Since Yu knew the content of the court meeting, he seemed to have lost his soul, in the study, depressed, silent, and did not think about tea and dinner, in just twenty days, he lost a lot of weight all of a sudden.

It has been more than half a month, and he has gradually recovered a little, and he has started to eat in the past two days, but he still doesn't speak, and he just reads sullenly all day long.

From the time he returned to Chang'an, he guessed that there would be such an ending, 300,000 soldiers were almost wiped out, 33 imperial princes were jointly opposed, 320 important ministers were jointly opposed, and the emperor finally reluctantly compromised, making Li Yu almost desperate.

He fell into a loneliness that he had never felt before, it seemed that all the people were making enemies of him, no one supported him, and no one helped him, he felt that he was about to end, the position of the prince had gradually moved away from him, the emperor had postponed his establishment of the prince indefinitely, the ambitions he once had, countless whimsical ideas for the revitalization of the Tang Dynasty, and now they are like beautiful blisters, suddenly bursting.

He buried his head in the palm of his hand, and what Li Qing had said before leaving resurfaced in his mind.

"You are a very prince, so your ascension to the throne can only use extraordinary means, and one day, when you are facing despair, you will come to me!"

Li Yu let out a long sigh, he had doubted his father's words, and now he finally understood that his defeat was not because he was the emperor's grandson, but because he did not have great strength.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, which ancestor has not ascended the throne with strong support, but he has nothing, Li Yu smiled self-deprecatingly, "In this way, can you still expect to ascend to the throne?" ’

"Lord Wang! You drink tea. ”

A cup of hot fragrant tea was placed in front of him, and a soft body was pressed against his back. Gently massaging his thin shoulders, Li Yu grabbed her hand with his backhand, smooth and warm, this is the woman he loves the most.

"Pearl, I once said that I would make you the queen in the future, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it."

"I don't want to be a queen, I just hope that my Dilangjun can be happy every day, you have been so depressed for the past 20 days, I feel very uncomfortable."

Li Yu pulled her in front of her, her skin slightly darkened. This is the reason why she has been with Anthy for the past twenty days. Every day just silently soothes herself with her carefulness and gentleness, without her. I may not be able to survive this on my own.

He was moved in his heart for a while, and smiled reluctantly, "Maybe the emperor's position was originally a luxury, but I was too self-conscious." I really shouldn't have such an unrealistic idea. ”

Shen Pearl shook his head, "Lang Jun, I know you need time to think, so I haven't persuaded you, but there are some things I have endured for more than twenty days, and I have to say them." Do you remember the immigrants in Anthy? They moved their families from the Central Plains thousands of miles away. Just because they have a dream in their hearts. It was this dream that made them grit their teeth and persevere, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers. Beyond the vast Gobi, there are old people and children, and none of them will give up.

She gazed at her husband tenderly, and said to him in a firm tone: "I am not urging you to give up, I hope you will cheer up, just like those Anxi immigrants, for your dreams, persevere." ”

Li Yu listened silently, if it was more than 20 days ago, he would not have listened to these words, but now he has come out of a desperate situation, his mentality has calmed down, his wife's words knocked on his heart one by one, his eyes gradually showed a trace of shame, he is still a dignified seven-foot man, and his knowledge is not as good as a woman, he held his wife's hand, and said sincerely: "You are right!" It's me who is cowardly, I've come this far, is there a way back? ”

Li Yu stood up, strode to the door and said loudly to the guards: "Go and invite Mr. Li Yu to come!" ”

"Huh! Is Your Highness looking for me? As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Li Mi walking over with a smile.

He was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look back at Shen Pearl, who said calmly: "Mr. I sent someone to find it, I know you should wake up." ”

Li Yu smiled gratefully, and said to her again: "Pearl, pour a cup of tea for Mr. too." ”

After a while, Shen Pearl put a cup of tea in front of Li Mi, and Li Mi hurriedly bowed and said, "Thank you princess!" ”

"You talk, I'm going!"

"Mr. must have heard about the court meeting a long time ago!"

Li Mi nodded, and said with a slight smile: "I wanted to come a long time ago, but the princess didn't let me, saying that you need to be alone for a while, I didn't understand it at first, but now I slowly understand the princess's painstaking efforts, His Royal Highness has been reborn in pain, hey!" If you have a wife like this, what can a husband ask for! ”

Li Yu was silent, and only after a long time did he say: "If I have that day, I will definitely make her the queen." ”

"Yes, someday!" Well, at least the emperor didn't announce that he would give up on you in public, although it is not optimistic, but after all, there is still a glimmer of hope, besides, you still have a killer move in your hand! ”

"Yes!" Li Yu replied heavily: "Even for this line of hope, I will stick to the end, and now I want to trouble Mr. One thing." ”

"Your Highness wants me to go to Li Qing?"

Li Yu walked to the table, quickly wrote a letter, sealed his mouth, handed it to Li Yudao, and said, "It's just that Anxi is a long way away, and Mr. Hard Work." ”

A sly smile appeared in Li Mi's eyes, "Who said that Li Qing is in Anxi?" If I'm not mistaken, he should be in Longyou right now. ”.

The sky was high and the clouds were light, and a carriage, escorted by a dozen knights, walked leisurely under the blue sky, and on both sides of the official road, large fields of wheat were ripe, and a gust of wind blew, like a golden wave.

Li Mi crouched on the car window, fascinated by the golden wheat waves, and after a while, he got up and said to the guard: "Go and ask for an ear of wheat for me!" ”

A guard stepped forward to salute a farmer, and said a few words, the farmer turned back and pointed to the north, then plucked an ear of wheat for him, and the guard stepped forward and handed it to Li Mi, and said with a smile: "Sir, the farmer told me just now that there is a large military camp about ten miles to the north, and there are tens of thousands of people in it. ”

Li was surprised. It's only a hundred miles away from Fengxiang, could it be that Li Qing is actually stationed here? It should be Li Qing, there is no Tang army in the Western Regions except him, and the information obtained by chance makes his heart full of doubts, Xiang is so close, what is his intention?

"U-turn north!" Li Mi gave the order, and the carriage immediately turned to another path heading north

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After about two quarters of an hour's journey, there was a huge barracks in front of them, with a tall wooden fence and white tents next to each other.

On the left and right sides of the camp gate there is a tall watchtower, and the camp gate is in the middle. A big flag was waved in the wind, and a big 'Li' character was printed on it.

It is about 1,000 steps from the camp gate. There was a thick white line with two words written in front of the white line, 'Stop! ’

Li Mi's carriage hesitated, but still crossed the white line. After a few more steps, a chirping drummer rose into the sky, drew an arc, and nailed it to the front of the carriage, and then the camp gate was wide open, and a group of cavalry rushed out. Blocked the carriage's way.

"You've passed the 800-step line. Take another hundred steps. Shoot or kill! ”

Li Mi commanded, and immediately a guard stepped forward and said, "May I ask if this is General Li Qing's camp?" ”

"Is there anything you guys are up to?" The lieutenant watched them warily. There was no positive answer.

Li Mi took out a famous post, ordered the guards to hand it over, and said: "I am the old man of General Li Qing, and I am looking for him in an emergency!" ”

"Wait a minute!"

The lieutenant took the name card and ran into the camp quickly, and after a while, the captain came back and said solemnly: "The general is invited, but the barracks can't run horses, please get off the car and walk." ”

"Might as well!" Li Mi happily dismounted, followed the captain and walked briskly towards the camp, the barracks were neat and quiet, there seemed to be no one, the captain explained with a smile: "The brothers have gone to help collect the wheat, and they will come back in the evening." ”

"Oh!" Li Mi smiled slightly, it seemed that Li Qingting would buy the hearts of the people, he looked to both sides, and asked, "Is it an empty camp now?" ”

The lieutenant had a gloomy face because of his speech, and refused to say a word again.

After a while, the group walked to the Zhongjun tent, only to see the curtain lifted, Li Qing walked out with a smile, and said to Li Mi from afar: "Since Mr. is unwilling to be the judge of Anxi, why don't you tell Li Qing and run away?" ”

Li Mi stepped forward and gave a salute, and said apologetically: "I don't worry about the King of Chu, I only left Anxi, and I left in a hurry, and I didn't have time to resign from the general in person." ”

"I saw that Mr. believed it, and it was a pity that Mr. left Anxi!" Li Qing said while inviting Li Mi into the big tent, the two sat down separately, a personal soldier offered tea, Li Mi took a sip and went straight to the topic, "The general must have known about the matter of the King of Chu!" ”

"I already know!" Li Qing said, casually took a stack of express letters from the table, this is Chang'an's eyeliner sent him every day, all the news is provided by Li Lin, the content is accurate and detailed.

He smiled and said, "Our prince seems to be in trouble, I always thought he would give up on himself, but now it seems that he has survived." ”

"Isn't the general worried?"

"Worried? A little bit! Li Qing smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "After all, he is the prince of my capital, if he is finished, I have to start from scratch." ”

"The general is a frank man, I admire!" Li Yu took out Li Yu's letter from his arms, pushed it to Li Qing and said: "Since I came to find the general, I naturally came to ask for help, I don't know if the general has a clever plan to reverse the decline." ”

Li Qing did not answer his words, but used a knife to pick open the cover of the letter, took out the letter inside and read it carefully, the main line of the letter was also a request for help, but Li Qing was more concerned about the tone and words in his letter, from these details can be deduced his position in Li Yu's heart.

Of course, the answer is to satisfy Li Qing, although Li Yu tried his best to discuss with him in a plain tone, but from his pen, it can be seen that his hands are trembling, and under the trembling pen, the flat tone just shows the panic in his heart.

He closed the letter, raised his head and said decisively to Li Yu: "I naturally have to help the King of Chu, otherwise what am I doing close to Fengxiang to garrison so close?" ”

"Does the general think.

Li Mi suddenly couldn't continue, almost all of the 300,000 troops in Guanzhong were in Tongguan, and there were only one or twenty thousand Yulin troops stationed in Chang'an City, they were pampered, where was the opponent of the battle-experienced Anxi army, if he attacked Chang'an at night, then Li Qing would probably control the overall situation, but in this way, what is the difference between him and An Lushan.

"Nope! It shouldn't be like this, Li Qing would not do such a rebellious thing. He stopped and comforted himself, but if it wasn't, how could he explain his intentions now?

Li Mi suddenly remembered something, and he looked around uneasily.

"Is Mr. looking for King Shou?"

Yes, what Li Mi is looking for is Shouwang Li Mao, Li Mao was named the observer of Longyou Dao, responsible for the overall defense of Tibet, in fact, he is the king of the Western Regions, where are the others? How could you tolerate an ambiguous garrison like Li Qing.

I haven't seen him since he entered the barracks, maybe he's in the state! Li Mi relaxed, if he knew that Li Mao was less than a hundred steps away from him, he didn't know what kind of frightened expression he would have, but unfortunately he wouldn't know, because Li Qing didn't intend to tell him that although they were allies now, political allies were as worthless as a prostitute's chastity.

In the final analysis, Li Qing's assistance to Li Yu to ascend the throne is just to use each other, if he is as simple as a girl holding flowers in his hand, then the first person Li Yu will kill after he ascends the throne is him.

Emperors are inherently ruthless, no matter who ascends the throne.

"King Shou collects grain in the state." Li Qing explained lightly, and then his thoughts returned to the topic, he gently sucked a sip of tea, and his face gradually became solemn, "The real threat to the King of Chu is Yongwang Li Lan, Ge Shuhan has 300,000 troops, once he is in trouble, it must be Li Lan who ascends the throne, if I guess correctly, he has already had an agreement with Yang Guozhong." ”

Li Qing slowly walked to the door of the tent with his hands behind his back, and said in a somewhat desolate and helpless tone: "If you want to break this situation, the key is the relationship between Yang Guozhong and Ge Shuhan, which is why I led the Anxi Army to be stationed on the bank of Fengxiang." ”

History has come a circle, it has returned to its original trajectory, and even the most crucial step in the Anshi Rebellion was actually promoted by him Li Qing, which cannot but be said to be a great irony.