In the early morning, nearly 100 cavalry escorted Li Mo out of the barracks and galloped towards his mansion, he had just received news that someone had set fire to his mansion last night, burning more than 20 rooms, killing and wounding many people, Li Mo immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and no one was allowed to enter or exit

If you use one word to describe Li Mo's mood at this time, it is sadness, his anger has long passed, when he learned that Han Qing impeached him, his anger almost overturned the tent, and the roar could be heard for miles, at that moment, a kind of anger betrayed by the person he trusted, almost burned his entire body and mind.

But now that the anger has been extinguished, time has blown away the fog, revealing the truth that he couldn't see before, from beginning to end, when has Han Qing been loyal to him? Cui Yu is weak, Pei Junhou is hideous, Cui Xiaofu falls into the ground, and the scenes on the power field go up and down, when will he know?

The reality made Li Mo cold to the bone, and in the end, only endless sadness remained, could it be that he voted for the wrong master?

"General, it's here." Seeing that he looked a little sluggish, and did not seem to realize that he had arrived home, one of the soldiers quietly reminded him.

Li Mo immediately slowed down his horse, then turned over and dismounted, there was no one around the mansion, and hundreds of soldiers who had arrived in advance were tidying up the burned buildings, with piles of charred wood, loose furniture, and blackened masonry everywhere.

Li Motie walked into the door of the mansion with a blushing face, and the mansion was also in chaos, with all kinds of miscellaneous items scattered on the water-stained open space, and the faces of the people below were panicked.

"Where's Madame?" Li Mo asked in a hoarse voice.

The housekeeper hurriedly ran up to report, "Madame went to the temple early in the morning. ”

"Ask those mud tires to be a piece of!" Li Mo was furious all of a sudden, and he kicked open a copper basin that was blocking the way. Said in a vicious voice: "Put all the things away, whoever dares to take a thing privately, Lao Tzu will skin him." ”

The butler was so frightened that his heart almost stopped beating, and hurriedly led the family to carry the belongings, but in the confusion, no one noticed that an unusually majestic soldier quietly blended in with the sergeants who were cleaning up the rubble.

Li Mo was depressed. He walked into the lobby and sat down, drinking tea while thinking about a strategy for dealing with the imperial history. Fortunately, it happened two years ago, a long time ago. There is no evidence that he was not in the camp at the time, he could have passed the responsibility to his subordinates to conceal the truth, he had a chance to deal with it at that time, how could he go to hunt down the deserters in person, and several officers could also hide it for him, see who dares to help that Han Qing, "Damn it!" Thinking of Han Qing, Li Mo couldn't help but scold in a low voice.

Then. Suddenly there was the sound of running outside the door. Immediately, someone shouted, "General, the imperial history of the imperial court has arrived!"

"It's coming so fast!" Li Mo was taken aback, and as soon as he looked up, he saw a majestic soldier running in with a letter running quickly, "This is a secret letter from the imperial history to the general, and there is something to convey to the general." ”

A few soldiers next to him were about to stop him. But I heard that the imperial history had something to tell. They all stopped, staring at him warily. The soldier knelt down on his left knee, performed a standard military salute, held the letter above his head, and said angrily: "This is Liao Yushi's letter." ”

A personal soldier handed the letter to Li Mo, and Li Mo asked while tearing open the cover, "What else does he have to say?" ”

"He said he wanted to have an interview with the general, and

When it came to the two remaining words, Li Mo had already unfolded the letter, and there were only four big red characters in the letter, beware of the top of his head!

Li Mo subconsciously raised his head, and at this moment, a cold light flew out of the soldier's mouth, pounce! The ground shot into Li Mo's throat, and the soldier's eyes were raised, and a grim sneer flashed

"General, the imperial history has arrived, please open the city gate!" A late report outside the gate echoed in the sky above Li Mo's mansion for a long time.

Chang'an, the thick porridge fragrance of Laba Festival permeates the streets and alleys of each square, after Laba Festival, the footsteps of the New Year can be vaguely heard, this year's situation is a bleak year in Chang'an, into December, a news quietly circulated in Chang'an, Huaibei Cui Qinggong has completely cut off the luck, and the government's grain stock has been less than one month.

The price of grain has risen sharply, the rice is worth 500 yuan, it is said that the New Year will rise to 1,000 yuan of rice, many people's rice jars have bottomed out, and the Laba Festival has really become a cloth of shame.

In this way, a rice character has become an unbearable burden for the people of Chang'an, and a trace of wind and grass about grain can arouse a commotion among tens of millions of people.

In the early morning of 8 December, a grain convoy composed of nearly 1,000 horse-drawn wagons drove into the Jinguang Gate in the west of Chang'an.

The news spread all over the city in an instant, hundreds of thousands of Chang'an people flocked out, they helped the old and the young, stumbled from all directions, 2,000 cavalry escorted the grain cart on Chunming Street slowly, on both sides of the street, from time to time burst into bursts of fierce applause, "Folks, my governor will send millions of stone grain to Beijing before the New Year." ”

Every time the grain officer announced loudly, it would provoke a tsunami-like response, countless people shed tears of excitement, and some even raised their arms and shouted, "Long live Zhang Zhijun!" ”

When the pressure of life has far exceeded the dignity of life, at this moment, Zhu's rebellion is no longer important, Cui Qinggong's division has been left behind, and the recovery of Anxi's hometown has become very far away.

The convoy marched to the Suzaku Gate, Pei Jun led hundreds of officials to personally greet the arrival of the grain truck, Du Mei, who was in front of the team, turned over and dismounted, and quickly stepped forward to give Pei Jun a deep salute, "Qi Xiangguo, the first batch of 50,000 stone grain in Longyou has been delivered." ”

Pei Jun knew Du Mei, and he hurriedly smiled and arched his hand, "Mr. Du has worked hard all the way." ”

Pei Jun walked to the grain cart, patted the thick grain bags heavily, and sighed secretly, just for their arrival. I don't know how much concession I made.

"Xiangguo, originally we planned to take the waterway, but the Wei River has frozen and can only be transported by grain carts, which the governor means if the imperial court can provide a carriage to transport it. We strive to send a million stones to Beijing before the New Year. ”

"It's hard for Zhang Shangshu to think so thoughtfully, I will order Taifu Temple to do this matter." Pei Jun nodded with a smile, turned around and instructed Fang Zongyan, the secretary of Taifu Temple: "Ship the grain directly to Changping." First stabilize the grain price in Chang'an. ”

Fang Zongyan agreed, and immediately stepped forward to go through the handover procedures with Du Mei. Pei Jun briefly explained a few words, then boarded the carriage and returned to Daming Palace, and soon, the price of rice in Chang'an had quietly dropped to 200 wen per bucket.

"Xiangguo, did you hear it, someone is actually shouting long live." In Pei Jun's room, Wang Ang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, looked angry, his eyes could no longer hide the jealousy in his heart, and he slapped the table fiercely and said, "This person is obviously buying the hearts of the people. We must not tolerate him being so presumptuous! ”

If Wang Ang thinks that he is the luckiest thing in this life. That is, the son did not marry Cui Ning as his wife, although the daughter eventually married Cui Xiong, but after all, it has nothing to do with Cui Yuan.

Three years ago, since the fall of Cui Yuan, Wang Ang resolutely took refuge in Pei Jun, and became his loyal dog, Wang Ang is fickle. But there is one thing that he has always insisted on. That is the jealousy of Zhang Huan, as early as when Zhang Huan first ascended to the court. He has a bitter hatred for Zhang Huan, this hatred first originated from the change of the heir of the head of the Zhang family, it is a bit like wine, as time goes by, it becomes more and more mellow.

Although he hated Zhang Huan to the core, Wang Ang knew that Zhang Huan was already powerful, and he could not provoke it, so he buried this hatred deep in his heart and rarely showed it, until twenty days ago, a mysterious fleet attacked the garrison of Yidu, Wang Ang immediately guessed that this could only be the army sent by Zhang Huan from Shuzhong.

It's like a spark thrown into a vat full of oil, and the anger that has been pent up for too long suddenly erupts.

The explosion of fire oil could not hurt Pei Jun even a little, and there seemed to be an invisible wall around Pei Jun, which bounced Wang Ang's anger back.

He was reviewing the recitals, his posture was calm, his expression was calm, he was not affected by Wang Angdi's anger in the slightest, and he also pondered the wording of the recital from time to time, did he really not take Wang Ang's words to heart?

No! Of course not, when the secret letter from Hedong was sent from Changhua County, Pei Jun fully understood Zhang Huan's true intentions, and also understood the truth of the so-called assassination, and the stupid Zhu actually became a stepping stone for others to move up.

Zhang Huan wanted to seize Fengxiang legally, and the ultimate goal was the third of the three conditions he proposed: the military department

Immediately afterwards, Han Qing's impeachment of Li Modi also arrived, and a complete and careful plan was clearly laid out in front of Pei Jundi, assassination - turmoil in Hanzhong - Longyou sent troops - Huaibei tension - Pei Jiajun went east - Changhua County immigration - Li Mo was impeached, the plan was so thorough that Pei Jun was amazed, as if it was an unusually fine porcelain, so that he could not bear to break it.

In fact, a food problem and a Hanzhong problem are like two ropes, which have firmly bound his left and right hands, and then Zhang Huan calmly made this exquisite porcelain in front of him.

And Wang Ang in front of him was just a fly buzzing in his ear.

Pei Jun finished writing the last sentence, put down the pen, and smiled at Wang Ang: "Did Wang Shangshu receive Zhang Potian's invitation?" ”

The unorthodox sentence made Wang Ang stunned, and he immediately reacted, Pei Jun didn't want to talk about Zhang Huan, did he use it as a horse for a little food? Wang Ang scolded secretly in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "Of course I received it, it seems to be."

Wang Ang was trying to remember the invitation he threw into the latrine, how many days was on it?

"December 17th." Pei Jun said lightly: "That is, the sacrifice day when Zhang Ruoho was buried for five years." ”

Wang Ang walked out of the gate of Zhongshu Province in frustration, his eyes could not be opened by the bright sunlight outside, and he stood on the steps for a moment before he walked listlessly towards the soft sedan chair parked at the bottom of the steps.

The Zhang family and the Wang family are world friends, so Wang Shangshu will go and see it that day! Pei Jun's cold words seemed to still echo in his ears, phew! Hypocrisy, Wang Ang couldn't help but spit hard, didn't he himself support a Zhang family in Taiyuan?

"Get up the car. Go home! Wang Ang sat in the sedan chair and had no intention of going back to the courtroom.

The four sedan chair drivers lifted the sedan chair, and just after taking two steps, Wang Ang saw several soldiers running towards this side in panic from a distance through the sedan window, and the leader was still holding a red letter box in his hand, and he was stunned. It was an 800-mile emergency military report.

"Stop!"

Wang Ang walked out of the sedan chair quickly and stopped the messenger, "What's wrong?" ”

The first messenger panted and said, "Something happened to Feng Xiang. Jiedu caused Li Mo to commit suicide in fear, and his cronies started a riot in the city. Even Liao Zhongcheng was killed by them. ”

"What!" Wang Ang was taken aback, how could there be a military rebellion in Guanzhong, and he hurriedly shouted, "Then how is the situation now?" ”

"Zhang Shangshu has led the army to quell the riot, and all the generals who participated in the riot have been suppressed."

The horror on Wang Ang's face suddenly turned to stunned, and he stood in a daze for a long time, then suddenly jumped up, grabbed the letterbox, turned around, and ran up the steps.

"Xiangguo, something big happened to Fengxiang!"

The sixth day of December in the sixth year of Xuanren. Fengxiang Festival made Li Mo commit suicide in fear of sin. Caused a riot in the Fengxiang army, Liao Hui in the imperial history who was investigating Li Mo's deception case in Fengxiang was also unfortunately killed, and Zhang Huan, who was confronting Zhu in Hanzhong, immediately led 20,000 troops from Chencang County into Fengxiang City, quelled the rebellion, and publicly beheaded more than 300 officers and soldiers who participated in the rebellion and burned and looted the land.

When the news reached Chang'an, the imperial court commended Zhang Huan and Longyoujun, who had quelled the rebellion in time, and crowned him as a hussar general and a 5,000 households. and appointed Han Qing as the new envoy of the Fengxiang Army.

Soon. The situation in Hanzhong was finally calmed down by Zhu Shang's apology, and Huaibei Cui Qinggong did not attack Huainan in the end. With a heavy snow falling on the land of Guanzhong, the 50,000 Longyou army officially left Guanzhong and returned to Kaiyang County and Longxi County, and in mid-December, Zhang Huan came to Chang'an again.

On the one hand, of course, he was afraid of Pei Jundi's 80,000 troops pointing at his back, and on the other hand, because Zhang Huan actually sent 30,000 expeditionary troops from Bashu to help in the war, Cui Qinggong realized that Zhang Huan was very likely to join forces with Pei Jun, and he immediately dispersed the assembled army to various places, and wrote to the imperial court, willing to go to Beijing to report on his work, and a war that was about to break out disappeared.

After the Huainan crisis was resolved, Lin Jiuhan led the fleet back according to the original plan, and on this day, the fleet arrived at Baling County (now Yueyang) and began to slowly dock in Baling County.

When they saw that it was not the goods that came down from the boat, but a group of heavily armed soldiers, some people began to be afraid of retreating, and the officials who managed the wharf had already rushed into the county seat to report the county order and the history of the assassination, and dozens of soldiers in charge of tax collection also quietly ran to the barracks stationed in Baling County.

Like Yidu, due to the important strategic position, Baling County also has a thousand garrisons of the Wang family, and the military camp is in a small town about five miles away from the river, except for these 1,000 garrisons, there is no Wangjiadi power in the surrounding counties, such as Changsha County and Wuling County west of Dongting Lake, etc., are ordinary regimental training, led by the assassin Shi, responsible for local security.

All morning, 300 large ships were continuously sending soldiers ashore and unloading all kinds of military supplies, and it was not until noon that all 30,000 soldiers came ashore and began to set up temporary barracks in a wide area.

At this moment, the wharf is full of black soldiers, they reorganize the queue, carry materials, nervous and orderly busy, but quietly, most of the onlookers are frightened to flee back to the city, it is no wonder, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has never been a war here, the Anshi Rebellion also mainly occurred in the Yellow River Valley, not to mention young people in the city, even the oldest people have never seen such a huge army, only a dozen bold young people hide in the trees, behind the stones, secretly observe the movement of the army, But their eyes couldn't help but show envy.

Lin Jiuhan's boat ride was the last group to dock, and his feet finally stepped on solid ground, but his body was still light. It seemed to be still floating on the water, and after a long time, he gradually got used to the feeling of being on land.

"General, the assassination history and county order of Baling County are here." A soldier pointed with his hand, and saw that two miles away, several magistrates, accompanied by dozens of retinues, were walking this way from a slope. It had just rained here last night, and the ground was very muddy, and it had been a long time. Several officials were led to Lin Jiuhan with the hem of their official robes.

Baling County is a lower county with a population of more than 50,000 people. Thorn Shi's surname is Liu, more than 30 years old, Qingzhi was born in Jinshi for ten years, strictly speaking, he is not an outsider, he is the fifth son-in-law of the eldest grandson Nannan, not long ago he returned to Chang'an to celebrate his father-in-law's birthday, and only returned to the county with his wife two days ago.

The eldest grandson Nanfang is Cui Yuan's brother-in-law, so this Liu Tingshi prides himself on being the Cui Party, and in the past two years, the Cui Party has fallen and the Pei Party has risen. He's been thinking about it. How can I include myself in the Pei Party, but I can turn over the family tree to the eighteenth generation of my ancestors, but it has nothing to do with Pei Zi.

Liu Tingshi stepped forward and gave a deep salute, "Liu Yuan, the assassin of Baling County, welcome the general to rest in our county." He spoke in a straight Beijing dialect, hoping to arouse the nostalgia of this big general.

Liu Tingshi's Beijing language did cause Lin Jiuhan's nostalgia, and he stretched out his big hand and pressed Liu Tingshi's thin shoulders heavily. Staring into his eyes. also said in a straight Beijing dialect: "Don't worry, in the days to come." If you have a bite from your big brother, you can't miss a bite. ”

Liu Tingshi was almost shocked and fainted, and after a long time, he stammered: "What do you mean by general and general?" In a hurry, the Beijing dialect became an obscure Baling dialect again.

Lin Jiuhan smiled heartily, "It's nothing, we heard that there are many bandits here, so we were ordered to suppress the bandits, and we will return in three or five years." ”

It won't be until three or five years later, Liu Tingshi's eyes are green, and he hurriedly explained: "But, but, there are no mountains here, let alone bandits, are the generals and generals in the wrong place?" ”

"Who's to say no, isn't there there?" Lin Jiuhan pointed to the official road in the distance, and saw dozens of war horses appear on the official road, and they were immediately officers and soldiers in full armor.

Liu Tingshi and the county commander looked at each other, and after half a sound, the county commander stepped forward and bowed and saluted: "General, that's not a bandit, that's the Shannan Army, and we have a thousand Shannan garrisons here." ”

Lin Jiuhan looked up to the sky and laughed, "The bandits I'm talking about are them." ”

He waved his hand and said loudly: "Brothers, copy the guys, and follow me to drive this group of bandits across the river." ”

In Jincheng County, Zhang Huan's mansion was busy, more than a dozen carriages lined up in a long column, and nearly a hundred soldiers were carrying boxes and cages to the carriages, and on the steps, Pei Ying was directing several soldiers to carry out a large bamboo box.

"Everyone, be careful, the ground is slippery, don't fall!"

"Mother, I'm going to help too." Zhang Qi broke free from his mother's hand and ran forward to move a large box on the ground, but he tried his best to feed, and the box still didn't move.

"You stupid boy, it's all your father's books, how old are you, how can you move it." Pei Ying hurriedly smiled and pulled her son back.

Pei Ying received a letter from her husband a few days ago, asking her to bring her children to Beijing for the New Year, and the whole family was reunited.

The naughty Zhang Qi couldn't stop for a moment, he suddenly saw a horse tied to a stake and grazing quietly, a soldier was grooming the horse's mane, he was itching for a while, and ran down the steps while his mother was not paying attention, "I'm going to ride a horse!" ”

"Beware!" Pei Ying exclaimed, and before Zhang Qi ran down the steps, a long hand suddenly stretched out next to him and hugged him horizontally, threw him into the sky, and caught him again, Zhang Qi screamed with joy.

Ten days ago, he led 40,000 Tang troops and 20,000 Tubo troops to conduct a final decisive battle near Dushan Mountain, the two sides fought fiercely for more than two hours, because Wang Siyudi 10,000 cavalry suddenly entered from behind the Tubo army, the Tubo army collapsed on the whole line, and the 20,000 Hexi Tubo army was killed except for 2,000 people who were captured, and the rest were all killed, so far, the whole territory of Hexi was recovered by the Tang army.

As a result, He Lou Wuji was named the governor of Suzhou and the general of Yunlu; Wang Siyu was named the governor of Shazhou and the general of Zhongwu.

This time, He Lou Wuji rushed back to Jincheng County because he got Zhang Huan's secret order, ordering him to guard Jincheng County, and pay close attention to the movements of Li Zhengji, although Li Zheng had immediately obeyed the order to withdraw his troops from Huijun, and it seemed that the turmoil had subsided, but Zhang Huan had already received the exact news, and as soon as Pei Yi left, Li Zheng had sent someone to secretly send an envoy back to Hui.

"The last general will see Madame!" He Lou Wuji stepped forward and saluted Pei Ying.

Pei Ying smiled and said, "General He Lou, congratulations on your happy son." ”

When he was fighting with Tubo in Jiuquan, his wife happened to give birth and almost died of dystocia, all relying on Pei Ying's care before and after, so that their mother and son could turn the corner, and he finally had a son, this kindness was engraved in his heart.

He Lou Wuji nodded silently, he turned around and waved, a soldier brought a pony, the saddle and reins should be complete, but it was not a young horse, but an adult pony, docile temperament, especially suitable for children to ride, this kind of horse is extremely rare in Datang.

He Lou Wuji hugged Zhang Qi to the pony and said with a smile: "This is found by my uncle's subordinates on the grassland, give it to you, do you like it?" ”

Zhang Qi was overjoyed, he pulled the reins and drove it! Drive! Shouting, urging the horse forward in a decent manner, frightened the two family members to pull the reins one left and one right, for fear that he would really rush out.

Pei Ying was also very happy in her heart, and hurriedly thanked He Lou Wuji, He Lou Wuji hurriedly returned the salute, and he ordered someone to bring an earthen jar, and said: "This is filled with the soil of Hexi, which is asked by the governor, please bring your wife into Beijing together." ”

Pei Ying nodded, ordered someone to accept it, and when she saw that everything had been loaded, she said to her family: "Tell everyone to get in the car!" Here we went. ”

He Lou Wuji turned over and got on his horse and ordered the captain of the guard battalion: "Madam and Gongzi are going to Chang'an, you have to guard their safety closely, if there is the slightest negligence, you come to see you!" ”

"Subordinates obey!"

As soon as the captain of the guard battalion waved his hand, a loud horn sounded for a long time, and the two thousand cavalry immediately formed a team, guarding dozens of carriages in the middle, and the large group of men and horses slowly started and galloped towards the west city gate.