Chapter 573: Circular Retribution
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Didn't Li Shimin control the situation? It stands to reason that Li Shimin has ruled for nine years, and the Chinese military ministers of the DPRK are almost all his cronies, and the foundation has long been solid, and the vast majority of Li Yuan's old subordinates have already died to assist Li Shimin, and I really can't imagine what else Li Yuan can use to regain the throne. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Does he want to pass public opinion?
Public opinion is of course important, but public opinion is almost equal to zero in the face of power, especially under the ancient monarchy, public opinion can only bring death to those who create public opinion. Of course, if it is the emperor who creates public opinion, then there is another matter.
However, Li Yuan's creation of public opinion did not have a substantial effect on regaining imperial power, except for adding headaches to Li Shimin.
Qu Ming was taken aback when he saw that Zuo Shaoyang didn't even have the slightest look of surprise on his face, but he immediately remembered that Zuo Shaoyang had escaped from the law field and came back, and now nothing could move him, so he didn't feel strange. Then he said: "I don't know what's going on, after the Emperor Taishang fell seriously ill, he was cured, and after the illness, he immediately announced that he wanted to regain the throne, and called many old departments in the court to support him to regain the throne." These old ministers came back with two wars, and they finally stopped for a while, why are they coming to make such a fight for imperial power now? Could it be that the Xuanwumen change will be repeated? Thinking about this, all the old ministers are very nervous, and many old ministers are not able to get sick these days. ”
Zuo Shaoyang still looked out of the door without moving, as if he was transparent.
Qu Ming saw that these words couldn't move him, and he originally wanted to sell Guan Zi, but now it seems that Guan Zi can't sell it, so he said in a low voice: "Today, a shocking event happened!" Brother Zuo is nesting here, I guess I don't know yet, right? ”
Zuo Shaoyang still ignored him.
Qu Ming's voice lowered: "This morning, the Emperor Taishang invited the crown prince and all the princes to his bedroom, saying that he wanted to talk to the princes about his heart. As a result, the princes all went. Unexpectedly, the Emperor Taishang actually did an earth-shattering event! Brother Zuo, what do you guess? ”
Zuo Shaoyang finally squinted his eyes and glanced at him, because Zuo Shaoyang felt that Qu Ming was not exaggerating, this matter must be very serious, and he couldn't help but be a little curious.
Seeing that Zuo Shaoyang finally had a reaction, Qu Ming was secretly happy in his heart, and said: "The emperor actually locked all the princes in the house of the dormitory, and the surroundings of that house have long been full of fuel firewood!" All the windows were nailed shut, and the Emperor Taishang held a spear in his hand and a torch, saying that if the emperor did not abdicate and transfer the throne to him, he would kill these princes one by one! If the emperor uses force, he will set fire to the house and burn all the princes to death! ”
Zuo Shaoyang laughed, thinking, the emperor's move is really amazing! At the beginning, Emperor Li Shimin killed his brother and younger brother, that is, the two sons of Emperor Taishang, in order to compete for the throne, and now, in order to compete for the throne, Emperor Taishang threatened to kill the emperor's son, which can be regarded as karma!
Qu Ming didn't know what Zuo Shaoyang was laughing at, and hurriedly said: "Brother Zuo, this matter is very tricky now, the palace is clamoring, the emperor called many old ministers to the palace to persuade the emperor, but the emperor ignored them at all, just shouted for the emperor to abdicate, otherwise he would burn these princes, and said that he would kill all the concubines in the next step, including the queen, so that the emperor would have no heirs, so naturally he could only pass the throne to him." ”
Zuo Shaoyang glanced at him with slanted eyes: "Are you finished?" ”
"That's it, hey, Brother Zuo, aren't you surprised by this matter?"
"What's so surprising, what does it matter to me about the matter between the Emperor Taishang and the Emperor? Well, you're good to go! Zuo Shaoyang turned his back and walked to the attic.
"Wait Brother Zuo!" Qu Ming hurriedly said, "I have thought of an idea that is related to your future and fate!" Don't you want to hear about it? ”
Zuo Shaoyang's footsteps did not stop: "I am already a living dead now, to put it mildly, it is the walking dead." Do I still care about my future? ”
Qu Ming hurriedly said: "You don't care about your own future and fate, you should also think about Datang, you are a citizen of Datang!" ”
"It was, it wasn't, I'm the living dead."
"Brother Zuo!" Seeing that Zuo Shaoyang was about to go upstairs, Qu Ming was really anxious and shouted: "If you don't think about yourself, you should always think about Princess Feiyang's surname, right?" ”
Zuo Shaoyang stood abruptly and slowly turned his head: "What did you say?" What's wrong with her? ”
"She's been caught by the Emperor! Also locked up in the house! ”
"What's going on? She is not a prince, why did the emperor arrest him? ”
"She wanted to subdue the emperor, but she was caught by the net of heaven and earth in ambush in the house!"
"Heaven and earth?"
Zuo Shaoyang was taken aback, Xiao Yunfei was caught by the Tianluo Net of the Criminal Department, including Du Yan's personal guard Leng Zheng, who could not escape the capture of the Tianluo Net. But this is something from the Ministry of Punishment, how did it get into the hands of the Queen Mother? Zuo Shaoyang thought about it and understood, Liu Zhenghui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was Li Yuan's old subordinate and his sworn friend, although Liu Zhenghui was dead, but there were still many old subordinates, these people were naturally pro-Li Yuan, and it was still easy for Li Yuan to mobilize them. Moreover, the net is not an army, it is just a set of formations to capture criminals, but I didn't expect it to be used by Li Yuan to prevent the robbery of the prince.
It can be seen that Li Yuan's planning of this move was carefully considered, and it can also be seen from this that Li Yuan's head is by no means hot.
Qu Ming finally found something that could arouse Zuo Shaoyang's interest, and he was a little proud, but his face was very anxious: "Yes, but Brother Zuo doesn't have to worry, the emperor just took Princess Feiyang as a hostage, and didn't do anything to her, so, Brother Zuo, you better think of a way, right?" ”
Thinking that Xiao Yunfei was in crisis, Zuo Shaoyang couldn't sit still, and said: "I can only move in the library pavilion, and if I want to go out, I have to get the permission of the prince." ”
"The prince has been detained in Da'an Palace, it was the mother of the East Palace who instructed the younger brother to tell Brother Zuo about this, saying that the emperor must be sick like this, and he has obtained the proof of madness, maybe you can think of a way, if you can resolve this crisis, the glory and wealth will be endless. - Of course, you are not rare and rich, but the princess of Feiyang is still waiting for you to rescue you. Niangniang has already sent someone to wait outside. ”
Zuo Shaoyang understood, it turned out that Qu Ming came this time because of the order of the crown princess, and the princess knew that the two were in the same year and could speak.
Zuo Shaoyang said to Xiao Du Ming: "You stay here, I'll take a look." "It's best not to let children watch this kind of terrorist hijacking, so as not to cause psychological shadows. Xiao Du Ming hurriedly agreed.
Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly came to the gate of the courtyard, and sure enough, several eunuchs from the East Palace were waiting outside, and there were two sedan chairs parked. The eunuchs nodded their heads, because such a major event had happened, their faces were tense and they didn't dare to smile.
Zuo Shaoyang and Qu Ming got into the sedan chair respectively, and several eunuchs carried them and hurried to Da'an Palace.
Along the way of the palace, there are already Ouchi guards, all of whom are stubborn and stubborn.
When I came to the outside of Da'an Palace, there were three inner and outer three layers full of internal guards with blades, and they were only released after strict inspection.
Entering the Da'an Palace, I went straight to Li Yuan's bedroom, where there were already dozens of court officials, most of them white-haired old ministers, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and wailing from time to time, begging the Emperor Li Yuan to release the prince and not kill each other.
The palace where the prince was held hostage was a large hall of reading, surrounded by two layers of guards and eunuchs, both inside and outside, who were Li Yuan's sworn friends. Holding swords and shields, there were more than a dozen guards with torches in their hands, waiting for Li Yuan to give an order to light the fire. The outside of the palace was also surrounded by firewood doused with oil.
Li Yuan rode an armored war horse, he was wearing an armored robe, a golden helmet on his head, a torch in his left hand, and a spear in his right hand, the blade of which was stained with blood, and the blood droplets dripped down the tip of the spear in the cold light.
On the steps in front of his horse lay two corpses, with a hole in their chest and abdomen, and a large pool of blood under them. The two corpses were dressed in golden brocade robes, and it was obvious that they were princes. It's just that I don't know which of Li Shimin's two princes have been tragically poisoned by their grandfather and died under the tip of their grandfather's gun.
The doors and windows around the main hall are closed, only the main door is wide open, and looking from the front of the main hall, you can see that it is also full of firewood poured with oil, and more than a dozen princes, large and small, are tied to the pillars by iron chains, and are crying loudly. Under the pillar at the main entrance of the main hall, it is the crown prince Li Chengqian who is sitting under the pillar with his hands tied behind his back!
Inside the main hall, there is also a firelight, obviously, there is also an ambush inside the torch of the dead party, even if you shoot the torchbearer outside, the inside can also ignite firewood, and the prince is chained to the pillar, it will not be untied for a while, once ignited, then there is no way to escape this fire cage!
Li Yuan held a spear in his hand and shouted sharply: "Emperor, you have seen it, I am the same, if you don't abdicate and return the throne to me, I will kill one of your sons every other meal!" Now that you've killed two, you're still not willing to return the throne? ”
Li Shimin stood in front of the main hall without saying a word, his face was pale, and he was surrounded by important ministers of the court, as well as concubines and princesses. But there was not a single soldier around. Obviously, Li Shimin is not prepared to use force to resolve this crisis. At least on the surface, he didn't give Li Yuan this impression.
Looking at all this, Zuo Shaoyang secretly smiled bitterly, - saved Li Yuan, but Li Yuan came to this hand, if he had known this result, would Li Shimin still make up his mind to use his insulting recipe to treat his father Li Yuan?
Who said that Xiaolangzhong can't promote the development of history? Isn't a prescription for a prescription about to change the history of the Tang Dynasty? -- If this time Li Shimin is forced to abdicate to Li Yuan for the sake of more than a dozen sons.
(To be continued)