Li Gai shook his head and said, "The question you are talking about now was carefully considered by the emperor at the beginning of the establishment of the Night Ride. In detail, the focus of night riding is on implementation, and there is no ** ruling power, so there is no transgression and duplication of authority. ”

"A sharp blade in the emperor's hand?" Lin Shan suddenly interjected.

Li Gai nodded and did not speak.

"Blade...... It's not that he can't hide it, it's that he doesn't want to hide it, and in the end it was put on the table. Lin Shan muttered to himself, and then asked Li Gai again, "Can't the royal compound be completely quiet?" ”

"A cluster of spring water drips into a rock slab at a constant speed for hundreds of years, and it can penetrate it even if it is not strong and weak. It is conceivable that even if a political regime with more than 300 years of vitality has collapsed, the residual strength it has left behind should not be underestimated. Li Gai sighed, and then said to Lin Shan with a smile: "I don't know anything else, but I can be sure that his determination to cut through the mess quickly is very firm." ”

"What a quick knife!" Lin Shan smiled and patted Li Gai's shoulder, and after being silent for a while, he said: "The uneven places in Kyoto are almost all flattened by this knife, so is the next target of this knife the place in Qingchuan?" ”

Li Gai was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and Lin Shan, who saw his expression, could already confirm that his guess was correct. Although Li Gai has not yet told him who the commander of the Western Expeditionary Corps will be soon, but if he carefully ponders the current pattern of military generals in the current dynasty, there seem to be only a few suitable people, but Lin Shan is still slightly surprised by this result.

However, the doubt on his face didn't last long, and then he suddenly smiled, and said slowly: "Your Majesty's move can't help but make me feel inappropriate at first glance, but take a little more time to think about it." Suddenly it dawned. ”

Li Gai smiled: "I haven't told you about this yet, you can guess, what else is wrong with you not seeing the substance?" ”

"I can't afford to be praised so high by you." Lin Shan smiled, and then said with a smile: "Although there is a puppet king stationed in that troubled land in Qingchuan, and he has no strength himself, if he can clean up that puppet and that nominal thing, it is not all meaningless. ”

"The most important point is that the other side has the real power of the army. It is said that the cultivation of martial arts is not shallow, although it is said that military operations pay attention to strategy, but that guy is really too powerful, and it has already cost the lives of several generals in our border army. This thorn must be removed, otherwise I don't know how many more people in our army will be given to him to be cut off as meat on a chopping board. ”

"I see what you mean." Li Gai thought for a while and then said, "Actually, this is the real purpose of the emperor sending me to Qingchuan. ”

"I believe in your strength, but the risk of being killed in the army is still not small." Lin Shan paused, glanced at Li Gai and asked, "Is Your Majesty sure?" Who else is traveling with you this time? ”

"The details are still to be determined, but the emperor has hinted at it. It seems to be a newcomer. When Li Gai said this, he looked around the street, and then lowered his voice and continued: "It is likely that he is one of the first disciples of Shanshui Academy. ”

Lin Shan's eyes changed slightly when he heard this, and he asked after a deep sigh, "Isn't it Yan Lu?" So what did His Majesty call him back for? ”

Li Gai replied: "Yan Lu will resume his position as commander of the forbidden army, and not only that, but he will also be directly promoted from the position of deputy commander to the orthodox leader. ”

He hesitated at this point. Then he continued: "Speaking of this, I have to mention Xue Zhong. Originally, the emperor wanted Xue Zhong to return to Beijing to serve as the commander of the forbidden army, Yan Lu went west with us, you also know that leading troops to fight requires strategy, and I am only proficient in personal martial arts cultivation, Yan Lu is different, he has fought with the emperor in the north, and has rich tactical experience, a few years ago the emperor nominally demoted him to the city and county near the sea. In fact, it is also to hone his water combat ability...... I don't know why. This time, Xue Zhong didn't know what was wrong, and found a bunch of reasons, that is, he refused to return to Beijing to report on his work. ”

"He's not old, why is he confused?" Lin Shan wondered in his heart. Then he asked, "Isn't Your Majesty very angry about this?" ”

Li Gai nodded, then sighed, and suddenly asked: "Actually, I met Xue Zhong a few months ago, and I went to the county town on the edge of the South Gorge to investigate a matter under the pretense of a secret decree, and asked him to have a meal by the way, but Xue Zhong actually told me repeatedly after drinking, telling us not to go to Qingchuan in recent years, I have always wondered why he said that." ”

Lin Shan said casually: "Since he repeatedly dissuaded you from going to the west, didn't he explain the reason?" ”

"He just repeated words like 'don't go' and 'cautious' a few times when he was drunk, without mentioning why." Li Gai frowned and recalled the scene where the two were drinking and chatting at that time, and added in a hesitant tone: "Maybe he said it, but because I was also very drunk at that time, I didn't remember it, and then I forgot to ask, and then I didn't have a chance to talk to him again when I returned to Beijing." ”

Lin Shan groaned and said, "Have you ever sued sùmajesty about this?" ”

Li Gai shook his head and said: "In my opinion, it is just drunken words, although there are many things that the emperor instructed me to do, but inaccurate remarks are easy to mislead the judgment of the monarch, this trivial matter, don't bother him." ”

After he said that, he suddenly smiled, and said with a relaxed expression like ridicule: "He found a bunch of messy reasons not to return to Beijing to take over the original leadership, the emperor is already angry, if his drunken words are not said to me, let a slanderous minister listen to it, and add some condiments to tell the emperor, so that the emperor thinks that he is against the expedition to the west, so he refuses the emperor's kindness, then he will not continue to stay in Nanxia and eat vegetarian for a year." ”

"Of course you won't be that slanderer." Lin Shan smiled silently, and accompanied him and said: "On the eve of the army's march, if the words disturb the morale of the army, and add a crime of bullying the king, he will be beheaded at least twice." ”

Li Gai spread his hands, and suddenly turned to Lin Shan: "It seems that you still have the most talent to be a 'glutton', but fortunately, Xue Zhong is not like some people in Kyoto, who have become your opponents!" ”

"Are you praising me or hurting me?" Lin Shan showed a helpless look on his face, and after a moment of silence, he said again: "Those words that Xue Zhong said, no matter what the reason may be, don't sue him first. The matter of the western expedition has been decided, the precursor has been started, at this time, no matter what difficulties still exist, you can only choose to overcome, that kind of looking back, it is better to forget than remember. ”

Li Gai thought for a moment and then nodded.

When the conversation ended, the two fell silent together, and suddenly they didn't know what else to say, and just like that, they finished walking another street together. After turning into the third street, the lively atmosphere on this street lined with shops and abundant goods temporarily pulled Lin Shan's spirit out of his contemplation, and he suddenly remembered that when he went out this morning, he said that he would take Mo Ye to take a good look at the bustling shopping streets of Kyoto, but unexpectedly, he broke his promise again, and his face showed a trace of shame when he stopped at the door of a cloth shop.

This shame fell into the eyes of the cloth shop owner, and he was thinking about how to sell his own fabrics, and he immediately made a mistake, and went further and further down this wrong path.

"This guest officer, are you going to buy some fabric for Mrs. Zun to buy new clothes?" The shopkeeper shouted, then walked over briskly, and continued: "Although the New Year has passed, Kyoto is near the sea, and the spring climate is humid and cold, so it is always good to buy more clothes. ”

The shopkeeper first finished talking about the necessity of cutting cloth and making clothes, and then pointed to a roll of cloth pressed by Lin Shan's fingers, and began to talk about its advantages, "This flannel cloth is moderately thick, silk, cotton five or five ratio, not easy to wrinkle, better than pure cotton cloth, but better than pure silk cloth to clean and take care of, soft to the touch but not inferior to pure silk fabric, to make jackets, robes are suitable." ”

Lin Shan just put his hand on one of the horses in a row of fabrics beside him, but he didn't expect that the store had already praised it with witty words, which made Lin Shan, who was still a little distracted just now, a little slow to react at this time, and he really looked at the fabric.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper started his sales work again, and Lin Shan didn't explain a word about the details of 'Mrs. Zun', Li Gai on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and directly ignored the store's voice, and said to Lin Shan in a deep voice: "Who are you going to make clothes for?" ”

Lin Shan said casually: "I was going to take Ye'er to play today, but I threw her aside, if I don't bring her a gift this time, I really don't want to go." ”

Li Gai finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, Lin Shan ignored his feelings, once he decided to buy cloth, the choice was extremely fast, and he was not affected by the gorgeous sales words of the boss of Budian, and finally gave up the beautiful pressed velvet fabric, and chose two kinds of fabrics that looked more ordinary and looked a little dull in color.

Cloth shops in Kyoto generally have their own set of garment-making teams, so it is very convenient for cloth buyers to get the finished product directly through the choice of cloth without having to go to two stores. However, when Lin Shan talked to the store about the size and style, although the store's feelings were as controlled as possible, the expression in his eyes was colorful.

It is estimated that it was only at this time that he suddenly realized how far he had gone wrong just now, and at the same time he was very frightened, and this guest's bearing was too magnanimous! If it is an ordinary person who is so by himself just now, let alone buying cloth, it will be difficult to get a quarrel.

The style and size of the clothes were set, the payment was kept, and under the sincere and grateful eyes of the shopkeeper, who had just been talking and had become almost half-dumb at this time, Lin Shan and Li Gai left the cloth shop.

After walking a distance, Li Gai finally couldn't help but ask: "You ordered two sets of clothes just now, and the one that the adults wore didn't seem to be your size, who did it for?" ”。 (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation