When he came out, it was nearly noon, and the warm sun sprinkled on the golden and brilliant glazed glass of the imperial city with dazzling light, and the sun shone warmly on Li Qing's body, he looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, as if he was a human being in two lives.

Cui Qiao followed from behind and patted him lightly on the shoulder, "Congratulations to Li for joining the army, do you know that it is too rare to meet low-grade officials, not only did I meet you today, but I also valued you very much, and the future is immeasurable!" ”

Li Qing squinted at him slightly, and was secretly wary of him, he walked out of the Hades Palace today, only to realize that Zhang Qiu and Qiong would never order him to see Tai, the consequences of killing people and destroying his mouth Zhang Qiu would not be unexpected, seeing Tai must be this Cui Qiao's unauthorized decision, seeing that he was polite, he couldn't imagine that his heart was so vicious, although Li Qing was dissatisfied, he still smiled and thanked him: "This is all the cultivation of Lord Cui, Li Qing dare not forget." ”

"Huh! Not bad! Yes, you can't be arrogant, you don't forget your roots, and you can teach! ”

Cui Qiao's son is also the main book, and his age is similar to Li Qing, but every time he sees Tai, he never asks more than three sentences, this is still in his own face, and it is impossible for others to even see Tai, but just now he asked Li Qing's life experience, asked him about his ability to govern the county, and asked about the details one by one, this is what he has never seen, Cui Qiao is jealous and surprised, he knows that he is too fond of this person.

"I want to set up a banquet tonight and invite Li to join the army for a light meal, I wonder if Li is free to join the army?"

Shicai heard Li Qing say to Tai that he was an orphan, and Cui Qiao moved his mind. He has a daughter, who is seventeen years old this year, and is beautiful and beautiful, but she is a little pampered.

Unexpectedly, Li Qing said apologetically: "I have promised another uncle tonight, I am afraid that I will live up to the good intentions of adults." ”

"No problem! No problem! Tomorrow will do. Where do you live, I'll send a car to pick you up tomorrow. ”

Cui Qiao's smile was kind, his eyes were slightly bent down in the shape of a crescent, Li Qing was moved, and he felt that the smile was so familiar, he thought about it carefully. Suddenly it dawned on me, Curtain! The curtain 's smile is exactly the same as him, he, his surname is cui, li qing was so shocked that his heart stopped beating, the word engraved on the curtain jade pendant, isn't it the word cui, is it.

"Lady Cui, I want to take the liberty of asking about it."

Li Qing's heart was itching anymore, and he didn't care if this was the imperial city, let alone whether it would evoke Cui Qiao's painful memories. Anyway, he just wants to know the secret of the curtain's background.

But Cui Qiao had no intention of paying attention to him anymore. He stared straight ahead, his face changing dramatically. Regardless of the solemnity of the appearance, he saw a big ding next to him, holding a court robe and a cat's waist, and he drilled to the back with great speed, peeping with a probe while beckoning to Li Qing again and again.

Li Qing saw that the dignified Sanpin Dali Siqing was so embarrassed, as if he was playing a game of slingshot with a child. I couldn't help but follow his gaze, and a wide carriage was parked fifty paces ahead of him. Hundreds of guards were on guard, and an official with two chicken feathers on his head stood in front of the car and kept nodding his head, his face was full of grateful, Li Qing didn't care who the carriage was, but he wouldn't forget those two chicken feathers, he couldn't help but reach out and touch his cheek, the whip marks had scabbed, but the whip marks in his heart could never heal.

"Li joins the army, I'll go first, remember to come to my house tomorrow."

Cui Qiao saw the opportunity, greeted Li Qing in a low voice, bent down and quietly slipped along the palace wall, he accidentally stepped on the official robe again, and almost fell into the mud, looking at his nervous and clumsy appearance, he couldn't ask him about the curtain, so he had to give up.

He suddenly became interested in the carriage again, and looked carefully as he walked, this carriage was wide and elegant, the body was carved with jade and silver, wrapped in gold ribbons, and even the coachman was wearing a brocade robe and leather belt, looking at this formation, at least it should be the prince, Li Qing suddenly felt a sharp gaze shooting from the carriage, this gaze was strange and familiar, as if he had been waiting for himself for many years, as if he had seen through himself, he actually had a feeling of shock, suddenly, he already understood who was sitting in the carriage.

In the carriage sat Li Linfu, who was about to enter the palace to face the saint, he took advantage of Li Longji's great disposition last night, and successfully said that Li Longji was moved, and considered sending Li Lin's daughter to the Khitan and relatives, but he received a report early in the morning, saying that Li Lin went to the East Palace first, so he decided to ask the emperor again to take advantage, and happened to meet Li Huaijie who was preparing to return north in the imperial city.

Li Linfu caught a glimpse of Cui Qiao who was scurrying along the palace wall, he couldn't help but sneer, he also expressed his allegiance to himself the day before yesterday, but now he came to the East Palace, a two-faced guy, see how I clean you up.

He watched Cui Qiao flee away, and then turned back to listen to Li Huaijie's grateful.

"When I return to the north this time, I will build a shrine for Enxiang for my Khitan women to worship at four o'clock."

Li Huaijie learned that the beauty belonged to him, and he was all facilitated by Enxiang, and he was so excited that he burst into tears, and he couldn't wait to be a watchdog in the Prime Minister's Mansion for Enxiang to drive sooner or later.

"There is no need for the ancestral hall, you just need to have the emperor in your heart, are you listening?"

"Li Dudu—are you listening to what I say?"

Li Huaijie was distracted, he suddenly saw Li Qing from the gap in the carriage, the two looked at each other, he recognized that this person saw yesterday by the county lord's side, it was not a servant.

"Could it be that he also wants to kiss the county lord's Fang Ze?"

Li Huaijie was proud of the victor, and he suddenly had a strong impulse, he wanted to take Li Jingyan on Suzaku Street slowly, and let all Li Jingyan's suitors take a look, the most glamorous princess in the Tang Dynasty belongs to the Khitan people, hehe! Why not, I'll come next year.

Li Linfu himself can be distracted, but he does not allow others to be distracted, he is secretly annoyed by Li Huaijie's rudeness, he dares to talk to himself absent-mindedly, he saw Li Huaijie staring closely ahead, his eyes are proud for a while, excited for a while, and a yearning smile for a while, and he can't help but look back, from the translucent gauze curtain, he saw Li Qing at a glance, seeing that this person is of very low grade, but he dares to look at his carriage unscrupulously, doesn't he know that this carriage embraced by the hundred guards is sitting under the Tang Dynasty, Is Li Linfu above 10,000 people?

"Li Dudu, who is this person?"

Li Huaijie was shocked to realize that he was out of shape, and hurriedly leaned over and replied: "Returning to the grace, I don't know this person, but I saw it yesterday next to the county lord of Pingyang, and it was very rude, so I have an impression." ”

"Humph!" is an arrogant and ignorant junior.

"Someone!"

"The subordinates are here!" Seven or eight guards echoed at the same time.

Li Linfu pointed at Li Qing, "Beat that guy out of the imperial city with a stick!" ”

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In the imperial study of Daming Palace, the Tang Emperor Li Longji is standing in his hands, silently staring at the sky, and the white clouds are gathering and dividing, just like life in other places; His life has gone in a hurry, there are many things in the rise and fall, glory and disgrace, and like white clouds in the sky, he sees only the gathering and division of the earth in front of him.

People say that ten things are smooth, but Li Longji is not, he has too many troubles, his thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are not quiet in all directions, there are the troubles of Tibet, there is the rise of the Uighurs, and there is the Nanzhao sitting down, but all these are troublesome

Not to be the one behind him, he was emperor for thirty-three years, and when the successor was impatient.

On his desk, there are two records of Tai Life, the ink on the paper has not dried, one is a record in the Mingde Palace, and the other is a record in the Tainei Palace, he doesn't care about the records of the Mingde Palace, Li Lin pleaded, Cui Qiao reported on his work, and there was a small master book talking eloquently.

Li Longji's interest is in the body of the master book, in another Tainei Palace living record, but it is clearly full of the same person's remarks, it is the same person, but the identity has become Jiannan Jiedu envoy Cao Shen military, as if a trick, even Li Longji has a strong interest in this person, Zhang Qiu and Qiong's envoy, intercepted the fine iron smuggled to Tubo, was arrested by Xiangguo last night, and escaped Tai's extermination, countless wonderful fragments outline a living legend, Li Qing, the small businessman who invented slush, The owner of Yibin County actually had an interest in chatting with this person.

"Your Majesty, Li Youxiang asks to see you."

Behind him, Gao Lishi's slender voice came, Gao Lishi was burly, but his heart was as careful as a hair, and before Li Longji could speak, he had carefully put away the two living records that had not yet dried the ink.

Li Longji turned around slowly, although he had reached ten, but the years not only did not bring him aging, but added mature charm and majesty, Li Heng looked quite similar to him, with a straight nose and a wide mouth, and long eyebrows and eyes, but Li Longji's eyes were cold and had a kind of magic that saw through people's hearts. It gives people a shrewd but deep sense of the city, which is a typical example of that kind of eloquence.

"Announce him in."

After a while, Li Linfu, under the guidance of the two little eunuchs, entered the imperial study of the Tang Dynasty.

"Minister Li Linfu pays a visit to His Majesty the Emperor."

Li Longji glanced at him and remembered what he had just said in the Tai Living Record. This person's brother Li Daofu shielded the smuggling, and he used his troops to arrest Zhang Qiu's envoy, he couldn't help but sneer secretly, but his face was not shown at all, he was still as kind as usual, and smiled casually: "No courtesy." Have a seat! ”

As for what his subordinates do, Li Longji does not judge things on the basis of facts, but on people and things, and only looks at his needs, big things can become small things, and small things can also become big things, and he does not alike the factional struggle among his ministers, on the contrary, he also encourages this kind of power struggle, and only when the courtiers struggle exists, can he grasp the balance of power. This is the power of the emperor, and he does not let one faction sit big. Let alone allow any forces that threaten themselves to exist, especially too.

Twenty-five years after the beginning of the century. Zhang Ling's dismissal, Shi Zai was demoted for defending the scribe Lang Yan Tingzhi, but in fact, the real reason for Zhang Ling's resignation was that he strongly opposed the abolition of Tai Li, he did not understand Li Longji's true intentions for Tai Li's arrangement, and he didn't expect that Li Longji didn't need Tai at all.

Li Linfu's buttocks hung lightly on the edge of the chair, his face squeezed out 120,000 sincerity, and said, "Your Majesty." The minister came today to make peace with the Khitan, late yesterday night. The minister has not yet finished speaking, please let the minister come carefully. ”

Li Longji smiled faintly, "Say it!" I just listened. ”

Early in the morning, Li Lin, the king of Ning, entered the palace and asked Li Longji to cancel the arrangement for the prince of Pingyang to make peace with his relatives for the sake of King Ning.

"The minister just met Li Huaijie, the governor of Songmo, in the imperial city, and knew that Li Huaijie had a deep affection for the county lord of Pingyang, and the minister was thinking, why did my Celestial Dynasty want to make peace with the Khitan, it was nothing more than to let the Khitan always surrender to my Celestial Dynasty, so that the land of the Khitan would always belong to His Majesty the Emperor, even so, if the county lord of Pingyang was married, wouldn't it be able to influence Li Huaijie more deeply, so that she would bathe the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor in the body of every Khitan person, so that every Khitan person would surrender to His Majesty, just like when she became a princess to marry in the west, so according to the old minister, If you want to be naturalized in the Khitan, you have to go to the county lord of Pingyang. ”

Li Linfu said while peeking at Li Longji's face, seeing that he was hesitant, knowing that he still had a knot in his heart, he smiled and said for him: "King Ning is unwilling to let his daughter marry in the north, this is human nature, if it is the daughter of the minister, the minister is not willing, after all, the north is bitter cold, but how can the daughter not marry, Li Huaijie is also a hero, marrying him is not insulting the county lord, moreover, the county lord marries in the north, the same brocade clothes and jade food, what does the bitter cold in the north have to do with her, the emperor will be gracious again, let the county lord often return to Beijing to visit his father." ”

Li Longji stood up and took two steps back and forth, "What Xiang Guo said makes sense, but it is not in line with the etiquette system to let the county lord marry in the north, and I am worried that the court will oppose it." ”

Li Linfu secretly sneered in his heart, "Etiquette? If you want to make a daughter-in-law a concubine, is it in accordance with the etiquette system? You just think it's a pity to marry the first beauty of the clan to the little Khitan. ”

He already had a plan, got up and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, forgive the minister, now that Tubo has a military situation, the court should concentrate on Tubo, if there is another accident in the north, the minister is worried that it will affect my Tubo strategy, so sacrificing a county lord in exchange for peace in the north, the minister thinks it is worth it." ”

Li Linfu's last sentence made Li Longji shocked, yes! What are the tears of the nephew, and what is the kindness of the eldest brother? Only the Datang land is forever preserved is true.

"I understand, let me think about it again."

Li Linfu's heart has finally landed, things have come to this point, Li Jingyan's marriage to the north is already a certainty, who else in the world can change Li Longji's determination to maintain the society of the country, 'Li Lin! Li Lin, let me give you a taste of what it will be like to go against the old man! ’

"The minister also wants to discuss with the emperor about the Shangyuan night lanterns"

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"If you want to change Li Longji's determination, only one person in the world can do it."

Li Qingzheng was sitting on a small food stall, eating noodles, while thinking quickly, just now Li Linfu actually ordered his subordinates to beat his stick out of the imperial city, Rao is running fast, but he still received two sticks on his body, "Li Linfu!" Li Linfu, I want you to understand what the consequences will be if you don't kill me, and Li Huaijie, that whip will not be in vain, first salute you with a sullen punch. ”

I remember that Yang Mo said that they lived in Princess Taiping's old house, but where was Princess Taiping's old house, Li Qing looked dark, he sucked the last mouthful of noodle soup dry, patted his belly, and smiled at an old couple who were setting up a noodle stall: "Two old people, I want to ask where is Princess Taiping's old house?" ”

The old man was enthusiastic, he pulled Li Qing and pointed to the front and said: "The old mansion of Princess Taiping is in Xingdaofang, you go straight ahead, about three miles, and you see only one stone beast at the gate." ”

"Thank you!"

Li Qing took out the money to pay the bill, only to find that he had nothing, the money was in the Fengyuan, and Yin saw that he was not returned, and the old man saw that he was embarrassed, so he smiled and said: "Young man, you go!" When will it be sent again, but there is really none, so I will invite you. ”

Li Qing was ashamed, and arched his hand at the old man and said, "Thank you for inviting me to eat noodles, I will return it in a few days." "To repay kindness, to repay grievances, to be a human being.