On the same day, Honglu Temple sent a note to the Tibetan envoy Dazaru Gong, informing him of the decision of the governor of Shazhou in the Tang Dynasty.

The news of Li Qing's dismissal spread like wings throughout the government and the opposition in an instant, and was widely publicized by well-informed people, and its shock was even greater than when he was promoted.

Some people sighed, but they were more rejoicing, shouting that the sky has eyes, and a person with no background and no merit can go from the third grade in just one year, which really makes too many people red.

Yang Guozhong was even more overjoyed, he hated Li Qing's development from the bottom of his heart, he was a dignified uncle, but he was not as fast as an outsider, especially when he knew that Li Qing had robbed him of the position of the household servant, this jealousy was even stronger.

And now, Li Qing has finally been deposed, and Yang Guozhong can't wait to rush to the front of Xingqing Palace and shout a few times, "Emperor Shengming!" ”

'The winter wind is proud,' Yang Guozhong galloped briskly in the imperial city, humming a little song in his mouth, but his mind was reminiscing about the wonders of last night's Qunfangyuan top card Duan Shi Niang.

When the money bag is bulging, his frivolous and prodigal nature is undoubtedly exposed, singing and singing every night, arrogant and extravagant, and I can't wait to see that all the regrets lost in the past are made up.

Of course, the political achievements are still needed, but when his first very important impeachment recital was thrown, it provoked an unprecedented backlash, it seemed that overnight, everyone was his enemy, and it was also thanks to the newly surrendered Zhao Yue who conspired in time to let him make a public statement, and the voice of impeachment of him gradually subsided, and Li Linfu took care of the officials, so that he could get through this difficult situation without danger.

Walk to the vicinity of Shangshu Province. I saw a carriage in front of him turning out of the office, and it was driving in the same direction with him without hurrying, Yang Guoguo recognized that it was the carriage of Chen Xilie, the left minister, at the moment he was in a good mood, and he was anxious to find someone to share this joy with, and Chen Xilie, who hated Li Qing, was undoubtedly a bosom friend.

Yang Guozhong urged the horse to step forward and drive alongside the carriage, he turned his head sideways to the window and smiled: "Prime Minister Zuo is still coming to the court in the New Year, and he deserves to be a model for hundreds of officials!" ”

The curtain is drawn. A gloomy face was revealed, but the smile in the corner of his eyes had not yet faded, and you can imagine how he was smiling in the carriage just now.

"Yang Cheng is going to measure the land and come back?"

Chen Xilie sneered coldly: "The old man's mansion occupies more than two points of the neighbor's land, Yang Cheng might as well put me in the first place." ”

Yang Guozhong didn't understand, obviously he only impeached officials and businessmen. Although he does not know much about political affairs, he also knows that the land issue is sensitive and cannot be touched.

At that moment, he smiled dryly: "Prime Minister Zuo said that he was laughing, today is the lower official on duty, take a look." ”

As soon as the topic changed, Yang Guozhong was in high spirits again, and said with a smile: "Can Prime Minister Zuo know about Li Qing?" ”

originally thought that Chen Xilie would definitely look at him and laugh, but although Chen Xilie hated Li Qing, he also disdained to share his inner pride with Yang Guozhong. In his opinion, Yang Guozhong is the heart of a villain. It's just schadenfreude, how can it be compared with your own elegance. Himself, it's just that he has some different political views from Li Qing, and he is profound!

"Yang Cheng, don't you want to talk about others, you must first talk about yourself, you are also a minister of the same dynasty, why bother to fall into the well."

He shook his head disdainfully, "That's it." This is the word of the king, and it is useless to say to you.

The curtain of the carriage was pulled down, as if the face of a bankrupt businessman's mistress, he no longer paid attention to Yang Guozhong, urged the carriage to speed up, and left in the dust.

Yang Guozhong touched a big nail and couldn't help staring at the carriage in the distance, 'Phew! scolded: "Bullshit, hypocrite!" ”

He turned his horse's head in frustration and headed towards his imperial platform, but as soon as he arrived at the office, he saw a group of guards surrounded by a carriage and about to leave.

Yang Guozhong suddenly panicked, and shouted repeatedly, "Li Xiangguo, Li Xiangguo stays!" ”

He almost rushed off the horse with a rolling belt, one foot still hanging in the stirrups, almost making him fall on his stomach, Li Linfu heard Yang Guozhong's shout, so he ordered the carriage to stop.

Although it is a New Year's holiday, but each temple has someone on duty, Li Linfu is the right minister of the order, the ruling pen, it is his duty to maintain the normal operation of the imperial court, he inspects the ministries every day, and today he went to the Yushitai, but found that there were only a few petty officials chatting inside, and there was no one in the Yushicheng.

Li Linfu saw Yang Guozhong step forward, his face was slightly gloomy, and he reproached slightly: "Yang Cheng, you are in charge of correcting deviations and etiquette, and you should inspect with your own appearance according to the system, but instead of picketing the divisions with me, you came late yourself, I heard that you stayed in the Qinglou at night, you need to check, otherwise what face do you have to impeach others?" ”

Yang Guozhong was sweating profusely, and hurriedly bowed down and explained: "The subordinates had already arrived early, but they were stopped by Zuo Xiang, so they came late, please forgive Xiangguo!" ”

"Chen Xilie? What does he ask you for? “

Yang Guozhong dealt with it casually, but Li Linfu wanted to get to the bottom of it, but he had no choice but to answer: "It's because of Li Qing's dismissal, I heard that Long Yan was angry, and his subordinates and Zuo Xiangguo were quite worried about him." ”

Li Linfu sneered slightly, "You guys are gloating!" ”

He sighed secretly, Li Longji's dismissal of Li Qing was just to perfunctory Tubo and give them an explanation, what did he send troops privately, without his Li Longji's acquiescence, would Li Qing dare to send troops? What is good at killing Tubo Zampu, and as soon as Chide Zuzan dies, I'm afraid Li Longji is the happiest. Now there is a lot of uproar in the government and the opposition, saying that his political life has come to an end, and no one can see the meaning of Li Qing's four words, 'staying in Beijing and waiting for use.'

"It seems that this household department will never reach his own hands", Li Linfu couldn't help but be deeply worried, although Li Qing's energy was still small at this time, and he could not pose a threat to him, but people had no foresight, and there would be near-term worries, if he was allowed to sit big, he would die in his hands sooner or later.

But at this time, Li Linfu has no time to take care of Li Qing, Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming are his top priorities, this is what Li Longji personally explained, seeing that Huangfu Weiming has finished his debriefing, he will go back in a few days, you have to hurry!

Li Linfu looked at Yang Guozhong, knowing that he was anxious to get rid of the impeachment of the official and businessman case, and he was anxiously looking around for credit.

Thinking of this, Li Linfu smiled slightly: "I have a family banquet tonight, Yang Cheng has not yet come to my house after the New Year, why don't you come and have a few drinks together, what do you think?" ”

A sentence reminded Yang Guozhong, he actually forgot to pay New Year's greetings to Xiangguo, he couldn't help but pat his head hard, and hurriedly bowed down and responded: "My subordinates must come tonight!" Come by all means! ”

It's a pity that Li Linfu doesn't know about Dong Yanguang yet, if he knows, he will judge that Huangfu Weiming is already a fish on the board at this time, so he is not in a hurry.

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Huangfu Weiming at this time is really like a fish on the board to be slaughtered, panic all day long, the hair that was originally half-white turned into snow white overnight, since Wang rarely betrayed and took his private army away, he knew that the general trend had gone, all this had already begun in Li Longji's control, from the time he ordered Li Qing to be the deputy envoy of Longyou

left, Li Longji inserted Dong Yanguang, and going back was a dead end.

He sat in the house every day, just waiting for the army to come to the door to raid the house and arrest people, but ten days have passed, Li Longji still has not moved, Huangfu Weiming's already desperate heart actually gave birth to a trace of luck, it may be that Li Longji can not catch the evidence that he wants to rebel, think about it, it is also like this, Wang rarely leads the army but does not know the order, and the order he gave is to split it into three parts, one of which is indispensable, and the most critical one of the warrants has returned to his hands, and he only gets the other two warrants and cannot guess his true intentions.

"Is that really the case?"

The fish on the board struggled twice, eager to jump back into the pool, but he didn't know that Li Longji didn't kill him for a long time, but he just wanted to use him as bait to catch bigger fish, and his mansion was already full of secret whistles.

Early in the morning, the porter rushed to report: "Master, the father-in-law Li outside the door is here again, I told him that the master is not at home, but he just refuses to leave, and he is still waiting there, it has been almost half an hour." ”

"Li Jingzhong is here again!" Huangfu Weiming jumped up suddenly, this was the third time that Li Heng had sent Li Jingzhong to his mansion.

"Don't worry about him, he can stand as long as he likes."

Huangfu Weiming took three steps and made two steps, and hid in the study first, he didn't want Li Heng to know that the matter had failed, let alone be implicated by him again, he guessed well, Li Jingzhong was indeed entrusted by Taizhi to find out the news, these days, Huangfu Weiming seemed to be missing. There was no news, Tai Li Heng was anxious, and sent people to Xianyang and Fengxiang to find out no news, and the Huaqing Palace was as calm as before, and the 20,000 troops did not know where to go.

Li Heng was scared now, he only hoped that the emperor would find out that the situation was wrong and take the initiative to withdraw, so that he could clear the charge of forcing the palace. But hope does not represent reality, what is going on, it is necessary to find Huangfu Weiming himself, but he has neither a message nor any news, and disappeared with 20,000 troops. Tai Li Heng fell into deep fear and worry, and he gradually lost his reason and proportion.

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In the afternoon, the sky became silent, a terrible silence, and a large thick black cloud that had been stretched across the distant sky earlier, like a lead-colored curtain, now began to expand, and appeared in the treetops, and soon the whole city of Chang'an quickly darkened. The sky was splashed with ink, a sign of heavy rainstorms that are common in summer. But it's so unusual for it to appear in winter.

Only a quarter of an hour. The sky was completely swallowed up by darkness, Li Qing stood in front of the window, staring at this unusual winter day, he seemed to have heard the rumbling of thunder in the distance, the sound was getting closer and closer, suddenly, a lightning bolt tore through the darkness in the sky, and then. There was a sky-shattering explosion overhead, and his ears seemed to be deafened.

"This is the first spring thunder of the year."

Li Lin walked into the room. He was also slightly surprised: "It's just that there are still a few days left in the sting, but the spring thunder has arrived first." ”

Li Qing closed the window, and the thunder immediately subsided, and he smiled apologetically: "It's too late to pay New Year's greetings to Uncle Shi until today." ”

"It's good to come, sit down and talk first." Li Lin pulled two chairs and asked Li Qing to sit down.

He pondered for a moment and said, "I also think it's quite strange that the virtuous nephew was dismissed this time, so the virtuous nephew might as well tell me what is going on?" ”

"I'm back in Beijing."

Li Qing had a wry smile on his face, he knew that he couldn't be the governor of Shazhou for half a year, so why did he let the curtain suffer the crime of that bump? No wonder Li Long asked him to take his family away, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said with a smile: "Uncle Shi can understand the emperor's layout." ”

"Recently, the matter of abolishing the Tai is confusing, some people say that it will be abolished, some people say that it is only a sample, the emperor's mental trick, who can see through it?"

After a pause, Li Lin's eyes suddenly became extremely surprised, "Could it be that the virtuous nephew knows?" ”

Li Qing nodded, "I know that I can't talk about it, but I just guessed a thing or two." ”

"That.

Li Lin wants to know that in the court power changes again and again, only by expecting the first opportunity, to put it bluntly, only by guessing the emperor's mind first, can the career be smooth, but this kind of talk is extremely sensitive, did Li Qingken tell him? His eyes were hesitant and hopeful, staring at Li Qing tightly.

Li Qing smiled faintly, he came to Li Lin's Mansion today for a purpose, that is, to let him support Zhang Qiu and Qiong, yesterday Zhang Qiu and Qiong came to him again, and told Li Qing very frankly that the emperor had decided to let him enter Beijing and serve as a subordinate servant, that is, the left minister, and now Chen Xilie's position, Chen Xilie moved to the left servant of Shangshu to shoot, let him go out to the province, and Li Qing was appointed as the right servant of the household department and judged the envoy (if you don't add a real title, the waiter is also famous and has no power).

Li Longji's layout is already obvious, that is, to use Zhang Qiu and Qiong to contain Li Linfu's party dominance, the reason why he uses Zhang Qiu and Qiong is not only because of his qualifications and ability, but more importantly, Zhang Qiu and Qiong are inextricably linked with Tai Li Heng, and can easily accept the old people of the Tai Party, and then shovel out the irons such as Huangfu Weiming and Wei Jian.

Li Longji's scheming and ingenious means really made Li Qing breathtaking, but he also vaguely guessed another meaning of Li Longji, and asked Zhang Qiu and Qiong to alleviate the increasingly acute land and financial contradictions, Li Qing knew that this was also the root cause of the Anshi Rebellion, if you want to avoid the Anshi Rebellion, you must rise to the occasion and do your best to alleviate the problem of these two places that everyone avoids.

"The emperor wants to appoint Zhang Qiu and Qiong as the left minister, and I will be the right attendant of the household department and the envoy of the degree, so as to balance the Xiangguo Party." Although his tone was understated, Li Lin was still shocked, this is undoubtedly a major change in the power structure, Zhang Qiu and Qiong as the left minister also means the rise of a new party, and then there will be a series of personnel changes, what about himself? Which side should you stand on?

Without waiting for him to speak, Li Qing seemed to see through his thoughts, and then said solemnly: "I came to find Uncle Shi just to ask Uncle Shi to stand on our side." ”

Li Lin was silent, and after a while, he sighed and said with a wry smile: "My daughter has left with you, do I still have a choice?" ”

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The sky thundered again, the rain began to roar down, with the chill of early spring, washed away the last remnant snow of winter, the fog in the distance, with the arrival of the first spring thunder, the spring of Tianbao five years began to approach, maybe there is also a spring cold, but the spring has been unstoppable, it awakens all things, urges the green earth, and strides forward.