In Chang'an, the eunuchs and palace maids in the Wude Hall were all trembling with fear, and the roar of the Tang Emperor Li Yuan could be heard from afar, "This is my son, is this the prince of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

In the imperial study, Pei Lin kept persuading Li Yuan, "Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty, please calm your anger, this matter has not yet been decided!" ”

"How can you let me calm my anger, such a prince, how can I hand over the country to him?"

Li Yuan was furious, his fists kept beating on the table, Pei Lin secretly told him something, which almost blew up his lungs, and the reason was that Yin Guiping, the father of Concubine Yin, wanted to seek a piece of fertile land in Chengdu.

The owner of the fertile land was more than 100 peasant households, and they refused to sell it, so Yin Guiping asked the crown prince Li Jiancheng to put pressure on the Shu County Taishou Gao Biaoren, and finally used the power of the government to take away the land at a very low price.

As a result, more than 100 peasant households collectively went to Beijing to file a complaint, which alarmed Li Shimin, and under his attention, Tang Feng quickly found out the truth, and Li Shimin instructed Pei Lin to tell his father about the matter.

Li Yuan was enraged, he attached great importance to land annexation, he knew that land annexation appeared, that was a sign of the death of the country, so Li Yuan would rather give a large amount of ownerless land to meritorious nobles than allow land annexation to occur.

Any dynasty is politically clear at the beginning of the founding of the country, and has a good reputation among the people, because the demise of the previous dynasty has wiped out a large number of interest strata, the population is sparse and the resources are abundant, so although the emerging elite class has obtained a lot of benefits, but because of the large resources, the people can still get a piece of the pie, and they can also endure the exploitation of the powerful.

But as the resources become less and less, and the appetite of the elite class does not shrink correspondingly, but grows bigger and bigger, and the people become more and more insatiable in grabbing profits, the people can no longer live, and rebellions will break out, and there will be a change of dynasty, as has been the case in all dynasties, Li Yuan knows this very well, so he must not allow land annexation to appear.

More importantly. Yin Guiping obtained this land through the pressure of the prince, which shows that the relationship between Yin Guiping and the prince is extraordinary, so what is the relationship between Concubine Yin Defei and the prince? The anger of the land annexation and Li Yuan's suspicion of the crown prince made him finally unable to control his anger and completely exploded.

Although Pei Lin persuaded Li Yuan to calm his anger, he was secretly happy in his heart, in his memory, he had never seen Li Yuan so angry, and it was very likely that Li Yuan was going to abolish the crown prince.

He was full of pride. But he said pretendedly: "Your Majesty." It's better to ask the prince again, what is going on with this? Don't wronged His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

"I'm going to ask him and ask him to give me an explanation."

Li Yuan was so angry that his chest rose and fell violently. He forcibly restrained the monstrous anger in his heart, and shouted: "Spread my will, so that the prince will come to see me immediately!" ”……

East Palace Xiande Hall. The crown prince Li Jiancheng was compiling a joint letter signed by hundreds of officials opposing the war, and the Qin king Li Shimin tried his best to persuade his father to take advantage of the opportunity of the Turks to attack the Sui to capture the six counties of Guanbei and recapture Huining County.

However, Li Jiancheng was resolutely opposed to falling into the ground, which would not only make the Tang Dynasty fall into injustice, but also suffer fierce revenge from the Sui Dynasty, which would eventually seriously damage the interests of the Tang Dynasty, in order to prevent his father from being persuaded by the King of Qin, Li Jiancheng also used his authority. Mobilize all officials above the fifth rank to collectively resist the war.

Li Jiancheng knew that this was the sharpest killing move, and the last time he was about attacking Xiao Milling, he mobilized dozens of important ministers to oppose it collectively, so that his father finally dispelled the idea of sending troops, and this time, he wanted to use greater pressure. to suppress his father's desire to go to war.

Li Jiancheng treated people generously, considered problems more pragmatically, and considered problems from the perspective of the interests of the Tang Dynasty, and he did not realize that his doing so would arouse his father's suspicion of his excessive power.

Li Jiancheng didn't realize it. But the confidant ministers around him realized that the crown prince Zhongyun Wang Qi was one of Li Jiancheng's henchmen. He was deeply worried when he heard that the crown prince was going to mobilize officials above the fifth rank to collectively oppose the war against Sui.

At this time, Wang Qi was in Li Jiancheng's room, and tried hard to persuade Li Jiancheng: "Your Highness does this, although it will be very effective, forcing the Holy Lord to cancel the war, but His Highness has not thought about it, what does the Holy Lord think of His Highness?" can actually use more than eighty percent of the officials of the fifth grade to oppose it, which will make the Holy Lord feel the threat of His Royal Highness, Your Highness, the reason why the Holy Lord let the King of Qin interfere in politics and allowed him to build the Tiance Mansion and appoint officials by himself is probably related to the fact that His Royal Highness's authority in the court is too high, and the monarch is unpredictable, His Royal Highness must not be taboo! ”

Li Jiancheng fell into deep thought, perhaps called the authorities fandom, he never realized the seriousness of this problem, he has always taken the mobilization of hundreds of officials to oppose as his last killer weapon, he has been very skilled in the past two years, never thought that he would anger his father and make his father suspicious.

Li Jiancheng is not stupid, and he is not stubborn, on the contrary, he is an extremely smart, extremely modest, and good at admonishing people, Wang Qi's words made him wake up, he used the method of petitioning hundreds of officials, is a little too prominent his influence in the court, will make his father jealous.

Thinking about this, he began to hesitate, and it was indeed inappropriate to use a petition from hundreds of officials to oppose the war, but he already felt that his father was more and more inclined to go to war, so how should he persuade his father?

At this time, a guard reported at the door: "Your Highness, Gonggong Zhang is here, saying that there is a decree in the saint, and ordering His Highness to enter the palace immediately." ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, "Got it!" ”

At this moment, he finally made a decision, the petition of the hundred officials was not given to his father for the time being, and then he took a look at the situation first, he changed his clothes, and walked out of the palace quickly.

The eunuch who came to announce the decree was an old eunuch, surnamed Zhang, who had been in the palace for many years, and was now in charge of the imperial study, and he had a very good relationship with the crown prince, he was anxiously waiting outside the palace, and when he saw Li Jiancheng coming out, Gonggong Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, something happened." ”

"What's wrong?" Li Jiancheng saw that he looked frightened, and he secretly felt bad in his heart.

"Your Highness, Pei Xiangguo secretly reported to the Holy Lord today, as if he said that the matter of the land in Chengdu may be related to His Highness, the Holy Lord was furious and was furious in the imperial study, so His Highness went to see him immediately."

Li Jiancheng was so shocked that his scalp was about to explode, the matter of the land in Chengdu was Yin Guiping's incident? How could Pei Lin know that the incident was indeed related to him, but the relationship was not very big with him, he just said hello to Gao Biaoren, but he didn't ask what the ending was, did something happen?

Li Jiancheng's heart was extremely nervous and chaotic, he didn't know what to do for a while, but the old eunuch reminded him, "Your Highness, let's go to the palace!" The Holy One is waiting, and letting the Holy One wait for a long time will anger him even more. ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, no matter what, first put his attitude right and show sincerity, he didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately set off towards the Wude Palace.

Walking all the way, after a short time, Li Jiancheng came to the door of the imperial study, and at this time a eunuch ran out, "His Royal Highness the Prince, go in quickly!" The Holy One is already in a hurry. ”

Li Jiancheng hurriedly walked into the imperial study, and when he walked into the imperial study, he saw Li Yuan's blood-red eyes, Li Yuan slapped the table heavily, "Evil barrier, you still have the face to see me!" ”

Li Jiancheng could feel his father's anger, and he hurriedly knelt down, "Father, please calm your anger, take care of the dragon's body, and my son is willing to confess." ”

Li Yuan snorted heavily, and said to Pei Lian: "You tell him, I want to see how he explains?" ”

The person Pei Lin hated the most before was Liu Wenjing, he didn't have any deep contradictions with Li Jiancheng, but because he supported King Qin, he had a bad relationship with the crown prince.

Especially Pei Lin knew that if Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, the first thing he would do was to clean himself up, so Pei Lin had been doing everything possible to shake Li Jiancheng's foundation as a prince, and this time Li Shimin gave him the opportunity, and he knew what to do without even teaching him.

Pei Lin laughed dryly, "Your Highness, Yin Guiping's purchase of land, His Highness won't say that he doesn't know!" ”

Li Jiancheng's heart jumped, sure enough, it was this matter, he didn't know what evidence Pei Lin had caught, but it was hard to deny it, so he nodded, "I know a thing or two about this matter, but it doesn't have much to do with me, please continue, what happened?" ”

"Alright! I'll get straight to the point. ”

Pei Lin was not polite, and said in a slightly cold tone: "This is a typical land annexation case, Yin Guiping forcibly bought dozens of hectares of fertile land with a low price of ten hangings per mu, Yushitai has already sent someone to investigate, Gao Biaoren admitted that this matter was put pressure on him by His Royal Highness, so we don't understand, what is the relationship between His Highness and Yin Guiping?" ”

Sweat oozed from Li Jiancheng's forehead, and he suddenly realized that this matter was not just as simple as annexing land, but also involved his relationship with Concubine Yin, and his father was probably more annoyed by the latter.

Li Yuan stared at Jiancheng coldly, "I also want to know, why are you so enthusiastic about doing things for Yin Guiping?" ”

Li Jiancheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and hurriedly explained: "Father, that's not the case, Yin Guiping has nothing to do with his sons, just because he is Yin Defei's father and a relative of the emperor, and his sons help him, and there is absolutely no other meaning." ”

"That's strange, why didn't he look for me, he could have let Concubine Yin De come to me, he was the ruler of the country, and it was even more reasonable for me to help him, could it be that my influence was not as good as that of the prince?"

Li Yuan's words were very harsh, and his tone was full of suspicion and dissatisfaction, Li Jiancheng was even more frightened, and explained again: "Father, Yin Guiping came to find Erchen because Erchen and Shu County Taishou Gao Biaoren have a good personal relationship, Gao Biaoren is the son of Gao Gong, and he had a lot of dealings with Erchen back then, so Yin Guiping thought of coming to Erchen for help. ”

Li Yuan's eagle-like eyes stared at Li Jiancheng tightly, although Li Jiancheng's explanation was a bit far-fetched, but it was also a reason, the key was that Pei Lin was by his side, Li Yuan didn't want to pursue Concubine Yin De's matter too much for the time being, he was afraid of pulling out something ugly, and he would investigate it later.

"Alright! Let's not mention the relationship between Yin Guiping and you, I come to ask you, as the crown prince, don't you know the serious consequences of annexing the land? ”