Chapter Forty-Six: The Affection Behind the Ruthlessness
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Changle cried in Du He's arms, but listening to Du He's analysis, his delicate body shook slightly, he raised his head, looked at Ai Lang with teary eyes, and said excitedly: "Really, father, really have no intention of killing the eldest brother?" ”
"It's really true......," Du He boasted: "If your father-in-law really has the intention to deal with your eldest brother, there is no need to be so troublesome, just use the argument to put him under house arrest, and then start a thorough investigation." The two hundred dead soldiers in the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info, as well as Li Chengqian's staff group, and the *** henchmen, it is impossible for them to know nothing about this matter. The officials of Dali Temple are all old fritters, and under their investigation, there is nothing that cannot be found. At that time, the charges were made public, and your eldest brother was called dangerous, and now this situation is the best. At the very least, he didn't have to die. All of this is in his calculations, including Zhongsun Zhi and my strength, so I said that my father-in-law is really powerful. ”
Changle smiled happily, her eldest brother didn't have to die, and her father was not a cold-blooded and ruthless person, there was nothing more joyful than this, "What, it turns out that my father has already arranged everything, and I am in a hurry." My father also credited me with this credit, and the next time I enter the palace, I will talk about him well. ”
"Hah!" Changle smiled, and Du He was also happy, reaching out to play with the strand of hair on her forehead and said, "Although all this is the calculation of my father-in-law, don't be presumptuous. It's really amazing, I, Duhe, can marry you two talented wives, which is really a blessing from my previous life. In fact, what my father-in-law said is not wrong, because your every move and every decision is extremely correct. If my father-in-law hadn't noticed Li Chengqian's intentions and hadn't laid a net, I believe that with General Cheng's personality, he would definitely send troops to the East Palace. It's just that your father and daughter all want to go together. My father-in-law credited you with the credit, not because you invited General Cheng, but because he recognized your intelligence and your approach, and was happy to have your daughter who was so talented for a while. He scratched his head in distress: "Speaking of which, only I am the bearest." The father-in-law won a thousand miles, Mei Niang was quick to think and noticed the abnormality, and Changle was even more clever to get out and lobby General Cheng. Only I asked Hou Junji to put it in a position, and his confusion passed. ”
Changle smiled sweetly: "This is unintentional calculation, and no one can avoid it." In a head-to-head duel, Du Lang won't lose to him......"
"That's ......" Wu Meiniang also echoed on the side, "In the original battle of Gaochang, Du Lang didn't just put him on a hard side, so that he couldn't say anything about his suffering." ”
Let the two ladies persuade him like this, the depression in Du He's heart was also slightly eliminated, and he said with a smile: "That's what you said...... But this guy is really powerful, using Wei Zheng to lay out, I am not unjustly defeated. He ran away, it is definitely not a good thing for Datang, Mei Niang, you continue to stare at Nanhong and them, I will ask Huangfu Haohua, Ba Yuxing and Qin Yu to bring some people to help you, Hou Junji may go to find them, as long as Hou Junji appears, he will immediately start to arrest them. ”
"Good!" Wu Meiniang didn't hesitate and went down to do it.
Changle also faintly said that she wanted to enter the palace to accompany Li Shimin and Empress Changsun, and when this kind of thing happened, she couldn't rest assured that she was a daughter.
Du He did not refuse, and said: "I'll go with you, there are still some things that need to be told to him, especially when you detect that Li Chengqian has objections." ”
Everything is roughly as Du He thought, Li Shimin really has good intentions for Li Chengqian's son.
The so-called tiger poison does not eat children, Li Shimin is not hard-hearted, how can he ruthlessly execute his own children?
It's just that there are a lot of things that he can't control.
As an emperor, as the king of a country, he has supreme power, but he must also pay the price for this power.
Li Chengqian's antipathy, he can't ignore it, because as Du He said, he is an emperor first, and then a father. He can't let the Tang Dynasty fall into a crisis because of his personal feelings, and at the same time, he also knows that once he takes action, it is almost impossible for Li Chengqian to save his life.
Although Li Chengqian is the prince, rebellion is an unforgivable sin.
In a dilemma, Li Shimin chose what an emperor must do, and at the same time chose a thing that a father should do.
He secretly informed the most trusted military general Cheng Yanjin, and waited for his order to arrange for the fierce soldiers in the Xuanjia soldiers who had followed him for 30 years, and called Du He, who was strong in martial arts, to personally lure Li Chengqian to rebel, and take advantage of Li Chengqian's critical illness to give his son a way to live.
In fact, the most perfect ending in Li Shimin's heart is not the current one, he hopes that Li Chengqian can rein in the precipice, and he will also keep Li Chengqian's throne in another way, so that he can live a leisurely second half of his life. It's just that Li Chengqian still lived up to Li Shimin's expectations in the end.
Li Chengqian's forced palace and rebellion caused a sensation in the court, and under Li Shimin's angry order, Dali Temple launched an investigation into the matter.
Du He, Changle, Wu Meiniang, and Cheng Yanjin were all summoned to assist in the investigation.
Changle and Wu Meiniang are naturally telling the truth, and they don't need to hide anything. Cheng Yanjin didn't see the situation either, he was only persuaded by Changle to send troops, and when he arrived, Li Chengqian was already dizzy: what he said was the truth, Li Chengqian didn't eat or drink for several days and nights in order to pretend to be sick, and even if he slept, he only squinted. After Cheng Yanjin arrived, his dream was shattered, and he had lost all hope and fainted.
And Du He naturally changed his words, saying that Li Chengqian was already ill and couldn't speak, and everything was Helan Chushi's decision to speak.
As for the ten soldiers brought by Li Shimin, they were all severely injured, and they also said the same thing as Du He on the hospital bed.
Then the people of Dali Temple couldn't investigate, Helan Chushi let Li Shimin beat him to death with a stick, Zhongsunzhi asked Cheng to bite Jin and kill him, those dead soldiers also died in the chaos, and even Li Chengqian's advisers died cleanly, and there was no way to start at all, so they could only use Du He's testimony.
On the third day after the incident, the Manchu civil and military forces debated the matter.
Because Li Chengqian was not directly involved in it, the number of people who let him die was not large.
In the end, after a long period of discussion, it was decided to deal with Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian misbehaved, secretly colluded with Hou Jun, although he did not participate in the rebellion of the palace, but it was difficult to get rid of the involvement, abolished the position of the prince, demoted to a commoner, and moved to Qianzhou.
As for the people gathered secretly by Hou Junji, they also paid one by one, Li Yuanchang, the king of the Han Dynasty, Zuotun Wei Zhonglang, Li Anyan, Zhao Jie, the son of Princess Changguang, and others, let Li Shimin catch them all. Needless to say, these people were already in Li Shimin's plan early on.
Except for Hou Junji's cunning escape, none of the others were spared.
Looking at Li Shimin with a solemn face in the court, Du He once again admired: "The affection behind the ruthlessness, father-in-law, played a good game of chess!" ”