176. Choice
King Qi and the crown prince carefully planned a case of forcing the palace, and the evidence was conclusive, but in the end, the emperor characterized it as a secret fight between the princes and princes, and the prince was acquitted.
In addition to being assigned an East Palace housekeeper, Wang Qi, the Prince's Mansion did not even lose even Mao.
The king of Qi, a participant, was even more flattering and obedient, and was also rewarded by the emperor, but Li Shimin, an innocent person, was instructed by the emperor to make the group turn around, work hard and laborious, but in the end he fell into a crime of fighting with the prince, causing Du Yan to be innocently exiled.
After Li Shimin, who had never suffered this kind of grievance, sent Du Yan away, his spirit was very weak for several days, and he simply didn't bother to go to the court, and directly asked for leave to drink at home.
"Lord Wang, it's not a way for you to go on like this, the matter of Renzhi Palace has proved that the crown prince, King Qi and you have reached the point where water and fire are incompatible, and Your Majesty is so protective of them, after they escape this catastrophe, they will never stop there."
"On the contrary, when this limelight passes, he will immediately turn his head and go all out to deal with the prince." A few days later, everyone in Tiance Mansion saw that Li Shimin had no intention of cheering up, and Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui both came to the palace and tried hard to persuade them.
"I just want to take another look, to see the eldest brother who used to be in love with me, to see how my father, who has always loved me all these years, is going to deal with me for the power in his hands." Li Shimin said lightly.
"Lord Wang......" Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were stunned when they heard it, and couldn't help but whisper.
"Accident? You are not reluctant, I have always adhered to the principle that people do not offend me, I do not offend others, and if people offend me, I will double the return of others. ”
"Honestly, I had fantasies about the supreme chair before that, but it was quickly extinguished."
"My relationship with my eldest brother and my father has always been very good, they love me, take care of me, I respect them, and I am willing to go to great lengths for them, as long as they can trust me wholeheartedly, I will not live up to their trust."
"Although countless historical facts are telling us that the emperor's family has no family affection, no father and son, but I always hope that our Li family is an exception, I cherish this feeling of our family, and I also cherish every relative of our family."
"I really don't want to meet them unless I have to, my mother, and my sister, they don't want to see this kind of human tragedy of brother Xiao Qiang."
"The prince is jealous of me, I can actually understand it, after all, I am a prince, and his prestige in the army and the government and the opposition is not below him at all, he is uneasy, this is human nature."
"But fourth brother Yuanji, I really can't understand why he is so jealous of me? I thought to myself that I had never treated him badly. ”
"Could it be that he's also for that chair? Seriously, I always thought he was a quick-tempered and resourceless man, but this time the matter of Renzhigong made me a little impressed with him. ”
"He played a good chess game, the front and harem were all co-opted by him, and the father and emperor just came back from Yuhua Mountain and changed the hexagram, I believe that this matter is indispensable to the pillow wind of the harem."
"You all go back, take good care of the affairs of Tiance Mansion, I'm fine, and I won't be defeated so easily, as for what to do next, I still have to look at the hearts of my father and my eldest brother before making a decision." Li Shimin poured a sip of wine into his mouth, half-leaned on a soft couch behind him, and said with a gloomy face.
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui glanced at each other, didn't say anything, and quietly retreated.
However, to Li Shimin's surprise, the crown prince and the king of Qi did not make any further moves next, and Gao Zu seemed to feel that he was a little sorry for the second son, and he felt quite compensated in his heart.
Seeing that Li Shimin was angry and did not go to court, he didn't say anything, and kept sending people to send gold, silver, treasures and supplements.
Li Shimin saw the property that was constantly sent to the house, and couldn't help but say to his wife with some amusement: "Guanyin, my father is going to give me a slap and a sweet date." ”
"My father didn't blindly favor the crown prince and the king of Qi, which is not a bad thing for us." The eldest grandson, the princess, said.
"That's right, after all, with my current identity and position, if my father blindly favors the prince and pushes me to the end, I don't seem to have any way, unless, I'm ready to rebel." Li Shimin said with a smile.
"Erlang, be cautious." The eldest princess was taken aback, and subconsciously raised her eyes to look around, but she didn't notice any other figures around, so she turned her eyes to Li Shimin.
"Guanyin, if the relationship between me, my eldest brother and my father really comes to the point of fighting each other, what are you going to do?" Li Shimin did not avoid this question, but looked directly into his wife's eyes and asked.
"Erlang, I am your wife, husband and wife are one, share honor and disgrace, no matter what you do, when it comes to a choice, I will always stand on your side." After listening to this, the eldest grandson was silent for a long time before speaking.
"Thank you, Guanyinguan, I know that you are very affectionate, you and your sister-in-law, as well as the four brothers and sisters, they are like sisters, they respect the eldest brother, and they love Yuanji as if he were his own brother."
"I'm in the same mood as you, and I won't do anything that makes you and my heart ache unless I have to." Li Shimin took his wife's hand and said softly.
In the middle of July, the Turks invaded the border again, and Gaozu sent Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Li Yuanqi, the king of Qi, to send troops to Youzhou.
After the battle, Li Shimin took a hundred black armor troops to talk with the Turkic leaders, this time the leader of the border was the Turkic second khan Tuli, no one knows what they talked about, only that after the talks, the Turkic army quickly withdrew.
"The second brother is so majestic, the dignified Turkic Khan met with the second brother, and he didn't even fight, so he withdrew the army, in my opinion, if the Turks come to invade the border again in the future, my Datang don't need to send troops, just let the second brother come over alone." After the retreat of the Turkic army, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, said a word to Li Shi without yin or yang.
"If you're not happy, you'll be on next time." Li Shimin glanced at him lightly, Yuan Ji was furious, but he looked at Li Shimin's gaze, and he no longer had the same feelings as his brother for his younger brother in the past, but was indifferent and cold, and he didn't dare to play tricks.
In November of that year, the Turkic army, which had agreed with the King of Qin not to offend each other, attacked Suizhou again, and the King of Qi Yuanji took the opportunity to gather with his ancestors: "Father, at the end of July this year, the Turkic Khan obviously made an alliance with his second brother, saying that he would not commit any more offenses. ”
"It's only been a few months now, and the old disease has recurred, according to Erchen's opinion, this matter should be handled by the second brother."
Gaozu glanced at Li Shimin, and finally did not let him come forward, but chose to send Pei Lin to officially go to the Turkic peace talks after defeating the border enemy in Suizhou.