Zhu, it must be him, he disappeared after the Taiji Palace incident, he actually dedicated his sister to Yang, in order to hide in Shu County, less than a year later, and revealed his hideous face, and only he has his father Zhu Xicai's old department, able to kill Yang's whole family, figured out this, all doubts are solved.

With Zhu's temperament, how could he sit still, Shu County will be chaotic, it seems that Datang is about to enter an eventful autumn, does that mean that his opportunity is coming?

Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Huan's mind for a while, and Pei Jun next to him couldn't help but ask in surprise when he saw that his expression was different: "What did the virtuous son-in-law think of?" ”

Zhang Huan held his mind and smiled: "I'm thinking, if it's really this Zhu Wu's doing, how can he be arrested?" If this matter is not handled well, there may be trouble in Shu County. ”

"It's Cui Yuan's matter over there in Shu County, and he will solve it." Pei Jun didn't take this matter to heart, he pondered for a while, and said: "The key is the position of cabinet assistant that was vacated after Yang's death, Cui Yuan wants to let Cui Qinggong enter the cabinet, and I advocate letting Lingnan Jiedu make Li Mian take over, on this point, we have a big difference." ”

Pei Jun walked to the window with his hand in his hand, let the breeze sober up his somewhat chaotic thoughts, for a long time, sighed slightly and said: "I didn't expect that the correction of the door shadow case would bring such a big impact, at the beginning of the year there were seventy-seven people, and in March there were twenty-two people again, in May, the appeal of the five or six officials was too strong, so they had to make up for another thirty-seven people, but in this way, the twenty-four people who were originally few in the selection of officials from the jinshi were compressed to twelve, and even next year's official quota has been filled." Not only was the opposition of the people high, but it even aroused strong dissatisfaction among the clans. So I proposed to let Li Mian enter the cabinet in order to appease the clan. But he, Cui Yuan, ignored it at all, and insisted that Cui Qinggong enter the cabinet, and he Cui Yuan did a little too much in this matter. ”

Zhang Huan didn't speak, if it was just Pei Jun who said this, the matter would be a little too far-fetched, originally Cui and Pei maintained a balance of power in the cabinet, Cui Yuan controlled Wang and Yang; Pei Jun controlled Chu and Lu, and then Wei Ge was neutral, and now that Yang is dead, of course it should be recommended by Cui Yuan. But Pei Jun now wants to break this balance, how could Cui Yuan agree?

The more Zhang Huan thought about it, the more he felt that things would not be so simple, maybe there was something hidden, maybe Pei Jun didn't tell him the truth completely, at this time, Pei Mingkai, who had been silent beside him, suddenly said: "Maybe I don't know if I'm sick!" Wei Qing, the son of Wei Ge, was secretly engaged to Cui Yuchang's eldest daughter twenty days ago. ”

With this remark, Zhang Huan's face changed greatly, the marriage was just an external appearance, behind the marriage was Wei Ge who finally fell to Cui Yuan, and the balance of power in the cabinet was unbalanced. Lin Lei No wonder Pei Jun is anxious to pull into the clan in the cabinet, now Cui Yuan's actions have pushed himself to the opposite side of the clan, and the entry of the clan into the cabinet means that Cui Yuan has just gained an advantage will be reversed, Pei Jun's real purpose is not as glorious as he said, what to appease the clan, in the final analysis, everything is still out of his own interests.

He secretly sneered in his heart and did not say anything. He wanted to hear what Pei Jun explained to him.

Pei Jun glared at his son fiercely, and he repeatedly told him that this matter could not be spread outside, but he still said it, something that did not know the importance of it. Hurt yourself and do a big deal.

The real purpose of Bae Jun's rush to see Zhang Huan was to get the news out before the news spread. appeased Zhang Huan and forbade him to act rashly. He knew that Zhang Huan was a very assertive person, especially when this matter involved his vital interests, and telling him too early would provoke his backlash and make him unable to get out of many moves in the future, so he planned to lead Zhang Huan to his own train of thought first, and then slowly discuss with him how to resolve the consequences of this matter.

But his son's recklessness disrupted his layout on Zhang Huan, Pei Jun smiled a little embarrassedly: "This is the purpose of my coming to you, I hope you can see things more thoroughly, although Wei Ge has formed an alliance with Cui Yuan, this does not mean that he will become the second Wang Ang, after all, there have been too many old feuds between them, and it is impossible for them to eliminate their suspicions between each other within a year or two, so don't act rashly, I will still fully support you to strengthen your strength, and now the top priority is how to let Li Mian enter the cabinet, I'd like to hear your opinion. ”

Although Pei Jun understated the alliance between Cui and Wei, Zhang Huan still had an intuition that the motive for the alliance between Cui Yuan and Wei Ge was because of himself, and it was very likely that the battle of Huixi Fort made Cui and Wei both see the threat at the same time.

If this is the case, then there is no Pei Jun between them, there is suspicion between each other, they have a common enemy, Cui Yuan is impatient to attack himself, this is also what Wei Ge wants to do, without the worries of Feng Xiangjun, Wei Ge, who has the advantage of troops, will never let himself develop and grow, at this moment, Zhang Huan has already felt that a crisis is slowly attacking him.

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Huan said slowly: "Regarding the matter of filling the vacancy in the cabinet, my opinion is only one word: drag!" , if I'm not mistaken, there will be great changes in Shuzhong soon. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly sneered, "I think Cui Yuan should think of who that Zhu Wu is, if he doesn't think of it, then there is a problem with his Shandong army." ”

Zhang Huan had already left, Pei Jun was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, Cui and Wei formed an alliance; filling vacancies in the Cabinet; chaos in Shuzhong; Three things are entangled together, making him feel upset, he wants to sort it out, but he doesn't know where to start, these three things seem to be out of bounds, but in fact, they are linked together.

After thinking for a while, Pei Jun finally sighed helplessly, maybe Zhang Huan was right, the best way to do these three things is to wait and see, maybe while waiting, the solution to them will quietly appear, he stopped, glanced coldly at the eldest son standing at the door, and instructed him: "Go and tell General Ding, let him prepare, we will return to Beijing immediately Zhang Huan left the Assassin Mansion, and he didn't have the heart to visit Guo Ying, the Assassin of Jincheng County, but went to the Xinyun Jing Mansion with a heavy heart." Unlike Bae Jun, he doesn't care about filling vacancies in the cabinet. That incident had little to do with him, he was concerned about the alliance between Cui and Wei and the chaos in Shuzhong. Both of these matters involve his vital interests, the former being a threat and the latter an opportunity.

How to get rid of the threat and seize the opportunity, this is the time to test his wisdom and determination, the opportunity does not appear from time to time, and the secret of the success is to grasp the opportunity firmly at the moment of its emergence.

Thinking of this, Zhang Huan suddenly made up his mind, he jumped off the horse and walked quickly to a shop. Asked the shopkeeper to borrow a pen and paper, he quickly wrote a letter, handed it to a personal soldier, and whispered to him: "You go to Chengdu and give this letter to Zhu Wu, who is in charge of Yangfu, and say that his old friend is very worried about him." ”

Xin Yunjing's mansion is near the south gate of Jincheng County, about four miles away from the Thorn History Mansion, it is a mansion that occupies a very large area, Xin Yunjing is also a famous general in the Tang Dynasty, after the Anshi Rebellion, he successively served as the envoy of the Hedong Festival and Taiyuan to stay. He had an excellent relationship with the Zhang family, and in the tenth year of Qingzhi, he served as the envoy of the Hexi Festival, fought against Tubo many times, and had a very high reputation in the Helong army.

It's a pity that in the invasion of the Hui the year before last, his Hexi army was almost wiped out, and he was ousted by Wei Ge and went home to recuperate. Of course, recuperation is just an excuse, but after a long time at home, he is really sick.

When Zhang Huan arrived at Xin Yunjing's mansion, it was lunch time, and when he heard that Zhang Huan had arrived, Xin Yunjing personally greeted him out of the door.

Although Zhang Huan has heard of his name for a long time. But it was the first time I saw Xin Yunjing. I saw that he was about 60 years old and his face was burnt yellow. Tall, striding down the steps, with the momentum of a general, Zhang Huan hurriedly stepped forward to salute him, "Hedong Zhang Huan has seen Uncle Xin!" ”

"Virtuous nephew, hurry up and excuse me!" Xin Yunjing pressed Zhang Huan's shoulder, looked at it carefully, nodded slightly and smiled: "It's the same as I thought, it's really a person who does great things, the Zhang family has a descendant like you, and Zhang Ruohao can also be blinded under Jiuquan." ”

"I often hear the people praise you in Hexi, I have wanted to visit you for a long time, but I don't have time, it has been delayed until today, and I ask Uncle Shi not to blame!"

Xin Yunjing couldn't help but raise his head and laugh, "You killed Lu Sigong, drove Wei Gejun out of Hexi, and gave the old man a bad breath, I'm grateful that it's too late for you!" How can I blame you, come! Come! Come! When you go to the mansion to talk, I will introduce you to a few more uncles, all of whom have come to see you. ”

Zhang Huan was a little surprised, he didn't know what other uncle he had in Jincheng County, he followed Xin Yunjing into the mansion, came to the guest hall, and saw that the banquet had already been set up in the guest hall, and there were three old men sitting on the table, who were talking to each other, and they saw Xin Yunjing bring Zhang Huan in, and they stood up one after another, looking at Zhang Huan with a smile. "These are all retired veterans who live in Jincheng County."

Xin Yunjing pointed to a powerful red-faced old man and said, "This is the famous general who fought in the bloody battle of Sheep and Horse City back then, Li Fei Yuanli." ”

Zhang Huan was in awe and gave him a deep salute, "Zhang Huan sees his predecessors!" ”

Lifei Yuanli is a Qiang person, in the Anshi Rebellion, he followed Li Guangbi and made great achievements, Lifei Yuanli squinted and nodded to Zhang Huan, but did not say anything.

Xin Yunjing pointed to another old man with a one-foot long beard and a graceful temperament and said with a smile: "This one is also a famous general back then, surnamed Bai, the virtuous nephew might as well guess who he is?" ”

Zhang Huan groaned slightly, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Could it be that the predecessor is Bai Yuanguang, the Shuofang Jiedu envoy who is frightened by the Tubo people?" ”

The old man smiled and said nothing, Bai Yuanguang is a descendant of the Gaochang royal family, and he also followed Li Guangbi in the Anshi Rebellion, and repeatedly made military exploits.

This was the last kind-looking old man and smiled: "I am a veteran horse, don't be surprised." ”

These four people are all famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, although they have all retired, but their prestige in the army is extremely high, and today the four of them suddenly appeared, which surprised Zhang Huan.

Xin Yunjing saw Zhang Huandi's doubts, and he smiled faintly: "Don't be surprised, Governor Zhang has told us your true identity, when Prince Yu was the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, we were all his old subordinates, and we were all old ministers who loyally supported him as the emperor.