Chapter Ninety-Seven: Bear the Burden of Humiliation
The eldest grandson Wuji nodded, and praised again: "Lord Feng really put the prince in his heart."
Then he pointed to the text and said, "I just came from the Chengqing Palace, and the emperor asked me to tell you about this text." Feng Deyi held the text in both hands: "The emperor asked the adults to urge the text, and I will send it to him." β
The eldest grandson Wuji shook his head and said, "It's a pity, such a splendid article is not needed!" β
Everyone was stunned, looking at the eldest grandson Wuji, the eldest grandson Wuji said: "Li Jingjun hasn't returned to Tongguan yet, and someone has already sent Li Yi's head over there." Alas, what a pity, such a good article! Saying that, the eldest grandson Wuji turned around and shook his head and walked out, and there was a lot of gossip in the inner introspection of the book.
Feng Deyi's heart tightened for a while, and he hurriedly walked out of the Hongwen Palace and secretly sent his henchmen to inquire about the matter, and after half an hour, the henchman came back and told him that it turned out that the eldest grandson Wuji had already bought Li Yi's subordinate general Yang Qi, and suddenly killed Li Yi, and the Yan Liao army had been pacified.
Feng Deyi asked anxiously: "What about the middle prince?" β
The henchman said: "I was so hungry that I had a breath left, and I asked Yang Qi to carry him into the palace gate, and when the emperor saw the prince's appearance, he was moved by compassion and carried the prince back to the room to rest." β
Feng Deyi was struck by lightning, and he realized that he went to Li Yijun to be a lobbyist with his head in order to calculate the nephew of the eldest grandson Wuji, but in the end, he was really calculated by the eldest grandson Wuji.
His spirit suffered a heavy blow, and soon he fell ill and collapsed, and Li Ke, who sent Li Chengqian back, learned the news of Feng Deyi and hurriedly came to Feng Deyi's house.
When Li Ke came to Feng Xiang's mansion, there was a burst of coughing sounds, "cough cough cough" When Li Ke saw it, he knew where the sound came from Feng Deyi. I couldn't help but be moved, although Li Ke didn't do anything big in the north this time, with Li Jing's army just playing a restraining role, so that Li Shimin in the Central Plains could have a way to deal with the Turks.
Now that he has come back, Li Ke has also heard about this matter above the government and the opposition, and now it has almost been divided into two parties, one is naturally the Prince Conservative Party headed by the eldest grandson Wuji, and the other is the King of Chu led by Feng Deyi who supported Li Ke to join the Eastern Party, and Li Ke also knew what this old minister of the Sui Dynasty did to him. How to bow to the essence made Li Ke couldn't help but be moved.
Hearing Feng Deyi's cough, Li Ke hurriedly ran to the bed and grabbed Feng Deyi's hand, "Feng Xiang, Ke'er is back!" Li Ke said that at this time, he was more like Feng Deyi's grandson.
Feng Deyi, who was originally prostration, saw that the person in front of him was his own King of Chu, and he couldn't help but look back and imitate it, looking at these faces, Feng Deyi was like seeing the first emperor. Feng Deyi thought, hadn't he already met the first emperor in hell?
Feng Deyi was like a burned mess, and tears appeared on his face, "Emperor Xian, the minister is ashamed of the fall of the Sui Dynasty, and the minister has no power to resist, it is really a shame to the first emperor's kindness, now, I didn't expect that the old minister failed to let your grandson stay in the East Palace, and he has already come down to accompany you." The minister is ashamed, the minister is ashamed," he cried after speaking.
Seeing this old minister of the Sui Dynasty like this, Li Ke really had mixed feelings in his heart, he didn't expect Feng Deyi to treat himself like this, he hurriedly hugged Feng Deyi, "Feng Xiang, I'm Ke'er, I'm Ke'er." β
But Feng Deyi just wanted to be relieved, and kept babbling in his mouth, "The minister is ashamed, the minister is ashamed", and he fell asleep unconsciously, Li Ke knew that Feng Deyi had worked too hard for himself, and it was time to repay him.
The grass was full of flowers, Li Shimin led the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Ke and others sent Fan Xin to the suburbs.
Fan Xin arched his hand: "The emperor, the eldest grandson, the king of Chu, please go back, you have already been out of the city for ten miles." β
Everyone stopped, Li Shimin took Fan Xin's hand and said: "Fan Xin, I am really reluctant to let you go, without your clever schemes, now Chang'an is afraid that it will already be a piece of rubble." But such a great hero, but still have to be belittled, alas, I am in my heart - not to mention this, you have been dealing with Hu Kou in Yunzhong and Mayi for many years, if you stay in Suizhou for a while, you should be able to come up with a way to crack the Jieli Iron Horse, right? β
Fan Xin fell to his knees: "Your Majesty!" Your request will be remembered. Then he stood up and jumped on his horse, and was about to whip away, when Li Shimin suddenly shouted: "Fan Xin, in my heart, you are not a Suizhou assassin, you are the military squire of the Tang Dynasty!" Fan Xin was stunned, the raised horsewhip stopped in mid-air, and a huge teardrop rolled down from the man's sunken eyes.
"Ke'er, do you think Fan Xin will think of it?" After Fan Xin left, Li Shimin said to Li Ke on the side.
Hearing Li Shimin ask himself, Li Ke replied without thinking, "Those who dare to offend my Tang Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away, the child believes that Fan Tingshi will come up with it, and the child still has that sentence, the child was the pioneer." Kill the enemy for his father and serve the country. β
"Okay, good" After Li Ke finished saying this, many people present applauded.
"Those who dare to offend my Tang Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away" Li Shimin whispered back to this sentence.
And at this time, a jealous eye was looking at this Li Ke.
At this time, there was a sound of people nearby, and a group of people were helping the old and the young to walk over from the wild path in the south.
Li Shimin asked: "What are these people going for?" β
Someone said: "When you go back to the emperor, you all go outside the mouth to ask for work." β
Li Shimin's face changed, as if he had been stabbed by something, the eldest grandson Wuji saw Li Shimin's pain, and he reprimanded the group of people sharply: "Bold, don't you know that the imperial court is going to move north without permission to fill the army?" Come on, arrest them all and send them to the Jingzhao Yin Office! β
The accompanying guards drew their swords and wanted to make their moves, and all the people knelt down together and cried: "My lord, spare your life." β
Li Ke said: "Father, these people are so pitiful, just let them go!" β
The eldest grandson Wuji said angrily: "If you let go of a village today, won't you go to a county tomorrow!" Then he addressed the guards again, "What are you doing in a daze? The guards stepped forward to take people, and the people told them again and again, Li Shimin couldn't stand it anymore, stopped the guards, and let the people just leave.
The eldest grandson Wuji wanted to say something, but Li Shimin stopped him, sighed and said, "What is the crime of the people? If you want to talk about the crime, you can only blame me, the son of heaven, for not being able to feed them! β
The people cried and left, the wind blew up the leaves in the sky, Li Shimin's face was full of melancholy, and his eyes fell on a huge mound of earth next to him, which was the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and there was a stone pillar standing in front of the mausoleum.
Li Shimin's face changed, and he said: "This is a tethered horse pile, it is newly established, only Hu Qi will do this!" They actually put the bolted horse stake in front of Emperor Wu's mausoleum! Emperor Wu drove 300,000 armor, Xuanwei Shuo desert, sealed the wolf Juxu, and drove the Huns to nowhere to hide, but I wanted to pay tribute to Jieli, and watched my subjects wander everywhere - I really have no shame to face him! β
At this time, a voice came from behind everyone: "Who is born a Buddha, and Buddhas are all cultivated!" β
Li Shimin looked back and saw a monk standing behind him, with three disciples.
The monk continued: "A long time ago, a tree in the middle of Zhongnan Mountain was blown down by the wind, and the monks in the temple carried the tree back and sawed it into two pieces, one of which was carved into a Buddha statue, and the rest was made into a floor. One day, the floor said to the Buddha statue very unhappily, we are the same tree, why have you become a Buddha admired by thousands of people, but I am being trampled on? Do you know how the Buddha statue answers? It said, you only saw me being admired by thousands of people today, but you didn't see how many knives and axes I suffered all over my body back then! β
Hearing the monk say this, Li Ke had some feelings, but he didn't know where this person was sacred.
Li Shimin seemed to have an understanding, and he asked, "The master isβ"
The monk replied, "Poor monk Xuanzang." β
Li Shimin played with this fable repeatedly, and his gaze stopped on Xuanzang's face for a long time.
And Li Ke is like being splashed on his body by water? What the? It turned out to be Xuanzang? Could it really be like Journey to the West? Just when Li Ke was questioning in his heart.
Suddenly, Li Shimin knelt down and kowtowed respectfully to Xuanzang.
Everyone was stunned by this scene, and Li Shimin had already strode towards the war horse.
The eldest grandson Wuji followed behind Li Shimin, and almost hit the horse-tethered stake, and he ordered a guard: "Go back and tell Jing Zhaoyin, send someone to remove this tethered horse bolt, and stand here to insult the ancestors, what kind of system will it be?" β
Li Shimin turned around and said, "No, keep it!" This is a good reminder that I should not forget the shame of today, and one day I will set it up in front of the big tent of Jieli! β
From this day on, this stone that records shame has been pressing on Li Shimin's heart, he made great efforts to govern the country, implemented a series of strategies to strengthen the country, the Tang Dynasty began to be called the "rule of Zhenguan" generation of governance, the country gradually came out of the shadow of long-term war.
And Jieli, who had the ambition of unifying the United States, was not idle, and he used his best to eliminate dissidents and strengthen his rule. The two giants of the north and south were struggling to sharpen their swords, waiting for the moment when a sword stabbed into each other's throats. In the third year of Zhenguan, their swords sparked again.