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Chapter 90: King Lu is dead

Li Jie stood at the bow of the boat, holding the railing and watching the rolling river water under his feet. The words from the beginning of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms naturally emerged in his mind:

The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away the heroes.

Right and wrong, success and failure turn into nothing.

The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red for several times.

The white-haired fisherman and woodcutter are on the river bank, and are used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze.

A pot of turbid wine meets happily.

Many things in ancient and modern times are all jokes.

When Li Jie was young, he liked to read the Three Kingdoms the most, and he didn't have a deep understanding of this poem. However, when he met Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanchang, Tang He and others who only existed in historical books, he had a deeper understanding of this poem. The Three Kingdoms are not really just talking about the Three Kingdoms. The power struggles in history, and almost all the heroes and romances are in this book.

Li Jie suddenly thought that Luo Guanzhong seemed to be alive now, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms should have been completed. In addition, the Water Margin is also in his hands. Unfortunately, these two books were not officially published during Luo Guanzhong's lifetime. It is said that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was not published for the first time until the Jiajing period. If Li Jie could find him, these two books could be released early.

Thinking of his chance to meet Luo Guanzhong, Li Jie couldn't help but feel a little excited, but then he sighed again, thinking of his grandfather Li Shanchang, who was indeed worthy of being the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but as he grew older, he was stunned by power. When he was trapped in it, even though Li Jie reminded him several times, the other party still failed to make the right decision.

Originally, Li Jie no longer planned to pay attention to Li Shanchang's affairs, but he couldn't resist his father's request, so he finally felt soft-hearted and wrote the four words "I don't know Ding" to give to Li Shanchang. The so-called "Ding" refers to Li Shanchang's nephew Ding Bin.

The reason why Li Shanchang was involved in the Hu Weiyong case in history was because Ding Bin was only arrested at the beginning. Li Shanchang relied on his old age and high achievements to write letters several times to ask Zhu Yuanzhang to let his nephew go.

It is estimated that Li Shanchang thought that like ten years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang would let Ding Bin go for his sake as if he had let his younger brother Li Cunyi go. You should know that Li Cunyi and Hu Weiyong are relatives of children and the two families have close contacts. There is even evidence that Li Cunyi should have participated in the Hu Weiyong case, but even so, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill Li Cunyi, but instead placed their father and son in Chongming.

However, Li Shanchang forgot that it was no longer ten years ago, and Zhu Yuanzhang's patience with him had long been wiped out, so instead of letting Ding Bin go, he was asked to interrogate him strictly. As a result, Ding Bin first confessed that Li Cun and his son were arrested again.

What was even more unexpected was that after Li Cunyi was arrested, he actually brought Li Shanchang in, saying that Hu Weiyong sent him to persuade Li Shanchang to participate in the rebellion. It was Li Cunyi's confession that led to Li Shanchang being sentenced to death and the whole family was beheaded!

"If Li Shanchang didn't care about Ding Bin, would his fate be different?" Li Jie whispered to himself at this time.

Li Jie himself had no answer to this question, but his view was still quite pessimistic, because the fundamental reason for Li Shanchang's murder was that he blocked Zhu Yuanzhang's path, so even if there were no Ding Bin, there might be Jia Bin, Yi Bin, and Bin.

However, if Li Shanchang didn't care about Ding Bin, he might be able to delay his time of indictment. If Li Shanchang could wake up during this period, he might even think of ways to save the entire Li family. After all, Li Shanchang is not Li Jie, and the energy he can use and the means he uses are much stronger than Li Jie.

Thinking of the above, Li Jie sighed again. It took him nearly half a year to work hard every day, almost fighting hard to barely save his family's life. This is Li Jie's limit.

Li Jie really can't help Li Shanchang's side. Unless he can travel through time ten years in advance and then make a little bit of arrangement, he can pull Li Shanchang's family out of the quagmire. However, God only gave him half a year, so what he can do now is to help Li Shanchang delay it a little longer.

"Boy, why are you standing there? Come and have a drink with me!" While Li Jie was thinking, he suddenly heard someone shouting in the cabin behind him.

Li Jie adjusted his mood after hearing this, and then turned around with a smile. When he saw Tang He, who was blushing in the cabin, he also smiled and walked forward and said, "Grandpa Tang, you seem to be in a good mood today. Could it be because you left the capital?"

"Want to know?" Tang He blinked at him, then patted the chair beside him and said, "If you can get me drunk, I will tell you!"

"Grandpa Tang, you're so embarrassed. Who doesn't know you have a huge amount?" Li Jie stepped into the cabin and sat down, but said with a embarrassed expression on his face.

Tang He's behavior today was also very strange. Before dawn was dawn in the morning, he sent someone to pull Li Jie onto the carriage, and did not even let Li Zhu and his wife send Li Jie to the pier by the Yangtze River. He took the boat and left the capital in a hurry.

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm happy today. We won't be drunk!" Tang He said, reaching out to raise a jar of wine about ten kilograms from under the table, and slapped Kaifeng's mouth and poured a bowl for each of them.

When Li Jie saw Tang He drinking in a bowl, his face turned green. He didn't like drinking at all and his alcohol tolerance was very shallow. He probably lay on the ground before he finished drinking this bowl.

However, what surprised Li Jie was that Tang He did not force him to drink, but picked up the bowl and drank it all. As for Li Jie to drink too much or less, it didn't matter, even if he accompanied him to take a sip of wet mouth.

In this case, Li Jie had only drunk a half of a bowl of wine, but Tang He had already drunk seven or eight bowls, and he felt six or seventy percent drunk.

"Boy, do you want to know why I'm so anxious to pull you away from Beijing, and why are you so happy?" Tang He finished drinking a bowl of wine again, then held the wine bowl on the table and said.

"Of course I want to!" Li Jie said as he poured a bowl of wine for Tang and again.

"Hehe..." This time Tang He did not rush to drink, but smiled drunk, then burped, and then said, "It's okay to tell you, the news I just received is that King Lu is dead!"

"What!" Li Jie was also shocked when he heard this. King Zhu Tan of Lu was Zhu Yuanzhang's tenth son. His mother was Concubine Guo Ning. He once temporarily managed the harem after Empress Ma's death. Concubine Guo Ning's two brothers Guo Ying and Guo Xing, like Tang He, were one of the twenty-four generals in Huaixi, and both of them were also named marquis for their military achievements.

Zhu Tan was the only son of Concubine Guo Ning, and there were two powerful uncles behind him, so Zhu Yuanzhang also favored him quite a bit. Zhu Tan was named a vassal king only two months after he was born, and his fief was still in the land of Lu, where Confucius and Mencius were from. It can be said that except for Zhu Biao and other legitimate sons, Zhu Tan was treated the highest.

Seeing Li Jie's shocked look, Tang He chuckled and said, "What's there to be surprised? Zhu Tan, a bastard, should have died long ago!"

"Wait a minute, I remember that King Lu seems to be your son-in-law, right?" Li Jie suddenly thought of something and asked in shock again. Tang He's daughter seemed to marry King Lu Zhu Tan. But now, he heard Tang He's words, it seems that he would like this son-in-law to die sooner?

"Son-in-law?" Tang He's hand holding the wine bowl suddenly shook, then suddenly threw the wine bowl and roared with a ferocious look on his face, "I'm gone, what other bullshit son-in-law!"

Li Jie was also shocked, and then he saw Tang He's grandson Tang Sheng running in from outside, and immediately stepped forward to support him and advised: "Give up the anger, my aunt's affairs are over, so you must not be angry about it!"

Perhaps it was because of the effect of grandson's persuasion, Tang He finally sat down slowly, but at this time his eyes were red, and two turbid tears rolled down, and his whole body seemed to have grown much older.

"Brother Tang, what's going on?" Li Jie was full of doubts at this time, so he asked Tang Sheng in a low voice.

Tang Sheng sighed at this time, and then he told the whole story. It turned out that the daughter Tang He married Zhu Tan was dead and was sentenced to death by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Speaking of Zhu Tan, Li Jie knows a little. The most famous person is that he is superstitious about alchemists and takes the golden elixir. Originally, he didn't have much to do anything to kill himself, even if he had eaten all the periodic table of elements.

But Zhu Tan took the evil path. He listened to the sorcerer's words and actually used the boy's lower body to practice medicine, which caused resentment in the Shandong area. After Zhu Yuanzhang found out, he wanted to kill the son with his own hands, but after all, he was his own son and he couldn't do it, so he killed his daughter-in-law Tang, because she did not fulfill her responsibility to persuade her husband.

Of course, Zhu Tan was not hesitant either. Zhu Yuanzhang sentenced him to death, that is, shaving his hair all over his body. As the saying goes, his body and skin are accepted by his parents. Zhu Yuanzhang shaved his son's hair, which is almost equivalent to not recognizing this son.

"Brother Li, my aunt died so unjustly. She has always been timid. King Lu wants to do something wrong, so how can my aunt persuade me?" Tang Sheng finally cried and said, "He is only a few years younger than that aunt. When he was a child, he often followed his aunt, but he did not expect to suffer such a disaster.

Li Jie sighed after hearing this. He used to feel that Tang He had a strange attitude towards Zhu Yuanzhang, as if he was a little afraid, respectful, and resentful. He didn't know where these two resentment came from before, but now he finally knew.

However, this also made Li Jie feel heartbroken. Even the daughter of a hero like Tang He was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang whenever he said that. If he did not explain the conditions to Zhu Yuanzhang that day, his parents would be in danger. If Zhu Yuanzhang really took advantage of his absence and killed his parents directly, Li Jie would have the same way as Tang He, and there would be no way.

"By the way, how did King Lu die?" Li Jie asked again.

"How else can you die? Of course, you can die by taking pills!" Tang He also calmed down at this time and immediately snorted coldly. He had long hated this son-in-law. If it weren't for him, how could his daughter die?
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