Li Shan blinked. In fact, he also knew what his mother wanted to ask. He pointed at Xiaoman and cursed with a smile: "I don't know how to pour a cup of tea."
"Forget it." Zhu's voice was a little cold, "The tea you made is really hard to drink."
Li Shanqian laughed a few times. In his previous life, he was a bumpkin. He was not used to drinking coffee, but he was used to drinking tea... Anyway, his hometown produces tea, and ordinary green tea is not expensive.
In this era, after tasting many tea soups with mixed flavors, Li Shan tried to make green tea a few years ago. What he finally made... It doesn't look like green tea, and it doesn't even count as tea cake. It's a bit
Broken, the branches and leaves will not stretch after being soaked in water, and it tastes a bit bitter and astringent.
"You all go down." Li Shan waved Xiaoman and Zhou to leave. They had been talking in bed all night these days.
Mrs. Zhu took a deep breath, watched her son close the door, turned around and sat down, and then asked: "That day in Pingkangfang, did you go to see Ma Zhou?"
"Yeah." Li Shan responded, wondering whether his mother had just guessed it or had guessed it before. If it was the former... his thoughts were really slow, because that day Li Shan asked his mother to take the horse to Zhou.
That letter was for Ma Mu.
As early as a few years ago, Mrs. Zhu knew about the existence of Ma Zhou's mother, and asked Li Shan about it, but the latter was vague.
After a short silence, Mrs. Zhu said softly: "I can't control you anymore..."
Li Shan chuckled and said, "Didn't mother ask Third Sister for her help?"
"Princess Pingyang can control you, but there are some things she can't control." Zhu cheered up, "For example, your uncle."
Li Shan raised his eyebrows. He had found out very early. As early as the beginning of the previous year, when he returned to Beijing from Daizhou and was canonized as the Prince of Handan County, he found out that there was a general named Er Zhuhuan in the East Palace who was trusted by the prince.
"Your uncle has made arrangements. Erzhu Zhongyuan, the cousin of the King of Taiyuan, defected to Nanliang after the Battle of Hanling and lived in the south of the Yangtze River. His descendants were scattered by Hou Jing's Rebellion. His descendants either died in the war or died of illness. So far, there is only..."
"Is mother the last one left?" Li Shan thought for a while and asked in a low voice: "Does mother intend to restore the surname Erzhu?"
Mrs. Zhu shook her head, "It's just to avoid being spied on... After all, your uncle and two cousins are not very old. Shouldn't we never have contact with each other again in this life?"
Li Shan's eyes flickered, and after being silent for a while, he stretched out his index finger and said, "First, while His Majesty is on the throne and Pei Shiju is still here, the decision must not be leaked."
"That's natural." Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "After all, there are very few people with the surname Erzhu in the world. There are only your uncle and Erzhu Yichen in the court. Once it is leaked, Pei Shiju will definitely notice them."
After a pause, Zhu added: "What's more, both of them are disciples of the Prince of the East Palace, but you chose the King of Qin."
Li Shan smiled and did not deny it. In fact, after such a long time, no matter how stupid his mother was, he could see that it was just a layer of window paper and it would be broken if it was pierced.
Zhu was a little curious and asked in a low voice: "When?"
Li Shan didn't intend to lie, but he couldn't tell the truth... You can't say that I traveled back in time and after finding out that it was the Battle of Hulao in Luoyang in the fourth year of Wude, knowing that there was no chance of conquering the world and becoming emperor, I immediately chose the King of Qin, right?
After thinking about it, Li Shancai said: "During the Shandong War, on the one hand, the prince delayed sending troops, which made the boy hate and despise him. On the other hand, De Mou informed that the man had already thrown himself into the East Palace."
"So early?" Zhu was a little surprised, "Then why did you still take the imperial examination to become an official?"
Li Shan didn't want to explain so much, so he just smiled and said: "The Pei family from Hedong is a double-sect, so the King of Qin may not keep him."
Zhu was a little suspicious. She was always a little doubtful of her son's words now, "What happened later?"
"He is in charge of the General Manager's Office of Daizhou and can be ranked among the top three officials in the world. He can also defeat the Turks. His Highness the King of Qin will naturally not give up." Li Shan was talking nonsense all the way. In fact, he had already joined the Prince of Qin's Mansion at that time, and Pei Shiju
It was then that I saw through it and made up my mind to assist the prince.
Really not wanting to explain this anymore, Li Shan raised his middle finger, "Second, is the Lingnan side complete?"
"There is absolutely no mistake." Zhu explained: "In fact, the eldest brother had planned to make up for it before, but it was the fourth year of Wude, and Lingnan had not yet surrendered... It was not until the end of last year that it was made up."
Li Shan didn't know much about Er Zhuhuan's methods and abilities, but he could only believe it. He raised his ring finger and said, "Thirdly, why did my mother mention my uncle today?"
Zhu was speechless for a moment, wanting to say something but seemed to be worried about something.
Li Shan smiled, "What mother is worried about is that the child and uncle have their own positions. No matter whether the prince or the King of Qin ascends the throne in the future, one of them will be implicated, right?"
Mrs. Zhu nodded silently. One is his son and the other is his brother. They are both unique relatives.
"My child, let me analyze the situation in the court for my mother." Li Shanzai carefully analyzed the situation of last year and this year one by one. "Now the prince has fallen out of favor and the King of Qin has gained power. However, the prince is deposed and he is also the founding prince. He still sits in the East Palace for many years and has quite a lot of people under his command.
A powerful prince, even your Majesty must be cautious about this kind of thing. If you do anything wrong, the country will be shaken. Even Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty did not dare to act recklessly."
"In fact, most of the ministers of the prince's lineage were put into the East Palace by His Majesty's will. If the prince is deposed, will these ministers be reused by King Qin?"
Zhu said categorically: "Absolutely impossible."
"That's right." The corner of Li Shan's mouth moved, and the names Wei Zheng, Wei Ting, Wang Gui, and Xue Wanche flashed in his mind, and he continued: "So they can only follow the prince's path to the dark side."
Zhu finally understood, "What Dalang means... the prince may..."
"Raising an army is the only way to survive." Li Shan narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "It is stupid to raise an army, and it is even more stupid not to have an army."
The Zhu family was very aware of Er Zhuhuan's position in the East Palace, and he had great trust in the prince. Moreover, he was one of the few generals in the East Palace. Once the army was raised, he would definitely go into battle.
"Will they really raise an army?" Zhu murmured.
"Definitely." Li Shan said quietly: "Because Pei Shiju is here, don't forget, at least in his opinion, his only son died in the hands of a child. How could he not take revenge?"
Zhu was so confused for a moment that she didn't know what to say or even what to think.
Li Shan finally said the most important words, "With Pei Shiju here, if the prince succeeds, kills the King of Qin, and forces His Majesty to abdicate, even if his uncle, second cousin are here, and Princess Pingyang protects him, can the child survive?"
, also somewhere in between.”
"That's why I brought Liu Hei'er back and tried to stick to Zhuangzi. Once something happened and the situation was unfavorable, I had no choice but to flee to the northwest and take shelter with brother Dingfang, or go south and flee to the south of the Yangtze River."
After pausing for a moment to let Zhu think clearly, Li Shancai continued: "If the King of Qin wins and takes over the East Palace, although the child has never been under the command of the King of Qin, he has made many military exploits in the past few years and has a good relationship with the favorite generals of the King of Qin such as Zhang Shigui and Duan Zhixuan.
, and even had an old relationship with Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other close associates of the King of Qin."
"When the King of Qin ascends the throne, I will no longer hold military power in my life, and I will no longer hope to be the prime minister..."
"I will be able to protect my uncle."
If the prince wins, his son is likely to be killed. If the king of Qin wins, the brother has a high chance of being saved... Zhu immediately made a reasonable judgment that the king of Qin must win.