Chapter 674 wants the heart of the former ministers of the An Imperial Court

July is the most beautiful time in Chang'an City, this big city because of the construction of the boxy, the square city has edges and corners, coupled with the majestic towering of the palace city, so it looks like the atmosphere of slaughter is a little depressing. But no matter how much the place is killed, there is also a beautiful side, such as the small garden in the mansion of Liu Hongji, the Duke of Chenguo.

It is hard to imagine that the mansion of a founding prince is so ordinary and even narrow, compared to the mansion of the rich in the city, it seems a little cramped, among the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Hongji's mansion is the smallest, not that the emperor does not pay attention to him, but he has not received the house given to him near the imperial city, but bought this courtyard in Dongcheng with his own money, two in front and back, with a small garden in the back.

The garden is small but full of greenery. There is a small pond with a radius of 30 meters, and some lotus flowers are planted in it, which is in full bloom, although the scale is not large, but it is quite aura. There is a gazebo on the edge of the pool, and there is no melancholy beauty in the gazebo, only a big man with a skin on his face and a gauze wrapped in gauze on his forehead, who looks a little depressed.

The beauty leans against the window and contempts deeply, which is undoubtedly an attractive scenery. Liu Hongji is in the scenery at this time, but he is the most destructive existence of the scenery.

Li Xian walked slowly all the way, looked at the lotus flower, and broke a weeping willow branch as a whip and waved it a few times at will. This kind of childish action has never been done since he was a child. After all, the year he came, he was already an adult mentally. It's cute for a child to steal a childhood plum and ride a bamboo horse to play at home, but if Li Xian does it, he will disgust himself.

When Liu Hongji saw Li Xian coming, he immediately got up and greeted him. He's not an old monk, so he's not going to settle down, he's just sitting here doing nothing. His eyes were always fixed on the lotus pond, but there was no lotus flower in his eyes. However, his eyes followed a carp wandering in the pool, and when the carp disappeared into the depths of the small pool, he saw His Royal Highness King Yan slowly coming in a black regular robe.

He didn't dare to delay, because he wasn't the kind of person who pretended to be high.

"Liu Hongji, I've seen King Yan."

He greeted him, then bowed respectfully.

Li Xian didn't do anything, walked a few steps quickly, and quickly helped him up, and then asked softly how the injury was. He just nodded, and then rubbed Liu Hongji's shoulder and walked over into the pavilion. I didn't ask about the injury, I didn't say hello, I didn't even say a kind word.

Liu Hongji straightened up, looked at King Yan's back and shook his head with a wry smile.

When he saw the majestic sea, he clenched his fists again and said: "The male general of the heavy armor Mo Sword Battalion, look up for a long time." ”

Xiong Kuohai smiled and returned a flat salute and said: "I have seen the Duke of Qian, the general of the heavy armor battalion is just my sideline...... Now I am a full-time groom, since I am a groom, I naturally have the consciousness of a groom, and I can't do things that exceed my identity...... So you should follow in the footsteps of the lord and not stand here and gossip with me. I'll go to your lake to sit for a meeting, you don't have to keep the lord waiting. ”

Liu Hongji said in his heart, where am I qualified to make His Royal Highness King Yan wait for a long time, and shook his head with a wry smile again, and turned around to keep up with Li Xian's pace.

Li Xian sat down in the pavilion and looked at the blooming lotus flowers, which made people feel refreshed and happy. Liu Hongji looked at Li Xian, and then realized that King Yan was such a magical person. He was in the army, as natural as he was in front of thousands of troops, he was a commander who integrated into the military formation, and it seemed that he was born to be in the army. At this time, sitting in the pavilion of the lotus pond, he blended into the scenery, as if he was born to be in the painting.

"Lone knows why you don't go to the court, so of course you also know why Lone came."

Li Xian didn't say a word of nonsense, but went straight to the topic.

He pointed to the largest and most blooming lotus flower in the lotus pond and asked, "Are you enjoying the flowers here, or are you enjoying yourself in solitude?" ”

Liu Hongji was stunned and heard the dissatisfaction in Yan Wang's tone.

"It's just that I feel guilty, and I don't dare to see King Yan, nor do I dare to see Your Majesty."

"Don't dare to see Lonely, you still have to see it after all. I don't dare to see Your Majesty, but I don't know which Your Majesty you are talking about? Now His Majesty in Chang'an City is no longer the original Majesty. ”

Li Xian glanced at Liu Hongji, and then said in a somewhat chilled tone: "Give Gu a reason why you don't go to court, don't say you are injured, Gu is not injured, and the scars on his body are only more than yours." Even when the blood flowed, you never delayed the right thing, you are also from a military background, and you can do it alone. ”

"I ......"

Liu Hongji opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to explain it.

"Feeling guilty?"

"Yes"

"Guilty that you have betrayed the trust of the Emperor?"

"Yes?"

"Is guilt useful?"

Liu Hongji was silent for a while and shook his head and said: "I was going to calm down, but the more I calmed down, the more guilty I felt, so His Royal Highness is right, guilt is useless, and it is useless to hide." “

"Lone is not here to blame you."

Li Xian looked at Liu Hongji and said word by word: "Lone doesn't have this idle time. ”

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"You should feel lucky, and you should be satisfied, and you should even be proud, because the reason why Lone came to see you in person is because you are useful."

Li Xian said: "If you are a useless person, Lone will naturally not come to you." ”

The words are becoming more and more direct, but this makes it easier for Liu Hongji to accept. If Li Xian shush and ask for warmth after entering the door, he would be very concerned, and he really didn't know how to respond. Should we be grateful, or should we be cold-eyed? But neither of these choices can react to his state of mind at this time, either of them is fake.

"Your Highness, do you want me to be a leader?"

Liu Hongji was silent for a moment and asked.

"You haven't left the court in the first place, what else are you going to do?"

Li Xian glanced at him and said: "The identity of your Guogong is left for you, although the yamen of the military garrison mansion has been withdrawn, there is naturally a place for you in the general's mansion of Tiance." Half of the soldiers in Chang'an City are under you, and half are under Princess Pingyang, since you can't bear the tens of thousands of elite soldiers, you naturally want to come to you. ”

Li Xian paused for a moment and said: "Even if you want to be an idle cloud wild crane, it is in vain, as long as you are still in Chang'an City, you have no other way to go." ”

"Lone can give you a military order to get you out of the house, if you don't come out, just let someone come out, but Lone comes in person......"

Li Xian looked at Liu Hongji's eyes and said: "It's because the military advisor respects you very much, and he said that there are few people in the Tang Army who can fight now." And among them, there are only two people who make the military advisor feel that they have real talents and real learning. One is Li Xiaogong, and the other is you. ”

"So in the general's mansion of Lone's Tiance, Lone left a seat for you."

Li Xian said bluntly: "A few years ago, Gu wanted to use troops against Dou Jiande. ”

Liu Hongji was stunned, and said almost subconsciously: "Chang'an has just been decided, the king of the Eastern Capital is not peaceful, Li Daozong still has more than 100,000 elite Tang troops in his hands, and the counties and counties in various places have not yet been stabilized, why should His Highness be so anxious?" ”

"I thought you would continue to play stupid."

Li Xian smiled, and his tone slowed down a bit.

Liu Hongji was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head.

"In the Eastern Capital City, Lone must be taken. But Dou Jiande poured 400,000 troops south, if he didn't solve him first, the eastern capital would naturally not be able to fight in a down-to-earth manner. And only if he defeated Dou Jiande and gathered heavy troops in the eastern capital, Li Daozong would give up, it was an army of more than 100,000 people, and he was reluctant to give up. ”

"Lone plans to let you go to the Eastern Capital."

"I ...... It's a demo. ”

Liu Hongji swallowed and spat with some difficulty, then raised his head and looked at Li Xian and said: "The minister knows what His Highness means, it sounds like His Highness is reproaching the minister and forcing the minister, but the minister can hear that His Royal Highness trusts the minister." But if this is the case, the minister will take this errand, and it will not help His Highness much, but it will cause unnecessary trouble. There are many meritorious heroes in Yanyun's army, and there are more talents available than in the Tang Dynasty, if the minister leads the troops out of the city, he will be fine at the beginning, but if the meritorious deeds are not built after a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will suspect that the minister will collude with Li Daozong. ”

He changed his title, just now he called himself me, and now he calls himself a minister.

Li Xian obviously noticed this change, so the smile on the corner of his mouth became thicker: "The reason why you are allowed to go is to give the original courtiers in the court an attitude." Since Lone can use you to believe in you, and let you lead the troops to help the Yu scribes, then Lone will naturally use them, they are at ease, and things in the court have become more stable and steady. ”

From the beginning of the conversation, Liu Hongji did not have the slightest discomfort with His Royal Highness Yanwang's frank confession. If Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, were to do this today, both the way he spoke and the tone would be different. Li Yuan will inevitably be sad for a while, lamenting that there are few people to do things to reassure him, and then put his heart into his heart and say some heart-warming words, and finally pick out the main topic.

But Li Xian was very direct from beginning to end.

So Liu Hongji has a deeper understanding of Li Xian.

King Yan is by no means a person who can only fight.

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From beginning to end, Li Xian didn't say anything hypocritical. It is precisely because of this that Liu Hongji is easier to accept, and this way of talking makes him feel very comfortable. This is the skill of speaking, just as Li Xian called Zhang Gongjin, the Duke of Tanguo, to scold, but the latter felt comfortable.

It's nothing more than peace of mind for the two of them.

Liu Hongji locked himself at home not only because of Li Yuan's guilt, but also because he was worried and uneasy about his future. To put it mildly, there is no real loyalty in this era. It is still to see if the things you get are enough to pay for your loyalty, and Li Xian will never firmly believe that his subordinates are more loyal than others' subordinates. If Li Yuan is in his position, then now the generals and ministers under his command, I am afraid that few will choose to die rather than give in.

Relationships are built on interests and tend to be a little stronger than emotionally built.

People treat me as a countryman, and I repay them as a countryman.

This kind of person has always been hard to come by.

Liu Hongji was silent for a long time, then nodded and said to Li Xian: "If His Highness does not give up, the minister is willing to take this trip." ”

"Lone let you go, firstly, to appease the hearts of the courtiers, and secondly, to set an example. Therefore, you have to make some credit to those courtiers, so you may not be idle this time. ”

Li Xian said in a calm tone: "Gu has already transferred Jiangdu to stay behind, Zhang Liang led the army north, and it is not difficult to defeat Dou Jiande. However, Lone needs a partial division to go deep into the hinterland of Hebei, and naturally he can't bring more troops, but he must have the effect of a surprise army. The original city defense army in Chang'an City, you can choose 5,000 elites, and then allocate 5,000 cavalry from Yanyun's army to you. ”

Li Xian paused for a moment and said: "On the day when the eastern capital is pacified, Lone will reward the ministers. If you return from meritorious service, you will naturally have a position. ”