In the middle of summer, in the northeast corner of Taiyuan Mansion in Hedong, Zhu Xie Zhiyi rushed to the Shili Changting early in the morning to wait for Li Mao's arrival. The same is the envoy of the festival, Li Maoguan worships the prince Shaobao, and Zhu Xie is only the official of the five-grade imperial history, which is far away. And Li Mao is the favorite minister and important minister of the Son of Heaven, but his position is not very stable, no matter what his heart is, he does not dare to slack off in the slightest in terms of etiquette.

At the beginning of June, Li Mao was edicted to enter Beijing, taking the Hedong Road, this road is not easy to walk, but it can avoid a lot of right and wrong, Zhu Xie Zhiyi received a report from Youzhou, and made careful preparations. He wants to take this opportunity to get on good terms with the neighbor of Youzhou.

Taiyuan in July is as hot as a steamer, and only a general like Li Mao, who has struggled from blood and fire, can endure such weather when he goes out in a hurry.

Zhu Xie Zhiyi was also a military general, and he was full of respect for Li Mao, a vassal with great military achievements.

"Report, Li Shaobao's car has reached ten miles."

"Revisit."

Zhu Xie Zhiyi waved his hand to send away the Tanma, put down the tea bowl, and beckoned left and right to prepare to change clothes.

"Report, Li Shaobao's car has passed the horse slope."

"Revisit."

Zhu Xie Zhiyi waved his hand to send away the sentry and stood up, and the accompanying officials also stood up one by one, all busy tidying up their clothes, ten miles away from this, about five miles away, and only three miles away from Ximapo. It's here in the blink of an eye.

But half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Later, it was found out that under the nose of the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, under the slope of Xima, a group of assassins ambushed Li Mao's horse team and shot two guards, Li Mao's general Shi Kong was shot in the left arm, and Li Mao himself was almost hit by an arrow.

Zhu Xie Zhiyi's face was green, and the soldiers and horses in charge of the guards made Han Mouyang's face also green, although he and Zhu Xie were not good at dealing with each other, but such a thing happened in his own jurisdiction, he couldn't hold it on his face, he really couldn't hold it.

So the detectives came out, and the 3,000-strong army turned the surrounding area within 50 miles. The whole city of Taiyuan City was under martial law, and they searched for suspicious people from house to house, vowing to turn these people out.

Li Mao did not give any hope for this, these assassins could take advantage of the loopholes to assassinate themselves under the noses of the generals of Hedong on the heavily defended post road, and they were by no means ordinary people.

Don't say that there are many factions in Hedong, and there is a plate of scattered sand, giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of, even Youzhou, which is known as an iron plate, and even Liaodong, he is not sure to find out. An assassin is not a dead soldier, and he has already arranged a retreat before the assassination, and he comes and goes suddenly, how can he easily let you hold the handle

However, Li Mao didn't plan to stop Zhu Xie from tossing with his heart, this might be a golden opportunity for him. The scattered factions in Hedong are evenly matched and are in a terrible stalemate, and using this external pressure to break the stalemate may be exactly what Zhu Xie Chixin desires.

Li Mao stayed in the most famous building in Taiyuan, surrounded by 1,000 Hedong athlete guards. The envoy of Youzhou Jiedu was harassed by assassins on his own land, and Hedong Jian'er was heartbroken, how dare he not swear to serve his life.

Li Mao's mood is very relaxed, Zhu Xie should set up a banquet, he must come whenever he is invited, Zhu Xie wants to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, invite him to visit the scenery of Hedong, and he never refuses.

Taiyuan, the land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, is a thousand-year-old ancient town with countless places of interest and historic sites.

Li Mao opened a list and copied a copy to Zhu Xie Zhiyi, one place to see and play, Zhu Xie Zhiyi, but he can squeeze out time to accompany him.

On this day, Li Mao came to visit the Jin Temple outside the city, and he also visited here after a thousand years of "after", and revisited the place in such an identity after a thousand years, not a taste in my heart.

On this day, Zhu Xie Zhiyi had urgent military affairs, and did not accompany Li Mao, but accompanied Li Mao by his brother Zhu Xie Hengduan, who was only seventeen years old, and his stout and outright appearance was abnormal, and he attacked people with heroic force.

Li Mao was a little prejudiced against the Shatuo people before, thinking that they were all brave and unscrupulous, and Zhu Xie Chixin gave him the impression that he was also like this, brave and resourceful enough, and Zhu Xie Hengduan was like this, taciturn, with a pair of triangular eyes gloomy and able to kill, although the etiquette was extremely respectful, it made people feel uncomfortable.

After noon, Li Mao returned to the city, and when he was resting in the tea shed halfway, a hexagram master passed by on the road.

Li Mao refused to use honor guards to open the road and did not clear the road, on the one hand, because he was a guest in a foreign place and did not want to disturb his master and disturb the people's livelihood, and on the other hand, it was also to avoid risks: these assassins had the ability to set up ambush assassins in Ximapo, proving that they had ears and eyes in the official mansion, and put on a guard of honor to patrol to ensure that their whereabouts were not exposed.

However, the bright guard of honor did not, but the dark guards did not relax at all, the guards formed five lines of defense with Li Mao as the center, the outer three layers were borne by the master, and the two layers of the body were served by Li Mao's Youzhou guards.

The diviner was stopped in front of the first line of defense, and after the guards unceremoniously searched him and proved that there was no murder weapon, the four men surrounded him in the center, ready to take him away.

Shi Kong, who was injured in his right arm, beckoned to the hexagram master with his left hand: Li Mao was idle and bored, and wanted to ask him to divinate a hexagram.

Li Mao is indeed a little bored sitting here, and it is not inappropriate to invite a hexagram master to come over and mix up a few words for entertainment. However, there was another reason why he invited this hexagram master to come: he knew this person

Zhang Jingjiu, the supreme leader of the Longxiang Battalion in the Hedong region.

Taiyuan is the land of the Tang Dynasty, all kinds of forces are complicated, Li Mao's every move is under the gaze of others, Zhang Jingjiu's identity is very special, it is really not easy to see him in private.

Zhang Jingjiu was in the rivers and lakes in his early years, and he knew a little about the pits and abduction on the rivers and lakes.

Li Mao talked with him for a while, and when the people around him gradually relaxed, he suddenly asked: "Since the old immortal said that I have a difficult future, can you give me a rune to turn evil into good fortune." ”

Zhang Jingjiu naturally responded, took out a handful of orders from his coat, and checked it there with saliva. Zhu Xie, who had been gloomy and didn't speak, suddenly spoke: "The gods really do a good deal, I heard that the talisman is ever-changing, and one talisman corresponds to one thing, you actually have the ability to predict the future, and you actually prepared the talisman in advance."

Zhang Jingjiu said: "Don't dare, don't dare, the unknown prophet is the immortal, how dare Xiaodao compare with the immortals, Xiaodao has no ability, just eat with a mouthful." ”

Zhu Xie said: "Even if you eat with a mouthful of food, you should also use some heart, ready-made pen and ink, why don't the gods draw a talisman to give to the nobles." ”

Since the skin was uncovered, the hexagram master turned out, untied his jacket, took out cinnabar and ink pen, used the tea case as a desk, and the pen walked the dragon, and instantly made a decree.

Seeing that he is familiar with his methods, no one suspects that he is a false diviner.

Li Mao laughed and ordered a heavy reward.

Zhu Xie Hengduan took the lead in rewarding the hexagram master, and did not let Li Mao's people come into direct contact with the hexagram master.

A talisman is a talisman, it doesn't matter if it's useful or not, but it's really nothing weird to hide.

Li Mao took this talisman into Taiyuan City, returned to the building, washed and drank tea, went to the banquet and drank wine at night, came back late at night, Qin Fengmian, who presided over the executive standing of the right chamber, came in with a basin of water, and after asking Li Mao, he took out a small porcelain bottle, lit some powder in the water, stirred it evenly with a bamboo chopstick, took out the talisman drawn by Zhang Jingjiu, and put it flat into the water.

In the upper left corner of the talisman are four words: Leave Beijing quickly.

Li Mao and Zhang Jingjiu are both veterans of Longshou Mountain, and this set of means of writing invisible words with special ink is no stranger to each other.

Li Mao didn't dare to be careless about Zhang Jingjiu's warning, and he cleaned up that day, and as soon as the sky was bright, he found an excuse to go out of the city, and when Zhu Xie Zhiyi learned that Li Mao had left Taiyuan, he was already hundreds of miles away.

Li Mao's reappearance was in Youzhou in Shangdu Jinjuan, and his identity was the marshal of the Imperial Palace.

After Xue Rong was transferred to Liaodong, the marching officer of Liaodong stationed in Shangdu Jinjuan was changed to Zhu Ming, the former county commander of Baoding County, in the same year as him.

Chen Muyang was therefore transferred to the head of the Youzhou Festival Envoy stationed in Shangdu.

After Li Mao entered the Duke of Cao Guo, the confiscated Jing'anfang private house was re-given to him, and Li Chun went out to renovate it and sent five guards in front of the door. In order to show Cao Guogong's unique identity and intimate relationship with the emperor, it is actually far from enough to be a guard.

After Li Mao returned to Beijing, he went to the old house to take a look, and thanked the five Jinwu guards who guarded the door for him.

After Li Mao was transferred to Youzhou as the envoy of the Jiedu, he specially allocated funds to expand the Jinyuan in Shangdu, doubling its area and increasing the number of people to 60. Of course, these sixty people are being made up, and they have names and surnames standing in the light, but as for how many people are in secret, they are the top secret of the Youzhou Festival, and only a few people such as Li Mao know.

In order to welcome Li Mao, the building of the concert hall has been readjusted to ensure absolute safety. Li Maoren was still in Taiyuan, and the pro-army took over here, and did an investigation inside and out to ensure that nothing went wrong.

After living in the capital, Li Mao was not in a hurry to see Li Chun, and he believed that Li Chun was not in a hurry to see him.

He has a lot of friends in the capital, but Li Mao did not take the initiative to visit, a real friend should be able to understand his current difficulty, and what he can't understand is not a real friend.

There were also a few people who took the initiative to visit him in the Jinjuyuan, mostly some officials who returned to the court in Ziqing, Youzhou and other places, who led a piece of money to sit and wait for death in Chang'an, full of resentment, and didn't care about any gossip.

Tian Xing's two sons, Tian Zhang and Tian Zao, came to visit, thanking him for helping the Tian family when they were in danger, Tian Zhang's personality is stable, taciturn, and has the legacy of his father, but Tian Zao is very active, and calls Li Mao his brother-in-law with a smile, Li Mao doesn't feel like anything yet, but Tian Zhang is very uneasy, although Tian Qian and Xu Ru are not husband and wife, their status is still there, their father is dead, and they left their husbands to go to Youzhou to be entangled with a married husband unclearly, what is this, it really lost the face of the Tian family.

Tian Zhang's face was red and white for a while, his forehead was sweating, and his hands were trembling slightly. Li Mao also felt embarrassed, and tried to stop the "brother-in-law" several times, but Tian Zao was gushing, and his brother-in-law was affectionate one by one.

Seeing off the Tian brothers, Li Mao smiled bitterly and said to Qin Mo, who had just arrived from Youzhou: "You have seen all the embarrassment today, how did you talk to Xu Ru?"

When Qin Mo went to Weizhou last time, he privately talked to Xu Ru, who rushed back from Weizhou to mourn, hoping that he could generously come forward to retire Tian Qian, and there was a ready-made reason: after being married for many years, Tian Qian failed to add Ding Jiawa to the old Xu family.

Xu Ru didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he didn't agree, but asked Li Mao to send his wife back as soon as possible, otherwise he would go to the capital to sue the emperor, saying that Youzhou Jiedu had misbehaved and abducted his wife.

"He should have been instructed by someone, how to kill with a knife is a hundred. I'm sure of that. ”

"Killing people and taking wives, you can't think of it."

"Even if Xu Ruken lets go, there is still one more trouble, the family is from the Pinglu Tian family, the father and brother are both officials of the imperial court, and the family is a well-known family in Hebei, she is willing to let her be your concubine, and you can't be willing."

Li Mao knocked on the table with his hand, very helpless. Although all of their own backhouses are equal, but the general atmosphere of the times dictates it, even if Tian Qian herself is willing, how can the family behind her be settled, Tian Zhang is not old-fashioned and still angry, let alone those righteous gentlemen and defenders

"There's a way to crack it." Qin Mo's eyes burned.

"Hmm, yes?"

"Yes, please Your Majesty will make you the king of the county, according to the etiquette system of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the princess, the king of the county can also ask for two ladies, who are also canonized on the Eight Classics, she is a second marriage, and it can be said that she can make do with it."

Li Mao thought for a while and said to Qin Mo: "The first thing, you go and persuade Xu Ru to divorce her, and try to agree to him on what conditions, he is a smart man, and the reason why he is pestering and not letting go, I think the main reason is that he is in Weizhou, and he can't help himself." You can take him to the south, ask for money and officials, and let him choose by himself. The second thing, I'm going to try to get a county king to do it, there are so many county kings in the Tang Dynasty, why don't you have my share, it's very unfair. ”

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