Fu Tang

After Li Congjia finished speaking, he handed the letter to Shi Xueting angrily, Shi Xueting took it over and looked at it and said, "What are you going to do?"

Li Congjia sneered: "Who does he think he is? If I care about brotherhood, wouldn't I be sorry to many soldiers?"

Shi Xueting didn't say anything, this matter really can only be decided by Li Congjia, who would have thought that Li Congshan ran to the front line and stood on the city wall in order to prevent Datang from attacking Xiuguo?

If someone else took the initiative, I'm afraid Gao Huaide would be very happy and kill him with a single arrow.

But if it was Li Congshan, Gao Huaide had to be careful, so he directly ordered to stop the attack, and then sent a memorial to the court, asking: Should I fight or not?

So Li Congjia received this letter that almost made him angry. After Li Congjia talked to Shi Xueting, he was ready to write a hand letter, telling Gao Huaide not to care about Li Congshan.

As a result, before Li Congjia's letter was sent, Shi Xueting got a message from the intelligence department. He turned to Li Congjia and said, "Your handwriting...you can write it or not."

Li Congjia was a little puzzled: "What's wrong? Did Li Congshan fall from the city wall and die?"

Shi Xueting: ...

You think so beautifully every day!

Of course Li Congjia wanted to be beautiful, but after he saw the news brought by Shi Xueting, he was no longer beautiful. At that moment, he didn't know what expression to use to express his feelings. In the end, he could only look at Shi Xueting blankly. snow court.

Shi Xueting said lightly: "It seems that they all know you quite well."

Li Congjia felt it was very delicate for a moment. After all, he hadn't written the handbook here, and the cabinet over there had already discussed with the Privy Council to let Gao Huaide fight directly, so he didn't have to worry about Li Congshan.

After thinking for a while, he asked: "Did I give them too much power? My own orders need to be discussed with the cabinet before they can be stamped to take effect. Their orders just went out without my permission? Or did they directly Engaged in coercion?"

Everyone thinks their lives are too big, right?

What, say there is a prince?

The prince is just a prisoner, not qualified to handle it with full authority!

Li Congjia put away the written note and said, "Let's talk about it after we get back."

Now that he is outside, it is difficult to deal with anything, but he did remember this matter.

Seeing Li Congjia's cold and angry face, Shi Xueting knew that he was really angry and held a grudge this time. Facts have proved that it is not a good phenomenon for Li Congjia to hold grudges, at least the end result of being grudged by Li Congjia...

However, it is not easy for Shi Xueting to express any opinions on this matter. The main reason is that he is also very angry. Li Congjia trusts these people very much, so he is tolerant to them and gives them the greatest rights he can give. In the end, in the end, These people combined to ignore him directly?

Is this the rhythm of deception in the future?There is a second time for this kind of thing, so both of them decided to ignore it for the time being, and wait until they come back from Suzhou to talk about anything.

As for whether these people will rebel, after serious consideration, Shi Xueting thinks that maybe not. The cutting-edge weapons of the Tang Dynasty cannot be mobilized without the double seal of the emperor and the privy envoy, and the ink pad of that seal is Shi Xueting's secret. It is impossible for others to make it, and even if someone fakes it, it will not be able to hide it from the leaders of the armies.

Of course, there is another possibility that the military leaders of various armies also united with these people to overthrow Li Congjia's rule, but that was when the emperor lost the support of the people.

After the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the criminal law was so harsh that no one dared to find trouble when the first emperor was still alive. Li Congjia had never done that kind of thing, so how could everyone be united in trying to bring him down?

Li Congjia was on the road with low air pressure, and the air pressure of the team was much lower. In addition, Tiance's clothes were mainly black and red, so the whole team made no other sounds except footsteps when they were marching, like ghosts. It can scare people to death during the day, but it is even more terrifying at night.

Li Congjia's side was not happy, but Chang'an's side was actually a little bit sympathetic.

It is impossible for Zhou Zong and others to say that they are rebellious. Everyone has self-knowledge, and the luck they have been facing Li Congjia since this journey is not comparable to them. What's more, Li Congjia holds the military power so tightly. Rebellion, who can rebel?I'm afraid it was shut down as soon as the incident happened!

When the news of Gao Huaide came, Zhou Zong and the others discussed it, and felt that Li Congjia should have so much affection for Li Congshan, not to mention that Li Congshan clearly wanted to fight against Li Congjia, and Li Congjia would not tolerate it at this time.

Everyone knows that the normal process is that they send a message to Li Congjia, and then Li Congjia writes a letter, they directly affix the official seal of the Privy Council, and the cabinet also issues an official document on the distribution of grain and grass, and then sends the order to Gao Huaide, who then leads the troops to fight .

However, everyone calculated that Li Congjia had gone far away. This trip took at least four or five days, the battlefield was changing rapidly, and after waiting for so many days, food and grass would be consumed a lot. Once they made up their minds, they simply sent a message to Li Congjia. , while asking the Privy Council to issue an order to Gao Huaide, let him hit him directly, don't take it too far, if you can catch it, you can't catch it.

Zhou Zong and the others thought that it would be enough to wait for Li Congjia to come over and then complete the procedures. Isn't this also to save time?

As a result, Li Congjia's letter never came, and Gao Huaide over there almost captured the city!

Zhou Zong was a little flustered at this time, not only him, but the cabinet as a whole was a little flustered. He didn't understand what Li Congjia was doing this time. Why didn't he give instructions on this matter?Doesn't he want to hurt Li Congshan?

After discussing with everyone in the cabinet, they tentatively sent a note to Li Congjia, asking for instructions.

When Li Congjia received the notebook, he sneered, and wanted to reply: Didn’t you make a decision?Very good, what do you ask me to do?keep going.

However, he knew that the most important thing now was to conquer Suzhou, and the soldiers should not find out that the emperor had a dispute with the powerful ministers. This would easily make everyone feel uneasy, and they had to wait until they returned to Chang'an to discuss anything.

Li Congjia withheld this note again and did not release it. At this time, no matter how dull the cabinet was, they knew that something was wrong. They didn't find anything wrong after thinking about it.

After they couldn't think of a way, they turned around and had to go to the Privy Council.

Li Jingda, Li Hongji, and Zhao Kuangyin in the Privy Council all had a good life, and they didn't need to go out to fight. Their contributions were enough to allow them to spend the rest of their time in peace. After Li Congjia left, they had fewer things to do.

In the end, after two days of leisure, a thunderbolt came from the sunny day, and the three of them were stunned.

Li Jingda reacted a little faster, and when Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin were still in a daze, he followed up and asked, "You mean, before His Majesty didn't send an order at all and you gave orders?"

Zhou Zong and Xu Xuan looked at each other and nodded, Li Jingda almost jumped up for a moment: "How could you do this? You... are you trying to make trouble?"

Zhou Zong and Xu Xuan were also taken aback. Zhou Zong quickly waved his hands and said, "No, we just... want to save a little time."

Li Jingda wished he could beat them out!

"Where you save time, you can't save it here. You are living too smoothly, do you have to find something for yourself?"

Li Jingda was about to be pissed off. As a person who had been suspected by Li Jing for half his life and had survived cautiously, Li Jingda had a thorough understanding of this kind of thing. Even the most magnanimous king would not be able to tolerate his subordinates' overreaching.

At this time, Zhou Zong also thought of this possibility, and suddenly became excited, and asked: "Your Majesty... don't you know?"

Zhao Kuangyin sneered at the side and said, "It must be known, otherwise why hasn't he made a statement until now, maybe he just wants to wait for Xi Zheng to come back."

Xu Xuan swallowed: "Your Majesty...how could Your Majesty know what we did?"

Li Hongji couldn't help but asked, "Do you think the intelligence department in the hands of the National Teacher is just a decoration?"

How did these two people become cabinet ministers?And one of them is Shoufu!The Intelligence Department can be ignored in the hands of others, but how dare you ignore it in the hands of Shi Xueting?Why don't you think about what he has done?

Zhou Zong's face was solemn: "What should we do now?"

Li Jingda shook his hand: "That's a matter for your cabinet, what does it have to do with our Privy Council?"

Zhou Zong said calmly: "Didn't your Privy Council also obey the cabinet's orders? According to the procedure, it should be that His Majesty's handbook is sent directly to the Privy Council, right? Your Privy Council does not need to obey the cabinet's orders at all."

Li Jingda's footsteps paused, and his face immediately turned a little ugly. It really didn't count. These generals are already used to the previous form. The prime minister is under one person and above ten thousand people. The prime minister, in fact, has similar rights.

As a result, the Privy Council was cheated by the cabinet this time.

Li Hongji said angrily: "Okay, now is not the time to shirk responsibility, have you asked His Majesty again?"

Xu Xuan said with a bitter face: "After submitting the booklet, His Majesty still has no response."

Zhao Kuangyin added a knife: "I remember that he seems to have a text to record the names of some people. The people who are written on it now...the grass on the grave is very high, you can pray."

Everyone glared at Zhao Kuangyin immediately. Among them, Zhao Kuangyin was the one who was least likely to be implicated, because his responsibilities in the Privy Council were not high enough, and he had nothing to do with this matter from the beginning to the end. .

So when he said this now, everyone wanted to beat him out.

Zhao Kuangyin also felt that his hatred was a little too much, so he had to say: "What are you discussing? Your Majesty knows everything in his heart, do you still want to fool him now? I am afraid that he already feels that the court's management has loopholes, and he is trying to make up for it. Now, you still don't apologize, really wait for him to come back?"

The main problem is that after Li Congjia came back from the Western Regions, his anger might not decrease because of the passage of time, but more likely because the time was long enough and the cabinet did not respond during this period, so Li Congjia's anger level Getting higher and higher, when he comes back... Maybe he will have to give up a few lives by then.

Among them, Zhao Kuangyin sympathized most with Gao Huaide. Gao Huaide was afraid of accidentally taking responsibility, so he stopped attacking and waited for Li Congjia's instructions. In the end, he was accidentally thrown into the ditch by the cabinet.

However, if Li Congjia didn't vent his anger and Gao Huaide won the battle again, he should have no problem.

Zhao Kuangyin thought about it for a while and decided to write a letter to Gao Huaide when he went back, telling Gao Huaide to be more careful, it is best not to lose the battle, if he loses the battle except for this kind of thing... probably even the gods can't save him.

Zhou Zong and the others looked at each other, and felt that at this time they could only write an apology, and it was best to be honest, to cool down Li Congjia's anger, and calm down by the way.

Li Jingda took a deep breath and said, "Your cabinet...who else knows?"

Zhou Zong's mouth was bitter: "It's just me and Xu Xuan."

The remaining two, Wang Pu and Zhao Pu, are not their members, or they are not part of their interest group. Now only Zhou Zong and Xu Xuan are left in the cabinet.

Although Zhou Zong sat in the position of chief assistant, he has always been a little uneasy. He knows his own affairs, and he understands that he does not have the ability to become the chief assistant of the entire Tang Dynasty. In fact, since Li Congjia entered the Central Plains, his ability has been insufficient. to manage such a large country.

It's just that because there are always capable people under his command, and there were a lot of people in the cabinet before, everyone can discuss things and get things done.

Now the number of people in the cabinet has decreased, and Li Congjia has promoted two people who are not very familiar with them, and power struggles are inevitable within the cabinet. Zhou Zong and Xu Xuan are old acquaintances, and they have been in the cabinet for a long time , the qualifications are high enough, it is too easy to crowd out newcomers.

However, this time, when the two of them did such a thing, the entire cabinet was to blame, so they had to tell Wang Pu and Zhao Pu.

Li Jingda said very bluntly: "Be prepared mentally."

He didn't make it very clear, but Zhou Zong heard the subtext, that is, Li Congjia was likely to step down as prime minister.

What does a disobedient prime minister want to do?Of course, the point is not entirely disobedient, but more that he is simply bold!

Coupled with Zhou Zong's sensitive identity, the crown prince's grandfather, this is the rhythm of going to heaven in the future!

Zhao Kuangyin thought about such people, if it was given to him, he would not continue to keep them, how much heart does Li Congjia have to continue to keep them?

Of course, it was precisely because of the power struggle between the two groups that Zhou Zong made such a foolish move.

Li Jingda sighed: "Let's go, write the notes."

Zhou Zong and Xu Xuan looked at each other, sighed and turned back to the cabinet. They needed to communicate with Wang Pu and Zhao Pu.

Wang Pu and Zhao Pu's reactions were similar to Li Jingda's. These are direct victims, or the ones who have been kept in the dark. They won't know until something happens soon!

Zhou Zong didn't take out the handbook before, and Wang Pu already felt that something was wrong, but at that time he was suspicious, thinking that Li Congjia had written the handbook and gave it directly to the prince. Anyway, Zhou Zong was the prince's grandfather, so he knew in advance that there was nothing wrong.

It is only now that I realize that these two people have not received any written orders at all, they are really going to be cheated to death!

Xu Xuan couldn't help but said: "Why don't you make up a letter from the prince."

Zhou Zong frowned and didn't say anything, Zhao Pu said angrily: "You didn't make enough mistakes, so you want to drag the prince into trouble?"

What is the use of the prince's handbook?Oh, this is to tell Li Congjia that everyone has obeyed the prince's order now, and the prince's edict is equivalent to the emperor's edict.

Isn't this telling the emperor that everyone is waiting for you to die, so that he can support the prince and get a meritorious service?

Can you stop being so stupid?Even if the emperor currently only has this one son, he can't do this!

Zhou Zong was quite clear-headed this time, and immediately rejected Xu Xuan's suggestion, but said: "I wrote a letter of apology, and I am going to retire from office. From now on, the cabinet... I will entrust the two of you."

Wang Pu and Zhao Pu... were also exhausted, and they both wanted more power, but under normal circumstances, no one wanted to have such a big problem, let alone the two of them don't even want to run away.

Come on, let's plead guilty together, what's the matter?

When the top officials of the Tang Dynasty collectively wrote the petition, Li Congjia had already left the customs. After arriving outside the customs, Li Congjia let the soldiers go around to find horse thieves to practice their hands and subsidize military funds.

What I didn't expect was that Long Wu, who was in Ganzhou at this time, heard that Li Congjia's personal conquest was still mobilizing Ganzhou Uyghurs to rebel against Li Congjia's rule. After everyone was excited, he ran back to Suzhou in the early stage of Li Congjia's arrival .

He also stated very confidently that those Ganzhou Uighurs were originally called by him to be death squads.

The meaning of their existence is to block Li Congjia's attack for Suzhou!

Ganzhou Uighur:? ? ? ? ?

It has to be said that Long Wu made a bad move, even if he united with Ganzhou Uighurs, he might not be able to block Li Congjia's attack.

Not to mention finding an enemy for himself now.

That's right, the Ganzhou Uighurs reacted when they found out that Long Wu had run away, and they were a little outraged for a moment.

It's okay for them to be ruled by Li Congjia, after all, they can't beat them, but they can't stand such a worthless thing coming to trick them.

So when I was attacking Ganzhou tentatively, and was planning to use Ganzhou's combat effectiveness to decide how many people to send and whether to divide the troops, I received a message: Ganzhou Uighurs please surrender.

Li Congjia was speechless for a moment, what rhythm is this?Are you kidding me by admitting to me so quickly?

Now that I know I can't beat it, why did I go early?

Li Congjia really wanted to fight the Ganzhou Uyghurs regardless. After all, if there is one, there will be two. These people will never settle down. If you can't beat it, just surrender.

Anyway, they are few people, the emperor of the Central Plains will not slaughter a tribe.

In fact, Li Congjia really wanted to kill them all, but he endured it again, so he directly said: If you want me not to pursue it, you can go and pay for the crime. If you behave well, I will forgive you. Even the crimes of the leader are not held accountable.

When the tribal leaders heard the last sentence, they naturally wanted to lead the tribe to work hard.

In fact, Li Congjia really didn't need them to fight. He was just killing people with a knife. How could he not die in a war?What's more, they don't know how to use firearms, and Li Congjia won't give them.

So Long Wu, who was originally waiting for Ganzhou Uighur to become a striker, was stunned to find that these people turned around and beat him!

Fortunately, all kinds of preparations were made before Longwu, so while continuing to make arrangements, he scolded the Ganzhou Uighurs for being soft-boned and not obeying the agreement. He was almost frightened to death when he heard Tang Huang came.

None of his subordinates said anything, and they all had one thought: Boss, they didn't discuss it with you back then, it was your wishful thinking to let them take a shield!

Long Wu said after cursing: "Everyone clean up, fight if you can, and retreat if you can't, keep the green hills, and don't worry about running out of firewood."

The man who he named a military adviser waved his fan and said, "If you want to retreat, the only place you can go is Khotan."

Long Wu immediately said: "Then go to Khotan."

Everyone looked at each other, knowing that this time they might not be able to carry it, so they didn't exert any strength when resisting. Seeing that the firearms were so powerful, they didn't want to fight at all.

Long Wu's plan was very good, but they didn't expect that Li Congjia had already prepared for them to run away, and he had greeted Yutian in advance, and Yutian sent people to chase and intercept them at the border.

It was miserable for Long Wu and others to be chased like this. In the end, his most trusted military adviser thought that this was not possible, so he made a deal with several people, tied up Long Wu while he was sleeping, and turned to Li Congjia to make amends. .

Li Congjia: ...

If I knew you were so cowardly, what am I doing this trip?

Just when Li Congjia was about to deal with these people, and by the way asked people to try hard to find the governor of Suzhou, the pleadings from Chang'an lined up.

Li Congjia said angrily: "Now you know you made a mistake? What did you do earlier? Recall and dismiss, dismiss them all!"

Shi Xueting hastily said: "Check it out before we talk about it."

He didn't want to intercede with anyone, but... dismissed two cabinet ministers and two deputy privy envoys in one go?This is the rhythm to keep everyone from celebrating the New Year.

Li Congjia put the notebook aside and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow!"

As a result, Shi Xueting told him the next day: "Yesterday I watched the sky at night, and found that the moon is full of stars, and it is here."

Li Congjia:? ? ? ? ? ?

The author has something to say: Li Congjia: These people who don’t pay attention to me, keep a small notebook!

Shi Xueting: I don't need to remember it anymore, congratulations to Your Majesty for your excellent skills.

Li Congjia: ...