Since ancient times, once the new emperor ascends the throne, all the brothers of the heavenly family who have participated in the seizure of the heir will not have a very good end, or even the brothers who have not participated in the seizure of the heir may not be spared, especially the outstanding ability of the person is the new emperor must want to get rid of the figure quickly, this is the foundation of imperial politics, even if Li Shimin and other wise figures in dealing with such things are the same, otherwise there will be no "Xuanwumen change".

Li Zhen thought to himself that if he ascended the throne by himself, even if he could spare the lives of his brothers, he would definitely not give them the slightest chance to make a comeback, and the biggest possibility was to send all the bastards to a distant border state under house arrest, which was still merciful, if other brothers came to power, it would be different, it seemed that Li Zhen, Li Su and other brothers who had participated in the battle for the heir must not have died, although Li Zhen did not have an advantage in the current situation, but there was still a few chances, but Li Zhen was never ahead, so so, If he wants to live, he can only take refuge in his brother, and Li Zhen is Li Zhen's only chance, which Li Zhen can be sure of, but Li Zhen has his own plan, and he does not plan to ascend to the sky in one step, and this plan is top secret, except for the two major strategists, even Yan Eighteen does not know the whole picture, and now facing Li Zhen who came to take refuge, Li Zhen really didn't know where to start for a while.

It's hard to say, so don't say it yet, but the gift sent to the door still has to be accepted, Li Zhen pondered silently for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "Don't hide it from the sixth brother, the younger brother is indeed short of manpower now, and he can get the wrong love of the sixth brother, the younger brother admires it in his heart, and it is not easy to say what will happen in the future, but please believe that the sixth brother is by no means a person who unloads the mill and kills the donkey." ”

Li Zhen has always been a master of dodging, and has never made promises easily, but once the promise is made, it will definitely be done, even if it violates his heart, he will never discount it, this point Li Zhen knows in his heart, at this time, although Li Zhen did not say what will happen in the future, but the meaning of the words is already very clear, his heart is full of joy, he slapped his thigh, haha smiled and said: "Eighth brother thinks it's good to apply, haha, good, refreshing, the future will be talked about in the future, brother is waiting for the good news of the eighth brother, it's not too early, Eighth brother, you are busy, brother will leave first! ”

Li Zhen was refreshing, as soon as the matter was finished, he walked away, very neatly, but Li Zhen, who had won a big gift, was very happy - according to the original plan, Li Zhen was not ready to move this time, neither to contact the courtiers, nor to let Qin Huaiyu, Li Ge and others move, but just planned to see the excitement, but the sixth child gave a big gift so tightly, but Li Zhen was not moved, and it was not good not to move.

"Mr. Mo, let you guess, the sixth child really gave this king a generous gift." After saying goodbye to Li Su, Li Zhen had no intention of having dinner again, so she hurried back to the inner study, handed the joint fold in her hand to Mo Li, and said without the slightest joy on her face.

Mo Li quickly swept the fold, flicked the fold with a smile, and said with great satisfaction: "Your Highness, this thing is just right, His Royal Highness the King of Shu has really given His Highness a great gift this time." ”

"Well, these people are really all the family of the sixth child, but I'm afraid it won't come in handy, don't look at the father and the emperor have not dealt with the sixth child now, it's just that the time has not come, according to the king, the sixth will not escape the fate of the distribution this time, he is so down, those small court officials must be following the share of eating and hanging, being demoted to other places as officials is basically a foregone conclusion, and the king's layout of the court's heart is really useless." Li Zhen shrugged her shoulders disapprerovingly and said with a wry smile on her face.

"It's good that Your Highness can see this, and things in the future can be discussed later, and this excerpt can really come in handy at the moment." Mo Li said with a disapproving smile.

"Oh? Mr. means ......" When Li Zhen heard this, he immediately became interested, and asked in high spirits.

Mo Li smiled lightly, shook the feather fan in his hand and said: "Your Highness Mingjian, now that King Wu and King Wei have been launched, it is obvious that the early dynasty of the day after tomorrow will be a melee, all the courtiers are flocking, each supporting their master, if no one shouts for His Highness, it will be suspicious, not only weakening His Highness's momentum, but I am afraid that the Holy Lord will also be suspicious in his heart, and now His Royal Highness the King of Shu has given such a big gift, isn't it just right." ”

Uh-huh, ha, presumably Lao Mo would have come to give gifts to the sixth child, no wonder he always insisted that we don't have to contact the courtiers, and the root of the love is here, hey, this guy is so calculating, obviously he has everything in his heart, but he deliberately didn't say it first, he loves to play mysterious! Li Zhen then figured out the reason why Mo Li insisted that he didn't have to use the power in his hands a few days ago, and glanced at Mo Li angrily, and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Mo, it's better to explain it first next time, this king is timid and can't be frightened." ”

"Haha......" Seeing Li Zhen behaving like this, Mo Li and Na Long glanced at each other strangely, and each laughed loudly, and the laughter spread far away from the study, rippling in the night......

On April 19, the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Ji led the Qizhou counterinsurgency army back to Beijing, and Li Zhen, the squire of the military department, was ordered to welcome the triumphant army for the suburbs of the Son of Heaven, and issued an edict of reward, the officers and soldiers of each army have different rewards for their merits, among which Xue Rengui, who was the first to rush to the head of Qizhou City, was promoted to Zuojin Wuwei Cavalry Cao because of his first merit, and became a low-level officer in the Sixteen Guards, and officially embarked on the beginning of his military career.

At this time when the battle for the heir is becoming more and more intense, Li Zhen played such a drama of the suburbs of the crown prince, and for a while, many courtiers with a neutral attitude couldn't help but be moved, and they speculated in their minds about Li Shimin's intentions, and for a time the rumors about Li Zhen getting the sacred heart rose from the ground, and there were many legends, but well, Li Zhen didn't care how the rumors spread, he knew in his heart that such a play was just directed by the old man, and he just wanted to be unable to stay out of the drama of winning the heir. In fact, there was no other meaning, so in addition to settling the expeditionary army, Li Zhen did not contact the courtiers privately at all, nor did he privately meet with the henchmen in the expeditionary army, even Xue Rengui was also rejected by Li Zhen, but the courtiers who followed the trend secretly muttered endlessly.

On April 20, the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, it was sunny, and it was the day of the early dynasty, the early dynasty of this day was unusual, and it may be a dynasty that determined the future meteorological tone of the Tang Dynasty, so all the courtiers got up very early, and there was still a moment left in the hour, and all the courtiers had rushed to the courtroom, but Li Zhen, who came according to the habit of the past, became the latest one, and just arrived at the door of the courtroom, and found that the atmosphere in the courtroom was really a little weird- In the past, the courtiers who always sat together according to their grades have now formed several large circles, Li Tai, the king of Wei, is a big group, Li Ke, the king of Wu, is a big bang, Li Daozong and other clans who do not plan to participate in the matter are a large group, and the courtiers who are lively are gathered again, and a few smaller princes such as Lao Jiu Li Zhi and Lao Shi Li Shen are in a circle, and dozens of courtiers are waiting for Li Zhen's arrival. That kind of enthusiasm made Li Zhen a little unbearable, and she saw sweat on her forehead.

Oh, this Xiao Miao can really come to trouble, damn, Lao Tzu just gave a hint yesterday, this kid can pull so many people when he snores, it seems that Lao Tzu really has a bit of appeal! Li Zhen greeted the courtiers with a smile on his face, and quietly counted the number of people, and suddenly found that the courtiers who came up to please him exceeded sixty, more than double the number of people on the list given by the sixth child, although there were not many important ministers, but there were many people, but it was also very imposing, if you count Qin Huaiyu, Li Ge, Wang Kun and other new talents in the army, this article is all martial, compared to Wu and Wei Shuangwang, it is not much worse, which makes Li Zhen proud, I can't help but feel a little weak - if I really let the old man slap all of them to death, it's really a pity to be tighter, but the problem is that now the arrow is on the Xuan, and it won't be done if it doesn't send, and Li Zhen can only hope that the old man's team can be lighter.

Seeing Li Zhen enter the court, not only King Wu and Wei, but Li Zhi and a group of small people also pretended not to see it, let alone say hello, they didn't give a smile, they talked and laughed with their henchmen around them, just like Li Zhen is air, but Li Zhen didn't care, and didn't go to greet other brothers, just chatting with the courtiers around him. Passing the difficult time before the court.

Left wait, right and so on, all the courtiers are waiting, but after waiting for a long time, the sky is bright, and the time has passed, but they have never waited for the familiar sound of "going to court", the big guys are waiting very anxiously, no one knows which play the old man is singing, just when the courtiers are waiting impatiently, but they see the young eunuch Liu Donghe hurriedly walked in from outside the courtroom, and before the courtiers asked, they listened to Liu Donghe hold back his strength and preach: "Your Majesty has an edict, today is not the court, the ministers have a book to play, no book to retreat from the court!" ”

As soon as Liu Donghe's words came out, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military affairs were dead silence at first, and then the noise was loud, no one could understand what Li Shimin's intention was to come to such a hand, although Li Zhen was also shocked, but he didn't plan to go all out in this early dynasty, it was indispensable, but Li Tai, the king of Wei, was different, he took a lot of scheming, and planned to settle the battle in this dynasty, and now the old man can't go to the court, which makes Li Tai feel like a heavy punch into the cotton pile, depressed and almost want to vomit blood, Regardless of it, he strode forward, staring at Liu Donghe with a pale face for a long time, and then asked with a slightly gentle face: "Father-in-law Liu, is my father unwell?" Xiao Wang, as a son-in-law, should enter the palace to greet the first and second, and ask his father-in-law to make a speech on his behalf. ”

Li Tai opened his mouth, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty immediately quieted down, and they all wanted to hear what Liu Donghe said, but they never thought that Liu Donghe's mouth was very tight, but he shook his head expressionlessly and said: "The old slave doesn't know, Your Majesty just explained that he will not go to court today, if His Royal Highness has any questions, and let the old slave return to the saint." As soon as these words came out, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were in an uproar again.

Damn, what the hell is the old man doing? Didn't the old man provoke this big drama himself, why did it come to an end, but he shrank back again, what kind of demon moth is he doing? Could it be that the old man is afraid? Well, maybe, and now the courtiers are really differentiated, this situation is only afraid of exceeding the old man's original expectations, it seems that the old man played such a hand, is planning to fake a shot, hehe, first provoke the dispute to seize the heir, and then see which characters will jump out, and then after the situation is clarified, and then come to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary, hehe, one drum, then drum and decline, three drums and exhaustion, this art of war The old man is really an expert, well, if we are in the position of the old man, I am afraid that this can only be done, It seems that the old man will clean up the court situation next, even if he doesn't clean it, I'm afraid it's inevitable to do work in private, if the important ministers who support the princes are obedient, if they are disobedient, hey, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to escape the end of being degraded, and the fourth who is the most cheerful will kick the iron plate this time, hehe, interesting! There was an uproar, Li Zhen's mind moved quickly, and he immediately figured out the key to the matter, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he didn't go all out, seeing that the courtiers were still chattering there, Li Zhen had already made up his mind, took the lead in lining up everyone, and walked in front of Liu Donghe, and didn't say much, just smiled and handed over the fold of the military affairs that had been prepared, and said: "There is Father-in-law Lao Liu." Then he waved his sleeves and left the court room without looking back.

Seeing Li Zhen come so abruptly to make such a move, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military were a little dumbfounded, and after Li Zhen left, the ministers could only present the original plan to submit the recital in court one by one, and they scattered boredly without mentioning it, and a court discussion that could have been the most intense since the founding of the Tang Dynasty disappeared before it began, which made the Manchu civil and military puzzled, and had to sigh that the power of heaven is unpredictable.

Tianwei is indeed unpredictable, just after the ministers dispersed boringly, a generation of emperor Li Shimin was not idle, but looked at the excerpt in the Ganlu Palace, but Li Shimin did not look at it as carefully as in the past, but just looked at an abridgement sorted out by a group of eunuchs who were well-informed and knowledgeable, and did not pay much attention to the content, only concerned about who was on this excerpt, and supported the prince, this is just a matter of not looking, at a glance, Li Shimin's face became more and more sinking, After the eunuchs sorted out the names, Li Shimin's face was so cold that he could form ice slag, so he sat on the dragon chair and never said a word.

"Liu Donghe, Bei Yuan, I want to go to the heavenly prison!" Just when the eunuchs were figuring out what the holy intention was, Li Shimin suddenly opened his mouth and drank a sentence.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Liu Donghe, who heard the oracle coldly, was taken aback, and he didn't dare to ask the reason, so he responded with low eyebrows, and trotted all the way to prepare for the imperial chariot without mentioning it.

When the time is right, the emperor drove out of the palace, arrived at the prison of the criminal department at the moment, the emperor summoned the abolished prince Li Chengqian, who was imprisoned for more than a month, and talked alone for nearly half an hour, no one knew what the father and son talked about, and the government and the opposition shook for a while.

What the? How so? The old man ran to see what the boss was trying to do? Li Zhen was originally a director of the Ministry of War, but when he heard the news from the "Rising Sun", his scalp couldn't help but tingle, and he couldn't care about acting in government affairs anymore, so he assigned the affairs down, and hurriedly returned to the palace, and he didn't care about taking a breath, and immediately summoned the two major strategists of Mo Li and Na Long to the study, and hurriedly discussed.

"Let's talk about it, what is the reason why my father didn't go to see the boss today?" Li Zhen had already sent someone back to the house to inform the two strategists of his judgment that the old man was not early today, and at this time, he didn't have to waste his tongue to explain, and put the problem out bluntly - Li Zhen is from later generations, and he knows that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, the princes seized the heirs, causing Emperor Kangxi to have to move the abolished prince out again, although Li Zhen also knew that there was no such drama during the Tang Dynasty, but the problem is that now the original good history has already been made unrecognizable by Li Zhen, God knows if such a strange thing will be moved to the Tang Dynasty to be staged, Li Zhen is not the slightest bit sure in his heart, if this is the case, with Li Chengqian's bad character of holding grudges, once he turns over, the brothers together don't want to have a good life, right?

The two strategists are both wise men in the world, although Li Zhen did not explain his thoughts, but they both understood what Li Zhen was worried about, and after each glanced at each other, Na Long took the lead in speaking: "Your Highness, don't worry, there is no hope for the revival of the abolished prince, even if Your Majesty is willing, the ministers will never agree, this is an inevitable thing, according to a certain point of view, Your Majesty's move is just to show the deep love between father and son, and has no other intentions, if there is, it can only be a signal." ”

"Signal? What signal? Li Zhen asked impatiently.

Mo Li smiled and said: "This signal means that even if the princes fail to seize the throne, Your Majesty will definitely not be too much of yourself, even the crown prince who wants to rebel, and the courtiers who participated in the battle for the succession will not be dealt with seriously, Your Majesty is determined to establish a prince!" ”

"Oh? When? Li Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then quickly understood that Mo Li's words were reasonable, and immediately became curious, and couldn't help but hurriedly ask.

"I don't know, but it should be soon, and it will start in a few days." Mo Li shook his head lightly and said.

Fuck, you can't get away with it, so just wait! Seeing that he couldn't come up with a reason, Li Zhen couldn't help but smile bitterly, said no more, silently walked to the window, stared in the direction of the imperial city, and fell into deep thought......

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