Chapter 402: Li Tai's confidant, the evidence is conclusive
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A polo game attracted many people's attention. In the polo field, polo experts were waving clubs immediately. Polo, as a sport of the Tang Dynasty nobles, is still popular among many people.
Li Tai sat on the main seat with a big belly and leisurely watched the polo game on the field.
And in Li Tai's lower head... Fang Yiai, Gao Yang, Cen Wenben, Liu Yu, Chai Lingwu... are all here, and in some other places, there are the candidates who take the exam. Of course, these candidates are basically the children of major families.
There are very few poor families.
Li Tai picked up a glass of wine and laughed, "Everyone drinks..."
Fang Yiai, Gao Yang, Cen Wenben, Liu Wei, Chai Lingwu... and others and the pickets outside also picked up the wine glasses in their hands and shouted happily: "Yin Sheng..."
Only Li Tai dared to have such a show. If it were someone else, such as Li Ke... he might have been impeached by the censor long ago. During the Spring Examination, so many candidates gathered together, what would you like to do?
Form a clique for personal gain...?
No one dares to take the lead in this big hat, but Li Tai doesn't care. Because Li Tai has the trust and support of his father, Li Tai can cultivate his wings without restraint.
This is where Li Shimin lost his duties. One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, but Li Shimin gave Li Tai too many rights, which made Li Tai's eyes fascinated and had extravagant hopes.
However, although Li Tai has his own wings, he now lacks the support of important officials. Although Li Tai has a wide connection and great power, he does not have the support of important officials of the court, especially the so-called prime minister of the Secretariat.
Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Ma Zhou and other prime ministers of the dynasty, as well as Li Jie and other imperial guards who held heavy troops, they did not support Li Tai very much. You must know that with these actual capital, even if you, King Li Tai, of Wei, is very powerful, you may not be an opponent.
Li Tai's current status has also come out to attract students to watch polo together this year, but in fact he knows his own shortcomings. Although Li Tai, as the editor of "Guodizhi", has sufficient connections, because he is already well-read in poetry and books, most of the scholars have joined him.
At this point, King Li Tai of Wei is indeed much stronger than Prince Li Chengqian.
At that time, King Li Shimin of Qin achieved success with the support of the so-called 18 scholars of the Qin Palace. Now, King Li Tai of Wei has performed the same trick. He is willing to interact with scholars and win them over to his disciples.
Li Tai's literary group did play an important role in the battle with Li Chengqian, especially Cen Wenben, which gave Li Chengqian a fatal blow.
Li Tai had such a rich connection with scholars, but he ignored one thing, that is, his father had ascended the throne in this way. Li Shimin knew the importance of the juvenile philosophers, so he would never allow such a large force in the court, especially because they were even connected with the prince, which made Li Shimin feel uncomfortable.
When Li Tai's ambition grew bigger and bigger, his strength was invisibly exposed, and in the end, he was not far from being exiled or died.
Look at it recently. Li You began to support poor students, and Li Shimin made strong support. This move was actually just beating Li Tai. However, this knock was too obscure and Li Tai couldn't understand it at all.
Li Tai will only resent Li You from the bottom of his heart, and then fight with Li Tai desperately, without any other ideas... Li Shimin is so smart, but his son's handling is really bad.
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"Your Highness. I may want to ask you to have a drink with the five students on the left later. These are all students I selected. There is absolutely no problem with being on the list this time...!"
The one who spoke was Cen Wenben.
Cen Wenben is the Minister of the Secretariat who specializes in charge of confidential documents and is a close minister around Li Shimin.
But why did Li Shimin's close minister become Li Tai's confidant? Hehe... There is a lot of knowledge here. Let's talk about Cen Wenben's life experience. He was the grandson of Cen Shanfang, the Minister of Personnel of the Western Liang Dynasty, and the son of Cen Zhixiang, the Minister of the Yu tribe of the Sui Dynasty.
Xiao Xian proclaimed himself emperor in Jingzhou and thought he was the Minister of the Secretariat.
Compared with Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and Li Jing's dazzling names, Cen Wenben is indeed not that famous. According to historical records, he is a person who is not very talkative, but his literary talent is very outstanding, so he was given the attention of Li Shimin and was arranged to draft various edicts around him. Although his official position is not high, he is easily promoted because he is directly with the emperor. It is a good job. Cen Wenben himself did a very good job, so he was promoted one after another.
In addition to his outstanding literary talent, Cen Wenben's loving people's mind and noble morality have become a highlight of him. Although he became a high-ranking official, Cen Wenben still lives a simple life and is very filial to his mother. Even those old friends Cen Wenben who are not doing well have never treated them badly, and they are very considerate in their etiquette.
Moreover, when he was following Xiao Xian, he advised Xiao Xian to surrender to the Tang army to avoid casualties, and when the Tang army was preparing to loot the people, he advised the commander of the Tang army not to let the soldiers plunder the people, so that the local people would be spared from difficulties.
At the same time, Cen Wenben never flatters the powerful and nobles. Even the King of Wei, who was deeply favored at the time, dared to speak out and accuse him of being extravagant.
Such an excellent person will definitely be surprised why he followed the subordinates of King Wei and became King Wei Li Tai. Because according to the above explanation, Cen Wenben did not need to have any relationship with Li Tai at all, as long as he maintains Li Shimin's trust is enough.
But Cen Wenben is Li Tai's most powerful think tank, and Li Chengqian is also forced to this point by Cen Wenben.
Why exactly?
Because Cen Wenben is actually not Li Tai's person at all. He stayed by Li Tai's side and had a shocking plan. This plan has been planned for thirteen years, and of course I will not say it out yet, but Cen Wenben's plan is surprising to Li You.
"I know, teacher..." Li Tai is a person with a high EQ. Cen Wenben is useful to Li Tai, so Li Tai has always called Cen Wenben the teacher.
Cen Wenben nodded with satisfaction when he looked at Li Tai.
At this time, Fang Yiai, who was on the side, looked at Li Tai and said, "Your Highness... I may be in trouble during this period?"
"What's the trouble?" Everyone looked at Fang Yiai and was surprised. The other party was the prince-in-law, and his father was the prime minister. Who would be ignorant to cause trouble for him?
But I heard Fang Yiai say, "Your Highness, have you forgotten that the prince's spring exam questions were revealed to him by my people. This time the prince suffered such a big loss, I think even if the prince couldn't think of me, Du He and others would definitely think of me."
"This is indeed a trouble, I didn't stop it earlier." Cen Wenben frowned slightly.
"What does this have to do with the teacher..." Li Tai waved his hand quickly: "This is the decision I made. I thought I could definitely pull Li Chengqian down this time, but who knew that Li You had ruined the matter.
However, Fang Er, you don’t have to worry. Even if they find out that you... as long as I am here, they will not dare to touch you."
"That's it..." Gao Yang smiled: "With the fourth brother here, the prince dares not touch you. After all, the one who is most loved by the fourth brother... and you are the prince consort of this palace, so don't think too much...!"
After receiving Li Tai's promise, Fang Yiai had nothing to worry about... In fact, this incident really didn't have much to do with Fang Yiai. Even after the prince found out that Fang Yiai, he would not dare to deal with Fang Yiai directly. You must know that behind Fang Yiai was Fang Xuanling. As long as Fang Xuanling was not dead, then Fang Yiai was not rebelling, and he would not have any trouble.
But this topic made Cen Wenben's eyes lit up slightly, and he suddenly had a decision in his heart.
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In Dunhuafang, Xing Feng sat in his office. Next to Xing Feng was a black man. The black man was no one else, but Ge Qing from Huiying. Li You begged Mr. Yan for help.
During this period, Mr. Yan's sister's health was getting better and better, so Mr. Yan agreed without thinking.
Ge Qing was the one who was responsible for the news in the entire Chang'an City, so Prince Yan sent Ge Qing to assist in the execution of Feng.
"Ah...!" A wooden basin was filled with large cubes of ice, and there were five bottles of beer among the ice. Ge Qing used her teeth to directly bite the plug that was stuffed into the beer porcelain bottle, then took a few sips, and then made a comfortable sound.
"Brother Seventh... Dunhuafang is really great. I don't want to leave anymore. Even I, a Kunlun slave, can't see any discrimination. Yesterday I went to the cafeteria for dinner, and someone took the initiative to give up my seat. Dunhuafang is really great."
Ge Qing's sigh made Xing Feng smile and said, "If you like this, come here. Don't worry, as long as you are willing to come to Dunhuafang, I will accept you entering my intelligence department and being my deputy, only under me...!"
"Haha...! Brother Qi looks down on me, I want to come too... But my life belongs to my young master...!" After saying that, Ge Qing sighed slightly.
Xing Feng did not continue to say it, but just smiled, and then said, "Brother Ge... Do you think there will be a big news tonight? I wonder if this news is accurate?"
"Don't worry, Brother Qi... The news is very accurate. As long as the news is determined, it will be clear whether the King of Wei succeeds..." Ge Qing was very confident.
"You said why did the prince and the King of Wei have had such a fierce fight... They are obviously brothers, so it is necessary to just kill the other party in death like this?" Xing Feng shook his head slightly.
"Brother Seventh...that's the throne, the throne above ten thousand people. Who doesn't want to climb to that position?" Ge Qing smiled.
"That's right..." Xing Feng shook his head slightly: "I think it's better for my young master. I don't expect any extravagant position. As long as the young master can keep our Dunhua Fang Yifang safe, that's enough."
But Ge Qing did not answer the words of Xing Feng, because Ge Qing knew something that Xing Feng didn't know. Li You was not as pure as Xing Feng's heart, and Li You's heart was also very big.
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Chapter completed!