Pei Xiu and the others went to Nanyue Town before Hu Yande and settled in the town's pavilion.

He didn't rest, but took Shi Zaishun to Nanyue Academy.

When he arrived at the door, he reported to go in, and soon the owner of the hospital, Li Yandao, came out.

When Pei Xiu was young, he traveled to Nanyue Academy and had an old relationship with Li Yandao and his uncle Li Fan.

Li Yandao welcomed Pei Xiu in, and the two sat down in the living room, and the boy served tea, but Shi Zaishun did not enter the door, and guarded the outside with his sword, like a door god.

This is not the first time Pei Xiu has come over after taking office to observe, Li Yandao was not surprised, but just signaled the boy to send water over.

"Brother Gongmei, you are a big man on the side who is busy with official business, how can you have time to come to the cold house?" Li Yandao and Pei Xiu are good friends, and they are commensurate with each other.

"Don't hide it from Brother Boyuan, I'm going to visit Qizhang Gong (Niu Monk and Child), and come to see you by the way."

"Qi Zhanggong is not in Xunzhou?"

"Brother, how long has it been since you cared about the imperial court's mansion newspaper? At the beginning of the month, the sage issued an order to let the exiled Niu Dang people move north, Niu Qizhang had already arrived in Hengzhou a few days ago, which was to be of great use! ”

"Good!" Li Yandao slapped the table and applauded: "Is the next step to clean up Li Deyu's thief?" ”

Although his surname is Li, he is not a Li party, and he favors the Niu Party in the Niu Li party dispute, and later has a big enmity with Li Deyu, and his wife can be said to have died because of Li Deyu.

"Although the saint has this intention, he will not do it without a passable excuse, so he has to think about it in the long run." Pei Xiu waved his hand to soothe his excited old friend.

"Yes, yes, yes, finally let Li wait for this day, it's really an eye-opener, and you can also look at it if you know it under the clumsy Jing Spring!" Li Yandao clasped his palms together, closed his eyes, and bowed to the void, although he was a Taoist disciple, he secretly believed in Buddhism after his wife's death.

Pei Xiu said: "I went to Hengzhou this time to ask Qizhang Gong for advice on how to nail Li Deyu, an old thief, lest he make a comeback." ”

"Yes, yes, he is now the Situ of the school, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, and the Tongping Zhangshi, even if he is the prime minister, how can he lose the title of prime minister!" Li Yandao clenched his fists and said.

Pei Xiu smiled slightly and said: "That's too cheap for him, now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to eliminate the evil, just step on this old thief to the end, so that he will never be able to turn over." ”

Li Yandao hurriedly asked, "What chance?" ”

Pei Xiu took a sip of tea to moisten his throat before he said slowly: "My Niu Party has always been friendly with eunuchs, but Li Deyu discussed with the first emperor how to suppress the ministers, which is also the reason why the inner court made trouble for the first emperor's violent death. Today's saint relies on eunuchs to ascend the throne, and naturally vigorously cuts off the power of the Li Party in return, so now not only our Niu Party wants to rectify Li Deyu, but the saint and the ministers all think so, how can he still have a chance to turn over? Brother Boyuan, if you are concerned, you will be chaotic, don't be so excited that you can't sleep at night. ”

Li Yandao shook his head self-deprecatingly, his eyes reddened slightly: "Fifteen Lang has been blaming me all these years, but there are some things hidden in his heart and he doesn't dare to say, and now he can finally tell him the truth." ”

Pei Xiu nodded, and followed his words and asked, "Is there any secret to the death of my brother and sister?" ”

Li Yandao sighed and said, "It's not because of Liu Congzhi and Liu Zhi's uncle and nephew!" ”

He intermittently said the words that had been held in his heart for several years, and it turned out that his wife Pei was also from Pei's eastern family room, and was the granddaughter of Pei Mian, the prime minister of the Daizong Dynasty, and Pei Shi, the wife of Liu Congji, was a sister.

In the ninth year of Taihe (835), Tang Wenzong was unwilling to be controlled by the eunuchs, and conspired with the prime ministers Li Xun and Zheng Zhu to deceive Qiu Shiliang, the lieutenant of the left army, the head of the eunuchs, to the forbidden army garrison and kill him in the name of Guanlu.

Qiu Shiliang was vigilant, and the two sides clashed fiercely, as a result, Li Xun, Wang Ya, Shu Yuanyu and other important ministers of the court were killed by eunuchs, and their families were also wiped out. (Shu Yuanyu is the imperial history that framed Li Yandao's uncle Li Fan, and Li Fan's deeds are shown in Chapter 16 of this book for medical treatment)

Zhaoyi Jiedu made Liu Congzhi is Li Xun, Zheng Zhu's foreign aid, after the change of manna, he wrote to expose the good deeds of the eunuch Qiu Shi, and the two sides have been hostile since then, but no one can help anyone.

In the third year of Huichang (843), Liu Congji died of illness, and his nephews all knew that the soldiers and horses made Liu Zhi secret, and he led the Jiedu envoy to stay behind (Jiedu envoy acting official), and because Liu Congzhi offended the eunuchs in the book that year and did not dare to return to the court, he begged for the envoy of the Jiedu, and launched a rebellion after being rejected by the imperial court. In June of the same year, Qiu Shiliang died.

In the fourth year of Huichang (844 AD), Prime Minister Li Deyu dispatched the troops of Chengde, Weibo, and Hezhong to attack the Zhaoyi Army, which is the famous "Battle of Zelu".

Liu Zhi was defeated and killed by the generals Guo Yi and Wang Xie, and passed on the first Beijing division. Liu Congzhi gave all his sons death, and all the families of the ministers of the Manna Change, whom he had taken in and treated, were killed.

On July 27, Tang Wuzong issued an edict to dig up Liu Congji's tomb and expose his body to the Luzhou market for three days.

Shi Xiong was given the official position of envoy of Heyang Festival because of the battle of Ping Liu Zhen.

Liu Cong's wife Pei was called "A Pei" by the people of the time.

When Liu Zhi rebelled, Pei summoned the general's wife to a banquet, held a wine glass and wept, saying: "Please write to your husband, don't forget the promotion of your first husband, and don't follow Li Pi's ungrateful defection to the imperial court." We orphans and widows are here to plead, so we can't help ourselves. ”

The women who attended the banquet all wept together, which strengthened the rebellious hearts of the generals of Zhaoyi Town.

After Liu Zhi was killed, Pei was also arrested in Chang'an.

According to Tang Law, the disaster did not affect the woman, so she was sent to the Yeting Palace.

The ruling Li Deyu instructed Chen Shang, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, to make "Liu Cong's Wife Pei's Should Be Seriously Discussed", and asked Liu San, the servant of the Criminal Department, to write "Please Punish Liu Cong's Wife Pei Shishu", and wrote one after another, and Wuzong then ordered that the 32-year-old Pei's family be beheaded in Dongshi.

Wuzong hated the Liu family for causing disaster to Pei Mian's descendants, and even fellow sects like Pei Xiu were transferred out of the center and sent to Hunan to take up a post, and others who had something to do with the Pei family were implicated.

The emperor has a violent temperament, and when the rebellion is not smooth, he is angry and kills, and many women married by the Pei family commit suicide in order to avoid involving their husbands' families, and Li Yandao's wife is Liu Congji's sister-in-law, who is also among them.

And Niu Monk and Child were also caught because they had been very close to Liu Cong before, and they were relegated from the Eastern Capital to Xunzhou Sima!

Du Mu, who was the assassin of Huangzhou at the time, was also affected, his wife was Pei's cousin, and his father Pei Yan, the assassin of Langzhou, was Pei Mian's cousin. (Pei Mian is Ah Pei's grandfather)

Du Mu's wife and A Pei grew up together since they were young and were very close, so after Liu Zhi rebelled, Du Mu immediately wrote to the emperor and offered a strategy to level the thief, in order to draw a clear line.

And his wife happened to die of illness in Huichang for three years, so in the end, he was able to stay out of the matter and was not affected.

"The first emperor's personality was very tyrannical, and the sycophants everywhere intensified, framed indiscriminately, and even thousands of people, which is really a tragic thing since the dynasty!" After Li Yandao finished talking about the cause and effect, he couldn't cry anymore when he remembered his wife's innocent and tragic death.

"Do you hate the Emperor?" Pei Xiu asked coldly.

"Hate, I can't wait to eat its flesh raw!" Li Yandao covered his face and cried bitterly, he had a very good relationship with his wife, but because of this reason, Yin and Yang were separated forever, how could he not grit his teeth and hate it.

"What about Guo Zhongwen?"

"He is one of the culprits of aiding and abetting abuse, except for Senior Brother Liu, no one else is a good thing!"

"Then if Guo Zhongwen's son comes to the front, will you kill him?"