As soon as the tight strings are loosened, the thoughts of pleasure burst out like a flood.

"This is the only time, not the next one." Li Chun succeeded in convincing himself. He crossed the water to Penglai Pavilion, a side hall on an isolated island in the Taiye Pool of the harem, summer and autumn are excellent leisure places for members of the royal family, but now it is Chinese New Year's Eve, the north wind is howling, the sky is cold, there is no one here, this has become the emperor's forbidden place, he wants to meet someone here, a woman he has coveted for a long time. The woman half-pushed, half-pushed, and made him want to stop.

Things that are too easy to get in hand often don't know how to cherish, and women are the same, as the Son of Heaven, what kind of woman does he want? If it's too easy to get, it's hard to cherish it, but this woman is different, in her he feels the pleasure of hunting, the pleasure of being a man, the thrill of sneaking, and the satisfaction of cheating everyone like fools.

He hunted his prey with great interest, and enjoyed the prey that was not easy to get his hands on, because of greed, he took three Zhuxing red pills in a row that day, this kind of thing is beneficial to Xingxing, but the damage to the body is also obvious, Li Chun is not unaware of this, but he was carried away by **.

On the one hand, it is difficult to struggle in the quagmire of **, and on the other hand, he has a fluke in his heart, and the result is that after indulgence, he gets great psychological satisfaction, but his body collapses and faints due to indulgence.

There is no impermeable wall in this world, so Li Chun does not blame Tu Tu Chengxuan for not handling things cleanly enough, although this old eunuch is always a little muddy.

Tu Chengxuan claimed that he had been more careful, and the relevant insiders had been properly dealt with, but the matter of his safari, conquest, and fainting in Penglai Pavilion still spread far and wide, and soon reached the ears of relevant people, including the Queen Mother and Guo Guifei.

So the agenda for the canonization of the crown prince suddenly appeared in front of him.

The emperor can hide from everyone to go to an uninhabited island to have fun, and he can faint after indulging in lust, but he can't make the splendid country that the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty have worked so hard to fight down be threatened in any way, if he can faint once, there will be a second time, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be a third or fourth time.

One of the biggest weaknesses of people is to overestimate their control over familiar people and things, for the sake of safety, for the sake of the Tang royal family, the election of the crown prince is urgent.

Although Li Chun is 10,000 unwilling, he can only agree, who let his wife and mother catch the handle of his indiscretion, and if he doesn't agree to them, this matter will be spread very carefully, and it will be spread all over the city, which is very unfavorable and fatally unfavorable to the image of a wise monarch he wants to establish.

As for who to choose as the crown prince, it seems to be indispensable, but it is really more real, but it is a very headache, Deng Wang Li Ning is the oldest among the princes, good at reading, kind-hearted, duty-keeping, filial piety, his biological mother Ji is Li Chun's sexual enlightenment teacher, he is kind and gentle, Li Chun's heart has always left a place for her.

Loyalty is Li Ning's biggest advantage, but also the most fatal shortcoming, loyalty will be a good person, but loyalty can not be a good emperor.

Li Yun, the king of Yan, is shrewd and good at change, he can not only blurt out chapters, become poems in response to the situation, but also learn from the appearance of a scoundrel to play tricks, everything is indispensable, he can afford it, put it down, he is good at reading and bowing horses, and he is rare among the princes who can write and martial arts.

But his background is not a fatal flaw, her mother didn't even have the status of a palace person when she gave birth to him.

Then the king Li You, he is still young, his face is blurred, and his body is also very thin, Li Chun has little impression of him, even less good impression, and the most impressive thing is only one thing: fun.

In addition to being fun and playing, he also has a mother who is extremely noble, has an extremely powerful family, and is the head of the harem concubines, Guo Guifei, the granddaughter of Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang.

Noble birth is his greatest capital, and it is also the most fatal stumbling block that prevents him from becoming a prince.

Li Chun was not sure which of the three princes would be the crown prince, he thought of cooling down this matter and slowing it down, so he falsely claimed that he was ill, first cut off the intercession channel between the foreign minister and the relatives, and then had a heart-to-heart long talk with his mother, so that the old queen mother could rest assured, rest assured, and agreed to put this matter aside for the time being.

As for Guo Guifei, what she has most about Li Chunxin is not to fight, at least she will not fight in front of him.

The Son of Heaven was infected with a disease and needed to recuperate, isolated from China and abroad, and there was a matter of the Privy Council's envoy Tutu Chengxuan's decree to Zhongshu Province, and there was an urgent matter in Zhongshu Province that was also forwarded by Tutu Chengxuan.

As for the important ministers and nobles who wanted to enter the palace to visit their illness, they were all blocked by the sudden vomit and Chengguang.

Li Mao failed to see Li Chun, and the reason was that Tu Chengguang isolated him from the emperor. What exactly did Cheng Huang intended, Li Mao understood it soon after.

Tutu Chenghuang wants to fight for a decision, he is looking for help, he wants to form allies, first show grace, Tutu Chengguang is beating himself, he wants to make himself understand the advantages and disadvantages of forming an alliance with him Tutu Chengguang.

The courtiers tended to canonize Li Ning, the king of Deng, and the elders were long, and several ministers were vague and didn't say anything, but their protégés and disciples expressed their intentions on different occasions. Tutu Chengguang wanted to support Li Yun, the king of Yan, and seek a decision. As for the concubine, she is naturally her son's dearest. ”

Lin Ying personally informed Li Mao of the information he could have, and he and Li Mao had the same attitude on this matter: stay out of the matter and not participate. There is no conflict if there is no interest, so the two of them can still maintain a friend-like smile when they speak.

"Here is a list of Liu Pi's personnel stationed in Beijing."

This is a generous gift from the Left Dragon Xiang Army to the Right Long Xiang Army, and it is also Li Mao's reward to Lin Ying.

Lin Ying reciprocated by handing over to Li Mao a list of undercover agents sent by the imperial court to Xichuan, who had people from the Right Longxiang Army, but most of them were not.

On the second day of the Yanying Palace, the three prime ministers agreed with the "plan to nourish poison and remove sores" jointly proposed by Li Mao, Gao Chongwen, and Yan Li, but Yuan Zi asked a question: "How long do you take to raise poison?" ”

Li Mao replied for about half a year, Yuan Zi said: "Do you know about the drought in Shannan West Road? Li Mao nodded and said he knew, and Yuan Zi asked again: "Then do you know about the spring drought in the Heluo area?" ”

Li Mao said: "I have heard a little. ”

Yuan Zi said: "It's not okay to hear a little, but also to know the cause and effect, according to Qintian Supervisor, this year's Heluo area has a big drought in the spring, and there will be floods after the summer, then the Cao Yun will not work, the rice grain of Jianghuai will not be transported to Guanzhong, and the Shannan West Road is worth a big drought, how do you raise the rice and grain of tens of thousands of troops?" ”

Li Mao said: "This is the second reason why Xia Guan returned to Beijing this time, what is Xianggong's opinion?" ”

Yuan Zi said: "It's the old man who is asking you, why did you ask again?" ”

Du Huangshang said: "Preparing grain and grass for the army is a matter of supporting and transporting envoys, ask him what he does?" ”

Yuan Zi said: "Then let him know that people can't win the sky, and in the face of heavenly power, manpower is insignificant." ”

To Li Mao's surprise, Du Huangshang didn't argue with Yuan Zi this time.

Jia Tan asked Li Mao if the war in Xichuan could be resolved quickly, Li Mao understood what he meant, and replied: "It is not difficult to make a quick decision, the difficulty is to eliminate the residual poison, and if the residual poison does not come out, the two rivers will have a recurrence in the future." ”

This truth does not need to be said by Li Mao, everyone can understand it, but the signs of flooding in the Heluo area are already very obvious, and once the water starts and is cut off, the consequences are unimaginable.

"People should follow the way of heaven, those who follow the sky prosper, and those who go against the sky die, but people are people, not wood and stone, now there are two months before the summer, whether enough grain and grass can be rushed into the customs within two months, for the use of the army, several secretaries have discussed."

The expressions of the four people are different, Li Mao has never been the prime minister, the overall view is not strong, he does not know the general trend of the world, and he is optimistic about Li Chun's proposal.

Du Huangshang has a hard temperament, knowing that this matter is extremely difficult, but he is still eager to try.

Yuan Zi felt that it was too difficult, and he couldn't bear it, and saw that Li Chun's face was solemn, but he couldn't spit out the words of advice that came to his mouth.

Jia Tan also knew that the success or failure of this matter was not in the sky, he was determined to gamble with a tragic heart, and was thinking about whether to take the initiative to ask Ying to fight him.

"The old minister asked Ying to leave the town of Luoyang to supervise the transfer of grain and grass."

Without waiting for Jia Tan to make up his mind, Du Huangshang spoke first.

Everyone was taken aback, since the time when the prince of Yongzhen was in charge of the country, Du Huangshang was the head of all the prime ministers, assisting the son of heaven to assist yin and yang, dominating the world, and already sitting on the real power position above thousands of people under one person.

Those who are well versed in the operation of power will understand that the size of power does not depend on the nominal official or the position in which he lives, but on the distance from the core of power.

Du Huangshang went out of the town from the center, even if he still has a title, but the power is a world apart.

For what purpose did Du Huangsheng, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, make this choice, the three of them had their own guesses, but they all doubted that their answers were inadvertently accurate.

"Xichuan is the first battle of the national dynasty to pacify the feudal town, this battle must be won a big victory, and the victory must be clean and neat, and it must not drag mud and water, leaving trouble. The old man thinks that the plan of 'raising poison and curing sores' is very appropriate, and if it is implemented, Xichuan can be determined, if Xichuan is determined, all the towns in the world can be determined, and when the three hundred military states are reunified, it will be the day of the revival of my Tang Dynasty. ”

"The old minister is old, his energy is exhausted, his behavior is perverse, it is difficult to meet the expectations of the public, he is wrongly loved by His Majesty, he is in a position of rank, and his heart is always uneasy. Now he can do his last part for the country with his decrepit and sick body, and the old man has no regrets even if he dies. ”

Everyone was sad when they heard this, and it was rumored in Beijing a while ago that Du Huangshang urinated blood, which seemed to be not a lie at this time. With his heroic character, if it weren't for the last resort, how could he take the initiative to let go of the authority in his hand and become that tragic fire-fighting butterfly?

"Du Xiang, I ......"

Du Huangshang stopped Yuan Zi, smiled, and continued:

"I'm not as good as Jia Xiang in terms of talent and learning, and I'm not as good as Yuan Xiang in terms of hard work, but I'm better than the sum of the two in terms of bad temper, and I'm the least afraid of offending people! Therefore, it is most appropriate for the old man to come forward with the dirty work of supervising the grain, who dares to spoil the court's plan, I will destroy his black yarn first. ”

Someone let out a laugh, the laughter was a little bitter, it was Li Mao.

After Du Huangshang finished speaking, he formally asked Li Chun for help, and Yuan Zi said: "Du Xiang has been in the center for a long time, familiar with government affairs, and he went out of the town to Luoyang to supervise grain, and he is still an old minister." ”

Jia Tan said: "Let me come, I have been in the river, I am familiar with the water transportation of the Yellow River." ”

Li Chun stood up with tears in his eyes, bowed deeply to Du Huangsheng, and said, "Please." ”

Du Huangshang bowed back, and asked Li Mao to go to Luoyang with him, Du Huangshang explained that the imperial court needed the cooperation of the boats on the Yellow River to rush to transport grain and grass, and Li Mao was the most suitable to deal with these Jianghu figures.

Du Huangshang knew that Li Mao had an old relationship with Hu Yuchun, a wealthy man in Zhengzhou, and Hu Yuchun was one of the thirteen leaders of the Yellow River Boat Gang, so he asked to bring Li Mao with him.

Li Chun asked Li Mao Xichuan if he could get out for half a year, so he agreed to Du Huangsheng's invitation.

As for why Du Huangshang invited him to Luoyang, Li Mao didn't have a chance to ask more that day, after returning to the house, he thought about many possibilities, but he ruled out these possibilities one by one, and in the end he was still puzzled, until Tutu Chengxuan sent someone to invite him to the banquet, Li Mao understood Du Huangsheng's painstaking efforts: he was helping himself get out of this land of right and wrong.

His biggest task at the moment is to stay in Chang'an to supervise the southern transportation of grain in Guanzhong, Chang'an is now surging underneath, it is indeed not a place to stay for a long time, think about this, and then think about Du Huangsheng's abnormal behavior in Yanying Hall today, Li Mao couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Old fox, you are really ruthless." ”