Jiang Wulang knocked on the door of Zhang's house at the fifth watch as promised, the Zhang family's family of four and two personal maids were already waiting here, the eldest son born to Zhang Feng's ex-wife followed him, here was his twelve-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son, they all followed behind their mother.

Jiang Wulang whispered to the Liang family to introduce the dozen or so black-clothed people behind him, "They are samurai hired by the old man for money, and they are responsible for helping the lady and the old lady to retreat to Longyou, come with them!" ”

Guo Yuniang opened the door of a carriage, "Madam, please get in the car!" ”

At this time, the door of the square has been opened, but the city gate has not been opened, they changed the passenger ship in the West Market, and the passenger ship went directly to the Qujiang River, at the same time, carrying several horse-drawn carriages pretending to be Zhang Feng's family members came to Chunmingmen, and they got a city permit, which was clearly written on the city permit, and agreed that Zhang Feng's wife and children would return to their hometowns and relatives.

The carriage went out of the city from Chunming Gate and went straight to Jingyuan Road.

Five days later, the news that Zhang Feng led the army to surrender to Guo Song reached Chang'an, which made Zhu Zhu angry and immediately ordered to arrest Zhang Feng's wife, children and mother for questioning, only then did they find out that Zhang Feng's family had disappeared, and the twenty soldiers who monitored Zhang's mansion were all dead, and their bodies were thrown into the well, and the coachman sent by Meihuawei to Zhang's mansion was also killed, and the body was hidden under the bed.

"Generally useless idiot!"

Zhu Jun scolded angrily, "People have been running away for a few days and haven't found out, what's the use of raising you?" ”

Several generals lowered their heads, trembling with fright, and said stubbornly for the leading general: "The humble position has been investigated, they left from Chunmingmen five days ago, using a fake exit permit from the military department, and someone saw them go in the direction of Jingyuan Road." ”

"Then don't send someone to chase it, use flying pigeons to notify the checkpoints along Jingyuan Road, and don't let them out of the customs!"

At this time, the strategist Liu Sigu smiled gloomily: "Send someone to Jingyuan Dao to chase after me, I'm afraid it will fall into the hands of the other party!" ”

Zhu Jun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Sir, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Quite simply, do you need a pass to get out of town? Not at all, who knows who is from which family they are? But if you want to get a certificate of going out of the city, isn't this just a snake to add to it? Obviously, their purpose is to mislead us into thinking that they have gone from Jingyuan Road, and if I am not mistaken, the Zhang family actually left by boat, maybe to the east, maybe to the west. ”

Zhu Zhu suddenly shouted: "Give me to chase along the Wei River immediately, and chase me at both ends!" ”

Several generals hurriedly agreed and retreated.

Liu Sigu said to Zhu Jun: "Don't be angry anymore, the other party is carefully planned, and it is normal for them to escape, in fact, there is no point in chasing them, if you kill them, you can't change the ending, but will put other generals in danger, I think this matter is actually a good thing." ”

"Why is it a good thing?" Zhu Jun asked unwillingly.

"It's a lesson for us to know where the vulnerabilities are? We should learn our lessons and close the loopholes. ”

Zhu Jun nodded slowly, "Mr. is right, the lost sheep has to be repaired, which is really a good thing." ”

Zhu Zhu took a few steps and asked, "I have been thinking about the founding of the country for the past few days, does Mr. think the time is ripe for me to establish a new dynasty?" ”

Liu Sigu pondered for a moment and said, "Wait a little longer, the time is not yet ripe." ”

Zhu Jun said a little unhappily: "When does Mr. think it will mature?" ”

"It's best if the Chengdu Imperial Court makes another stupid move and completely loses the support of the people, and the time is ripe for Taiwei to ascend the throne."

"How long will I have to wait, five years or ten years?"

Liu Sigu felt the dissatisfaction in Zhu Jun's tone, and he smiled and said, "Actually, I have an idea recently, you can try it." ”

Zhu Jun perked up and hurriedly asked, "What do you think?" ”

Liu Sigu whispered a few words, and Zhu Jun nodded again and again, "Wonderful!" That's a great plan! ”

Liu Sigu said with a smile: "I just want the captain to break a little bit of money." ”

Zhu Jun waved his hand without mind, "What is money, if I win the world, isn't the world all mine?" ”

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Just over a month ago, Li Sheng led the army to attack Xiangyang, and captured Xiangyang City through the combination of inside and outside, and the 10,000 puppet Tang troops stationed in Xiangyang were completely annihilated by Li Sheng's army.

Li Sheng turned south and conquered Tangzhou, Suizhou, Fuzhou and Yingzhou, which were occupied by Li Xilie, and completely recovered Shannan Dongdao in just one month.

This series of proud achievements shocked the government and the opposition, but also made the Bashu army and people rejoice, the people did not hesitate to give the god of war this "title" to Li Sheng, Li Shi also longyan Dayue, issued a decree to canonize Li Sheng as a lieutenant, Kaifu Yi with the three divisions, with the Zhongshu Men under the Ping Zhangshi.

Although Li Sheng won consecutive battles, he was not carried away by the victory, and was not in a hurry to continue to the north, but removed the puppet officials in the eastern states of Shannan and appointed new officials to consolidate the results of his victory.

Just ten days ago, Li Sheng ordered Li Yuanjin, the assassin of Tangzhou, to be publicly beheaded, because Li Yuanjin took advantage of his attack on Yingzhou to secretly send someone to deliver a letter to Li Xilie, inciting Li Xilie to counterattack Sui Prefecture in Tangzhou.

But the killing of Li Yuanjin, the assassin of Tangzhou, caused a lot of turmoil in the imperial court, Li Yuanjin was originally a Langzhong of the Ministry of Works, a protégé of Yan Zhenqing, and had quite a lot of political achievements as an official in the local government, Li Sheng did not seek the opinion of the imperial court, so he directly killed Li Yuanjin, which really made many people in the court criticize.

There were suddenly a lot of unfavorable discussions against Li Sheng in the wells of Chengdu, most of which hinted that Li Sheng had the ambition to establish himself as a feudal town.

That night, a guest came to Lu Qi's house, and when the housekeeper handed the guest's greeting to Lu Qi, Lu Qi was immediately startled, and hurriedly ordered the housekeeper to invite the guest to his inner study.

The person who came is called Lu Xi, who is Lu Qi's cousin, and is currently serving as Shangshu Zuocheng in Chang'an, and is named the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu from the third grade.

This kind of situation where a family is an official in two dynasties is not uncommon, this kind of famous family that has been inherited for hundreds of years cannot hang on a tree, and if the Southern Tang Dynasty has Lu Qi, then the Northern Tang Dynasty will have Lu Xi.

Lu Qi entered the door and scolded angrily: "What are you doing in Chengdu? If you are seen, will you still be alive? ”

Lu Xi unhurriedly took out a letter and handed it to Lu Qi, "This is given to you by Zhu Jun, take a look for yourself!" ”

Lu Qi hurriedly opened the letter and read it carefully, Zhu Zhu praised him in the letter for being able to endure humiliation, understand the general situation, take the overall situation into account, and promised him that once the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, he would appoint him as the left minister of the new dynasty, Lu Qi was enthusiastic, but at the end of the letter, he put forward the conditions, Li Sheng killed people like hemp, hurt the heavens, and the Northern Tang Dynasty did not like such an opponent, and hoped that he would go to the field to refrigerate.

Only then did Lu Qi understand that Zhu Zhu wanted to get rid of Li Sheng by himself, but in fact, Lu Qi didn't like Li Sheng either, he was a general recommended by his rival Han Yun, and he didn't even come to see him when he set off, which made Lu Qi very dissatisfied.

Lu Qi pondered for a moment and asked, "Recently, there have been some rumors in the market that Li Sheng is trying to build a feudal town, but Zhu Zhu sent people to spread it?" ”

"Don't worry about this brother, you may be able to do Zhu Zhu's request in the letter?"

Lu Qi took a few steps back and forth, of course he also had to leave a way back for himself, Li Shi was content with the status quo and did not want to forge ahead, while Zhu Zhu was like a splitting bamboo, seizing half of the Central Plains, once Zhu Zhu captured Hanzhong, Chengdu would be in danger.

At this moment, Lu Qi made up his mind, so he sighed and said, "I'm afraid I'm not enough for me." ”

"Zhu Jun knows that he has also made arrangements on the eunuch's side."

Lu Qi was overjoyed, "That's foolproof!" ”

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At the same time that Lu Xi visited Lu Qi, a eunuch from Chang'an sneaked into Yong'an Palace and found the eunuch Song Chaofeng.

Song Chaofeng was also taken aback when he saw this eunuch, although the other party was his confidant, but this person did not follow him to Chengdu, but stayed in Chang'an Daming Palace, and it is said that he mixed well.

"What are you going to do?" Song Chaocheng asked anxiously.

The eunuch put a box on the table and pushed it to Song Chaofeng, "This is what Taiwei Zhu gave to the chief manager." ”

Song Chaofeng opened the box, and inside it turned out to be a jewel, the size of a goose egg, which was emitting a faint aura, and Song Chaofeng was well-informed. He immediately blurted out, "Night Pearl!" ”

He picked up the night pearl and looked at it carefully, yes, it was a high-quality night pearl, and it was worth a fortune.

Song Chaofeng asked in surprise, "Why did Taiwei Zhu give me the Night Pearl?" ”

The eunuch said: "Taiwei Zhu wants you to accept the Night Pearl, and then do one thing for him." ”

"What's the matter?"

The eunuch said coldly: "Dismiss Li Sheng, and ask him to never turn over!" ”

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