Chapter 123

Li Shimin was still under the name of King Wei at this time, and of course he couldn't take Xiao Mingze to Dezhou in a flash, so he discussed making up a fake identity for her while Li Qiao was still there.

I heard that a man named Li Changsheng had become a high-ranking official in the east, and that he was somewhat similar in age and appearance to his cousin, and that he really couldn't survive in his hometown, so he had no choice but to pack his bags and go to defect.

Originally, a weak woman would not have been able to go so far, but she happened to meet Li Qiao in the middle of the road, and after the latter asked the reason, he took the person here and here.

Li Changsheng was born in Longyoudao, and the Son of Heaven fled west, and Li Changsheng's cousin fled from the west to join his cousin, which is very reasonable!

The best thing was that given the current relationship between the King of Wei and the Son of Heaven, he could not send anyone to verify or investigate the matter.

After hearing this, Li Qiao couldn't help but ask: "Isn't my brother afraid that King Wei will be suspicious because of this?" ”

"I'm afraid it's the opposite, and that's why the King of Wei wants to woo him even more."

Li Shimin smiled and said nothing, and Xiao Mingze was also silent: "You are an envoy sent by the Son of Heaven, he is a general under the command of the King of Wei, and if you bring his cousin here this time, the King of Wei is afraid that he will only think that this is you, or that the court intends to win over Li Changsheng and drive a wedge between their monarchs and ministers, in order to appease the people's hearts, and to show the Son of Heaven that this divisive plan is useless, of course we must treat him a little more favorably!" ”

It is true that Li Qiao is smart, but his cleverness cannot replace experience, especially the political skills of those who have repeatedly pulled on him and those who have fought wits and courage.

This is due to his origin, and he can only explore by himself in the court, and cannot be comprehended innately.

In this respect, the opposite two are much better than him.

And at this moment, looking at Xiao Mingze, who was sitting next to his brother-in-law, and then looking at his brother-in-law who was also smiling, Li Qiao was not envious in his heart.

Who doesn't want to be surrounded by someone who is in the same boat and knows the cold and the hot.

But his wife ......

When Li Qiao thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.

He knew that Wu Cuicui had worked hard enough, and he knew that she was trying her best to grow, but in the jungle of power, Wu Cuicui's little grass was too small and too fragile, so that even if she burst out with all her strength to try to grow, it would be difficult to compare with him.

Not to mention surviving in that brutal jungle where the jungle is prey.

Li Qiao could only sigh at this.

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Xiao Mingze changed his makeup, and was taken by Li Shimin to join the dozens of brothers who were waiting for him outside Gyeongju, and after a few brief introductions, everyone set off to chase the team that had previously gone to Texas.

On the other side, Li Qiao also returned to the mission, changed his official uniform, and urged his horse to go to Gyeongju City.

He traveled alone this time to find out the truth of Wei Wangjun, but it didn't take much effort at all, so he easily blended in with it, and by the way, he helped his righteous brother fight a blockade.

Li Qiao was contemptuous of Dasheng in his heart, but his face was not revealed, and when he urged the horse to the outside of Gyeongju City, a spy came to report: "The prince of Wei is five miles ahead to welcome the angel!" ”

After hearing this, the rest of the entourage couldn't help but show a little strangeness between their eyebrows, secretly exchanged a look, and squinted to look at Li Qiao's expression at this moment.

Who doesn't know that General Li's wife is the former princess of the King of Wei!

Compared with the gossip and waiting to see a good show, the two protagonists looked calm, as if there was no Wu Cuicui between them, and exchanged a few words of pleasantries, Li Qiao in front and Li Tianrong in the back, so they went into the city to meet the King of Wei.

When the shocking changes from the west reached his ears, the King of Wei knew that he was bound to lose this game, and even if the Son of Heaven fled west, even if it was his son and nephew, it would be the Son of Heaven!

After weighing left and right, he still decided to keep Princess Wei.

To keep this woman is to keep his dignity and to keep the son, if the latter two are gone, what is his point in taking the world again?

But if it is a blatant disobedience to the holy will, I am afraid that it will not be good.

Therefore, he communicated with Princess Wei in private: "It's just a pretense to send you away......

Where is Princess Wei willing to believe him?

Back then, he was able to kill his original wife, but today he can't kill her?

There is also a concubine - think about how much the concubine was favored when she was in the palace, and the courtesy in the palace was like the queen, but now she is dead outside the palace, I don't know where the body is buried, the concubine is still like this, let alone her?

Princess Wei's eyes were red and swollen like rotten peaches, and she screamed: "Call Tianrong to come, I want you to talk to me in front of Tianrong!" ”

King Wei was really helpless.

Some things are just talked between husband and wife, and they have to turn it in front of the junior, but instead call him embarrassed to be a father.

It's just that he didn't intend to fool Princess Wei, and his son had asked about it in private, so he complied, and sent someone to pass on the prince and told him about his arrangements in front of him.

Princess Wei was willing to feel a little relieved.

If King Wei had made a plan in his heart, Li Qiao had already expected it in his heart, and the two sides did not break out into violent contradictions.

The King of Wei asked Li Qiao to ask the Emperor Taishang on his behalf, and Li Qiao smiled in response, and pretended to casually mention the fact that he met Li Changsheng's cousin who went to join him on the road: "Speaking of which, Brother Li is still my own family, such a talented person, even the Son of Heaven has praised him several times......

When the King of Wei heard him mention his favorite general, he was very vigilant in his heart, and he was afraid that this member would be poached by someone, so he snorted and asked: "Where is the sister of immortality?" I immediately had her sent to Texas so that she could be reunited as brother and sister! ”

Li Qiao smiled and drank a glass of wine: "Don't bother the prince, I have already sent Miss Li to Texas." ”

King Wei's brows furrowed almost invisibly, and he quickly calmed down again and talked about other things.

Li Qiao had the king's order with him, and he had no time to stay for a long time, and after eating wine and food in the city, he waited to leave.

Princess Wei was dressed in plain clothes, her hair was unbeaded, her expression was haggard, and her face was bloodless, like a middle-aged woman who was grief-stricken after the loss of her loved ones.

Although she knew that she would die, in front of everyone, she was still dignified, did not show timidity, said goodbye to the father and son of King Wei with tears, and stepped into the car.

In the end, it was the wife of the King of Wei, how could Li Qiao lock him up in front of him?

If the car was moving forward, but the people of Gyeongju were chasing along the way, Princess Wei opened the curtain of the carriage and horse, and wept for it.

The deputy envoy who accompanied him asked Li Qiao: "Do you want to drive them away?" ”

Li Qiao glanced at him and shook his head slightly, but did not speak.

In this way, the deputy envoy was a little confused.

Li Qiao and the others reined in their horses and turned around to look, but it was Li Tianrong, the son of the prince of Wei, who led a group of cadres to rush to the chariot in front of Princess Wei's carriage and took Princess Wei out.

The envoys of the Son of Heaven changed color one after another, and the entourage of the soldiers was even more on alert, and the two deputy envoys turned their heads to see Li Qiao and listened to his orders at any time.

As soon as Li Qiao raised his hand, he signaled his subordinates to be calm and not to be impatient, and he urged his horse to approach and asked Li Tianrong: "What does the prince mean by this?" ”

Li Tianrong said with tears in his eyes: "The eldest husband was born between heaven and earth, if he doesn't know filial piety, how can he know loyalty?" As a son of man, how can he see his mother going to die and not be indifferent? ”

After speaking, he took off the saber at his waist, threw it on the ground, and ordered his companions not to resist, and then said to Li Qiao: "Mother is a member of the Chang clan, and she is guilty today and will be executed, please let me die for her, if there is no her in this world, where will I be?" ”

Princess Wei wept for this, and the attendants who followed Li Tianrong also shed tears.

Li Qiao was deeply touched: "The sage said, 'The father is hidden for the son, and the son is hidden for the father, and he is in it', is this just the relationship between father and son? Today, the relationship between the prince and the princess is also like this. How can I be harsh on this situation! ”

At this time, the king of Wei finally "learned" the news that his son had gone to rob the prisoner, and arrived angrily with a group of guards.

Li Tianrong hugged his mother and wept bitterly, but he did not resist, and the soldiers and civilians of Gyeongju who saw him off also shed tears, but Li Qiao went to persuade King Wei: "You are a human world, so you should not blame His Royal Highness the Prince for this......

King Wei looked at the overly young envoy of the Son of Heaven in front of him with tears in his eyes, and soon realized that the other party was also acting, at least at this moment, he had no intention of tearing his face with himself.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, followed the established script several times, and finally brought Princess Wei back to Gyeongju after his son had several requests with the military and civilians.

Li Qiao watched the team of the Wei Wang family disappear from view, and the expression on his face finally gathered, and then turned the horse's head and ordered lightly: "Let's go, continue to move forward!" ”

The deputy envoy was his confidant, and when he saw this, he had some guesses: "Did the general have long expected this?" ”

Then he said: "That's right, although you are literate, but you have not read much, when I said the sentence 'the father is hidden for the son, the son is hidden for the father, and it is in it', I was still startled. ”

Li Qiao's eyes showed a very shallow smile: "You guessed wrong, but it is not Mr., but my brother taught ......."

The deputy envoy let out a surprised "ah": "Your brother? ”

Li Qiao responded: "Yes, when you should really be asked to meet him, then he is really an amazing character." ”

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When he returned to the Son of Heaven, Li Qiao first went to plead guilty, and then put pressure on the new emperor from a moral level: "King Wei, the pillar of the clan, is also His Majesty's uncle, and the son is also the cousin of His Majesty's relatives......

The new emperor's face turned pale, and he obviously heard the unfinished meaning of Li Qiao's words, and in anger, he even picked out the meaning of this layer that can only be understood and cannot be spoken: "Do you think that if I don't pardon Princess Wei, I will be a person who cares about kindness and righteousness?!" ”

Li Qiao lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down: "The minister doesn't dare." ”

"Don't dare?" The new emperor sneered: "Is there anything else you Li Qiao dare not do?!" ”

The rebuke in these words is very heavy.

Seeing this, the close ministers on one side hurriedly spoke out to play a round game, and the Son of Heaven also consciously lost his words, but he couldn't pull his face for a while, so he waved his hand and said impatiently: "You are not effective in doing things this time, you will be fined for one year, suspended from your duties, and you will go back to your home and think about it for a month. ”

This is the board raised high and gently lowered.

Li Qiao is not short of money, as for the position......

In this world, as long as you have the ability, why worry about being idle for a long time?

The Son of Heaven is nothing but impotent rage.

When Li Qiao returned to his mansion, someone on his back foot had put seals on the doors everywhere, leaving only one door for transporting vegetables from the kitchen.

The people in the palace looked embarrassed: "General Li, this is all Your Majesty's thoughts, and the villains really dare not disobey ......."

Li Qiao disagreed: "It's okay, you also obey orders." ”

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After Li Qiao left, the new emperor, who was originally gloomy, turned indifferent, and ordered the left and right servants to change their clothes and go to the main room to greet the emperor.

Before entering the door, I heard the soft words of Wu Nong, a young singer, at that time, the spring breeze was swaying, and the willows were soft, but it really had a bit of the rich charm of the imperial capital back then.

The new emperor was in a trance for a few moments, and then he entered, with a respectful face, waiting for the emperor to finish listening to a tune, and then sent his attendants out, before he whispered: "I have done what my father ordered ......."

The Emperor Taishang was half-lying on the rocking chair, staring at the chessboard in front of him, and let out a low "hmm".

The new emperor endured and endured, but in the end he still asked: "You did this-"

The Emperor Taishang turned his face away and looked at him lightly: "What is the deepest connection between Li Qiao and the Wu family?" ”

Xin Di thought for a moment and said, "It's his wife Cui Niang." ”

"It's a big mistake," the Emperor said categorically, "It's Mrs. Wu!" ”

Xindi's expression was shocked.

But I heard the Emperor Taishang continue: "The connection between Li Qiao and the Wu family seems to be close, but in fact it is loose. The next generation of the Wu family, except for Xiao Jiu's horse, there is no more finished instrument, Cui Niang seems to have grown, but compared with her mother, there is still a gap of 108,000 miles! ”

"The Wu family fully supports Li Qiao, and they want people to contribute, they want to contribute, and they want money to contribute - no matter how good Li Qiao is, he is also an outsider, and he is not surnamed Wu, so will the rest of the Wu family have no objections? It's just that they were all suppressed by Mrs. Wu and didn't dare to speak up! ”

The Emperor Taishang sneered coldly, and stretched out his hand to wipe out the chess game in front of him: "Li Qiao is looking down on the army, and the Wu family has deep roots in the middle of the court, and the union between the two sides seems to be unbreakable, but in fact it is full of loopholes, and only the most important foundation of Mrs. Wu needs to be removed, and this edifice will collapse in an instant!" ”

The new emperor said with a clear face: "No wonder you asked the imperial doctor to conceal Mrs. Wu's illness so that she could not be cured, and then sent Li Qiao to Gyeongju under the pretext of ......."

Emperor Taishang laughed slowly: "It is easy for a young man to think that he is the smartest in the world, and he thinks that you are trying to use the King of Wei to suppress his prestige, but he only knows one thing and does not know the other. If you don't send him away, how can you stop those private doctors from seeing Mrs. Wu? ”