After Li Chuanyun went down to rest, Zhang Huan came to the study, a series of recent events made him fall into contemplation, it is clear that although he has won an expansive victory in the military, but to digest and consolidate these achievements politically, it is far from so easy, the husband is not guilty, he is guilty, thousands of years of not suffering from widowhood, suffering from uneven thinking has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow of the scholar, not to mention that this is a power struggle involving who can dominate the Tang Dynasty, no one will be generous to see him smile thousands of miles of mountains and rivers into his arms, Cui Xiaofu's aggressiveness, Pei Jun's darkness Chen Cang, from the Li Chuanyun incident is fully shown, of course, this is just the beginning, Cui and Pei will have a series of actions, and even stabbing blood, he can't help but guard against it, but just as managing a huge family property requires bodyguards to protect the hospital, it is also necessary to strengthen internal precautions, militarily he is not afraid of Cui and Pei's actions, but if it is from the inside, he will be difficult to prevent, Yuan Zai, Zhang Yansheng and others are safeguarded, The supervision of military and political leaders in various localities is an urgent problem.

The formation of the Internal Affairs Office, this is what Zhang Huan has been thinking about recently, but he has been hesitant about the candidate for the Internal Affairs Office, he lacks a cautious and decisive henchman, Du Mei's vision is not enough, Pei Mingyuan is soft but not rigid, as for the generals who lead the troops, they are more than fierce, but they are a little worse at playing politics, and now the arrival of Li Chuanyun has undoubtedly solved his doubts, isn't she the best candidate?

Thinking of this, Zhang Huan finally made up his mind, and he wrote the three words Li Chuanyun heavily on the decision book for the establishment of the Internal Affairs Office.

Zhang Huan's decision was correct, and only three days later, a major event occurred in Longyou.

Spring in Jincheng County is brighter and more moving than in Chang'an, but it is also busier. Winter wheat has reached the heading season, in order to protect the summer harvest, almost the people of the entire Jincheng County have gone to the fields to busy, and the city seems empty. It's rare to see an idler in the streets and alleys. Only a small group of security patrols patrolled the streets. At this time, a group of about a dozen people drove into the west gate, judging from their dress, it should be a merchant who came and went to do business, in the middle was a carriage, the curtain had been opened, a richly dressed, about sixty years old man was curiously looking at the street scene of Jincheng County, compared with Chang'an, Jincheng County looked really shabby and cold, he pouted. There was a look of disdain in his eyes, and he was a little puzzled, how could Zhang Huan's lair be so dilapidated? Except for the cleanliness and greenery of the streets, the prosperity of the market, the magnificence of the buildings and the density of the population are all useless, so why is he so arrogant?

The carriage turned a corner and headed down a small street full of locust trees. Soon, the carriage stopped at the steps of a mansion.

This is the residence of Li Qiaodi, the king of Hue, Li Qiao is the son of Li Yan, the fourth son of Xuanzong, who can be called a royal family, and he is also the only royal family living in the Longyou area, as the main member of the Guanlong group, in recent years. His core interests have become deeply entangled with Zhang Huan. He not only gave Zhang Huan many years of grain for free, but also half of the annual harvest of the grange. He also donated to the Xiliang Army, as a return for the peach, not only his two sons were high-ranking officials in Longyou, but Zhang Huan also personally promised him that he would do more politically in the future.

Li Qiao is about 50 years this year, well-maintained, energetic, usually have a lot of leisure, he is obsessed with the promotion of Confucianism, for the development of education in Longyou, he spared no effort to support, what is more rare is that he is open-minded, advocating the promotion of Confucius's idea of teaching without class, manifested in action, is to resolutely support the girls in Longyou and Hexi to go to school, after Cui Ning returned to Chang'an, he took over the banner of Chunlei Hall, built a women's school, funded poor girls to go to school, and has a high reputation in Longyou and Hexi.

Early in the morning, Li Qiao was dancing with a sword in the back garden as usual, and a family member hurriedly came to report with a famous poster that an old man in Chang'an had come to visit.

Nanyang County Gong Li Chengye,

Li Qiao's brows furrowed slightly, he hadn't been with him for many years, what was he doing when he came to find him? Although he was unhappy in his heart, he said that Li Chengye was still his uncle, Li Qiao had no choice but to order someone to invite Li Chengye into the study first, he changed his clothes, and then slowly walked to the study, as soon as he entered the door, Li Chengye stood up and laughed: "After ten years of separation, the virtuous nephew is the same as in the past, without the slightest old appearance, I really envy the death of an uncle!" ”

"If you don't think about anything and have no desires, you will naturally look young." Li Qiao smiled faintly, he waved his hand and said, "Uncle Ye, please take a seat!" ”

Li Chengye didn't pay attention to the flatness in Li Qiao's tone, he sat down with a big thorn, and caught a glimpse of the distribution map of the girls' school hanging on the wall, he pointed to the map, and said unhappily: "Originally, I didn't believe the rumors in the capital, but now it seems that this is the case, it is a good thing for you to run a school, but why do you want to run a girls' school, do you know what the capital says about you?" ”

Li Qiao's face immediately became gloomy, "Uncle Ye came from Chang'an just to accuse me of this?" ”

"Of course not."

Li Chengye took out a booklet from his arms, threw it on the table, and said coldly, "This is a joint book by eighty-two clans in Chang'an, accusing you of aiding and abetting abuse, and your affairs are in trouble." ”

Sleeping with the enemy? Li Qiaoteng stood up, his face was swollen and red, and he asked sharply: "Zhang Huan recaptured Anxi and Hehuang for the Tang Dynasty, and he destroyed the rebellion of Zhu and Li Zhengji, is this a rebellion?" Here, the common people can live and work in peace and contentment, they can eat and eat, and many families still have their own land, is this a problem? Without him transporting millions of stone of grain into Beijing, what would Chang'an be like, is this also a? If that's what counts, then I'd rather help it! ”

Li Chengye didn't expect Li Qiao to be so excited, so he hurriedly comforted him with kind words: "Virtuous nephew, calm down!" Calm down! There is something to say. ”

After a while, he saw that Li Qiao had gradually calmed down, so he sighed slightly: "Everyone is a clan, after all, they are connected by blood, everyone takes it as their responsibility to support the Queen Mother and the emperor, and the family business of the virtuous nephew is in Longyou, even if you are a lone maverick, everyone can understand." But why didn't the virtuous nephew leave a way back for himself? ”

Li Qiao suddenly understood Li Chengye's true intentions, he didn't show his face, only bowed his head and said nothing, Li Chengye thought he was moved. He continued to persuade: "In fact, Zhang Huan's contribution to the imperial court is also recognized by everyone. It's just that he still refuses to follow the will of the Queen Mother. This alone is enough to kill all his credits, if he can bow his head and be loyal to the Queen Mother, so that not only will our clan have hope of coming out, but he Zhang Huan can also take another step higher, and the position of the left prime minister, can he still escape his hands? ”

"Do you want me to persuade Zhang Huan to be loyal to the Queen Mother?" Li Qiao shook his head slowly, "It's useless, and I can't persuade him if I don't say that I am soft-spoken." Even if I have the heart to serve the Queen Mother as orthodoxy, I can only represent myself. ”

What Li Chengye wanted was his words, he moved his body, approached Li Qiao and said in a low voice: "Ling Lang is the envoy of Kaiyang soldiers and horses, and he has 30,000 people under him, as long as he is willing."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Li Qiao immediately flatly refused: "It's useless. Even if my son is willing to be loyal to the Queen Mother, his subordinates will not listen to him, Uncle Ye does not understand the military system of Longyoudi, most of the middle-level officers of the Xiliang Army have entered the military academy, Zhang Huan himself is the head of the hospital, they can only be loyal to Zhang Huan alone, which disappoints Uncle Ye! ”

"Isn't the veteran useless either?" Li Chengye asked again unwillingly. Li Qiao only smiled and shook his head. He doesn't know or he just can't. But he didn't say it explicitly.

At noon, after going around and around in Jincheng County, Li Chengye finally couldn't help but visit He Lou Wuji, if the persuasion of Li Qiao in the morning was just a cold dish, then the persuasion of He Lou Wuji was the official feast of his trip to Longyou, on the other hand, in order to ask for directions by throwing stones to judge the possibility of persuading He Lou Wuji, before he left, Cui Xiaofu and Li Li gave him two sets of plans, and the two sets of plans were just different in the thickness of the official Xu Jue, However, the specific set of plans to use is decided by him Li Chengye according to the situation. The failure to persuade Li Qiao in the morning made Li Chengye finally decide to adopt the second set of plans, that is, the best conditions.

To Li Chengye's surprise, He Lou Wuji was not only in the mansion, but also very politely came out to greet him in person and welcomed him into the mansion, which made Li Chengye, who was already half cold, start to get excited again, if he can succeed in the rebellion, then the post of the king of Nanyang County will beckon to him not far away.

"It was a coincidence that Li Jungong came, I went to Huijun to shop locusts a few days ago, and I just came back in the morning." He Lou Wuji invited Li Chengye into his inner room, and his attitude was extremely enthusiastic, as if they had known each other for many years, and even Li Chengye began to have some doubts about whether he had an old relationship with He Lou Wuji's father and ancestor, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't remember what he had to do with He Lou's family.

The two entered the room, and He Lou Wuji smiled mysteriously: "This is a quiet room, the sound insulation effect is excellent, you can say anything, but it doesn't hurt." ”

Li Chengye's heart beat violently, this is like cheating between men and women, the ambiguous hint is enough to arouse his rich imagination, under the blazing gaze of He Lou Wuji, he feels that his heart is as soft as a young girl, and all the secrets in his heart can't be kept, he took out Cui Xiaofu's handwritten letter from his arms in a daze, and said nervously and stammeringly: "This is a handwritten letter from the Queen Mother to you, I hope General He Lou will think about it." ”

He Lou Wuji took the letter solemnly, he opened it carefully, read it carefully, the letter was written very simply, reviewing his ancestors' contributions to the imperial court, hoping that he could inherit the ancestral business and continue to serve the imperial court, Cui Xiaofu also wrote very carefully, the words and content were decent, so that people could not grasp any handles, but her posture was put on, and the rest could not be put on paper, so it was dictated by Li Chengye.

After reading the letter, He Lou Wuji nodded slightly and said: "My He Lou family has always been loyal to the Tang Dynasty, please rest assured that the Queen Mother!" ”

After he said this, the room fell into silence, the atmosphere was quite awkward, Li Chengye knew that the following drama should be sung by himself, he took a deep breath and said: "General He Lou must also know that when today's son is determined by the emperor, because he is young by the queen mother, this can be described as the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty, but more than ten years ago, the formation of the family government set up the imperial power, so that the son of heaven is empty, and today, the situation of the family government has begun to loosen, and the queen mother has mastered a part of the power, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore the imperial power. The Queen Mother hopes that General He Lou can revive the majesty of the ancestors and do his part to support the rule of the Son of Heaven. ”

Li Chengye's words have been finished. The rest is He Lou Wuji's statement, but He Lou Wuji didn't think twice, he asked briskly: "If I am loyal to the Queen Mother, what reward will I be given?" ”

Li Chengye was overjoyed. He likes to be so cheerful and down-to-earth. He immediately couldn't wait to say: "The Queen Mother has a word. If you are willing to be loyal to her, you will be named the envoy of Longyou Jiedu, the king of Jiuquan County, and your grandfather He Lou Yurun will be posthumously crowned as the king of Anxi County, and you will be rewarded with 50,000 taels of gold and 100 beauties. ”

This is already the greatest sincerity that Cui Xiaofu can show, He Lou Wuji still has no expression on his face, as if these rewards have nothing to do with him, paused, he asked lightly: "This time Li Jungong came to Longyou, who else knows?" ”

"General He Lou, please rest assured, I came to Longyou in secret, except for the Queen Mother and King Luo. No one knows. He suddenly remembered Li Qiao in the morning, but he still nodded solemnly, indicating that his words were not false, and then he looked at He Lou Wuji with a blank eye, just waiting for him to pat himself on the shoulder and say, it is like a king's life.

He Lou Wuji suddenly burst out laughing. laughed so much that Li Chengye's heart fluttered! Thump! Jumping around, and smirking with him, He Lou Wuji's laughter suddenly stopped, and he said in a mocking tone: "Does Li Jungong know why I invited you to the quiet room?" ”

Li Chengye was stunned, I don't know what he meant?

He Lou Wuji smiled coldly and said, "I just got the news that the Governor has set up the Internal Affairs Office to prevent people like you from infiltrating. It's unfortunate. You have come at the right time, and I will use your head to show my loyalty to the Governor!" ”

"Someone!" He Lou Wuji snorted loudly. More than a dozen pro-soldiers rushed out, grabbed Li Chengye's hair bun and dragged him to the back room, Li Chengye was so frightened that his whole body trembled like chaff, his face was like earth, and he couldn't say a word.

General He Lou, Rao's voice stopped abruptly, and after a while, his own soldiers took out Li Chengye's head, He Lou Wuji looked at him and smiled coldly: "I want to blame you for being too stupid, I have already said that I will only be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but you didn't hear it." ”

"Put him in a box and send him to the governor overnight."

Chang'an Yongyangfang is located in the southwesternmost part of Chang'an City, is the place where the middle and lower classes of people gather, you can see everywhere in the workshop on the ground stalls or pushing wheelbarrows of itinerant vendors, Jing Zhaoyin and Chang'an County officials do not ask, it is not easy for poor people to make a living, everyone turns a blind eye and does not ask.

In the north of Yongyangfang live so 100 families, are Xingyang County Guancheng County people, Anshi Rebellion fled from their hometown to Chang'an, after decades of reproduction, has developed from the initial dozen families to more than 200 households, nearly 1,000 people, on weekdays they sell coolies for a living, most of them are illiterate, because they are united with each other, no one dares to provoke them, but among them there is a scholarly family, surnamed Huang, Huang old man is knowledgeable, is the villager in the Wenqu star, the villagers write letters, write tombstones, He did all the work of writing paper and other things to make a pen.

Mr. Huang once served as the chief bookkeeper in Guancheng County, and he had no wife around him, only one son, and the second half of his life was spent in cultivating his son, and his son was also quite competitive, and when he was twenty years old in the eleventh year of Qingzhi, he was admitted to the Jinshi in one fell swoop, and he was the youngest one of the Jinshi that year.

It's a pity that he didn't have a backstage, and he failed in the subsequent official examination, and ten years ago he was introduced to a large family in Chang'an to make a western seat, receiving more than 20 yuan a month, supporting his father, marrying a wife and having children, and living a dull and leisurely life.

This person's name is Huang Yunqing, easy-going, he never fights with others, when he sees villagers, whether it is a cart peddler or an errand pawn, he will bow his hand to say hello, go out early and return late every day, no one knows where he is on an errand? What exactly?

But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he, like his father, is willing to help the villagers, and everyone respects him accordingly.

Huang Yunqing is in his thirties, he looks gentle and delicate, and the master he is serving now is Li Li, the king of Luo, who was introduced to Li Li three years ago and made his documents, that is, sorting out files and copying letters, but he is not his staff and his status is not high, but he can access some important documents.

On this morning, Huang Yunqing walked out of the alley first, as usual, and walked about two miles before he beckoned a carriage and ordered, "Go to Yanfufang!" Then he boarded the car and left.

After getting into the carriage, Huang Yunqing usually closed his eyes and recuperated, and today was no exception, but after walking for about a quarter of an hour, he began to feel that something was wrong, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he had actually arrived at Suzaku Street, which was far away from Yanfufang.

"Hey! Coachman, you're mistaken! I want Yanfufang, not Suzaku Street. He banged the wall of the car, very angry in his heart, he had never been late for three years, and today I am afraid it will be too late.

Seeing that the coachman ignored him and continued to walk forward, Huang Yunqing was a little angry, and knocked on the wall of the car again and shouted, "Did you hear that!" I'm going to Yanfu Fang. ”

"Mr. Huang, please calm your anger, it's my master who invited you to go." A muffled voice suddenly came from behind him.