The next evening. In front of the East Palace Gate, there is a lot of traffic. Today, Prince Li Chengqian hosted a banquet for guests. Although after Li Er ascended the throne, he made Li Chengqian the prince. But letting him participate in government affairs was something that happened not long ago. Before that, Ji Chengqian had been studying under the famous teacher Li Er'an. Therefore, although he has lived alone in the East Palace for a long time. But apart from the subordinate officials in the East Palace, he actually doesn't have many of his own team. His teachers were extremely strict. Although they see each other every day, they are not close at all.
In the court, the only person Li Chengqian was close to was Hou Junji. That's because Li Chengqian's princess is Hou Junji's daughter. When it comes to relationships, he also calls Hou Junji his father-in-law. That is to say, recently, as Li Chengqian participated in state affairs, he came into contact with more ministers. Gradually, some people moved closer to him and formed a small group. The recent defection of Qiwang from the fifth surname has made Li Chengqian even more satisfied, feeling that he has gathered a very powerful team. Today, Li Chengqian called a gathering and held a banquet for his ministers. There are only two purposes, that is to let them communicate with each other and know that everyone is their own person. In fact, dealing with court affairs is similar to dealing with ordinary neighbor relations in some respects. The greatest use of forming cliques is that everyone can get what they need. As the prince, Li Chengqian certainly benefited the most from it. The banquet began, with people drinking and drinking, dancing and music going on, and it was extremely lively. Soon, we were full of wine and food. Li Chengqian waved his hand and asked the dancers and servants to retreat and closed the door to start the discussion. "Last night last night, drought and thunder fell from the sky, blowing up half a street of Chongrenfang. It was really strange." Zhan Shi of the Prince's Mansion took the lead in starting the topic. "How strange is this?" Then I heard Hou Junji sneer and say: "I heard that the most severely damaged was Princess Changle's Mansion. That Su Li did many unjust things, so God sent down a divine punishment to give him a warning." "This time he was lucky and escaped. But if he is still unscrupulous next time, he will definitely die." After Hou Junji finished speaking, there was silence in the venue.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't dare to speak. After all, it is outside the name of the district. As the prince's faction, they have always known that Li Chengqian was dissatisfied with Su Li. However, this kind of fight between gods is really not something they can get involved in. Seeing everyone's expressions of horror, a disdainful sneer flashed across Hou Junji's face. He has always thought highly of himself and has close contacts with Li Chengqian. The main reason is because the other person is his son-in-law. People are forgetful. Four years have passed since the Battle of Tubo. Hou Junji has long forgotten Su Li's unstoppable bravery on the plateau, killing people and killing people. Especially, after returning from Tubo, his resentment towards Su Li grew day by day. At that time, all the generals who followed Su Li on the expedition, except him, were responsible for the destruction of the country. Su Li was the only king with a different surname in the Jin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. Later, Li Er gave him all the glory he could. On the other hand, look at Hou Junji. While others were driving wolves and devouring tigers in the Western Regions and killing the whole world, he stayed on the Tubo Plateau eating snow. He was nominally a guarding general, but to put it bluntly, he was collectively abandoned by the group of generals who went on that expedition. Therefore, after the officials sent by Li Er to take over Tubo arrived, Hou Junji returned to Chang'an in despair. After a hard-working expedition, I saw others taking the credit and getting soft, but I was only verbally rewarded by Li Er with a few words, and then he was rewarded with some money and materials without any pain. Any normal person would not be able to balance his mind, let alone Hou Junji. From then on, he regarded Su Li as his lifelong enemy and vowed to fight with Su Li forever. In the past few years, Su Li's reputation has gradually reached its peak. The jealousy in Hou Junji's heart grew day by day. But, hating Su Li is really his own business. Su Li has never looked at him directly. This made Hou Junji even more unbearable. Not long ago, Hou Junji was quite excited when he heard that Su Li suddenly resigned and returned to the sword while suppressing the aristocratic family. It seems that there is finally a rift between Li Er and Su Li, and the emperor and his ministers are at odds. As a result, the news Li Chengqian told him was completely opposite to his guess. Li Chengqian told him in a vague way that although Su Li resigned and returned to Jian, it was indeed because of Li Er.
But Li Er did not give orders by force, but by persuasion. This news made Hou Junji extremely angry. He only had one thought: I have been with you through life and death for so many years, but in the end I can't compare to a young boy? Today Li Chengqian summoned his ministers, and Hou Junji came with resentment. He wanted to test how many ministers in the court had the same ideas as him. Although there are only a few high-ranking officials and ministers under Li Chengqian, most of them are of the younger generation and have a promising future. He also didn't expect that his dissatisfaction with Su Li had been so obvious that no one dared to speak out. Hou Junji was furious. He turned his head and glared at Wang Zhao who was sitting next to him. "." As far as I know, in just one month, no less than ten members of your Taiyuan Wang clan were killed by Su Li. The Wang family of Taiyuan followed Emperor Taishang when he raised his troops, and they had the merit of following the dragon. Now, being treated like an ant by a powerful farmer, are you really willing to do that?" Hearing this, Wang Zhao couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and then his eyes turned red. "Don't say any more, sir. King Yongle is very powerful, and your majesty... your majesty has great faith in him. We, the noble family, also have no way to appeal, so what can we do? We are just leading the way to death. That’s all.” Wang Zhao’s voice choked with sobs. Hou Junji snorted coldly and said: "Your Majesty is getting older, but his courage is getting smaller and smaller. In my opinion, Su Li thinks he has great achievements and wants to do what Cao Mengde did!" As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was shocked. After all, the underlying meaning behind his words was that he was already vaguely dissatisfied with Ji Er. Everyone turned to look at Li Chengqian to see how he responded. Logically speaking, even if Hou Junji is his father-in-law, how can he be closer to Li Chengqian than the emperor Lao'zi Li Er. However, there was no hint of dissatisfaction on Li Chengqian's face. "Chen Guogong, be careful!" Li Chengqian sighed. "How could I not know that Su Li confuses the public with his evil words and deceives my father. But my father is stubborn and doesn't listen to me... After saying this, the ministers below looked at me and I looked at you. There is no fool who can serve as an official in the court. Those who are willing to serve under Li Chengqian at this time are all people who think they are smart. The meaning of Li Chengqian's words was also a subtle expression of dissatisfaction with Li Er. How could they not hear it? Everyone understood that it turned out that Li Chengqian was also dissatisfied with Su Li. As the saying goes, if something is good above, it will be replicated below! At that moment, all the ministers began to criticize Su Li verbally and writingly. .