Outside the Xuanzheng Gate of Luoyang Palace.

The moment Di Renjie walked out of the palace gate, he glanced back at the majestic Luoyang Palace behind him, and the top of the Qianyuan Palace, which had already reached the top of the clouds, his eyes were slightly gloomy, and he quickly turned back and walked forward with firm steps.

Behind him, followed by Di Qing, who had a calm bearing, and Di Fang, who had a bright expression.

"Childe."

Even though Di Renjie has already started a family, Di Fang and Di Qing still like to call him with this title that has followed him since childhood:

"Aren't you going to help the queen light the fire?"

Di Fang looked at his hurried back in bewilderment.

Di Qing rolled his eyes at the boss, and Di Renjie smiled faintly and said:

"It's going to light the fire."

Di Fang was about to ask again, but was stabbed by Di Qing's elbow and didn't dare to make a sound again, so he had to look at Di Qing blankly and said softly:

"Childe, Niangniang is looking at the eyeliner that you are secretly investigating this time...... Aren't they the people who leaked the matter of Kim Chunqiu, the lord of the Silla state, who has been propagated by the DPRK and China recently? ”

Di Renjie smiled and said:

"Sure enough, it's still your ...... of wisdom"

Then, he said solemnly:

"But you are wrong, I am afraid that the person who leaks out is none other than the Lord himself."

"Lord Himself? Why? ”

Di Qing's eyes widened in surprise:

"But it's obviously the Lord who ordered Jin Chunqiu to secretly reign!"

"It's a matter of national policy, and if you hear it, you don't know it."

Di Renjie has been training these two children since he was a child, so he naturally knows that they are tight-mouthed, and such a big thing will not be easily leaked. But when it comes to Li Zhi's plan to pacify Liaodong and crusade against Goguryeo Baekje, he guessed it, but he can't say it.

Let alone......

His eyes turned slightly worried--I was afraid that Li Zhi was so anxious for the reason, this queen mother already knew it.

Secretly sighed, he walked more urgently, with the steps of a weak scholar, he actually asked Di Qing and Di Fang, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, to step up their steps to keep up.

After leaving the imperial city and getting into the carriage, Di Renjie immediately said to Di Qing, who was about to open his mouth to ask:

"You go to the Wei Mansion and invite your Uncle Wei to come over."

……

It's night.

Di Fu.

After listening to the news that Di Renjie got from meeting Mei Niang today, Wei Zhiqi was also stunned for a while.

After a long while, he muttered:

"Lord...... This is to destroy Goguryeo and Baekje as soon as possible and pacify Liaodong? But why ...... so suddenly?"

Di Renjie thought about it for a while, and finally sighed:

"I'm just afraid...... The rumors of the other day are true. ”

In fact, Wei Zhibei never thought of this possibility? But he refused in his heart, and couldn't help but laugh and said:

"Do you believe those rumors? How can it be! The Lord is in the dragon body, and the government governs every day, which one is not proper, and how can there be any physical decline? ”

"You also said that every case, every case, the Lord has governed properly—waiting for the price, you are the same as me, you are both people who have served the monarchs of the two dynasties, and you are also people who have seen the first emperors govern...... I only ask you, when did the first emperor rule? How many days does the Lord live? How long does it take for a letter to be approved in the hands of the first emperor, and in the hands of the Lord? When will it be placed? ”

Wei was silent for a long time before he said lightly:

"The first emperor had three days, and the lord had one day - sometimes even three meetings and five discussions a day...... A letter of ...... When the first emperor was there, if it was not urgent, it could be restored in three days, and if it was urgent, it should be as short as an hour and as long as half a day. To the Lord...... No matter how slow it is, it will be as short as half an hour, and as long as half a day, it will be batched. ”

"Have you ever calculated, in a day, how many decrees are to be approved by the Lord? Waiting for the price, he is just a person, a person! is how to be smart and decisive, and how can you bear such a heavy government affairs?

How many years have you been in the Lord that you have not returned to your bedchamber before the end of the day? ”

Wei waited for the price to hang his head, and said lightly after a while:

"Isn't it a mother......

"Do you believe those people?"

Di Renjie looked at him incredulously:

"Shouldn't you be the one who knows best? Don't you know who these words are and for what purpose? ”

Wei Zhiqi was silent. After a while, he said lightly:

"What does Huaiying's words mean?"

"Now the Lord is afraid that he is in a hurry—he also knows that his body is afraid that it will not be as good as one day at a time...... And His Royal Highness the Prince, who can inherit the great succession, is young, and the other older princes are either as moderate as the abolished prince, or they are as unscrupulous as King Xu, or they are as unscrupulous as King Xu.

Therefore, the only one who can rely on the Lord and rely on is the queen.

However, for the queen's mother, when it comes to political affairs, I am afraid that it is her biggest taboo - after all, she has been slandered everywhere and harsh in everything over the years, isn't it because her ability to govern the country is not inferior to our Shoufu Lord, Taiwei Gong? ”

Wei was silent for a long time before he said lightly:

"That's why the Lord is in a hurry to pacify Liaodong...... Because the Lord knows that sooner or later, if he is sick and invincible, naturally this government is the most reassuring to the mother.

But the mother is good at internal affairs, but external governance is really not her strength...... Just in case, just in case...... Lord, this is ......"

He raised his head and looked at Di Renjie with some emotion:

"It's to take the lead and pave the way for the mother...... Really? ”

Di Renjie sighed heavily and said softly:

"Originally, if Uncle Yuan was in good health, there would be nothing wrong with this Tang Dynasty for a while. But Uncle Yuan's public business is old, and I'm afraid that he won't be able to last much time. Although there is a British princess, he still can't leave him for the matter of the border expedition......

In terms of coming and going, Niangniang is the best and only person who can refer to the national government.

That's why the Lord bothered so much...... Just because of the mother, and only for the mother...... Isn't it? ”

Wei waited for the price to be silent again, and then said for a while:

"That...... Now I ask you to deal with these things to clean up the eyes and ears of Goguryeo and Baekje...... I'm afraid I know what the Lord is thinking? ”

Di Renjie didn't say a word, only after a while did he pick up the wine glass, pour a glass hard, gritted his teeth with red eyes and said:

"The eldest husband was born for the country and died without regrets......

A woman can still do her best for my Datang...... Why are we, the so-called humerus of the country, the ministers of the pillars, still clinging to a meaningless prophecy and refusing to let go of the identity of a woman? ”

He asked Wei about the price, but he was also asking himself.

But Wei Zhiqi couldn't answer him, and he himself didn't have an answer.

In mid-April of the second year of the Tang Dynasty.

Luoyang City.

In the west of the city, on a small soup cake stall.

A few thin feet (small tables), more than a dozen horses (maza, a small stool), a few green bamboo baskets with clean bamboo chopsticks, and a few three-flavor boys filled with sea salt and peppers (that is, a small box with spices, mostly made into the appearance of children holding pots, a group of three so called three-flavor boys), and then open a curtain of fine silk embroidery words swaying in the wind, it is a lively.

A young man who wore a green crown and was dressed plainly, but who always made others want to take a few more looks, and for some reason did not dare to look closely, walked with a few equally well-dressed people, and the young man took out a string of big money from his beautifully embroidered purse and handed it to the old lady who cooked soup cakes.

But the old lady seemed to recognize him, smiled at him, said that he had not seen him for a long time, and then reached out and brought a bowl of hot soup cakes and put them on an empty sticker.

The young man thanked him politely, sat down with Zama, and began to chew on his own food. Obviously, judging by his facial expressions, the bowl of soup cakes was not to his usual appetite, but it still chewed with relish.

The men also silently took the soup cakes one by one to thank them, but instead of sharing the table with him, they sat down on two or three sticks next to each other.

"Hey, have you heard? The old man who sold Biluo next door, a few days ago, was arrested and taken to the official mansion, saying that it was Goguryeo's fine work! ”

"Isn't it? Who would have thought! Speaking of his Biluo, there is something strange about it......"

A pair of thickly dressed porters next to him sat down and discussed.

The young man did not stop, but ate to himself, and at the same time raised his head with interest, while chewing the soup cake in his mouth, and looked at the pair of porters with eyes as beautiful as starry nights.

The two of them seemed to feel his gaze too—but who hadn't noticed such an extraordinary and good-looking man?

So they all smiled at him, holding the bowl, and wanted to come together to talk, but they didn't dare after all.

The young man seemed to see their thoughts, smiled faintly, got up, flicked his arrow sleeves, picked up the dishes and chopsticks and walked to the branch of the two, and said to the two porters who stood up in a hurry:

"I don't know if it's convenient for the two of you? Those family members are really tight, and they want to eat at the same table with them, but they refuse to do so...... Eating alone is boring. ”

"Convenient!"

Immediately, the two porters enthusiastically moved out with him. So the young man sat down peacefully, raised his hand, and invited the two to eat together under the gaze of the man who either sighed helplessly, or stared at him dumbfounded, or nervously pressed his waist to get up.

I don't know why, this young man has an indifferent aura on his body, as if the sky is falling, and it is just something that can be solved with a snap of a finger, which makes the two of them feel at ease and uneasy.

"Just now the two of you talked about the ...... of the Biro What difference does he taste? ”

"Huh? Ahhhh......h Childe is asking that Bi Luo Lao Gao! Alas, he is a spy from Baekje, who was found out and arrested by the government a few days ago, and now I am afraid that he will not be able to escape...... I really can't understand it, he has his own country, why did he run to the feet of our Luoyang City to stir up trouble? ”

"You don't understand...... It is precisely because we are here today that they have come to hear the news......"

The two porters argued a few words on the matter, but soon smiled embarrassedly:

"Ah...... Does Childe want to know about this Biluo Laogao? ”

"Not really...... It's just that Neiko likes to eat Bi Luo the most, and Fang Jiang heard the two of them say that this Bi Luo is very different from other places, so he has the heart to ask. ”

The young man groaned with a smile.

"Oh...... That's ......."

Suddenly, one of them put on a turban and said:

"Actually, this old Gao family's Bi Luo, we have also tasted it, the taste, but it is also acceptable. I just can't tell that there is a very strange salty taste in it. ”

The young man seemed a little disappointed:

"Is it only salty?"