Chapter 465: Liu Wenjing's Death (4)
Li Yuan quietly listened to Pei Lin and Xiao Yu's reports:
"Your Majesty, Liu Wenjing is proud of her achievements, and she does not repent of her death, and she has repeatedly quibbled. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Pei Lin didn't forget to give Liu Wenjing eye medicine in front of Li Yuan. Li Yuan looked at Xiao Yu and saw that Xiao Yu's mouth was moving, but he didn't speak, Li Yuan asked Xiao Yu:
"Xiao Yu, do you have anything to say?" Xiao Yu saluted Li Yuan first:
"Your Majesty, it is indeed true that Liu Wenjing is dissatisfied, but if you want to say that Liu Wenjing is rebelling, I am afraid that people will not be convinced! ......" After Li Yuan listened to Xiao Yu's words, he was in a dilemma, Pei Lin saw Li Yuan's dilemma, and originally interjected a sentence, but at this time, he heard Wanyue shouting outside the palace gate:
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Qin asks to see you!"
"Xuan!" Li Shimin walked into the hall.
"Son-in-law, see father!"
"O people! You are also here to intercede for Liu Wenjing! Li Shimin nodded and said:
"Father, Liu Wenjing made an extraordinary plan at the beginning of the army, and only informed Pei Lin that when the Jingshi was pacified, there was a huge difference in the status and treatment of the two. He was just dissatisfied, not rebellious. Li Shimin's ears recalled what the eldest grandson Wuji had said to him in the Qin Palace-"Your Highness, now that Liu Wenjing has been abandoned by His Majesty, if His Highness forcibly comes out, I am afraid that he will lose his sacred heart!" ”
"But! If this king does not save him when he sees death, I am afraid that he will ...... in the future."
"Your Royal Highness, it's not a humble minister to criticize Your Majesty, at the beginning, Your Majesty also tried to find a balance between the two, hoping to resolve the grievances between the two, but gradually, Your Majesty's balance is inclined to Pei Lian, and Liu Wenjing is gradually dissatisfied. is also an old man and is also very talented, why does Li Yuan favor one over the other? Because Pei Lin can do what he likes, Li Yuan can fully feel the care and love of an old friend. Although Pei Lin and Liu Wenjing are both Li Yuan's old friends, their friendship is not the same. Li Yuan and Pei Lin have known each other for a long time, and the two often drank and chatted together, played chess and gambled together during the Taiyuan period. Later, the reason why Li Yuan was willing to raise troops also stemmed from Pei Lian's use of the palace maid of Jinyang Palace as bait to force Li Yuan to raise troops. Li Yuan was content with the status quo and did not dare to hope to seize the world, and Pei Lin said that now the world is in chaos, and there is a battlefield outside Taiyuan City. Although it was Liu Wenjing and Li Shimin who made the plan, in Li Yuan's eyes, the hero who really let him take the path of the God King was Pei Lian! And many times after that, Lord Pei Lin was able to stand in Li Yuan's position to present problems, and became Li Yuan's most trusted confidant. At this time, Liu Wenjing was politically suppressed by his political opponent Pei Lin and rejected by the royal family, which had become a stumbling block to the Qin Palace. Don't be emotional! Therefore, even if the prince wants to manage the box, he can only push it openly and secretly. Moreover, it is speculated that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will definitely protect Liu Wenjing, and if the prince intervenes again, I am afraid that Pei Lin will feel that Lord Liu Wenjing will turn over. So the prince ......" the eldest grandson Wuji said as he wrote a Pei character on his hand.
"Auxiliary, you mean this king understands." Li Shimin came to Li Yuan's face:
"O people! Did you come to make it clear for Liu Wenjing? Li Shimin nodded:
"Father! At the beginning of the army, Liu Wenjing first decided on an extraordinary strategy, and only then did he inform Pei Lin that when the Beijing division was pacified, there was a huge disparity in the status and treatment of the two. Liu Wenjing is just dissatisfied, and has no intention of rebellion! Please see it! Li Yuan found that his two sons, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, were interceding for Liu Wenjing, and he began to hesitate in his heart, whether to make Liu Wenjing's matter a big thing and a small matter. Pei Lin discovered the hesitation in Li Yuan's heart, and immediately took the opportunity to speak:
"Your Majesty, Liu Wenjing's talent and strategy are indeed above everyone, but she is suspicious and insidious by nature, and she is angry and ignorant of difficulties, and her ugly words and strange deeds have been revealed. If it is just decided today, there are Turkic enemies outside, if Liu Wenjing is pardoned, it will be troubled in the future! Please think twice. After Li Yuan pondered for a moment, he immediately issued an order to Pei Lian:
"Pei Lian, tomorrow you will behead Liu Wenjing and Liu Wenqi and confiscate their family property. In addition, I remembered that he was from Long Laochen, Liu Wenjing's two sons and wife, and I pardoned him. ”
"Yes! Obey the order! Pei Lin sneered in his heart - hum! Liu Wenjing, labor and management finally got out of the evil spirit of the past few years. In the evening, Liu Wenjing found that her younger brother Liu Wenqi was also imprisoned, and immediately shouted through the cell:
"Second brother, what's the matter with you? Why did I get you in too? Liu Wenqi was about to reply, when Pei Lian's voice suddenly sounded:
"Hahaha! Lord Liu Wenjing, Your Majesty is afraid that you will be lonely in Huangquan, and you know that you have a deep brotherly relationship, so let this official send Brother Ling in and be your companion! And, my lord, tomorrow is an auspicious day, and Your Majesty has decreed that you will be sent on your way tomorrow. Liu Wenjing pointed at Pei Lin and scolded:
"Pei Lian, you shameless villain!" Pei Lin replied:
"Humph! Liu Wenjing, don't pretend to be innocent, do you remember when we were in Jinyang, we drank together, and suddenly saw the scene when the border was on fire? Liu Wenjing's thoughts seemed to return to the beginning, he was still very young, when he just came to Jinyang to do the county order, at that time, Pei Lin was his best drinking friend, often drinking and talking together in his free time, one day, suddenly saw the beacon fire lit in the distance at the head of Jinyang City, and under the city, the people shouted:
"The Turkic army is coming, alarm, the Turkic army is coming, alarm!" Pei Lin put down the wine glass and sighed: "Poverty is so low, and we catch up with the chaos of the world, how can we protect ourselves?" ”
Wen Jing smiled and said: "The world is like this, and current affairs can be known." The situation is predictable, you and I get along and get along, so why worry about poverty? Seeing that Liu Wenjing didn't speak, Pei Lin continued to laugh:
"Lord Liu, everything is not my villain, everything is your own fault, you only feel that your official position is far from your own official treatment, but have you thought about it, as the saying goes, thunder and rain and dew, are all Jun's grace, but you are proud of your achievements, always complaining in front of Your Majesty, you may have always regarded Your Majesty as the Jinyang Guard, but you forgot, now the original left-behind Lord has become the Ninety-Five, you have forgotten the truth that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, and you participated in the struggle for the succession of the King of Qin, Again and again blatantly and openly opened his eyes for His Royal Highness King Qin, don't you think that Your Majesty is not very disgusted by your behavior? Liu Wenjing, the eunuch road is lost, everyone is confused, it's okay to go! Yikes! Liu Wenjing, for the sake of our acquaintance, this glass of wine will be used as a send-off wine for you by the official, you eat and drink well, and go on the road tomorrow. After Pei Lin finished speaking, he asked the jailer to send a food box to each of the two brothers, Liu Wenjing and Liu Wenqi, and left without looking back. On the day when Liu Wenjing and Liu Wenqi were beheaded, Liu Wenjing's wife Li ran to the court with her hair scattered, hugged Liu Wenjing and cried loudly:
"Xianggong, Xianggong, I'm sorry for you! Messire! If it weren't for my jealousy of Chunlu, this wouldn't have happened, Xianggong, my good Xianggong! Liu Wenjing's eyes were filled with tears:
"Madam, don't say it, the ancients had a cloud, 'The high bird is exhausted, and the good bow is hidden.'" That's true! Liu Wenjing's wife, Li, wiped away her tears and said:
"Xianggong, you go well, the road is too dark, I'll take the first step and hold the lamp for you!" After Mrs. Li finished speaking, she immediately ran towards a tree.
"Stop him." Liu Shuyi and Liu Shuyi heard Liu Wenjing's shout and prepared to stop their mother, but they didn't. Liu Shuyi and Liu Shuyi hugged their mother and shouted loudly to Liu Wenjing:
"Dad, my mother will go first." Liu Wenjing's heart was painful. The whole person seemed to have a nervous breakdown, and before the executioner cut off Liu Wenjing's head, Liu Wenjing only said one sentence:
"The high bird is exhausted, and the good bow is hidden. The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook. In the two lonely graves outside Chang'an, two brothers, Liu Shuyi and Liu Shuyi, wept in front of the graves of Liu Wenjing and his wife:
"Dad, mother, you died so miserably!" Liu Shuyi pulled up Liu Shuyi:
"Crying, is it useful to cry? Arboriculture, it's useless to cry, let's go, go to the Turks! ”
"What are you doing in the Turks?"
"Humph! The Turks, the Turks have our foreign aid, I will go to the Turks, and one day, I must avenge my parents, hate! Let the Li Tang Dynasty be martyred for our Liu family! Liu Wenjing's death did not make the situation in the court harmonious, or there was another turmoil in the court. The eldest grandson Wuji secretly found Li Shimin, who had just returned from the next dynasty:
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
"What's the matter?"
"Your Highness, there is a secret report from the Prince's East Palace, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is secretly digging the corner of our Qin Palace."
"Oh! What the? "It turns out that since Liu Wenjing's death, the attitude of the family and the minister of civil and military affairs in Chang'an towards Li Shimin, the king of Qin, has changed greatly. Everyone is talking about Liu Wenjing's fate.
"Hey! Lord Liu's death is really aggrieved, at the beginning, Lord Liu Wenjing contributed so much to His Royal Highness King Qin, and in the end ended up like this, it was really not worth it! ”
"Hey! Since ancient times, there is a difference, the king of Qin prefers to learn from Yang Guang, so how can Yang Yong be compared with today's prince, that Yang Yong lives a luxurious life, and there are countless concubines around him, and His Royal Highness the prince only has the main concubine Zheng Wanzhen Zheng Niangniang, the side concubine Yang Yan Niangniang and the daughter of the Cao family Cao Yuyan; And Yang Guang has no talent and no virtue, and today's prince pays attention to people's livelihood, solves the salt shortage in Guanzhong, and gets the true biography of Taishang Laojun, produces snow sugar, and his talent, a song "Lime", and "Burrow Ming", these two poems are famous all over the world, and now everyone in the world wants to get a Mobao from His Royal Highness the Prince; Moreover, he has the name of knowing people, thinking that at the beginning, Li Ming, the king of Lujiang, was a well-known gentleman and a waste, and once recommended by His Royal Highness the Prince, he suddenly became a pillar of the court and held heavy power. There is also Liu Heimin, His Royal Highness the King of Qin was repeatedly defeated in the hands of Liu Heimin, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made a move, uh! Suddenly wiped out, "The Magi Record", listing the heroes at the beginning, evaluating those characters who are leading the way, one word at a time, known as the pearl of words, and His Royal Highness the King of Qin, in addition to going on the expedition, has won the name of a knowing soldier, and nothing is as good as the current prince. ”
"Yes! Besides, most of His Royal Highness King Qin's subordinates are reckless generals, since ancient times, there is no cold family in the upper grades, and there are no scholars in the lower grades, and doing things under His Royal Highness the King of Qin is really the sorrow of our high-grade characters! After Li Shimin heard about these comments in the aristocratic circle of Chang'an, he immediately flew into a rage, and secretly told the eldest grandson Wuji to closely monitor the subordinate officials of the Qin Palace, so as not to let people lose their hearts. Li Shimin asked the eldest grandson Wuji:
"Auxiliary, who's it?" The eldest grandson Wuji replied:
"Your Highness, according to the secret report of the humble minister, it is Du Yan!"
"What? It's him! After Li Shimin heard Du Yan's name, he was not surprised.