Lu Yuanfang and his entourage were extremely large, with more than 2,000 people. Of course, more than half of them are more than 1,000 people who were originally members of the Yongwang Mansion and family members, such as relatives, members of the tent and the country Tianyi.

After all, the attitude of the imperial court towards King Yong has changed to a new stage, with great honor on the surface and vigilance on the inside, these people who are close to King Yong, even if they stay in the Shendu City, will not have much prospects, but they have to worry about whether they will be involved in some conspiracy calculations against King Yong and suffer from unwarranted disasters, so it is better to simply transfer directly to Chang'an.

In addition to the personnel ration, the actual reward of the imperial court for Longbian's merits was not beyond Li Tong's expectations, and there were several large boxes of various medals, but the actual money and goods were completely absent.

Although there are still a few months before the autumn fu and winter gathering, it is now ordered to be immediately escorted into the capital by the state rent, and the officials in the province do not need to be the first choice, and can directly participate in this year's official election.

This intention is also obvious, that is, to take advantage of the fact that the Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai has not yet completely taken over the internal affairs of the province, drain and squeeze out the human and material resources of the prefectures and counties of Shaanxi Province, leaving King Yong with an empty shell that has nothing to show for itself.

This is the attitude of the imperial court in terms of general affairs, and Lu Yuanfang reported a very bad news after meeting King Yong.

"Cui Xuanwei died, and he killed himself."

Lu Yuanfang said with a serious expression, and there was no lack of self-blame: "When the ministers invited them, they went straight to the new degrading people, did not go with the army team, took the first step, stayed at the Shaanzhou Post House, cut their throats at night, and when they found out, they were already out of breath and cold." ”

When Li Tong heard this, his face suddenly sank, and he said in a condensed voice: "Is it suicide, or is someone harming, is there any clue to be revealed?" ”

Lu Yuanfang shook his head after hearing this: "The imperial court instructed Di Xianggong to go to the inquest, and there was no clear result when the minister crossed the border, but the public opinion alluded to the fact that his person was afraid of going west, and the fortune and misfortune were uncertain......"

Hearing Lu Yuanfang say this, Li Tong's expression became even more ugly. Regardless of whether Cui Xuanwei committed suicide or not, there is no doubt that this incident will have a great negative impact on him and the newly created Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai, and it will not be easy to eliminate it in a short period of time.

If Cui Xuanwei only committed suicide because of the fear in his heart, Li Tong could only sigh that he was not the same, Cui Xuanwei didn't understand himself, and thought that life would be worse than death under his command.

But if Cui Xuanwei was assassinated, then the conspiracy atmosphere in this is much thicker, which makes people think about it and even shudder.

In history, none of the five kings of Shenlong died well, two died in anger, and three were brutally tortured and killed. Although popular theories blame this on Wu Sansi's revenge, it is obvious that it is far from being able to wipe out the heroes of the Shenlong coup d'état, and Wu Sansi was only used as a gun in the process.

Although there was no Shenlong coup in this time and space, the Shendu coup led by Li Tong, Li Zhaode and Di Renjie also had a similar significance.

Cui Xuanwei belonged to the cadres introduced by Di Renjie, in fact, Cui Xuanwei, who was born in the Cui clan of Boling, after the completion of the coup, could better represent the interests of some Hebei people in the court than Di Renjie, a Shanxi Yankee.

After all, the reason why Di Renjie was able to become the spiritual mentor of the five kings of Shenlong in history was that most of the five kings of Shenlong were promoted by him, and the other was that after the Yingzhou Rebellion, many generals in the Northeast entered the forbidden army system under the recommendation of Di Renjie, which also provided a certain force guarantee for the occurrence of the Shenlong coup.

Therefore, after the Shenlong Revolution, the purge of the court bureau also went through two steps, one is that the five kings of Shenlong were seized of power and exiled and even tortured and killed, and the second is the purge of the forbidden army system by the Jinglong coup.

The reason why Li Tong thought of the Shenlong coup again was because the current state of the court was vaguely similar to the situation after the Shenlong coup.

If you don't consider his own choice, then in this Shendu coup, as the leader of the coup, he has stayed away from the court, and Li Zhaode has just been seized power, although Di Renjie is still in the court, but Cui Xuanwei, who was introduced by him, has been demoted from the court and died.

Although the logic of the evolution of the situation after the two coups is not the same, the situation reached is vaguely similar, which makes people have to sigh that there are still some fixed elements in the situation that are still playing their role and influence.

Lu Yuanfang glanced at the honor guard of King Yong's trip, and said meaningfully: "Your Highness is now concerned about the well-being of all the people and the high hopes of the people, and you need to be more cautious when entering and exiting in the future, and don't take it lightly." ”

Although the cause of Cui Xuanwei's death has not yet been determined, it is obvious that Lu Yuanfang is also inclined to kill him, and from this, he thinks of the personal safety of His Royal Highness King Yong.

Li Tong nodded after hearing this, he himself did not have the strong combat effectiveness of the three armies, and he had always believed in the son of a daughter, and he could not sit down, even if he fought with Tubo in Longyou, he only sat in the rear and did not go to the front line to show off.

Coming to this world is full of dangers, so helpless confinement life has survived, although sometimes you have to risk your life and sacrifice your life to fight, but if someone really wants to play evil, because of their own carelessness and failure, it is really unlucky to go home.

Regarding his personal safety, Li Tong did not ignore it, and after returning to Chang'an City, he began to set up internal guards, one is intelligence spying, and the other is personal guards, and the selected people with impeccable backgrounds and absolute loyalty.

After all, Chang'an City, where he is located, is the base camp of Guan Longxun. In his early years, when he was in Chang'an, he encountered a crisis of assassination.

He is not interested in Guan Longxun's noble group, and even has obvious malice, which cannot be concealed, after all, the butcher's knife has already been revealed. Previously, these people may have hoped to be able to drive him away through some political struggles, but now even the imperial court has given up forcibly recalling him back to the court.

A few days ago, some government officials suggested that King Yong simply move into the Taiji Palace in Xida to avoid the danger of living in the fang.

But now that he is staying in the Taiji Palace, he still has to bear great pressure in terms of etiquette. His great-grandfather Li Shimin had such a great achievement back then, and when he served as the Shangshu Ling of the Great Bank of Shaanxi Province, he didn't dare to directly stay in the old palace of Luoyang Sui, and even set it on fire to avoid suspicion. Li Tong is staying in Xinei now, that is, it is really too arrogant.

After greeting Lu Yuanfang and his party, Li Tong was still thinking about Cui Xuanwei's death on the way back.

Although Cui Xuanwei showed a lot of malice towards him at the previous meeting of the political hall, Li Tong really did not regard Cui Xuanwei as a political enemy. One is that Cui Xuanwei is not qualified enough, and the other is that he also hopes that these Hebei Yankees can form some obstacles to Guan Longxun.

Of course, Cui Xuanwei obviously made some contact with Guan Longxun and the nobles, so it was difficult for Li Tong's latter intention to be realized on his own, but this was not enough for him to directly attack Cui Xuanwei.

Cui Xuanwei's resignation is completely the result of some centrists coaxing. After all, Cui Xuanwei not only offended King Yong, but also made Li Zhaode very unhappy, and when Emperor Li Dan did not try to protect him, it was logical for Cui Xuanwei to be dismissed.

After that, Cui Xuanwei was sent out to Liangzhou, which had nothing to do with Li Tong. Even if he lacks talents, he will not think about recruiting Cui Xuanwei, and as for sneaking people over for the sake of a momentary mood, he is not so mean.

If Cui Xuanwei's death was deliberately harmed, then this is a conspiracy against King Yong, and Cui Xuanwei was just a victim from beginning to end. The mastermind behind this matter is actually about to come out.

Emperor Li Dan's intention to marry the Hebei people is obvious, and he even wants to marry Hebei Gaodi for his son, and Cui Xuanwei is degraded to death, which will undoubtedly add some obstacles to this matter. King Yong was arrogant and directly scared the minister to death, and even did not rule out causing harm to others, which would also make many people have a great negative impression of Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai.

Li Tong can't explain this key matter, and the more he explains, the dirtier it becomes. Shaanxi Road Daxingtai is newly established, a large number of staff are urgently needed to be recruited, if the evaluation tends to be negative, this is extremely unfavorable to the selection of Daxingtai.

Many people in the opposition are not deeply involved, and if they already have a negative impression of Daxingtai in advance, then in terms of attracting talents, it will undoubtedly make Daxingtai more inferior than the Shendu court.

After returning to the imperial city, Li Tong had a preliminary idea, and after entering the palace and entering the court, he ordered: "Go to the court immediately, please send relatives to protect Li Zhaode, and give preferential treatment to revolutionary heroes." Inform King Lu that each of them will choose 100 members to fight in the first battle, enter the Zhaode, Renjie and Ou mansions, and enter and exit the Gongwei. ”

Sending someone to protect Ouyang Tong was really worried that the gods would have some demons to harass this old gentleman. As for the care of Li Zhaode and Di Renjie, it was to splash dirty water on each other, which also embarrassed the two of them.

Li Tong has no shortage of imagination, and now Li Zhaode has been set up out of the court, and his own situation is quite embarrassing. If he continues to maintain close interaction with Li Zhaode, it will undoubtedly make his position more chaotic, if he insists on it for a while, can he get Li Zhaode to Chang'an?

Of course, even if Li Zhaode comes to Chang'an, Li Tong will not give him great power, and he will only be honored in a high position and use it as a target example. After all, although he admires Li Zhaode, it is difficult to work with each other's personalities, and at the moment he is just a second landlord, and he does not tolerate Li Zhaode's measurements.

However, this idea can only be thought of, even if his fourth uncle Li Dan is confused, he would rather kill Li Zhaode directly, and it is impossible to let Li Zhaode come to Chang'an.

After all, Li Zhaode was in the Wuzhou Dynasty, and he was a big banner for the old ministers of the Tang family to defend the emperor's heir, if even Li Zhaode gave up the Shendu Imperial Court, it would undoubtedly be a shame that all kinds of bottoms were stripped off!