"Cijing!"

Zhao Cijing walked out of the Wude Hall in a rage, and as soon as he arrived at the square in front of the palace, he heard someone calling him, and when he looked at it, he saw the crown prince Li Jiancheng standing on the corridor in the distance and beckoning to him.

Zhao Cijing hurriedly walked over, bowed and saluted: "Weichen see His Highness!" ”

When Li Jiancheng came out, he saw the anxious Zhao Cijing walking into the palace quickly, and he called a few times but did not get a response, and he was deeply surprised. This brother-in-law is filial piety, gentle and generous, and a humble gentleman, Li Jiancheng has known him for more than ten years, but he has never seen him rude, so angry and ran to meet his father, then something big must have happened.

Li Jiancheng was worried, so he waited outside the hall, and at this time, he saw that Zhao Cijing's anger had disappeared, replaced by endless sadness, and asked in surprise: "Cijing, what's wrong today?" What happened? ”

Zhao Cijing was like a child who had been greatly wronged and met his parents, tears rolled down, and he choked up: "Your Highness should have also seen King Qi, right?" ”

"Exactly!" Soon after Li Jiancheng saw Zhao Cijing enter the Wude Palace, the fourth brother Yuanji hurriedly chased after him, thinking that there was some conflict between the two, so he didn't say anything. At this time, when he heard Zhao Cijing say this, he was very surprised and asked, "You have a conflict with the fourth brother?" Do you want me to clear up the misunderstanding for you? ”

"I can't solve it!"

Zhao Cijing wiped a handful of tears and said angrily: "If it is a personal grudge, I will not meet him in general!" But this matter is related to the dignity of the military department and the law of the imperial court, and it has already caused a stir in Xiangyang, and it is impossible to calm things down. Doesn't Your Highness know? ”

"I went to the court before dawn, and then discussed the expansion of the Sui Dynasty in the Wude Palace, and now I just came out, how do you know what happened?"

At this time, a team of patrol guards appeared, and Li Jiancheng stopped Zhao Cijing, who was about to speak, "This is not the place to talk, let's go to the East Palace and talk!" ”

"It's fine."

Zhao Cijing was extremely depressed in his heart, he needed to find someone to talk to, and he also needed someone to stand up and uphold justice, so he followed Li Jiancheng to the main hall of Donggong Li, and angrily told the cause and effect of the matter.

"I see!" Li Jiancheng listened to Zhao Cijing's complaint, and was very shocked in his heart, Li Yuanji's killing of the military department officials caused an extremely bad impact, the court is concerned about this matter, if there is no reasonable explanation, it will chill the hearts of all officials, and no one will dare to speak out and discuss politics in the future, all of them are like puppets, rigidly implementing the court policy, even if they know that it is wrong, they will let the mistake develop, and they will not pay attention to the harm caused.

From Zhao Cijing's statement, Li Jiancheng knew that his father did not take this matter to heart. What made Li Jiancheng even more upset was the fourth brother, when Jinyang raised troops, Li Yuanji led the army to stay in Taiyuan and led the military of fifteen counties. And he often hunted with Dou Dan's amusement, trampled on the farmland and crops, indulged the soldiers, openly plundered the people's property, the poultry and livestock in the territory, almost robbed by them, and ordered all the people to open the door of the house at night, so that his soldiers could do obscenity, the people of Taiyuan were afraid of it like a tiger, hated it to the bone, Li Yuanji was finally dismissed from his post and entered Beijing as his prince, but even under the nose of his father, he was not at ease, because when he went out, he was caught by Yang Tong, which led to Yang Tong burning the Taiji Palace and the palace city, and captured the Li family.

The father emperor now let the fourth brother supervise the civil and military officials, purely giving him the authority to openly kill people, and in the future, his methods will definitely be quite cruel. This is also the most worrying thing for Li Jiancheng since the establishment of the Wuchuan Division, if it is nothing for those officials who have committed a big taboo, the imperial court can also give a reasonable explanation, but now they are killing people indiscriminately, and if this continues, even the loyal civil and military officials must be in danger and deviate from the court.

"If the Holy Lord indulges King Qi like this, it will not only harm him, but also shake the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, Your Highness must persuade the Holy Lord to strictly control it." Zhao Cijing said solemnly.

"I see!"

Li Jiancheng, who was very heavy in his heart, knew that this was not as simple as his father indulging the killing of the fourth brother, to a certain extent, the fourth brother was a sword in the hands of his father, and with the tacit approval of his father, he would arrest and kill people unscrupulously.

In the final analysis, it is still the great Sui who is in full swing, and the aggressive Yang Dong that has caused serious problems in the mentality of the father, and the more brutal the fourth brother's methods, the more it can reflect the panic in the heart of the father. His father was not only afraid now, but also lost confidence in the increasingly weak Li Tang Dynasty, and he now distrusted no one, feeling that everyone was going to betray him and betray him.

Facing Zhao Cijing's expectant gaze, Li Jiancheng sighed, the root of the problem was not the fourth brother, but his father's own problem, how could he persuade him? Li Jiancheng was speechless for a while.

After a long time, Li Jiancheng said: "On my father's side, I persuade you to appease the military officials and tell them that the imperial court will give explanations to the families of their deceased officials, and the situation must not be allowed to deteriorate." ”

Zhao Cijing sneered: "If the saint doesn't give an explanation, how can I appease him?" ”

"You ......"

Li Jiancheng was annoyed by the ignorant Zhao Cijing, but he couldn't get angry with this brother-in-law who was dedicated to the country, so he could only try his best to restrain the anger in his heart, and said cryptically: "I know that the actions of the Wuchuan Division to supervise hundreds of officials have made everyone panic, but we might as well change the direction: if the officials have a clear conscience, what are they afraid of?" If you have a clear conscience, whether it is the Wuchuan Division, or the Criminal Department, the Yushitai, or the Dali Temple, they are all useless to them. Although his father is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he can't help himself many times. What is happening now is not as simple as you imagined, you do your duty to appease the military department, which is the greatest help to your father, don't let your father be disappointed in you. ”

Before his father's permission, there were some things he didn't dare to let his brother-in-law, who was too upright, know, so he had to persuade him politely.

"Your Highness, you better let the Holy Lord come up with an explanation first, only by appeasing the court officials first, can my Tang Dynasty work together to deal with the violent Sui army that will invade the border in the coming year."

"You know!"

Li Jiancheng, who couldn't bear it, said a foul word, his face was blue, and he glared at Zhao Cijing fiercely: "Do you think that your father doesn't know the current situation, and you think that your father set up the Wuchuan Division because of his son's nothingness?" I'll tell you right now that my father is not conniving at the fourth brother, but has to do it because my current enemy of the Tang Dynasty is not the Sui Dynasty, but an official who has dealings with the Sui Dynasty and will stab us at any time. You, the secretary of the military department, are so confused that you don't know anything. ”

"Weichen doesn't know anything, the officials of the Ministry of War will be handled by His Highness, if His Highness is dissatisfied, he can let the Holy Lord remove the minister from the post of secretary of the Ministry of War!"

"Anyway, you hurry up to the military department and appease the officials." Li Jiancheng said annoyedly

"I don't!" Zhao Cijing snorted coldly, no matter how angry Li Jiancheng shouted, he walked out of the palace without looking back.

"You ......" Li Jiancheng chased out quickly, no matter how he called it, he couldn't call the stubborn donkey back, and finally could only watch his figure disappear outside the palace gate.

Returning to the Lizheng Palace, he sat down indignantly, thinking about being sandwiched between his father and the civil and military officials all these years, angry on both sides and unflattering on both sides, the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, he slapped the table next to him heavily, and roared angrily: "This elm pimple is incurable." ”

"Your Highness, there is a holy decree!" Just when Li Jiancheng was furious, an old eunuch hurriedly came.

"Bring it!" Li Jiancheng tried hard to calm the anger in his heart, his father had just asked him to go to the Dou family, and the matter hadn't started yet, why did there be another order?

"Whoa!" The old eunuch respectfully presented the edict.

Li Jiancheng took the command and looked at it, with a wry smile on his face.

In order to solve the financial difficulties, the unbacked merchants under the rule of the Tang Dynasty were eliminated, and then the vacated trade routes and industries were distributed to the Guanlong magnates, so as to exchange for their support in money and grain. It's all at this time, is it possible that my father still has illusions about the Guanlong magnates? If that's the case, what's the point of monitoring civil and military officials with his second brother? Could it be to lower the vigilance of the Guanlong magnates?

After thinking about it, Li Jiancheng felt that this was a great possibility, but he did it immediately, so why bother? Doesn't my father know the truth of long nights and dreams?

Li Jiancheng was puzzled, and he didn't bother to think about it anymore, the important thing in front of him was to find the Dou family and transfer his father's edict to Dou Liang, which roughly meant that all the commerce and commerce of the Tang Dynasty were sold to the Guanlong magnates at a price of two million stone grain and one million guan money, and as for how to distribute it, they would do it themselves.

Looking at the oracle in his hand, Li Jiancheng breathed a sigh of relief again. With this benefit, it will be much easier to raise money and food urgently, and you will definitely be able to get the amount your father needs quickly.

This kind of thing has actually been done before, that is, to exchange Jingzhou commerce for money and food in the hands of Guanlong's magnates.

The Guanlong magnates started an exclusive business through various border counties, and they secretly corresponded with the Sui Dynasty's merchant department, sold Li Tang's domestic materials to the Sui Dynasty, and then bought horses from the Sui Dynasty and sold them to the imperial court at a high price, making a lot of money one by one.

The crossbow horses eliminated by the Sui Dynasty army went to the south, but they were really not crossbow horses, Yang Tong now controls the horse source of the whole world, many times, the war horses he eliminated are put into the forces of all parties, and they are also top war horses, which are rushed by everyone to ask for them, and they are not worried about sales at all. The family gate valve took advantage of the urgent need of the princes of all parties to form a cavalry, and introduced a large number of them, which led to the continuous flow of wealth in the world to Yang Dong's hands, to a certain extent, all the family gate valves in the world are scolding Yang Dong on the one hand, but on the other hand, they are helping Yang Dong release the blood of various princes.

For their own interests, these people are obedient in front of the Sui Dynasty Ministry of Commerce, and they don't even dare to play tricks with Yang Tong, otherwise they won't even be able to buy crossbow horses next time. Many family gate valves are now making a lot of money by relying on the crossbow horses of the Sui Dynasty, this is the case under Li Tang, and the same is true under Li Mi.

For the sake of the war horse, Li Yuan and Li Mi could only open one eye and close one eye to admit it. The reason why Xiangyang is short of materials is because the bulk of materials have flowed to the Sui Dynasty, resulting in a lack of everything in the city.