Although Ju Wenzhen proposed to take some treasures and get off the boat halfway to escape, he knew in his heart that escaping into the uninhabited mountains was basically a dead end, and after he encouraged others to get off the ship, he himself did the opposite, taking food and water and hiding in the warehouse.

Ju Wenzhen's wishful thinking was that when the ship returned, the cargo was unloaded, and the ship would return to the owner, and then he would have a chance to escape, but he overestimated the loyalty of his subordinates and was betrayed by his henchmen.

More than a dozen torches illuminated the wide warehouse as if it were day, and Zhang Lingyun had already seen the black shadow hiding behind the wooden box.

He strode forward, grabbed the hider by the hem of his coat in the darkness, and dragged him out, and the hider howled in despair like a pig, and reached for a sword, but in the end he caught nothing, and dragged him out.

Zhang Lingyun slammed the hider on the deck, revealing a frightened fat face in the firelight, although his face was distorted and deformed from extreme fear, the eunuch who was brought over to identify him still nodded, "It's him!" ”

The hider was none other than Ju Wenzhen, and when he saw that his most trusted henchman had betrayed him, he was so angry that his chest was about to explode, and he was about to scold, but a ball of rags was stuffed into his mouth, and then he was pressed to the ground, and his hands were tied behind the back of a cow belt, so that his bones were about to break.

He whined, and Zhang Lingyun waved his hand, "Take it away!" ”

Several soldiers carried Ju Wenzhen out, and Zhang Lingyun mentioned that he had searched the cabin carefully, and there was no one else, but he found a box of treasures and an unusually sharp sword.

Zhang Lingyun quickly left with his sword and treasure chest........

Hundreds of officials and their families were temporarily placed in the Dayun Temple in Nanpu County, which is the largest monastery in several nearby prefectures, covering an area of hundreds of acres, with thousands of monks and pilgrims, and incense burning all year round.

In the past few days, all the rituals in the monastery have stopped, and basically all the halls and pavilions have been occupied by officials and their families, and everyone is in a panic, not knowing what kind of fate awaits them.

"You all hurt us both!"

In a small side hall, a woman wiped her tears and counted her husbands, and her daughter sat to wipe her tears.

"At the beginning, I told you not to go to Chengdu, you didn't listen, you had to go with others, but for so many years in Chengdu, your official income was low, and the family lived on the old bottom, and then I advised you to go back to Chang'an as soon as possible, you didn't listen, you look at Wen Ji who came to Chengdu with you, everyone in Chang'an is the prime minister, you are still a powerless and unreal Ministry of Works, and now you are running away with these eunuchs, you are always wrong again and again, can't you make a correct decision? Now that my mother's dowry has run out and the dowry for my daughter has run out, what should we do next? ”

The woman's husband is called Miao Ji, is the seventh son of the former prime minister Miao Jinqing, once served as a member of the Ministry of Labor, after the Jingyuan Mutiny, he fled to Chengdu with his wife and daughter, because his sister is Zhang Yansheng's wife, Miao Ji was reused by Zhang Yansheng, from the Ministry of Labor Wailang to the Ministry of Labor, and then promoted to the Ministry of Labor.

Miao Ji has a cowardly personality and a good temper, although he was counted down by his wife like this, he still held his head and sat at the door without saying a word, in fact, he was also very guilty, he made a mistake in judgment in the officialdom, but let his wife and daughter suffer with him.

At this time, an official asked at the door, "Is Lao Miao there?" ”

"In! At! Miao Ji hurriedly got up.

"Everyone has made an appointment to go to Cui Xiang's place to discuss, let's go together!"

Miao Ji glanced back at his wife, but his wife turned her head and ignored him, Miao Ji had to sigh and walk out of the side hall quickly........

In the Daxiong Treasure Palace, dozens of officials above the fourth grade gathered together, the right minister Cui Zao has eaten and slept well in the past few days, and his complexion is ruddy, he saw that everyone was panicked, so he waved his hand and smiled: "As the right minister, the head of the hundred officials, I am not worried at all, what are you worried about?" ”

"Cui Xiang, everyone is worried about being liquidated by Guo Song, after all, we all work for the eunuch party!"

The one who spoke was the household servant Ban Hong, who was also one of the deputy ministers of the Counselor's Hall, he was Song Chaofeng's confidant before, and after Song Chaofeng's death, he was loyal to Ju Wenzhen.

Cui Zao glanced at him contemptuously and said coldly: "To make it clear, we have never worked for the eunuch party, we have served the imperial court, the queen mother and the son of heaven, as for individual people who work for the eunuch party, that is his personal matter, don't refer to it generally." ”

Ban Hong's face turned red and he didn't dare to say anything.

Another official asked, "What does Choi Xiang think we will be dealt with?" “

This is a question that everyone is concerned about, and everyone looks at Cui Zao together.

Cui Zao groaned and said: "The eunuch party is guilty of great sins in Bashu, and it is difficult to escape punishment, fortunately, our court is just an ornament, without any power, and without any benefits, Guo Song is unreasonable to deal with us, and he also admits that he is one of the court officials, if he harms his colleagues, he is not afraid of being blamed by the world?" ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Cui Xiangguo made sense, no matter how much they were punished, they should be punished, and it would not be their turn.

Cui Zao waved his hand and continued: "I estimate that some of us will still be reappointed, of course, we will go to Chang'an to be officials, and most of the others will go to work and return to their hometowns, so let's be a rich man and retire!" ”

Everyone's eyes flickered, thinking about their own thoughts, in fact, no one wanted to go back to their hometown to retire, and they all wanted to continue to be officials in the court, so they didn't know if they had this luck.

...........

The fleet began to turn around and return to Yuzhou, and they needed to find slender men to sail against the current, but fortunately, they were in Nanpu County, which is this year's Wan County, a large county with a large population, and it was easy to hire thousands of slender men to start pulling the fleet back.

At this time, on the Minjiang Wharf in Chengdu, Guo Song and Wen Ji and other officials were waiting for the arrival of the Queen Mother's ship.

Although the Tang Dynasty has weakened, its prestige and hope have been tossed away by the eunuch clique, and the royal family is extremely withered, and it is even difficult to find an heir.

The Tang Dynasty did not divide the clan into various places like the Han Dynasty, so that the clan surnamed Liu was all over the world, and the Tang Dynasty gathered the clan to live in the capital to facilitate monitoring, and the area around Chang'an Xiaoerfang was the settlement of each clan.

The history of the Tang Dynasty clan suffered four massacres, the first was Wu Zetian's destruction of Li Tang, the second was An Lushan's slaughter of the clan, the third was the Jingyuan Mutiny, Zhu Jun killed more than 70 clans left in Chang'an, and the fourth time was at the end of the Tang Dynasty, when Huang Chao and Zhu Wen were slaughtered in turn, and the Li Tang clan was wiped out.

In this book, during the Chengdu Palace Change, Ying Caihe led the disguised guards to slaughter more than 100 adult clans who were summoned to the palace by the eunuchs, leaving only the adult clan men with only the Lingnan Jiedu envoy summoning Wang Li Si.

However, Li Xi was frail and sickly, had no heirs, and only had a few adopted sons of non-clan blood, one of whom was captured by Zhu Zhu when he returned from an envoy to Taiyuan, and finally died in Luoyang.

Just by virtue of the scarcity of heirs, it is destined that it will be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to prosper, if you meet a famous minister like Huo Guang, maybe there is a glimmer of hope, but unfortunately after the fall of the eunuch party, the fate of the Tang Dynasty will be in the hands of the second Cao Cao.

Guo Song desperately needed to control the Empress Dowager and the Son of Heaven, with them, even if he couldn't command Ma Sui and Liu Qia, he could control Han Rong and Li Si.

"Your Highness, the fleet is here!" A whispered reminded Guo Song who was distracted.

Guo Song hurriedly retracted his thoughts, only to see three big boats appear on the river, and there were cavalry following by the river.

In addition to the middle of the three big ships is the queen mother's boat, the other two big ships are carrying luggage, when fleeing east, many large items in Linyu Palace are too late to be transported, and some palace maids can not take away, this time back to Chengdu, just bring back together.

The ship slowly approached the wharf, and the wharf was surrounded by soldiers under martial law, three steps and one sentry, five steps and one post, and the defense was very strong.

Soon, the queen mother stepped off the boat with the support of two palace maids, followed by a very tall woman, it was Ying Caihe, she was holding the three-year-old little emperor Li Wen in her arms, to Guo Song's surprise, Li Wen was very docile in her arms, and was concentrating on playing with a small wooden bar in her hand that could be twisted.

Maybe it was because the child was a little heavier, and he pulled Ying Caihe's shirt down, revealing a large area of cream-like skin, Guo Song's heart was hot, he had been away from Chang'an for a long time, and he needed a woman's adjustment very much.

At this time, he didn't have time to think about it, so he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Weichen Guo Song is late to save the car, so that the queen mother is disturbed by the barbarians, and the minister deserves death!" ”

The Queen Mother silently stared at Guo Song in front of her, she had seen it, or many years ago, she was Princess Lu at the time, Guo Song presented her with several precious gems, she met Guo Song, she had forgotten what Guo Song looked like at that time, and only vaguely remembered that he was very tall.

But she couldn't have imagined that the young man back then had become the last support of Datang, but it was also the most dangerous support, and she lived under his authority, where would her fate go?