In Chang'an City, a richly decorated carriage slowly stopped in front of the Hongwen Pavilion located in Wubenfang, the Hongwen Hall is actually an official school, dedicated to the children of the nobility, belonging to the East Palace, its predecessor was the Wuchuan Mansion founded by the nobles of Guanlong, but Li Yuan has cleared the hidden side of the Xuanwu Fire Phoenix in the Wuchuan Mansion and turned it into a pure school for the children of the nobility.

Hongwen Hall is generally located in the East Palace, because the prince also needs to learn the way of governing the country here, but Li Yuan's crown prince Li Jiancheng is not a person who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, since Li Yuan agreed to the second son Li Shimin to open a mansion to recruit virtuous soldiers, naturally Li Jiancheng could not prevent Li Jiancheng from establishing his own subordinate team.

Therefore, Li Jiancheng used the excuse that the East Palace had not yet been repaired, and set up the Hongwen Hall in Wubenfang, where the powerful lived, which was actually Li Jiancheng's outer mansion, and Li Jiancheng was not in the East Palace most of the time, but here to 'learn the way of governing the country'.

As soon as the carriage stopped in front of the Hongwen Pavilion, a guard ran up, "This is the Hongwen Pavilion, no outside carriages are allowed to park, leave immediately!" ”

The carriage in which the Chang'an magnates rode had their own identification, or lanterns, or flags, and this carriage had nothing, and the guards certainly did not allow him to park.

The samurai with a sword who followed the carriage said: "My master has come to visit His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please report it quickly!" ”

"Who are you?"

The guard suddenly found that the wheel was wrapped in gold, and he couldn't help but take a step back and look the carriage up and down.

A fair-skinned woman's hand stretched out from the carriage with a jade plaque in her hand, "Do you know this?" ”

The guards immediately recognized the jade plaque, which was the prince's Xianbin card, and was given to some important opposition figures, only twenty in total, and this jade plaque ranked fourth, which shows the importance of this woman.

The guards didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Please wait, the villain will go to report." ”

He turned around and ran towards the mansion, at this time, the door opened, and a brightly dressed young woman walked out of the carriage, it was Gao Hui, during this time, Gao Hui had been disposing of more than a dozen manors in Guanlong, all of which were good manors, mainly sold to various Guanlong nobles, all of whom collected gold, and only Guanlong nobles could get so much gold.

Last night, Gao Hui received an important letter from Jiangdu, and she came to visit Li Jiancheng early in the morning.

Not long after, Wei Zheng walked out of the mansion quickly, Wei Zheng is the current prince washing horses, and at the same time serving as the doctor of Hongwen Pavilion, in fact, he is in charge of Hongwen Pavilion, responsible for Li Jiancheng's external affairs, there is no need for the guards to send a post, the other party is holding the No. 4 Xianbin card, Wei Zheng knows who is coming.

"It turned out to be Sima Wei, it's been a long time, don't come to harm?" Gao Hui smiled slightly.

Sima is the position that Wei Zheng held when he followed Li Shimin on the expedition, Wei Zheng had already stepped down, he stepped forward and bowed and said: "Thank you Madame for your concern, Your Highness is waiting in the palace, Madame, please come with me." ”

"Then it's going to trouble Wei Sima."

Gao Hui followed Wei Zheng into the Hongwen Pavilion, until he came to the backyard of the Hongwen Pavilion, and saw the prince Li Jiancheng who was handling official business here, Li Jiancheng was wearing a cyan robe, wearing a gauze hat, and a leather belt around his waist, which looked no different from the ordinary people in Chang'an City, but Li Jiancheng was in good spirits and looked radiant, he smiled when he saw Gao Hui: "It turns out that Mrs. is still in Chang'an, I thought Mrs. had gone to Zhongdu." ”

The implication is that he hopes that the forces of the Bohai Society will no longer stay in Guanzhong, Gao Hui understood what he meant, and Shi Li smiled: "I am preparing to go to Zhongdu, but some miscellaneous matters in Guanlong have not been dealt with yet, and I will leave in two days, please Your Highness be calm and not impatient." ”

Although Li Jiancheng is the crown prince, he is easy-going by nature, and he has no arrogance, and rarely puts on the majesty of the prince, which is no different from before, he invited Gao Hui to sit down, and let Wei Zheng sit aside, he knew that Gao Hui must have something important to visit him.

Gao Hui sat down and said with a smile: "Your Highness should know the battle situation in Goguryeo!" ”

Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng glanced at each other, and sure enough, they came for the matter of Goguryeo, Li Jiancheng took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Recently, I have been busy with the imperial examination, and I only heard that Zhang Xuan went on an expedition, but I don't know much about the specific situation. ”

"But I know very well, is Your Highness willing to hear it?"

Li Jiancheng bowed slightly, "I'm willing to listen!" ”

"Zhang Xuan temporarily recruited 50,000 troops at the beginning of the year, so that his troops reached 200,000, but in order to attack Goguryeo, he sent 120,000 troops, if you add 10,000 troops to defend Beiping County, in fact, he used a large army of 130,000, that is to say, he only has 70,000 troops to guard the rear, 20,000 in Qingzhou, and only 50,000 in Hebei, which happens to be a newly recruited army, is this golden opportunity Tang Army not moved?"

Li Jiancheng smiled faintly, "It's just that there is an agreement between us, and the two sides will not invade each other within a year, and the ink has not dried, do you want us to tear it up?" Let the world see us. ”

"In the face of interests, the so-called agreement is just empty words, and His Highness is not a pedantic person."

"It's not a pedantic problem, but we also have practical difficulties, and since Madame is in Chang'an, she should be very clear about our difficulties."

Gao Hui laughed, "How can I ask a little woman about the military politics of the Tang Dynasty, thank Your Highness for receiving me, the little woman did not disturb His Highness's official business, and took her leave." ”

Gao Hui had visited Pei Lin before, and Pei Lin hinted to her that the Son of Heaven was indeed a little tempted, but this matter had to be proposed by the prince, let her come to the prince Li Jiancheng, Gao Hui knew that the drum did not need to be beaten, and it was okay to point to the end, since she had said everything that should be said, the rest was for Li Jiancheng to watch and do.

Gao Hui said goodbye and left, Li Jiancheng walked a few steps in the room, turned around and asked Wei Zhengdao, "What do you think, sir?" ”

Wei Zheng thought for a while and said: "Since the Holy Lord specifically asked about Goguryeo yesterday, His Highness can't help but answer, this Gao Hui must have also received some news before he came to visit His Highness, and His Highness will reply to the Holy Lord according to our previous discussion." ”

"Okay!"

Li Jiancheng nodded, "I'll go into the palace to see my father." ”

In the imperial study room of Wude Palace, Li Yuanzheng and Pei Lin discussed the resettlement of fugitives from the state, just a month ago, Xue Ju, the king of Longxi, and his son Xue Rengao led an army of 70,000 to attack Longyou, and even captured Jincheng, Longxi, Honghua and other counties, the situation in Longyou was critical, Li Yuan ordered his second son Li Shimin to lead an army of 80,000 to meet Xue Ju, the two sides have fought several times, Li Shiming has recaptured Honghua County and Longxi County from Xue Ju, the two sides are currently fighting for Jincheng County, and the two armies are in a stalemate.

Li Yuan is not worried about the second son Li Shimin, he is worried about the annexation of Zhou, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang have controlled Lou Fu Pass, repeatedly the army went south to plunder, the Tang army can only be trapped in Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang have a clear division of labor, Liu Wu attacked Taiyuan, Song Jingang went south to plunder grain, and even attacked Shangdang County, Taiyuan County except Taiyuan City, the rest of the counties are almost ten rooms and nine empty, more than 100,000 people in the Sui army's vigorous propaganda, fled from Jingcheng to Hebei, which made Li Yuan very annoyed.

Pei Lin said in a low voice: "Weichen got the exact news, hundreds of Sui soldiers are propagandizing in the counties of Shangdang County, encouraging the residents of Shangdang County to migrate to Zhao County, I heard that the people of Shangdang are afraid of Song Jingang's looting, and there are many people who respond to the Sui army, and the migration momentum is about to catch up with Taiyuan County." ”

"Too much deception!"

Li Yuan gritted his teeth with hatred and slapped the royal case fiercely, "I abide by the agreement, but he digs into my corner, I will never tolerate it." ”

At this moment, a eunuch reported at the door, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has asked to see you." ”

"Announce him in!"

Li Yuan temporarily restrained his anger, he happened to have something to ask his eldest son Li Jiancheng.

After a while, Li Jiancheng hurriedly walked into the imperial study, knelt down and saluted: "The son sees his father!" ”

"Sit down!" Li Yuan waved his hand.

Li Jiancheng sat down opposite Pei Lin and nodded to Pei Lian, Pei Lin asked with a smile, "Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from Hongwen Pavilion?" ”

"Exactly!"

Li Yuan also said: "I have time to stay in the East Palace in the future, although I have no objection to you going to the Hongwen Pavilion, but after all, you are the prince, how can you always not be in the East Palace?" ”

"The retainers obey the order!"

Li Jiancheng was secretly annoyed that Pei Lin was talkative, what did he have to do with him in Hongwen Pavilion, he always deliberately mentioned it in front of his father, he just didn't want to let him stay outside the palace.

Pei Lin had a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened, at this time, Li Yuan picked up a copy of the text and asked a little unhappily: "Your second brother just sent someone to urge the food, haven't you sent the military food arrangements yet?" ”

"It has been sent a long time ago, it should be a difficult journey, and the grain truck is slow, and Erchen estimates that the second brother should have received it by now."

Li Yuan instructed again: "Since the road is not easy to walk, let's set off early, no matter what, we can't delay the military rations of the front army, then something big is going to happen, remember?" ”

"Erchen remembered, go back and arrange it immediately."

Seeing that his eldest son was sincere, Li Yuan no longer dwelled on the matter, and he changed the topic and asked, "I asked you about Goguryeo yesterday, but did you have an answer?" (To be continued.) )