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In the dark night, the long street was lonely, with the sound of footsteps. Not long after Yu Chigong left, Lu Zhongming left Tiance Mansion, lit a ball of golden fire in his hand, and walked slowly along the road.

Qin Qiong hurried to catch up and followed behind Lu Zhongming.

Lu Zhongming turned his head and glanced at Qin Qiong, Qin Qiong walked over in silence, Lu Zhongming stretched out his hand and let Qin Qiong lead them, and the two walked on the road in silence.

"Are you taking me home?" Lu Zhongming asked.

"En." Qin Qiong nodded, and asked again: "What is that?"

"Ordinary fire." Lu Zhongming said, "It's just a ball of fire."

He asked Qin Qiong to stretch out his hand and handed the fire to Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong smiled and looked at the warm flame, lost its mana support, and the flame gradually went out.

"Do me a favor." Qin Qiong said suddenly.

Lu Zhongming said: "What's the matter? About Li Mi?"

Qin Qiong nodded and said: "When Li Mi returned to Chang'an, Uncle Wang gave me a letter, which was from Brother Shan. Brother Shan said that he did something wrong, and he dared not see his brothers again. He entrusted me to help He saved Li Mi's family and life."

Lu Zhongming remembered the scene of Wagang's split. Back then, Shan Xiongxin was one of the few people who knelt down to Li Mi. Presumably the rest of Wagang's tribe hated Shan Xiongxin more than they hated Li Mi.It is natural for Li Mi to fight for power, but Shan Xiongxin's kneeling made people feel extremely humiliated and disdain to be with him.

"So you pleaded for him in front of the people?" Lu Zhongming asked.

Qin Qiong nodded, and said, "I've begged Shimin to let him go out, and this matter..."

Lu Zhongming said: "You and I will take a group of soldiers out and send him away?"

Qin Qiong looked up at Lu Zhongming and said, "What did Yuchi say?"

Lu Zhongming thought that not only were there several factions in the imperial court, but Li Shimin's subordinates were also divided into two factions. To save Li Mi's life, he would definitely make Yu Chigong angry who planned to kill Li Mi.But for Qin Qiong, he is willing to do so.

"Is there any way." Qin Qiong said: "We can let him fake his death and bring him back to life, so we can just hide it."

"Hey?" Lu Zhongming suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Let's go, I'll take care of this."

Qin Qiong went back to mobilize troops and horses, took 100 people, and came out in the dark, Lu Zhongming followed, and went out of the city overnight.The air was fresh in early summer, and a whole night passed, and it was almost dawn, without stopping, and after leaving Hangu Pass, there were scouts coming to report that Li Mi had betrayed him.

Both Qin Qiong and Lu Zhongming were shocked, they didn't expect Li Mi to react so quickly, and the messenger Qin Qiong sent to deliver a letter of persuasion had already been driven back by Li Mi.

"Your Majesty's move is too cruel." Qin Qiong said.

Li Jiancheng's order was obviously not as fast as Li Yuan's. At this moment, Li Mi had become a frightened bird, at a loss for what to do, and galloped for a full day. Finally, Qin Qiong finally encountered a small-scale battle at the foot of Xiong'er Mountain.A group of soldiers and horses flying the "Qin" flag, it was Yu Chigong who led the Xuanjia Army to fight Li Mi at the foot of the mountain.

"Oops!" Qin Qiong said: "It's still a step too late, what should I do?"

"It's just right." Lu Zhongming was stationed on the horse slope, observing the battlefield below, and said, "If we stop Li Mi first and take him away, Li Yuan will be suspicious instead. Now we just need to make the false appearance that he is dead and let Yu Chigong go back. Just report it."

Qin Qiong was really sweating. In the current situation, Yu Chigong had won an overwhelming victory, and Li Mi's army was about to be unable to hold on. If he continued to kill at this moment, and his own people beat his own people, Yu Chigong would find out immediately.Just as he was hesitating, the third troop from the foot of Xiong'er Mountain arrived, and the leader was none other than Li Jiancheng's Xue Wanche.

"The crown prince has an order!" Xue Wanche shouted: "It has nothing to do with others, and you must not interfere with Guangluqing's expedition! General Yuchi! What do you want to do!"

Li Mi's head was covered with blood, and he led the army back, but Yu Chigong ignored Xue Wanche, and shouted: "Soldiers of the Xuanjia Army, follow me!"

At dusk, the setting sun was like blood, the Xuanjia army responded in unison, the sound of horseshoes vibrated, and they charged from a height. Xue Wanche roared: "Yuchi Gong! You are guilty of killing the imperial court without authorization!"

Yu Chigong ignored him at all, and saw that Li Mi couldn't resist for a while, and retreated towards Tanghe. It was the first time that Lu Zhongming saw Yu Chigong's ruthless methods, and almost all those who blocked his way were beheaded directly face to face!There is no defeating the enemy, only killing the enemy, and we must kill them all.

Seeing that Yu Chigong didn't give him any chance to talk, Xue Wanche had no choice but to issue an order, with the word "Li" written on the banner, the Imperial Forest Army rushed to the river from the other side, attacking the Xuanjia Army's back!

Seeing that reinforcements came, Li Mi's morale of less than a thousand soldiers was immediately boosted, they fought with their backs, and then desperately resisted Yu Chigong's onslaught, and returned.

This time, the Xuanjia army was attacked from both sides, but Yu Chigong was so strong that he abandoned Li Mi and launched a counter-charge towards Xue Wanche's troops!The battlefield by the Tanghe River was in chaos, the Xuanjia Army ruthlessly ran over Xue Wanche's army, blood and blood flew all over the place, and the rear team changed to the front team again, bringing Xue Wanche and Li Mi together, and rushed towards the river repeatedly.

"Damn it." Qin Qiong swears a rare curse: "Yuchi is too ruthless, he wants to borrow a knife to kill someone!"

Lu Zhongming said: "Let's do it, get ready, cooperate with my spells to launch an attack, be sure to separate them!"

Lu Zhongming got off his horse and stepped into the Tanghe River. In an instant, the dusk was dark, and the river swirled, forming a roaring dragon, turning around and rushing towards the battlefield!

Lu Zhongming controlled the water dragon with his left hand, and shook out the magic weapon Wangui Banner with his right hand. Suddenly, a strong wind blew up, and the black mist surged, wrapping Qin Qiong's army in the black mist, and rushed into the battle formation.

"Catch Li Mi and leave!"

The dragon scales on Qin Qiong's body glowed faintly, and Lu Zhongming's voice came.

Yuchi Gong was shocked immediately, but when the Xuanjia Army saw this change, someone instantly remembered an ancient legend.The foot of Xiong'er Mountain was the battlefield of the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chi You in the past, and there was only one possibility...

"The Yin soldiers borrow the way!" Someone shouted.

"Don't panic!" Yu Chigong roared angrily, "Stand back for now!"

The two sides were rushed by the black mist, and they dared not make any more moves. They withdrew from the battlefield in chaos. The army in the black mist ran over the battlefield. Everyone met each other and was repelled. Many soldiers fell into the water, and Lu Zhongming was wrapped In the current, he swept towards the battlefield, holding Li Mi's collar in his left hand, pressed Li Mi's head with his right hand, flipped his hand and revealed the bamboo stick Zhuangzi gave him, and threw it on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the black mist left Xiong'er Mountain, the ground was in a mess, and Yuchi Gong was stationed by the river, panting for breath.

Xue Wanche was also terrified, and hurriedly signaled his troops to withdraw temporarily. The two sides fell silent for a while, and the troops who came and went in a hurry had disappeared.

Xue Wanche's army withdrew again and again, retreating to the path of the army, Li Mi's army was almost wiped out, and it was useless to fight any more. Instead, almost all of his own people were blamed on the Xuanjia army's counterattack. Xue Wanche sneered from a distance: " General Yuchi, you must be clear about who will be responsible when you go back."

Yu Chigong didn't answer, and said angrily: "Clean the battlefield! Now take Li Mi's head back! You committed a crime, and we'll see how His Majesty will judge it!"

In the early morning, the soldiers found Li Mi's body by the Tanghe River. A famous general of a generation, half of his body was submerged in the water, his face was so bruised that his face was beyond recognition.

Three days later in Chang'an, a quarrel broke out in the court, Li Jiancheng tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart, and said coldly: "General Yuchi! Who told you to kill first and then play!"

"Report to Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Crown Prince." Yu Chigong was full of blood, and his armor still smelled of corpses, and replied: "Li Mi refused to obey his orders when he passed by Xiong'er Mountain, and he did not want to receive the imperial edict to return to Chang'an. Ground to kill."

"What evidence is there to prove that Li Mi conspired to rebel?!" Li Yuanji also said angrily: "Father's order was only to transfer Xing Guogong back. According to Xue Wanche's report, the crown prince's handbook was already on the way. General Yuchi, why did you command your army to attack your own people?" Attack?!"

Li Yuan squinted his eyes and looked at Yu Chigong. Everyone in the hall was questioning Yu Chigong, but in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that it was actually Li Shimin who gave the order.Wei Zheng said again: "Your Majesty only ordered to arrest him. The King of Qin ordered him to bring Duke Xing back. He did not order him to be killed on the spot. General Yuchi, this move violated the laws of the dynasty."

All the sharp and dark arrows were aimed at Yu Chigong for a while.

"National teacher, please see me!" the guard said.

Everyone's expressions changed again, knowing that when Lu Zhongming came, no one would be able to cure Yu Chigong's crime, but Yu Chigong frowned slightly, knelt down on one knee, and said nothing.

Lu Zhongming walked into the hall, nodded to Li Yuan, then glanced at the crowd, and finally his eyes rested on Li Shimin's face, Li Shimin nodded slightly, and came out and said: "Father, General Yuchi is following orders, it is a stratagem issued by my child. The imperial edict ordered General Yuchi to bring back Li Mi, Duke of Xing, and if he refused, he would be killed on the spot."

Li Yuan said coldly: "Why did you kill Li Mi?"

"Li Mi conspired to rebel." Fang Xuanling said lightly, "Your Majesty, this person has to be killed, otherwise there will be endless troubles. Zhai Rang's changes in the past are a clear lesson."

"If you want to kill, you have to obey His Majesty's order." Wei Zheng said coldly: "When will you come to your Tiance Mansion to make a decision?"

Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng confronted each other: "When it's an emergency, Tiance Mansion can act expediently. Killing Li Mi is for the stability of the court, otherwise troubles will easily arise."

The last sentence almost made Lu Zhongming unsteady, but only Li Yuan noticed it vigilantly, squinted his eyes, and looked at Li Shimin, but Li Shimin kept lowering his eyes and looking at the ground.

"Yu Chigong, you killed the court ministers without authorization." Li Yuan said coldly, "Transfer it to Dali Temple for thorough investigation, and ordered the Marquis to be executed."

Lu Zhongming said: "Your Majesty."

Li Yuan took a deep breath, Lu Zhongming knew that at this time, Li Yuan had to make a statement, otherwise the general would kill as soon as he said it, and he would be too arrogant.Killing Li Mi was what Li Yuan would do sooner or later, but the conflict between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng, as well as Li Yuan's government orders, had already made him vigilant.

Everyone looked at Lu Zhongming, seeing how his tongue was so eloquent, and then turned black and white, but Lu Zhongming smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty, please calm down." After speaking, he folded his sleeves and stopped talking.

Li Yuan got up and left, the rest of the people went out one after another, Li Jiancheng stumbled when going down the steps, Lu Zhongming hurriedly tugged on Li Jiancheng's sleeve, his face changed: "Prince, be careful!"

Li Jiancheng's sleeve snorted, half of it was torn off, barely stabilized his figure, nodded to Lu Zhongming, said nothing, and left with Wei Zheng.Lu Zhongming held half of his sleeve, neither throwing it away nor keeping it, he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Broken sleeve!" Luo Shixin nodded.

Lu Zhongming laughed, and covered Luo Shixin's face with his sleeves. Luo Shixin pressed Lu Zhongming to beat him up again, but Li Shimin couldn't help them, saying, "Master, you can still laugh."

Yu Chigong had already been escorted away, Lu Zhongming waved his hand and said: "It's okay, your father will come to talk to you soon, there are plenty of opportunities for him to intercede."

After that, Lu Zhongming raised his eyes and looked at Fang Xuanling, Fang Xuanling's face turned pale.

Li Shimin said: "Within three days at the latest, I will go to plead with my father, Zhongming, you..."

Lu Zhongming breathed a sigh of relief, his brows were a little anxious, he looked sideways at Fang Xuanling, and asked, "What happened to the last sentence in the palace just now?"

Immediately, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling were silent, Fang Xuanling was silent for a moment, Lu Zhongming was not polite at all, grabbed Fang Xuanling's chest, almost pushed it to his face, and said coldly: "Don't think I didn't understand , Your Majesty understands everything, why can't I understand?"

Seeing that Lu Zhongming was angry, all the generals rushed forward to persuade him. Only Lu Zhongming and Fang Xuanling knew about the key point. Since Li Mi came to Chang'an, almost no one interacted with him. ,

Fang Xuanling said: "National teacher, have you not seen the crown prince and Li Mi interacting frequently?"

Lu Zhongming remembered Li Shimin's first request to him, and the series of things that followed, and he reacted almost instantly.Li Shimin must have received the news early in the morning that the prince and Li Mi were discussing something.And the one who asked Lu Zhongming directly exiled Li Mi.

He didn't blame Li Shimin for this. After all, if Li Mi had been around Li Jiancheng to sow discord for a long time and conspire against Li Shimin, he would definitely be in a very dangerous situation.But if Fang Xuanling directly pointed out that the prince and Li Mi conspired to rebel, it would be unfair to Li Jiancheng.

"Your Majesty, if you ask me." Lu Zhongming said in a deep voice, "I will answer truthfully."

"What?" Luo Shixin asked before he understood, "What the hell are you fighting for?"

Lu Zhongming glanced at Fang Xuanling, and Fang Xuanling said: "Of course I dare not let the national teacher fabricate the facts, but General Yuchi will be shut up in Dali Temple for a while, if he doesn't suffer a little bit, I'm afraid it won't be able to appease the resentment of the Eastern Palace. "

"Understood, I'm going to prepare a change of clothes for Jingde, and I'm leaving first."

After finishing speaking, Lu Zhongming nodded slightly at everyone, turned and left.

In the afternoon of that day, Yu Chigong was taken into the big prison, stripped to only a pair of underpants, almost naked, and tied to a wooden post in the prison.

Obviously, the jailer was ordered by Li Shimin to whip Yu Chigong, to give him some explanation for what he committed, but he shrank for a long time, closed his eyes, and couldn't go on whipping.

When Lu Zhongming entered Dali Temple, he wanted to laugh at Yu Chigong, but when he saw the dim lights, Yu Chigong was nine feet tall, his majestic figure was tied to a wooden pillar, and he was wearing only a pair of underpants, suddenly he lost his temper .

Lu Zhongming: "..."

Yuchi Gong: "..."

Yuchi Gong said to the jailer, "Give him the whip."

As if the jailer had received an amnesty, he handed over the whip to Lu Zhongming and slipped away quickly.Lu Zhongming was holding a whip, he didn't whip it, he didn't whip it, he whipped it, how could he bear it?Don't smoke it, Li Yuan will come to check later, Yu Chigong is still fine, nothing happened, and he doesn't have the slightest remorse, he doesn't give the emperor any face.

Lu Zhongming: "You..."

Yuchi Gong: "You..."

"Let's talk first." Lu Zhongming simply didn't move, and said unhappily.

Yu Chigong asked: "Why did you let Li Mi go? I know you and Qin Qiong rescued him that day."

"You can say it?" It's okay not to mention it, but when it was mentioned, Lu Zhongming was so angry that he said displeased: "How many things are you hiding from me?! You know better than Shimin? Others' brothers and feet What's the matter with you inserting such a knife?"

"Shimin don't do anything." Yu Chigong said coldly: "Sooner or later, he will be killed by Jiancheng. Even when it comes to dealing with Li Mi, he still dare not do anything. Li Mi and Li Jiancheng have colluded with one party. Who are they trying to deal with? , anyone with a discerning eye can see it.”

"Now that I've figured it out." Lu Zhongming said unceremoniously, "I'll leave it to him to solve it himself."

"You tell me, how to solve it?!" Yu Chigong said: "On Shimin's boat, if the boat capsizes, everyone will die!"

"So you're going to clean it up for Shimin?" Lu Zhongming's lungs were about to explode: "You might as well just do it for him with his brother and his father! It's the easiest way, why don't you discuss it with Fang Xuanling , directly make him the emperor?! Just now in the hall, why didn't you draw your sword!"

Yuchi Gong said: "To tell you the truth, I have this idea, didn't you agree to assist me?"

"Yes." Lu Zhongming replied: "I promised to assist you, but assisting you does not mean that no matter what you do, I will support you unconditionally. If you do something wrong, I have to bring it up, like my father Zhong is my father like a military division.”

"Then tell me." Yu Chigong said indifferently, "What did I do wrong?"

"It's not right for you to act for him." Lu Zhongming frowned and said: "I know you are on his team, you can convince him that Chen Heng has pros and cons, and you can understand the reason with emotion, but you must not act for him !"

Yu Chigong said coldly: "If you don't strike for him, with his indecisive temper, do you think he will strike against his brother? You still don't understand what his father means? Let the two sons fight, the loser eats the soup, the winner Eating meat, his father will not be what he is now if his father insists on building a little bit. If Shimin continues like this..."

Lu Zhongming said: "No matter how indecisive, only he can decide! It's not like he doesn't have the strength. If he really wants to confront Donggong, are you afraid that he can't help it?! He is a human! Not a jackal! The last point in his heart Brotherhood is still there!"

"It's about siblings, brother, he chose it himself. If you kill his brother for him, what do you think he will think of you? If someone sees that I am being bullied by my father, he will come and kill my father for me. Never forgive him."

Lu Zhongming said again: "Only the person concerned can make the decision about the relatives, and no one else can do it for him. If he doesn't do it, why should he go to him? Now I know that he can't make up his mind, why did he go earlier? Treat him as a puppet? It’s better for everyone to break up early and join another family.”

Yu Chigong said indifferently: "I made it very clear to him, if he retires after his accomplishments, it's enough for him to live well, and I'll just help you guys take the blame all day long? What's the difference if I do it or he does it?"

"Of course there is a difference." Lu Zhongming said with a sullen face: "Because he cares, once he does this, he will remember it forever."

"What is wrong is always wrong. Even if you fight and kill your brother to save your life, it is still wrong. Only when you do it yourself and suffer through it can you force him to look directly at himself and be a comparison." His brother is more suitable as a virtuous gentleman, because he has done something wrong, and he has to make up for it in other things to prove himself."

"You have to let him do it himself, and carry it on his back, to remember that for the rest of his life, he will keep comparing himself with a dead person, his imaginary enemy, who is the best emperor, and that's it."

Yuchi said respectfully, "But I don't care."

"I care." Lu Zhongming replied, "I don't want you to take the blame."

After a short pause, suddenly a person came, his pace was very fast, Lu Zhongming and Yu Chi Gong were talking, and they didn't even notice him coming for a while.

Li Shimin walked up to Yu Chigong with a panting sound, knelt down towards him, and bent over.

When he got up, Li Shimin couldn't help sobbing, wiped his red eyes, and left the prison.Lu Zhongming chased him out and stopped on Chang'an Street.

The sun was blazing, Li Shimin took a deep breath, his whole body was trembling.

"I remember when you came to Jinyang, you once told me." Li Shimin stood under the hot summer sun, tremblingly said: "I must..."

"Yes." Lu Zhongming nodded and said, "Shimin, you still remember."

"I always remember." Li Shimin turned his head and calmed down a little: "But I can't do it."

"I still remember that when I was very young." Li Shimin said: "My brother said that he was not good at riding a horse, so he asked me to practice riding and shooting hard, and he would follow me when hunting in the future."

Lu Zhongming didn't speak, put his shoulders on him, and walked slowly down the street with him.

Li Shimin was sweating profusely, and the sweat dripping from his eyebrows soaked into his eyes, making his eyes red, and he couldn't open them for a while, the sun was dazzling, making people feel at a loss.