Chapter 179: Scaring you

"It's the sound of horse hooves - it seems like a large group of cavalry coming to the governor's mansion-" A young general in the governor's mansion couldn't help but feel dull and stood up and shouted, and the silence in the hall was broken.

"What? How could it be a cavalry?" someone in the governor's house said in a trembling voice.

"How could the cavalry rush towards the governor's mansion?" another person from the governor's mansion exclaimed.

"It seems that it is Sima - it must be Sun Sima's cavalry -" the young general of the Governor's Office couldn't help but shout.

When the people in the Governor's Office heard the young general's words, except for Guo Xiaoke who was sitting and Li Mengchang still kneeling, the others stood up regardless of Li Ke's orders. However, the people in the Governor's Office had a pale face. Li Yan looked at Li Ke nervously. Seeing that Li Ke and Di Zhixun were calm, he felt ashamed and sat upright on the chair.

The sound of horse hooves from "Click! Click!" was far away and near. Everyone in the hall's heart trembled with the sound of horse hooves. Li Ke raised his wine glass and said to the people in the governor's mansion beside him, "Don't panic, let's drink another glass." After that, the glass was dry. The people in the governor's mansion barely raised their wine glasses, but did not drink the wine in the glass.

The sound of horse hooves stopped abruptly outside the gate of the governor's mansion, and then they heard the call of soldiers and the intersecting of weapons. The members of the governor's mansion seemed to be in vain at this time, and even Li Yan did not know what to do except look at Li Ke and Di Zhixun from time to time. Instead, the members of the governor's mansion, Li Ke saw an expression of expectation on their faces.

The noise outside the gate of the governor's mansion was getting closer and closer, and a Fei Tang army in the governor's mansion pounced on the hall in a mess, "Report - Governor..." Before he finished speaking, he heard hundreds of guards in black-clad black armor pouring into the hall under the leadership of a general wearing black-clad black armored army general and an official wearing a seventh-rank court uniform. When the black armored general walked into the hall, he shouted, "Take the rebels down for me!"

"No." The black-armored guards rushed into the hall like a wolf. They ignored who was standing. As long as you were standing in the hall, they would draw swords at you. Several generals of the Governor's Office were about to resist the black-armored guards, and were beaten up by the black-armored guards who rushed up, and then put the knife on their necks. The meaning was self-evident that as long as you dare to move, I would dare to kill you. The generals of the Governor's Office looked at the black-armored guards in front of him like a wolf.

The group-like eyes finally compromised. For the Black Armored Guards, they didn't care whether you were a general or a governor, they only obeyed the orders of their superiors. The people standing in the Governor's Mansion were rushed to the corner of the hall like prisoners by the Black Armored Guards and squatted down. However, at this time, they looked at Li Mengchang who was kneeling in the same place and Guo Xiaoke who was sitting on the table without moving. Then they suddenly realized how stupid they were. Li Ke had eight thousand iron cavalry in his hand. No matter how arrogant you were, they would still destroy you.

After the order from the Black Armor General was issued, he and the seventh-rank official walked up to Li Ke at the same time and said, "The last general, I am late to save the emperor, I hope your highness will forgive me."

It turned out that the person who came was not Sun Erlang's troops but Su Dingfang and the Wolf Cavalry Camp. No wonder the behavior just now was as cruel as a group of wolves, even the generals who fought bloody battles by the Governor's Office were suppressed by their fierceness.

"Dingfang and Yan tribes do not need to be too polite." Li Ke smiled and introduced to Li Yan beside him, "Brother, let me introduce you to you. These two are the Qianniu Guard General Su Dingfang and the Han Prince's Palace who were not invited to attend the conference." Xu Jingzong was appointed by Li Shimin as Li Ke's master Bo after Ma Zhou entered the Censorate. Li Ke's words were very plain, but they were very harsh in Li Yan's ears. The governor's office did not invite the two to attend the banquet. He knew that Li Ke had already understood that this was the arrangement of the governor's office. Now he said this to make him express his attitude on behalf of the governor's office.

"General Su and Master Xu are polite. The governor's mansion hosted His Highness today. He did not disturb him because of the busy military service. We were very happy that the two of them were able to attend the banquet at this time." Li Yan said a few politely and turned his eyes to Li Ke, but Li Ke was still unmoved. Su Ding Fanghe and Xu Jingzong also bowed their hands and did not reply to Li Yan. Li Yan smiled awkwardly and bowed to sit down and said no more. He just saw from the fierceness of the black guard that if anyone in the hall dared to disrespect Li Ke, they would definitely cut him down.

Li Ke looked at Guo Xiaoke who was sitting beside him and ignored him. Instead, he stepped forward and helped Li Mengchang, who was kneeling on the ground, picked up the wine glass on the table and said, "Thank you for your hard work, General Li, I wish you a glass."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Li Meng said in a humble and arrogant manner. He took Li Ke's wine and drank it all.

Li Ke sighed in his heart that Li Mengchang is a real soldier, and he deserves to be a person who has followed Li Shimin. He did a good job in order to enforce the orders. He did not order him to get up, but he kept kneeling until now. It was not that he captured Li Ke's majesty, but because Li Ke was the Grand Governor of Bingzhou and the General of the Governor's Office.

After Li Ke respected Li Meng, he bowed to Li Yan, who was sitting on the chair, and said, "I am not drunk and physically uncomfortable and say goodbye first. I will go to the mansion to visit my brother in the evening."

"Your Highness, please give me your best!" Li Yan and the people in the governor's mansion hurriedly stood up and said, "Tonight, I'll wait for Your Highness to come in the mansion."

Li Ke ignored Guo Xiaoke and the people of the Governor's Office and walked out of the hall. As soon as he stepped out of the threshold, he suddenly turned back and said to Guo Xiaoke, "Tomorrow, the Governor will be in the military camp, and all the generals of the Governor's Office will be present. Please ask Guo Changshi to inform Sun Sima to avoid delaying the time of military law handling." Li Ke suppressed the four words "Military Law Handling" very heavily, which made Guo Xiaoke and the people of the Governor's Office feel cold. Does His Highness the King of Han really want to deal with Sun Sima? Li Ke did not pay attention to the expressions of everyone after hearing it. He walked out of the Governor's Office calmly. Chen Qi, Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong followed him closely. The black-clothed wolf cavalry saw that Li Ke had left and just stepped out of the Governor's Office in an orderly manner.

The people in the hall were no longer interested in drinking. They said goodbye to each other and dispersed one after another. Only the people in the Governor's Office were left in the hall. Li Meng had also claimed the crimes of Guo Xiaoke and left the hall. The people in the Governor's Office surrounded Guo Xiaoke and wanted to hear what Guo Xiaoke said, but what disappointed them was that Guo Xiaoke didn't say a word, and just sat silently on the chair without saying a word. After a while, he said a difficult sentence, "Let's go to the Sun Mansion to see Sun Sima's injury first."

Li Ke and his group returned to the study room of the Governor's Office. Only then did Li Ke say to Chen Qi beside him, "Heiyi closely monitors everyone at the banquet today. They report to me immediately whenever there is any movement."

"No." Chen Qi replied.

"Dingfang, transfer three thousand cavalry into the city tonight." Li Ke said seriously.

"No." Su Dingfang did not ask why, but just answered respectfully.

After giving the task, Li Ke said to the three of them, "Nothing is wrong, you all go down." The three of them respectfully bowed to Li Ke and left the study.

Li Ke in the study silently recalled the scene of today's banquet in his heart. He felt that many things were strange. Although the conflicts between the generals of the Governor's Office and the Governor's Office existed, they were not very large, and they were not so great that they were incompatible with water and fire. Therefore, there was no need for him to get close to Li Yan to cause the generals of the Governor's Office to be so negligent and cold to him. If the generals of the Governor's Office were hostile to him, Li Ke felt that perhaps it was because he was too close to Li Yan and that the people of the Governor's Office to regard him as an enemy. Li Mengchang's respectful attitude towards him made Li Ke cancel this speculation. Through understanding of Li Mengchang's background, Li Ke knew that he was one of the pioneers of the Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate coup, and was a loyal confidant of Li Shimin, who came from the Qin Palace. His respect for himself could only mean that he was the person standing behind Li Shimin. Then Li Ke thought of Sun Erlang's background, Sun Erlang was a general who had been through life and death with Li Ji.

"So that's it!" Li Ke sighed. He finally understood what the purpose of the people in the Governor's Mansion was hostile to him. "I really want to go to Li Yan's Mansion tonight!"

Li’s Mansion, Li Yan’s study.

Li Yan, the governor's mansion, Yuan Deqian, Sima Yu Kailun, and three middle-aged men in their forties sat silently. After Li Yan had just heard Li Ke's words and deeds in the hall of the governor's mansion, they began to remain silent. The three middle-aged people were neither others nor the Yuanxin family of the Guanlong Group, Yu Jin family, and the patriarch of the Li Bi family. Like Li Yan, they were both strong men with a place in the Guanlong Group. The reason why they came to Li Yan's mansion today was to see Li Ke's attitude through the observation of the banquet.

They all represent their respective families, and their words and affairs are mainly based on the interests of their respective families. This time, Li Shimin sent Li Ke to govern the vassal states. They could not sit idly by and they knew Li Ke's talents quite well, so they attached great importance to Li Ke's every move. Today's banquet was planned by them, and the omissions of Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong at the banquet were also deliberately arranged by them. The purpose was to see Li Ke's reaction. However, they did not expect that the Governor's Office was also targeting Li Ke, and there was also Sun Erlang's slandering the imperial officials. They did not expect that Li Ke's attitude would be so tough.

"Since——" said the patriarch of the Li Bi family, "The emperor sent the Han King to Zhenfan Bingzhou to let him rectify the civil and military affairs of Bingzhou, then we should see how powerful he is and then make a decision again!"

"Yeah!" The patriarch of Yu Jin's family nodded and said, "Isn't the Governor's Office hostile to him? Then let's see how capable he is and whether he can eat this piece of fat meat in Taiyuan Palace."

"I have no objection!" The patriarch of the Yuanxin family looked at Li Yan and the other two and said.

"Since you three have no objection, I mean that we neither support him nor oppose him. As for the Governor's Office, it depends on his own abilities!" Li Yan said.

"Good!" The three of them agreed at the same time.
Chapter completed!