The return of the son-in-law

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In the tent, Wang An was so angry that he picked up the whip in his hand and whipped the kneeling people.

The man knew that he had ruined King An's arrangement, so he didn't dare to ask for mercy, so he could only grunt and endure King An's whipping.

"It's Guo Zhan'an who arrested you?" King An got angry, threw his whip and sat down and asked, "I remember that he was the companion of that kid Li Shaojun. It's true that one person has achieved the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascended to heaven. He arrested you, Li Shaojun Of course I know. You ruined my good deeds, how should I deal with you?"

The man shook like he was sifting chaff, and begged for mercy: "My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life!"

Wang An held his chin in one hand, narrowed his eyes and said, "Then tell me, have you ever seen the Emperor?"

The man stammered and replied: "Reply, return to the words of the prince, not, not at all. According to the instructions of the prince, I went, went to see the internal, internal response, but the palace is heavily guarded, let alone the emperor, my little one." They didn't even touch the edge of the palace."

"What about King Liang?" King An asked eagerly, holding the arm of the chair, "Is he dead or alive now? What is the emperor's attitude?"

The man shook his head and said: "I have never seen King Liang before. I heard from the people in the capital that King Liang was arrested a few days ago by the forbidden army led by Jing Zhaoyin Guo Zhanan. Now there are still forbidden soldiers surrounding King Liang's mansion. Ordinary people Don't come close at all."

"Pull it down." King An leaned back, "Go ask King Qing and King Ping to come over."

The places where the three kings set up their camps were not far away. When they heard that King An had something important to do, they rushed over with their own soldiers—they promised to support King Liang at the beginning, but they were actually looking at the dragon chair. Now King Liang has been there for many days. There is no news, and the next thing may be that the three brothers will fight, so we must be more careful.

"The third brother's people haven't seen the ninth brother?" King Qing is the eighth child, two years older than King Liang. His biological mother is just a court lady and has no right to raise the prince, so he was handed over to King An's biological mother, Concubine Yan after he was born. He was brought up and was relatively close to King An.

"The palace is heavily guarded. The ninth brother was brought into the palace by Jing Zhaoyin. Where can my people see him?" King An glanced at King Qing and replied pointedly.

"What the third brother said is true." King Qing grew up with King An and knew this brother quite well. He is now the weakest of the three kings, so of course he can't show off.

King Ping was different. His biological mother was another favorite concubine back then, and his grandfather's family was also a big family, so even after Li Chonghao ascended the throne, there was nothing he could do about it. Sent away.

King Ping's fief can be said to be poor, but he prevented his grandfather's family from submitting a letter, and went to the fief with a few confidants and accompanying guards.As a result, what Li Chonghao did not expect was that Prince Ping, who was originally a pampered prince, could endure hardships and develop his own power in the fief. It can be said that life is prosperous.

This time, King Ping brought [-] troops, the most among the three kings, and he spoke with the most confidence: "Why should the three eighth brothers care about the ninth brother? Since we are here to congratulate the new emperor on his enthronement, we shouldn't be here all the time." Staying in the suburbs of Beijing, isn’t this taking the initiative to give the story to others? If you want me to say, we should enter the palace dignifiedly and question the new emperor face to face.”

"Interrogation? Question about the ninth brother?" King Qing was puzzled, "But didn't the sixth brother say that we don't need to take care of the ninth brother's affairs?"

"Idiot!" Wang An looked at King Qing coldly, "Of course it's not about asking Lao Jiu. You said Lao Wu has been the emperor for so many years, and he would not let his own son be spared for the sake of the throne, but now he treats him like a coward. It’s coming, isn’t it surprising? We’ve all been here for four or five days, and a hundred thousand troops are pressing down on the border. If he can move, he won’t be able to jump up.”

"Third brother, what do you mean, the emperor was kidnapped by the new emperor?" King Qing finally understood.

Wang An looked at King Qing who had just realized this, and felt a little happy in his heart - such a fool did not have the capital to compete with him for the throne, it seems that the old slicker King Ping should be careful.

King Ping didn't know whether he really didn't notice King An's careful thoughts, or pretended not to, and said, "If you want me to say, let's enter the palace tomorrow at the end of the morning court, and it happens that the ministers are still there, so just say If we want to see the emperor, if we are prevented from seeing him, we will be able to question the new emperor now."

"Tomorrow?" Wang An was still very cautious, "Is it too late?"

"All the people sent out by the third brother have been escorted back. If you don't go in, you will be confirmed. Third brother, have you sent someone to spread rumors to discredit the new emperor?"

King Ping's words just hit King An's weakness, and King An immediately said: "Okay, let's go to Beijing early tomorrow morning."

When the three kings were discussing, finally Liu couldn't stand the heavy punishment from the Ministry of Punishment, so he opened his mouth to recruit.

Zuo Xingzhi didn't dare to delay any longer, and after the confession was recorded, he put Mrs. Liu in a separate cell again, and sent four guards to watch over Mrs. Liu, while he himself hurried into the palace with the confession.

"Mr. Liu confessed that since she became the Concubine Hua, she has conspired with the King of Liang. The King of Liang promised that she would help the common man Li Bo ascend the throne, and the Liu family promised that when she became the empress dowager, the King of Liang would definitely let the common man Li Bo Feng Liangwang is the "Uncle Taihuang". Liangwang and Liu Yuanheng are united, one is in the light, the other is in the dark, and spreads power in the court. The Liu family is trying to murder those pregnant concubines in the harem, even to the prince. The purpose of doing this is to clear away the obstacles for the common man Li Bo to ascend the throne."

"'Uncle Taihuang'? The Liu family is really stupid. If the common man Li Bo becomes the emperor, he will be abolished by the King of Liang in less than three months! How can he be willing to be a 'taihuang' if he can be an emperor? uncle'!"

Only Li Shaojun can say this, Zuo Xingzhi dare not speak in vain.

"Not enough, this crime is not enough to make the emperor change his mind." Li Shaojun walked back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, and suddenly stopped and asked Zuo Xingzhi: "Did the Liu family contact the Liang King after becoming Hua Guifei?"

"Exactly."

"It has been changed, so that after the Liu family entered the palace, King Liang was there to contribute. Wasn't Liu Yuanheng's first bribe in the second year of Changping? The general election was only held in the third year of Changping, and the time just coincided."

"However, there are quite a lot of people involved in the general election. How will His Majesty deal with it?"

"It's been more than 30 years. Most of the eunuchs who were in charge of the general election are dead. Where can I find someone? Besides, the emperor got the news, will he go to investigate again?"

Li Shaojun didn't care about Zuo Xingzhi's worries, he had already figured out Li Chonghao.Li Chonghao is self-righteous and self-righteous. With a little guidance, Li Chonghao can make things right for them. Whoever persuades Li Chonghao to investigate will touch his backlash.

Zuo Xingzhi's heart trembled: "Your Majesty means..."

"Zuo Qing doesn't need to say anything, as long as you show these things to the emperor, he will naturally understand."

Zuo Xingzhi only felt cold sweat running down his back: "Yes."

As expected by Li Shaojun, after reading the testimonies of the Liu family, the commoner Li Bo and Princess Liang, Li Chonghao already connected the testimonies of the three into a thread in his mind.

"Thief! □□!" Li Chonghao was so angry that he threw the booklet on the ground, "It's in vain that I favored these two people so much back then, to do such a thing!"

Li Chonghao's personal eunuch persuaded: "Your Majesty, take care of your body. Your Majesty, when King Liang was young, how could he interfere in the general election, and why would he collude with Mrs. Liu? Mrs. Liu was deeply favored by His Majesty back then, and she was the No. 1. How could it be possible to collude with King Liang at the risk of genocide? Don’t be fooled by the emperor!”

"What are you, dare to speak for these two people!" Li Chonghao kicked the inner prisoner directly, "I only married the concubine when I was in my 20s, and I had a son with a singing girl before, so it can be seen that this person is in charge. I can't live with my evil roots!"

The inner eunuch kowtowed, while persuading: "But these are all sent by the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment is the emperor's man. What if the emperor ordered him to deceive the emperor, what should we do?"

"Deceive?" Li Chonghao sneered, "He, Li Shaojun, is looking forward to me to rescue him now, how dare he lie to me? This is courting death! But you, you have been speaking for Lao Jiu, could it be that you are also Lao Jiu's person? "

Li Chonghao's voice became colder and colder, and at the end, there was a faint killing intent.

The inner eunuch knew that he was in great trouble, so he quickly defended himself: "Please ask the emperor to investigate clearly! This old slave has been with the emperor for decades, how could he be a member of the king of Liang? The old slave is worried that the emperor will be deceived by the emperor!"

Li Chonghao became ruthless, he definitely wouldn't be someone who cared about decades of friendship, but this old guy knew too many secrets about him, and he didn't plan to get rid of him right now.

"Okay, I know you are a loyal person, but next time I will not spare you, get up."

Only then did the inner eunuch get up tremblingly, his back was already drenched.

"Pass my will, the king of Liang intends to rebel, and the emperor will quickly convict him."

"Yes."

After a while, the eunuch who sent the message came back.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty said that King Liang is his elder, and His Majesty alone is not enough to convince the public. Please also ask the Emperor to announce this to all the ministers in the early morning tomorrow."

"Presumptuous!" Seeing that Li Shaojun didn't follow his own wishes, Li Chonghao was immediately upset, "What is he, how dare I not listen to what I say?"

The eunuch who delivered the letter knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty said that there are rumors everywhere in the capital, and even many ministers in the court suspect His Majesty, and the three kings are stationed outside Beijing and refuse to enter the palace. If only Your Majesty is alone I am afraid that it will be difficult for people to convince the public when they issue a decree."

Li Chonghao didn't want to issue the decree in person, and he didn't want to show up at the court at this juncture—if so, it would soon prove that he was in good health, and he was not under house arrest by Li Shaojun.

Just when Li Chonghao was thinking about how to get Li Shaojun to compromise, an inner eunuch reported that the emperor had asked to see him and was already waiting outside.

Seeing that Li Shaojun came to ask for scolding, Li Chonghao didn't think about it, and directly ordered people to go out and announce people to come in.

Li Shaojun was in a good mood, and after saluting, he said with a smile: "My son heard that the emperor has a decree, so he came here specially to ask for it."

Li Chonghao snorted, and said in a neutral tone: "Who was I at that time? It turned out to be the emperor of our Great Chu Dynasty. Why, the will of an emperor is not enough? Why do you want me, the Supreme Emperor, who has been in retirement for a long time?" .”

Li Shaojun seemed to have never heard the dissatisfaction in Li Chonghao's words, and continued with a smile: "Father, everyone knows that the son's throne is given by the father. If you want to rule the world, it depends on the father. Besides, the king of Liang It's my son's ninth uncle, and my son decreed to abolish King Liang within a few months after he took the throne, I'm afraid it won't be convincing."

Li Chonghao couldn't get into it: "Since you are the emperor, you have to act like an emperor and come to me for everything. Is it you who are the emperor, or am I the emperor?"

Li Shaojun saw that Li Chonghao was determined not to come out, and the pressure from the three kings was getting bigger and bigger, so he put away his smile and said to the others in the hall: "Go down, I have something to talk to the emperor alone."

Ah Xin and others brought by Li Shaojun took the lead, but the eunuch who served Li Chonghao hesitated, and they didn't retreat until Li Chonghao nodded.

"Go ahead."

Li Shaojun was also polite, before Li Chonghao could speak, he moved a stool and sat in front of Li Chonghao, and asked bluntly: "Is the father wanting to take this opportunity to abolish me and change to Li Yu'er?"

Li Chonghao didn't expect that his plan would be thwarted by Li Shaojun all of a sudden, and he became angry from embarrassment: "I think you are stunned, you can say this!"

Li Shaojun smiled bitterly and said, "Father hasn't answered my question yet."

Li Chonghao avoided talking about it, but said: "If you can't do well with King Liang, I don't need to tell you, so many ministers are staring at you, do you think you can continue to be emperor?"

Li Shaojun took advantage of the situation and said: "It is precisely because my son wants to be a good emperor that I want to invite my father to come forward."

Li Chonghao still refused: "Since you want to be a good emperor, you can't even solve this kind of thing, how can you convince the world?"

"Isn't this incident caused by you, father!" Seeing that Li Chonghao refused to listen to his persuasion in every possible way, Li Shaojun lost his patience.After all, he is the emperor and the master of the world. Before he ascended the throne, he had swallowed his anger for more than ten years, and that was all. But after ascending the throne, he was even more helpless when he was the prince, and he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Father, I am your son, and I will be filial to you, but will your brothers be filial to you?" Before Li Chonghao got angry, Li Shaojun said urgently, "You are now the Supreme Emperor, the emperor's father, and the emperor should Let the world support you. But when one of your brothers ascends the throne, you will only be the emperor's brother. At that time, what qualifications do you have to be the Supreme Emperor! Do you want to learn from King Liang and become some kind of 'Emperor Brother'?"

"You! Presumptuous!" Li Chonghao scolded, "I see that you have taken the courage to talk to me like that!"

Li Shaojun smiled instead of anger: "Father, are you still blaming me? I have been the emperor for these few months, have I ever wronged you? In the early court, you sat on the dragon chair, and I sat next to you; All the papers are sent to your palace first, and I will just approve the trivial things you picked up; this time the imperial examination, the autumn, the spring and the palace examination, the examiners are all appointed by you personally, have I ever intervened? Father , Yu'er is still young, do you think he can beat your brothers?"

The relationship between father and son has been completely torn apart, so Li Chonghao simply stopped hiding his intentions and said in a cold voice: "I am still here in everything, and Yu'er can learn slowly."

"Does he still have a chance?" Li Shaojun asked back, "The three kings outside Beijing brought a total of [-] troops. Even if there are [-] troops led by Shao Fang and the imperial army, it will be a tie at most! Father, can you Don't forget, you are 'seriously ill' now, not to mention the early court, even the old ministers will not be able to see you. When you abolish me and the three kings enter the palace, the forbidden army has long been overwhelmed by the army brought by the three kings Extinct! Who will protect you at that time? At that time, there is still a chance for you to show up? Father, listen to my advice, don't make wedding clothes for others."

Before that, Li Chonghao only thought about how to pour dirty water on Li Shaojun and ruin Li Shaojun's reputation, so that he could justifiably abolish him and make Huo Yu a puppet emperor instead.Now being reminded by Li Shaojun, he just remembered that his three brothers were not so easy-going.

Moreover, after he abdicated, Shao Fang was sent to train the [-] troops stationed in the suburbs of Beijing. Shao Fang supported Li Shaojun, so he would definitely not come to help him at that time.As for the Forbidden Army, because at that time many generals in the Forbidden Army were bought by the Liu family, after Li Shaojun came to the throne, he quickly cut through the mess, directly dismissed and convicted these people, and installed his own people, which made Li Chonghao's control over the Forbidden Army much worse than before.

More importantly, as Li Shaojun said, once he abolishes Li Shaojun, the three kings who have been eager to move will definitely not miss this opportunity. Since there are [-] troops accompanying them, they can take advantage of their strength to rush into the palace , to control the situation in the capital, he will really be alone by then.

Li Shaojun saw that Li Chonghao's face changed a few times, so he knew that he was moved by his own words, and he said vigorously: "Father, as long as the son is the emperor, if he is under the pressure of filial piety, will the son not be filial to you? Be the emperor, or be the emperor?" Brother, it's just in your thoughts, father."

Li Chonghao raised his right hand and said: "Let me think about it again, I will give you an answer at this time tomorrow."

Li Shaojun knew that it would not be beautiful to press him step by step at this time, so he got up and said: "My son is waiting for Father's reply."

On the morning of the second day, Li Chonghao still did not show up.But Li Shaojun, who was sitting alone on the dragon chair, was in a very good mood. After listening to a few notes from various places, he comforted a few old officials who were worried about the emperor. When he was about to announce his retirement, he suddenly heard a voice from outside.

Everyone didn't know what happened, and when Li Shaojun was about to order someone to go out to find out what was going on, he saw the three kings, escorted by their own soldiers, appear in the hall in a grand manner without being called.

There were many guards following behind, seeing the three kings entered the hall, they no longer fought with those personal soldiers, but immediately entered the hall in two rows, protecting in front of Li Shaojun.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Li Shaojun looked at Wang An and the others expressionlessly, and asked, "What's the reason for the three uncles coming here suddenly?"

King An smiled contemptuously, but did not answer.

The leader of the forbidden army on duty below knelt on one knee and said: "This subordinate is incompetent. The three kings entered the palace to face the saint without being summoned. Your Majesty, please punish me!"

Li Shaojun waved his hand and said: "It's okay, I sent someone to summon the three emperor uncles a few days ago, it seems that the angel's footsteps are too slow, and the emperor uncles only accepted the letter now."

When Wang An heard this, he sneered and said, "The emperor is really good at talking, the three of us are here for the emperor."

Li Shaojun smiled and said: "So that's the case, didn't the angel tell Uncle Three Emperors that Father Emperor has been in poor health for the past few days, so it's inconvenient to show up?"

King Ping couldn't hold his breath, and shouted: "The Emperor's body has always been very good, how could it be inconvenient to show up? According to this King, there are some people who don't want the Emperor to show up!"

"Oh? Is there anyone in the world who dares to stop the emperor?" Li Shaojun raised his eyebrows and asked, "Please tell me who this person is, so that I can open my eyes."

King Ping didn't dare to confront Li Shaojun directly, and he didn't dare to speak at the moment.

King An glared at King Ping bitterly, then looked at Li Shaojun, and said, "Your Majesty, we are worried about His Majesty's health. Since it is inconvenient for His Majesty to show up, why don't you ask His Majesty to take us to see His Majesty, so that we can rest assured."

Li Shaojun didn't answer right away, his eyes swept across the courtiers, and then he turned his eyes on King An and the others again.

Sure enough, someone among the ministers couldn't hold back, and said: "Your Majesty, I think what King An said is very true. Even though the emperor is in poor health, it is inconvenient to show up, but I am worried about the emperor's health, so please let your majesty do it!"

One person came forward, and soon several ministers joined him.

Li Shaojun's face showed a gloomy helplessness: "Do you all think that someone is blocking the emperor?"

"Wei Chen dare not."

"Forget it, since that's the case, Ah Xin, you go to Tongchuan. If the emperor is willing to see them, I will take them there."

"Wait a minute!" King Qing, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Ah Xin is His Majesty's personal eunuch, how can he leave His Majesty? Since we are here, please His Majesty take us to see the Emperor now."

Li Shaojun knew that they were afraid that he would do something in advance, but looking at the time, it was just right to catch up with a good show.

"How honorable is the emperor, how can you let you have your own opinion?" Li Shaojun pretended to be angry, "Even if it is me, if you want to see the emperor, you have to pass it on in advance. If you offend the emperor, are you responsible?"

King Ping jumped out again at this time: "We are the brothers of the emperor. Now someone has put the emperor under house arrest. Of course we are going to rescue the emperor."

"Ping Wang is bloody," Li Shaojun asked him with a smile, "how about Ping Wang taking the charge of offending the emperor?"

Everyone was worrying that there would be no one to take the place of the dead ghost. Now that someone took the initiative to stand up, of course they were happy to let King Ping bear the charge.

Only then did King Ping realize that he had been tricked by Li Shaojun, he hurriedly looked at King An, and wanted to ask King An for help, but unexpectedly, King An said lightly: "The eighth brother cares about the emperor so much, I am moved."

King Ping's heart sank, knowing that King An had made up his mind to make himself the dead ghost.

Li Shaojun didn't give King Ping any room to speak, he got up and said: "Since King Ping guarantees, I will accompany you all to visit the Emperor."

A group of people came to Li Chonghao's Mingguang Palace in a mighty way, only to see that the gate of Mingguang Palace was closed tightly, and there were more than ten guards guarding the gate.

When King An and the others saw it, they felt more and more that Li Shaojun had put the Supreme Emperor under house arrest, and that King Ping was acting as a scapegoat anyway, so he directly asked his own soldiers to rush up and take down the dozen or so guards.

Seeing that the emperor was here, the guards didn't stop them, so they didn't resist at all, allowing King Ping and others to kick open the gate of Mingguang Palace and rush in.

King Ping took the lead, seeing that there were few people walking around in the hall, and there were four guards outside the hall, he shouted: "Come on, take these people down!"

The soldiers rushed forward, and King Ping rushed forward, pushing open the door of the main hall.

There was a bang from inside, as if something had fallen to the ground.King Ping immediately shouted: "Brother Huang, don't be afraid, Brother Huang, we are here to save you!"

The rest of the people were worried that rushing in was too late, so they "don't worry about the emperor", and rushed in. Only a few people, including Li Shaojun, Guo Zhan'an and Yue An, stood outside the door.

Soon, a woman's scream came from the hall, mixed with Li Chonghao's roar: "Who allowed you to come in!"

Li Shaojun smiled at the people behind him: "It seems that they have disturbed the emperor's good business."