Yang En walked into the dark, clammy and cold prison and saw Li Pu sitting on the cold mud floor like an old dog with his backbone removed, the whole person looked so old and pitiful, and Li Chong's body was still hanging straight on the beam of the cell.

Although Yang En was free and easy by nature, he couldn't help but sigh lightly when he saw the scene in front of him.

He knew that Li Pusheng had three sons, the eldest son died on the battlefield in his early years, and the youngest son Li Qi grew up with his brother Li Yu since he was a child, and the relationship with Li Pu was not very close, only the second son Li Chong has always been in front of his knees, Li Pu is even a hard-hearted hero, it is difficult to accept the scene in front of him, right?

Yang En walked up to Li Pu and said, "I drafted the recital last night, and I want to participate in the recital - I don't plan to revise it, does Grandpa Guo think that it is okay to add another sentence at the end of the recital, 'Li Chong is afraid of the crime and is in prison'?" ”

“…… This son of a son is not dead in the enemy's camp, this is already his best destination - I will cross the river and return to Jinling today to plead guilty. Li Pu's old and weak hands were on the ground to stand up, but Li Qi hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

Watching Li Zhen and Li Xiu help Li Pu out of the old family around Yang En, who entered the prison room one step ahead of time to verify his identity, he couldn't help but sneer at this time: "Xinjin Hou is really ruthless, the two blood marks on the neck of the corpse are not like trouser belts can be strangled, according to the little old man, someone sneaked into the prison last night and hanged Li Chong with a bowstring." ”

"Talk nonsense again, cut out your old dog's tongue!" Yang En glared back at the old family and scolded in a deep voice.

Yang En was a little dizzy, and he couldn't see clearly the other scars on the corpse under the hanging beam when he stood outside the cell, but he didn't want to go into the cell to find out.

In the twenty years since the founding of the Great Chu, how many generals died on the battlefield, Li Chongli was defeated and captured, but in order to survive, he was willing to be Liangjian, as long as he lived for one day, it would be a shame for the Li family.

Even if he doesn't die at this time, when the court investigates it, the best outcome is to give death, but in the process, I don't know how many waves he will toss out in order to live longer.

Yes, Yang En not only felt that Li Chong "committed suicide in prison in fear of crime", and there was a possibility that he would be killed, and even he forgot that he had participated in the impeachment, and he should actually take over many prisoners, including Li Chong, last night.

Yang En thought to himself that Li Chong had been serving in front of His Majesty and the Queen Mother for many years, and he should know a lot of unknown secrets, but he didn't think that revealing these shady secrets and exposing them to broad daylight would really help the current situation that would completely erode and collapse if he was not careful.

Maybe some of the dirt and ugliness are completely hidden under the water, and the world may be more peaceful, right?

Committing suicide in fear of sin is also an ending that too many people are more happy to see, right?

Thinking of this, Yang En sighed in his heart, walked to the courtyard, called a few guards who were guarding outside, and added a few lines of words to the song, and asked them to rush back to Jinling by boat immediately, hoping that the whole thing could be finished as soon as possible.

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In a short period of more than half a month, Han Qian led the Tangyi soldiers to fight two tough battles in a row at the northern foot of the Great Thorn Mountain, and both battles were victorious, almost including the middle and lower reaches of the Chuhe River, and the control of the area along the Tangyi River temporarily relieved the crisis that the imperial capital might be directly attacked by the enemy.

This is also not much good news for Jinling City after the depressing New Year's Festival.

Before Yang En's twists and turns and Li Pu's front and back feet arrived at Jinling City, not only did Zhou Yi return to Jiangzhou, but even Chen Jingzhou led more than 100 soldiers back to Guangde Mansion.

Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou returned to Jiangzhou and Guangde Mansion to return to their main posts, and they did not need to ask for additional orders, but only needed to send people to the Privy Council and the departments of the Ministry to report.

Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Zheng Yu and the others didn't realize that there was anything abnormal about this matter at first, after all, they hadn't heard rumors against Han Qian in Jinling, and they hadn't seen other signs of abnormality.

They even thought that this was because Han Qian saw that the situation in Tangyi had initially stabilized, and entrusted Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou to return to Jiangzhou and Guangde Mansion so that they could raise more grain and recruit more Ding Zhuang to join the army.

This is also what Han Daoming tried his best to advocate for Han Qian after the return of the labor army.

Although the grain and straw materials needed by Tangyi, as well as the collection of displaced people from all over the country or the exile of convicted slaves and maids to Jiangbei, in order to supplement the consumption of Tangyi soldiers, should be presided over by the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Privy Envoy and the Department of the Degree Branch, but it is impossible for the ministries and departments to create something out of nothing, and in the end they still need the cooperation of the following states and counties.

At this time, the higher the degree of cooperation between the state and the county, the faster the transfer of grain and straw and the gathering of displaced people.

Otherwise, procrastinating, I don't know how much nonsense there will be behind this.

In many cases, in order to mobilize grain and straw more effectively, and in order to gather and replenish elite combat strength more effectively, the generals of the unified army often bypassed the Central Council Division and directly found influential states and counties to transfer food and recruit troops, and the Central Council Division was only responsible for making up a procedure in the end.

Although from the perspective of centralizing power and preventing generals from abusing power, the center should avoid this situation as much as possible, but it has only been 20 years since the founding of the Great Chu Dynasty, and internal and external troubles have not been interrupted, so how can it be completely avoided from this?

Yang En's performance was sent to the political affairs hall, and Yang Zhitang, Shen Yang, Zheng Yu and others noticed a trace of abnormality.

However, Yang En's twists and turns have already given a conclusion, and the impact of the whole incident on Tangyi can be said to be minimal, and no one will mention Chen Jingzhou, Zhou Yi's return to Guangde Mansion, and Jiangzhou to be implicated in this matter.

And to say that Li Chong's defection to the enemy was intermittent, what really affected was the accountability of Li Pubing's defeated division, and it also directly shook the status of Empress Li Yao.

After Li Pu arrived in Jinling, he sent someone to send the guilty man to the political affairs hall, and imprisoned himself in the Changguo Mansion; Empress Li Yao also imprisoned herself in the Jade Palace.

In the past half a month, whenever there was a big matter that needed to be decided in the court, Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and other ministers of political affairs discussed a result in the political hall, and then went to the Chongwen Hall and Changchun Palace respectively to find Emperor Yanyou and the Empress Dowager to ask for an edict, and then issued military and political orders in the form of a political hall.

This is considered to be the administrative affairs of the government affairs hall.

The reason for such a situation is mainly that there are huge differences in the court on what name the queen mother will return to the court.

The new emperor is either young, or frail and sick and unable to act in political affairs, or died of a violent illness and the new emperor has not been established, or is unscrupulous and immoral, and is hated by the ministers.

Li Zhihe and Han Qian were both dispatched by the edict of the Empress Dowager, and it was a foregone conclusion that the Empress Dowager would return to the dynasty, but the situation faced by Dachu at this time was still very different from the old things of previous dynasties.

Although His Majesty was a little impatient, suspicious of his subordinates, and the reason why the situation in Jianghuai changed suddenly, this can be said to be a very critical reason, and the blame cannot be put on Li Pu's head, but Yang Yuanpu on the whole cannot be said to be a mediocre and tyrannical king.

Since Yang Yuanpu left the palace to ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, his deeds have been remarkable, and he can even be regarded as a promising king, and his reputation among the military and people of Great Chu is not low.

More importantly, Your Majesty, as the only son of the Queen Mother and the first emperor, has no replacement in the clan, and no one will think of abolishing the establishment at all.

At this time, even if it is said that the Queen Mother must be invited to return to the court, if it is said that His Majesty will be kicked into the corner, not to mention Yang Zhitang and Shen Yang, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Zhou Bingwu, Du Chongtao and other important ministers will not be willing.

There is no conclusive disagreement until this day, mainly focusing on the name of the queen mother, which is a great difference.

There are usually two situations in which the DPRK returns:

The first is the regent, that is, the acting government, it can be said that for the time being, in the name of recuperation, Yang Yuanpu was put aside, and all matters in the court were promulgated by the queen mother.

The other is that the auxiliary government is to assist the government of the court, and the affairs of the court are mainly decided by the queen mother and the ministers, but in the end, it is necessary for His Majesty to promulgate decrees.

Of course, Changchun Palace hopes that it is the former, so that it can be called powerful.

Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Zhang Chao and others were close to the Queen Mother, and they did not insist too much on the Queen Mother's final return to the court in the name of regents or auxiliaries, and they did not feel that it would hurt their interests.

Only Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, who was loyal to the interests of the Yang clan, and Zhou Bingwu, Du Chongtao and others, who had nothing to do with the Empress Dowager's family but were wary of the excessive expansion of the power of the Late Red Mansion, insisted on asking the Empress Dowager to return to the court in the name of auxiliary government, and also hoped to limit the power that the Empress Dowager's family could control to the greatest extent.

This matter could not be persisted, and the Queen Mother stayed in Changchun Palace in the east of the city and refused to return to Jinling City.

It is also thanks to Han Qian and Li Zhihe's strong control, and also to Huaidong's own family.

Otherwise, it is really hard to imagine that in such a chaotic situation in the court, the hearts of the soldiers and horses in Jiangbei did not fall into complete chaos, and they were able to stabilize their positions in time and not be taken advantage of by the enemy army who had the advantage.

There is no problem in maintaining the daily operation of the court, but when it comes to the questioning of Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo, and the abolition of Empress Li Yao, Yang Zhitang, Shen Yang, Zheng Yu and others can't overstep their responsibilities and discuss this matter without permission, and the focus of the problem is back to asking the Queen Mother to return to this matter.

The day after Li Pu returned to Jinling, Shen Yang also knew that the matter could not be delayed any longer, so he could only convene a privy council in the political hall and mention the matter of the queen mother's return to the court.

Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang were even ready to make concessions, but they didn't want Han Daoming, who had not expressed his position on this matter, to stand up publicly and said: "Your Majesty is young and vigorous, and it is inevitable that he will be a little impatient, but His Majesty has been in danger and has gone through hardships, presided over the battles of Jingxiang and cut down the feudal domains, and led all the soldiers and horses to expel the rebels and recover Jinling, all of which have the atmosphere of a Ming monarch, and there are not many kings who can win since the previous dynasties, please ask the Queen Mother to return to the court to assist in the government, it should be enough......"

"......" Han Daoming's statement surprised Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and others.

Han Daoming did not express his position before, and everyone actually took it for granted that he represented the Han family, should be consistent with Han Qian's position, and should support the insistent supporters of the Queen Mother's regent.

Who would have imagined that Han Daoming would say such a thing at this time?

The first thought of everyone was that Han Daoming crossed the river to Tangyi to work in the army a few days ago, and the relationship with Han Qian did not improve, but deteriorated?

However, Han Daoming's conversation with Han Qian collapsed, and it was useless to turn his head to support Emperor Yanyou.

The entire Han family combined, the attitude is not as important as Han Qian alone.

Yang Zhitang frowned, but he thought of one thing, and asked Han Daoming hesitantly and cautiously: "But I don't know what Qianyang Hou's opinion is?" ”

"Han Qian, he said that as a general of the army, his duty is to guard the territory and resist the enemy, and he should not interfere in the affairs of the court!" Han Daoming said loudly.