His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is nominally the next successor to the Tang Dynasty, but this is only in name only.
In the Zuowei Army Camp, Hou Junji couldn't stand what His Highness the Crown Prince was doing. When he came to invite Xu Yunyan to the East Palace, his father-in-law who was attending the banquet was sent away again by Hou Junji. Hou Junji's face turned a little livid. Looking at Xu Yunyan here.
Xu Yunyan looked at Hou Junji's ugly face and asked cautiously, "Brother, is there any problem with going to the Prince's Mansion for a banquet?"
Hou Junji nodded, "This prince is just uneasy and well-intentioned. Now that you have just arrived, you didn't go to see our master, and you didn't go into the palace to thank us. Your highness, the prince, suddenly came. This is to give the outside world the illusion that you are on the prince's side." Man, this is a conspiracy, your majesty should carefully consider whether it is appropriate for you to be the salt and iron transporter."
Although what Hou Junji said here was very serious, Xu Yunyan still mentioned "General Hou" here.
Seeing Xu Yunyan speaking so formally, Hou Junji looked at Xu Yunyan in confusion. Xu Yunyan then said, "His Royal Highness, after all, he has some rights in name, and he cannot openly violate His Highness's will." , otherwise it is impossible to say that my little brother, I have been flattened and rounded by His Highness the Crown Prince for various reasons before I served His Highness the King of Qin.
This salt and iron transfer envoy can at least guarantee that there will be no fraud in my hands, but if it falls into the hands of the prince, there is no doubt that this salt and iron transfer envoy will become a cornucopia of money for him to win over his cronies and cultivate his influence. "
When Xu Yunyan said this, Hou Junji trembled in fright, "What the junior brother said is true. Then the senior brother will not keep the junior brother here. The junior brother will see the situation. If there is anything after going to the East Palace, he will agree to everything first and wait until the banquet is over." , let’s discuss countermeasures.”
"Don't worry, senior brother, I know what's going on."
After Xu Yunyan said this, he quickly walked out of the tent. Now he did not dare to stay here with Hou Junji for a long time.
Although Hou Junji clearly disagrees with Li Shimin and other generals, who knows whether the prince and his cronies will be fooled? It's not like the prince's subordinates are all drunkards, there are some who are quite powerful.
But just after Xu Yunyan walked out of the military camp, some generals from Zuowei came to Xu Yunyan and said, "General Xu, oh no, it should be Commander Xu now."
, I wonder if you can explain yesterday’s formation experience to us. "
"this……"
Xu Yunyan looked at the gazes of these generals who were seeking knowledge and sighed, "So that you generals will know that it is not because I hold Cai Aowu to explain to you, but because His Highness the Crown Prince summoned me, there is no way to stay here for a long time.
But my soldiers are still here, and they also know it. If you generals don't mind it, can you let me, a soldier, explain it to your generals' soldiers?
If the generals feel that it is inappropriate, when His Highness the Prince returns from being summoned, he will definitely explain it to the generals here and apologize to the generals by the way. "
As soon as Xu Yunyan finished speaking, these so-called generals were here to agree, "In this case, we can't force Commander Xu, so Commander Xu can arrange for his soldiers to help us train first, otherwise we will learn in three days." If we don’t know this military formation, we can’t explain it to General Hou.”
A general said this cheerfully, Xu Yunyan nodded, "Simple, I will arrange for someone to notify the commanders under my command and ask them to come and teach the general's soldiers to pay attention to it. Is this so good?"
"This is a great thing to say!"
After the general who made the suggestion said something, he said to Xu Yunyan again, "But it seems that Xu Shijun has received the imperial edict just now. Shouldn't he go to meet the prince after attacking Xie En?"
Hearing what the general said, Xu Yunyan reacted instantly. Just now Hou Junji had said that he would go and thank His Majesty first. Now that the general said this again, Xu Yunyan felt that the prince was deliberately teasing her. Waiting until He had lost his etiquette, and he went to His Majesty to give him a nice word or add some jealous words to him, so that he, the salt and iron transporter, could be replaced by someone else. But if he went to His Majesty to thank him first, what would the prince think?
But no matter what the prince thinks, he is still Li Yuan's salt and iron transport envoy and not a general under the prince's command. Even though he is nominally optimistic about Li Shimin, it is still a few years before Li Shimin ascends the throne, and he is rashly involved in this. Will he be targeted? It's hard to say.
I am just a little ant, although I have now become a viscount, a salt and iron transporter.
After everything was arranged in Zuowei, Xu Yunyan came out of the Zuowei barracks and rode on Hou Junji to arrange for someone to bring him the weapon that originally belonged to him.
His horse headed towards the imperial city and soon arrived at Chang'an Imperial City.
When I first arrived in the imperial city, it happened that the time I was spending was at the end of the court meeting. A group of civil and military officials walked out of the court hall.
"God's Coming"
Xu Yunyan respectfully sent the officials off here, but these officials did not know Xu Yunyan. Seeing such a young general standing here, they did not think anything was wrong, they just thought he was a guard.
When all the officials were almost dispersed, Xu Yunyan looked around here, trying to find someone to help him pass the news to meet Li Yuan. That person had escorted Haiyan to Beijing and pulled Xu Yunyan away from Zhuque. The prince on the street appeared in front of Xu Yunyan again.
"What a coincidence, Mr. Xu, we meet again."
Hearing this familiar voice, Xu Yunyan quickly raised his head and said, "Eunuch Wang."
Xu Yunyan was a little happy now, and then said here, "Eunuch, I wonder if you can report to your majesty for a certain family? The general is here to thank you."
While Xu Yunyan was speaking, he put the last remaining gold nugget in his arms into the hands of the prince.
"Why does Mr. Xu need to be so aloof? I am here just waiting for Mr. Xu."
Xu Yunyan was startled at this moment. It seemed that the prince was indeed up to something evil. But before Xu Yunyan could think more, Wang Gonggong started talking here again.
"Your Majesty sent you a decree early in the morning. As usual, you have to come to express gratitude. Your Majesty still has some things to ask and sent me to wait for you here. Now that you are here, follow me to meet with Your Majesty."
It turned out that this was what happened. Although Xu Yunyan felt sorry for his gold, he was even more frightened and trembling in his heart.
"What do you mean, Prince? This is obviously to push yourself into a pit of fire and embarrass yourself in front of His Majesty. Otherwise, why don't you go to the banquet so early in the morning? What are you going to eat this morning? It doesn't have to last until noon or evening. I can't do enough for this day." His Royal Highness was completely delayed."
The prince's conspiracy is really heart-breaking!
After thinking about the various reasons, Xu Yunyan sighed.
It seems that even if I love the King of Qin now, I have to be a general who protects himself wisely and is loyal to Li Yuan regardless of factional disputes. Otherwise, he may not be able to survive for a few days with his small body.
