The book continues from the above, the last book said that Chu Mofeng, the county seat of Weinan, sought assistance, and the king of the bamboo forest in the north of the city was killed on the spot.

From the north gate of Weinan County, Chu Mofeng drove straight towards Chang'an, and arrived at Chang'an City in less than a day.

All the way to the Suzaku Gate, Jin Wuwei, who was in charge of guarding, saw that there seemed to be blood falling down the corner of Chu Mofeng's horse in the quilt, and immediately stepped forward vigilantly, but the other party was the current virtuous king and the chief official of Jin Wuwei, and everyone could only respectfully salute Chu Mofeng and said: "Your Highness, I don't know what you put in your jacket? ”

Seeing that Jin Wuwei in front of him was not favoritism because of his superiors, Chu Mofeng was very relieved in his heart, and immediately patted the shoulder of the Jin Wuwei who had just asked, "Yes, he doesn't bend the law for personal gain, he is a good seedling, but this king's coat is filled with the head of the rebel thief king Junkuo, and it is better not to take it out if it is bloody." ”

Hearing that the jacket was filled with a head, the group couldn't help but take a step back, and then bowed respectfully to Chu Mofeng, who turned over and drove towards the palace when he saw this.

After Chu Mofeng left, the Jin Wuwei who had been patted on the shoulder came back to his senses, "Didn't His Royal Highness King Xian pat me on the shoulder and praise me?"

Seeing this, everyone showed an expression of 'Are you stupid', only to see that Jin Wuwei said excitedly: "It's really good that His Royal Highness King Xian praised me now." ”

Chu Mofeng was carrying the packed head at the moment, walked up the steps quickly, and after the small yellow door guarded at the door was transmitted, he raised his feet and walked into the Taiji Hall, just in time for the noon dynasty, as soon as he saw Chu Mofeng coming in, Li Shimin immediately stood up and looked at the other party and said, "How is it?"

"Your Majesty, my brother is fortunate not to be dishonored, the thief Wang Junkuo has already given the head, this is the head of the thief, and I hope Your Majesty will check it. When Chu Mofeng heard this, he immediately stepped forward quickly, knelt on the ground and opened the burden in his hand. I saw a bloodless head, slowly opened with the burden, and appeared in front of Li Shimin and the courtiers.

Looking at the head of Wang Junkuo in front of him, there was a faint trace of fear in the hearts of all the courtiers present, in the memory of everyone, but when His Royal Highness King Xian dealt with these things for His Majesty or the Emperor Taishang, he always captured the other party alive or killed him on the spot, and it was the first time that the head was brought back like this, and everyone speculated in their hearts that it was not because His Royal Highness Xianwang was stimulated by something.

And Li Shimin, who was standing in front of the dragon chair, saw Wang Junkuo's head, and first had a trace of resentment in his heart, and then he muttered for a moment and said to Chu Mofeng: "Get up, go to Valhalla with me tomorrow to pay respects." ”

Chu Mofeng nodded after getting up, as if he remembered something, and saluted Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty, the younger brother has a proposal and I hope that Your Majesty will take a closer look, the younger brother wants to change the name of the Valhalla to the Heroic Soul Tomb, the Tang Dynasty has been established for more than ten years, and those soldiers who sacrificed for this country are precisely because they have the Tang Dynasty in their hearts, they will rush to kill without hesitation, in their hearts, the Tang Dynasty is home, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is their wish, and this Heroic Soul Tomb is the hometown of the hero's soul." ”

"Accurate, Wang De's intentions. As soon as Chu Mofeng's voice fell, he only heard Li Shimin say aloud: "Spread my will, the Valhalla will be renamed the Heroic Soul Tomb from tomorrow, and the household department will allocate millions of dollars for repair and maintenance. ”

When Sun Wuji, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Chen Shuda, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, heard this, they immediately flashed out and gave a salute to Li Shimin and said, "The ministers obey the order." Then Li Shimin slowly straightened up and said to Chu Mofeng: "King Xian will stay after the noon dynasty and retreat." ”

When everyone heard this, they sang loudly: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live." Then Li Shimin turned around and walked towards the apse, Chu Mofeng saw this and hurriedly ordered someone to dispose of Wang Junkuo's head, and he followed Wang De towards the apse.

Following Wang De all the way forward, through the Zhu Ming Gate and the Liangyi Gate behind the Taiji Palace, Wang De took Chu Mofeng to the garden located at the back of the Liangyi Palace, only to see Li Shimin standing in the flowers with his hands in his hands, and heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and immediately said loudly: "Tell the people around to stand down, I have something to say to King Xian, if there is an eavesdropper, the rod will be killed!" The latter saluted and turned to leave.

Walking to Li Shimin's side, Chu Mofeng deliberately lagged behind the other party by half a position, and then said with a long sigh of relief: "Your Majesty seems to have a lot of emotion today." ”

"Do you know? When I saw the thief's head, I didn't think of how many evil things he had done, but of the boy Luo Shixin. Li Shimin heard Chu Mofeng speak, he didn't turn around but sighed and said: "There is also Miss Qinqing, all of them died because of this person, we have been fighting in all directions since the first year of Wude, how many lives and deaths have we gone through, I sometimes wonder, we have sacrificed too many people for the dream in our hearts, is it worth it?"

"Brother Brother thanked Your Majesty and still remembers Little Brother Luo and Qin Qin, I don't hide it, Brother Brother sometimes thinks, if one day Brother Brother also goes, will Your Majesty be able to continue this road. Listening to Li Shimin's words, Chu Mofeng's eyes appeared again with the young figure holding a spear rushing forward, and he suddenly heard a long-lost shout in his ears, "Brother Chu, I miss you." ”

"What are you going to? Your fate is predetermined, even if I will one day control the dragon, you will have to give me a good life, and take care of this territory for me. Li Shimin turned his head in surprise when he heard this, looked at Chu Mofeng and said, "My son and your son, we must continue to walk down this road, only in this way can the Tang Dynasty be stable." ”

Chu Mofeng smiled when he heard this, and then Li Shimin suddenly lowered his voice and said: "This matter has been done well, but there are two problems that you need to solve at the moment, first, someone has recently played to me, our left servant shot Xiao Yu, and fornicated with the former Sui Empress, you should pay attention to this matter; ”

Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this, and didn't ask any more questions, and then stretched out his waist and said, "When does Your Majesty plan to use troops against the Turks? ”

"Wait a minute, last winter the Turks came back with news, saying that the Turkic territory was hit by a heavy snowstorm, and the local people could not continue, this year the Turks were in a snowstorm, at that time, Wuji and Xiao Yu were still arguing in the court about whether to attack, so I didn't know what to do. Speaking of the Turks, Li Shimin's face showed a hideous expression, "My idea is to reduce their population first, and when the hungry can't lift their swords and guns, I will launch a large-scale northern expedition to destroy them in one battle." ”

"Cheng, then the younger brother will personally lead the Longcheng army to fight. As soon as he heard Li Shimin's thoughts, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but slander in his heart, this kid is really getting more and more yin, he has to wait until he starves to death before attacking, then he will not be slaughtered by others at that time.

"In addition, you took the time to go to Da'an Palace to see the Emperor Taishang and his old man, and complained to me several times, saying that you didn't even go to see him. Then Li Shimin said a little jokingly: "It's better today, you can go to Da'an Palace to say hello later, I still have some folds that need to be reviewed, so I won't accompany you." ”

"Cheng, my brother is going to see the emperor. Chu Mofeng nodded, said goodbye to Li Shimin and walked in the direction of Da'an Palace, passing through the guards at the door, Chu Mofeng saw Li Yuan, the former ruler of the Tang Dynasty, again, when he saw Chu Mofeng coming, Li Yuan first smiled, and then beckoned to Chu Mofeng, who hurriedly ran forward when he saw this, and saluted Li Yuan and said: "The minister Chu Mofeng has seen the emperor." ”

"Why do you kid have time to come to see me today, an old man?" Holding Chu Mofeng's hand and walking to the side and sitting down, Li Yuan carefully looked at the young man in front of him, thinking that he had brought him out of Jinyang at the beginning, and since then he has followed him all the way to fight and kill, all said to be an emperor, able to understand the people around him, but he has never been able to see through him, and when he planned that earth-shattering change with his second son, he didn't know anything.

Could it be that he was already old at that time? However, he was in the prime of life at that time, and he could only sleep for an hour or two every day and did not feel tired. Since his abdication, every day in Da'an Palace, he always looks back on the past, and gradually realizes that the kid in front of him really underestimated him. Maybe it's because he is too high-profile, and the high-profile people will only pay attention to the side he shows, and as for the other side, maybe it's what he wants to hide.

I think that after seeing the strength of the Tiance Army, I once had a conversation with the veteran Qu Tutong:

"Old General Qu, if you are allowed to fight against the Tiance Army of Cai Chu Boy, how many men will you need to win?"

"Your Majesty, according to the existing establishment of 1,000 people in the Tiance Army, the old minister needs at least four times the number of troops, and he may be able to win a miserable victory, if it is according to the establishment of 200 people back then, the old minister will also need nearly a thousand people. ”

In the "Xuanwumen Incident", the Tiance Army was indeed the main force, which played a considerable deterrent role in the men and horses under Jiancheng and Yuanji, and then he heard rumors that a series of plans and action plans for the whole incident were formulated by this kid, Gao Xi, you are worthy of being a scheming man, even your son is so good.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan smiled and said to Chu Mofeng: "You kid is busy now, how about it, it's really difficult to govern the country, right?"

"Back to the Emperor, it is true that as you said, the second brother is busy every day, and I need to deal with some things for him outside, and there are only a handful of days at home all year round, so I just came back from Weinan today. Chu Mofeng arched his hand when he heard this, and said softly: "This is indeed a bit cumbersome, but the Emperor Taishang can know that now that the government is clear, the people no longer have to make ends meet like the former Sui." Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this, and told Li Yuan what he thought.

Li Yuan smiled helplessly when he heard this, and then sighed and said: "These are the results of the efforts of the two of you brothers, now that I have abdicated, I will not pay attention to the affairs of the court and politics, but you kid remember to come here often to talk to me." Then Li Yuan slowly waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, I know that you are usually busy, so it's good to pay more attention to your body, I am a little tired, you can retreat first." ”

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng saluted Li Yuan, then turned around and left Da'an Palace, after walking out of the imperial city, remembering Li Shimin's instructions, Chu Mofeng came to Xiao Yu's mansion first, and soon after the porter reported, Xiao Yu led his wife out of the mansion and respectfully saluted Chu Mofeng, "I don't know that His Royal Highness is coming to the cold house today, and the officials have missed the welcome, and I hope His Royal Highness will forgive his sins." ”

After handing over the horses to the servants of the Xiao Mansion, Chu Mofeng smiled and waved his hand and said, "Xiao Servant Shooting doesn't need to be so polite, this king is also a temporary idea today, and he visited rashly without prior notice, and I hope that Xiao Servant Shooting will not blame." ”

Immediately, Xiao Yu led Chu Mofeng to the main hall of the mansion, and after the servant served the fragrant tea, Chu Mofeng said softly: "This king came today, because there are some things that need to be discussed with Xiao Fuji, and I hope to retreat." ”

I have been thinking about the purpose of the other party's visit this time, and when I saw that the other party asked to retreat, Xiao Yu couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, could it be that something big happened in the court? Thinking of this, Xiao Yu nodded, and then got up and shouted outside the door: "Everyone stand down for the time being, the lord and His Royal Highness have important matters to discuss, if there is an eavesdropper, it will be sent to the official immediately for investigation." ”

After all the servants in the mansion left the main hall, Xiao Yu closed the door of the room, saluted Chu Mofeng and said, "If Your Highness has any orders, please speak." ”

"I don't know what the relationship between Xiao Servant and the former Empress Xiao of Sui is?" Looking at Xiao Yu with a calm face, Chu Mofeng came up and went straight to the point.

Hearing Chu Mofeng ask about this, Xiao Yu smiled helplessly, and then said slowly to Chu Mofeng: "So that Your Highness knows that Xiaguan is the seventh son of Emperor Xiao Yue of Liang Ming, and Empress Xiao is the sister of Xiaguan's family. ”

After listening to Xiao Yu's statement, Chu Mofeng learned that this person was the same as himself, and he was also an old man from the former Sui, so he immediately nodded and said: "The king can understand Xiao Fu's feelings, and His Majesty can also understand it, but in such a sensitive period, is Xiao Fu's behavior a little abrupt?"

Xiao Yu, who is not good at handling interpersonal relationships, knows that someone must have reported himself in front of His Majesty after learning about it, but fortunately, His Majesty is a benevolent and righteous king, and sent King Xian to interrogate first, and then Xiao Yu saluted Chu Mofeng and said: "What His Royal Highness said is extremely true, this matter is a little abrupt for the lower officials, if Your Majesty punishes the lower officials for this matter, the lower officials are willing to be punished, as long as they can know that their sister is safe and sound." ”

Originally, I thought that Chu Mofeng was about to leave when he asked what happened, but the other party whispered in his ear: "Xiao Servant, your sister used to be the princess of Jin, and the king's sister used to be the crown princess, so this king protects you in this matter, and this king will find out who reported it for you, but in the court, sometimes you need to be lively, it is good to be fair and strict, but the relationship with your colleagues must be handled well, otherwise once you are wronged, how can someone come forward to speak for you?" Then Chu Mofeng patted Xiao Yu's shoulder, leaving Xiao Yu with a surprised face standing in place, and he left Xiao Mansion.

After Chu Mofeng left the Xiao Mansion, Xiao Yu came back to his senses, remembered Chu Mofeng's words, and immediately shouted, "It turns out that you are his son, sure enough, ......"

After leaving the Xiao Mansion, Chu Mofeng went straight back to the mansion in Yining Fang, and came to the Wukuan Courtyard, Chu Mofeng walked to Hua Ling'er's door and knocked lightly, only to hear a crisp voice from the house, "Who? ”

Slowly pushed open the door, only to see Hua Ling'er sitting in front of the dresser, as if she was putting on makeup, as soon as she saw Chu Mofeng coming, she hurriedly got up to say hello, Chu Mofeng saw this and stepped forward quickly, hugged Hua Ling'er and said, "What bad things are you doing when your husband is not at home?"

"Your Highness, what are you talking about, where did the concubine do anything bad?" glanced at Chu Mofeng coquettishly, Hua Ling'er immediately broke free from the other party's embrace, sat aside and looked at Chu Mofeng with her cheeks and said: "If you want to say that it is your Highness who can make you bad, other people's children have given birth to you, how can there be any bad things to do?"

Although it was an old husband and wife, but at first glance when he heard Hua Ling'er's words, Chu Mofeng thought it was Gu Zhen'er's upper body, and immediately the old man blushed and couldn't help coughing, picked up the kettle on the table and poured it violently, and finally stopped coughing, and then Chu Mofeng said with a solemn face: "I need information about Li Xiaochang, the governor of Lizhou and the king of Yi'an County, who he has seen during this time in the capital, what things he has done, and what he said, these Chang'an wanderers should have records, right?"

Hearing that Chu Mofeng needed information, Hua Ling'er also had a straight face, took Chu Mofeng's hand, walked straight to the dresser, opened one of the drawers, and twisted the small iron ring inside, only to hear a 'click', one side of the dresser suddenly flipped over, revealing a turnstile door for only one person to pass through.

Seeing this, the two entered the turnstile in turn, and then the turnstile slowly closed, restored to the appearance of the wall, and went down the steps all the way, the two came to a huge secret room, only to see that there were neat bookshelves lined up inside, and each bookshelf was stacked with cloth bags with logos, only to see Hua Ling'er walk to the bookshelf marked Lizhou, after rummaging through, picked a few cloth bags, and then came to the front row of the bookshelf marked Chang'an, picked a few cloth bags from the top and took them out, and then stuffed them into Chu Mofeng's hands," This is information about Li Xiaochang, remember to return it to the concubine after reading it, these are all to be kept on file. ”

Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this, and returned to the inner room with Hua Ling'er leaving the secret room, sitting on the chair and picking up a cloth bag and opening it to take a look, there was a pile of letter paper inside, which densely recorded Li Xiaochang's affairs in Lizhou, and then Chu Mofeng flipped through a few cloth bags and found some clues from them.

Since Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, under Chu Mofeng's suggestion, a series of new policy reforms were implemented to reduce the burden on the people, one of which was to reduce the number of kings.

The so-called reduction of the feudal king is the demotion of the county king who was indiscriminately sealed during Li Yuan's reign, so as to reduce the national financial expenditure and reduce the burden on the people, and Li Xiaochang, the king of Nghe An County, is one of the county kings who were demoted. Chu Mofeng was also involved in this matter, at that time, in order to facilitate Li Shimin's implementation of this policy, Chu Mofeng took the initiative to ask for a cut, and then Li Shimin also agreed, cutting Chu Mofeng's salary by half, but unlike those county kings, Chu Mofeng's treatment is second only to Li Shimin, even if it is cut by half, it is the same as before those county kings did not cut, and many of the expenses of the Xian Wangfu were borne by themselves, so all the county kings saw that Chu Mofeng took the initiative to cut, and had no choice but to accept this fact.

Because Li Xiao often spends extravagantly, if it is not for the use of the county king, he may have been unable to make ends meet, once this time it was cut, he was suddenly a little stretched, and his son Yizong was killed for robbery, and his heart gradually resented, so he took advantage of the time to enter Beijing on a business trip, and contacted Liu Deyu, the general of the right military guard who was dissatisfied with Li Shimin in Beijing, and his nephew Yuan Hongshan and Sun Anye, the general of the prison gate, intended to commit rebellion.

After the death of his father Changsun Sheng, the eldest grandson Wuji brothers and sisters were driven back to his uncle Gao Shilian's house, so far the family was like a stranger, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, because of the brand of the eldest grandson's family, he was awarded the post of right supervisor by Li Yuan, and after Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, the eldest grandson queen thought of family affection and put aside grievances, and implored Li Shimin to move him to the general of the right prison gate, but this person was not grateful, but thought that it was the eldest grandson Luo in order to show outsiders, so he drank and had fun all day long, this person was in the hands of Chu Mofeng in the blacklist of the emperor's relatives and relatives, ranking quite high, for this reason, Chu Mofeng stared at him for a long time.

Looking at the name of Changsun Anye on the letterhead at this moment, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but smile, but after thinking about it, most of the forbidden army was in the hands of Li Shimin, these people couldn't do it with just a few soldiers, there would definitely be a certain state capital involved in this matter, thinking of this, Chu Mofeng looked up at Hua Ling'er and said, "Girl, did you leave something behind and didn't give it to me?"

"I know I can't hide it from you. Hearing Chu Mofeng's question, Hua Ling'er smiled, took out a cloth bag from her arms and handed it to Chu Mofeng, took the cloth bag and sniffed it in front of her, Chu Mofeng smiled slyly and said, "Well, it's still the same fragrance, it hasn't changed at all." ”

Hua Ling'er's cheeks turned red when she saw this, and then she lowered her head and said glutinously: "Your Highness, if you want to smell it, when you are not busy, you can smell it in the concubine." ”

Chu Mofeng looked at Hua Ling'er when he heard this, with an expression that you understand me very well, and then opened the cloth bag, took out the letter paper and browsed it carefully, and after a while, Chu Mofeng slammed the table heavily, and said angrily: "I knew that this group of bastards never stopped, and sure enough, it was really the governor of Huazhou who did this." ”

"Is there anything special about this person, why would His Highness say this?" Hearing that Chu Mofeng mentioned a person's name, Hua Ling'er couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Especially, his biggest special thing is that he wears a pair of pants with Li Xiaochang. Thinking of Du Caigan's unbeaten face, Chu Mofeng couldn't wait to fly over now to arrest him back and interrogate him, and after stringing together all the people, Chu Mofeng secretly planned in his heart how to deal with this matter, and after a while, Chu Mofeng stood up, left Hua Ling'er's room, and rushed out of the mansion towards the direction of the palace......

There is a way to know oneself and know that the other side will win all battles, and look at Chu Mofeng's proposal to fight the grass and scare the snake, and then see Li Shimin's cooperation to capture the old man, and want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......