Datang: Destroy Tang Taizong Li Xiao at the beginning

"It makes sense, if they kill you, they won't be able to find you?" Li Xiao said thoughtfully.

"I also think it's possible."

Li Ke said expressionlessly: "However, many refugees here have also seen me just now, you have to silence them too, otherwise there will always be a day when the news will leak out."

"Hahaha……"

Li Xiao suddenly laughed: "You really take yourself seriously? Do you really think that your mother, as well as civil and military officials, would expect you to go back to be the emperor?"

"Wake up!"

"If I send you back, they will kill you first!"

"Do you really think you are amazing?"

Hearing this, Li Ke didn't believe it, and said with a smile: "Do you think I'm so easy to deceive? If that's the case, you would have sent me back long ago, but you didn't, so you want to learn from Cao Cao, and take advantage of the emperor to take advantage of it." Order the princes?"

"You are wrong, I just want to torture you, and you will know soon."

Li Xiao showed a wicked smile.

After a while, Li Xiao came to the main hall.

Li Ke stood under the hall, standing proudly.

"What tricks, just use them, I will never frown!" Li Ke looked indifferent.

"Not urgent."

Li Xiao asked slowly: "I ask you, but you planned the death of the late emperor?"

As soon as these words came out, the smile on Li Ke's face stopped suddenly, and he said in a deep voice: "The late emperor died in the fire, and everyone knows it."

"Third brother, what you said is a bit nonsense."

Li Xiao said slowly: "Where is this palace compound? There are many guards and strict laws and regulations. There has never been a major fire in hundreds of years. Why did it happen now?"

"And it's not biased, it just happens to be the late emperor's bedroom."

"I can't think of a second reason unless someone is secretly plotting it all."

Li Ke said blankly: "Your guess may be true, but why is it me?"

"Because you were the crown prince at that time, and with the trust of the late emperor in you, only you can easily do it."

Speaking of this, Li Xiao frowned slightly: "Killing one's father and seizing the throne, such an act is nothing like a beast!"

"Hahaha……"

Li Ke suddenly laughed maniacally: "Li Xiao, I thought you were extremely intelligent, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid. Can't you understand such a simple question?"

"Yes!"

"I did plan the arson, and I really wanted to force my father to abdicate and let the virtuous, but I definitely didn't intend to burn the old man to death."

"But the final result was that the entire palace was burned down by fire, so you still don't understand?"

"What do you mean?" Li Xiao frowned even deeper.

"What kind of wise father is the emperor? How could he be burned to death so easily?" Li Ke asked back.

After a pause, he continued: "I believed it at the beginning, but later I realized that all of this was planned by my father. He felt that he was old and unable to fight against the two powerful enemies of Turkic and Japanese. He couldn't accept it." As a subjugated king, he cannot bear this eternal infamy, so..."

"He chose to be burned to death!"

"At the same time, he also chose me to become the next generation of emperor!"

"I can sit in this position, it is the late emperor's acquiescence, it is the late emperor's will!"

"Zhen, inheriting the great position is in accordance with the way of heaven, and it is justified!"

"And you, disobeying me, imprisoning me, is going against the sky, it is a great treason!"

After the words fell, Li Xiao fell into deep thought.

At this time, a screen standing next to it was roughly kicked open, and a person came out angrily.

It was Wei Zheng.

He looked at Li Ke angrily, and asked loudly, "Your Majesty, did you really kill the late Emperor?"

Li Ke was stunned, and cast a gloomy glance at Li Xiao, a sudden look flashed in his eyes.

Letting Wei Zheng hide in the dark ahead of time was clearly an attempt to lure him to tell the truth, thereby making him completely unpopular in the court, so as to overthrow his position.

However, what is he afraid of?

Li Ke replied unhurriedly: "Master Wei, I have already made it very clear."

"I admit that the fire started because of me, but I was not the one who killed the late emperor. The late emperor killed himself!"

"Otherwise, why do you think that the old eunuch who served the late emperor would support my enthronement?"

"Why do all the civil and military officials, as well as Fang Xuanling, have no doubts about the will that I suddenly took out?"

"That's the truth. Even if you tell all the officials about this, I will still be the heir chosen by the late emperor. If you want to support Li Xiao's supremacy, you will be disobeying the late emperor's will!"

Li Ke looked at the angry Wei Zheng, but his expression was calm.

Although Wei Zheng was angry, he couldn't refute what Li Ke said.

Li Xiao pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Father...is he really dead?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an instant silence in the hall.

Li Ke frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"

"Did you... really see the corpse of the father?" Li Xiao continued to ask.

"The fire burned most of the palace, and many people's bones were not preserved, including Father Emperor." Li Ke said in a deep voice.

"That is to say, no one saw the death of the father, right?" Li Xiao continued to ask.

"You mean father is still alive? Hehe..." Li Ke sneered.

"Since he is not dead, where is he at the moment? Why didn't he come forward to stop me when I ascended the throne? Why did Chang'an fall, and the country will be destroyed, and he is not seen?"

"Okay, I've finished asking." Li Xiao shouted expressionlessly, "Come here, put Li Ke in jail!"

"Your Highness..." Wei Zheng hesitated to speak.

"Press it down!" Li Xiao shouted again.

The guards came and took Li Ke away.

Before leaving, Li Ke still had a calm smile on his face: "Li Xiao, I am waiting for you to come and beg me to go out!"

After Li Ke was taken away, Wei Zheng said worriedly: "Your Highness, although there are many doubts about this matter, it is undeniable that Li Ke is still the emperor of my Tang Dynasty. Even though he has done many wrong things, he should be handed over Let the court deal with it, and let the civil and military officials and the people of the world decide whether he will stay or not, His Highness's move..."

"From today onwards, he is no longer the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so let's treat him as dead!" Li Xiao said in a deep voice.

Chapter 441: Unknown Army

"A country cannot be without a king for a day..." Wei Zheng said with a startled expression, "Don't tell me your Highness..."

"I don't care who you choose to be emperor, but he..."

Li Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly: "Absolutely not!"

"As for me……"

"Believe it or not, I actually don't care about the position at all."

After speaking, Li Xiao turned and left.

Outside the hall, those refugees who occupied Lantian Villa also gathered here, waiting for Li Xiao's call.

Seeing Li Xiao coming out, all the refugees knelt down and saluted.

It was only then that they realized that it was the owner of the villa who had returned.

Moreover, this Lord Yue Wang actually defeated the Turkic army a few days ago and took back Chang'an.

Everyone admired Li Xiao from their hearts and kowtowed slowly.

"Let you come here, not to punish you."

Li Xiao said slowly: "The reconstruction of the villa requires a lot of workers and servants. The monthly salary is very little, but food and housing are included. Are you willing to stay?"

"The grass people are willing!"

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your great kindness, the grass people will never forget it!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

When the refugees heard that they would not be punished, they were relieved.

Who knew that Li Xiao would be willing to take them in in the future, with food and housing included, and the most important thing was a monthly payment.

This is simply pie in the sky, a blessing that cannot be obtained in eight lifetimes.

For a moment, everyone was crying with excitement.

"In addition to you, if there are relatives and friends who are wandering outside, they can also take them along with them. Anyone who comes will not be rejected."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he left directly.

Hearing this, not only the refugees, but also the Qiongzhou soldiers on the side couldn't help showing a smile, and looked at Li Xiao with even more admiration.

In the evening, Lu Li came to report.

"Your Highness, I just received a report that an unknown army was found [-] miles north of Chang'an. Judging from its direction of travel, it is heading towards Chang'an."

"The total number of soldiers in this army is about 3000. They are wearing Tang army armor, but they did not fly the flag."

"You think it's an enemy spy?" Li Xiao was thoughtful.

"Your Highness, when we fought against the Turks, Dongpu also made some moves. Tens of thousands of troops marched westward, took down several cities, and finally stopped in Huaizhou. It must be because they have heard the news of the defeat of the Turks. Keep going."

After a pause, Lu Li continued, "My subordinates feel that there are some possible countermeasures that Dongpu may make in the following ways."

"One, relying on its own strength, Dongpu is not afraid of His Highness, and continues to advance westward, heading straight for Chang'an."

"Second, they may have sensed the danger, so they stood still and waited to find out our truth before proceeding to the next step."

"Three, stick to the land of Qizhou and wait for the Western Turks to raise their troops to the south, and then they will take the opportunity to take Chang'an."

"Therefore..." Li Xiao thought thoughtfully, "You suspect that this army that doesn't display the command flag is actually a fake by the Dongpu people? The purpose is to find out the reality of our army?"

"That's right, this army that suddenly appeared is really suspicious. If the army scattered outside the imperial court came to support Chang'an, why did they cover it up and not hang the flag of command?"

Lu Li frowned and said, "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon! We have to guard against it!"

"According to what you say, it is indeed a bit suspicious."

Li Xiao nodded, then got up and said without thinking, "I'll go meet them."

"If it's Dongpu's spies, that's just right, I'm worried that I won't be able to find them!"

……

Li Xiao led the three hundred personal guards and set off.

Most of these 300 people were the forbidden troops given to him by Li Er before, and the rest were selected from the elite soldiers in Qiongzhou.

Everyone is enough to fight ten against one, coupled with a suit of excellent equipment, even if one is against a hundred, it is easy and casual.

At the same time, by a small stream twenty miles to the north of Chang'an, hundreds of camps were located here, among which the lights were brightly lit and there were only a few figures.

In the camp of the Chinese army.

"Report to the general!"

A military general in armor knelt down on one knee and respectfully said to the stalwart figure on the main seat: "The spies come to report that Chang'an City has indeed been taken back by the Yue King Li Xiao, and the defeat of the Turks has been confirmed."

The figure on the main seat stood up in surprise, only one arm was left under the wide shirt.

This man was in his fifties, his temples were already gray, his beard was three inches long, and his face was full of wrinkles from the vicissitudes of life.

He just stood there quietly, but he had an indescribably majestic aura.

He is Li Jing, known as the God of War in the Tang Dynasty.

In the first half of his life, he had already accomplished a lot.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, he followed Qin Wang Li Shimin, and successively eliminated many separatist forces entrenched in one side, such as Luoyang Wang Shichong, Nanliang Xiao Mian, barbarian Deng Shiluo, etc.