Chapter Eighty-Six: Ruthless and Selfless
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Li Yuan had never put Dou Jiande in his eyes to be honest before, although he was addicted to pleasure, but he only skipped others, and he was scheming, otherwise he would not have lived peacefully for more than ten years under Yang Guang's suspicion.
But this time Li Yuan regretted for the first time that he looked down on Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande was just a cloth cloth, twenty years ago he was just a farmer, and most of the people who rebelled with him at the beginning were illiterate farmers, so in Li Yuan's eyes, even if Dou Jiande occupied Hebei, he would not be able to become a climate.
Unexpectedly, Dou Jiande dared to cross the Yellow River to the north with the whole army, capture Heyang, Huaizhou, and arrange for the main general to defend the town. He led a large group of men and horses to beat drums and raise flags non-stop, crossed the Taihang Mountain, and drove into Shangdang County, and this qiē was just a measure to hide his true purpose. Dou Jiande bluffed, but secretly accelerated to Hukou, disturbed Pujin, seized the land in Hedong, and finally became Li Tang's confidant.
Li Yuan's soft gaze fell on the ministers, and said gently: "The summer thief attacked my henchman's place, what countermeasures do the secretaries have?"
Li Yuanji stepped forward and said: "As long as the father and emperor give 30,000 to his sons, the sons will definitely be able to bring Dou Jiande's head back." ”
Li Yuan said with a smile: "King Qi is resolute, I am very relieved, do the rest of Aiqing have any good plans?"
The ministers knew that the king of Qi and the crown prince were now openly at odds, and at this time, people other than the two factions did not want to get involved. In order to prevent the king of Qi from becoming the second king of Qin, the crown prince would rather let Li Xiaogong, who did not belong to any party, command the army to conquer Wang Shichong, rather than let Li Yuanji control an inch of military power.
If he has no military power, the king of Qi will not be able to fight the crown prince no matter what. It can be said that Li Jiancheng eats a trench and grows wise. It is incredibly accurate. And with the support of Cihang Jingzhai, Li Yuan is not too biased towards King Qi, and it can be said that Li Yuanji's situation is even more unsatisfactory than that of King Qin back then.
Feng Deyi, an important minister of the Sui family who naturalized Li Yuan with Yuwen Valve, said: "The king of Huai'an has fallen into the hands of the Xia thief, and now the Xia thief can be described as a huge momentum, we should be quiet and not move now, if the king of Qi is out of the army, if it is slightly unfavorable, we will be very passive." "Feng Deyi was born in the Bohai Feng clan. In his early years, he was a staff member of Yang Su, and later was responsible for supervising the construction of Renshou Palace, and was promoted to the inner historian. During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Feng Deyi was relied on by Yu Shiji, which gradually corrupted the government. After the change of Jiangdu, he took refuge in Yu Wenhua and served as Shi Ling.
After the defeat of Yu Wenhua and the army, Feng Deyi followed the Yuwen valve to naturalize Li Tang, who was born in a high-ranking family and was an important minister of several dynasties. Li Yuan also respected him, so Feng Deyi's words had to be carefully considered.
Li Jiancheng knew that he had not recruited Feng Deyi in vain. At this critical time, it is difficult for Li Jiancheng's subordinates to come forward, otherwise blocking Li Yuan at this time will only make Li Yuan unhappy, and Feng Deyi, who has nothing to do with him on the surface, will not make Li Yuan suspicious, which can be said in one fell swoop.
He didn't know that Feng Deyi was actually Song Que's internal response to enter the Guanzhong, and it was impossible for him to have the same heart.
Feng Deyi knew in his heart that before Li Tang occupied Guanzhong, Dazheng occupied Henan, and Daxia occupied Hebei, this was a situation of confrontation between the three sides. Now that Tang is strong and Zheng is weak, the three-legged situation is about to be broken, so it is inevitable that Dou Jiande will send troops. And Feng Deyi also had to maintain the three-legged situation as much as possible, waiting for the day when Song Que went north.
After Li Tang quarreled and discussed for a while, he still did not come up with an exact plan, and finally used Feng Deyi's words to seek the country, and failed to let Li Yuanji send troops.
Feng Deyi slowly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Dou Jiande worked harder and arrived in the area of the Tiger Prison, then Li Xiaogong would have to give up the move to attack Luoyang and turn around to deal with Dou Jiande.
In a quiet bamboo forest outside Xiangyang City, there is a stone house quietly located in the middle, the stream in front of the house flows, the sound of Zen singing insects wanders freely among the bamboo leaves, the morning sun rises in the east, and the bamboo shadow becomes more and more quiet and moving.
Li Zhichang said slowly: "Although I have already understood the true meaning of 'all thoughts turn into one mind, one thought cannot be missed, and all thoughts are empty', but Fu Cailin's blow of pouring out the essence of life, the shadow left by it still cannot be erased from my heart, so whenever I am naturally lucky, it also reminds me that I still have injuries, so I have not healed for so long." ”
Through the bamboo curtain, Shi Qingxuan could still feel Li Zhichang's plain and natural at the moment, and by this time she was sure that Li Zhichang's injury had healed, and there was no recurrence.
Shi Qingxuan sneered and said, "How do people know if you are an excuse to let me give you a." ”
Li Zhichang chuckled: "Qing Xuan's Xiao Yin does have the magic power to make me forget my worries, so as to return to the state of 'all thoughts are empty', so that my injuries have finally recovered, this is absolutely false, not to mention that Qing Xuan is living in seclusion outside Xiangyang City, which makes me surprised and happy." ”
Shi Qingxuan had a playful smile on her face and asked rhetorically, "Is that more surprised, or much happier?"
Li Zhichang smiled and said, "If I say that I am mostly happy, do you believe it?"
Shi Qingxuan smiled lightly: "You are now the king of the south, do you dare to believe it." ”
Li Zhichang sighed: "Qing Xuan doesn't want me to continue the expedition, I know that you have always liked to live alone comfortably and self-sufficiently, even if you and I know each other, I have not forced you in the slightest." ”
Shi Qingxuan was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "You didn't force me in the slightest, so naturally I can't force you anymore." ”
Outside the stone house, someone sighed softly and said: "Qing Xuan, you are really the stupidest woman in the world, if Li Zhichang doesn't take you to heart, why would he pretend that his injuries have not healed and come here." ”
Shi Qingxuan finally heard the voice that had been thinking about it for more than ten years, but was a little reluctant to face it, Yurong became extremely calm, and said to Li Zhichang: "You guessed that Shi Zhixuan was going to kill me, so you came here to save me?"
Li Zhi often stepped out of the stone house, under the bamboo forest, next to the stream, the stone pavilion stood leisurely, between the seemingly nothing, gazing deeply at the clear stream.
As soon as the morning breeze moved, the bamboo leaves on the bamboo forest sprinkled from the sky, doubling the bleak and cold state of mind of Shi Zhixuan at this moment.
This touch of melancholy, no matter who sees it, will inevitably be moved.
Shi Qingxuan whispered beside Li Zhichang: "This is Shi Zhixuan, who fascinated his mother. ”
Shi Zhixuan didn't look up, but Shi Qingxuan seemed to feel Shi Zhixuan's affectionate gaze on her, and she was ruthless because of her affection. He chanted slowly: "The wind flocculent has turned into a puff, the lotus mud has just been lingering, cherish a petal of incense, remember the previous life."
When the love is strong, the love becomes thinner, and now I really regret and are affectionate, and I look back at the broken intestines, and the tears are gone. ”
A few tears flowed down Shi Zhixuan's cheeks and melted into the stream, no matter who could feel Shi Zhixuan's sadness at the moment.
Shi Qingxuan held Li Zhichang's hand tightly, Li Zhichang could still feel this woman who looked down on Qiē, and her hands were dripping with sweat at the moment.
Li Zhichang said leisurely: "The evil king has finally reached the realm of ruthlessness and selflessness, are you very lonely now?"
Shi Zhixuan raised his head, standing in his hands, his cold eyes did not have the slightest human emotion, but he laughed lightly, and said: "Since I have been sensible, I have felt lonely, it is not a matter of how many people are around, but when you see through this world, you will become a calm bystander, their obsession with gains and losses, in my eyes is just ignorance that is not worth a bit." Li Zhichang, you are the same person as me, let me ask you, aren't you lonely?"
Li Zhichang said calmly: "I am different from you, I am as fearless as you in life and death, and we are better than others in this regard, but I will not believe that any external force can provide me with an exit from this cage-like life, nor will I hope that religion can give you liberation like you." Even if everyone is drunk and I am so lonely, it will not make me as crazy as you. ”
Shi Qingxuan didn't say a word, staring deeply at her father, no one understood Shi Zhixuan's coldness and his unkindness better than her, not because of his natural desire to kill, or because he took pleasure in destruction, but because he was beyond ordinary people's intelligence and saw through the essence of life, so as to form his own set of unshakable ways of dealing with the world.
So to this day, Shi Qingxuan also understands that her mother has never hated Shi Zhixuan, but she has no reason to forgive him, and she doesn't want to hate him, the contradiction in her heart is diametrically opposed to the calm appearance at the moment.
Shi Zhixuan sneered: "You and I are cool when you first met Xiuxin, I also thought that Xiuxin was my only chance to break free from the sea of suffering, but it was destroyed by my own hands, and now I have understood that I Shi Zhixuan has never been at fault, it is the world that is wrong." ”
Li Zhichang said lightly: "That's it, no matter what, you can't hurt Qing Xuan anyway, I gave you the opportunity to recover, now it's time for you and me to finish, it is imperative to unify the world, maybe I won't stay in this world for long, so the evil king can't let you stay in this world." ”
Shi Zhixuan's demeanor was leisurely and freehand, and he didn't feel anything for Li Zhichang's cruel words, after killing Shi Qingxuan, he didn't have any worries in this world, and when the time came, either he completed the mission and ideals of the Holy Gate, or was destroyed, and there was no third possibility.
He also understands that Li Zhichang is deeply jealous of him, and only he can destroy the hope of unifying the world without much effort, which is not a big talk, just because except for a few people, no one can compete with him, and he is the real unscrupulous character.
Like Li Zhichang, he will not kill like him, Li Zhichang's freedom is in line with the inherent rules of the world, the pursuit of traditional immortality and sanctification, the root itself is still self-emancipation, and conquering the world is just a wonderful thing in Li Zhichang's life, not all of him.
He said happily: "You know exactly what my killing intentions are at the moment, why don't you do it yet?"
Li Zhichang said calmly: "I first want you not to kill Qingxuan, and then I want to kill you, not to mention that the strength of the evil king is not below me at all, how can I act rashly." (To be continued......) R1292