

The corners of Yang Lian's mouth curled, if it weren't for Zeng Yiling inviting Mi Shiwei out of the mountain and successfully finding this person, Yang Lian would not have had a chance to turn the tables and kill with one blow.

Li Hongji clenched his fists, he couldn't imagine that this person was still alive, why was this happening? But this is undoubtedly not the time to think about this problem, he wanted to fight back, but found that he couldn't fight back at all, his father's words shook his heart, he couldn't help but kneel down, arched his hand, and said: "Father, the son is fascinated for a while, so he did this kind of thing, and I hope that my father will forgive me." ā€

"Forgiveness? How do you want me to spare you? Collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, plotting to kill heroes, how can I have a son like you? Li Jing was furious, jumped to his feet again and again, hating iron but not steel.

Li Hongji kowtowed again and again, and said: "The father is angry, and the son is guilty, guilty!" As he spoke, blood was already visible on his forehead.

"Come on, pull King Yan down and put him in prison!" Li Jing drank heavily.

The guards outside the door walked in when they heard this, looked at the angry Son of Heaven, pulled up Li Hongji, the king of Yan, and left.

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger." Yang Lian arched his hand and said.

At this time, Xiao Yan came back to his senses from shock, everything that happened in the capital recently was planned by King Yan? He couldn't help wiping his sweat, and suddenly, he realized that in this matter, although he was not an accomplice to King Yan, he was suspected of being an accomplice in what he did, Xiao Yan hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen didn't investigate for a while, he was deceived by others, and I hope Your Majesty will be guilty." ā€

Li Jing looked at him coldly, took a few deep breaths, and then calmed down, looked at Xiao Yan who knelt on the ground, snorted, and said, "Xiao Siqing, you have been doing things recently, which really makes me happy." ā€

When Xiao Yan heard this, his body fell lower, his face was almost on the ground, and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen didn't investigate, so that he almost made the loyal minister wronged, and he deserved death." ā€

"Yang Aiqing, how do you think this matter is handled?" Li Jing asked Yang Lian, who was pursing his lips and thinking. (To be continued.) )