Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Concubine Yang looked at her son unbearably, but she nodded affirmatively and said, "Son, Concubine Mother doesn't expect you to replace Li Chengqian. Concubine Mother just wants you to be safe and happy. Growing up. At the same time, the mother and concubine also hope that you can gain more reliance when your father is on the throne, so that you can protect yourself in the future. Since you are destined to miss the throne, you should work harder Strong, so that your father will value you, give you more power, and let you be a Tang Dynasty prince with real power. At least you must do it. No matter who ascends the throne in the future, you will not be able to do anything to you. You know what mother and concubine are Have you thought about it? Ke'er."

Li Ke didn't speak, but just hummed lightly. At this time, the powerlessness in his heart was like drinking water, knowing whether he is warm or not.

Concubine Yang is a woman with a city mansion. Looking at Li Ke's unwillingness and resentment, how can she not know what Li Ke is thinking?

However, she still reminded: "Ke'er, now that Li Tai has been demoted and Li Chengqian has been deposed, don't think that you can get what you want. The concubine mother hopes that you will live in seclusion recently and study behind closed doors at home, so as not to cause trouble and become a The target of public criticism. Concubine Mu put the words here today, if you only think about the throne of the crown prince, you will definitely bring yourself bad luck. Ke'er, did you hear me clearly?"

In the last sentence, Concubine Yang had a cold face, almost roaring, and her words changed from a reminder at the beginning to a final warning.

Li Ke was frightened when he saw his mother, who had always been doting on him, sullenly and furiously.

Immediately, he promised with a humble and awe-inspiring expression: "Don't worry, my concubine, I know my own importance and will not mess around. I promise that I will never covet the crown prince's throne again, and I will definitely follow the rules and be my king of Shu." .In the future, my ministers will serve and be filial to my mother and concubine."

"That's fine~"

Concubine Yang's cold face suddenly turned soft, she nodded with satisfaction, and looked at Li Ke with motherly love in her eyes.

But she didn't know that a grass called "Ambition" had gradually taken root and sprouted in Li Ke's heart...

Chapter 870

The next morning, go to court as scheduled.

In the early court, His Majesty Li Er announced in public that he would depose Prince Chengqian and King Wei Li Tai from now on.

As soon as this remark came out, Man Chao was shocked.

It is insignificant to depose the prince, and all the officials can obey the emperor's will.But to depose the crown prince of a country is related to the future of the Tang Empire, the continuation of the country, and the heir to the throne. How can the emperor just abolish it?

For a time, His Majesty Li Er's arbitrariness attracted opposition from the officials.

In an instant, Fang Xuanling, Tang Jian and others who had already received the news from Changsun Wuji walked out of court one after another, begging on their knees, begging the emperor to take back the order, and not to abolish the crown prince.

Has always been alone, represented by Wei Zheng, Wei Ting and others, the remaining parties of the prince's establishment could not calm down at this time. They knelt down on both knees one by one, stating the examples of the decline of the country's fortune caused by the abolition of the prince by the kings of all dynasties, and expressing their pain to His Majesty Li Er Chen is fierce, and I hope the emperor can take back his life.

Even the Shilin Qingliu faction, which has been fighting against the old ministers of the Tiance Mansion for a long time, rarely jumped out to embarrass Changsun Wuji and others today, let alone make trouble.It's Shan Hu Long live, I hope His Majesty Li Er can think twice before acting, and give Li Chengqian a chance to reform.

Although the three factions of the court are in a three-legged situation, each representing three different interest classes, but when it comes to the emperor arbitrarily abolishing the crown prince, they are all seldom standing on the united front with the same hatred.

All of a sudden, the civil and military officials in the entire court knelt together, Xiaozhi persuaded His Majesty Li Er with emotion and reason, and some veterans were already kneeling on the ground, choking and crying, as if His Majesty Li Er would not When he changed his mind, the old minister slammed his head against the Hall of Qinzheng to death.

Even Kong Yingda and Yu Shinan, relying on their elders to sell their elders at this time, began to intercede for Li Chengqian.

The three lines work together, and there is a tendency to break gold with great profit.

All of this was unexpected by His Majesty Li Er, but His Majesty Li Er was happy to see it happen, because in his opinion, although his subjects formed cliques for private interests and formed factions, when it comes to national affairs, they are important in the national destiny. On the road, they all gave up their little thoughts and stood on the same front.

However, today he is also a bastard who eats the weight - he is determined, the position of the crown prince, he is definitely abolished.

His Majesty Li Er suddenly got up, his face was as cold as water, and he looked around the civil and military officials in the hall with dignity, roaring and roaring: "Are you trying to force the palace? To abolish or not to abolish the prince, I have to go through it." Your approval and nodding are not enough? I will say it again, this is my family business, so don’t bother your family to worry about it.”

The emperor fired a real fire, and Longyan trembled instantly under the wrath, and the civil and military ministers shouted long live again, and shouted in unison: "I dare not wait!"

At this time, Li Jing, the Duke of Wei who stood at the head of the generals, couldn't help standing out of the court, cupped his hands and clasped his fists to remonstrate: "The emperor is serious, and the ministers are not forcing the palace. It is said that the affairs of the heavenly family are not trivial, although Your Majesty and the crown prince are father and son. It is up to you whether to abolish or not to abolish. But the position of crown prince is related to the heir to the throne of the Tang Empire and to the succession of the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, the crown prince has not violated any moral integrity The fault of the prince should not be abolished lightly."

As soon as Li Jing's remarks came out, all the generals immediately nodded in agreement, and they all expressed their support, proving that the crown prince Li Chengqian cannot be abandoned.

His Majesty Li Er saw that Li Jing, who has always been a good man, came out to make trouble, and couldn't help but feel annoyed. Hearing Li Jing's last sentence about moral conduct, he couldn't talk about Li Chengqian's reversal of yin and yang in front of such a minister. Things.Because such a statement can certainly make Li Chengqian notorious, but Li Chengqian is his own son after all, and Li Chengqian's reputation in the world is no different from the entire Tang royal family's stigma for thousands of years.

For a while, he really didn't know how to prevaricate Li Jing, and hearing so many generals support Li Jing against him, he was even more angry, huh...

His Majesty Li Er raised his arms and pointed at Li Jing, his eyes widened angrily and he shouted: "Li Jing, do you want to support yourself and use force to force me to fail?"

hum~

Li Jing was so frightened that his face turned pale. He glanced at Changsun Wuji who was not far away on his left, and secretly said, Mr. Changsun, what should be done and what can be done, the old man has already done for you, and the favor owed to you is almost Well, if you continue to persuade me, the old man may be accused by the emperor of coercing the king with the intention of treason.At that time, the old man should not expect to enjoy his old age peacefully.

Afterwards, Li Jing hurriedly knelt down on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, I have been wronged! How dare my minister Li Jing do such a thing at the disgrace of the world? Now that the emperor has made up his mind, the minister will no longer speak out to persuade you. We wait Naturally, military generals dare not discuss government affairs indiscriminately, and they dare not interfere in government affairs. All the emperor's will, I and other officers and men in the army will all respect them."

After all, Li Jing fell to the ground and completely gave up his idea of ​​persuading the emperor not to abolish the prince.

His Majesty Li Er listened to Li Jing's last statement, saw him lying on the ground with a look of trembling, his anger subsided a lot, and he cursed secretly, old fox, good people let you do it, and now I have become an outright villain .

After Li Jing finished his statement, Yu Shinan, Kong Yingda, Wei Ting, Wei Zheng and others all stopped their voices, because the big guys are all right, and no one is stupider than the other.

Only the people in the Tiance Mansion who have always supported the crown prince Li Chengqian are still struggling. There is no way, if Li Chengqian loses the crown prince position, it means that they have lost the candidate to support them. All the hard work before was in vain. interests will be damaged.

But today His Majesty Li Er is really stubborn to the end, he doesn't take hard and soft, only to see him give Changsun Wuji a cold look, he knows that the reason why the ministers of Tiance Mansion are so stalking today must be Changsun Wuji Avoid the reason of continuous small movements behind the scenes.

Well, you eldest grandson Wuji, you know my decision and dare to challenge my authority, well, very good!

Immediately, His Majesty Li Er flicked his sleeves, and said coldly, "I have made up my mind, no one is allowed to persuade me any more. That's it, this morning, leave the court without discussing anything!"

After all, the person had already left the dragon chair, walked in the left aisle of the Golden Luan Hall, and quickly entered the harem.

The intention was settled, and Li Xi Qikuai didn't hesitate at all, leaving the dumbfounded civil and military ministers in the court hall dumbfounded.

The emperor had already left the court, and the ministers of the three lines naturally would not stay here for a while, and then retreated one by one, walked out of the hall, went back to their respective houses, and went to find their mothers.

As the ministers withdrew from the palace, the news of today's early court naturally spread, and the news hovered over Chang'an City like wings, and gradually spread to the ten states. .

Prince Li Chengqian was deposed, and he was confined to guard the palace. Without an order, he would never wait to step into the palace for life;

Li Tai, the king of Wei, was deposed as the king of Wei County and assigned to the fiefdom of Qianzhou. Without an edict, he could not return to Chang'an for half a step for life.

As soon as the two decrees came out, the world was shocked!

For a while, gossip news came out frequently. Some people said that Li Chengqian and Li Tai angered the emperor because they were competing for favor; So the emperor kept doing what he did, and directly deposed one of his two sons and demoted the other.

There are other nondescript gossips being born, of all kinds and countless.Anyway, it's just folk rumors, gossip...

And the instigator of this incident - Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, Hou Guoye of Yizhou, never expected that this incident would become such a big mess.Because his original purpose was to complete the bet with Cui Henian, Minister of Rites, on how to get the Tubo envoy to leave Chang'an within ten days.

Guo Ye has no time to take care of whether the prince will be abolished or not, and he doesn't want to get involved in this matter. He is now focusing on the matter of the bet.

On this day, two days had passed since Prince Li Chengqian was deposed, and two days had passed before the ten-day agreement between Guo Ye and Cui Henian.

It was about noon, and he was galloping to the South Gate of Chang'an with Zhu Hongyu, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites and the guest of the Cleaning Department, and two other officials, Wai Lang.

However, he did not go out of the city this trip, but came here to see him off according to the rules of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites.

Come here to see off the female envoys of Tubo to leave Chang'an and return to Tubo.

Guo Ye knew very well that although he had personally confirmed to Yun Chang that Yang Yong was dead, if he didn't give her a token of Yang Yong's body, Yun Chang would probably not be able to leave happily, and maybe it would make her happy again. What kind of moth happened, and he stayed in Chang'an with an excuse to add trouble to himself.

So this trip, he has to come if he doesn't come, he has to come.

Chapter 871