"Shi Xiao Shulang, what should we do now? What should they do if they have so many hostages? Wei Chigong said.

Although Wei Chigong wanted to directly order to rush over and kill people, although he didn't care about the lives of those people, he cared about his own lives, so after he heard that he might become Li Shimin's scapegoat in the future, he didn't dare to mess around. However, he really doesn't know much about this aspect, and naturally he relies on Shi Bufan, a literati. Therefore, now Wei Chigong has no choice but to rely on Shi Bufan. Shi Bufan saw that Li Yuanji had already jumped over the wall in a hurry, and came to stop Wei Chigong by taking hostages, but it was conceivable that he was about to go crazy.

"I'm going to talk to them!" Shi Bufan said.

"Shi Xiaoshulang, are you crazy? There are so many people, there are thousands of them, even I, a general, don't dare to say that I will retreat with my whole body, you are a literati ......" Wei Chigong said obviously worriedly.

Shi Bufan replied: "It doesn't matter, I think they still want to live, and they can see by taking hostages that they actually still have the idea of survival." If they really wanted to fight hard, they wouldn't be either. They wouldn't be so stupid as to kill me, the negotiator, and they'd die. So, as long as their brains don't get into the water, they can't kill me. ”

Wei Chigong looked at his arm rather worriedly and walked forward, and then Shi Bufan, a literati, walked to the front by himself, and finally came to Li Yuanji and Xue Wanche.

"Li Yuanji, Xue Wanche, don't you think you are very shameless? At this time, you still have to rely on taking people hostage, how did you learn? Li Yuanji, you were once the King of Qi in the Tang Dynasty, is this how you took the people of the Tang Dynasty hostage? Shi Bufan asked.

Li Yuanji looked at Shi Bufan, obviously he didn't know Shi Bufan, but he said angrily: "Li Shimin, that rebel minister, he framed his eldest brother and me, shouldn't he die?" Holding people hostage? They are all my people of the Tang Dynasty, and they are all my Li Tang's people, so they naturally want to fight and rebel for Li Tang and kill the enemy together. As for the death, it is their honor to be loyal to Li Tang! ”

"Okay, okay, Li Yuanji, you really don't seem to have anything to say. Okay, I won't talk nonsense, so I'll ask you, how can you let these people go? Shi Bufan asked.

Xue Wanche replied: "As long as you are willing to let us live, we will ......"

Xue Wanche just wanted to say the conditions, but Li Yuanji immediately said: "No, Li Shimin must welcome me back again, and ask my father to take the blame, and let me deal with it, so that it can be counted." If we don't agree, then we won't let these people go! ”

"Crazy, stupid!" Shi Bufan and Xue Wanche scolded in their hearts.

Xue Wanche scolded this Li Yuanji in his heart, but he didn't forget to regain power at this time. The current situation is already obvious, that is, Li Yuanji's failure is inevitable, and what they can do is to take the opportunity to talk to Li Shimin when they have chips in their hands, let them live, and don't kill them.

But Li Yuanji actually arrived at this time, and he was still in power here, wanting to rely on the lives of thousands of people to threaten Li Shimin to take the initiative to hand over power and let him dispose of it. Isn't this a fool and a madman? Li Shimin has struggled for so many years, isn't it just for today? Does Li Shimin care about the lives of thousands of people? Even if it were any emperor, if thousands of people died in exchange for the stability of their throne, they would not have any scruples. Li Yuanji actually took his own thing too seriously, and actually wanted to rely on thousands of people, so he asked Li Shimin to hand over power and then let him dispose of it? Isn't that stupid?

"Crazy, this Li Yuanji has gone completely crazy, and he has lost his mind in front of power!" Shi Bufan thought.

Li Yuanji has become a fugitive from a high-ranking Qi king in just a few days. There are even some wild histories that Li Jiancheng promised Li Yuanji, and when the time comes, Li Jiancheng will use the method of brother to brother and brother to leave the throne to Li Yuanji. Although there is not much historical evidence to prove this statement, since Li Yuanji is in the royal family, can he not have some ambitions for this position?

And Li Yuanji was crazy at this time, and he dared to open the conditions so indiscriminately regardless of how many hole cards he had in his hand, thinking that relying on the lives of thousands of people could threaten Li Shimin to hand over power?

However, Shi Bufan doesn't think that there is anything abnormal about this, and in the face of absolute interests, many people will do something incredible. In the face of absolute interests, it is enough to make some people who are usually extremely smart and seem to be wiser than Zhuge do some incomprehensible "stupid things". Why do many people do some "stupid things" after sitting on the throne, in fact, this is blinded in the face of huge interests, and they can't make effective judgments at all. And whether this will be blinded or not depends not on how talented he is, but on his spiritual realm. Some people are very smart, but they can't play at all at the most critical time, but they will do some stupid things that ordinary people can't do for no reason. This is not surprising, because the stakes are too great to blind them.

"Li Yuanji, your condition is impossible, I hope you can see the situation clearly!" Shi Bufan said.

Li Yuanji was immediately furious: "Since this is the case, we have nothing to talk about." I'll kill you! ”

Li Yuanji drew out the iron whip, and then seemed to be about to hit Shi Bufan.

Shi Bufan hurriedly said: "General Xue Wanche, the county lord Li Wanrou and the county lord Li Wanshun are at my house!" ”

"King Qi, slow!" Xue Wanche hurriedly said.

Xue Wanche stopped Li Yuanji, and then asked Shi Bufan: "Where are the two county lords there?" ”

"Yes, I am the teacher of the two county lords, and I have been taking care of them and teaching them for the past two months. Moreover, in the future, I will take care of the two county lords, and I will be my sister-in-law! Shi Bufan said.

Xue Wanche looked at Shi Bufan in surprise, because if Shi Bufan did this, it meant giving up his future prospects, which was equivalent to taking care of the two county lords. You must know that those who participated in the Xuanwumen Revolution will definitely have a good future prospect. But Shi Bufan chose to take in Li Jiancheng's daughter, which means that he is destroying his future. There are simply too few people who can give up their future for Li Jiancheng's daughter. There are too many people who are politically red and white, but there are too few who are willing to give up their future to take care of a person who is not related to them. So Xue Wanche really felt a little moved, but at the moment they were enemies after all.

"What do you want to say?" Xue Wanche said.

"General Xue, I want to talk to you lightly, what do you think?" Shi Bufan said.

Xue Wanche thought for a while and said, "For the sake of the two county lords, I'll talk to you!" ”

"No, Xue Wanche, what do you want to do?" Li Yuanji said angrily.

However, Xue Wanche still said: "I'll just go talk to him!" ”

"Xue Wanche, are you going to betray me? I am the King of Qi of the Tang Dynasty! Li Yuanji said angrily.

However, Xue Wanche doesn't take Li Yuanji seriously, Li Yuanji is destined to be in the past, and the current failure of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji is inevitable, if it weren't for Xue Wanche thinking of Li Jiancheng's kindness to him back then, he wouldn't be so desperate. However, at least Li Jiancheng, who is kind to Xue Wanche, is not Li Yuanji. In addition, now that Li Yuanji is a lost dog, he naturally will not take Li Yuanji, the so-called King of Qi, seriously. He followed Shi Bufan to the side, and then prepared to talk.

"The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of Tongguan Road. Looking at Chang'an, hesitating, sad Qin and Han Dynasty meridians, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people are bitter. Death, the people suffer! Shi Bufan suddenly recited a famous Yuan song.

Xue Wanche thought for a while and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"General Xue, as far as I know, your Xue family has been a general for generations, and it has started since the Northern Zhou Dynasty, right?" Shi Bufan asked.

Xue Wanche nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

"What do you think is the purpose of the army's existence?" Shi Bufan asked again.

"What do you mean by that? Does it have anything to do with us? Xue Wanche emphasized again.

Shi Bufan replied: "It has a relationship, please answer seriously!" ”

"The purpose of the existence of the army is to fight!" Xue Wanche said.

Shi Bufan asked again: "What are you fighting for?" ”

"For the king!" Xue Wanche replied.

"What does the king fight for?" Shi Bufan asked.

"This ......"

Xue Wanche couldn't answer, because there were thousands of reasons to fight since ancient times, and even sometimes the king might send troops to fight for a beauty, which was not unprecedented. So this really can't be answered, Xue Wanche was silent.

"Leaving aside the wars that take place for the sake of so-called beauty, we can draw a conclusion. Since ancient times, kings have waged wars, and there are no more than several. One is to defend the country and have to resist in the face of foreign invasion. There is another one, and that is to fight for the survival resources of one's own people. What is a survival resource, it is nothing more than water, food, and things necessary for survival. Or land, and land is something that can feed more people, if there is not enough land, then in the end the people will face the result of collective starvation. Let's ignore how the invasion of the Central Plains by those northern nomads is divided into good and evil, if we divide it into two, from a rational point of view, the northern nomads invaded the Central Plains and plundered, a big reason is that they have insufficient products there and cannot maintain long-term survival. Whenever there is a disaster, they will inevitably invade the Central Plains in the south. But if we think about it from another perspective, they loot for the survival of their own people, and this is also for the survival of their own people. Therefore, there are only two kinds of war, one is forced, and the other is for the sake of one's own people to take the initiative to open up, so that they have more living space. ”

"Isn't it strange if a king doesn't wage war for these two reasons, then he can be said to be a faint king?"

Xue Wanche thought seriously for a moment, and finally nodded.

"Very well, so what are you doing here for? When you are in trouble with the King of Qi, do you think it is for the people to expand their territory or to resist the invasion of foreign enemies? Shi Bufan asked.

"This ......" Xue Wanche couldn't answer.

Xue Wanche thought that he was loyal to Li Jiancheng, but now his thinking was led into the ditch by Shi Bufan, and his concept was stolen by Shi Bufan. In fact, Shi Bufan deliberately changed the concept here, and set a "standard" for the justice of the king to start a war and whether he was a Ming monarch. In the words of the times, only those kings who wage wars in order to resist the invasion of foreign enemies and fight for the living space of the people are "Ming Jun", and all other reasons for starting wars are faint kings. In fact, as a king, the reason for waging war cannot be so simple. But under Shi Bufan's concept of stealing, it was completely one-size-fits-all, which made Xue Wanche's thinking chaotic.

Because according to this thinking, Xue Wanche is making trouble here, what is that? He was loyal to Li Jiancheng and made trouble, but is this the behavior that a Ming monarch should have? If he continues to make trouble for Li Jiancheng, then this shows that Li Jiancheng is not a Ming monarch, but a faint tyrant. As a person who was deeply favored by Li Jiancheng, how could he do such a thing?

"General Xue, I think you should see clearly that the current situation has become inevitable for the crown prince to fail. And Li Yuanji has gone completely crazy and driven crazy by power. He actually wanted to rely on thousands of people to force the King of Qin to relinquish power, do you think it is possible? Even I know it's impossible, so Li Yuanji is messing things up. ”

"General Xue, since things are no longer possible, you don't have to make fearless resistance. Especially if Prince Jiancheng has a great favor to you, even if you want to repay the favor, don't do it! See the situation clearly and follow the trend. It's impossible to save the situation for Prince Jiancheng, so you might as well repay him in another way. You can try to save the life of his offspring, and that's a good result. If Li Yuanji is allowed to mess around like this, not only will he die, but you will also die, and even the sons of Prince Jiancheng will also die. When the time comes, you have dragged several of the children of Jiancheng Prince down the dead end, and this is how you repay Jiancheng Prince? Since things are no longer possible, you should not think about how to turn the tables, but minimize the losses. ”

"So, if you want to save the lives of Prince Jiancheng's sons, do you know what to do?"

Shi Bufan secretly pointed to Li Yuanji's head, and then gently made a motion to wipe his neck, the meaning was obviously very obvious.

Xue Wanche suddenly gasped, his face gloomy, but he did not refute Shi Bufan's words.