Chapter 1168: Assassination of the Minister
Li Chengqian was messing around in the East Palace, and Li Yuanchang, the king of the Han Dynasty, as his uncle, not only did not dissuade him, but also instigated Li Chengqian to make more trouble, and finally caused Li Chengqian to be injured again, although the injury was not serious, but this incident was exposed, and the result suddenly aroused the excitement of the crowd, and many ministers wrote letters one after another, on the one hand, they accused Li Chengqian of being too foolish as the prince, and on the other hand, they accused Li Yuanchang of bewitching the prince, and even some radical accusations that Li Yuanchang had bad intentions.
However, the most pressure is still Yu Zhining and others, they are Li Shimin's auxiliary ministers assigned to Li Chengqian, and they are all well-read people, and they value their face the most, and now Li Chengqian has not changed her under their teaching, but has become even more ridiculous, which makes them feel that their old face is dull.
Although Li Shimin did not blame Yu Zhining and others, these old ministers felt that the responsibility lay on their shoulders, so they quickly joined forces to admonish Li Chengqian, but they didn't pay attention to any method at all, but directly face-to-face hard, Li Chengqian was young and vigorous, and he couldn't listen to them at all, plus Li Chengqian was injured, he was already angry, and he felt so much pressure from the court, so he quarreled with Yu Zhining and others on the spot.
Yu Zhining and the others are all upright and upright, which is also the main reason why Li Shimin elected them to assist Li Chengqian, so they are not afraid of Li Chengqian at all, they all quarrel with Li Chengqian with their necks, and finally make Li Chengqian angry, and as a result, they actually made a dizzy decision, that is, to send assassins to assassinate Yu Zhining.
But what was even more unexpected was that the assassin didn't know what the reason was, and in the end he didn't attack Zhining, but spread the matter, and as a result, the court was in an uproar for a while, and no one even paid attention to Li Chengqian's injury before.
Originally, Li Shimin did not express any opinion on the frolicking of Li Chengqian and Li Yuanchang, firstly, he was also a young person, and felt that it was normal for young people to mess around, and secondly, since Li Chengqian's leg disease, many people speculated that he was going to replace the crown prince, and if he punished Li Chengqian at this time, it was likely to make people more convinced of this rumor.
But Li Shimin didn't expect Li Chengqian to be so uncompetitive, just because Yu Zhining's words were a little fierce, he was going to send assassins to kill the important ministers around him, where is this still a little bit of the bearing of being a prince? If he is allowed to ascend the throne as the emperor in the future, won't the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty be killed by him?
Thinking of the above, Li Shimin couldn't help but be extremely annoyed, and immediately ordered Li Chengqian to be locked up in the East Palace and not allowed to leave the palace for half a year, and at the same time sent someone to comfort Yu Zhining, but Yu Zhining was not frightened, but also helped Li Chengqian intercede, and continued to serve as the important task of teaching Li Chengqian.
In the letter from the eldest grandson Wuji to Li Xiu, there are a large number of paragraphs describing the above Li Chengqian's matter, of course, he will not describe it in such detail, but with Li Xiu's understanding of Li Chengqian, he can also guess some of the details.
However, what made Li Xiu even more vigilant was that the eldest grandson Wuji suddenly asked about Li Zhi's situation at the end of the letter, and even asked Li Xiu to take care of Li Zhi on his behalf, although the eldest grandson Wuji was Li Zhi's own uncle, but his cordial attitude towards Li Zhi made Li Xiu feel a little unnatural, and then thought of Li Chengqian's situation, which made Li Xiu frown, does this mean that the eldest grandson Wuji has begun to lean towards Li Zhi?
Thinking of the above, Li Xiu's heart couldn't help but become solemn, in fact, it is normal for the eldest grandson Wuji to start falling towards Li Zhi, after all, the eldest grandson queen has a total of three sons, Li Chengqian is becoming more and more unsuccessful now, not to mention Li Tai, although the literary talent is good, but the flaws in his personality are too great, so the only one that the eldest grandson Wuji can choose is Li Zhi.
It's just that Li Xiu felt that although Li Chengqian was becoming more and more extreme, it was a matter of time before he lost the position of prince, but he didn't expect that Li Chengqian's changes would be so big, and now he can even assassinate the ministers around him, I'm afraid that after this incident, it will chill the hearts of many ministers, who will really assist him in the future?
"What are you thinking?" Just when Li Xiu was thinking about his thoughts, Ma Ye suddenly walked up to him and asked.
"It's nothing, it's just that I see that the scenery of Beibi Mountain is a bit similar to the scenery of Nanshan, so I plan to wait until I return to Chang'an, and move my family to the Nanshan Courtyard, and then Uncle Ma and General Qin will also come together, let's usually fish and hunt, and educate our children in our spare time, it's not a pleasure!" Li Xiu replied with a smile at this time.
"Hehe, it's best if you think about it, don't worry about the affairs in the court, let's just close the door and live our own little life." Ma Ye also saw that Li Xiu didn't tell the truth, but he didn't ask again, after all, he had already persuaded Li Xiu before, and Li Xiu also promised not to pay attention to the affairs of the court, but now something may have happened, so he was a little troubled.
After choosing the burial location, Li Xiu also followed the original layout of the cemetery, and finally decided to bury the bones of 300,000 Sui soldiers in the back of the Tang Army soldiers' mausoleum, and also built a crescent-shaped mausoleum, so that from the front, the two ends of the crescent moon are like two arms, lifting the Tang Army soldiers' tombs.
This actually also represents the role played by the former Sui and the Tang Dynasty in Goguryeo, although Yang Guangsan's expedition to Goguryeo failed to destroy the other party, but it also dragged down Goguryeo's national strength, laying a solid foundation for the Tang Dynasty to destroy Goguryeo in the future, it can be said that if there is no sacrifice of these soldiers of the former Sui, not to mention whether the Tang Dynasty can destroy Goguryeo, even if Goguryeo is really destroyed, I am afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers will be killed in battle.
After all, the burial of 300,000 people, even in the form of a joint burial, is still not a small project, and Li Xiu does not want to dig a pit and bury them casually, which is disrespectful to these soldiers, so the mausoleum also needs to build some surface buildings to commemorate.
However, Luoyang is too close to Chang'an, and the exchanges between the two places are also very frequent, even if Li Xiu doesn't want to pay attention to the affairs of the court, but Chang'an still has news from time to time, which makes Li Xiu also a little upset, and finally simply urged people to speed up the preparations, and when he was ready, he directly took people to Yunbei Mountain, until the bones of the Sui army soldiers were buried and came back, but what Li Xiu didn't expect was that when he was about to leave for Beibi Mountain, he was suddenly blocked by countless people in Luoyang City!