Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 969: Wind Rising in Chang'an
The man at the source of the sound was riding a black horse with a big hole on his head.

Who else could it be if not Prince Jiancheng, who was shot dead by him personally?

For Li Shimin, it was so satisfying to eliminate the tentacles of the aristocratic family during the day by taking advantage of Jiancheng's appearance in his dreams. But now, when he really saw Jiancheng in his dream, it was so horrifying!

Amid the laughter of Jiancheng's ghost, Li Shimin turned around and left without even thinking.

In fact, as the Emperor of Man, even if someone like Prince Jiancheng sneaked into his dreams, he could not be harmed at all - the Emperor of Man was truly immune to all kinds of evil.

As long as there is no guilt in one's heart, as long as one believes that one has done nothing wrong, then let alone being possessed by a ghost in a dream, even if one really steps into the netherworld and is surrounded by countless evil spirits in the netherworld, one will not be hurt at all.

But the problem lies here.

It would be fine if it was Prince Yuanji of Qi, he was a bastard. Killing him would just be like cleaning up the family business, and everyone would applaud.

But Prince Jiancheng... Li Shimin really felt guilty in front of Prince Jiancheng!
Since he became emperor, he has worked hard to make the Tang Dynasty prosperous. Now, he has become the Emperor of Mankind. His achievements can be said to be witnessed by heaven, earth and people.

But even so, he didn't dare to say to himself from the bottom of his heart: I have done well enough!
Since ascending the throne, the thing that he feared the most was not that someone said he did something wrong, nor that someone said he did not do it well - but that someone said in front of him that if Crown Prince Jiancheng was still alive, he would definitely not do this or that...

That is why, since he ascended the throne, Li Shimin has been holding his breath, thinking that he, the emperor, must do better than all the previous ones!
Only in this way can he prove that he is stronger than Prince Jiancheng!

Only in this way can he prove that his original choice to seize the throne was correct!

This was his fear before he came up with this name.

In addition, there is one more thing - even on the eve of the Xuanwu Gate Uprising, he firmly believed that this was only a dispute between him and Jiancheng.

The victory or defeat is only between the two of them.

At that time, he was also extremely confident that after he won, he would be able to firmly control the situation and keep the waves within a certain range.

But he miscalculated.

After the death of Crown Prince Jiancheng, the turmoil was not only not controlled, but instead tended to expand.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to kill all of Jiancheng's children and his nephews.

In this way, the aftermath was suppressed, and no one could cause trouble in the name of the orphan or widow of Prince Jiancheng.

Regarding this matter, Li Shimin has always felt quite guilty towards Crown Prince Jiancheng.

After all, from the very beginning of the dispute between him and Crown Prince Jiancheng, Crown Prince Jiancheng never thought of killing him - otherwise, Crown Prince Jiancheng would definitely not be completely unprepared in front of the Xuanwu Gate.

But not only did he kill Crown Prince Jiancheng, he couldn't even protect his offspring.

As time went by, and as the authority of Emperor Li Shimin grew, the guilt hidden in his heart also grew bigger!

Especially at this moment, when he was more and more at ease in controlling the situation, he thought more than once, if he had not retreated so much before Xuanwu Gate, then before Xuanwu Gate, his strength and influence would be stronger... then would he have a better grasp of the situation?
Will the children born in Jiancheng, his nephews and nieces, be able to survive?
The more he thought about it, the more guilty he felt towards Jiancheng.

Therefore, even though he knew that Jiancheng could not hurt him, Li Shimin still turned around and left without hesitation.

Behind him, Prince Jiancheng was chasing him on a BMW.

"My dear brother, why are you running away?"

"We haven't seen each other for many years. Don't you have anything to say to my brother?"

"Aren't you going to explain to me why you killed all your nephews and nieces?"

"In order to control the situation and prevent the turmoil from escalating... Hey, you really have your reasons."

"But you guess, I believe it or not!" The more Prince Jiancheng spoke, the more shrill his voice became.

As far as the fight for the throne was concerned, he was defeated and died, but he actually had no resentment about this.

Since ancient times, the struggle for power has been like this, not to mention the struggle for imperial power.

Anyone who wants to fight for imperial power should be prepared to die for it - this is true for the fight for imperial power and the fight for the world.

So, in fact, Prince Jiancheng looked down on those thirty-six princes of the underworld.

Being defeated in an open battle, what is there to be unwilling about or resentful about?
Of course, after he stepped into the Netherworld, he was able to fight back and forth with the thirty-six princes with the power of one country, which also proved that his "contempt" for the thirty-six princes was not without reason.

——Many ghosts and gods in the underworld, including many immortal gods between heaven and earth, believe that the reason why Prince Jiancheng turned into a ghost hero in the underworld was because he died at the hands of Li Shimin.

But in fact, if someone really paid attention to the time when Prince Jiancheng transformed into a ghost hero, they would know that he did not transform into a ghost hero after stepping into the underworld, but transformed into a ghost hero after knowing that all his descendants had been killed.

After he became the Ghost Hero, while he was fighting with the thirty-six princes with great success, he had also been trying to cross the boundary between Yin and Yang. He wanted to fight his way into the world of the living from the netherworld. He wanted to step into the city of Chang'an and ask Li Shimin in person, why?
"My dear brother, were you really unable to control the situation back then?" Li Jiancheng chased Li Shimin all the way and asked the most heart-wrenching question.

"You don't even have the ability to control the situation, and you dare to fight for the throne?"

But Li Shimin didn't say anything at all.

Just keep hiding.

In the front, between the chase between the man and the ghost, behind the dream, a eerie ghost aura slowly spread out.

Prince Yuanji of Qi, Luo Yi, and the thirty-six princes all slowly appeared in this dream.

And beside these thirty-eight ghost heroes, there is another person with the eyes of an eagle and the back of a wolf.

Seeing that these thirty-eight ghost heroes were eager to join in the pursuit of Li Shimin, this man with the eyes of an eagle and a wolf persuaded them to stop with just one sentence.

"Everyone, you can't hurt the Human Emperor in this dream!"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince has finally managed to entangle the Human Emperor, so we must seize this opportunity and use this dream as an anchor to open up a passage from the Netherworld to the Human World."

"This is the passage revealed by the Human Emperor's dream. As long as this passage is opened, even those ancient ghosts and gods in the depths of the underworld will not dare to hunt us through this passage."

"Only then can you all start a real fight with the Human Emperor in the human world."

"Then I'll listen to you." Qi Wang Yuanji held up his head, "Sima Zhongda, where do you think this dream can be a gap leading to the human world?"

...On the second day, Li Shimin summoned his civil and military officials to his study.

When he mentioned the incident of Prince Jiancheng appearing in his dream again, the civil and military officials under his command all showed helpless expressions.

In the end, it was Fang Xuanling who stood up.

"Your Majesty, it's almost done." Fang Xuanling almost rolled his eyes - he was about to die of old age, and privately, he didn't really care about the so-called difference between the monarch and his subjects.

Over the past two days, these civil and military officials have formed their own judgments on the situation - the story of Crown Prince Jiancheng appearing in his dream was most likely fake.

His Majesty made up such a statement simply to take the opportunity to clean up the palace.

Everyone supports this point.

After all, those aristocratic families are deeply rooted in the palace. If we fail to cut off the tentacles of those aristocratic families in the palace while the country is still strong enough, then when the country is not so strong in the future, those aristocratic families will always cause many troubles, making the situation more and more collapsed.

But now, the palace has been almost cleaned up, and the Imperial Observatory has also been cleaned up. So the matter of Prince Jiancheng appearing in his dreams should come to an end.

There have always been disputes between imperial power and aristocratic families. Even at the peak of the Tang Dynasty's power today, it is still difficult to completely suppress the aristocratic families. However, although the civil and military officials in this palace supported Li Shimin in suppressing the aristocratic families, they did not support Li Shimin in continuing to take action against those aristocratic families in the name of Jiancheng.

To put it bluntly, among these civil and military officials, some are also from aristocratic families, while the others will soon become new aristocratic families.

"I really dreamed that it was completed!" Li Shimin looked at the civil and military officials he trusted - they had been together for decades, so who didn't know each other's ideas?

Li Shimin exhaled and took out a dragon-shaped jade pendant from his sleeve.

The originally pure white jade pendant was now half dyed black.

Looking at the black color on the jade pendant, the civil and military officials who were still thinking about how to persuade Li Shimin fell silent one by one.

This jade pendant is not an ordinary object. It is a kind of fortune-controlling object that surrounds the emperor. Corresponding to different situations, this jade pendant will also show different "responses".

And now, the gray and black color appeared, which was the sign that the emperor was being entangled by ghosts in his dreams.

"Is it really Prince Jiancheng?" a voice sounded.

It was none other than Wei Zheng - when his voice rang out, all the civil and military officials in the hall looked over there, with vigilance in their eyes.

Although they were all famous ministers during the Zhenguan period, the vast majority of these civil and military officials were not of the same kind as Wei Zheng - after all, Wei Zheng was an old minister left behind by Crown Prince Jiancheng.

Everyone also knew that in his heart, he had always missed Prince Jiancheng.

Now, Prince Jiancheng really appeared in the emperor’s dream and harassed him - instinctively, these people’s distrust of Wei Zheng was once again revealed.

"Your Majesty, the great masters of the Buddhist and Taoist sects are now in Chang'an City."

"Why not invite them into the palace and hold a water and land ceremony to appease the souls of the dead?" Wei Zheng said.

Although he was thinking about Crown Prince Jiancheng, Crown Prince Jiancheng was dead after all!
Even if it really escaped from the underworld, it is still just a ghost.

A sneaky person is destined to be unable to rule the human world and is destined to be unable to achieve any achievements in the human world.

He is also destined to never become the monarch like Wei Zheng!

If Prince Jiancheng still remained in the underworld, the legend of Prince Jiancheng could still continue in the human world - people would still sympathize with him and miss him.

But if it becomes a ghost and steps into the human world to cause trouble... then there won't be even the slightest sympathy or remembrance for it in the human world!
Therefore, even if Wei Zheng was a man who missed his old master, when he confirmed that Prince Jiancheng had really entered the emperor's dream and harassed the emperor, he still made his choice directly.

Hold a water and land ceremony to appease the dead and separate yin and yang.

If that still doesn't work, they would just ask the Buddhist and Taoist masters to rush into the underworld and forcibly suppress the ghost hero transformed by Prince Jiancheng, or directly send him to reincarnation.

"Tonight, Brother Shubao and I will keep watch for Your Majesty!"

"I want to see if those devilish heroes dare to make trouble in front of us!"

Yuchi Gong also spoke up.

……

In the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor was still pondering, his eyes fixed on the direction of the East China Sea, as if he was wondering when the Dragon God of Heaven in the East China Sea would have enough rest.

No one between heaven and earth could know that during this waiting period, the Ruler of Heaven, the King of Wind and Rain, and the Emperor of the World, the three of them had already met in private and quietly reached a consensus.

"The Emperor of Mankind has given up his authority and made that ghost hero from the netherworld come to the human world."

"Under such a situation, I'm afraid that everyone in this world will suspect that I am the one plotting in secret." The Jade Emperor kept looking towards the East China Sea, thoughts flashing in his mind.

Just as he expected, when the ghostly aura of the underworld really appeared in Chang'an City and in the imperial palace of Chang'an City, most of the powerful people between heaven and earth suspected the Jade Emperor.

After all, this is the character shown by the Jade Emperor. He has a heartfelt vigilance and hostility towards the Human Emperors in the world, and will try his best to weaken the control of those Human Emperors over the situation in the world.

——The aristocratic families in the human world have been around since the Han Dynasty. Until now, the power of the aristocratic families has become increasingly huge and unpredictable. In this human world, the power of those aristocratic families can even have a head-on collision with the founding emperor who came out to kill...

One can imagine how terrifying its power is.

And according to many rumors, the Jade Emperor is secretly supporting those many noble families.

Those aristocratic families are the tools used by the Jade Emperor to weaken the Human Emperor and control the human world.

"If the situation in Chang'an changes, it will be a sign that I am planning to take over the human world and suppress the Emperor..."

"So what should I do now?" The Jade Emperor thought for a moment and came to a conclusion.

wind and rain!

Now is the time for him to take action against the storms in the world.

(End of this chapter)