The sky above the city wall has turned up the fish belly white, the sky is slightly bright, the five corrections, the rumbling drums are beating in the Chang'an City at the same time, almost all the officials' homes are in a mess, today will be the day of the great dynasty, the officials above the fifth grade and the loose officials above the third grade must go to the Hanyuan Palace, and the other small officials below the fifth grade must also wait in their respective yamen, in order to be summoned at any time.

Li Qing's house lights were turned on at the fourth watch, the curtain was inconvenient, and she couldn't get up to clean up for her husband, so the matter fell on Xiaoyu's head, although she was sleepy, but in name she was already Li Qing's concubine, she had the obligation to clean up everything for Li Qing, for this reason, she fell asleep early, and got up at the fourth watch to start making breakfast and prepare Li Qing's official uniform.

As soon as the chopsticks were put on the table, the rumbling drum began to sound, as if she had been burned by fire, she jumped up in shock, and rushed straight into Li Qing's room in a hurry, shaking Li Qing's shoulders vigorously while shouting, "Get up!" Get up! Don't sleep, the drums are already playing. ”

"Yes! I know. ”

Li Qing sat up in a daze, took the wet handkerchief handed by Xiaoyu, wiped his face, and his mind immediately became sober, "That's right!" Today is the day of the Great Pilgrimage, so you can't miss it. ”

Li Qing put on his jacket, opened the curtains casually, and pushed the window open a crack, only to see a full moon still hanging in the sky, but the clear glow has decreased, and the surrounding stars are blinking tiredly, and today will be a fine day.

Li Qing is not a ministry official and has no qualifications to go to court, but yesterday he received a notice ordering him to go to court today, needless to say, today must be to commend his merits in Nanzhao.

A gust of morning breeze blew, fresh and cool, Li Qing hurriedly closed the window, looked back at the curtain, and saw that she had woken up and was whispering something to Xiaoyu.

"Tell me slowly, I'm going to eat first!"

After that, Li Qing picked up the door curtain and went to the wing, as soon as he entered the wing, Xiaoyu hurried from behind, but his mouth was muttering, "Gong, can't you tell the emperor?" Going to court a little later, it's like I'm in such a hurry every day, how can I stand it. ”

Although he was dissatisfied, he couldn't stop his hands and feet, he gave him a meal, scooped up the soup, and went to prepare for him to wash, Li Qing looked at her busy back, and suddenly thought that when she was in Xianyu Mansion, she also served herself like this, and her heart couldn't help but feel a trace of tenderness, "Xiaoyu!" He shouted in a low voice.

"Male, what's the matter?" Xiaoyu, who had just walked to the door, suddenly heard Li Qing's call and couldn't help but stop.

"You can have dinner with me today!"

Since Xiaoyu followed him, the three of them ate together every day, and they had long been used to it, but today Li Qing suddenly said this, Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, his face became crimson, and his heart was sweet, and he only felt that he was willing to serve him like this every day.

"I'm going to bring you face wash!" She flew to Li Qing, then pursed her lips and smiled coquettishly.

Li Qing looked at her plump and slender figure, and his heart suddenly ignited a longing, he planned to wait for her to be released from his slave status before marrying her, but now he couldn't wait a day.

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The street is already a carriage and horses, official sedan chair shuttle, each carriage or a sedan chair always carries a lantern in front of it, which is printed with the name and official title of each prefecture, under the orange light, it is particularly conspicuous, Li Qing is to take Li Lin's carriage to the palace, since he came back from Nanzhao, he has been busy, Li Lin invited him to dinner several times, he is always not available, today the two of them took a carriage, but had a chance to chat.

"I heard that Xian Yu Fuli, who came to my house to make trouble yesterday, was killed by Cui Guangyuan by mistake, does the virtuous nephew know about this?"

Li Lin was not at home yesterday, he later heard about it, and immediately sent someone to the county government to inquire about the situation, but heard that Xian Yu Fuli died, so he immediately worried, he had done Yizhou farewell, and Xian Yu Zhongtong had a good relationship, knowing that Xian Yu Zhongtong had high hopes for both of them, and Chang Xian Yu was not in the Ke Keju, and now he is in business, and has taken over the huge industry of the Xian Yu family, and the second Xian Yu Fuli has become all the hope and sustenance of Xian Yu Zhongtong, but now he died suddenly, with Xian Yu Zhongtong's person, how could he give up, Especially when this matter involves Li Qing, I am afraid that the relationship between the two will be difficult in the future.

Xian Yu Fuli was beaten to death, Li Qing also knew yesterday, he immediately realized that he had made a mistake in this matter, he had already thought that Li Linfu might not let Xian Yu Fuli go easily, but this person dared to fight Xiaoyu's idea, Li Qingxin actually had the idea of borrowing Li Linfu's hand to get rid of this person, so he didn't care about it, maybe this is the dark side of his heart.

It wasn't until the news of Xian Yu Fuli's death came that he felt a little remorseful, after all, Xian Yu Zhongtong was kind to him, after all, Xian'er was his righteous daughter, but the matter was irreparable, Li Qing also knew that this matter could not move Li Linfu, and the Cui family would also try their best to protect Cui Guangyuan, and the final result would be no end, only he would be difficult to face Xian Yu Zhongtong.

can be gently and skillfully pushed to Li Linfu, but his conscience can't be pushed away, and the worries of human affection make Li Qing's head suddenly ten times bigger.

"Let's talk about that later!" Li Qing sighed softly, smiled at Li Lin, and looked out of the carriage.

The carriage had already passed through the Guangzhai Fang and merged into the mighty procession of the upper court, the petty officials below the fifth rank

Bird Gate into the Imperial City each went to the office, and the officials above the fifth grade did not enter the Danfeng Gate in the east of the Imperial City to enter the Daming Palace, nearly a thousand carriages and official sedan chairs have gathered here, the lanterns of the stars converged into a sea of orange-red stars, it was magnificent.

Today's dynasty, the Jianfu Gate and the Wangxian Gate on both sides are open at the same time, let the hundred officials walk into the palace, Li Qing is the protagonist of today, but there is no place for him in the Hanyuan Palace, so he will wait in the Yanying Hall first.

A bell rang, and the hundred officials entered the main hall along the two tall dragon tail roads, lined up according to the ranks, the hall was solemn and solemn, and the court meeting was about to begin.

'The Emperor has arrived! With the shouting of the deacon eunuch, Li Longji, wearing a crown of cupola and wearing a big crown, walked into the side hall surrounded by dozens of palace eunuchs and sat on the dragon seat, the sound of the hall was silent, and occasionally there were some coughing sounds of old court officials.

Li Longji flipped through the recital on the imperial case, this is a detailed report written by Wei Jian and Li Qing on Nanzhao and Dong, he has read it in advance, and he will reward it today.

He looked up at the hundred officials again, all of them were in good spirits, no one showed tiredness, nodded with satisfaction, and said in a deep voice: "Today's dynasty, all the secretaries have their own music, but according to the palace eunuch's plan yesterday, today only about the Nanzhao, all the secretaries can play it in turn." ”

"The emperor said, today I only talk about the Nanzhao, please all the officials in turn!" The voice of the deacon and eunuch echoed in the main hall for a long time.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a prelude!"

An old minister took the lead, and Li Longji saw that he was Pei Kuan, the right servant of Shangshu and the secretary of the military department, so he nodded and said, "Pei Aiqing, please speak!" ”

"Now Nanzhao is divided into two, according to the emperor's will, in the east to build the Queensland Governor's Mansion, garrison 20,000 troops, but our dynasty has successively built the Governor's Mansion in Shanzhou, Yaozhou, and later in Rongzhou, the troops are transferred from Xichuan, and now want to build the Queensland Governor's Mansion, Xichuan troops may be insufficient, the Ministry of War has considered two plans for the emperor to decide, one is to set the establishment of 20,000 people, from Han, Guangzhou to transfer part of the troops to supplement; The second is to set up 5,000 people in Queensland, and the leader of the Han tribe, Han Rijin, is the king of the east, and the Han soldiers assist in the defense. ”

After Pei Kuan finished speaking, he put the fold on the gold plate of the deacon and eunuch, and returned to the court.

Li Longji flipped it open and looked at it, and asked again: "Do other Aiqing have different opinions!" ”

"The minister is not in favor of being defended by the soldiers of the Han tribe!" Another minister stood up, but it was Yushi Han Qia, he was the chief general who quelled the Han rebellion last year, and he only heard him say loudly: "Although Han Rijin is biased towards my Tang Dynasty now, it cannot guarantee that his successors are biased towards my Tang Dynasty, after all, foreign races are foreign races, and they should be weakened as much as possible, rather than giving them the opportunity to grow, the minister has quelled the rebellion of the Han people, and knows that its people are fierce and not easy to control, once they are allowed to sit big, the minister is worried that there will be chaos in the future!" ”

Pei Kuan stepped forward and glared at him angrily: "Han Yushi said it easily, do you know the actual situation of our current military resources, it is already good for each military government to be able to recruit three or four out of ten government soldiers, and these soldiers who have been stationed in the frontier for a long time are all supported by the imperial court, if you increase the number of troops, can you consider the financial pressure of the imperial court?" Moreover, the cold day is in Chang'an, and the leaders of the Han clan will follow suit in the future, so why worry that he will rebel! ”

Li Longji also knew about the serious crisis of the government military system, but this would involve the land issue and the interests of most of the Li Tang nobles, but this was not what he wanted to discuss at this time, he waved his hand and said unhappily: "Don't argue about this matter between the two Aiqing, Li Xiangguo!" ”

"The old minister is here!" Li Linfu came out in response.

"Xiangguo is also in charge of the household department, so I will work hard and make a draft budget for me to see, and if the imperial court can afford it, I will choose the first plan." This was Li Qing's persuasion when talking about the situation in Nanzhao, that the ethnic minorities in the southwest should be weakened as much as possible, and no ethnic group should be allowed to grow stronger.

Thinking of Li Qing, Li Longji thought of today's topic, he looked at Tai, and said with a slight smile: "Regarding the affairs of Nanzhao, does the emperor have anything to say?" ”

Li Heng understood, and immediately got up and said: "This time the East issue was successfully resolved, and Nanzhao can also complete the replacement of the old and new thrones according to my Tang Dynasty ideas, first of all, my Tang Dynasty mission has made great contributions, and secondly, Li Qing, the captain of the Yulin Army, has made great contributions as the emperor's special envoy. ”

Li Longji nodded and said: "I first named Li Siye, the captain of Zhaowu in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, as the captain of the cavalry and the general of the Yulin Army (the fifth rank is upper); Feng Jian Nanjie Du Fu Shen Military Nan Jiyun is the captain of Fu Guoyi and the captain of Zhaowu (genuine upper rank); The rest of the Yulin army sons and daughters were all promoted to two levels, with a reward of 10 million dollars and 1,000 silk horses, hoping that the army would follow suit. ”

Speaking of this, Li Longji looked at Li Linfu and said with a smile: "As for Li Qing, who has made great contributions this time, I have initially considered letting him go to the local area to experience a few years of training, I don't know if Xiangguo has any good suggestions?" ”