The news of Du Fuwei's death spread throughout Chang'an, and when Li Jiancheng heard about it, he sighed in his heart, recalling the scene when Du Fuwei went to his prince's palace to ask to see him, as well as Du Fuwei's evaluation of his father Li Yuan:

"Your Royal Highness, the minister saw that His Royal Highness was a person of good character, and Weichen said bluntly, the death of Li Mi, outsiders said that it was jointly killed by Wang Shichong and Liu Wuzhou sent Jianghu killers, in fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the death of Li Mi, the Duke of Xingguo, was intentionally done by His Majesty." As soon as he heard Du Fuwei say this, Li Jiancheng's heart chuckled, and he looked at Du Fuwei in surprise, and Du Fuwei seemed to be surprised by Li Jiancheng:

"Your Highness, don't panic, I, Du Fuwei, have also been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and this kind of small means can't hide from me." In fact, Du Fuwei's heart was also dingling, he was gambling. Li Jiancheng slowly said a sentence:

"King Wu, don't talk nonsense about this, we haven't said anything!" Listening to Li Jiancheng's words, Du Fuwei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Du Fuwei knew that he had made the right bet. Thinking of this, Li Jiancheng sighed and said in his heart, "This Du Fuwei is also a masterpiece of a generation, it's a pity." After thinking carefully for a while, Li Jiancheng called Xu Jingzong:

"Lord Xu, quickly send a letter to Li Ming, the king of Lujiang, and let him pay close attention to Wang Xiongdan's movements, let him remember, pay more attention, try to preserve, and send more secret piles to protect Wang Xiongdan's family, and don't let others take advantage of the loophole." Xu Jingzong nodded and said:

"Yes! Wechen understands! ”

Chang'an Qin King Li Shimin's Mansion:

"Xiaogong, this time I recommend to my father that you go to Jiangling to work in the army, your most important task is to closely understand Wang Xiongdan's movements, Wang Xiongtan was once Du Fuwei's righteous son, this king just doesn't believe it, he will not be indifferent, if Wang Xiongtan has any movement, you can use this sword to kill him!" As he spoke, Li Shimin took out a sword and handed it to Li Xiaogong, Li Xiaogong pulled out the sword, only to see a faint flash of cold light and sword qi on the sword. There are also traces of hidden residual blood on it.

"Isn't this sword?" Li Jiancheng nodded:

"This sword is our great-grandfather Li Hugong held the sword of the tiger, is the heirloom of our Li family, when our great-grandfather went to the west, the road encountered a tiger with hanging eyes to block the way, the soldiers were afraid of the tiger, did not dare to come forward, our great-grandfather was to kill it with this sword. And with the help of the power of this sword, I created the foundation of my Li family. My father gave me this sword on the occasion of my victory in the battle against Jingchu, and today he has given you this sword, so that you may act cheaply. Remember, if you find someone wrong, you will immediately use this sword to kill them. Hum! Li Jiancheng made it impossible for me to support Sheng Yanshi, and this king will cut off his idea of supporting Wang Xiong's birthday. Li Xiaogong put away his sword:

"Your Highness, please rest assured, the humble minister will definitely do this!" Li Xiaogong came to Jiangling City in the name of the labor army, and Li Ming, the governor of Jingzhou, greeted Li Xiaogong outside the city with his subordinates:

"Ahh Lord Lujiang, you see that you are already the general manager of Jingchu, this land of Jingchu is a strategic town of our dynasty, as an important minister of the court, you should share more worries for the court! Li Xiaogong looked at Li Ying jealously, and said secretly in his heart:

"Humph! The well-known straw bales in the Li Tang clan actually got such an important position? God really doesn't have long eyes! "Li Xiaogong's contemptuous eyes did not escape Li Ming's eyes, but Li Ying himself didn't care: 'Hmph! Li Xiaogong, look at your original pride in winning a few battles, but what about your pride, Lao Tzu has vision and will stand in line, you fucking look at it! The good days of labor and management are still to come! ’

"Ahh Brother Xiaogong has worked hard all the way, let's go to my governor's mansion to rest, I have set up a sumptuous banquet to welcome Brother Xiaogong! Please! ”

"Ahh Then thank you King Lujiang. "Li Xiaogong followed Li Ying to Li Ming's Jing Chu Governor's Ya' Gate, Li Jin's Jing Chu Governor's Ya 'Gate' was rebuilt on the original site of the original Xiaoliang Palace, although the scale of the project is not as vast as before, but in terms of luxury, it is more than equal. After the banquet was set, Li Xiaogong was even more stunned when he looked at the exquisite and ingenious shapes of the dishes on the table:

"Brother Xiaogong Wang eats and sees, these dishes are concentrated in the famous chefs of all the restaurants in Jiangling! To tell the truth, only when your filial piety brother comes, can you concentrate them by this opportunity, and this king can't eat such 'exquisite' dishes on weekdays! Today is still a blessing for the face of your filial piety brother. While eating, he introduced to Li Xiaogong:

"Brother Xiaogong, this steamed whitebait is not an ordinary fish! It is the selection of carp that has just grown for a year, select the whole body of silver 'color' carp, scrape off the scales, and then soak it in cow's milk' for three days, marinate it with 'fine' salt, dry it and then cook it in ginseng soup water, if it is not for your filial piety brother to come, I can't eat it, and this shrimp 'meat' crab roe tofu is the strongest section of the shrimp tail of the pessophorescent shrimp unique to the Yangtze River, and then stir and combine with the most 'fat' crab roe after autumn, and soybean milk,' Tofu made from chicken's eggs, and then carved and shaped by the chef in water, is not easy to obtain! Come! Try it! "Li Xiaogong ate these 'fine' and beautiful dishes, and his heart was shocked: 'Hmph! It's really luxurious, even the royal banquet in the palace is not so good. As if deliberately showing off, Li Ying clapped her hands, and the two teams of 'flower' red willow green, thin-waisted singers dressed in tulle walked out, all with beautiful faces, and tall, short, fat and thin are the same. The jealousy in Li Xiaogong's heart deepened. deliberately said to Li Yuan in a tone mixed with provocation and persuasion:

"Brother Li Yuan, you are so extravagant, aren't you afraid that someone in the court will participate in you?" Li Ying smiled lightly:

"Hey! I said filial piety to the king, life in the world, when you are proud, you need to be happy, don't make the golden cup empty to the moon. Besides, the mouth is in someone else's mouth, what do I care about him? In fact, Li Ying thought in her heart: 'Hmph! You Li Xiaogong just saw that he was not doing as well as labor and capital, and he was jealous in his heart, so you should be jealous! I don't care what you think? As long as the labor and management follow the prince closely, once the prince ascends the throne in the future, there will be my benefits, the sky is falling, there is a tall man in front of him, what is the prince will help the labor and management to speak, in addition, you all say that Lao Tzu is a straw bag, drink! You must know that straw bales live the longest, and smart people are the easiest to die. Therefore, after Li Ying served as the governor of Jingzhou, he didn't care about military affairs and civil affairs, and all of them were 'handed over' to the hands of Shi Song Lingwen, the governor of Jingzhou, and all the powers of the governor of Jingzhou secretly fell into the hands of Li Jiancheng, and as a 'handover' exchange, Li Ying was extremely poor and luxurious in the Jiangling area. At the beginning, Li Yuan saw so many impeachment chapters, so he only asked Li Jiancheng once, Li Jiancheng only said that Li Yuan's actions were a bit absurd, but he was still loyal to the ministry, Li Yuan was noncommittal after hearing it, and then he did not send all the recitals to impeach Li Yuan. Slowly, Li Ying also tasted some flavor from it. Li Xiaogong was robbed of his white by Li Ming, and he was even more angry in his heart. His eyes saw Wang Xiongdan, and suddenly remembered his mission: 'Hmph! Stone labor and management can't touch the hard, you soft persimmon will be pinched by labor and management! ’

"General Wang! Don't come unharmed! When Wang Xiongtan heard Li Xiaogong call him, his heart tightened.

"Wang Xiong's birthday, see the prince!"

"General Wang! When this king was in Chang'an, I heard that Lord Wu suddenly went crazy and died, oops! Unexpectedly, His Royal Highness King Wu was wise and wise, but he suddenly went crazy, and the emperor had already issued a decree to bury King Wu! I just don't know if General Wang has said anything. When Wang Xiongtan heard the news that Du Fuwei had died of madness, a tear suddenly flashed in his eyes. But it quickly stopped.

"What? Dead father? Oh! Wang Xiongtan stood up from the banquet. Kneeling in front of Li Jin:

"Qi Qi Wang, I am not feeling well, please allow the last general to leave the table to rest."

"Oh! Since General Wang is unwell, please go back and rest first, come, Brother Wang, let's continue to eat, drink and be merry." With that, Li Ying continued to drink and have fun, not caring about other things at all. Li Xiaogong was expecting Wang Xiong's birthday to be angry and gaffe, but it didn't happen. Wang Xiongtan left Li Jin's governor's mansion and returned to his residence, Wang Xiongtan could no longer hold back his tears and cried:

"Father-in-law! Father-in-law! Wang Xiongdan cried and cried, and slowly fell asleep, and in his dream, he seemed to return to the night in Chang'an:

"Father-in-law! You recommend the child to the prince, the child doesn't want to go! Duvowe shook his head:

"Xiongdan, you are still young and don't know the way of life. My father recommended you to the prince, in addition to finding a career for you, more importantly, I want to find ways to protect you! ”

"Father-in-law! Isn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince already 。。。。。。 Duvowe shook his head again:

"I can see Li Yuan, he will definitely not open up to us, the former anti-kings, if you pass this hurdle for your father this time, then everything will be fine, if you can't pass this hurdle for your father, don't be too sad, life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky, what you have to do is to protect yourself." When I saw Wang Xiongdan, I also had to say:

"Majestic! For the sake of my father, you remember, when you wait until my sacrifice day in the future, remember to burn paper for me! As he spoke, Duvoy's body seemed to be on fire, and smoke rose around him.

"Father, father, where are you going?"

"Remember, Grandeur! Preserve yourselves, and the Father will bless you under the earth. ”

"Father-in-law, father-in-law!" Wang Xiongdan shouted and woke up. After waking up, Wang Xiong said with a smile:

"Father-in-law, Xiong Dan must listen to you and protect yourself." Li Xiaogong deliberately came to the military exercise ground the next day to find Wang Xiong Dan and humiliate him.

"Yo! Isn't this the righteous son of His Royal Highness King Wu, Lord Wang Xiong? Ah! Why are you still training here! I thought that the general had applied to the Holy Mountain and went to Chang'an for the funeral. ”

"The lowly king is born to see the prince of the river! Lord Wang, the minister is now a general under the throne of the Tang Dynasty, and Lord Du Fuwei is only a righteous father-son relationship, if the saint does not recruit the minister to return to Chang'an, the minister cannot write an edict, and he cannot leave casually. ”

"Humph! It turned out to be a man who forgot his righteousness for profit, and this king is really eye-opening today. After listening to Li Xiaogong's words, Wang Xiongtan looked at Li Xiaogong. Li Xiaogong felt a murderous aura, pressed his hand on the saber, and the 'squire' guards around him also quickly pulled out the saber a few inches, on the one hand, to prevent Wang Xiongdan's dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to kill Wang Xiongdan in the name of assassinating Li Tang's relatives, and block Li Jiancheng and Li Jin's mouths. Wang Xiongdan looked at Li Xiaogong:

"Lord Wang! If you don't have anything else, you're retired. With that, he left. Li Xiaogong repeatedly provoked Wang Xiongdan with Du Fuwei's death in the following days, and Wang Xiongdan had been instructed by Du Fuwei earlier, and was indifferent to Li Xiaogong's provocation on the surface, and secretly increased forbearance. After Li Ying heard about this, he was afraid that he would live up to Li Jiancheng's trust, and he was troubled, so he asked Cen Wenwen to discuss:

"Text, this Li Xiaogong is not good, for that Wang Xiong's repeated provocations, I am afraid that something will happen for a long time, and if he is removed from his official position and sent back to Chang'an, I am afraid that Li Xiaogong will send assassins on the road to kill him. When the time comes, you still live up to the prince's brother's entrustment, what can you do. Cen Wenwen smiled slightly:

"Lord Wang! This matter is very simple, the prince is now a noble, and this Jingzhou area is a place of four wars, for the safety of the prince, how about setting up a 'guard' to defend the left and right? ”

"Good! Or the text you are resourceful. "Li Ying let Li Jiancheng be responsible for dredging through Song Lingwen's channel, and after obtaining Li Yuan's consent, he appointed Wang Xiongdan as his 'attendant' guard commander and transferred him to his side, Li Xiaogong had no choice but to give up! However, Li Jin's appointment of Wang Xiongtan aroused the jealousy of Wang Junkuo, the former commander of the guard. In the evening, Li Xiaogong's house went to:

"Oh! Lord Wang wants to submit to this king? ”

"Yes, the prince of Hejian has made outstanding achievements, and he is a rare talent in my Li Tang court, and it is an honor for my Wang Junkuo to be able to 'serve' by the side of the prince. Please accept the villain and let the villain take revenge in his heart. Li Xiaogong pretended to be surprised:

"What did Lord Wang say at this time? Lord Wang is the right-hand man of Brother Li Yuan, the king of Lujiang, my brother Li Ying is now a high and powerful person, and you have a great future with Brother Li Yuan! Wang Junkuo said hatefully:

"I, Wang Junkuo, have been working for Li Ying for many years, but I didn't expect a new grass coward to be on an equal footing with me, so why don't I do it? As the saying goes, good birds choose trees to perch, and ask the prince to be the last general. After Li Xiaogong heard this, he said in his heart:

"Humph! What a villain, then Li Ying is not thin on you, when your son was just born, that Li Ying immediately married you as a baby, and relied on you for many years, appointing you as the commander of the 'squire' guard, but now you are because your authority is weakened, you have to betray the master, so I don't want to bite the master's dog! But it's not bad to hold him down, and when the time comes, it's not bad to be a secret stake for me to spy on Li Jin. Li Xiaogong thought of this and smiled secretly. Wang Junkuo thought that he was willing to recruit himself, and immediately knelt down to Li Xiaogong and flattered:

"Ahh The minister, the king, thank you for the acceptance! Li Xiaogong immediately helped Wang Junkuo up.

"Brother Junkuo, please hurry up, don't torture this king like this! It's not that this king won't help you! It's just that you should know in the recklessness that if a person wants to join the gang, he must have a letter of nomination, don't know you, Lord Wang? Wang Junkuo thought for a while:

"Lord Wang! Do you want me to assassinate the king of Lujiang, this? Wang Junkuo thought that Li Jin was a disciple of the Li Tang clan after all, besides, now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Jiancheng is standing behind Li Jin, and now Li Jiancheng's reputation is in full swing, if Li Jin is killed, Li Jiancheng will definitely be investigated to the end, and Li Xiaogong will definitely send himself out to take the blame. Thinking of this, cold sweat flowed from Wang Junkuo's face.

"Hahaha! Lord Wang misunderstood, and what I wanted Lord Wang to do was to stay with Brother Li Ming, and report more about Brother Li Yuan's movements when necessary! After Wang Junkuo heard Li Xiaogong's words:

"Ahh Lord Wang, I understand my humble duties. ”