An, Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, Li Yu walked around the imperial study with his hands behind his back, and the anxiety and uneasiness in his eyes were revealed.

It has been half a month since Li Qing left Chang'an, and according to the agreement, the eldest grandson Quanxu should have arrived a long time ago, but there has been no news so far, and he cannot be contacted, which makes him anxious and worried.

Have they changed their minds? Isn't my reward rich enough? Or was ambushed by Li Qing on the way. I don't think it can stand.

He sighed, the eldest grandson Lanyu fell ill again, he couldn't bear to let her come forward to ask her mother's family, until now, he could only wait, the night was already very deep, Li Yu did not have the slightest sleep, only paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, Ma Yingjun at the door was already sleepy, his legs were trembling for a while, as long as he was weak, he would be paralyzed into a ball of mud and fall asleep.

The brazier burned very strongly, and suddenly a spark burst out, bursting out with a string of crackling sounds, Ma Yingjun suddenly found a way, he immediately exited the door and ordered the little eunuchs to change the brazier again, taking this opportunity, he fell on the bench and pretended to sleep for a while, but as soon as he fell, he fell asleep.

Not long after Ma Yingjun fell asleep, a eunuch hurriedly walked into the Zichen Palace, he was the great eunuch Bian Lingcheng, since the last time he met Li Yu, Li Yu gave him a new task, to go to Fengtian to secretly train the new army, as for his position as the envoy of the army, he was temporarily stranded.

Bian Lingcheng has the gold medal issued by Li Yu, although he can enter the Zichen Palace at any time, but he was blocked by the Yulin Army when he entered the Daming Palace, so that he still had to report every time, the gold medal issued by Li Yu was almost useless, but today it is very strange, the Yulin Army ignored Bian Lingcheng and let him enter the Daming Palace.

Bian Lingcheng walked into the Daming Palace full of doubts, and he found that the Yulin army guarding the palace was also significantly less. Especially in the section near the Zichen Palace, there were only five or six Yulin troops squatting in a sheltered place, lazily napping.

"Could it be that Li Qing is not here, and they have all become lazy?"

Entering the Zichen Palace, the little eunuch told him that the emperor was still handling government affairs in the imperial study, which made Cheng Cheng sigh in his heart, such a diligent emperor. Even Li Longji, who was twenty years old in Kaiyuan, can't compare!

Ma Yingjun fell asleep, not knowing that Bian Lingcheng had entered Li Yu's study, and thus not knowing that Li Yu had quietly held an army in his hands.

"Your Majesty. The old slave trained 3,200 people, all of whom were loyal to the emperor, and the slave took matters into his own hands and temporarily named the army the Loyal Warriors. You can serve your majesty at any time! ”

"It's so hard for you!"

Li Yu restrained the ecstasy in his heart. With only a smile of approval on his face, he slowly approached Bian Lingcheng. patted him lightly on the shoulder and sighed: "The ministers of the history books all say that eunuchs cannot be reused, but no emperor says that eunuchs cannot be used. It's really because it's at a critical time. The only ones who are the most loyal are you, the house slaves, who only know how to criticize and write. But where do you know the pain of being an emperor? ”

Bian Lingcheng was so moved that his face was full of tears, and he fell on the ground and cried: "The old slave is disabled, and he is destined to be a slave of the emperor. ”

"Enough is enough!" Li Yu interrupted him, "I am already satisfied with three thousand two hundred people, when will I definitely go to see the first army that belongs to me and boost their morale." ”

Li Yu took two steps with his hands behind his back, and suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed: "I just hate that I can't get out!" ”

Bian Lingcheng's heart moved, and he hurriedly said to Li Yu: "The old slave found that the defense of the Yulin army seems to have weakened a lot today, not only did he not prevent the slaves from entering the palace, but he also stopped searching, and the number of people was greatly reduced, maybe the emperor can have a chance to go out." ”

This is a strange thing, Li Yu fell into deep thought, "Could it be that there is something wrong within the Yulin Army?" But in any case, it is always a good thing that the surveillance of him is weakened.

"Your Majesty, Li Shangshu has something urgent to see!"

Ma Yingjun rubbed his sleepy eyes and rushed to report in a panic, he stepped into the room, and suddenly saw Bian Lingcheng, his face suddenly turned pale, and he froze there and did not move.

Li Yu's gaze suddenly became cold, he saw the bitter hatred in Ma Yingjun's gaze, he seemed to understand something, the long-term life in the palace made him understand a little bit of the complex relationship between the palace people, obviously, Ma Yingjun was jealous that Bian Lingcheng was reused by himself, and with jealousy, there would be a means to stop it, Li Yudi's pupils gradually harvested into a slit, could it be that he leaked something?

Ma Yingjun had already come back to his senses, and as soon as he raised his head, he was suddenly startled by Li Yu's cold gaze, and involuntarily took a step back, lowered his head and muttered, "Your Majesty, Li Shangshu is in a hurry!" ”

"Let him in!" Li Yu kept staring at Ma Ying's handsome back and disappeared, only then he snorted heavily, and then slowly cleaned him up, he looked down at Bian Lingcheng, somehow, he didn't want Li Yu to know too much at this time, since the conflict between them broke out last time, the harmonious master-apprentice relationship between them gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a relationship between the monarch and the minister, and Li Yu no longer had nothing to say to him, like the current matter of Bian Lingcheng's recruitment of troops, he didn't plan to tell him.

"You go down first, stay in the palace tonight, don't let Li Shangshu touch it."

Bian Lingcheng quickly retreated, and for a moment, Li Yu walked into the house worriedly, he didn't know that Li Yu hadn't rested at the moment, but he was resting, and he would also call him up, he had just heard a little rumor, Li Longji's stroke was fake at all, and there were constantly courtiers going to Xingqing Palace under the pretext of visiting, since it was not a visit, what was it for?

The situation has become extremely grim, if you don't find a way to deal with it in time, then before Li Qing comes back, Chang'an may have changed a day.

Li Mi stepped forward and saluted Li Yushen and said, "Minister Li Mi see Your Majesty!" ”

"Li Shangshu is exempt! Please sit down and talk. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" has become so polite, but the distance in this politeness is much farther.

Li Yu glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "According to the normal journey, Changsun Quanxu should have rushed to Chang'an five days ago, but there is no news of him so far, I am really worried, what does Shang Shu think will happen?" ”

For a long time, he had no one to rely on except for Li Mi, who was a real loner, for a long time. With the strength of the eldest grandson family, he began to increase his confidence, and Li Mi became less important in his eyes, but when the eldest grandson Quanxu gradually became less reliable, he had to rely on Li Mi again.

"The minister thought that they were likely not able to enter Tongguan, and then detoured to Longyou, from Fengxiang to enter the pass, and the minister had already sent someone to Tongguan and Fengxiang in the afternoon to inquire about the news. As soon as there is news, the minister will immediately inform His Majesty. ”

At the beginning, Li Mi did not approve of taking the road of Changsun Quanxu, but time has changed. The crisis of the Emperor Taishang was gradually imminent, and if the eldest grandson Quanxu could bring troops, he would be able to stabilize the overall situation, and Li Mi changed his mentality. At all costs. Li Heng entrusted his son to himself, and he was his own disciple. If he doesn't care about him, then who else can help him.

Come to think of it. He tried to restrain the anxiety in his heart. To put it mildly

Said: "Your Majesty, the minister just heard that the Emperor Taishang did not have a stroke. Someone haunts the courtier's house, I wonder if Your Majesty knows about it? ”

"Kill!" A group of black-clothed warriors shouted violently, and rushed forward side by side, in front of them, there were forty rows of straw men, each row of grass had ten, each of them rushed into their own grass man alley with great speed, they almost did not stop moving, only to see the horizontal knife, the sword flashed, when the warriors rushed out of the straw man alley, they were already a mess behind them, in an instant, the blade had split twenty straw men into pieces.

At this time, a group of Zhuang Ding ran up and re-erected forty rows of straw figures, and a big man waved his hand and said coldly to nearly 100 black-clothed people standing in line: "Next!" ”

Immediately, another group of samurai stood up, their swords in hand, staring at the straw men with indifferent eyes, waiting for the team's order.

"Good!" Behind him, the Liu brothers guarded him from the left and right, as if they had become his personal bodyguards, these people were the five hundred and twenty Hexi scouts recruited by the Liu brothers, at this time, similar training was being carried out in many open spaces in the manor, some fighting each other with wooden swords, and some were throwing heavy stone locks.

Li Lan's heart was almost happy, these more than 500 people were simply a gift from God to his enthronement, all of them were strong in martial arts, murderous, he had done a cruel experiment, and randomly pointed at one of the soldiers and ten slaves to fight with real knives and guns, and the result was that in only a moment, the soldier killed six people, killed and injured three people, and the other person was frightened and fainted, and the soldier was stabbed three times, but walked back to the queue as if he was fine.

This experiment made Li Lan extremely shocked, but he was extremely excited, with these 500 people, why should he worry about not being able to achieve a big deal?

This is a fast horse coming from afar, immediately a family member in his house, he jumped off the horse, galloped to Li Luan to report: "Xingqing Palace has just come to the news, order Your Highness to rush to Xingqing Palace at night!" ”

Li Lan looked at the sky, it was afternoon at this time, the sun was shining, he had to go back, he clapped his hands, stood up and said to Liu Shilang: "Pass my order, each brother will be rewarded with five dollars!" ”.

The deployment of Li Long's base is still being carried out in an orderly manner, according to his plan, first the emperor's relatives, then the old ministers, and then some new ministers who hold heavy power, in his opinion, the whole world, it is not the king's ministers, with his forty years of accumulation, no one dares to refuse him, the six departments, Jiuqing, five temples, and Yushitai, he recovered them one by one, and even Li Qing's cronies Zuo Xiang Wuqi also had an ambiguous attitude and did not dare to say the word 'no'.

But Li Longji has always been worried about military power, he sent people to Longyou and Hexi, trying to take the army of the general Tian Zhen and Bai Xiaode into his own hands, but the two of them on the grounds of guarding against the Tubo Koubian, verbally expressed their willingness to support him, but refused to send troops to help, which made him helpless, fortunately, the veteran Chen Xuanli collected thousands of former Yulin troops, so that he barely had a little usable soldier in his hands.

At this moment, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was staying alone in the quiet room, planning his next plan.

"Your Majesty! His Royal Highness King Yong is outside asking to see him. ”

Eunuch Luo Fengxian cautiously reported at the door, he is the successor of Gao Lishi, since the Ma Weipo incident, Gao Lishi's body collapsed all of a sudden, his back has been completely straight, as if the lumbar vertebrae have been discounted, Li Longji has long been unaccustomed to his old shrimp-like appearance, so he ordered him to go home to recuperate, and he was not allowed to come to Xingqing Palace again, this once powerful eunuch, so silently disappeared in the political arena of the Tang Dynasty.

"Let him in!" Li Longji put down the pen and put away a thick book of allegiance, at the beginning of the plan, he did not know how likely this matter was to succeed, out of the consideration of protecting himself, he pushed King Yong in front, as more and more courtiers were willing to support him to restore the throne, his initial idea gradually changed, he no longer needed King Yong.

"Father, are you looking for me?" Li Lan walked into the quiet room lightly, lest he disturb Li Longji's tranquility.

"Sit down!" Li Longji pointed to the vacant seat on the side and ordered him to sit down, these days he is more and more majestic, has gradually regained his former bearing, all the courtiers who came to see him bowed three times and bowed, and called him Your Majesty, and he also accepted it happily.

Li Lucheng sat down in fear, and he didn't dare to come out, Li Longji glanced at him and asked, "I heard that you often go to the manor during this time, why is this?" ”

Li Lan hurriedly got up and replied: "Erchen has recruited hundreds of strong men, and they are practicing day and night, and they often go to the manor. ”

Li Longji's eyelids drooped, and he said coldly: "It's good to recruit strong men, but your hundreds of strong men won't help, don't ask about this matter in the future, I have already arranged everything, and if you interfere again, I'm afraid it will hurt me." ”

Like a basin of cold water pouring from head to toe, Li Luan's body suddenly stiffened, he understood what his father meant, and he swore to help him ascend to the throne, didn't he already count?

Li Lan was anxious, it was a matter of his vital interests, he could no longer care about the courtesy of father and son, the difference between monarchs and ministers, Huo Di stood up and shouted loudly: "Didn't my father say that I would replace Li Yu?" ”

"Presumptuous!" Li Longji shouted angrily and reprimanded: "You dare to speak like this to your father, I haven't gotten the throne yet, otherwise you wouldn't have killed me!" ”

"Erchen doesn't dare! Erchen didn't dare! "Li Lan was so frightened that he 'plopped!' Kneeling on the ground, kowtowing again and again, Li Longji looked at him indifferently, and said coldly after a while: "You go!" Without my order, you must not set foot in Xingqing Palace again! ”

"Father! Erchen knows that he is wrong, spare me! Li Lan remorseful to the extreme, he just said the wrong word, now not only the throne is not there, I am afraid that even the crown prince has been lost, he knelt and climbed forward a few steps, said: "The child has always been loyal to his father, never dared to have a wrong thought, Shicai is confused for a while, please ask my father to spare me once!" ”

"Confused?" Li Longji shook his head lightly, and said with a sneer: "Lu Yao knows the horsepower, and he will see the hearts of the people for a long time!" I can't see through you until today, that position is much more important to you than any father-son relationship, I didn't say anything before, from now on, I don't want to see you again! ”

After that, Li Longji pulled his legs and left, Li Lan hurriedly grabbed the placket of his father's back, tears welled up, and he cried loudly: "Father! Let's do it once! The son knew he was wrong.

'Brush! There was a cracking sound on the ground, Li Longji's clothes were torn, he stood suddenly, and slowly glanced back at Li Luan, only to see that his face was pale, his hand was trembling with half of his shirt, and his eyes were full of horror.

"Good! Good! Good! "The tufts of the clam are flying away, the air is swirling, and the lights are 'poof!' The earth was extinguished, leaving Li Lan alone in the boundless darkness.