Chapter 468: The Storm Rises Again (3)
The news that Du Yan was ordered by Li Yuan to be exiled to Shanzhou (now Xichang, Sichuan) spread throughout Chang'an, and just when Du Yan was about to be exiled to Shanzhou, a piece of music stirred up a huge wave. Wei Ting, a subordinate official of the East Palace of the Prince, www.biquge.info of the pen, said that he had an old friendship with Du Yan, and hoped to go to Shanzhou together. Ran directly to the door of Renshou Palace and shouted:
"Your Majesty, the minister and Du Yan have a heart-to-heart pity, and the minister hopes to be exiled to Shanzhou with Du Yan. Your Majesty's permission! Your Majesty, the minister and Du Yan cherish each other, and the minister hopes to be exiled to Shanzhou with Du Yan. Your Majesty's permission! As soon as Li Yuan heard Wei Ting shouting there, he was directly furious:
"Wanyue, who is on duty today, why don't you drive that Wei Ting away!?" Wanyue didn't dare to say, because although Wei Ting was a civil official, but Jingzhao Wei was a famous general in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and he fought in the north and south all his life, and made countless meritorious contributions, directly creating the century-old foundation of Jingzhao Wei, and Wei Ting was Wei Xiaokuan's nephew, and he was not a mediocre talent, and he knocked the guards who blocked him to the ground with two strokes, and Wei Ting was also a guest of Li Jiancheng's prince East Palace, and the guards did not get Li Yuan's clear order, so they naturally did not dare to be rude to Wei Ting. When Wanyue was in trouble, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin heard the news that Wei Ting was shouting in Renshou Palace. Immediately, one after the other, they came to Inshou Palace. Li Jiancheng saw Wei Ting kneeling at the gate of Renshou Palace, a group of guards surrounded Wei Ting helplessly, and the guard commander on duty immediately stepped forward as soon as he saw Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin:
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Qin, you are finally here. This madman has been shouting here for a long time, and we don't dare to be rude to Lord Wei! Li Shimin watched coldly, looking at this scene, and rejoiced in his heart - hum! Wei Ting is a subordinate official of your East Palace, this king only told his father the emperor before yesterday that you were a subordinate official of the Tiance Mansion of this king, and my father still didn't believe it, and now your subordinate official of the East Palace personally shouted in front of Renshou Palace, hoping to send out Shanzhou with Du Yan, this king wants to see, how do you end up with this mess. Li Shimin said to Li Jiancheng:
"Big brother, my father should be in a hurry inside, big brother, you take a look here first, and the younger brother will go in first." Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Ting, and after dealing with Du Yan's chaos, Li Jiancheng ordered Xu Jingzong and Di Renjie to arrange for the Qilin secret guard to strengthen the surveillance of the subordinate officials of the East Palace. And immediately had a clue.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Wei Chen recently discovered that the subordinate officials of the East Palace, the Crown Prince's Zuowei Hussar, the Inspector Zuo Rate, Lord Wei Ting has recently had a close relationship with His Royal Highness the King of Qin."
"What, Wei Ting and Li Shimin also began to collude......" Li Jiancheng's thoughts began to return to the days when he met Wei Ting. Wei Ting, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty. His father, Wei Chong, served as the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the Sui Dynasty. When he was young, he made friends with Li Jiancheng, because of his good relationship, when Li Yuan was just in Dingdingguanzhong, Wei Ting was recommended as the sacrificial wine of the Longxi Mansion. Later, Li Jiancheng became the crown prince, and Wei Ting, as the old minister of the Longxi Mansion at the beginning, tired of moving the prince's left guard hussars and inspecting the left rate of the school. The prince met very well, and the palace ministers were rarely compared. And now that Wei Ting is also stabbing behind him, Li Jiancheng has a feeling of betrayal in his heart. Li Jiancheng asked Xu Jingzong and Di Renjie:
"Jingzong, Renjie, am I so heinous? Why did so many people around Hongu choose to betray Hongu? Jingzong and Di Renjie don't know what to say - because although Wei Ting is favored in the East Palace, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Shimin really relies on Wei Ting is not an old minister of Longxi like Wei Ting, in terms of official positions and real power, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui rank first in the East Palace, in terms of status, Li Gang, Yu Zhining, and Wang Gui are difficult to surpass, and since Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were released, the four people who are now most visible next to Li Jiancheng are Wei Zheng, Xu Jingzong, Di Zhixun, Di Renjie and his son, And most of the family backgrounds of these four people are from small and medium-sized Shu landlords, or the identity of anti-thieves and reforms, in this situation, the children of families like Wei Ting naturally have some ideas, but Xu Jingzong and Di Renjie dare not find out this reason to Li Jiancheng. only comforted Li Jiancheng. Li Jiancheng came to Wei Ting's side:
"Master Wei, what grievances have you suffered, and what grievances you have can tell me! Also, the matter of Lord Du Yan Du has been recognized by the imperial court, why do you want to exile to Shanzhou with Lord Du Yan? Li Jiancheng's words just fell, and Wei Ting's voice became louder.
"Your Majesty, the minister has confidential and important matters, please ask the emperor to meet the minister." Li Jiancheng was very surprised by Wei Ting, and was about to ask Wei Ting what was going on, but he was stopped by Wanyue:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Lord Wei Ting, the emperor ordered you to enter the palace to face the saint." Wei Ting, like a drowning person, suddenly grabbed a wooden plank and immediately followed Wanyue into Renshou Palace. Li Yuan looked at Li Jiancheng and Wei Ting with anger on his face. Li Shimin smiled evilly on the side - Li Jiancheng, you are not unlucky this time. Li Yuan asked Wei Ting:
"Wei Ting, you said you have confidential matters, say it!" Wei Ting saluted Li Yuan and said:
"Your Majesty, at the beginning, His Majesty spent the summer in Renzhi Palace in Yijun County, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng stayed in Chang'an, in fact, at the beginning, His Royal Highness the Prince sent Er Zhuhuan and Qiao Gongshan to Gyeongju to send armor and weapons to Gyeongju Governor Yang Wengan After the matter was revealed, when Gyeongju Governor Yang Wengan raised troops, he once sent someone to contact His Royal Highness the Prince. Later, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was afraid of the strength in the hands of His Royal Highness King Qin and King Zhao, so he came to Renzhi Palace to ask His Majesty for guilt...... "Before Wei Ting finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Yuan.
"Bastard, don't say it." Wei Ting was frightened by Li Yuan, and immediately shut up and stopped talking, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were also as quiet as cicadas, kneeling in front of Li Yuan, not daring to speak, Li Yuan felt that he was about to be drained, and held on to his dragon case to stop his crumbling body. Wanyue immediately supported Li Yuan:
"Your Majesty, do you want to pass on the imperial doctor!" Li Yuan waved his hand and stopped the waning moon.
"No need." Li Yuan opened his eyes and looked coldly at Wei Ting, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin. The three of them had never seen Li Yuan's cold gaze. Li Yuan stroked his chest and said slowly:
"Wei Ting, Yang Wengan's mutiny has been ascertained, it was Yang Wengan and Yu Wenying who rebelled in the name of the prince, and it has nothing to do with the prince, you framed the prince, do you know what to blame?" As soon as Wei Ting heard about the crime that Li Yuan had set against him, he immediately knelt down:
"The emperor spares his life! The emperor spares his life! Weichen's sentences are true, and they do not frame ......"
"That's enough, you shut up!" Wei Ting immediately stopped talking.
"Wei Ting, since you want to go to Shanzhou with Du Yan, you can go with Du Yan! Wanyue, take Wei Ting down. "The waning moon did as it was told. Li Yuan yelled at Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin:
"Jiancheng, Shimin, look at what kind of people you have used, Du Yan failed to persuade Li Shimin, causing his brother to fall out of harmony, and he wanted to serve the prince, Wei Ting framed the prince in front of me, and exiled Wei Ting and Wang Qi and Du Yan, the subordinate officials of the East Palace, to Shanzhou." Li Jiancheng heard that Li Yuan was going to exile Wang Gui to Shanzhou along with Wei Ting and Du Yan. Immediately knelt down and pleaded with Li Yuan:
"Father, Lord Wang Gui has done nothing, Lord Wang Gui is innocent."
"What is innocent, just because Wang Gui didn't teach you well, it is his dereliction of duty as the crown prince and Taibao, the waning moon, quickly pass the decree! Wei Ting and the subordinate officials of the East Palace, Wang Qi and Du Yan, were exiled to Shanzhou. Li Yuan knows in his heart that the original prince Sanfu, Taishi Li Gang, and Taifu Yu Zhining have now slowly withdrawn from Li Jiancheng's decision-making circle, and now it is mainly used for the enlightenment education of Li Chengdao and Li Chenglu, and Wang Gui has now formed the status of the crown prince's head, and now Du Yan and Wei Ting are both Li Shimin's knives stabbing Li Jiancheng, and it is deserved to send Du Yan and Wei Ting to Shanzhou, but if Li Jiancheng is not given a lesson, then Li Jiancheng's tail will not go to heaven at that time.
Attached: Wei Ting (589-646), a native of Yongzhou Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi), the son of Wei Chong, the Shangshu of the Sui Minbu, and the father of the prime minister Wei Zhiqi. Gaozu Pingjing Division, the Department of Longxi Mansion sacrificial wine. Taizong successively served as Shangshu Zuocheng, successively served as the servant of the Ministry of Officials, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, worshiped the imperial Shi Dafu, and was named the male of Fuyang County, which was quite appreciated and reused by Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Degraded to the history of the state thorn, died at the age of fifty-eight. Wei Tingxiao had a good relationship with the hidden prince Li Jiancheng. In Wudezhong, the left guard hussar of the prince was relocated, and the left rate of the school was inspected, and the hidden prince was very thick. Later, because of Yang Wengan's affairs, it was said in the book that the prince and the palace ministers secretly created heresy, and Du Yan and Wang Qi were exiled to Shanzhou in the seventh year of Wude. After Taizong entered the East Palace, he worshipped him as the lord Langzhong. In the early years of Zhenguan, Wang Jue recommended him several times, so he moved to Shangshu Youcheng. Worship Dr. Shi and so on. Taizong married Wei Ting's daughter Xu to Li You, the king of Qi, as a concubine. Wei often served as an adviser with Fang Xuanling, Wang Qi, Wei Zheng, Dai Guan, etc., and participated in political affairs. Soon, he was reassigned to Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, serving as a waiter in the Yellow Gate, and concurrently serving as a minister in the palace of the King of Wei. At that time, Li Tai was favored, the crown prince had many mistakes, and Taizong had the idea of abolishing it. Du Zhenglun, the Chinese scholar, was demoted for leaking the forbidden language in the palace. At that time, Wei Ting also participated in some things about Li Tai. Taizong said to him: "I have belittled Du Zhenglun, and I can't bear to put Aiqing under the law." So he forgave him. Soon moved to Taichangqing. By looking at this history, I have been thinking about why Wei Ting and the crown prince Li Jiancheng knew each other when they were young, so they were reused by the prince Li Jiancheng, and they also had to say bad things about Li Jiancheng. This shows that Wei Ting is an undercover agent placed by Li Shimin next to Li Jiancheng, and uses Wei Ting to prove how unpopular Li Jiancheng is, so as to set off Li Shimin's glorious image.
Wang Jue (570-639), a native of Qi County, Hedong (now Qi County, Shanxi), was one of the four famous ministers in the early Tang Dynasty, and the grandson of Wang Shengbi of Shangshu Ling of Southern Liang. In the thirteenth year of Emperor Wen of Sui, he was summoned to introspect as a secretary and awarded the title of Taichang Zhililang. Implicated by his uncle Wang Fei, he fled to Zhongnanshan. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he successively served as a counselor of the prince's palace to join the army, the prince Zhongsheren, and the prince Zhongyun, and became the confidant of the hidden prince Li Jiancheng, and was later exiled to Netzhou because of the Yang Wengan incident. During the Zhenguan period, he was recalled to the court, and successively served as the counselor doctor, the Huangmen squire, the servant, the Tongzhou Thorn History, the Ministry of Rites, the Wei Wang teacher, and the Yongning County Duke. In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, he died of illness, and was posthumously presented with the book of the Ministry of Officials, and was given the nickname Yi. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when the princess got married, she did not pay a visit to her in-laws. After Princess Nanping married Wang Jue's son, Wang Jue said: "Now the emperor is Shengming, and his behavior follows the etiquette system. I accepted the princess's visit, not for my own glory, but to show the virtues of the court. He and his wife sat upright on top of him and let the princess bow. From then on, when the princess marries, if the in-laws are still alive, they have to perform the women's ceremony. After reading this historical record, I found that although Wang Gui was recalled to the dynasty after Li Shimin ascended the throne and held a prominent position, from the perspective of the princess's marriage, there is only one possibility, that is, Wang Gui has not surrendered to Li Shimin. That's why after Li Shimin married Princess Nanping, he deliberately let the princess perform a woman's ceremony to humiliate Li Shimin.