Chapter 688: Chasing the Murderer for Thousands of Miles
Not to mention the attached horse mansion of Jiankang, the capital of Emperor Nanchen, Xu Deyan and Chen Changle, the princess of Lechang, took the broken mirror as a token of each other's promise and never lost each other, and agreed to reunite after breaking the mirror in the future, be loyal, and go back to Yang Guang.
According to Gao Ying's suggestion, in order to rush to the former enemy's unified army as soon as possible to take office, Yang Guang did not wait for Yu Xiaoren to go out of Beijing to welcome back the envoys and Jiao Er and his party who had been ordered to envoy to Goguryeo a few months ago, that is, he led 500 hussars from the Jin Palace, and solemnized the prestige of the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, bid farewell to his father Yang Jian at the Baqiao Post outside Chang'an City, and came all the way to the east.
When he got out of Tongguan and walked to the vicinity of Luoyang, the eastern capital, he overheard a report from the front, saying that his subordinate Nayan Su Wei led the civil and military officials of the eastern capital out of the city for fifty miles and came to greet Yang Guang and his party.
When Yang Guang received this letter, he only brought a few guards such as Liu Fang and Xian Yuluo, and together with Zhang Heng and others, they marched out on horseback and took the lead in meeting Su Wei. When he saw Su Wei and other officials in the Eastern Capital from a distance, Yang Guang immediately turned over and dismounted, walked to the front of the long pavilion, and saluted Su Wei with a fist: "How dare the student go out of the city to greet Teacher Lao in person, and apologize to the teacher here." ”
In the early years of the emperor's reign, Su Wei advocated peace with the Turks who attacked the shore of Weishui and dismissed the prime minister, and it was not until five years later that he resumed his position and changed to the position of subordinate Nayan, and was relied on by the emperor to temporarily replace the crown prince Yang Yong, who had committed a crime and was under house arrest, to leave the eastern capital of Zhendong and pacify Guandong. This time, when he learned that Yang Guang was appointed as the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses who commanded the army to defeat Chen, Su Wei was quite happy for him, and because he failed to protect Zhang Xutuo under Yang Guang well in the previous two years in Jingzhaoyin's tenure, he had always had an apology for Yang Guang in his heart, so he thought about taking advantage of the opportunity of Yang Guang to go to Huainan to pass through the eastern capital, and went fifty miles away to greet Yang Guang and make up for it a little.
"When the generalissimo said this, he killed the lower officer." Su Wei hurriedly approached and helped Yang Guang with both hands, walked into the long pavilion side by side with him and sat down, and said to Yang Guang in the crowd with his fingers, "Lord Wang, please see, a few months ago, the imperial court sent an envoy to Goguryeo, Langzhong Fenglun, has also been waiting for the prince in the eastern capital for many days, because Yu Xiaoren previously brought the prince's general order, ordered the envoy to Goguryeo to wait in the eastern capital, and then return to Beijing to see the prince after seeing the prince, so the lower official brought him to pick up the prince today." ”
Su Wei's voice fell, and Yang Guang had already seen a young official with a long face and white skin flash out of the accompanying officials of the Eastern Capital, and stepped forward to bow to him and saluted: "Xiaguan Fenglun was ordered to send Goguryeo back to the court, and he was ordered to wait for the prince here." ”
Yang Guang opened his eyes and looked behind Feng Lun, but he didn't see Jiao Er following, so he asked: "If this king's memory is correct, you have been on an envoy to Goguryeo for at least a hundred days, why did you delay it for so long to come back, and did this trip go well?" ”
Feng Lun knew that what Yang Guang was most anxious to know was the news about whether he had escorted Guan Zizai, the big leader of the "Wild Goose's Nest", from Goguryeo, and did not rush to answer, but turned his gaze to Su Wei, who was sitting next to him.
Su Wei suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly excused himself to lead a group of officials from the Eastern Capital to return to the city to set up a banquet for Yang Guang to wash the dust, and resigned to Yang Advertising. In the originally bustling long pavilion, only Yang Guang and Feng Lun himself were left in a moment.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Yang Guang sent Su Wei and the others away, turned around and returned to the long pavilion, and greeted Feng Lun, vaguely feeling that he was a little familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he asked him lightly while recalling carefully.
"Returning to Your Highness. Xiaguan and others were ordered to envoy Goguryeo this time, but they were accidentally deceived by Gao Tang, and waited in vain for more than a month in Chang'an, the capital of their country, and later it was the secret visit of General Jiao in His Royal Highness's mansion to secretly investigate, only to get the exact news that Gao Liansheng had already been released from Gao Tang abroad, and the most likely destination was to return to Nanchen. Feng Lun didn't dare to hide it in the slightest, and truthfully reported to Yang Guang.
When Yang Guang reported to himself, he couldn't help but look at Feng Lun, and felt more and more that his tone and demeanor when he spoke were like a person hidden deep in his memory, but he couldn't remember who that person was, and when he heard that Feng Lun had failed to escort Gao Lian back to the court from Goguryeo, his face suddenly became gloomy.
Although Xiaguan failed to escort Gao Liansheng back to the court from Goguryeo, he was not completely unfounded. In order to express his sincerity in submitting to our Great Sui, Gao Tang submitted a letter to the imperial court and was willing to increase a number of tributes every year, and then sent his prince to live in Chang'an. Feng Lun raised his eyes and saw that Yang Guang's face was not good, and he hurriedly added and explained.
In view of the previous news in the north that the Goguryeo king Gao Tang sent people to secretly contact the Eastern Turks and wanted to join forces with them to raise troops to carve up the Khitan pastures, but after that, it was the Eastern Turks who unilaterally raised troops to invade the east, and was defeated and returned, Sha Bolu Khan was also shot by several arrows in that battle, and finally died, but the Goguryeo who took the lead in provoking the incident actually did not send a single soldier, so there was no conclusive evidence in the hands of the Sui Dynasty to prove that Goguryeo wanted to cause chaos in the north, so Feng Lun sent Goguryeo this time to Goguryeo, Although he failed to escort Gao Liansheng back to the court, the promise of getting the soup proton to pay tribute was also complete and smooth.
"When did you and Jiao Er break up, and now do you know his exact whereabouts?" Yang Guang didn't want to listen to Feng Lun's performance in front of him, and only asked him about the things he cared about.
"General Jiao and Xiaguan broke up in Chang'an, the capital of Goguryeo, and it has been more than a month now. Before leaving, he told his subordinates to wait until he returned to the back of the court to see the prince on his behalf, saying that he would not go to catch Guan Zizai and never return to Chang'an to see the prince. Because of his honorable rank, the lower officials did not dare to impose dissuasion......"
"In other words, since you were in the capital of Goguryeo, you and Jiao Er have lost contact?" Yang Guang's eyes flashed with a cold light, staring directly at Feng Lun and asked.
Feng Lun bowed his head and was speechless.
"What kind of place are you from?" Yang Guang saw that although Feng Lun was a white-faced scholar, he was under the gaze of his Ling Li, but he had no fear at all, and he did not defend himself, so he asked him coldly.
"Your Royal Highness, the lower official is a native of Bohai County, Hebei, and was recommended by the state and county to become an official three years ago."
"Are you from Bohai County? Do you recognize Feng Longzhi? In an instant, Yang Guang recalled that Feng Lun, no matter his appearance or demeanor, was similar to when he first arrived in Bingzhou and left the town, he led dozens of local families in Hebei to come to the door, and wanted to put back Feng Longzhi, the slave and customer recruited on the spot.
"The person mentioned by His Highness is the ancestor, and unfortunately he passed away not long after the release of the lower official." Feng Lun couldn't guess for a while how Yang Guang, the king of Jin, could recognize his grandfather Feng Longzhi, so he took the initiative to report the news of Feng Longzhi's death to Yang Guang.
"Since you are the deceased of this king, after returning to the dynasty this time, are you willing to serve in front of the army, follow this king to cross the river to destroy Chen, and establish a meritorious career?" Yang Guang asked Feng Lun to be an errand under his command in his heart, so as to win over the right of the Hebei family, and asked Feng Lundao.
"The lower official is willing." Feng Lun replied simply without thinking.