"His Royal Highness is coming to the East Palace today. Could you let me leave as soon as possible?"
Li Zhi vented his unwillingness with insinuations, and there was no word of respect in his words. How could Li Zhi dare to be so rude when he saw Li Kuan in the past. Now that the overall situation is settled, Li Zhi is too lazy to make false claims, saying: "Then again. Why should your Royal Highness the Prince come in person, just send someone to pass the message."
Li Zhi, who hurried from Chongwen Hall, was full of anger. He told himself countless times to hold back. When he saw Li Kuan waiting for him lightly, all his patience turned into a stronger anger, including Li Kuanwu. Before Li Zhi, why should he be arrogant? Everyone understands that it is better for people to speak openly and brightly. The edict is not false, but the emperor never asked himself to immediately move out of the East Palace. Li Kuan actually came in person, which made Li Zhi's eyes fast. Spit out fire.
"When did I agree?" Li Kuan asked with a smile, "hasn't you been the one who forced me? In your heart this is the only way to the emperor, and it seems to me that I cannot break free. Out of the cage, what you care about is worthless in my eyes."
Li Zhi snorted coldly and ignored Li Kuan. He was already the prince when he wanted to come to Li Kuan. He was downgraded to Nanping County King. The distance between the two was like the sky and the earth. What Li Kuan is talking about now It's a cool talk, to say it for nothing is to make a fool of yourself, wanting to see your own jokes.
"Let me ask, are you willing?" Li Kuan said with a smile.
Li Zhi’s face was solemn and unwilling. Looking at Li Kuan’s smile was like a big irony. The more he watched, the more angry he became. The gap in his heart became bigger and bigger so that he could not control his anger. He said: "I am not reconciled, why do you This concubine can become a prince? Obviously the power is in control. After the father is a hundred years later, the Tang Dynasty will be my bag. Why are you blocking my way? The father's attitude changes, all of this is forced by you, if it weren't for you That day and night to go to the palace to expose his strength, why is the father so afraid of you, and even told me not to provoke you, I feel very uncomfortable, no matter how high your martial arts, thousands of troops can not stop it, so what? Not afraid!"
Li Kuan did not argue with him about the position of the prince, and the two were not on the same level. How could Li Zhi understand that what he said before was from the bottom of his heart. Sadly, Li Zhi didn't understand at all. Instead, he thought that Li Kuan forced Li Shimin to change the edict.
"Why do I want to block your way, don't you have any idea in your heart?" Li Kuan's eyes were gloomy, and he sneered: "Up to that person, down to the hundred officials and others, everyone thinks that the Ninth Prince of Tang Dynasty, Jin Wang, Li Zhi is benevolent Honest people are even too cowardly; even your uncle, Zhao Guogong, thinks that you are still too young to be worried, and that you will be treated kindly to his family in the future as the emperor. In fact, your kindness, filial piety and honesty are just an invisible mask, Long Sheng Each of the nine sons is different. Even if you are unhelpful, you will not be a cowardly person. People in the world will never think that this is just a disguise to protect yourself. The Taoist thought of ruling by doing nothing is used by you to perfection, not fighting for power and profit. Respect your elder brother, love your brothers and feet, etc., because you know that since your eldest brother, the grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and Cen Wenwen will support the succession of direct descendants, and the eldest grandson Wuji is your mother-in-law, and he will support him. You become the future prince, and the only thing you need to do is to keep a low profile."
Li Zhi's face suddenly appeared, his brows furrowed, and his deep eyes were sharp, and he said solemnly, "How did you find out?"
"Perhaps you have hidden deep enough that I didn't even find it. I always thought you were the Jin King I knew." Li Kuan saw that Li Zhi treated each other frankly and had to admit that his disguise was very good, if it weren't for Wu Wang Li Ke. In the reminder, even Li Kuan was almost deceived, and after in-depth investigation was even more shocking.
"Wu Wang?"
Li Zhi knew that Li Ke was aware of it, and he didn't understand it, but Li Kuan knew the reason. Li Ke’s identity forced Changsun Wuji to be very jealous of him, so Li Ke acted cautiously, and he figured out a lot of things when he failed to withdraw from the fight for the crown prince, even Li Zhi, the ninth brother who was kind and filial. All were suspected, and finally Li Kuan was reminded to be careful.
"I really shouldn't have kept him!"
Li Zhi, who had lost hope, was completely stunned. His icy voice spoke in front of Li Kuan. Li Kuan continued disapprovingly: "Everyone looks down on you, including me. Your cowardice is just a disguise. On the contrary, your methods are more vicious and vicious, and you can't even find a trace."
Li Zhi sneered again and again, responding to what Li Kuan said.
"Didn't you just ask me why?" Li Kuan smiled faintly, "I will tell you today, what is my Li Kuanping!"
Suddenly, Li Zhi looked at Li Kuan curiously. He thought that Li Kuan was a superb martial artist, but he was just a reckless man and should not be a cause for concern.
"Because I have the ability to subvert the entire Datang country community!" Li Kuan's understatement caused Li Zhi to ridicule and ridicule, and laughed forward and backward: "You said you can subvert Datang? Haha!..."
"You will believe it!"
Li Kuan suddenly raised his hand to indicate that all the 26 people who had followed him before appeared in front of Li Zhi, and six of them even smiled and looked at the stiff Li Zhi. At this time, Li Zhi’s eyes were full of shock. He opened his mouth wide in surprise, he couldn't believe what he saw before him, muttering to himself: "This is impossible, absolutely impossible!..."
"I won't introduce them one by one, because you are more familiar with them than I am!" Li Kuan pointed at six of them and said with a smile, "As for them, you must know three of them! You are right, they They are all my people, and I can tell you one more thing. The reason why he was afraid is also because I guessed that I really dared to let Datang fall into a situation where it was impossible to recover."
Li Zhi was hit hard. The six people in front of him were members of his promotion to the royal palace, and even two of them were his confidantes. The other four were secretly raised guards. This was his hidden power, and he did not know that he did it. Everything in Li Kuan's eyes is simply a joke.
"Then why don't you expose it sooner?"
Li Kuan smiled and explained: "No, I did not intend to expose your crimes, because it would be too small a blow to you, especially for people like you who aspire to power and aspire to ascend to the throne. Falling down too hard makes you feel more."
Li Zhi looked at the smiling Li Kuan in despair, with a sorrow and grief in his heart: "It turns out that the ridiculous person is actually me!"
"But I regret it now!" Li Kuan's smile suddenly turned cold, staring at Li Zhi sullenly, "Because I want to see that you are not as good as death, so that you can take advantage of it, otherwise Qian will not be too old for it. Death, even if all the assassins at the time were dead, I guessed that you planted a hand in the palace. I rushed to the palace at night. You might know it the first time. You deliberately set up a situation to frame me. What you want is nothing more than two results. The first is that if I die, I will be a hundred, and the second is that he is dead. You can take the opportunity to claim the throne and claim the emperor. As for this matter, even your uncle doesn’t know it and thinks it is done It's very secret. In fact, your every move is under my surveillance."
"When did it start?" Li Zhi said with difficulty.
Li Kuan said coldly: "I started planning everything from the day I left Beijing, and the specific implementation date may also tell you that it was a huge force that I established when I was the governor of Jingzhou. By the way, they are just icebergs. For one thing, even if I don’t have the throne, I can sit back and relax. No one can get me. I can’t help myself. How can I control my life without enough power? You think that the crown prince is the only way to become emperor, but you don’t know what you are after. Power is something I don't want at all. As long as I give an order, the entire Datang will fall apart in an instant, the ruling and the wild will shake up and the blood will flow into a river. Now you believe what I said
Li Zhi laughed bitterly. He competed with Li Ke, Li Tai and others for the crown prince, almost fighting to death and death. Brothers and siblings did not exist at all. Unexpectedly, the throne he pursued was nothing at all in Li Kuan's eyes. Recalling what he had just asked, Li Zhi had to admit that the situation like this was completely caused by him. Li Kuan never cared about power. , Because he himself had such strength, even if he did not have the official name of the imperial court, the power he showed was enough to shake the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. Although he could not become the founding king, he could ruin the stability and prosperity of the entire empire.
Even if Li Zhi ascended to the throne and proclaimed the emperor, he really annoyed Li Kuan's desperate situation. Li Zhi believed that he would never be able to resist it. Then he would only take over the devastated Datang Empire, and even Jiangshan society was in danger. The emperor
The power shown by Li Kuan caused Li Zhi to be hit hard, not to mention that he was not even qualified to compete with him. Perhaps this is the qualification for Li Kuan to challenge the emperor. Li Zhi also understands why his father told him not to go that night. If you provoke Li Kuan, you don't know that Li Zhi has provoked it a long time ago, and it is the kind of hatred between life and death.
"Now you know why I am!" Li Kuan sneered at Li Zhi who was desperate. Li Zhi nodded bitterly, and said, "Now that you have revealed your strength, don't you be afraid that your father will know to take action?"
"So what does he know?" Li Kuan sneered dismissively. "He is your father, but not mine. I don't have the turn of him to dictate my way. Everything is up to me. Find it today. You just settle the accounts. Your father wants to keep you alive, but if I don't agree, you can't live your life!"
"You're so cruel!" Li Zhi was really scared. Li Kuan laughed when he heard the words and said: "You are not qualified to say this. If your father knows that the death of your eldest brother is also related to you, do you think he will personally Kill you?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Li Zhi's voice trembled, and his eyes became more flustered. Li Kuan once again said astonishingly: "Since Li Ke reminded me to be careful of you, I have paid special attention to you and once again think of the death of my eldest brother. So I personally went to my sister-in-law, and even the two nephews asked about the situation before leaving Beijing. Guess what they said?"
Suddenly, Li Kuan's words came to an abrupt end, and Li Zhi, who looked at him in a panic and abusive face, was still a little cold in the weather at this time, but there was sweat on Li Zhi's forehead, which shows that Li Kuan gave him The shock was so great that it proved that he was finally guilty. (End of this chapter)