The matter was really expected by Li Chengqian, and after rushing back to the palace in a hurry, he didn't go far before he saw Hou Junji's figure turning past the Taiji Palace and walking towards the Ganlu Hall behind.

"Wait for Shangshu to stay, wait for the palace." Regardless of etiquette or impropriety, Li Chengqian first shouted, and then quickly chased after him.

"Oh, it turned out to be His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know what His Highness called the minister?" Since the first military exercise, Hou Junji has had a slight prejudice against this Tang prince who doesn't give him much face, although he doesn't think it will be a confrontation, but he doesn't have a good face when he meets.

"Hou Shangshu, can you take a step to speak?" Li Chengqian first gasped for a long time, and when his breath was smooth, he pulled his hand to the side and invited Hou Junji to the side to talk.

"Your Highness is acting so secretly, but what is the secret?" Lao Hou spoke very politely, compared to Cheng Yanjin's big grin, his way of speaking was more hateful.

However, at the beginning, Tiance's old killers were basically this virtue, whether they were crazy or arrogant, although they spoke in different ways, in fact, the central idea was the same - they didn't really take Li Chengqian, the prince, to heart.

This situation is not unique to the Tang Zhenguan Dynasty, throughout history, almost all dynasties are like this, whether it is respect for the prince or not, in fact, the character of the prince is indeed not very good in the eyes of important ministers.

Even if there is enough respect on the surface, but who can know what is thought in the heart. After all, the old goods are all characters who follow the princes to fight the world, and with this qualification, there will naturally be an advantage in the subconscious, an advantage of 'old birds' over 'rookies'.

Li Chengqian had long been accustomed to this kind of dialogue, so he didn't care at all about Hou Junji's unkindness, but just smiled and pulled Lao Hou aside: "Hou Shangshu, but are you here for those few earth cannons?" ”

In fact, even if Li Chengqian cares about Lao Hou's attitude, it is useless, he has no way to deal with this kind of three-grade important minister, and the veteran of Tiance is not a prince who can move if he wants.

"Earth cannon?" Hou Junji was stunned for a moment, thought about it and figured out what Li Chengqian was talking about, nodded and said: "Yes, the minister thinks that such a sharp weapon should not be placed in the prison and let it be dusted." ”

When Li Chengqian saw other Tiance veterans, he usually called his uncle, but when he saw Lao Hou shouting an official position, this made Lao Hou always feel a pimple in his heart, which was also the reason why he was not very polite to Li Chengqian.

Besides, Li Er is only in his thirties now, and he should still be in power for a long time, Li Chengqian is afraid that he will have many years to wait if he wants to ascend the throne, and there is no need for Lao Hou to be afraid of him at all.

For Lao Hou, a guy who relies on the old and sells the old, Li Chengqian didn't bother to say more to him, and said straight to the point: "This palace wants Hou Shangshu to let go, I don't know what conditions are needed?" ”

"Let go, where does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince start?" Hou Junji pretended to be confused.

"There is no other way to keep these earthen cannons in the palace, Hou Shangshu should not worry about it." Li Chengqian had a false smile on his face, and directly handed over the old man to Hou Junji.

As Li Chengqian grows older, sooner or later he will have to wrestle with these old guys, in this case, it is not so important who the opponent is a little earlier and later, and there is nothing wrong with picking an old candidate.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so confident?" Hou Junji's eyes narrowed, revealing a little bit of the majesty and murderous aura accumulated over the years of battle, trying to deter this prince who didn't know the height of the sky.

But Lao Hou miscalculated this time, Li Chengqian's violent disgust was not much less than him, and his years of career as a prince gave him a unique momentum of a superior, coupled with the accumulation of disgust from slaughtering 50,000 Goguryeo slaves, he actually fell behind in the slightest under the confrontation with Lao Hou, a veteran of a hundred battles.

Momentum is a strange thing, it is formless and colorless, it cannot be seen or touched, we can't tell what kind of thing it is, but it can be clearly felt through perception, just like when you have a quarrel with a stranger over something, sometimes you always feel that you are in a position of strength or weakness.

This feeling is vague, but it is real, and the simplest example is that some butchers who often slaughter livestock, and when they approach the animals, the animals tend to behave abnormally, or be restless, or paralyzed, always different from when facing normal people.

This is the result of the fact that the animals are affected by the invisible aura of the butcher, because we all know that the spiritual sense of animals is much stronger than that of humans, which makes them always perceive more things than humans.

The disgust on Li Chengqian's body is the same as the murderous aura on Lao Hou's body, if this invisible momentum can really be rendered, we can see that a black evil dragon is coiling around Li Chengqian's body at this time, and Hou Junji's body is a blood-red huge giant wolf.

Of course, this is just an example, in fact, these dragons and wolves do not exist, otherwise we will become a fantasy.

"I don't have confidence in this palace, but I have some determination in this palace, and Hou Shangshu has the heart to give it a try?" After confronting Lao Hou, the corners of Li Chengqian's mouth slightly raised an angle that was difficult to detect, and he answered Lao Hou's question with a light smile.

Hou Junji's position at this time was the secretary of the Ministry of War, which should be equivalent to the Minister of Defense in later generations. Moreover, before he became the secretary of the military department, Lao Hou was still the general of the 16th Guard, and this position is basically no different from the commander of the military region according to modern people's understanding.

After all, the 16 guards of the Tang Dynasty have the responsibility of commanding the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty for 358 Zhechong Prefecture, and the authority of any general of the Great Guard is basically equal to that of the commander of the military region in later generations, and we can completely look at the two positions side by side.

As a country's 'Minister of Defense', Hou Junji is also a well-known figure, and naturally it will not be so easy for Li Chengqian's similar provocation to answer, and he asked again with a cold face: "Then what is the determination of His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”

After many years of fighting and killing, he has made great contributions to Li Tang Jiangshan, Lao Hou only feels that his dignity has been seriously provoked, and there is only one thought in his heart: The rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty are all beaten down by Lao Tzu with a knife and a shot, you are a young man with a good life and a good tire, what kind of awesome are you pretending to be in front of Lao Tzu!

And Li Chengqian's idea is: Lao Tzu just has a good father, my father is Li Shimin, I'm so awesome, what can you do with Hou Junji, pretend to be a hairy calf in front of Lao Tzu, if there is a kind, you will kill Lao Tzu.

With such a mentality, Li Chengqian said in a good time: "If Hou Shangshu doesn't believe it, you can enter the palace, and you can see if the palace dares to blow up those earthen cannons." ”

The fish dies and the net is broken, Lao Tzu's things Lao Tzu is in charge of himself, if he wants to take things away without going through Lao Tzu and asking Lao Tzu if he wants to, ...... sorry, Lao Tzu would rather destroy it, this is Li Chengqian's life wish at this stage!

(End of chapter)