Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 666 The East Palace

"Xuan Cheng's exhortation is meritorious."

"Li Zhaode?"

"The son of Li Ganyou, the master of the Qi Palace, is also the younger brother of the Danyang house of the Li family in Longxi. It is suitable for him to go north."

"Over there at Prince Qin's Mansion... I heard that Fang Xuanling's eldest son, Fang Yi, went straight north."

"Oh, I heard. It is said that there are also children of the Zhang family in Qinghe Wucheng who are also acquainted with the King of Handan."

Wei Ting clapped his hands and laughed, "You guys don't know yet...Miss Cui is worried about her future husband..."

In the East Palace, Li Jiancheng listened to the discussions of the staff below, pondered in his heart, and thought that it was a pity that the East Palace couldn't find a suitable candidate... Lu Chengji had already served as a military officer, and the other children were not familiar with Li Shan.

That's right, relatively speaking, most of the staff in the East Palace are old people, old people who joined the army with their father, or family in-laws. Except for Wei Zheng, they are all clinging together, unlike the Qin Palace... what kind of people Both.

It has been three days since the news of victory came to Beijing. The rulers and ministers are happy, and the city is full of joy. The sage Li Yuan, who was worried about the war, has already started to go out to inspect the place... Uh, this is a nice way of saying it, but it is actually a summer escape.

Pei Shiju, who was sitting at the bottom, squinted his eyes slightly, and silently listened to the words of his colleagues around him that made it difficult for him to hear... As long as he is in Chang'an recently, it is inevitable that King Handan will be praised everywhere.

Pei Shiju tried his best to keep his thoughts away, replaying the battle in his mind... He didn't focus on those battle achievements, but on Li Shan's actions.

Without any scruples, he broke face with Li Jing, the general manager of Daizhou, killed thousands of Turkic captives to build a capital, and looted Zuoyun County and was impeached by the courtiers, but he asked himself to return to the court because of his injuries...

This person can be said to have a certain degree of advance and retreat... Pei Shiju confirmed at the first time that Li Shan should have decided to return to the court very early. Into the seizing of the progenitor.

The Daizhou army with strong combat power is stationed in Yanmen. Such a general... Even if His Majesty is trusted and regarded as His Majesty's direct line, neither the Crown Prince nor the King of Qin will give up recruiting.

But if he returns to the imperial court, he can hold a high false title at most, which is of no use in seizing the heir apparent... On the contrary, he can get away with it.

In this way, can it be judged that Li Shan is unwilling to get involved in seizing the heir?

Pei Shiju's eyebrows trembled. This idea was mentioned by his daughter last night. After all, such meritorious deeds, the saint's trust, and Princess Pingyang's help, if he doesn't get involved in the seizure of the heir apparent, he will be safe... But Pei Shiju vetoed it after only thinking for a moment.

On the one hand, Li Shan was kind enough to Princess Pingyang to save her life... But it was actually an accident, it was Li Dewu's tricks secretly, and in desperation, His Majesty let Li Shan take the risk.

But Li Dewu had already joined the Eastern Palace sect at that time. People like Li Shan seemed to be slanting their swords, but they were actually cautious and wanted to have plans... In all the world, there was only the King of Qin.

On the other hand, it lies in the Li family's Danyang house in Longxi.

Pei Shiju knew enough about Li Shan. This son was named Shan and Huairen, but in fact he acted sharply and had the ambition of a husband.

What is the ambition of a husband?

A man lives in the world, when he meets kindness, he springs up the spring to repay each other, when he meets hatred, he cuts the weeds and eradicates the roots.

It can be said that this time, Li Shan has humiliated the Yongkang County Duke who has been famous all over the world for several years, and knocked down the most famous son of the Li family in Longxi and even the most famous son of the Li family in Longxi. .

It's all at this level, but Li Shan is so relaxed, and decided to give up the position of Daizhou Chief so early... Daizhou Chief is one of the most powerful officials in the world today.

After the pacification of Jianghuai, although the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was established, with the departure of Li Xiaogong, Prince of Zhao Jun, and Li Jing, Duke of Yongkang County, he no longer had much real power... at least in terms of military affairs.

The only one who can be compared with the governor of Daizhou is the governor of Bingzhou who is also in Hedong... But the latter's weight is largely due to Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang, Yuan Junzhang and the Turkic cavalry who came around every year in the past few years.

Daidi was dilapidated and difficult to resist. The Tang Dynasty placed the main force of Hedong forces in the Taiyuan area to resist foreign invasions. This is the reason for the weight of the governor of Bingzhou.

Now that Daizhou has regained its vitality, Yuan Junzhang came to surrender, Shuozhou was completely returned to Tang soil, and the Turks were defeated several times. Daizhou and Shuozhou are the main battlefields against Turkic invasion.

In other words, today's most important towns in the world, the deputy state governor and the state governor are ranked first in parallel, and the later the former, the heavier the weight of the former.

Pei Shiju believes that he understands this truth himself, and that young county king will not understand...so young and so powerful, but he let it go lightly, just because he didn't want to get involved in the battle for the heir apparent, just because he had an affair with Danyang, the Li family of Longxi. okay?
Pei Shiju never believed it, how many people throughout the ages, how many people would do anything to climb up, isn't his father and his son-in-law a ready-made example?
The only great official in the whole world... Such a temptation, Pei Shiju felt, if it was an old man like himself who once held a high position and was dying, he might still refuse, but how could he refuse at such a young age?
So, there must be other reasons.

Last night, Pei Shiju had all sorts of speculations, until just now when Wei Ting, Xu Shimo and others talked about Li Zhaode, the son of Chang'an Ling Li Qianyou, who was preparing to go north to Daizhou, Wei Ting mentioned an incident.

Yesterday, Master Li's wife Changsun entered the palace to meet Princess Qin.

Everyone in Chang'an knows that the former King of Handan first came to Chang'an and fell down in Dongshan Temple. There were three people who made friends with him, namely Wang Renbiao, Li Kai, and Li Zhaode.

Pei Shiju silently speculated about the timeline in his heart. Although he didn't know the details, these three people probably knew about Li Shan's life experience. After all, Li Dewu hadn't done anything at that time. After all, Li Shan didn't have the need to keep it secret at that time.

Maybe it was Li Kai, maybe it was Wang Renbiao, Li Zhaode, or all three of them knew about it, but it is certain that Li Kai was the insider.

Princess Qin and Li Keshi's wife, Changsun, are cousins. It is very likely that Li Shan got in touch with King Qin through this line... Although there is no proof, Pei Shiju feels that it is almost inseparable.

Why did Li Shan refuse such a big temptation and choose to ask himself to return to the court? It was nothing more than that although he hated Li Yaoshi deeply, he never dared to tear himself apart with the Li family's Danyangfang in Longxi.

Once they turned against each other, Li Keshi and his wife, Li Kai, or even Li Qianyou and Li Zhaode would have their secrets, and Li Shan would never let them leak the secrets.

No, Li Ganyou and Li Zhaode definitely didn't know about it.

What kind of secret?
Li Shan secretly voted under King Qin's command... Once such a secret was revealed, would the East Palace tolerate it?

Although Li Keshi is an official of the Tiance Mansion, Li Yaoshi is the leader of the Danyangfang generation of the Li family in Longxi, and is the key to revitalizing the lintel. Will he just watch Li Shan drive his brother to the bottom of the valley?

Pei Shiju felt that his guesses were likely to be nine out of ten, but the problem was that there was no trace of recruitment or evidence... All of this was based on the premise that he had no reason to confirm that Li Shan would join the King of Qin.

(End of this chapter)