A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Wang Jin stood aside and looked at the two monarchs and ministers, neither of them gave in to each other. To Datang, Gu Qing was a person full of contradictions. There are too many unstable factors for the dynasty.

But what is certain is that the royal family will definitely keep Gu Qing. From the early days when Li Shimin was in power, Gu Qing was not tested once or twice. In the following years, Gu Qing has been out of Li Shimin's control, and things have been out of control to a certain extent. When there is a distance, there will be chaos. Fortunately, Gu Qing is a person who does not want power. This is the place where Li Shimin is most at ease, and the generations after the Gu family are not allowed to be officials in the court.

This kind of agreement of sitting together gave Li Shimin and Li Tang Jiangshan a reassurance. As long as the Gu family has no power, the royal family can always be at ease with the Gu family, but after thinking about it, does Gu Qing really have no power?The financial power of the entire Central Plains almost fell into the hands of Gu Qing.

On the contrary, this is a greater power, and Gu Qing can compete against the royal family to some extent.

In the various taverns in Chang'an City, many people were talking loudly, talking about the current situation, talking about the war outside the pass, talking about various things in the court today, and the most talked about was about Gu Qing. Some rumors came out that Gu Qing was going to abdicate this time.

Some people say that Gu Qing is an invincible person, and some people say that Gu Qing has such a great kindness for Li Tang, it is impossible to let go of the grind and kill the donkey.

"You are all wrong." A drunken man in the tavern said: "Do you know who Gu Qing is today? In the world today, there is an emperor sitting inside the palace wall, and there is another emperor sitting outside the palace wall." , that is Gu Qing!"

The scorching sun in summer always makes people very irritable. Gu Qing wore a cool coarse cloth jacket and used a cattail fan to block the sunlight in front of him and walked aimlessly in the village.

There are old men in the fields humming old tunes beside my ears.

"Look at you!" Li Tai looked at you and said, "You are such a rich man, how come you look like an old man in the field."

"I wish I could be an old man in the field." Gu Qing spoke lazily.

"Tibetan has sent another victory report, blocking the attacks of the big cannibals one after another. How much do you think the odds of winning this battle are now for the Tang Dynasty?" Li Tai asked curiously, eating fried beans that he didn't know.

"How do I know." Gu Qing took the beans in Li Tai's hand with one hand, ate them and sat on the stone to cool off.

"Why do I always feel like you, Gu Qing, have the winning ticket?" Li Tai said while looking at Gu Qing.

"Don't talk nonsense." Gu Qing waved his hand and said.

"Why are you talking nonsense? You also want to win this battle. I know that the King of Nanzhao has sent you a lot of letters these days. If you win this battle, the whole of the West will be in the hands of Tang. Is your business of great help, as well as Qianzhuang, and your Haimao."

Seeing Gu Qing's expression twisted, Li Tai jumped again and said, "I'm right!?"

"How do you know that the King of Nanzhao sent me a letter? Did you make arrangements for it at my house!? Is it Fan Jian? I've seen something wrong with him for a long time."

"No, your son is right." Li Tai said with a smirk, "I used a jug of wine to get the words out of Gu Xiao's mouth."

"Sure enough, it's cheating." Gu Qing rubbed his forehead in distress and said, "Actually, the Nanzhao king didn't say anything else in the letter, he just wanted to do more business with me. After all, they have a lot of food in Nanzhao and they can't grow food all day long. Well, I also want to have more business like our Tang Dynasty, and want to make Nanzhao rich and strong, especially those small countries west of Nanzhao, the king of Nanzhao has long wanted to annex them."

Li Tai nodded slightly.

Gu Qing went on to say: "Then it happened to be in time for the Eastern Expedition of Rome, and I wanted to expand the sea trade. The king of Nanzhao thought that the time was right now, so I hit it off with the king of Nanzhao thousands of miles away, and I gave him a business resources, he helped me to explore the wasteland and find a way.”

After listening to it, Li Tai watched Gu Qing be quiet for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "You and King Nanzhao hit it off after thousands of miles away?"

"Exactly." Gu Qing shook the cattail fan in his hand.

Chapter 1041

Li Tai gave a strange laugh, kicked a frog at his feet off the ridge of the field, and then sat down with a melancholy expression. No matter how relaxed Gu Qing was, Li Tai knew that there were more and more voices in the courtroom, the royal family and the Gu family The contradiction between them is becoming more and more obvious.

From the Jiangnan forces that started with Haimao to the current chaos in Jiangnan, all of this cannot be avoided by Gu Qing. If you want to say that the current situation in Jiangnan has always been criticized, it has nothing to do with Gu Qing, but it is the interests of Haimao that make this criticism. magnified.

Seeing Gu Qing's relaxed expression, Li Tai really couldn't relax. Gu Qing couldn't be ignorant of what's going on in Chang'an these days, so he asked in a low voice, "Why do you still act like you have nothing to do with yourself?"

Gu Qing leaned against the tree and was completely placed on the tree behind by the weight of his body, slowly waving the cattail fan in his hand and said: "What can I do."

"What can you do?" Li Tai's tone was a little higher, "Now the whole Chang'an is your business, you said you have nothing to do?"

"Thousands of money can't buy you happiness." Gu Qing muttered.

Li Tai sat beside Gu Qing and looked at the blue sky above his head, sometimes he really envied Gu Qing, he was able to be so calm in the center of this kind of storm, as if he had nothing to worry about and also seemed to be indifferent.

Fan Jian walked up and said, "Patriarch, the people of the Xie family want to establish a new patriarch."

"Yeah." Gu Qing nodded with his eyes closed.

Fan Jian also said: "The second son of the Patriarch of the Xie family hopes to get the support of the Patriarch, and the old grievances and grievances will be wiped out."

Hearing this, Li Tai sat up and said, "Is the eldest son of the Xie family still alive?"

"It's still there." Fan Jian nodded and said.

"The eldest son is still here, but the second son wants to be the head of the family. Doesn't that smell right." Li Tai pushed Gu Qing and said, "Gu Qing, don't you think so?"

"What does it have to do with me?" Gu Qing turned over and planned to take a nap.

"He wants to be courteous." Li Tai said leisurely: "Look at the Xie family now, it is falling apart, and the struggle among the Xie family's children is getting more and more intense. You can just intervene at this time to control the Xie family."

"If I really do this, I will really be close to death."

Li Tai looked at Gu Qing who was still closing his eyes as if he was recuperating, and fell silent for a while. In other words, if this Gu Qing interfered with the Xie family's affairs, it would indeed be possible for Chaotang to take Gu Qing's knife. In order to reintegrate the interest groups in the south of the Yangtze River, if Gu Qing intervenes, there will be words from the court.

Fan Jian glanced into the distance and said, "Patriarch, Tang Xuanzang is here."

Li Tai turned around and glanced at Tang Xuanzang, who was coming, got up and said, "I'll go first."

Seeing Li Tai leave, Tang Xuanzang walked up and said, "Excuse me, Master Gu, to rest."

Gu Qingchang sighed and sat up, "If Master Xuanzang is here to give me some advice, please come back."

"Actually, I want the benefactor to guide the poor monk." Tang Xuanzang said in a low voice.

Putting his hand on his chin, he looked at Tang Xuanzang and Gu Qing and said: "Some people say that monks can enlighten idiots. This is the first time I have heard that monks need others to enlighten them."

"Everyone in this world is the same, and so is the poor monk. It's just a piece of duckweed."

The village is very peaceful, with young children, elderly people recuperating under their own roofs, and busy adults, enjoying a rare comfort under the scorching sun.

Tang Xuanzang said: "The poor monk dares to ask the benefactor, is there really such a thing as a prophet in this world?"

"Do you believe it?" Gu Qing asked with a smile.

"The poor monk believes in cause and effect. In the past, the poor monk didn't believe in any prophets, but after meeting Gu Shizhu, the poor monk was shaken." Tang Xuanzang whispered: "Gu Shizhu gave the poor monk a very strange character. Donors should not be in general."

"Your thinking is right." Gu Qing nodded.

Tang Xuanzang stared at Gu Qing and said, "The poor monk is right?"

"If I could really predict the future, I wouldn't end up in this situation." Gu Qing raised his chin and pointed to the village, "Everyone says I'm beautiful, but I'm actually a prisoner, and I'm going to be imprisoned in this village for the rest of my life .”

"The poor monk believes that the so-called imprisonment is just the way of being a benefactor."

Listening to what Tang Xuanzang said, Gu Qing smiled self-deprecatingly, "Not only you, many people are full of doubts about me, why I can bring so many changes to the world, why I can achieve this, in fact, I have not What others say is so unpredictable, I just learned more than others, of course, I was also very confident when I first came to Datang."

"What emperor, what class? I sneer at everything here. I believe that if it were me, I could do better. I have been proud, but I have also been frustrated, because I found a thing, time will not Stopped, it will keep flowing. From the moment I came to Datang, the future has been different. The so-called prophet is just a concept. Until I have done so much, many things are beyond my control. .”

"Some unknowns also scare me and make me uneasy. I and I don't know the future. I just know a lot of others. Just like you see, I am just a mortal body."