At the same time that Lai Xing'er was escorted back to Chang'an and put in the prison of Dali Temple for trial, in Jingzhou City, Jingzhou Assassin Shi Tang Kuan, who had just arrived for less than two months, was also facing a test of life and death. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tang Kuan, who has a "model of a hundred officials", has unexpectedly found the eldest son of the emperor and the king of harmony Li Qi in Bazhou, and he thinks that when he met Ruxian Yuan in the Taoist temple in the east of Bazhou City, the sentence given to him by Ruxian Yuan "Once you meet the dragon, you will never end from the dragon" will be fulfilled on him.

Although the second half of this sentence - from the dragon does not end, sounds ominous, but Tang Kuan prefers to believe that this is an allusion to his experience of more than one generation, since the old emperor of the current dynasty of the country has died when he came out, and the person who meets him unexpectedly is likely to be the next emperor, so even if it is really from the dragon, what should it do? I can't say, when His Royal Highness King Mu ascends to the pole and becomes the emperor, he can still get a prime minister to do it.

People are often like this, once they have a big appetite and high expectations, they are likely to end up striding towards the opposite side of things because their desires are not satisfied.

Soon after Tang Kuan personally escorted Li Qi back to Chang'an, he happened to meet Jingzhao Yin Zengqing, who was forced by Li Jinzhong, the powerful eunuch of the current dynasty, to lead the army out of Beijing to resist the rebels together with his mentor Liu Yi. Faced with the temptation of Jing Zhaoyin's vacancy, Tang Kuan couldn't sit still, he moved around in Chang'an City, first intending to renew his old relationship with Li Jinzhong, begging him to recommend to the emperor and take over Zeng Qingze's position by himself, and after being rejected by Li Jinzhong, he thought of Li Qi, the king of peace who was so-called "rescued" back to Chang'an.

That **** rushed to King Mu's mansion with Lai Xing'er, wanting to ask King Mu to secretly make efforts to get Jing Zhaoyin's beauty for himself. Li Qi, the king of Mu, was grateful for his kindness to save him, and was very polite to him, and promised to give him more kind words in front of the emperor, even if he couldn't win the position of Jing Zhaoyin, at least he could leave him in Chang'an as he wished, and go to any of the six departments of Shangshu Province to be a squire or something.

Tang Kuan got Li Qi's face-to-face promise, and he didn't care about waiting for Xing'er, so he happily returned to the official hall where he stayed alone, and only waited for a few days later when the emperor Jin conferred his canonization to arrive, he could leap from a small third-class state assassin to a member of the three-grade court who served purple, and from then on he could fly all the way to the prime minister of the extremely popular minister.

It was easy to wait for the fifth day, and the order for him was indeed given. It was Tang Kuan's wish to fulfill his wish, and the emperor really crossed the rank to promote him to be a member of the third rank, but the official position he had been holding was neither Jing Zhaoyin, who he had been looking forward to for many days, nor the position of the squire and secretary of which department in Beijing, but with the rank of the third grade, he rushed to the west of Xinjiang with twenty or thirty colleagues to take over the history of the assassins of various states. Tang Kuan was assigned to Jingzhou, an important town known as the west gate of Chang'an, to make a history of assassination, and concurrently served as a local regimental training defense envoy, although it was a monopoly of local military and political power, but Tang Kuan, who was 50 years old, rushed to Jingzhou, which was already full of wolf smoke, to take office, and it was still a little difficult for him to do so.

Fortunately, although the place where he served was not satisfactory, he finally entered the ranks of the ministers of the imperial court, Tang Kuan was not a dead-eyed person, once he received the order, he specially put on the emperor's newly given purple official robe later that day, and went to thank Li Qi, the king of peace, in person.

At this time, Li Qi had just received the order of the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses from his father, and he was also on the rise of ascending to the altar to serve as the marshal, when he saw Tang Kuan, and immediately issued his first marshal order to Tang Kuan. He asked Tang Kuan to go to Jingzhou to take office, pay close attention to the movements of the Divine Crane Army under the command of Yu Chengen, Xiang Zhifei and others, once he found that there was any change in the Divine Crane Army, he could directly submit a military report to the Generalissimo's Mansion in the name of the local regimental training envoy, stating the details, or he could directly send a chapter to the emperor in the name of Jingzhou Assassin History, and inform the movement of the Divine Crane Army at any time.

There was no need for Li Qi to find out everything to him, Tang Kuan, who had been fighting in officialdom for most of his life, immediately understood the true intention of the imperial court to select twenty or thirty so-called capable officials, including him, to take over the assassination history of the states in Western Xinjiang.

It turned out that while the imperial court selected capable officials to strengthen the governance ability of the states in Western Xinjiang and guard against foreign invasions such as Tibet at any time, it was also relieved of the Shenhe Army under Cheng'en, and asked them, the new assassins, to act as the eyes and ears of the imperial court to monitor the movements of the Shenhe Army.

Now that Li Qi has clearly put forward his requirements, Tang Kuan, as an old official in the officialdom, is unwilling to let go of such a good opportunity to bargain with the imperial court in vain. With a smile on his face, he tried his best to express to Li Qi in a tactful tone the price he was looking forward to: he Tang Kuan could go to Tang for an order from His Royal Highness King Mu, and he did not hesitate, but he just begged Li Qinian to try to find a position for him after he made achievements in Jingzhou.

Li Qi was young and vigorous, and he had just become the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and after hearing Tang Kuan's words, he didn't even hit him, and made a promise to Tang Kuan on the spot, as long as Tang Kuan arrived in Jingzhou, he could find the real evidence that Yu Chengen, Xiang Zhifei and others were trying to support the army and have bad intentions, and report it to the imperial court in time, and then he could put the 50,000 Divine Crane Army directly under his command, and in the future, the post of secretary of the military department would be Tang Kuan's.

Tang Kuan was overjoyed when he received this face-to-face promise from Li Qi, and immediately seized the time to complete all the formalities for taking office, led twenty or thirty newly elected assassins to resign as emperor, and embarked on a journey to Western Xinjiang to take office.

Riding a horse on the road to Jingzhou, recalling the words that the emperor said to him in the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace, Tang Kuan was full of strength.

The emperor simply said to him at that time: "Since you are Qi'er's life-saving benefactor, you are no different from my life-saving benefactor, do it well, I will not fail you, the 'model of a hundred officials'." ”

It was this sentence that seemed nothing unusual in the eyes of others, which made Tang Kuan think all the way: the emperor could still remember that he was the "model of a hundred officials" established by the emperor, and he personally claimed that he was no different from his savior, so it is unknown whether the emperor will directly transfer himself back to Beijing to serve as the prime minister in the future.

After thinking about it all the way in such a beautiful way, he stayed in Jingzhou City, and within three days, another message came that Tang Kuan was greatly encouraged: Yu Chengen, who single-handedly created the Shenhe Army, was transferred by Li Qi to the garrison of Shaanzhou east of Chang'an, and the power in his hands to control the soldiers and horses of Jingyuan, Longyou, and Hexi was transferred to the hands of Xiang Zhifei, who was born as a weak scholar. (To be continued.) )