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

"Commander Shan, you..." Wang Pan saw that Shan Tianchang didn't listen to his advice at all. He wanted to continue speaking, but Shan Tianchang raised his hand to interrupt him: "Manager Wang, your main task this time is to deliver food to me, not to be a lobbyist. What's more, you are a member of the Wang family. Is it necessary to boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige?"

"..." After listening to Shan Tianchang's words of warning, Wang Pan's eyes flickered slightly. After a long while, he slowly said, "Commander Shan is right... Even if the King of Chu is a powerful dragon, he cannot suppress you..."

"You bastard, you never say a good word!" - Dan Tianchang interrupted Wang Pan with a gloomy face before he could finish his words: "What do you mean by powerful dragon? Do you mean that I, Dan Tianchang, am a local tyrant?"

"The change of dragons and snakes only takes a moment. Commander Shan is too sensitive..." Wang Pan no longer wants to say anything to this idiot in front of him. Really... Whether His Royal Highness the King of Chu transformed into Shan Ling or took the initiative to "bite the hook" later, at least he could maintain a humble attitude in front of the heads of the Five Surnames and Seven Families at the beginning. On the other hand, Shan Tianchang is a foolish donkey who has grown old and has no brains! Does he really think that he can be so domineering in Taihang Mountain and ignore all the heroes in the world?

Nothing more...

Wang Pan's heart was filled with pessimism at this moment: the head of the family was really crazy, actually pinning his hopes on this person - and that Wang Dayong, he deserved to be killed!

“Manager Wang, I will not bother with you this time because you are a member of the Wang family, but from now on…” Shan Tianchang saw Wang Pan give in, and his expression became more arrogant: “If you are as ignorant as you are today, don’t blame me for being ruthless! - The 30,000 men in my Broken Soul Valley are not just for show!”

"Okay... okay, okay..." After listening to Shan Tianchang's arrogant speech, Wang Pan suppressed his anger, nodded, and stood up to say goodbye: "I have taken note of what Commander Shan said. If there is nothing else, I will go back and report."

"Get out!" Shan Tianchang glanced at Wang Pan coldly and then closed his eyes.

Wang Pan was so angry that he left in anger.

After a long time, an old Taoist in a black robe walked into the hall. He looked at Shan Tianchang who was about to take the wine jar on the table and prepare to drink it, and his expression was inevitably a little unhappy: "Tianchang, how can you be so rude to that Steward Wang? You know very well that he has no ill will towards you."

"Adoptive father, of course I know that what Manager Wang said makes sense, but wasn't this terrible situation caused by his Wang family? So why are they trying to be good people now? What for? To make me appreciate their kindness? Ha... How ridiculous!" Shan Tian often saw his teacher coming. He couldn't help but put down the wine jar in his hand and began to take off his previous disguise: "I just got the news that the bandit chief Xiao Binghu, who was well-known outside the Taihang Mountains, was dealt with by a group of young men who had just entered the mountains. Adoptive father, don't you find it strange? At this critical juncture when the imperial army is about to come to quell the rebellion, it is such a coincidence that such a group of ruthless characters have come to the Taihang Mountains? I always feel that... this matter is strange..."

After Shan Tianchang finished speaking, he stared at the candlelight in front of him with a somewhat gloomy look in his eyes. No one knew what he was thinking at the moment.

"You mean... that group of young people are related to the imperial court?" The foster father frowned slightly upon hearing this. "But as everyone knows, the one who came to quell the rebellion this time is His Royal Highness the King of Chu... Based on his strength, he may not even need scouts to lead the way."

"Foster father...if...I say if..." After listening to his foster father's words, Shan Tianchang suddenly spoke slowly: "What if the King of Chu is among that group of young people?"

"What?!" When the foster father heard Shan Tianchang's words, he was immediately shocked and said, "How could he, a prince, risk his life alone to become a bandit? This doesn't make sense!"

"Foster father, you also think this is very possible, right?" Shan Tianchang saw the old man looking lost, and couldn't help but laugh: "Otherwise, why would you try to convince yourself that the person coming is not the King of Chu?"

“Tianchang…if this is really the case…” Xie Yingdeng, who was called “adoptive father” by Shan Tianchang, looked at the sturdy young man in front of him who was no longer as frail as before. The old man said with a sigh: “Remember, don’t act on impulse. If you hurt His Royal Highness the King of Chu…the court’s revenge is secondary…the scary thing is the Dou family’s group of priests and retainers…we can’t afford to offend them…really can’t afford to offend them!”

"Foster father, don't worry about this... Just the mention of Pei Xingyan makes my legs tremble, how could I still think of provoking His Royal Highness the King of Chu? It's just... Wang Dayong has already pinned the crime of killing the official on me in order to force me to submit. Foster father... I pretended to be reckless before and drove Wang Pan away, but this is not a long-term solution after all... The conditions of the Wang family... are very tempting, but I really don't dare to trust those guys..."

"Wang Dayong first wanted you to lead people to rob the Xingzhou treasury to settle the accounts of his corruption over the years. You refused, so he set up a plan to kill his officials and put the blame on you... And the Taiyuan Wang family, who clearly knew the truth of the matter, still tried to use it to control you and make you and your 30,000 men become his private soldiers... All these... one by one... can be said to be a chain of schemes that leave you nowhere to escape..." When Xie Yingdeng said this, he couldn't help but sighed: "If I were 20 years younger... Wang Qunyue and Wang Dayong would definitely die under my arrows! Unfortunately... now I'm old and useless..."

"Adoptive father..." Shan Tianchang saw Xie Yingdeng looking depressed at the moment, and he didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only try to find some irrelevant topics to try to divert his attention: "But then again, why didn't Wang Dayong let his officials escort the tax silver when he set up the scheme to kill them? You know, in this way, he could have concealed a lot of his deficits."

"The task of escorting tax silver has always been undertaken by the escort agency or the military. Local governments rarely get involved. This has been the rule for a long time. If Wang Dayong dares to report the murder of the official and the robbery of the tax silver, then the people from above will investigate him first!" Xie Yingdeng glanced at Shan Tianchang after hearing this: "Tianchang, in my opinion, we might as well surrender directly to His Royal Highness the King of Chu. Perhaps that will be the only way to turn things around."