Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 6 The Shocked Li Shimin
"He would be so bold?"

Even Li Shimin was stunned for a full two seconds before asking in disbelief.

He knew his third son very well.

Timid and cowardly, when he was the King of Qin, he took his second son to the street for the first time to visit the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. Li Ke saw people everywhere and was too scared to say anything.

Li Shimin still remembers the appearance of holding on to his sleeve tightly.

After growing up a little, he reads very well, writes good articles, and has a lot of research on governance strategies. He is a proper scholar.

And according to the report from the secret guard leader, the style of painting has completely changed.

When Li Ke arrived, he encountered disaster victims blocking the road. It is impossible to know that the officials and gentry of Shu State used this trick to deal with him.

He could only incite them to attack Chengdu after seeing the victims.

This decision-making ability is not a weak and timid boy, he is directly a hero.

If it were him, he would not dare to do such a thing easily.

"These things were indeed done by the third prince. He had already pretended to be a refugee and went to Shuangliu without even setting foot in Chengdu."

"The official document written by the third prince is already on the way, and should arrive today."

The leader of the dark guard said.

"Didn't step into Chengdu?"

"This kid, I really suspect that he is unpredictable and surrounded by disaster victims. In such an emergency situation, he can think of such a comprehensive countermeasure?"

Li Shimin was shocked again.

The fact that he has not set foot in Chengdu means that he has not completed the last step of taking office. These things cannot be counted as his taking office.

Then Li Ke has no responsibility at all, he is just passing by.

On the contrary, if those unlucky ghosts in Chengdu survived, they would even be held accountable for being besieged by disaster victims.

Well now, he has no responsibility at all, and all the people in the officialdom in Chengdu are dead.

This report can only be written by him, the King of Shu.

Dead no telling, what he says is what he says.

Such a plan is not an earth-shattering strategy.

But every step is sophisticated and ruthless.

Even if Li Shimin's most thorough eldest grandson Wuji did this, there would be no loopholes in the warehouse.

But Li Ke was extremely correct and impeccable every step of the way!
"Is this still the same boy..."

Li Shimin muttered to himself.

He was not too angry. In his eyes, the actions of those Shu officials were childish and vicious.

And his son directly came to fight back, which was to give his father a face.

After all, he sent Li Ke there in the first place in the hope that he would completely control the Kingdom of Shu and have a place to compete with the Changsun family.

It is best for the two sides to reach a balance and live in peace.

But he also knew it was difficult.

However, what Li Ke did now definitely gave him a surprise.

As for the life and death of the gentry in Chengdu, it is definitely not the emperor's concern.

Although the two sides formed the upper class of the feudal society, it does not mean that the two sides can care about each other to this extent.

If you die, you will die, and the more you die, the more it will help ease land conflicts.

"His Royal Highness the Third Prince also passed Li Tong's line, and wanted to send a message to His Majesty."

The leader of the dark guard said with a strange expression.

"what?"

Li Shimin asked with a frown.

"He said that the foundation of the Tang Dynasty lies in the land, and the aristocratic family loves to devour the land to weaken the empire. To be strong, the Tang Dynasty must not only expand its territory, but also kill all the gentry."

"With the extinction of the gentry, the break of the monopoly of reading and the break of the monopoly of land, the Tang Dynasty can truly surpass any previous dynasty and reach an unprecedented height."

"He said that he intends to use the power of the southwest to cross the Tubo and Tianshan Pass, and there is still a vast land no less than the Tang Dynasty waiting to be conquered."

Li Shimin's face suddenly became more and more bewildered by the words of the leader of the dark guards.

"Destroy the gentry internally and expand the territory externally?"

"Hahahaha, this is my son."

"Presumably, the gentry in other counties outside Chengdu will continue to suffer, right?"

"Let him act boldly, and don't limit himself to one county in Shu."

"I will support him, and he will not lose his life in the worst case."

"Damn gentry, everyone can be killed!"

Li Shimin rose up against the case, his voice was like a bell.

……

At the same time, diagonally opposite the imperial palace, in the Duke of Qi's mansion.

"It's the truth that underestimated this kid. This move is cruel enough."

A middle-aged civil servant with an elegant face, but a pair of resentful triangular eyes disfigured, exuding the aura of wealth and nobility who has been in a high position for a long time, looked at the pond newspaper in his hand, expressionless.

The content of the Tang newspaper is exactly the memorial about the Chengdu Incident sent by Li Ke himself.

The pond newspaper that just arrived, of course, has not had time to upload it to the palace.

"How do you say that? Didn't that kid happen to be lucky enough to survive the civil uprising?"

A fat old man in a purple robe and white hair next to him asked a little puzzled.

This old fat man is none other than Changsun Wuji's uncle Gao Shilian.

"As soon as this thief arrived, the civil uprising began, and even killed Liu Zhao, the governor who had just been bribed by the truth."

"If it has nothing to do with him, with those hundreds of guards, can he still escape from tens of thousands of rioters?"

"Inciting the rebels to attack the city of Chengdu, how brave you are!"

"This is the posture of a hero, but the truth has been overlooked!"

Changsun Wuji hummed with a gloomy face.

"But you can't testify against him with this sentence, and you can't even say it in public."

After Gao Shilian tasted the product carefully, he said with a wry smile.

"Yeah, it has nothing to do with him and he can't escape this sentence, and the officials should say that they really hope that the King of Shu will die."

"The truth is that I want him to die, but I'm afraid it won't be so easy for him to die."

Changsun Wuji said meaningfully.

"Then... how should it be?"

Gao Shilian asked with a frown.

"What else can we do? Tomorrow, we will encourage all of us to ask the King of Shu to take back Chengdu within a limited time."

"Otherwise, he will be punished for the crime of losing his fiefdom. No matter how much he incites those rioters, there is no reason why the interests will be unified so quickly."

"As long as he, Li Ke, receives the order to take back Chengdu, there will inevitably be a rift between him and those rioters."

"Maybe those mud legs will really be killed by him... Ten counties have become one, and the gentry is not familiar with him. I'll see how he regains Chengdu."

Changsun Wuji said with a sneer.

"Hahahaha, this plan is very good, as long as he can't get back to Chengdu, we will join him to death."

"It was His Majesty who sent him away too quickly before, and we didn't have time to stop him, so he got the fief."

"As long as he is escorted back to Beijing, it may not be so easy to get the fief in the future."

"If you are in the capital, why don't you obediently let us manipulate you!"

Gao Shilian laughed.

(End of this chapter)