In fact, after I became emperor, theoretically speaking, Luoyang should have become an isolated city. Jinyang, Chang'an, and Hebei are all my territory, and they have long been surrounded.

But I haven't finished dealing with the affairs of Chang'an, and Luoyang has another variable.

There was a messenger from Luoyang who specially found Du Kang in the middle and handed a letter to Cui Shaoqing, asking her to find a way to hand it over to me.

Cui Shaoqing is also a person of change, knowing that the stakes are very high, he wanted to keep him, but this person refused to stay longer, only said that he wanted to leave, who knew that he had just left Du Kangju, and after walking not far, he was shot to death by an arrow.

But the arrow came from nowhere.

Cui Shaoqing had no choice but to ask Sanniang, who still often goes to Du Kangju Fuqin, to tell me all this.

In fact, long before Sanniang told me, I had already learned about it, and someone killed someone on the street, which would naturally cause a sensation.

I opened the letter, and when I saw it, my heart sank, such a familiar handwriting was from Li Xuanba, although the words were scribbled, the style remained the same, just looking at its situation, it must have been written in a hurry.

The letter mentioned that Du Chuke, who was entrusted with important tasks by him, rebelled against the commander of the forbidden army of Renshou Palace, and he himself was placed under house arrest, and all the affairs of the Luoyang court were temporarily handled by Du Ruhui, and Zhang Gongjin, the general of Xiao Yu's rebellion, also led the army to retreat to the north of Luoyang and no longer dealt with Li Yuanji.

This variable should have been expected by me, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

The moment I saw Du Chuke in the drunken Hongjian teahouse in Luoyang that day, I knew that Li Xuanba must have someone to interfere with me when he came back against me, and that person was not someone else, it must be Li Shimin.

It's just that I expected to be one step shorter, although it was unexpected to meet Li Shimin outside Zhuojun City, but under the temptation, I also knew that Li Shimin was not very clear about what happened in Luoyang, and all of this was done by the former staff of the Qin Palace.

They learned that I was proclaimed emperor in Chang'an, and because of the news that Lu Yanqing scattered Li Xuanba's life experience, he actually did not command the monarch of the world, so he abandoned this chess piece.

Li Xuanba was under house arrest and had no choice but to write this letter to me.

The killing of the messenger who delivered the letter shows that Li Xuanba's transmission of the news to Chang'an has been leaked, so he may also be worried about his life in Luoyang.

After the court meeting was dispersed, I went to the Ganlu Hall to find Zimin and told her about it.

Zimin was also speechless for a long time after hearing this, and asked after a long time, "Big brother, what are you going to do?" ”

To save or not to save, this has indeed become a question between me and Li Xuanba, whether I can save him or not is still a matter of whether I can save him, in terms of whether I am dedicated or not, I am already exhausted.

If it weren't for Li Xuanba, Zimin's eyes wouldn't have gone blind, and I wouldn't have to worry about blaming myself for this every day.

Seeing that I didn't answer, Zimin said again: "If the eldest brother ignores it, it doesn't matter." ”

When she said such things, I knew that she was hurt by Li Xuanba, Zimin has always regarded Li Xuanba as his younger brother, and even Li Shimin said that he would never do this to her, but Li Xuanba did it.

I thought about it and said with a smile: "Staying in the palace for so many days must not be in line with your temperament, how about I take you out for a walk?" ”

Zimin smiled and said, "Big brother is busy with affairs, do you have time?" ”

I said, "I am now the king of a country, and if I want to have time, I naturally have it." It's when something big happens, and they have to take care of it. ”

Zi Min smiled: "Sure enough? I have never seen an emperor as undevoting to you. ”

I saw the smile on her face, and knew that although she said so, she actually wanted to go out for a walk in her heart, so I changed into civilian clothes, took her hand, and left the palace from Qixiamen.

Just out of the palace gate, after walking not far, Zimin smiled and said: "Big brother, now that I come out, I know that some of the things I heard from people before are true." ”

I said, "What's that?" ”

Zi Min said: "Staying in the palace is rich and honorable, after all, it is still depressing, and it is not as comfortable as outside the palace." ”

I deeply believe that facing the throne in the palace is the Son of Heaven, and the crown on his head is enough to overwhelm people.

We walked very slowly.

When he saw the temple gate of Daxingshan Temple, Zimin raised his eyebrows and said, "I knew that my eldest brother would definitely come here,"

I was a little surprised, and said, "How do you know?" ”

Zi Min said: "Li Xuanba sent someone to deliver the letter hard, but the eldest brother didn't care about it, and he was uneasy, so he came to Xingshan Temple." ”

As he spoke, a faint burst of sandalwood spread through the air.

I said, "No, when I see your current situation, I will not be disturbed if I kill him with my own hands, but I will ......" I paused and took two more steps, "but I am sorry for my mother after all." ”

Zi Min said: "I'm doing well now, and my eldest brother doesn't have to ...... for me."

I said: "It's not just for you, when Li Xuanba was young, his mother was sick, I brought him here to pray for his mother's blessing, and I have paid special attention to him since then, I can't imagine that after decades, people will still change after all." ”

As he spoke, he entered the Great Heungshan Temple.

There are many monks in the temple I don't know very well, we turned around a few times, Zimin was puzzled, and asked: "Big brother came to the temple, why don't you worship the Buddha?" ”

I lowered my head and thought for a moment, raised my finger and pointed to the Guanyin Temple, put it down again, and said: "I only worship Guanyin, I think she purifies all living beings, what is the matter, find her the most spiritual." ”

Zimin smiled and said nothing, and didn't ask anymore, and I helped me into the hall gate.

I knelt side by side in front of the statue of Guanyin Buddha with Zimin, looking at her face as tall and kind as before, as if looking down on all beings, I closed my eyes, thinking that she might be able to hear my confession.

I am repentant to my mother, she told me to unite my brothers, as an eldest brother, I really did not do my duty.

After a long time, I attached to Zimin's ear and said, "Let's go." ”

Hearing this, Zi Min said softly: "Big brother, wait a while." ”

I turned my head as I said, closed my eyes again, and waited for a while, Zimin pushed me and said, "Let's go." ”

On the way back to the palace, we walked more slowly, and neither of us seemed to have a clear heart, and neither of us wanted to go back to the cage immediately. I suddenly felt a little sympathy for my father, he had been alone in that place for so long, and he seemed to understand what Yang Guang was doing, and he probably felt that Daxing Palace was very depressed, so he had to patrol everywhere and didn't want to stay here for a long time.

But as the Son of Heaven, it is actually not polite to run out of such a micro-suit, and when I returned to the palace, there were already people waiting for me in the Liangyi Palace.

Sanniang and Dou Dan.

Dou Dan has always been steady and respectful, seeing that I was wearing civilian clothes, he didn't say a word, but Sanniang had already run to Zimin's side and asked where we went.

Zimin smiled and said, "We went to the temple. ”

(End of chapter)