Traveling through the troubled times of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the first battle, which took more than half a year, ended with the defeat of Goguryeo.

Li Shimin originally wanted to conquer Goguryeo in one fell swoop, but it was near autumn and winter, the grass was dry and the water was freezing, and it was difficult for soldiers and horses to stay for a long time. Li Shimin had to obey the opinions of the generals and handed documents to the emperor, asking the commander to return to the court and make plans again.

After Li Yuan received the document, he was overjoyed and immediately agreed to Li Shimin's resolution.

This conquest of Goguryeo, including the [-] soldiers who had been massacred by Li Yuanji before, killed a total of [-] Goguryeo soldiers and captured more than ten cities. The Tang army died less than [-], which can be described as a great victory.

In this battle, Li Yuan originally wanted to contribute to the crown prince's merits, but he had no intention of fulfilling the already illustrious military exploits of Qin Wang Li Shimin. On the day when the squadron returned to the court, thousands of people in Chang'an City went out to welcome the Tang army who conquered Tao Goguryeo. The people cheered happily , It also made the name of King Qin reach an unprecedented height.

However, the atmosphere in the Eastern Palace at this moment is completely opposite.

"Prince...Prince, you should stop drinking..."

"Get out!" The man in the light yellow python robe pushed away the servant beside him, and due to too much force, he almost couldn't stand still, staggered a few steps, barely stood still, and swayed from side to side.

Raising his head in a little embarrassment, this person is Prince Li Jiancheng.

"You go down first."

The little waiter didn't know what to do, so he heard a clear and beautiful voice from inside the screen, and hurriedly saluted: "Kowtow to see the crown princess, the servant will leave."

After the person withdrew, Ruyi finally looked at the man in front of her.She thought that marrying Li Yuan's most valued son, the future prince, would be able to restore her Great Sui Dynasty and avenge her father, brother and nephews by enduring humiliation. ... If I had known this, I might as well have married Li Shimin.

Since it wasn't that person, it made no difference to her who she married.Thinking of that person, Ruyi's delicate and flawless face was obscure, she thought she would hate that person to death, but she never thought that when he came back from a serious injury, her heart would be so torn...

Luo Cheng!Luo Cheng!It seemed that it had become the intangible and inexplicable wound in her heart.

Putting away the disdain and annoyance in her eyes, Ruyi stepped forward to carefully support the person in front of her, and whispered softly, "What's wrong with the prince? Why are you drunk again?"

"Does anyone still care about my palace? Didn't you all go to congratulate Li Shimin? He, Li Shimin, is so majestic. He has broken through more than ten cities and killed [-] enemies. He is so majestic! Hehe...how can I compare with this prince? , how can it compare!"

Ruyi is very tired of him being so unpromising, let alone you are still the prince, the future prince of the Tang Dynasty, even if he is not a prince, as long as the emperor does not die, there is still hope.What's more, anyone with a discerning eye can see that no matter how great Li Shimin is, in the hearts of saints, he still favors the prince.

A soft and greasy hand gently touched Li Jiancheng's face, wiping the sweat off his forehead, and said in a gentle and soft voice, "In Ruyi's eyes, the crown prince is the best one."

Li Jiancheng raised his head slowly, his eyes were gloomy, and he didn't get better because of this sentence: "Don't you think Li Shimin is better than me?"

"It's just a martial artist. It doesn't matter if he is stronger than me. Ruyi only has the crown prince in his eyes."

"Is what you said true?"

Yang Ruyi smiled sweetly, innocent like a girl: "The prince is Ruyi's husband. If the prince is good, only Ruyi can be good. If Ruyi doesn't care about the prince, who should he care about? Even if everyone leaves the prince—"

Yang Ruyi withdrew her hand, and gently rubbed back and forth on her lower abdomen, her eyes were gentle: "Ruyi and the child will not leave the prince either."

Li Jiancheng was stunned for a moment, then he was ecstatic, and reached out to hold Yang Ruyi's frail shoulders: "Ruyi, you mean...you mean, Ben Gong Ben Gong..."

Yang Ruyi smiled slightly and nodded slightly: "The prince is about to become a father."

"Haha...haha...Ruyi, you really are the lucky star of this palace!" Li Jiancheng was overjoyed for a moment. Although it was not the first time he became a father, if this was a boy baby, it would be his son, the emperor's first son. Sun, the meaning is extraordinary.

"Father, if he knows that I have a son, he has a grandson... I will be overjoyed, I will forgive me, and I will be summoned again."

Seeing that Li Jiancheng was so happy, he said that he would ask the imperial doctor to take his pulse, and then that he would go to the palace to have a face-to-face meeting. Yang Ruyi smiled ironically.

Lucky star...it really is a lucky star.

Why did Li Yuan agree to the prince's proposal to marry her? It wasn't because when she won the Sui Dynasty, there were still many officials in the old dynasty who were dissatisfied. There is nothing better than marrying the only blood of the old dynasty to win people's hearts.

Sure enough, as soon as Yang You died, Li Yuan couldn't wait to succeed him, and took over his great power of the Sui Dynasty, and because Li Jiancheng married her, he took over the remnants of the Sui Dynasty very smoothly.

It can be said that her marriage to him is a double win.

She married to preserve the only blood of the Yang family, to preserve the remnants of the Yang family, and one day, she would return all the pain that the Li family had paid to her Yang family.

And Li Jiancheng has so much affection for her, it's nothing more than seeing a profit, and it is logical to hold the veterans who are still loyal to the Yang family in the palm of his hand.

She, Yang Ruyi, lay dormant for a long time, endured the humiliation, and went back to the palace to serve the Dou family and call that man's father. She felt as if a knife was stabbing herself. She thought that as long as Li Yuan was killed, Li Jiancheng was not scheming enough. She thought she could control him , but I never thought that he would be so vulnerable. If I knew why she married him, I might as well marry Li Shimin.

But now, she didn't want to wait any longer. If she waited any longer, she might not wait for Li Yuan's death, but let Li Shimin take advantage of it instead.

Yang Ruyi didn't intend to spread the news so soon, after all, the baby is not yet three months old, and the fetal position is still unstable, but right now he can't take care of so much, thinking that once Li Shimin returns to the imperial court, he will have to gain the favor of the court. With little support, Yang Ruyi could only leak this in advance, so as to bring Li Yuan's heart back to the Prince's Mansion.

Before Li Shimin's army entered the city, the good news of the Prince's Mansion had already reached the palace, making Li Yuan, who originally planned to go out of the city to greet him and reward the three armies, overjoyed.

At that time, another attendant reported that the queen asked to see her, and Li Yuan agreed.

The reason why Dou's "just happened" to appear in the palace at this time was precisely to stop Li Yuan from leaving the city.Dou looked at his words and saw Li Yuan's happy face because of the matter of his grandson, so he said earnestly: "Your Majesty, you and I are husband and wife. After so many things, we also share the sorrows of life and death. There are some things that I don't want to share with you." Go around in circles."

When Li Yuan saw this posture, he didn't even need to use his honorific title, so he knew that his first wife did have something to say, and said with a slight expression: "I know your temper best, we are old couples, what else can we say?" Is it easy to say? You can say it anyway."

Dou's voice was calm, but the question he asked was not at all peaceful, straight to the point, straight to the point: "Your Majesty, who do you really want to be the heir apparent?"

Li Yuan's eyes flickered, and when he looked at Dou's, he looked more closely. The latter seemed not to notice, and sighed to himself: "Jiangcheng, Shimin, Yuanji, and Yuanba are all my sons. Yuanji is reckless and embarrassing. , this kid Yuanba is not smart enough, let’s put it aside, then he will be one of Jiancheng and Shimin."

"The people of the world are filial, and every time they go out, they must go to the palace to visit my mother, and they will be happy at the knees. When they come back from the trip, they will never forget to bring some gifts. Although the gift is light, it is also a heart. Among the few children, He is the one who wins my heart the most, and I also like him the most.”

Li Yuan's heart sank, and he said to himself, you just heard that the princess is pregnant and can't sit still, so you are eager to intercede for Shimin?

But before he could come to a conclusion, who knew Dou's voice changed, and said again: "The emperor's heart is unpredictable, I don't know which one the emperor prefers, but I hope the emperor will not repeat the chaos of the previous Sui Dynasty."

"What do you mean?" There was faint displeasure in the voice.

Mrs. Dou knelt down unhurriedly, made a big gift, and said as if she had made up her mind: "I beg the emperor not to shake the position of the prince! No matter how much credit the people have made, I hope the emperor will not let him shake the position of the prince." The next emperor of the Tang Dynasty can only be Li Jiancheng!"

"Presumptuous!" Li Yuan instinctively wanted to reprimand. Is this what she should say as a queen?Intervening in the affairs of the previous dynasty, he is not dead yet, he has even talked about the next emperor!

Dou's face was mournful, and he kowtowed again: "Your Majesty, please listen to my concubine's words, why did the Sui Dynasty fall? If the eldest son Yang Yong, instead of the second son Yang Guang, had ascended the throne, would the Sui Dynasty have perished?"

"It was because Yang Jian was vacillating in his later years. He obviously belonged to Yang Yong as the crown prince, but he put too much energy on his second son Yang Guang, so that he was in a dilemma. This fueled Yang Guang's arrogance and competed The things that did not belong to him also made the internal struggle of the Yang family clear, and the two factions of the Yang family were fighting each other. Although Yang Guang won later, how many of the cronies who originally supported the Yang family were left? It also accelerated the destruction of the Yang family .”

"Your Majesty, isn't my Tang Dynasty repeating the mistakes of the Sui Dynasty?"

"Since ancient times, the establishment of a heir in the emperor's house has been either to establish a heir or to establish a head. Both of these things have been established first. No matter how outstanding the military exploits are, the people of the world will never be able to skip the establishment and become the heir."

Li Yuan looked at his wife calmly, and said calmly: "I have already given the opportunity to Jiancheng, but he missed it himself, and gave this opportunity to Shimin. Facts have proved that Shimin is indeed more suitable than Jiancheng. That position."

"Your Majesty, the people of the world know how to fight, but they don't necessarily know how to govern the country. Before that, the stability of Chang'an City, the appeasement of the officials, and the enactment of laws to restrain the people are all thanks to Jiancheng! Although Jiancheng is soft-tempered, but in other words In other words, it’s not a bad thing.”

"how do I say this?"

Dou said sadly: "If Jiancheng succeeds to the throne, with Jiancheng's weak nature, he will definitely think of brotherhood. The people of the world can still be his prince, be his right-hand man and guard the frontier for him; but if Shicheng The succession of the people, the emperor, look at the past dynasties, which abolished prince can protect himself? You are going to die to complete it!"

Li Yuan's eyes sank slightly, which was one of the reasons why he wanted to support the crown prince no matter what.

"And, my own son, how can I not know? Shimin and Jiancheng have completely opposite temperaments. He is decisive in dealing with things. If he is the heir apparent in the future, he will definitely not allow others to threaten his position."

"Your Majesty, do you want me, a mother, to watch my two sons kill each other?"

Li Yuan's heart was shocked, this is what he wanted to see, he kept telling himself in his heart that he would not come to this point, but in fact, he agreed with what Dou said.

After struggling for a long time, Li Yuan whispered: "Then tell me, what should we do now?"

As soon as Dou regained his weak appearance, his eyes were like torches and he said: "The position of the crown prince is established, and no one can shake it. Before the mistake is irreversible, first take back the military power of the people of the world, and slowly weaken the Qin Palace. His strength made Shimin become a prince in name only, smoothed his temperament, made him forget his ambitions, and willingly became the backing king of my Great Tang, defending my Great Tang for Jiancheng."