Chapter 130: Promotion to Viscount
Before the fifth watch, Li Yu, the son of heaven, was woken up by the personal female guard in his deep sleep, and he asked sleepily: "Is it time for the upper court?" ”
"Your Majesty, Deputy Chief Gongsun has an urgent matter to see!"
Li Yu fell asleep, he knew that Aunt Gongsun was looking for him at this time, there must be something important, he quickly sat up, and the Dugu concubine beside him was also awakened, and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" ”
"It's okay, you go back to sleep! I'll be back soon. ”
Li Yu put on a coat and came to the outer room of the dormitory, only to see Aunt Gongsun with a smile on her face, he was relieved, and hurriedly asked, "Is it good news?" ”
Aunt Gongsun nodded, "Li Fuguo is dead!" ”
Li Yu also had a smile on his face, and asked anxiously, "When is it?" ”
"Just two hours ago, the head was sent to the Celestial Music Place."
Li Yu took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and then asked, "Are you sure it's not his stand-in?" ”
"I personally went to check it and was sure that it was Li Fuguo, not his stand-in."
Li Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, he had been on the throne for ten years, and he had been assassinated eight times, and each time he was gone, he had no suspicion of Yu Chaoen, Yu Chaoen had the imperial edict that forced him to abdicate, if the eight assassinations were unsuccessful, Yu Chaoen would have used the imperial edict long ago.
As for Cheng Zhenyuan, he is still secretly supporting him against Yu Chaoen, and it is unlikely that he will be able to.
Only Li Fuguo, he betrayed his father, when he made himself the emperor's grandson, he strongly opposed, as the head of the inner house, he has the conditions to assassinate himself, and he can completely cover the assassin's escape, Li Yu can almost conclude that the person who planned to assassinate himself is Li Fuguo.
In the past few years, Li Yu has always wanted to kill Li Fuguo, but the emperor's grandfather gave Li Fuguo an iron scroll and a golden book, so that he could not deal with Li Fuguo openly, and could only use unconventional means.
Now that Li Fuguo has finally been killed, how can Li Yu not breathe a long sigh of relief.
It is a difficult point to kill Li Fuguo, but it is also a difficult point to integrate Li Fuguo's forces in the next step, Li Fuguo has cultivated a large number of cronies among the palace guards, and has also bought many middle-level generals in the 10,000 cavalry battalion.
Li Yu asked again, "Is there any other good news?" ”
"Also, at the time of the assassination, I happened to encounter Yu Chaoen's subordinates harassing Li Fuguo's mansion, so Li Fuguo's death may become confusing, and then there is that Guo Song handed us two copies of the Baofeng Cabinet Workshop at the same time, one is a voucher of 200,000 taels of silver, and the other is a copper key, which should be the secret vault key of the Baofeng Cabinet Workshop, which was found from Li Fuguo."
Speaking of this, Aunt Gongsun couldn't hold back the joy in her heart and said: "There is also a roster, which Your Majesty has been longing for." ”
Li Yu turned around suddenly, his voice trembling a little with excitement, "But Li Fuguo's roster of forces in the palace?" ”
"Exactly! Including the list of guards, eunuchs, palace maids, and some generals of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Battalion, there were a total of eight hundred and seventy-seven people. ”
After speaking, Aunt Gongsun presented a thick roster to Li Yu, Li Yu hurriedly took it and flipped through it, many people in the roster guessed the same, he immediately believed that this was the real roster, this extremely important roster would definitely be put close to him, and he could only get it if Li Fuguo died.
The joy in Li Yu's heart was indescribable, and he slammed his fist on the table, "I want to reward Guo Song again, what good advice does my aunt have?" ”
Aunt Gongsun said with a smile: "His Meishou wine is selling very hot, and the wealth is rolling, I'm afraid he is not short of money, or Your Majesty will give him a name!" ”
Li Yu thought for a while and said, "I will crown him as a guerrilla general, and make him the viscount of Lingwu County, and then give him a scarlet silverfish bag." ”
Although the guerrilla generals were dismissed from the Wupin military ranks, if they did not serve in the corresponding military positions, they were of great significance.
But knighthoods are different.
The titles of the Tang Dynasty were nine ranks, king, county king, state prince, county duke, county duke, county marquis, county uncle, county son, and county male, and generally only awarded to the emperor's relatives and senior generals who had made military achievements.
Although the county viscount was the eighth rank, his rank was not low, and he was a positive fifth grade, so Li Yu gave him a scarlet official uniform and a silverfish bag that only officials above the fifth rank could wear.
Guo Song was knighted in one step, which shows that he brought huge benefits to Li Yu.
Before dawn, Guo Song slowly woke up from his deep meditation, and the beads on the table emitted a faint white light, as if it were a moon that had shrunk hundreds of millions of times.
The size of the bead is like a pigeon's egg, and it is also obtained from Li Fuguo's silk bag, in addition to a cabinet voucher and a copper key, the silk bag in Li Fuguo's arms is this bead.
The sea pearl with the size of a pigeon's egg is worth no more than fifty yuan, and it is impossible for Li Fuguo to keep a fifty yuan bead close to him, and now Guo Song already knows that this is a night pearl.
It is no less precious than his own king of emeralds, which once again proves his philosophy that valuable things can only be robbed.
In addition to the Night Pearl, Guo Song also wiped three rings from Li Fuguo's hand, two of which were incomplete, and were obviously secret documents for the withdrawal of Baofeng Cabinet Factory.
The third ring is worn on the middle finger of Li Fuguo's right hand, but it is a cut yellow diamond, the size of a quail egg, which is also accepted by Guo Song Xiao, counting his emerald and sapphire earrings, he now has a total collection of four precious treasures.
In his previous life, he had a hobby of collecting all kinds of strange stones, and the balcony bed at home was full of all kinds of stones, and the drawer collected a bunch of Hetian jade bought by taking medicine, fake skin, rolling material, high-reinforced glass, etc.
Now this hobby followed him to Datang again, but his appetite is gradually being nourished, and he likes to collect precious gems, and he no longer looks down on ordinary quality gems.
At this time, there was the sound of someone jumping to the ground in the front yard, Guo Song immediately stood up, held the black sword in his hand, and casually took the night pearl into his arms.
He went out of the back window, climbed up the roof, and leaned on the ridge of the house, which was so high that he could clearly see the front yard.
I saw the two of them appear at the door of the back house, but they didn't come in, and knocked the open door of the back house, Guo Song was immediately relieved, the people who came were his senior brother Yang Yu and apprentice Sun Xiaozhen.
Guo Song jumped off the roof and said angrily: "Since you have already come in over the wall, what's the point of knocking on the door seriously?" ”
Yang Yu smiled and said, "If there are younger brothers and sisters in the back house, wouldn't it be embarrassing?" ”
"I'm embarrassed about your size, come in!"
Yang Yu walked in with a smile, and Sun Xiaozhen stepped forward and bowed, "See Uncle Xiao!" ”
Guo Song nodded and asked, "How is your father's injury?" ”
"My father's injuries have healed, and he and my mother and brother are currently in Yangzhou."
Guo Song nodded, "Come in and sit!" ”
The two walked into Guo Song's study and sat down, Guo Song poured them herbal tea, Zhu Xiaozhen took out a bronze medal and put it on the table, and said excitedly: "Uncle Xiao, I have officially become a member of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion now." ”
Guo Song picked up the bronze medal and looked at it, No. 98 in the outer hall of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, a third-level warrior, Guo Song secretly shook his head, there are a total of sixty-five people in the outer hall of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, and there are only sixty-six people in Sun Xiaozhen, which means that thirty-two people have been killed.
"Senior brother, show me your waist card."
"What's so good-looking, I'm No. 37, Yang Yu still took off the waist card and handed it to Guo Song, it was actually a silver waist card, which said No. 37, a second-level warrior."
"Why is Senior Brother a silver waist medal, is it because of a level 20 warrior?"
Yang Yu shook his head, "I am the leader of the fifth group, and there are ten people under my command, so it is a silver medal, and the second-level warriors are only the difference between high and low martial arts, and half of the outer hall of the Hidden Sword Pavilion are second-level warriors." ”
"How many samurai are there?"
"There are thirty-one first-class warriors, all of whom are the apprentices and grandsons of the senior aunt, most of them belong to the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, and there are only seven people in the outer hall of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, and their martial arts are indeed strong."
"Senior brother has something to do with me today?"
Yang Yu hesitated and said, "I want to ask you to help with the fist!" ”
Guo Song immediately realized that Yang Yu didn't know his identity, as Gongsun Auntie said, his identity was only known to Li Man and Wang Jianying, but he could send Sun Xiaozhen out of the city, couldn't Yang Yu guess anything?
As soon as his mind turned, Guo Song understood that since Sun Xiaozhen had been absorbed into the outer hall of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, he would definitely abide by the rules, and he had hidden the matter of leaving the city from his master.
Guo Song quickly glanced at Sun Xiaozhen, and saw him standing behind Yang Yu, bowing his head and being silent.
"Senior brother is in trouble?" Guo Song asked with a smile.
Yang Yu sighed, "I did encounter a tricky matter, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you, I received a task to assassinate Zhao Chun, the leader of the warriors of Tianying Pavilion, it seems that Yu Chaoen has been wooing him, once he takes refuge in Yu Chaoen, half of the warriors of Tianying Pavilion will be taken away by him, but I only have four second-level warriors under my command, and the others are all third-level warriors."
And Zhao Chun's martial arts are far higher than our first-level warriors, only slightly lower than Commander Li, with martial arts, where can we kill him, and it is even more impossible to use other means, so I can only ask my junior brother to take action. ”
Guo Song smiled faintly. "Senior brother believes in my martial arts like that?"
"Hey! I don't know your martial arts yet? Even Baiyun Zhenren died in your hands, junior brother, just one word, are you willing? If you don't, I won't force you, we're still good brothers. ”
Guo Song was silent for a moment, but still nodded, "Since you've already spoken to this point, okay!" I'll help you once, but I'll have to explain, just this once. ”
Yang Yu was overjoyed, "When will the junior brother be free?" ”
Guo Song said coldly: "Without further ado, I will make a move after dawn, and the senior brother is only responsible for keeping an eye on his whereabouts." ”
Li Fuguo was killed last night, and it must have been chaos after dawn, which was not only the best chance, but also the last chance, and after today, everything fell to the ground.