Chapter 293: Believe it? Or don’t believe it? This is a problem

When Li Longji was thinking about his tired father in the study of the East Palace, Kong Gui's figure naturally appeared in his mind.

When he thought of this old minister who was not in the process of oil and salt, Li Longji felt very complicated. The reason why he was so keen to overturn the verdict of the former dynasty Li Chongjun was to bring back the old ministers of the Eastern Palace who were implicated and exiled in the previous dynasty. Not to mention anything else, just when Kong Gui returned to the capital, he put a lot of effort into the suburbs of the prince, and then asked about his well-being, personally supporting the car frame, and respecting the wise and the wise and the ruling people to the point of being fully respected. He thought that since this, these ministers who had lost their foundation in the court would definitely turn to him, but he expected that this idea was just wishful thinking.

This move did win him a lot of praise in Shilin, and it was also considered to have won a strong victory in the field where Princess Taiping had long dominated. However, it turns out that people like Kong Gui are not allowed to buy them at will with some simple favors, or to be more precise, for such people, any private favors have little effect. They have their own standards for their own actions.

Seeing that he had spent a lot of effort to get these people back to Beijing, but could not make them his wings, Li Longji was very upset about this for a while. But the subsequent development of the situation made him feel bored, and often the pleasure in his heart was indescribable.

Because Kong Gui and others set their targets on Taiping.

Qiantian Kundi, Qianyang Kunyin, Qian male Kun female, male Yang female Yin, these Yin and Yang principles are extremely mysterious, but in the end, they are actually just one sentence: men have positions and women have their share. When men should do men's affairs, women should do women's affairs. Otherwise, they will be reversed and yin and yang are misaligned. As for the result of yin and yang dislocation, there are four simple words: ominous to the sky. In the eyes of these Confucian scholars, heaven is sympathetic to human affairs. The ominous nature of heaven will definitely lead to the earth's peace. The direct reaction is that the government's government is disorderly, which will hurt the people. As for examples, there is no need to even lead to Wu Zhao. The rebellion of Empress Wei just a few years ago is a clear evidence.

The imperial power is the most important treasure of the country. It is the most powerful and yang thing in the world. Wei Shuren coveted this important weapon of heaven and earth with his Yin body, which led to the inseparable world and the chaos of the government. In just two years, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the Prince of the Crown died one after another, which caused a bloody palace change in the inner palace. This fact has become the deepest pain in the hearts of Kong Gui and other old people in the former dynasty.

This time, when he returned to the imperial capital from the exiled place, he saw that although Wei Shuren was defeated, Princess Taiping of Zhenguo controlled power with a dark body. Seeing that the Tang Dynasty was about to stage the disaster of "heen Si Chen, which was ominous to the sky", Kong Gui and others' fighting spirit based on "constituency" and "conscience" was pushed to the top in a very short time.

Therefore, a fixed opposition force appeared in the court where Princess Taiping had absolutely dominant power with years of management. Although this force was not very powerful in the court, its influence among scholars and people in the world was far greater than that of the Princess' Mansion and the East Palace. Moreover, this force was very firm. At least Li Longji knew that the butler of the Princess' Mansion had brought a golden pearl antique worth less than 100,000 yuan to Kong Gui's private house, but he did not even enter the gate.

At the same time, this is still a very strong force. Although Kong Gui was transferred from the position of Chief Censor of the Censor, his strength to fight against Princess Taiping did not weaken at all, so that Princess Taiping, who used to go to court to directly participate in political affairs, had not appeared at the court for a long time.

It is precisely because the rise of Kong Gui and others attracted the power of Taiping that Li Longji's life during this period was so easy. In contrast, he had more time to accumulate his strength. In this process, he only needed to keep Kong Gui and others from being kicked out of the court again. Judging from the father's nostalgic and ruthless personality, it is not easy for Taiping to drive Kong Gui and others away for a while. Not to mention that even if she could do this, she would definitely lose her heart. At least in this area, she would have to destroy more than ten years of water grinding. No matter what, there would be no win or loss.

When Li Longji thought of this, he called in someone to give him a few words of advice. After the man left, a smile couldn't help but show a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. When Kong Gui "turning" to know that Taiping was planning to depose the crown prince again today, what would he react... This matter is very exciting just to think about!

On the other hand, as Gao Lishi said just now, since Kong Gui returned to the court and confronted Taiping, almost every court meeting now will eventually turn into a debate meeting. One side quotes the classics and Li Chen's woman's interference in politics is inconsistent with etiquette, begging the emperor to cut down Taiping's authority and move him to Luoyang, the eastern capital; while the other side, Taiping's minions fought hard, making his father even feel uncomfortable even as his son. According to the current development trend, this tormenting court meeting seems to have no sign of ending in a short period of time.

Being an emperor is not something that can do whatever he wants. In the Zhenguan court of great-grandfather, Emperor Taizong was often angry and angry by Wei Zheng's desire to be overwhelmed by the public court meetings. Judging from his father's personality, his boredom and patience with this kind of life are probably coming to an end. I just don't know whether he would drive Kong Gui and others out of the court again, or would give up the imperial power after being extremely tired...

This thought made Li Longji's mood stir for a long time before slowly calming down. As Gao Lishi said, his father was irritated and thought of Kong Gui and the recent court. At this moment, when his thoughts continued to float, he naturally thought of Tang Cheng, who was far away in the Raole Grassland.

When he thought of Tang Cheng, Li Longji's mood became more complicated. After carefully reviewing the process of their relationship in recent years, he actually believed in what Zhang Liang had said more than once, "The heavenly generals and wise rulers must assist him. This is a meeting between the king and the minister!" Otherwise, how should he explain a series of things that have happened since Tang Cheng took the initiative to move closer to him in Yangzhou.

At that time, he was just a sans son in the Prime Minister Anguo's mansion. He had nothing to do. In terms of the partner he defected to, Tang Cheng had at least ten better candidates than him, but why did he choose himself? If he had seen the emperor's aura at that time, even Li Longji himself would not believe it, but if this was not the case, what would he think?

Tang Cheng gave him a huge and stable source of wealth for the first time. Not to mention the past, even now, the Haihu Shang in Yangzhou is still the largest source of wealth in his Eastern Palace. Whether it was the palace transformation that deposed Empress Wei or the throne at this time, what could be less money? It can be said that he was able to get from a three son born in the royal palace to the position of crown prince in just two years. Tang became the stable source of wealth he opened up by him, which made great contributions.

Then he was in the palace transformation of the deposed Empress Wei, and then made great contributions. Then he made suggestions to bring Kong Gui and others into Beijing, thus receiving the miraculous effects in front of him.

After thinking about the experience over the past few years, Li Longji, as the biggest beneficiary, always thinks of Tang Chengshi, always attributes to the word "wizard". What is even more unbelievable is that such a wizard is actually younger than him. If such a person is not a natural and natural scholar, how can he explain it according to common sense?

"I am really ashamed of him!" The quiet room was thinking about the achievements of Tang Cheng and his current situation. Li Longji sighed sadly. If he could return to Beijing successfully from the magistrate of Longmen County last time, he would have added a lot of help.

After accumulating one thing, perhaps even Li Longji himself did not realize that he had an unexplainable trust in Tang Cheng in subtle way. It seemed that as long as he was handed over to Tang Cheng to do something, he could feel relieved.

At this time, Li Longji was far from the end of Kaiyuan when he became an emperor for a long time and was tired of politics. Now he was thinking about how to create a prosperous Tang Dynasty like Emperor Taizong after ascending the throne that day.

With such a strong desire to advance and lenient, Li Shimin, who can tolerate even Wei Zheng in Dalian, is the role model. He only values ​​​​a genius like Tang Cheng. As for fear, it is a joke! If Li Longji is really a narrow-minded person who starts to be afraid of the talents of his ministers before he even ascended the throne, how could he create a 29-year-old Kaiyuan prosperous era?

Thinking of the dangerous situation Tang Cheng was in, Li Longji couldn't help but feel a little anxious. If the minister who was so capable and vaguely connected with his "destiny" was broken on the Raole grassland, it would be a pity! Only after thinking about the letter written to the Tiancheng Army Captain not long ago, the anxiety caused by worry was slightly calmed down.

The reply from the commander Jia Zixing was delivered not long ago. Li Longji really didn't care much about the obvious words of surrender in this reply. Even though he was accumulating strength, he was just as he was collecting his wings. A small commander from the border army could not catch him. The only thing that interested him in the reply was that this commander Jia passionately used his head to guarantee Tang Cheng's safety. Although Li Longji did not believe it all, he had some comfort at least.

With eight thousand days of army formation, there should be no problem in protecting a Tang Cheng?

Just as I thought of this, the young official who was on duty outside the door came in quietly and reported that Lord Zhang was here and asked to see him outside.

When he heard the official position reported by Xiaohuan, he knew that Zhang Liang had arrived. Li Longji waved his hand, and after a moment, Zhang Liang walked in.

After Zhang Liang waited for the young official on duty to go to tea and left, he didn't wait for Li Longji to ask questions, and said first: "Your Highness, Tang Bieqing sent the letter with a hurry again."

Just as he thought of Tang Cheng, he sent him a letter from thousands of miles away. Is this counting the will of heaven that Zhang Mingzhi said in front of him? This sudden thought made Li Longji smile appear on his face, "Oh? You replied to the things you asked for in the book for me last time, but it was difficult to answer, so quickly?"

Previously, the Eastern Palace had received a letter from Tang Cheng from Rao Le, which was asked His Royal Highness to help urge the Honglu Temple to inform the Silakhs that the Silakhs had banned the trade in military and iron weapons against the Songmo Khitans. The reply to this letter was completed by Zhang Liang according to Li Longji's wishes, so he was naturally familiar with the content. He smiled while passing the letter and said, "Although I wrote clearly the recent court and Taiping in the previous reply, I was so far away from the court, so I am afraid that what Your Highness asked was difficult to answer."

"Look, let's talk about it." Li Longji took the letter and opened it, and then looked at it attentively. As he looked at it, a smile slowly appeared on his face.

After reading the first three pages of this thick letter, Li Longji temporarily put down the part behind, "This is Tang Bieqing's answer, you can take a look."

When Zhang Liang was looking at these three pages of letters, Li Longji did not continue to read the contents behind or speak. While unconsciously tapping the book table next to him with his fingers, he continued to think about the answers from these three pages of letters.

After a while, Zhang Liang had finished reading and looked up at Li Longji, "Tang Bie's sympathy for saying that Taiping's attempt to get involved in the imperial power will definitely fail, and the person will definitely be defeated. On this point, my minister agrees, but the four arguments he put forward are just general discussions."

When Li Longji heard this, he looked at Zhang Liang deeply and smiled, "It's your original words. He is too far from the court and is powerless to care about details. However, these four points are not general talk, but on the contrary, they are all arguments that hit the nail on the head. From the perspective of the overall situation alone, you might as well be disliked!"

When Zhang Liang heard this, he not only did not change his sarcastic expression, but instead said with a calm smile: "Don't leave the genius, I sigh that I have been sorry for a long time! It's just what is said in this letter..."

"In this letter, he mentioned four reasons why Taiping will inevitably fail." Li Longji was obviously interested. He stood up from his seat and walked around the room and said slowly: "First, Taiping was extremely greedy for money, treasures, and his daily life in the princess's mansion was extremely arrogant and extravagant. If she was based on her status as a princess in the country, it would be nothing, but the most inappropriate thing was to indulge the people in the mansion to seize the people's property and compete for profit with the people. I believe you have heard a lot of news about these things. Although the Jingzhao Yamen did not dare to take these cases, the more peaceful it would hurt the people's hearts. The great-grandfather Emperor Taizong said: 'The people are like water, the country is like a boat, and water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn the boat', Taiping competes with the people with the respect of a princess, and will definitely lose all the people's hearts. Such short-sighted people actually want to get involved in treasures. If they are not defeated, the laws of heaven will not tolerate it!"

"Secondly, although Taiping's power has expanded rapidly over the years, its Internet wings have been bought with money. Her instructions to her servants, "There are many Confucian officials who are poor, and they should hold gold and silk to thank them" have already flowed out of the princess's house. It is almost everyone who knows how good the wings who can be impressed and bought with such a little wealth need to be said more? They are just a mob of native chickens and dogs. No matter how many of these people there are, what are they afraid of? Although five of the seven ministers in the Political Affairs Hall of the People's Government, Song Jing, who has the strongest character, is afraid of being too scared of him. This is the only way to see the leopard."

"Third, although Taiping likes to play power, what she is good at is just a small private trick. Since her father regained the treasure, the power of the government can be said to be in her hands. However, in the past two years, she has shown what achievements she has made in the government? Not only that, the "slanted official title" she promoted the restoration last year was even more foolish."

This matter has become the focus of discussion in Chang'an City since last year. Zhang Liang naturally knew the reason for the matter. He smiled and said, "This is the final decision made by Taiping and Wei Shuren and Shangguan Wan'er in the previous dynasty. In the final analysis, it is just a means of taking bribes and making money by a few women. As long as they pay 300,000 yuan, even merchants and butchers can be awarded official positions. It is really a big deal! For this reason, there are many discussions in the market, saying, "Yao and Song are prime ministers, evil cannot defeat righteousness; when it comes to Taiping, righteousness is worse than evil."

Li Longji had heard this a long time ago, but when he heard Zhang Liang say it, he couldn't help laughing, "The reason why Taiping strongly promoted the restoration of the title of slant officials despite Song Jing's opposition last year was that it was because of whether a woman could interfere in politics. However, he did not expect that because of this, she made her stupidity clear in the world. The court ordered officials to trade clearly like goods! Isn't it a joke that people say that Taiping is abusing power?"

"What Your Highness said is."

"This is the argument of Tang's love," Li Longji continued with a smile on his face: "The fourth point is also the most important point. In the past, Empress Zetian's character and means were also prepared to take charge of the government affairs for thirty years. After taking charge of the government affairs for thirty years, she ascended the position of the pseudo-Emperor at the age of 67. Even so, when she was old and sick, she still encountered the change of the five kings forcing the palace. How should Taiping compare with Empress Xianzetian? What's more, since Empress Xianzetian called the pseudo-Emperor changing the name of the country Zhou, our court and the whole country were actually very alert to women's interference in politics. Under such a general trend, any attempt of woman's interference in politics will surely be defeated. Wei Shuren is like this, and Taiping cannot escape such an ending."

After saying so many words in one breath, Li Longji turned around and picked up the teacup and drank it all, then laughed and said, "There are these four sentences that are interesting, so how can we say it in general? The love between the Tang Dynasty will not disappoint people. These words are deeply attracted by my heart!"

"It's a pity that he is not in the capital now." Zhang Liang laughed and sighed, pointed to the small table and went to other letters and said, "Your Highness, let's see what else he has to do?"

Li Longji picked up these letters happily. As Li Longji looked at the smile on his face, he slowly turned a faint blush. This reaction was obviously the result of huge fluctuations in his emotions. Seeing this, Zhang Liang wanted to ask, but then he looked at Li Longji's tightly pursed lips and then pressed the words back, just waiting quietly. However, he couldn't help but feel confused.

What did Tang Cheng say in this letter that made His Highness react so much?

Zhang Liang waited for a long time, and Li Longji looked at the rest of the letter again and again. It seemed that these pages were really heavy.

After a long time, Li Longji let out a breath and spoke. I guess something was very suffocating. Even his breath was fierce. "Don't love to let the court send troops to Rao Le, and ask the palace to inform the Youzhou Grand Governor as soon as possible and allow him to borrow troops."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Liang suddenly stood up from his seat, "What?" It's not that he reacted so fiercely. Under the pressure of many vassal states, how long has it been when Zi reiterated the edict of "the same in the country" in the Taimiao? Didn't Tang Cheng's move make the court slapped himself in the face? How could this be possible?

The current court is Princess Taiping was so entangled by Kong Gui and others that she was so anxious that she was entangled. The East Palace should take advantage of the pressure to expand her strength. At this time, she went out and said such a sensitive topic, which was obviously attacking. It doesn’t even have to go to that point, Zhang Liang could think of the way that Taiping and other court officials would swarm in after the East Palace raised this matter. I’m afraid that even the emperor would not look good on his face.

As for writing letters to the Youzhou Grand Governor, it was just a fool. Zhang Shouyi's clear attitude towards the current court was that the princess's mansion and the Eastern Palace were not trusted. With his position, even if the prince's prince wrote a letter to him, it was hard to say how effective it would be. On the contrary, this letter, which may not necessarily work, would bring great hidden dangers to the prince.

"This Tang Bieqing, what exactly does he want to do?" Zhang Liang shook his head and said, "This matter is absolutely not feasible."

"He wanted to plan a big thing," Li Longji's eyes were very clear at this moment. "If this matter really happened, it would be a great achievement that the dynasty had not been achieved in the past few decades."

"If you don't want to win in the event of something, you should be determined to lose first. The most important thing you need to be careful about is the cleverness and wisdom. This is his original words of love."

"In his letter, he said that he could have a legitimate plan to send troops from the court. The reason for this arrangement was that he was afraid that Rao Le would be too far away from Chang'an and would not be able to catch up. Mingzhi was worried that I would never have opened this matter in the court now, but Zhang Shouyi's letter..."

"My subordinates think that this letter cannot be written, your highness thinks about it..."

"I know the risks you want to talk about." Li Longji waved his hand to stop Zhang Liang's long speech, "But for me, this is actually just a problem."

"What?".

"Should you believe that Tang Bieqing has the ability to make things happen with such a hand?" Li Longji patted the thin letter on the small table and said in a deep voice: "If you really believe that he has Ban Dingyuan's means, you should write this letter. If you don't believe this letter, you can't write it. After simplifying the complex, this matter is just that."

"That Highness..."
Chapter completed!