The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1 Xuanwu Incident (Reset Edition)

The majestic palace covered countless darkness, and the vast wheels of history rolled over the blood-stained bluestone streets over and over again. Before dawn, a group of soldiers in full armor, with serious expressions and long guns in their hands, went to The imperial palace rushed away, but the people on the street were infected by the chilling atmosphere, they closed the stalls and closed the shops in an instant, and after a while, the street was empty again.

Qin Wangfu.

"Your Highness, it's already this time, what are you still hesitating about!" The stubble-faced, dark-skinned man yelled at the table: "Li Jiancheng is too deceitful, he was the one who sued before His Majesty, and Lao Fang Lao Du was kicked out. After entering Tiance Mansion, Old Du even broke his fingers, and now their knives are almost on our necks, you are still hesitating."

"Jingde, sit down, don't get excited." A scribe tugged at Yu Chigong's sleeve, signaling him to be quiet.

"Brother Mingde!" Yu Chigong sighed fiercely and fell silent.

"Mingde, you also feel lonely..." Li Shimin looked at Xuan Mingde.

"Your Highness, since ancient times, kings and bandits have been defeated, and the world was in chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty. It doesn't matter if Wagangzhai was in decline, 36 roads rebelled against the king, and 72 clouds of smoke and dust. Your Highness is willing to hand over the world that was brought down by yourself?" Xuan Ming In the German language: "The auxiliary machine has already bribed the guards of the Xuanwu Gate. As long as His Highness nods, a great country can be obtained at your fingertips."

Li Shimin listened to Xuan Mingde's words, if he said he was not moved, he would be fooling people, if he didn't desire that seat, why would he encourage his father to rebel.

Changsun Wuji said lightly: "Mingde is right. It is undeniable that Li Jiancheng is talented, but he is narrow-minded in dealing with His Highness. He and Qi Wang Li Yuanji often speak ill of His Highness in front of His Majesty. Even if His Highness does not do anything, One day, the crown prince will also attack His Highness."

"Brother..." Li Shimin's expression was complicated, but he knew that what Changsun Wuji said was right, the two brothers are already in the same situation.

"Previously, His Highness was poisoned during a banquet at the Prince's Mansion, what is His Highness still counting on?" Xuan Mingde said lightly.

"Mingde... Everyone..." Li Shimin looked up at everyone present.

"We will swear to follow His Highness to the death." Everyone stood up and clasped their fists to express their opinion.

The morning sun drove away the darkness of dawn as usual. Li Shimin led Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin and Xuan Mingde to ride to the Xuanwu Gate. Today's morning court is destined to be no longer ordinary.

Walking on Xuanwu Street, Cheng Yaojin looked sideways at Xuan Mingde: "Brother Mingde, I heard that my sister-in-law is pregnant, congratulations."

When Xuan Mingde heard Cheng Yaojin's words, he smiled slightly: "Yes, when this matter is over, I will disarm and return to the field, guarding my wife and Erxian Village. It is also a great blessing in my life to live the rest of my life."

"Brother Mingde still thinks about Second Brother Shan." Qin Qiong rode up to Xuan Mingde's side and said in a low voice.

"The three of you and I can be said to be from the Green Forest Road. If there was no Second Brother Shan, I would have been exposed to the wilderness. Second Brother Shan would rather go to Wang Shichong than to join us in His Highness. I understand. It is impossible for Qiu to let go of it so easily, but I still have the ability to take care of the Erxian Village he left behind." Xuan Mingde said.

"Mingde Gaoyi, Qin Qiong admires." Qin Qiong Ting Xuan Mingde said this, and couldn't help feeling that he was also favored by Shan Xiongxin back then. Like Xuan Mingde said, if there was no Shan Xiongxin, he would have traveled all the way from Shandong to Shanxi. My mother had already died of illness on the way.

"Here we are." Li Shimin took the reins of the horse and stopped in front of Xuanwu Gate.

"The next official, Wang Shoucheng, has seen His Highness the King of Qin." The city gate officer came to Li Shimin's horse with a horizontal knife in his hand: "Your Highness can only enter the palace after unloading his weapon."

"This king holds the Shangfang sword bestowed by the emperor, and it can be brought into the palace." Li Shimin picked up the sword and waved it around in front of Wang Shoucheng's eyes.

"Please deliver the weapons of His Highness King Qin's subordinates to the officials for safekeeping." Wang Shoucheng made the next best thing.

Li Shimin nodded, signaling Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin to put down their weapons.

"My lord, among the next civil servants, can a folding fan be considered a weapon?" Xuan Mingde asked.

"Of course it doesn't count." Wang Shoucheng didn't want to embarrass everyone too much.

After handing over the weapons, Wang Shoucheng ordered his men to open the city gate and let the four of Li Shimin in.

After entering the Xuanwu Gate, Li Shimin looked around and found that there were no guards around the city, and it was extremely quiet. After a while, footsteps could be heard all around, and the city walls were also full of archers.

Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Xuan Mingde surrounded Li Shimin in the center.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, Jingde will arrive soon, Lao Fang and Lao Du will also come with the soldiers of the right military guard." Xuan Mingde said with a serious expression, "It's a coincidence, don't worry, Your Highness, this subordinate will protect His Highness well."

Li Shimin nodded, holding the sword in one hand and the rein in the other, looking around.

The city gate opened again, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were riding horses, all in armor, smiling.

The soldiers surrounding the four of Li Shimin gave way, and Li Jiancheng stepped forward on his horse: "Second brother, I didn't expect that, do you think that I don't know about your little tricks?"

Li Shimin looked at Li Jiancheng coldly and didn't speak to him.

"Second brother, do you know? I hate your expression very much." Li Jiancheng showed a sullen expression on his face: "My father appointed me as the crown prince, but I will be a crown prince one day. I will do all the political affairs with you." The strategists of the Tiance Mansion are in charge, and the military power belongs to you, Li Shimin, and I'm just pretending to be the crown prince! The world only knows that there is King Qin, so they know that there is me, the crown prince!"

"I have never coveted the throne before, but brother, what you have done is too disappointing. You can't give me a chance to display it, so I can only take it myself." At this moment, Li Shimin looked at Li Jiancheng firmly. .

"Do you think you can still go out today?" Li Yuanji leaned forward and looked at the four of them with contempt.

Xuan Mingde looked at Li Yuanji with a smile: "His Royal Highness Qi is so confident that he will kill us here today?"

"So many people deal with the four of you, what do you think?" Li Yuanji said.

"Third brother, don't talk nonsense with him, he is just delaying time." Li Jiancheng drew out his sword and pointed at Li Shimin.

"As expected of His Highness the Crown Prince, otherwise how could it be the Crown Prince and not the King of Qi? Right, Your Highness the King of Qi." Xuan Mingde said: "The Crown Prince ambushed and killed His Highness the King of Qin at the Xuanwu Gate. After His Majesty finds out, things will definitely not be the same. In this way, the name of a slaughtering brother is put on the head of His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the Crown Prince...will he be able to inherit the throne in the future? Once His Highness the Crown Prince is deposed, what will be left will be His Highness the King of Qi? His Highness the King of Qi , good strategy, and forbearance."

Li Jiancheng listened to Xuan Mingde's words, thought for a while, and glanced at Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji quickly explained: "Brother, don't fall into his tricks, you and I have participated in today's matter, if we stop now, we will never recover ah!"

Li Jiancheng came back to his senses, and said with a sneer, "I have long heard that Xuan Mingde of Tiance Mansion is a talented national scholar. Now, I will give you a chance. If you turn against me and help me, I will definitely protect your glory forever, senior official." Houlu, there will be no less."

Xuan Mingde held on to the folding fan and bowed his hands to Li Jiancheng: "Thanks to His Royal Highness for his love, I dare not think about it in the grassy rivers and lakes in the lower district, with high officials and rich salary. I'm afraid, His Royal Highness's kindness will be blown away."

"Hmph, I don't know how to flatter you." Li Jiancheng snorted coldly: "If that's the case, then there's nothing to say, just do it!" Li Jiancheng waved his hand, and all the soldiers behind him went towards Li Shimin.

Although Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong were brave enough to be unworthy of all men, they suffered from lack of weapons, so they surrounded Li Shimin and struggled to resist wave after wave of attacks.

Xuan Mingde threw off the folding fan, a puff of white smoke and dust scattered, and the surrounding soldiers fell down instantly, which protected Li Shimin for a moment of peace. He put away the folding fan and rushed into the crowd. They were all knocked to the ground.

Sitting on the horse, Li Jiancheng looked at Xuan Mingde, and said to Li Yuanji: "I didn't expect this Xuan Mingde to know martial arts. It's a miscalculation. Alas, why are so many capable people and strangers gathered in Tiance Mansion? What do you think?" What's so good about him, Li Shimin?"

"No matter how good it is, I don't want to break it here today. The soldiers I have deployed here today are all the elite of the prince's six ranks. What I want is to hit every hit. As long as Li Shimin dies, you will have no worries. "

Xuan Mingde was still guarding around Li Shimin and fighting with the soldiers, the poison hidden in the folding fan had been used up, and he was a little anxious: why Cheng Yaojin didn't come yet.

The previous conversation with Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji was just to delay time. One was to hope that this matter would reach the ears of the emperor, and the other was to buy time for Yu Chigong, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui to dispatch troops to rescue them.

At this time, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin also suffered a lot of injuries, big and small, Xuan Mingde gritted his teeth, until now, he could only hold on.

With this amazing effort, a spear pierced Xuan Mingde's shoulder. The huge impact made Xuan Mingde take several steps back one after another. He stretched out his hand to grab the spear and threw the soldier away forcefully.

Seeing that Xuan Mingde was seriously injured, Li Shimin immediately rushed to his side: "Mingde!"

"Your Highness, be careful!" Xuan Mingde saw Li Jiancheng in the distance, bending his bow and nodding his arrow. The point of the arrow pointed directly at Li Shimin. He turned over and protected Li Shimin. Li Jiancheng's arrow was nailed to Xuan Mingde's back.

Resisting the pain, he pulled out the arrow: "Your Highness, don't be distracted by me. There is no Xuan Mingde in the world, and Li Shimin is indispensable."

Just when the four of them were about to lose their hold, the Xuanwu Gate was knocked open, and Yuchi Gong took the lead, waving a copper whip: "Yuchi Jingde is here, who dares to hurt His Highness King Qin!"

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also led the soldiers of Youwuwei to come to the rescue. At this time, Changsun Wuji was meeting Li Yuan in the Taiji Palace.

The soldiers led by Yu Chigong quickly encircled and wiped out Li Jiancheng's six princes. Li Jiancheng was shot in the back of the heart by Cheng Yaojin and fell off his horse to death.

After a fight, Li Yuanji was surrounded by everyone.

"Second brother! Don't kill me." Li Yuanji hugged Li Shimin's leg and pleaded bitterly.

Li Shimin looked at Li Yuanji, struggling extremely.

"Your Highness, if you don't make up your mind, there will be endless troubles." Du Ruhui looked at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin closed his eyes, turned around and said, "Kill!"

At this time, Li Yuan was still on the boat, gathering with the Dou family members. Yu Chigong led his troops and directly surrounded the boat.

"Bold, who are you? This is His Majesty's holy car, who disturbed the holy car, can you bear it?" The general on the painting boat saw Yu Chigong and shouted loudly.

"We are here to protect His Majesty under the order of the King of Qin." Yu Chigong said, afterward, no matter what the people on board said, Yu Chigong didn't respond.

After Li Yuan heard Yu Chigong's words, he said angrily: "Could it be possible that King Qin even wants to take care of me? I want to see if there is any danger in Chang'an City! Get up and go back to the palace!"

In the Tai Chi Palace, Li Yuan heard the minister's report, slumped on the dragon chair, and murmured: "How could this happen..."

Li Shimin was covered in blood, and walked into the Tai Chi Hall with Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin, Xuan Mingde, and Qin Qiong. Li Shimin saw Li Yuan sitting on the dragon chair with his eyes blank, and couldn't help feeling sad, and couldn't stop crying. It flowed out like a dike burst, strode forward and fell into Li Yuan's arms, crying bitterly: "Father."

Xuan Mingde took the lead and knelt on the ground together with Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong.

Li Yuan stroked Li Shimin's hair, murmured indistinctly: "Mr. Dou, have you seen it? Our son... did not escape the end of cannibalism after all! How could this happen!" A line of dirty tears slowly fell.

Pushing away Li Shimin in his arms, Li Yuan pointed at Li Shimin with trembling fingers: "Nizi! Nizi! Even if you kill Jiancheng, I will not give you the crown prince's seat! Absolutely not! Hahahaha. Seeing Li Yuan falling into madness, Cheng Yaojin stepped forward with a horizontal knife.

"Your Majesty is old and has lost his beloved son. He can no longer be in charge of political affairs. Your Majesty, please take the throne!"

"Cheng Yaojin! What are you going to do!" Li Yuan glared angrily.

Holding the horizontal saber, Cheng Yaojin took another step forward: "Your Majesty, please take the Zen seat!"

"You are trying to force the palace! You are treasonous!" Li Yuan scolded angrily.

"Your Majesty, please take the Zen seat!" Cheng Yaojin took another step forward, the horizontal knife was less than three feet away from Li Yuan.

"Li Shimin! This is your courtier! How do you say it!" Li Yuan shouted, pointing at Li Shimin who was crying.

"General Cheng is right. Your Majesty, you are not suitable to be in charge of the Tang Dynasty." Xuan Mingde stood up and said slowly, "You only know to blame His Highness King Qin, but if it weren't for your connivance with Prince Jiancheng, How did today's palace change come about?"

"How dare you say it's my fault?" Li Yuan looked at Xuan Mingde in disbelief.

Xuan Mingde did not answer.

"Your Majesty, please take the throne!" Yu Chigong and Qin Qiong said at the same time.

"Good! Good! What a Tiance Mansion, what a Li Shimin!" Li Yuan burst into tears, slumped on the dragon chair, pointed at Li Shimin and said, "You want this one! I'll give it to you! I curse you, your son, They will kill each other just like today, just for this seat!" Li Yuan closed his eyes, resigned to fate.

Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Xuan Mingde couldn't hold on any longer and fell down.

"Mingde!"

"Brother Mingde!"

"Quick! Pass on to the imperial doctor!" Li Shimin wiped away his tears, ran to Xuan Mingde's side, and joined forces with Qin Qiong to carry Xuan Mingde into the Taiji Palace bedroom.

The imperial physician felt Xuan Mingde's pulse and sighed.

"How is it?" Qin Qiong walked up to the imperial physician and asked.

The imperial physician shook his head: "This official is incompetent, Your Highness, all generals, my condolences..."

For a while, the whole room was silent.

In the ninth year of Tang Wude, Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty appointed Li Shimin, the king of Qin, as the crown prince. Regardless of the size of the military affairs, he listened to the crown prince's disposal. In the same year, Li Yuan took the throne and was honored as the Supreme Emperor. Chastity".

In Erxianzhuang, Mrs. Wang was walking in the back garden with her maid, stroking her slightly protruding belly with a happy face.

"Ma'am~~Ma'am~~It's not good." A young servant rushed into the back garden and came to Wang.

"What's the matter, you're in a panic." With the help of her maid, Wang walked to the stone table and sat down.

"Ma'am... There is news from Chang'an, master..."

"What's the matter, master?" Wang Shiteng stood up suddenly.

"My lord... died in battle..." After the servant finished speaking, he couldn't make a sound.

"Master..." When Wang heard the bad news at first, she felt that her heart was so blocked, she rolled her eyes and passed out, the maid beside her hurriedly supported her, and together with the little servant, she helped Wang back to the room.

In the room, after taking the pulse, the doctor stood up and said to Wang's personal servant girl: "Madam is too worried, I can only take care of her. Just now, the old man took the pulse and found that the fetal position is unstable. Fetal medicine, give it to Madam."

"Thank you doctor." The servant girl took the doctor's prescription and sent someone to send the doctor out of the mansion.

The Wang family who was lying on the bed woke up leisurely, and muttered in his mouth: "Why is it so good, you will die in battle, isn't the world already at peace? Where did the war come from!"

At this time, the butler Zhong Zishuo came in.

"Ma'am, I found out clearly. There are people from Chang'an. The master was shot by an arrow at the Xuanwu Gate by Prince Xi Li Jiancheng. It's just that the arrow was coated with poison."

Tears flowed down Wang's face uncontrollably, and the maid at the side hurriedly wiped them with a handkerchief.

"The person sent from Chang'an also said, let our family move to Chang'an. The emperor gave the master a generous reward in Chang'an. Someone must pick it up. Madam, even if you don't plan for yourself, you still have to do it for the one in your belly." The child plans, this is the only blood of the master, and he can't stay in Erxian Village all his life. Although Erxian Village has a good reputation among the people, it is on the Green Forest Road after all."

"Okay, after a few days, I'll take care of myself, so let's go to Chang'an!" Holding back her grief, she stroked her abdomen with her hand, her eyes were a little dull.

　PS: No one can tell what is right and what is wrong about the real Xuanwu Incident in history. In people's eyes, Li Jiancheng is a mediocre person in history. Li Jiancheng was quite politically capable, but Li Shimin's halo of being an emperor through the ages is too dazzling. After all, history is also written by the victors, isn't it?

　　
　
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