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Chapter 982: Wang Xuance, the Mastermind Behind the Scenes (Part )
Wang Xuance did not upgrade this channel, nor did he pay too much attention to it.

After the Jinyiwei returned to the emperor, Wang Xuance was not sure if there were any people around him, and he was the emperor's key surveillance target. When the prince left Chang'an, the most important thing was to avoid the emperor's eyes and ears.

In this case, Wang Xuance can only cooperate with the prince's actions secretly.

He believed that the prince was wiser than himself. Since His Royal Highness the Prince had concerns, he should not be too clever. The prince's use of a channel known only to the two of them was a tacit hint.

Maintaining the channel unchanged is also a tacit response.

Using the emperor's information system to communicate is both dangerous and very safe, because the connection is pure and one-way. One can only know that the prince is safe, while the prince can know everything he wants to know.

So Wang Xuance arranged this channel among the many channels of northern spies without leaving any trace, so that it would not attract any attention at all. Only if he knew about it could he ensure that it would be foolproof.

However, after many years, Wang Xuance is not completely ignorant.

He understood that a person with such lofty ambitions as the prince would not be a small character even if he lived in the north. On the contrary, he might be a figure of great influence.

Those who are good at hiding hide their thoughts rather than their appearance.

Wouldn't it be safer if the prince had a role that everyone in the world thought was impossible?
Following this line of thought, Wang Xuance used the Jinyiwei under his command to investigate the personnel changes in the northern grasslands and came to a conclusion that shocked him. Could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be the world-famous Right Wise King?
With this speculation in mind, we collected all the clues since the appearance of the Right Wise King.

Official news is that the Right Wise King defected to Jie Li in the ninth year of Wude, around the time of the Xuanwu Gate Incident. But after careful investigation, Wang Xuance found that no one on the grassland had seen this scholar from the Central Plains before the fourth year of Zhenguan.

Everything was said by Jie Li himself and has not been verified. Moreover, there is no trace of this Han Chinese in the Central Plains.

After making a bold guess, Wang Xuance began to carefully verify it. Through the spies of the Jinyiwei on the grassland, he investigated the movements of the Right Wise King from the fourth year to the tenth year of Zhenguan, when the Turks and the Tang Dynasty had no contact.

Combining some actual situations and removing some smoke screens, the timeline of the Right Wise King and the timeline of the Crown Prince can completely overlap.

During the peace talks in Fengzhou, Wang Xuance had some speculations and wanted to meet the Right Wise King in person in Fengzhou to verify his ideas.

Unexpectedly, the Right Wise King was wearing a mask. This not only did not disappoint Wang Xuance, but made him even more surprised. In addition, Li Yan's act of pretending to be a fork and swinging his folding fan made Wang Xuance almost certain of the other party's identity.

Later, through a series of friendly exchanges and interactions between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, Wang Xuance discovered that the temperament and personality of the Right Wise King of the Turks, his governing philosophy, including his sneaky and despicable way of doing things, were increasingly consistent with the actions of the prince in his memory.

Not to mention, Hou Junji's performance as the standard-bearer of the East Palace faction in the court was as obvious as a torch lit in the dark in the eyes of Wang Xuance, who had a grasp of the overall situation.

The moment Wang Xuance determined what he was thinking, he was so excited that he could hardly control himself.

The prince was indeed a born king. Even after leaving Chang'an, he still displayed his astonishing talent.

No, it should be said that it was Chang'an that restricted the prince's performance.

The prince who left Chang'an was like a fish into the sea, free from all constraints. He could act at will and became the king of the desert, comparable to Li Shimin.

However, Wang Xuance did not tell anyone. He knew that the more clues there were about the prince, the more dangerous it would be for him. There were many smart people in Chang'an. If he was too close to Hou Junji, it would inevitably cause others to speculate.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s arrangement is the most appropriate.

So Wang Xuance kept everything about Li Yan deep in his heart, and usually worked wholeheartedly for the emperor, pretending that the prince was no longer there.

He believed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was secretly in control of everything, and if there was a need, His Royal Highness would definitely send someone to contact him.

Sure enough, when the emperor got into trouble and was about to select a new crown prince, Hou Junji came to him.

When Wang Xuance heard Hou Junji telling him that he wanted to stop Li Shimin from appointing a crown prince and needed his help, he knew that the Crown Prince was coming back.

Otherwise, with Hou Junji's courage, he would never dare to disobey Li Shimin.

With Hou Junji's wisdom and influence, he did not have the confidence to gather the scattered power of the Eastern Palace faction and push the emperor's eldest grandson to the throne.

In Wang Xuance's view, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in charge of the entire Turkic Empire and has the most powerful cavalry corps in the world. As long as he wants, he can come back to take over the Tang Dynasty at any time. So what even if Li Shimin selects a new crown prince?
Even if a new king ascends the throne, so what?
The only person the prince is worried about is his biological father, Emperor Li Shimin?
If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had not had any concerns, he could have done the same thing as before, making Li Shimin the emperor emeritus and replacing him. As an ordinary Han Chinese, he ventured alone in the grasslands. In just five or six years, he seized all the power of the New Turkic Khanate, killed Jie Li, and sidelined the new Great Khan. He commanded the princes by serving the emperor, which was far better than Emperor Wu of Wei!

It took more than a year to unify the entire grassland and restore the former glory of the Great Turkic Khanate.

And in the remaining seven or eight years, more than 50 countries and forces in the Western Regions, including Tubo, Tuyuhun, Xueyantuo, Gaochang, etc., were eliminated, and these territories were returned to the Tang Dynasty one by one. This led to the current prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

If others could do just one of these things, they would be recorded in history and have a glorious martial arts feat that would last forever, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did all of them without making any noise, which is truly terrifying.

What is particularly admirable is that those who are good at fighting may not have outstanding achievements, those who are good at chess may not have brilliant moves, and those who are good at medicine may not have a glorious name. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has made so many unprecedented achievements, but he did not fight for those false names. He gave them all to his father, allowing Li Shimin alone to enjoy the glory of the Heavenly Khan.

In the eyes of the world, these are all Li Shimin's achievements.

But Wang Xuance knew clearly that there was a truly terrifying existence behind the Heavenly Khan, and that was the true foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

Everyone thought that the Right Wise King did not call himself Khan because of his Han identity. Wang Xuance, who held the Jinyiwei and was very familiar with the situation on the grassland, knew that it was not a problem at all. The Right Wise King did not call himself Khan because he respected his father, Tian Khan.

It was also suppressing the Turks and maintaining the Han people's absolute dominance over the world.

How could such a prince be unable to become the emperor of Tang Dynasty? Has he already stopped taking the throne of Tang Dynasty seriously?

He controls the grassland, his father is the lord of the Central Plains, and the whole world is in the hands of him and his son. Why should he be like Li Shimin, who caused the Xuanwu Gate Incident, killing his brother and forcing his father, with blood all over the ground and his head and face covered with feces, being despised by future generations?
Since ancient times, there has been no two suns in the sky, and no two kings in a country.

The reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not return to Chang'an was that he was waiting for the end of Tian Khan. He did not want to steal the limelight from his father.

Instead of creating opportunities for others?
While the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits. Today's Crown Prince is like the Kunpeng bird that blocks out the sun and the sky. How can there be a fisherman who can benefit from his quarrel?

Not to mention princes like Li Ke and Li Tai, even Li Shimin could not go against Your Highness's will.

If others would feel left out because of being kept in the dark, Wang Xuance didn't have any thoughts at all.

Originally, he was an ordinary merchant in Dongdu. It was Li Yan who promoted him, which changed the fate of himself and his family. If it weren't for Li Yan, he would probably have lived a dull life. How could he have such a wonderful experience?
As the person in charge of such a large and secretive organization as the Jinyiwei, there are few secrets in this world that he doesn't know.

He knew very well that even the emperor and empress, Haitang and her son, Ashina Yun and her son, and the prince's closest people had been kept in the dark.

What am I?
Compared to those people, it's already pretty good that I know a little bit about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

However, he had been separated from his parents, wife and children for sixteen years and had not seen them once.

Wang Xuance was shocked by this extremely calm character. He was in awe of the prince whom he had not seen for so many years. He had never seen such a terrifying person who was so hard for him to see through. Even Li Shimin and the patriarchs of the great clans could not be compared with the prince.

If in Wang Xuance's eyes, Li Shimin was a towering mountain, then the prince was the sun that shines on the earth, which makes it impossible to look directly at him.

In the end, Wang Xuance could only sigh that a born emperor was indeed incomparable to ordinary people.

Wang Xuance looked disdainfully at Jin Wang Li Zhi, who was walking in the crowd with a look of loss and resentment on his face. He sighed secretly that these princes who grew up in a greenhouse were strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and they were just for show. Such people were not even worthy of carrying shoes for the crown prince.

Also in the crowd were several court officials including Vice Minister of Personnel Su Xu, Secretary of the Central Secretariat Gao Ji Fu, Vice Minister of Justice Zhang Xingcheng, and Grand Master of Imperial Household Tang Jian.

Wang Xuance's eyes narrowed slightly and his face darkened. Is it true that a biting dog doesn't bark?

The Prince of Jin, who usually turned a deaf ear to the outside world and was only interested in seeking the immortals, had quietly formed his own team and recruited so many people. It seemed that his usual non-confrontation was just a facade to cover up his true intentions!

This seemingly honest and harmless young man actually has an ambition to become the heir to the throne.

There are also Fang Xuanling, Zhangsun Wuji, Li Jing, Li Ji, Gao Shilian, Li Daliang and others, especially the latter group of people, including the left and right Pushe, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, the Minister of War, the General of the Right Guard, etc., all of whom are core ministers in military and political affairs.

(End of this chapter)