Luoyang stayed behind Lu Yuanying to visit Li Mao, Li Mao and he are not familiar with him, but Lu Yuanying has a good official reputation, and he is a senior old official, and he has a respectable place for being an official, and he talks to Li Mao quite speculatively.

Lu Yuanying asked: "The Huaixi War is in full swing, and the torrents in Luoyang City are surging, but I can't grasp the handle, I don't know how to be caught off guard, and I ask the king to give advice." ”

Li Mao reminded: "Lu Gong is polite, there is a saying that a good rabbit is in a hurry to kick the eagle, and the dog is anxious to jump over the wall. ”

Lu Yuanying was shocked, his face was gray, he touched his beard for a long time, and said, "Thank you for the king's reminder, I almost missed a big event." ”

Lu Yuanying listened to Li Mao's advice and dispatched troops to strengthen the defense of Luoyang City.

On this day, Li Mao was talking with Qian Duoduo in the study, and reported that an old man asked to see him, and someone sent a famous post, Li Mao looked at it and said lightly: "Tea is served in the back hall." He got up and said to Qian Duoduo: "It's selfish for me to keep you in the staff hall, but don't think that it's easy to be a staff officer, a good staff officer can beat ten famous generals." ”

Qian Duoduo still insisted: "I still want to go down to lead the troops and ask my father to fulfill the child." ”

Li Mao glared at him and said impatiently: "I'm not discussing with you, soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, report to the staff hall, and the department is up to you, you are really a stubborn stone that can't go on, and it's not too late for me to send you down to lead the troops." Infantry army, cavalry army, and water army are you can choose. ”

After Li Mao finished speaking, he rushed away, but Qian Duoduo shouted strongly behind him: "The last general will obey the order." ”

It was Zhao Jinglai who came to see Li Mao, I haven't seen Zhao Jinglai for many years, her sideburns and hair are white, and when she laughs, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes are layered, which is scary, but her eyes are still sharp.

He and Li Mao saw each other as equals, with a little more respect in the middle.

Zhao Jinglai's intention Li Mao can guess some, a few days ago, the boat gang cooperated with the Longxiang battalion to arrest three high-ranking personnel with the head of the bronze tiger in Luoyang City, one of them was tortured but Zhao Jinglai confessed, and now the Longxiang battalion is making every effort to track down his whereabouts. After all, Luoyang is the base camp of Longxiang Camp, if nothing happens, Zhao Jinglai will not be able to escape this catastrophe.

Li Mao waved his hand to give up his seat, and did not greet him, and said bluntly: "Yun Shuai was instigated by whom this time, it is simply frustrating, the imperial court used all its strength to fight Huaixi, Han Hong just came out to test the water and forced him to stand in line, and the other towns are generally the same, the imperial court has not really exerted its strength, >." Wu Yuanji is not Wu Shaoyang, and he can't bear this catastrophe. Once Huaixi is leveled, the imperial army will be intimidating the world, and who will be willing to reach out to rescue at that time is next, I don't see one. ”

Zhao Jinglai sighed: "Yun Shuai's ears are soft, you know, and now he is being defended by a group of uninformed women, who believe in the pillow wind and can't listen to other people's opinions, Gao Mu and even Li Gongdu are now standing aside, and Yunzhou is in danger." ”

Li Mao said: "He is willful, you are also messing around, what do you want to do in Luoyang." ”

Zhao Jinglai's expression was very embarrassed, and she smiled wryly: "We were wrong, we are willing to change our ways, and we just want to let us go this time." ”

Li Mao took a deep breath: "I didn't count what I said about Luoyang. ”

Zhao Jinglai said: "We are sincere, and we have a meeting gift. ”

Three days later, the eastern capital left behind the house sent heavy troops to surround the Foguang Temple outside the city, after a fierce battle, caught a monk called Yuanjing, Yuanjing monk is more than eighty years old, born with kind eyebrows and good eyes, but people are by no means good, he was Shi Siming's general, followed Shi Siming to conquer the city during the Anshi Rebellion, recklessly, and was also one of the people of the year.

A few years ago, Li Shidao found him, hoping that he could do a small favor and recruit a group of dead soldiers, kill three in and three out in Luoyang City, and make a good mess of him.

The monk agreed without thinking, and after fifty years of hard life, he was tired of it, and he made trouble with him before he died.

Monk Yuanjing confessed to the rebellion, and he took everything on himself, hoping to save his disciples and grandchildren and the dead soldiers he recruited.

Li Chun ordered the monk to be escorted to Chang'an, and the Ming Dynasty was punished, and his disciples and the outlaws he recruited were either killed, imprisoned, or confiscated to Lingnan, and all were severely punished.

The Dongdu Left-behind Mansion soon announced the case history, claiming that when a little novice in Foguang Temple went to the city to buy vegetables, he violated the precepts, ran to the hotel to drink, and fought with others after drinking, and suffered a loss, so he said that he would go back and move troops to fight, boasting about how many people there were in his house, and the speaker had no intention of listening, and a seasoned catcher quickly followed him to Foguang Temple and sneaked into the temple to visit, which led to such a shocking case.

So people regretted that if it weren't for a small novice who made a mistake, then there would be a lively scene to watch, and the three hundred dead soldiers in Foguang Temple could kill Luoyang thoroughly. The imperial court is using troops in Huaixi, if Luoyang is in chaos, how to fight this battle, it will be a great chaos in the world at that time, and people in the troubled world are as cheap as grass, but it is better than staying alive and not dying now.

Following the disposal of the Yuanjing monk, Luoyang dealt with several riots in a row, and all the spearheads were pointed at Li Shidao in Yunzhou. Zhao Jinglai is a smart man, he knows that this matter is difficult to get right, he needs to leave a way back for himself and his brothers, and looking at today, only Li Mao can contain them and dare to contain them.

Zhao Jinglai swore allegiance to Li Mao, Li Mao naturally did not refuse, his interests in Ziqing are very large, and he urgently needs a strong force to protect them, the two hit it off, Zhao Jinglai put a few fires outside the city of Luoyang and then safely withdrew to Yunzhou, these fires are considered to give Li Shidao an explanation.

The war in Huaixi was as Li Mao expected, Han Hong supported the army and did not want to forge ahead, the war was stopped, the progress was slow, and the 100,000 army was lost, and he was very distressed.

Li Chun sent the envoy Tu Tu Chenghuang to Luoyang, and Tu Tu Chenghuang held Li Mao's share in his hand, and sincerely asked him why he advocated Pei Du to be in charge, and why he suggested that Li Yu should be reused.

Since Li Mao recommended Pei Du and Li Yu above, he naturally had his words, which were originally intended to deal with Li Chun's inquiry, but now he had to say it to Tutu Chengxuan.

After Tutu Chenghuang listened, he was silent for a moment and asked, "Sure enough, as you said, the imperial court will win this battle in Huaixi." ”

Li Mao said: "The imperial court has been fighting hard for several years, and this battle will be won, and there is no problem with this." ”

Tutu Chengguang said: "Who is the next one in Huaixi Ruoping?"

Li Mao smiled: "You are knowingly asking. ”

Tu Tu Chenghuang suddenly knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Li Mao twice, Li Mao jumped up in shock, helped Tu Tu Chenghuang, and exclaimed: "Why is this." ”

Tutu Chenghuang burst into tears and said: "I have no way to live, if you don't save me, I can only commit suicide by throwing myself into a well." ”

Li Mao coughed, Shi Kong withdrew left and right, closed the door, Li Mao brought a bowl of tea to make Tu Cheng Huang shocked, and then asked why. Tu Chengxuan sighed, hung his head and said, "Everyone passed out a whole stick of incense the day before yesterday, and vomited blood. ”

Li Mao was not too surprised, this time he entered the palace to meet, when the monarch and the ministers were alone, he had already seen that Li Chun's oil was exhausted, showing the scene of the end of the world, the emperor was not yet forty years old, but his body had completely collapsed.

"Do you know how Prince Li Ning died, he didn't die of illness, he was poisoned." Tu Cheng Huang said in pain, Li Mao subconsciously looked at the door, but Tu Cheng Huang didn't care about it, just went down and said: "Master Jingyi, it's the Guo Ren you know, what kind of jade girl lock technique has been cultivated, and everyone is enigmatic of the five miles and three ways, and she can't be separated from her for a moment." It's not enough for this demon woman to favor the harem, and once seduced the crown prince. The prince was young, and he couldn't help her from being so confused, and soon she was in a trance, her body trembled, and her walking legs were weak. Guo Guifei made a big fuss, but for everyone's face, this matter can only be turned into a big thing and a small matter. That's why I offended Guo Guifei and made her hate me to death. ”

"Why am I willing to risk the disapproval of the world to support Li Yun, the king of the world, and compete with her for the position of the prince, I don't know if it's a piece of mud that can't support the wall, I can't help it, I offended Guo Guifei Her son Once he sat on the throne of the prince, do I still have a way to live, I am not better than you, you have a territory and a military horse, no one can help you, what kind of lieutenant of the guard army am the watchdog of the royal army in the forbidden army, the master spoils me, I bark twice, grinning to scare and scare people, the master doesn't want me anymore, I'm not bullshit, once the situation changes, The world is upside down, and you will die all the time. ”

Li Mao shook his head, but asked, "Everyone is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, why did they come to this point." ”

Tu Tu Chenghuang sighed: "Since I found out about the adultery between the prince and Guo Ren, everyone's hearts have been broken, he really loves Guo Ren, but he didn't expect her to mess with the palace behind his back, but he is his own son." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mao was shocked, lowered his voice and asked, "Is it the death of the prince?"

Tu Tu Chenghuang shook his head: "Tiger poison does not eat children, it is someone who sees the black hand under the opportunity, an emperor, a father, even his own son can't be saved, who can stand it Since then, everyone has begun to take pills, in the past few years, his old man has been working hard night and night, but nothing has come out, and his body bones have collapsed." In the summer of this year, his old man couldn't shoot the dragon spirit, and all he shot was thin blood. ”

Speaking of this, Tutu Chengxuan covered his face and cried, and shouted repeatedly: "It's all caused by Liu Yu's evil way." I wanted to kill him, but I was sued by Wang Shoucheng, I introduced him to everyone, but he obeyed Wang Shoucheng's gang, I was calculated by them, I'm sorry for everyone. ”

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