Volume 11 The Western Regions Chapter 4 The Emperor's Thoughts

Under the fiery sun, a huge team is marching, the whole team is silent, only heavy horses' hooves, the horse's hooves step down, the earth is trembling, this is a steel-like hero, the dark armor has no luster in the sun, as if it is a black hole to devour everything, under the scorching summer, everyone is wrapped in armor, drops of sweat roll down the faces of these warriors, but no one raises their hands to wipe it, let the sweat slide down their cheeks, and finally fall into the dust, Then it is absorbed into the earth.

Li Kuan still didn't come back to his senses until this time, because he never thought that Li Er would hand over such a team to him to lead, this was the sharpest sword in Li Er's second-hand, and now it was handed over to him without hesitation, what a kind of trust this is, or how much Li Er's own thinking in it, all of this made Li Kuan a little unavoidable, his head is not bright, not a legendary genius, so many bends and bends are difficult for him to think about, so now it is still like being in a dream. Even he didn't expect to leave like this, without saying a word to the familiar people. While this army was subordinate to his commander, it also made all his thoughts directly shut down. He didn't remember how he had withstood the huge pressure of this group of the most elite troops of the Tang Dynasty in the middle of the army, and he didn't know where he would go with this army. Only the holy decree passed down by Li Er in his arms will give him the direction of his next actions.

Gradually, Chang'an City had become the back behind him, and he could barely see the towering city wall, so he came back to his senses, and he left the highest administrative center of the Tang Dynasty again, and even the closest people around him never said goodbye.

The speed of the march of the great army is not fast, this army of thousands of people. On this official road, it stretched out for several miles, and the soldiers at the front had approached the largest farewell holy place outside Chang'an City, while the last one was still hovering outside Chang'an City. However, such a team did not have the slightest chaos, and everyone followed the team in front of them in an orderly manner, in a group of three. Just act silently. Such an action fell in the eyes of everyone, and they were all shocked by the elite of this army, because all the generals who had experience in marching and fighting knew that such a long line was the most test of the army's discipline, because if the line dragged on too long, it would be easy to cause the people behind the team to fall behind, or even break away from the team. But now the scene in front of everyone is so orderly, everyone is in order, all the horses are under the spur of the knight, obediently follow the war horses in front. Even the animals that don't speak human can be so neat. The distance between each platoon is exactly the same length, and even the soldiers in each platoon have all the same movements. This army is simply terrifying.

No one can guess how this army, which has always been like a machine, will perform on the battlefield, and no one dares to imagine what kind of enemy will be able to resist such an army if it is truly exerted to its might. The eldest grandson Wuji was sweating a little behind Li Er at this time, not because the weather was hot, but because there was a feeling of fear in his heart, because this army was now under the command of Li Kuan. The relationship between this King of Chu and his eldest grandson's family is not very harmonious. It can be said that Li Kuan, the king of Chu, is the political enemy of his eldest grandson Wuji in the court, and now the enemy's strength has been greatly enhanced. How can he not be in a hurry, and this is obviously a choice made by Li Er, using Li Kuan, the king of Chu, to balance him, a powerful minister of the dynasty, because now the eldest grandson Wuji is already a very human minister, Shangshu Zuo Pu Shot, Zhao Guogong. There is also the identity of the national uncle. All of this is an indescribable identity, and now that he is standing behind his nephew Li Chengqian with a clear position, how many people in the court can play with him? What Li Er needs is a balanced court, and the current eldest grandson family and the crown prince Li Chengqian have faintly become the biggest force in the court. In addition, he also has a large group of identities from the robe of Tiance Mansion, Xiang Fang Xuanling. Duan Zhixuan and the others were all Li Er's original team, and these people would more or less give him a little thin noodles, so the forces in the court were almost one-sided, except for Wei Zheng, a direct minister whose position had remained unchanged for thousands of years, and those veterans in the army. The entire Tang Dynasty can be said to be no one dares to compete with his interest group, although this makes it possible for the Tang Dynasty to have a peaceful transition, but it is a greater hidden danger - if the ministers above the court are all in the same position, the status of the king will become subtle, Li Er is keenly aware of this kind of sign, so he immediately exposed this army that has been hidden in the snow, and quickly stuffed this army to Li Kuan, the king of Chu, who did not deal with him, and would not fall to the crown prince.

It stands to reason that under the rule of Li Er, the king, there can be no such thing, the ministers are in power, almost always when the country is about to die, the king of the dead country no longer has the slightest courage and eloquence, and he can't suppress the courtiers under his hands to have such a situation, or the first emperor died, and the young emperor was young, and the minister of Tuogu became the regent, so that there would be such a situation where the court was dominant. How could Li Er, the first emperor of the ages, have such a situation? This has to say that Li Er is actually a person, and it is not an exaggeration for him to include all the talents in the world. But he also has a shortcoming that is not a shortcoming, that is, Li Er is the most humane one among the countless kings of China, only he will let all the nobles who follow him to fight the world all get a good death, only he did not do the thing of unloading the mill and killing the donkey and hiding the bird after the country. The rest of the monarchs, whether they were Liu Bang, Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, or Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, all did one thing after conquering the world, that is, to kill meritorious officials. Or to rein in the power of his subordinates.

Li Erzhongqing, as long as he values it, then he will be extremely spoiled, and even turn a blind eye to the harm of these people. likes Li Kuan, even if he hasn't let down his guard in his heart, but he still keeps saying that Li Kuan is by his side, and even puts Li Ke in his fiefdom, Li Kuan, who is older than Li Ke, is still staying in Chang'an City, and likes Li Tai, so he let him set up Chongwen Hall by himself. Li Er did these things with his own temperament, he didn't care how others criticized him behind his back, and he didn't care how the historian wrote. Therefore, his trust in the eldest grandson Wuji is also unreserved, including the trust in the eldest grandson Wuji who has followed along the way, as well as the feelings between the eldest grandson and the queen of the eldest grandson, and the doting of his favorite daughter Princess Changle, these emotions have all gathered together to become Li Er's unreserved trust in the eldest grandson Wuji. Therefore, he has never been dissatisfied with the eldest grandson Wuji standing behind Li Chengqian, because Li Chengqian is his eldest son and the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and the eldest grandson Wuji is Li Chengqian's uncle, and he is Li Chengqian's right-hand man who will govern the world in the future, and Li Er will not care about all this. He is confident that the eldest grandson Wuji will not betray him, nor will it harm the interests of Datang. Therefore, these elder Sun families have continued to grow and develop, and a big net covering everything has been formed in the court.

Now after learning about Li Kuan's magical power, Li Kuan's position in his heart has become delicate, he saw the hope of the Tang Dynasty to completely stretch for all generations, which this magical son can do, so he has wavering in his heart, and has other plans, so a holy decree has become a chess piece to test the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, under this temptation, it was completely unexpected by him, these people all made the same reaction, and they were all so resolute, whether it was the eldest grandson Wuji or Fang Xuanling, Even a few generals in the army who are like Dinghai Shenneedle are average. He originally thought that he could test how deep the network that Eldest Sun Wuji had been operating for so many years, but he didn't expect it to let him see this court clearly. The eldest grandson Wuji came with Fang Xuanling, Xiao Yu, Pei Ju and others this time, which shows that all the Wenchen family in the court have been very close to the eldest grandson Wuji. It is true that these people have the shadow of the family behind them, although now the Tang family has completely shrunk around their ancestral land and no longer expands, but it does not prevent the children of the family from speculating in the court. Behind Xiao Yu is the Xiao family, which has a deep network of relationships in the Lanling area, and behind Pei Ju is the Pei family, which is also a thousand-year-old family. For the sake of the family's interests, these people can be said to have their own plans for a long time, and now they are on Li Chengqian's side, because it is in their interests.

And then there is the military general group, which is another force in the court, but these people are first-class good at fighting, and no one can stop them from picking up the sword and gun battle array, but the treacherous clouds and waves in the court are not something they can play with as always. So they also formed a group to resist the Wenchen group. This group is only a part of the army, Wei Chigong and Cheng Yanjin are the representative figures, but in addition to a few of them, there are Qu Tutong and Duan Zhixuan, but these people did not appear in front of him, but a small detail let him know the tendency of these people. When Cheng Yanjin walked into the main hall, he glanced at the eldest grandson Wuji, and a faint anger flashed in his eyes.

Therefore, Li Er ordered people to convey the holy will all night, so that there was this initial scene, and only then did Li Kuan have the road to the west this time. (To be continued......)