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Chapter 567: The Shameless Prince of Zhongshan
Hearing what Li Shimin said, all the ministers burst into laughter. There was no more depression and heaviness as before, and the atmosphere in the hall became relaxed.

Li Shimin looked at Yang Ji with admiration again. He was his lucky general!

"With this army, and Cheng Yaojin's 30,000 troops, plus the 100,000 soldiers in Chang'an, I will have more than 200,000 troops in the capital, and I won't be much short of Jie Li. Moreover, Jie Li has come from afar, and his troops are old and tired, while my army can wait for the tired troops to tire themselves out and rely on the strong city. It's a dream for Jie Li to capture Chang'an!"

After boosting everyone's morale, Li Shimin saw Hou Junji, who was sitting at the end, looking at him eagerly. He said without hesitation, "The 50,000 infantrymen from Jingzhou will set up a solid camp on the north bank of the Wei River to guard the city of Chang'an. The other 30,000 cavalry..."

"Hou Jun Ji"

Hou Junji was overjoyed, and stepped forward excitedly, clasping his fists and saying, "I am here, and I will obey the emperor's orders!"

"I order you to combine these 30,000 cavalry with the Flying Tiger Army to form a 50,000 cavalry corps. On the left wing battlefield, take the opportunity to annihilate the Turkic invading enemy. Together with Li Jing's army on the right wing, you can form a pincer attack and protect both wings of Chang'an. In addition, you can cooperate with the guard camps on the north bank of the Wei River to prevent the Turkic army from crossing the Wei River."

Hou Junji responded loudly: "Yes, Your Majesty, I guarantee with my life that as long as I am still alive, I will never let the Turks cross the line!"

“But you have to remember”

Li Shimin solemnly warned: "The Jingzhou Army is the army of our Tang Dynasty, and they are also meritorious soldiers. You must love them equally. You must also consider the influence of Luo Yi's stay and take care of the special emotions of these soldiers. Don't treat them differently and make the Jingzhou soldiers feel resentful."

"General Yang handed this elite force to the court, and I handed them over to you. If anything goes wrong, you will be held responsible."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After Hou Junji finished speaking, he hesitated a little and said, "Your Majesty, can you let General Yang go with me? This will also facilitate a smooth handover."

Yang Ji quickly stepped forward to ask for instructions: "Your Majesty, I am willing to go and comfort the soldiers in Jingzhou, so that they can follow General Hou and kill the enemy to serve the country!"

"Ok!"

Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction: "Thank you for your hard work, generals."

Afterwards, Yang Ji and Hou Junji left Chengqing Hall, leaving a group of important ministers to continue discussing state affairs!
On a small road west of Chang'an City, after passing Xinping and entering the area of ​​Gyeonggi Province, Li Yan asked Changsheng, who was half-starved to death in the stable, to drive the carriage they had brought with him, carrying the newly recruited maid Wenjun and two others, and headed towards Chang'an City under the escort of a team of Jingzhou soldiers.

On the way, Li Yan looked at Chang Sheng, who was originally a burly man, but now looked haggard, skinny, torn, dirty, and smelly, like an animal manure, just like a beggar who had just been dug out of a garbage truck.

It really looked like he had suffered a great disaster, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind. It was obvious that he had suffered a lot in Luo Yi's camp.

Li Yan wrinkled his nose and asked with concern: "Xiao Shengzi?"

"Prince, what do you want me to do?" Chang Sheng replied weakly.

"After I met Luo Yi that day, they separated us. I haven't seen you either. How have you been doing during this period?"

Chang Sheng looked at Li Yan, who seemed to be unchanged, with a strange expression on his face, and said with a sad face: "Prince, after you fainted that day, they threw me into the barn and locked me up with the horses. They were afraid that I would escape, so they tied me with a thumb-thick chain and whipped me. They also didn't allow me to eat, and made me snatch food from the animals and eat horse feed."

"I was so hungry that I felt dizzy and couldn't even lift my hands. To survive, I had to catch mice and eat them at night and drink horse urine. That's how I survived until today."

"and you?"

"Prince, I was really worried about you during this time apart!"

Well.
Li Yan looked at Chang Sheng, who was disheveled and looked like a size smaller. He sighed and said shamelessly, "Alas, it's hard for you, Xiao Shengzi."

"I'm in the same boat as you. They treated me much more cruelly than you did. They abused me in every way possible, even worse than you did."

Chang Sheng opened his eyes and mouth wide, looking in disbelief at Li Yan, who was fat and strong, with a rosy face and bright eyes, and Wen Jun, who was wearing a soldier's uniform in the carriage but had delicate eyebrows and long eyelashes, and was obviously a girl.

The other person was massaging Li Yan's shoulders gently, looking at him tenderly. Li Yan, who was shameless, would occasionally reach out and touch the other person's hand, making the other person blush.

Chang Sheng's brain suddenly shook as if struck by thunder. For some reason, his head felt stuffy.
He felt that life was deceiving him, but he didn't dare to find evidence. He looked at Li Yan doubtfully, but he didn't expect that the other party pursed his lips, looked at him sincerely with harmless and ignorant eyes, and nodded heavily to show that he was not lying.

Chang Sheng looked unhappy and wanted to say something.
But he stammered for a long time, lowered his head, and said nothing!

I always feel that the prince seems to have changed a lot from before, but I don’t know what has changed. Chang Sheng thought about it for a long time but still couldn’t understand.

Finally he shook his head and concentrated on driving the carriage.
Although he felt that the prince he had watched grow up seemed a bit shameless, Chang Sheng later discovered that he had underestimated Li Yan's shamelessness. After returning to Chang'an City, Li Yan arranged for Wen Jun to go to the Zhongshan Prince's Mansion outside the imperial city, while Chang Sheng supported him, weak and dirty, and went to the palace to cry!
"Mother!"

Arriving at Empress Changsun's Lizheng Hall, as soon as he entered the door, Li Yan saw Empress Changsun coming to greet him, and let out a heart-wrenching howl, which frightened the guards outside the hall and the maids inside. Li Yan staggered two steps and fell to the ground as if exhausted.

Changsheng tried very hard but failed to hold on and he himself rolled to the ground.

Li Yan threw himself at the feet of Empress Changsun without hesitation, hugged her calf tightly, and began to cry loudly, "Mother!"

"I have been so miserable this past month!"

"Luo Yi, this son of a bitch"

Well.
Li Yan suddenly realized that it was not a good idea to curse without restraint in front of such a noble woman as Empress Changsun. He thought that he was led astray by Hou Junji, and quickly changed the subject, continuing to accuse in a tearful voice: "Luo Yi is simply not a son. He abused and tortured me in every way."

"Not only did they deliberately let the criminals on death row tear each other apart in front of me, using the bloody and horrific scene to shock me, but they also forced me to eat rat meat dug out from the mass grave to scare me."

"That's not all. This old villain, who is worse than an animal, locked me up in a stable, chained me with a thumb-thick chain, and whipped me. He made me sleep in the barn at night, and didn't bring me food every day, forcing me to compete with the horses for fodder."

"My son, I am suffering!"

"I have never suffered such suffering since I was a child! Even so, I often go hungry every two or three days. I can't even eat horse feed. I am so hungry that I feel dizzy and have no strength to stand up. When I am thirsty, I can only drink horse urine. When I am hungry, I can only pick up some hay to fill my stomach."

"If I hadn't thought about coming back to serve my father and mother, I would have been better off dead."

Well.
Chang Sheng got up from the ground and knelt behind Li Yan to pay his respects to the queen. His expression was startled, and his eyes widened instantly. Looking at this, his eyelids twitched twice unconsciously. Chang Sheng felt as if his brain was hit by a sledgehammer, and something was faintly surging in his chest.

The veins on his right hand were exposed as he tightly grasped the flesh on his thigh, trying hard to make his expression look less shocked.

Looking at Li Yan, who was lying on the hem of Empress Changsun's skirt, hugging the Empress's calf tightly and crying like a tearful child, Chang Sheng felt as if countless cawing crows were flying over his head and a thousand horses were galloping wildly in his heart.

Chang Sheng suddenly felt that his breathing was a little difficult and his chest was blocked. He quickly opened his mouth and took a few deep breaths, calmed himself down, and finally sighed helplessly.

Looking at the little prince, whom she used to be very familiar with but now seemed so strange, holding the corner of Empress Changsun's clothes, she cried bitterly at the door of the main hall, sobbing uncontrollably, with tears and snot unscrupulously wiping on the corner of Empress Changsun's skirt. She could be said to be crying and pulling at her clothes, stamping her feet, and stopping her from crying, her sobs reaching the sky.

The heart-wrenching sadness in his heart left no doubt at all about how Luo Yi had abused him.

It is such a desolate scene that anyone who hears about it feels sad and anyone who sees it will cry.

Yes, I don’t know if others felt the same way, but Chang Sheng, who was kneeling there in a daze, was deeply touched. A tear as big as a bean slowly slid down his cheek from the corner of his eye. His eyes were dull and out of focus, and there was nothing in them.

Empress Changsun listened to her son crying out of breath and with a runny nose, a look of deep distress appeared on her face and she couldn't help but burst into tears.

She couldn't see her son's face under her legs, but her eyes fell on Changsheng who was kneeling in front of her, and her heart trembled.

What kind of face is this?
When Changsheng left, he was still a slightly fat man, with a sturdy build and a body as strong as an ox.

But at this time, his hair was dry and messy, hanging on his head like a chicken coop, his face was haggard, his eye sockets were dark and sunken, his complexion was dark, his cheekbones were prominent, his cheeks were sunken, his lips were pale, his eyes were dull, and his clothes looked dirty and torn, and from time to time he emitted some disgusting and foul smell.

Chang Sheng's eyes were filled with sorrow and he had lost all desire to live. He stared blankly ahead. The man who had been shot by an arrow did not even frown, but now tears of grievance were streaming down his face, which made people tremble in their hearts.

He seemed to have lost a lot of weight. If he hadn't known that he was Chang Sheng, he would hardly have recognized this guard commander who had followed his son for several years.

Empress Changsun felt a pang of pain in her heart, as if she was connected to her son by mother. He was an innocent guard, but he was tortured like this. As the son of the eldest prince, how could he still be a human being?

Hitting the son's body hurts the mother's heart.

"My dear son! My dearest sweetheart!"

Emperor Changsun felt a pain in his heart and tears started flowing before he opened his mouth. His body swayed and he could no longer stand. He squatted on the ground, holding Li Yan's head, and was about to burst into tears with tearful eyes.

His expression was stunned, and he was stunned by the sad face.

(End of this chapter)