Back in the capital, Li Jiancheng was put under house arrest in the East Palace. The palace was full of Li Yuan's people. Except for the crown prince, even his children had been moved elsewhere. This shows that Li Yuan has wiped out the last trace of family affection and will

Li Jiancheng was treated as an enemy. Otherwise, he would not have been surrounded by heavy troops in the East Palace, and Li Jiancheng would have been separated from his flesh and blood. However, Li Jiancheng obviously also looked away. He did not ask about everything, did not care about everything, and was in a free and relaxed state.

shape.

When I have nothing to do, I just read, drink tea, write and play the piano. I feel so carefree. I have been busy for several years. It was not until I was forced to let go of everything that I realized that peace and contentment were the life I most yearned for.

Indifferent, it is actually very simple.

It's the person you care about the most who can wipe out your glimmer of hope with his own hands, turning you from hope to disappointment and despair.

"Squeak!"

The door opened, and Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin walked in carrying a tray. Her clothes were very simple, but her temperament was even better than before, noble and elegant, as if an orchid was blooming in an empty valley.

With her delicate hands, she brewed a pot of fragrant tea and placed it on the tea table. Then she took two teacups and poured half a cup of green tea soup for the two of them. It was filled with hot air and fragrant.

"Hey, there's even Longjing tea, it's unbelievable." Li Jiancheng put down his pen and said with a smile.

Zheng Guanyin rolled her eyes at her husband angrily and said softly: "After all, the crown prince has not been officially abolished, you are still the prince. Even if he is abolished, you still have a father-son relationship, and the Holy Father will not go too far."

Originally, she had been worried that her husband would not look away, but now she sees that his attitude is very good, and she is finally relieved.

"Come and see how my calligraphy looks like." I have to say that Li Yuan is really good at writing, and each of his children is quite outstanding. Li Jiancheng is personable, yet heroic, and full of masculine charm.

His calligraphy is also quite beautiful, with vigorous and powerful brushwork, magnificent momentum, and awe-inspiring bone strength. It is actually the calligraphy "invented" by Yang Tong, and the poem "Difficult to Travel" was also inscribed by Yang Tong at the Nuwa Temple in Fengling Mountain.

Zheng Guanyin suddenly burst into tears, "The poem is good, but the calligraphy is even better!"

Yang Xiong, a writer of the Western Han Dynasty, once wrote, "Words are the voice of the heart; writing is the painting of the heart; the sound and picture are the same as those of a gentleman or a villain." Yang Xiongdao believes that handwriting completely reflects the character or state of the writer at that time.

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Zheng Guanyin is the legitimate daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang. If the imperial power is handed over smoothly, she will be the empress of the Tang Dynasty. She is very knowledgeable in literature. After appreciating it for a while, she can also infer her husband's emotions at this moment based on the characteristics of the handwriting.

She said "the words are better", firstly, they were written by her husband, and secondly, she saw a broad-minded mentality between the lines, which showed that her husband had really let go, which made her extremely happy.

Li Jiancheng sighed, feeling that he owed his wife too much. He had said that he wanted to leave when he was in Xiangyang, but his strong sense of mission and unwillingness finally led him to come to Chengdu; now, he has finally given up completely.

He asked again: "I heard that King Huai'an searched for three thousand sets of brand-new weapons and armor from the East Palace?"

Zheng Guanyin's face changed greatly, "Husband, I don't know what happened. After they broke into the East Palace, they went straight to the backyard, and then bulldozed the flower pond and rockery. The weapons and armor were underneath. It was clear that someone framed the marriage.

disaster."

Li Jiancheng was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "What does it mean to cover up something and add something superfluous? This is it."

"What do you mean, husband?" Zheng Guanyin was overjoyed.

In Chengdu City, Tai Chi Palace was built by Li Yuanji. It was too easy to put a batch of weapons and armors into the East Palace. However, they only stayed in the East Palace for a short time, and they did not carry out any major construction work on the East Palace. Then problems arose.

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Li Jiancheng smiled and nodded: "We have stayed in the East Palace for less than four months, and I am rarely in Chengdu. There are only two hundred soldiers who stay in the East Palace for a long time. How can they obtain three thousand sets of brand-new weapons with strict supervision?

I would like to see how those in the DPRK judge this matter."

"Will the Holy One change his mind?"

"Whether you change it or not is none of my business. Whoever wants to be the prince can be the prince. I don't care anyway."

At this time, a eunuch reported: "Your Highness, Prime Minister Pei is here."

"Let him come!" Li Jiancheng understood that what was supposed to come had finally come, and said to Zheng Guanyin: "A good wife, please step aside."

Mrs. Zheng nodded, turned and left.

Soon, Pei Ji arrived at the study, bowed and saluted, "I am here to see the prince."

Li Jiancheng said, "What's the matter with Prime Minister Pei?"

Pei Ji hurriedly said: "I am here to give a few words to His Royal Highness on the orders of the Holy One."

"Just ask, I will answer truthfully."

"Why did Your Highness disregard brotherhood and kill his own brother with poison?"

"Where's the evidence?"

"The Crown Princess had a life-saving grace for the poisoned palace maid's family. Although she is dead, because of this relationship, His Highness and the Crown Princess are the biggest suspects."

Li Jiancheng laughed, "You were an official of the Sui Dynasty. Back then, you canceled all Li Shenfu's reasonable defenses in Bingzhou and took away his military power. As a result, not only did you lose Bingzhou, but you also encouraged General Li Shenfu to leave the city.

Go and die. According to your logic, can I also say that you missed your old relationship and deliberately gave Bingzhou to the Sui Dynasty?"

Pei Ji's face turned red and he coughed: "That's different!"

"Why is it different?" Li Jiancheng drank tea happily and looked at Pei Ji with disdain, "All your defenses in Bingzhou are beneficial to the Sui army. They are also your people. They dedicated Queshu Valley, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If you kill Shen Guang, this clearly means that you accepted the benefits of the Sui Dynasty and gave Bingzhou to the Sui Dynasty."

Pei Ji's expression changed drastically and he said angrily: "Your Highness is being unreasonable."

"Why is it so unreasonable? You said that the palace maid died for me in order to repay the favor; then it is normal for you to give Bingzhou to Yang Tong in order to repay the favor of Emperor Wu of the Sui Dynasty. Anyway, Bingzhou is not yours, and you don't need to die.

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"Your Highness, please pay attention to your Majesty's instructions." Pei Ji had no choice but to use Li Yuan to suppress Li Jiancheng.

"I still say the same thing. No one can tell whether the palace maid was favored by the crown prince. Please remember that there is a kind of person in this world called a dead man. He can die for his master, frame others and blame others.

What does it matter?" Li Jiancheng snorted coldly, "And Er Zhuhuan, Qiao Gongshan has been kicked out of the East Palace long ago. The files about the two of them are still there, so you can watch them carefully."

Pei Ji said: "Perhaps Your Highness deliberately listed the charges to allow Er Zhuhuan and Qiao Gongshan to perform other tasks secretly. Now that they have been silenced, doesn't this explain the problem?"

When Li Jiancheng saw that he kept pouring sewage on his head, he immediately became impatient and started talking to him. He said coldly: "Pei Ji, how much benefit have you received from King Qi?"

Pei Ji's expression changed, "Your Highness, what do you mean?"

"If you, Pei Ji, are honest, upright, selfless, and upright, Yang Tong may spare your life in the future because you are a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty; if you are duplicitous, cunning, corrupt, and perverting the law, and murdering loyal people, now you have

Even if you are rich enough to rival the country, you will lose your life. Even your children and grandchildren will not end well..." Li Jiancheng stared at him coldly, "If you don't believe it, you can continue to ask for bribes. I'm sure the traitor list

Up there, you will be famous as Pei Ji, the treacherous minister Duan Da, Yun Dingxing, and Feng Lun. Today is your tomorrow."

Li Jiancheng knew that he was isolated and helpless and in an extremely unfavorable passive position. If Pei Ji and other traitors tampered with the confession without authorization, even if he died, he would still have to bear the reputation of poisoning his brother. The only way at the moment was to take advantage of the situation and the Sui Dynasty's general trend to force him.

Pei Ji restrained himself somewhat.

Pei Ji's old face turned red and white: "Wei Chen, I don't understand what your highness is saying!"

"It doesn't matter whether you understand or not, but your method of interrogation is not right at all!" Li Jiancheng shouted sternly: "Not only did you not bring any official from the Ministry of Punishment, Yushitai, or Dali Temple, you didn't even have the person who took the notes.

, you obviously just want to harm me and plan to edit my words at will!"

"Your Highness does not need to frame a minor official. If Your Highness must have the three courts to examine the case, I can ask the Holy One for instructions."

"I, Li Jiancheng, am upright and upright. I am not afraid of the three courts. Even if I imitate the Sui Dynasty and have a public trial in front of the whole city, I will not be afraid at all." Li Jiancheng said to Pei Ji: "Go back and tell Li Yuanji that his only way is to let me die."

I don’t know what’s going on, otherwise, there’s no way you can frame me.”

"Farewell!" Pei Ji left in a dejected tone.

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He left the East Palace and went directly to the Imperial Study Room to report the situation to Li Yuan. Li Yuan listened patiently and asked: "So, he will not admit it?"

"Exactly, the prince categorically refused to admit it, and said that it was hard to tell whether the palace maid was true or false, and that she might be another assassin sent to harm him. He also said that even if he was favored by the prince, he would be the same as the old Sui courtiers of my dynasty, and could not

Because of their previous relationship, they thought the two were still related. Er Zhuhuan and Qiao Gongshan also believed the same. Then he accused Wei Chen of not bringing officials and record-keepers from the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Yushitai. He was worried about Wei Chen

He tampered with his testimony, so he refused to cooperate."

Although Li Jiancheng's beating did not make Pei Ji wake up, he also knew what the Tang Dynasty was like. If the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Tang Dynasty, with Yang Dong's cruelty, his name Pei Ji might really be engraved on the list of traitors, leaving behind

After thousands of years of notoriety, this somewhat frightened him, and he did not dare to add insult to injury without authorization.

"Keep talking!" Li Yuan said coldly.

"Then he said a lot of unpleasant things, saying that the minister wanted to kill him." Pei Ji did not dare to mention Li Yuanji.

Li Yuan immediately fell silent. He believed that the family scandal should not be publicized and did not want to go to the legal level, so he asked Pei Ji to go to accountability alone. However, Li Jiancheng insisted on following normal procedures, which made him very embarrassed.

He himself had a prejudice against Li Jiancheng and hoped that Li Jiancheng would give him a reason to depose the crown prince. So when he heard that Li Yuanji was poisoned and pointed at Li Jiancheng everywhere, he indiscriminately concluded that he had poisoned Li Yuanji, but Li Jiancheng returned calmly.

The performance of the court made him less angry, and his mind gradually cleared up, and he found that many things were not consistent with common sense. However, Li Yuan had a deep prejudice against Li Jiancheng, and he did not want to threaten his throne by establishing a prince again, so even if he found something wrong

, and do not want to miss this opportunity for the deposed prince.

After a while, Li Yuan asked: "Prime Minister Pei, what do you think?"

"Abolition is a matter of national importance. I think it would be better to seek the opinions of several prime ministers."

"Let me think about it, Prime Minister Pei will go down first!"

"Wei Chen resigns!"

Not long after Pei Ji left, a eunuch came out of the inner room. He was the supervisor sent by Li Yuan to monitor the East Palace. Li Jiancheng's every word and deed was under his surveillance. He saluted Li Yuan and said, "I see you, Your Majesty."

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"Did Pei Ji lie?" Li Yuan asked.

The eunuch said: "What Xiangguo Pei said is basically true, but His Highness the Crown Prince said that he deliberately gave Bingzhou to the Sui Dynasty in order to repay the favor of the Sui Dynasty. He did not say anything. The Crown Prince said that he had accepted a bribe from the King of Qi and did not say anything. The Crown Prince also said that he
To be continued...