After Li Mingda left, they seemed to feel that the invisible shackles that had been binding them were lifted.
Not only did the bottom line no longer exist, but it became even more serious.
Li Chengqian relied on his military power to cover the royal guards and began to openly invade the residences of Li Tai and Li Ke. He even harassed the female family members in the residence on the pretext of searching for assassins.
Naturally, Li Tai and Li Ke went to the palace to cry to their mothers. Concubine Yang and the eldest grandson worked together, and Lao Li directly carried Li Chengqian to the imperial study and gave him a severe scolding.
Li Tai and Li Ke picked up the plane and reinstated the private guard system in their mansion. The royal guards under Li Chengqian could only move around the periphery of their mansion, and the number of them was also limited.
This was shooting himself in the foot. Li Chengqian regretted it, and Li Moyun also sighed, as his advantage was once again ruined by him.
Although they cannot enter the interior of the mansion, the external intelligence has not been affected, and they can still get information from people entering and leaving the mansion.
The next step was Li Tai and Li Ke's counterattack. The two directly and secretly instructed people to disseminate the news.
It's similar rumors about what Li Mingda told Li Shimin.
From Yao, Shun, and Yu to the present, no emperor had a physical disability before ascending to the throne, even if it was acquired. Li Chengqian's broken leg was God's punishment for Li Chengqian. Li Chengqian was destined to miss the throne.
It was even rumored that Li Shimin intended to abolish Li Chengqian and replace him with the crown prince.
The rumors are serious
Li Chengqian was immediately frightened, and he hurriedly approached Li Moyun to discuss countermeasures.
Li Chengqian: "Military advisor, what should I do?"
Li Moyun rubbed his brow: "I have also heard the rumors. My lord's words this time can only be unchanged in response to any changes. As long as your majesty does not care about your holy family, no matter what they say, it will be in vain."
Li Chengqian: "Then let me go to the palace and ask?"
Li Moyun thought for a while: "You can go and try, but don't ask so clearly. It's best to ask the Queen or Duan Hong and Lonely Hong around His Majesty."
Li Chengqian: "I understand, I'll go into the palace right away."
Li Moyun stretched out his hand to stop Li Chengqian: "Master, don't be so impulsive, it's not the time yet."
Li Chengqian: "?"
Li Moyun explained to him: "The rumors outside are just deliberately spread by Li Tai and Li Ke to disturb our minds. Lord, we can't mess up on our own, just follow our plan."
"Okay." Li Chengqian reluctantly agreed. In fact, he was still very panicked in his heart. After all, he had been the prince for so many years. If he suddenly stepped down, life and death would be another matter.
This is how people are, when you are used to something and it suddenly changes, you will feel a little panicked inside.
This is a reasonable thing.
Seeing that Li Chengqian didn't react much, Li Tai and Li Ke continued to fan the flames and personally attacked Li Chengqian.
All kinds of outrageous and outrageous stories began to circulate, including robbing children for candy, beating old people, and bullying men and women.
There are also rumors that Li Chengqian is actually a good man. The spread spread to the end that Li Chengqian had an affair with Li Moyun.
Since there are no female relatives around Li Moyun, this rumor is the most credible.
Moreover, Li Tai and Li Ke also instructed some low-level officials to write memorials to criticize Li Chengqian's various practices, and did not let go of the incident of breaking into Li Tai and Li Ke's inner palace. Things are brought in.
Li Chengqian was naturally unwilling to be outdone and let his supporters attack the other party.
For a time, the content of the memorial that was supposed to be about state affairs changed its direction. When Lao Li watched this kind of memorial every day, he began to have the idea of a melon-eating crowd watching the excitement.
Later, when there were more and more of these things, he began to feel upset.
In the end, it was settled by asking several people in the executive cabinet to reprimand their respective subordinates.
Li Mingda, who was busy in the Nanjing Shipyard, heard the news and looked in the direction of Chang'an City and said to himself: "Old Li, it's not a big deal for you to watch the excitement. It's okay now. You know how difficult it is. Li Chengqian's It’s really worthless. Old Li didn’t even cut off the rights of your royal guards. Why are you anxious? You directly control the mansions of Li Tai and Li Ke. In two or three years, if you don’t care about them, they will naturally collapse. "No."
Murong Xue, who was lying on the side, raised his paw and stuffed a piece of fruit into his mouth and continued: "Gouzi, do you think the last time you beat me has affected Chile? And when will my flagship be given to me?" I'll do it well"
Li Mingda grabbed the fruit on his desk and threw it to Murong Xue: "What's the rush? The main purpose now is to improve our steel plant, and we also have to clear the road from the coal mine to the river."
Murong Xue rolled and acted coquettishly: "I'm so anxious~! I really want to go out for a swim~! I haven't had all kinds of seafood and good wine~! Prawns, sea cucumbers, swimming crabs, skin shrimps, abalone, suck it, suck it."
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Li Mingda also wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth: "Don't worry, the first batch of sailboats is almost completed. When they wait for the sea trial, let them bring the cages and bring back some."
Murong Xue: "Yeah, good"
Li Mingda went south with a large group of people and horses. It was indeed a large group of people and horses, not adding any more. The total number of workers and guards reached 20,000, as well as thousands of war horses, plus stallions bred in the racecourse.
Chitu's entire family was taken away by Li Mingda and thrown to a prepared horse farm near Xiangyang, where he began the second migration in his life to breed the next generation.
Chitu said he had no objection to this. Anyway, he would not delay him in creating a nation for himself. The only thing he regretted was that the racecourse here was not wide enough, which made him feel uncomfortable wandering around.
After Li Mingda came to the steel plant, he made new changes and built a larger calciner. This is why the progress of the shipyard slowed down, because all the steel was used by Li Mingda in the construction of the steel plant.
Although the on-site steel production is much greater than before, the consumption of larger steel equipment is obviously not proportional to the demand.
In addition, two steam engines and electric motors need to be installed, which is simply not enough.
A large group of shipyard workers shuttled back and forth around the two ships.
It's almost the same situation as following one core person working in later generations while many others are watching.
When Li Mingda came, Chai Lingwu was so happy that he finally no longer had to quarrel with those Jiangnan aristocratic families.
After Li Mingda arrived, he was not polite at all to those uncooperative families. He directly took the military talismans from Lao Li and mobilized troops to suppress them.
Anyone who is disobedient, disobedient, or obstructs his grand navigation plan will all die.
After clearing out these people, Cai Mao's navy expanded again to 40,000 people.
Everything on Li Mingda's side was running according to plan for nearly half a year. Unexpected changes occurred in Chang'an City again, forcing Li Mingda to leave the south and lead his troops back.
To be continued
