Datang's journey to death

Chapter 48

An uncle and two younger brothers died, and Li Ke’s housewarming banquet was basically ruined. Li Ke happily said that he saved money again—no way, although Li Shimin treated him very well, he moved and rewarded a lot of things Give him, but none of them can be used as money!

In the past, he was under the supervision of his relatives and aunts when he ate and drank in the palace. Now that he is out, he will start to take care of the food and drink in the palace. However, he is used to this kind of thing before. That's enough—ahem, even if there are businessmen who will come to ask for a thigh hug, this part of the income will be quite a lot.

At least it’s no problem to make the entire palace operate. Of course, if you want a better quality of life, you have to work harder. Li Ke’s requirements for the quality of life are not very high. He has experienced all kinds of environments when he was in school. They have been beggars of the poor. After all, they may encounter any situation when they go to do tasks.

However, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. In order not to let himself confirm this sentence, Li Ke's quality of life can be called simple at the prince level.

Both Li Chengqian and Pei Xuan are used to his style of life, Li Chengqian thinks that Li Ke is acting for others, but Pei Xuan understands that Li Ke just doesn't want to cause trouble for himself.

Li Ke has never advertised how frugal he is. However, as a prince, his life is basically no different from the stars of later generations. Everyone is staring at him. Many scholars and bureaucrats in the court think that Li Ke is quite like an ancient gentleman. .

Li Shimin was also happy. When others praised his son for his well-bred education, it meant that he, the father, was well-educated. How could he be unhappy?

Li Ke, who was so frugal, directly donated a large sum of money when Li Shimin decided to build a palace for Li Yuan. Li Shimin did the calculations in his mind, and instantly figured out that this was probably Li Ke's annual salary plus food seal.

Li Shimin directly called Li Ke to the Lizheng Hall, and reproached him: "You gave us all the money, what do you use?"

Li Shimin had been a prince before, and he had an account of the expenses of the prince's mansion, but at that time he had to raise soldiers, but even if Li Ke didn't raise soldiers, he would still be responsible for paying his salary.

Li Ke said with some embarrassment: "If it wasn't for my son's own cleverness, my father would not have to devote all his resources to build a palace for Ah Weng. That's it."

Li Shimin shook his head: "I know that matter well."

Li Shimin did say that the internal treasury will be used to build the palace, but the palace is still under planning, and it is uncertain when the construction will start. What's more, the construction of the palace will definitely have to be part of the money from the national treasury, and the internal treasury will definitely not be able to support it. It sounds like such a huge expense.

Li Ke gritted his teeth and said, "Father, don't worry about me, son... son has received a lot of respect these days."

Of course Li Shimin knew about this, and he also knew that this happened to all officials, so it was nothing to him.That's right, strictly speaking, these people are prying the corner of the country, but there is no way to prevent this kind of thing - his family also started from courtiers, and he is very clear about the tricks in it.

It's just amused to see Li Ke's ashamed look, he never thought that his clever son is actually a solid eye.But solid eyes have the advantages of solid eyes. Parents like smart, honest and simple children.

"Okay, I see, it's rare for you to go back to the palace, so why don't you stay for dinner by the way."

Li Ke's eyes lit up after hearing this: "Thank you Dad!"

He is happy to be able to eat with Li Shimin, after all, Li Shimin seldom eats with his sons now, oh, except for Li Zhi.

Li Chengqian has his own small canteen in the East Palace, Li Ke has left the palace to build a mansion, and the other sons eat at his mother's place, so Li Shimin will naturally not call them over for a special meal—Taiji Palace is not small. It will be a long time.

During the meal, Li Ke saw Li Yin, and Li Yin was a blessing in disguise. He lived with Li Zhi, and Empress Changsun was not good at favoring one another, so the number of times Li Yin appeared in front of Li Shimin skyrocketed.

Li Yin also thought about hugging Li Shimin's thigh, which son doesn't want his father to spoil him?Especially when this father was still a wealthy emperor.Li Ke is now favored to the extent that all civil and military officials in the court know about it. It's not that Li Yin has never been envious or jealous, but because he is his third brother, he has no other ideas.

But for some reason, no matter how Li Yin behaved, he always felt that Li Shimin's attitude towards him was indifferent.In Li Shimin's case, Li Min's label is probably the youngest son of Concubine Yang Shu and Li Ke's younger brother.Li Shimin's attitude towards him is mainly because he thinks of the stupid things that Concubine Yang Shu did back then, and he can't help being angry.

Although he knows that he shouldn't blame his children, Li Shimin is not a sage, so why can't he choose which son he likes?What's more, Li Yin's temperament does not make him comfortable.

It can only be said that Li Yin is still too young to hide his dark side. He thinks that those thoughts are buried in his heart, but everyone can feel his uncertain temperament even if they can't see it.As for Li Ke... Li Ke didn't take it to heart at all.

No matter how bad thoughts Li Chengqian and Li Ke are circling in their hearts, they are all aboveboard on the surface, and even if they want to play tricks, they will use ulterior motives. After all, if they are scheming, no one can play against Li Shimin.

But Li Yin couldn't do it, so he could only watch Li Shimin's careful care for Li Zhi, and his heart became more and more unbalanced.

But this time Li Ke stayed to eat, which made him very happy. Although he ate separately, he still unconsciously slid towards Li Ke.

Li Shimin once worried that Li Yin's volatile temperament would cause trouble when he grew up. Now that he is clinging to Li Ke, he feels that there should be no major problems under Li Ke's control. It's time to leave the palace and build a mansion."

Li Ke looked at Li Shimin in a daze. He only moved out when he was 13 years old, but Li Yin was just ten years old, so he was about to leave the palace to build a mansion?

In fact, it was normal for the princes to leave the palace to build a mansion in their teens. After all, the population of the harem increased and the living space became smaller and smaller, and in Li Shimin's opinion, it was not a good thing for these princes to stay in the harem for a long time.

Li Ke was the one that Li Shimin stayed for a year before going out. As for the son he didn't like so much, he naturally threw it out early.

Li Yin was very happy. He smiled and looked at Li Ke with crooked eyes. Li Ke reluctantly asked him to eat well.Li Yin's palace was built in the adjacent square to Li Ke, but Li Yin was not happy - there was a curfew at night, although there was no such restriction in the square, but the squares were closed, and he couldn't find Li Ke. ah.

However, the place where Li Ke lives is a veritable high-end community. It can be said that there are princes walking all over the place, and there are a lot of county kings, not to mention the princes.

Li Shimin specially chose such a place for Li Ke at the beginning, which is also one of the reasons why the prince's party is nervous. Of course, not only the prince's party, but even many people who are not the prince's party are looking at Li with some vigilance. Ke.

Because Li Ke has another identity - the grandson of Emperor Sui Yang.

Although the Yang family is still an aristocratic family, since Li Shimin came to power, he has been promoting nobles and suppressing the aristocratic family in order to concentrate the imperial power, so the problem has come, there are quite a few people in the court who have enmity with the Yang family.

Many people started their careers in rebellion. They were forced by the country to choose this path. Yes, Li Ke’s surname is Li, but his family is an inseparable existence. Who knows if Concubine Yang Shu has taught What did you do to Li Ke?What if Li Ke gains power and wants to liquidate them?

What's more, what if Li Ke has ambitions for the throne?This is not impossible, and the saint's three sons may not be able to guarantee anything. Thinking back, Liu Heng's original concubine gave birth to three or four sons for Liu Heng, but the mother and son went to Huangquan together without leaving a name Down.

So the King of Wu must be pushed down!It's just that they can only think so now, and they can't put it into action, because Li Ke is young and has no obvious bad deeds. On the contrary, he talks and behaves well and is supported by some scholar-bureaucrats. It is said that his martial arts are also very good, which makes those people feel a little uncomfortable.

Li Ke naturally knows that his origin itself has brought a lot of hatred, but he doesn't care, because now he can let people look for the white cat at will.

It’s just that there aren’t many white cats these days, and the fact that they can be seen in the palace is purely because of the tribute from Fanbang. Li Ke didn’t dare to make a big move after being searched for for a long time. After all, his task seems too unreliable. It is easy to give Li Shimin a feeling of playing with things and losing his mind.

It's better to wait to go out to be an official. Li Ke, who was thinking this way, never expected that he would be tricked by Li Shimin.

Originally in the seventh year of Zhenguan, Li Ke was allowed to go out as an official for a year, but this time Li Shimin didn't mention it. Instead, someone suggested that King Wu was an adult and needed to become a local governor according to the previous regulations.

Li Ke was very calm after hearing this, but Li Chengqian frowned. Rather than staying away from Li Ke, he hoped that Li Ke was in Chang'an, under his nose, so that no matter what tricks Li Ke played, he could handle it.However, he also knew that he had no choice in this matter, but it didn't matter, Li Ke had only been out for a year.

It's just that no one expected that after Li Shimin saw this memorial, he thought about it for a long time, then turned his head and said to Empress Changsun, "I don't want Saburo to be too far away from me."

Empress Changsun said calmly, "Then let Sanlang get closer."

So Li Shimin made a decision: let Wu Wang Li Ke be the shepherd of Yongzhou.

Li Ke was in a dazed state, wait, what did he do to him?He also reminded Pei Xuan not to go too far, otherwise he will end badly when history is corrected, but now... Li Ke feels that his end may not be good either.

It is necessary to contact the dean of teaching to see if it is necessary to send someone to correct the history. When Li Ke thought of this, he suddenly felt that this idea is also very good. If someone comes with a system, the other party's system may be able to find it. With Ojuku's existence, he wouldn't have to look so hard for it by then.

So Li Ke opened the Shitong Talisman again, almost as soon as he opened the Shitong Talisman, the head teacher roared over: "I asked you to find the system, what have you done?"

Li Ke is innocent: "I didn't do anything."

"You haven't done anything yet? How did Pei Ji die? How did that Pei Xuan show up? How did Concubine Yang Shu die?" The dean felt that his heart attack was about to recur. He was obviously outstanding in school. How could this kid be so troublesome?

Li Ke was a little guilty and inexplicable, because he did cause Concubine Yang Shu's death single-handedly, but he was determined not to take the blame for the first two.

"I also want to ask you, didn't you say that there are no time-travelers? Pei Xuan can make gunpowder, tell me he is not a time-traveler?" Like the teaching director, Li Ke also felt that the other party was cheating.

"Huh?" The dean was a little puzzled: "Are you sure it's him?"

"Who else could it be if it wasn't him? And he admitted it." Li Ke said while thinking that now he can be sure that Pei Ji's death is indeed not a normal historical development.

Li Ke felt the pain of the keyboard when he heard the clatter of the dean's typing. After a long while, the dean said firmly, "There is no information about the traversers."

Li Ke paused before asking: "Director, tell me... is it possible that he is my system?"

Li Ke was really skeptical before. After all, if it wasn’t a time traveler, besides him, the only one in the world who can make gunpowder is probably his system—strictly speaking, the system knows more than him.

However, the reason why I didn't think about it carefully was just because I thought it was impossible. How could the system become a human?There is no precedent before, and of course there is probably no such thing as the owner losing the system before.

Sure enough, the dean said decisively: "Impossible!"

Li Ke rubbed his head: "What's going on? Because of a Pei Xuan, I'm tied up now, Li Chengqian... You probably also discovered that he was reborn, and Pei Xuan seems to know me too. The two of them want to unite Get up and deal with me, I'm afraid I will go back before I find the system."

The dean asked in amazement: "Are you an MT? Can you attract hatred like this?"

Li Ke's face darkened instantly: "Blame me."

The teaching director pondered for a long time before saying, "Pei Xuan's situation is very special. Please observe carefully and draw a conclusion and give me a report."

Li Ke said in an instant: "The number of times to understand the talisman is about to run out, how do I report it?"

The dean hesitated for a while before saying: "Then report it after you find the system. One thing is certain that Pei Xuan is not a time traveler."

Li Ke asked a little unhappy: "Then the trajectory of history has changed now, what should we do?"

The dean also had some headaches: "You...you should look for the system first. After you find it, if there is still room for correction, you can stay. If not, you can send someone to go again."

After hearing this, Li Ke was instantly relieved. With the director's words, even if the history of Datang was changed to a sieve, he didn't have to worry about it. He just needed to take care of himself.

So when Wang Gui thought that King Wu was too young to write a letter for Yongzhou Mu, Li Ke was as quiet as a chicken. He was somewhat happy about Wang Gui's letter. If Li Shimin was persuaded by Wang Gui, then he could go out and become an official. At that time, the sky will be high and the birds will fly, how many things can't be done?

What's more, what Wang Gui said is also reasonable. Yongzhou Mu is responsible for administering large and small matters in Chang'an City. .

Li Ke was happy, but it was Li Shimin who was unhappy. With his eight-core brain turned, he almost instantly thought of why Wang Gui rejected Li Ke. It’s just that there are not many talents in this family. After Emperor Yang opened the imperial examinations, the family almost couldn’t get along. Then the world was in chaos, and Wang Gui’s father had a flexible mind and directly took refuge in Li Yuan. The hero, Wang Gui also skyrocketed and became a servant.

This family hated Yang Guang, and Li Ke had Yang Guang's blood on his body.Li Shimin was very angry. In his opinion, Li Ke had done nothing wrong since he entered the court - he couldn't do it even if he wanted to. Li Ke seldom expressed his opinions and never received tasks outside of listening to politics.

Under such circumstances, there are still people targeting Li Ke, how could Li Shimin be happy?Of course, at this time, he didn't suspect that it was Li Chengqian's fault, but he was angry that these people didn't wink. They only saw that Li Ke's biological mother was Concubine Yang Shu, so why did they forget that his surname was Li, and that he was Li Shimin's son?

So, it didn't take long for Wang Gui to be relegated to the governor of Tongzhou for the crime of leaking the forbidden Chinese language.

After Li Chengqian knew it, he sneered and said, "Sanlang has really grown up, even my father was deceived by him."

Pei Xuan looked up at him: "Wang Gui is your man?"

"Of course not. How could I accept it if I'm so stupid? It's just that I didn't refuse him when he showed me his favor." Li Chengqian shrugged. Wang Gui will also be punished, but the combination of these two incidents shows that Li Shimin is protecting Li Ke, which is why Li Chengqian is unhappy.

"Compared to Li Ke, you should be more careful about Li Yin."

"Just him?" Li Chengqian looked contemptuous. If Li Ke was qualified to be his enemy, Li Yin was not even worthy to be an enemy. He was just an annoying little bug.

Pei Xuan looked at him meaningfully: "Don't take him seriously, maybe he is not the Li Yin in your impression?"

Li Chengqian looked at Pei Xuan thoughtfully and didn't speak. Later, he also observed Li Yin carefully. He had to say that if Li Chengqian wanted to know someone, unless he was much higher than him, or similar to him, otherwise It is impossible to hide.

Li Yin is not the one who can hide, so Li Chengqian turned his head and said to Pei Xuan: "That kid is a mad dog."

Pei Xuan's mouth twitched, that's your brother, right?Although the same father and mother, but you said he is a mad dog you...

Li Chengqian didn't seem to care, and his face was full of interest: "He looks at the third child with unusual eyes."

Pei Xuan's heart moved: "You mean..."

Li Chengqian rubbed his chin: "However, the third child doesn't seem to notice it, it's interesting, really interesting."

Pei Xuan's eyelids twitched: "Are you trying to add fuel to the flames?"

For a moment, there was a kind of anger in Pei Xuan's heart that could not be vented. This anger came suddenly, and I don't know why. This anger caused Pei Xuan's tone to be a little stiff.

Li Chengqian didn't realize it, so he gave Pei Xuan an inexplicable look: "How is that possible?" At this point, his expression changed: "We have to keep the two of them away."

It is true that Li Chengqian wants to cheat Li Ke, but it does not mean that he can accept such a method of embarrassing the royal family. As the future emperor of the prince, he directly substitutes himself into the role of the patriarch. Things about the royal family are simply unbearable!

At this time, Li Chengqian was very fortunate that Li Min's residence was far from Li Ke's.Li Yin was no more favored than Li Ke, he was kicked out when he was 12 years old, and Li Ke was too busy to take care of him after he became the shepherd of Yongzhou.

The reason for being recruited was excessive hunting. In a fit of rage, Li Shimin cut off Li Yin's household closure and asked him to contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors at home.

The opponent's attack was too sudden, and Li Ke never expected that someone would attack Li Yin, especially that person was obviously a member of the prince's party—maybe others don't know the details of that person, but Li Ke knew it very well. This person is the prince's person, but it's better to hide it.

Li Ke's first reaction was to find Li Chengqian. Of course, he didn't go directly to the East Palace, but went to the Hedong County Government.

Pei Xuan didn't seem to be surprised by Li Ke's arrival. He looked at Li Ke's cold and angry face, and suddenly felt a little suffocated.

"What is His Highness King Wu so-called?"

I don't know why, when facing Pei Xuan, Li Ke unexpectedly didn't want to go around in circles, and said directly: "Liu Lang has limited energy, and he has never offended the prince. If you have anything, come to me, don't hurt the innocent."

Pei Xuan looked up at Li Ke and sneered: "Perhaps you are the only one who thinks he is a good brother, why don't you carefully observe the way he looks at you?"

Li Ke was stunned for a moment, somewhat inexplicable: "What's wrong with the way he looks at me?"

Pei Xuan looked at Li Ke's eyes that had something to do with you, and felt even more distressed. He threw the white porcelain tea cup in his hand aside and said, "What's the matter? If we don't do anything, in the future only the royal family will I'm afraid there will be a scandal of brotherly incest."

Li Ke understood what Pei Xuan meant in an instant, and was furious: "Don't bring your and Li Chengqian's dirty thoughts to others! Do you think the whole world is like you?"

Damn, he and Li Yinming are innocent, okay?

Pei Xuan heard the meaning behind Li Ke's words, and suddenly his expression became extremely gloomy and he asked, "What do you mean?"

Li Ke stood up and looked at him condescendingly and sneered: "The two of you get together all day, I'm afraid Li Chengqian wants more than just satisfaction!"

After hearing this, Pei Xuan's eyes were bloodshot, and those blue eyes turned slightly blood-red. He looked at Li Ke with a blank expression and said, "Get lost!"