After inspecting the soldiers and horses and testing the firearms in Chaotai, Du You immediately ordered the weapons workshop in Panyu City to quickly copy them, and then met with the other two excluded chieftains of Xiyuan Barbarian, Wei Renfu and Ning Zong, in the military palace.

"Huang Shaoqing, Huang Shaogao brothers, their clan lives in the Yellow Cave, so it is named, this and your Wei family, Ning family is located in the same West Plains, Guangxi left and right river, three-legged. Later, the Huang clan grew stronger, bullied and expelled your two clans, forcing your two clans to live on the seashore. This kind of injustice, this road was originally only a wide management of one place, no right to ask, now for the Lingnan five management of the slight section of the envoy, by the imperial court to calm the chaos, will help you two people shame. Du You said majestically, sitting on the bed.

Seeing that Wei Renfu and Ning Zong were still a little hesitant, Du You went straight to increase his weight, "Not only Lingnan West Road, but also the slang chieftains of its host province are also willing to follow the banner of this way. As long as the rebellion of the Huangdongman can be suppressed, after that, Gui, Yong, and Rong will be in charge, as long as it is the land of the Huangdongman, all of them will be given to you and others. ”

At this time, Wei Renfu and Ning Zong couldn't help but be overjoyed, so they hurriedly bowed to the ground, saying that they were willing to be Du You's forerunner.

Du You laughed, "Huang Dong Man, Huang Dong Man, as early as the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, there was a large-scale rebellion, and there was another time in the Great Calendar Year. ”

Later, Du You bribed the Xiyuan barbarians of the Wei and Ning tribes with rice grain, cloth, frosting and other materials, and the slang officials of the Dongdao loyal to the imperial court, and enabled 200 Liuren and 300 Ma Liu, which means that the descendants of the Han Fubo general Ma Yuan stayed in Lingnan, in fact, most of them were mixed Han people who came from the guest house, forming a "vanguard army" of 5,000 people, and the Jingluo army, Qing navy, Pingbo army, and Qiang army stationed in Panyu City practiced together, and at the same time Du You ordered the scout cavalry to pass through the heavy interception of Huangdongman, and told Gui, Yong, and Rong the guards in separate ways, It is said that the Yellow Cave will not build a city, and will live in the cliff cave on weekdays, let alone attack the city, you will gather the local Han people, discard the states and counties that are not necessary to guard, and all shrink to stick to the military city, waiting for the army to go out.

In the end, Du You wrote another secret letter by hand and gave it to Li Xun, the Hunan observer.

In the letter, Du You reminded that when Liu Yan was the envoy of Guiguan Jing, he had hired 3,000 Huangdong barbarian soldiers, ready to help the emperor quell Li Huaiguang's rebellion, and then these 3,000 soldiers stayed in Tanzhou, Hunan.

Li Xun, who received Du You's secret letter, set up a curtain and colorful shed in Tanzhou City, set up food and wine, pretended to invite the Huangdong barbarians to come to the banquet together, and deceived them that they would soon give each of you the equipment and equipment, and send them to the Chang'an area to help the officers and soldiers go to pacify Zelu.

As a result, the 3,000 barbarians were deceived, so they went to the banquet and got drunk, and Li Xun ordered the military officials and Han soldiers to make a total of 1,000 people, and suddenly set fire to the curtain, and then put on armor and drew swords to surround them on all sides, killing people's heads all over the ground, and all the 3,000 barbarians were killed, and the corpses were piled up. Later, Li Xun was afraid of being impeached and killed by the imperial history platform in the imperial court, so he preemptively gave the emperor a secret recital, saying that this barbarian army first tried to rebel and attacked Tanzhou City, and then was suppressed by him.

In addition, Li Xun also suggested in the secret recital that the imperial court quickly organize the extermination of the Huangdongman in the western plain, and asked Dong Jin to be the ambassador of the five pipes of Lingnan and Du You to lead the soldiers and horses of the six towns of Shannan Dongdao, Jingnan, Jiangnan West Road, Fujian, Lingnan, and Qianzhong, to "level the cave and raze its party"!

In the bathroom hall of Daming Palace, it was already autumn, the emperor held Du You and Li Xun's recitals, and lay on the rope bed with his back and heard that the slang barbarians of Annan Jiaozhi also echoed with the Yellow Cave and besieged the state and county of my Tang Dynasty, and the scale of this brute change is getting bigger and bigger.

But the emperor still couldn't negotiate with Gao Yue.

During this time, one was in Beiyuan, and the other was in the west of the Xuanzheng Palace, each of them was like a parallel line, and there was almost no intersection, and the emperor didn't even bother to open Yan Yingzhao, because he didn't want to see Gao Yue's "double land face": after Gao Yue was the Zhongshu servant Lang Pingzhang, the emperor actually lost most of the joy of life.

"Holy Lord, please don't forget the feast at the Golden Luan Hall tonight." At this time, Song Ruohua was outside the room and reminded softly.

"Hmm," the emperor replied vaguely.

Song Ruohua sighed slightly.

The banquet at the Golden Luang Hall that night was held to celebrate the completion of the East Academy.

Originally, the Hanlin Academy was in the right Yintai Gate, that is, the west of the Daming Palace, close to the political hall and the Shaoyang Academy, and far away from the "sleeping halls" of the Jinluan Hall and the Bath Hall where the emperor lived.

At the banquet, although the scholars sang poetry and sang harmoniously, and the talents also played musical instruments diligently, the emperor still looked like a widow.

When it was time to hold the candle, when the scholar on duty faced the emperor alone, he gave advice to Li Shi: "How can Your Majesty not see the ruling ministers for more than a month? What's more, now there is a brutal change in the Western Plains in the south, and there is Zhaoyi infighting in the north, and the envoys of the Western Fan have not yet officially demarcated the border with our Tang Dynasty. ”

Li Shi wore a folded headscarf, tied a nine-ring belt around his waist, leaned on the bed, and just snorted at Wei Cigong's words, noncommittal.

Of course, Wei Cigong knew that the emperor was in trouble with Gao Yue, so he once again sincerely offered advice and said: "Your Majesty, although the inner court and the outer court have a division in the wall, their duties cannot be divided, which will make the hearts of the people in the world unstable. His Majesty originally trusted Ji Gong, and only then did he proclaim it in vain, so why not follow the example of Emperor Gaozu and Xiao Song Gong Xiao Yu, seal the story of the Song Dynasty, and see the dynasty as a sitting together, and in the palace Zeyan bedroom, in order to show that the Son of Heaven and Zai are in good love, and such a major event can be decided. ”

The emperor thought to himself, Gao Yue and I, can we be the same as Emperor Gaozu and Xiao Yu? Xiao Yu is the niece and son-in-law of Empress Dugu of Emperor Wen of Sui, and Li Yuan is the nephew of Empress Dugu, and the two are cousins-in-law, so Li Yuan directly called Xiao Yu "Xiao Lang", which is simply the tone of the family.

Alas, wait, no.

Xuan Shu and Gao Yue

Although he didn't say it frankly on the outside, but in fact, inside, how could Gao Yue not be my son-in-law?

And Wei Cigong, under the candle flame, his heart is brighter than a candle: Yes, yes, I know that Yi Song is Your Majesty's son-in-law.

Thinking of this, the emperor's mind was a little cheerful, and he immediately turned over and said to Wei Cigong: "Cong Zhou, I also want to talk to Gao Lang, no, cough cough, Gao Qing discussed day and night, but just in the Yanying Palace, I always feel unsatisfactory." ”

Wei Cigong proposed: "This is easy to do, Your Majesty let the Academy go out of the internal system, in the name of conquering Sima Yuanyi of the Zhaoyi Marching Army, and leave Gao Yue, the scholar of the Middle School, in charge of the Jinluan Palace, responsible for the Rong Ji, and in charge of the two departments of the Political Affairs Hall and the Academy during this period of time, and can always sit and discuss with Your Majesty, isn't it beautiful?" ”

"Tsk!" At this moment, the emperor stroked his beard, and his eyes suddenly lit up.