Ji Kui's relentless criticism and denunciation in front of the palace gate didn't take long for it to blow all over Chang'an City like a gale. And when Huang Chao, who was going to spend the winter and recuperate in the Daming Palace, got the news and climbed out of the soup pool of the new concubine of the Lin Xingdou Lu family, it was already noon the next day.

Despite this, he was still shocked and inexplicably looked at Zhao Zhang, the right privy envoy Fei Chuangu, and the general military envoy Gai Hong, who came to visit together, and unabashedly lost his voice:

"What, is this from Lone's instructions, and there is an edict to prove it? How is this possible!. ”

"We don't want to believe it, but the Holy One has some bitterness and inner feelings. I can still say a thing or two about my generation. ”

Zhao Zhang said bitterly.

"If the king has anything else to think about, please tell us old brothers in advance, so that he will not be caught off guard at the moment, and it will be well known and ugly." The gray-haired Gai Hong also said in a rough voice.

"How could those people dare to act so boldly if it were not for the divine instructions and instructions?"

Fei Chuangu also said slightly.

"After moving to the north alone, he never issued an edict to transfer troops and act cheaply from beginning to end, and immediately announced that Ji Lao Si came in to confront him. This matter must not be settled. Huang Chao, who was not worried, immediately said categorically.

Then not long after, the iron-faced Huang Chao found himself slapped in the face by reality. Because, as long as he investigates thoroughly at all costs and means, he will still find that not long ago, "himself" went straight bypassing the customary political hall and the Privy Council, and sent a secret edict to the front through the representative court of Yintaimen.

Although it is said that a certain scholar on duty who had heard the news of "absconding in fear of crime" burned the corresponding files and books, and evaporated in this huge Chang'an City, but through a little fragment pulled out from the ashes at the bottom of the abandoned charcoal basin, the clues were discovered.

Subsequently, under the raid of the Tieshi of Weihe Mansion who dug three feet into the ground, the side hall, the Que Tower, and the Negative Pavilion located in the Yanjia Hall of the Xiaonei Dynasty were all rudely demolished and inspected. In the end, Huang Chao personally led the guards to the palace community where the Wanchun Hall was located.

With the sound of Tong Binghe singing and singing between the corridor, the mecca and the walled door, the yellow nest with a face like frost and snow couldn't help but say, strode through the curtains, barriers, and screen fans, and finally appeared in front of Concubine Hui, who was caressing the child.

"The Holy One is here, and the concubine is polite. It's just that why don't you report it first, so you can arrange the next service. ”

Liu, who was a little stunned, immediately bowed dumbly.

However, Huang Chao did not speak, but looked deeply at this woman who had once fascinated him and had been pampered for a long time, and he looked at it for a long time, and then the atmosphere became suffocating, and then Liu's face changed slightly, and he chuckled:

"What's wrong with the saint, the concubines haven't dressed up well to welcome each other, but what makes the saint dislike it but don't scare our children."

Huang Chao took a deep breath at this time, glanced left and right, and immediately several eunuchs and middle-aged nannies stepped forward, hugged the five-year-old eldest son who was snuggled by Liu's side and the second son in the silk cart together, and slowly withdrew from the hall in the slowly sounding cry.

The Liu family, who was still a little overwhelmed at this time, also completely changed color, and pulled his sideburns and Hua Tian painfully, and struggled to push away the palace people who were supporting him, and said in a mournful and weeping tone.

"Is this a holy taboo committed by the concubine, and who has entered into any slander to want to separate my mother and son?"

"Look at the great things you've done."

Huang Chao just said word by word with the piercing cold voice squeezed out of his teeth. Under the wave of his hand, the splendid curtain of flowers was suddenly poured into Kong Wu's stout armor with colored lacquer, knocked open, tore to the ground and trampled over.

The lacquered armor then parted, revealing a bloodied human being dragged unkempt to the ground, and then thrown to the ground like a broken sack, screaming and groaning hoarsely.

"Holy Lord, what does that mean?"

Liu's expression became more and more mournful, but the jade arm under the wide skirt sleeve was clenched in shock, and there was no trace of blood. And when he caught a glimpse of her pitiful appearance, Huang Chao became more and more distressed.

If he hadn't secretly sent people to guard the deserted other road outside the palace gate, he really wouldn't have been able to block the suspicious people who fled across the palace and the people who secretly responded to it. And then the rest of the matter is logical.

He couldn't believe that the one who secretly tried to escape from the palace was actually Concubine Liu, who gave birth to two sons for himself, and Luo Yueniang, the nanny who was inseparable and followed the longest on weekdays.

And the one who was responsible for answering and covering her outside was the general of the right guard who was a member of the Huang family, and the defense envoy to the west of Gyeonggi, Huang Cun, the assassin of Huazhou, a general in the house.

Although the other party refused to admit the relevant charges when he died, he only said that he secretly had a private affair and wanted to run away. But this flawed rhetoric obviously underestimated Huang Chao's IQ and determination. Because of this connection, the suspicions and clues in many things have already been explained and explained.

And the resentment of being deceived and concealed by the person next to him made him love and believe in the other party at the beginning, and at this time, the anger was even more and more uncontrollable. You must know that in order to protect the two children, he secretly left a secret edict for each other just in case.

But this gentle and considerate little woman colluded with her relatives at some point. First, he used the henchmen who secretly sold it to steal a white linen silk book from Yanjia Palace, and then used the secret edict as a copy and secretly used the seal to find out this great right and wrong.

You must know that after he obtained the seal of the Great Inner Treasure, he also casually left it in the hands of the two children for a while. Thinking of this, Huang Chao was so disheartened that he didn't even have the mood to say a few words to the other party. Instead, he commanded behind him:

"Come on, send Mrs. Liu to the court to introspect. No one is allowed to meet anyone unless I personally order it. ”

However, when the Liu family, who was dragged away by the sturdy eunuchs, gradually faded away in the pouring shouts and shouts, Huang Chao thought that he still had to deal with the follow-up and end of this matter, whether it was the Huang family relatives involved, or the cheap son-in-law who was far away in the south, he couldn't help but have more and more headaches.

"Send me an edict, order the palace military envoys, the Great Inner Selection, the Privy Council Zuo Chengxuan, and Luo Du to stay behind, and immediately enter the internal summons."

"Order the right Weiwei general, the Tongzhou town guard envoy Meng Juehai, lead the two wings of Tongguan to the south to take over the situation, dare to hinder the rebellion on the spot."

I'm the dividing line

In Wuguan Guancheng, Du Guangting, a former Taoist priest who used to be called Dongyingzi, is also trying to adapt to his new identity and daily life as a clerk.

I saw that he had just finished eating a large bowl of miscellaneous soup stewed with overnight vegetables and savory biscuits, and with a satisfied burp, he began to recount and compare the booklets, and listed the goods that were about to be returned from customs in the open air.

Not far from the edge of Guancheng, the Wuguan River, which is a tributary of the Han River, and the upper reaches of the Danjiang River, have already melted the frozen water surface, so the original transportation method along the river ice with horse-drawn climbing plows and sliders has also been replaced by small and medium-sized boats from the downstream.

What's even more amazing is that these small and medium-sized boats do not need to be dragged or paddled by people and animals, but rely on two pairs of large wooden wheels that turn over and a hard flat bottom with a very shallow draft.

Therefore, after those who gather at the river's edge every once in a while and wave their wooden cones and forks to break and break up the ice that has accumulated on the shore, it is the time for these boats called self-propelled vehicles to dock.

Then they would unload the rare southern products of the winter, and then load them with minerals, local goods, or thinly clothed and scrawny young men and women from the Kannai, and they would set out on the return journey without stopping.

You can eat a lot of food every day without hearing the war, and you can also see and handle the benefits of many people and goods in the crossing, whether it is jujubes, pears, persimmons, chestnuts and melons in the Guannai, or tea, wine, salt and sugar in the south, or oily canned meat, canned fruits, canned shrimp, crabs and fish. Therefore, for a long time, he never had the idea of fleeing again.

In Du Guangting's faint expectation and contemplation, the approaching chariots and boats had already leaned against the simple trestle bridge by the river and began to lower the hitching boards, but the first to come down was not a cart carrying bundles of goods, but a group of soldiers carrying huge bags and rolls.

And the sound of the small cloud board on the bridge knocked again, urging Du Guangting to return to his post on the inside of the gate, because another caravan from Shangluo County had arrived at the gate, waiting for inspection and counting.

Although the Wuguan Road is obviously not conducive to travel, the caravans that come and go throughout the winter have never been cut off, even if the ridges, slopes and valleys along the way are always inevitably killed and injured in the mud and slippery, or frostbitten and frozen to death in the sudden snowstorm.

However, driven by stable and lucrative interests, there is still a steady stream of families and business travelers, who travel for livelihood and future. It's just that in the opinion of Du Guangting, who crossed the moat after leaving the customs, the escort team that came this time was inevitably a little too large, at least most of the teams he had seen in the whole winter were much larger.

I saw many chariots and horses wriggling slowly in the snow, and the tail of the queue with no end in sight stretched all the way to the gray-white valley in the distance. The first batch of carriages and horses to arrive couldn't wait to line up at the gate, and they were loudly urging the people to collect them.

Du Guangting also accompanied a small team of temporary officials to these carriages and horses to conduct random inspections and preliminary inspections in a certain sense, mainly because in the long-term trade exchanges, there are inevitably all kinds of shoddy or cutting corners, counterfeit and shoddy and other evil methods for profit, which has led to a lot of disputes.

However, after a rough look at and inspection of a batch of goods that were obviously very tightly bundled, Du Guangting had a little disagreement in his heart. Although there was nothing wrong with the goods drawn, as a potential obsessive-compulsive tendency, he always felt that the types of goods were a little untidy.

Bundles of fur were stuffed with baskets of brass and canned paints on a cart, as if they were hastily mixed together, and it was not at all like the style and habit of a seasoned merchant traveler who would have been counting and counting in the future, or causing more trouble.

Thinking of this, Du Guangting's back suddenly cooled and his movements and expressions froze, afraid that he had something terrible on his shoulder. At this time, there were already inspected vehicles that began to drive towards the castle.

At this moment, Du Guangting had already thought about it like a flint, and hurriedly leaned down and covered his stomach and shouted:

"Someone came and helped me, I'm afraid it's going to be bad if I eat too much."