In the fifth year of Taihe, September Bingchen, the second quarter of Youzheng.

Jiannan Road, Chengdu Mansion, Jiedu Embassy Mansion.

"That's what it is...... Why did Li Jiedu insist on sending troops? Zhang Yijun sighed in confusion, his eyes were confused, and asked: "Even if you know that you may be going to fulfill that person, there is still the wish of the Niu Party?" ”

"Don't investigate the secret stake of the Shuai Mansion, you must stop here!" Li Deyu said categorically and undoubtedly, and it seemed that it was difficult to hide the worry in his heart in his eyes, "Do you know that if you really dig deep into this, it will be difficult to recover it!" Dare to bury the hidden stake in the Shuaifu, and the forces behind it will inevitably be intertwined and should not be underestimated. Can you afford the risk? ”

"Whether it's checked or not, the dark pile is still poisoning Xichuan here! The murderer who committed the capital crime and betrayed the secret pile, what did he not dare to do? And he is now unhurriedly watching us fall into his trap step by step! Zhang Yijun said urgently.

"What's the trap?" Li Deyu said with a calm expression.

“…… For example, he participated in Li Gong's restart of the battle. ”

"Xi Tan is to take the initiative to surrender, without spending a single soldier, how can he come to the end of the war?"

“…… For example, the impeachment of Li Gong renounced the alliance and broke the treaty. ”

"Last year, Tubo surrounded Luzhou, and it was the Tibetan captives who abandoned the alliance and broke the contract first!"

"What if there are people in the court who just don't want to see Li Gong take credit and regain lost territory?" Zhang Yijun's heart was hot, and he said loudly: "Now Duke Li looks at the Tang Dynasty, forty-eight feudal towns, and two hundred and fifteen state capitals; Hebei is divided, and soldiers are everywhere; Those who live in the middle of the court are all filthy; The palace is in power, and the Son of Heaven is weak; Longyou has been lost for decades, and Yi Di Koubian; The Bull Party is even more reluctant to forge ahead, and tolerates both internally and externally. The image of the dead country is fully revealed, can't Li Gong see it?! ”

"Why don't I know what you're talking about?"

"Then what is Gong Li running away from?"

"Enough!" Li Deyu said sharply in a rather impatient tone, which made Zhang Yijun stunned, because this was the first time Li Deyu was so angry with himself.

There was a solemn silence between the two, and after a long time, seeing that it seemed difficult for him to persuade Li Deyu to make up his mind to track down the hidden pile, Zhang Yijun was helpless, so he solemnly crossed his hands and said the words that he had never said to anyone: "Li Gongke has ever thought that Yi Jun is hiding in Victoria and urging Victoria to surrender, what is it for?" ”

Li Deyu's eyebrows were slightly stunned, although he had doubts about this, but he never had time to ask in detail. The grandson of a prime minister, who gave up the brocade clothes and jade food of Chang'an City, was lustful and lustful, did not seek to enter the office, did not seek fame, and did not seek wealth, and came to invest in his own shogunate alone, and then went to Victoria to make a hidden pile with the tip of a hob, what is the purpose?

“…… In order to use the surrender of Victoria to help Li Gong enter the court! Zhang Yijun looked at each other calmly, and his eyes like morning stars seemed to be able to ignite a raging flame at this moment.

"Help me enter the court?" Li Deyu was a little incredible, this answer was something he had never thought of, "Why?" ”

"Fight for the elimination of the party!" Zhang Yijun said word by word, his eyes were deep, "The party struggle is incomprehensible, the court has different powers, and if you want to get rid of the disadvantages of the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally impossible to talk about it." It was for this purpose that Yi Jun abandoned Chang'an, bid farewell to King Ying, and defected to the shogunate of Duke Li. Only by helping Li Gong enter the dynasty can he really compete with the Niu Party! ”

“…… Because of this, the secret stake of this Shuai Mansion must be uprooted! ”

Li Deyu listened quietly, silently for a long time, but did not reply, just walked slowly in front of Zhang Yijun, looked through the palace gate, and looked at the open southern night sky dotted with stars.

Li Deyu took a deep breath and said slowly: "My family is a third-generation high-ranking family, and I am fortunate to be born in Zhao Jun, and I have been familiar with Confucius and Mencius Laozhuang since I was a child. The father of the family worshiped the prime minister, and Deyu successfully entered the office with the shade of the door, thinking that he had mastered the ability to gather and scatter quicksand and close the world, thinking that he could help this troubled world and restore the prosperous era of my Tang Dynasty. At this point, Li Deyu's eyes were filled with tears, it turned out that the previous self-confidence was just used to cover up the throbbing in his heart, "However, a hundred years later, Deyu only knew...... It's too cheap to have some talent to learn in this world...... The officialdom is sinister, and all living beings are suffering. ”

Li Deyu paused, his eyes sincere.

"You're too young to be right, but you don't know a lot about what you can't do. Victoria is voluntarily surrendered, even if the bull party ...... They will use this to fabricate accusations and degrade me. But no matter how shameless Niu Sidian is, he will not return the territory that has been surrendered and recovered, otherwise who will be willing to surrender and annex it at that time? This Victoria is the spark that Wenrao left to the southwest of the Tang Dynasty. ”

“…… Thirty-three states in Longyou, still trapped in Tibet, Wenrao...... It is to fight for Datang! Do you really think that the Changqing Alliance is the sustainable alliance as it describes? ”

Zhang Yijun shook his head, everyone knew it, Chang'an knew it, and Logic also knew that this was just a truce agreement for more than ten years. If the Tibetans seize the opportunity, they will surely make a comeback and the flames of war will be rekindled.

“…… Besides, if I am demoted for reconquest, I have no regrets. After Li Deyu finished speaking, he laughed helplessly.

Zhang Yijun looked at him brightly, to tell the truth, he didn't expect that even though Li Deyu had been exiled for ten years, his mood could still be so correct, and he couldn't help but admire. However, with the current situation, what Zhang Yijun is most worried about in his heart is no longer limited to a corner of Xichuan.

"Li Gong used to be the master of King Ying, and Duke Li was demoted, but have you ever thought about what King Ying should do in the sixteen mansions of Chang'an?"

When Li Deyu heard this, he pondered for a long time before he said quietly: "...... Yingwang ...... He is good at hunting, but he has great ambitions, and he needs the assistance of talented people around him to become a great ......"

"Then why did Li Gong put himself in danger?"

"Without me, King Ying still has you!" Li Deyu said carefully, as if he was convincing himself: "I am an official in the court, and the interests are too entangled. And you are different, if you don't enter the ranks, no one will know you, and no one will stop you. ”

Zhang Yijun's breath was stagnant, and he was speechless, as if he had guessed what Li Deyu was going to say later.

"After the Victorian incident, no matter what the outcome is, you should go back to Chang'an......" Li Deyu knew that Zhang Yijun would definitely have to argue about it, so he continued: "Compared with Xichuan, Wen Rao has a feeling that King Ying needs you in Chang'an more!" ”

Zhang Yijun knew that when Li Deyu talked about King Ying, everything he said was serious.

Jiannan Road, Xichuan.

Somewhere on the southwest official road, you are three quarters.

The troops of 2,000 people, sprinkled on the slender and long official road, even with the weight of grain and grass, if it were not for the lances in the hands of the soldiers, it would be easy for people to think that they were ordinary border trade caravans from a distance.

The Wuwei Army and the Tianzheng Army were both Zhichong Mansion established in the early Tang Dynasty, and now they have become the number of troops. Two years ago, when Nanzhao entered the Kou, many soldiers of the Wuwei Army, the Weiyuan Army and the Tianzheng Army were veterans who had been in the army for many years. At the beginning of the year, in view of the withering of the military and financial resources in Shuzhong, Li Deyu recruited the northern soldiers who were good at fighting, took the height standard of five feet and five inches, cut off the veterans who were empty and could not bear the soldiers' salaries, and overhauled the fortress at the key passes, and finally trained more than 30,000 people who could fight a little bit, and lifted the crisis of Nanzhao and Tubo entering Kouxichuan again, and the people of Shuzhong were a little calmer.

Yu Zangjian wore a thick cloak, rode on a horse, and walked at the front of the team with Yang Zong, while Yang Zong was carrying a Mo knife, his face was expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Because the troops had to march through the night, and now they had just set foot on the official road to the Minshan Pass, after which was the boundary of Victoria, and the night was still very long.

Yu Zangjian was a little curious about Yang Zong's origin, after all, Jiannandao rarely saw someone like him with a somewhat angular face and a northwest accent in Tang dialect, so he asked: "Yang Duwei guesses that he is not from Xichuan, right?" ”

"Who? Oh......" Yang Zong said as he showed the back of his badge to Yu Zangjian, with the word "river meander" clearly written on it. "Yang was born in Hequ Luzhou and grew up in Luzhou. Xichuan withered, and last year Li Jiedu recruited northern soldiers to resist the southern edict, Yang went to Xichuan in this way, and ......"

At this point, Yang Zong paused for some reason, pretended to be calm and then raised his head and said, "...... and for the trust of Li Gong, he had to be promoted and made a tooth general. ”

Yu Zangjian listened quietly, and it was a little cold, so he pulled the thick cloak on his body, and said with a smile: "Yang Duwei must have made a career." ”

Yang Zong couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, lowered his head and laughed at himself: "Yang is just a rogue man." ”

"What about the Son of Man? Ma Lan, the king of Fufeng County, Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang County, and Li Sheng, the king of Xiping County, which one did not start in the army, and Yang Duwei himself is not a rogue person, why can't he achieve a career? ”

"The king of Fufeng County is from Jiangmen, Shang's father is a famous family of Taiyuan Guo, and Li Taishi is at least a military family," Yang Zong said lightly: "I Tang pay attention to the family, and Yang has no door." ”

Yang Zong's words made Yu Zangjian speechless, and then he felt that Yang Zong had no intention of continuing to chat. However, this made Yu Zangjian have some interest in Yang Zong, so he laughed it off.

The festival is the first moment of the palace.

Zhang Yijun was helpless in his heart, frowning slightly. Knowing that he could no longer convince Li Deyu about the investigation of the hidden pile, he changed the topic and asked: "Everyone in the world says that Niu Xiang and Li Gong have a gap, Yi Jun is puzzled, what is the dispute between Li Gong and Niu Xiang?" ”

Hearing this question, Li Deyu smiled coldly and patted Zhang Yijun on the shoulder, "You always think that Niu Siyan and a certain person have friends and help each other. However, in fact, there is no party in a certain matter, only the ability is used, and the inability is degraded, nothing more. Niu Siyan and a certain are just a little disagreement. And the person who is really jealous of a certain person in the DPRK is not him. ”

"It's Li Zongmin." Zhang Yijun nodded calmly.

"This human nature is extremely taboo, soft and endenous, and its position is to help each other in the temple," Li Deyu said this, his hands hanging by his side clenched involuntarily, "If one day, one of Niu Siyan and Li Zongmin will lend a helping hand to someone, it will only be Niu Sidian, and it will never be Li Zongmin." ”

"The dispute between the Niu Party and Li Gong, Yi Jun has heard that it is a dispute between Menyin and the imperial examination?"

"That's just appearances." Li Deyu snorted coldly, turned around and sat back in the chair, his eyes swaying, "The so-called shade of the door, generations of officials, since childhood, familiar with the operation of the imperial court, well versed in the way of officials, the strategy of governing the world, I Tang Dynasty created the Zhenguan Kaiyuan prosperous era, all of which were achieved from this." The cold door is different, starting from the cold, and the official must be rich; Born in the grass, you will love power in a high place, seven times out of ten, all of them. ”

Seeing Zhang Yijun silent, Li Deyu knew that maybe what he said seemed to be contrary to Zhang Yijun's opinion, so he opened the topic and said: "But after saying so much, you have been tired for a few days, presumably you haven't fed yet?" If you don't dislike it, there are still some leftover dishes in the house. ”

After this reminder, Zhang Yijun realized that he didn't eat anything else except for a few pieces of Hu cake that he ate when he was in Victoria. It's okay not to say it, but as soon as I say it, I suddenly feel empty in my stomach and have some colic.

Li Deyu smiled, seeing Zhang Yijun's embarrassment, he didn't wait for Zhang Yijun to reply, and called the subordinates in the palace, "Go and prepare some cooked food for Yijun." Then he turned to Zhang Yijun and said: "After a while, I will have to preside over the surrender of Xi Yimou and his party, and if there are any other requirements, just mention it." You've done your job, so you should relax after today. ”

Zhang Yijun knew that this was actually Li Deyu who didn't want to continue chatting.

Perhaps, everything will go as smoothly as hoped, or maybe......