Li Qi's personal inner supervisor Li Huan was ordered to rush to Jinyang in advance, and then pretended to be an ordinary merchant and quietly infiltrated Jinyang City.

Since the beginning of spring, there has only been one rain in Jinyang, the fields are full of drought, and the green seedlings are wilting, and it seems that it is another disaster year. The streets of the city are unusually dry and dusty. Li Huan abandoned his horse and walked on foot, walking on the hot street of the palace with two entourages, and when he came to the vicinity of the prefect's yamen near the Jinyang Palace, he was already soaked with sweat.

Li Huan asked the two entourages to wait at the entrance of the street, came to the Taiyuan Mansion alone, looked left and right, and saw that there was no one, so he walked towards the mansion. The family members of Yin Zhangxian, who stayed in the northern capital and Taiyuan Mansion, were not in Jinyang, so they usually lived in the prefect's yamen.

"Stop, what are you doing?" A gray-robed porter stood in front of the door, looked Li Huan up and down and asked.

He saw that although Li Huan was dusty and his shirt was full of sweat and mud, the material of his shirt was a fine Shu brocade, so he did not speak ill of him.

Li Huan said in a low voice: "I came from Weizhou, I bother you to go in and pass a message to Jin Zhang Envoy, my name is Li Huan, and I say that there is a letter from my family to bring ......" Zhang Xian's family was in Weizhou and was detained by the rebels, so Li Huan said so.

The family was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "Please wait a while." Then he turned back and went into the palace.

Seeing that the official on duty at the door did not react, Li Huan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then he sat on the stone bar in the shade of the tree on the right side outside the palace, and waited for the shade while taking advantage of the coolness. After only a while, I saw the porter come out, and when I saw Li Huan, I said politely: "This lord, Lord Fujun, please meet you in the back office."

Li Huan followed the concierge and walked around the main hall, and came to the daily office of the prefect and his subordinates at the back, but saw an official in his fifties, wearing a black gauze hat on his head, wearing a crimson vermilion robe, and a neatly trimmed mustache on his fair face pacing out of the official room, and was taken aback after seeing Li Huan, and then calmed down: "Who am I, it turned out to be Manager Li, please come in with me." With that, he took Li Huan into his official room.

Li Huan followed Zhang Xian into the official room, and said after closing the door: "I came here on the secret order of the prince, this is the prince's handwritten order, and I also ask Zhang Zhijun to take a look." With that, he took out a letter from his jacket and handed it to Zhang Xian.

Zhang Xian read the prince's handwritten letter, and sighed after a long time: "I am a scholar, I have not made many military achievements, and I am in a high position with cloth clothes, and the first emperor treats me very well, so I should repay Your Majesty for your majesty's troubles!" However, although I stayed behind for the Northern Capital, the military power was in the hands of Li Yanchao, the inspector of the Northern Capital, and now his attitude is wavering, and the prince is young, so it may be difficult to control the situation. ”

Li Huan said: "This prince has his own arrangements, now I will send a retinue to send a letter back, tomorrow morning you only need to lead the Jinyang hundred officials and generals out of the city to welcome the prince into the city." This matter is confidential, and I hope that the envoy will not let anyone know, including his cronies. ”

Zhang Xian thought for a while and said, "You go and arrange it first, I will notify the officials and guards of Jinyang to go out of the city tomorrow morning, and I won't give them time to react." ”

Then Li Huan went out of the palace, summoned the two entourages into the yamen, and explained carefully with Zhang Xian, and then ordered the two to quietly go out of the city to inform the prince of the arrangements in the city. Li Huan stayed in the Taiyuan Mansion and lived in the back house, preparing to wait for Zhang Xian to gather a group of officials and guards early tomorrow morning, and then convey the prince's edict in public.

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Li Qi led 500 light horsemen and chariots to follow the Fenhe valley to Jinyang, and the marching team looked very messy. From time to time, scouts and heralds who passed messages back and forth galloped past the flanks of the procession, reporting to Li Qi on the situation in the surrounding states and counties. The team barely stopped, all the way north, after passing Zhaocheng, entered the Bird Mouse Valley Road, and the sides of the official road gradually became steep. It was the dry summer season, and the army was dusty, and by the time the evening rested, everyone would become a native.

After passing the spirit stone, the team was temporarily stationed at the Cold Spring Pass at the north entrance of the Bird Mouse Valley Road. Passing through the low city gate and entering the dilapidated Guancheng, Li Jiqi kept sighing that the governance of the Jin army was nothing more than this, and he had been entrenched in the Jin land for many years, and he had not made much contribution to the development of the Jin land.

However, the three gates of the Bird Mouse Valley Road were not easy to break through, and during the confrontation between Jin and Liang, the Liang general Wang Tan raided Jinyang, and came from Xizhou over the mountains and mountains.

There are not many households in the inner city of Lengquan Guancheng except for the garrisoned Jin army military households, Luoyang is in chaos, the news of the emperor's death has reached Jindi, Fenzhou Assassin Li Yanchao has led 3,000 soldiers and horses to Jinyang, and the defenders here have almost been transferred by him, leaving only two or three hundred old and weak soldiers to guard the Guancheng.

The general stationed at Lengquan Pass was named Fan Ji, a general who looked very imposing, and after getting the news, he took the guards guarding the pass to welcome the prince and his party into the city.

"Guancheng is so dilapidated, can't it be renovated?" After Li Qi boarded the gate, he said with a frown.

After hearing this, Fan Ji suddenly said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty has been fighting for many years, and the money and grain in Jin have been looted to supply the front line, where is there any spare money to renovate the city." ”

Li Qi said: "When I arrive in Jinyang, I will immediately send someone to rectify the three levels of this Bird Mouse Valley, and you will be responsible for this matter at that time!" ”

Hezhong Mansion leaks on three sides and is not easy to defend, but these dozens of kilometers of Bird Mouse Valley Road are stuck on the throat road leading to Jinyang, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to defend Jinyang, you also need to make more fuss about the three gates of Yangliang Road.

In the middle of the night, I saw that Fan Ji came to report, saying that some of the forbidden army generals who had fled from Luoyang had arrived outside the Yangliang North Pass (Lengquan Pass), and wanted to knock on the pass and ask the prince how to deal with it.

Li Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, the guards of the forbidden army were all the sons and daughters of the nobles of the Jin army officials or generals' families, and most of their families were in Jinyang, so they were much more reliable than outsiders. I am the time to use people, and the so-called sleepy people send pillows, but these people come at the right time. So he personally brought the pro-army to the city and welcomed these more than a dozen generals of the Praetorian Guard who fled from Luoyang to Jinyang into the pass.

These people were led by Zhang Jingda, the direct commander of the palace of the guards, and there were also Wang Quanbin, Li Yanqing, He Fujin and other imperial guards and more than a dozen guards.

After Zhang Jingda entered the city, he was also very surprised to see the crown prince Jiqi personally greeting him, and hurriedly stepped forward to meet him with several guards.

"I have heard about Luoyang, and now Li Siyuan has led the army into Beijing, so he gave up his plan to return to the army. Now the army of Zhengshu is temporarily guarding Tongguan, and will make plans after the situation is stabilized. Jinyang is where the foundation of the Li family is, the fundamental place, so I returned to Jinyang first. Now the situation is chaotic, you have come at the right time, everyone is the first emperor guard, you are people who can be trusted, first with me to stabilize the situation in Taiyuan, is the long-term solution. After Li Qi met, he told the truth, trying to win over these people first......