Da Tang: Father, can I resign?

Chapter 34 My Future Is Not Bright
"Ming...Brother Ming, what's wrong with you?" Little Di Renjie was a little scared.

Ever since he had spoken out that reasoning, his brother Ming suddenly stopped talking, his little face turned pale, like a paper man.

Oh, my troublesome mouth...

"It's okay. I'm just shocked by the murderer's audacity."

Li Ming seemed to recover quickly and smiled at his friends as if nothing had happened.

Di Renjie breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Ming, do you think what I said makes sense?"

"Have."

"Okay! Then I'll tell the teacher..."

"Are you stupid? Come on, lower your head."

"Oh."

Li Ming slapped Di Renjie hard on the forehead that he had obediently exposed.

"Do you have evidence for your reasoning? Without evidence, will adults listen to a child like you? What if you talk nonsense and alert the enemy?"

"But..." Di Renjie felt a little aggrieved.

Li Ming's expression softened again and he patted Di Renjie on the shoulder:

"But you have an idea, which is good. Keep it up. You don't have to worry about the matter of the Prince of Hejian for the time being. I will make overall plans and consider everything comprehensively. I will proceed from the overall situation and take into account the details. I will conduct penetrating intervention management based on facts and the law."

Di Renjie felt that this was a great achievement and nodded in high spirits:
"Ok!"

With a beating, some sweet talk and some empty rhetoric, Li Ming successfully stopped his friend's reckless behavior.

After sending Di Renjie away, his legs felt weak and cold sweat poured down like a waterfall.

Li Xiaogong was poisoned to death!
Why? Who would kill an idle prince?
"No... Li Xiaogong is not really idle..."

Li Ming forced himself to calm down and looked at the guests in the room coldly.

Each of them is of distinguished status and holds a high position of power.

How could a talented, virtuous, and meritorious member of the royal family not have his own power?
He looked at Li Shimin who was holding the corpse in pain, Li Daozon who was crying with his face covered, and Li Yuanchang, Li Yuanjia and other princes with the same surname who had arrived one after another.

"Li Xiaogong represents the royal family!"

This force has a small voice, so it is easily ignored by foreign officials during the fierce criticism in the court.

However, once a major event involving the foundation of the country occurred, the emperor would trust the power of the royal family more, whether for rational or emotional reasons.

Now the Tang Dynasty is in its ascendant period, the Central Plains is stable, and the ruler and his subjects are of one mind.

What major event would shake the country's foundation?

"Struggle for the throne..." Li Ming murmured.

After going around in a big circle, I'm back to the starting point!
"Did Li Xiaogong take sides on the issue of the crown prince and was killed by the enemy?"

This bold idea made Li Ming shudder.

But he couldn't stop his brain from running wildly along this line of thought.

"Prince, is it you who Li Xiaogong supports?"

This guess is very rough, simply because Li Xiaogong and the prince were very close today (physics).

But that’s not necessarily true. The Li family has been an inherited movie star, so what you see may not be the truth.

It doesn't matter who he supports, what matters is...

The great battle royale among the descendants of the Li family has begun.

The battle for the crown prince has now reached a bloody stage.

"I am so naive, so naive..."

Li Ming once thought that his previous worries were persecution delusions.

Big mistake!

Li Xiaogong proved an axiom with his blood:
Political struggle is not a dinner party.

It can really kill people!
“How can I think I have changed history and indulge in comfort and ease just because Li Shimin has become like a father?” Li Ming conducted deep self-reflection.

He almost forgot the first rule of survival in the early Tang Dynasty:

If you want to survive, it's useless to just deal with Li Shimin!

If you lick him to your heart's content, will you be allowed to be the crown prince?
If you can’t become the crown prince, isn’t that just a dead end?

Did Li Shimin in history want to see his brothers killing each other and his descendants dying out?

Definitely not!
But can he stop it?

I don’t have the ability to know!

This famous hexagonal king who was a man of both civil and military talents inherited his father Li Yuan's bad habits in child-rearing.

Why does Li Ming wishfully believe that Li Shimin in this life, after drinking his bowl of chicken soup, will have the ability and wisdom to balance the relationship between the princes?

"Born in adversity, die in comfort..."

Prince Hejian awakened Li Ming with his life.

…………Li Ming didn’t know how he left the Prince’s Mansion.

"Brother Ming, I'll go home first." Di Renjie was still a little worried.

"Be careful on the road, and don't tell anyone else about today's guess." Li Ming said with a smile.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Brother Ming, little Di Renjie was completely relieved and skipped home to eat.

Watching Di Renjie walk away, Li Ming suddenly lost his temper and leaned against the wall to avoid sitting down on the ground.

As the leader, no matter how nervous you are, you must never show it in front of your younger brothers.

"What should we do next?"

It won't work if you continue to be so naive.

Just like the pigs in the pigsty, they eat and sleep every day, seemingly very happy, until one day they are suddenly slaughtered and eaten.

Would she do the same thing as in the past, doing all kinds of stupid things to make herself disliked by her father and even banished from the palace in order to avoid the suspicion of various forces?

This method allowed him to live to this age successfully - Li Ming had three older brothers who died young, and it was said that they died of natural causes. But after witnessing the secret of Li Xiaogong's death, he was not sure.

However, times have changed. If we continue to rely on this path, wouldn’t that be like trying to find a sword by carving a mark on the boat?
The key point is that after angrily rebuking the emperor in court and helping the prince to repent, he was like the brightest star in the night sky.

Can he remain completely anonymous?
What's more, in addition to Zhangsun Wuji and Wu Zetian, there was another force that had the ability and motivation to take his life - his royal brothers who were competing for the throne.

"If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who caused the problem... Kill Wu Zetian?"

A cold light flashed across Li Ming's eyes, but then disappeared.

Not to mention the highly anonymized harem, he, as a male, didn't know any of the other concubines except his mother and the "Fifth Aunt".

I don’t know where Wu Zetian, who should be a talented woman, is hiding now.

To take a step back, even if I asked my mother for Wu Zetian's address, I would immediately go to her doorstep and make her so angry that blood would splatter every five steps.

What can I do?
If the princes who criticize the emperor are like stars.

The prince who killed his concubines without any reason was no different from the sun and the moon.

Even the biographies of assassins have to be published as separate chapters.

Because it's so funny.

Even if he hid in the mountains of South Vietnam, the glittering light would have betrayed him.

How could he escape the hunt by Zhangsun Wuji, other princes, and even Wu Zetian's family itself?

We can't kill them all, can we?

Even if we look at it from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty, and skip the pit of Wu Zetian, there are still Empress Wei and Princess Gaoyang...

Without the lesson of Wu Zhou's usurpation of power, future weak emperors might not necessarily encounter people like Wei Zetian.

The root cause is that the emperor is too incompetent.

If we replace him with a wise and brave emperor who has a strong desire to survive, for example, I...

"I'm getting off topic. Damn it, if I really have no other options, I'll trade one for one with Wu Zetian, just to repay Li Er for raising me!

"But I still want to live..."

Li Ming held his head in despair.

"Your Highness seems to be in distress?"

A warm voice without any emotion.

Li Ming opened his eyes.

Fang Xuanling was sitting in the carriage, looking at him with a smile.

"Do you feel regret for leaving the palace without permission and violating His Majesty's order to stay at home?"

"It was you...it was you who led me here..."

Li Ming pointed at his teacher tremblingly and suddenly found the highlight.

As the number one assistant in Cao Wangfu, Fang Xuanling seemed to have done nothing.

But Fang Xiang's two words -

One time, he asked Di Renjie to defend himself in Liangyi Hall; another time, just now, he persuaded himself to go to Li Xiaogong's funeral.

All of these have profoundly influenced, and it can even be said that they have completely changed the course of Li Ming's destiny.

Li Ming felt his scalp tingling.

He completed the layout with just a little effort and achieved a great result. This prime minister of the Tang Dynasty is a real chess player.

"You... know everything?" he asked tremblingly.

"Know what?" Fang Xuanling still maintained an ambiguous expression that was hard to tell if he was smiling.
"If Your Highness is feeling uneasy, you may come to my house to have a chat."

Li Ming shook his head vigilantly:
"There are many people in the palace, and it would be inappropriate for the prince to be too close to the court officials and be seen by others."

The arc of Fang Xuanling's mouth corners widened, and he finally made a clear "smile" expression:

"Congratulations, it seems that Your Highness has learned an important lesson today.

"Come in the car and talk?"

(End of this chapter)