Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

"Li Chengqian! Is this how you act as an older brother? Why did you take Chang Le to a place like that? She's immature, but aren't you immature too?!"

"And you, Li Ke! Aren't you so capable? Aren't you the Prince of Han, who commands the Embroidered Uniform Guard and whose officials bow and greet you with utmost respect? What are your Embroidered Uniform Guards good for?!"

"So many people, and they couldn't stop a little girl from Chang Le? Tell me! Are you up to no good!"

Li Shimin roared in fury as he questioned him.

When Li Ke was mentioned, suddenly with a hissing sound, a long sword was drawn from the waist of a guard next to him and held to the latter's neck.

Li Tai was startled.

He hurriedly knelt down and took two steps forward.

"Father, Father, even my third brother doesn't know. Those Imperial Guards didn't dare stop Chang Le at all, they..."

"boom!"

Li Shimin kicked Li Tai, sending him flying.

"Do you think I'll let you off the hook?! If Chang Le is safe and sound today, that's fine. But if anything happens to Chang Le, no matter if she's the King of Wei or the King of Han, I'll take away everything I can give you!"

Li Shimin's roar echoed into the Lizheng Hall behind him.

Empress Zhangsun stood nervously by the bedside, watching Yuan Tiangang take Princess Changle's pulse.

Since returning to the palace today, Princess Chang Le suddenly developed a high fever and then fell into a deep sleep, which infuriated Li Shimin, who regarded her as the apple of his eye.

Even Crown Prince Li Chengqian was kneeling obediently outside the Lizheng Hall at this moment.

He was originally engaged in a fierce battle of wits with Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Wei Ting, and other veteran ministers of the Wude Sect when he heard what was happening here, and he couldn't care less about the game he was about to win.

They rushed over in a hurry.

Looking at the three brothers, Li Chengqian, Li Ke, and Li Tai, kneeling in a row outside the Lizheng Hall.

He hurriedly stepped forward to see Li Shimin pacing angrily back and forth outside the Lizheng Hall.

"How is it? Has Chang Le woken up?"

"We were just going to the Imperial Estate for fun, how did this happen?"

Li Shimin was so angry that he pointed at Li Chengqian, who was kneeling there, and gritted his teeth.

"Then you should ask your beloved grandson! My crown prince!"

"He actually took Chang Le to a place like Jingxin Temple, and he still couldn't take good care of her. And to make matters worse, those bald monks, and those imperial physicians from the Taoist sect, also had ulterior motives..."

Li Shimin's eyes suddenly turned cold as he said this.

"Li Junxian!"

Li Junxian, the leader of the Hundred Cavalry Division, quickly appeared from the corner.

"Take your men with you. I don't care what methods you use, and I don't care whether those imperial physicians choked to death while drinking water or were hit by a carriage on their way out. In short, they cannot see the sun tomorrow!"

"Yes!"

Li Junxian's expression turned cold, and he left respectfully.

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he snorted coldly again, looking at Li Chengqian who was kneeling there.

"Hmph! Aren't you supposed to be a killer? Why didn't you kill her when it really mattered? Your sister was tricked and is now suffering from a high fever due to shock. As her older brother, is all you can do is kneel here like a clay statue?!"

"Sun Yi!"

He roared, and Grandpa Sun rushed over and knelt down with a thud.

"Go! Have Fang Xuanling and the others draft an edict for me. Those 400,000 evil Buddhist monks don't need to be brought to Chang'an. I find them disgusting! Immediately order the escort teams from each prefecture to find a barren place, verify their identities, and execute them on the spot!"

"all!!!"

"go!!!"

Sun Yi was shocked, but he quickly responded and went to Fang Xuanling's house to deliver the imperial edict.

Inside the Li Zheng Hall.

The roar of Li Shimin outside, and his unabashed demand to execute the imperial physician, made the men around Yuan Tiangang tremble with fear.

Fortunately, they were not imperial physicians from the Taoist sect, otherwise the Hundred Cavalry Division probably wouldn't have needed to intervene today.

Li Shimin immediately drew his sword and beheaded them.

After a while, Yuan Tiangang tucked the blanket around Princess Chang Le and got up to bow.

"Your Majesty, the princess was just a little frightened and sweated a bit. When she got out of the carriage, she caught a chill and fell ill. I gave her acupuncture and some medicine, and she should recover in five days at most."

Upon hearing this, Empress Zhangsun breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slightly.

"Thank you for your trouble, Master Yuan."

Yuan Tiangang bowed and immediately began acupuncture, but he dared not plead for the Taoist physicians. Today, Li Shimin was furious and did not order their execution along with Li Chunfeng.

We're already being lenient because of their years of hard work and dedication.

soon.

As Yuan Tiangang finished acupuncture, Princess Chang Le, who had been lying unconscious on her sickbed, finally woke up.

Li Shimin eagerly moved closer.

"Lizhi, Lizhi, how are you feeling? Is there anything that's bothering you?"

As he spoke, he anxiously checked the other person's temperature on their forehead.

Chang Le slowly came to her senses, but her gaze went past her father and looked at her brother Li Chengqian and the others who were standing anxiously and worriedly behind her.

"Brother Royal..."

Li Shimin was furious.

He glared fiercely at his own crown prince behind him, snorted coldly, and as a father, he could only silently step aside.

Li Chengqian hurriedly stepped forward: "Your Majesty is here. Lizhi, are you feeling unwell anywhere? Tell your Majesty where it hurts, and I will find a way to treat you."

Li Tai and Li Ke, who were standing to the side, also nodded hurriedly.

Chang Le gently shook her head, amidst the astonished expressions of the crowd.

Suddenly spoke.

"Father, brother... are you going to kill someone again?"

Li Shimin's expression froze instantly, and even Li Chengqian's elder brothers stared in astonishment at Chang Le, who seemed like a completely different person at that moment.

The other person simply shook their head slightly.

"Father, brother, please stop killing people! Those imperial physicians, the Imperial Guards, and the monks—please don't kill them!"

Li Chengqian smiled wryly, helping the other person tuck in the blanket while saying with a smile.

"Lizhi, what nonsense are you spouting? Are you delirious? How could my father and I kill anyone? Why would we kill someone out of the blue? Heh heh."

"Brother, you can't fool me. Your eyes and Father's eyes are almost identical now. You both want to kill those people. I'm not stupid. I understand now why you wouldn't let me enter that temple."

"Those people couldn't stop me, and they made me sick. You're definitely going to kill them..."

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian: "......"

Li Tai, standing to the side, glared at him.

"They deserve to die! Even if Father and my elder brother don't kill them, Fourth Brother will never let them go! He'll strap them all with explosives and make sure they die without a burial place!"

"Don't even think about having a hard time being reincarnated!"

Li Ke gritted his teeth and said, "Lizhi, don't overthink it. Those people, as subjects, failed to fulfill their duties. And those monks, through your hands and your compassion, sent those people off on their final journey."

"To scheme against my Tang princess is a capital offense!"

"By the law of the country and by human nature, they must all die!"

With tears in her eyes, Chang Le gently shook her head, and a small hand grabbed Li Chengqian's arm from under the blanket.

"Brother, please don't kill them! I'm begging you, I don't want anyone to die because of me."

Li Chengqian: "......"

Chang Le's gaze then turned to her father, the Emperor, who was standing to the side.

Upon seeing this, Li Shimin's heart trembled.

Upon seeing this, Empress Zhangsun stepped forward, tugged at Li Shimin's arm, and gently shook her head.

Seeing this, even if he was very unhappy, Emperor Li Shimin couldn't help but snort coldly at the request of his beloved daughter.

He kicked a eunuch standing nearby.

"Go! Bring that bastard Sun Yi back to me! And Li Junxian too!"

After Li Shimin finished speaking, seeing his daughter finally stop crying and start smiling, he took a deep breath and glared at his sons.

"Your Majesty, those people are guilty. I saw it in the newspapers. Didn't you want to repair the waterways? Sending them to help our Great Tang build waterways will atone for their sins."

"And then there are the five prominent families and seven powerful clans of Hedong Road..."

Chang Le continued speaking, but Li Shimin could no longer listen.

"Alright, alright, Chang Le, you should just focus on recovering from your illness. I've listened to you and let those bald monks go. As for the Five Clans and Seven Families who rebelled, their entire families were executed—that was their inevitable fate!"

"This is the law of the land, and the law does not tolerate leniency!"

Seeing that her own emperor was truly displeased, Empress Zhangsun subtly gave Chang Le a wink.

The latter then gave up.

However, his gaze turned to his elder brother, Li Chengqian, standing before him.

"Brother, I want to study medicine..."

The blind Yuan Tiangang shuddered, his gray eyes looking in the direction of Chang Le.

......

Chang'an, West Market.

One by one, the Tang Dynasty monks, bound hand and foot, gazed around sadly or closed their eyes and chanted scriptures. A cold wind blew, carrying with it the lingering stench of blood from the monks in the West Market.

Before them, the golden Buddha-head guillotine, now expanded to ten gates, had been raised.

The chilling blade caused some of the monks to tremble.

One by one, the Imperial Guards and the Six Guards of the Eastern Palace stood around, quietly awaiting orders from the palace.

If there is no reply by the appointed time.

After hundreds of eminent Buddhist monks finally performed the rituals to deliver the souls of the thirty or forty unfortunate people who had been subjected to forced labor and mutilation, these Buddhist monks ultimately could not escape death.

The scene was eerily silent.

As the moment of the guillotine's fall drew ever closer, some monks became increasingly out of control, wailing under the threat of death.

Then, they were greeted with fists and kicks from the Imperial Guards or the Six Guards of the Eastern Palace.

"Waaaaah... We're innocent! We're truly innocent!"

"We would never dare to plot against Her Highness the Princess, we would never dare..."

Just then, the crowd began to plead.

A swift horse suddenly appeared from the direction of the distant palace, just as everyone was watching the sunset, which was about to become their last sun.

"Princess Chang Le has awakened! Spare her life!"

When the man arrived at full speed, the monks, who were actually pleading for the princess, felt as if they had truly encountered a bodhisattva from Buddhism.

They all knelt down and chanted Buddhist prayers in the direction of the palace.

at the same time.

Outside the Lizheng Hall.

Li Shimin's expression was inscrutable, a mixture of resentment and unwillingness. He glared fiercely at the blind Yuan Tiangang and let out a cold snort.

"Master Yuan, tell me... how come a great sage suddenly appeared in my Li family, which originated from a rebellion?"

"The eldest princess born to me and the Empress has actually become a disciple of your Taoist sect to learn medicine, and even asked me not to kill those people. This has truly opened my eyes!"

As she spoke, she glared angrily at Crown Prince Li Chengqian beside her.

"Hmph! Chang Le is your own sister. I hope this is the last time something like this happens. If it happens a second time... you can forget about being the emperor's elder brother!"