In Tianchen Palace, Gao Min was practicing swordsmanship on the martial arts field. When his personal attendant saw that the teacups and pots were all empty, he turned back to the side hall to brew again.
On the Bogu shelf, he found the Queen's favorite Lu'an melon slices. He stood up on tiptoe and took off the tea pot, but found that his palm was a little sullen. He looked around calmly and saw that no one was there at this time, and quickly took out the foreign object stuck to the bottom of the tank.
This is a piece of rice paper folded into small squares, with only five tiny characters on it - Lure Gao Min home.
This thing is very easy to do. The attendant breathed a sigh of relief, crumpled the rice paper into a ball, and threw it into the burning stove.
Returning to the martial arts field, he raised the teapot in his hand, signaling his master to take a break. Gao Min was also tired, he retracted his sword into the scabbard, and walked over while wiping his sweat.
"Master, the last time the slaves went out to the palace to buy shopping, I met the mama next to the old lady. She said that the locust flowers at home were blooming in large numbers, and they were fragrant and beautiful. The master still remembers that when we were young, we liked to climb trees to help us. The old lady is picking locust flowers." The attendant said softly.
Gao Min had a look of reminiscence on his face, and smiled, "Of course I remember. The sophora japonica that I picked off never let the old lady keep it for a long time. I have to watch her chop, stir, season, make a sophora bun and put it in. Don't stop in the steamer. The sophora buns made by the old lady can't even match the royal chef."
The attendant took a breath and nodded vigorously.
Gao Min gave him a funny look, and said with a flick of his sleeves, "I've been hooked up by you too. Let's go back to the palace to pack up, let's go home."
The attendant hurriedly agreed, and was about to leave when he was stopped, "Go to the imperial study to bring Yan'er back. He hasn't seen his uncle and grandfather for a long time."
Because of Li Jintian's connivance, Gao Min never thought of reporting the matter, so he took his son out of the palace. It was not until the afternoon that Li Jin received the secret report from the undercover agent.
"You saw King Li entering Gao's house with your own eyes?"
The detective nodded.
"What are they doing?" Li Jintian's expression and tone were very calm, but the back of his hand on the royal table had blue veins floating.
"I don't know." The undercover detective lowered his head even lower.
"You don't know? I have spent so much effort cultivating you, and you can't even do this little thing?"
"Back to the emperor, the Gao family kept a group of dead soldiers in captivity, and they patrolled the surrounding area for twelve hours. The servants did not dare to approach for fear of being discovered."
Dead man? Since ancient times, only emperors can keep dead men in captivity. What is the Gao family? Yes, what is the difference between the current Gao family and the emperor's family? Compared with the millions of private soldiers in the hands of Gao Min, a mere group of dead soldiers are hardly worth mentioning.
Li Jintian didn't get angry, but laughed out loud, laughing at his stupidity. Back then, the Qi family was known as the No. 1 clan in Dayan, but when it was destroyed, there were only dozens of nursing homes and a hundred servants in the family. Can such a family be considered the first valve? What is the Gao family
It really is his own tiger in trouble! Li Jintian regretted the decision to destroy the Qi family for a while, and then imagined the scene of Gao Min and Li Wang having an affair in the Gao family, and his head was extremely painful.
He rubbed his temples hard, and waited for the waves of severe pain to ease a little before he said in a deep voice, "Continue watching from a distance, don't let up. By the way, how is the sixth prince's injury?"
To punish the sixth prince for half a year, Li Jintian also has his own considerations. One is to let him temporarily avoid the edge of the Gao family's father and son, and the other is to let him have a good life and recuperate.
The secret agent cupped his hands and said, "The imperial doctor you secretly sent just reported back a few days ago, saying that the sixth prince's injury is no longer a serious problem, and it only takes two months to keep him safe."
"Can he understand what I asked the imperial physician to bring to Qi Guijun?" Li Jintian became nervous. He didn't want the sixth prince to be too conspicuous, so he ordered Qi Xiujie to declare that the sixth prince's kneecap was abolished, and he was afraid that he would not be able to do strenuous exercise in the future. A bad prince will never get in the way of the Gao family, so that they will be secretly poisoned.
Li Jintian had to admit that Qi Xiujie was right, even he couldn't move the Gao family now. He could endure the arrogance and domineering of the Gao family, but he could not endure Qi Xiujie's misunderstanding. He was afraid that Qi Xiujie would think that his move was to obliterate the future of the sixth prince. After all, his uncontrolled indulgence towards Gao Min and his son was well known.
"Qi Guijun said that as long as it is your will, he and the sixth prince will all obey."
Hearing this, Li Jintian's eyes were hot and wet, and he thought to himself, "Yes, Xiujie has always been very obedient to me since the two lifetimes. How could he hold grudges and misunderstandings towards me? I really think too much. If I hadn't lost that memory after my rebirth, and if the person I loved was still Xiujie, what kind of happy life would I be living now
Thinking of this, Li Jintian suddenly felt exhausted, waved his hand to send the undercover agent back, and hid himself in the shadow of the gauze tent, not knowing what he was thinking.
Gao Min has been fighting outside for two or three years, and he has long been unable to endure the constraints of the deep palace. When he is free, he takes his son to play in micro-clothing, but he often encounters King Li. He knew that King Li had a deep affection for him, and thanked him for his care in two successive lives, so he did not refuse his company, but let his son get close to him a lot.
The Li throne is of high power and is a great help to his son.
In the original fate, his closeness to King Li would only make Li Jintian feel jealous and be better for him, but now Li Jintian, who has completely lost trust in him, is turning black step by step.
After receiving the secret report, Li Jintian went from an initial anger to a numbness, and the change in his mentality was on the verge of a very dangerous change. Just one more push would make him completely lose his mind.
As for how to push this move, Zhou Yun Sheng had already planned the game from the very beginning. If Gao Min didn't come to deal with him, this move could be used or not, but Gao Min had already hated Qi Xiujie to the core, so obviously he couldn't be good at it. .
Gao Min went to the military camp that day, and the imperial study was on vacation again, so Li Xuyan stayed in the Hall of Mental Cultivation to accompany his father and emperor. At a quarter of noon, the attendants set up the royal meal in the side hall and invited the two masters.
"Recently, the Miluo Kingdom has paid tribute to a lot of bayberry?" Li Xuyan asked, pointing to a plate of bright red bayberry.
"Yes, there are two baskets of tribute, you can take one back later if you like." Li Jintian smiled kindly.
"Uncle Huang also likes it, why don't you give him some too?"
"You have a heart." Li Jintian's smile did not change, but there was a coldness in his eyes.
The fifth prince sighed, "Uncle Huang takes a lot of care of the child on weekdays, and the child naturally wants to reciprocate." He knew that the relationship between the father and the uncle was very good, so he did not shy away from his words.
"Well, you can send someone to send it later." Li Jintian clenched his chopsticks and persuaded, "Hurry up, the dishes should be cold."
The fifth prince nodded, put a bayberry in the bowl, and instructed the attendant, "Bring a pot of soy sauce here."
The attendant hurriedly handed over the soy sauce, but saw that he poured it on the bayberry, mixed it with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, with a very happy expression. This way of eating is the original creation of Liwang.
Li Jintian once felt curious and tried it once, sour, sweet, salty, astringent, all kinds of tastes burst on the tip of his tongue, and he almost vomited on the spot.
He frowned and looked at the boy opposite.
Just at this moment, the eunuch chief teased, "The fifth prince learned this way of eating from His Royal Highness Li, right? Not only do you two have similar tastes, but your eyebrows and eyes look more and more alike. It is said that nephews are like uncles, and the same applies to uncles and nephews."
The fifth prince smiled but did not say a word, unaware that there was another mystery in these words. He and Li Wang have a blood relationship, so there is something strange about him.
But Li Jintian thought a lot more. He couldn't even find out when Gao Min and King Li hooked up, and he felt really uneasy. What if the two had colluded long before entering the palace? When Gao Min entered the palace, the queen mother had not yet passed away. King Li was deeply loved by the queen mother and often visited the palace. It was easy for the two to meet in secret.
Li Jintian was so shocked that he almost broke the chopsticks in his hand. If the fifth prince is not my seed, then Gao Min and King Li have a reason to assassinate me, because I hindered the reunion of their family of three. No wonder Gao Min said 'We finally waited until today', no wonder!
When the most crucial link was buckled, Li Jintian consciously figured out everything. His internal organs were burning, and he almost didn't cry out in pain. The chief eunuch noticed the abnormality and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.
"I'm fine. Recently, the Yue people in the south have been making trouble again, so I can't sleep peacefully every night." He waved his hand forcefully.
The fifth prince walked over to help him pat his back and comforted him, "No need to worry, Father, Father is already preparing to attack the Yue people. With Father here, they won't be able to make waves."
Li Jintian not only did not feel relieved after hearing this, but his soul burned. He nodded in agreement, and after sending the fifth prince away, he called in a spy.
"Bring a drop of the fifth prince's blood."
This order was a bit strange, but the spy didn't ask much, and after a while, he took a drop of blood and presented it to the imperial front.
Li Jintian sent back the undercover detective, dripped blood into a bowl of clear water that had been prepared, and immediately bit his fingertips and dripped his own blood. The two droplets of blood met at the bottom of the bowl. After a long time, they did not merge. Instead, they gradually turned into a reddish mist in the water, and finally dissipated.
Li Jintian finally gave up, raised his hand and overturned the imperial table, laughed frantically, and then burst into tears after laughing. He couldn't believe that the person he loved with his life was actually a liar, and the carefully cultivated emperor was actually a wild breed. Then why did Gao Min die with him in his last life? Yes, King Li had proposed to let Gao Min escape with him when they parted so as to lure away the pursuers, but he was determined to keep Gao Min behind.
At that time, they were going to fly away together, right? It's you who ruined their good things.
The more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, and the more he felt angry, Li Jintian rushed out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation with red eyes, and came to Zichen Palace by instinct.
Qi Xiujie was standing behind the desk painting, and the sixth prince snuggled up beside him, lovingly hugging his arms and rubbing his shoulders, as if he could not leave his father for a moment. The sixth prince grew taller again, and his facial features became more and more handsome, and he could vaguely see the shadow of Li Jintian when he was young.
Such a warm scene only made Li Jintian's footsteps stop for a moment. He walked over and kicked over the desk, picked up Qi Xiujie, strode toward the inner hall, his voice hoarse, "Get out of here everyone!"
How can Li Xudong leave? He was about to follow up, but saw Jun's father wave his hand slightly, his expression rather casual, as if Li Jintian in anger was just a clown who could not cause any harm to him.
Li Xudong gritted his teeth and did not follow up.
Li Jintian threw Zhou Yunsheng on the couch, leaned over and pressed him, but when he was about to tear his clothes, he stopped, his eyes became dazed. Zhou Yun Sheng pushed him away and sat on the low stool beside the bed.
Li Jin's eyes were out of focus, but his movements kept moving. He hugged a mass of quilt and tore, pulled, and bitten, and immediately pressed against it, arched violently, and a low growl burst out of his throat, his ugly appearance was like a male dog in heat.
Zhou Yun Sheng looked at it for a while and walked out of the inner room.
Li Xudong waited outside, his eardrums stinging from Li Jintian's roar, he slowly pulled out a dagger from his boots, and the murderous aura in his chest skyrocketed. Just at this moment, the door opened, and when he saw the gentleman walking out unharmed, the red blood in his eyes disappeared instantly.
"Father, are you okay?"
Zhou Yun Sheng didn't answer, staring at the dagger in his hand and questioning, "What do you want to do? Kill the king? You idiot, you have taught me for so many years..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was already tightly embraced by Li Xudong. The boy is only 15 years old this year, but he is already as tall as him. But he didn't have the heart to push the boy away. After all, he was a child raised by himself.
"Father, are you all right?" Li Xudong confirmed it again, heard the constant intercourse in the room, and asked doubtfully, "What is the father doing?"
"Daydreaming." Zhou Yun Sheng sneered.
Li Xudong didn't ask any further, and slowly confided, "Father, why did he not come for a long time, and treat you like this when he came? He just used you as a tool to vent his desires, or as a medium for punishing Gao Min. I don't love you. Father Jun, don't love him anymore. He indulged Gao Min to poison you, instructed Gao Lang to destroy the Qi family, and wanted to kill you too. You should hate him. Father Jun, you Don't be sad, because you still have me, I will stay by your side forever, be filial to you, protect you, become strong and avenge you. I will send the best of everything in the world to your palm and make you happy Worry. Father, let's not care about anyone except each other, okay? Father?"
There was urgency and pleading in his hoarse voice, and he couldn't stand anyone trying to take away his father.
Zhou Yun Sheng touched his cheek helplessly and said with a smile, "Of course, in this forbidden palace, the only person I care about is you. As for Li Jintian, I won't hate him, hating also takes energy."
Li Xudong was relieved, and held his hand instead, rubbing against his cheek, like a puppy that only needs the owner's caress.
Zhou Yun Sheng was both angry and funny, pushed him away and reprimanded, "Li Jintian can't hurt me in the slightest, next time something like this happens, just wait outside, don't be impulsive. If you stab him to death in Zichen Palace, then I have to put a lot of effort into the aftermath."
Li Xudong nodded again and again, with a well-behaved appearance, how could he still be violent and bloodthirsty before.
This child is very filial, and it is really not a loss to raise him, but it is not good at all, that is, it is too clingy. Seeing the wolf cub that was posted again and hugged him tightly, Zhou Yun Sheng felt extremely helpless.
In the evening, when Li Jintian woke up from his sleep, he saw Qi Xiujie kneeling beside the bed holding a dragon robe. His face was pale, his lips were chapped, and he looked very weak. Li Jintian was stunned for a while, and many images could not be contained in his mind. In his rage, he tore Qi Xiujie's clothes, bit him, pinched him, and rudely penetrated him.
It was not a love affair, but an atrocity.
But the person in front of him didn't hold any resentment towards him, instead he held on to his sick body and waited for him to change clothes. Li Jintian wiped his face and felt ashamed, but he felt guilty, thinking that he had betrayed Gao Min.
At this point, all he wanted to read was Gao Min, it was hopeless. In the deep self-loathing, Li Jintian quickly dressed and fled in embarrassment, and then rewarded many treasures of Zichen Palace.
Li Jintian suppressed this matter and did not dare to let Gao Min know. After more than half a month, Gao Min officially proposed to him to send troops to South Vietnam. Li Jintian promised on the surface, but behind his back he made arrangements one after another. While he let the princes over the age of 14 go to various ministries to take turns on duty, he placed his own personnel in the army in an attempt to weaken the power of the Gao family and King Li. Of course, there were also some shady methods that were carried out in secret at the same time.
The day before Gao Min left for the expedition, news came from the Gao family that the old lady had an emergency and died suddenly. According to the rules, if the immediate family member dies, it will take Ding You three years to be an official in the dynasty.
For this reason, Gao Lang went to the palace overnight to beg to see Gao Min.
"You mean to let the emperor take love and spare you three years of worry?" Gao Min frowned.
"Not only let him take my love, but also you, you must not delay your expedition to Nanyue. My Gao family managed to earn such a good situation, and the three years of Ding You have been ruined. Not only is the emperor special to you, The remnants of the Qi family and the sixth prince are equally good, who knows if they will recover after three years, and will they endanger the status of you and Yan'er." Gao Lang said in a hurry with worry.
"I have abolished Qi Xiujie and the sixth prince one after another, and they can't make a comeback. Brother, the old lady has always taken good care of you and me. She passed away, how can we ignore filial piety because of the desire for power? You don't need to say anything about it, I will never speak to the emperor. It's not that you don't know the emperor's feelings for me and the emperor, so you can completely avoid those unnecessary worries." Gao Min waved his hands indifferently.
Gao Lang pondered for a moment before nodding his head.
Not long after the two separated, the spy had already handed over the content of their conversation to the imperial front. Li Jintian glanced at it and smiled contemptuously. When the ancestor of the Qi family passed away, there were more than 20 officials in the Qi family in the dynasty, and they handed over their son Ding You within one day. Who would love power like Gao Lang? Really big heart.
Zichen Palace.
When Zhou Yun Sheng heard the news of the death of the old lady of the Gao family, he knew that Li Jintian had already started. He can't move the Gao family at the moment, so he used the past three years to slowly weaken the power to disintegrate the Gao family, just as he did with the Qi family. This is the court. Either the east wind overwhelms the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind. The life and death of the courtiers are all within the emperor's thoughts.
After a while, you can propose to Li Jintian the matter of burying the bones of Qi's family. The Qi family were all beheaded by Gao Lang, and the bones were randomly discarded in the mass graves on the outskirts of the city. It would be very difficult to find them all. But no matter how difficult it is, as long as it is Qi Xiujie's wish, Zhou Yun Sheng will fulfill it for him.
While thinking about it, Li Xudong walked in sweating profusely with a bow and arrow on his back, hugged his father's waist, and rubbed his head against his shoulder.
"Go aside, you're covered in stinky sweat." The little brat had skin thirst and needed treatment.
"Father, I miss you." The young man has reached the period of voice change, and his voice is very rough.
"You only went to the martial arts field for two hours, and you miss me, haven't you been weaned yet?" Zhou Yun Sheng laughed angrily.
Of course, I will think about it, and I will think about it if I leave for a breath. Li Xudong didn't answer, his lips quietly brushed his father's earlobe. Zhou Yun Sheng patted him away and said sternly, "I heard that Li Jintian let the princes enter the court to participate in politics. Which of the six departments are you planning to go to?"
"I want to go to the Ministry of Officials or the Ministry of Households."
"Power and money, can you only think of these two points?"
"What does your father mean?"
"Go to South Vietnam."
Li Xudong was silent, looking very unwilling. He didn't want to leave his father's side.
How could Zhou Yun Sheng not see his careful thoughts, he explained, "Actual power, connections, and money, although these can consolidate your position in the court, they will not allow you to ascend to the supreme throne. It is said that the literati will not succeed in three years. Know why they can't? It's because they don't have military power. Whoever owns the gun has the right to sit on the country."
Without waiting for Li Xudong's answer, he continued, "Don't tell me you don't want to be the emperor. If Li Xuyan is not sitting in that seat, do you know what will happen to our father and son's two meetings? Gao Min already hates me for the Qi family. To the core, now Li Jintian is still alive, he won't touch us, and when Li Jintian dies, the first person he will kill will be you and me. Do you think he can feel at ease if we become crippled? If it's you, you Think about whether you can feel at ease if you don't cut the grass and root."
Of course Li Xudong couldn't feel at ease, but he couldn't feel at ease leaving Jun's father alone in the capital. His eyes were red with urgency, but he knew that now was not the time to be self-willed. He once said that he wanted to protect the father and become the pillar of the father. Now it is time to rise up.
"Father Jun, I'm going to Nanyue, and I'll definitely make a land for you and come back. You have to be careful in the capital." Li Xudong hugged the young man tightly, his red eyes filled with killing intent, the killing intent towards Gao Min and his son, and even the Li Jintian's killing intent. If it weren't for the persecution of these three people, how could Junfu live so hard.
Some of the princes asked to go to the Ministry of Households, some asked to go to the Ministry of Personnel, and some asked to go to the Ministry of Rites. In short, whichever department had the most real power, they all wanted to go into it. Li Xuyan joined the household of course, and the rest of the princes fulfilled their wishes. Only the sixth prince proposed to follow the army to Nanyue for training, but Li Jintian was stumped.
Gao Min smiled contemptuously when he heard the news. A crippled person who is not good at work is still rushing to the battlefield to die, the sixth prince is really too hot-blooded. But it was a good thing for him. Swords have no eyes on the battlefield, and it is easy to send someone to get rid of the sixth prince without knowing it. The sixth prince is dead, what hope does Qi Xiujie have in this life? The pain he had experienced in his previous life, Qi Xiujie must also taste it again and again in this life.
Having said that, it was a good thing that Li Jintian pardoned Qi Xiujie's death sentence at the beginning, and it was really cheap to kill him.
In this way, Gao Min not only never objected, but also urged Li Jintian to agree quickly. At the same time, Gao Nian, who had recovered from a serious injury, was also put into the team to conquer South Vietnam, so that he could save some military exploits and come back.
Li Jintian called the sixth prince to the head of the study for an hour, and he approved his petition that night. This battle lasted for three years. In the three years, the Gao family members were cut off one after another. King Li was also implicated in the Jianghuai salt tax case and was removed from his post. , was reprimanded by Li Jintian in front of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and his reputation was greatly reduced.
On the contrary, the Seventh Prince, who usually does not show off the mountains and dew, gradually showed his talents and walked in front of others.