Datang: Just been appointed as the crown prince, the counterattack system is here

Chapter 63: Want a son! Or want revenge! [Please read]

"Father!!"

Seeing that Li Yuan had no regard for his own face and ordered his men to arrest all his ministers, Li Shimin could no longer bear it and roared: "Don't force me!"

"Forcing you?"

Li Yuan smiled coldly, then walked step by step to the center of the hall, turned around and looked back at Li Shimin: "You said I forced you?"

"Hahaha!"

He laughed again, then looked directly at Li Shimin with a fierce look that he had never shown in his life: "Who is forcing whom?"

"Father."

Empress Changsun could no longer hold back her tears. She knelt before Li Yuan and said in a mournful voice, "Erlang has admitted his faults. Even if you avenge your eldest and fourth brothers, they will never come back."

"Yeah, they're dead, they're never coming back."

Looking down at Empress Zhangsun, Li Yuan couldn't help but shed tears, and murmured: "My three sons died on that day at Xuanwu Gate."

Boom!

When these words were spoken, Li Shimin was struck by lightning.

He couldn't help but take three steps back.

It can be said that Li Yuan's words hit his heart directly.

Perhaps, only he could understand the meaning of Li Yuan's words.

Otherwise, he would not have felt the same way many years later.

'I will die at the age of only twenty-six!'

In other words, Li Shimin, who was only 26 years old, was forever frozen there on that day at Xuanwu Gate.

However, Li Yuan said this not entirely to criticize Li Shimin, but also because he felt deep regret for his original decision.

If he had not made the wrong choices again and again, he would not have ended up being expelled from Taiji Palace and imprisoned in Da'an Palace.

He thought that if he chose to compromise, Li Shimin would give him a good time to spend his old age.

However, it turned out that he was overthinking it.

Ever since he did not follow Li Shimin's wishes and depose Li Jiancheng and make Li Shimin the crown prince, Li Shimin has been extremely disappointed in him.

Although this incident happened more than half a year ago, Li Shimin never forgave him.

Even until his death, Li Shimin would never forgive him.

Therefore, from the day he abdicated, his tragic fate was doomed.

But now, he stood up regardless of his own safety, just because he didn't want to compromise anymore.

Even if the father and son become complete enemies, he will still fight for his dignity.

"call"

Li Yuan took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and gathered his mind. He looked coldly at the captured Zhenguan ministers and shouted angrily, "What are you still standing there for! Drag these damned people out and chop them off!"

Wow!
The whole place was in an uproar again!

Even Xiao Yu, an old official of Wude who was originally loyal to Li Yuan, stood up to persuade Li Yuan:
"Your Majesty! Absolutely not! Our Great Tang has just stabilized. Killing a minister unjustly this time will probably cause unrest throughout the country and unrest among the people!"

"Yes, Your Majesty! Please think twice! These are all loyal ministers of the Tang Dynasty! Even if they handled the affairs of Prince Xi and Prince Hailing improperly, they were also trying to quell the rebellion!"

Another veteran official of Wude, Chen Shuda, stepped forward to echo this.

Li Yuan glanced at them coldly and said in a deep voice, "If I remember correctly, on that day at Xuanwu Gate last year, you also advised me in the same way to make Erlang the crown prince and hand over the power of government to him!"

"I, we."

Xiao Yu and the other man were left speechless by Li Yuan's words.

Pei Ji, who was not far away, sneered and said, "Some people, in the name of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, do vile things. How shameless!"

"Pei Ji, you."

"What about me? I'm just talking about the facts! Others may not know the details of the Xuanwu Gate incident last year, but don't you know?" After saying this, he turned his head and glanced at Yuchi Gong, saying lightly:

"Yuchi Jingde, if you are truly a loyal subject to His Majesty, then don't embarrass His Majesty in front of the Emperor. Otherwise, haha, can you feel at ease with Prince Hailing's property?"

"I"

Yuchi Gong's lips trembled at the shock of these words, but he did not look at Li Shimin again, because he knew that Li Yuan was no longer the helpless Li Yuan.

He no longer fears death, nor will he compromise again.

If he were Li Shimin, even if he would always resent Li Yuan for his own sake, he would not bear the crime of patricide for his own sake and plunge the Tang Dynasty into rebellion and chaos.

So, after a brief silence, he struggled to break free from the black-clad warriors who had restrained him, faced Li Yuan, and said in a deep voice, "If the emperor wants to settle accounts with your son, then so be it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped his right arm hard, and with a "click", his right arm dropped down.

"Jingde!!"

When Li Shimin saw Yuchi Gong remove his arm himself, he was so excited that he wanted to rush over, but was stopped by Empress Zhangsun.

Yuchi Gong was in so much pain that he broke out in a cold sweat and turned pale. He didn't look at Li Shimin, but at Li Yuan, and said word by word: "I remember now, it was this hand that chopped off your son's head."

"late!"

"Oh!"

One of them fell sideways and bumped into the temple pillar, and both arms were broken.

"it is good!"

Li Yuan simply said "OK", then looked around at the officials of Li Shimin who had just threatened to kill them all, and said, "How are you going to settle your accounts?"

"Father!!"

Li Shimin's eyes turned red.

This was the first time he had seen Li Yuan like this, such a father, and he was really a little scared.

He always thought that he was cruel enough, but when he saw Li Yuan today, he suddenly realized that if his father became cruel, he might not be as cruel as him.

However, Li Yuan's face remained calm: "Erlang, I have made up my mind. Now I will give you two choices. Either they die, or I die. It's your choice!"

"Father!! Why! Why are you doing this!! Why are you forcing me!?"

Li Shimin practically roared, "Didn't you say you would let me prove it to you? You wanted the Tang Dynasty to prosper! Have you forgotten? Father!"

But Li Yuan remained calm: "I did say those words, but you were the first to break your promise to me! You promised me that after abdication, I could still have a good time and drink and chat with my ministers, but you made me live in Da'an Palace!"

"I"

Li Shimin was speechless.

He didn't expect his father's resentment to be so deep.

He originally thought that his father did not say a word about the relocation of the palace, which meant that he did not care about his attitude at all.

Now that I think about it, it’s not that my father didn’t care, but that I didn’t have the chance to resist me.

"Ha ha ha ha ha."

Li Shimin laughed, a laugh that broke his heart, a laugh that made him want to cry but had no tears.

It turns out that the previous father-son relationship was just a show.

It turns out that while I resented my father, my father also resented me.

After the laughter, Li Shimin snatched the sword from Wushe's hand, put it across his neck, looked straight at Li Yuan, and said with tears in his eyes: "Since father wants his son to make a choice, then the son will also let father make a choice."

"Do I want a son, or do I want revenge?!"

"what?!"

Li Shimin's words shocked everyone present.

(End of this chapter)