Chapter 37 Li Tai and Ying Yuanming 2
Today's killing machine in the eyes of Ying Kong Li has made Ying Yuanming vigilant, at this time, Ying Yuanming knows that he needs a foreign aid, a foreign aid that is very influential in the DPRK!
Of course, Ying Yuanming didn't think of Li Tai at the beginning, because Li Tai had a big contradiction with the emperor and the imperial family, and naturally had a big contradiction with him Ying Yuanming.
Ying Yuanming's best foreign aid target at the beginning was Gongsun Tinglei, the current Taiwei, although Gongsun Tinglei had already thrown himself to the emperor, but Ying Yuanming knew that Gongsun Tinglei was just gambling.
Gongsun Tinglei is a gambler, but not a blind gambler, and his daughter is married to Ying Kongchen, which has another bargaining chip in Ying Yuanming's hand.
These nobles are not as good as ordinary people, although they don't attach much importance to their daughters, but they don't treat their daughters like gifts like ordinary people.
So when Li Tai called Ying Yuanming just now, Ying Yuanming hesitated, because he knew that once he stepped in, the emperor would inevitably get the news, and he had never ignored the horror of the black prison.
But Ying Yuanming still walked in, since Ying Kongli has been exposed, what are you afraid of?
If you are unkind to win the empty and leave first, then don't blame him for being an uncle!
Everyone in the world has selfishness, and Ying Yuanming's selfishness is just to let their Zhenbei King lineage be passed on forever, but Ying Kongli seems to be unwilling.
Ying Yuanming can only fight back!
Although Li Tai has conflicts with the royal family, what does this have to do with his winning Yuanming?
As long as Li Tai does not endanger Daqin, then Ying Yuanming can try to cooperate with Li Taixiang, and the two will benefit together.
The Great Qin Empire is the foundation of the Great Qin Imperial Family, if the empire is strong, the imperial family will prosper, and if the empire is weak, the imperial family will fall!
Ying Yuanming can cooperate with Li Tai to fight against Ying Kongli, but he will never do anything that harms Daqin!
Now it's up to Li Tai to say it.
Li Tai looked at Ying Yuanming, seemed to have forgotten the unpleasantness of the legal code just now, looked at Ying Yuanming with a smile, and said, "Lord Wang, I heard that you are going to marry the Gongsun family, congratulations!"
Ying Yuanming looked vigilant, what did Li Tai do with this, Ying Yuanming asked cautiously: "Prime Minister, just say what you have to say, why beat around the bush, this is not your style!"
Li Tai smiled and said, "Since the prince asked the minister to speak directly, the minister said it directly." ”
Ying Yuanming made a gesture of please, and Li Tai continued with a smile: "Lord Wang, I don't know if you have ever worried about the king of Zhenbei?"
Ying Yuanming laughed and said: "I'm afraid the prime minister is joking, the king of the north of Guzhen, since the first emperor divided the feud, so far, there has never been a crisis, dare to ask the prime minister, why should you worry?"
Li Tai looked at Ying Yuanming with a smile and said, "Why does the prince ask knowingly?"
Ying Yuanming looked dazed, but a fine light flashed in his eyes, and said: "I really don't know, please ask the Prime Minister to analyze it." ”
Li Tai smiled and said, "Is the prince testing the ministers?"
Then he said: "That minister is ugly! Everyone knows that the king of Zhenbei was enshrined in the first emperor, and he is the only prince of Daqin, and the kings of Zhenbei have stayed in the imperial capital in all dynasties, and have good friends with the princes of all dynasties, just like the prince and the first emperor, close to each other!"
Li Tai was full of smiles, but when he said that he was intimate, a mockery flashed in his eyes, and Ying Yuanming saw it, and he was not annoyed, but motioned for Ying Yuanming to continue.
Ying Yuanming continued: "It stands to reason that under such conditions, the Zhenbei King is very stable. But has the prince ever thought that the king of Zhenbei sits in a state and has 100,000 private soldiers with armor, which is no less than the princes of the kings of the past! Now that he is married to the prince of Taiwei Gongsun Tinglei, isn't the prince afraid of becoming a marquis again?"
Li Tai's words hit Ying Yuanming's heart directly, and the disaster of becoming a marquis is what Ying Yuanming is most worried about.
At the beginning, Chenghou was only a small fiefdom, and there were no private soldiers, and the first emperor and other eloquent people were still afraid of Chenghou leading the army to go out, forcing Chenghou to rebel, and the first emperor killed Chenghou in the name of the righteous division and the famous division.
Now the king of Zhenbei sits in Liaozhou, holds 100,000 private soldiers, and there is a marriage between Gongsun Tinglei in the court, which is many times stronger than the original Chenghou, how many times stronger than the original Chenghou, wouldn't the emperor be jealous?
When the time comes, I am afraid that I have no intention of rebelling, and my emperor's nephew may also force himself to raise the banner of rebellion!
Although he already agreed with Li Tai in his heart, Ying Yuanming said: "If there is a disaster of becoming a marquis, why didn't the second emperor do it? Why didn't the first emperor do it? What you said is nonsense!"
Hearing this, Li Tai was not annoyed, but said with a smile: "But the prince already agrees with it in his heart, doesn't he?"
Ying Yuanming's eyes burst out, and he sneered: "When did Lone say that he agreed?"
Li Tai looked helpless and said, "Does the prince have to take the school minister?"
Then he said lightly: "The second emperor did not do it, but because the first emperor had just died, and the people's hearts were shaken, and the death of the first emperor was very bizarre, and the court was a little frightened! Therefore, how could the second emperor do the thing of cutting off his own arm? Moreover, as soon as the first emperor died, the disaster of becoming a marquis occurred, how would the world look at it? Therefore, when the second emperor was the second emperor, the disaster of becoming a marquis in the line of the king of Zhenbei did not happen!
And the first emperor, the first emperor period, the northern demon clan was about to move, the imperial army that was fought in that war was insufficient, and the people's livelihood withered, how dare they dare to become a marquis again! If the disaster of becoming a marquis recurs during the period of the first emperor, the subjects of the world will complain!"
As he spoke, Li Tai looked at Ying Yuanming meaningfully and said, "However, it is different now, the world is in Dajing, and the northern demon clan is no longer able to go south after the battle of the first emperor back then. Now the people live and work in peace and contentment, although there is the birth of the Immortal Sect Demon Gate, but for me Daqin, they are just a group of clowns who jump off the beam, and they can't make any big waves!
Therefore, it is better to become a marquis at this time, I don't know what the prince thinks!"
The smile on Ying Yuanming's face gradually converged, his face was calm, he couldn't tell whether it was sadness or joy, he said lightly: "The prime minister is really talented, I don't know how the prime minister thinks he can avoid such a disaster?"
Li Tai smiled and said, "The prince is not pretending?"
Ying Yuanming smiled and said, "Prime Minister, what are you talking about?"
Li Tai laughed and said: "Why should the prince not know what to do? Here are just the two of us, what the two of us say, absolutely God knows, you know and I know, no third person knows!"
Ying Yuanming arched his hand and said: "I'm sorry, it's hard to believe the credibility of the prime minister!"
Li Tai looked puzzled and said, "Has the minister done anything unjust?
Ying Yuanming's face was heavy, and he sneered: "No, the first emperor was seriously ill back then, and he ordered you to support the new emperor for a long time, and you must not be arrogant, and you must help the new emperor, that is, His Majesty today, stabilize the situation in the court, but what about you? But for your own selfishness, you have violated Your Majesty's orders several times, and you have suppressed the general trend of the Legalists in the court, is this the support you promised to support the new emperor in front of the first emperor?"
Hearing this, Li Tai's eyes appeared that the first emperor was holding his hand that day and refused to let go, and the third emperor of Great Qin actually pleaded with him in his eyes, let him support the new emperor well, and not control the government.
However, there is another thing that everyone does not know, that is, the first emperor once wanted His Majesty, the crown prince of the past, to worship himself as a teacher, and asked the prince to call himself the middle father!
It seems to be a great honor, but Li Tai refused in a cold sweat, because Lu Chunqiu was also known as the middle father of Great Qin!
Li Tai understood that he was powerful in the court, and only those military nobles who had been promoted by the first emperor could compete with him, and only the first emperor could convince those military nobles and let them obey orders.
Therefore, the first emperor was afraid that he was in control of the government, and he was an indispensable one of the Great Qin, and finally under the gaze of the three dukes, he revealed that sad gaze to himself, an emperor, the dignified Emperor of the Third Emperor of Great Qin, actually showed this kind of gaze to a courtier, how sad!
Therefore, the first emperor was calculating himself in every move, and asking His Majesty to worship himself as his middle father was to remind himself not to be the next Lu Chunqiu; in the end, that kind of gaze was revealed in order to arouse the resonance of the Great Qin officials, so that the Great Qin officials would have the same hatred and hatred for the new emperor!
Although the first emperor calculated very well, the first emperor undercounted one thing, and that is the human heart!
For the officials who have been in the Great Qin officialdom for so long, even though they have pity for the first emperor, they know that self-preservation is more important!
Therefore, after the new emperor ascended the throne, a large number of Legalist ministers leaned towards themselves and fought against the emperor with them to win the void.
Because the emperor can be said to have no foundation in the court, Li Tai has been rooted for a long time, and the emperor dares to work against Li Tai, but they don't dare!
Even if they become the emperor's pawns, they don't want to.
People's hearts are like this, when it comes to their own interests, what is the emperor?
Only one's own interests are real!
And Li Tai didn't expect that the new emperor would be so jealous of himself, and all signs showed that if he really didn't resist, then his fate would not be better than that of Lu Chunqiu at the beginning!
Li Tai had some nostalgia in his eyes, although the first emperor was jealous of him, he trusted him, it looked contradictory, but it was not contradictory at all.
The first emperor was jealous of his influence in the court, but he was still willing to give himself power, because the first emperor knew that he was loyal to Great Qin!
Yes, he is loyal to Great Qin, not to anyone, even if that person is the emperor!
Therefore, the first emperor can use him with confidence, but the first emperor also knows that the new emperor who has just ascended the throne will inevitably not be able to suppress himself, so he will go from vigilance to the next set step by step, but Li Tai has no complaints in his heart, this is what he must bear as the prime minister of Great Qin!
The First Emperor set up the post of Prime Minister and reached the peak of the power of the post of Prime Minister, but only the First Emperor was not afraid of the Prime Minister, and the emperors of each subsequent generation had to check and balance the Prime Minister, because they were afraid in their hearts!
Ying Yuanming looked at the changing expression in Li Tai's eyes, and couldn't help but ask, "What is the Prime Minister thinking?"
Li Tai came back to his senses, looked serious, and said: "Guilty? Why should the minister feel guilty? Everything the minister has done in this life is for the Great Qin Empire! The minister is worthy of the first emperor, worthy of the Great Qin, and even more worthy of Your Majesty!"
When Ying Yuanming heard this, he was a little moved, because Ying Yuanming heard that Li Tai's words were not casual, but from the heart.
Ying Yuanming immediately arched his hand and said: "Lonely, on behalf of my Great Qin Imperial Family, thank you Prime Minister!"
Li Tai smiled and said: "We are all Great Qin courtiers, we should be dedicated to the Great Qin Empire and loyal to Great Qin, why do we need to thank you?
Ying Yuanming's eyes flashed, what Li Tai just said was loyal to Daqin, not His Majesty, this sentence is worth pondering!
Combined with Li Tai's passionate rhetoric just now, Ying Yuanming somewhat understood Li Tai, Li Tai is a loyal minister, but he is loyal to the Great Qin Empire, not to the Great Qin Emperor!
Now if I ask Ying Yuanming for a few days, I am afraid that I am also testing Ying Yuanming, to see if Ying Yuanming is loyal to the emperor or to the Great Qin Empire!
I am also asking Ying Yuanming, are we all the way, can we work together!
Ying Yuanming immediately smiled and said: "What the prime minister said is extremely true, we are already Qin ministers, and we should be loyal to the empire!"
Hearing this, Li Tai's eyes smiled even more, and said, "I don't know if the prince has the heart to get married?"
Ying Yuanming looked puzzled and said, "Marriage, what kind of marriage? The lonely son has already married the Gongsun family, how can he still get married?"
Li Tai looked at Ying Yuanming with an ambiguous expression, and said, "I heard that the prince also took a concubine last month?
Hearing this, Ying Yuanming instantly understood what Li Tai meant, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, no, how can it be done, Lone still has to be faced!"
Li Tai said angrily: "What's the matter, Lord Wang, the daughter of the Liaozhou family can marry her, but the daughter of my Li family can't marry?
Ying Yuanming suddenly showed a wry smile on his face, the concubine a month ago was already embarrassing enough, thinking that he was such an old man, but he married a girl who was more than 300 years younger than himself, and he could be someone's grandfather!
Ying Yuanming is also very helpless, a newly rising family in Liaozhou is supported by himself, so he is naturally obedient to himself.
But what Ying Yuanming never expected was that this family was afraid that Ying Yuanming would give up on them, so they made the absurd move of marriage.
You said that if you marry your own son, it will be fine, but I don't know what that family thinks, and you want to marry your daughter to yourself.
Ying Yuanming refused at that time, but the head of this family knelt at the door of his palace, with a few bundles of thorns on his back, saying that he had done something wrong and wanted Ying Yuanming to punish.
Ying Yuanming was stunned at the time, how could they not know what they had done wrong, and what the head of the family said was still trivial things, so Ying Yuanming had no choice but to help the head of the family into the house, so as not to be embarrassed on the street.
Under the question, Ying Yuanming couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out that because he didn't accept the marriage, the people of that family were too frightened, and hurriedly asked the head of the family to take the blame!
Ying Yuanming explained it well, but he didn't expect the head of the family to listen at all, and said that if the prince didn't accept the marriage, I would have been kneeling at the door of the palace, waiting for the prince to forgive.
Ying Yuanming was really helpless at that time, what did you forgive? You didn't do anything wrong!
But this head of the family is just a tendon, that is, he is biting the marriage, Ying Yuanming has no choice, in order to make this head of the family feel at ease, Ying Yuanming has no choice but to accept the marriage.
But since Ying Yuanming took the daughter of the family as a concubine, he didn't touch her once, and he was more than 300 years old, and Ying Yuanming himself felt ashamed.
Moreover, because of this incident, Ying Kongchen's mother, that is, Ying Yuanming's queen, has been in trouble with Ying Yuanming for a while, if it weren't for his eloquence, I don't know what his harem would become!
Ying Yuanming responded with a wry smile: "The prime minister's kindness has been understood, Lone can't do this, it has become a joke in the world a month ago, and taking a concubine is just a joke!
Hearing this, a trace of disappointment flashed in Li Tai's eyes, but he quickly recovered, his original intention was to test it, if he could achieve it, if he couldn't, forget it.
Although Li Tai guessed this result before he said it, because a month ago, Concubine Ying Yuanming really shocked the world, and the high-ranking officials and nobles in the imperial capital secretly ridiculed: This prince is really old and strong, and he married a teenage woman in his three hundreds, and the prince is really romantic enough!
Moreover, it is said that after winning Yuanming's concubine at that time, the queen kept making trouble, and it is said that she almost returned to her mother's family, Wang!
So Li Tai was not too surprised by this result, but he was still a little disappointed, because of the marriage, he could cooperate more at ease, and only after the marriage could he be more at ease with Ying Yuanming.
However, Li Tai was obviously a qualified politician, and instantly hid his disappointment, and smiled again on his face, saying: "Hahaha, since the prince has no intention of doing this, the minister will not force it." ”
Ying Yuanming smiled, he was afraid of his queen, he was really fierce!
Li Tai continued: "I wonder if the prince is interested in discussing cooperation with his ministers?"
Ying Yuanming's eyes burst out, and he said, "I don't know what kind of cooperation the prime minister is talking about?"
Li Tai said lightly: "Cooperate as the prince thinks!"
Ying Yuanming laughed and said, "Naturally, I don't know how the prime minister wants to cooperate?"
Li Tai's expression was solemn, and he said: "The minister wants the prince to go to the restaurant with the minister tomorrow to drink together, I don't know if the prince wishes?"
Ying Yuanming pondered, his eyes were deep, and after a while, Ying Yuanming said lightly: "Naturally, you can, but after being alone!"
Li Tai smiled and said, "Okay, that minister will wait for the prince at the Lichun Hotel tomorrow!"
Ying Yuanming nodded, and then his eyes signaled, Li Tai untied the formation, and Ying Yuanming turned around and didn't say anything more.
Because the two have reached a cooperation, the meeting between the two tomorrow will inevitably spread throughout the entire imperial capital, and at that time, both of them will have no way out, but can only rely on each other!
This is the reason why Li Tai invited Ying Yuanming to go to the hotel together!