After Li Longji, the son of heaven of the Tang Dynasty, reached his old age, his attitude towards the prince was both tangled and contradictory, sometimes he suppressed with his hands and showed no mercy, and sometimes he had many protections to maintain the dignity of the prince. The case of the group assault was finally made public at the first synodic court meeting in April, and all the officials involved were demoted to the third rank, and the five officials who teased the prince were removed from their posts and investigated.

As soon as this case came out, there was an uproar in the government and the opposition, and some people seemed to see some ways from the disposition of the Son of Heaven. Since Yang Guozhong's resignation, the Son of Heaven has rarely grasped some trivial matters to grasp the prince, and even gradually delegated power, allowing him to go to the political hall to discuss important matters with the military.

Let's just say that the case of the group beating of the officials, although the impact is very bad, after all, it is not enough to mention the degree of public disposition decision at the Shuowang court. But the Son of Heaven is like this, and it is likely to send a signal to the world that the authority of the prince cannot be provoked.

In this way, a groundbreaking conclusion is also about to come out, perhaps, the Son of Heaven already has a new Zen position!

Of course, in addition to believing that the Son of Heaven is about to take the throne, there is another different view from the government and the opposition. They believe that the Son of Heaven is too old and unable to do many things, so he has to favor the prince in many decisions. Moreover, there is even a saying circulating quietly.

There is an inextricable relationship between the Shenwu Army Zhonglang General and the crown prince, in fact, the prince can already control half of Chang'an City through the hands of Qin Jin, the Shenwu Army Zhonglang General.

The current patrol inside and outside Chang'an City, except for the imperial city, has been taken over by the Shenwu army. Moreover, since the beginning of the inspection of public security last year, the forbidden army of the Northern Ya has completely overshadowed the Southern Ya, and many of the new army in the Northern Ya have sympathy and good feelings for the prince.

They believe that the current Chang'an City has reached the most intense moment of undercurrent, and the slightest negligence may be swept into it and end up with no place to bury.

This kind of saying is not widely spread in the DPRK, but it has a large market in the market, and many people have a lot of words when they spread it by mouth.

For example, the current court situation is that the monarch is weak and the prince is weak, and it seems that all three parties are weak. However, the implicit meaning behind it is very different, the Son of Heaven is old, his energy is not good, it is the situation of the mountains and rivers are declining, and the prime ministers in the political hall are even more difficult to mention, the prime minister's head Zhongshu Ling Wei Jiansu is a master of the mud, this kind of person is used to be a deputy or competent, but it is really inappropriate for him to take the lead alone, and the rest such as Wei Fangjin, Cui Guangyuan and others are all middle-of-the-road. As for the two prime ministers who entered the political hall, Ge Shuhan and Gao Xianzhi. The former suffers from wind disease and leads troops in Tongguan, even if he is strong, but the whip is beyond his reach, and it is difficult to have a deeper impact on the situation in Chang'an. Although the latter has the name of the prime minister, he is often suspicious of the Son of Heaven, and he is famous but not substantial.

Besides, the crown prince, although on the surface, his situation does not seem to have changed much from before Yang Guozhong's resignation, although he has the power to talk to Wen about state affairs, but it is only with Wen, and almost all important military affairs must be decided by the Son of Heaven himself. But this is a sign of the loosening of the strict barriers, as long as time passes, the prince's strength will inevitably increase steadily, until the Son of Heaven is alert, and it will be even more difficult to suppress the restrictions.

These rumors were all summarized by the secret agents sent by Qin Jin in the market one by one to the Shenwu Army.

Obviously, Qin Jin saw a hint of unusual flavor from these two rumors, and on the surface, they were all optimistic about the prince's future. But the latter, in contrast, harbors evil intentions.

If these messages reach the ears of the Son of Heaven, I don't know how Li Longji, who has always been cold and suspicious, will feel and respond?

However, the current officialdom is more concerned about the case of the group beating of officials. The officials and officials of the Ministry of Officials have become the laughing stock of the government and the opposition. Regardless of the truth of the facts, dozens of people claimed to have been beaten by three people, and they went to the prince to complain, do they expect the prince to be stupid enough to believe such a lie?

If this is true, how weak must these dozens of officials and officials be before they are beaten by three people? In other words, maybe those three people are too strong.

Almost overnight, these three people were pushed to the forefront of the public opinion field.

Shangshu Zuo Cheng Wei Ji, who is the son of Prime Minister Wei Sili, has a well-known literary name and has a good reputation in the court. Du Fu in the Ministry of Langzhong, is also a famous family, grandfather Du Xianyan is also a famous minister of the Gaozong Dynasty, and he himself is famous for poetry, although he has not been successful for more than ten years, but there has just been a turning point to appear such a blockbuster event.

As for the third person, it is the most mysterious, Wei Ji and Du Fu never said a word to him, only said that he was a nameless forbidden army soldier, but the Chang'an forbidden army is tens of thousands, so where can those good deeds be found?

Originally, the Son of Heaven had to dispose of these two people together, but under the joint intercession of Prime Minister Wei Jiansu and Wei Fangjin, he was exempted from demotion, although his rank remained the same, but he was still transferred from his own post in Shangshu Province.

The next day, an edict of the Son of Heaven was promulgated, Wei Ji was appointed as the envoy of the city defense, and Du Fu was the deputy envoy of the city defense.

These two envoys have never appeared before, but judging from the name, they should at least be related to the repair of the city. Some officials with a sensitive sense of smell asked a hint of war from this edict, and the Son of Heaven strengthened the city defense, naturally to deal with the possible war.

But after a few days, the actions of the two maintenance envoys made everyone strange, it is said that the city defense maintenance envoys should repair the wall, but these two not only did not repair the wall, but even the city wall has not been to, only in the streets and alleys of Chang'an City.

After observing for a while, the officials who had smelled the smell of war gradually relieved themselves, it turned out that the errands of these two were just the idle errands of the Son of Heaven to comfort people, and as for all kinds of unheard of envoys, it has been common since Kaiyuan Tianbao.

Soon, the two maintenance envoys ended their wandering around the city and began to rest the road between Anyi Fang and Xuanping Fang.

Seeing this, the officials immediately looked at each other and smiled, it turned out that the Son of Heaven still punished these two famous talents, but the punishment method was relatively mild, it was just to build roads.

Sure enough, in less than a day's effort, the long street between Anyi Fang and Xuanping Fang immediately became a construction site for blasting earth and dust. This street was indeed in disrepair, and the loess avenue was full of potholes, not at all like the streets north of Dongshi, which were paved with bluestone slabs.

After the road was broken, the forbidden army from Beiya arrived. This makes people very strange, using the forbidden army to build roads, this is the first time in the world? Who came up with this idea? Moreover, after most of the princes of the Northern Ya were honored and powerful, those gentlemen who were above the top were willing to condescend to the noble to do this kind of cheap service?

Another day passed, on both sides of the street of Anyi Fang and Xuanpingfang, there were two long shelves made of mulberry wooden poles, and then bamboo mats were transported one after another, until one morning after people went out, only to find that the whole street had been covered with bamboo mats by this kind of mulberry wooden shelves, completely covered.

What is this for? The road is built with such mystery and fanfare?

Some people even planned to secretly come forward to uncover the bamboo mat and get a glimpse of the mystery, but unfortunately before they could get closer, a forbidden army immediately stepped forward to drive them away, and if anyone dared to resist, they would be taken into custody and imprisoned without mercy, which was the same crime as violating the curfew.

However, people's attention soon shifted to the two city defense maintenance envoys, and Wei Ji could no longer see the appearance of the elegant scribe in the past few days, and soaked in the street between Anyi Fang and Xuanping Fang all day long, his body was covered with dust and mud all the time, and he was actually tired of it and full of energy.

Many people laughed in private that he was stupid in the case of being beaten by the officials, and he actually participated in the cheap labor himself.

And that Du Fu is not much better, he is also disheveled all day long, and his image is only worse than Wei Ji, not better than him.

Wei Ji looked at the street that had been changed beyond recognition, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Only Zhonglang General can come up with such an idea to dig a hole in the name of building a road, and the people used are all soldiers of the forbidden army." ”

Du Fu also nodded in agreement, although he has always slept in the open air for several days, it is a thousand times stronger than the one who is in the hall of the official department all day long.

"It's harder to tame these unruly sons than to come up with this idea. ”

Wei Ji also sighed with emotion, "What Brother Zimei said is very true, let these ladies and gentlemen do the work of cheap servants, and only Zhonglang will dare to think so." ”

The two city defense maintenance envoys were all the same sighs and sighs, Qin Jin actually used the soldiers of the Shenwu Army to dig the hole in person in order to keep it secret.

"Admiral Nakaro has said that the location and purpose of these deep caves must be kept strictly secret so that they can be useful. Wei Ji said again.

"It may be possible to keep the use secret, but this location is not easy, just look at the battle that seals the entire street, who can't pay attention to it?" Du Fu had a different opinion.

Wei Ji smiled: "That's not easy, you and my brother don't just build this street, we have to lay seventy-two doubtful graves!"

"There are more than seventy-two, and a few places are enough to 1"

The two of them were sighing with emotion, and suddenly an assistant official ran over with a roar.

Before the man arrived, the voice came first.

"No, it's not good, the forbidden army is making trouble, it's going to be a trouble. ”

Wei Ji and Du Fu's faces changed.

"How's it going?"

"Somehow, there were two groups of forbidden troops fighting, and seeing that the construction site was suspended, today's progress could not catch up. ”

The two city defense maintenance uses the plan formulated by Qin Jin, and the estimation of all construction periods is accurate to every day.

If today's progress is affected due to the emergency of the forbidden army brawl, then all subsequent construction periods will be affected.

"Lead the way, Wei will take a look!"

This time, he didn't hide back, this was the first important thing he had done since he became an official, how could he give up halfway?