Li Yuanji automatically ignored Chai Shao's ruined look and stared at Chai Shao to ask.
Chai Shao gritted his teeth and shouted, "What if I don't run away? Are I waiting to be humiliated by you?"
Li Yuanji pretended to be confused and said: "Have I ever humiliated you? I would have forgotten it even if you didn't tell me."
Chai Shao glared at Li Yuanji angrily.
Li Yuanji smiled dryly and said: "Okay, okay, don't look at me like that. I am not your father-killing enemy. Don't worry, I will never humiliate you again."
Chai Shao still stared at Li Yuanji angrily, not believing what Li Yuanji said at all.
Li Yuanji had to reiterate: "What I said is true..."
Chai Shao gritted his teeth with a ferocious face and said, "Are you so kind?"
Li Yuanji laughed and said: "We are not life-and-death enemies. I bullied you twice because of my third sister. I guess you have learned a lesson, so why am I still staring at you?"
Chai Shao snorted in doubt.
Li Yuanji continued: "Although you are not a good husband or a good father, you are a good general. You should be very clear about the current situation in the Tang Dynasty.
We are about to face the biggest difficulty since the founding of the country.
After we have passed, I will still be my King Qi, and you will still be your Prince Consort, and we can continue to enjoy our glory and wealth.
If we can't get through it, we will most likely die together.
So we need to unite together and get through this difficult time."
Chai Shao savored Li Yuanji's words for a moment, then smiled coldly and said, "What you say about sharing difficulties together is really nice. I think you don't have enough people in your hands, so you think of me, a useless person."
Li Yuanji didn't hide anything and nodded slowly.
There are indeed reasons for this, but it is not the most important thing.
Chai Shao continued to sneer: "Let me tell you, stop dreaming. You have turned me into a useless person and humiliated me in every possible way. It is simply impossible for you to want me to be used by you."
Li Yuanji stared at Chai Shao and sighed: "Don't talk so eloquently..."
Chai Shao raised his neck and said stubbornly: "That's what I want to say."
Li Yuanji stared at Chai Shao and said seriously: "Then you don't care about the safety of my third sister, Zhewei, Lingwu, and everyone in your Chai family, and the wealth of everyone?"
Chai Shao was stunned and said through gritted teeth: "Why, you want to use them to threaten me? You are really despicable!"
Li Yuanji slowly shook his head and said: "I never thought of using them to threaten you. Go ahead and tell everyone in the Chai family. My third sister is my sister, and Zhewei and Lingwu are also my nephews.
How could I threaten people with them?
Then who have I become?"
Chai Shao snorted coldly and said, "You know who you are!"
Li Yuanji asked: "Do you know who you are?"
Chai Shao was stunned.
Li Yuanji continued: "You are the head of the Chai family, and the pillar of support for my third sister, Zhewei, Lingwu and the others, and you are an upright, seven-foot-tall man.
Can you really watch them all get into trouble?
Can you really sit back and watch your wife and children become the prisoners of others?"
Chai Shao's eyes widened and he looked at Li Yuanji angrily.
Li Yuanji continued: "If my guess is correct, the Turks will definitely take advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty to go south, and they will definitely send a force to surprise Chang'an City.
If Chang'an City is captured, we will all become prisoners of the Turks.
You should know very well how the Turks treat their prisoners."
Of course Chai Shao understood.
In the past, when the Li family had not yet become a royal family and the Chai family had not responded to Li's rebellion, the Chai family had many business contacts with the Turks.
I have seen how the Turks treated prisoners.
That's quite cruel.
Even more cruel than the way the Han people treated their slaves.
Because in the eyes of the Turks, prisoners are not human beings at all and are worse than animals.
The Turks not only made the prisoners do the hardest and most tiring work, but also made them live in an open-air pen like cattle, horses and sheep.
During every grand festival or important sacrifice, the prisoners would be pulled out to have their hearts and livers cut out to honor the gods.
Whenever there was a war and the enemy's troops needed to be consumed, prisoners would be driven to serve as cannon fodder.
The most important thing is that in the Turks, cattle, horses and sheep can still eat grass and have enough to eat. But if you are a prisoner, it is good to have something to eat. As for being full, it is simply a luxury.
If the Turks are merciful and ready to feed you one day, then you have to be prepared to die, and you have to be prepared to become a demon.
Because the main food of the Turks is meat, and they are reluctant to let the prisoners eat their cattle and sheep, because that is their most valued wealth, so the only things they will let you eat are the corpses of your kind.
That's it, you have to wait until a war breaks out and the Turks need you as cannon fodder.
Therefore, Chai Shao would not let his wife, son, and clan members become prisoners of the Turks no matter what he said.
So he yelled at Li Yuanji angrily, "Li Yuanji! You are a bastard!!"
When Li Yuanji heard this, instead of being angry, he was happy. He stared at Chai Shao and said with a smile: "It seems you agreed..."
Chai Shao stared at Li Yuanji angrily, his molar teeth clenching loudly.
He doesn't want to agree, ten thousand people don't want to agree.
But he can't agree to it.
Because he is a man, an upright, seven-foot-tall man, a man with a family, a wife and children to take care of.
It is impossible for him to watch his wife and son become prisoners, let alone watch his wife and son being raped.
So even if he didn't want to agree, he had to agree.
Li Yuanji sighed with emotion and said, "Well done, that's just right. I happen to have an important task to give to you, and this important task must be yours."
Chai Shao looked at Li Yuanji as if he were an enemy and said nothing.
Li Yuanji continued: "I need you to help me recruit the Eighth Army Command under my second brother. You have been under my second brother. They should be familiar with you and they should listen to you. They are now leaderless.
, it is easy to cause trouble, and may even become an accomplice of the Turks to attack Chang'an City.
So I need you to appease them and reorganize them so that they can become my help to the Tang Dynasty instead of a cancer to my Datang."
Chai Shao stared in disbelief, his eyes filled with grief and anger, and he gritted his teeth and roared: "You want to use me?!"
Speaking of which, Chai Shao finally understood Li Yuanji's sinister intentions.
Li Yuanji didn't have the right manpower to recruit the Eight Unified Military Mansion under Li Shimin, and because of the threat posed by the Eight Unified Army Mansion, he approached him.
He wanted to take advantage of the fact that he had served as a general under Li Shimin to appease the eight military mansions under Li Shimin, and then take them for his own use.
So far, he is indeed the only one suitable for this matter.
Because both Li Shimin and the generals and commanders under Li Shimin had severely injured him before, it was impossible for him to serve Li Shimin anymore.
For example, among the generals under Li Shimin who Li Yuanji had just recruited and surrendered, Li Yuanji could not tell whether they were loyal or traitorous to Li Yuanji in a short period of time.
Therefore, Li Yuanji did not dare to use them to appease the Eighth Army Command under Li Shimin.
There is actually no harm in this matter. If it is done, it will only have benefits and no harm to the current Tang Dynasty.
So the incident itself didn't make him angry, nor did it make him feel unbelievable.
What really made him angry, what really made him unbelievable, was that Li Yuanji asked him, a man who had worked under Li Shimin, to do this.
Li Yuanji wanted him to dig up the foundation of his old master.
This is unethical and despicable, and will have a great impact on his reputation.
Those officials who regard themselves as moral models will use this incident to scold him for the rest of their lives when they confront him.
Facing Chai Shao's roar, Li Yuanji sighed: "Don't say it so harshly. What does it mean to take advantage? Borrowing people to make profits without telling them the truth is called taking advantage.
I told you clearly what I need you to do.
Besides, asking you to appease the Eighth Army Command under my second brother is not only my wish, but also my father's wish.
My father wants to move his soldiers and horses from his left hand to his right hand, who can say that he is wrong to do so?"
After all, Li Yuan was also the master of the Tang Dynasty. Even if Li Yuan gave all the things he had to his son and wanted to take them back, no one would say that Li Yuan was wrong.
Because nominally, everything in the Tang Dynasty belonged to Li Yuan.
Li Yuan can give it if he wants to, and take it back if he wants to take it back.
No one can say that what Li Yuan did was wrong.
In order to persuade Chai Shao to be the person who recruits Li Shimin's eight military commanders, Li Yuanji made a small panic.
However, Li Yuanji was not afraid that Chai Shao would go to Li Yuan for confirmation, because Li Yuan was currently indulging himself and was in no mood to pay attention to his defunct son-in-law.
Therefore, even if Chai Shao ran to Liangyi Palace, he could not see Li Yuan.
Even if he went to great lengths to meet Li Yuan, Li Yuan might not have the time to discuss this issue with him.
Maybe even force him to go wild together.
With his current semi-paralyzed body, let alone his wild behavior, even the slightest big move could take away half of his life.
"Then you are using me too!"
Chai Shao could not refute Li Yuanji's words, because Li Yuanji's words were indeed reasonable, so he could only stubbornly stick to his own opinion to maintain his final stubbornness.
Li Yuanji saw that reasoning did not make sense and said angrily: "If you insist that I am using you, then just think that I am using you."
Chai Shao was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Li Yuanji to 'give in' so quickly.
For a moment I didn't know what to say.
He really wanted to shout to Li Yuanji, 'I won't be used by you even if I die.'
But he couldn't shout these words.
Because he knew very well what the Eight Great Unified Military Mansion under Li Shimin meant to the Tang Dynasty when the Turks attacked.
This is related to whether his wife and children will live in peace and joy in the future, and it is also related to the wealth of his Chai family.
So even if he knew that he was being used, he could only bear the humiliation and bear the burden of being used.