Chapter 370: Worrying Situation
In August, autumn is approaching.

The west wind from Chang'an also blew to Luoyang.

Murong Wuji informed Li Yuanhui in Luoyang of all the undercurrents in the court that had begun some time ago, as well as the major and minor events that had occurred recently, in the form of a confidential letter.

The first thing, naturally, was that the King of Qin sent someone to impeach the King of Wei, and then the King of Wei was reprimanded by imperial edict.

But a few days later, Du Chuke, the censor who impeached the King of Wei, was exiled from the Censorate because of some trivial matters and was sent to Shuzhong to be a county magistrate. This was obviously a warning to the Qin Palace.

After this incident, another incident occurred, which caused continued conflicts between the King of Qin and the Emperor.

The cause was that the father of the Emperor's favorite concubine, Jieyi Zhang, took a fancy to a piece of land outside the city of Chang'an, which was the official property of the previous dynasty. It was originally the farm of Murong Ding, the Prince of Wei of the previous dynasty. After Murong Ding died without any heirs, the land became official property and had always been managed by Jingzhao Prefecture, which was still the case in this dynasty.

After finding out the truth, Zhang Jieyu's father sent someone to tell his daughter, hoping that Zhang Jieyu would ask Li Yuan to reward the land to the Zhang family.

This was not really a big deal, so Li Yuan agreed and immediately ordered the eunuch to go to Jingzhao Prefecture to transfer the land to the Zhang family as a reward.

However, someone took a fancy to the land first, informed the Jingzhao Prefecture in advance, and bought the farm with money.

If it were an ordinary family, Jingzhao Prefecture would naturally have to do what Li Yuan ordered first.

But there was nothing to be done, this man was not ordinary. Nanyang County Prince Li Shenyu.

Li Shenyu is Li Yuan's cousin and currently serves as the General of the Zuojianmen Mansion. After Li Yuan started the rebellion, he has been his confidant who has been following him in the wars and has always commanded his central army. He is a die-hard fan.

However, after Li Shenyu took a fancy to this piece of land, he went through the Qin Wang Mansion, because the Qin Wang himself served as the Jingzhao Yin. Although the miscellaneous affairs of the Jingzhao Mansion were handled by Shao Yin, Zhizhong and other Cao Canjun, the Qin Wang was still the chief official and had to ask for his approval for any major matters.

When the King of Qin heard that his cousin wanted this piece of land, he did not refuse and asked Li Shenyu to symbolically pay some money to buy the land from Jingzhao Prefecture.

Originally the matter had been finalized, but who knew that Concubine Zhang would show up halfway?
The people of Jingzhao Prefecture hurriedly asked for instructions, but Li Er didn't say anything and still gave the land to his cousin Li Shenyu as promised. The Zhang family wanted land, so how could Li Shenyu give it? They are legitimate members of the Tang royal family, and they are still the Duke of the county. They are brothers that the emperor has to rely on. Who do you think you are to come to their house to ask for land?
When Li Yuan heard that his cousin had taken the land, he naturally had nothing to say, as they were all family members. However, Concubine Zhang began to hate the King of Qin and often fanned the flames. Li Yuan also felt that the King of Qin was deliberately trying to humiliate him, so he felt very uncomfortable.

In addition, Yin Defei's father Yin Ashu became more and more arrogant after returning to Chang'an from Jinyang. He relied on his daughter's favor to be overbearing and demanded that everyone passing through his house, whether they were common people or dignitaries, get off their sedan chairs and horses. One day, Du Keming, an official of the Qin Palace, did not get off his horse when he passed by Yin's house. Yin's servants went up and beat Du Keming, breaking his fingers.

When Yin Ashu later found out that it was the King of Qin's men, he was a little panicked at first, but after thinking it over, he decided to let his daughter complain first and cry to the emperor, saying that it was the King of Qin's men who bullied the Yin family.

The emperor was furious when he heard this, and he called the King of Qin to the palace and scolded him for not managing his subordinates well: "Your subordinates have bullied my concubines and concubines to such an extent, let alone ordinary people!"

The King of Qin repeatedly defended himself but was not forgiven by the emperor. Finally, the King of Jin and Princess Pingyang heard about what happened and went to the palace to mediate, only then the matter was exposed.

However, after this incident, Li Yuan became more and more dissatisfied with Li Erlang, and Li Erlang became more and more depressed.

After seeing all this, Li Yuanhui was quite speechless. This inertia is really strong. The eldest brother is gone, but the second brother is still having so many twists and turns.

He put Murong Wuji's letter on the table and sighed. Is this old man getting senile? He might as well indulge in alcohol and sex every day.

What worried him the most was what Murong Wuji mentioned, that his second brother was now lame and disfigured.

This is too difficult to break.

I was afraid that my second brother would never recover from this. And internal fighting is always the beginning of a power's downfall.

According to the routine, Li Tang should not start internal fighting at this point in time.

That depends on Li Tang's luck.

With luck, the internal strife will break out later, and you can use this period of time to unify the world.

If luck is bad, then it's over. Liu Xuanji is definitely not a pushover. Hebei is also not short of various resources, which can be used as the foundation for unifying the world. Liu Xiu took Hebei first. If the second brother is unable to recover due to the suppression of the old man and his own health reasons, then the Tang Dynasty will lose its strongest core competitiveness.

After taking Jinyang, the current Tang Dynasty has almost formed a certain degree of strategic suppression over Northern Yan in Hebei.

Jinyang is the most important city in the north. Taking Jinyang is equivalent to controlling most of Bingzhou.

The subsequent strategy was not complicated. After recuperating and having sufficient troops and food, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to unify the world, it had to take over the entire Bingzhou first.

Then they launched attacks from multiple directions, attacking Hebei and trying to win the battle.

As for the Western Wei in the Jingnan area and the Jiangdong regime without the Huaihe River basin, they are equally insignificant.

As long as the Tang Dynasty does not make fatal strategic mistakes, the remaining forces can be worn down bit by bit by snowballing.

What's more, the Tang Dynasty has the largest talent pool in the world.

Among the three great palaces of the King of Qin, the King of Jin, and the King of Qi, there are military god-level commanders, brave generals who charge into battle and defeat thousands of enemies, strategic and tactical makers, and top internal affairs talents.
Nothing is missing.

As long as time is on Li Tang's side, unifying the world will not be a dream in another ten years.

But Li Yuanhui could not have expected this, it was too outrageous.

After the three brothers reached a consensus not to engage in internal fighting to benefit outsiders, the old man became excited.

Instead of sibling fratricide, there was a father-son dispute. What was going on?

Several of Li Yuanhui's staff also read the information sent by Murong Wuji one by one, and their expressions were different.

Dugu Ying urged Li Yuanhui to return to Chang'an this year to find a sense of existence.

"Guanzhong is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. Your Highness has been away from Chang'an for a long time and is not familiar with the officials in the court. Jianghuai is an independent region in Guandong. In the long run, it will be disadvantageous to Your Highness. Therefore, Your Highness should take a few young princes to Guanzhong at the end of the year, one is to pay homage to the emperor, and the other is to get acquainted with the officials in the court, so that Guanzhong will know your prestige in Guandong."

Li Yuanhui nodded when he heard this. He had stayed in Chang'an for a few months in the first year of Wude. After Li Yuan abdicated, he immediately returned to Jianghuai. It has been almost three years now.

Although Murong Wuji was passing on information about the situation in the court, it would be better for him to go back himself to feel the atmosphere in the court and see what the situation was.

Moreover, as the strongest local faction in the Tang Dynasty, it is necessary for him to go to Chang'an to show off his muscles.

Afterwards, Li Yuanhui immediately wrote a memorial and sent it to Chang'an, in which he stated his request to meet the emperor in Chang'an at the end of the year.

When Li Yuan heard that the fourth brother was going back to Chang'an at the end of the year, he thought that he would come back to celebrate the New Year, so he agreed immediately. He also wrote a private letter, asking him to bring his family back to Chang'an to celebrate the New Year together.

At the same time, he also reminded him that the situation in Luoyang must be well controlled and not to give Beiyan an opportunity to take advantage.

In Chang'an, the people who were most happy to hear that the King of Qi was coming back to celebrate the New Year were not Emperor Li Yuan, but the King of Qin, the King of Jin, and Princess Pingyang.

At the same time, upon learning that the Prince of Qi had returned to Chang'an to celebrate the New Year, Concubine Zhang and Concubine Yin urged Li Yuan to recall the Prince of Wei to celebrate the New Year together.

Li Yuan thought about it and decided, yes, they are all his sons, so just call them back. At the same time, in order to prevent Jinyang from getting into trouble after the King of Wei left, he ordered Wang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou who was in charge of Hedong, to go to Jinyang to take charge.

So, the Li family had a reunion year.

(End of this chapter)