The night was already very deep, Zhang Huan rode on a horse, walking slowly east along Chunming Street, his lips and teeth still had Cui Ning's unique, a faint fragrance of white chrysanthemum, and her ghost complaint seemed to echo in his mind, and the beauty's infatuation strengthened his determination to take Cui Ning away.

However, his entry into Beijing this time was not entirely for Cui Ning, he also had to plan a stable environment for his future development, which involved three people, Cui Yuan, Pei Jun and Wei Ge.

These three people represent the three major families of the Tang Dynasty, how to use the contradictions between the three of them to build a stable triangle, and then in this triangle, in the Helong area, he Zhang Huan, Duan Xiushi and Wei Ge built a small triangle, so that he has room for development.

Of course, Zhang Huan also knows that he is soft-spoken, and he has no right to speak in the struggle between the three families, but because of this, he can calmly lay out behind his back.

And now the key is that he needs to find a way to break the deadlock.

Zhang Huan's horse turned a corner, and walked southward, he couldn't help but think of Cui Xiaofu again, her helplessness and bowing to himself.

Yes, she was too anxious to get rid of the Li family too early, so that she didn't get the Li family's network accumulation, and at the same time, she also underestimated Cui Yuan's determination, and finally put herself in a cage.

Now all she can rely on is herself and Duan Xiushi, thinking of this, Zhang Huan's eyes showed a knowing smile, Cui Xiaofu is an extremely useful chess piece, at least her status as the queen mother is very useful for her future, this chess piece he must hold in his hand, through Li Chuanyun, through his own help to her, so that she gradually became dependent on herself, as for Duan Xiushi, Zhang Huan did not take it to heart, if necessary. One sentence is enough to ruin his loyalty to Cui Xiaofu.

Cui Xiaofu asked him to help Duan Xiushi as the envoy of Shuo Fangjie, which does not conflict with his small triangle plan, it can be said that it coincides with his ideas, the best time is at the first seven places of the great court meeting, the seven cabinet ministers are there, as long as there are four people in favor, then the matter will be done, Pei Jun He will make sense; Chu Xingshui is his uncle, and he is not worried; And Lu Qi, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is Pei Jun's confidant, but Pei Jun is the first to look forward. It can be regarded as a by-product of Pei Junhou, and the key is the fourth person. Cui Yuan, Wang Ang, or Yang.

Cui Yuan, he is the real key to solving this problem, so how can Cui Yuan agree to appoint Duan Xiushi as the Shuofang Festival Envoy?

Exchange?

At this time, these two words suddenly popped up in Zhang Huan's mind, and he immediately thought of a solution, and he couldn't help but laugh softly on the horse, this method may be the breakthrough to build that stable triangle.

The first drum to close the city gate and the fang gate rumbled over Chang'an, and the pedestrians on the street sped up and rushed towards their neighborhoods, and Zhang Huan also whipped his horse fiercely. The war horse galloped towards the Xuanyi Fang, and at the moment when the gate was about to close, Zhang Huan and several followers rushed into the Xuanyi Fang

Back at Pei's house, Zhang Huan walked quickly to his yard, the courtyard was very quiet, the floor lights in all the rooms were out, and he touched the house. This room is carefully arranged by Pei Jun, and externally, they are already husband and wife. So they need to enter the same door, but in fact they are not really married, so after entering the main gate, there is a suite on the left and right, and Pei Ying lives on the left. Zhang Huan lives on the right. Zhang Huan was just about to enter his room. He suddenly noticed that Pei Ying's door didn't seem to be closed, so he leaned in to take a look. On the bed in the outer room, Hua Jinxiu and Xiaoqiu were asleep, both of them were already asleep, making a slight snoring sound evenly, and from time to time there were a few vague dream words of Hua Jinxiu.

He was about to quit, his heart thumped, and he tiptoed into the inner room again, the room was burning a brazier, it was very warm, and it was estimated that Pei Ying had already slept.

Click! Click! He knocked on the flint twice, and a flame ignited in his hand, and then lit the lamp in the room, and then walked lightly to Pei Ying's couch with an oil lamp, opened a curtain and looked inside.

Pei Ying was already asleep, she was curled up in a ball with a pillow, her black hair was scattered over her shoulders, her posture was delicate and moving, the light reflected on her white porcelain face, reflecting a beautiful flush, more pure than when she first saw her, she had faintly revealed a mature charm at this moment.

Zhang Huan sighed softly, Cui Ning's infatuation haunted him and made him have an unforgettable love, but Pei Ying gave him a warm, faint, like a clear spring to nourish his heart

He slowly took off his coat, and laboriously untied dozens of soft armor robe belts little by little, blew out the lights, and then lay down on Pei Ying's side tiredly, smelling the faint fragrance on her body, his mind was confused for a while, at this time Pei Ying turned over and put his hands and feet on his ground, Zhang Huan didn't dare to move, and unconsciously, he fell asleep.

When he woke up the next day, it was already dawn, and the little wife beside him had long since disappeared.

"Won't you sleep a little longer?" I saw Pei Ying walking in from the outside with a tray and a smile, she put the tray down, it was today's breakfast inside, she pinched Zhang Huan's nose, and said with a smile: "Bad guy, when did you sneak up on my bed?" ”

It can be seen that she is in a good mood, and she must be relieved that Zhang Huan came back last night, but when Zhang Huan wanted to reach out and hug her, she ran away like an antelope.

"Then I'll eat!" Zhang Huan stretched his waist for a long time, finished breakfast in two bites, patted his stomach and smiled: "I'm full, it's time to get down to business." ”

"You're going to be back early tonight."

Pei Yingdi's face suddenly turned crimson, and she lowered her head shyly and said, "Daddy hopes that we will kowtow to him and grandpa tonight, and Uncle Chu will also come at that time." ”

Zhang Huan suddenly understood, he nodded, and said seriously: "Don't worry!" I'll be back in the afternoon, and I'll take you to my mother tomorrow." ”

He immediately cleaned up briefly, and then galloped towards Yongjiafang with more than a hundred elite soldiers.

In the Diquan Mansion of Yongjiafang, Zhang Huan and Li Mi are agreeing on the details of the final operation, while Lin Delong is sitting on the side, and he will be the operator of this operation.

"I have already passed by Cui Mansion first, Cui Yuan did not go to Daming Palace today, I heard that he is sick."

Zhang Huan paced slowly in the room with his hands behind his back. He couldn't help but have a smug look on his face, and said with a smile: "This is really God's help, so that he Cui Yuan can't wash away the suspicion of the mastermind." ”

"The strategy is very good, in this way, Wei Ge will hate Cui Yuan to the bone, and the seat of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites is also vacant, which can be described as killing several birds with one stone, and it has indeed broken the deadlock." Li Yu's eyes were full of admiration for Zhang Huan's plan, he thought about it for a while, and said, "The key is whether you can confidently say that Pei Jun will give up the Ministry of Rites to Cui Yuan." ”

Zhang Huan stopped and smiled slightly: "Xiao Zhi is affectionate." I think he'll say yes. ”

Li Mi understood what he meant. He didn't ask about it anymore, he looked carefully at the road map drawn by Zhang Huan, and his brows suddenly frowned: "Actually, it is most appropriate to persuade the farmer to start, why do you choose to choose him on the way home?" ”

"I already plan to turn it into my eyeliner in Chang'an, so I don't want to destroy it, besides, there are many other important ministers in Quannongju, and many of them have guards, and I am worried that any brother will be caught if he misses. In Guangdefang, one is close to his home, he has relaxed his vigilance, and the other is that there is no garrison in Guangdefang, and the nearest Xishi garrison to Guangdefang is Pei Jun's Qianniuwei, even if a brother is caught, I can save it. ”

Zhang Huan said this. He smiled apologetically at Lin Delong: "I'm really sorry to just let the master do this kind of thing for me." ”

Lin Delong touched his nose and smiled helplessly: "It's okay to do it once or twice." It's like the money I paid in advance to buy the road to Wuwei. ”

"I guarantee that the master will like Weiwu County."

Zhang Huan said as he took a burden from the side, handed it to Lin Delong, and said lightly: "Everything you need is here, I hope the master can kill him with one sword." ”

Jiang Jian was born in a peasant family. When he was young, he also helped his family work in the fields. After passing the Jinshi examination, he left the agricultural work in October this year. He bought half a cent of land in Quannongju as a farming interest in his leisure time before and after lunch, which made him feel like he had returned to the time of decades ago, and he was never tired of it, and he had to go to Quannongju every day to farm.

Today is the fifth day of the first month, as the actual supreme authority of the Ministry of Rites, Jiang Jian came to the court room to inspect on the third day of the first month, because he was not officially attended, he could go back to his house after lunch, Jiang Li's house was in Guangdefang, located directly opposite the West Market, and it took about half an hour to travel from the Guangzhai Fang where he ate.

He was not tired of patrolling the ceremonial department for a while, but he was a little tired of fiddling with the wheat fields in his own half of the field, and he closed his eyes in the carriage, and the carriage was not in a hurry or slow, but it was very steady, and several attendants on each side of the carriage followed on horseback.

Although Jiang Jian is closing his eyes to recuperate, but in fact he is thinking about the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow is the New Year's Dynasty, and it is the first year of the new emperor's accession to the throne, according to the convention, although there will be no specific major decrees, but it will have some events similar to the weather vane surfaced, from some signs, this year's main events will have three aspects, one is the drastic changes in Hedong, there will be a series of personnel changes and military arrangements after the defeat of the Zhang family, such as the third reading of the new Shangshu Lu Qi of the Ministry of Rites, such as Zhang Potian again idle, Another example is the implementation of the Tuntian Order in Hedong, which is actually using the excuse of the army to occupy the land of the Zhang family.

The second change is the family's participation in politics, this year there will be a large number of famous family disciples into the core institutions of the imperial court, such as Wei Gedi's eldest son Wei Qing as the main guest of the Ministry of Rites Wailang, Wang Ang's eldest son Wang Yan will be the criminal department of the door member Wailang, as well as Chu Xingshui's second son, Pei Jundi's second son, Lu Qi's eldest son, etc., about dozens of young children of the family will enter politics, and at the same time, there are hundreds of children of the family into the local government, and this is the largest scale of the family's children entering the political arena in more than ten years.

Jiang Jian couldn't help but sigh secretly, a large number of children of these families are engaged in politics, in fact, they have encroached on the opportunity of poor children, needless to say, this year's imperial examination will be the most severe year, a large number of new scholars will not be able to get the opportunity to elect officials, they can only go to the imperial court or local officials to find their origins, or to be small officials or staff, in addition to the capital, Hebei, Hedong, Longyou

Thinking of Longyou, Jiang Jian couldn't help but think of this change in Longyou, this should be the third focus of the day after tomorrow, it must be related to this change in Longyou, whether Duan Xiushi can become the envoy of the new Shuofang Festival, it is not yet known, he has taken refuge in Wei Ge, it should be closely related to the interests of the Wei family, but Jiang Jian always regretted a little, is it wise to take refuge in the Wei family?

Jiang Jian sighed lightly and closed his eyes tiredly.

The carriage is in front of the West Market, the items sold in the West Market are mainly the living needs of the people, grain cloth, salt, sugar, paper and pen, the transaction volume is very large, far more prosperous than the East Market that mainly sells luxury goods, so it is called the Gold Market, it is the New Year at the moment, although the number of people is not as much as usual, but it is still bustling, and it is extraordinarily lively.

The carriage passed through the West Market, turned a corner, and entered the gate of Guangdefang, a small square with thousands of households, and the streets of the square were sparsely populated during the New Year, except for a few children who gathered in one place to play games and show off their New Year's gifts.

The carriage slowly passed by the children, and after more than 100 steps, the mansion in front was already faintly visible, the carriage slowly slowed down, and the two attendants rushed forward to inform the porter to open the door, Jiang Jian stretched his waist, opened the wind shield and the curtain, and prepared to get off and go home.

At this time, the carriage passed through an alley, Jiang Jian found that there were more than 20 people in the alley, riding on horses, slowly pulled out long swords and arrows from his side, and stared at his carriage coldly.

A few arrows shot out of the alley in the air, and they came quickly, Jiang Jian shivered, he instinctively lay back, only to hear the neighing of the horse, the carriage violently bumped, and spun in place, and bang, Jiang Lian's head hit the wall of the car hard, the pain was so painful that he almost fainted, he was horrified in his heart, knowing that he had met an assassin.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a black shadow swept down from the wall at the top of the car window, there was a soft sound on the roof of the car, and then a long sword flashing with cold light was inserted, and with a turn and a spin, a big hole immediately appeared in the roof of the car, and Jiang Jian suddenly saw a masked face, staring at himself coldly.

The word to save him was not shouted, a blue light shot from the roof of the car, Jiang Jian only felt a cold forehead, and it was dark in front of him, so he didn't know anything.

On the fifth day of the first month of the second year of Xuanren, Jiang Lian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was assassinated in front of the gate of the house, and the news shocked the government and the opposition.

The competition for the Tang Dynasty Rite Department once again set off a storm among the major families.