The news of the violent death of Wu Wang Du Fuwei reached Danyang.

Li Xuan couldn't help but feel a lot. Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou finally took the fifth step of later generations of entrepreneurs - they died together. From being in the same boat, sharing joys and sorrows, to being in the same bed and dreaming, fighting in the same room, and finally going to death and ending together! The two of them have completely completed this road.

Li Xuan was thinking that if there were really gods in the world, Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou would be able to meet, and the two would meet each other with a smile and enmity? Or will the hatred continue?

Du Fuwei has the power of an emperor and the talent of an emperor, but he has no ambition of an emperor; Fu Gongyou has the ambition of an emperor and the talent of a strategist, but he does not have the power of an emperor. It is absolutely impossible to let Fu Gongyou, like Du Fuwei, surrender to the Tang Dynasty in order to protect himself. Fu Gongyou, who has the ambition of the emperor, will feel that this is something more difficult to accept than killing him. It is also impossible for Du Fuwei to try his best to test and beware of the people around him, just like Fu Gongyou. Du Fuwei's measure and generosity will move the people around him and make the people around him willing to die for him. This is absolutely impossible for Fu Gongyou to do.

Character determines fate, the two complement each other's personalities, work together, and achieve the achievements of the two, holding 200,000 Jianghuai elites, dominating Jianghuai, leading 36 counties of Jianghuai, and nearly one million people are willing to serve them; The character flaws of the two killed two of them respectively, one lost his enterprising spirit on the bloody imperial road, and it was inevitable that he would be killed; It is inevitable that a self-proclaimed clever, exhausted his organs, lost his people's hearts, betrayed his relatives, was tied up by his subordinates, and sent to the enemy's camp. Before he died, Fu Gongyou regretted that he was clever and killed himself, and regretted what he did at that time. But according to his character, if he doesn't make temptations, two guards, does he dare to use them? Don't worry about using it boldly, is he still the real "Zhihu" Fu Gongyou? ”

The road is all taken by oneself, which way to go, how to go, the choice is in your own hands. Even if you go to a dead end, you choose it yourself, and you can't blame others.

Du Fuwei and Kan Ling were unjustly killed, and the high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty knew about it, but no one dared to mention it, because the person who killed them was the current emperor - Li Yuan. Historically, in the first year of Li Shimin's ascension to the throne of Zhenguan, he posthumously crowned Du Fuwei as the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and executed the Taishang Order; For Kan Ling's rehabilitation, Kan Ling was posthumously sealed as the Duke of Danyang County, and he was the general of the Sanpin Zuo Xiaowei. But what if he is rehabilitated? People are dead.

The wheels of history are rolling forward, Du Fuwei and Kan Ling were unjustly killed, Fu Gongyou reversed and died again, everything is developing according to the original trajectory of history, Li Xuan feels his own insignificance and powerlessness. He wanted to do something, to save some people who were about to die under the cold and ruthless wheel of history.

He came to the residence of Li Xiaogong, the governor of Jingzhou and the king of Zhaojun.

Li Xiaogong was in a very bad mood, because Kan Ling, whom he admired, was ordered and killed by himself. He felt guilty in his heart.

Li Xuan saw Li Xiaogong, bowed and saluted, and said, "I hope that the Metropolitan Governor will not go to Chang'an." ”

Li Xiaogong was depressed and asked without emotion, "Why?" ”

Li Xuan didn't answer, but asked rhetorically: "After entering Chang'an, how is the governor going to deal with himself?" ”

Li Xiaogong replied: "Do your job well and don't ask about politics." ”

Li Xuan directly denied: "This is impossible. ”

Li Xiaogong raised his head and looked at Li Xuan in surprise.

Li Xuan explained: "You are now far away from the court, you are the commander of one party, with more than 200,000 elites of the Tang Dynasty in your hands, and you control the entire southern part of the Tang Dynasty. In the court, whether it is the emperor, the crown prince, or the king of Qin, they all hope that even if you don't help them, don't make trouble for them. You don't ask about politics, you secretly align with their interests, their needs, and they naturally support it. But once you enter Chang'an, you have become the first product of the Tang Dynasty and one of the three princes in charge of the military, Taiwei, with such a heavy weight, how can they still allow you to be alone and not ask about politics? Do your job? If you don't ask about politics, without the support of His Majesty, the Crown Prince, and the King of Qin, do you think you can do your job well? The officials in Beijing are all from the disciples of these three, without the nod and acquiescence of these three, which official dares to risk his life to cooperate and help you? ”

"This?" Li Xiaogong said in surprise.

Li Xuan continued: "What's more, your entry into Beijing to serve as the captain in charge of the military this time is also a deliberate arrangement of Your Majesty. ”

Li Xiaogong stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, what does Your Majesty mean by such an arrangement?" ”

Li Xuan analyzed: "I think that Your Majesty's arrangement has two deep meanings. You are in charge of more than 200,000 elites in the south of the Tang Dynasty, the time is too long, the prestige is too high, and the sphere of influence is too large, Your Majesty is wary of you, this is one of them. I speculate that this is also the main reason why you, Li Jing and Li Ji, the three elite leaders of more than 200,000 people in the south of the Tang Dynasty, were transferred out at the same time. ”

"I see." Li Xiaogong suddenly realized. Then he asked anxiously, "What about the other reason?" ”

Li Xuan said: "According to my analysis, Your Majesty asked you to take the position of the Tai Lieutenant in charge of the military, it should be in the hope that you can help someone?" ”

"Help whom?" Li Xiaogong asked.

Li Xuan replied, "Prince." ”

"Prince?" Li Xiaogong thought it was incredible.

Li Xuan replied, "King Qin's power in the army is too great. His Majesty favored the crown prince, and the prince had almost no foundation in the army. With you, the second hero of the Tang Dynasty and the commander of the Southern Army of the Tang Dynasty, assisting the crown prince and being in charge of the military, Your Majesty may feel much more at ease. ”

After listening to Li Xuan's analysis, Li Xiaogong figured out everything, and said unusually lonely: "Then when I enter Beijing, I can only follow His Majesty's arrangement, assist the crown prince, do a good job as a lieutenant, take charge of the military, and fight against the king of Qin to the end." ”

Li Xuan was silent.

Historically, Li Xiaogong was like this, helping the prince to cultivate and win over a large number of military forces, and was a loyal supporter of the prince Jiancheng, and he was also prosperous for a while, but in just two years, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, ascended the throne as the emperor through the "Xuanwumen Change". Since the day Li Shimin ascended the throne, Li Xiaogong's life has begun to be difficult.

In the past two years, Li Xiaogong has been in the army, and he has been-for-tat with Li Shimin, and he has been fighting hard several times, and Li Shimin is angry in his heart.

In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Xiaogong lost his military power, and since the second half of his life, he has never had the opportunity to contact the army, let alone make meritorious contributions and become famous all over the world. The title was also reduced from the Huainan King of Zhengyipin to the King of Zhao Junjun from the first rank, and soon, it was reduced to the King of Hejian County from the second rank.

After Li Xiaogong became politically frustrated, he began to pursue luxury and enjoyment, recruiting concubines, singers, and dancing girls, and making a sound all day long, borrowing wine to kill his sorrows.

In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Xiaogong, whose body was hollowed out, died of illness at home, when he was just fifty years old and in the prime of life.

Emperor Taizong Li Shimin personally mourned and wept very much (tong). Posthumously presented Li Xiaogong as the Sikong of Zhengyipin, the governor of Yangzhou, and the funeral dedication, nicknamed Yuan, and worthy of the temple court of Emperor Li Yuan of Gaozu.

Letting Li Xiaogong accompany the burial of Gaozu Emperor Li Yuan's tomb shows that Li Shimin only thinks that Li Xiaogong is a courtier of Gaozu Emperor Li Yuan, not his own. You must know that although Li Shimin was still alive at that time, his mausoleum, Zhaoling, had already been built. Many important ministers of the Tang Dynasty were buried with Zhaoling after their deaths, and only Li Xiaogong, the second hero of the Tang Dynasty, was buried with Zhaoling. If at that time, if there was a mausoleum built by the prince, Emperor Taizong would definitely let Li Xiaogong accompany the prince to bury the mausoleum. Your courtiers, he doesn't want it anyway. This is Li Shimin's attitude.