When Gao Ying entered the mansion where Li Huaiguang was, he found that this person was covered in a plain white robe, and suddenly felt that the most critical moment had arrived.

"Mr. Gongchu, I regret that I should not have listened to your persuasion, crossed Weishui without authorization, entered Chang'an City, and forced the Holy Lord to move westward. Li Huaiguang saw Gao Ying and said in a very calm tone.

In the entire hall, the generals of the Changwu Army, including Li Huaiguang's sons, sat around Li Huaiguang's bed, crying loudly.

"Didn't the imperial court have an envoy come?" Gao Ying stood and said to Li Huaiguang very calmly.

"There is an envoy, and he is outside the corridor."

Li Huaiguang is right, there is the emperor's envoy Yin Zhizhen outside the hall, and there is also a former Huaqing palace envoy Lu Lun who came with him.

"You should let the envoy in."

But Li Huaiguang then only let Lu Lun walk in, but Yin Zhizhen was turned away.

"Huaiguang doesn't want to see the envoy of the Holy Lord again, and even if he does, he doesn't know what to say, and the kindness between Huaiguang and the court has long been cut off." Li Huaiguang laughed bitterly.

And after Lu Lun walked in, he was holding an iron coupon, which was handed over to him by Yin Fang, saying that this iron coupon was given to Li Huaiguang by the emperor, as long as the soldiers of the Changwu Army who were still resisting in Hezhong Mansion could lay down their arms and surrender, the emperor guaranteed that Li Huaiguang would not die, and the Changwu Army would not die.

Li Huaiguang stretched out his hand, took the iron coupon from Lu Lun, and then raised his eyes and asked Gao Ying slowly, "Mr. Gongchu, according to your high opinion, why did Huaiguang rebel?" ”

"You were born in the Bohai Sea, father and son have been border generals for a long time, although they have made some meritorious contributions to the imperial court, but they have never known etiquette and education, and under arrogance, they have become rebellious, but if you repent in time, and go out of the city to surrender to Ma Linggong after accepting the iron coupon, you can still save your life."

After listening to Gao Ying's words, Li Huaiguang laughed desolate on his back, and then he lowered his head and muttered, "Etiquette and education? Etiquette edification? The etiquette and education of this court is actually a deception, Huaiguang was born in a different race, and he is reckless by nature, I am afraid that even if he lives three more lives, he will not be able to understand it! Huaiguang only knows two things, the first thing ......" After speaking, Li Huaiguang pointed to the general of the Changwu Army who was crying on the ground, "Most of them were born in Shuofang, and they had followed Guo Lao Linggong to fight on the battlefield for decades, and they were not disloyal to the imperial court, and in the end they were hungry, and they were really forced to a dead end because they were hungry. Gao and Cui Ergong should also understand this. ”

"Under the section!" Dozens of generals of the Changwu Army lay on the ground, knocking on the ground with their heads, and wept.

Then, Li Huaiguang's finger stopped on Lu Lun's body, "I heard that you are also a gentleman, and you have written two poems sympathetic to our soldiers, right?" ”

Lu Lun is also a poor man, in the early years, he hoped to take the imperial examination, and later tried repeatedly, so he accepted the power minister Yuan Zai, and became a few petty officials, but later he was implicated by Yuan Zai, and sank into the sea again, and was sent to serve as the long-abandoned Lishan Huaqing palace envoy, although the poem is very famous, but the eunuch road is bumpy, so there are many poems that reflect the pain of the bottom.

As soon as he heard Li Huaiguang say this, Lu Lun's little envoy couldn't refuse, so he nodded and said that it was true.

"Please sir chant for Huaiguang, die without regrets."

With a trembling tone, Lu Lun chanted the poem "Sick Soldiers" for Li Huaiguang.

The whole nave reverberated with pathetic poetry:

There are many sick people who live without food,

Thousands of miles back to the hometown has not yet arrived.

Under the ancient city,

Unbearable autumn gas into gold sores.

"Please sir chant again."

Lu Lun paused, and then sang a song "Plug Up":

The old Jin Wei of the red face,

The moraine lies in iron clothes every year.

Spring in the city of white grass does not enter,

The geese fly long on the yellow flowers.

After Li Huaiguang listened, his eyes wept, and he repeated Lu Lun's poem loudly.

The generals of the Changwu army also cried bitterly and responded at the same time.

Gao Ying and Cui Zong also closed their eyes tightly, unable to bear to listen.

At this time, Li Huaiguang withdrew his hand, raised the iron coupon, and said to Gao Ying and Cui Zong the second thing he knew, "Huaiguang is rebellious and criminal, and his reputation is ruined, and his crime cannot be punished." How can the Holy Lord give iron coupons? Therefore, this iron coupon, Huaiguang is willing to give it to all the soldiers under his command, but he does not dare to live. Mr. Gongchu, I will send you two out of the city immediately, and ask to sue Ma Linggong, Huaiguang is willing to sacrifice his head, and after the Hedong soldiers enter the city, for the sake of my Changwu Army, I have also made some small meritorious contributions to the country, do not harm my soldiers and families, so Huaiguang is grateful even if it is under Jiuquan! ”

At the gate of Hezhong Mansion, Gao Ying and Cui Zong, who had just come out of the tiger's mouth, heard a huge shout, and they looked back and saw Li Huaiguang ascending the high pavilion of the watchtower.

He muttered Lu Lun's poem of "returning to his hometown for thousands of miles but not arriving at his hometown", climbed up step by step, looked at the rolling clouds, and the Ma Sui army under the city, and then pulled out his sword and faced the northeast direction, "Huaiguang does not know the etiquette of the court, coerces his children to commit treason, and casts a big mistake, and his soul does not dare to return to his hometown after death. ”

With a thud, the sharp blade sliced through his neck, and blood flew all over the beams and pillars next to him, and it was still steaming, and soon fine foam floated and slowly trickled down the pillars......

Li Huaiguang's adult sons committed suicide one after another, and then several generals of the Changwu Army cut off their heads and sent them to the Ma Sui army.

"Send the first-class envelope to the upper capital, and in addition—no one shall be killed after entering the city." Ma Sui ordered.

Ten days later, in the Daming Palace of Chang'an City, three hundred miles away, the emperor looked at the head of the stairs, and listened to Gao Ying, Lu Lun and others narrate Li Huaiguang's self-judgment, and couldn't help but burst into tears, "Huaiguang has merit for the country, no better than Li Xilie." So he issued an edict to pardon Li Huaiguang's wife and young son, and pay the normal monthly grain.

The Changwu army was also pardoned, but only five or six thousand of them were left, and more than 10,000 others quit and returned to the farm.

Gao Ying was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Rites, Cui Zong was promoted to Shangshu Youcheng, and Lu Lun was also promoted to Lantian Ling.

At this time, Ma Xuan, the elder brother sent by Ma Sui, asked the emperor to appoint Kang Rizhi as the envoy of the river festival.

The emperor agreed.

However, after another ten days, when Kang Rizhi left Shenzhou and came to Hezhong Mansion as soon as he was ready to take up the post of Jiedu envoy, the emperor soon issued an edict and recruited him into the Beijing Division as the general of Zuo Jinwu, and the Hezhong Jiedu made the lightning change to Hun Xuan.

Hun Yang was surprised, saying that Taiwei Duan's guess was not wrong at all, and then he packed his luggage and went to Hezhong Mansion to take office.

Of course, what he didn't expect was that the emperor Li Shi, who had always been the most suspicious, exchanged the envoys and observation envoys in other places like a horse, but he always trusted him - the envoy of the river festival, Hun Yang worked until he died, and he never passed.

In the change of the river festival, what was even more shocked was Ma Sui, he felt that he had been tricked by the emperor, suppressed and played, but he could only swallow his anger, and wasted the soldiers, horses, money and food, but he really gave the four prefectures in the river to the emperor for free, and he could only return to Taiyuan Mansion in a daze.

In addition, the situation in the court continued to change, Liu Yan resigned on the front foot, and Du You on the back foot really went to His Majesty, and presented the plan for the gap to the emperor.

The emperor was undoubtedly overjoyed, so he summoned his ministers to set up a Huaiying transfer envoy to dredge the river from Caishui to Jiminggang.