Coming out of Shaoyang Courtyard, Li Mao thanked Li Xianyi. Li Xianyi said: "This is a business matter, but it is by no means to repay Brother Maohua's kindness and ignore the facts. ”

Lu Zhong was promoted to the general of the Zuolong Wujun because of his merits, although this general did not have much real power, but his status was not low, he stayed up for two years, and he was a town festival envoy when he put it out, and the crown prince was in charge of the country, and he was only one step away from the emperor ascending the throne, Lu Zhong was infinitely optimistic about the prospects of the empire and his own future, and people were in good spirits when they were happy, Lu Zhong proposed to invite Li Mao and Li Xianyi to drink two pots by himself.

The two happily agreed, and the three of them were talking and laughing and walking, but Liu Xiguang trotted all the way over, ran out of breath, and gave a salute to each of the three, but said to Li Xianyi alone: "Your Highness summons General Li to discuss matters." ”

Li Xianyi was stunned for a moment, pointed to his nose and asked, "Is the prince calling me?" Liu Xiguang said with a smile: "Xiaochen has a few heads, dare to talk nonsense." ”

Li Xianyi was ecstatic in his heart, but his face was difficult, Lu Zhong was refreshed, pushed him, and shouted: "The prince summoned him alone, what a good thing, go quickly, go quickly." ”

After Li Xianyi left, he still went out to drink with Li Mao with a smile.

Both of them are massive, and all the old grievances and grievances have come to naught in this wine glass. After drinking, Lu Zhong went to Pingkangli for a stroll, Li Mao returned to Jing'anfang's home, Xiaoru sniffed around him, and said, "I drank a lot, can I still go to tonight's poetry meeting?" Li Mao took off his clothes and asked, "What kind of poetry?" Xiaoru said: "The warm pavilion in the backyard of Du Xianggong's mansion was completed, a poetry meeting was held, and a young talent in Beijing was invited, and a post was also sent to you, saying that if you are free, you will go, and if you are not free, forget it." Li Mao said with a smile: "What day is today, the prime minister actually has the leisure to hold a poetry meeting elegantly." ”

Xiaoru said: "It's not a day, people just don't go out casually." ”

Li Mao pinched Xiaoru's little face and said with a smile: "Blame me for not being at home with you often?" ”

Xiao Ru pursed her lips and said, "No." ”

Li Mao said: "I can't recite a few poems, what poetry will I attend, if I don't go, I'll accompany the beauty at home." ”

Xiao Ru glanced at him and said, "How can the great talent in Pingkangli, the famous capital city, not understand poetry, you better go, lest people say that I am a vine and slander Jiamu." ”

Li Mao frowned and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Xiaoru said: "It's nothing, the boring words of boring people are not worth a show." helped Li Mao change his usual clothes, and persuaded again: "Go, go, I agreed on your behalf, if you don't go to the prime minister to blame me, I can't afford it." ”

Li Mao held Xiao Ru's face and scolded lightly: "Confused Xiao Ru, people are mixed in officialdom, their brains must be bright, don't talk too much at any time, and leave room for yourself." ”

Xiaoru nodded and said, "I was wrong, don't take it as an example." ”

Li Mao said: "Forgive me this time, come, prepare hot soup, and take a mandarin duck bath with your family." ”

A prime minister of the dynasty privately dating the general of the forbidden army, this is a taboo thing, Du Huangshang will not be so Meng Lang, so it is necessary to make this poetry meeting. Two years ago, Li Mao shook the Chang'an poetry circle with two sentences of "a dream of Xijing in ten years, and won the name of Qinglou Bo Xing", although there is no good sentence since then, but the status of the rivers and lakes has been determined, and it is logical to participate in such a poetry meeting, and no one can find out what reason.

The location of the poetry meeting is located in the warm pavilion of the back garden of Du Huangshang's new house, the warm pavilion is not far from a lotus pond, there is a water pavilion by the pond, there is no one on the water pavilion in this cold winter night, Li Mao looked at it all night, and then knew Du Huangshang's intentions.

This new mansion was given to him by Li Chun in the name of his father Li Yu after Du Huangshang became the prime minister. Du Huangshang has just moved in, and the warm pavilion in the back garden has just been repaired and completed, and a poetry meeting is held here, which is of far-reaching significance.

The literati live elegantly, poetry, wine, tea, swords, and pianos, plus beauties and singing and dancing, all of them are rookies in the poetry world, and unknown people in the political circles. These people have shown their prominence in the poetry world, and they have not been sauced by the officialdom, and some of them are talented and righteous.

Li Mao suddenly found that there was an insurmountable gap between him and his peers, he was still young, but his heart was old.

When drunken and obsessed, poetry is thrown aside, and beauty is the focus. When everyone focused on different parts of the beauty's body, Du Huangshang and Li Mao withdrew from the stage one after another to breathe, and the two met unexpectedly at the water pavilion railing.

The season has not yet begun spring, it is the coldest season of the year, the water pavilion is empty, the lotus pond is withered and willows, the lonely crane is still snowy, and the cold winter night is sorrowful.

"King Nankang of Xichuan is seriously ill, and he wants to pass on the position of deputy envoy Liu Pi, although Liu Pi is favored, Dewei is not enough to suppress the three armies, and this person is arrogant and domineering, and he is afraid of great changes. Han Quanyi returned to the dynasty in the spring, this person is without virtue and talent, I plan to impeach him and force him to be a servant, he has a nephew named Yang Huilin, Han Quanyi values him very much, I speculate that after Han Quanyi returns to the dynasty, he will be left behind by this person, echoing him inside and outside, in order to preserve his name.

"The western part of Beijing is close to the heart, and it is a barrier against the Tibetans and the Uighurs, and it is absolutely impossible to create a separatist and self-righteous like Hebei, and do not obey the orders, otherwise the imperial court will be in danger. You have to prepare in advance, once Yang Huilin raises troops to resist, the court will send a large army to crusade, and then your eyes and ears will be the eyes and ears of the court. In the first battle of Jingxi, it is advisable to fight quickly, and if you delay and do not decide, there will be unforeseen changes, and you must be fully prepared. ”

Hundreds of officials, prime ministers, and the world. It was the duty of the prime minister, and Du Huangsheng's thoughts and worries were not wrong, but he should have told the prince of the prison country, he didn't tell Li Chun, but secretly said it to himself, Li Mao felt very inappropriate.

Before the poetry meeting was over, Li Mao had already returned to his home in Jing'anfang. Alone in the study, Li Mao re-read what Du Huangshang said, carefully figured out the intention behind him, and finally understood.

Du Huangshang is hinting that he Li Chun is about to ascend the throne and become emperor, he wants to surprise the new emperor, give the new dynasty a new atmosphere, and by the way, consolidate the position of the two in the court.

"The old fox thinks so far, I'm not as good as him."

Li Mao picked up the tea bowl, the tea was cold, and drinking this herbal tea on a winter night had a unique flavor.

Li Mao thought again, with such an old officialdom as an ally, the benefits are indispensable, and disasters can be avoided as much as possible, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, once the Son of Heaven suspects that he has formed a party with him, he is afraid that he will not be able to wash it away if he jumps into the Yellow River, Wang Shuwen is an example, Wang Shuwen is defeated by the word "party".

Another point, Du Huangshang was able to know a few months in advance that Han Quanyi was going to enter the court, and Xichuan Jiedu made Wei Gao seriously ill and dying, which can definitely be called an expert in intelligence, and he boasted that he had eyes and ears to the sky, but he didn't know anything about it.

This matter was like a fish bone in his throat, which made Li Mao sad for several days, and slowly he figured it out, Longshou Mountain was born from the Tonghutou Xijing Organization, and his eyes were staring at the three inner hundred divisions of the capital, and after the reorganization, his eyes moved out slightly, but with the addition of the garrison near the capital, he didn't pay enough attention to the foreign feudal towns.

Du Huangshang has been immersed in officialdom for many years, and his protégés and former officials are all over the world, which can be described as well-informed.

However, due to the limitations of technical conditions, the so-called intelligence collection work carried out by Longshoushan is still very rudimentary, and the main thing is to rely on people to see through the door and pass through the house with their eyes, listen with their ears, and ask questions with their mouths.

Another point is that whether it is the capital or the locality, except for a few martial artists, most of the people who are in charge of government affairs are civilian officials. The civil service has its own set of codes of conduct and circle culture. The scholars and scholars in this circle can enter, and it is not easy for the warriors and barbarians to get in, and most of the people in Longshou Mountain who are responsible for finding out the news are from humble backgrounds, and many of them are illiterate and have vulgar behaviors, so it is naturally difficult to integrate into this circle.

How can a person outside the house know what is happening in the house?

After experiencing this incident, Li Mao was determined to make some adjustments to the organizational structure and personnel structure of Longshou Mountain, so as to truly play the role of "viewing the world" and "observing the sky", and become the only eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven to observe the world.

On the third watch of the night, when Xiaoru turned over, she found that Li Mao was not around, she put on a nightgown, covered with a leather coat, pushed open the door, and walked through the corridor to the front yard. There was a light in the study, and there was more than one person behind the gauze curtain, Li Mao was sitting behind the bookcase, explaining something to the two backs, because of the blocking of the gauze curtain, the two backs were vague, and Xiaoru couldn't recognize who it was.

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Su Zuoming asked Qin Mo to go to the casino in the south of the city to be chic, Qin Mo asked Li Mao if he could go, Li Mao said: "Go and go, but you can't borrow money, especially not money with an awl." ”

Qin Mo said: "He asked me to gamble money, and I borrowed money, am I stupid." ”

Su Zuoming asked Qin Mo for something, he wanted to go out to be a prisoner, and asked Li Mao to help him say a few words in front of the prison state.

Li Mao felt very interesting when he heard the news, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood that the stakes were very high, and he had to enter the palace immediately to present Li Chun.

Tu Tu Chengxuan, who greeted him, smiled and said with a little flattery: "Your Highness is deliberating, the general may as well go to the minister's room and sit down, I have new tea from Huzhou." ”

Li Mao said: "Spring in the south comes early, but this is not yet spring, where did you get the new tea." ”

Tu Tu Chengguang said: "It's really a new tea, his place is different from other places, surrounded by hot springs under the mountain, the ground is warm, the mountain is full of clouds and mist all year round, this tea can be picked without spring." ”

Li Mao knew that he was talking nonsense, but he was still ready to give him a chance.

Liu Xiguang, a protégé of Tutu Chengguang, betrayed the confidential information of the palace to the Sihai Society, and then resold it to the Tubo people through the Sihai Society. In other words, it can also be that he was ordered to assist in handling the case, Liu Xiguang is helping Li Mao sort out this chain of secret interests lurking in the capital, not only is he not guilty, but also has merit. Or simply don't mention the name Liu Xiguang, Quan Dang has not been involved.

Life and death, honor and disgrace are only in Li Mao's thoughts, and it is naturally reasonable to suddenly vomit Chengguang's heart. (Dissertation College)