Early in the morning, Li Xianyuan, who had never participated in any exercises, slept soundly, and was suddenly woken up by his attendants.

Li Xianyuan never gets angry, except when he is woken up while sleeping. So the squire was smashed in the face with a stinky shoe.

"Get out!"

"Strategist, it's a big deal!" The attendant was bold and cautious and said, "Someone from the capital has come." ”

Li Xianyuan immediately came to his senses, "Who?" What are you doing here? ”

"Cheng Boxian, the general of Zuo Qianniuwei, brought a team of 100 people and Qianniuwei and made a special trip to find you." The squire replied.

"Huh?" Li Xianyuan almost bounced up in shock, "Specially made a trip to find me?" …… Shoes, shoes for me! ”

Hurriedly changing clothes, Li Xianyuan came out with his attendants in fear to greet the big man from the capital - General Zuo Qianwei, Cheng Boxian.

The predecessor of Qianniuwei was Fengchenwei, which was a pure team of personal bodyguards in front of the emperor. Among them, the "Thousand Cattle Preparation" is the best springboard for many aristocratic children to enter the official career, and Xue Shao started with this. After the assassination case of Luoyang Zetianmen on the Shangyuan Festival this year, in order to strengthen the imperial guards, Wu Zetian reorganized the Fengchen Guard, which had already declined, and carefully selected the additional troops, and transformed it into a Qianniu Guard. Since then, it is no longer a pure "bodyguard", but has become a real royal army directly under the royal family.

In this way, the imperial army that is now directly under the royal family already has three branches: Qiancai, Yulinwei and Qianniuwei. Among them, Qianqi has the closest relationship with the middle palace, but they are generally only stationed in the depths of the palace (such as around Wu Zetian and the emperor's bedroom) or follow the emperor to protect them thoroughly, and basically will not be dispatched; Garrisoned on the periphery of the palace and able to send expeditions, it was more like a standing field army; Qianniuwei is still the royal personal bodyguard now, just like Fengchenwei in the past; If he is sent abroad, he must have come to carry out a special mission by divine decree. Therefore, wherever Qianniuwei goes, it is like the emperor coming in person, and he is not subject to the constraints and titles of any state capital and county government. They have special functions and privileges, and no one, including the prime minister, has the right to intervene in the internal affairs of Qianniuwei.

Obviously, it would be more accurate to say that the current Qianniuwei is not so much a bodyguard and an army as it is a "special agency specializing in the special tasks of the royal family".

Abbreviation - "spy".

Of course, this "spy" is just a neutral word, not derogatory.

As early as when Cheng Boxian and Xue Shao were working together in Fengchenwei, Li Xianyuan met him, so the two were not strangers and had some friendship. But now that Cheng Boxian has been strongly recommended by Xue Shao, he has become the first general of Zuo Qianniuwei, which is a special position that even the royal family and the prime minister dare not underestimate, and Li Xianyuan certainly does not dare to take it lightly as before.

Now, Cheng Boxian will actually appear in Xiazhou with a team of 100 people and 1000 Niu Wei, and make a special trip to find Li Xianyuan - Li Xianyuan can't help but be nervous!

Cheng Boxian is tall and strong, and the uniform of Qianniuwei is particularly gorgeous and dazzling, and Li Xianyuan saw them from a distance before he arrived at the gate of the camp. He couldn't help but secretly exclaim in his heart: Qianniuwei is really a sparrow turned into a phoenix, although it is only a team of 100 people, it looks majestic and glorious. These old, weak, sick and disabled people under my command dare not look at them squarely, it is really inferior!

"General Cheng, Xiaosheng has lost his welcome, and I hope to forgive my sins!" Li Xianyuan politely stepped forward to give a salute.

Cheng Boxian did not be as arrogant as Li Xianyuan expected, but took the initiative to dismount first when he saw Li Xianyuan coming over from a distance, and returned the salute politely, "Li Junshi is polite." It's all your own people, so you don't have to see it like this. ”

The sentence "my own person" made Li Xianyuan's heart feel a lot more at ease-it doesn't look like he came to arrest me and ask for guilt!

"General Cheng traveled thousands of miles to come in person, I don't know why?" Li Xianyuan asked boldly with confidence.

"Come on, Li Junshi will take a step to speak." Cheng Boxian invited Li Xianyuan to the side with a wry smile, and whispered: "Cheng is incompetent, the first time he was sent out on an errand after taking office as General Qianniuwei, he actually messed up the errand. Therefore, I came to ask Li Junshi for help. ”

"Huh?" Li Xianyuan was dumbfounded on the spot, and said in his heart What happened to me recently, why did some big people come to me for help?

"Don't hide it from Li Junshi, here's the thing." The tall Cheng Boxian bent down and whispered, "Empress Dowager Wu issued a secret order, let me personally lead a guard team to escort Xuanyunzi to Helong to give an edict to Xue Yuma. At first, it was fine, but as soon as we walked out of the pass, Xuanyunzi dumped us and disappeared alone. Li Junshi, you know, Helong is in the midst of war, if she has three longs and two shorts, how can Cheng afford it? - Cheng was anxious for a while, and finally found out a little news about her. I heard that she came to you, I don't know, but is there such a thing? ”

Li Xianyuan let out a long breath, slapped his face and smiled, "Then you can be regarded as in the right place!"

Cheng Boxian was overjoyed, "Is she really here?"

Li Xianyuan smiled unashamedly, "We drank together last night!" ”

"What?" Cheng Boxian's face changed.

"Ahem...... Don't get me wrong! Li Xianyuan hurriedly explained, "It's just a little wine and some things about Buddhism." Xiaosheng knows where she came from, and she will never come nonsense. ”

"That's fine." Cheng Boxian smiled and let out a long breath, "Then please ask Li Junshi to take Cheng to find her, right?" ”

"General Cheng, please!"

Li Xianyuan took the lead, and Cheng Boxian walked into the camp with a hundred people and a thousand cattle guards. After walking a few steps, Li Xianyuan suddenly remembered something and asked, "General Cheng, you just said that you made a special trip to escort Xuanyunzi, and you came to Xiazhou to issue an edict to Xue Yuma. ”

"Yes." Cheng Boxian said, "Li Junshi is not an outsider, and Cheng doesn't have to hide it. The imperial court issued an order to remove the governor of Xiazhou from all official positions in Wei Beiqi, and ordered Cheng to escort him to the capital for trial. And reappointed Xue Juma as the general manager of the Lingwu Dao march and the deposed ambassador of the Helong Prefecture Governments, and awarded the Soldiers and Horses of the Zhujun Prefectures as the ambassadors. ”

Li Xianyuan was overjoyed, "The imperial court let Xue Shaoshuai Governor Helong soldiers and horses?"

"Hmm." Cheng Boxian smiled and nodded, "It's still both military and political." ”

Li Xianyuan almost jumped up and clapped his hands and laughed, "Great, great!" Now it's finally right! ”

Cheng Boxian was slightly surprised, "Why, Xuan Yunzi didn't tell you about this matter?" ”

"Nope." Li Xianyuan shook his head and asked again, "Where is the Holy Decree now?" ”

Cheng Boxian smiled bitterly, "It's always in her hands." There was no way, the Queen Mother specially ordered her to go to Helong for Qin to issue an edict. Cheng was just an escort and escorted Wei back to Beijing afterwards. ”

Li Xianyuan grinned in surprise, and asked General Qianniuwei to escort him personally, Xuan Yunzi's head was really big enough! …… But it's not surprising, firstly, Xuan Yunzi is the niece of the Queen Mother and Xue Shao's daughter-in-law who has never passed the door, and secondly, this holy decree is too important.

The group walked on foot for a while.

"Here, she'll live here." Li Xianyuan pointed to a separate new tent and said, "Xiao Sheng didn't dare to slack off, so he built a new residence for her next to the barracks, and borrowed some maids from Liu Youqiu to serve her. ”

"Well, please ask Li Junshi to invite Xuan Yunzi to come out and meet." Cheng Boxian hugged his fists and bowed, "Cheng is here to respectfully." ”

Li Xianyuan ran to the tent to see that Xuan Yunzi was not there. The maid handed Li Xianyuan a note, which was left by Xuanyunzi, and simply said, "Xuanyunzi said goodbye and went elsewhere." ”

Li Xianyuan was dumbfounded on the spot. Cheng Boxian read the note and was dumbfounded.

"Helong is full of wars and soldiers, where can Xuanyunzi go?" Cheng Boxian was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "In case something goes wrong with this aunt's little ancestor, Cheng Mou will not be able to cut off even if he has ten heads!" ”

"General Cheng, don't worry." Li Xianyuan kept scratching his head, which was a sign that he was "in a hurry", and then he slapped his face, "I probably know where she went!" ”

"Where?"

"Yinchuan Juntun!" Li Xianyuan clapped his hands again, "It's possible again, she went to Suizhou!" ”

Cheng Boxian was stunned, "Is there a third place?" ”

"Or have already returned to Guanzhong......"

"So there's a fourth?"

"Probably...... I went to Yanchang to find Di Renjie again. ”

"Forget it, I won't ask about the fifth."

"It's also possible that I'm going to find Wei to wait for a price."

"Cheng has resigned!"

Late at night, Yinchuan Military Fort.

Guo Yuanzhen climbed down from the high city wall along a rope, bent his waist, and walked to the camp of the Turks.

Within a few steps of approach, he was surrounded by a group of Turkic soldiers who had already laid an ambush. Guo Yuanzhen stood up straight, spread his hands, and signaled that he didn't have any weapons with him. The soldiers didn't say a word, took a black cloth hood and put it on Guo Yuanzhen's head, tied him backhandedly, and escorted him into the barracks.

After walking for a long time, Guo Yuanzhen guessed that he had walked into a tent, and then stopped.

"The famous Guo Yuanzhen, General Guo." A joking voice sounded, "It's been a long time since I've seen it—untie General Guo!" ”

The hood and rope were lifted, and Guo Yuanzhen saw the person in front of him.

A lean Turkic man with a mustache, with a hawk nose and deep eyes, luxuriously dressed and surrounded by guards.

"What, I'm worried that Guo is here to assassinate?" Guo Yuanzhen sneered.

"Whether you're going to stab or not, I don't know." The bearded man smiled, "But you, you must have come to deceive you!" ”

"Oh, you are the Ye Hu of the Turkic Khanate, Ashina Si Kui." Guo Yuanzhen also smiled, not nervous at all.

"That's right, I'm Ashina Si Lu." "I promise, everyone in this tent wants to cut you into 1,800 pieces right away, and then go feed their own hounds." Unless, you can convince us in three sentences not to do so. ”

"The first sentence, you have already fallen for Xue Shao's plan, and you are all not far from death. The second sentence, Guo Yuanzhen, is the only one who can save you! Guo Yuanzhen said lightly, "In the third sentence, the pig will kill me." ”