"What's there to congratulate on this, and it's not that I am the crown prince, my father wants me to monitor my eldest brother's every move, I don't understand what he means?"

"Your Highness, this actually means that the Holy Lord doesn't believe in the prince at all, and basically it can be said that the determination to abolish the prince has been made, but he will not immediately announce the abolition of the prince because of the situation, but needs to find evidence that can abolish the prince, so he handed over this important task of finding evidence to His Highness. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Li Yuanji shook his head, "I know the eldest brother very well, he has always been loyal and low-key, how can there be evidence for others to hold?" ”

"Your Highness, there must be a reason for the Holy Lord's arrangement, it must be something that the prince did to make the Son of Heaven so angry, in fact, the prince does not bear it, His Highness forgot that he sent an army to fight against the Turks with Zhang Xuan in Taiyuan without authorization? This matter of His Royal Highness is the root cause of the crown prince being cleaned up by the saint, I can clearly tell His Royal Highness that it is impossible for the prince to ascend the throne again, and the person who inherits the great unification is either His Royal Highness or the King of Qin, the opportunity is in front of him, it depends on whether His Royal Highness can seize it. ”

"What opportunity is right in front of you?"

Cui Wenxiang smiled gloomily: "Isn't it an opportunity for His Royal Highness to investigate the crown prince?" If the crown prince is completely stepped on, His Royal Highness will have the opportunity to replace him as soon as possible, as long as His Royal Highness is made the crown prince, when the Holy Lord will abdicate, His Royal Highness has the final say. ”

Li Yuanji paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, he understood what Cui Wenxiang meant, and did not hesitate to let his father set up a new prince as soon as possible in a false way, he had no doubt about this, he was just worried about the second brother, with the qualifications and strength of the second brother, I am afraid that in the end he made a wedding dress for the second brother.

After a long time, he sighed and said, "I'm afraid that if I do it for a long time, in the end, the second brother will win the country." ”

Cui Wenxiang shook his head, "Although His Royal Highness the King of Qin has the advantage of leading troops outside, he does not have the favorable situation of His Highness running the imperial court, His Royal Highness must make full use of his advantage in Chang'an to make friends with powerful people, especially some key people." ”

Speaking of this, Cui Wenxiang took out a list and handed it to Li Yuanji, "This is a list that has been compiled these days, we must at least pull seventy percent of them for our own use, then it will be safe for His Highness to become the crown prince." ”

Li Yuanji opened the list, the first is Li Shentong and Li Shenfu brothers, he can understand this, Li Shentong controls nearly 50,000 troops in Guanzhong, Li Shenfu has just been named the general of the Right Tunwei by the Son of Heaven, and controls 10,000 royal forest troops, these two brothers are very important to their support, and it is not surprising that they are in the first place.

But in second place was actually Yin Arat, the prince of Pingyuan County, not the ministers of Xiangguo and the like, Li Yuanji asked puzzledly: "Why is Yin County Gong ranked second?" ”

Cui Wenxiang smiled faintly, "The second place is actually Concubine Yin De, although Xiangguo is useful, how can it compare to the pillow wind next to the saint, as long as Concubine Yin De is willing to vigorously support His Royal Highness as the prince, it is stronger than ten Xiangguo." ”

Li Yuanji suddenly said with a smile: "I am familiar with Yin Wuquan, the son of Yin Arat, so I might as well start with him." ”

"Your Highness Takami!"

Li Yuanji looked at the list again, the third place in the list was Xiangguo Pei Lian, he couldn't help nodding secretly, Cui Wenxiang really saw people very accurately, he groaned and asked: "If you want me to investigate the prince's problem, I don't know where to start?" ”

Cui Wenxiang said with a smile: "First of all, His Royal Highness wants to enter the palace to see the Holy Lord, firstly, to report to His Majesty the merits of the family, secondly, to show that His Royal Highness will obey the call of the Holy Lord at any time, and thirdly, to find out from Zhao Dezhong, what did the prince do to make the Holy Lord so angry?" With this in mind, we can make a difference. ”

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The free trade between the Tang and Zhou dynasties did not bring prosperity to the Tang Dynasty, on the contrary, a large influx of currency and the outflow of various materials brought great disasters to the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the Zhou Dynasty did not recognize the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty and refused to accept the gold transaction, which forced the Tang Dynasty to exchange gold for Datong Tongbao from merchants.

Around a complex circle, the essence of Tang and Zhou trade is that the Tang Dynasty exchanged various materials for the expensive pig iron of the Zhou Dynasty, and the consequences of this are showing day by day, on the one hand, Chang'an is in short supply of various materials, and the price of grain has soared, and on the other hand, the entire Chang'an and even Guanzhong have been occupied by Datong Tongbao, Kaiyuan Tongbao is becoming more and more rare, and the currency circulation of the Zhou Dynasty has completely replaced the Tang Dynasty's own currency.

In fact, many court officials saw that there was something wrong, but under the pressure of the demand for strategic materials, no one dared to raise objections, so they had to silently watch the business of the Tang Dynasty decline day by day.

Thousands of shops in the West Market have been closed down nearly eighty percent, leaving less than 100 shops to maintain a dismal operation, there is a shop dealing in the north and south groceries near the gate of the West Market The business is not bad, and the two shops next door have been turned into one of the best shops in the West Market, although there is no signboard, but a huge lantern hanging at the gate of Huaiyang County King is more effective than anything else, and few people dare to come to the idea of this grocery store.

This grocery store is the new root base of the Chang'an Intelligence Agency, which is also Lu Ping's experience, when he opened a leather store in Luoyang, thanks to Wang Shiyun's signboard, so that they have been safe and sound, Lu Ping again resorted to the old plan, this time he took a fancy to Li Shentong's signboard, in exchange for an annual annual example of 10,000 yuan in exchange for one of the eight dead lanterns in front of Li Shentong's mansion, hung on the door, whether it was a ruffian, or an official servant, even Xuanwu Jingwei did not dare to provoke their shop.

It was also with Li Shentong's care that the Chang'an Intelligence Bureau, which was forced out of the city by Li Yuanji, returned to Chang'an City and started working again.

In a room in the backyard of the grocery store, Lu Ping and Gao Jin were discussing with Luo Yumin the task that the military plane had just sent, Lu Ping was sitting cross-legged on the couch, with a rare serious face, and a purple letterbox was placed on the small table next to him, indicating that the task they received was an order from the Son of Heaven.

The task is very simple, but it is also very tricky, let them put down all the things at hand, and concentrate all their manpower and material resources to spy on the every move of Li Yuanji, the king of Chu, this is the holy will, Lu Ping did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to find Luo Yumin, Luo Yumin is the sentry they placed in the palace of the king of Chu, and they can only consult with Luo Yumin about this matter.

Luo Yumin finished reading the pigeon letter, sighed and said: "The Son of Heaven is really a very human being!" actually saw through Li Yuanji's ambitions. ”

Lu Ping and Gao Jin glanced at each other, and hurriedly said: "So, it is rumored outside that Li Yuanji has the intention of winning the heir, is it true?" ”

Luo Yumin nodded, "Of course Li Yuanji won't discuss this kind of thing with me, but I have found too many clues from various clues, in fact, as early as Taiyuan, he had this heart, but he has been suppressed, until Cui Wenxiang became his staff, he went smoothly step by step, and his ambition began to swell." ”

"Didn't Lao Luo enter his decision-making circle?" Lu Ping asked the most critical question.

Luo Yumin smiled bitterly and said: "I'm just in charge of Xuanwu Jingwei's housework, Li Yuanji used to ask me if there was anything, but since Cui Wenxiang came, he only believed Cui Wenxiang alone, and everyone else didn't pay attention to it anymore, more than a dozen staff members were sent to do all kinds of chores, and I was arranged to manage Xuanwu Jingwei's internal affairs because I had been following him for a long time, which was not bad." ”

At this time, Gao Jin said on the side: "Is it possible for Lao Luo to enter Li Yuanji's decision-making circle again, such as we set up a bureau and so on, so that Li Yuanji can trust Lao Luo again." ”

Luo Yumin shook his head, "To be honest, Li Yuanji is very easy to deal with, I can deal with him without setting up any bureau, the key is Cui Wenxiang, this person is extremely cunning and vicious, he will never allow anyone to affect Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji used to have twenty staff, and five have died in vain, everyone knows what is going on, twice I reported to Li Yuanji about Xuanwu Jingwei, Cui Wenxiang sat aside, stared at by his eyes like poisonous snakes, I shuddered!" ”

"In this way, we really can't get close to Li Yuanji?" Lu Ping couldn't hide the disappointment on his face and asked.

Luo Yumin thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's not impossible, I have a way." ”