In Jinling in April, the warbler is long, the flowers have bloomed, and there are birds and flowers everywhere, and there is a vibrant appearance.

In the imperial city, Li Jing had a cough, since the beginning of spring, the weather has changed a little, and this year's rainy season came a little early, and I don't know if it was a cold when I rested that night, Li Jing began to cough. The imperial doctor saw the doctor and gave Li Jing medicine, and he has been drinking it for a few days, but it is still not good.

Empress Zhong was on the side, holding a bowl of brown potion, and comforted: "Your Majesty, the good medicine is bitter, and if you are sick, how can you not drink the medicine?" ”

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "I have been drinking this medicine for seven or eight days, but there is no effect, these imperial doctors are quacks!" ”

Empress Zhong wanted to persuade again, but Li Jing pointed to a copy of the excerpt in her hand and said: "You don't want to bother me, you see, this is an excerpt sent by Yang Lian, he has successfully signed an alliance with the Han Dynasty, and according to him, there is another surprise for me, with such good news, I am cured of any illness." ”

Empress Zhong asked strangely, "Yang Lian?" That Yang Lian? ”

"It's the Yang Lian who saved the county lord of Huairou, and now he is the commander of Wupin." Li Jing knew that the queen had never cared about political affairs, and it was normal for Yang Lian not to know, so he explained.

"Oh, it's him." Empress Zhong said, thought for a while, and said, "Listening to Your Majesty say this, Yang Lian has made a great contribution?" ”

"Haha, this credit is naturally not small. When he comes back this time, I must reward him well. Zitong, what do you say to reward him? Li Jing asked.

"Man, either promoted or rich, according to the opinion of the concubine, give him a promotion, so that he can better serve His Majesty in the future." Empress Zhong said.

"Well, the promotion is certain, it's just that I'm hesitating, what kind of official should I be promoted." Li Jing said while thinking, although Yang Lian has made a lot of contributions, but after all, he is young, Li Jing is a little worried that Yang Lian is too young to be competent.

Empress Zhong felt that it was inconvenient to say more, so she smiled slightly and stopped talking. Li Jing paced slowly and thought, without making up his mind, let Yang Lian out, and make up his mind to either party? Or just stay in Beijing and let him be a third- or fourth-grade official?

Before Li Jing could pay attention, Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, hurriedly walked over, saw Li Jing, rushed to Shi Li, and said, "Brother Huang." ”

"Hehe, Brother Huang, you came just in time. I am thinking about what to reward Yang Lian for his great achievements. Li Jing said, a smile appeared on his face, Yang Lian was recommended by the King of Qi, and now that he has made a contribution, Li Jing is also happy.

However, Li Jingsui just shook his head, his face was very solemn, and said, "Brother Huang, I have bad news for you. ”

Li Jing was stunned at first, after all, after getting the good news, it was bad news, how could it not make Li Jing feel depressed? Just like being doused with cold water in the summer, the whole heart cooled down, Li Jing coughed, restrained his smile, and said, "What happened?" ”

Li Jingsui glanced at Empress Zhong, who stood up knowingly, bowed slightly, and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine is retiring." With that, he quickly left with the palace maid.

Li Jing took a sullen sip of tea to hide the fluctuations in his heart.

"Brother Huang, I just got the news that when Yang Lian returned to Jinling, he was about to arrive in Xuzhou when he was about to be ambushed by Wu Yueren." Li Jingsui said.

"What?" Li Jing was startled, the teacup in his hand fell, the tea splashed, he couldn't care less, asked again in disbelief, and said, "You say it again." ”

Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, knew that the imperial brother could not accept it for a while, so he repeated it again.

Li Jing couldn't help clenching his fists and shouted, "Wu Yue is too deceitful!" After a pause, he asked again: "Yang Lian was ambushed, is it ......" The last sentence, he couldn't say it anymore.

Li Jing, the king of Qi, arched his hand, stood up, pointed to the heavens, and said: "Fortunately, the Tang envoy and his party have more than 30 people, and the last survivors, plus Yang Lian, there are only six people, all of whom are seriously injured, and now they are recuperating from their injuries at Fu Yanqing, the envoy of Wuning Jiedu. A few days ago, Yang Lian wrote a letter to me. ”

"Yang Lian is fine?" Li Jing asked with some excitement.

"He lost a lot of blood and needed to recuperate." Li Jingsui said, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, when he opened the letter, he couldn't help but be startled, there was still a little blood on the letter, it seemed that Yang Lian was not lightly injured.

Li Jing narrowed his eyes, Yang Lian was fine, he put down his heart, thought about it, and said: "After all, the envoy of Wuning Jiedu is an outsider, so it is better to quickly take Yang Lian back and recuperate in Jinling." In this way, I can rest assured. ”

"Brother Huang is wise." Li Jing, the king of Qi, lost no time in complimenting.

Li Jing said: "I will immediately issue a holy decree and let Haizhou Jiedu envoy Liu Yanzhen go to pick up Yang Lian, this time there must be no accident, whoever makes a mistake will come to see him." Li Jing said, and immediately returned to the imperial study, Li Jingsui also followed behind him, the two of them did not speak, and hurriedly arrived at the imperial study, Li Jing spread out the rice paper.

Li Jingsui also started to grind ink for Li Jing, and soon, a holy decree was written, and Li Jing called the eunuch and asked him to send it to Haizhou quickly, and asked Liu Yanzhen to pick up people.

The eunuch knew that the matter was urgent, so he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, packed up his things a little, and immediately rushed to Haizhou.

Li Jing was still a little puzzled, and said: "Wu Yue people are really hateful, I can't swallow this breath, Brother Huang, what good ideas do you have?" ”

"Wu Yue people have always been cunning and used to it, this time the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty formed an alliance, for Wu Yue people, it is equivalent to the loss of the backer, so it is reasonable for Wu Yue people to jump over the wall in a hurry. Brother Huang, these two years are the best opportunity to attack the Wu Yue people. Li Jingsui said that he was also a Wuyue person, and if Yang Lian was killed by them, it would be a huge loss for Li Jingsui.

Li Jing nodded and said, "When Yang Lian returns to Beijing and goes to Wuyue, I will discuss it carefully." ”

Yan Wangfu, Li Hongji looked solemn. In the spring of this year, he was promoted from the Duke of Dongping to the King of Yan, which seemed to be favored by his father, but in fact, the whole court knew the reason inside. A few days ago, Li Jing had already ordered him to go to Runzhou to guard Runzhou. Although Runzhou is reluctant to leave Jinling, in fact, such a move has already prepared to exclude Li Hongji from the core of the Tang Dynasty, how can Li Hongji accept such a shame?

For this reason, he has planned in many ways and has already thought of a way, as long as this plan is successfully implemented, Li Hongji will not only be able to kill the thorn in the eye, but also take the opportunity to suppress King Qi. Calculating the time, it should be time for the news to come, so Li Hongji was a little restless. After all, if things don't work out, he can only choose to go to Runzhou, and once he stays away from Jinling, many things are beyond his control.

When Li Hongji was thinking about it, Zhu Lingyun hurriedly walked in with a disappointed face.

"General Zhu, how are things going?" Li Hongji asked impatiently.

Zhu Lingyun shook his head, sighed, and said, "This time, it's really just a little bit worse." Thinking of the fierce battle that day, Zhu Lingyun was a little frightened, Yang Lian's combat effectiveness that broke out under the crisis was very scary.

Li Hongji grabbed Zhu Lingyun's arm with some excitement and said, "This, what's going on?" It's not planned for a long time, how can Yang Lian get away? ”

Zhu Lingyun was caught by the wound and gasped in pain, Li Hongji saw this, hurriedly let go of him, frowned, and said, "Are you injured?" ”

"Out of the way." Zhu Lingyun said, and told the situation that day.

The more Li Hongji listened, the more shocked he became, and said: "The planning is so thorough, but it still falls short. Now that the matter has become a foregone conclusion, what I am worried about is whether Qian Chengli will be beaten up? Speaking from the heart, colluding with Wu Yueren to murder Yang Lian, Li Hongji is very worried even if he is bold, once his father knows, even if it is his son, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape the situation of being killed. After all, this kind of thing is a great crime of treason, and no emperor will allow it, if Li Jing knows, even if Li Hongji is not divided by the five horses, at least he will be imprisoned for life, and this means that Li Hongji's dream of being an emperor will be shattered.

"King Yan rest assured, that Qian Chengli is not a stupid person, if he confesses us, it will not be of much benefit to him." Zhu Lingyun said.

"Hmph, how can it be no good, once my father learns about it, we will definitely be severely punished, and at that time, the Tang Dynasty will have civil strife, and Wu Yue people will have a chance." Li Hongji said.

Zhu Lingyun shook his head and said: "King Yan, for the people of Wu Yue, it is best to maintain this relationship, and they will even secretly support King Yan, which is the most dangerous for Datang." ”

Li Hongji squinted his eyes and thought about it carefully, and felt that what Zhu Lingyun said was reasonable, so he immediately nodded and said, "I hope so, but Wu Yueren wants to control me, this is wishful thinking." Li Hongji cooperated with Qian Chengli just to get greater benefits and defeat his political enemies in Datang, but if he wanted to betray the interests of Datang, Li Hongji categorically refused.

"King Yan is wise." Zhu Lingyun smiled and slapped Li Hongji lightly.

Li Hongji was unmoved, and said: "This matter is not successful, my father wants me to go to Runzhou to take office, which is really a headache." ”

Zhu Lingyun thought for a while and said, "King Yan, there is a plan for humiliation. ”

"Oh? What's your best idea? Li Hongji became interested.

Zhu Lingyun sighed and said, "Then Yang Lian is seriously injured, and it will take at least some days to recover, and during this time, we can do a lot of things." ”

"As far as I know, the relationship between Yang Lian and Zeng Yiling in the brothel is a little ambiguous, so you might as well start from this aspect." Zhu Lingyun smiled very strangely, and said in a low voice: "This woman, she is extremely beautiful, for a beautiful woman, maybe she will do something foolish, if she can catch Yang Lian's handle, you don't have to worry about having no chance to deal with him." ”

As soon as Zhu Lingyun said this, Li Hongji's eyes lit up, and he said: "As soon as you said this, I suddenly remembered that these days, Zeng Yiling has also disappeared, and I don't know where I went." ”

"Didn't you go to Kaifeng too?" Zhu Lingyun guessed.

"Quite possibly. If this is really the case, Yang Lian and Zeng Yiling must have an ulterior secret. Li Hongji judged, and had already made up his mind in his heart. (To be continued.) )