After a heavy snowfall, all that was left of the Northland wilderness was a vast expanse of white color.

The activities of humans and even animals have been greatly reduced, and most people are hiding at home in such cold weather.

Zhang Shu, the head of the inner court who lived in the Jinyang Palace, was obviously lonely.

This eunuch, who is already in his fifties, is a very self-disciplined person, except for official business, he never has any personal dealings with the officials or generals who stay in Jinyang City, and would rather stay alone in the cold palace. In essence, Li Qi and he are the same kind of people, both of whom have a deep estrangement from this world.

Li Qi is drunk and sober alone, and his understanding of the world is too profound, so he seems to be lonely and independent. Although he has been trying to save the world, it is difficult to develop too deep feelings for the people of this world. His mind belongs to another world, and when he sees this world, it is like a game. As for Zhang Shu, Li Qi only glanced at a group of carrier pigeons raised not far from his residence, and knew that this old eunuch was not as ignorant as he imagined......

It can be seen that the old guy is working hard and living strongly, and seems to be obeying or keeping some secrets.

As soon as the snow falls in the winter, it seems endless.

After three days of snowfall, when I opened the door, the sky was still gloomy, and the snow was constantly drifting.

Li Qi attached great importance to local security, and the Jinyang army caught a dozen horse dealers during routine patrols, and one of the divination guards told the patrol leader. These people were horse thieves in the steppe, and most of the more than 300 horses they sold bore the marks peculiar to the Divination tribe. If the horses were sold, it would be customary for the dividers to put another brand on the horses, which apparently did not have on them.

As a result, the leader of the horse thieves came with a token of the barnyard general of the Jin army, and the patrol captain was the master at all, so he had to escort the horse dealers to the Beiyuan camp, while reporting to Shangguan Kangtai. After meeting with the leader of the horse thieves, Kang Tai felt that the matter was very important, so he rushed to the Jinyang Palace and reported directly to the emperor, and said that the leader of the horse thieves asked to meet the Son of Heaven.

Li Qi felt that something was wrong, so he left Jinyang Palace and came to the Beiyuan camp.

A man as short as a water tank and a thin, withered, thief-eyed guy were brought to Li Jiqi, if it was outside, it was difficult to imagine that these two guys in tattered sheepskin jackets were actually horse thieves who stole hundreds of horses on the grassland.

The Jin army did not exclude horse thieves on the grasslands, because many of the military horses in the army were actually stolen, and such horses were sold very cheaply in Jinyang. The grassland people recognized these military horses as their own lost horses, and they did not dare to trouble the Jin army.

Li Qi was just very curious about what these people were doing, and they were in a hurry to sell horses to Jinyang in the winter, which was not a good day. And the two of them also carry the Jin Army token, and their positions are not low.

"Whose orders are you under this command? Why do you have the token of the Jin army general? Li Qi saw the two of them and spoke.

The stout fellow was about to speak, but was kicked by the thin man, and then kept silent. The thin man looked at the pro-soldiers who had escorted them over, meaning something confidential.

Li Qi waved his hand, and the pro-army escorting the two retreated, leaving only Kang Tai by his side in the room.

"Yi'er Army General Li Sifeng (Li Cunshuo) knocks on Your Majesty!" The two of them waited for the pro-army to exit the outside, and they also spoke at the same time, but it was a military salute.

"You're the Rebels?" General Li Qi looked at the two suspiciously, "But what are the credentials?" ”

I saw that the thin man took apart the underwear, took out a token made of black iron and wood from it, handed it to Li Jiqi and said: "We were originally under the command of the fourth prince, and later under the jurisdiction of Hedong Zhang, this is the token of the secret spy department." ”

Li Qi took the black wood token in his hand and looked at it carefully, he knew that there was a secret spy department, which was an institution inherited from the Tang Dynasty, and it had been managed by Zhang Chengcheng, the supervisor of Hedong, in the era of his grandfather Li Keyong, but because he was very dissatisfied with Li Cunmiao's rash claim to be emperor, Zhang Chengye did not explain this matter at all when he died.

In other words, the secret intelligence affairs of the former Tang Dynasty were buried in the soil with the death of Zhang Chengye.

"Why are you ......? Went to be a horse thief? Li Qi asked casually.

The thin man Li Cunshuo was a little angry when he heard this: "What horse thief?!" We are doing what we are told. Back then, the King of Jin was so poor that he was so poor, how did you come to be under his command?! ”

When Li Qi heard it, he lay on the grass, this black history...... This kind of thing must be hidden from His Holiness! It can't be put on the table.

"You say that the head of the Jin Palace's mansion knows about this?"

"This is natural, our identity files will be kept in the Jin Palace, and they will be in charge of the general manager." Li Sifeng replied.

"Special Zhang Shu, this guy really has something to hide from me!" Li Qi couldn't help but curse in his heart after hearing this. He ordered someone to bring over a few other "horse thieves", locked them in a room with Li Sifeng and Li Cunshuo, and then sent a large table of wine and food in.

Then he sent someone to call Zhang Shu, the old eunuch, to come over and see what he had to say.

This time, he seems to have discovered some secrets of the Li family, and this grandfather Li Keyong should have a lot of black material when he started his family, and Li Qi felt very curious.

Some of the secrets, which seem to be very interesting to dig up......

"Can you tell me about some of the things, I think you should know some of them." Li Qi sighed, and then looked at Zhang Shu, who was hurrying over.

As a person trusted by Li Keyong since his father and son, it is not surprising that the old eunuch knows a lot of the Li family's secrets.

"I know these people, they are just responders, and it is the people and horses of the Zhaowu Nine Divisions who are really robbing on the grassland." Zhang Shu sighed, and then said slowly: "Although Xianzu and Emperor Wu pacified the Pang Xun Rebellion for the Tang Dynasty, those ministers in the imperial court who were born in the Guanlong clan did not trust them because of the Li family's grassland background, so they have been thinking about limiting the power of the Li family. Emperor Wu couldn't stand the oppression of Duan Wenchu, the defense envoy of Yunzhou, and led his subordinates to mutiny, killed Duan Wenchu and others, and embraced Yunzhou in order to stand on his own. Of course, the imperial court refused, and immediately sent troops to fight. After more than a year of fighting, Emperor Wu was defeated by the Tang general Li Zhuo and Tugu Hun Du Du Helian Duo, and the troops were scattered, so he had to flee to the White Tatar Department under the Yin Mountain with hundreds of tribesmen, temporarily attached. ”

Zhang Shu said this and looked at Li Jiqi.

Li Jiqi also nodded slightly, meaning that I know all this.

Zhang Shu smiled when he saw this: "At that time, Huangchao was entrenched in Chang'an, and the imperial court could not conquer it for a long time, so he accepted Yang Zhongsugong's suggestion and recruited Emperor Wu to lead the Shatuo army into Guanzhong to quell the rebellion. King Ke of Jin restored Chang'an, the first achievement, because he was named the envoy of the Hedong Festival, with Jinyang as his foundation. The old slave was sent to Hedong to serve as a supervisor at that time with his father-in-law. ”

"What's going on with this Zhaowu Army?" Li Jiqi asked.

"The nine surnames of Zhaowu in the river in the Western Regions were originally under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty Anxi Duhu, and in the battle of Talas, the Tang army led by Gao Xianzhi was defeated, so the river was all eaten by the Great Food. The people of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, who believed in the god of fire, could not bear the oppression of the holy cultists, and gradually moved to the Tang Land, and settled down in the northeast of Luntai, which was protected by the capital of the North Garden. These Zhaowu people from the river and your ancestors' Shatuobu are mixed together, intermarrying, and almost merging. ”