Li Yuan summoned him to meet him at Liangyi Hall or Ganlu Hall, but if he didn't go, no one would say anything.
To break the news, a sentence like 'conflict between father and son' or 'family matter' is enough to deal with it.
But Li Yuan summoned him to the Taiji Hall to see him, because it was a state matter.
Li Yuan neglected state affairs, even if he tried to protect Li Yuan, he still had to deal with him.
Li Jiancheng was still waiting eagerly to weigh him.
That bitch Pei Ji is probably waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on him.
"Wude Hall has not been unblocked yet, and I am still grounded."
Li Ji's face was ugly and he struggled feebly.
Yang Miaoyan's face didn't look good either.
It has only been a few days, and the life that a husband and wife should have has not been fully realized yet, and it is about to be lost.
The eunuch bowed and said: "Everyone is summoned, so there are no restrictions."
Before Li Ji could speak again, the eunuch said again: "Not only have we summoned His Highness, we have also summoned His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the King of Qin, Duke Lueyang and others."
Duke Lueyang is talking about Li Daozong.
After Li Yuan ascended the throne, he posthumously named Li Daozong's father, Li Shao, the King of Dongping and presented him as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Li Daozong was granted the title of Zuo Qianniu Beishen, Duke of Lueyang County.
Historically, Li Daozong would not be crowned king by Li Yuan until the fifth year of Wude, that is, next year.
The reason why the eunuch mentioned Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Daozong was to tell Li Ji that all of your brothers who should be summoned have been summoned, and you cannot be absent.
Li Ji curled his lips and said, "Lead the way."
As he said that, he turned his head and gave Yang Miaoyan an apologetic look.
The eunuch responded and rushed to Tai Chi Hall with Li Ji.
Yang Miaoyan looked at Li Ji's back disappearing into the snow and felt a little dazed for a moment.
Everything I have experienced these days seems like a dream.
…
Tai Chi Hall.
When Li Ji rushed to the Tai Chi Hall, the Tai Chi Hall was already full of people, but there was no sound.
Li Yuan sat high in the middle of the Tai Chi Hall with a gloomy face.
Li Jiancheng frowned and sat on one side of Li Yuan's head, while Li Shimin sat on the other side with bright eyes.
Next to Li Shimin, there are two other positions. One is occupied by a young man who is similar in age to Li Shimin but not as tall or as handsome as Li Shimin.
Li Ji knew without guessing that he was Li Daozong.
On both sides of His Majesty, sat two old men with white hair and white beards.
One has a resolute face, the other has kind eyes.
The ones with resolute faces are Prince Shaobao and Li Gang, Minister of Rites.
A guy who would be called the Prince Killer in later generations.
With kind eyebrows and good intentions, he is the imperial censor in the palace, the school inspector, and Pei Ju, the Duke of Anyi County.
A guy who was written as the evil king in later novels.
The reason why Li Gang and Pei Ju sit on either side of His Majesty is not because of their high official rank, but because of their age.
Li Gang is seventy-six and Pei Ju is seventy-five.
In future generations, they will be just ordinary old people.
In the Tang Dynasty, where the average life expectancy was extremely low, that would be an auspicious thing.
Sitting on either side of them were Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, Feng Deyi, Yuwen Shiji, Li Gai, Qu Tutong, Yin Qiao, Luo Shixin, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Wei Zheng, and Wang Gui
, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Li Sixing and others.
Anyway, at a glance, Li Ji saw that he was either a figure who had already made a name for himself in history, or someone who was about to make a name for himself in history.
Among them, those worthy of mentioning are Li Gai and Luo Shixin.
Li Gai, whose original name was Xu Gai, was the father of Li Shiji. After Li Shiji surrendered to Li Tang, Xu Gai returned his son to the country, gave him the surname Li, and granted him the title of Prince of Jiyin County. Li Gai refused, and Li Yuan named him Duke of Shu.
Luo Shixin was twenty-seven years old, older than Li Ji, Li Shimin, and Li Daozong, but he looked very young among Pei Ji, Qu Tutong, Qin Qiong, and others.
More importantly, although he was a military commander, he was not as big and round as Qu Tutong, Cheng Yaojin and others. Instead, he was tall and thin.
Even Pei Ji, Chen Shuda and others looked fatter than him.
Only Wei Zheng can compete with him, but Wei Zheng is not as good as him.
Li Ji wanted to carefully observe these famous figures in history, but Li Yuan did not give him a chance.
"Yuanji, you're late!"
Li Yuan's voice was deep, and he was obviously dissatisfied with his late arrival.
Li Ji couldn't figure it out. Li Yuan should have sent out a group of people at the same time to summon everyone, so why he arrived later than others.
Could it be that he was plotted against?
Or maybe Li Yuan didn't intend to call him at first, but waited until the others had almost arrived and then decided to call him?
Li Ji apologized to Li Yuan full of doubts, walked to the seat next to Li Shimin and sat down.
After sitting down, I immediately felt unhappy.
Three brothers.
Li Jiancheng is handsome and has a bookish air. He looks like a handsome guy full of knowledge.
Li Shimin is tall and handsome, with sharp eyes. You can tell at a glance that he is a handsome military guy.
What about him?
Brown-red hair, deep eye sockets, and aquiline nose.
In later generations, he could barely be called a handsome mixed-race guy, but here he is an anomaly.
Li Ji's heart was full of malicious speculations. The reason why Dou gave birth to Li Yuanji was not because Li Yuanji was ugly, but because Li Yuanji looked different from the other two brothers. Dou was afraid of Li Yuan. She was wrongly accused of stealing, so she lost Li Yuanji.
Afterwards, the rumors spread, and they were taken seriously and recorded in the annals of history.
Perhaps some of Li Shimin's fans deliberately vilified Li Yuanji in order to maintain Li Shimin's majestic and upright image and to prove the legitimacy of Li Shimin's usurpation of the throne.
After all, the "Old Book of Tang" was compiled by the Later Jin Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the "New Book of Tang" was compiled by the Northern Song Dynasty.
There had been hundreds of years in between, and they had never seen what Li Yuanji looked like.
It's not just a few words left over from the Tang Dynasty that Li Yuanji looks like whatever he looks like.
Just like Wu Dalang was arranged into a three-inch Ding.
Wu Dalang in history was handsome and talented in literature, but in Shi Naian's writing, he became a three-inch boy.
From word to word, people who don't know the inside story will immediately associate Wu Dalang with San Cun Ding.
Li Ji didn't want to face two people who were more handsome than him, so he focused on the officials in the palace.
Then……
My mood became even worse.
There are figures who are famous in the annals of history, and either the characters Li Yuan or Jiancheng and Shimin are engraved on their heads.
There is only one person engraved with his name Li Ji.
Li Sixing.
Such a single seedling does not belong to him alone.
Next to his name Li Ji, there are also two characters Li Yuan engraved in large letters.
Li Ji finally realized what it was like to be weak, helpless, and pitiful.
Li Yuan had no time to care about Li Ji's mood.
After everyone arrives.
Li Yuan had a gloomy face and said in a serious tone: "I just received the report. Li Shentong was defeated, Li Yi was defeated, and Li Shiji was defeated. There were more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, more than 9,000 people were killed in the battle, and 20,000 were captured. The remaining people and tens of thousands of dan of food were robbed of 90,000 dan by Liu Heitai, the rebel.
Lu Shirui, the governor of Yingzhou, Li Xuantong, the general manager of Dingzhou, Wang Xiaoju, the governor of Dingzhou, Qu Leng, the general manager of Jizhou, and others were killed one after another, and the Xue Wanjun brothers under Li Shiji were captured alive.
News came from Weize Pass (Niangzi Pass) that the Turkic Jieli Khan saw that Liu was threatening to cause chaos in the Tang Dynasty, so he sent tens of thousands of cavalry to support Liu.
Nowadays, the land of Hebei has almost become the paradise of Liu thieves.
Liu Thief will soon regain Dou Jiande's old territory.
Hedong, Youzhou and other places sandwiched between Hebei and Turks are also in danger.
Tell me, everyone, how should we respond to this situation?"
After Li Yuan finished speaking, there was silence in the hall.
This should be the biggest trouble that the Tang Dynasty has encountered since its founding.
Liu Heitai caused chaos in Hebei and other places, and the Turks also took advantage of the situation to rob them.
If you are not careful, the country of Tang Dynasty may fall into chaos.
The expressions of the ministers in the hall varied. Some were frowning in deep thought, while others looked eager to try.
The former are Pei Ji, Chen Shuda and others, while the latter are only Li Shimin and Luo Shixin.
Li Shimin was fearless, while Luo Shixin was eager to fight.
The only calm person in the hall was Li Ji himself.
When Li Ji learned that Li Yuan had summoned him, he had already guessed that the war in Hebei was in decline, so after Li Yuan's words, he didn't feel too disturbed.
After thinking for a while, Pei Ji was the first to speak, "Turks have always liked money and food. Can we send someone to negotiate with the Turks, grant them money and food, and make them withdraw their troops?"
As soon as Pei Ji said these words, both Li Ji and Li Shimin frowned, and many of the ministers also frowned.
The Turks went south this time not to seek wealth, but to disrupt the Tang Dynasty.
Turks like money and food, but Turks prefer a Central Plains with constant wars and disputes.
The Turks are not very interested in the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, but they are very interested in the crops grown in the fertile soil of the Central Plains, the people raised, and the cloth woven.
The Turks regard the Central Plains as their leek field, and every year when there is a good harvest, they will go south to cut a crop.
A unified Central Plains would never give the Turks a chance to cut leeks.
Only in a Central Plains with constant chaos and constant wars can the Turks be able to make ends meet and cut leeks comfortably.
The Turks obviously saw that Liu Heitai had the ability to continue the chaos in the Central Plains, so they specially sent troops to help Liu Heitai and continue the chaos in the Central Plains.
Therefore, it is impossible for a small amount of money and food to satisfy the appetite of the Turks.
If Li Yuan really sent someone to negotiate, the Turks might have taken the money and food and still refused to retreat.
Li Ji was hiding his clumsiness, so he saw through it but did not reveal it.
Li Shimin did not have this idea, so he said without hesitation: "The Turks went south this time, obviously to help the Liu thief, so that the Liu thief could completely mess up the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, it is not advisable to grant money and food to the Turks.
It is very likely that the Turks took the money and refused to retreat."
Many of the ministers saw the Turks' intentions, and upon hearing Li Shimin's words, they all agreed.
Pei Ji raised his head, looked at Li Shimin and said, "Does His Highness Nayi mean to fight the Turks?"
Before Li Shimin could speak, Pei Ji looked at Li Jiancheng and asked, "Does the Tang Dynasty have so much money and food to support the soldiers in fighting in three places?"
