Chapter 714 Nanzheng

In the imperial study, Li Chengde, who was a little lost in his heart, looked at Li Xian in fear. He lowered his head and his body trembled slightly. He didn't know what was wrong. Every time he saw Li Xian, he felt a deep fear from the bottom of his heart. At least, it seemed that he really had a deep fear from the bottom of his heart.

The smell of sandalwood was still floating in the room, but Li Chengde's heart couldn't calm down at all.

"Scared?"

Li Xian sat on the chair, tasted a sip of tea and asked.

"Yes or no!"

Li Chengde, who was a little lost, said in a panic: "Working for the emperor's uncle, my nephew dare not be afraid, nor can he be afraid."

"anyway……"

Li Xian put down the teacup in his hand and said, "You are the emperor now. What the emperor should have the most is courage... I am talking to you now, not what you are doing in a hypocritical way. It seems... it seems that what you lack the most in your personality is courage. Of course, it also has toughness. You are like weeds swaying back and forth in the wind. Wherever the wind is stronger, you bow and bow in the direction of the wind."

"But you still have a paranoidness in your bones. Paranoidness that lacks courage often makes you more and more painful, and even do some crazy things that you can't control yourself. Gu knew that he shouldn't force you to sit in a seat you don't want to sit. This is really too much pressure for you... But you haven't learned how to do nothing."

"You have unwillingness in your heart."

Li Xian said lightly.

"My nephew dare not!"

"After you enter Tai Chi Palace, you eat and live in the Imperial Study room... you rarely go back to the bedroom, and rarely go outside. You like to sit in front of the desk in the Imperial Study room and write with a red pen."

"Nephew...nephew is just bored."

"You don't have to be afraid of anything."

Li Xian looked at him and said seriously: "I won't kill you, but I don't want to see any dirty things."

He pointed to the bookshelf and said, "There is a secret passage in this imperial study room, do you know?"

"My nephew doesn't know..."

"You don't know, but Li Yuan knows. You just said, you dare not be afraid of doing things for me... If everyone in Ye did not appear at the door of the Imperial Study Room in time, will Li Yuan successfully leave the Tai Chi Palace after killing Sanmu? Sanmu is Gu's person, Li Yuan doesn't know, but you know... Do you understand what Gu said?"

"My nephew is wrong!"

Li Chengde knelt down with a plop, not daring to look up.

"This method cannot be thought of by Li Yuan, it can only be you. Even if Li Yuan was panicked at that time, he would not think that he could get out of dressing up as a eunuch. But you know you can try it. Because Sanmu is a man from the military department, wearing Sanmu's clothes and making Tai Chi Palace is not sure that he will not succeed. This is not a matter of difficulty inferring. I don't want to delve into the fact that you did this out of fear, worrying about being killed or really wanting Li Yuan to escape, but you are wrong after all."

Li Xian looked at Li Chengde and said word by word: "And don't pretend to be frightened in front of Gu anymore. It's true that your fear is, but it's not like what you show. There is no fool or idiot in the Li family, and everyone in the Li family is good at acting... Gu has seen this very clearly for a long time."

After hearing these words, Li Chengde's face turned ugly.

"In fact, you don't need to think carefully, and you can guess what purpose you let Li Yuan go. As long as Li Yuan is not dead and Li Shimin is not dead, you can continue to sit on the throne, even if you are an emperor without real power. On the contrary, if all foreign enemies are destroyed, then you, the emperor, will be meaningless. What you are afraid of... is actually this."

"When Xu Shiji brought you to Chang'an, he said you were frightened, but not really frightened. He said that he saw ambition in your eyes. Although he was very careful, he still couldn't hide it from him. Maybe you planned this way..."

Li Xian stood up and walked slowly to Li Chengde and said, "Sit on the dragon throne first. Don't care whether there is real power. Because you are the emperor, and the people all have some ignorant fear and blind trust in the emperor. There are many people in the court who are against the orphans, the people, and the court officials who are against the orphans, who are all people you can use. As long as you sit on the dragon throne for a long time, you will find a way to overturn the orphans."

"Is it right?"

Li Xian squatted down, looked at Li Chengde's pale face and said, "Li Yuan entered your imperial study room, and you fell to the ground in fear... It's also fake. You are acting for me to show you."

"You wish I could continue fighting with Li Yuan, and you wish Li Shimin could fight back."

Li Xian patted Li Chengde on the shoulder and smiled and said, "You don't need to be afraid of anything, because you are right. Before all foreign enemies are eliminated, your throne will still be stable. I will not move you, you can still live as you used to."

He stood up and walked slowly towards the door.

"The secret passage in the emperor's bedroom has been blocked, so this in the imperial study has no meaning... Although I don't know how many times Li Yuan has visited the imperial study to discuss with you, and I don't know if you often go to the secret passage to the bedroom to ask Li Yuan for advice, but you can live in the bedroom forever in the future without having to go back and forth like this... In addition, it is safe to be guarded by the military guards in the future."

Li Xian looked back at Li Chengde, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was particularly cold.

"You killed Li Yuan because you are afraid that Gu will know... You have conspired with him for a long time, but no matter what... Gu will thank you, because it is difficult for Gu to kill him with your own hands."

On the fifth day after the bleeding, Emperor Li Chengde was extremely frightened and weak and unable to attend court, so he decided to rest in his bedroom until he recovered.

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On September 12th, the first person in Nayan, Pei Ji, who was the first to be a king after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a letter to ask for retirement and return home on the grounds of being sick. The King of Yan tried to stay three times, and Pei Ji was determined. The King of Yan immediately gave him 100 hectares of fertile land, 10,000 silver and 1,000 pieces of brocade to allow him to retire.

On September 13th, the Secretary of Shangshu Yu Shinan, the Secretary of the Central Committee, Liu Zhenghui, and the Secretary of the Ministry of War Zhang Gongjin wrote a letter to apologize. The King of Yan Nian was loyal to the three of them and stayed in Chang'an. The Secretary of Shangshu Yu Shinan was demoted to the Minister of Rites, the Secretary of the Central Committee, Liu Zhenghui was demoted to the Minister of Works, and the Secretary of the Ministry of War Zhang Gongjin was demoted to the Minister of Revenue.

On September 15th, the King of Yan appointed Du Ruhui as prime minister and prime minister of government affairs.

Xu Shiji was appointed as the Minister of War, Changsun Wuji was appointed as the Minister of Rites, Fang Xuanling was appointed as the Minister of Revenue, Wei Zheng was appointed as the Chief Inspector, Pei Caozhi was appointed as the Minister of Personnel, Dugu Xue, the Minister of Justice, and Hou Junji was appointed as the Minister of War, and temporarily served as the Minister of War.

On September 16th, the King of Yan issued an order for the Ministry of War to raise supplies and dispatched 80,000 elite Yanyun Army in Chang'an City to prepare for the southern expedition, with Luo Shixin as the vanguard general and Xia Fengchun as the deputy general, leading 20,000 troops to head south first. Changsun Wuji, the former Minister of Rites, had almost arrived in Wudang Mountain at this time. The King of Yan ordered the Military Bureau to send a message urgently, asking Changsun Wuji to stay in place and wait for Luo Shixin's vanguard army.

The troops waiting to go in the city gathered and trained, ready to go with His Royal Highness Yan to personally fight.

General Tiance's Mansion

Li Xian put down the booklet in his hand and listened attentively to the following people.

In a row of chairs, the one sitting in the front seat was Prime Minister Du Ruhui, behind him was Fang Xuanling, Minister of Revenue, Pei Caozhi, Minister of Rites, and Hou Junji, Minister of War.

Pei Caozhi was the governor of Qi County during the Daye period. He was a literary and military commander Zhang Xutuo at the end of the Sui Dynasty. He was the barrier to the prosperity of Qi County. It was precisely because Pei Caozhi was in Qi County that Zhang Xutuo could lead the army to suppress the thieves without any worries. The two had a very tacit understanding. It can be said that without Pei Caozhi's support behind him, there would be no victory in Qi County's elite soldiers in front of him.

After Qi County was appointed as Yanyun Village, Pei Caozhi was appointed as the prefect of Qi County, governing the two counties of Qi and Lu, and his status among civil officials was second only to Du Ruhui.

This person has the ability and is considered to be a direct descendant of Yanyun Army, so it is normal to get promoted. After all, there are not many civil officials in Yanyun Army.

"Lord, Chang'an has decided to send troops so soon, are you going to think about it again? I think it should be better to wait a few more months. After the spring is warm next year, the army will rest and have food and grass. In addition, we can mobilize people from Dongping County, Qi County, Jiangnan County, and Taiyuan. At that time, we can gather hundreds of thousands of elite troops and go south with thunder... Even if Li Shimin can conquer Jingxiang, it will be difficult to resist."

"I...I'll discuss it."

Pei Caozhi leaned over and said.

Li Xian nodded, instead of answering, he asked Hou Junji, "What do you think?"

Hou Junji pondered for a while and said, "I shouldn't have made many fallacies about things I don't know... But I dare not speak out in truth. The situation in Jingxiang is better. I think... I should care as soon as possible. Xiao Xian has 400,000 troops, not like Dou Jiande's command, and many troops are coming out of the green forest. Before, Xiao Xian used troops to Sichuan and Shu and divided his troops to station in various counties. Li Shimin took advantage of the loopholes, so he captured the city with less than 200,000 troops and took the lead."

"Xiangyang City is trapped, but the city's defenders are afraid that there are no less than 50,000. Li Shimin is very difficult to conquer easily. Even if it is conquered, the loss of Li Shimin's men and horses under Xiangyang City will inevitably be huge. If Xiao Xian sent elite troops to the southern expedition back, he is afraid that Li Shimin will find it difficult to have hope of victory. He can only seek quickness now and conquer Xiangyang before Xiao Xian's elite troops return to the rescue... Therefore, I think that although there is no detailed information from the Military Bureau, it is not difficult to analyze that the battle in Xiangyang will inevitably be tragic."

"Take this opportunity, the lord's army heads south, just in time."

Li Xian nodded and asked Fang Xuanling again: "Does the Ministry of Revenue still have any remaining money?"

"have!"

Fang Xuanling nodded and said, "If we use 100,000 troops to make up, the military pay will be worry-free. If the silver in the treasury is enough, Yang Guang has saved a lot of money... The grain and grass transported from Xingluo Cang and Liyang Cang have arrived in two batches, and the last batch will arrive in three or five days at the latest. Wang Qinian is a good person. He has only gone to Dongdu for one month, and many dead accounts have been cleared. The silver in Dongdu is in stock is more than Chang'an."

"There are more Jiangdu, but unfortunately it was destroyed by Yu Culture and its hands."

Li Xian sighed and smiled, "Although killing Yang Guang made Yu Wen and his bad reputation, the white silver was really stuffed into his arms. Yu Wen and was killed by Dou Jiande in Hebei, and most of the silver was given to Dou Jiande cheaply."

Li Xian stood up, opened the window and took a breath of fresh air: "Since he entered Chang'an City, Gu's temperament has become more and more indecisive... I don't know if the days in this city are too leisurely, so they feel lazy... It is indeed the time to fight Jingxiang. Li Shimin was in chaos and the Liang army suffered huge losses. Whether it was Li Shimin or Xiao Xian, the matter of the Southern Expedition could not be waited any longer. The opportunity would not come again and again, and there was no second and third Li Shimin to consume Xiao Xian's troops for Gu."

"If Li Shimin is let go, it is useless."

"The matter in Hebei is left to Maogong. Qin Qiong guards the foundation of Qilu, and Gu is relieved... Although Niu Jinda has just arrived in the south, it is still okay to recruit tens of thousands of people."

He looked at Pei Cao and said, "I originally planned to send you to help Niu Jinda, but Chang'an was troublesome, so I had to keep you again... After Gu's army left Chang'an, you can't be idle... guarding the food road for Gu, the top priority."

"Here!"

"That's it. Since you're going to fight sooner or later, then fight as soon as possible... The root of the disaster that Gu himself released, then Gu will remove it by himself."

At the same time, it is 210 miles away from Chang'an City.

Ashin lifted the curtains of the car window, and there was a little worry between his eyebrows.

"There is no news from the Junji Guard yet. Could it be that something happened in Chang'an?"

She whispered to herself in a low voice, her tone was a little uneasy: "Gelendai, hurry up!"

The majestic man who was driving the car responded and blew the whip.

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