Chapter 156 I gave you a chance, but you are useless! (Please subscribe)
Although Liang Mengbiao showed his loyalty to Li You, he still had doubts in his heart.

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Let me kill the emperor?

I just scanned...

But the boasting had already been spread out, and Liang Mengbiao could only hold his nose and recruit soldiers from Qingzhou and Zibo.

A total of 5,000 troops were gathered, and Liang Mengbiao felt a little relieved.

Fortunately, with 5,000 people, it should not be a problem to deal with the hundreds of people brought by the emperor.

After calming down, he began to miss the sweet and soft concubine of the Prince of Qi.

Alas, why did I lose my mind at that time and insist on agreeing to the King of Qi to lead troops to intercept?

This job should be left to Yin Hongzhi!
After all, the Yin family and the Li family have a feud, but he doesn't.

After joining together with Zan Junmo, Yan Hongliang and Yan Hongxin, they actually gathered a team of 20,000 people.

More people means greater strength. The four of them gathered together and waited for Li Shimin to come to them on the road they had to take.

Soon, the scout came to report that a group of people were galloping towards them ahead.

"Form a battle line! Get ready to meet the enemy!" Yan Hongxin ordered loudly.

By the time Li Shimin arrived at the front, the formation had already been assembled.

"Get ready!" Yan Hongxin ordered loudly again.

The soldiers immediately drew their bows and arrows and aimed forward.

Li Shimin stretched out his hand to stop the cavalrymen behind him.

"I am Li Shimin, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty! Soldiers, do you still remember me?" Li Shimin rode his horse to the front of the battle and said loudly, "I know you. In the 15th year of Zhenguan, I followed Li Ji, the Duke of Ying, to conquer the Xueyantuo. When I entered Chang'an to offer my congratulations, I also saw your heroic figures!"

Hearing this, the soldiers began to whisper to each other.

"Yes, this is His Majesty!" a captain said loudly.

"Yes, I met His Majesty when we entered Chang'an to offer captives two years ago. He has the same voice and looks the same." The people next to him were also confirming Lao Li's identity.

"This is truly your majesty!"

After all, Lao Li was a sharpshooter, and his eyesight was first-rate. Seeing that the enemy's morale was wavering, he knew that he had already succeeded halfway without bloodshed.

Li Shimin shouted again: "I know that some of you have been deceived by some villains and kept in the dark. You don't know what you are doing. If you turn back from your mistakes, I promise to forgive you!"

"Of course, if you want to kill your emperor, then shoot!"

As he said this, Lao Li stopped his horse.

Lao Li is extremely confident in his personal prestige.

Seeing that the army's morale was wavering, Yan Hongxin snatched the bow and arrow from the person next to him.

He drew his bow and arrow, but before he shot, he saw the palace soldiers turn around and aim their bows and arrows at him.

Before he could say anything, he had already turned into a hedgehog.

When Yan Hongxin was shot into a hedgehog, Liang Mengbiao immediately knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "Long live the emperor!"

Where there is one there are two, and when there are two there are three.

The soldiers knelt on the ground and shouted "Long live the emperor!"

Li Xiang sat on his horse, looking in astonishment at the soldiers kneeling on the ground in front of him.

Are all awesome people similar?

But then again, Li Shimin's prestige in the army was much higher than Napoleon's.

The Old Guard's "Victory Is Ours" lost its former glory with Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

Li Shimin's "Music of Qin Prince Breaking the Formation" could still arouse the fighting desire of an army in the twilight years of the Tang Dynasty when the Huang Chao Uprising broke out, and make them fight for the Tang Dynasty founded by Emperor Taizong after many hardships!

Dividing the time by two and converting it to France, it is equivalent to World War II, when the German Empire was about to surrender and agreed to sign the surrender treaty in Foch's carriage the next day. As a result, Charles de Gaulle suddenly exploded after hearing the music and directly defeated the German army.

This is Taizong’s ceiling.

Of course, the soldiers did not just bother to perform the salute, they also pinned all three people except the dead Yan Hongxin to the ground.

"Tie them all up and deal with them after we capture Qizhou!" Li Shimin ordered.

"Yes!"

In Qizhou City, Li You became more and more uneasy.

There was no other reason. Every day, brothers Yan Hongxin and Yan Hongliang would send people to Qizhou to report the news. However, there were people there yesterday, but there was no news today.

This made Li You think more. Could it be that... he was really captured by Aye's hundreds of people?
impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Yan Hongxin has 20,000 brothers! 20,000 people!

Even if there were more than 20,000 pigs, it would take Aye and his hundreds of men three days to catch them all!

However, the good times did not last long, and he soon received some not-so-good news.

His father is here.

When in the palace, Li You began to look worried.

It was nothing, everyone around him was discussing the story of Xiang Yu being trapped at Gaixia and surrounded by enemies on all sides.

When he stood on the top of the city wall and looked at Li Shimin riding a horse below the city, Li You couldn't help but feel his legs go weak and he was about to kneel on the top of the city wall.

If Yin Hongzhi had not been quick-witted and quick-handed to hold Li You back, this man would have been in great trouble.

However, it doesn't seem shameful to be cowardly in front of Li Shimin.

Yin Hongzhi certainly knew Li Shimin, but under the city of Qizhou, Li still did not bring many people with him.

"Your Majesty, he didn't bring many people with him." Yin Hongzhi was still comforting Li You, "I guess he bypassed Yan Hongxin and the others. As long as Yan Hongxin and the others attack from behind, everything will be fine!"

"Yes! Yes!" Li You, who found his backbone, said repeatedly.

He cheered himself up, held on to the battlement of the city wall, and looked at Li Shimin who was riding back and forth on horseback.

"Li You! You are my biological son. I have never treated you unfairly! Why are you rebelling?"

The moment he saw Li You, Li Shimin asked loudly.

Li You opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer.

Like the matter about Li Xiang...he also felt he couldn't bring himself to talk about it.

It's fine to fool others, but I can't fool myself. After all, Li Xiang is just a child...

It is hard for most people to say that an uncle was beaten up by his nephew.

Seeing that Li You didn't say anything, Yin Hongzhi sighed in his heart.

He is such a hopeless person!

However, he didn't figure out one thing: Adou is not as bad as Li You!

Adou at least can tell who is good and who is bad, unlike Li You, who is just like a human.

He stretched his head out, and before he could say anything, he was discovered by Li Shimin.

"Yin Hongzhi! I have treated you well, why did you instigate my son to rebel?" Li Shimin shouted again.

Yin Hongzhi was so angry that he laughed: "When Emperor Gaozu killed my whole family, did he ever think about this day?"

"Haha." Li Shimin laughed: "You know what your father did. As the saying goes, the disaster will not affect the family. I don't think I have implicated you, but your father has implicated my fifth brother Zhiyun!"

"Stop talking nonsense, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit!"

Yin Hongzhi glanced and saw the dozens of people behind Li Shimin. He thought that he still had thousands of people, and Yan Hongxin and others still had tens of thousands of people. Tens of thousands against hundreds, what is this? This is the advantage on my side!
"You are really looking for death."

He muttered something, and then shouted loudly: "Everyone listen to me! You are only a few dozen people, following Li Shimin, how can you shake my Qizhou? I still have tens of thousands of troops at my side. If we wait until Yan Hongxin launches an attack, it will be too late to regret it!"

"If you can tie up Li Shimin and surrender to Qizhou, you will still be able to retain your title of nobility!"

As he spoke, Yin Hongzhi seemed to believe it himself. "I'll count to five!"

"five!"

"Four!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

……

A silence.

No one paid any attention to him.

Yin Hongzhi wanted to continue cursing, but Li Shimin spoke from outside the city.

"Listen, everyone. I know you were forced into this by these two traitors. If you can stop now, tie up Yin Hongzhi and Li You, and surrender the city, I promise to forgive you for what happened!"

"I'll count to three!"

"one!"

Yin Hongzhi was really furious when he saw Li Shimin humiliating him in such a way and even returning it intact.

However, before he could open his mouth to curse, he found that the defenders on the city wall began to riot.

The defenders on the city walls also had reasons to say, yes, why should they follow him in rebellion?
Can you defeat the invincible Emperor?
"Don't believe him! He is lying to you!" Yin Hongzhi was panicking and wanted to persuade the soldiers on the top of the city: "Don't believe him!"

However, at this time, Li Shimin's voice sounded again.

"two!"

Before he finished speaking, the soldiers rushed forward and tied up Yin Hongzhi and Li You tightly.

Li Shimin stroked his beard and watched all this with a smile.

Soon, Li You and Yin Hongzhi were tied up by the soldiers and came in front of Li Shimin.

"Father! I was wrong!" Li You cried and snotted as he crawled forward: "I was deceived by a villain and wanted to rebel against you. I was wrong!"

"We'll talk about your matter later." Li Shimin was not angry, but spoke to Li You with a normal expression.

Li You looked left and right and found Li Xiang riding on a horse nearby.

"My nephew, my nephew!" Li You rolled in front of Li Xiang again and said, "Now my nephew is a popular person around Aye, and I am a prisoner. Please speak up and save me!"

"Don't worry, Uncle Wu." Li Xiang responded with a smile, "You and I are a family, how could I stand by and watch someone die without helping?"

After receiving Li Xiang's assurance, Li You felt a little relieved.

"Then my uncle's life is entrusted to you!"

"Don't worry, Uncle Fifth." Li Xiang smiled gently and comforted him.

On the other side, Li Shimin looked at Yin Hongzhi again.

"Yin Hongzhi, now that you've been captured, what else do you have to say?"

"Oh, you are just relying on the title of emperor." Yin Hongzhi sneered and said, "You are bullying others by taking advantage of your power! I don't accept it!"

"Not convinced?" Li Shimin smiled and said to the person beside him: "Give him a fast horse, a bow and a feather arrow."

Yin Hongzhi looked up at Li Shimin, wondering what he was going to do.

"I'll give you one chance and let you shoot first." Li Shimin pointed at the horse and said, "If you can beat me in shooting, I can let you go."

Yin Hongzhi jumped on the horse without hesitation. He looked at Li Shimin and sneered, "Mr. Li, I know you are a sharpshooter, but I am not a useless person either!"

Having said that, he turned his horse around and rode away.

After walking a short distance, he saw that Li Shimin did not move, so he quickly took out his feather arrow, drew his bow and was ready to shoot.

Li Shimin had already seen his movements clearly. He took the precious bow from his side, and when Yin Hongzhi drew the bow, Li's bow opened like a full moon and the arrow flew out like a meteor.

Then he turned the bowstring and deflected the arrow shot by Yin Hongzhi.

An arrow was shot and hit Yin Hongzhi on the shoulder.

Yin Hongzhi felt pain and fell off his horse.

The people around him immediately stepped forward and took back the Yin Hongzhi lock.

When it was smuggled back, the feather arrow on Yin Hongzhi's shoulder was still trembling.

"Now that everyone has testified, I have given you a chance." Li Shimin handed the precious bow to the guard beside him, lowered his head and looked at Yin Hongzhi and said, "It's just that you are useless in this opportunity. I thought you were capable, but now it seems that you are nothing but a good-for-nothing!"

Having lost both the game and the battle, Yin Hongzhi lowered his head, too embarrassed to refute anything.

What's there to refute? They gave you a chance but you didn't use it.

"Take him away." Li Shimin waved his hand indifferently, "Hand him over to the officials for handling."

Then he turned to Li You.

"King Qi, how should I deal with you?"

Li You kowtowed hurriedly, his voice sobbing.

"Forgive me, Aye, spare me! Forgive me!"

"Humph." Li Shimin snorted and looked at Li Xiang and said, "Xiang'er, what do you think should be done with this kind of waste?"

"In my grandson's opinion, the King of Qi was forced to rebel after all. It would be better to spare his life and imprison him." Li Xiang said with a smile.

This time, he remembered Lao Xiao's words.

It should be said that it was not only Xiao Yu's teachings, but also many precedents and subsequent examples combined together that forced Li Xiang to listen to the teachings.

As a ruler, especially a crown prince, you must never take the initiative to mention killing your relatives. This is a huge taboo!

Of course he knew this truth. Even in the Qing Dynasty, this was a slide that could not be touched.

For example, the eldest prince Yinzhi, who was "Aisin-Gioro, jumping up and down" and "willing to be a knife to the emperor", was the first...well, the latter example.

Li Xiang doesn't want to become a heartless, ungrateful, impetuous, power-obsessed fool.

We should never forget the past and learn from it. As Aung said, we can learn from history to understand the rise and fall of nations.

Li Shimin was very satisfied when he heard Li Xiang's statement.

He nodded with satisfaction and said, "What Xiang'er said is very much in line with my opinion."

Then he looked at Qi Wang Li You and said, "Depose Qi Wang Li You as a commoner and temporarily confine him!"

"Thank you, Aye! Thank you, Aye!" Li You kowtowed while sobbing, his head already bloody and mangled.

He did not forget to add, "Father, I have ordered the uncle and nephew of the Cui family to be placed under house arrest in the Prince Qi's mansion. They will not be allowed to escape!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin's expression softened slightly.

"I have been a hero all my life, but how could I give birth to a heartless, ungrateful, impetuous, power-obsessed fool like you!" Li Shimin cursed again.

After all, he is his own son, so Mr. Li's heart softened a little.

"Get up! From today on, you are confined to your room to reflect on your actions. You are not allowed to leave the palace without my permission!"

After Li You expressed his gratitude, he was taken away by five Black Armored Soldiers.

Then, Li Shimin looked towards the city.

Uncle and nephew of the Cui family?

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