Since Li Zhongyi left Kaijing in the name of suppressing the rebellion, Meng Yao has never met him again for more than ten days.

Meng Yao has been wandering in the palace all the year round, and he naturally knows very well in his heart that Li Zhongyi is actually deliberately hanging him.

Before coming to Beijing to deliver the edict, Empress Dowager Fu and Fan Zhen both instructed Meng Yao to see Li Zhongyi's true mentality towards the imperial court.

The so-called true mentality, Meng Yao is clear in his heart, referring to whether Li Zhongyi has a heart of disobedience!

Guo Wei, the Taizu of this dynasty, overthrew the Liu Han regime by force, which did have the factor that the Liu Han regime slaughtered Guo Wei's entire family because of suspicion.

However, Guo Wei's military power is in his hands, and the power is difficult to control, which makes the imperial power unstable, and it is also an extremely important source of trouble.

People are mixed in the temple, as long as your strength threatens the imperial power, whether you have the intention of rebellion or not, you will be regarded as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh by the court, and you will want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Meng Yao knew the Empress Dowager Fu's thoughts, and the Empress Dowager Fu had already regretted it, regretting that she should not have given Li Zhongyi the right to serve the army and let him lead the Eastern Expedition to the Northern Expedition.

When the Goryeo Kingdom rebelled, the imperial court's idea was actually a delaying tactic, sending Li Zhongyi across the sea and exiled to the poor and remote Goryeo Kingdom, leaving him to fend for himself, so as not to make the court feel an eyesore.

Wait for the imperial court to completely control the situation, train 200,000 elite soldiers, and then clean up Li Zhongyi casually.

Who would have thought that after Li Zhongyi crossed the sea to conquer Goryeo, not only was he not dragged down and thin, but further swelled to the extent that he was able to defeat the Khitans head-on, which inevitably caused panic in the imperial court.

Before coming to Goryeo, Meng Yao thought that Li Zhongyi would adopt delaying tactics, but he never dreamed that Li Zhongyi would rely on his strong soldiers and horses to directly put him under house arrest in the angel line of the capital.

"The heart of disobedience is obvious!" Meng Yao cursed Li Zhongyi in a low voice, and at the same time secretly ruthless, as long as he can return to Kaifeng City alive, he must add fuel and vinegar to report Li Zhongyi's various unsubordinate behaviors to the Empress Dowager Fu "truthfully".

"Godfather, please use tea." Yang Xuan, the little eunuch who was close to him, trembled and held the tray to Meng Yao's hand.

Meng Yao picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and glanced at Yang Xuan coldly, among his many godsons, Yang Xuan was the most scheming.

To make a living in the palace, you must be a scheming godson, so it is worth cultivating!

Scheming and stupidity are actually relative. The surviving eunuchs in the Nengli Palace, whoever has no scheming, will die early, and when they die, they don't know who they were killed by, and they have to help count the money.

I think that at the beginning, when Meng Yao was not powerful, he was also the godson of the great eunuch in the palace. At that time, Meng Yao had a lot of eyes and was not appreciated by his godfather.

Meng Yao's godfather, that is, the former predecessor of the Inner Servant Province, knew Wang Fang, Wang Fang was the most trusted palace person of the Taizu Guo Wei of this dynasty.

In Meng Yao's opinion, Wang Fang especially likes to use honest people, mainly because honest people cannot threaten his position.

However, even if Wang Fang was trusted by Guo Wei, he was finally killed by the honest man's godson.

An honest person can't stand the emperor's clichés, and it's easy to tell the truth.

If an honest person tells the truth, he will inevitably be tricked out of all kinds of unseemly things that Wang Fang secretly does, and the lethality is infinite. For example, Wang Fang carried Guo Wei behind his back and bought more than a dozen ugly mansions in Kaifeng City.

As a result, it is naturally miserable, Guo Wei is a diligent and thrifty personality, how can he tolerate the existence of a big mouse? In the end, Wang Fang was beaten to death in front of all the eunuchs in the palace.

Meng Yao still clearly remembers that Wang Fang's buttocks were all beaten, and the blood under his body was like a blood snake, spreading extremely slowly to his feet.

That terrifying scene made Meng Yao unforgettable, many times, as long as he closed his eyes, he would unconsciously think of Wang Fang's death.

However, after all, Empress Dowager Fu is a woman, and she has neither experienced the baptism of war nor much experience in political struggle.

So far, Empress Dowager Fu has always trusted Meng Yao very much, and sent him to Goryeo to announce the edict, so that she can observe Li Zhongyi's unpredictable thoughts nearby.

Li Zhongyi shook his face and showed Meng Yao, this matter itself means an old saying: Which onion are you Meng Yao?

Everyone in the world knows that Meng Yao is the confidant of the Empress Dowager Fu, and Li Zhongyi looks down on Meng Yao, an angel, which means that he does not take the Empress Dowager Fu in his eyes at all.

"Little Xuanzi, tell me, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of copper stink?" Meng Yao stopped his feet in a circle coldly and asked Yang Xuan expressionlessly.

Yang Xuan touched his head and said innocently: "Godfather, the little brain is stupid, how can you guess what the copper stinker is thinking?" ”

Meng Yao obviously knew that Yang Xuan was hiding it, but he still felt very appropriate in his heart. You must know that the eunuch who is a little follower must not be stupid, but he must not be shrewd to the point of being terrifying.

"Then tell me, does the copper stinker really want to rebel?" Meng Yao had actually decided in his heart that Li Zhongyi would be opposed, but he still hoped that this was not true.

If Li Zhongyi raises the flag to rebel, Meng Yao, who is in the tiger's den, will be the first to be unlucky, maybe he will be tied up and taken to the execution ground, and his head will be borrowed to sacrifice the flag.

Yang Xuan could guess the fear in Meng Yao's heart, in fact, he was also afraid to death.

It's just that this angel has long surrounded the soldiers and men with three layers of water inside and three layers outside, and their master and servant are already unable to escape.

Meng Yao was trapped in the city of sorrow, but Li Zhongyi was orderly mobilizing troops and horses, and transported the Han people who had moved south from the Great Plain of Youji to Dengzhou, Laizhou and other places under the jurisdiction of Pinglu Jiedu in batches.

Because the Han people who moved south, they were only forced by the military might of the Li family's army, and they dared not speak out. The soldiers and horses sent to escort them were to be monitored and guarded along the way in a ratio of one to six or one to seven.

Li Zhongyi was by no means a soft-hearted person, he secretly issued strict orders, and those who dared to incite the southward migrants to make trouble were all punished on the spot, and all his family members were reduced to official slaves.

According to Li Zhongyi's experience in governing the government, the Han people who moved south without organizational and disciplinary training were in fact a mess of loose sand, and as long as everyone had something to eat, it would be difficult for them to unite into a rope.

In other words, although the immigrants who moved south were very unhappy, Li Zhongyi had reason to believe that as long as he fulfilled his promise, within three and five years, these people would be his most loyal supporters.

Dozens of acres of land were allocated to each adult male or female, and all taxes were not only exempted for three years, but they also rented ploughing cattle and farm tools, and sent officials and soldiers to assist them in spring sowing and autumn harvest. Except for Li Zhongyi, this is something that no government can do.