Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

Hearing this, Li Shu stared at Li Xu with rounded eyes. Li Xu's expression was calm, as if there was no disturbance.Li Shu suddenly felt a deep fear. Could it be that all this is not what he thought at all, that the elder brother plotted against his Qing emperor, but it was another story from the beginning to the end?

Tang Wuyi took out the late prince Li Huan's last letter from his sleeve, put his hands on his hands and knelt down and said, "Please read it, Your Majesty, this letter was left by Mr. Pu. Mr. Pu was the former prince's prince and tutor. The two are lifelong confidants. After the first prince was convicted, Mr. Pu has been working as a teacher in the Tang family. Later, the emperor was seriously ill, and His Majesty was leading the army. The first prince was alarmed by the intention of King Yan's rebellion, so he wrote this letter to Mr. Pu. , and asked for help from the Tiance Army led by his adoptive father, in order to help the country and rule the country with righteousness."

Li Shu's hand trembling when he took the letter, he was naturally very familiar with the handwriting of the first prince, so his body trembled a little at the moment he saw it. , pointing at Li Xu and said: "It turns out...it's you!"

Li Xu met Li Shu's gaze and said: "Hmph, it turned out to be at Pu Qiming's place. I searched Tang You's place all those years ago but couldn't find any evidence of Li Huan's secret conspiracy. It turned out that Pu Qiming hid it. Hehe, it was me Inconsiderate."

"You..." Li Shu was furious, "So what the elder brother said in the letter is all the truth. The elder brother did not rebel at all. It was you who pretended to be rebellious and lured the elder brother to summon the Tiance army. You took advantage of the situation to slander him for secretly instigating the Tiance army to usurp the throne. Then write Xin and Zhen asked me to bring the Suzaku army back to Beijing to wipe out Tiance!"

"Emperor brother!" Li Xu stared at Li Shu, "I did this for the sake of the emperor! At that time, the father was seriously ill and comatose, and he couldn't even write out the will. If I didn't do it, the throne would belong to Li Huan. I have been imprisoned for several years, but my title is still the prince, brother, how can you let me be reconciled?"

Snapped!Li Shu slapped Li Xu hard, and the corners of his eyes turned red as he said, "That's our elder brother! You let him die unjustly for your own selfish desires, and you made him guilty of treason. How can I have the face to meet him after a hundred years?"

Li Xu, who was slapped, confronted him tit for tat: "Brother Emperor, Li Huanren is a coward, and it is difficult to become a great talent. Back then, he acted like a woman for a Uighur princess, made a big mistake, and angered the emperor. He shouldn't be in that seat." He stared at Li Shu, with a look of fanaticism in his eyes, "Brother Huang, you are the chosen one. You fought on the battlefield when you were a teenager, destroyed Gaochang, attacked Tubo, and after the Uighurs fell apart, it was Brother Huang who sent troops to quell the chaos. Just because Brother Huang was born two years later than Li Huan, can he not be the emperor? Brother Huang is inconvenient to make a move, so I will. Even if Li Huan has no intention of treason, his existence will make the Tiance Army swear to guard him to the death. Without me The Tiance Army was wiped out in one fell swoop, so how can there be a peaceful and prosperous life after the emperor's brother ascended the throne?"

Li Shu originally wanted to slap him again, but he was stunned when he heard the word "peace and prosperity" at the end, and slowly lowered his hand that was raised in the air.What Li Xu said was right, the original Tiance Army was from the prince's line, if he hadn't forced the palace to rebel and suppress him, there would be many obstacles for him to ascend the throne.In all fairness, when Li Shu was the king of Wei, he had ambitions for the position of prince, especially when his military achievements became more and more prominent and his support from the court increased.At that time, Li Huan was imprisoned in the East Palace. He could see the appreciation for him in his father's eyes, and he could also see his hesitation about Yi Chu.Li Huan was his first son. He was regarded as a prince from birth, and his father put too much effort into it. Qualified Crown Prince.

Li Shu originally thought that with the passage of time, when his military achievements were outstanding, his father would finally be able to make him the crown prince, but he did not wait for this day after all.When he was away with his troops, his father was seriously ill, and he did not have a will to establish Yi Chu until his death.When he heard the news that his father was seriously ill, it would be a lie to say that he was not unwilling, so when he received a letter from Li Xu, saying that Li Huan colluded with Tiance's army to rebel, he almost returned to Beijing without thinking. Deny yourself this feeling of relief.

When passing through the Eastern Capital, he met Tang Jingxiao and a Tiance Army stationed in the Eastern Capital. Tang Jingxiao said that Tang You had received a secret order from the prince to lead the army to the capital. Tang You did not explain more details to Tang Jingxiao, so Li Shu took out When Li Xu's letter told Tang Jingxiao that the prince had colluded with Tiance to rebel, Tang Jingxiao believed it immediately.Almost without hesitation, Tang Jingxiao took the rest of the Tiance Army to join Li Shu, and this became the source of all Tang Jingxiao's infamy and controversy afterwards.Tang Jingxiao came from Tiance, and he should swear to protect the prince to the death. The matter of Li Huan's rebellion was controversial in the court back then, but he was suppressed by Li Xu.Although Li Huan has been imprisoned for several years, he still has many supporters in the court. When Li Shu led troops into the palace Qingjun's side, in addition to the Suzaku army, he also brought Tang Jingxiao's strategist army with him. It was rumored privately that Tang Jingxiao had secretly followed Li Shu and turned his back on the Tang family.

Li Xu was right. Li Shu had ambitions for the reserve position. Without Li Xu's plan, Li Shu's rise to the top position would not have been so smooth, and there would have been no peaceful and prosperous times after ascension to the throne.However, this does not mean that he agrees with Li Xu's approach. On the contrary, at the moment when he knew the truth just now, Li Shu felt that thousands of arrows pierced his heart, and all he saw was the scene of his elder brother being shot dead in Daming Palace. His long robes, his eyes are like stars but reflect deep grief.He was shot by an arrow in his chest, which was shot by Tang Jingxiao. He held the arrow in one hand and stretched out his other hand, but he was speechless.He always thought it was his elder brother's unwillingness to rebel after his defeat, but now that he thought about it, it was the misunderstanding of his elder brother who hadn't seen him for a few years before his death, and it was the deepest expression on that face that was once as bright as spring flowers in March. despair.

"Your Majesty, after your Majesty ascended the throne, our Tang family has suffered heavy losses but has not yet been destroyed. Your Majesty has been jealous of our Tang family for a long time." Tang Wuyi turned the topic to the present case, "Presumably your lord has also heard the nursery rhymes that were circulated in Dongdu before. "Dalang is in charge of the world, Erlang guards the city, and Sanlang designs the second brother, who will become prime minister at one time." After hearing this, the prince was terrified, fearing that what happened back then would be revealed, so he suspected that this matter had something to do with my Tang family. Chen guessed From then on, the prince began to poison the minister's elder brother, and secretly coerced Mr. Pu. Mr. Pu was worried that the last prince's last letter in his hand would be lost, so he had to kill himself, and tried every means to preserve the letter before he died. After being poisoned for a period of time by the prince without knowing it, it happened that the poison accumulated on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and he died of the poison!" Tang Wuyi's voice was loud and convincing.If it is said that Li Xu really planned everything back then, then what happened today is the cause and effect accumulated in those years.The truth about Li Huan asking Tang You for help back then, Li Xu has never been sure how much the Tang family knew. He even suspected that Tang Jingxiao knew everything. Now that the nursery rhyme came out suddenly, his fear of Tang Jingxiao became more and more obvious. If the Tang clan was gradually removed secretly, then the secrets of the past would be sealed forever.