The most eye-catching thing at the beginning of the eighth year of Bao is Li Longji's New Year's greeting, he clearly and unambiguously expressed his willingness to abdicate, and his speech set off stormy waves in the government and the opposition, although the emperor's abdication in the Tang Dynasty is not the first time, Li Longji's father, Tang Ruizong Li Dan, has twice abdicated.

But most people don't believe that Li Longji will follow in his father's footsteps, and his attachment to the throne far exceeds that of his father, not to mention that many people still remember the old incident of his tragic death 25 years ago.

So, is he posturing? It is possible that Li Longji's desolation of the government has made hundreds of officials complain, since August of the seventh year of Tianbao, he has never held an early dynasty, and even from October to New Year's Eve, he is not in Chang'an City at all, but stays in the misty Lishan Hot Spring Palace, perhaps he is using the abdication to cover up his dereliction of duty.

It wasn't until the seventh day of the first lunar month that Li Longji suddenly fainted when he listened to Wang Zhonghe's report in the imperial study, which made everyone come back to their senses, it turned out that the emperor's body was already so weak, and some people began to believe his abdication.

However, the true intention of Li Longji's abdication can only be seen by a very small number of people, and Li Linfu is one of them, he has been a prime minister for 17 years, and he knows Li Longji very well, and he knows that if Li Longji makes a big move, he will always behave abnormally in the spring.

At this moment, Li Linfu curled up his whole body in his yellowed and old rattan chair, his eyes were closed, and a beautiful concubine behind him was gently holding his temples. Li Longji will have a big operation in the next few months, this has been confirmed, and now the key is who is his target to be targeted, too? Or yourself? This is what Li Linfu needs to figure out.

It stands to reason that the abdication is naturally related to Tai, but Li Longji's layout is so deep that it is often unexpected, and Li Linfu does not dare to draw conclusions. And if it's really related to it, he will give himself a hint early and let him help him, but there is no news so far, is it really impossible to deal with himself? Li Linfu suddenly had a glimmer of enlightenment in his heart, but he couldn't think of what the problem was? I couldn't help but feel a little upset. Even the gentle massage on his temples was exaggerated tenfold by his sensation, turning into a sharp pain.

Li Linfu was annoyed, and gave the concubine a slap with his backhand, so frightened that she fell to the ground tremblingly, buried her head, and didn't dare to speak, Li Linfu reached out and lifted her chin, carefully admiring the fear in her eyes, and a heat rose from her lower abdomen. He pinched her cheek, squinted and ordered, "Take off your clothes." Not a single line of hanging. ”

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A quarter of an hour later, the concubine pulled at her messy clothes with a flushed face. After a simple clean-up and hurriedly escaped, Li Linfu was still sitting on his old rattan chair, and his sitting posture had not changed, as if nothing had happened, perhaps because of the catharsis of the tide, a gap in his train of thought was washed away, and the answer that he had been thinking about just now suddenly became clear, and Li Longji did not give himself a hint does not mean that he has no action. He could have done it through someone else.

If Li Longji really has the heart to move again, then what is his land holding? From Tianbao five years to the present. He waited three years, was it time for the conditions he was waiting for? If so, who will he let complete his deployment? And what role should I play?

A series of questions lingered in Li Linfu's heart, he seemed to be standing in a corridor with closed doors all around, but he couldn't retreat, he had to enter a room anyway.

"Who is this man?"

Li Linfu's mindset made him choose the room that had the most relationship with him, and only by knowing who this person was, could he be sure of the role he wanted to play, "It is impossible for Zhang Qiu and Qiong, he has always been a supporter of Tai, and it is impossible for his backbone henchmen Zhang Yun and Li Qing to be friends, Zhang Yun has always been good friends with Tai, and Li Qing was born in the East Palace and has a close relationship with the Guangping Wangdi, Li Longji will not use them." ”

Li Linfu changed his posture slightly, leaned his head on the back of the chair, and let the edge of the back of the chair strangle the back of his neck, which was also a habit of thinking about problems.

"Yang Guozhong!"

Li Linfu's mind suddenly jumped out of this name, three years ago he used to pay special attention to the local people, since the imperial examination case has been silent, but last year he suddenly made a high-profile comeback, once again took the position of Jing Zhaoyin, and he is also a lot more mature and spicy, and he is not as stupid and shallow as three years ago, Li Linfu gasped, Yang Guozhong has always been considered by Li Longji to replace his own person, if it is really him, does it also mean that Li Longji is also going to attack himself?

Li Linfu couldn't sit still anymore, he stretched out his hand and pulled a rope hidden on the wall three times, and slowly walked to the window, and in a moment, a black-clothed masked man quietly appeared under Li Linfu's window like a black cat, and in the dim moonlight, his two eyes were only left with a thin trace of sharpness.

"Go to the East Palace and keep an eye on anyone suspicious who goes out."

The black shadow suddenly disappeared, as if a bubble had burst in front of the window, and the cold crescent moon hid in a black cloud, and the wind rose outside.

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It is said that a person who is humble and humble on the surface and is a group of people who are kind and temperamental, his psychology often becomes darker, and Tai Li Heng is such a person.

In the East Palace, Li Heng is reading under the lamp, he is not yet forty this year, but his hair has quietly turned white, and he has only occasionally gone to the court a few times in the past three years, he has barely stepped out of the East Palace, except for caution is caution, he is like a frightened snail, and the position of Taizhi is the heavy hard shell, which crushes him underneath.

At the beginning of this year, his father expressed his willingness to abdicate twice in public, which is a major event directly related to him, and he was ignorant for a long time before he reacted, he is the prince, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and the person who sat on that seat after the emperor's abdication.

Li Heng sighed, gently put down the pen, and the thick five pages of the preface were full of his loyalty and filial piety.

Even if Li Longji said 10,000 times that he would abdicate, Li Heng would put on a humble posture 10,000 times, 'Father, please sit down with peace of mind, and his sons are willing to serve left and right!' ’

Are you sure? In fact, it is not, just like hearing an unbelievable thing, ten percent is confused and incredible, but there is also one percent of the heart's joy and yearning, the news that his father is going to abdicate came out, and Li Heng, who was bleeding from the throne, lost sleep for two nights in a row, and a sprout quietly sprouted from the dead old tree in his heart.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Li Longji suddenly fainted, and he did not slowly wake up until the early morning of the next day.

He also received definite news that King Yong secretly met with his uncle, Guo Xuji, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, on the seventh and eighth days of the first lunar month, and King Qing, who also suffered a heavy setback in the fifth year of Tianbao, also quietly began to recover, and countless mysterious people appeared in his mansion.

Li Heng was not worried that his father would abolish him, but he was afraid that his father would suddenly die and the Xuanwumen incident a hundred years ago would be repeated again.

It's very likely.

The general Chen Xuanli received the favor of Guo Shunyi, the mother of King Yong, in his early years, and he has always been on the side, while Jin Wuwei, Wei Wei, Xiao Wei, Wu Wei, Jun Jun Wei, and Donggong led the government all had a vague attitude, and no one was willing to speak for him in the turmoil of Tianbao's five years of abolition.

Li Heng has always been powerful on the outside and weak on the inside, and most of the people who supported him were local officials. Hexi, Longyou Jiedu makes the emperor only clear; Shuofang, Hedong Jiedu envoy Wang Zhonghe; Anxi Dadu Protector Meng Lingcha, these local warlords who hold heavy power all support him, and now the death of death, the adjustment of the tune, the depreciation of the depreciation, only Wang Zhonghei is left with hundreds of thousands of military power, this time I heard that he came to Beijing to report on his work, stationed in the Fengxiang area with his 5,000 iron cavalry soldiers.

Li Heng seemed to have forgotten the experience of the emperor, and he wrote a letter in a hurry, asking Wang Zhongji to hand over control of the five thousand cavalry to him, and the longing and fear that had been suppressed for three years exploded at this moment, and he was already burned by the throne.

Li Heng rolled the letter into a ball, carefully stuffed it into a hollowed-out golden pill, and immediately summoned an old eunuch who was left to him by his mother, who was known for his martial arts and was his personal guard, and whose loyalty was absolutely reliable.

"You give this thing to Wang Zhonghei, this matter is very important, you must be very careful."

The old eunuch took the golden pill with trembling hands, something that even Li Jingzhong couldn't entrust, it was obvious that he was burdened, so he put the golden pill away. Without saying a word, the gray figure disappeared into the night in an instant.

A misty night wind blew, the chill hit people, Li Heng shivered, the hairs on his body tightened, his fanatical mind quickly calmed down, he suddenly regretted a little, he was in too much of a hurry in this matter.

Thick fog shrouded Chang'an. The air was damp, and the fog wrapped the scenery fifty steps away in a vague and dizzy shell, and several towering halls in the palace city only faintly revealed a corner of the black outline, and the yellow dead air lantern was like a giant eye floating in the air, without a bit of mighty spirit, but revealing a demonic aura.

A gray shadow took advantage of the cover of the dense fog to quickly leave the East Palace from the Yanxi Gate in the west. Around to the periphery of Yongchang Fang, Wang Zhonghe's house is in Qinren Fang, if it is an ordinary person walking, let alone walking for half an hour, but this gray-clothed man walks very fast, less than half an hour to come to Qinren Fang, at this moment the door has not been closed, dense fog, the door is like a huge mouth open, two lanterns are swaying in the wind. There was a bleak glow, and there were shadows inside the door. There was a faint light mixed in, as if it were the road to hell. It's terrifying.

In the corner of the door, there was a lazy little beggar curled up, he seemed to be the landlord here, he knew everyone who came in and out, but this gray man he saw for the first time, the little beggar couldn't help but look at him more, but suddenly found that he seemed to be holding a golden thing in his hand, and then looked carefully. The little beggar's eyes lit up, and it turned out to be a golden pill.

The man in gray only stayed for a moment. He put the golden pill close to his body again, and once again increased his speed, and soon disappeared into the thick fog, and not long after his figure disappeared, a black shadow quietly followed, his steps were light and fluttering, like a strange black cat, the little beggar who was just about to get up was frightened by his strangeness, his heart suddenly struck, and he retracted into the corner.

The man in black glanced at the corner of the wall, but did not pay attention to the little beggar, his gaze passed through the thick fog, locked the direction of the man in gray, and quickly followed.

But the foggy night Chang'an revealed all kinds of incredible, not long after the two disappeared, the little beggar in the corner was about to get up again, but suddenly found that a third strange person also appeared, he was dressed in white, his face was pale, as if he was wearing a mask, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and he stared straight at the little beggar.

The little beggar was so frightened that he took two steps back, 'plopped' and sat down on the ground, and instinctively pointed in the southwest direction, telling him that the two people in front of him were going that way.

The man in white suddenly grinned, did a somersault, and when he landed, the man was gone, and the little beggar rubbed his eyes and shouted in an incredible whisper, "My mother! Is it haunted tonight? ”

He thought of the golden pill, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, his eyes rolled as he turned and drilled through a broken wall, he knew a shortcut, he could catch up with them.

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The man in gray ran along the path, there was no one on the road, the rough pavement trees were like giants standing in the night and thick fog, the scars on the trunk were like grimaces, it looked extremely hideous, the man in gray suddenly stopped, dozens of steps away in front of him was Wang Zhonghe's mansion, he touched the golden pill in his arms, and was about to go up and knock on the door, but suddenly felt the strong wind in the back of his head, he didn't have time to think about it, he instinctively rolled sideways, jumped out of a foot, and dodged a blow from behind, but before he could get up, the strong wind hit again, like a shadow, The gray-clothed man was shocked, in terms of time, this person didn't seem to land on the ground, but turned in the air, if this was the case, he was too much taller than himself, and he was far from his opponent.

It's too late to flash again, 'Bang! With a bang, the gray-clothed man's back was kicked, he only felt that his skeleton was about to disperse, his five internal organs seemed to be displaced, his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, the situation was extremely urgent, and the gray-clothed man took out the golden pill without thinking, and threw it towards the misty night sky with all his strength.

The man in black made a sneak attack, he was just about to kill the other party, but found that a golden line flew out of his hand, crossed the night sky, and disappeared into the thick fog, the man in black was taken aback, he didn't care about hurting the man in gray again, his right foot was a little on the trunk of the tree, and the volley rushed towards the place where the golden pill disappeared.

The old eunuch spat out three mouthfuls of blood in a row, and ran back with great difficulty against the wall, but he ran less than a hundred steps, only to see a man in white blocking the way, he coldly hugged his hands in front of his chest, standing on a thin branch, as if the tree was on the ground, swaying up and down with the branches, the old eunuch was already weak, so he had to sigh, stretched out his hand to his throat to grab, but his hand did not reach his throat, a white shadow passed over his head, the old eunuch only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he could not see anything.

Besides, the man in black was looking for the golden pill like crazy, but he searched everywhere, and he didn't see any gold, 'Could it be that he can't turn the tiger away from the mountain?' ’

The man in black suddenly had a hint of enlightenment in his heart, he stomped his feet, turned around and chased in the direction of the old eunuch's escape, just as his figure gradually disappeared, and from the empty trunk of a big tree, a thin figure was squeezed out, it was the little beggar by the door, and what he was holding tightly in his hand was the shining golden pill.

The little beggar stared greedily at Kanemaru, swallowed his saliva, turned and ran along the wall, he leaned over a dog hole, and his thin figure quickly disappeared into the night mist.