Chapter 371: Who Is the Final Winner (1)

Chu Wangfu.

Li Shi looked at Li Jiao with a complicated expression worriedly.

Li Jiao sighed lightly: "Shi'er, do you think that there is something wrong with your father's disposal?" ”

Li Shi hesitated, but the critical moment was when he showed that his knowledge was different, and he couldn't back down, so he gritted his teeth and said softly: "Father, my son thinks that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are famous generals with great prestige in the army, and it is impossible for them to be dismissed because of a defeat. There is little chance that His Majesty will approve of these people because of this, and my son is worried that he will offend many generals in the army, and if these people stand against us, they will ...... in the future."

Li Li smiled slightly: "Very good, keep talking!" ”

Li Shi nodded and continued: "Father, Li Kui, these ministers and military generals have always been at odds, and the courtier Chinese s have always been worried that the military generals' skills will overpower the civil ministers, and the civil and military battles are in full swing, they want to use their father to suppress the generals, and the son thinks ...... The son thought it would be better for his father to be cautious. ”

"Well, you can see that, it's kind of insightful. That's right, the Chinese courtiers and military generals of the DPRK are gradually becoming water and fire, and when they encounter such an opportunity, Li Kuo and these people will naturally not give up. They fanned the flames and provoked this king to take Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi under the knife, of course, they had ill intentions, and this king knew it. But—"

Li Jiao's eyes became solemn: "However, this king has no way out." If Guo Ziyi and others are not pushed out as scapegoats to eliminate the anger of His Majesty and the subjects of the Manchu Dynasty, the prestige of this king will definitely be damaged. ”

"Weighing the pros and cons, this king can only be a ruthless and unrighteous person once. Of course, this king will not be a villain in vain. Shi'er, you remember, those who achieve great things are not informal, there is no benevolence and righteousness in the court, and the imperial power is colder than ice, and if we want to live freely and longer than others, we must do whatever it takes! ”

"Only when this king finally enters the East Palace and becomes the rightful prince of the Tang Dynasty can everything be controlled. If this goal is not achieved one day, there will be a one-day risk variable. ”

"As for Guo Ziyi and these people, even if they oppose this king in the future, what is this king afraid of? If it is decided today, Wenchen's governance is the mainstream, and this king has firmly controlled Wenchen in his hands, and only a few generals can't turn the sky upside down! ”

Li Jiao sneered: "Li Yu wants to use this king, but this king is not using them!" What's more, this king wants them to act as pawns waving flags and shouting, to test the attitude and reality of the one in the palace! ”

Li Jiao is talking about Emperor Li Heng, that is, his father. Li Li has never mentioned the emperor with this attitude, and if it is in front of outsiders, the title of "the one in the palace" has actually constituted great disrespect.

Li Shi was suddenly startled and looked up at his father.

Li Jiao's expression was cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Shi'er, do you know why your imperial grandfather issued an edict to canonize you as the king of Fengjie County, but he was not allowed to announce it publicly?" ”

The corners of Li Shi's mouth trembled slightly, and he shook his head. This is indeed a mystery in his heart, Li Heng issued an edict to canonize him as the king of Fengjie County, as the eldest son of the king of Chu, this canonization is actually not outrageous, among the many grandchildren in today's world, Li Shi is not the first person to be crowned. However, the emperor strictly ordered the Chu Palace, not to spread the news that Li Shi was named the king of Fengjie County.

This is really contrary to common sense and ancestral system.

Li Li snorted coldly: "Father, this is beating this king." He is hinting that the position of the crown prince of the East Palace is still undecided, and he has not yet made up his final decision. ”

Li Shi sighed, in fact, he still couldn't figure it out, the position of the crown prince of the East Palace was undecided, what did it have to do with him, the emperor's grandson, he was canonized as the king of Fengjie County, but it was just a step-by-step royal regulation, not a special favor, why should he be so mysterious?

But Li Li didn't continue to explain. Since Li Li didn't say it, Li Shi didn't dare to ask more, so he had to pretend to understand.

"Since he can't make up his mind for a long time, then, this king will help him make it." Li Jiao's eyes flashed with brilliance, and the corners of his mouth floated in an indifferent arc.

Li Shi sighed in his heart, bowed down, and didn't dare to respond.

"Shi'er, remember, we have no way out! If this king can't become the prince, today's ownership power will dissipate with the wind one day, and as long as our Chu Wangfu loses power, our father and son will die in the future and have no place to be buried. Li Li sneered and stepped off the stage and patted Li Shi on the shoulder: "You are a serious person, this king has great hopes for you, I hope you don't let this king down!" ”

Li Shi was ecstatic and bowed lower: "The son understands that the son will not dare to live up to the grace of his father's upbringing and cultivation!" ”

Li Jiao did not say it explicitly, but he had already revealed the idea of establishing Li Shi as the son. Once Li Jiao becomes the emperor, he is the crown prince, which is unspeakably expensive.

Li Jiao smiled: "There is one more thing. This king lost to Kong Sheng's little guy, you go to Dali Temple in person, go to inform Xue An, the secretary of Dali Temple, and pass on the king's message, saying that this king will fulfill his promise, please Chang'an wait to return home quietly and wait! ”

Li Jiao walked away, but when he left the hall, all the smiles on his face disappeared in an instant, and they were replaced by an eerie murderous intent!

At this moment, he really killed Kong Sheng!

This Kong Sheng made him feel terrible. He is like a god, he has the slightest judgment of the current situation and the general trend of the world, such a young man will become a great trouble in time, if he can't be used by him, he can only be unswervingly eradicated!

If Li Jiao only stayed at the level of suppressing or expelling Kong Sheng from Beijing before, now he has the intention of killing. This kind of demonic genius in the world must not be left any longer!

If Kong Sheng is allowed to gain power, and then join forces with these princes who are qualified to win the heir, the consequences will be unimaginable. For the first time, Kong Sheng was included in Li Li's mind on an important prevention list.

In the palace.

Li Heng looked coldly at Yu Chaoen who was lying on the ground, and he was furious.

Yu Chaoen was appointed by the emperor to be the envoy of Guan Jun Rong to the army, which was equivalent to the supervision of Guo Ziyi's generals. Xiangzhou was defeated, and this fish Chaoen fled back to Beijing, and entered the palace overnight to ask the emperor for his guilt.

The emperor did not realize at this time that the existence of Yu Chaoen and the system of supervising the army was actually an important factor leading to the defeat of Xiangzhou. Because of the existence of the prison army and the emperor's eyeliner, Guo Ziyi and others were very constrained, and they were all deeply jealous, lest misbehavior would arouse the emperor's suspicion, so they were constantly making decisions and being in a dilemma in many strategic decisions, and did not let go of it, and missed many favorable opportunities.

At the beginning of the war, Yu Chao Enming secretly interfered in military power, and it was also the inability of the high-level military orders of the Tang Army to form a consensus, and a fatal loophole appeared in the group's operational command.

Li Fuguo gloated and looked at Yu Chaoen, who was lying on the ground and didn't dare to get up, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Yu Chaoen is the biggest "political enemy" who competes with him for power in the palace, and now that Yu Chaoen is implicated in this kind of thing, how can he not be happy?

This time, even if he didn't die, he would not escape the felony. Li Fuguo glanced at Yu Chaoen with a sneer, and closed his eyes slightly. He had to control his smug emotions and not let the emperor notice it.

Li Heng said indifferently: "Yu Chaoen, you idiot, Xiangzhou was defeated, and tens of thousands of soldiers have no bones, you still have the face to enter the palace to see me?" Are you guilty? ”

Li Fuguo said in his heart, aren't you talking nonsense? If Yu Chaoen doesn't come to the palace to ask for guilt, can he still escape? That's a dead end!

Yu Chaoen's shoulders trembled slightly, and he said softly in fear: "Your Majesty, the slave is guilty!" Xiangzhou was defeated, and the slave and maid knew that they could not escape the blame, so they came to the palace to meet Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to surrender! The slave is willing to die to repay His Majesty's kindness! ”

Yu Chaoen wept bitterly and repeatedly asked for sin. His cleverness lies in the fact that he did not have the slightest quibble, let alone completely put the responsibility on Guo Ziyi and others, but took it all - in fact, as a prison army, he has responsibilities, but to say that he wants to bear all the responsibility for the defeat of the army, the emperor is not happy in his heart.

Therefore, when Yu Chaoen came like this, Li Heng relented a little.

If Yu Chaoen pleaded guilty, maybe in anger, Li Heng ordered him to be killed. A eunuch, no matter how powerful he is, as soon as the emperor gives an order, he will be killed, and the minister of civil and military affairs can only applaud and will not object.

Li Heng slowly closed his eyes, his clenched fists trembling slightly. Anyone could see that the emperor's mood was in a state of rage, and the stormy reaction was reasonable.

Li Heng was indeed very angry. He never imagined that seeing victory in sight, he would suffer such a big defeat. The loss of tens of thousands of people, the Li Tang court could not afford to lose, but the negative impact was too great, and the morale of the officials and soldiers was too heavy to suppress the confidence of the subjects of the world, which was almost a blow to the head, and directly knocked the situation of everyone happy back to the prototype in an instant.

What made Li Heng even more unacceptable was that Kong Sheng drove An Qingxu's main army out of Luoyang City with tens of thousands of people, but Guo Ziyi and these 300,000 soldiers and horses besieged the remnants of Yecheng, but An Qingxu was defeated and won, which is simply unreasonable!

As a result, the good fortune of counterinsurgency was overturned. And in the future, there are some more unpredictable variables. More importantly, the Emperor Taishang is about to return to Chang'an, if Li Heng returns to Chang'an, because of this defeat, will those old ministers loyal to the Emperor Taishang take the opportunity to stir up trouble and plot to restore the Emperor Taishang? As soon as he thought of this, Li Heng became in a very bad mood and was extremely irritable.

Someone must take responsibility in order to overcome the discontent of the world's subjects. But the person who takes the responsibility should not be the fool in front of him. This idiot can't afford to take this responsibility, and he still has the value of his existence at the moment.

A sneer flashed in Li Heng's eyes, and the corner of his eyes swept over Li Fuguo's face, and he suddenly said indifferently: "Yu Chaoen, you are not the main general of the army, the responsibility for the defeat of the army is borne by you, and you must not be able to obey the public." I am not a mediocre king - I depose your Guan Junrong Xuanxuan Envoy, punish you for half a year, recall you to the palace, demote you to obey orders, and serve as the young eunuch of the Inner Servant Province, can you be convinced? (To be continued.) )