Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty: Please say long live His Majesty

Chapter 1 This hatred will never end

In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, October of winter.

The wind and snow came from the northwest, crossed the tall city walls, and headed straight for the Chang'an Palace.

The palace was covered in white for three days.

……

On the fourteenth day, Gengshen, the wind and snow finally stopped.

The morning light paves the way and the haze finally dissipates.

A ray of morning light shone into Cheng'en Hall, the prince's bedroom in the backyard of the East Palace, and fell exactly on the bronze mirror. Under the radiation, the morning light had already shone onto the bed inside.

The red curtains hung to the ground, and the palace candles burned out.

A ray of morning light shone lightly through the gap in the curtain onto the calves tightly wrapped in white linen.

The blood is gone and the pain is gone.

Lying on the bed, Li Chengqian looked straight at his broken leg that had been recuperating for more than half a year, his eyes calm.

Even though he still didn't feel anything, even though he was still numb, his heart had already been honed to be calm enough during the long exile.

Every excitement that rose up deep in my heart was skillfully suppressed.

Yes, no matter how unbelievable it is, he is still back.

He's really back.

He returned to the time when he had just broken his leg, and the severe pain kept irritating his nerves.

But this time, Li Chengqian did not indulge himself in the pain, nor did he go crazy because of the pain. Everything was suppressed in his heart by his strong will.

For more than half a year, Li Chengqian had been lying in bed nursing his sick leg. Finally, after waking up again and again, day after day, he was completely sure that he was really back.

Li Chengqian raised his right hand slightly, and the lines on his broad and thick palm were clear. Li Chengqian smiled gently, and his smile was deep and calm.

Forever and forever, this hatred is endless.

……

Li Chengqian chewed the hatred in his mouth, thinking about this unbelievable thing.

Two years later, he would resort to a risky tactic, attempting to lure his father into the Eastern Palace by feigning illness, and then kidnap his father and commit the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

He even contacted the Minister of Personnel Hou Junji.

Hou Junji once served as the Minister of War, the Commander-in-Chief of the Jiaohe Road Army, and destroyed Gaochang. He was one of the twenty-four heroes in the Lingyan Pavilion.

He was the second most important person in the army besides Li Jing, and even Li Ji was inferior to him.

With Hou Junji's help, Li Chengqian's plan will definitely succeed.

Control Chang'an, control the world, and honor my father as the Supreme Emperor... just like my father originally did.

However, because of the sudden rebellion of Prince Qi Li You, Li Chengqian was inexplicably implicated, resulting in Li Chengqian's innocent deeds being exposed and he was deposed and then exiled.

However, Li Chengqian, who was supposed to have died of illness on the way to exile in Qianzhou, inexplicably came back to life and returned to four years ago.

Li Chengqian looked at his right hand and gently clenched his fist. Everything in the future really seemed like a dream.

But Li Chengqian knew that this was not a dream.

Because in his mind, there is all the memories of a future soul named Li Qian.

It seemed that at the moment of his death, this soul from the future brought him back to a few years ago.

In the soul memory of 2024, the history books clearly wrote: In April of the th year of Zhenguan, Crown Prince Chengqian was deposed; in December of the th year of Zhenguan, Chengqian died in Qianzhou.

No matter what that soul was, Li Chengqian was certain that he was himself, not some Li Qian.

Because although he has Li Qian's memories, he does not have his emotions.

It took him more than half a year to completely digest this memory, a memory full of unimaginable value and significance.

Such an experience, in Li Qian's words, was a failure in taking over the body and a victory for the natives.

Li Chengqian smiled silently, clenching his teeth.

Now that he has returned from the dead, he is sharpening his anger and resentment and seeking revenge.

To his own father, to his own brother Qingque, and to that young slave who took advantage of the situation but ended up making a mess of it.

Half a year after waking up, Li Chengqian gradually suppressed all his resentment in his heart and sharpened it into a sword.

Every time he closed his eyes, he could see the sword spinning in his mind and causing him constant pain.

Tell him all the time to take everything back.

But it's not easy.

He must first secure his position as crown prince, and then successfully ascend the throne, seek revenge, and eliminate all his enemies.

Then create a more prosperous era than the Zhenguan era.

He had been the crown prince for eighteen years. During these eighteen years, he had made no mistakes, never coveted anything, and was a crown prince who could handle state affairs reasonably well. He was capable of doing this.

Not to mention, he also has the memory of that soul in the future. The knowledge of the future is his greatest wealth. But his biggest enemy is always the person sitting on the dragon couch in Taiji Hall.

Especially since he broke his leg, his father no longer believed that he would be a wise ruler in the future, and no longer believed that he could govern the world well.

The one who always wanted to depose him was his father.

……

The sound of light footsteps suddenly sounded outside the bed curtain, interrupting Li Chengqian's thoughts.

Then, the bed curtain was gently lifted, and a gentle and virtuous face appeared in front of Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian's heart softened instantly, and he called out softly, "Shu'er."

"Your Highness!" Su Shu sat down beside Li Chengqian, looked at Li Chengqian's left leg with concern, and asked softly, "How do you feel today, Your Highness?"

"It's still the same, neither good nor bad." Li Chengqian looked at his Crown Princess calmly, and the resentment deep in his heart seemed to have lessened a lot.

Two years later, after Li Chengqian was deposed, Su Shu was also exiled, and after Li Chengqian's death, she raised his two sons together.

Afterwards, they were buried together ninety-two years later.

She is the most precious person to him in this world.

"Your Highness, is there still no news about Master Sun?" Su Shu took a bowl of red date porridge from a plate, blew on it carefully, and then brought it to Li Chengqian's mouth.

Li Chengqian swallowed it in one gulp, then looked at Su Shu and said soothingly, "My leg isn't completely broken. If Master Sun can't help, we can go find another famous doctor. There's always someone who can heal my leg. By the way, how's Dalang?"

Li Xiang, Li Chengqian's legitimate son, would be named the Crown Prince by Li Chengqian's father two years later, causing Li Chengqian to completely lose his vigilance against his father and make a plan full of loopholes, which was eventually easily exposed.

"Da Lang is still asleep." Su Shu looked at Li Chengqian, and said with concern and a hint of worry: "Da Lang, Er Lang and I both hope that our husband can get better soon."

"Yes." Li Chengqian nodded heavily, then looked at his left calf.

Although the best time for treatment of his left calf was delayed, he had to lie in bed for more than half a year after bandaging it to recuperate his leg.

His father wanted to depose him because his leg was broken.

There is no lame prince in the world.

There is no lame emperor.

So, his leg had to be healed.

……

Leaning gently on the soft cushion, Li Chengqian flipped through the "Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Various Diseases" by Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor from the Sui Dynasty, which contained an article on intestinal anastomosis.

Cut open the belly and sew up the broken intestines.

It looks quite similar to surgical operations in later generations.

Li Chengqian's gaze fell on his toes. Although they were numb, the numbness was limited to the lower half of his calves.

This means that his leg bones are not completely necrotic and there is still a chance of saving them.

Li Chengqian looked at his left leg, his eyes unable to help but recall the intense pain that made him faint again and again...

There is a way to heal a broken leg.
That is to break it again and then put it back together.

If it really comes to the point where he has no other choice, he might actually do it.

After rebelling once, Li Chengqian clearly understood that it was unrealistic to seize the throne through rebellion.

His father came from Xuanwu Gate, so how could he give Li Chengqian a chance?

In the entire Eastern Palace, at least one-third, if not half, of the people are his father's spies. If he wants to rebel, it would be a joke.

Not to mention that his leg was broken, making it difficult for him to move and escape from other people's sight.

Therefore, only by curing his leg and no longer being the lame prince could he reassure his father and make him give up the idea of ​​replacing him with Li Tai.

A figure in a deep crimson robe silently appeared in front of the palace door. Li Chengqian put down the medicine book, nodded, and said, "Come in."

"Yes!" Li Anyan, the prince's household official, walked in quickly and bowed to Li Chengqian, saying, "Your Highness!"

"How's the investigation going?" Li Chengqian looked at Li Anyan with a cold gaze.

That day, his mount went inexplicably mad and not only threw him off the horse, but also broke his leg. Afterwards, when the guards of the East Palace were escorting him back to the palace, someone shot an arrow into the Xuanwu Gate.

Arrows from the East Palace.

Therefore, Li Chengqian, who was dragging his broken leg and bleeding, was blocked outside the Xuanwu Gate for an hour, which delayed the time for his leg treatment and made him disabled.

Li Chengqian would never believe that all this was not planned by someone.

To achieve this, collusion between internal and external parties is inevitable.

In other words, there were Li Tai's loyal followers in his East Palace.

Li Anyan is the only person Li Chengqian can trust in the entire Eastern Palace, and he is the only one who can investigate this matter.

"Your Highness, two people." Li Anyan uttered two names.

(End of this chapter)