In the letter, he complained to Li Mao several times, but he never mentioned asking for help. The clerk didn't take the initiative, and Li Mao didn't take the initiative, so he spent it like this first, to see who consumed more energy than whom. Now Li Maoxian can't go on, and the two fires of Mao Taigong and Zhu Jiu must be sent out, otherwise they will burn themselves.

Li Mao sent a letter to Li Shigu and petitioned to send Mao Taigong and Zhu Jiu to cross the sea to Liaodong, set up a stronghold, and set up a front station for the restoration of Liaodong.

Li Shigu's reply was very businesslike: You are still the deputy envoy of the guard and the pro-army Yangdao Army, and the right wing of the right wing is the consolation envoy of the Liaodong Zhucheng, and you are free to deal with the affairs of Liaodong, and you don't have to ask the military government for everything.

Li Mao almost forgot that he still had such a part-time errand, and his face was flushed with shame for a while, what is a corpse vegetarian meal, this is it.

After some calculations, Li Mao, as the deputy envoy of the guard's pro-army Yangdao Army, informed the right chamber and sentenced the Liaodong Zhucheng to the relevant Yashi and prefectures and counties in Ziqing, asking for cooperation with Mao Taigong and Zhu Jiu to send troops to Liaodong.

Ziqing has just experienced an officialdom shock, and its initiator is Li Mao, and now everyone is in danger, they hate and fear Li Mao, and everyone avoids him like a plague god. After receiving Li Mao's letter of assistance, he gave the green light, and he couldn't wait to send Mao Taigong and Zhu Jiu to get out of the border, and the efficiency was amazing.

Mao Taigong and Zhu Jiu held back in the grange for a year, and now they finally got out, just like a bird out of the cage, the dragon into the sea, the two of them were excited, and they held a bonfire party in Li Mao's grange, with the sky as the tent and the ground as the seat, and lit dozens of Li Mao's thatched huts as lamps, and made a lively scene.

At the end of the song, the people scattered, ate and wiped it out, and the two of them traveled lightly, without worry, but also chic.

When Li Mao heard this, he was heartbroken.

Mao Taigong and Zhu Jiu took the ship of Haidong Trading Company from Laizhou to Laizhou, crossed the Bohai Sea, landed in Beisha City, and were sent by Sang Rong to the mouth of the Liao River by sea, and went north along the river, and traveled for several months before arriving at the foothold of Wencheng. The two joined forces and officially opened the prelude to the restoration of Liaodong.

After Li Mao consulted Li Shigu about this matter, he reported it to Li Jie, the king of Yun'an.

Li Jie doesn't have the heart to care about Liaodong now, the torrent in the Daming Palace is surging, and the danger is full of dangers, two days ago, Li Zhongyan, the envoy of the Shaoyang Academy, found that someone had poisoned the tea of the crown prince Li Chen, and shouted all the way to chase him, and that person fled into the inner court in a grand manner.

This is the third time this year that the crown prince has been assassinated.

Forty-three years after Yuyu Hainei, Li Shi, the sixty-four-year-old son of the Tang Dynasty, is not as good as day by day, and Wan Wansui in the mouth of the minister knows that he has run out of oil, just like the sunset in the west, and is about to go down.

Yousi is already secretly preparing for the future, and these trivial matters do not need to be worried about by the princes and grandchildren, what they are worried about is who the sun will rise in the Ming Dynasty after dark one night.

As the sun sets and the night falls, endless intrigues breed in places where there is no light, and this has always been the case, without exception.

Li Jie glanced at the red sunset in the western sky, and unconsciously his eyelids jumped wildly, he dropped Li Mao's "Restoring Liaodong Strategy", meditated for a moment, and called people to change clothes.

Li Mao has been paying attention to the affairs in the Forbidden Palace, he feels that the storm is coming, and he stepped up to deal with the things in his hands.

Li Yuan was saved, but Han Hong was still sick, how to pull out this thorn in the eye?

The opportunity seems to be right in the air.

Wang Boyuan, the owner of the Xuanwu Academy, often went to Kaimingfang in the south of the city alone recently, and had close contacts with a group of businessmen from other places.

Li Mao was keenly aware that this would be a breakthrough, and he strictly ordered the two stewards of Chang'an and Wannian to immediately mobilize elite soldiers and strong generals to immediately find out the origin of this group of people.

The bronze tiger head Chang'an branch is like a cloud, but the other party is by no means idle, and the investigation technology and means available in this era are very limited, and the investigation efficiency is extremely low.

Under Li Mao's strong supervision, the two stewards of Chang'an and Wannian did not dare to slack off, and after paying a high price, the results were also very fruitful, and it turned out that the leader of this group was actually the famous assassination master "Three Drunken Heroes" Wang Shiyuan in Heluo.

Wang Shiyuan is famous, there are many legends about him, many bizarre and false, but there are four points that are consistent:

One said that he is strong in martial arts, good at fencing, flying eaves and walking on the wall like walking on the ground, and lifting a thousand pounds like nothing.

Second, he is good at making and poisoning drugs, and he can kill people invisibly.

The third is that he kills people for righteousness, not for money, and that the people he wants to kill will not be forgiven, and the people he does not want to kill will not be forgiven.

Fourth, he said that his capital as a man is very strong, and he has cultivated the method of fierce battle, and he has ruined countless people in his life.

Li Mao was not interested in how his kung fu was on his hands and in bed, he was interested in how Wang Boyuan, the master of Xuanwu in Shangdu Jinjuan, could get involved with Wang Shiyuan, a notorious killer, and was this a big conspiracy?

It has to be.

What big, important, and vicious cases have happened in the capital recently, Li Mao, Lin Ying, and Qin Zaimian have been working together one by one, but they have not found anything to use.

At this moment, Li Jie came.

Li Jie was worried, and as soon as they met, he said to Li Mao: "Brother Maohua, save me." ”

Li Mao looked around and said with a smile: "Lang Lang Qiankun, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, who dares to be unfavorable to the king, is this a rebellion?" ”

Li Jiedao: "Brother Maohua, don't laugh naughtily, it's a big deal." ”

Li Mao restrained his smile and asked carefully, Li Jie ran to the door and stretched out his head to look left and right, closed the doors and windows, and carefully checked it again, then lowered his voice and said: "Someone poisoned the prince's tea bowl and almost killed the prince." ”

Li Mao was taken aback, the news about the assassination of the crown prince, true or false, has been rumored several times in the past year, some of which are empty, but they cannot be dismissed as nonsense.

In the fourteenth year of the Great Calendar, Daizong Li Yu died of illness, Li Shi ascended the throne and became the emperor, and in the same year, the eldest son Li Yu was appointed as the crown prince.

Although Li Yu is the crown prince, he is not favored by his father, and Li Shi is favored by Li Yi, the king of Shu. Li Yi is the son of Li Shi's brother Li Miao (Prince Zhaojing), because of Li Miao's early death, Li Shi adopted him as his own and favored him abnormally.

Therefore, Li Yu's position as the crown prince was threatened by Li Yi, the king of Shu, from the very beginning.

In August of the third year of Zhenyuan, an unspeakable scandal occurred in the palace, and Li Yu was almost deposed.

Li Yu's mother-in-law, Princess Gao Guo, the daughter of Tang Suzong, has a personal life, not only has an affair with the queen of the clan, Sima Li Wan of Pengzhou, but also has an unclear entanglement with the prince Zhan Shi Li Yu, Shuzhou Beijia Xiao Ding and others.

Relying on her special identity, she often goes in and out of Shaoyang Courtyard. Gather with Li Wan, Li Yu, Xiao Ding and others to drink, often staying up all night.

In fact, in the Tang royal family, **** is not a big deal, there are Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji secretly communicating with the palace concubines, and then there are Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang, and then Emperor Tang Ming snatched love with a knife and snatched Yang Yuzhen from his son.

Dirty is not afraid, just a "dirty" word can't bring down the unruly princess of Gao Guo, but if someone falsely accuses Princess Gao Guo of practicing witchcraft in Shaoyang Courtyard, it will violate the royal taboo.

Li Shi was furious and reprimanded Li Yu.

Li Yu was so frightened that he had to follow the story of the emperor's grandfather Suzong Li Heng when he was the crown prince during the Tianbao period, and resolutely cut off his wife and asked for a divorce from the crown princess Xiao.

After the incident, Li Shimeng moved the idea of abolishing Li Yu and replacing Li Yi as the crown prince, and he summoned Prime Minister Li Mi to the palace to discuss.

He listed the lessons learned from the abolition of the crown prince since Zhenguan, analyzed Emperor Taizong's caution about the abolition of the crown prince and Suzong's remorse for killing King Jianning because of his impatience, and advised Li Shi to take the past as a warning and never be in a hurry.

Li Yu's words moved Li Shi, and Li Yu's position as the crown prince was thus preserved.

Princess Gao Guo was imprisoned in the palace because of this incident and died depressed.

Li Wan was killed by a rod because he was **** with the same sect on the charge of not knowing how to "avoid the sect". Princess Gao's relatives were implicated, including her five sons, Li Yu and Xiao Ding, who were exiled to Lingbiao and remote places.

Princess Gao's daughter, the crown princess Xiao, was also executed.

This accident left a deep shadow in Li Yu's heart, and for more than ten years, he became more cautious and did not dare to exceed the rules by half a step.

However, the caution of the crown prince could not completely dispel Li Shi's idea of changing Li Yi. In the past ten years, the crown prince Li Yu has trembled, walking on thin ice as if he is on the edge of the abyss, and he has spent every day in torment.

Li Mao thought of the situation when he saw Li Yu when the Shaoyang Courtyard played right that day, the prince's face was dark, his eyes were dull, he thought that he had a dark illness that day, but now he thinks that he not only has a dark illness in his body, but also has a secret illness in his heart.

Shaoyang Courtyard is located in the Daming Palace, how tightly guarded, some people can enter the Shaoyang Courtyard in a grand way to poison it, and after being exposed, they can retreat with their whole body, if there is no insider to echo, they don't believe it.

"The prince is in danger, if no one helps, I am afraid, I am only afraid, I am only afraid of ......" Li cried when he hit the case.

Li Mao had no way of knowing who harmed the crown prince, or the impulse of the old emperor after he was drunk, or the forces loyal to Li Yi, the king of Shu, either of which gave Li Mao a golden opportunity.

Li Mao decided to take a gamble and pull Wang Boyuan and Wang Shiyuan into the assassination of the crown prince in order to weaken Han Hong's prestige.

Li Jie didn't believe that his father's assassination had anything to do with Wang Shiyuan, he had heard of Wang Shiyuan's name, but the forbidden area was heavily guarded, how could he be a figure in the rivers and lakes.

Li Mao tried his best to frame Han Hong, the purpose was to get rid of a big rival for Ziqing, which Li Jie saw clearly.

The power of the feudal town is expanding day by day, the tail is not big, and it has become a public hazard in the world, and the courtiers are divided into two distinct camps around whether to cut the domain.

Officials in charge of the practice are opposed to eagerness and maintain the current strategy of appeasement.

Wang Shuwen and Wang Ling, the disciples of the crown prince Li Chen, both advocated the reduction of the feudal domain, and Wang Shuwen once gave a public speech in front of hundreds of scholars when he attended the Qionglin banquet in the thirteenth year of Zhenyuan Dynasty, expounding his idea of cutting the feudal domain.