Crown Tang emperor

"My aunt can see this, and I can see it, but I can't see it! What I hate about him is this. The situation in Jinai is turbulent, like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Even I have to do it myself Thinking about Lingnan. But Dou Luqin hopes to steal the high position and do nothing, such a person, can you expect him to protect the emperor's heir?"

Li Tong said solemnly: "I don't need to belittle myself when discussing things with my aunt. There are a lot of things involved. However, we are only a few months away from the capital of God. The king of Wei and others have already played their crowns to celebrate each other. If you know that I will grow up in Lingnan, Who in the world can give them checks and balances?"

"Shenzhi, what do you mean?"

When Princess Taiping heard this, the dissatisfaction on her face immediately subsided, and her eyes flickered.

"Mr. Doulu was born in a famous family, and he was more than a year old, and he is now in the highest position of a minister. Such a person has already had a plan in his heart. Even if others give good words to persuade good people, he is afraid that he will be serious." It’s hard to change. The reason why I force Lai Junchen to make things difficult is to let him know the fear, even if it’s for self-protection, he must rise up in time and take up the responsibility he should bear.”

Li Tong expressed his sincerity and earnestness, and expressed his hope for Dou Luqin, and then pointed at Princess Taiping and sighed: "But I still think highly of him. He was threatened by this, and the so-called self-help was just to ask his aunt to hold him accountable." Me. If I really intended to harm him, why should I be so malicious? In front of me today, Auntie, you can save him. You only need to say a word, and I will send a letter to you immediately. But what about in the future? Such a big and useless person, Is it a help, or a drag?"

"Shenzhi, I, I really misunderstood you. Forgive your aunt for being narrow-minded. It turns out that you still have such considerations behind you."

When Princess Taiping heard this, she already had a look of shame on her face.

Li Tong shook his head after hearing the words: "It's not a misunderstanding. Since I am determined to travel far, I must make arrangements before I leave. This time, making things difficult for Mr. Dou Lu is not only a spur, but also an idea to get rid of him.

In the world, the only ones who can meet the kings of Wei and Liang are the only ones who are able to meet the kings of Wei and Liang. Now that both of them are not in the court, the court situation will definitely become more demonic.If Mr. Doulu can't even deal with my making things difficult, if he doesn't do it right now, he will break it, there is no point in showing his ugly face again! "

"This, this, there is still a compromise. Since you have already confided in Shenzhi, I might as well tell you what is in my heart. Originally, Mr. Doulu complained to me this time, and I didn't intend to respond to him. He compromised the friendship between my aunt and nephew. But thinking of Shenzhi, you are going to travel far away, and the King of Wei and others are really worried about losing control, so they decided to come to see you... But I don’t want Shenzhi, you have such a deep plan."

Li Tong sighed again after hearing the words: "This kind of thing shouldn't be said in front of my aunt, but after I left the capital, the only person who can rely on the blood of the Tang family and the old love is my aunt. This may be a bit embarrassing for my aunt, but my aunt If you can’t lead the situation, the emperor’s heir will be in greater danger, and I’m afraid I’ll spend a long time in the south of the Five Ridges, never returning home!”

Dou Lu looked up to this old fox, just as Yao Yuanchong worried, even in the face of Lai Junchen's threat, he might not dare to make up his mind to make trouble.So there is another layer of pressure to be put on him, that is Princess Taiping.

"But I, I really don't have a plan right now. I don't know if I can do well when I take on such a big job suddenly...Chenzhi, if you have any strategies, you might as well tell them about it."

Hearing what Li Tong said, Princess Taiping was both excited and apprehensive.

At this point in the conversation, Li Tong no longer concealed it, and began to carefully analyze with Princess Taiping how to intervene in the current situation through Doulu Qinwang.Dou Lu looks forward to this old fox. He has potential, but he is stingy about using it. He always wants to solve the problem with the least cost. For example, this time he asked Princess Taiping to come to see Li Tong.

Li Tong's strategy is also very simple. Leaving aside the details, there is only one main idea, that is, one of the aunts and nephews will sing the red face and the other will sing the bad face. Through Lai Junchen, the potential of the old fox will be gradually squeezed out, and this part of the personnel power will be transferred to Princess Taiping. hands.

Princess Taiping still had a cold face when she came, but she was filled with excitement when she left.If it wasn't for Li Tong's repeated hints that he would have important matters later, Princess Taiping might drag him to discuss more details.As for the previous purpose, it just never mentioned it.

Li Tong sent Princess Taiping out of the door, recalling his aunt's confident expression as she patted her chest and promised to squeeze out the beans, Lu Qinwang couldn't help but sigh inwardly.One of the major illusions in life is "I can do it too". His aunt is undoubtedly deeply poisoned, and she is making great strides all the way on the road to death.

What he said before was just to involve his aunt in this matter. As for using Princess Taiping to squeeze the political potential of usurping Dou Luqin Wang, if his grandma was with her for a while, maybe it would be possible. do it.

But it would be very difficult to rely solely on Princess Taiping, and Li Tong didn't have the time to wait.Letting his aunt join in right now is just to confuse the situation and conceal Li Tong's true intentions.

After all, maybe his aunt doesn't have much experience, and the kings of the Wu family can't see the truth, but his grandma is not stupid.

Some of his operations were contradictory to his statement that he was going to Lingnan. At this time, his aunt was needed as a shield. He made some personnel deployments to pave the way for his aunt.

In short, with his aunt's urging, some personnel relations of Doulu's family will definitely come to the surface in a very short period of time, making the turmoil of the current situation even more chaotic and unpredictable.

After discussing with Princess Taiping, it was noon without knowing it. Li Tong had a little lunch in the Wang Mansion, and at the invitation of his second brother Li Shouli, went to Luonan Daodefang to enjoy the polo match.

On the way to Daodefang, we passed the Daoshufang where Wei Wang Wu Chengsi lived.Li Tong purposely made the team full of footsteps, and got off his horse and walked slowly along the Wei Wangdi in Luonan.

The newly built Wei Wang Mansion occupies the entire Daoshu Workshop. Although the details are still under construction, the overall framework has been set up.Compared with the original Jishanfang King's residence, it is several times more magnificent.The garden connected to Luoshui on the north side of the mansion alone is more than twice as wide as Li Tong's original Luxinfang Wang Mansion.

Through the scale of this mansion, Li Tong can also imagine how favored Wei Wang Li Tai was during the Zhenguan period.Right now, Wei Wang's mansion only occupies one square of Daoshu Workshop, which is already so grand, but it is only half the size of the original Wei Wang Li Tai's mansion.

The guard of honor on behalf of the king stayed on the embankment on the north side of the king's mansion, and the news quickly spread to the king's mansion of Wei.Not long after, the family guards of the palace had already gathered on the opposite side of the garden, and the light of swords could be seen faintly, as if they were facing an enemy.

Seeing this scene, Li Tong couldn't help having fun again, but he didn't stay here any longer, got on his horse, and went straight to the polo field in Daodefang.

The polo field in Daodefang is now one of the scenic spots in Kinai, and its popularity is not inferior to the Taiping Theater in the upper reaches of Luoshui in Chengxi.Before Li Tong and his party entered the arena, a lively atmosphere had already rushed over.

A group of people entered the polo field through the backyard of King Yong's residence, and when they looked up, they saw Li Shouli fighting with his friends on the field.Seeing Dai Wang enter the field, someone rode off the field, wanting to step back and let Dai Wang enter the field as a substitute.

Li Tong was also not rigid, changed into autumn clothes, raised his stick, and rode his horse into the arena.The spectators in the surrounding seats caught sight of Dai Wang's figure, and responded with enthusiastic applause, so that the drum signals on the court were drowned out.

In a corner of the auditorium, there is a box seat surrounded by a tent, and there is a person sitting deep in the tent, it is Li Zhaode who has just returned to the capital of God after being demoted.

Li Zhaode was wearing a gray round-neck gown and a hood on his head, covering his left and right faces. He looked very ordinary. No one would have guessed that this unremarkable spectator would He was a famous tough prime minister before.

"I have lived in the city for a long time, but I didn't know that there is such a play in the market."

Seeing the heroic posture of the young king on the court, and the cheers from the stands filled with waves of cheers, Li Zhaode couldn't help showing a long-lost smile on his face.

Before he knew it, the first half of the game on the court was over, and Li Zhaode felt somewhat unfinished.But at this time, Su Sanyou, who was in charge of leading him back to the capital, had already stepped forward and said in a low voice: "The nobleman knows that the gentleman has returned to the capital, so he will clean up the dust for the gentleman at another table."

Li Zhaode nodded after hearing the words, exited from the tent, bent down and left the field under the protection of Su Sanyou and others, and boarded a carriage with a plain tent.

He sneaked back to Shendu, originally it was not appropriate to show up on such a noisy occasion, but Dai Wang asked someone to arrange for him to go out like this, probably to show some confidence.

But from Li Zhaode's point of view, this is really unnecessary. He is willing to return to the capital this time, and he already has the idea of ​​​​disregarding life and death. If he fails, he will be benevolent.

Thinking of this, Li Zhaode took out from his bosom the secret letter delivered to him by someone on behalf of the king. The rest of the letter had been torn up and burned by him, except for the four words "Punish Zhuwu".

At the same time, Si Bin Shaoqing Di Renjie was sitting in a small pavilion in a garden industry in Lidefang, Luobei. He also looked down at a note in his hand. ".

The difference is that these four characters were written by him to Dai Wang, and were used by Dai Wang as a token for inviting him to meet today.

Chapter 0464 God is making troubles, intending to be in Xijing

After a series of cover-ups, when Li Tong arrived at the garden in Lidefang where the secret meeting was arranged, it was already evening.

"My lord, the two guests have been waiting in the garden for a short time."

Su Sanyou, who had been waiting inside the door all the time, saw Li Tong get off the car, and rushed to meet him.

"Thanks for your hard work!"

Li Tong nodded after hearing the words, and asked curiously: "How is the atmosphere when these two meet?"

"It's just that each of them was a little surprised, but they didn't say much to each other."

Hearing Su Sanyou's answer, Li Tong felt a little relieved, and at the same time secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and walked towards the small pavilion deep in the garden.

Su Sanyou stayed outside the garden, first inspected the hidden sentries around the garden, and then went to Xintan Pier to ensure that the retreat route arranged there could be activated at any time.

The two people in the small pavilion heard footsteps, stood up vigilantly, and looked out the door.

When Li Tong walked in, seeing the tension on the two faces in different degrees, he felt happy, and felt that his life had finally reached a new height. The prime minister, but now life and death are in his own hands.

If he cared about the attitude of these Tang family veterans who ignored him in the past, he could directly kill them here today, of course there is no such need right now.

Seeing the two people clasping their hands in greeting, Li Tong quickly walked into the pavilion and waved his hands and said: "At this time and place, I'm not calm enough. Gossip is just polite, needless to say, after seeing the two of you, Xiao Wang will still enter the palace. Today's adventurous meeting , and just express their thoughts and be honest with each other."

Hearing what Dai Wang said, the two of them sat down again, both of them hesitated to speak, but after looking at each other, they both continued to remain silent.

Li Tong took this scene into his eyes, and felt happy in his heart. He didn't mind that the two had their suspicions.If you come in and see these two people together, chatting happily, you have to think carefully about whether you should do things with them.

As for now, Li Tong didn't care whether the two of them really couldn't be honest with each other, or they deliberately put on such a posture.Even if it's a disguise, at least it shows that they have enough attention to themselves now, even if they each have an idea, without Li Tong's participation, there is no possibility of realizing it.

"The reason for the conspiracy this time is that Mr. Di sent a letter and made a statement of righteousness, which made me vigilant. But it is difficult to make a big deal out of self-conscious people's words, so I asked someone to invite Li Xianggong back to preside over the situation."

Seeing that neither of them opened their mouths to speak, Li Tong spoke first, briefly explaining the reason why they got together here.

Hearing this, Li Zhaode glanced at Di Renjie, and said "admiration" to Di Renjie with a twinkle in his eyes.

When Di Renjie saw this, a trace of uneasiness flashed across his face. He bowed slightly and said, "Although I don't have a close relationship with His Highness, I have seen everything that His Highness has done since he joined the army. Especially at the beginning of the year, the official account, His Highness's envoy Take over, so that the households can quickly settle down, earn a living, and have the ability to control chaos. Renjie is ashamed of himself. Now that the demon atmosphere in the country is more intense, and all kinds of evils, the one who can straighten the way and sweep away the evil atmosphere is none other than His Royal Highness. I have the courage to send a letter from my heart, and I am grateful to His Highness for not giving up. The big things matter, but donate your life to serve you, and you will have no regrets even if you die!"

These words can be regarded as explaining the reason why he contacted the Dai Wang. After speaking here, Di Renjie took another look at Li Zhaode, and continued: "The big things can't be achieved with two or three honesty. If Li Xianggong can help each other, it's even more important to make things happen." grasp!"

This means that Li Zhaode doesn't have to say that kind of yin and yang words, you just ran back when you heard this, and your legs and feet are faster than anyone else.

Li Zhaode grinned, and didn't say anything more. He took out a blueprint from his pocket and spread it out. It was the defense map of the entire city of God.

This is not a confidential map he stole, but a re-drawing from memory.The accuracy may not be as good as the blueprint drawn by the supervisor after the survey, but through Li Zhaode's narration, many details that cannot be expressed in the blueprint are very rare, and they are all marked on this sketch.

For example, more than 20 zhang to the west of Deyou Gate, the north gate of Hanjia City, there is a walled city road that can go straight to the East City. It was originally a convenient passage for transporting wood and stone materials to the East City, avoiding most palaces Guard interrogation.

Hearing Li Zhaode mention this, Li Tong couldn't help but click his tongue inwardly. This area was within the patrol range of Qianqi, and he didn't even know that there was such a secret passage.

As for Li Zhaode knowing this, it is not surprising.Because today's Luoyang City Wall and Dongcheng Shangshudu Province and other government offices were themselves presided over by Li Zhaode.

Before Li Zhaode entered the Zhengshitang as the prime minister, he also served as the servant of Xia Guan of the Ministry of War. The city defense system that is still in use in Shendu City is organized and arranged by him.

There may be some adjustments in the details, but there are not a few plans on the whole. Coupled with the strength of the Forbidden Army in the God City inferred by Li Tong, it is basically possible to analyze the deployment of the military forces of the Nanya guards.

At this point in the discussion, Li Tong couldn't help feeling secretly that rebellion involving the prime minister is really hard to guard against.

The information provided by Li Zhaode directly enriched most of his mutiny plan. This is because Li Zhaode had already left office and had left Zhengshitang for several months before leaving office.If Li Zhaode was still in the Zhengshitang, he might be able to directly control the entire imperial city with a letter of decree without even seeing blood.

Of course, if Li Zhaode was still in the Zhengshitang, Li Tong would not be able to win him over to do things. After all, people like Zhang Jianzhi are still in the minority.

As everyone knows, when he was feeling emotional here, Li Zhaode was also secretly amazed in his heart, only thinking that it was definitely not a day or two to plan this matter on behalf of the king.Because all the questions raised by him are specific to the key points, which are obviously questions that can only be raised after a long period of thinking and summarizing.

As for Di Renjie, he didn't talk much at the moment, mainly listening to Dai Wang and Li Zhaode discuss specific plans.One is that he is not in a hurry to express himself, and the other is that he really doesn't know much about it.

But this does not mean that Di Renjie's participation is meaningless. After all, the mutiny is only a prerequisite for the success of the entire coup, not all.

When the specific mutiny ideas have been sorted out, the next step is the display of strength.

Seeing that everyone was not in a hurry to speak, Li Tong simply proposed to write down all the powers that they could use on paper, and then show and select the part of the core power that they all agree with.

Li Tong's writing is simple, the power he can use on the table is nothing more than Qianqi and the three thousand Suyue army athletes, and expanding outwards, it is the Right Jinwuwei Tang Xianxuan and his second brother-in-law Dugu.There is no need to think carefully, just pick up a pen and write it out.

It's just that when he finished writing, he looked up at Li Zhaode and Di Renjie again, either frowning in thought, or leaning over his desk for a while, without putting down his pen for a long time.Seeing this scene, he couldn't help feeling sour in his heart. In order to show that he also has a good way, he simply wrote about the several ordnance warehouses that had just been moved to Hanjia City.

But even after writing this, the two of them are still not finished.Both of these two are ministers of the country with deep prestige and standing in the court for a long time. Of course, there will be no one to conspire with. The reason for this is that there are still too many choices, which need to be carefully weighed.

Seeing that the two of them didn't stop writing for a long time, Li Tong could only comfort himself in his heart, what's the use of finding so many accomplices, in the end Xuanwumen can only be defeated by Lao Tzu!

If so, another half a quarter of an hour later, Li Zhaode and Di Renjie stopped writing one after another.Relatively speaking, the list provided by Li Zhaode was longer, with a full list of more than [-] people, all of whom he thought were credible and could be introduced into the matter.

Li Tong was not surprised by this either. After all, Li Zhaode was dismissed as prime minister not long ago, and some personnel relations have not completely faded away.There is also a more important point, Li Zhaode was born in the Li family of Longxi, and his relationship with the nobles of Guanlong also overlaps.Moreover, the dismissal this time is also related to the preservation of some Guanlong families, and there is a deep causal relationship between them.

One of the more important reasons why Li Tong brought Li Zhaode back to Shendu was that he planned to let Li Zhaode replace Dou Lu Qinwang when the matter progressed to a certain level.He didn't lie to his aunt either, he did have the idea of ​​destroying Doulu Qinwang in his heart, regardless of Doulu Qinwang's position.

Of course, Li Zhaode has another rather obscure reason for attracting so many candidates, and that is to ensure his right to speak in this matter.

No matter how majestic he was before, now he is just a criminal minister who was dismissed and exiled and sneaked back to the capital secretly, and his position is no longer beneficial to things, so it must show that I can shake people.

As for what Di Renjie provided was relatively simple, there were no more than three people serving in the two yamen, but there were more than a dozen candidates in Kinki Prefecture.This is the embodiment of Di Renjie's value. After the mutiny, he was able to quickly appease the surrounding areas of Shendu, prevent the riot from spreading outward, and ensure that the situation can be settled in the court.

Di Renjie's role is extremely complementary to Li Tong.His current relationship with other states is only Yao Yan from Bianzhou and Li Yuanyuan from Huaizhou, and these two are not very reliable.Before Wang Fangqing persuaded him to go to Guangzhou, he must have discussed it with Yao Xuan.As for Li Yuanyuan, he just stared at him and wanted to step on him to return to court.

Each has handed over a group of personnel, and the next step is selection.Only those approved by all three can be introduced for the next round of planning.

At this time, Li Tong also told about the matter that he used Lai Junchen to force Dou Lu Qinwang at the right time. After listening to it, both of them nodded in agreement.As for Dou Lu Qinwang's pivotal position in the current situation, the two knew much better than Dai Wang.

After a lot of hooking and crossing, five people were finally selected for the next step.They are Tang Xianze and Quan Nanchan provided by Li Tong, Xue Na and General Li Daoguang of the Right Guard Zhonglang provided by Li Zhaode, and Cui Xuanwei of Fengge Sheren provided by Di Renjie.

Among these five people, Tang Xianxuan served as the general of Youjinwuwei, who was an important candidate to control the order in the city.Quan Nanchan was the leader of the Goguryeo survivors, and Li Tong planned to assign him to Zuo Yulin's army, but he still did not disclose to them about Qu Chongyu.

Needless to say, Xue Na of the right guard, if Li Zhaode hadn't been able to stand up this time, he would have been dragged into the case by his cousin Xue Jichang, and it would be even more difficult to stay in Nanya.This was originally the candidate Li Tong wanted to woo, but after the Wangchengyi murder case, what Li Tong could do was very limited, and he did not have any further contact with Xue Na.

Li Daoguang, the gatekeeper of the right prison, is also old Guanlong. It is interesting to compare it with Dugu Yuanli, the gatekeeper of the left prison recommended by Li Tong.

The Dugu family was originally a concubine branch of the Li family in Longxi, and was given the surname Dugu because they followed the Dugu letter of the Dazhu Kingdom in the Western Wei Dynasty.As for Li Daoguang's family background, he was given the surname Li for his contribution after the great ancestor Li Yuan entered Guanzhong.The confusion in the relationship between Li Kui, Li Gui and Guan Longxun's noble circle can be seen.

The guard of the left prison judges out, and the guard of the right prison judges in. When doing things, it is obviously more important to go in than to come out.Now that Li Zhaode had provided a more suitable candidate, Li Tong stopped fighting and decided to develop Li Daoguang as an off-line.

As for Cui Xuanwei provided by Di Renjie, although he was not a general in command of the two yamen, his position was also very important because he was in Fengge.

This time, the mutiny was a joint operation across the Weifu and multiple departments. There must be a coordinating person in the middle to issue a transfer order, so as to cooperate with each other and suppress the other Nanya troops from acting rashly.

For this position, the higher the status and prestige, the better.For example, during the Shenlong Revolution, Prime Minister Li Dan was responsible for controlling the Nanya army in Nanya, and Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi and others were all fighting on the front line.

Of course, Li Tong's small gang is not that high in configuration.As the one with the highest status, he needs to fight on the front line and seize the Xuanwu Gate to control Da Nei.

As for Di Renjie and Li Zhaode, although they will also need to enter the Southern Province and even the Political Affairs Hall at that time, it is obviously not suitable for issuing orders.Shi Doulu in the Feng Pavilion looks up to that old guy, and no one expects him to be able to take responsibility immediately, so he needs an on-the-job candidate to issue orders.

In fact, Li Tong also has a similar candidate, and that is Lu Jingchu's father, Lu Yuanfang, who also serves as Fengge's housekeeper in Fengge, and has the power to draft the edict.However, Lu Yuanfang was born in the South, so he might not have much appeal at critical moments.Moreover, Li Tong deliberately left this candidate not to write, because he wanted to test the two people's true thoughts.

Although the three of them have roughly finalized their plans and candidates, there is a key issue that they have tacitly avoided talking about, that is, what kind of situation they want to achieve in this coup.

As far as Li Tong is concerned, of course he hopes that he can be in place in one step and succeed in grabbing the class.But he also understands that this idea is more or less frivolous, and the possibility of it being realized is very slim.

This point was also reflected in the discussion just now.Both Li Zhaode and Di Renjie are actively making plans to ensure their right to speak in this coup.

This is the problem. It is obvious that what the two of them are plotting is not the result of a dragon.

For example, Di Renjie's biography of Li Tong said that it was the Li family who returned to power.If you have said this kind of thing, if you really want to help Li Tong to the top, then why not speak more bluntly and accurately.Whether I believe it or not is another matter. Whether you say it or not is a big problem.

Li Tong's letter to Li Zhaode was just an action of "killing all martial arts", without mentioning the purpose.

The Wu clan kings are the common enemy of him and Li Zhaode. If Li Tong is blowing his mind and talking about other things, Li Zhaode may not come back so simply. Even if he is forced to come back, the degree of cooperation will never be so high.

In the end, the three of them are relatively mature and forbearing, and if they don't talk wildly when they meet, they have to do what I said, otherwise I will quit.Reaching a certain tacit agreement first, at least killing Zhuwu is the consensus that has been reached now. As for what to do next, let's continue to discuss on this basis.

Di Renjie was the first to speak on this topic: "The most important thing is to control the ban as soon as possible. Please ask the emperor's heir to write the book on his behalf, let Li Xianggong return to the court to resume his affairs, and supervise the two yamen on behalf of His Royal Highness. There will be no serious trouble in the country."

As soon as he said this, not only did Li Tong's expression become subtle, but Li Zhaode's eyes also became flickering: "The Holy Emperor is in charge of the country, and the emperor's last order was received. This time, the reason why I am admonishing you is to get rid of the Wu family's disaster." The kings of the country. If you ask the emperor's heir to make an order first, where will the emperor be placed? It is absolutely inappropriate to use the son against the mother and harm the righteousness through short-term interests!"

Hearing Li Zhaode's statement, Li Tong also said: "Your Majesty the Holy Emperor is my benefactor, and the emperor's heir can accept orders, but must not act on his behalf! The reason why I use things this time is to cleanse the evil, and it is by no means rebellious and obliterated." Evil deeds of love!"

Regardless of who will be in charge next, Di Renjie's words are simply nonsense.

It seems that the military power of the two yamen was divided between Li Tong and Prime Minister Li Zhaode, but the problem is that the current emperor's heir is not worthy at all.If they take over the order from the emperor's heir, they will completely bind themselves and the emperor's heir, and give up righteousness.