Li Shimin

"Master, Chenglu is still young, if you bring him here at night, will it be a little..."

It is really inappropriate for a father to take his son to visit the Qinhuai River.

In particular, it was King Jin who took his eldest son to visit the Qinhuai River. If word spread, it would make the whole world laugh at him for a lifetime, impeach the imperial censor for a year, and make Li Yuan come here angrily and scold Li Xuan.

Even, the princess of Prince Jin's Mansion...

"As long as you don't tell me, who will know?"

Li Xuan turned his head and glanced lightly at the crowd behind him.

Xue Rengui, Li Chengqian and others shook their heads repeatedly, they would never say anything.

Seeing this, Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he lowered his head again, looked at Li Chenglu with a serious face and said: "However, Luer, you also know that Aye, Gao Ming and others have wiped out the two major families in Jiangning City in the past few days. Come here secretly at night, and you have to go back after taking a look at it, and you can't be discovered by anyone."

"Don't worry, Aye, Lu'er will definitely listen to you!"

"Very good!"

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction, then dragged Li Chenglu to continue walking forward.

Although Jiangning City was abandoned a lot during the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with a profound heritage and many historic sites.

It wasn't until noon that Li Xuan took Li Chenglu, Li Chengqian and others back to the Wang family mansion.

"Master, what should we do with these families?"

After lunch and no one around, Li Chengqian asked again.

He suddenly realized that keeping the patriarchs and direct descendants of these aristocratic families in the mansion of the royal family, if it was spread out, it would cause rebuttals from those aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty, and the officials of those aristocratic families in the court would inevitably be impeached again.

For him, the prince, the influence was a bit bad.

"Let's talk about it in five days!"

Li Xuan said indifferently.

"Master, let them out after five days?" Li Chengqian was taken aback.

"Five days later, His Majesty should send someone to deal with them!"

Li Xuan glanced at Li Chengqian, and said slowly.

"Third Uncle won't personally punish them?"

Li Chengqian, Li Chongyi and others couldn't help but have doubts on their faces.

"These aristocratic families are deeply rooted and have extensive ties, can we kill them all?" Li Xuan asked.

"I can't!"

Li Chengqian shook his head again and again.

"If that's the case, then there's no need to stay here and waste time with them!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly, "The ministers around Your Majesty are all old foxes. I'm just trying to scare the chickens and monkeys this time. How to get some benefits from these aristocratic families afterwards is what those old foxes are best at and also the most patient!"

"Hey, third uncle is wise!"

"Master is wise!"

Li Chengqian, Li Chongyi and others nodded repeatedly.

However, the faces of Li Chongyi, Fang Yizhi and others were a little embarrassed.

Those old foxes mentioned by the Master should be talking about their Aye!

Seeing this, Li Xuan didn't say much, just waved his hands casually: "Okay, take a nap for a while, and go out in the afternoon!"

"Yes, Master!"

Immediately, everyone in the house retreated.

Take a nap for half an hour.

In the afternoon, Li Xuan took Li Chenglu, Li Chengqian and others to tour the entire Jiangning City.

at night.

after curfew.

The entire Jiangning City was silent, only the Qinhuai River opposite the Bird Clothes Lane was brightly lit.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Li Xuan brought Li Chenglu, Li Chengqian and others to the Qinhuai River under the protection of Xue Rengui, Zheng Fu and two hundred personal guards.

However, to the disappointment of Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others, there were only a dozen or so big boats floating on the Qinhuai River.

Moreover, there were not many people on the shore.

After watching for a while, even Li Chenglu lost interest.

"A generation of ancient capitals has fallen so badly!"

Li Xuan shook his head slowly, and brought Li Chenglu, Li Chengqian and others back to the Wang family mansion.

He Dewu and other Zhechong soldiers guarding outside the Wang family mansion knew that Li Xuan and the others went out again at night, but because Li Xuan and the others had a group of guards behind them, they did not know that Li Xuan and the others had gone where.

In this way, for five consecutive days, Li Xuan kept all the members of the aristocratic families in the Wang family mansion, and then asked He Dewu and others to go to Jiangning City to investigate those aristocratic families.

Then, they kept wandering around Jiangning City.

Chapter 824 The Arrival of Li Xiaogong

And on the sixth day.

The person Li Xuan was waiting for finally arrived!

Hejian County King Li Xiaogong!

Li Xuan had always thought that the most likely person would be Changsun Wuji, or Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng and other counselors.

But he didn't expect that it would be Li Xiaogong.

However, after seeing the group of patriarchs locked in the Wang family mansion, and seeing Li Xiaogong's expression, Li Xuan understood!

"This old man sees the Prince of Hejian County!"

"Students and others will meet Prince Hejian!"

Standing in the main hall, a group of people from aristocratic families looked at Li Xiaogong respectfully, even Li Xuan could see the trace of fear in the eyes of the patriarchs of these aristocratic families.

"Patriarch Wang, Patriarch Yuan, Patriarch Xie...hahaha, long time no see. I never thought that after so many years, you are still in such good health!"

Lee Hyo-gong seemed to meet a good friend he hadn't seen for many years, his face was full of joy.

However, in the eyes of those aristocratic families, this kind of smile shrank their necks subconsciously, as if seeing a devil's smile.

"What your highness said is very true. We haven't seen your highness for a long time! However, although we have lived in Jiangning for a long time, we can still hear your highness's reputation from time to time. He conquered Tuyuhun in the west, swept Tubo hozen, and made great contributions to me. Tang opened up borders and expanded land..."

"His Royal Highness is as brave as before, and the old man and others admire him!"

All of a sudden, the heads of the aristocratic families praised Li Xiaogong fiercely!

As for Li Xiaogong, he squinted his eyes and enjoyed it for a while, then his expression straightened.

"Okay, okay, the old relationship is over, let's start talking about the business!"

Hearing this, the patriarchs of the aristocratic families straightened their expressions, and immediately looked at Li Xiaogong nervously.

Li Xiaogong snorted coldly, "Your Majesty heard that you have been entrenched in Jiangning for so many years, and you have disobeyed the monarch, not only hiding soldiers privately, but also brazenly using weapons against the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty and the King of Jin.

Moreover, even the agreement to enshrine the country signed face to face with His Majesty two years ago can be violated justly? "

The expressions of the Patriarchs of the aristocratic families changed drastically.

"Also ask Hejian County King to listen to the old man and others to explain!"

"Explain what?"

Li Xiaogong's complexion changed again, and a coercion that Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others had never seen before rushed directly towards the heads of the aristocratic families.

"In broad daylight, thousands of soldiers raised by the royal family are yelling at the crown prince and the king of Jin at the gate of the royal family. Do you still want to let this matter go?"

"Also, there are at least thousands of people around Jiangning City. They have been threatened by your family in the past two years. Thousands of young and strong people were forced to become slaves of your family and went to your vassal state to cultivate fields. , do you want to deny this matter?"

"Or, do you also want to deny the thousands of tenant slaves of our Great Tang that appeared in the country?"

"This……"

The complexions of the heads of the aristocratic families changed drastically, and only then did they realize that the person in Chang'an City had already figured out what these aristocratic families were doing in private.

Beside them, Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and the others stood quietly aside, watching all this with the expression of watching a play.

Ever since they came to Jiangning City, these members of the aristocratic family have always looked like dead pigs who are not afraid of boiling water, and they are not worried about what Li Xuan and Li Chengqian can do to them at all!

Indeed, just violating the agreement has caused hundreds or even thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty to be harmed in private!

For these aristocratic families, these minor crimes are nothing more than a trivial matter!

Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others could not do any substantial harm to these deep-rooted aristocratic families at all.

Only the Wang family is used to being arrogant and domineering. They never thought that King Jin and the crown prince would come all the way to trouble them with their personal guards, and their housekeeper didn't recognize King Jin and the crown prince, so they directly put the Wang family in a doomed situation. !

As for the Meng family, they are also used to arrogance, and they just hit the blade on their own!

The rest of the patriarchs, who are all old and mature, have already figured out good countermeasures in the past few days.

Even, everything has been arranged through the housekeeper.

But they never expected that His Majesty would send Hejian County King Li Xiaogong here.

Who is Lee Hyo-gong?

Other aristocratic families can ignore Li Xiaogong, but these Jiangnan aristocratic families dare not forget!

In the old days of Wude, Li's general, the general manager of Jingzhou, controlled several states south of the Yangtze River. He had a cloud of powerful generals and a huge army. Most of the south of the Yangtze River was pacified by him.

For this reason, more than half of the aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River have faced Li Xiaogong's military front, and were forced by Li Xiaogong to bow their heads to Li Tang.

And Li Xiaogong was also secretly called the "King of Jiangnan" by a group of Jiangnan aristocratic families!

Although now, Li Xiaogong has been transferred back to Chang'an, almost becoming a free king of the Tang Dynasty!

However, these aristocratic families would not naively believe that Li Xiaogong didn't have any secret influence in the south of the Yangtze River?

Or, the shady evidence of their aristocratic families controlled by Li Xiaogong back then has been destroyed?

Moreover, they have all experienced Li Xiaogong's cruelty, treachery and cunning one by one. Thinking about it now, they still have more than enough seasons in their hearts.

Now, Li Xiaogong came here under the edict of the sage, and these aristocratic families still made mistakes first, how can they live well?

Think about it, the heads of these aristocratic families are full of heavy hearts!

"Why don't you speak?"

Li Xiaogong asked coldly.

"Your Highness, what the Wang family has done is treasonous, and the family should be exterminated! And withdraw their princes, put away the feudal kingdom!"

The Patriarch of the Xie family hastily said.

Seeing this, several Patriarchs at the side quickly followed suit.

"Exactly, the Wang family should be destroyed!"

"His Royal Highness, the head of the Meng family has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, and this branch of Jiangning City should be destroyed!"

"Your Highness..."

Seeing this, a trace of satisfaction flashed in Li Xiaogong's eyes.

On the other hand, Li Xuan and Li Chengqian snorted coldly at the heads of the aristocratic families, being imprisoned by them for so long, they never admitted any mistakes.

Now, when Li Xiaogong comes, these old thieves are so attentive, even a little humble!

"Brother Wang, since these aristocratic families dare to openly violate the agreement, whether they know it or not, or if the people in the house do it privately, it is a violation of the agreement signed with His Majesty to seal the country, and they must withdraw their princes and take back their titles. Close the country!"

Li Xuan said coldly.

"Exactly, since you dare to violate the agreement, you should bear the consequences. Otherwise, what is the majesty of the court, and what is the dignity of the father?"

Li Chengqian also said angrily.

After finishing speaking, the few people turned around and left regardless of the people from the aristocratic family whose expressions changed drastically.