A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

"Just a sip of water." Gu Qing added.

"That can't be done!" Li Xiaogong immediately became a little unhappy, "Come to my Li Xiaogong's house and don't drink alcohol or plain water. People who know you will think you Gu Qing are polite, but those who don't know will think I Li Xiaogong is stingy."

Speaking of this, Li Xiaogong changed the subject and asked again, "You really didn't do business with Mr. Cheng?"

"Really not." Gu Qing nodded.

Li Xiaogong poured wine for Gu Qing with his own hands, "In fact, these years, my husband's family has been unable to make ends meet, and the money from the sea trade has been delayed for a long time. I always hope that I can get back the capital this year. It is you, Gu Qing, who is clever and empty-handed. So much."

"No way." Gu Qing shook his head again and again, "The king of Hejian County doesn't know something. The boy is under a lot of pressure these days. Such a huge academy has to be supported, and now the factory has begun to enter a stable period, and the income is gradually stabilizing, but Expenses are increasing, the seaport needs to be built, the academy needs to be built, the business needs to be managed, and the Maritime Trade Department needs to be supported..."

"Stop, stop." Li Xiaogong interrupted Gu Qing, "You mean to say that you are short of money now."

"It's not a big deal." Gu Qing said again, "The boy is also very worried now, thinking that this time the Japanese country will open a branch factory to pay back its capital."

"Academy, seaport, Department of Maritime Trade..." Li Xiaogong was shocked when he thought about it, Gu Qing's family business was already so huge, "Gu boy, I would like to ask you a question, how much money does your family spend in a year?"

Gu Qing sighed, "Little boy, life is hard. Don't look at the outside world and say that the boy is beautiful, but who knows what kind of life the boy is living. He can't make ends meet."

"You, Gu Qing, are the only one among the younger generation." Li Xiaogong said with emotion, "This old man only now knows how much pressure you, Gu Qing, are under."

The two sighed for a long time, just when there was a shout from outside the door.

"Hey!" Cheng Yaojin did not know when he had reached the gate of Cheng's mansion, "Old thief Li Xiaogong, hand over Gu Qing quickly!"

"Well, Cheng Yaojin, you dare to kill me!" Li Xiaogong drew his sword and stood up, "Yesterday I won thousands of coins from this old man, and I haven't settled with you, an old man, but you brought it yourself. "

"The old thief looks at the trick!"

Seeing that Cheng Yaojin and Li Xiaogong were about to fight, Gu Qing asked the servants in Li Xiaogong's house in a low voice, "May I ask where the back door of your house is? I want to go to the latrine?"

Servant: "..."

After several rounds of questioning, Gu Qing quietly slipped out of Li Xiaogong's house, and went to find Li Tai, a fat man, to settle accounts later, not to come to Chang'an, never to come to Chang'an again, they are all wolves, tigers and leopards, and now they want to go home.

Don't go all the way to Suzaku Street, bypass Chang'an one by one and arrive at the gate of the city, and then go out, and meet Di Renjie and Pei Xingjian head-on.

"Teacher, did something happen at home?" Di Renjie said.

"The clothes at home haven't been confiscated yet. A Taoist priest who traveled around the rivers and lakes pinched his fingers and said that it will rain today." Gu Qing said quickly, "Let me go."

"Teacher, walk slowly."

After walking a few steps, Gu Qing looked back at Pei Xingjian, "You don't seem to have gone to court today."

"The wife of the student's family is pregnant and is about to give birth now. I have informed Xiu Mu in advance. These days, I am accompanying my wife at home to give birth to the child." Pei Xingjian explained.

"That's all right." After Gu Qing finished speaking, he left and walked out of the city gate without even looking back.

Just as Gu Qing was less than a stick of incense away, Cheng Chumo hurried over with a bruised nose and swollen face, "Have you two met that kid Gu Qing?"

"Teacher has gone home." Di Renjie said, "Brother Chumo, what's wrong with you."

"After a few tricks with Li Xiaogong, I didn't expect this old guy to grow stronger and stronger, so I underestimated him." Cheng Chu said silently, "My old man and I kindly went to save this kid, but he just slipped away like this. As the old man said, Changsun Wuji is an old fox, and Gu Qing is a little fox."

"Ah chirp!" Changsun Wuji sneezed at home and sniffed vigorously.

"Uncle take care of your health." Li Chengqian said to Changsun Wuji.

"It's not in the way." Changsun Wuji waved his hands and said, "Is it because of Ma Zheng that Gu Qing suddenly came to court this time?"

"Yes, uncle." Li Chengqian is very respectful to his elder grandson Wuji. Currently, this uncle is the only one in the court who can help him check and balance Gu Qing.

"A few days ago, Empress Changsun gave some homely things to the old man." Changsun Wuji said with a smile, "I'm going to take a rest soon, and prepare well for the new dynasty in the coming year. Don't think about other things."

Chapter 9 and Six

"Uncle means..." Li Chengqian was a little puzzled.

"Has the original case been closed?" Changsun Wuji said.

"The case is considered closed." Li Chengqian said, "It's just that there are too many secrets involved in this case. It's better for uncle not to ask about some things. It involves the matter between Father Huang and Gu Qing."

Changsun Wuji was quiet for a long time. He did know some things, especially Wang Qin beside Li Shimin. This Wang Qin secretly helped Li Shimin do many things secretly. Feng, and Li Junxian's several times of sending troops are very strange. Looking at the strangeness of the Turkic and Tubo wars at the beginning, the whole world attacked the Tang Dynasty, Tianzhu, Tubo, Persia, and the four western countries joined forces to attack the Tang Dynasty. There is no fixed number yet.

A lot of things seemed to be suppressed under the arrangement between Wang Qin and Li Shimin, some secrets that even he didn't know, the relationship between Gu Qing and Li Shimin was very contradictory and strange, and there were some unclear connections.

Looking back, the elder Sun Wuji said, "Gu Qing's position in the court is as solid as gold, and it will never be His Majesty who can check and balance Gu Qing."

"What does uncle mean by that?" Li Chengqian asked doubtfully.

"In fact, the power to check and balance Gu Qing is right in front of us." Changsun Wuji drew a line on the table, "This is a line between His Majesty and Gu Qing. Your Majesty is in the Ganlu Palace, and Gu Qing is at home leading Chang'an. The power to defeat Gu Qing is actually under His Majesty's nose."

"I also ask uncle for advice." Li Chengqian said with a salute.

"That's all I said, go back and think about it." Changsun Wuji smiled.

Li Chengqian was surprised for a long time before he said goodbye helplessly.

After seeing Li Chengqian leave, Changsun Wuji's hundred-year-old attendant said, "Why didn't the Patriarch tell His Majesty clearly?"

Changsun Wuji put his hands on the edge of the stove to keep warm and said, "If he doesn't even understand these things, Li Chengqian can only be defeated by Gu Qing. The roots of each tree determine how tall a tree can grow. Li Chengqian If Li Chengqian can understand the old man's words, as long as he can achieve three points, the old man will spare the entire eldest grandson's family to help him. He checks and balances Gu Qing, if not, the medicine stone is useless."

The attendants fell silent again, all about how glorious it is for the new emperor to ascend the throne, but Li Chengqian's ascension to the throne seemed to be smooth sailing, but in fact he suffered too many setbacks. After Li Shimin handed over the power to Gu Qing, Li Chengqian became a useless person several times It's easy to be relieved, and he was scolded several times by Li Shimin, and Gu Qing was always holding back, and Li Tai was always unwilling to be under Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian is under a lot of pressure. If he doesn't do well, he will be doomed. If he does well, those people will still stare at him, not to mention Li Shimin's other sons, as well as the current Gu Qing. The current Gu Qing is powerful and powerful. All the scholar-bureaucrats came out of the academy, and Gu Qing held the wealth and power of the world in one hand, and the power in the other. It is too easy for such a person to rebel and proclaim himself emperor, it just depends on whether Gu Qing wants to do it or not.

Changsun Wuji looked at the rare sunshine and thought, Li Shimin is not a fool, Gu Qing has already expanded his wings, and if he is given such great power, isn't the knife handed over to Gu Qing?In other words, Li Shimin is confident that Gu Qing will not rebel and will not be an enemy of Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin is a hero, and Gu Qing can kill without blinking an eye when he is ruthless. There is no secret between these two people.

Thinking about Gu Qing's ten years in Chang'an, there have been too many changes. Gu Qing's ten years of youth have ups and downs. Li Shimin did it to tame Gu Qing.

Li Shimin wants Gu Qing to be his subject, but Gu Qing's disdain for the emperor is deep in his bones. Based on this alone, it is impossible for Li Shimin to tame Gu Qing and become a subject, and all the things after that are what Gu Qing wants to do, not Li Shimin He wanted Gu Qing to do it, or Gu Qing helped Li Shimin do a lot of things, and Li Shimin secretly allowed Gu Qing to do some extraordinary things, such as mastering the business rights in Chang'an. The two reached a tacit understanding between them.

And this time handing the knife into Gu Qing's hands is also a tacit understanding between Li Shimin and Gu Qing. Perhaps Li Shimin's doing this is a deeper backhand. In order to restrain Gu Qing from stepping out of Chang'an for the rest of his life, Gu Qing can be used as Li Chengqian's whetstone, and what Gu Qing gets is the prosperity of the Gu family's descendants.

Thinking of this, Changsun Wuji figured it out. After using Gu Qing to sharpen Li Chengqian to create Zhenguan, Li Shimin knew very well that Li Tang Jiangshan, which was established after the Central Plains War, was criticized too much. After arriving in Zhenguan, these criticisms still exist, and these criticisms It would just become a hidden danger of Tang Dynasty. Gu Qing appeared in Li Shimin's field of vision. Such a person became Li Shimin's sword, the chaos of martial arts, and the opening of Zhenguan.

In the Zhenguan Dynasty, Li Shimin made great achievements, destroyed the Turks, pacified Tubo, shocked the countries, reopened the imperial examination, cut off the family, and did a lot of things in the Zhenguan Dynasty. The medicine is also three-point poisonous. The Central Plains took this powerful medicine. The next step is to slowly heal the medicinal properties. As long as Li Chengqian has passed this hurdle, waiting for Li Chengqian will be a greater prosperity. Li Shimin has done so much for future generations!For the present and for the future.

Changsun Wuji smiled bitterly, Li Shimin!You are a hard worker after all.

Gu Qing hummed a little tune and went leisurely to the academy, intending to eat some tea eggs at Li Tai's place, but found that Li Er was sitting in Li Tai's room at some time, eating tea eggs leisurely.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here." Li Er took a bite of the tea egg and enjoyed it, "Qingque's craftsmanship is really getting better and better, come and try it too?"

Seeing Li Tai who was winking for help, Gu Qing said very shamelessly, "I'm just passing by, Your Majesty, you continue to pretend that I haven't been here."