Chapter 229: The Decisive Battle - Honey Sword (Part II)
Li Shizhi glanced at Li Linfu carefully again, and felt that Li Linfu couldn't help but agree too happily this time, this is obviously a thing that can be pleasing in front of the saint, Li Linfu is changing sex?
"No! There must be a problem!" Li Shizhi came back from the joy and suddenly noticed the abnormality, so the most critical question just now came to Li Shizhi's mind again: "Is this true or false?"
"Huajun Taishou doesn't seem to be Li Linfu's person, right? However, if you really want to frame me, how can you use someone who has obvious connections with you?" Li Shizhi fell into a deep entanglement, clearly aware of the danger, but in his heart he was really unwilling to give up the sweetness of this hand.
"That's it, when I met the saint this time, if the saint asked, he would emphasize that this matter has not been verified, so even if it is confirmed to be false afterwards, I will not be able to find it at that time!" Li Shizhi suddenly thought of a way that seemed to have the best of both worlds.
It's just that he forgot that being the chief deacon and presenting a message to the Son of Heaven that has not yet been verified is really worse than not saying anything, because that will only make the emperor feel that he is incompetent.
Looking at Li Shizhi's brisk steps, the corners of Li Linfu's mouth slowly rose while sitting behind him.
Even if Li Shizhi didn't get on the trap this time, they still had a lot of ways. What's more, Li Shizhi's recent situation is really not good. For things that can make the saint happy, Li Shizhi must never miss it.
So, Li Shizhi rushed into the palace to meet Li Longji and reported the gold mine in detail.
"Holy Lord, great news! Huajun Taishou played, and a huge gold mine was excavated in Yanhua Mountain. Li Shizhi said with an exaggerated expression.
"Oh, really?" Li Longji suddenly put down the recital in his hand and said in surprise.
"Huajun Taishou's recital is here, the saint will know it at a glance!" As he spoke, Li Shizhi handed the recital in his hand to Li Longji.
Li Longji hurriedly took it, carefully inspected it many times, and then laughed loudly: "Haha, that's really the case! Quickly, he quickly drafted the order, and ordered the Taishou of Huajun to immediately organize people to mine." Haha, it's really God's protection for my Datang!"
But at this time, Li Shizhi slowly put away the smile on his face, his face was embarrassed, and he stopped talking.
When Li Longji saw this, he asked, "What's the matter?" Aren't you happy to have such a happy event?"
Li Shizhi immediately replied with sincere fear: "The old minister doesn't dare, the old minister has no such intention......!"
Seeing this, Li Longji frowned impatiently and said, "If you have something, just say it, how can you be a bit of the prime minister's Xiangzi?"
Li Shizhi had no choice but to reply: "Qi Yu Sheng, this Huashan gold mine is naturally a great joy, but this matter is a matter of great importance, the old minister thinks that you must not believe Huajun's one-sided words, or send someone to investigate on the spot!"
After hearing this, Li Longji turned his anger into joy and praised: "This is what Lao Cheng said about the country!
"Shengming is no more than His Majesty!" Li Shizhi followed.
Just a few words can be seen that Li Shizhi is also a veteran, first use exaggerated actions to provoke the emperor's thoughts, at first hearing such a good thing, everyone will be happy, and the emperor will not be an exception. And then express his worries, under the preconceived idea, everyone will have a good vision of good things, as long as the saint is happy, Li Shizhi's goal will be achieved, not to mention that after expressing his doubts later, not only will all the dangers after the event be eliminated, but also make the saint feel that he is calm, which is simply a matter of counting in one fell swoop.
It's just that what Li Shizhi doesn't know is that Li Linfu doesn't care about whether there is a gold mine in Huashan at all, because his foothold is not on whether the gold mine is stored at all.
The next day, Li Linfu entered the palace, and Li Longji asked Li Linfu about the same thing. When Li Linfu heard this, he sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the discovery of gold veins in Huashan is a happy event, but Your Majesty must not dig it." ”
Li Longji immediately asked the reason.
Li Linfu replied: "After the Huajun Song reported to Beijing, the minister read it once and put it aside, but somehow it was seen by Zuo Xiang, and he came to report to His Majesty. Majesty, Huashan is the place where the majesty is born, how can you move the mountains and rocks in vain?"
Li Longji suddenly realized.
Li Longji was born in the year of Yiyou, belongs to the chicken, the earthly branch is located in the west, and the five elements belong to gold. Because Li Longji was born in Luoyang, Xiyue Huashan became his natal and royal spirit.
Li Longji is now a devout believer in Taoism and has a strong sense of fear of the Mandate of Heaven. Huashan is the whole mountain for gold, and it is not allowed to move a piece. When Li Longji thought of this, he was grateful to Li Linfu, and he was relatively angry with Li Shizhi, and scolded: "This Li Shizhi only knows how to use his mind for drinking and having fun all day long. Why did he turn a blind eye to such a discerning thing?"
As a result, under the cooperation of Wan Dezhao and Li Linfu, Emperor Xuanzong's evil feelings towards Li Shizhi increased again.
It's just that this kind of bad feeling is obviously not enough!
The clouds of Chang'an are accumulating rapidly in the dark, but the battle in Yuzhang City has already become hot.
After the battle in the valley, the five grandmasters of the local wealthy families in Yuzhang were seriously injured and returned, and the "Wan'an" war of the previous generation of the Wan family overdrew their vitality, and they died before they arrived at the ancestral house of the Wan family. Under Wan Ping's serious injury, he also used secret techniques to burn vitality in exchange for short-term strength, so he was seriously injured, and after rushing back to the ancestral house, he was already angry, unconscious, and did not know whether he was alive or dead.
As for the grandmaster of the Luo and Huang families and the nameless young man, they also had injuries, the nameless young man held on Cui Mingchong's hands for a long time, and the injuries were the most serious, but fortunately, he was young and strong, and under the first aid of the doctors of the Wan family, the injuries have now stabilized, and the two grandmasters of the Luo and Huang families, who were not seriously injured, have already returned to their homes.
The local wealthy family in Yuzhang suffered heavy damage, and the seven sects and five surnames were even more miserable.
The ancestor of the Zheng clan in Rongyang was finally injured by the master of the Luo family and killed with one palm, while the ancestor of the Li clan of Zhao County, who was in the same battle, escaped after being seriously injured.
The four Cui Ruizhi in the middle of the battle, the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang family, who was seriously injured by the Huang family's grandmaster, didn't know whether it was a real injury or a fake injury, in short, he had been lying quietly on the side in the subsequent battle, and he passed out. The six people in the battle didn't have time to pay attention to him, even if Cui Ruizhi hated him in his heart, the three people of the Wan family would never let him go to "wake up" the sleeping Wang family ancestor, so the Wang family ancestor didn't groan in pain until the end of the battle, struggled to stand up, and watched Cui Rui's blood spurt out, and the injury became more serious.
It's just three people in the field, the ancestor of the Li clan in Longxi only has one breath left, and the extraordinary wooden stick in the hand of the ancestor of the Fan Yang Lu clan is broken into two, and at the same time, there is a blood hole with a large bowl mouth hanging on his body, which was left by the wooden staff in his hand under the desperate death of the previous generation of "Wan An". As for Cui Ruizhi, the main attacker, not to mention, his body is full of wounds of all sizes, bleeding nonstop, where is there still half an elegant temperament. Even Cui Mingchong, who was sturdy, was not seriously injured, but he was dragged by the nameless young man to the point of exhaustion.
As a result, the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang clan, who was almost intact, became the only grandmaster in the field who still retained his combat power, and for this reason, where did the rest of the people dare to make irresponsible remarks about his pretending to be dead.
In the end, the seven grandmasters of the seven sects and five surnames did not enter Yuzhang City, but headed north and returned to the pre-prepared contact point, and the ancestor of the Li clan in Longxi was also seriously injured and died in the end.
Since then, two people have died and three have been seriously injured on one side of the seven sects and five surnames, and they have long lost the strength to continue to go south to Yuzhang, so they have to be in this contact point, while recuperating from their injuries, they sent someone back to their home to report quickly, and at the same time always pay attention to the movements in Yuzhang City.
At this time, in Yuzhang City, the battle for land has reached a fever pitch.
After Wan Shijun made a comeback, he showed superb operational ability, using a large number of copper coins and land in his hands to constantly and accurately control the increase in land prices.
Wang Yuan and a group of local small and medium-sized families in Yuzhang, who threw themselves into Wang Xian, just wanted to put the land in their hands into the market again, but they were still seized by Wan Shijun.
When they sold the land at a relatively high price, Wan Shijun immediately mobilized his own secret son buried in the family of these people and transferred the land to the name of others, making Wang Yuan and others' plan to buy and sell themselves frustrated. Then they launched precise price control, and in an instant, the price of the land sold by Wang Yuan and others skyrocketed more than ten times, and in the next few days, it rose higher and higher, without the slightest sign of price reduction. But after they bought the land back, the price of the land fell into the valley overnight, completely ruining their plan to sell the land for money. As soon as such a strange thing came out, the foreign investors in Yuzhang City didn't know that there was a powerful person behind their backs, so no one dared to take over the land of Wang Yuan and others. The cash in the hands of Wang Yuan and others was swept away in such an instant, and for this reason, they completely lost the qualifications to intervene in this battle again, and became a complete spectator who could only resign himself to fate.
In Yuzhang City, Taoyuan, and Xu Fan's small courtyard, Xu Chen was holding a piece of information handed over by his teacher Xu Fan and looking at it carefully.
After reading it, he looked at Xu Fan and said thoughtfully: "Wan Dezhao's movements are really fast!"
Xu Fan nodded heavily, and sighed in a low voice: "Huangfu Weiming is a good person!"
This is a clueless sentence, but Xu Chen only heard it, and he understood.
So, Xu Chen took over the conversation and said, "He is also a good general!"
"You say, did you do something wrong as a teacher?" Xu Fan looked at Xu Chen in confusion, and said in turmoil.
Xu Chen sighed, raised his voice slightly, and said, "Teacher, what you hate is not yourself, but this court that is only for selfish interests, with no clear good and evil, and no distinction between black and white. But if you want to change this qiē, you must have supreme power, otherwise, every qiē is empty talk, and now, don't you understand, teacher?"
Xu Chen said that later, he was almost shouting.
Xu Fan was awakened by this slap drink, and in a moment he picked up a weak feeling, his eyes became resolute again, he looked at his eldest disciple, and said with a wry smile in his heart: "I really don't know how this kid has come over all these years, and who taught such a demon, who can see it more thoroughly than my old man at a young age!"
Seeing that the teacher cheered up again, Xu Chen smiled with some relief: "The apprentice is here to congratulate the teacher in advance!"
Xu Fan smiled speechlessly and avoided talking about it.
Then, on the way home, Xu Chen looked at the flowing clouds in the distance and sighed in a low voice: "Teacher, teacher, I know that you are ashamed in your heart, why am I not?
"It's all about living!" Xu Chen raised his head firmly and said in his heart.
Then, he strode forward......
It is said that the emperor returned to Beijing for a few days, and he only spent his time drinking and having fun with his friends every day.
Huangfu Weiming doesn't have many friends, and now there are even fewer who are qualified to play with him, Li Shizhi is one, and Wei Jian is the only one left.
It's just that last year, Wei Jian fell for Li Linfu's divisive plan, and so far he has been cold to Li Shizhi, and spoke viciously to each other, no matter how Huangfu Weiming said peace, it was useless, and in desperation, Huangfu Weiming had to invite each other one by one, and never brought the two together again.
It's just that no one paid attention to the hard work of the emperor, but let the people with a heart find the reason, so, under the command of the people behind the scenes, the imperial historians of the imperial history platform were full of firepower, and flew to the General Administration Department like snowflakes of bullets, and finally all of them fell on Li Longji's imperial case.
Li Longji read several of the books of the Imperial History Terrace one after another, and his heart was suddenly furious, and he quickly passed the edict to Li Linfu into the palace. Li Linfu saw that the emperor was in a hurry, so he naturally knew what was happening, so he galloped over.
After entering the palace to face the saint, Li Longji ordered Li Linfu to look at the pieces first, and then paced in the hall, and said angrily: "What does this emperor Fu want? What are they discussing with Li Shizhi and Wei Jian?"
Li Linfu naturally knew the content of these recitals, but he still pretended to check them carefully, only to see that most of them said that Li Shizhi and Huangfu Weiming would travel to Qujiang tomorrow night, and sleep together for several nights, and Wei Jian would meet Huangfu Weiming in Jinglongguan and so on.
Huangfu Weiming and Li Shi traveled to Qujiang on the night, and outsiders just said that they should not be so close, which is not a big mistake, but Wei Jian's relationship with Huangfu Weiming is a big mistake. Wei Jian is a foreign relative, and Huangfu is clearly a border general, and Li Longji has already issued an edict to warn noble relatives not to have private relations with border generals, which is one of them; the other two meet in the wrong place, since the two of them have entered the Huilongguan together, they will inevitably meet with Taoist priests, so they have committed Li Longji's taboo, and this is the second.
After Li Linfu finished "reading" the book, he said: "What His Majesty said is very true, the emperor Wei Ming returned to Beijing to offer prisoners, and he was rewarded countless times, this is the grace of the saints, and he should return to Hexi as soon as possible after the incident." He stayed in Beijing and did not return, and he was keen to interact with important officials of the imperial court, which was indeed inappropriate. ”
"Is it just inappropriate?" Li Longji's eyes burned, obviously dissatisfied with Li Linfu's answer.
"His misbehavior, His Majesty can summon him to admonish, let him leave Beijing and return to Hexi as soon as possible. ”
When Li Longji heard this, his sharp gaze stared at Li Linfu for a moment, pondering Li Linfu's attitude towards this matter. However, Li Linfu's face has been expressionless since he entered the palace, as usual in a peaceful and respectful manner, if Li Longji wants to find out the true words on his face, it is really in vain.
Seeing that the emperor was silent, Li Linfu said again: "If Your Majesty permits, the ministers will summon them to come and admonish them, so that they can restrain their words and deeds." ”
Li Longji had a gloomy face and said, "I summoned you here just to let you preside over this matter. But it's not a reprimand, but a good investigation. ”
"Survey, Your Majesty, they are the left minister, the border general, and the nobles, how can the ministers investigate them?" Li Linfu said in surprise.
Li Longji said coldly: "Put these three people in prison first, and then you will preside over it, and order the three divisions to be tried, will there be any obstacles?"
Li Linfu was suddenly shocked and said, "Your Majesty...... His Majesty is going to put them in prison......? This ......"
Li Linfu was really surprised this time, according to the previous plan, although this time he was also going to wipe out all three of them, there was always a priority. For example, Huangfu Weiming, as a border general, is far away from his own foundation, and it is safest to take him first, and after he is imprisoned, under the heavy punishment, the man who let him beat him with iron has to obey the order to bite Wei Jian and Li Shizhi out.
It's just that he didn't expect the situation to develop to such a point, although this is what Li Linfu wants, but if he doesn't ask things clearly and find out the reason for the loss of control, Li Linfu will never dare to act rashly.
So Li Linfu carefully considered the words and asked cautiously: "Holy Lord, these three people are all meritorious ministers, what is this...... If you go to prison together for no reason, this is ...... The world will say that you will be punished for not teaching......"
"Reason, well, you want the reason, right? I will give you this reason!" After speaking, Li Longji took out a blue-skinned piece of music from his sleeve and threw it heavily in front of Li Linfu.
Li Linfu hurriedly bowed to Li Longji, confessed his guilt, bent down to pick up the piece, opened it and looked at it, just chatting a few words, and he was already in a cold sweat.
It turned out that this letter was also an impeachment of Huangfu Weiming, but it was a little different from the pile of the Imperial Historical Tower. First of all, the person who impeached was not the imperial historian, but only a minor official in the Ministry of Rites. Moreover, this damn petty official didn't know the rumors he had never heard, and he saw that the people of the Imperial History Observatory impeached Huangfu Weiming together, and it was said that it was still the idea of the right minister, and in order to show his merits, he also went to a book, and in order to be ingenious, he actually pointed the finger at the prince Li Heng, and said that Huangfu Weiming often secretly met with the prince Li Heng for a few days, and he didn't know what to talk about secretly.
Li Longji looked at Li Linfu, who was in a cold sweat, and said sharply: "Now you know the reason, right?"
Li Linfu's legs weakened, and he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Don't listen to the words of the villain, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is respectful and polite, how could he do such a disobedient thing!"
Li Linfu didn't understand until this moment why today's Li Longji often looked at him with searching eyes, and it turned out that he was actually led to the idea of party strife and rebellion by this damn letter. Although Li Linfu and Wan Dezhao were also planning to bring the crown prince Li Heng in, they would only do it until the last resort. If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and under the premise that the general trend is not enough, it is too risky to provoke a fight related to the country without authorization!
Li Linfu's response was also very quick and effective, he did not stay out of the matter, but praised the prince Li Heng, and removed this damn thought from Li Longji's mind first, otherwise if Li Longji was really trapped, not to mention whether Li Shizhi could be brought down this time, maybe he would be convicted by the suspicious Li Longji as the mastermind of this series of events, and then be imprisoned and executed!
Sure enough, after Li Linfu's painstaking answer, the frost on Li Longji's face was much less, and then he said, "Go ahead! Go and find out about this matter." Well, that Giwin is doing pretty well, so you can tell him to do it. ”
Li Linfu got up, bowed down to receive the order, and retreated respectfully.
In my heart, I have already decided that after I go back, I will send this damn petty official of the Ministry of Rites to Qiongzhou, damn it, this is too good at cheating!