The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Li Yuan originally lived in Liangyi Hall. After Li Yuan moved out, Li Shimin moved into Taiji Palace, and Liangyi Hall became the place where Li Shimin and his subordinates discussed political affairs in private.

Not long after Li Fu left Liangyi Hall, he returned.

Li Shimin was also surprised to see Li Fu coming in a hurry.

Why did he come back so soon? Did he get any clues?

Li Fu looked around and saw that the people sitting in the hall were none other than Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others, all of whom were old acquaintances.

"Your Majesty." Li Fu walked into the hall and bowed.

"You came back so soon, but what did you find out?" Li Shimin looked at Li Fu and asked his doubts.

At this time, Li Wu also came outside the hall, but he stood at the door of Liangyi Hall and did not enter the hall.

Seeing that Li Fu did not say anything, Li Shimin asked the eunuchs and palace maids waiting in the hall to withdraw first.

"Go ahead." Li Shimin's eyes fell on Li Fu again.

"Second brother, Prince of Yan Li Yi, he wants to rebel." Li Fu said it directly.

"What?" Li Shimin stared at Li Fu: "Say it again."

"Prince of Yan Li Yi, wants to rebel." Li Fu repeated it again.

"Li Wu, come in." Li Shimin shouted outside the Liangyi Hall.

Li Wu, who was standing outside, heard the voice and hurried into the hall.

"What did you two find out? How did it get to Prince of Yan? How are those assassins related to Prince of Yan?" Li Shimin asked.

Even if it was related to Prince of Yan Li Yi, how could it prove that Li Yi wanted to rebel?

"Your Majesty, just now in the cell, His Highness asked me to check if there were any marks or anything like that on the two people. I checked carefully with the jailer and found a tattoo on their bodies. I vaguely saw that tattoo. I saw it once when I followed Your Majesty in the army and fought in the north."

"Then, what does this have to do with the Prince of Yan? Could it be that the person you saw at that time was a subordinate of the Prince of Yan?" Li Shimin asked.

"Yes, it was indeed a subordinate of the Prince of Yan. At that time, the man seemed to be injured, and the doctor in the army was treating him. I took a quick look and found that the man had a tattoo on his body. I didn't notice it before, but I remembered it when I saw it recently." Li Wu said.

Li Shimin fell into deep thought.

"But even so, it can't be confirmed that the man is the assassin under the Prince of Yan? If so, isn't it a bit hasty to determine it?" Fang Xuanling said cautiously.

"Besides, the Prince of Yan rebelled, this cannot be said casually." Changsun Wuji looked at Li Fu: "Prince of Jingyang, why do you speculate that the Prince of Yan will rebel?"

Li Shimin was also puzzled by this question.

"This involves a topic that I talked about with Prince Zhao on the way when we went out of the city to hunt on the Laba Festival before the New Year." Li Fu explained.

He repeated the content of the chat between him and Li Xiaogong, and then speculated that there were people of Li Yi among the Qianniu Guards in the palace.

Although it is now the Zhenguan period, there are personnel changes in the palace, but the personnel in the Qianniu Guards are still the same as in the Wude period. The only changes are a few generals with names in the court.

Originally, there were many people of Li Jiancheng among the Qianniu Guards, but with the death of Li Jiancheng and the repeated decrees of reconciliation issued by Li Shimin after he became the crown prince, these people were not touched by Li Shimin.

After ascending the throne, there were too many things to do during this period. As for the transfer of some small figures in the Qianniu Guard, Li Shimin did not take it to heart.

This is also the reason why Fang Xuanling stood up to oppose when Li Shimin taught some people in the Qianniu Guard to shoot arrows in the palace.

After all, the personnel in the Qianniu Guard are relatively complicated.

After listening to Li Fu's words, Li Shimin was also thinking about this possibility seriously.

In particular, Li Yi did not return to Chang'an in such an important year of changing the reign.

In addition, Li Shimin knew Li Yi's temper very well. When Li Shimin was still the King of Qin, the two had many unpleasant things.

In this way, Li Fu's words are not unreasonable.

"But we can't just assume that the Prince of Yan is really going to rebel just because of a speculation." Du Ruhui also felt that such a conjecture might be inappropriate.

"Not really, there is no possibility." Changsun Wuji thought: "I think everyone knows what kind of temperament Li Yi has..."

"But when your Majesty ascended the throne, he gave him a high position and generous salary, and granted him the title of Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and a fief of 1,200 households.Your Majesty has already shown his attitude of not pursuing the past, so doesn't the Prince of Yan understand it?"

Fang Xuanling felt that since His Majesty had treated him so well, Li Yi should not be afraid of the past, as everything was over.

"I don't plan to pursue the past." Li Shimin said, "If Li Yi really wants to rebel because of the past, then I have nothing to say. "

Li Shimin had done everything he could.

The grudge between him and Li Yi was not just one or two days.

At the beginning, Li Yi and Li Shimin worked together to fight and pacify the north. Originally, the two had such an experience, so their relationship should not be too bad.

But what eventually led to Li Yi's switch to Li Jiancheng was the battle of Mingshui in the fifth year of Wude when Liu Heita was conquered.

In this battle, Li Yi led the elite troops of Youzhou to fight together with Li Shimin. After the Tang army fought several battles with Liu Heita, the two sides began to confront each other.

This confrontation lasted for two months. In this situation, the logistics supply of both sides became the key factor in winning. Li Shimin ignored Liu Heita's challenge and sent people to cut off Liu Heita's food and grass.

Liu Heita was forced to stop the battle after the food and grass were exhausted. Before the decisive battle with the Tang army.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Shimin built a dike upstream of the Mingshui River to block the Mingshui River, forming a huge barrier lake upstream of the Mingshui River, so that the people guarding the dike could take advantage of the battle between the Tang army and Liu Heita to break the dike and flood the main force of Liu Heita in one fell swoop.

This dike breach not only drowned the main force of Liu Heita, but also many Tang soldiers, after all, the two sides were fighting at the time.

Among them was Li Yi's team.

Li Yi led all the elite troops under his command. He had so much wealth, but many of them were drowned by Li Shimin. How could Li Yi swallow this breath?

After this battle, Li Yi and Li Jiancheng had a close relationship. Later, when Liu Heita made a comeback, Li Jiancheng led his troops to attack him. Li Yi played a great role in the middle and helped Li Jiancheng to completely destroy Liu Heita.