The book continued from the above, saying that Chu Mofeng resigned from all his positions and became an idle grandfather in the capital, and every day he was 'idle' in vain, in order to give Du Ruhui his anger, he designed to live in Shengye Fang, the abbot Yin Arat, and released cruel words to those imperial relatives on the spot, seeing that Chu Mofeng was empty but still fearless, everyone in the audience speculated whether his dismissal was discussed with Li Yuan in advance, and the purpose was to rectify those bad things that gave Li Yuan a headache for Li Yuan.

On the other hand, after Li Jiancheng's class returned to the dynasty, Li Yuan invited his three sons to a banquet, during which Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji talked and laughed, while Li Shimin on the opposite side drank alone, and Li Yuan saw such a scene, it was indeed difficult to speak, but Li Shimin had gradually become wary of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.

Because Li Shimin is arrogant, he never bribes his father's concubines, and Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji bribed Li Yuanji at all costs in order to let these concubines blow the pillow wind in Li Yuan's ears, so that those concubines competed to praise Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and when they had the opportunity, they said bad things about Li Shimin intentionally or unintentionally.

At this time, Li Yuan's suspicion was already very serious, but in order to consolidate his rule, he had to rely on Li Shimin, after all, in addition to the group of generals who could fight well, there was also the biggest honor guard behind his second son--- Chu Mofeng.

As for Chu Mofeng, Li Yuan has become more and more incomprehensible to him over the years, if it is like the Sui Dynasty in the past, an idle grandfather would definitely not stay in the capital, after all, there are many rights and wrongs under the roots of the imperial city, and one will be killed if he is not careful, but this kid, he does not provoke others is already the greatest forgiveness for Chang'an.

It's just that this kid is now closely following his second son, or that Li Shimin's actions over the years are all revealing the shadow of Chu Mofeng, which makes Li Yuan very helpless, but he can't say anything, after all, this kid is also his son-in-law.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan coughed lightly, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, who were talking to each other, instantly stopped talking, and looked at Li Yuan in unison, ready to listen to what he was going to say, only to see Li Yuan say slowly: "Erlang, although Mo Feng is no longer in the court, I still have to walk around more if I have time, I sent someone to call him for my father today, who knew that when I arrived at the house, I knew that this kid had been out of the city for several days, and when he came back, I went to see him and your sisters for my father." ”

"Father, rest assured, Luo Luo has often taken Qian'er and Tai'er to his mansion recently, and when he comes back later, Erchen will definitely go back to visit him. Listening to Li Yuan's words, Li Shimin nodded, and then lowered his head and drank it by himself.

Then Li Yuan turned his gaze to Li Jiancheng, and said earnestly: "After completion, you should also be more considerate and take care of your second brother." For so many years, your second brother has fought in the south and the north, and it has been really hard. You are compatriots of one mother, how can you not be united? As a big brother, you should be like a big brother, and don't let the fathers worry about you. Fourth, I'm talking about the eldest and second, including you. ”

"Daddy, the child will do what you ask. Jiancheng responded with a sentence, showing absolute humility in his attitude, and Li Yuanji on the side also responded to Li Jiancheng's signal.

Nodding contentedly, Li Yuan said casually: "Tomorrow, Shimin and Yuanji will go to Renzhi Palace with me, and today's banquet will end for the time being, so don't delay tomorrow's affairs." After speaking, he stood up and motioned for Wang De to support him and walk towards the harem.

Immediately, Li Shimin also left alone and returned to the Chengqian Palace, and that night, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji went back to the East Palace to discuss most of the night. Li Jiancheng asked Li Yuanji to pay close attention to the movements of the people, and promised Li Yuanji: "Whether it is safe or dangerous, it will be decided this year!" Then the two discussed in detail the details of how to recruit troops through Yang Wengan when Li Yuan was not in Chang'an City.

Yang Wengan is a diehard loyalist of Li Jiancheng, who once served as a guard of the East Palace and has a very close relationship with Li Jiancheng. In order to be able to master some of the exiled courtiers in his hands, Yang Wengan became the governor of Gyeongju under the recommendation of Li Jiancheng.

After Li Yi's sending troops was discovered last time, Li Jiancheng secretly stepped on Yang Wengan's line, secretly sent him to recruit strong men, and found an opportunity to send them to Chang'an.

Knowing that Li Yuan went out to escape the summer was a good opportunity for a strong man to enter Beijing. After Li Yuan left Chang'an with Li Shimin, Li Yuanji and a group of entourage, Li Jiancheng sent Lang General Er Zhuhuan and Captain Qiao Gongshan to give Yang Wengan some armor.

Who knew that the two of them walked to Fengzhou, and suddenly urgently reported to the local government that the prince ordered Yang Wengan to raise troops to cooperate with Chang'an. After learning of this, the Youzhou government immediately sent the secret letter to Li Yuan, the emperor of Renzhi Palace, through the post station express horse.

On the evening of 25 June, Emperor Li Yuan, who was taking refuge in the summer at Renzhi Palace, received an urgent report from the express horse of the post station: Yang Wengan, the governor of Gyeongju, had rebelled! As soon as he heard this, he knew that it was the crown prince who was taking advantage of his absence to stir up trouble.

Li Yuan is not stupid when he is old, who is who in the court, Li Yuan can still look at it, the only thing that he can't see through is that everyone is good with Chu Mofeng, but they are not good with him, which is also very unpredictable on Li Yuan, and after thinking about it, it is fortunate that this son is not his son, otherwise whether it is Li Jiancheng, the stable prince, or Li Shimin, the meritorious prince, or Li Yuanji, the prince, they are not Chu Mofeng's opponents.

At the same time, Du Fengju, a native of Ningzhou, rushed to Renzhi Palace and reported to Li Yuan that the prince and Yang Wen had rebelled. Li Yuan was furious, pretending to have other things, and wrote an edict to summon the prince and order him to come to Renzhi Palace.

Knowing that Li Yuan had summoned him, Li Jiancheng, who was in Chang'an, immediately panicked, adhering to the principle of one person planning for the short and two for the long, Li Jiancheng hurriedly gathered those 'statecraft strategists' under his command together to discuss countermeasures.

Knowing that he was generally summoned by Li Yuan, there was basically nothing good, and it was at the time of Yang Wengan's rebellion, Li Jiancheng was also hesitant for a while, and the prince Xu Shimo persuaded him to close Chang'an City and raise troops to rebel, but Zhao Hongzhi, the chief secretary of Zhan Affairs, ingeniously suggested that he dress simply, take an old carriage, and go directly to the emperor to ask for guilt, so that he may be saved.

Li Jiancheng knew that if he raised troops to rebel, not to mention that the soldiers of the Chang'an battalion would not obey his orders, and he was still secretly in Chang'an, he would definitely kill him as soon as he learned that he had rebelled, and get rid of himself for his second brother.

Thinking of this, Li Jiancheng gradually figured out that this time he estimated that he had fallen into Li Shimin's trap, although Lang General Er Zhuhuan and Captain Qiao Gongshan were promoted all the way to their own way, but at that time, it was still the one who was in charge of the promotion of officers, maybe these two people had already secretly taken refuge under Li Shimin's command, thinking of this Li Jiancheng suddenly had a feeling of wanting to vomit blood, and had no choice but to accept the latter suggestion and be called to Renzhi Palace.

Walking to Mao Hongbin Fort, which is still sixty miles away from Renzhi Palace, Li Jiancheng left all his entourage in Mao Hongbin Fort, and he only took a dozen horsemen to meet Li Yuan.

After seeing Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng shouted in court that he was wronged, so he hit Zhu Mingzhi with his head, although his head broke and blood flowed, he still couldn't eliminate Li Yuan's anger.

Looking at the eldest son in front of him, Li Yuan was resentful, he was already the prince, and after his funeral, this world was not his, why should he start a rebellion in such a hurry now, thinking that Li Yuan ordered someone to bandage Li Jiancheng simply, put him under house arrest in the tent, and only hanged himself with wheat rice, and ordered Chen Fu, the eunuch in the palace, to strictly guard Li Jiancheng.

Later, Li Yuan found Si Nongqing Yu Wenying and ordered him to take a fast horse to summon Yang Wengan to Renzhi Palace. As everyone knows, Yu Wenying and Yuan Ji are in a group, and after seeing Yang Wengan, after explaining Li Yuan's true intentions and Li Jiancheng's current situation, Yang Wengan immediately decided to raise troops to rebel.

After the news reached Renzhi Palace, Li Yuan sent Qian Jiulong, the general of Zuo Wuwei, and Yang Shidao, the governor of Lingzhou, to lead troops to attack Yang Wengan.

Because Gyeongju and Inji Palace were not far away, Li Yuan became frightened at this time, so he led the guards to escape from Inzhi Palace, ran to the south, and ran not far before he met the officials of the East Palace.

Later, Li Yuan stayed in the nearby field for one night under the protection of the guards, and returned to Renzhi Palace after dawn to see that there was no abnormality.

Back at Renzhi Palace, Li Yuan became wary of Li Jiancheng, so he privately called Li Shimin and planned with him how to quell Yang Wengan's rebellion. Who knew that Li Shimin said: "Yang Wengan is just a clown who jumps off the beam, and the officials around him should catch or kill him, otherwise, it is enough to send an ordinary general to crusade against him." ”

Who knew that Li Yuan disagreed, "Yang Wen's work is implicated in Jiancheng, and I am worried that there will be many people who respond." You should go for me yourself, and when you return, I will make you the crown prince. Then Li Yuan sighed and said: "I can't kill my own flesh and blood like Emperor Wen of Sui, leave him alive, and go to Shu to be an idle prince." The Shu soldier is weak and narrow, if he can obey you in the future, spare his life, if not, you can easily subdue him!"

Hearing that he could be crowned the crown prince, and his long-cherished wish for many years finally had hope of coming true, Li Shimin immediately agreed to Li Yuan's request and set off with an unprecedented happy mood.

Who knew that after Li Shimin set out with the army, Li Yuanji pleaded with Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei and others to desperately intercede for Li Jiancheng. claimed that Li Jiancheng recruited the army, all of which were forced by the King of Qin, and it was the elite troops of the Qin King's Mansion that came first, and Jiancheng had to make this decision in order to defend himself.

And Li Jiancheng, as the crown prince, has long had no desires, so how could he conspire with others to plot rebellion? Moreover, looking at the whole rebellion, there are many strange things in the middle, and it seems that someone is planning to frame Li Jiancheng.

Hearing that someone might have designed to frame Li Jiancheng, Li Yuan's first thought was the one who sat in Chang'an, so he sent someone to send a message to the horse for verification, who knew that the person who sent the letter then returned with a reply, Li Yuan opened the letterhead and took a closer look, only to see a few big words written on the letterhead, 'Do you think I'm idle?' and below is a line of small characters, on the letter; the minister sincerely asks His Majesty to hand over the entire Datang Post Station and the carriage and horse shop to the minister's management.

Knowing that this was not the man's doing, Li Yuan also ordered Wang De to issue an edict to agree to his request.

Then Zhang Jieyu changed her words, claiming that the mastermind behind the scenes may be Cao Duyan, a soldier of the Qin Palace. It is true that the prince recruited the army privately, but Du Yan instructed Er Zhuhuan and Qiao Gongshan to denounce the prince and Yang Wengan for rebellion, isn't this an intention to force the prince into a desperate situation?

At this time, Li Yuan was bombarded by Concubine Yin Defei and Zhang Jieyu, and his doubts were already a little shaken, and Li Yuanji decided to add a fire when he saw this, and ordered Feng Deyi, who had already taken refuge in himself, to lobby Li Yuan.

And Feng Deyi deserves to be a scholar, giving facts as examples to reason, and after a while, Li Yuan finally stopped doubting Li Jiancheng, and immediately released him and returned to Chang'an with him.

And Li Shimin, who went to quell the rebellion, arrived in Gyeongju only to find that Yang Wengan was indeed killed by his own subordinates, and Si Nongqing Yu Wenying was also killed by Li Shimin's order after being captured.

When Li Shimin happily returned to Chang'an, he found that the situation had already been reversed, and his father refused to replace the crown prince, only accusing their brothers of incompatibility, and blaming the crown prince Zhongyun Wang Wan, the crown prince Zuowei Wei Ting, and the Qin prince's army Cao Duyan, who had caused the rebellion, and exiled them to Wuzhou.

Wei Zheng and others, who had been locked up in the prison before, were all released, looking at Li Jiancheng's smug smiling face in the court, Li Shimin suddenly felt a little helpless, conquest and killing is his strong point, and these intrigues, he really has no way to start.

And Li Yuan couldn't bear to keep his son fighting, so he once again summoned the three brothers together and taught them bitterly, and under the order of his father, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng restored the superficial reconciliation.

One day in the middle of the seventh month of the leap year, Li Yuan went to the south of the city to shoot and hunt, and the prince, the king of Qin, and the king of Qi all participated.

Li Jiancheng had a horse, very fat and strong, and when he learned that Li Shimin was a good horseman, he led him to Li Shimin, first praised it greatly, and then signaled that Li Shimin could ride it.

As everyone knows, this horse has a violent temperament, and Li Jiancheng has never been able to tame it after buying it back, and when he saw today's hunting, he wanted to pull it out and let Li Shimin make a fool of himself.

Li Shimin did not suspect cheating, turned over and ran forward, at first everything was normal, after Li Shimin saw a wild deer, he hurriedly rushed forward to chase after him, who knew that Hu Ma suddenly fell like a madman.

The long career of fighting horses has trained Li Shimin's reaction, and when he saw the horse going crazy, Li Shimin quickly jumped off the horse and stood a few steps away. And the horse rolled on the ground and stood up again, and Li Shimin smiled when he saw this and rode up again.

This is the case three times in a row. Shimin turned back to Yu Wenshi and said, "He wants to kill me in this way, how can he hurt me!"

Who knew that these words were heard by Li Yuan's guards on the side, this person had been secretly bought by Li Jiancheng, and when he heard Li Shimin's words, he hurriedly ran to report to Li Jiancheng.

Later, Li Jiancheng said to Li Yuan through his concubines: "Today, the King of Qin's horse accidentally stumbled, and the King of Qin said to himself, 'I have the mandate of heaven, and I will be the lord of the world, how can I die in vain!'"

Hearing this, Li Yuan was furious, first summoned Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and then summoned Li Shimin in, and accused Li Shimin on the spot, saying: "The Son of Heaven has his own destiny, and it is not something that anyone can obtain by spending his intelligence;

As soon as Li Shimin heard this, he knew that his words had been misinterpreted and told to Li Yuan, so he immediately took off the crown of his head and prostrated on the ground, and begged the lower law secretary to check and confront him to prove that he had not said this.

At this time, Li Yuan was angry, and did not listen to Li Shimin's defense at all, at this time, an official came to report, saying that it was a large-scale invasion of the Turks, and he thought that he still had to rely on his second son and that one for foreign wars, Li Yuan immediately exhorted Li Shimin a few words, and then ordered someone to summon Chu Mofeng to enter the palace to face the saint and discuss the matter of fighting against the Turks.

And during this time, Chu Mofeng has not been idle, at first heard that Li Jiancheng's diehard Yang Wengan rebelled, Chu Mofeng after Li Jiancheng left Chang'an with his entourage, Chu Mofeng quickly gathered the Tiance army to control the gates of Chang'an, and arrested Li Jiancheng and his cronies into prison, and then mobilized some guards to guard near the Chengqian Palace.

During this period, there was also a joke, saying that some of the guards had secretly defected to Chu Mofeng's command, and when Chu Mofeng ordered these people to guard the Chengqian Palace, it seemed that they had forgotten something, and one of the guards kindly reminded him: "Grandpa Guo, don't you need someone to guard your mansion?"

Who knew that Chu Mofeng said lightly: "It seems that looking at the entire Tang Dynasty at the moment, there are no people who can enter my mansion and fight fiercely, right? ”

Hearing the word 'they', everyone remembered that the person in front of them was the founder of that organization, with that group of tigresses in the house, who would dare to find death and break in?

In the Guogong Mansion, Liu Feiyan and the others had already been fully armed and guarded in accordance with Chu Mofeng's instructions, and Shi Hanshuang, who had not been out of the mountain for a long time, after recovering from the painful years after giving birth, once again became the fierce frost woman of the year.

As Li Yuan returned to Chang'an with Li Jiancheng, all the guards were lifted, but Concubine Yin Defei and Zhang Jieyu took the opportunity to say to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty keeps a person who can mobilize the whole army in the capital, if this person has bad intentions, then the Tang Dynasty will definitely not be protected." ”

originally thought that Li Yuan would be angry when he heard it, but Li Yuan just smiled faintly, and then glanced at Li Jiancheng coldly.

After Li Yuan returned to Beijing, Chu Mofeng began to reorganize the carriage and horse shops and post stations, which were relatively easy to manage, after all, they were subordinate to the imperial court, as long as the relevant documents were transmitted, but the carriage and horse shops were very difficult to manage because they were non-governmental organizations.

Chu Mofeng's idea is that the post station and the carriage and horse shop work together, and the carriage and horse shop will work together, and the post station will be responsible for contacting the transportation business, and at the same time, the carriage and horse will not need to pay any money in addition to the maintenance every month, and they can receive a certain amount of remuneration from the post station every month, and the post station is not just to send people to deliver goods to earn those small money.

For the post station, Chu Mofeng has his own idea, each post station abolished redundant personnel, leaving only a few necessary management personnel, and the rest is provided by the carriage and horse shop, and the entire Central Plains chariot and horse shop has been swallowed up by the Lingnan Song family with the conquest in recent years, so the current chariot and horse shop guys are almost all from the Song family.

For these people, Chu Mofeng entrusted Xuanji to personally select them a few years ago, picked out some people with clean family backgrounds, clever but loyal, and secretly formed an intelligence team, and now from Li Yuan's hands, he has taken over the post management of the entire Tang Dynasty, and these people quickly filled the post stations in various major cities and border fortresses, in order to be able to find out the news at any time, and as these people undertook the work of going to different regions, they were able to find out the news of the destination.

Chu Mofeng gave these people a very poetic name--- Youzi, which comes from "Hanshu Gao Di Ji": "Youzi is sad in his hometown." And "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Fan Ye": "The wanderer is often poor and poor, and the son of strength is rich." ”

With Chu Mofeng's money opening and wantonly rectifying the post station, the huge amount of money that Datang had spent on the post station suddenly disappeared, which made the originally somewhat tight household department a lot easier. coincided with the Turkic invasion, and the imperial court needed money to deploy ordnance to collect grain and grass, and suddenly there was a lot of money in his hand, which made Li Yuan's heart also flutter, and he had to praise Chu Mofeng every time in the court.

And just when the news of the Turkic invasion reached Chang'an, far west in Zhangye County, a cavalry of about 400 people quietly rushed to the junction of the Central Plains and the Turks at night.

And these soldiers are all black-clothed and black-armored, and the weapons in their hands are also different from the standard ordnance of the Tang Dynasty at first glance, with dark maces, cold spears, and dark knives and shields, all of which mean that in the process of production, it seems that ores from the Western Regions are added, which are strong and sharp.

The group rolled up the billowing smoke and dust, ran all the way to the west, and the first person raised his head and glanced at the sky, and then said coldly: "Arrive at the junction before sunset today, if anyone falls behind, just apologize." After saying that, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and galloped forward, and the remaining personnel behind him heard the words, none of them made a sound, but they all raised the horsewhip in their hands, and whipped the horse's hips under the crotch, and the horse neighed after being in pain, and chased the people on horseback forward......

As the saying goes, wolf smoke is everywhere in mass graves, and there is no one to bury the lonely souls in troubled times, and see Chu Mofeng and Li Shimin embark on the journey again and start a lifelong journey of foreign conquest......