By the time Li Zhongyi received the good news of conquering the two mountains, it was already afternoon.

"After more than ten years of military training, it has finally come to fruition, and I have not raised them in vain." Li Zhongyi was in a good mood, and the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.

Yang Wushuang arched his hand and said: "The emperor is far-sighted, and he has planned the plan to cut down Shu early, and it is inevitable that he will have today's results." ”

"Haha, brother Zhonghe, you also learned to pat my ass?" Li Zhongyi raised the corners of his mouth and glanced at Yang Wushuang.

Yang Wushuang knew very well in his heart that when the emperor was in a really good mood, he would usually call it indiscriminately.

Brother? Who dares to call himself the emperor's brother, it is purely tired!

"Your Majesty, you know the reluctance of your ministers, and you have always liked to admit death." Yang Wushuang didn't defend himself clearly, but told Li Zhongyi that he was not a casual sycophant.

Li Zhongyi smiled and did not continue to tease Yang Wushuang. After all, when you are in a good mood, it is also a good thing to have a confidant to have fun, have fun, and ease your emotions.

Now, since the two mountains in the first pass have fallen into the hands of the Han army, it actually means that it is only a matter of time before Jianmen Pass becomes Li Zhongyi's bag.

The poet Li Bai praised "Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky", which refers to the dangerous road of Jianmen Pass.

Li Zhongyi has every reason to believe that after taking Jianzhou, how panicked will Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, be?

On the Jinniu Road, in addition to Jianmen Pass, the next pass that may block the southward pace of the Han army is Tianxiong Pass.

Tianxiong Pass, also known as Jiameng Pass, has always been an important military town in and out of Shu, and its geographical location is extremely important.

As long as the Han army takes Tianxiong Pass, it can be killed under the city of Chengdu with one horse, and the Shu army has no advantage of terrain to block the powerful offensive of the Han army.

"Your Majesty, although our army has taken the two mountains, the plan to attack the Jianmen Pass at the same time has also failed." Yang Wushuang has always dared to speak out in front of Li Zhongyi, and occasionally patted the emperor's ass, but his mood was really good.

"Well, there are more than 20,000 Shu troops in Jianmen Pass, and Liao Shanhe has only 3,000 people on hand at best, how can you blame him?" Li Zhongyi understands Liao Shanhe's difficulties very well.

After all, it is to attack two mountains and one pass at the same time, and it is extremely difficult to coordinate with the above, which alarmed the Shu army in the pass in advance, resulting in the failure of the sneak attack, which is also a conceivable thing.

In fact, in Li Zhongyi's plan, even if only one of the two peaks in one pass was captured, it would be considered a great victory.

Condescendingly throwing a small stone at the gate is enough to smash a person's head. What's more, Liao Shanhe's hands are full of cocktails.

"Chuan Zhen's military order, ordering Wang Ken to speed up the march and strive to join Liao Shanhe's forward soldiers and horses as soon as possible."

After Liao Shanhe led people over the mountains and mountains, Li Zhongyi ordered Wang Ken and ordered him to bring 10,000 soldiers and horses to follow closely according to the mountain road opened up by the forward battalion.

"Whoa!" After receiving the order, the herald repeated the emperor's order aloud, turned on his horse, and galloped out.

The heralds around Li Zhongyi are now all the same, cavalry officers selected from the Lingxia Prefectures.

Lingxia Prefecture, that is the source of horses for the entire Han army, and also the most important source of cavalry for the Han army.

If the herald's horsemanship is not perfect, it will be a shame at the least, and a loss of life at the worst.

"This sister, Kang Duzhi sent a villain to discuss something important with Tang Shanggong, and please help me pass it through." Xiao Huazi, the little chamberlain who served Kang Ze, was a clever ghost, and his mouth seemed to be smeared with honey, and he lifted the palace maid guarding the door very high.

Xiao Huazi's voice was so loud that Qin Xiang, who hid in the house and didn't want to show her face, could hear it very clearly.

When Qinxiang was very young, she was sold by her parents, and she still doesn't know who her real surname is.

At the beginning, when Tang Shuyi promoted her to be the head of the book, it was impossible to have no surname, so he simply gave her the surname Tang.

Following Tang Shuyi's surname Tang, this has always been the supreme glory that Qin Xiang is proud of. Even, it is much more glorious than her ascension to the high position of Shanggong.

Qin Xiang was waiting for this moment, although the folding flower broke the palace rules, but if she reported this matter to the queen mother, it would obviously implicate Tang Shuyi's body, which was equivalent to invisibly setting up a big enemy for Tang Shuyi's mother and son.

Therefore, after returning from Tang Shuyi, Qin Xiang pondered it. She thought about it, and finally targeted Kang Ze.

Concubine Zhen violated the palace rules, Qin Xiang knew it at the first time, not to mention Kang Ze, whose eyes and ears were all over the palace?

But the problem is that Kang Ze obviously knew, but like Qin Xiang, he chose to pretend to be confused, which is very telling.

Qin Xiang dared to pretend to be confused, and that was because there was a powerful virtuous concubine standing behind her. With the support of Tang Shuyi, it is the most abundant capital that Qin Xiang can proudly stand in the palace.

But Kang Ze is a eunuch without hard backstage support, and the emperor is not in the palace, as long as Qin Xiang continues to pretend to be stupid, Kang Ze will definitely not be able to bear it.

As expected, Kang Ze really couldn't continue to pretend to be stupid, so he took the initiative to send someone to find the door.

Naturally, it was impossible for Qin Xiang to see Kang Ze, so she chose to hide in the house. Even if Xiao Huazi knew that she was in the house, she just didn't show up, what could she do?

There are people in the court who are good officials, and in the same way, there are hard backers in the palace to support them, so they are better officials!

In fact, Xiao Huazi has been guarding the neighborhood, and when he saw Qin Xiang enter the door, he ordered someone to report to Kang Ze, and ran over to block the door to delay time.

In the words of Kang Ze, the deputy governor of the Inner Servant Province, as long as Tang Shanggong is dragged down, Xiao Huazi will be a great achievement, and he can be promoted to the intermediate inner servant at the level of the cabinet chief.

Kang Ze had naturally heard about the affairs in the palace of Concubine Zhe, but he, like Qin Xiang, neither wanted nor dared to stab the matter to Empress Dowager Xue.

Unlike Qin Xiang, Kang Ze has stayed in this deep palace for decades, and he has long been an old fox who has cultivated to perfection.

Don't look at the nonsense of folding the flowers, unscrupulously overriding the palace rules. However, if you don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, as long as the queen mother and the emperor do not dislike the third son of the emperor, even if the concubine is punished, it is impossible to be too heavy.

Therefore, Kang Ze was very unwilling to be an informer, so as to offend Zhe Saihua and the third son of the emperor to death.

In case, the emperor chose the third son of the emperor as the crown prince, after he Kang Ze did evil things, it would be difficult to survive even if he wanted to!

Of course, Kang Ze also knew in his heart that he, the actual ruler of the Inner Service Province, could not completely stay out of the matter.

Who can hide such a big thing for a long time? Sooner or later, it will reach the ears of the Queen Mother.

Kang Ze's calculation is not complicated, even if he wants to report it to the queen mother, he must pull the qin incense together. Although his backer is also relatively hard, after all, Concubine Du lives in a Taoist temple outside the palace, and many things are beyond her reach.

Qin Xiang's backer, Concubine Tang, is the favorite concubine who presides over palace affairs in a proper manner.

The county official is not as good as taking care of it now, Tang Shuyi can just make a little stumbling, so that Kang Ze can't eat and walk around!

To put it bluntly, Kang Ze is in a dilemma, he can't afford to offend Concubine Zhe, nor can he afford to offend Concubine Tang. You must know that Concubine Tang's son is the eldest son of the emperor who is most likely to ascend to the throne of the prince today.

Concubine Zhen to Concubine Tang, the eldest son of the emperor to the third son of the emperor, which one of them is a great god that Kang Ze can't provoke. Only a fool took the initiative to be the wicked person who whistleblower, this is Kang Ze's true thoughts in his heart.

The palace maid guarding the door stopped the little Chinese alive and dead, and shirked that Tang Shanggong was not there.

However, Qin Xiang entered the door, but Xiao Huazi saw it with his own eyes. He and the palace maid guarding the door were desperate to delay time, and eagerly hoped that Kang Ze would come over to relieve the siege as soon as possible.

Qin Xiang, who was sitting in the house drinking tea, was secretly a little proud in her heart, no matter how big the red man next to Kang Ze was, when you arrived at her door, you didn't dare to come nonsense.

However, after a while, when Qin Xiang heard Kang Ze's voice, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart, and Huo stood up.

"Lady, please go in and say that a certain family has something important to discuss with Tang Shanggong." Kang Ze's posture was very low, and he was also very polite to the palace maid guarding the door.

The palace maid in front of the door is Qin Xiang's henchman, so she naturally does not dare to leave the post of guarding the door without permission.

"Back to Kangdu, I know that Shanggong has gone out, and it is likely that he is at Concubine Xian's place." The palace maid guarding the door is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and her answer is not leaky.

Kang Ze had already won Xiao Huazi's eyes, and he was sure that Qinxiang was in the house, so it was naturally impossible to be deceived by the little palace maid.

"Tang Shang Palace, Tang Shang Palace, I'm Kang Ze, I have something important to discuss." Kang Ze shouted while pulling his throat out, pushing away the palace maid guarding the door, and insisted on breaking in.

The palace maid guarding the door is also burdened with a heavy responsibility, how dare she let Kang Ze break into the house so easily, she raised her hand to stop it.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Huazi, who was bright-eyed and bright-hearted, grabbed her arm and said with a smile: "Auntie, why do we bother to get involved in the affairs of the gods?" ”

There is no way, when it is critical, it can only be the master of each other. Xiao Huazi is an open confidant of Kang Ze, if Kang Ze loses power, the first one to follow the bad luck must be Xiao Huazi.

The palace maid guarding the door was caught off guard, and was dragged away from the door by Xiao Huazi, how old Kang Ze was, he stepped into the house without hesitation.

However, Kang Ze searched several rooms, but he never saw Qinxiang's figure. Only, the tea cup on the table in the middle of the main room was still steaming.

Alas, I came a step too late, and I actually asked Qinxiang to slip away like this, Kang Ze stared at the wide open window, regretting it!

Qin Xiang would rather escape through the window than meet Kang Ze, what does this mean, it is impossible for Kang Ze, who is an old fox, not to understand.

Now, in the palace of the concubine, the movement is getting louder and louder, and the billowing smoke rises into the air, as long as you are not blind, you can see it.

Qin Xiang is backed by Concubine Tang, who is in charge of the power in the palace, and her status is roughly equal to Kang Ze, and Kang Ze really can't force Qin Xiang to go with him to see Empress Dowager Xue.

Paper can't contain the fire, Kang Ze complained about himself for a while, so he had to come to see the Empress Dowager Xue hard, and reported the matter of the concubine burning paper to pay tribute to the concubine.

However, to Kang Ze's surprise, after Empress Dowager Xue learned the news, not only did she not get angry, but lowered her head and tasted tea with a calm face.

According to the rules of the palace, the master didn't ask questions, and the people below were not qualified to talk nonsense. Kang Ze is a guy who knows the rules very well, he has to be hard-headed, stand up straight obediently, and listen to the orders of the Empress Dowager Xue.

"Kang Ze, you are on an errand in the palace, the time is not short, right?"

I don't know how long it took, Kang Ze suddenly heard Empress Dowager Xue's question, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Empress Dowager Xue's words were vaguely unkind, Kang Ze subconsciously tensed up, his head was pressed lower, and his legs were brought closer together.

"Back to the Queen Mother, the old slave has been on an errand in the palace for more than 20 years." Kang Ze's vest has begun to break out in a cold sweat.

"Oh, after more than 20 years of errands, life is really not short." Empress Dowager Xue suddenly sighed, turned her head to look at the female official standing beside her, "Xiaohong, look, it's much longer than the days when you were on an errand in the palace." ”

The more Kang Ze listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the whole atrium couldn't help but thump wildly, could it be that Empress Dowager Xue had already known about it.

The female official who has been standing beside Empress Dowager Xue, surnamed Wang Xiaohong, is not only one of the only two Shang palaces in Shangshu introspection, but also the most promising person to ascend to the throne of introspection in the future.

However, Wang Xiaohong's name is Shang Gong, except for the affairs of Empress Dowager Xue's side, she never interferes in the affairs of the palace on weekdays.

Kang Ze couldn't help but secretly complain, careless, really careless, why did he ignore Wang Xiaohong?

Empress Dowager Xue and Concubine Tang Shuyi, after all, have experienced great tribulation together, and the relationship between the two is extremely deep.

Since Tang Shuyi was in charge of the power in the palace, Empress Dowager Xue didn't want to undermine her authority, so she didn't let Wang Xiaohong get involved in the affairs of the palace.

For a long time, in the small circle of chamberlains and palace maids, Wang Xiaohong was like air, with no sense of existence at all.

Now, Kang Ze suddenly came to his senses. Even if Wang Xiaohong doesn't care about anything, after all, she is the confidant of Empress Dowager Xue, and she is one of the only two Shang Palaces, so naturally someone came over and hugged her thighs.

In other words, Wang Xiaohong, who has been ignored by others, is likely to quietly install a lot of ears, eyes and eyeliner everywhere in the palace.

With this new understanding, Kang Ze's concept has undergone earth-shaking changes, since Empress Dowager Xue is likely to have known the truth, why has she kept holding back?

If you don't figure this problem out, Kang Ze is probably in a catastrophe today!

In a hurry, after Kang Ze broke out in a cold sweat, he suddenly remembered a major event: not only Empress Dowager Xue was pretending to be confused, but Li Qiong in the cabinet was also pretending to be confused.

Wang Xiaohong stared at Kang Ze coldly, this old guy is really old and confused!

When the Queen Mother clearly didn't want to interfere, Kang Ze wanted to take the initiative to poke the matter up, which was really stupid as a donkey.

Wang Xiaohong knew about the paper burning in the palace and secretly reported it to the Empress Dowager Xue.

Empress Dowager Xue has been holding back, mainly because Li Dahe's analysis is very reasonable, so she listens to it.

Li Dahe said that when Li Zhongyi was not in the capital, a major event similar to Ruan's death should be presided over by the cabinet to preside over the condolences and memorials.

However, there has been no movement on Li Qiong's side, which shows that Li Qiong has other ideas.

At this time, even if you are temporarily wronged, you must find out Li Qiong's true intentions, which is the fundamental factor that Empress Dowager Xue has been holding back.

After all, compared with Jiangshan Sheji, what is a big deal if the royal concubines suffer a little grievance?