The news of Wang Zhonghe's death hit Zhao Ziliang very hard, and he didn't eat a grain of rice for several days, he locked himself in his room, and anyone who visited was turned away. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang has been thinking about it these days, if the death of Huangfu Weiming a few years ago can be said to have a little relationship with the prince, after all, he was born in the prince's East Palace and was a close confidant of the prince, but Wang Zhonghei is different, he was raised by Xuanzong, he was the adopted son of Xuanzong, and when he was young, he only had a slightly better relationship with the prince Li Heng, Li Linfu assigned him to the prince's party to frame him, but Xuanzong suspected him but it was a little far-fetched.

Zhao Ziliang knew that Wang Zhongsi was actually the same as he used to, he didn't know how to hide clumsy, and he was bent on establishing meritorious deeds by winning battles, opening up territory for the Tang Dynasty, defending the country, and winning fame and high positions by virtue of his military exploits, but in fact he didn't know how to hide clumsiness and officialdom management, he was the same as Wang Zhonghe, he was weak in the court, and Wang Zhongsi was much more dangerous than him, because Wang Zhonghe's military power was too heavy, and he was also the envoy of the four towns of Hedong, Hexi, Shuofang and Longyou, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, no one has ever had such great military power. Even when Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was a general of Tiance, he did not, and it was precisely because of this that Xuanzong began to feel at ease with him and began to be suspicious of him.

But it is undeniable that Wang Zhonghei is a truly great soldier with great military achievements, and the loyalty he shows is so selfless, if even such a person is so bleak and sad to end, then what future does this dynasty have? From sporadic news, I learned that Wang Zhongji died of a "violent death", but was this "violent death" due to an acute illness and a heavy soldier who could not be saved, or was he killed silently? This Zhao Ziliang is not known for the time being, saying that Wang Zhongsi died of an incurable emergency, but it is not impossible, Wang Zhongsi was suspicious of the object of his allegiance, which undoubtedly destroyed the faith in his heart, if a person's faith collapses, it is possible to suffer a great blow to the spirit and collapse, and it is also common for the body to die of illness and evil, if he is suddenly assassinated and died, this situation is also possible, after Wang Zhongsi was demoted to Hanyang Taishou, it is equivalent to being completely deprived of military power, Is there any officialdom connections in the locality, those magistrates are afraid of Li Linfu's power, and do not cooperate with Wang Zhongsi at all, Wang Zhongsi can not govern the place alone even if he has the ability to reach the sky, and later he was demoted to the Taishou of Handong County, and was isolated by the local officials again, and went to a strange place, it is absolutely possible to be erected into a decoration by the officials below, and under the weak strength, someone took the opportunity to assassinate him, and this situation cannot be sent out, especially Li Linfu and others, they definitely have the ability and courage to do this kind of thing, Anyway, Wang Zhonghei no longer has the favor of Xuanzong, and was abandoned by Xuanzong, a minister abandoned by the emperor, who will care about his life or death? At least Xuanzong, who was lying in Yang Yuhuan's gentle township, would not.

Zhao Ziliang locked himself in his room and didn't see anything, which made his cronies and officials very worried, he was the leader and core of these people, if something happened to him, where should they go? They didn't dare to imagine that this matter was too important, and these people would soon converge in Zhao Ziliang's mansion.

It wasn't until three days later that Zhao Ziliang walked out of the study with a haggard face, which made Chen Qingying, Nie Sanniang and several children cry with joy, glad that he finally came out of the study.

After not eating, drinking, or washing for a few days, Zhao Ziliang's whole body stinked, and after learning that Chu Ge, Wang Can, Zheng San and other cronies had been waiting and worrying about things in the house for several days, he hurriedly washed up and ate something before rushing to the outer hall.

Chu Ge, Wang Can, Zheng San, Bai Xiaode, Servant Bone Huaien, Li Sheng, Gao Shi, Dugujun, Liu Wei, Chen Qing and Gong Ren and others were overjoyed when they saw Zhao Ziliang finally walk out of the study, and they all stood up and saluted and greeted.

"General"

"General, you're finally here, it's okay."

"The lowly rank can finally rest assured!"

While everyone was gossiping, they looked at Zhao Ziliang, and saw that his face was haggard and his spirit was a little sluggish, but there was a trace of indescribable and unclear things in his eyes.

Zhao Ziliang hugged his fists and smiled at everyone, pressed his hand to let everyone sit down, and said: "Everyone has been worried in the past few days, and I have not gotten to go, but now it's okay." In the past few days, the official affairs of the Jiedu Embassy and the Soldiers and Horses Embassy have been delayed a lot for some reason, right? ”

Dugu Jun stood up and arched his hand: "Please rest assured, the general has no important official business in the past few days, it is all some daily affairs, we have already dealt with it, and the Jiedu Embassy and the Soldiers and Horses Envoy Mansion have not stopped operating." In the past few days, Wang Zheng has seen that there has been no movement there, he is very honest, and it seems that he has accepted his fate."

Zhao Ziliang nodded, and instructed: "The monitoring of Wang Zhengjian cannot be relaxed, and some other officials cannot relax their vigilance, those people see the wind making the rudder, the wind blows on both sides, and now that they are in a certain situation, they have to draw a line with Wang Zhengjian, but they are not sure that some of these people will be false and wronged with us, but in fact, they are enduring humiliation and wanting to grab my handle!" ”

Liu Wei said: "The general's worries are not unreasonable, Xia Guan feels that Du Weihong is very dangerous, it is said that he is the prince's person, because the prince is now weak, he is one of the targets of Li Linfu's attack, so he was demoted here, Xia Guan is not worried that he will report the situation here to the prince, after all, even if the court knows about this matter, as long as the general does not rebel, this kind of official battle is deceitful, this kind of superior officials are often seen everywhere in the matter of their subordinates evacuating their rights, it is not surprising, The imperial court will only care about this kind of thing, and the lower officials are worried that this Du Yanhong will become the person who hides and secretly collects our handles, after all, many of our things are illegal now, and once the imperial court learns about it, there will be a lot of trouble! ”

Zhao Ziliang touched the stubble on his chin, thought for a moment and ordered: "Treat Du Yanhong, I think it is necessary to track and monitor him, and he can't let him go where he shouldn't go, especially Xilin Shou and Cheling Minerals, but he can't find out that someone is following him!" Wang Can, the matter of monitoring Wang Zhengjian and other officials of the Jiedu Embassy will be handed over to you to be responsible! Another point is that all the letters written by these people to Chang'an or sent out of Beiting must be examined, and there is no problem before they can be sent."

Everyone knows that Wang Can is a person who does things to spy on the enemy, so they are not surprised, but in this era, there is no such thing as a spy at all, and the work of spying on the military and the enemy is very rough, and the personnel who collect intelligence do not have a set of strict organizational structures and systems The intelligence network was personally instructed by Zhao Ziliang, and after years of improvement, it has become quite large-scale, and the organizational form, structure, and system have been developed very tightly, and even people with high status in the imperial palace have been developed into members of this organization.

When Wang Can saw Zhao Ziliang's order, he immediately stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Obey!" ”

Then Zhao Ziliang said again: "Isn't there any news from Li Siye?" ”

Wang Can shook his head and said, "General, there is no news of General Li for the time being."

Zhao Ziliang is also very helpless about the communication ability of this era, Li Siye has also been gone for nearly two months, if it goes well, he should rush to Huoxunguo, it stands to reason that he should receive Li Siye's flying pigeon transmission in the next few days, but Zhao Ziliang is a little worried about the survivability of carrier pigeons in the desert area, after all, from Beiting to Huoxunguo, there is more than one desert to pass through, whether the carrier pigeon can fly so far and bring the intelligence back is really not tried.

On the seventh day of the third month of the ninth year of Tianbao, it has been four months since Li Siye left Beiting to go to Huoxunguo, and he finally came back on this day, and Wang Can immediately reported to Zhao Ziliang after getting the news.

"What, Li Siye is back? Where is it? Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed, he once thought that Li Siye was very likely to have suffered misfortune on the way to Huoxunguo or had an accident in Huoxunguo, but now that Li Siye finally came back, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he was faintly uneasy in his heart, because he Wang Can did not receive the carrier pigeon.

Wang Can said: "The people have now arrived at Xilin to guard and capture, and after the last general gets the news, let the Xilin guard prepare some more fast horses for them, and they are rushing back to Tingzhou in the starry night."

Two days later, on the ninth day of the third month of the ninth year of Tianbao, Li Siye returned to Tingzhou, did not go home, but came directly to the Soldiers and Horses Embassy to ask Zhao Ziliang, who was dealing with military and political affairs here.

When he arrived at the Soldier and Horse Envoy's Mansion with more than 100 of Zhao Ziliang's personal guards, Zhao Ziliang was already waiting at the door.

Li Siye stopped his horse, handed over the weapon to the soldier next to him, and bowed down to Zhao Ziliang on one knee: "Meet the general, the last general failed to complete the mission, it is really embarrassing!" ”

Zhao Ziliang didn't know the specific situation, and he couldn't blame him, so he helped him up and said, "You get up first, let's go in and talk, let's go."

"No!"

When he arrived in the lobby of the mansion, someone brought tea, and Li Siye ignored the etiquette, and poured it down in a big gulp, obviously very thirsty.

After drinking the tea, Li Siye wiped his mouth, hugged his fist at Zhao Ziliang and said: "General, the last general has actually rushed to the Huoxun country at the beginning of the first month, and the journey has been smooth, the hundred soldiers sent to me by the general have followed the general to the Western Regions, so they are familiar with the road and climate, everyone arrived at the Huoxun country intact, and after the last general waited for the Huoxun country, the lord of the country not only did not receive us, but also refused to let us enter the Huoxun country. Hearing an astonishing news, ten days before the last general and others rushed to the country of fire hunting, the Umayyad dynasty of the Great Food Country has been destroyed by the rebels, and the whole family of the Caliph Marwan II of the Great Food Country was killed, and the last general heard the news and knew why the Lord of the Fire Search Country forbade us to enter, at first the last general still did not believe that the rebels would break through Damascus so quickly, so the last general wrote down the news and sent it back with a flying pigeon, and personally led people to sneak into the country of Great Food to find out the news, confirming that the news was true, And Abu, the big leader of the Great Food Rebels? The Abbasids have established the Abbasid Dynasty and established themselves as the first caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty, and the last general was unwilling to return like this, and secretly sneaked into the country of Huoxun, wanting to meet the lord of the country of Huoxun and persuade him to deal with the rebels of the Great Food with my Datang, but the lord of the country of Huoxun was afraid of being attacked by the Abbasid Dynasty after uniting with us, not only did not see me, but also arrested us and locked us up for more than ten days, and then he remembered that I had saved his life back then, so he secretly let us go, and the last general and others had no choice but to return."

Zhao Ziliang sighed: "But I haven't received your flying pigeon summons, it seems that the carrier pigeon has a problem on the way back." If we had gotten the news earlier, we would have been able to prepare for more than a month, and now that the Fire Quest Kingdom has taken refuge in the Abbasid Empire, it seems that the time for the Abbasid Empire to expand eastward is not far away! (To be continued.) )