Turbulent Times Chapter 1653: The killing intent of Li Yuan and his son
Chai Shao's heart was shocked, but he didn't show anything on his face, he said: "Ever since the second elder brother led the army to Sichuan and Sichuan, he has not written to the younger son-in-law."
Li Yuan raised his eyelids to look at Chai Shao, and nodded slowly: "You need to learn more about commanding troops and fighting."
"My son-in-law thinks the same way..." Chai Shao smiled a little ashamedly: "At the celebration banquet tonight, my son-in-law will find time to ask the people of the world for more advice..."
Li Yuan's eyes flashed, and he said calmly: "You don't want to attend the celebration banquet tonight. When the banquet starts in the evening, you will call in your troops to change defenses with the city defense army!"
Chai Shao looked serious, and said: "Sichang obeys."
Li Yuan didn't let Chai Shao leave, and the latter still waited respectfully by his side.
At this time, Li Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and went through the things he wanted to do tonight in his mind. He didn't find any mistakes or omissions, so he felt a little relieved.
He wiped the green pear he took off with both hands casually, took a bite lightly, resisting the unripe sour taste, and said quietly: "Sichang, do you know that the two rulers of the Sui Dynasty Who does the emperor hate the most?"
Chai Shao was stunned for a moment, wondering how his father-in-law would suddenly bring up this topic—the jump was too big.
However, although Chai Shao suffered a defeat against the Far East Army on the battlefield recently, his mentality is not low, otherwise he might have been listed among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion in the original history.
In addition, he was born in a powerful family, and he still knew some top-level things in the original Sui Dynasty. In addition to his judgment on the current situation, after a little thought, he replied: "My lord father-in-law, My son-in-law thought that the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty hated the most people who belonged to powerful families..."
"That's right." Li Yuan nodded slightly, heaved a long sigh, and then said lightly: "Back then, the Yang family relied on the support of aristocratic families to establish their country. The lands of Guanzhong and Luoyang have been able to compete for the world, but recently some powerful families have secretly colluded with Wang Junlin..."
Chai Shao lowered his head and did not speak, just stood aside, thinking secretly what Li Yuan meant by these words.
Suddenly, his heart moved, and he thought of Li Yuan asking him to transfer troops to change defenses tonight, and wondered if his father-in-law, who had always liked to be forbearing, was finally going to do something to some powerful families, but it was only because of his personality that he was just trying to make an example of others , it is very difficult to kill, so this kind of thing has to rely on the decisive and decisive...
"If my Li family can't get rid of the shackles and constraints of the powerful family, even if I conquer the world and sit in that position, the final outcome will not be much better than that of the Sui Dynasty." Li Yuan sighed deeply, and after a pause , continued.
"My father-in-law is wise." Chai Shao knew that his father-in-law said these words to himself, showing his absolute trust in himself, even surpassing his trust in his son Li Shimin, but even so... /
"Before, there were some things that were not easy for me to attack, and I had no excuse to kill people." Li Yuan said indifferently, "But my Li family is different from the Longxi Li family. Our ancestors were generals. If anyone dares to collude with the enemy secretly, I will call blood on anyone!"
The killing intent expressed in these words shocked Chai Shao, wondering if he had always underestimated his father-in-law? Its courage is no worse than Li Shimin.
Chai Shao is very clear that since the defeat with the Far Eastern Army, the loss of the home in Hedong, and the loss of soldiers and generals in Sichuan and Shu, some powerful families have other thoughts.
Especially after Wenxi Pei of Hedong and Wang of Taiyuan were reused by Wang Junlin, the thoughts of some aristocratic families turned into some actions. It is fatal enough for the Li family, because the power and energy of every powerful family cannot be underestimated.
As for my father-in-law, it's not that he doesn't know about this kind of thing, he has obviously reached the limit of his patience!
Only in Chai Shao's view, if Li Shimin
Standing in Li Yuan's position, he had already carried out a **** suppression and cleansing by means of thunder in the first place!
However, because Li Yuan has been suffering external defeats recently, the prestige of the Li family has dropped a lot, the morale of the army is also a little sluggish, and the morale of the army is a little unstable. They are all enduring, and have not activated for the time being.
And this time Li Shimin finally won the battle outside, especially the land of Luoyang and other special places...
So, Li Yuan is finally ready to see blood!
With Li Yuan's personality, taking advantage of his son's return with a big victory, he obviously wanted to call his son-in-law to lead the horse to kill people at this time. , and... also gave birth to great suspicion and distrust!
Li Yuan is obviously very clear that there is no guarantee that each powerful family has nothing to do with the city guards and other troops outside the city. , always have to deal with people, and people.
Being in the big dyeing vat of Chang'an City, it is inevitable that the city guards will be gradually infiltrated by various powerful families, not to mention that Li Yuan, who is also from a powerful family, knows very well that the best thing a powerful family is good at is to block the army and civil and military officials. own people.
With Li Yuan's move, it is clear that he no longer trusts the Royal Guards! In particular, his son was assassinated when he returned today, and it was still outside Chang'an City. It is said that the weapons were used, which showed too much information!
But Chai Shao knew that the banquet tonight was just the beginning of a great turmoil!
The 30,000 men under my command have already sharpened their swords!
When Chai Shao was thinking wildly, Li Yuan suddenly asked again: "At this time, Shimin has entered the city, right?"
Chai Shao quickly calmed down, and said in a deep voice: "Father-in-law, count the time, Shimin should have entered the palace to change clothes by now, and will soon enter the palace to meet his father-in-law."
At this moment, a **** reported outside the hall: "My lord, the second son is asking to see you."
There was a smile on Li Yuan's face. Although this rebellious son had his third son Yuanji shot and killed, he was extremely angry at one point, and he is still very dissatisfied and annoyed by him to this day. Seeing himself, he was quite satisfied, and said lightly: "Let that traitor come in."
The **** promised to pass on the imperial decree. Li Yuan told Chai Shao: "You go and prepare now! The evening banquet begins, and after the guests enter the venue, you will take your 30,000 troops to change defenses. You have prepared the military order documents and tokens, and no one will dare to disobey the military order and my will."
Chai Shao agreed, took the troop transfer document and imperial edict sent by the **** next to him, bowed and retreated.
When they were leaving the palace, Chai Shao and Li Shimin met face to face, and they only greeted each other politely, and said goodbye without saying a few words.
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After half an hour, Li Shimin came out of the palace and returned to his mansion. He knew that there were too many people staring at him in the dark, so he didn't see anyone.
After grooming and washing under the service of his wife's eldest grandson Guanyin's maidservant, he had dinner and changed into casual and comfortable clothes, then he walked slowly to the window, glanced at the sudden heavy rain outside the window, laughed, laughed There was a hint of murderous intent in his voice.
"It's raining well."
"...what's your husband's intention?" the Guanyin servant girl next to him asked doubtfully.
Li Shimin's eyes flashed, his voice lowered, and he said quietly: "In this weather, no matter how much blood is shed, it will be covered up by the rain."
Avalokitesvara's face changed, she took a deep breath, and said in a low voice: "So... Husband has made up his mind?"
"Well, I've made up my mind." Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and seemed to be smiling. His smile seemed relaxed and plain, but it contained a murderous intent and a hint of grievance.
"The history books of later generations should have today
One stroke of the night! " Li Shimin said word by word, "But how to comment, only the winner has the final say. "
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The original palace of the Sui Dynasty is now Li Yuan's palace.
As the afternoon approached the evening, the Suzaku Street in front of the palace was under martial law. Soldiers had blocked both ends of the street, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter.
In fact, it was raining heavily at this time, and there were no people on the street.
So, at the moment, the big Suzaku Street is deserted and deserted, only occasionally a luxury carriage surrounded by guards will drive into the street and come towards the palace.
Li Jing was sitting on the right side of the short one in a large carriage, thinking about what might or should happen in Chang'an City tonight, looking at the road outside the carriage, listening to the sound of rain falling on the carriage, with a blank expression on his face. expression.
Li Jiancheng was sitting on the left side of the short table. He frowned slightly and couldn't help sighing: "Mr. Wu, I've been a little worried about what happened tonight!"
That's right, Li Jing has become Li Jiancheng's confidant and aide, but his appearance and voice have changed greatly from before, even if he is very familiar with him, it is difficult to recognize him.
Looking at the outline of the palace that was getting closer, Li Jing said softly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the final result tonight will definitely be the result that your Majesty wants to see."
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The carriage will naturally get off before it reaches the palace.
However, as the eldest son of Li Jiancheng, he can still enjoy the treatment of riding a car and horse in the imperial city, not to mention that it will be raining heavily again.
However, as soon as he entered the palace, Li Jing suddenly felt the ubiquitous murderous aura!
Although the ribbons fluttered among the pavilions and pavilions, the servants who came and went were the same as usual, even the teams of Li Yuan's most trusted personal guards were all fully armed, with swords out of their sheaths and bows on strings to patrol. It is also a normal phenomenon in normal times. After all, the Far Eastern Army is notorious for beheading operations.
Therefore, this scene was not suspected by other noble families and civil and military officials who entered the palace to attend the celebration banquet.
However, Li Jing felt an inexplicable killing spirit from some of Li Yuan's personal guards walking.
Moreover, Li Jing could faintly feel that the whole palace seemed to be the same as usual, but he could feel the atmosphere of the whole palace, like a clockwork wound up to the extreme, ready to explode at any moment!
Especially now that there is wind and rain in Chang'an City, it seems to add a bit of chill to the palace.
Li Jing couldn't help thinking to himself: "The news received by the Military Intelligence Office is not wrong. Even if Li Shimin didn't make any moves tonight, Li Yuan would still make some moves tonight, but I don't know how far he can do it."
"Only the idiot Li Jiancheng seems to know everything, let alone what to do."
Just after entering the gate of the imperial city, after a square, there is the Tai Chi Hall, the largest building in the imperial palace.
This hall was built after Yang Guang ascended the throne as the emperor. It is majestic, magnificent and magnificent.
At that time, Yang Guang liked to hold grand celebrations, and all the grand celebrations were held here.
So, Li Yuan's celebration banquet tonight is also going to be held here.
Under the guidance of the court attendants, Li Jiancheng and others came to the front of the hall.
Other guards and servants are naturally not qualified to enter the banquet hall of this hall, so they can only be led to the side hall next to them, waiting with the guards and servants of other wealthy families.
Only Li Jing was brought by Li Jiancheng's side and was able to enter the main hall with Li Jiancheng, but the two of them actually did not directly enter the banquet hall of the main hall, but went to the special resting place for the prince that had been arranged long ago.
At this time, there were not many people in the banquet hall, and some distinguished civil and military officials and the heads of powerful families would always arrive later.
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