Chapter 223: Giving Advice and Preparing for Action
The book continued from the above, and the last book said that seeing that the poisoning and assassination of Li Shimin failed, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji began to carry out a method of dividing and co-opting the people under the command of King Qin.
After failing to recruit Chu Mofeng, Wei Chi Jingde, and Duan Zhixuan, and falsely framing and assassinating Wei Chi Jingde, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji set their sights on the civil officials around Li Shimin.
However, just when the Tang Dynasty was fighting openly and secretly, the Turkic Yu Shushu led tens of thousands of cavalry to be stationed south of the Yellow River and entered the border fortress to surround Wucheng.
Li Yuan then ordered Li Yuanji to lead Li Yi, the general of the Right Military Guard, Zhang Jin, the general of Tianji, and others to rescue Wucheng. Taking advantage of this incident, Li Yuanji asked Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Yanjin, Duan Zhixuan, and Qin Qiong, the right three commanders of the Qin Palace, to go with him to review and select the elite and brave soldiers in the Qin Wang's army to strengthen Li Yuanji's army.
Li Yuanji's invitation, Li Yuan also readily agreed, in his subconscious, Li Shimin's soldiers are the elite of the Tang Dynasty, and they have not tasted defeat against the Turks, and he wanted to transfer the Tiance Army from Chu Mofeng's hands, but Chu Mofeng said that the Tiance Army was stationed in Yiwu and blocked back. At this point, a conspiracy to cut off Li Shimin's wings made him helpless and a little caught off guard.
However, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji subconsciously believed that the reason why Li Shimin was able to frequently turn evil into good fortune was probably due to the credit of the strategists around him, and among the strategists, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were the leaders.
"Shimin and we are originally compatriots of the same mother, how can we be so ruthless, and we are not taught by two scholars!" Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji gathered around Li Yuan at this moment, and said with a look of grievance: "If this continues, who knows what they will instigate the second child to do? If their relationship is normal, why do these two people have no home and stay in the Qin Mansion most of the time?"
Li Yuan was furious when he heard this, so he ordered Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui to return to their own homes in Chang'an City, if they entered the Qin Mansion without the emperor's permission, they would be killed!
Then, under the supervision of the palace guards, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui moved away with their own utensils, leaving Li Shimin, the king of Qin, looking at their backs in the distance.
After the idle people left, Chu Mofeng flashed out directly from behind Li Shimin, and whispered: "That's okay, at least the two of them have no worries, having said that, I always suspect that the person who frequently supports your eldest brother must be known to us, and he is quite familiar with our side, I will investigate this matter, and I can't let this person hide in the dark forever." β
Li Shimin nodded when he heard this, and then closed the door with his hand and said, "This matter is entrusted to you, what should I do next?"
"As soon as noon passes today, you quickly convene the Tiance people to discuss countermeasures, and after I find out the truth, tomorrow you will quickly enter the palace to report to Your Majesty about their affairs with the harem, but remember that this matter must be notified to Concubine Wan, after all, she is taking care of the harem now, if you don't predict it, it is inevitable that Your Majesty will blame her for negligence in the future. Chu Mofeng thought for a moment, and then said coldly: "At this time, it's already time to see the poor dagger, don't have the slightest mercy, otherwise the slightest mistake will definitely be doomed." After speaking, Chu Mofeng turned around and left the Qin Wang's Mansion and went straight to the wine shop in Dongshi.
As soon as he entered the door, Chu Mofeng first found Mo Liluo, and after whispering in his ear, Mo Liluo turned around and left the wine shop, and Chu Mofeng went straight to the single room on the second floor, and after a while, he saw Mi Shanna walking in with Zitong, and when he saw the two of them coming together, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but be stunned, only to see Zitong salute Chu Mofeng a little shyly, and then walked to Chu Mofeng's side and whispered: "Why is His Royal Highness King Xian free today?"
"I'm not going to hide it, I'm here to see someone, are you still used to living here?" Looking at the beautiful woman Shi Shiran in front of him, Chu Mofeng remembered that after letting Liu Feiyan send her here, because he was busy, he almost forgot about it, and when he saw Zitong at this time, he remembered that there was a girl in the wine shop in the East Market who had been waiting for him.
Zitong shook his head slowly when he heard this, "Everything is very good here, Sister Mishana is also very good to the slave family, it's just ......" The words came to an abrupt end, Zitong looked at Chu Mofeng with some resentment, and after hesitating for a long time, he bit his teeth lightly, as if he had mustered great courage, "It's just that the slave family thinks about His Highness every day." β
Listening to Zitong's simple but sincere words, Chu Mofeng hooked his hand at Mishanna, who consciously walked to Chu Mofeng's side, looking at the two beauties with different looks in front of him, Chu Mofeng sighed and said: "I can only temporarily put the matter of children's love behind me at this moment, both of you are girls who know the general situation, I hope you can understand, I keep this love in my heart, and when the great cause is finally completed, I Chu Mofeng will definitely not lose the two." β
Mishana and Zitong couldn't help crying with joy when they saw this, and nodded vigorously, at this time there was a knock on the door, and the two hurriedly wiped a handful of tears when they saw this, and then got up and opened the door, only to see a man with a masked cloth walking in, the two knew that Chu Mofeng had something to discuss, so they hurriedly closed the door and quietly left here.
Seeing that only himself and Chu Mofeng were left in the room, the man hurriedly pulled the face towel, revealing his original face, if the prince Li Jiancheng was here, he would definitely ask in surprise: Wang Hui, why are you here?
This person is the East Palace rate more Cheng Wang Xu, the assistant prince rate more order the post of prohibition, omission, bell and drum matters, is a person outside the core system, Chu Mofeng gave Li Shimin Luo the list at the beginning, there is no Wang Hui's name, this person was in the first year of Wude when the Tang Dynasty was first established, Chu Mofeng personally sent to the East Palace, at that time it was just to monitor Li Jiancheng, Chu Mofeng did not give him any instructions in nine years.
In view of the confessions of those captured before, Chu Mofeng initially suspected that the so-called 'gentleman' was Hou Junji, but later various signs indicated that this 'gentleman' was someone else, and in desperation, Chu Mofeng had no choice but to contact Wang Hui through a secret line to find him, hoping to get some useful clues.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and was about to open his mouth to ask, but saw Wang Hui's face anxiously and said: "Your Highness, my subordinates have something important to report." β
Chu Mofeng nodded and motioned for him to continue, Wang Hui thought for a moment when he saw this, "At the beginning of last month, someone from Tiance Mansion found his subordinates and promised to win them over with a lot of money, but his subordinates did not get your consent at that time, so they did not reply for a long time, and a few days ago they found their subordinates again, threatening the lives of their subordinates' families, and asked their subordinates to go to King Qin's Mansion tomorrow to inform King Qin that the crown prince and King Qi were ready to capture and kill King Qin by practicing in Kunming Pool, so even if His Royal Highness does not summon his subordinates today, his subordinates will definitely come to His Highness to report this matter." β
After listening to Wang Hui's words, Chu Mofeng stretched out his index finger and gently tapped on the table, repeating Fang Cai Wang Hui's words in his mind, and after a while, Chu Mofeng nodded and said: "It's okay, there is no need for tomorrow, you go to the Qin Palace, at the beginning of Shen today, you will see my instructions to act, if I don't nod, don't say anything about it, there are two other things, first, who in the Tiance Mansion is going to win you over; second, there is a person called 'Mr' by Li Jiancheng's side, does he know his true identity?"
Wang Hao nodded, and slowly said a name to Chu Mofeng first, hearing this person's name, Chu Mofeng sighed and said: "It turned out to be him, I really didn't expect it, you are rotten in your stomach, I will find a way to deal with it in the future." As for who that 'gentleman' is?"
"The subordinate remembers that once when he was on duty in the East Palace, his subordinate Shangguan once said a very strange thing, roughly why Pei Lin had been grounded by His Majesty, and he often walked around the East Palace. At that time, his subordinates didn't care, after all, Pei Lin was demoted back then, and he deserved it. Wang Hui thought about it and roughly said his guess.
Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this, and then whispered: "This time, you go back first, you have to be careful in everything, your own safety is the most important thing." β
Hearing this, Wang Hui saluted Chu Mofeng, put on the face towel and turned around and left the wine shop. After Wang Hui left, Chu Mofeng looked at the door and smiled, "Pei Lian, the young master will go to meet you for a while." Then Chu Mofeng also got up and left the wine shop directly.
After dressing up in disguise, Chu Mofeng went to a set of carriages from Chang'an, and came to Pei Lian's mansion in Taipingfang, and just walked to the gate, only to see the porter ask coldly: "Who are you?
I saw Chu Mofeng pretending to be arrogant and said: "Blind your dog's eyes, hurry up and report to your master, just say that someone from the East Palace is urgently summoned, delay the big thing and be careful of your head." β
As soon as the porter heard that it was someone from the prince's side, he hurriedly ran towards the mansion, and Chu Mofeng snickered when he saw this, and then strode into the mansion, looking at the prosperity of Pei's mansion, Chu Mofeng thought to himself that this old boy still has some wealth, and when the great cause is finally completed, the young master will have to squeeze you out.
While thinking about walking, he met Pei Lin who came to hear the news, only to see Pei Lin arch his hand at Chu Mofeng and said, "I don't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince commands?"
"Mr. Yu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suddenly remembered a plan today, I hope Mr. can give me some advice, because the matter is too hasty, and I hope that Mr. will pack up and go with you. A pair of eyes exposed under the face towel looked at Pei Lin coldly, Chu Mofeng was already angry at the moment, as the saying goes, if you don't die when you fight a snake, you will be bitten by a snake, because of the benevolence of a thought, you didn't kill Pei Lian, but as a result, she frequently gave Li Jiancheng a trick in the dark, thinking of this, Chu Mofeng suppressed the urge to kill him, and looked at Pei Lin coldly.
Pei Lin first said 'huh' when he heard this, and then hurriedly nodded and said, "Please wait a while, I'll go and get ready, and we'll leave immediately." After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the house, and after a while, he saw Pei Lin really covered by a hood and walked out in a hurry.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng made a gesture of invitation to Pei Lian, and the two quickly walked out of the door, seeing Pei Lin get into the carriage, Chu Mofeng sat straight on the carriage, picked up the reins and shook it, and the carriage slowly left Taipingfang.
The carriage slowly drove towards Guangdefang, Pei Lin did not make any sound along the way, and when he arrived at the Jingzhaoyin station in Guangdefang, Pei Lin felt that the carriage suddenly stopped, and thought it was there, and was about to lift the curtain to come down, when he suddenly felt a pain in his neck, and then his eyes were black and he fell into the carriage, and Chu Mofeng saw this and drove the carriage
Came to Jing Zhaoyin's back door, and after sending someone to remove the threshold, he drove the carriage into Jing Zhaoyin's backyard. At this time, there were several Tiance soldiers waiting in Jing Zhao Yin, and when they saw the carriage coming, they hurriedly carried Pei Lin off the carriage, and then went straight into Jing Zhao Yin's prison, and as Pei Xiao woke up faintly, he found that he had been tied up, and then looked around, only to find that this was not the East Palace in the imperial city.
Seeing that the man who was in charge of picking him up and dropping him off was standing in front of him, Pei Lin immediately whispered: "Aren't you crazy? Why did you tie me up here? Where is this? Why did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ask me to meet in such a place?"
"This is Jing Zhaoyin's prison, of course His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not ask you to meet here. I saw the man step forward, remove his disguise, and said with a sneer: "Master Pei, oh no, it should be 'sir', I haven't seen you for a long time." β
Looking at Chu Mofeng's slightly playful smile, Pei Lin finally understood that he had fallen into the trap of the other party, and immediately said angrily: "His Royal Highness King Xian is so Yaxing, even the officials of the imperial court dare to arbitrarily hold you hostage, aren't you afraid that Your Majesty will offend you?"
"Cure my crimes? Master Pei, have you been a little dull over the years? If I tell Your Majesty about the dirty things you instructed Li Jiancheng to do, do you think Your Majesty will cure whose crimes?" Seeing that the other party was still trying to use His Majesty to blackmail him, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but feel a little funny, "Do you really not know what your Lord Pei's situation is now?" If I enter the palace at this time and say to Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you let some people reflect in the mansion, but some people secretly enter the palace and instruct the prince to do some dirty things, which will cause the prince and the king of Qin to have a disagreement, and the son-in-law will arrest them in desperation..."
Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng looked at Pei Lin coldly, and said with a smile: "Master Pei, do you think Your Majesty will reward me, or will he kill you?"
Knowing that Chu Mofeng must have a certain truth in the Holy Dependents You Wu over the years, Pei Lin immediately lowered his head like a defeated rooster, and then said sneeringly: "Dare to ask His Royal Highness King Xian what is the intention of arresting this official today?"
"It's nothing, your old boy will stay here obediently for three days, after three days, I will definitely let you out, and ensure that your family is safe at that time, if you don't agree, there will be my two hundred days of army outside the door, and it will only take a stick of incense to slaughter your mansion, and you can weigh the pros and cons yourself." After explaining his intentions, Chu Mofeng said a little jokingly: "Don't try to delay me in vain, give me an answer within ten breaths, otherwise I will be regarded as your acquiescence to the slaughter of the mansion." β
Pei Lin looked at Chu Mofeng, knowing that if he fell into the hands of others, maybe he still had a chance of life, but if he fell into the hands of this person, if he didn't follow his instructions, he would only have a dead end, thinking of this, Pei Lin sighed and said: "I hope you will keep your word and let my family go." β
"Come on, take care of this Master Pei, just let him leave on his own after three days, if he has any changes during this period, he doesn't need to ask for instructions to kill him directly. Chu Mofeng clapped his hands when he saw this, and then walked in a few soldiers of the Tiance Army, and then Chu Mofeng smiled at Pei Lin and said, "Master Pei is resting, this king has taken his leave." β
After returning to the Qin Palace, Chu Mofeng informed Li Shimin of what happened, but only omitted Wang Hui's matter.
As soon as noon passed, Li Shimin quickly convened everyone in the Tiance Mansion in Beijing to discuss the matter, but only Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui did not arrive, Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little annoyed when he saw this, thinking that the two had betrayed him, and immediately ordered Wei Chi Jingde to summon the two again with his own sword.
When Wei Chi Jingde walked out of the door, he happened to meet Chu Mofeng who was returning from Degong, and immediately Wei Chi Jingde informed Chu Mofeng of the matter, and after thinking for a while, Chu Mofeng whispered: "You go and take the eldest grandson Wuji with you, if the two of them come, it is safer to go separately." β
Seeing this, Yu Chi Jingde hurriedly turned back and called out the eldest grandson Wuji, and the two went to see Du and Fang together, and after a detailed discussion, Du Fang and the two followed Yu Chi Jingde and the eldest grandson Wuji to the Qin Palace, seeing that the personnel had gathered, Li Shimin said angrily: "We need to plan again about this matter, and the slightest mistake will definitely be a catastrophe, so please speak freely." β
I saw Fang Xuanling spread out the paper, writing as he spoke, "How do you do it? Where is the battlefield chosen? On what grounds? What day is the time set?"
Fang Xuanling asked for a long time and no one answered, and as soon as he looked up, he saw Li Shimin sitting aside, looking at everyone in a daze, "Cough, cannibalism has been a great sin since ancient times!" Li Shimin sighed and said, his voice was low and slow, "Although I have been suspicious of them for a long time and may encounter danger at any time, I have always been unable to bear to do it considering that we are fellow mothers." Do you think this will workβwe've devised a way to lure them into doing it first, and then we'll convince our father to crusade against the rebellion in the name of the imperial courtβwhat do you think?"
As soon as the words fell, I saw Chu Mofeng, who was holding the wine jar and drinking on the side, suddenly got up and threw the wine jar in his hand to the ground, and the sound of breaking was like a lightning bolt in everyone's ears, and then Chu Mofeng walked straight to Li Shimin and grabbed him by the collar. I told you before, if you are always timid, then I will not play with you, at least I have to be responsible for the 1,400 Tiance troops and their families in my mansion and behind me, don't you Li Shimin want to bear great guilt......"
Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng turned to the group of Tiance Mansion people and said: " In this case, if you don't want to die a tragic death, tomorrow evening I will go to report to Your Majesty about the prince's troubles in the harem, and at that time, according to Your Majesty's trust in me, I will definitely summon the people involved to the palace for questioning the day after tomorrow, and at that time, the existing soldiers of Tiance Mansion are ambushed outside, I will let the Tiance army under my command respond from the side, as for Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, I will find a way to solve them near the Xuanwu Gate, I hope that after the matter is completed, you can support me to succeed to the throne, I don't know what you think?"
Chu Mofeng's words had already arranged the matter, and everyone looked at Li Shimin's eyes again at this time, and couldn't help but have a trace of disdain, just when everyone was thinking, they only heard a report from someone outside the door, saying that it was the East Palace who asked to see Wang Hui, and everyone couldn't help but be a little surprised when they heard this, only to see Chu Mofeng waved his hand and said: "Let him come in, that's my person, see if he has any news." β
Then Wang Hui was brought in, and when he saw Chu Mofeng present, Wang Hui hurriedly saluted, Chu Mofeng nodded when he saw this, hinting that Wang Hui spoke, Wang Hui hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness King Qiyuxian, his subordinates learned that the crown prince and King Qi were going to capture and kill His Royal Highness King Qin in Kunming Pool, and because the matter was urgent, his subordinates had to come in a hurry to report. β
At this time, Li Shimin came back to his senses and said: "Is this true?"
"It's true, it was the lower officials who heard it when the two of them passed by the lower officials. Seeing this, Wang Hui nodded and looked at Li Shimin with a firm expression. And among the people of Tiance Mansion, one person saw Wang Hui say what he requested, and immediately felt secretly happy, and then a little surprised, this person turned out to be the dark line of the virtuous king, which is also a little unbelievable.
staring at Wang Hui for a long time, Li Shimin seemed to have suddenly made up his mind, and said to Chu Mofeng: "Thank you for those words, since they decided to put me to death, then I have to fight back, and the generals of Tiance Mansion will obey the order." β
As soon as everyone saw that Li Shimin was back to normal, they immediately got up and responded, only to see Li Shimin say slowly: "Everything is going according to the plan of His Royal Highness King Xian, but I can only bring nine people into the palace at that time, Jingde, you lead the remaining eight people to find a way to prevent my father and emperor from coming forward, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan and others are responsible for guiding their men and horses to fight against the soldiers of the East Palace and the private soldiers of the Qi Palace, and Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji will be handed over to me and King Xian, this battle must be a complete success, do you understand?"
I saw Chu Mofeng say slowly: "There are still two problems, first, my Tiance army will only give you advice, and will not take the initiative to attack; second, today's matter is only known to everyone present, if the news leaks before the day after tomorrow and leads to defeat, I will find out about this matter and then play Your Majesty, saying that this person bewitched King Qin to start an incident, I don't know if King Qin has anything to do at that time, as for the informant, even if Your Majesty does not kill you, I will also take someone to visit your mansion." β
A threat couldn't help but make everyone gasp, and then everyone dispersed and prepared to leave, but unexpectedly, Chu Mofeng stopped Hou Junji, and said with a sincere face: "Hou Jiangjun, please move to the Tiance Army garrison later, all the Tiance Army under the command of the King of Japan will be under your command, please stay in the garrison for a while before the day after tomorrow." β
Hou Junji, who originally wanted to report the news, was about to find an excuse to shirk it, but Chu Mofeng whispered in his ear: "I know what you did before, don't force me to take someone to your mansion tonight." β
Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Hou Junji was so frightened that he took a few steps back, and then thought for a moment and said, "Then everything is in accordance with His Highness's arrangement, and the last general will go to the station to wait." After speaking, he hurriedly left the Qin Palace.
On the third day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Wude, Venus appeared again during the day at noon directly south of the sky. Fu Yi secretly said: "Venus appears on the division of Qin, which is a sign that the King of Qin should have the world. β
Li Yuan smiled disdainfully when he heard this, and at the end of the unitary period, Li Shimin came to report secretly, saying that Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had caused trouble with the harem concubines, and had committed adultery with Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei.
Immediately Li Yuan handed Fu Yi's secret music to Li Shimin, Li Shimin said with an aggrieved face after reading it: "Father Emperor Mingjian, Erchen has no place to be sorry for his brother and younger brother, but now they are planning to kill me, and they also used poisonous wine to harm Erchen before, if it weren't for Chu Xiaozi desperately taking out Hantan flowers from Hantan, maybe Erchen would have turned into a pile of dry bones at this moment, and he could no longer fulfill his filial piety in front of his father, the two of them were so aggressive, it seemed that they wanted to avenge Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande." Now that the son is about to die unjustly, leaving his father forever, and his soul is back underground, if he sees Wang Shichong and others, he will be really ashamed!" Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin in surprise, and replied: "Tomorrow I will personally interrogate this matter, and you had better come to the court as soon as possible." β
Seeing this, Li Shimin nodded, and then said goodbye to Li Yuan and went straight back to the Qin Palace, who knew that after Li Shimin left, Li Yuan sent an envoy to summon Pei Lian, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Feng Deyi, Yu Wenshi, Dou Dan, Yan Shigu and other ministers to enter the palace early tomorrow morning to jointly interrogate and verify the truth of what Li Shimin reported.
As everyone knows, in the second half of the night, a lieutenant envoy who went to summon secretly came to Zhang Jieyu's residence and told Zhang Jieyu all the things......
As the saying goes, the arrow has to be sent on the string, and look at the earth-shattering changes in Xuanwumen, and then look at the Taiji Hall to change the prince, want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......