On this day, the rain kept falling, and drenched water droplets fell from the plane trees. Feng Derui was dressed in a cloak and wore a hat, and hurried to the Gao Mansion: "Quickly inform your master, I have something urgent." ”

"Mr. Feng, I'll go and inform the master."

After a while, the housekeeper came out the door, and Feng Derui was invited to the study. Gao Junming asked, "Lord Feng, what's the matter?" Something happened to the imperial court? ”

"Haven't you heard of it? Since Li Yuanji became the king of Qi, he indulged in luxury in Taiyuan, doing whatever he wanted, drinking and killing, and indulging his subordinates to rob the people of their money. ”

Gao Junming breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I've heard a little about this. ”

"But now the emperor has removed Li Yuanji from his official position."

"What!" Gao Junming stood up suddenly, "This is what the emperor meant?" ”

"Lord Gao's guess is not wrong, it was Li Shimin who suggested that the emperor remove Li Yuanji from his official position." Fontari replied. Although he does not follow Li Yuanji, he is Li Jiancheng's most reliable brother, and his accident is equally sad.

"This Li Yuanji is too nonsense."

"The advisors tried to dissuade him, but he didn't listen."

Gao Junming sighed and said, "I just hope that it won't affect his brother's completion." ”

"That's what Master Gao said." Fontari chimed in.

"Lord Feng, you go and tell Li Jiancheng not to come forward to intercede for Li Yuanji, the emperor is still angry. It's up to us to do it. ”

"Master Gao is really thoughtful, I'll go now."

Fontari is the most diligent, rain or shine. Although this person is flattering, once he gets an official position, he is still very responsible. He now wants to follow Gao Junming and the bigger forces behind him wholeheartedly. For Gao Junming's recommendation, he is also grateful from the bottom of his heart.

Li Yuanji secretly came to Li Jiancheng's mansion with a stack of letters, which he had obtained from relatives and friends in order to exonerate himself.

"Eldest brother, younger brother Youlao handed over these letters to my father, and whether I can be reinstated or not depends on these letters. These are ironclad proofs of my misdeeds, and so many people have pleaded their lives for me. ”

"I said that you are too nonsense, how can you do those things, I was first built in the Tang Dynasty, and it is not stable in all aspects, and it is not popular with the people, but you let people catch you."

"Big brother, I'm just messing around a little, not a big mess. If it weren't for the second brother's suggestion to remove me from office, who would dare to do anything that offended me! ”

Li Jiancheng shook his head helplessly: "You're not messing around?" Don't think I don't know how these letters came about. This matter is also not complained about by the people, he is also thinking about Datang. If you do this next time, I really can't help you. ”

"Tell Your Highness, Feng Derui is coming."

"Fontari? Is it Feng Derui that Gao Junming strongly recommended to his father? ”

"Exactly, Your Highness."

Li Jiancheng looked at Li Yuanji and said to him, "You avoid it first." I'll do my best for your business. ”

"Then it's all up to Big Brother."

Seeing Li Yuanji walking away from the back door, he turned his head and said to the person who reported it, "Call him in." ”

"My subordinates have seen His Highness." Feng Derui bowed his hand.

"What's the matter with Lord Feng?" Li Jiancheng asked suspiciously.

"Your Highness, I guess Li Yuanji entrusted His Highness with something."

"Yes, he and I are brothers." Li Jiancheng fiddled with the potted plant in front of him, picked up scissors and wanted to prune a few branches.

"Your Highness, with all due respect. Even if they are brothers, they must first protect themselves when they are in the court. In the matter of Li Yuanji, His Royal Highness really shouldn't come forward by himself. ”

Li Jiancheng decisively cut off the two branches, and a few flowers were more prominent, thought for a moment, squinted his eyes at Feng Derui, and said, "Lord Feng is right. Thank you for the reminder. After a pause, he continued, "Are you Gao Junming's person?" ”

Feng Derui said calmly: "Thank you for your promotion, and swear allegiance to Your Highness." Such an answer was just right, Li Jiancheng didn't say much, just a simple sentence: "You go back and ask Gao Junming to come to see me." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Gao Junming knew what Li Jiancheng was looking for him, and he was thinking about how to reply to him, and he was thinking about how to exonerate Li Yuanji in front of the emperor.

"Lord Gao, please sit down, Feng Derui is what Lord Gao meant, right?"

"Gao should serve His Royal Highness."

Li Jiancheng took the stack of letters to Gao Junming and said, "You take these letters to your father." The father will pardon Li Yuanji's sins. ”

"Why is Your Highness so sure?"

Li Jiancheng analyzed and said: "First of all, the people who wrote these letters were either nobles or high-ranking people, and my father valued their opinions; Secondly, the father pays attention to family affection. How could he suddenly withdraw Li Yuanji and lay the root cause of the father-son relationship. ”

"That's what Your Highness said."

Gao Junming left Li Jiancheng's mansion and walked towards the palace, he was afraid that there would be any mistakes in these letters, and he was afraid that Li Yuanji's secret would be leaked.

Seeing these letters, the emperor really hindered the relationship between father and son, and soon restored Li Yuanji's official position. Li Yuan's move made a stone in Li Yuanji's heart fall to the ground, and Li Jiancheng was also relieved. But Li Shimin was very worried: "Father, Yuan Ji made such a big mistake and restored his position so quickly, I am afraid that it will make the people dissatisfied, and it will seriously affect the reputation of the imperial court." ”

Li Yuan showed all the letters to Li Shimin: "It's not as serious as you said." Yuan Ji is your younger brother, and besides, so many court officials have exonerated him, and I can't punish him too heavily. Motoyoshi's guilt has yet to be further investigated. In fact, Li Yuan knows very well in his heart that he knows his son's virtue better than anyone else.

"Father, please allow your sons to verify."

"No, there's more important things to do right now. That's the end of your brother's business. ”

"Father, the emperor ......" Li Shimin's words were interrupted by the emperor before he finished speaking: "Okay, this matter ends here, if you have nothing else to do, you can step down, I'm tired." ”

Li Shimin saw that he couldn't continue to speak, so he said: "Yes, father, the son and son are retired." But he still haunted it.

Li Yuan stared at Li Shimin with both eyes, and he could see that he was not convinced in his heart.

As soon as Li Shimin returned to the house, he sent a secret agent to Taiyuan to investigate Li Yuanji.

The agent set off overnight. The moonlight was very dark, only faintly shining on the road, and nothing could be seen on either side of the road, only darkness. The agent rode his horse as fast as he could, and all he could hear was the sound of the horse's hooves, which drowned out all the sound. The dark shadows that followed the woods were naturally neither audible nor visible. The black shadow was ambushed in the woods in advance, and there was a good skill, aiming at the hazy figure on the road to "swish" an arrow. The agent fell off his horse, and the horse continued on its way. The agent felt the pain in the wound of the arrow, and suddenly realized that the arrow was poisonous, and he was afraid that he would die soon. At the same time, he remembered that there was a sound when the arrow was fired.

Arrows! It's the emperor's man!

The agent used blood to write the word "Yuan" on the paper he carried, and with the last bit of strength, he released the carrier pigeon.

When Li Shimin saw the bloody word "Yuan", he was angry in his heart, but he couldn't act rashly, so he had to put the matter aside for the time being, and he didn't expect that his father would be so biased towards Li Yuanji this time. Just because of the father-son relationship?

Li Yuan knew Li Shimin's temper and knew that he would not give up, so he was dissatisfied with Li Shimin.