Chapter 221: Recruiting Wei Zheng

Xu Jingzong reported to Li Jiancheng about the agreement he reached with his eldest grandson Shunde:

"Jingzong, you have done a good job in this matter, I have been worried, although Rose has entered Li Shimin's side and become his pillow person, but she is always just a woman, many things, Li Shimin cannot tell him completely, not to mention that Eldest Sun Wuji is also secretly restraining Rose to prevent her from taking away the favor of Eldest Sun Wuji, and Eldest Sun Shunde is different. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Okay, come on! Reward Lord Xu with twenty horses of cloth. ”

"Your Highness!" Xu Jingzong was thanking Li Jiancheng for his reward, and suddenly there was a cold snort!

"Humph!" As soon as Li Jiancheng heard it, he knew that it was Li Gang again, and the old master was unhappy.

"Your Highness! Lord Xu is able to do things, and he really deserves to be rewarded, but Your Highness, such villain methods are really against the way of the saint, please do more gentlemanly things in the future, don't act as a villain, I'm afraid it will be difficult for historians to write in the future! Li Gang said, while showing Xu Jingzong with his eyes.

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that what Master Li said is very true, and I hope that His Highness will rely on the words of the sage, pro-virtuous ministers, and far from villains." Xu Jingzong heard the words of these two old masters and the behavior of a villain, and his face was already blue and white for a while, Di Zhixun immediately stepped forward and said:

"The two bosses, although Lord Xu said that he used some improper means, but Sun Tzu has clouds in the art of war, and the opponent is useful. Furthermore...... Di Zhixun hadn't finished speaking, and Yu Zhining was already impatient.

"Master Di, we exhort the prince, do the duty of the young master and the young master, and guide the prince to the right path, please don't stop it." Hearing this, Li Jiancheng's face was a little unbearable, it is true that you Li Gang and Yu Zhining are my prince's young master and young master, but you can't scold the prince's subordinate officials like this, everyone here is recruited by him Li Jiancheng one by one, so he is completely slapping Li Jiancheng without scruples. Of course, Li Jiancheng also knows that the main reason for today's situation lies in himself. Li Jiancheng knew that Xu Jingzong was very ambitious, in order to prevent him from forming a lawless character, and in order to fulfill his Li Jiancheng's 'signboard' of being humble and humbly accepting advice in the outside world, Li Jiancheng adopted a way of indulgence and accommodation to Li Gang and Yu Zhining, even if they were serious, they never refuted, but pretended to be humbly taught, who knew that this would be counterproductive, these two old guys relied on the old and sold the old together, Wang Gui couldn't stand it.

"Two adults, it is indeed a good thing for you to fulfill the responsibility of the master, but in the lower body of the prince Shaobao, I don't know anything else, only know a word of protection, let me ask the two adults, if the prince is gone, then what use do we have, so in addition to leading the prince, we should not forget the responsibility of supporting. Although Lord Xu's methods are a little incorrect, he also does it for the prince, so the two adults should not embarrass the prince like this anymore. "If Li Gang and Yu Zhining dare to angrily reprimand the prince because they are the prince's master, if the prince refutes it, it is against the way of respecting the teacher, and angrily reprimanding the prince's subordinate officials because the subordinate officials are only small and medium-sized clans, but they dare not do anything to Wang Gui, the reason is that the Taiyuan Wang clan to which Wang Gui belongs is a prestigious family formed since the confrontation between the north and the south, and the family background is extremely high. Moreover, Wang Gui's talent is still above the two of them, but he is limited to seniority and age, so he is ranked third as the crown prince Shaobao. Li Jiancheng listened to Wang Gui's words, and felt a little more comfortable, but he knew that he couldn't make the situation too stiff. Li Jiancheng got up slightly:

"Two masters, it is really a last resort to make this decision, please forgive me." Li Gang and Yu Zhining saw that Li Jiancheng had already given them the stairs, so naturally they couldn't tear their faces.

"The prince is serious, and the ministers are just doing their duty as our courtiers. The prince's humble acceptance is the blessing of the ministers, and if the prince has no other affairs, the ministers will retire. "Since Xu Jingzong was reprimanded by Li Gang and Yu Zhining, he felt that his power in the Prince's East Palace was still a little weaker. It seems that I should also attract some more people to enter this prince's East Palace, otherwise there will be no one to help speak in the future. Well! It's time to invite him over. ’

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the minister has a word I want to explain to the prince."

"Oh! Lord Xu, you used to be very arrogant in doing things for others, why are you now angry? ”

"The minister is guilty! The minister has a good friend, who is resourceful, if His Royal Highness can take him into his command, like adding a wing to His Royal Highness, I wanted to recommend him to His Highness, but there have been too many things recently so I forgot, please forgive the prince for the crime of dereliction of duty! Li Jiancheng smiled in his heart, "I finally forced you out."

"Oh! Who is it? can get Xu Aiqing's such attention, there must be something outstanding, I don't know who his surname is, what is his outstanding? ! ”

"This person's name is Wei Zheng, he used to be a strategist under Li Mi back then, and he has repeatedly made strange plans, but Li Mi didn't use his strategy back then, otherwise he wouldn't have been defeated by Wang Shichong and ended up in such a situation." Li Jiancheng very much agreed with Xu Jingzong's statement, according to the research of later historians, a large part of the reason why Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Revolution at the beginning was because Wei Zheng repeatedly used strange plots to oppress Li Shimin, so that Li Shimin had to take risks and make a killing move against Li Jiancheng. Only then did he turn the situation back, and later, after Li Shimin caught Wei Zheng, he heard that Wei Zheng had often advised Li Jiancheng to arrange Li Shimin to go somewhere else, Li Shimin sent someone to take Wei Zheng and asked: "Why do you want to separate our brothers?" Wei Zheng replied, "If the prince had done what I said, there would have been no disaster today." Later generations often said that Li Shimin let him go because of Wei Zheng's straightforward character, but Li Jiancheng felt that if it wasn't for Wei Zheng's talent to convince Li Shimin, with Li Shimin's character, he would never let Wei Zheng go. Wei Zheng later played a great role in stabilizing Li Shimin's throne and creating a prosperous era.

"Oh! I don't know where Wei Qing is? As soon as he heard Wei Qing's words, Xu Jingzong thought that his recommendation was successful, but he didn't know in his heart that Li Jiancheng had already set his sights on Wei Zheng, just waiting for him to lead it out. Li Jiancheng was led by Xu Jingzong to the thatched house where Wei Zheng lived:

"Read the micro grass hall! Life in the world, insignificant, but many important things are insignificant, so micro and danger are the same sound, the ancients once had a thousand miles of embankment destroyed in the anthill language, so can carefully check the world's small things, detect the insufficiency, the right way. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said well, it is precisely because many people in the world do not pay attention to the subtleties and lose their righteousness and make their reputations ruined." looked at Xu Jingzong's shaking of his head. Li Jiancheng continued:

"Jingzong, you misunderstood, not only to be a person to pay attention to the subtleties, but also, the micro also has the meaning of humility, people in the world all look at the authority of the official, but they don't know that as long as they are people, they will have an upward heart, just because they are suppressed and excluded by the superior people, so that the world is constantly fighting and killing, so that those of us who are superior should not look down on others because of their humble status, etc., everything should be the first in the world! Don't dictate and wield power so that the world will be troubled! It is necessary to know that the world is not the world of one person, but the world of the world, and we are only the herdsmen chosen by God to act on behalf of the herdsmen, but the will of God hopes to support the people, and cannot act against the sky! Xu Jingzong listened to Li Jiancheng's words and seemed to have an understanding, and Wei Zheng, who had been eavesdropping on Li Jiancheng's words in the room, was also like a tide in his heart.

"Mr. Wei Zheng, I heard that Mr. is only eight buckets high, so he brought some gifts to visit Mr., please meet me."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here, the humble house is shining, the door is not locked, please come in!" Li Jiancheng pushed open the bamboo door and walked into the thatched house, where Wei Zheng was looking at it with a copy of the Analects, but Li Jiancheng could see that he was not paying attention.

"Brother Xuancheng, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down, why is it so rude?"

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, forgive me, in the lower cold house, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing, please sit on the ground, if it is dirty, please leave."

"Xuancheng you 。。。。。。" Li Jiancheng stopped Xu Jingzong. He looked at Wei Zheng quietly and gently, but Wei Zheng's eyes only looked at the Analects, and his eyes didn't look at Li Jiancheng, and the atmosphere was deadlocked.

"Ahh His Royal Highness the Prince, Xiaomin is tired and needs to rest. ”

"Sir, please." Wei Zheng didn't care about him, he came directly to a straw mat, lay down and fell asleep, who knew that he didn't lie down for a while, so he muttered:

"Hey! These damn mosquitoes. Li Jiancheng observed the surroundings and saw a handful of floating dust that chased flies and mosquitoes, he quietly picked up the floating dust, and gently swayed for him by Wei Zheng's side, Wei Zheng soon let out bursts of snoring, Xu Jingzong muttered in his heart, 'My ancestor! No matter how talented you are, you have to pay attention! Not like you. About an hour later, Wei Zheng woke up, and he opened his eyes:

"Who will realize the big dream? I know it all my life. The grass hall sleeps enough in spring, and the day outside the window is late. Xu Jingzong said angrily:

"Xuancheng! You still have emotional poetry, you know? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince even swept away flies with floating dust for you, you don't know if it is a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes. Wei Zheng quickly knelt down in front of Li Jiancheng and pleaded guilty to Li Jiancheng:

"Ahh His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please forgive your sins! Non-ministers, it is really that the ministers did not meet the Lord when they were young, so there is some grief and indignation in their hearts, please rest assured that from now on, the ministers are the eagle dogs to which His Highness belongs, and only His Highness will look forward to the future in the future. Li Jiancheng quickly helped Wei Zheng up:

"Mr. Xuancheng, please hurry up, it is a blessing for Jiancheng to be able to get the assistance of Mr., please Mr. Please make more suggestions for Jiancheng, so as to achieve revenge in Jiancheng's heart." Wei Zheng was named the crown prince by Li Jiancheng and was in charge of the books of the East Palace. and arranged under Wang Gui's subordinates, from the original Wang Gui's refutation of Li Gang and Yu Zhining, Li Jiancheng saw Wang Gui's tactfulness, 'I hope Wei Zheng will also learn Wang Gui's temper, and don't make the end of the tombstone in the future.' ’