Li Yanqing carefully read the report, and the report only said that Tong Guan, Wang Huang, Zhang Bangchang, Li Bangyan and other important ministers strongly demanded the Northern Expedition at the court meeting, and did not mention the opposition or the unanimous approval of the hundred officials, but only said that the Son of Heaven hesitated for a long time and finally decided to fulfill the covenant and agree to the Northern Expedition.

The Son of Heaven hesitated for a long time just to express a gesture, after all, he had issued an edict to suspend the Northern Expedition last year, and now it has been restarted, it is easy to think of his reversal.

Since there are not many people who echo Wang Huang's party, it shows that there are still not a few opponents, but last year's Fan Party case has made no one dare to come forward, and can only let Wang Huang and Tong Guan's party gain the upper hand.

Li Yanqing paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, since he was demoted last year, he knew that the Northern Expedition would come sooner or later, but when the Northern Expedition really came, Li Yanqing felt stunned again, as if he saw a huge ship sailing towards a huge whirlpool, and he was powerless to stop it, history still moved towards fate with a desperate attitude.

However, the fate of some individuals has been changed, in history, the Song army launched two Northern Expeditions in this year, the first time was the main general of the Western Route Army by the Seed Master Dao, and finally defeated by the Liao Army in Xiongzhou, and at this time the Seed Master Road has been dismissed and returned to his hometown, obviously there is no chance to lead the army again, so who will replace the Seed Master Dao as the main general?

Generally speaking, after agreeing to the Northern Expedition, the appointment of military personnel will be announced, but it is a pity that the "Chaobao" was not published, and it should be seen tomorrow, at this time, Li Yanqing suddenly thought of the "tabloid", "The tabloid" often leaks some important matters in advance, and it is relatively accurate, thinking of this, Li Yanqing ran into the inner house like a gust of wind, and rushed into Hu Qing'er's courtyard.

"Qing'er!" Li Yanqing shouted in the courtyard.

Soon, Hu Qing'er walked out with a newspaper, "Does the eldest brother want a newspaper?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and Hu Qing'er handed him the newspaper with a smile, "There should be news that the eldest brother cares about!" ”

Li Yanqing took the newspaper, and simply read it by the faint light in the courtyard, Hu Qing'er hurriedly went back to the house to get a lamp out, Li Yanqing quickly found the gossip he wanted on the front page, Xiang Wang Anzhong recommended the seed master Tao as the capital system, but was unanimously opposed by Wang Huang, Li Bangyan, and Zhang Bangchang, Tan Zhi and Gao Yu jointly recommended Liu Yanqing as the commander of the West Route Army, and Tong Guan recommended Xin Xingzong as the commander of the East Route Army, these two people are important contributors to the pacification of Fangla, and they both belong to the Northwest Army faction.

At the end of the report, the Northern Expedition lineup was also arranged, with Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, as the commander, Tong Guan as the envoy of the Xuanfu system, and Liu Yanqing and Xin Xingzong as the commanders of the Eastern and Western Route Army.

Li Yanqing nodded secretly, basically eight or nine are not far from ten, especially pointed out that Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, is the main commander, either the editor-in-chief of "Tabloid" has a level, or they really got the inside information, this Northern Expedition is actually a battle to win the heir.

At this time, Li Yanqing remembered that he had seen another report two months ago, saying that Tong Guan had taken over the great merit of exterminating Fang La, which caused serious dissatisfaction among Tan Zhi, another eunuch in the prison army, and he joined Gao Yu to impeach Tong Guan for indiscriminately killing civilians and pretending to be Fang La's subordinates to ask for merit, so that Tong Guan was blamed and his promotion was frustrated.

Tong Guan has a deep contradiction with Tan Zhi and Gao Yu because of this, and Liu Yanqing is Gao Yu's person, if Liu Yanqing is really in charge of the capital, I am afraid that there will not be such a tacit understanding between him and Tong Guan.

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In the Imperial Palace of the capital, a middle-aged eunuch hurriedly walked through a long corridor and came to Liang Shicheng's official room in the inner palace, he came to the door and whispered to the eunuch Yang Qiu: "It was Ah Weng who summoned me here!" ”

Yang Qiu nodded, "You wait a while, I'll report!" ”

This middle-aged eunuch is called Luo Ji, who was once a personal eunuch next to the crown prince Zhao Huan, and is now in charge of the prince's daily life, of course, he is also Liang Shicheng's hand-picked up, and he is Liang Shicheng's confidant placed by the prince's side, and he was specifically responsible for the connection between Liang Shicheng and the prince.

At this time, Liang Shicheng was sitting at the table reading a piece of information sent from Jiayu County, Ezhou, of course he didn't forget Li Yanqing, he had been paying attention to Li Yanqing's situation in Jiayu County, not that he cared about Li Yanqing, but that he felt that Li Yanqing still had the value of use.

Li Yanqing once had a good personal relationship with King Yun Zhao Kai, whether it was the crown prince ascending the throne or King Yun ascending the throne in the future, Li Yanqing had the hope of being reused, this is the value of Li Yanqing in the eyes of Liang Shicheng.

Liang Shicheng has always boasted that he sees people very accurately, and it can be seen from Li Yanqing's performance in Jiayu County this year that he is by no means a fish in the pond, and he has only been in office for a month, and he has completely exterminated the water thieves who have plagued the Yangtze River for more than ten years.

It's just that Wang Boyan was too shameless, he directly robbed the merit of suppressing bandits and was promoted to the prefect of Yingtian, but Liang Shicheng had no intention of speaking for Li Yanqing, from the fact that Li Yanqing was promoted to the first level by the Son of Heaven, it shows that the Son of Heaven knows very well that the real credit for suppressing bandits is Li Yanqing, but it is also obvious that the Son of Heaven does not want to rehabilitate Fan Dang, so he only reluctantly promotes Li Yanqing to the first level.

At this time, the eunuch Yang Qiu came in to report, "Luo Ji is here, saying that Ah Weng summoned him to come." ”

Liang Shicheng was now more concerned about the prince's situation, and specially brought Luo Ji for questioning, so he temporarily put down the report on Li Yanqing, nodded and said, "Let him in!" ”

The relationship between Liang Shicheng and the crown prince Zhao Huan has always been complicated, since he helped the prince, he also suppressed the prince.

The year before last, the prince was suppressed because of the note incident, and Liang Shicheng's role in it was not to make the situation smaller, but to add fuel to the fire, aggravate the seriousness of the situation, and finally put the prince Zhao Huan in a state of semi-house arrest.

It's just that Liang Shicheng never dreamed that Zhao Huan actually secretly hid another channel, that is, the imperial doctor Zhao Keats, of course, last year, when Liang Shicheng was in trouble with the Fan Party, he pointed out that the prince contacted the Fan Party behind his back, but this is just a slander by Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao without evidence, but Liang Shicheng didn't know that his slander was actually the truth.

This year, Liang Shicheng's life was indeed better, Tan Zhi, Gao Yu's faction and Tong Guan's break made Liang Shicheng a person who was eager to win over both factions, and Li Yan's huge deficit in the management of the inner treasury made the son of heaven Zhao Ji extremely dissatisfied with him, and Liang Shicheng quietly regained the management of the inner treasury.

He immediately carried out a major investigation, revealing the truth that Li Yan had embezzled more than 100,000 yuan of money from the inner treasury, which made Zhao Ji very angry and kicked Li Yan to the Yeting Palace to be a steward, and Liang Shicheng's victory in the inner palace made Wang Hao and others begin to desperately curry favor with him, trying to seek his forgiveness.

If Liang Shicheng still has any worries, it is that his relationship with the crown prince made Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, very wary of him and did not believe him at all.

Now that King Yun is the generalissimo of the three armies of the Northern Expedition, the intention of the Son of Heaven to change the prince has been very obvious, as long as the Northern Expedition wins, King Yun is very likely to take the east wind of victory into the East Palace and become the new prince.

The current situation made Liang Shicheng very remorseful, first, he regretted that he got too close to the crown prince and bet on the wrong future, and secondly, he regretted that he assisted Wang Hao to overthrow the Fan party, resulting in no one in the court opposing the Northern Expedition.

But the main thing is to regret the former, he used to get too close to the crown prince Zhao Huan, and lost the trust of Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, once Zhao Kai ascended the throne, that was when he was completely finished.

At this time, Liang Shicheng was thinking about what he should do? Whether to help Zhao Huan stabilize the position of the crown prince, or to step on Zhao Huan a few more times, so that King Yun can see his attitude, he is now facing a choice.

At this time, Luo Ji walked in, knelt down and saluted, "Meet Ah Weng!" ”

"Get up!"

Luo Ji got up and stood aside with his hands down, and Liang Shicheng asked, "What is the situation of the prince now?" ”

Luo Ji shook his head, "I am in a very bad state, and I am addicted to wine all day long. ”

"Is it pretending?" Liang Shicheng asked again.

"He was depressed and pessimistic about the future, and he scolded Wang Hao last night when he was drunk, saying that everyone who could help him was deposed by Wang Hao, and he also mentioned the names of several people."

"Who else was mentioned?"

Luo Ji lowered his voice and said, "Fan Zhixu, Zheng Juzhong, Seed Master Dao and Li Yanqing were mentioned. ”

Liang Shicheng suddenly became nervous, "What do you do when you mention them?" ”

"It seems that these four people have failed him."

Liang Shicheng couldn't help sneering, this is indeed Zhao Huan's character, when something happens, he always puts the responsibility on others, and never examines himself.

"Did he mention me?"

"He.... He also mentions Awen. ”

"What did he say?"

Luo Ji hesitated, but didn't dare to speak, Liang Shicheng glared at him fiercely, "Say it quickly!" ”

"He said that he can have today all thanks to the Taifu!"

What does that mean? That's all it takes. ”

Prince Zhao Huan's words have two meanings, and the words before and after must be linked to understand the true meaning of the words.

"He said that it was because of the care of the master that he was now like a dog in a cage to be slaughtered."

Liang Shicheng was suddenly furious, "I don't know what to do, but I will take revenge, if it weren't for me, he would have been abolished a long time ago!" ”

Liang Shicheng suddenly made up his mind in his heart, since Zhao Huan didn't know what to do and didn't know how to be grateful, what else did he help him do, it was time to show his attitude to King Yun.

At this moment, Yang Qiu ran in again to report, "Ah Weng, Captain Gao asks to see you!" ”