Great Tang Southern Emperor

Chapter 682 Encouraging

Chapter 45 Egging

"What?" After hearing Cui Yongxing's words, Wu Zhaolong said in shock: "I'm going to apologize to Li Zhen? Uncle, what are you kidding? I have a feud with Li Zhen for killing my father, and this feud is irreconcilable. You asked me to apologize to him , then you should kill me."

"Silly boy, what are you talking about?" Cui Yongxing shook his head and said, "Of course I know that you and Li Zhen have a big grudge, and I can't wait to kill Li Zhen immediately to avenge the rest of my life, but such things as revenge cannot be revealed face.

Now the situation is stronger than others. After the battle for Yindao, the strength of the family has plummeted, and the armed forces have been completely lost. We have no chance to come back. Even if we are not careful, the family will no longer have the possibility of existence .

Of course we want to take revenge, but as the saying goes, ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. As long as we recover, there will be opportunities for revenge, so why should you focus on the present?

Besides, your showing weakness this time just happened to dispel Li Zhen's vigilance, and we can develop slowly in the future, so there is naturally a chance for revenge. "

"Uncle, I know what you said, but I really can't do it if I ask Li Zhen to apologize." Although what Cui Yongxing said was reasonable, Wu Zhaolong didn't think that being subdued would make Li Zhen less vigilant.

Because compared to Li Zhen, she is only a small character, and it is estimated that after that incident, Li Zhen has already forgotten herself.

On the contrary, if I couldn't control my killing intent when I saw Li Zhen, it would attract Li Zhen's attention instead, and that would be truly self-defeating.

"Let's do this." Seeing that Cui Yongxing still wanted to persuade, Wu Zhaolong said: "There is no need to apologize, I will go to this banquet, but I can only be an ordinary guest, as for the apology - I'm afraid I can't control it My own killing intent has instead attracted Li Zhen's attention."

"That's right." Cui Yongxing made sense after thinking about it, so he nodded and said, "That's how it is, I'll send someone to send you an invitation later, you can go by yourself."

"I understand." Wu Zhaolong said, suddenly, he remembered another question and asked, "Uncle, don't you think there is something wrong?"

"What's wrong? What could be wrong?" Cui Yongxing asked subconsciously.

"The king of Yue agreed to attend your banquet, don't you find it strange?" Wu Zhaolong asked back: "You must know that Li Zhen has already shown his dislike for you on his face—even the reception banquet you gave him, He didn't even attend the appointment, now you just held an ordinary banquet, but Li Zhen came, isn't that strange enough?"

"This is really strange." When Wu Zhaolong said this, Cui Yongxing also realized that something was wrong.

Indeed, Li Zhen's dislike for the aristocratic family has almost been marked on his face, and he has repeatedly refused his own banquet, even did not come to the welcome banquet that he organized for him, but now he actually agreed to his own banquet—— No matter how you think about it, it feels wrong.

"Then what do you think is Li Zhen's purpose for coming to the banquet?"

"I couldn't figure it out at the moment." Wu Zhaolong didn't come up with a clue either: "But no matter what, I think Li Zhen must have a conspiracy here. Uncle still has to be careful, it's best to prepare early."

"So what can I do if I prepare early? No matter whether Li Zhen has a conspiracy or not, I have no room to resist." Who knows, after hearing Wu Zhaolong's analysis, Cui Yongxing smiled wryly, and said a little lonely: "It is natural that Li Zhen has no conspiracy. It's best, everyone, hello and me, everyone is happy, but if Li Zhen has a conspiracy—do you think uncle and I can do anything?"

"Why is there no way?" Wu Zhaolong urged, "Now Li Zhen is on our land, even if he is escorted by the Youth Army, as long as you are willing, I can help you formulate a complete set of perfect plans to put Li Zhen to death in minutes." Methods."

"Uncle believes this, and uncle is very confident in your strategy." Cui Yongxing first affirmed Wu Zhaolong's ingenuity, and then asked back: "But then what? Li Zhen died on my territory, and the furious Li Shimin The first thing I want to look for is my troubles. My best end is at least three thousand miles of exile. If Li Shimin finds out that this matter has even the slightest relationship with me, I will die without a place to die And not only I am going to die, but my family, the Cui family and even all the families in the world will be implicated by me, and will fall into a state of eternal doom—now the imperial court is staring at the family, almost using a magnifying glass to observe the family , just waiting for us to make a mistake."

"That is to say, no matter whether I resist or not, there is only one end in the end, and that is death. The difference is that if I don't resist, I will die alone. Give the court an excuse to do something, and then many people will die.” At this point, Cui Yongxing looked at Wu Zhaolong: “So, it’s not that I can’t resist, but the consequences of my resistance are too terrible—for my The family is also for the inheritance of the family, I can't resist."

Wu Zhaolong patted the armrest of the chair, unwillingly said: "But uncle, are you willing to die?"

Cui Yongxing turned his back, stopped looking at Wu Zhaolong, and said slowly: "So what if you are willing? What if you are not willing? Since death is inevitable anyway, why not choose a method with a lower cost...Okay, let's just decide Alright, I'm leaving first, you pack up and come back later..."

"Crack."

When Cui Yongxing was talking with Wu Zhaolong's uncle and nephew, Li Zhen also started a discussion on this issue.

"I am opposed to your Highness going to the banquet." Fang Yiai was the first to express her opinion: "Your Highness, you have repeatedly disrespected Cui Yongxing, and made Cui Yongxing lose all face in Jiangnan Road. He must have a grudge against you, I'm afraid the banquet will not be a good one."

"That's what I mean too." Du He also stood on Fang Yiai's side: "This Cui Yongxing is the representative of the aristocratic family, His Highness has put the aristocratic family into such a mess, almost hurting their vitality, maybe this Cui Yongxing is here to take revenge. "

"That's what you said wrong, the more this time, the more this Cui Yongxing dare not move." Xi Junmai thought a little more: "The aristocratic family is so weak now, it is because they are afraid that the court will make trouble for them, this Cui Yongxing But as long as he has a little strategic vision, he dare not move a finger of His Highness at this time.

Wang Tianqi also waved his fists and said, "That's right, even if they really have the guts, we brought a few thousand young soldiers this time, enough to withstand a hundred thousand troops without defeat - there is no one hundred thousand troops in the entire Jiangnan Road , no one is our opponent at all..."

What everyone said made sense, but Li Zhen frowned...

Chapter 683

Chapter 46 Factions

The reason why Li Zhen showed this expression was very simple, because he found that there were already signs of a faction under his command.

It stands to reason that for a superior, splitting his subordinates into different factions is good for stabilizing his own rule. On the contrary, the biggest disaster for the ruler is to hold the subordinates together.

But for Li Zhen, it is a bad phenomenon that the subordinates are at odds with each other, and even split into factions. The faction can indeed help stabilize one's dominance, but it is also easy to cause internal struggles and internal instability. Phenomenon.

Li Zhen's goal is to sweep the world, and it is best to have the entire earth in his pocket. If factions within the Tang Dynasty are fighting each other and fighting endlessly, it will only drag down his energy. How can he conquer the world?

And Li Zhen is very clear about how harmful the party struggle is, whether it is the dispute between cattle and plums at the end of the Tang Dynasty, or the dispute between reformists and conservatives in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, let alone the Han Dynasty. The dispute between the monarchy and his subjects, the struggle between the imperial power and his relatives, the struggle between his relatives and eunuchs, the struggle between his relatives and ministers, the struggle between ministers and eunuchs... all kinds of chaos become a pot of porridge, everyone only cares about fighting, everyone thinks It is to kill one's own enemies, no one will manage the government, will there be someone to manage the people's livelihood, and finally in this kind of internal struggle, the vitality of the country will be exhausted bit by bit, and then the people will rise up and the dynasty will perish.

Li Zhen didn't want to see this scene, but it was obvious that she had neglected this aspect. Under her command, people from aristocratic backgrounds (such as Fang Yiai and Du He) had begun to consciously compete with those from poor families (Xi Junbuy) and Xue Rengui) there is a faint estrangement—although perhaps this estrangement may not even be noticed by themselves, but if they are allowed to develop, the estrangement will become bigger and bigger, and eventually it will definitely lead to party disputes.

What's more, the current situation is very urgent.At least when I didn't notice, this secret division of factions has reached a very serious level, to the point of opposing purely for the sake of opposing - let's take this banquet as an example, Fang Yiai and Du He are not Stupid, it is impossible for them not to see that the aristocratic family has reached the end of the day. At this time, even if Cui Yongxing had ten courages, he would not dare to harm Li Zhen at this stall. No danger.

But they clearly knew that Li Zhen was not in danger, but in order to refute Xi Junmai's point of view, Du He and the others still pulled out a lot of reasons, citing their own personal safety as an excuse to firmly oppose their going to the banquet.

The more noisy and intense the atmosphere at the scene, the darker Li Zhen's complexion became. However, this scene was not seen by both sides who were hyping it up. On the contrary, it was because of his great achievements and fame, Yan looked at it and was about to be banned when he returned. Make a wish, get promoted to three levels in a row, and Wang Xuance, who is destined to reach the pinnacle of life, sees it.

Wang Xuance noticed that Li Zhen's face was not good-looking, and looked at the people arguing endlessly, and immediately understood what Li Zhen was thinking. Seeing that Li Zhen was already on the verge of breaking out, he quickly interrupted everyone, saying: "I said Don't quarrel, everyone. If you keep arguing, it's meaningless. Why don't you ask His Highness? Your Highness, what are your plans? You didn't give Cui Yongxing any face before, why do you want to attend his banquet now? Could it be? Any special plans?"

Forcibly suppressing her anger, Li Zhen said slowly: "There is indeed a plan, but it's nothing special. This king just wants to take advantage of this opportunity to arrest Cui Yongxing."

"What? Your Highness can't." Xue Rengui was shocked, he didn't expect Li Zhen to have such a plan, and immediately persuaded him: "If Your Highness has this idea, then my subordinates can't agree with His Highness to go to the banquet.

Youdao said that the Lord humiliated his officials to death, His Highness was so troubled by this Cui Yongxing, and his subordinates wanted to kill him even more than His Highness, but Hangzhou is Cui Yongxing's territory. He has been an official in Hangzhou for so many years, and his power is unimaginable.

We make trouble for him, he doesn't care, but if we really want to push him to death, then he will do anything to survive-although we have thousands of young soldiers, we are easy to hide with open guns Hidden arrows are hard to guard against. If the enemy plays tricks secretly, we may not be able to outplay them. "

"What did you say? Is it the king's land in the whole world, is it the king's minister on the shore of the land, your highness is the king, what's the matter with wanting to arrest a criminal governor?" As Li Zhen expected, Xue Rengui's voice just fell. He stood up and said, "What's more, let's arrest Cui Yongxing. It's not that the teacher is unknown. This Cui Yongxing is in the land of Hangzhou, but he has committed all kinds of crimes. The evidence of his crime that we have is no less than a hundred - so many pieces of evidence. Even if Cui Yongxing dies ten times, it is enough, we arrested him to eliminate harm for the people, who can do anything?"

"That's right, besides, this Cui Yongxing dare not trouble His Highness." After Du He finished speaking, Fang Yiaibian stood up and added: "Now that the family has been severely injured by His Highness, it is a time of turbulence, and they can't wait for it If His Highness doesn't pay attention to them, how can they dare to stand up against the imperial court?"

"Zhen Nima is a pig teammate." Hearing Fang Yiai's words, Wang Xuance couldn't help but cover his head. You can't even see such an obvious trap, and how dare you form a clique?Who gave you the courage?With your IQ, aren't you afraid of being swallowed whole?

"Really? What you said really makes sense." Sure enough, after hearing Fang Yiai's reasons, Li Zhen suddenly smiled: "However, since you know that Cui Yongxing dare not do anything to me, then why did you object before?" I go to the banquet?"

"I..." Fang Yi'ai was stuck, beads of sweat dripped from his forehead, and Du He's heart was about to twitch. At this moment, why didn't he understand?Li Zhen has already announced that she formed a party for personal gain and was against Xue Rengui?

"Your Highness..." Swallowing a mouthful of spit, Du He struggled to say something, but seeing Li Zhen's cold gaze, his heart trembled, and he couldn't say anything when he came to his mouth.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Li Zhen was not as furious as Wang Xuance imagined, but her voice became more and more calm, but the monstrous anger contained in this calmness, even a newcomer like Wang Xuance could feel it.

As a person who has followed Li Zhen for more than ten years, Du He naturally has a deep understanding - not only Du He, but everyone who heard these words seemed to be blown by the dark wind from Jiuyou, feeling that the body was coming from the inside. I felt a bone-chilling chill outside.

Chapter 684 Another secret?

Chapter 47 has something else hidden?

In fact, the old people who have followed Li Zhen for a long time know that Li Zhen is not terrible when he is really angry, because with his violent anger, half of the anger in his heart has actually been vented, and he can basically control his emotions.

And under normal circumstances, the targets of Li Zhen's rage are basically enemies. When he is in a rage, as long as you don't try to provoke or provoke him, he will never vent his anger on you—of course , If you are accidentally injured, it is not counted, it can only be considered unlucky for you.