Chapter 177: The Royal Study Room: Secrets of the Tang Dynasty
Update time:2012-08-07
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While Huang Wuji was in the secret passage, two people in the Imperial Study Room of the Tang Dynasty were talking about him.
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In the imperial study of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Emperor was talking to the eldest prince Li Chengqian about the ancient cave.
"Qian'er, is there any trace of the whereabouts of the thirteenth brother?" Tang Emperor Li Shimin said with slightly worried eyes. The eldest prince Li Chengqian shook his head and said: "We have some clues. The emperor recently found out that the nineteenth brother was a year ago. It seems that we have left the North City Gate and entered the Qilian Mountains!"
"Qilian Mountains, where did the news come from?" Emperor Tang frowned and looked at the eldest prince Li Chengqian and asked. "It was one of his subordinates who accidentally learned about it from the deputy governor of Yuan Chonghuan!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian He looked at Emperor Tang respectfully and said.
"Interesting, your brother has grown up, and even I am a little unsure!" Tang Huang casually picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip and said with a smile.
"Yes, after the thirteenth brother was injured by the old ten and woke up, he seemed to have become a different person. Even the woman I arranged before was no longer in my sight!".
The eldest prince Li Chengqian did not hide anything from the Tang Emperor, as if the aloof ruler of the country in front of him had known about it for a long time.
"You mean that little girl!" Emperor Tang asked thoughtfully.
"That's right, it's that little girl who's a little more tender!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian smiled and shook his head.
"Well, it's true that she's a bit tender, otherwise Lao Shisan wouldn't have left her alone and run away!" Tang Huang touched his beard, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, obviously he was not very calm inside.
"The Thirteenth Brother disappeared without warning this time. It seemed that it had been planned for a long time. Even the guards in his mansion didn't know what was going on!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian frowned, very concerned about Huang Wuji's disappearance.
"That's right. A year ago, Old Thirteen showed his talents and did all kinds of ridiculous things. He seemed to have expected that I would be severely punished. Even my father was fooled!" Emperor Tang said this, and his eyes flashed. After passing a ray of light, he snorted coldly: "The little guy's wings have become stiff, and he no longer takes me, the father, in his eyes!".
"Father, calm down, this matter may not be a good thing in the eyes of my son!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian no longer had the momentum to fight against the Tang Emperor in the court, but his eyes were still calm and he said.
"Oh, you should tell me!" Emperor Tang looked at the eldest prince Li Chengqian with a smile and said.
"My son is wondering if the muddled appearance of my thirteenth brother before was just an act. If it is really an act, then my thirteenth brother's future will be limitless!".
The eldest prince Li Chengqian sighed and said that Huang Wuji's transformation caught him off guard. After his first appearance, he disappeared without a trace, and he had no idea where he went.
"Yeah, I'm also thinking that what Old Thirteen did before is just as good as he pretended to be. If that's true, his acting skills are so brilliant that they've even been able to hide them from you, me and many royal family elders. It just so happens that It shows that your younger brother is a bit dishonest!" Emperor Tang said this, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, and the air pressure in the Imperial Study Room dropped sharply, which gave the eldest prince Li Chengqian a sense of depression in the room.
"Well, my father is right. It seems that Lao Shisan's disappearance has been planned for a long time. He even used some power to forcibly promote the deputy governor. He opened the door all the way and walked out of Kyoto in a big way. He was a little underestimated before.
Thirteenth brother!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian's voice became darker when he spoke, and his brows furrowed slightly on his calm face.
"I don't blame you. Even me and many royal elders were wrong. Old Thirteen deceived everyone with one trick!" Emperor Tang saw the eldest prince Li Chengqian's self-blaming look, although he felt a little unhappy in his heart.
He was happy, but the truth was comforting.
"Father, you don't have to excuse your son. It's because he was careless!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian was very afraid of his father. Ever since he allowed himself to fight in separate courts in the court, he
You can see some of it.
"Forget it, you don't have to blame yourself. In the future, just increase your knowledge of the princes of other vassals and make sure that no example like Lao Shisan occurs again!".
Emperor Tang's words gradually became serious, and his words were filled with an overwhelming majesty. The entire imperial study seemed to be suppressed by an invisible big hand.
"Thank you, father. I will definitely send more people to monitor the other royal brothers!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian quickly stood up from his chair and knelt on the ground to thank him.
"Get up, you are my most capable son, I will still rely on you in the future!" Tang Huangruo looked at the eldest prince Li Chengqian thoughtfully and said with a smile.
"Father's words are serious, it should be the sons and ministers who rely on the father!" Although the eldest prince Li Chengqian has a high level of cultivation, he still has to be cautious in the unfathomable Tang Dynasty.
Because the eldest prince Li Chengqian has never seen clearly that his father cannot even guess his thoughts.
At the same time, the eldest prince Li Chengqian was also curious about the purpose of why every prince would be monitored by his father after he was born, because even he was no exception.
However, the eldest prince Li Chengqian gained the attention of the Tang Emperor and gradually handed over this matter to him a year ago. It was this change that caused Huang Wuji to escape from Kyoto and disappear due to a momentary oversight. The eldest prince
Li Chengqian has always been ashamed of him.
"Okay, you and I don't need to compliment each other anymore, let's talk about what else we found!" Tang Huang waved his hand and shifted the topic to Huang Wuji again.
Huang Wuji's disappearance seemed to the Tang Emperor and the eldest prince Li Chengqian to be too bizarre and coincidental, as if they were predicting the future.
At the moment when a loophole occurred during the handover between Emperor Tang and the eldest prince Li Chengqian, Huang Wuji seemed to disappear out of thin air. Anyone else would have wondered whether there was a real premeditation.
Moreover, the handover was very fast, and the loophole only lasted half an hour. In this half hour, Huang Wuji disappeared as if he had wings.
What's more, what the Tang Emperor and the eldest prince Li Chengqian couldn't stand was that the people they sent did not get the news until three months after Huang Wuji disappeared. Everything was done flawlessly, and every move of the people under surveillance was calculated.
Within three months, it took three months.
Three months is enough for an ordinary person to rampage through one-fifth of the Middle-earth. Trying to dig out people is equivalent to
Looking for a needle in a haystack.
"We have indeed found something, but it has not been confirmed yet, and we cannot guarantee whether it is true or not!" the eldest prince Li Chengqian said slowly, thinking of the secret report reported to him by his subordinates.
"Say!" Emperor Tang frowned and said seriously. One prince is nothing to Emperor Tang's dozens of sons, and he won't feel bad even if he dies.
However, as the supreme ruler of a dynasty, there is nothing he can't accept when a prince disappears under his nose for no reason.
Moreover, the wisdom and wit shown by Huang Wuji during his escape caused him to have a tremendous change in his view of himself, a mediocre person who only knew about eating, drinking and having fun.
Moreover, Huang Wuji's ambition can be seen from his methods, and he does not dare to live under his shadow forever. In this regard, even his eldest prince Li Chengqian cannot compare with Lao Shisan.
It is good that the eldest prince Li Chengqian has ambitions, but everything is under the control of Emperor Tang himself. Even if he tries hard, he cannot escape from his grasp. From the beginning to the end, everything that the eldest prince Li Chengqian has is in the eyes of Emperor Tang.
In his eyes, even if he turned around at night, he knew what he was thinking.
Therefore, to the Tang Emperor, the eldest prince Li Chengqian was the most perfect chess piece placed in the Tang Dynasty, and he deceived almost everyone.
Middle-earth is not as simple as it seems on the surface, otherwise it would have been swallowed up by Fangwai Sect, and there would still be a foothold for the five great dynasties there.
"It's like this. The people of Erchen recently submitted a secret report. It said that a beggar in Ziyue City found a treasure map a year ago and sold it to a pawnshop. The owner of the pawnshop copied the treasure map and sold it to someone else.
The others suddenly caused a stir in the entire Ziyue City, and tens of thousands of people entered the Qilian Mountains!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian told the Tang Emperor the contents of the secret report.
"What does this have to do with Old Thirteen!" Emperor Tang asked with a frown. If a treasure map really appeared in the Tang Dynasty, how could it be hidden from his eyes?
"According to the spies' report, it was said that a young man who looked very much like his thirteenth brother spent a hundred li of silver to buy a treasure map worth 10 taels of silver from a big man. The big man returned to Ziyue City.
He made a big publicity, and the spies caught him and forced him to tell him!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian did not dare to hide from the Tang Emperor, so he told the spies everything he said.
"You mean, the reason why Old Thirteen entered the Qilian Mountains was determined from this clue!" Emperor Tang looked at the eldest prince Li Chengqian to understand the cause and effect of the matter in the blink of an eye.
"My father is wise, and I have indeed come to this conclusion from this!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian said respectfully.
"What else!" Emperor Tang continued to ask unmoved by the eldest prince Li Chengqian's horse. What Emperor Tang was most concerned about now was whether Huang Wuji escaped alone or if someone helped him escape from his control.
"My son believes that the treasure map is fake. Tens of thousands of people entered the Qilian Mountains one after another, but only a few hundred escaped. It seemed that they were besieged by a group of ferocious beasts and attacked by a giant Tiankui rhinoceros. However,
From the hundreds of people who escaped, I learned a piece of news and I don't know whether to tell it or not!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian said and hesitated here.
"Say!" Tang Huang said with a phrasing of words.
"I learned from the mouths of hundreds of people that when a group of ferocious beasts were besieging them, a young man with outstanding cultivation suddenly appeared. He looked very similar to his thirteenth brother. He defeated countless ferocious beasts with just a raise of his hands and feet, frightening the ferocious beasts.
The group fled, and then entered the woods and disappeared in a blink of an eye. I heard that they seemed to be chasing someone!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian synthesized the oral accounts of hundreds of people and reported it to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.
"You mean, Old Thirteen killed the ferocious beasts alone!" A trace of ambiguity appeared in Tang Huang's eyebrows and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Yes, those who survived by chance almost all said the same thing and said much the same thing. Moreover, they specially ordered someone to draw a portrait and asked Father to see it!".
As he spoke, a piece of white paper appeared out of thin air in the hands of the eldest prince Li Chengqian and handed it to Emperor Tang. Emperor Tang took the paper and suddenly unfolded it. He looked at the portrait on the paper and saw who it was if it wasn't Huang Wuji.
Although the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty only met many princes at the end of the year and at the royal family gathering, the appearance of each prince would be reflected in the heart of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty compared the portrait on the paper with the portrait of Huang Wuji in his memory, and he was basically convinced that the one painted on it was indeed Lao Shisan.
"Yes, it is indeed Lao Shisan. Did you ask anything else?".
Emperor Tang's heart became heavier and heavier. It was not that he had not checked Huang Wuji's qualifications. He was born a good-for-nothing and was incompetent in martial arts. If he was not born in the royal family, he would be inferior to ordinary people outside. How could he have the ability to kill the murderer?
The beasts were killed and fled.
"Did I see it wrong back then? No, the emperor also saw it back then!" Tang Huang squinted his eyes and thought secretly. "Father, father!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian shouted softly when he saw that Tang Huang didn't speak.
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"Well, let's continue, what other information is there!" Emperor Tang became more and more curious about Huang Wuji. How could this good-for-nothing son be able to practice without being noticed by himself? The people arranged to monitor him were not just for free.
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Being able to practice secretly without being monitored by people, even if you don't want to make people curious.
"My son, after getting this news, I personally went to the Qilian Mountains to check. Although it has been a year, I still discovered a strange thing!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian thought about how he was in the Qilian Mountains that day.
He frowned and said after seeing the situation.
"Oh, there is such a thing, so I would like to hear it!" Emperor Tang asked curiously.
"There seemed to be signs of demon activities in the Qilian Mountains a year ago, and recently, Erchen also discovered that demons frequently appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and they seemed to be investigating something. Erchen, in order not to alert the snake, let them do whatever they want!".
The eldest prince Li Chengqian was almost in charge of the most secret intelligence agency of the entire Tang Dynasty, and almost every move in the Tang Dynasty could not escape his control.
It is a pity that the eldest prince Li Chengqian only accepted this intelligence agency from the Emperor Tang a year ago. Among them, the mysterious Shence Mansion is still in the hands of the Emperor Tang, and he cannot even touch it.
"Oh, there is such a thing, why didn't you report it to me earlier!" After hearing what the eldest prince Li Chengqian said, Emperor Tang frowned and asked slightly dissatisfied.
"Father, please calm down. I originally wanted to wait for the demon clan to make a move and take it down in one fell swoop to give you a shock. Unfortunately, those demon clan only circled around the territory of the Tang Dynasty for a few times and even came to Kyoto.
Once, they didn't do anything and turned around to leave. In order not to alarm others, I didn't touch them!" The eldest prince, Li Chengqian, quickly lowered his head and did not dare to see Tang Huang admit his mistake.
"You mean, those monsters just wandered around the Tang Dynasty for a few times, and even after arriving in Kyoto, they didn't do anything!" Emperor Tang frowned again and stared at the eldest prince Li Chengqian and asked.
"That's right, there's no movement at all, it's like just having fun!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian nodded and said.
"It's strange. The monsters are not like the ferocious beasts. They always regard the human race as their mortal enemies. But when they come to Middle-earth, they don't do anything at all. It's strange!" Tang Huang muttered to himself, wondering what the monsters were doing.
Damn it, Zhang Er was confused for a moment.
"Children are also strange, so I didn't touch them!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian was obviously very strange to the monsters' abnormal behavior just like the Tang Emperor.
"Have you seen any of those demon tribesmen in the Tang Dynasty?" Emperor Tang thought for a moment and looked up at the eldest prince Li Chengqian and asked.
The eldest prince Li Chengqian recalled the contents of the secret report and said after a moment: "It doesn't seem to be there. I just saw the demon clan's hidden stake in our Tang Dynasty. Everything else is as usual!".
"So, has there been any movement on the demon clan's hidden stakes in the Tang Dynasty recently!" The Emperor of Tang Dynasty had long known about the hidden stakes arranged by the demon clan in the Tang Dynasty. For some unknown reason, he ordered the eldest prince Li Chengqian to only monitor the hidden stakes, but not to do anything else.
Pay attention.
"No, it's very quiet!" the eldest prince Li Chengqian thought for a while and said.
"Could it be a routine inspection, but the time is wrong!" Tang Huang said and suddenly closed his mouth and took a deep look at the eldest prince Li Chengqian.
"Is there anything else?" Tang Huang continued to ask.
"There are no other things, just some news from the Sui Dynasty and Daman Dynasty!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian had no clues about Huang Wuji's tracking of the Qilian Mountains, so he could only use other news to appease the Tang Emperor.
After hearing what the eldest prince Li Chengqian said, Emperor Tang also knew that Lao Shisan's matter could only be like this for the time being, and he would not be able to find out anything in a short time.
"Oh, what happened again in the Sui Dynasty!" Emperor Tang suddenly became interested. The Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were old enemies. "That's it, the eldest lady of the Zi family in the Sui Dynasty was killed!"
Prince Li Chengqian frowned and said.
"What, the precious eldest lady of the Zi family was killed, did that old ghost of the Zi family do anything?" Tang Huang couldn't help but ask with the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.
"This has not been found out!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian lowered his head and said embarrassedly.
"It doesn't matter, our Tang Dynasty and Sui Dynasty are sworn enemies, there is no need to care! What the Tang Emperor said is true. When the Tang Dynasty did not rise, he was just a king with a different surname in the Sui Dynasty.
Later, there was a great chaos within the Sui Dynasty. The Li family took advantage of the situation and emerged from the Sui Dynasty. After countless years of development, it finally became the Tang Dynasty today, on an equal footing with the Sui Dynasty. Even, to a certain extent,
surpassed the Sui Dynasty.
However, the Great Sui Dynasty has always looked down on young people like the Great Tang Dynasty. Similarly, the Great Tang Dynasty also looked down on the Great Sui Dynasty. From generation to generation, the Great Tang Dynasty and the Great Sui Dynasty became real enemies and mortal enemies.
"Zi Laogui's precious granddaughter is dead, and the Sui Dynasty is in chaos now!" A smile appeared on Emperor Tang's face for the first time.
"Yes, I heard that the death of the eldest daughter of the Zi family affected many people!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian told Emperor Tang about some gossip he had heard.
"Well, is there anything else?" Emperor Tang heard many things, but the Sui Dynasty incident was interesting.
"About Daman, something is wrong!" The eldest prince Li Chengqian said seriously with a smile on his face.
"What's going on!" Emperor Tang frowned and asked when he saw the eldest prince Li Chengqian becoming serious.
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