Back to Tang Dynasty to be Emperor

After leaving Rencheng Prince's Mansion and boarding the frame, Li Ke showed a look of joy. *The reason why he personally sent Li Xueyan to Rencheng Prince's Mansion today is to find out Li Daozong's tone and see what kind of attitude he has towards his fight for the reserve.Unexpectedly, because of his relationship with Li Zong, it would directly affect Li Daozong's decision, which metaphorically indicated that he wanted to stand on his side.More importantly, he was also praised by the military god Li Jing.

For Li Jing, Li Ke admired him very much, whether it was his military skills or his personality, Li Ke admired him very much.

Sitting in the frame of Huihan Palace, Li Ke couldn't help recalling the information about Li Jing that he knew in his mind while he was overjoyed.Li Jing was born in a family of officials and is the nephew of Sui general Han Qinhu.His grandfather, Li Chongyi, was the governor of Yinzhou and named Yongkang Duke; his father, Li Quan, served in the Sui Dynasty and was the prefect of Zhaojun.Li Jing looks tall and handsome, and because of the influence of his family, he has "civil and military talents" since he was a child, and he is quite enterprising. He once said to his father: "If a man meets the Lord at the right time, he must make meritorious deeds to gain wealth. "His uncle Han Qinhu was a famous general in the Sui Dynasty. Every time he talked about military affairs with him, he clapped his hands and praised him. He stroked him and said, "There is no one who can compare Sun and Wu's skills." Wu is Sun Wu and Wu Qi who are most admired by military strategists. It can be seen how much the famous general Han Qinhu values ​​his nephew.

Li Jing first served as a meritorious officer in Chang'an County, and then successively served as the head of the palace and Wai Lang, a member of the driving department.Although his official position was humble, his talent was well-known among the ministers of the Sui Dynasty. Niu Hong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, praised him as "the talent of Wang Zuo". Said: "Qing will finally sit here!"

Thinking of this, Li Ke was a little strange. Since Niu Hong praised Li Jing so much, why didn't he promote him?And Zuo Pushe Yang Su was said to be in power at the time, and he had such a high opinion of Li Jing, how could he let such a talent flow away from him?

When Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan and wanted to rebel, Li Jing risked his life and went to Chang'an to report. Although he failed in the end and was arrested, he was rescued by Li Shimin.However, at the time when Emperor Sui Yang lost popular support and the Sui Dynasty was about to perish, Li Jing still had such an idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor, which was enough to show his extraordinary personality.Soon he was called into the shogunate by Li Shimin and used as the third guard.

What Li Ke admired was that apart from the fact that Li Jing risked his life to go to Jiangdu to remonstrate with Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to rebel against Li Yuan in order to fulfill his duty as a courtier, he has always adhered to the principle that soldiers dare not do political affairs after the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Li Ke appreciates not participating in any political struggles.

At the beginning, when Li Shimin announced the Wumen coup, he sent people to Li Jing and Li Ji's army to imply support for him.Unexpectedly, Li Jing refused on the spot, saying that he did not support Li Shimin, but he would not undermine his actions.Li Ji, as Li Jing's subordinate, also failed to participate in this coup d'état which was the greatest contribution to him because of Li Jing.It can be seen from this that Li Jing is indeed a model for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty not to interfere in politics.

But this time Li Shimin intends to transfer Li Jing to Chang'an and join the Ministry of War. Apart from Li Shimin's desire to gather military power, Li Ke guesses that he also intends to let Li Jing join the prime minister and make him a prime minister.After all, in the Tang Dynasty, the honor of being a prime minister was higher than that of a general or chief executive.

And Li Ke also learned through history that after joining the Ministry of War, Li Jing became taciturn, listened more and talked less, and even retired at home for a while without asking about world affairs.

Therefore, Li Jing was able to bluntly praise himself when he was in the limelight, and in the eyes of outsiders, he had expressed his intention to compete with Li Chengqian for the reserve. This had broken his bottom line of keeping a low profile on himself.It can be seen that his appreciation for himself is not a general perfunctory, but a real appreciation, an appreciation from the heart.And Li Ke thinks that Li Jing's appreciation is far more commendable than Li Shimin's praise.After all, he knows that Li Jing will be the marching commander in the Tang Dynasty's war against Turks and Tuyuhun in the future, and if he appreciates himself so much now, then no matter whether it is his achievements in the war against Turks and Tuyuhun or In the future, he will be much better than Li Chengqian and Li Tai in terms of receiving support from military generals.

"En! It's true that every gain must be lost!" Li Ke sighed, all he thought about in the frame was what happened in Rencheng Prince's Mansion today, so, before he knew it, the frame had arrived at Hanwang's Mansion.

Back at the Han Palace, he recruited Zhu Tong into his study and asked for exact information about the four-nation mission that failed to be in Li Tai today.Naturally, Zhu Tong didn't dare to be negligent, and told Li Ke everything he knew. Li Ke was very dissatisfied after hearing Zhu Tong's answer, because the information Zhu Tong told him, Li Tai had already expressed his gratitude to Li Tai when he worshiped heaven and ancestors today. He said that there was not much source for what the two said.

"Your Highness, our intelligence system in Chang'an is mainly responsible and concerned with the situation of the imperial court and the movements among officials of various ministries. We didn't invest too much manpower in the missions of the four countries, so we only got so much information." Zhu Tong found out Aware of Li Ke's dissatisfaction with his information, he immediately explained.

"En" Li Ke pondered, he did not deny Zhu Tong's explanation, the order he gave Zhu Tong did not mention too much about the missions of the four countries, and among the missions of the four countries, Goryeo and Tuyuhun only arrived on July [-]th In Chang'an, it is not easy to get so much information without investing a lot of manpower.

"From today onwards, you must closely monitor the posts of the missions of Goryeo, Tuyuhun, and Fusang, and you must not let go of those who are accompanying you for the first time. This king must know exactly what the purpose of their trip is." Li Ke ordered, From the beginning to the end, he felt that the reason why Gaoli, Tuyuhun and Fusang came to Chang'an this time was not as fake as Li Tai said.

"No," Zhu Tong replied.

Li Ke asked Zhu Tong about Hou Ruoyi's situation again. Zhu Tong told Li Ke everything he knew, and Li Ke was relieved a lot after hearing this.At least from Zhu Tong's answer, he heard that Hou Ruoyi hadn't had much life recently. Apart from being a little depressed, his body had fully recovered.As for her depression, Li Ke naturally knew the reason, but he couldn't put too much energy on this matter now, at least he didn't take it lightly until he found out the real purpose of the Three Kingdoms coming to Chang'an.

"Then you go out!" Li Ke said to Zhu Tong who was still waiting for his order.

"No..." Zhu Tong bowed and exited the study.

After Zhu Tong left, Li Ke fell into deep thought.Although today he got a lot of information and gained a lot.However, Fusang, Goryeo and Tuyuhun suddenly appeared in Chang'an. After attending today's banquet, he had an ominous premonition that something big was going to happen in Chang'an these days.