Chapter 206: Brothers' Rivalry
"You--you dare to come to my house, and be known by the Holy One, and don't want to live?"
"Ha, ha, ha-" Li Li smiled happily, with a look of disdain on his face, "Holy Lord, he better think about how many days he can still be in power, and now he still has the heart to take care of our brother-"
The chief steward next to him bowed down and silently withdrew from the garden.
Looking at the figure of the chief manager, Li Bo's face became more and more ugly, and he said to Li Li: "I didn't expect the third brother to hide in the Shenglong Mansion, and even my side is your person!" ”
"Second brother, you're thinking too much, and there are other people who arrange people." Li Li sat down at the table with a loud voice, poured himself a glass of wine, and drank it slowly.
Li Bo looked at his third brother, his face slowly calmed down, he drank the wine in front of him in one gulp, and asked Li Li in a deep voice: "If you can make the head of my house work, you must be an important minister in the court, can the third brother tell me about it?" Also, when you come to visit late at night, you must have something important to discuss with me. ”
Li Li smiled slightly: "It's better for our brothers to speak first, outsiders are outsiders after all." ”
Li Bo listened, didn't say anything, just drank.
Among Li Gongyun's sons, Li Foma is the eldest and the first, and his mother's bloodline is also more noble, and her status is naturally above others. Li Bo is the second son, but he is a concubine and is basically excluded from the right to inherit the throne. Li Lixing is also a descendant, but his mother's status cannot be compared with Li Foma. In general, Lifoma is a natural heir to the throne, and as long as he is alive, others basically have no chance. So at the time of the "Rebellion of the Three Kings", Li Li's goal was to kill Li Foma, and he ascended the throne in second order.
This situation has emerged. One of the reasons is that there is not only one queen here. Li Gongyun has six queens standing side by side. Livermar more. In this way, even according to the principle of establishing a successor, there will be a bunch of princes vying for the throne, not to mention that each prince is a person who commands the army and fights and has military power.
Moreover, although Li Foma was made the crown prince early, the crown prince of Jiaozhi is not the natural heir to the throne, and he must have the edict of the previous king. The effect of the edict is still above the crown prince's position.
In a word, without Li Foma, Li Li is the king of Jiaozhi, and he has never forgotten this.
After drinking for a while, Li Bo said to Li Li in a deep voice: "Third brother, are you still thinking about the throne?" ”
"Why can't I think? They are all the sons of my father, and my military achievements are no less than anyone else's, so why can't I be the king of Jiaozhi? ”
Li Bo looked at his third brother, his face was still indignant, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you know. We'll meet now privately, once the word gets out. Possibly facing the scourge of killing your head? ”
Li Li said coldly: "Second brother, do you know that if you help me ascend to the throne of Jiaozhi this time, I will be able to return to Chang'an Mansion and continue to be your king, and be the hero of one party!" It's only been a few years in Thang Long Mansion, are you already depressed and just want to be a caged bird? ”
Li Bo shook his head with a smile: "Just the two of us?" Two down-and-out kings who have no soldiers and no power, and have been imprisoned for several years? Third brother, wake up, don't always have this kind of dream! ”
"Second brother, I didn't come to your house today to listen to your words of persuasion! I'm just here to ask you if you're willing to help me ascend to the throne! After the matter is completed, I will govern Shenglong Mansion, you will govern Chang'an Mansion, and we brothers will govern the country separately, regardless of each other! ”
Li Bo kept his face calm and did not speak.
He is not a fool, since Li Gongyun was here, he has been in Chang'an Mansion to divide one side, and he is not as good as the two stunned young brothers of King Yi Shengwang and King Wude, so he followed Li Li to rebel stupidly. As a result, King Wude was cut off by Li Fengxiao outside the palace, and King Yisheng died depressed, but it was the mastermind Li Li who survived.
After being dull for a while, Li Bo asked his younger brother, "Why are you?" ”
"That's what we are doing! Outside, the Great Song Dynasty is besieging the city, and all the people in the city are now uneasy, as long as the Song army can retreat, what is it for me to be a king! ”
"Song Jun told you?"
"I'm waiting for your word now!" Li Li put down the wine glass in his hand, turned to look at Li Bo sideways, and said solemnly, "The elite of the eldest brother's cronies, Li Fengxiao's 50,000 army has been wiped out, and the rest of our Jiaozhi elite soldiers outside, most of them in the east were subordinates of Chang'an Mansion back then, and those who fought against Zhancheng in the south were promoted when I commanded the army." As long as we sacrifice our eldest brother, will these people dare to be disobedient? ”
"For the Song army, Thang Long Mansion is at your fingertips, why should they agree?"
"Because even if they break the Thang Long Mansion, they won't be able to occupy Jiaozhi! There is Zhancheng in the south, Dali and Ailao in the north, without our Jiaozhi, these places are cheaper, and what is the benefit of the Great Song Dynasty? ”
Speaking of this, Li Li became excited, poured himself a glass of wine, raised his head and drank it into his stomach, and said to Li Bo with a red face: "As long as we hand over Li Foma and give the generals of the Song Army a share of the subordinate table, he will get the credit, and we will clean up the tail for him, why not!" ”
Li Bo looked at the brother with fire in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Have you thought about it?" ”
Li Li nodded: "Since I have come to you, I have made up my mind!" If I don't ascend to the throne this time, I will not give up! Whoever dares to stop me is my enemy! ”
"Well, you just do it, come to me when you need me."
After Li Bo finished speaking, he lowered his head and drank the stuffy wine.
At this time, arrange for the two former anti-kings to meet and plan a rebellion, and now there are people with this energy in the Shenglong Mansion, Li Bo can roughly guess it.
When Li Gongyun was alive, Li Renyi won the trust of Li Foma, and after the "Three Kings Rebellion", he was even relied on as a confidant, above 10,000 people under Jiaozhi. When Li Foma went east to Chang'an Mansion and crusaded against Li Bo, it was Li Renyi who was in charge of the country in Shenglong Mansion. How could such a character be able to sweep away his forces within a few days, and he was going to have a seizure, the matter is really two words.
Li Li saw that the second brother was no longer talking, and knew in his heart that the matter had become seven or eight points, so he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and looked up at the sky of Shenglong Mansion in the night.
The sound of artillery still came from time to time in the outer city, but other than that, everything was the same as usual.
Inside the inner city, climbing the high-rise buildings in the mansion, Li Li can also see the situation outside. Since the Song army entered the city, the military discipline was strict, except for the royal street around the inner city was cleared and sealed, everything in the outer city was as usual. The common people of the city were frightened for a day, and at night they began to go out in great courage, and even the market began to have merchants.
It was precisely after seeing these that Li Li finally made up his mind. When the Song army entered the city with such restraint, it must have been bottomless and had the intention of leaving if it was cheap. With this in mind, then everything will be fine, and there will be a greater advantage in taking the king of Cochin away?
What Li Li didn't expect was that Xu Ping's purpose of restraining the army from moving the civilians in the city was completely different from what he thought. He just didn't want to use violence, but wanted to collect a city tax in a very civilized way. (To be continued.) )