Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Supreme Imperial Power, Only This One
This is Li Daoyuan's temptation.
Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo is the only person who can confront the imperial power.
After Li Daoyuan inherited the unification, he reformed the position of prime minister several times, trying to weaken the influence of Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo on the supreme imperial power, but in the end they all failed.
Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, his own cultivation and strength are unfathomable, although Li Daoyuan is the peak master of the Mahayana realm, but if he really wants to fight with Zhou Wenbo, even if he can kill Zhou Wenbo, he will have to pay a great price, then the Taiwei and Yushi will take the opportunity to control the power of the imperial court and completely empty his power as the emperor.
What's more, the Zhou family behind Zhou Wenbo is the first family of the Tang Dynasty, and it is fighting the world with the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and the power is so strong that he has to be taboo for three points.
Li Daoyuan absolutely believes that the old guys of the Zhou family who have survived for hundreds of years must be hiding in a mysterious place to cultivate, if the Zhou family has a disaster of extermination, those old guys will definitely not stand idly by, if they make a move, then his situation will become very bad.
It is Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo who has threatened him too much, and in the past hundred years, he has been very strict against Zhou Wenbo and the Zhou family, and he has been even more strict against the prince who has a close relationship with the Zhou family.
Therefore, when he saw Zhou Wenbo recommending Li Leng so hard, he instantly became wary and suspicious of Li Leng in his heart.
If Li Leng also walks with Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo and the Zhou family, and adds a king, then Zhou Wenbo and the Zhou family will be more powerful. This gave him a sense of extreme unease and fear that he must strangle their budding power in the cradle while they had not yet established a strong alliance.
He came over today to test what the relationship between Li Leng and Zhou Wenbo was, once the final relationship between Li Leng and Zhou Wenbo was determined, then he would not hesitate to order Li Leng to be killed.
Li Leng was very smart, and Concubine Yu hadn't seen the secret of Li Daoyuan's coming to Ziluo Palace, but he saw that Li Daoyuan's entourage was all ironclad guards, and even Gao Shui, the chief manager of the ironclad guards, came over, and immediately understood the real purpose of Li Daoyuan's coming to Ziluo Palace.
Li Daoyuan listened to every question and every sentence very carefully and carefully, and quickly analyzed the intention behind every question and every sentence, and made correct responses and strategies in a very short time.
Li Leng knew very well that as long as he answered a question or a sentence wrong, he would inevitably be splattered with blood on the spot.
The supreme imperial power is not allowed to be touched by others, this is Li Daoyuan's imperial hegemony, and it is also a manifestation of his ruthlessness.
The relationship with Zhou Wenbo, no matter how he answers, will not dispel Li Daoyuan's suspicion and murderous intentions.
The only correct thing to do is to make Li Daoyuan mistakenly believe that the reason why Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo and King Yu recommended him hard was to harm him and want him to die.
Only in this way will Li Daoyuan not let Tiejiawei and Gao Shui kill him.
Li Daoyuan looked at Li Leng sharply, and said with a faint smile: "I heard that five days ago, Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo invited you to ride in his ironclad giant beast car. There is half an hour from the palace to the palace, what did you say in this half hour?"
"Having said ......," Li Leng deliberately slowed down his tone and said, "The prime minister said that he wanted to recommend me as the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and also said that this is a great merit, as long as I complete the task and come back alive, my father will definitely crown me as the king of the county." ”
"Hehe, the prime minister is really funny, he doesn't recommend King Yu, but recommends you to come, why?" Li Daoyuan asked sharply and sternly.
Li Leng shook his head very cooperatively and said, "Father Qi, I don't know why the prime minister did this. At that time, I also asked the prime minister about it. ”
"Oh, what did he say?"
He said that King Yu can't go, and there are many things in the capital that need to be handled by King Yu. If King Yu leaves, his King Yu's Mansion will be paralyzed. Li Leng sighed slightly, "The prime minister also told me that King Yu praised me a lot, treated me as a brother, and asked me to share the burden for King Yu." ”
"Hehe, the prime minister is really cunning!" Although Li Daoyuan's tone was still sharp, his expression eased a lot.
He also thought that Li Leng couldn't see Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo's treacherous schemes, and sent the Han Dynasty to be in danger and die for life, and Zhou Wenbo would definitely not let King Yu be this messenger. What's more, as soon as King Yu leaves Beijing, it is equivalent to temporarily staying away from the center of power, if something happens in the capital, King Yu is thousands of miles away, and he can't control the overall situation at all.
The reason why Zhou Wenbo instigated Li Leng to serve as the envoy of the Tang Dynasty and strongly recommended Li Leng at the court meeting was because he had two selfish motives: one was to transfer the danger to Li Leng. Regardless of whether Li Leng can come back alive in the end, the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty have become an alliance, and King Yu has the credit of recommending people. The second is to restrict the development of the queen's mother's family, and prevent the people of the prince's line from robbing this great credit.
What a clever trick!
Li Leng was deliberately confused and asked, "Father, why do you say that the prime minister is cunning and cunning?"
"You're still a little younger, and you don't understand the horror of the human heart. Li Daoyuan is a lot more relieved, it seems that Li Leng and Prime Minister Zhou Wenbo will not have anything to do with each other, at most, Zhou Wenbo is using Li Leng as a chess piece. It's ridiculous that Li Leng can't see Zhou Wenbo's sinister intentions.
Li sneered, pretending to be confused.
Li Daoyuan said lightly: "I also asked the prime minister's granddaughter Zhou Wen about this matter, and what she said is generally the same as what you said." It stands to reason that I shouldn't have followed the Prime Minister's advice and sent you as an envoy. But the holy decree has been issued, and the subjects of the world know that you are the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and if you change the candidate at this time, it will arouse the suspicion of the two countries, which is not conducive to the alliance between the two countries against the iron cavalry of the Kaiyuan Rong clan. Leng'er, you just work hard, send the Han to do this for your father. ”
"The son is willing to serve his father and the emperor. Cold sweat broke out on Li Leng's back, fortunately, he had expected that it would cause Li Daoyuan's suspicion and temptation, and before closing the Guogong Mansion, he had already connected with Zhou Wen what he wanted to say to Li Daoyuan.
Otherwise, if there is a slight difference between what he said and Zhou Wen, it will cause Li Daoyuan's suspicion and murderous intent, so he is really in danger today.
However, Li Leng knew in his heart that this alone could not completely dispel Li Daoyuan's suspicions, the emperor who was good at weighing and weighing, Li Daoyuan was suspicious of anyone, so he still had a clever move.
Only this trick can dispel Li Daoyuan's suspicion of him and truly delegate power to him.
"Leng Er, you are the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, there must be a guard by your side, one is to protect your safety, and the other is that he can coordinate and assist you, who do you think is better to be your guard?" Li Daoyuan looked at Li Leng with a smile and asked.
Li Leng thought about it deliberately, and arched his hand and said, "Erchen thinks that Shangguan Yun, the head of the Left Division of the Iron Guard, is the most suitable. ”