The situation has begun to develop to the side that is not favorable to Li Yanqing, but Zhao Huan used the method of squeezing to hollow out Li Yanqing's foundation little by little, negating Li Yanqing's defense plan, excluding Li Yanqing from the recruitment of new soldiers, and at the same time transferring Li Yanqing's allies one by one, first Li Gang, and then Gao Shen, so that Li Yanqing was gradually isolated in the imperial court.

Of course, Zhao Huan will not come forward himself, but through the hands of Bai Shizhong and Wu Min to achieve all this, on the surface, Zhao Huan still shows that he attaches great importance to Li Yanqing, in the afternoon, Zhao Huan specially met with Li Yanqing, encouraging him to continue to strengthen the defense of the capital, and the imperial court will do everything in its power to support the defense of the capital.

Coming out of the palace, Li Yanqing rode slowly on the street, as if he was still reminiscing about Zhao Huan's reception in his mind, and Zhao Huan's excessive enthusiasm made him obviously see the big mark on this enthusiasm: hypocrisy.

Even this hypocrisy reveals a trace of Zhao Huan's fear of himself, Zhao Huan sometimes actually wants to look at his own face to speak, the dignified emperor actually wants to look at the faces of his subordinates to speak, Li Yanqing doesn't know if he should be proud, but he also understands in his heart that his problem lies in the credit of the master, a young, unqualified new emperor, the throne is far from being secured, he just met himself such a strong and prestige army commander, he is not afraid of it.

After more than ten days of large-scale southward retreat, the population of the city has been further reduced, from more than 900,000 to less than 600,000, the vast majority of the population is concentrated in the inner city, the inner city is the old city of Tokyo, and most of the commercial centers are concentrated here, such as Yujie, Panlou Street, Daxiangguo Temple, Zhouqiao Night Market, and so on.

The inner city is due to the small place, dense houses, and a lot of shops, so it is difficult to build a large mansion, so the mansions of the magnates are basically built in the outer city, and with the large-scale inevitability of the magnates and the economic recession, the outer city has become very deserted, and there are basically no pedestrians on the street, only an empty house next to an empty house, and only the Taixue neighborhood in the south is slightly popular.

"Dutong, it just so happens that our military camp is not enough, and the outer city is empty, can we dismantle and build a military camp?" Several pro-soldiers asked with a smile.

Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "Soon there will be 200,000 new troops entering the city, and the outer city will definitely be demolished and camped on a large scale, but this has nothing to do with us." ”

The street was empty, at this time, the three old men were arguing about what came out of a courtyard, they suddenly saw Li Yanqing, the quarrel disappeared immediately, the three of them knelt down respectfully, and bowed to Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing didn't help them, he was already used to this scene, almost as long as the people in the capital saw him, they would respectfully salute him, his status in the capital was already a god-like existence, far more than the new emperor Zhao Huan, which was also the root of Zhao Heng's fear of him.

Li Yanqing sighed secretly, he should have taken the carriage in and out.

Li Yanqing saluted several old men with his fists, then urged the war horses and led everyone to speed up in the direction of the military office.

After a short time, everyone returned to the defense envoy military office, and at this time, it was already dusk, and the soldiers all ran to the dining hall to eat, and there were few people at the gate of the military office.

As soon as Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted, a man in black suddenly rushed out from behind the stone lion next to him, rushing extremely fast, and the pro-soldiers also reacted extremely quickly, the three soldiers instantly separated Li Yanqing with their bodies, and several pro-soldiers next to him also reacted at the same time, one of them pounced and threw the man in black to the ground, and the other soldiers rushed up and held the man in black to death.

"Li Dutong, I'm not an assassin, I'm from Jiangning Mansion!" The man in black struggled to lower his voice and shouted.

He seemed very professional, and his voice was very small, but he could just let Li Yanqing hear it, and he would never be heard by passers-by.

Li Yanqing's heart moved, and he immediately looked around, but the surroundings were empty, and there was no pedestrian.

Li Yanqing then ordered: "Don't hurt him, wait for him to come to see me later!" ”

After speaking, Li Yanqing turned around and walked towards the military office, and several soldiers tied up the man in black and escorted him in.

At this time, a pair of eyes were faintly visible on the roof of the house on the other side of the street, staring intently at the man in black who was brought into the army.

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Li Yanqing ate dinner, and asked the little tea boy to order a pot of good fragrant tea, and then sat down in the study, this is Li Yanqing's habit, his family is not around, he usually stays in the study most of the time, in addition to reading books, it is to plan the future and fate of himself and the Great Song Dynasty, the official has achieved his level, and his every move will have an impact on the future and fate of the Great Song Dynasty.

After drinking two sips of hot tea, Li Yanqing ordered: "Bring that man in black in!" ”

Since it was a person from Jiangning Mansion, Li Yanqing could certainly guess who the other party was, but he was still a little vigilant, what if someone was deceiving him inside, pretending to be Zhao Ji's messenger? The court's deceit, he had to be on guard.

In a moment, the man in black was brought into the study, he did not have any sharp blades on his body, and he was specially taken care of, and the soldiers did not tie him up, but they still sent him into the study under close surveillance.

The man in black, surnamed Xu, was one of the guards beside Zhao Ji, he looked back at the few personal soldiers behind him, meaning that they could retreat, but Li Yanqing ignored his hint and asked lightly: "Are you passing on the message, or do you have a secret decree!" ”

Xu Guards had no choice but to bow down and say, "The humble position has a secret purpose. ”

After speaking. He took off the leather belt around his waist, Li Yanqing almost laughed, it was actually a cloth belt edict, more than a thousand years, and he still played this one, the faces of the next few pro-soldiers were not very good-looking, they searched the whole body of the man in black, and even the hair was untied, but they didn't find that there were secrets in his leatherbelt, which really made several pro-soldiers annoyed and embarrassed.

The leather belt is two layers of leather, and the edge is sewn densely with fine threads, so that the inside of the leather belt becomes hollow, Xu guards find the gap, and pull it hard, "snort-" A series of sounds, the thin lines have been broken, the leather belt was torn in half, and the plain white silk scroll hidden inside was exposed, Xu Guards took out the silk scroll and handed it to the pro-soldiers, the pro-soldiers were very strict with him, and he was not allowed to approach the capital.

The soldiers presented the silk scroll to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing opened the silk scroll, and saw the red seal at a glance, which was Zhao Ji's personal seal, Li Yanqing had seen it, and Zhao Ji carved it with a piece of superb Tianhuang stone.

As soon as this seal came out, Li Yanqing knew that this was a handwritten letter written by Zhao Ji to himself, as well as his unique thin gold body, Li Yanqing also wrote very well, but it was still a lot worse than the original creator Zhao Ji, and that kind of heat was far from enough.

The content of the letter is not much, only a few sentences, in fact, it is a promise, if he is willing to support him to restore the throne, he promises to recruit himself as a concubine, and make him the king of the county.

This is interesting, he already has a wife, and he is still a strong Cao family, Zhao Ji doesn't dare to offend no matter what, does Zhao Ji want his daughter to be his concubine? Li Yanqing felt that it was unlikely, but offending the Cao family at this time would be equivalent to offending the entire meritorious family, unless Zhao Ji's head was caught by the door, of course, it was not possible to open a promise for himself.

There is only one explanation, Zhao Ji will take a concubine daughter to herself, after all, she has more than 30 daughters, but even if she is a concubine, she is also an emperor! In order to reset the throne, Zhao Ji actually wronged his daughter like this.

"Any other words?" Li Yanqing asked.

"There is nothing else, and there is a reply from Li Dutong that I want to bring back."

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said with a smile: "You go and tell the Emperor Taishang, just say that the conditions offered by his old man, I am very interested." ”

"I'll go back overnight tonight!"

Xu Wei was very excited, he hesitated, "Do you want Li Dutong to write a letter, or give me a token?" ”

Of course, Li Yanqing would not write a letter to leave a handle, he just said that he could consider it, and did not really promise anything, so he took out a golden arrow from the box next to him, which was a golden arrow awarded to him by Zhao Ji after he won the first place in the archery and horse competition, which was equivalent to a trophy in later generations, and it was also engraved with the words 'leader of the bow and horse competition'.

Li Yanqing handed the arrow to Xu Guard, "This arrow was given to me by the Emperor Taishang back then, and he can know it." ”

"Thank you, Dutong!" The guards accepted the arrows and bowed.

At this time, a pro-soldier walked in quickly and said in a low voice: "Dutong, we found that someone is spying on the military office!" ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, it was impossible for his military officials to be monitored by arrows, and he immediately asked, "How many people?" ”

"Three people have been found so far."

Li Yanqing pondered for a while, and asked Xu Guard again, "Who else did you go to the north this time?" ”

"I also went to find King Kang and His Royal Highness King Yun!"

Li Yanqing immediately understood that it must have been Zhao Huan who sent someone to spy on Zhao Gou, King of Kang, and Zhao Kai, King of Yun, but as a result, this Xu guard was discovered and kept being followed.

Li Yanqing took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and made a decision immediately, he gave his personal soldiers a look, and the personal soldiers pierced the vest of Xu Guard's waist with a fierce knife from behind.

Li Yanqing took the golden arrow back from the hand of the Xu guard, and said to the Xu guard, who had not yet lost his breath: "I will send someone to give it to the emperor, and I will double the pension for your family, you can go with peace of mind!" ”

Xu guard's lips moved, his head tilted, and he died.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Carry his body out of the city and throw it away, deliberately make it secretive, someone will follow you." ”