More than ten days have passed, and there is still no news from Hebei Prefectures, Bianliang has no idea what is happening over there, Tian Chongjin has added heavy troops on all the transportation arteries into Hebei, and even iron locks have been pulled up in the canals, and no matter whether it is a civilian ship or a merchant ship, it is not allowed to come and go, and the entire Hebei Prefectures seem to have suddenly evaporated from the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The military newspapers sent to the front division of the palace every day had almost no effect, Hebei could not inquire about the news, and the borders of Hedong, Qinfeng and other Datang could not inquire about any movement, and the whole world was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, turbid and dangerous, and no one knew that the stones that disturbed this stagnant water would be thrown out of their hands.

There was news from Jiangnan, the people over there had a deep affection for Li Tang, and this time Kou Zhun went there to recruit troops in the name of the former Tang Liu's guards and received strong support from the people of Jiangnan, and even some scholars enthusiastically surrendered, and the recruits recruited in just over a month exceeded 5,000.

This may be the best news he has heard since Tian Chongjin's rebellion, and finally has a trace of comfort, Kou Zhun also mentioned one thing in the letter, saying that the reason why he went to Jiangnan to reorganize the Tiger Ben Army so quickly this time is thanks to one person, it is the current Tang Dynasty Empress Zhou Wei, the Zhou family is a giant in the south of the Yangtze River, the daughter of the Zhou family was twice the queen of the former Tang Dynasty, and now Zhou Wei has become the queen of the Tang Dynasty who dominates the Central Plains.

The Song family was destroyed, the Zhou family swept away the shadow of being oppressed by the Zhao family for many years, and finally raised their eyebrows, although the old lady Zhou has long stopped asking about political affairs, but after all, he still has the identity of the Tang Dynasty, and his daughter is too, and he has not made a decree to announce that their Zhou clan will go to Bianliang to see, the Tang Emperor's throne is vacant, and the big burden has fallen on a woman, how can she bear it, there are also some people who have read poetry and books among the brothers and uncles in the family, can they go to Bianliang to help their daughter.

Since Kou Zhun was ordered to recruit troops in the south, he is also the first two big, no matter what year or month the emperor can't work hungry soldiers, and he doesn't pay for recruiting soldiers, how can this matter be reasonable.

However, Kou Zhun is still capable, as soon as he arrived in Jiangnan, he moved around, and finally hooked up with the Zhou family, the Zhou family thought that helping the Tang Dynasty was helping their daughter, and maybe they could take the opportunity to enter the court.

The Zhou family was really generous, destroying the family to relieve the difficulties, selling a large amount of Zhou's land, raising 500,000 stone of grain for Kou Zhun and 3 million yuan, which was regarded as solving Kou Zhun's urgent need, and it was precisely with this money that the matter of recruiting troops was handy.

Lu Fei looked at Kou Zhun's letter, on the surface, he wanted the imperial court to issue an edict to praise the Zhou family's heart for contributing to the country, but when he read it carefully, he found that Kou Zhun wanted to speak and stopped, as if he wanted to express another message.

In particular, at the end of the letter, there is a sentence that says, 'Today, our dynasty has been restored, and the military dynasty is prosperous'.

Wu Dynasty, said naturally to replace the Tang Dynasty of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, a generation of empress Wu Zetian usurped the Tang Dynasty to stand on her own, but although she is a woman, she is not inferior to the eyebrows, in her reign of more than ten years, so that the national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty has reached the Tang Dynasty has never had a prosperous era, there is a word that is the strength of the Wu Dynasty, all countries come to the dynasty!

Today's Datang naturally can't be compared with Wu Zetian's Great Zhou, and Kou Zhun's seemingly sycophant words are actually referring to the fact that the strength of the Zhou clan may lead to the disaster of the Wu Zhou Chaotang in that year.

Putting down the letter, a trace of worry rose in Lu Fei's heart, if it weren't for Kou Zhun's reminder, he wouldn't have thought of this layer at all, could it be that Kou Zhun found something in Jiangnan and the Zhou family did not obey? Will you really follow Wu Zetian's example and build the country as the heroine?

This thought only flashed in Lu Fei's mind, it was unlikely, the reason why Wu Zetian was able to usurp the Tang Dynasty back then was because of her political accumulation in the palace for more than 50 years, and Zhou Wei was where she went.

At the moment, Lu Fei can't take care of Zhou's family, the date on Kou Zhun's letter was half a month ago, maybe now his recruitment is coming to an end, which is a good thing, but it is also a sad thing for Lu Fei.

There are soldiers, the children of Jiangnan, the Tang Dynasty in their hearts, I believe that the loyalty of these people is much stronger than that of the forbidden army, but there are no weapons after these 10,000 people are recruited, and the new firearms on Dai Xiong's side have made no progress.

Now there is nothing Lu Fei can do as he wishes, the regime of the Tang Dynasty is still in turmoil, and his position is suddenly from the earth to the sky, many things do not have a comprehensive plan, most of them are crossing the river by feeling the stones, taking one step at a time, which matter is urgent, he will solve which thing first, at this time, the equipment of the newly formed Tiger Ben Army is not the most important, the most important thing is to find out the idea and deployment of Hebei Tian Chongjin, which is a major event that can shake the Tang Dynasty, He must immediately make judgments in his favor.

Negotiate peace, to paralyze and delay Tian Chong, the imperial court has to gather the envoy to the north as soon as possible, several court meetings in recent days have revolved around this matter, of course, on the bright side, this is not a peace, but the imperial court sent a senior member to Hexing Shi to ask for guilt, reprimanding Tian Chongjin for not being a minister.

No one objected to the matter of peace except for Xue Juzheng's previous complaints, and everyone hoped to use peaceful means to resolve the situation, as for what the emperor's surname is in the future, it will not be my turn to care about Lao Tzu's.

The candidate for the envoy to Hebei, Lu Fei, has been decided, that is, Shi Baoji, the son of Tian Chongjin's old master, Shi Shouxin, the former Song Dynasty Horse Captain, although the Great Song Dynasty is now gone, but the Tang Dynasty did not issue an edict to take away the honor of the Shi family, he still retains the former Horse Captain and status, and Princess Yanqing is still very noble.

Speaking of sending Shi Baoji to Hebei, Lu Fei is still somewhat selfish, as Xue Juzheng said, he killed the relatives of the former emperor with the help of Tian Chongjin, and then went to conquer the rebels under the banner of revenge for the former Song emperor.

Now, even if Lu Fei has the ability to send troops, he can't do this, because now Tian Chongjin's banner is 'Liberating the Great Song Dynasty', in other words, Tian Chongjin is now fighting with a way, and Lu Fei does not have any advantage in public opinion.

Before officially appointing Shi Baoji as the minister of the Imperial Mission, Lu Fei wanted to meet him alone.

Shi Baoji has been under house arrest for several months in the Horse Mansion, and when he heard the guards who detained him come to report, he wanted to meet with him more than once, and even asked the guards to bring him a few letters of 'sincerity'.

changed his clothes, and still only the white lady accompanied him.

Coming to the gate of Shifu, it was still the same here, the forbidden army surrounded the Shifu compound, and not even a bird could fly out.

Several junior colonels saw the palace marshal coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Lu Fei casually asked a few words about the recent situation of Shifu and dismounted with the white lady.

Although it is heavily besieged here, in the end, it is the Shi family, and there is still a certain amount of respect in etiquette.

The soldier knocked on the door of the stone mansion and handed Lu Fei's name sticker.

While waiting for the Hou Shi family to come out to greet her, the white lady stood behind Lu Fei and said with a smile: "Is Langjun here to find Shi Baoji this time, or has he not seen the princess who is like a flower for many days, and his heart is full of thoughts." ”

Lu Fei glanced at her and said, "What is this called, what does the princess have to do with me?" ”

The white lady smiled like a flower, hugged the sword in her chest and said: "It's a big deal, you took her family's country, forced her father and queen mother to death, and imprisoned her and her husband, but now you are coming to the door in person, do you say it has a big stake?" ”

Lu Fei didn't want to mention these things, but when he thought about it, he had an inexplicable guilt for Princess Yanqing, and it was estimated that he didn't even have a chance to make amends, and he didn't know how she had survived here these days.

Lu Fei didn't say a word, just took a deep breath and smiled bitterly.

At this time, the white lady took the opportunity to come closer and muttered in a low voice: "If you can't see her again, I can help you." ”

"Can you help me? How to help? ”

Silk!

The white lady's hand shook, the long sword in her hand burst out, and she said, "Let me kill her, so that you will never have to face her." ”

Lu Fei was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "I, I am such a ruthless person in your eyes?" ”

But the white lady chuckled and said: "Since you can't do it, then marry her into the door, and take care of her in every way from now on, maybe she will be moved by you to forgive you in thirty or fifty years, what do you say?" ”

Lu Fei was stunned again, he had already attracted a lot of infamy for taking people, did he want to take away people's wives and daughters?

At this moment, the middle door of Shifu opened, and from the outside, the maids and maids inside were densely packed, and Shi Baoji, whose cheeks were already very thin, lowered his head and ran out with the hem of his clothes, and shouted: "I don't know that General Lu is here in person, and I miss the welcome, and the villain's sin is also." ”

Lu Fei and the White Lady glanced at each other, and couldn't help laughing, the court horse in front of the hall actually called himself a villain to a rebel, and this backbone is really no one.

Lu Fei's eyes did not stay on Shi Baoji, but searched among the crowd, his true heart could not deceive himself, he really wanted to see if Yanqing was doing as the White Lady said.

As Shi Baoji entered the mansion together, while walking and chatting, Lu Fei pretended to be relaxed and asked casually, "The princess has always been good?" ”

Shi Baoji not only didn't care much, but also a little uneasy, and thought that Lu Dianshuai blamed her for not coming out to greet her, and said with embarrassment: "Back to the palace marshal, the princess is not in good health and can't come to greet her, please don't blame the palace marshal." ”

When Lu Fei heard this, his face could not hide the look of self-blame.

After entering the hall and serving tea, Lu Fei talked about Tian Chongjin in Hebei, here, Shi Baoji was almost isolated from the world, and suddenly heard Lu Fei say that Tian Chongjin was reversed, so frightened that he immediately lay on the ground and did not dare to raise his head, and kept saying that since the death of his late father, the Shi family has never had a private relationship with Tian Chongjin, and he knows nothing about Tian Chongjin's rebellion.

Shi Bei must be impressed on the third day, thinking that a few months ago, Shi Baoji was still showing off his might in front of Lu Fei, and he didn't even have the courage to raise his head.

Lu Fei explained his intention in a very generous tone, originally he thought that it would take a lot of money to let Shi Baoji go to Hebei, but as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Shi Baoji agree, and swore that it would be worthwhile.

Lu Fei explained to him some specific details after going to Hebei, such as trying to find out the movement of soldiers and horses over there and the allocation of grain and grass for Tian Chongjin, etc., and rushed back as much as possible to return to his life before the year.

After an undisputed conversation, Lu Fei had no heart for Shi Baoji, and he was always worried about Princess Yanqing in his heart, and he didn't know if she was really in poor health.

Time passed quickly, and before he knew it, it was getting late, Shi Baoji said that he wanted to stay with Lu Fei for dinner here, but Lu Fei couldn't ask for it, so he immediately agreed.

At dinner, Lu Fei praised the magnificence of the Horse Mansion in front of Shi Baoji more than once, and said that after returning from the trip to Hebei, he would definitely ask the court to reward him, and he said that it was a great husband's move to kill his relatives in righteousness, and he would definitely become a generation of talents in the future.

Shi Baoji thanked him again and again, he couldn't close his mouth with joy, he spent every day in trembling these days, always afraid that there would be a soldier who would suddenly rush into the mansion and kill his Shi family, this time he was finally relieved, Datang finally had a day to use.

Wine and food, push the glass and change the lamp, outside this mansion is full of his own soldiers, Lu Fei is not worried about Shi Baoji's crooked thoughts, cup after cup, he is full of worries, he is not interested in making friends with Shi Baoji, but here and now, touching the scene and hurting the situation, Princess Yanqing is somewhere in this mansion, maybe she hates herself so much.

Full of wine and food, Lu Fei was already a little drunk.

Shi Baoji hurriedly ordered the servant to remove the wine table, and personally helped Lu Fei to the hall, and served the strong tea that was sobering, he was wishing that Lu Fei would get drunk, because if Lu Dianshuai got drunk in his mansion and stayed overnight, it would be too face-saving to spread the word.

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The sky was completely dark, Lu Fei seemed to hear a sigh in a daze, and when he woke up quietly, he saw a loyal white lady standing at the door, and when he turned his head, he saw a very beautiful woman sitting next to him, but she had a sad face, and when she saw Lu Fei wake up, she hurriedly got up and saluted, and said with a smile: "Slave damned, disturb the general's rest!" ”

"Uh......" Suddenly Lu Fei retched, hurriedly covered his mouth, turned around and gasped: "It's a bit rude." ”

"Are you alright?" The beautiful woman asked with concern.

Lu Fei said: "The horse is so courteous, I am greedy for a few more cups, and I am so anxious that my body is too strong to drink, so I will say goodbye to the horse." ”

The beauty said: "There is a wing room here, it is not too late to rest for a while and then say goodbye." Lu Fei said: "It's okay." ”

The beauty said, "You sit down, the slave and maid go out and ask someone to come and arrange a room for you, and the colt has already ordered it." ”

Lu Fei nodded, sitting on the chair with half-squinted eyes, his brain was swollen and dizzy, he was indeed drunk. The alcohol of this era was not high-spirited, but he felt that the alcohol content could reach the level of beer, and he could still be intoxicated if he didn't pay attention to drinking too much. But he had never been so drunk that he had fallen asleep, and if he had been awake, he would have known it; So sometimes he suspects that some people who are drunk and beat or mess around may be pretending to be crazy and stupid.

After a while, I saw the beautiful woman come in and said, "General Lu, please, the wing room is next to it." ”

At this time, the white lady came in and said with a surprised face: "Spend the night here tonight?" ”