Chapter 64 sixty-three

A man's voice said: "I am a friend of the commander, how is the old man?" The woman cried: "He is dying." The man sighed: "Oh, he must be too sad, you take the money I’m going to invite the best doctor in Chang’an to see him, and if it’s not enough, I’ll send it over.” The woman seemed unwilling to accept the money, and said in her mouth: "No, no, no, you and I have never met before, how can I ask for your things?" The man said: "Please don't refuse, I owe a debt to your family - there is movement outside, I have to go." At this moment, Ma Xuanliang kicked open the door and shouted, "Don't leave Sun Da." In the regiment, Ma Xuanliang is good at martial arts, but he also fell into a disadvantage.In desperation, a guard grabbed the woman hiding on the bed, put the sword across her neck, and shouted: "Sun Da, put down the sword quickly, or I will kill her!" Sun Da was stunned , let go of his hand, the sword "dang" fell to the ground, and more than a dozen long swords stepped forward to force him.

Ma Xuanliang breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered: "Take him away!" The guard let go of the woman, she was still shaking, needless to say, this woman is Caiji! Sun Da was interrogated for three consecutive days, and then put on heavy shackles and taken to the prison. Sun Da, wearing a heavy shackle, sat in a dark corner, waiting to die day by day.After the Xuanwumen Incident, his old master Li Jiancheng was punished all over his family, and some important confidants were also copied and beheaded.Sun Daluo escaped alone, he had no relatives in this world, he never thought that one day there would be someone to visit him.

The one who came to see him was Caiji, whom he had visited in the inn on the day he was captured. She carried a food box and brought some food and wine to Sun Da. Sun Da noticed that she had put on filial piety. Then he asked in surprise: "Why, the old man has passed away?" Caiji nodded, tears falling down. Sun Da said sadly: "Brother Lingguan is gone, I should give the old man his death, but..." Caiji opened the food box, brought out a few small dishes, then poured a glass of wine and handed it to Sun Da with both hands, saying: "I have something, I can only ask you." Sun Da took a sip from the wine glass and said : "Please tell me." Caiji looked at Sun Da and said, "I want to know why Lingguan became like this."

Sun Da finished the glass of wine with his neck up, then put down the glass, and said with a long sigh of relief: "This is a long story. One winter, the first prince took me out of the city to hunt, and I met the commander in the wilderness. He was killed by a tiger. Bite, coupled with cold and hunger, he was about to die. First, the prince asked me to bring him back to the palace to save him. Later, I found out that his family was framed by local corrupt officials. The whole family of seven was imprisoned, and only he left. One person. The first prince rescued his parents from prison and punished the corrupt officials."

Caiji asked, "Then how did the orderly officer come to the present prince's mansion again and become such a big official?" Sun Da replied: "At that time, the crown prince was fighting with the king of Qin, and wanted to send people into the lineage of the king of Qin to be an undercover agent. In order to repay his kindness, the officer volunteered, managed to sneak into the Qin mansion, and was sent to serve as a guard for the king of Zhongshan County. The king was established as the prince by Li Shimin, and the officials were promoted continuously, until he became the general of Zuo Tunwei Zhonglang."

Caiji cried, "Then why didn't he recognize me? He said he would never betray me!" Sun Da looked at Caiji's tearful eyes, and said with some sentimentality: "Being an undercover agent must be cautious. If you recognize you and find out the past, you will inevitably reveal your secrets. Not only will you be in danger, but your family will also be hurt. Besides, after the first prince died under Li Shimin's hands, the commander made up his mind to avenge the former prince. He didn't recognize you because he was afraid that you would be even more sad in the future."

Cai Ji cried, "He can serve a dead man, but he never thought about how sad the living would be? You, you are all lunatics, you only know hatred. Is there nothing else in this world except hatred?" Then, the distraught woman stood up and shouted to the sky, "Chang Lingguan! You are such a fool, I will never forgive you, and I will never forgive you!" On the same day, Li Shimin summoned Cen Wenwen to Chengqing Hall and handed him a confession: "This is Sun Da's confession, please take a look." With a look of surprise, it turns out that Chang Sheng is actually Wu De's best friend who sneaked into the Qin Palace six years ago.Sun Dan's ability to escape from the clouds was due to Chang Sheng's force.Sun Da showed up in Chang'an to plan a big conspiracy to overthrow the imperial court together with him!

Li Shimin said with emotion: "I didn't see through him, and neither did the crown prince! Chang Sheng saw that the crown prince wanted to make great contributions and do great things, so he deliberately induced the crown prince to throw away the grain in Taicang to earn the difference in order to build some Cuiwei palace for me." , After the food was released, he secretly sent Wu Qing to dig the Longshou Canal, pretending that it was destroyed by heavy rain. He knew that there was no food available in Taicang at this time, so he asked Sun Da to contact Jieli, Chen Bing, Suizhou, and Bingzhou. Instigated a mutiny in Chang'an, and in the end he did not hesitate to ask his confidant Wu Qing to lead someone to kill him, making the soldiers guilty of murdering the court officials, and forcing the Zuo Tunwei army to go the other way!"

Cen Wenwen's face was heavy: "I really didn't expect that Datang has been standing on the edge of the cliff these days." Li Shimin said: "The swords and swords made me understand that the most terrifying thing for a country is civil strife! No matter how powerful a foreign enemy is, the Bingzhou Army was defeated, and the Suizhou Army was defeated. If you are defeated, you can still transfer people from Luoyang and Yangzhou, but if your own people get into chaos first, the sky will really fall down! Chang Sheng worked so hard that he even sacrificed himself for the hidden prince. This is what he planned for "chaos" word!"

Cen Wenwen looked at Li Shimin, figured out the meaning of his words, and replied: "The emperor's words really hit the point. There are strong enemies outside. Your majesty has been trying hard to find a way to defeat the captives all these years. I think this is the first strategy. It should be to prevent civil unrest!" Li Shimin patted Cen Wenwen on the shoulder and said: "You speak well, but unfortunately there are too few people in the court who have your insight. These days, some people have made a fuss about the moldy rice of the Zuo Tunwei Army in their memorials. The target was directed at the prince. I just thought, Chang Shengli used the prince to provoke a mutiny among the Zuo Tunwei army, so there is no second Chang Sheng in this court, who wants to use other princes to set off a political tide, Then lead the wolf into the house?"

Cen Wenwen was startled, he already understood the emperor's intentions, Li Shimin obviously had a good idea of ​​his relationship with the King of Shu, and wanted to use his power to calm the threat of the King of Shu and his gang to the Crown Prince in this matter.