Chapter 12 eleven

Pei Ji's judgment was very accurate, and Li Shimin really didn't want to see his two confidants being punished by Liu Sanqianli, so he even did not hesitate to release his military power for this reason.In this way, the prey fell into the trap that had been set up long ago. Li Yuan hurriedly went down the donkey and said to his son: "It's hard for you to care about the friendship of Robe Ze so much. If I don't agree, it will seem unreasonable. Well, let's go!" It's up to you. Changsun Wuji and Du Ruhui are left to you to deal with, but you can hand over the conquest of Liu Heita to the crown prince." Li Shimin kowtowed to the ground: "Thank you, Lord Long En."

Li Yuan turned his face to look at Li Jiancheng and shouted: "Prince——" Li Jiancheng hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down: "My son is here." Li Yuan said loudly: "This time Liu Heitai has risen again, and the attack is fierce. The whole country must be thrown In response to this, I have decided to use you as the Marshal of Daxingtai of Shandong Dao and the Marshal of Shandong Daoxing to fight against the rebels. You must fight for me in this battle!" This is for Li Jiancheng, and it is also for Li Jiancheng. It's for Li Shimin, he said while observing Li Shimin from the corner of his eye.Li Shimin's face sank like water, but there was still no abnormal reaction.Here, Li Jiancheng was already trembling with excitement, kowtowed to Li Yuan in fear and trepidation: "My son must live up to the high expectations of the emperor, and the chaos in Hebei will be put down as soon as possible, so that the father and the emperor can rest assured, and the subjects can rest assured."

The wind and heavy snow rolled across the streets of Chang'an, and night fell on the city early. The sky outside the window was very dim, but Li Jiancheng's heart was very bright.This brightness comes from the tiger talisman on the table. It is a jade tiger talisman, only as long as a palm, and outlines the image of a fierce tiger with very rough lines.This tiger talisman is quite old, and the color of the jade looks very old under the candlelight, no matter how much you wipe it with silk silk, it won't be new.If it is placed in the homes of ordinary people, most people will regard it as an ordinary ornament, no different from paperweights and pen holders.But with such an inconspicuous thing, he can control most of Datang's troops.

Since the Li family rebelled against the Sui Dynasty in the summer of the thirteenth year of Daye, every time Li Jiancheng stood in front of his younger brother Li Shimin, he would feel his own weakness, so weak that he needed to look up to him from the bottom of his heart.The nature of a man eager to conquer makes him unwilling to go on like this, but year after year, whenever a major event comes, the eyes of his father and the subjects will naturally turn to his younger brother, as if there is nothing in this world at all. Li Jiancheng is the same without him.At such times, Li Jiancheng would use another voice to soothe his uneasy heart: that person is not strong because he is stronger than himself, but because he holds the tiger talisman in his hand.

Now, this tiger talisman is lying in front of his eyes. Li Jiancheng slowly stretched out his fingers and gently stroked the tiger talisman. The unique coolness of jade was transmitted through his fingertips. The smoothest woman's skin ever touched by a thirty-five-year-old hand.Then, he tightly clenched the Tiger Talisman into his hand, and suddenly felt that his thin arms became strong and powerful, as if as long as he swung his fist, he could make the whole world start to tremble.He put his face on it, admiring the tiger talisman more carefully, his eyes gliding over its outline, and suddenly he remembered something, it was the big worm he ran into when he was out hunting in the city a few days ago, it was the one he had never seen in his life It was the largest tiger he had ever seen, and he thought it was an unusual omen.Now, facing this tiger talisman, he believed even more that the appearance of that colorful tiger was really a sign from God, and God was telling him in this way that he would get a tiger talisman.

Thinking of this, Li Jiancheng stood up and shouted out the door: "Sun Da!" The curtain was lifted, and Sun Da walked in: "What orders does His Royal Highness have?" Li Jiancheng asked Sun Da, the one he picked up when he went out of the city last time Where's the big bug?Sun Da said with a humble face, the skin has been peeled, and he is looking for the best cobbler in the city to tan it, as your Highness ordered.Li Jiancheng then asked if the man who stabbed the tiger to death had ever been rescued?Sun Da said, thanks to you, the prince, he has already sneaked back from the Lord of the Underworld. This guy is really lucky. His two tiger claws fell on his shoulders, and his bones and tendons were pulled out. He is not dead yet. , Chen applied Jinchuang medicine to him, and asked the cook to boil tiger bone soup for recuperation. It is estimated that he will be fine in two months.Li Jiancheng asked Sun Dak if he had inquired about the origin of the big man?Sun Da, who has always been meticulous in his work, actually asked that person, and he made a statement to Li Jiancheng about what he learned.

This person's surname is Chang Ming Ling Guan, a surname of Changjiazhuang in the suburbs of Chang'an.He was born with good strength since he was a child, and he learned some guns and sticks from a retired teacher in the village.There are parents and brothers in the family, and a fiancée who has never been married, guarding a few hectares of ancestral land, so life can be passed on.Not wanting that a squire Zhang from the same village took a fancy to the feng shui of his family's several acres of land and wanted to seize it as a cemetery. Chang's family was his accomplices, and sent soldiers to take his family to prison. Only Chang Lingguan escaped over the wall with his martial arts skills, sprinted in the heavy snow to avoid pursuit, and finally fainted from hunger. And the section on killing tigers.

After listening to these situations, Li Jiancheng remembered what his younger brother Yuan Ji said to him that day - if there were more strong men like this tiger stabbing man in the Changlin army, he, the crown prince, could sleep soundly every night. Unable to move, he ordered Sun Da to secretly send someone to check to see if what the Chang Lingguan was telling the truth and what his character was.If what he said is not false and his character is reliable, then save people to the end, take his enemies, and release his family from prison.Sun Da accepted this order. He understood that the crown prince was the right man. Now that the East Palace and the Qin Palace are competing for the world, what is lacking is someone who can wield a gun. To clean up a county magistrate is really a challenge for the East Palace. Nothing could be more trivial.

The two were talking, when there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, Sun Da said: "Prince, it seems that Wei Zheng Wei is here." Li Jiancheng lifted his buttocks from the chair, and the door curtain lifted, Wei Zheng and General Feng Li were wearing A snowflake came in.Li Jiancheng stepped forward and grabbed Wei Zheng's hand, and said affectionately: "Xuancheng, where have you been? I have been looking for you everywhere since I came back from the Liangyi Hall, but I can't find you anywhere." Wei Zheng replied: "As soon as I got the news that Yin Guozhang was bumped into the palace to complain, and the emperor summoned all the ministers and the King of Qin to enter the palace, I went with General Feng to the Daoxingtai in Eastern Shaanxi." Li Jiancheng has never had much military power. One of the few military talents in the village, he is straightforward and not good at talking. After Wei Zheng said, he nodded vigorously.

Only then did Li Jiancheng understand what Wei Zheng meant. He was worried about the Qin government's decision to boycott Li Yuan, and he couldn't help but secretly admire Wei Zheng's carefulness in doing things.Li Jiancheng asked Wei Zheng, "Then did you find any strange signs?" Wei Zheng shook his head, "It's almost dark and the city is about to be banned at night, and there is not a single bit of change in the Shandong Daoxingtai official office." Li Jiancheng's eyes fell again. Looking at the tiger talisman, he thought to himself, it seems that it is because of this tiger talisman, his second child is not superhuman, without this tiger talisman, he is just an ordinary prince, even if he is unhappy, so what?Thinking of this, a smile appeared on his face, and he changed the subject: "Xuancheng, since there is no change over there, we can calm down and think about the affairs of Hebei. The burden was handed over to me, and I have to fight a good battle to repay the old man. But I don’t have any foundation in my heart, you know, after all, it’s my first time leading an army to go out.”