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

“Alas… It’s really hard for this king…”

After seeing Wang Qunyue off, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu took Wang Xuance back to the study. However, before Wang Xuance could even sit down, he heard His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu start to complain: "Every day... you rush to cause trouble for me..."

"Your Highness, where do you get this from?" Wang Xuance was a little surprised when he heard it, "Then Wang Qunyue is willing to surrender, which is a good thing..."

“Xuan Ce, you don’t understand.” After hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was silent for a moment, and then he said softly: “The greater my influence, the more difficult it will be in the future…”

"Your Highness, I feel that some things... are better to be forced than to surrender." When Wang Xuance said this, he could not help but think of the scene in the secret room when Dou Shilun grabbed his neck and asked him whether he wanted to help the King of Chu rebel. Now that his words have come true, Wang Xuance feels sorry for his own Highness: "Besides, Your Highness... you have never had any thoughts in that regard... As your close friends, we all know this."

“Heh…” Upon hearing Wang Xuance’s words, His Royal Highness the King of Chu couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile and said, “Xuance, the problem is not whether I have the intention, but whether I have the ability. Of course, you are right, there is no reason for me to surrender – I am where I am today because of my grandmother’s protection, so of course I must cherish her. As for the emotion just now…Xuance, I am not even an adult yet, so it is understandable for me to be naive sometimes…Don’t you think so…”

"Your Highness..." Wang Xuance didn't know how to comfort his master at this moment.

"I'm fine." His Royal Highness the King of Chu had put away his chaotic thoughts and began to seriously plan the next move: "Speaking of which, this trip to Goguryeo is bound to be full of dangers, so Xuan Ce, do you think... should I bring fewer people with me, so as not to be exposed because the target is too big?"

"Your Highness, this is absolutely not allowed!" Wang Xuance, who has always been radical in his style of doing things, has become a conservative because he has been repeatedly tortured by his own head of the family. "Although I know that what you said makes sense, the 600 Dou clan troops brought by General Pei are the bottom line. The number cannot be reduced. Otherwise, even if we successfully sneak into Goguryeo in the future, we will be short of manpower if we want to do things. At that time, won't we be in an awkward situation where a good cook cannot cook without rice? Moreover, your safety must be guaranteed no matter what, otherwise, won't we become sinners?"

“I just said it casually…” His Royal Highness the King of Chu found that Wang Xuance was becoming more and more like Uncle Dou: “You don’t have to take it seriously… Um… Don’t look at me like that, kid. I’m not someone who won’t listen to advice…”

"Your Highness, you must listen to me in this matter, otherwise I will never let you go to Goguryeo no matter what." Wang Xuance knew clearly that His Highness the King of Chu was not joking before.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu said as he turned around and looked for books on the bookshelf: "Hey, Xuan Ce, come here and look for historical books like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for me. I need to learn some wisdom from the ancient books, otherwise I'm afraid that when I arrive in Goguryeo, my brain won't be enough..."

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His Highness the King of Chu, who was afraid that his brain was not enough, began to read history books in Yingzhou City.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei, who felt that he had enough brains, began to practice swordsmanship in Chang'an.

Of course, considering his level of skill where he almost hurt himself when making a sword move, it would probably take another ten years or so for him to be able to use a sharpened sword confidently.

"Fourth brother, you should think of a solution..." - In the imperial palace, next to the martial arts arena, the brothers Li You and Li Yin looked at Li Tai who was waving his sword wildly in the arena and felt helpless.

"Sixth Brother, Sixth Brother, why are you so anxious?" After hearing Li Yin's plea, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei stopped what he was doing, then swayed for a while, then held the sword with one hand in his right hand behind his back, and made a gesture of sinking the qi into the dantian with his free left hand in front of him: "As the saying goes, when an enemy comes, a general will stop him, and when water comes, earth will cover it - doesn't the emperor like to beat us three brothers? Then why don't we find someone he doesn't dare to beat to speak for the second brother?"

"Who is this? Grandfather?" Li You scratched his head upon hearing this. "But Grandfather... doesn't he go to beat Father on time every day... He never wastes words with Father. He just beats him when they meet, then scolds him, and then goes back to Hongyi Palace to eat, sleep, and watch Hu Ji dance... Anyway, this process repeats over and over again. He is quite self-disciplined..."

"Speaking of Hu Ji..." Li Yin said, "Grandfather said that these Hu Ji were sent to Chang'an because the Western Regions were afraid of our second brother. So when he watched the Hu Ji dancing, he was actually missing our second brother..."

"Ah... So the Royal Grandfather was 'looking at Ji and thinking of his grandson'..." After listening to Li Yin's supplement, Li Tai was stunned for a long time before he said thoughtfully: "I finally know who caused our second brother's unreliable character..."

"Fourth brother, how can you say bad things about the second brother?" Li Yin frowned when he heard what Li Tai said, "If it were you, we should find a chance to take Little Sizi out of the palace to play, and scare our father at the same time..."

"Do you scare our father emperor or rushed to find a knot on himself?" When he heard Li Yan proposed to abduct his sister -in -law, Li Tai immediately looked at his sixth brother with a gaze of a fool: "Let's not say how strict the guards of the palace are, let's take a step back 10,000 steps first -once the little sister -in -law was taken out of the palace, what happened? Needless to say, the emperor's grandfather should not say that even if he is punished, even his elder brother can't keep us -and more importantly ... the second brother and a baby sister -in -law, this is what the whole world knows, so ... "

Li Tai found that being a brother was not an easy job. He had been protected too well by his second brother before, but now that his second brother was gone, he should also act like a brother.

"So, Fourth Brother, just pretend that I didn't say that before..." Li Yan thought of his second brother's angry look and suddenly shuddered: "I am just worried and confused."

"Or... let's kidnap Zhinu?" - Where there is a sleeping dragon, there must be a young phoenix. Li You has been a smart child since he was young.

"That's not impossible..." The words of the fifth brother touched the heart of the youngest son of the Li family: "Zhi Nu is a greedy little cat, we can lure him with chicken legs."