Tang Dynasty: Taking the Empress Dowager to a brothel, Father Emperor, what a coincidence!

"Your Majesty, this old minister has had the worst luck in his life."

Li Gang's first words stunned the entire court.

No one expected that the highly respected old tutor would say such a thing as his first words.

"This old minister once taught Yang Yong, the former crown prince of the Sui Dynasty. Not many years later, Yang Yong died."

Later, the old minister also taught the Crown Prince Li Jiancheng. After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Jiancheng was also implicated.

Everyone in Chang'an was talking behind the old minister's back.

They all say this old minister is a jinx, born with the fate to bring misfortune to the crown prince.

The main hall was completely silent.

Li Gang's words were extremely taboo.

Who would dare mention Li Jiancheng in front of Li Shimin now?

But Li Gang just blurted it out so casually.

Li Gang glanced at Changsun Wuji.

"Lord Changsun, do you think my fate is rather strange?"

Changsun Wuji's lips twitched, but he didn't dare to reply.

Li Gang didn't need his answer and continued speaking on his own:

"However, I've been thinking lately that this person's fate seems to have turned around."

His Highness the Crown Prince went on a killing spree in Liaodong, slaughtering countless Goguryeo people and even leveling Anshi City.

This old minister was thinking...

Li Gang deliberately dragged out his words.

"Could it be that this old minister's fate of bringing misfortune to the Crown Prince has flowed along the Liao River and entirely harmed the Goguryeo people?"

Pfft!

In the ranks of military officers, someone couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

The civil officials were all red-faced and visibly frustrated.

He truly deserves to be called a veteran of three dynasties.

Look at what Li Gang said.

This is the ultimate mockery.

Didn't you, Changsun Wuji and Wang Gui, say that the Crown Prince was tyrannical?

People directly attributed the prince's killings to their own fate of being incompatible with the prince.

This is a direct insult to Changsun Wuji: The Crown Prince killing Manyi was the will of Heaven, what are you aristocratic families barking about?

Changsun Wuji pointed at Li Gang:

"You...you..."

He couldn't handle Kong Yingda, so why is there an even more ruthless one popping up now?

Li Shimin pinched his thigh hard to stop himself from laughing out loud.

Li Gang, this old man, usually seems rigid and strict, but I never expected him to be so ruthless when it comes to criticizing people.

This tactic of retreating to advance, a self-deprecating finishing blow, directly turned the impeachment by the aristocratic family into a huge joke.

Just as everyone was struggling to suppress their laughter, Li Gang suddenly shouted:

"The Crown Prince's actions are to enhance our national prestige and wipe away the shame of our Chinese nation."

For the sake of the hundreds of thousands of innocent souls who died far from home, the Crown Prince was willing to bear eternal infamy; this is the responsibility that a Tang Dynasty heir should have.

If anyone dares to utter the words "abolish the crown prince" again in this Taiji Hall today...

This old minister will now smash his head against this dragon pillar and die.

This old minister wants to show all the scholars in the world how you hypocrites, spouting empty words of benevolence and righteousness, actually drove the Grand Tutor to his death.

These words cut off all aristocratic families' escape routes.

Two literary giants, one who used physics to attack others, and the other who risked his life to protect them.

The military officers were even more enraged and ready to draw their swords at any moment.

The tide is gone.

Li Shimin seized the opportunity and slammed his hand on the imperial desk.

"Have you made enough of a scene?"

How can a high-ranking official of the imperial court not even distinguish between national interests?

The Crown Prince is fighting valiantly at the front, avenging the humiliation of the Tang Dynasty, while you are at the rear, forming cliques and barking in defiance.

Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji.

"Changsun Wuji, you have disappointed me greatly."

Changsun Wuji's legs went weak, and he knelt directly on the ground.

"All memorials impeaching the Crown Prince were kept in the palace and not issued."

Court adjourned.

Li Shimin flicked his sleeves, got up, and left.

The officials shouted "Long live the Emperor!"

Changsun Wuji did not know how he left Taiji Hall.

He staggered along the way.

The surrounding court officials quickly gave way, none daring to approach the powerful emperor's brother-in-law at this moment.

Changsun Wuji looked up at the gray sky over Chang'an.

He had only one thought in his mind.

It was now completely impossible to overthrow the Crown Prince in the imperial court.

......

Ganlu Temple.

Li Shimin dismissed all the palace maids and eunuchs, leaving only Wang De.

Two things were placed in front of Li Shimin.

One of them was an urgent battle report sent from Liaodong.

The other document was a memorial sent by Wei Zheng, next to which was a rubbing of the stone tablet with the image of a two-legged sheep.

Li Shimin read the battle report over and over again.

Cool!

So cool.

When he led troops in battle, he had never fought such a rich battle or done such a satisfying thing.

The son did what his father wanted to do but couldn't, breaking the backbone of Goguryeo.

As a father, Li Shimin felt incredibly proud.

He even wanted to have a drink with Li Chengqian.

But when his gaze fell upon Wei Zheng's memorial, the smile on his face gradually vanished.

Wei Zheng's words were entirely in support of Li Chengqian.

The fervor conveyed between the lines felt completely foreign to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin put down the memorial, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes.

Everything that happened in the Taiji Hall today replayed in his mind, scene by scene.

Kong Yingda publicly insulted people and misinterpreted the classics of the sages in order to protect the crown prince.

Li Gang threatened the entire court with his life for the sake of the crown prince.

And then there were those unruly military generals.

Li Shimin suddenly felt a chill run down his back.

A literary giant, an imperial censor, and a court full of military generals.

Isn't this exactly the setup of my own Prince Qin's mansion back then?

Li Chengqian's imposing presence is now overstated.

It had risen so high that even Li Shimin felt a sense of threat.

This was also the first time Li Shimin felt that his imperial power was threatened.

This son has become beyond his control.

If Li Chengqian returned to Chang'an with this achievement of destroying a country and with 100,000 fanatical and arrogant soldiers,

Who really calls the shots in this world?