As soon as Li Yanqing returned home, the housekeeper Uncle Tai greeted him and said, "Official, there is an urgent letter from you!" ”

He handed over a letter, Li Yanqing took the letter and looked at it, it was sent by the imperial physician Zhao Keats, and there were only three words in the letter, 'The medicine has arrived!' ’

Li Yanqing immediately understood the meaning of the letter, and hurriedly asked, "When was the letter delivered?" ”

"About half an hour ago."

Li Yanqing didn't have time to greet his family, so he immediately got on the ox cart again and ordered: "Go to Dongdajie!" ”

The ox cart set off again, left the Yunqi Bridge, and came to Dongdajie after a short time, and when passing by the Zhao Taicheng Medical Center, Li Yanqing came out of the ox cart and walked straight into the medical hall.

A child greeted him, "May I ask if the official is going to be treated?" ”

"Is your old lady Zhao here? I made an appointment with him. ”

"May I ask if it's Li Yushi?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Exactly!" ”

"Please come with me, my old man is waiting in the house."

Li Yanqing followed the boy into the inner hall quickly, and when he walked to the door, he saw Zhao Keats greet him with a smile, "I didn't expect Li Yushi to come so quickly." ”

Li Yanqing saluted and smiled: "I came here to get medicine!" ”

"The medicine is still there, please come with me."

Li Yanqing followed him into the inner hall and sat down, a child served them tea, and Zhao Keats said to the second son next to him: "You go outside the door, no one is allowed to come in and disturb!" ”

"The child obeys!"

Zhao Er retreated, and Zhao Keats took out a wax pill the size of a loquat from the medical box and handed it to Li Yanqing, "Please Li Yushi go back and take the medicine!" ”

Li Yanqing put away the wax pill and asked again, "How is the patient?" ”

"The patient is in good health, but his heart disease is too serious, especially in the past few days, he is restless and too anxious."

"Did you hear any bad news?"

"I don't know the specifics......"

Zhao Jici lowered his voice again and said, "But I heard that it seems to be related to King Yun." ”

'King Yun? ’

Li Yanqing suddenly understood, the crown prince Zhao Huan must have also heard about the decision to appoint King Yun as the commander of the three armies, this is actually a harbinger of changing the crown prince, once King Yun has mastered the military power, there is at least a seventy percent chance of changing the prince, could it be that Zhao Huan is so anxious that he is desperate to send a secret letter outside.

Li Yanqing took a sip of tea and got up to say goodbye, "Thank you Zhao Taicheng for your medicine, I'm leaving." ”

"Li Yushi walks slowly, if there is any recurrence of the condition, you can come to me at any time."

"Thank you!"

Li Yanqing turned around and left Zhao Taicheng's mansion, returned to the ox cart, he closed the curtain, took out the wax pill and crushed it, inside was a white silk the size of a handkerchief, which was densely covered with small characters.

Li Yanqing quickly read it and couldn't help but be stunned, this is not a letter to him, it is a secret decree to Xiangguo Fan Zhixu, although the letter also mentions his name Li Yanqing, but it is mainly for Fan Zhixu, he only plays a role in assisting.

Li Yanqing thought about it and said to the coachman: "Go to the right door!" ”

In front of the right door of the imperial city is a famous official residence street, the north side of the street that is two miles long is all official residences, this is a group of official residences built by Song Shenzong in consideration of the housing difficulties of high-ranking officials, basically more than ten acres, only the prime minister, the governor of the council, the privy envoy and other officials above the vice state level are eligible to move in.

Fan Zhixu did not have a house in the capital, so he lived in one of the official mansions covering an area of ten acres.

Fan Zhixu has just returned to the palace, he needs to calmly consider the next action strategy, Tong Guan's entry into Beijing is an important turning point, which marks that the Northern Expedition has changed from the original discussion to substantive deployment, and even to become a strategic national policy.

They only have two or three days left at most, Fan Zhixu has been an official in Hebei for many years, and he knows very well that Hebei's military has accumulated deep shortcomings, the people are tired and the soldiers are lacking, and once the gap is opened, there will be accidents.

It was now impossible to convince the Son of Heaven, and the only way to do so was to exert tremendous pressure to force the Son of Heaven to stop his hasty Northern Expedition.

At this time, there was a boy outside the study to report: "Qi Yu Xianggong, Li Yushi has something urgent to see!" ”

Fan Zhixu is a little strange, he just broke up with Li Yanqing for a short time, why did Li Yanqing come to him again, is there any important situation?

He hurriedly ordered: "Please come to the study to see me!" ”

Not long after, the boy outside reported again: "Li Yushi is here!" ”

"Please come in!"

The door of the study opened, and Li Yanqing walked in briskly from the outside, stepped forward and bowed, "See Xiangguo!" ”

"Is there anything urgent looking for me in Yanqing?"

Li Yanqing glanced at the little boy next to him, Fan Zhixuan understood, and waved his hand, "Go down!" ”

The little boy went down, Li Yanqing closed the door again, and then took out the white silk from his arms and handed it to Fan Zhixu, "Xiangguo, please look at this!" ”

"This is .......," Fan Zhixuan took the white silk in confusion.

"This is the secret decree of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Fan Zhixu was taken aback, the white silk in his hand almost landed, he hurriedly spread the white silk on the table, and looked at it carefully, it turned out to be the crown prince Zhao Huan begging them to stop the Northern Expedition, and his words were extremely sincere, especially in the end, the six words 'Zhao Heng wept blood to support' were actually written in blood.

Fan Zhixu read it three times in a row, especially the last six words made his eyes red, he put the white silk on the table, knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily and cried: "Your Highness's trust is not enough to repay the kindness of your body!" ”

He kowtowed three times before he stood up and asked Li Yanqing, "Where did you get this?" ”

"It was the imperial physician Zhao Keats who just transferred it to me, and I didn't stay, so I rushed directly to find Xiangguo."

Speaking of this, Li Yanqing pointed to the white silk and said: "You must burn it immediately, otherwise you and I will have a catastrophe, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not be able to escape this catastrophe!" ”

Fan Zhixu knew the serious consequences of this leakage, he read it carefully again, and memorized the contents of it, so he put the white silk in the incense burner and burned it.

Fan Zhixu sat down, things became extremely complicated again, he pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "The Son of Heaven actually made King Yun the commander of the three armies, there is a sign of seizing the heir!" ”

"What is Fan Xiangguo going to do?" Li Yanqing asked.

Fan Zhixu was silent for a long time and said: "Until today, the Son of Heaven has no intention of giving up the Northern Expedition, which means that our pressure is not enough, I also got the news that a temporary dynasty will be held the day after tomorrow, which is estimated to be the decision on the Northern Expedition. ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, for more than ten years, he has been eager to change history and avoid the tragedy of Jingkang, now although his strength is not strong enough, he already has a group of like-minded people, how can he push it back at this time? He also decided to let it go, but he didn't want this lowly official.

Fan Zhixu said happily: "Okay! Let's go our separate ways, I'll go to Zheng Juzhong now to discuss the initiation of a joint name, and you can help me do a big thing. ”

Li Yanqing bowed and saluted, "Please give orders to Xiangguo!" ”

Li Yanqing is now Fan Zhixu's right-hand man, and the task assigned by Fan Zhixu will certainly not be easy, and it is also an extremely critical link.

"You go to Cai Jing's mansion and try to persuade Cai Jing to support the Northern Expedition."

Li Yanqing couldn't help but be stunned, if he was to persuade Cai Jing, wouldn't it be more effective for Fan Zhixu to visit in person than himself?

"There is no intersection between the lowly position and Cai Jing, I am afraid that the persuasion will not be effective, not that the lowly position is shirked, but that I am worried that I will miss a big thing, it is better to let the lowly position go to Liang Shicheng."

Fan Zhixu shook his head, "Liang Shicheng, I'll go to him, I will write a letter to you and hand it to Cai Jing, I have thought about it repeatedly, you are the most suitable person, in some things, you see higher and deeper than me, only you can say that Cai Jing can be moved, you don't have to shirk!" ”

Li Yanqing had no choice but to agree, Fan Zhixu quickly wrote a letter and handed it to Li Yanqing, "Go!" When you're done, you just go back to rest, don't report to me, I'm not necessarily at home, we'll meet again tomorrow morning. ”

Li Yanqing took the letter, thought about it and said to Fan Zhixu: "I still don't believe in Qin Hui, he was recommended by Zhang Bangchang to be Taixue Xuezheng, and now Zhang Bangchang and Wang Hao have a close relationship, at the critical moment, we should be careful to take precautions!" ”

Fan Zhi smiled and said, "Okay! This time I followed your advice, I won't let him participate in some important things, you have to be careful, Wang Hao is despicable, at the last moment, be careful of him secretly hurting people. ”

"Thank you Xiangguo for your concern, remember the humble position, and say goodbye!"

Li Yanqing immediately left Fan Zhixu's mansion and sat in his ox cart, at this time, Zhang Hu stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Qi Yu Shi, we found that someone is monitoring Fan Xiangguo's mansion. ”

"How many are there?"

"There are quite a few people, at least seven or eight people."

Li Yanqing immediately said to him: "You go to Fan Xiangguo's mansion now and tell the people in the mansion that someone outside is watching." ”

"Obey!"

Zhang Hu turned around and entered the mansion and said a few words to the housekeeper, the housekeeper's face suddenly changed greatly, he looked around in horror, and rushed to the inner house.

Not long after, Zhang Hu came back to report: "The humble post has been informed to them!" ”

Only then did Li Yanqing order: "Let's go home first!" ”

Intuition told Li Yanqing that the situation had begun to become tense, and there were some things that he had to deal with as soon as possible.