On the seventh day of the first month, on the outskirts of Chang'an. The blue sky is cloudless, and the warm wind carries the I gas, which is a good day to travel. Wei Zongdao looked at the endless plain, the tiredness between his eyebrows faded a lot, and suddenly he stopped, looked at the mountains and rivers in the distance and sighed deeply.

"Something on your mind?" Liu Jinzhong looked at Wei Zongdao, who suddenly sighed, on a round face, his thick eyebrows jumped, and his hands hidden in his sleeves were full of strength.

"You're not my match yet." Wei Zongdao didn't look back, and his voice was as calm as usual, but it made Liu Jinzhong behind him break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and his face was also pale.

"I've been fighting with Cao Shaoqin for twenty years, won't I know his temperament and methods?" Wei Zongdao laughed in a low voice, he turned around, looked at Liu Jinzhong, whose face was pale, and said, "I wanted to kill you and let him know to reach out to Jinyiwei." I'm going to be angry, very angry. ”

"What do you want to say?" Liu Jinzhong, who always looked cautious and even a little groveling, suddenly stood up straight, although his face was still pale, but his eyes were already quiet, and Wei Zongdao in front of him wanted to kill him, just like crushing an ant to death, and there was no need to say these words to him.

"You are a talent, I asked you to straighten out the Jinyiwei, you did a good job." Looking at Liu Jinzhong's upright body, Wei Zongdao laughed, "So I'll give you a way to live." ”

"Otherwise, I don't want to say more, you think about it, I'll give you a quarter of an hour." Wei Zongdao said. turned around and walked into the distance, leaving Liu Jinzhong alone standing in place.

Glancing at the lush and quiet blades of grass around him, Liu Jinzhong thought of Cao Shaoqin's dead-like face, his pupils constricted, and in his sleeve, the dagger fell quietly, and he cautiously leaned forward to Wei Zongdao's back.

"It's a pity!" Wei Zongdao shook his head. The sound of dense arrows and feathers sounded behind him, and he turned around, looked at the round face of Liu Jinzhong, who was wide-eyed and unwilling to fall, and sighed, "I have given you a way out." Ay! ”

In the quiet four fields, still silent and silent, with no traces in sight, Wei Zongdao stepped over the corpses on the ground and walked towards the green bamboo house in the distance.

In the churning purple pottery small furnace, the fragrance of tea overflowed, Li Mowen noted, that is, Li Zheng gently picked it up, filled the small cup of Wei Zongdao in front of him with clear tea, and said quietly. "Your Excellency, please!"

"Not bad. The craftsmanship is a lot more exquisite. Taking a sip, Wei Zongdao contemplated the aftertaste. Put down the teacup and said, "You really plan to use Mo Wen's name and not change it again." ”

"My lord, Mo Wen has used no less than dozens of names in the past seven years, and I really don't want to change them overnight." Li Mowen replied that he had joined Jinyiwei and followed Wei Zongdao for nearly ten years, and had always been regarded as a confidant by Wei Zongdao. Wei Zongdao did many important and secret things by him.

"That's fine, you've been with me for so long. It's time to come out and meet people in a bright way. Wei Zongdao drank the tea in the cup, glanced at the person sitting on the opposite side, followed his henchman when he was a teenager, and said in a deep voice.

"The position of the deputy commander of Jinyi Wei is given to you, and I will win over that Li Qianhu for me." Wei Zongdao stood up and walked to the window, "Dongchang has offended him, you have an old relationship with him, you must let him stand on our side in the future." ”

"Your Excellency means Leon?" Li Mowen's hand shook as he poured tea, his brows furrowed, when he returned to Chang'an, he was injured on the road, and he had been recuperating for more than a month, and he didn't know what had happened recently.

"He has been given the status of the Black Lance Dragon Guard, as long as there are no mistakes in the future, it must be a matter of time before the sect is opened, and the chief minister, the Great Sima, and His Majesty favor him very much." Thinking of Li Ang, Wei Zongdao said lightly, "A few days ago, Cao Shaoqin used him as bait to fish out Liu Lian's remnants, and I heard that he was injured, so I think he won't have a good impression of Dongchang." ”

"My lord, even if he has the identity of the Black Lance Dragon Guard, His Majesty, the Chief Minister, and the Great Sima are very optimistic about him, so he doesn't need to be so deliberate, right?" Li Mowen frowned, he knew that Wei Zongdao was a person, and he would never attach so much importance to a person.

"Mo Wen, what do you think of Daqin in the past thirty years?" Wei Zongdao looked at the sunset outside the window, and suddenly said quietly.

"This." Li Mowen was a little hesitant, he was in a secret agent system like Jinyiwei, so he naturally understood the real situation of the country better, gritted his teeth, and he still replied truthfully, "Since the defeat of Rome in this dynasty, although the wealth seized from the Silk Road and waterways is more than before, the money is not used on the people, but is spent on the ever-expanding civil and official income, and corruption is flourishing in various places. ”

"You said it more heavily, but it is a fact that officials and businessmen collude, wealthy families run rampant lawlessly, and the people are suffering every day." Wei Zongdao turned around, looked at Li Mowen's restrained face and said, "What do you think it means that at this time, Your Majesty, the Chief Minister, and the Great Sima all value a young man from a humble background at the same time?" ”

"Your Majesty wants to suppress corruption?" Li Mowen thought about it, but soon he denied it, if the emperor wants to deal with corruption wholeheartedly, as long as Jinyiwei and Dongchang secretly search for evidence, and then hand it over to the Supervision Yuan, together with the Criminal Department, and the three divisions of Dali Temple.

"Your Majesty is planning to fight against the powerful family." Wei Zongdao glanced at Li Mowen and said quietly, "In the past ten years, nearly half of the black lance dragon guards around Your Majesty are no longer the children of major wealthy families, but are mainly children of poor families. ”

"Those people were originally only poor and poor, but now they are suppressing talents from the same poor background." Wei Zongdao walked back to the side of the case, picked up the teacup full of tea and said, "If it goes on like this, it is the real country that will not be the country, Your Majesty has seen this, so it has begun to be arranged secretly." ”

"What do you mean?" Li Mowen's brows furrowed even tighter, and he suddenly felt that Chang'an would soon fall into the whirlpool of battle, and he didn't know how many people would land their heads on the ground.

"The high-ranking families who founded the country back then should also replace some people." Wei Zongdao said softly, "If the old land and high gate are defeated, there will be a new family to rise up to balance the forces of all parties. ”

"My lord is saying that those children of poor families in the Black Lance Dragon Guard are the new families that His Majesty wants to support." Li Mowen guessed what Wei Zongdao meant, but he was secretly shocked in his heart, the high-ranking family that founded the country, which family was not deep-rooted and powerful, and it was really not a simple matter to deal with them.

"Yes, these people have a shallow foundation, once they confront those high-ranking families, if they don't have the support of His Majesty and the royal family, they will be tantamount to killing themselves." Wei Zongdao nodded and said, "Your Majesty needs a new family loyal to the royal family and Great Qin, and those people can also start a sect and build a mansion because of this, and they will definitely serve the royal family with their strength." ”

"That young man named Li Ang is one of them, judging from the fact that His Majesty, the Chief Minister, and the Great Sima are all optimistic about him, it is very likely that he will be one of the new heads of the great family in the next twenty years, and he is worth befriending." Wei Zongdao put down the teacup and looked at Li Mowen and said, "So, you have to try your best to be good friends with him, as long as you don't let Jinyiwei confront those wealthy families head-on, you can help him with other things." ”

"Don't worry, my lord, Mo Wen knows." Li Mowen nodded, he will do this well in public and private, for him, Li Ang is the kind of friend worth making deeply.

"At the end of August, the princes and Prince An Changsheng of Rome will come to Chang'an, and he will be one of the secret guards at that time, you can get close to him, just get in touch with him for now." Wei Zongdao walked to the door and left the bamboo house.

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Walking on the streets of Hanlin Fang, Li Mowen recalled Li Ang's daily life and diet in the past few days, frowned slightly, got up early every day to practice martial arts, then wrote and painted, and played the piano and chess at night, which was exactly the same as the obedient children of the family in the family of the Chang'an Princess, and he couldn't see anything valuable.

"If you are troublesome, tell your master, just say that Li Mowen is visiting." Walking to the front of Li Ang's mansion, Li Mowen Chao stood at the door, with black Mo and black Luo Dao wrapped in white veil.

"You wait." Hei Mo glanced at Li Mowen, asked his younger brother to look at this young man who looked harmless, and went into the inner hall study to pay homage to Li Ang.

"Take Master Li to the lobby, and I'll be over in a moment." Leon listened to Heimo's teachings. He commanded lightly and continued to draw the unfinished ink and bamboo drawing.

Putting the wolf on the pen wash, Li Ang glanced at the crooked ink bamboo on the paper, "Kung Fu is not home yet!" He shook his head and walked out of the study. Thinking of Li Mowen who had settled down for Feng Siniang, Cen Ji, Lin Fengshuang, and Trist, Li Ang frowned slightly. This Jinyiwei's 'old friend' changed his name, and as soon as he appeared, he solved the household registration problem of several people for him, and he didn't know what the purpose was.

"Brother Li, it's been a long time." Looking at Li Ang, who walked out of the ground, Li Mowen was stunned for a moment before greeting. The Li Ang he knew before was as cold as a knife, and his every move was full of the iron and blood of a battlefield soldier, but the elegant young man in front of him, dressed in white and smiling at the corners of his mouth, looked like a talented man, and he couldn't be reminded of the cold officer who killed Xiao Ran before.

"Lord Li is polite." Li Ang arched his hand and asked Li Mowen to sit down and said, "Siniang's household registration, I really have to thank Master Li for his help, otherwise I don't know when it will be delayed." ”

Brother Li said this. It's fair to say that Brother Li and Boss Feng have a life-saving grace for me. This household registration matter is just a gesture of hands. Be not worth mentioning. Li Mowen looked at Li Ang with a light smile all the time, making people feel like a spring breeze, and he couldn't figure out his mind at all, and couldn't help but feel worried in his heart.

"Lord Li's popularity is not good, but..."Seeing Li Mowen's pale face, Li Ang asked, with a faint melancholy in his expression, which made people feel a little moved. However, Li Mowen, who knew that Li Ang had judged the two of them before and after, would not think so.

"It's hard to say, I pressed Zhu Ting's stand-in back to Chang'an that day. On the way, I encountered the robbery and killing of Liu Lian's henchmen of the Zhenfu Division, and I was careless for a while, and was seriously injured. Li Mowen shook his head and smiled bitterly, with some hidden hatred in his eyes.

"I saw Mr. Xu from Dongchang that day, but he didn't have anything to do, didn't he go all the way with Master Li?" Li Ang asked deliberately, he wanted to see if Li Mowen came to calculate the East Factory.

"Dongchang has always acted insidiously, I was too stupid, I believed in the surname Xu, and I became his bait after being calculated." Li Mowen shook his head and said, his tone was indifferent, he just clenched his teeth slightly, which showed the anger in his heart.

"I didn't expect that Master Li was also calculated by Dongchang, and it was the same as me." Li Ang smiled, covered his shoulders and said, "But I'm luckier than Lord Li, but I just suffered some skin injuries." ”

"Brother Li, have you ever thought about seeking justice from Dongchang?" Li Mowen saw Li Ang say this, but he also smiled and asked.

"How to seek justice, even Lord Li suffers a loss, he can only swallow his anger, what can I do with my small thousand households." Seeing Li Mowen smile at himself and ask, Li Ang was stunned and replied, he didn't expect Li Mowen to look like this.

"Brother Li is right, but I'm confused." Li Mowen laughed, and then said, "After August, Jinyiwei and Dongchang will work with Brother Li and others to protect the princes and princes of Rome and Changsheng, to be honest, Mo Wen is here to cooperate with Brother Li, so as not to fall into the way of Dongchang again." ”

Seeing that Li Mowen said frankly, Li Ang said with a smile, "What Master Li said, I can't ask for it, I can have Jinyi Wei to help, I don't have to look for the people of Dongchang, they are plotting." ”

"In this case, then Brother Li should be dismissed." Li Mowen stood up and arched his hand towards Li Ang, "I still have some mundane affairs, so I'll leave first, and Brother Li will stay." ”

Walking out of the courtyard, looking at Li Mowen's hurried disappearing figure, Li Ang frowned, he really couldn't figure out Li Mowen's intentions in his heart, cooperating with him, he was just a guard, how could he need him, the new deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, to come in person.

"If you say that you come to me to deal with Dongchang, it is more credible!" Li Ang muttered to himself and walked back to the study, in short, now he has absolute distrust of people from places like Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Zhenfu Division, these people are veterans of deception, speaking local words, true and false, and it is too tiring to deal with them.

Back in Chang'an, seeing Lin Fengshuang, Li Ang was stunned and asked, "Didn't you go to make wine with Siniang, why are you here?" ”

"The wine has all been put into the cellar, and Sister Feng and I met that Xun Gongzi on the street just now, and he said that he wanted to come to our house at night?" Lin Fengshuang thought of Feng Siniang, who he didn't dare to ask, and couldn't help biting his mouth and laughing.

"What a ghost!" Thinking that he had been knocked out of ten thousand gold by Feng Siniang, and still did not give up on Xun Rizhao, Li Ang shook his head and sighed, "Let him come, you can cook some side dishes in the evening, which can be regarded as a thank you to others." ”

"Okay, I'll tell Siniang." Lin Fengshuang smiled and walked outside the study, and when she was about to reach the door, she suddenly turned around and asked, "Today is the last day of the Qixi Night Party, you haven't been out for half a month, do you..."

"Okay, let's go together!" Looking at Lin Fengshuang's expectant expression, Li Ang smiled and replied, he doesn't like to crowd the crowd by nature, but he forgot about Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang, it was really negligent.