Li Yan stopped talking.

He didn't know what to say.

After a long while, Li Yan finally asked the right question: "Big brother, are you not favored by the eunuch Sigui?"

Li Ye said: "Of course. ”

Li Yan asked puzzledly, "Why?"

Li Ye said: "Because of the eldest prince, he has been favored by the prime minister. ”

Li Yan was surprised: "It's not okay to be favored by the prime minister?"

Li Ye nodded and said: "The person who is favored by the prime minister, the eunuch Sigui will not take a fancy to him." ”

Li Yan was even more puzzled: "Why is this?"

Li Ye said: "Eunuchs and courtiers have been opposed since ancient times, this is one of them; courtiers set up princes, the new monarch ascends the throne, and the courtiers are reused, and the authority of the four nobles of the eunuchs may not be guaranteed, and if they want to ensure their power, they must let the new monarch be established by themselves." ”

Li Yan shook his head: "I don't understand." ”

Li Ye said: "Think about how Your Majesty ascended the throne. ”

Li Yan thought about it, and then fell silent again.

This time he was silent for a longer time.

When the first emperor Xuanzong reigned, he did not set up a prince, at first, Yun Wang Li Wen (renamed Li Yi after the throne) was not favored, the other princes lived in the palace, but he lived outside the palace, at that time the courtiers liked the king of Kui Li Zi, but when Xuanzong died of illness, Wang Zongshi, the lieutenant of the left army of the Shence Army, made some arrangements, so that Li Wen took the throne and became His Majesty today.

After a long time, Li Yan raised his head, and his eyes brightened: "I really have hope?"

Li Ye smiled: "Who else is you?"

Li Yan asked: "Why doesn't the Lonely King know what the four eunuchs like?"

Li Ye said: "They didn't like you before. ”

Li Yan was stunned: "Then you still say so much?"

Li Ye: "They will like you in the future." ”

Li Yan understood: "What are we going to do?"

Li Ye said: "There is someone who can help you. ”

Li Yan asked expectantly, "What kind of person?"

Li Ye said: "A eunuch?"

Li Yan asked in surprise, "Who?"

Li Ye said: "Tian Lingzi." ”

Li Yan said disappointedly: "He's just an attendant in my house." ”

Li Ye: "He is also the righteous son of the lieutenant of the Shence Army." ”

Li Yan was surprised: "Why don't I know?"

Li Ye: "Because he hasn't recognized his father-in-law yet." ”

Li Yan fell silent.

Li Ye's meaning is already obvious, Li Yan wants Tian Lingzi to recognize the lieutenant of the Shence Army as his father-in-law, and through Tian Lingzi to curry favor with the eunuch Sigui, let the eunuch Sigui support Li Yan as the prince.

Li Yan suddenly asked again: "Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue, lieutenants of the Shence Army, are deeply favored by His Majesty, and the power in their hands has reached the extreme, will they recognize Tian Lingzi as their righteous son?"

Li Ye smiled: "Why not? It is precisely because their power is already so great that they cannot tolerate the loss of this power, so they need to find a prince so that they can support him to ascend the throne in the future." ”

Li Yan hesitated: "Your Majesty has so many princes, why should Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue support me? ”

Li Ye pushed the sobering soup back in front of Li Yan, looked at him and said, "Just because your cultivation is not high, and you don't have any saints, Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue will support you." If you are already favored and have the hope of becoming a prince, they will not support you. Just imagine, you originally had no hope of becoming a prince, and with their help to become the prince, wouldn't you be surprised, and you are grateful to them and your cronies?"

Li Yan immediately overjoyed after thinking about it: "According to what you say, isn't this matter very simple?"

Li Ye shook his head and said solemnly: "It's not simple. ”

Li Yan didn't know why.

Li Ye sighed and said: "First of all, if Tian Lingzi is very unbearable, he doesn't enter the eyes of Liu Xingshen and Han Wen at all, and he can't connect them closely, then there is nothing else, but fortunately, Tian Lingzi's cultivation is good, and it shouldn't be difficult to get close to Liu Xingshen and Han Wen. ”

Li Yan nodded, waiting for Li Ye to continue.

Li Ye said: "Secondly, although you have the conditions to be supported by Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue, this is all a theoretical analysis after all, and there are still many variables to implement, after all, there are many princes, they don't necessarily have to support you, which requires you to do something to befriend them, let them notice you, and pay attention to you." ”

Li Yan immediately asked, "What should I do?"

Li Ye said: "It's not how you do it, it's how I do it." ”

The second monk Li Yanzhang was confused.

Li Ye was helpless about Li Yan's sluggishness, and sighed lightly: "There are only two ways to make friends with people quickly. ”

Li Yan immediately asked, "Which two ways?"

Li Ye said: "First, do what you like, and second, solve people's difficulties." ”

Li Yan was stunned again.

Li Ye took the initiative to explain: "Eunuchs and courtiers do not deal with each other, it has been like this since ancient times, as far as the reality is concerned, there are so many imperial authorities, and the three provinces and six parts are in charge of most of the authority of the imperial dynasty, these are originally the porridge in the bowls of the courtiers, once the eunuchs gain power and want to take power, they can only share it from the hands of the courtiers." Now, the Shence Army is controlled by eunuchs, and the Privy Council has divided the functions and powers of the military department, not to mention the Xuanhui Academy. ”

"Your Majesty favors the eunuchs, if there is anything, he will tell the eunuchs to do it instead of the courtiers, then the eunuchs can take the opportunity to encroach on the authority of the courtiers, the eunuchs are powerful, and they have the right to speak, then the state and county chiefs and the envoys of the feudal towns will bribe the eunuchs and scold them after entering Beijing, instead of flattering the prime minister and the officials of the six ministries, which is another place that makes the courtiers dissatisfied......"

Li Ye saw that Li Yan was in a fog and at a loss, so he knew that he couldn't elaborate, so he put it simply: "In a word, there are contradictions between eunuchs and courtiers, and the lieutenants of the Shence Army, the privy envoys, and the Xuanhui envoys are not dealing with the prime minister and the officials of the six ministries, Liu Xingshen, Han Wenyue and Wei Baoheng all have power struggles, if we can crack down on Wei Baoheng and his party, it will naturally make Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue happy, this is what they like and it is difficult to solve people." ”

Li Yan understood this time, and quickly reacted: "Isn't Xing Guogong just in the same party as Wei Baoheng? You were originally going to deal with Xing Guogong and Wei Baoheng - isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

Li Ye smiled: "That's right. ”

Li Ye's idea is actually not as simple as Li Yan thinks, after all, the situation between the government and the opposition is actually very complicated.

If Li Xian really died of suspicion, then it is difficult to say that there were no eunuchs to contribute to the battle of Bagong Mountain, and it is likely that the eunuchs and courtiers joined forces, after all, Li Xian is highly cultivated, has many cronies, and has great power, and either party alone can be capable, even if he succeeds in assassinating Li Xian, there will be many sequelae.

Li Ye wants to deal with these people, it is impossible to do it overnight, he can only do it step by step.

Today's main contradictions, the opponents that need to be resolved urgently, are Li Guanshu and Wei Baoheng.

That night, Li Ye and Li Yan chatted on their knees. Li Yan was full of interest, and pulled Li Ye to talk endlessly, until the afternoon of the second day, when he felt tired and went to rest.

Li Ye couldn't sleep, so he asked the maid to prepare tea and go to the pavilion to drink tea and meditate. There is a hill behind King An's mansion, which is only four or five zhang high, covers an area of three or two acres, and the pavilion is on this mountain.

Li Ye called Shangguan Chengcheng to accompany him. Now, Shangguan Allure is his number one cronie, Li Ye will take her with him if she has anything to do, and she has never hidden all kinds of things and plans.

After listening to Li Ye's brief description of the conversation with Li Yan, Shangguan Chengcheng was a little surprised: "His Royal Highness has already been in contact with the prince, why do you want to make friends with eunuchs?"

Li Ye beckoned Shangguan Chengcheng to sit down, pushed her over a cup of tea, and said lightly: "In the current court, Wei Baoheng covers the sky with one hand, the prince's power is too small, and his own status is not as stable as Mount Tai, which is why he can't wait to pull me in...... In such a situation, how dare I pin all my hopes on him?"

Li Ye took a sip of tea and continued: "Therefore, befriending the prince is for the sake of going out smoothly, and befriending the eunuch is for the long-term plan to completely overthrow Wei Baoheng. ”

Shangguan Chengcheng reacted faster than Li Yan, and she quickly raised a question that Li Yan didn't realize: "If the Battle of Bagong Mountain has nothing to do with the eunuchs, then how can Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue make friends with His Royal Highness?"

"The Battle of Bagong Mountain is hidden, and those who know the truth, that is, there are only a few parties, and they are all big people, and Li Guanshu and Kang Chengxun are open-faced figures, and the eunuchs are very hidden, as long as I don't show interest in the Battle of Bagong Mountain and doubt the death of my father, they shouldn't think too much. Li Ye groaned.

Shangguan Chengcheng was still not at ease: "What if I think too much?"

Li Ye was silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Let's go and see, it's nothing more than a fight between the two sides, it depends on whose means are clever and can deceive the other party." As long as Wei Baoheng falls and King Pu ascends the throne smoothly, even if I tear my face with them, I may not be afraid of them. ”

Li Ye didn't tell Shangguan Chengcheng about something, and he couldn't say that according to his experience in his previous life, Li Yi died in the fourteenth year of Xiantong, so he only needed to hide from the eunuch for two years, and if things went well, Li Yan would take the throne at that time.

Speaking of Li Yan, Shangguan Chengcheng had some doubts: "It's not that the last general is talkative, His Royal Highness King Pu likes to have fun, and his temperament is simple, and his intelligence is average, if His Royal Highness King Pu ascends the throne, I'm afraid of ......."

Speaking of this, she glanced at Li Ye and did not continue.

Li Ye knew what Shangguan Allure meant, she wanted to say that Li Yan would never be a Ming Jun.

Li Ye knew this, but he didn't have a choice.

Among the princes, only Li Yan was close to him, so he could only assist Li Yan to ascend the throne.

Only when Li Yan ascends the throne, with the personal relationship between the two and the skill of the dragon, Li Ye will be reused, and then he will have the opportunity to prepare for the catastrophe before the world is in chaos.

If Li Xian was really murdered in Huainan because of the emperor's suspicion, then any prince who ascended the throne would inherit Li Yi's will after learning the truth about the Battle of Bagong Mountain, and it would be impossible for Li Ye to hold power.

What's more, Li Yan's accession to the throne is also a historical choice.

"You go down, these few days are closed, and you say that I want to retreat and cultivate. Li Ye commanded.

After Shangguan Chengcheng left, Li Ye took out the seal of King An.

Yesterday, Wu Hongshan crowned him, and also handed over to him the seal of King An, who was in charge of Li Xian.

Staring at Wang Yin, Li Ye calmed down.

The seal of King An represents the title of the Prince of the Tang Dynasty, and has a trace of luck of the Tang Dynasty.

"Wang Yin, Wang Yin...... How much luck do you have?" Li Ye held the Wang Seal in his hand, slowly closed his eyes, and secretly mobilized the dragon qi in his body.