"The son of Li Qianyou, the chief secretary of the Prince of Qi's Palace, is also a younger brother of the Li family in Longxi. It is suitable for him to go north."
"Over at Prince Qin's Mansion... I heard that Fang Xuanling's eldest son, Fang Yi, was heading north."
"Oh, I heard about it. It is said that there are also descendants of the Zhang family in Qinghe Wucheng, who are also familiar with the King of Handan."
Wei Ting clapped his hands and laughed, "You don't know yet... Miss Cui is worried about her future husband..."
In the East Palace, Li Jiancheng listened to the discussion among the staff below, and thought about it in his mind, thinking that it was a pity that the East Palace could not select a suitable candidate... Lu Chengji had already served as a clerk to join the military, and the other disciples were not familiar with Li Shan.
Also, relatively speaking, most of the staff in the East Palace are old people, who joined the army with their father in the past, or are family in-laws. Except for Wei Zheng, they all stick together, unlike those in the Qin Palace... what kind of people All.
It has been three days since the good news arrived in Beijing. The emperor and his ministers were delighted, and the whole city was jumping for joy. The saint Li Yuan, who was originally worried about the war, was already preparing to go out to inspect the place... Well, this is a nice way of saying it, but it was actually to escape the summer heat.
Pei Shiju, who was sitting at the bottom, narrowed his eyes slightly and listened silently to the words of his colleagues around him that were hard for him to hear... As long as he is in Chang'an recently, he is everywhere praising the King of Handan. This is really unavoidable.
Pei Shiju tried his best to keep his thoughts away and review the battle in his mind... His eyes were not on those military exploits, but on Li Shan's actions.
Without scruples, he broke up with Li Jing, the governor of Daizhou, killed thousands of Turkic prisoners and built a palace in Beijing. He also looted Zuoyun County and was impeached by the court officials. However, he invited himself back to the court because of his injuries...
This person can be said to have a degree of progress and retreat... Pei Shiju determined at the first time that Li Shan should have decided to return to the court very early. On the one hand, it was probably because of his relationship with the Danyang House of the Li family in Longxi, and on the other hand, he would not be directly involved. Enter into the process of seizing the direct descendants.
The powerful Daizhou Army is stationed at Yanmen. Such a general... Even if His Majesty has the trust and is regarded as His Majesty's direct descendant, neither the Crown Prince nor the King of Qin will give up recruiting him.
But if you return to the dynasty, you can at most hold a high-ranking false title, which is of little use in seizing the direct descendants... but you can get away with it.
In this way, can we judge that Li Shan is not willing to get involved in seizing the heir?
Pei Shiju's eyebrows trembled. This idea was mentioned by his daughter last night. After all, with such meritorious service, the trust of the saint, and the support of Princess Pingyang, he would be safe if he did not get involved in seizing the legitimate son... But Pei Shiju categorically rejected it after only thinking for a moment.
On the one hand, Li Shan had a great favor to save Princess Pingyang... But this was actually an accident. It was Li Dewu who had secretly manipulated her. Only out of desperation did His Majesty let Li Shan take the risk.
At that time, Li Dewu had already joined the East Palace. People like Li Shan seemed to be taking the wrong direction, but in fact they were cautious and wanted to have something to achieve... Looking around the world, there was only the King of Qin.
On the other hand, there is the Danyang House of the Li family in Longxi.
Pei Shiju knew Li Shan well enough. He was known as "good" and named "Huairen", but in fact he was sharp in his actions and had the ambition of a husband.
What is a husband’s ambition?
A true man behaves like a human being. When he encounters kindness, he repays it with a spring of water. When he encounters hatred, he cuts off the weeds and eradicates the roots.
They all fell out with Li Jing to that extent. It can be said that this time Li Shan humiliated the Yongkang County Duke, who has been famous all over the world for several years, and brought down the most famous descendant of the Danyang House of the Li family in Longxi and even the most famous son of the Li family in Longxi. .
Even after reaching this level, Li Shan was so relaxed and decided to give up the position of General Manager of Daizhou so early... General Manager of Daizhou is one of the most powerful feudal officials in the world today.
After the pacification of Jianghuai, although the governor's office of Yangzhou was established, with the departure of Zhaojun Wang Li Xiaogong and Yongkang County Duke Li Jing, there was no longer much real power... at least in terms of military.
The only person who can be compared with the General Manager of Daizhou is the General Manager of Bingzhou, who is also in Hedong... But the latter's weight is largely due to Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang, Yuan Junzhang and the Turkic cavalry who came every year in the past years.
The land was in ruins and it was difficult to resist. The Tang Dynasty placed the main force of Hedong troops in Taiyuan Prefecture to resist foreign invasions. This is the reason for the weight of the Bingzhou Governor.
Now that Daizhou has regained its vitality, Yuan Junzhang has come to surrender, Shuozhou has returned to the Tang Dynasty, and the Turks have been defeated several times. Daizhou and Shuozhou are the main battlefields to resist the Turkic invasion.
In other words, in the most important cities in the world now, the General Manager of Daizhou and the General Manager of Bingzhou are ranked first in parallel. The further back, the heavier the weight of the former.
Pei Shiju believed that he understood this truth, and the young prince would not understand... He was so young and so powerful, but he let it go lightly, just because he did not want to get involved in the battle for the legitimate son, and just because he had a relationship with the Danyang family of the Li family in Longxi.
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Pei Shiju never believed it. How many people have been willing to do anything to climb up through the ages. Isn't his father and his son-in-law a ready example?
The only one in the world to be a frontier official... With such a temptation, Pei Shiju felt that if an old man like himself, who once held a high position and was about to die, could refuse it, how could he refuse at such a young age?
So, there must be other reasons.
Last night Pei Shiju had all kinds of speculations, until just now Wei Ting, Xu Shimo and others talked about one thing Wei Ting mentioned when Li Zhaode, the son of Chang'an order Li Qianyou, was preparing to go north to Daizhou.
Yesterday, Master Li's wife Changsun entered the palace to see Princess Qin.
Everyone in Chang'an knows that in the past, when the King of Handan first arrived in Chang'an, he fell into poverty in Dongshan Temple and had three friends with him, namely Wang Renbiao, Li Kai and Li Zhaode.
Pei Shiju silently speculated on the timeline in his mind. Although he didn't know the details, these three people probably knew Li Shan's life experience. After all, Li Dewu had not taken action at that time, and after all, Li Shan had no need to keep it secret at that time.
Maybe it was Li Kai, maybe Wang Renbiao, Li Zhaode, or all three of them knew about it, but it is certain that Li Kai was the insider.
Princess Qin and Sun, the eldest wife of Li Keshi, are cousins. It is very likely that Li Shan got in touch with King Qin through this line... Although there is no proof, Pei Shiju feels that they are inseparable.
Why did Li Shan refuse such a big temptation and choose to invite himself back to the court? It was simply because although he deeply hated Medicine Master Li, he never dared to break up with the Danyang Fang of the Li family in Longxi.
Once they turn against each other, Li Keshi and his wife, Li Kai or Li Qianyou, Li Zhaode will have their secrets, and Li Shan will never dare to let them leak the secrets.
No, Li Qianyou and Li Zhaode definitely didn’t know.
What kind of secret?
Li Shan secretly surrendered to King Qin... Once such a secret was leaked, would the East Palace tolerate it?
Although Li Keshi is an official of the Tiance Mansion, Li Yaoshi is the leader of the Danyangfang generation of the Li family in Longxi and is the key to revitalizing the lintel. Will he watch Li Shan push his brother into the bottom?
Pei Shiju felt that his guess was very good, but the problem was that there was no recruitment or evidence... All of this was based on the premise that he had no reason to confirm that Li Shan had joined the King of Qin.