Chapter 214: Chaos, Doubt
Li Yuan looked at the anonymous letter in his hand, looked it over and over again, and looked back and forth countless times. Finally, he couldn't help but shouted angrily: "Call the prince to me!"
The beautiful Concubine Yin De said in a sweet voice: "Have your majesty calm down, don't be angry."
Li Yuan had no intention of mingling with Concubine Yin De of this plan, and said in an annoyed tone: "Go down and get out of here. Everyone in Xitang will withdraw. Without my orders, no one will be allowed to get close."
Concubine Yin Dedao did not dare to be angry, so Cancan retreated. Everything he had given to him was given by Li Yuan. After leaving Li Yuan, she was nothing.
Concubine Yin De's breasts were big and brainless, but she was not a person who was willing to be lonely. After retreating from the west hall of Tai Chi Hall, she immediately called her confidant and informed Li Jiancheng of the anonymous letter to let him know.
Li Jiancheng has been paying attention to the situation in the north recently, and he arranged the defense line in the north. The war in the south was fierce, and the outstanding generals of the Tang Dynasty gathered in the south. Li Shimin was the only general in command of Guanzhong. If the war broke out in the north, the general who commanded the troops would definitely be Li Shimin. Li Jiancheng could not be afraid of Li Shimin, who had outstanding military achievements. He tried every means to prevent him from making another contribution and enhancing his prestige in the army.
So he came in to strengthen the defense line and dispatched soldiers to patrol and guard the area everywhere to prevent the Turks from finding opportunities. He took advantage of the Tang Dynasty to deal with Fu Gongyuan and rose up to the south, so as to increase Li Shimin's military prestige.
However, the possibility of the Turkic troops sending troops is indeed not high. Li Jiancheng received reliable news that Jie Li, the lord of the grassland, has not had a good life recently.
In recent years, Jie Li did not gain any advantage against the Tang Dynasty. Last year, he suffered a great loss at Luo Shixin. The 100,000 army made Luo Shixin retreat alone. This directly led to his prestige falling sharply, and his prestige was far inferior to before. Some tribes with some strength have begun to disobey Jie Li.
In order to re-establish prestige, Jie Li started to rectify the tribes of the grassland. He was a little too busy to take care of himself and did not have the idea of moving troops. However, Li Jian became a cautious and steady man, and he always did not miss the work. Even so, he still did not intend to give the Turks any opportunity to take advantage of.
After receiving Li Yuan's call, Li Jiancheng did not hesitate at all, put down everything in his hand and rushed to Tai Chi Palace to see him.
As soon as he left the East Palace, the eunuch Xiaoxi came towards him.
Li Jiancheng had excellent communication skills and relied on the convenience of the prince to start. Almost every civil and military official has his confidant in almost every position, even the harem is no exception. Li Yuan's favorite Concubine Yin De and Zhang Jieyu made him win over and often inform him. Because of this, he could know Li Yuan's recent situation at the first time, understand his thoughts and mentality, and thus make corresponding changes. Therefore, Li Yuan was extremely satisfied with his talented eldest son, and he did not even have the intention to depose his position as the prince.
Xiaoxi is Yin Defei's confidant, and she often informs him and is very skilled in each other.
Li Jiancheng pretended that he had something to do but had not finished dealing with it, so he returned to the East Palace to wait for the small joy.
"Father-in-law!" Li Jiancheng bowed and greeted him with a smile. Anyone could feel the style of respecting the wise and humble.
Xiaoxi hurriedly bowed and returned the salute. He said with some excitement: "Your Highness, the Concubine, asked Xiao to inform Your Highness. Your Majesty received an anonymous letter written by someone today. When Your Majesty saw the letter, he was furious and immediately asked him to go there, and also took out all the people in the West Hall of Tai Chi Palace."
Li Jiancheng looked solemn, realizing that things were unusual, he hurriedly asked, "Do you know the content of the letter?"
Xiao Xi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty was very angry at that time. The Imperial Concubine just asked His Majesty to scold him. He drove him out of Xitang, how dare he ask more questions?"
Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "My father-in-law will thank Gu Hao for Gu when he is back. Gu must not forget her great kindness."
Without a small joy, Li Jiancheng rushed to Tai Chi Palace without stopping, and had no time to breathe, and had no time to think about the reasons. He calmly rushed to Tai Chi Palace as quickly as possible, so as not to lose his mind because he waited too long and did not listen to the explanation, which made him unable to speak.
"Father!" Li Jiancheng pretended to know nothing and walked into the West Hall Hall.
"Kneel down!" Li Yuan had a blue face, and his face still showed a sense of reluctance.
Li Jiancheng knelt down without hesitation, but his expression was confused and puzzled. He couldn't help but tremble in his heart and silently said, "Second brother, you can't help but take action?"
He knelt on the ground and said, "I don't know what the son-in-law has made, which makes my father so angry!"
A "touch!" sound!
Li Jiancheng knocked on the ground, and at the same time he also knocked on Li Yuan's heart. Half of the anger inexplicably disappeared, and he felt a little reluctant.
Although Li Yuan is lustful and even a little ridiculous, his true love for his first wife, Empress Dou, is also the one he really loves most in his life. Because of this, the position of the empress has been empty since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan feels that no one is qualified to be a mother of the world except for the dead Empress Dou.
Therefore, Li Yuan also placed his love for Empress Dou on Empress Dou's children, namely Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, and Pingyang, and became an emperor who protected his calf to the extreme. Among these children, Li Yuan loved Li Shimin the most, and Li Yuanji was the one who was most worried about, but Li Jiancheng and Pingyang were the one who was relieved.
This is also closely related to the environment of the Li family. Li Jiancheng was born early. As the eldest, he was ten years older than the second brother Li Shimin. Therefore, the burden of being the head of the family fell on Li Jiancheng. In addition, he was a stern person, young and mature, and handled things properly. In his early years, he and Dou were appointed as officials from other places. Li Jiancheng was the only one who took care of the Li family business in his hometown at the age of twentieth. He handled all the affairs of all the tribes. He never let him have any trouble. The second brother Li Shimin was naughty and liked to interact with the falcon and the city wanderer.
When he was young, Li Yuan and Dou were worried, so he kept Li Shimin by his side to discipline him. Between father and son, Li Shimin and Li Yuan had the longest contact, so naturally the closest relationship. Li Yuanji was actually similar to Li Shimin when he was a child, and he was just as naughty. The difference is that Li Yuanji was too ugly and ugly, and his genes were mutated, and he was not favored by Dou, so he could not enjoy the same treatment as Li Shimin. Gradually, he became stubborn, domineering, arrogant, arrogant, cruel and various bad deeds were reflected in him, which made Li Yuan worry the most.
Now the most obedient and sensible boss, who has never even been scolded, hit the ground with one head. Li Yuan, who is protecting his calf, feels uncomfortable in his heart, and he can't even get angry in his heart.
"You can see it yourself!" Li Yuan threw the anonymous letter in front of Li Jiancheng.
Li Jiancheng looked at the contents of the letter and showed a hint of confusion in his eyes: He always thought that Li Shimin had taken action, but these tricks were too pediatric? If Li Shimin had just these methods, he would not be qualified to be his opponent of Li Jiancheng, and it would not be enough to stuff his teeth into him.
"What do you have to say?" Li Yuan looked at his beloved son angrily.
Li Jiancheng bowed and said, "My son is wronged."
Li Yuanqi said: "Is this letter untrue?" Compared to a mysterious person who dared not leave his name, he naturally was more willing to believe in his son in front of him who had never had to worry about him.
Li Jiancheng said with a little panic: "Most of them are true, but the sons have absolutely no intention of plotting against the West Palace."
The plot of the West Palace is the plot of the emperor. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan lived in the West Hall of Taiji Hall, commonly known as the West Palace.
Li Yuan said angrily: "So, you did recruit two thousand powerful troops, the Chief Lin Army, to arrange for them to station in Changlin Gate? They also specially recruited 300 Turkic soldiers in Youzhou to be in the Eastern Palace?"
Li Jiancheng said truthfully: "My ministers dare not deceive anything, it is indeed as stated in this letter. But there are many things that I can't help but are forced to do so."
"Hmph, then I have to listen, how can you be helpless!" Li Yuan said with a sneer, although his tone was still stern, it obviously gave Li Jiancheng the opportunity to defend himself.
Li Jiancheng said in his threesome: "Return to his father, my son is trusted by his father, and he is given the position of crown prince, and he is entrusted with important responsibilities. I only regret that I am not talented and have not been able to fight the Tang Dynasty like my second brother, and share my worries for my father. Therefore, in recent years, I have been studying military affairs, studying military tactics, and practicing guards in the mansion. I hope that in the future, I can fight the battlefield like my second brother, and share my worries for my father. So I strictly select the guards of the East Palace, and eliminate all the timid and incompetent people who are afraid of things, leaving only some capable soldiers. Then I recruit talents from outside and expand the East Palace." Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly: "Where do I know I am big?"
Tang Shangwu, a brave man, flocked to him like a crossing river, but in just a few days, not only filled all the vacancy, but also left many. At that time, the son-in-law felt that it was a little more than a little more than that, so he asked his servants to stop recruiting them until now, and the extra people were accepted. But they knew that the amount exceeded the amount, which was as many as two thousand. At first, the son-in-law felt that some of them could be cut off, but after strict selection, they found that these people were really rare talents. The son-in-law really couldn't bear to lay them off, so he made an exception to arrange them to Changlin Gate. This was indeed the son-in-law who was wrong, so he asked his father to forgive him."
"Get up!" Li Yuan heard Li Jiancheng say this and knew the reason and said sternly: "If you hadn't put it first, there wouldn't be what happened today."
Li Jiancheng breathed a sigh of relief and stood cautiously and lowered his head and was humbly taught. Li Yuan's mentality had changed significantly from being angry to being scolded, and he hurriedly said: "What the father taught is the lesson."
Li Yuan said bluntly: "What's going on with the Turkic cavalry?"
Li Jiancheng said: "The child knew that the future enemy of our Tang Dynasty would undoubtedly be the Turks. He also recruited some Turkic cavalry to understand their habits, their tactics, learn from their strengths and weaknesses, and learn from them for reference."
"Okay! I know." Li Yuan waved his hand and said, "If it is not my race, their hearts will be different. How can we arrange for the Turks to run rampant in the Eastern Palace? When we go back, we will disband the Turkic cavalry immediately. Their commander Zuo Yuhou led the commander, Zuo Yuhou, to exile in the ruling states and not to be used more."
"My son obeys the order!" Li Jiancheng worshipped.
Chapter completed!