Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

"..." Li Kuan listened to Jiang Qu's narration. Although his expression was a little dazed, his mind was running rapidly, trying to digest this massive amount of information.

what's the situation? Grandma "picked up" so many elites from the previous dynasty for me?

No...this...this king...well...I...why do I feel so uneasy (swelled)? !

"Your Highness," Dou Shilun obviously saw from the ever-changing expression on Li Kuan's face that he was on the verge of becoming a traitor. He immediately sighed and said, "Can you stop being so out of tune..."

"What's wrong with me?" King Chuman, having seen through his thoughts, immediately crossed his arms over his chest, raised his chin and protested: "Can't I just think about my grand plans for hegemony?"

"Alas..." Jiang Qu suddenly sighed softly: "Your Highness, the reason why I chose to become a retainer of the Dou family in the first place was not only to repay my kindness, but also because I lost confidence in the troubled times at that time - Marshal Zhang was not there until his death. We are still fighting fires everywhere, but Yang Guang, that foolish king, has never made any changes from beginning to end..."

"Wait a minute..." Li Kuan came to his senses: "You want to talk to me, right?"

"Your Highness, that's not what I mean." Jiang Qu looked at the rebellious Li Kuan with a serious expression: "Governing the world has never been based on personal preferences. As a king, you should be mature and prudent, be considerate of the people, and be considerate of the people. In addition, when everything is focused on the overall situation, even in many cases, it is a good thing if it goes to one step at the time, but it becomes a bad thing if it goes further. The scale that needs to be measured in this needs to be considered..."

"Stop, stop, stop..." Li Kuan understood now: "You are just trying to pick on me!"

"Your Highness..." Dou Shilun on the side saw this and quickly stepped forward to persuade him.

"No, don't talk," Li Kuan reached out to stop Dou Shilun from continuing to speak: "I think Mr. Jiang is right."

Li Kuan looked at the two obviously astonished retainers and suddenly laughed and said: "Well, look, my character is not worthy of the throne at all. You have all seen it, so there is no need to mention this matter in the future. By the way, when I go to the grassland this time, I have to become a 'Tai Shang Khan' or something, otherwise I will lose face when I go back to Chang'an in the future, don't you think so?"

"Your Highness? You..." Jiang Qu and Dou Shilun looked at each other. The two retainers really couldn't understand someone's brain.

"What? Get on your way quickly, I have to go to the north to fight the Turks!" Li Kuan said, returning to his tent. A few days ago, Dou Shilun had someone send him a set of black armor suitable for his body type. He had to change it quickly, otherwise he would look less domineering and cunning compared to his retainers.

Looking at Li Kuan's retreating back, Dou Shilun took a long time to come back to his senses. At this time, Jiang Qu, who had already come back to his senses, suddenly sighed quietly: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu is really smart..."

Just knowing the origins of his subordinates, he pretended to "want to achieve great things", but in fact, it was to test whether his two retainers had the "enterprising spirit".

"If His Highness was not smart, how could he be in this situation today." Dou Shilun smiled when he heard this. He could let the Supreme Emperor give the private seal. Perhaps His Highness, the King of Chu, besides being smart, is more sincere and filial. ah……

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Shortly after the army set off, the scouts sent out brought back bad news.

Thirty miles ahead, there was a village that was ransacked by the Turks. Nearly a hundred people in the village were all spared, and they were all murdered.

After receiving the news, the smile on Li Kuan's face disappeared. With a straight face, he ordered the army to march quickly. At dusk, they arrived at the village.

"What a bastard!" Jiang Sheng had a rough and arrogant temper. As a pioneer, he was the first to arrive at the entrance of the village. Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, he first cursed and then took the crossbow from the soldiers around him. , and began to shoot the wild dogs walking among the corpses.

Li Kuan, on the other hand, silently watched Jiang Sheng's movements without saying a word.

"Your Highness," Dou Shilun was worried that such a scene would have too great an impact on Li Kuan, but he also thought that if he really went to the battlefield in the future, what His Highness would see would only be worse than these. So after thinking about it, he finally said softly: "War is actually a very cruel thing."

"I know," Li Kuan nodded, then glanced at Jiang Qu beside him: "Mr. Jiang, will you accompany me for a walk?"

"Your Highness, please." Jiang Qu was not touched by the scene in front of him. He had seen too many scenes of dead people, so this was nowhere to be seen.

Li Kuan took Jiang and started wandering around the small village.

"Your Highness..." Jiang Qu looked at Li Kuan, who was holding back his nausea and searching everywhere with his eyes. He couldn't help but soften his heart and persuaded: "Why don't we go back..." The Turks would not leave anyone alive when they crossed the border. of.

"Go, Jiang," Li Kuan suddenly stopped. Not far in front of him, there was a small courtyard. At the door of the courtyard, lying with a dead expression on his face, a young man who looked like he was not much older than Li Kuan said, "I suddenly understand you. Why were you unwilling to come out of the mountain in the first place? In fact, apart from repaying your gratitude to my imperial grandmother, the more important point is that you are disappointed with the troubled times. What is the reason for your disappointment?

——Because you didn’t know at that time whether the Sui Dynasty would be destroyed, but you had seen too many people who were in dire straits and lives were in ruins, so you were neither willing to suppress those refugees who rebelled when they had no other way out, nor to be a leader. He picked up the butcher's knife, intending to trample all the bones of the noble minister in the street, intending to destroy the traitor and then establish a rebel. "

Jiang Qu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then nodded slowly and replied seriously: "Your Highness is right to say so."

"Actually, I don't understand why I suddenly had such a realization," Li Kuan said as he slowly moved forward. When he came to the young man's side, he saw that the yellowed sheepskin fur had been stained with blood for a long time. Now there is a large area of ​​black and purple.

"Go away," Li Kuan struggled to squat down and brushed his hand across the young man's face. He wanted the other person to close his eyes after death, but no matter what he did, the eyes of both parties still had ants crawling on them, and they just couldn't close them. : "I swear to you today that no matter what happens in the future, I will not be the source of that trouble. I will be a man upright and work for the welfare of the people of the Tang Dynasty!"

When Li Kuan said this, although his voice did not change, big tears still fell on the young Agou's face.

After a long time, Li Kuan sniffed and picked up the hatchet beside the young man: "Don't worry, I, the king... no, I, Li Kuan, will definitely get it back for you!"

This time, perhaps due to God's will, young Agou finally got the answer he wanted. When Li Kuan reached out and brushed his eyelids again, Agou finally closed his eyes.

"Order people to bury the people here generously," Li Kuan stood up and carefully hung the hatchet on his waist: "Count the number of people who died, and I will repay with the heads of Turkic centurions and above!"

"Wei!" Jiang Qu's tone was extremely firm. He watched Li Kuan slowly stand up and hang the knife on his waist. In a daze, he felt that he had rediscovered the days when he served under Zhang Shuai, and there was a feeling in his heart. The flame burned again.

Then, after the trance, Jiang Go came back to his senses and looked at Li Kuan's somewhat bleak back in the autumn wind. He always felt that at this moment, His Royal Highness King Chu finally grew from a child to a young man...