When he returned to the mansion in the next dynasty, Li Mi was really helpless in his heart, and the decree promulgated in the afternoon made him see the weakness of the Son of Heaven's heart, and in the face of the aggressive and powerful warlords, he finally chose to compromise.

What worries Li Mi is that once this opening is opened, more and more warlords will follow suit, how will the imperial court choose?

At this time, a family member reported at the door of the study: "Xiangguo, Hexi Jiedu envoy Guo Yuanjun sent someone to send an urgent letter to Xiangguo." ”

Li Mi was stunned for a moment and ordered: "Please let him in!" ”

After a while, a sergeant came in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Guo Yuanjun sent a lowly post to send a letter to Xiangguo!" ”

After speaking, he presented the letter with both hands, and Li Mi took the letter and asked, "How is Guo Yuanjun now?" ”

"Qi Xiangguo, the relationship between Guo Envoy Jun and Tian Jian Jun is very bad, Tian Jian Jun is flying and domineering, Guo Envoy Jun is unwilling to connive, and the two sides have fought-for-tat several times."

Li Mi was surprised in his heart, and hurriedly opened the letter to read it carefully, Guo Song described the origin of various conflicts between him and Tian Wenxiu, the prison army, and the current fact that his wife was pregnant with Liujia and could not enter Beijing, and begged the imperial court to take care of it.

After reading the letter, Li Mi probably understood, it must be Tian Wenxiu who wanted to sue the Son of Heaven, and Guo Song hoped that he would intercede for him.

Li Mi sighed secretly in his heart, and said to the sergeant who sent the letter: "You go back and tell Guo Yuanjun, just say that the prime minister will definitely deal with it with the public, based on the facts, and will not take sides with any side, of course, his wife's special situation, the court will also consider it as appropriate." ”

"Thank you Sangkook!"

The sergeant who sent the letter saluted and retreated, Li Mi read the letter again, and shook his head secretly, he had long known that sending the prison army to Hexi would definitely have this consequence, with Guo Song's character, how could he tolerate the prison army being arrogant and domineering in front of him, this matter is really not easy to do? The prison army reported directly to the Son of Heaven, and the imperial court could not interfere at will.

At this time, the housekeeper reported outside the door again, "Xiangguo, someone has come to the palace, and the Son of Heaven has summoned you to enter the palace immediately!" ”

Li Mi was secretly surprised, he summoned himself into the palace so late, could it be that there was something urgent about the military situation?

He didn't dare to delay, and immediately ordered: "Prepare the carriage, I will enter the palace immediately!" ”

..........

Li Mi was led by two eunuchs to the Qilin Palace, and walked into the study of the Son of Heaven, only to see Lu Qi also standing aside, the Son of Heaven Li Shi was full of anger, and there were a few broken inkstones on the ground.

What is going on, is it a great defeat for the imperial army?

"Your Majesty, what happened?" Li Mi stepped forward and saluted.

Li Shi was furious and said: "I still trust him so much, and within two years, I promoted him to the envoy of Hexi Festival, but he actually betrayed my trust in him and wanted to rebel!" ”

Li Mi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Your Majesty is talking about Guo Song?" ”

"Who else but him?"

Li Mi asked again: "Your Majesty, did he lead the army into Longyou or Shuofang, and Your Majesty received an urgent military report?" ”

Lu Qi next to him said coldly: "Li Xiangguo, if the imperial court only gets the news of his rebellion by then, it will be too late." ”

Li Shi restrained his anger and said: "I received a report from the prison army, Guo Song secretly colluded with Li Na, preparing to support the army and establish himself as the king of Xiliang, the prison army said, all kinds of signs are obvious, Guo Song is building construction in the north of Zhangye City, preparing to build a palace, and the generals and officials of Hexi have sworn allegiance to him, and no longer loyal to the imperial court. ”

"Your Majesty has received a quick letter from the prison army?"

Li Shi shook his head, "It's a fast horse book!" ”

Lu Qi said impatiently: "It is already obvious that Guo Song wants to rebel, why does Li Xiangguo still have all kinds of questions?" ”

Li Mi ignored him, and said to Li Shi: "Your Majesty, this is a bit unreasonable in the first place, if Guo Song wants to rebel, the prison army must be closely monitored, how can his express letter be sent?"

Secondly, Weichen can't figure it out, what is the point of Guo Song and Li Na's collusion? If Weichen is not mistaken, a few years ago, Guo Song defeated Li Na's army in Xuzhou, and even Li Na almost died, the two only have hatred and no affection, how can they collude? Besides, as soon as Li Na came to power, he surrendered to the imperial court, and even the birds knew that they had to choose a good tree to perch on, but Guo Song was climbing a rotten wood with his eyes in his eyes, was he so stupid? ”

Li Mi's series of questions made Li Shi also stunned, he had not rested well in the past few days, his emotions were out of control, and as soon as he received Tian Wenxiu's express, he exploded, and Lu Qi fanned the flames on the side, which made his emotions completely out of control.

And Li Shi's series of questions were like a scoop of cold water, which cooled down Li Shi's emotions that were about to burst again.

Li Shi was speechless for a long time, Li Yu's question was indeed reasonable, if Guo Song was determined to rebel, where could Tian Wenxiu send the letter so easily? and Li Na, who was the commander of the Tang Army at the beginning, knew too well that the big battle, and Li Na did almost die in the hands of Guo Song.

Li Shi sat down slowly, silent in thought.

Lu Qi was a little anxious, such a good opportunity couldn't defeat Guo Song, so he wouldn't want to bring him down in the future.

"Your Majesty, everything is possible, there are some things that Tian Jian Jun didn't say, but it doesn't mean that it didn't happen, even if someone monitors Tian Jian Jun, Tian Jian Jun can completely buy off the monitor with a lot of money, and send his subordinates to escape from Zhangye City to deliver a letter, of course these things will not be written in the report.

As for colluding with Li Na is more likely, Tian Yue, Wang Wujun, and Zhu Tao are not colluding with Li Na in the same way? They didn't see Li Na as a rotten wood, and how many years did Li Na and Tian Yue fight each other, wasn't it the same alliance? ”

Lu Qi's analysis also made sense, Li Shi was a little confused for a while, he took out the report and looked at it carefully, the report of more than 10,000 words was divided into many contents, and recorded in detail what Guo Song did in Hexi.

"Also, I ordered him to send his wife and daughter to Chang'an, but he deceived and asked his wife to pretend to be pregnant and refused to go on the road, which is blatant deception!"

Li Yu secretly sighed and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen also received a letter from Guo Song, he told me that he and Tian Jianjun have a deep contradiction, Tian Jianjun is arrogant and domineering in Hexi, arbitrarily humiliating officials, and slandering him and officials for embezzling military salaries out of nothing, these things have led him and Tian Jianjun to fight-for-tat, water and fire are incompatible, he told Weichen in the letter that his wife is indeed pregnant with Liujia and cannot travel long distances, and implore the court to be tolerant." ”

Lu Qi sneered repeatedly: "I said how Li Xiangguo said good things for Guo Song, it turned out that I had been taken care of by Guo Song in advance, and I suddenly realized." ”

Li Mi glared at Lu Qi angrily, "Lu Xiangguo, what do you mean by this, are you implying that I have accepted the benefits of Guo Song?" ”

"I don't know if Li Xiangguo has the benefit of accepting Guo Song, and it is estimated that only Li Xiangguo himself understands, but what you said is Guo Song's one-sided words, of course the saint must believe the words of the prison army, if you don't believe in the prison army, then what's the point of sending the prison army?"

Lu Qi knows Li Shi's mind too well, and can always talk about Li Shi's heart, Li Shi trusts Tian Wenxiu properly, so he will appoint him as the prison army, and he doesn't even believe the words of the prison army, who else can he trust?

Lu Qi continued to say to Li Shi: "Your Majesty, Tian Jian Jun is a eunuch, with a physical disability, from ancient times to the present, few generals with troops will like eunuchs, plus Tian Jian Jun exercises the right to supervise, which makes Hexi officials hostile, Guo Song and him have contradictions It is normal, but this is not the main problem, what we are discussing today is that Guo Song has ambitions and wants to support the army and divide the territory, this is the report of the prison army, we can't believe it, if you don't even believe the report of the prison army, who else can Your Majesty believe?" ”

Li Shi's heart shook again, and Li Yu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, the Hidden Sword Pavilion should also be spying on Guo Song, what do they say?" ”

A sentence reminded Li Shi, he hurriedly found out the daily report of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, flipped through it for a while, the Hidden Sword Pavilion did not mention that Guo Song was going to rebel, the focus was on his family situation, his diet, said that he was more luxurious, and said that his carriage was eight horses and was gorgeous, but Li Shi still found a place, the latest report of the Hidden Sword Pavilion mentioned that Guo Song's wife was six months pregnant.

This is different from Tian Wenxiu's report, Tian Wenxiu said that Guo Song's wife pretended to be pregnant, but Zang Jiange confirmed that Guo Song's wife was six months pregnant.

This made Li Shi have doubts in his heart again, it stands to reason that Tian Wenxiu should not know about Guo Song's wife's pregnancy, and the report of the Hidden Sword Pavilion is convincing.

Li Mi flipped through Tian Wenxiu's report, and said to Li Shi: "Your Majesty, the report says that Guo Song built a palace in the north of Zhangye City, this can be verified, as far as Weichen knows, many big Sogdian merchants in the capital have branches in Zhangye, they must have pigeon letters, or ask about the caravan that has just come from Zhangye, if Your Majesty does not believe in merchants, then you can also ask An Tinggui, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, isn't the An family in Zhangye?" ”

Li Shi nodded, "Li Xiangguo is reasonable, come here, immediately announce that Guanglu Shaoqing An Tinggui will come to see me!" ”