By the time Li Shimin and his entourage came to the Chunming Gate of Daxing City, many officials had already received the news and came to the city gate to greet them.

——This is mostly because of the previous battle between him and Xue Ju, which was noticed by all parties. The result of this battle must have spread all over the land of Kansai at this time, and it is too exaggerated to say that everyone knows it, but as long as it has some status, or is closely related to this victory or defeat, it can basically be known. So Li Shimin's whereabouts are no secret for a long time.

However, the vast majority of these officials are below the sixth grade. This is because most of the imperial court institutions have been relocated to Luoyang, and secondly, those high-ranking officials who stayed in Chang'an City still need to have a little face. Even if they have a request for Li Shimin, they can't always run over to greet a junior, which will be ridiculed and will affect their official reputation.

What made Li Shimin feel quite pleased was that among the people who greeted him, including the six generals of the embroidered clothes guard in Chang'an City, as well as the embroidered clothes and Mei Huayu.

The arrival of these people shows that Chang'an Xiuyiwei does not reject him, but has a considerable degree of sincerity in cooperation.

"Lord Kaifu, the holy will you carry, the old slave already knew about it half a month ago. ”

When Li Shimin met with his colleagues, he walked side by side with Mei Huayu, who was smiling and kind: "To be honest, since I heard about this, we have been in Chang'an Embroidered Clothes, looking forward to your arrival in Kaifu, like looking forward to Ganlin." ”

After Li Shimin heard this, he looked at this Sima Beijia with some suspicion.

The embroidered guards of Chang'an City are willing to cooperate with him in handling the case, and he can understand. But what is the saying of 'looking forward to the rain', it is too exaggerated, right?

"Lord Kaifu, you probably don't believe your expression, right?"

Mei Huayu sighed and brushed her gray hair: "But Your Majesty went to the Eastern Capital in the second year of the Great Cause, and he never came back since." Even when worshipping ancestors, he never stayed in Daxing Palace. Before and after the winter hunting case this time, His Majesty was furious and asked Ambassador Wang to purge in the Eastern Capital, but for our Chang'an, he actually ignored it. For more than a month since the incident, due to the incompetence of the old slave, almost nothing has been found in Chang'an, but His Majesty has not ordered a reprimand. ”

Li Shimin listened quietly, and then his eyes showed a look of relief.

He probably understands this mentality, it would be good if he was just forgotten by the Son of Heaven - but now it is more likely that the Son of Heaven has doubts about the embroidered guards in Chang'an City. I think they're rotten up and down, so I don't have any hope.

It can also be imagined what kind of mentality the embroidered guards in Chang'an City will be. More than half of them are afraid that they are anxious to get rid of suspicion, regain the trust of the peak, and even the Son of Heaven. It is impossible to wait for the Son of Heaven to free up and down to clean them up and down.

This was good news, and one he hadn't expected before.

Originally, in Li Shimin's expectation, the embroidered guards of Chang'an City would be fine as long as they were willing to obey his orders and not get in the way, but now it seems that they can still get some unexpected help here.

"You Chang'an City, you can't be said to have found nothing, right? I've read Di Bao, haven't you caught a lot of members of the Eight Demon Dragons in the past month or so? Especially Gonggong Mei, since October last year, has been vigorously purging Sikong Wuji Poison, which is said to be quite effective?"

"It's all little people, it doesn't hurt. ”

Mei Huayu's expression was helpless, and his eyes showed bitterness: "And I was deceived by Qi Liangchen before, it is really difficult to do how effective this purge is, maybe I have wronged a lot of loyalty." ”

Li Shimin has known about this matter, Mei Huayu and Qi Liangchen have always been close friends before the latter defected.

Sima Liancheng had also written to him to complain before. His two comrades were obviously loyal to the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, but they were beaten as rebels by Mei Huayu.

Fortunately, Qi Liangchen defected after only a little more than a month, otherwise the vast majority of these people would have been wronged.

As for Mei Huayu, it is difficult to say what kind of image Mei Huayu is in the mind of the Son of Heaven now.

Li Shimin estimates that the trust of the Son of Heaven is still a little, otherwise this person would not be in the position of embroidering clothes now, but he must be very disappointed in this person.

Of course, this is just Mei Huayu's one-sided statement, and Li Shimin will not believe it without doubt.

On this trip to Kansai, he can borrow his strength, but what really involves the safety of his own life must be guarded against.

So next, Li Shimin was not polite to this person: "Gonggong Mei must also know about the matter between me and Xue Ju, right?"

"I've only heard about it in the last two days. ”

Mei Huayu first bowed slightly, and then snorted coldly: "An outlaw who doesn't know respect and humility and doesn't know etiquette and law, he actually dares to claim the overlord of Western Qin, he simply doesn't take the royal law in his eyes." Actually, Erlang, you should have asked us for help a long time ago, a mere captain of Jincheng, would he dare to oppose the imperial court? Is he trying to rebel?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but secretly 'tsk'. I thought that if I mobilized these inner courts to worship at that time, it would really be for public and private use. Not only does it provoke people's arguments, but it will even affect the perception of the Son of Heaven.

This Father-in-law Mei, although he is talking about generosity and heroism, but when he was blocked by Xue Ju in Tongguan before, didn't he also think that he didn't know and didn't have any substantive actions?

But now that he has arrived in Chang'an City, it is another situation. If he wants to investigate and deal with the Eight Demon Dragons, he naturally has to ensure his own safety first.

"I'm about to ask my father-in-law for help!"

Li Shimin took advantage of the situation, and then said to Gonggong Mei: "I have some personal grudges with Xue Ju, and I didn't dare to work in the imperial court, but now I have to do it. Xue Ju's strength is outstanding, and although the general has tried his best to prepare for the layout, he still calmly got out today. Now this overlord of Western Qin has become a big trouble in my heart, and I can't help but guard against it, so I need five to seven first-rank inner courts to worship and protect me. After all, my own life is just a matter of life, but I can't miss Your Majesty's important affairs-"

This time it was Mei Huayu's turn and gasped.

Five to seven first-class inner court offerings? This is really a lion's mouth, don't you need money to be a first-class master?

It's just his own life, it's really high-sounding.

However, after pondering for a moment, he decided to agree: "I will do my best in this matter." ”

At present, in Chang'an, five or six first-class inner court offerings can still be taken out. Of course, it's just ordinary martial arts cultivation, and there aren't many of those first-class martial arts generals in the whole world.

"It's best that the higher the strength, the better, these people not only need to protect my safety, but also help me investigate the case of the Demon Dragon Babu, and the general must not miss the trust of the Son of Heaven. ”

Li Shimin said without hesitation: "Also, I heard that guy called Shadowless Arrow has been extremely rampant recently?"

"Shadowless Arrows?"

Mei Huayu frowned slightly again: "This person's name is actually unknown, the Shadowless Arrow is just a code name given to this person by Luoyang Embroidery Guard, who committed a lot of bloody crimes in Luoyang a few months ago." After that, it was silent for a while, until around the thirteenth day of the first month, he could only appear in Chang'an, and killed three court officials in a row overnight. In the next ten days, he committed another three consecutive bloody crimes. This man's behavior can indeed be called rampant,"

"I've read this person's file. I'd like to know, have you found any clues lately?"

Li Shimin asked casually: "Daxing City has been closed for several days, but there is no clue at all?" I remember that on the thirteenth Chang'an, seven court officials were killed in a row, and I once asked someone to make a letter to Gonggong Mei. ”

"You think it's related to the Demon Dragon Babu. ”

Mei Huayu's old face was slightly red: "We have also checked in this direction, but there are not too many useful clues so far." Recently, our manpower has also been mainly focused on tracking down the Shadowless Arrow. But now I only know that this person should be very familiar with the terrain of Chang'an, and in addition, among the embroidered guards and the forbidden army, there are many internal ghosts echoing it. In addition, he or the person behind it should have a lot of grievances with the Duke of Chu. However, I heard that Jingzhao County has already raised a slight eyebrow, but Lord Guyi seems to be very wary of our embroidered guards-"

Li Shimin's eyes condensed slightly, thinking that he still underestimated the backbone of this Jingzhao Juncheng.

Now I don't know where this person has found out and what clues he has mastered.

It's also that I've been too smooth recently, getting more and more frivolous, and acting a little taken for granted, which is worth being wary of. There are many heroes in the world, and the price of underestimating them may not be able to bear it.

For example, this bone instrument, maybe the next situation will be quite troublesome-

However, Li Shimin then put away his thoughts: "I have some ideas now, but I lack manpower in my hands. Can you ask Gonggong Mei to do it on my behalf, help me gather about 1,000 embroidered guards, and help me mobilize 3,000 forbidden troops from the left and right guards into the city. ”

As he spoke, he handed a tiger talisman to Mei Huayu: "In addition to the Wind Tiger Camp under my cousin Li Shentong, I will trouble Father-in-law Mei, and give me some more trustworthy checks." ”

Li Shentong's original name was Li Shou, but the people in the world called him Li Shentong mostly, which is the so-called 'walking in the world with words'.

This person is his cousin, the eldest son of Li Liang, the eighth son of Li Hu, Haizhou Thorn History.

Now this is in Chang'an City, serving as a lieutenant in the right military guard, an auxiliary general, and commanding a battalion of troops.

- The name of the auxiliary general is very scary, if it was placed three hundred years ago, it must have been a high-ranking official in the imperial court. But at the moment, it is only from the "scattered level" of the six grades, which is used to determine the grade and the price.

In addition, because the Son of Heaven has essentially moved the capital to Luoyang, the vast majority of the forbidden troops in Chang'an City are not satisfied.

Therefore, although the Wind Tiger Battalion under Li Shentong has an establishment of 3,000 people, it is actually only 1,500 people.

And now the forbidden army in Chang'an is generally regarded as a place for distribution and pension, and most of them have a bleak future in the future.

So in the past six months, Li Shentong has often sent letters to Li Shimin, begging him to help transfer out of the quagmire of the Chang'an Forbidden Army.

Li Shimin also happened to have something to use this cousin this time, he thought to himself that as long as today's things are done, it can be regarded as a credit, and it will help Li Shentong's career to some extent.

As for the tiger talisman he gave to Mei Huayu, it had already been obtained from the Son of Heaven during the winter hunt. You can track down the matter of the Eight Divisions of the Demon Dragon, and mobilize less than 3,000 forbidden troops to help handle the case at any time.

At this time, Mei Huayu was deeply frowned, and his eyes were suspicious.

Guess Li Shimin, could it be that he really has any clues about the Eight Divisions of the Demon Dragon? To mobilize a forbidden army of such a scale, it is a big move-