Li Qixing, the king of Mu, rushed from Chang'an to Shaanzhou to supervise the war, but he was unexpectedly given a cold reception. Not to mention that Liu Yi used the rampant local bandits after the war as an excuse, and only sent Zeng Qingze to hurry to meet with him, just saying that Fu Yi, the general manager of the Hebei and Hedong marches with 200,000 horses under his command, did not know whether he was eager to make meritorious contributions or was afraid that he would be taken back from the military after he led the army to recover Puzhou, so he avoided himself. Only Yu Chengen, who was assigned to be stationed in Shaanzhou, behaved very diligently, not only gave up his official office as Li Qi's marshal in Shaanzhou, but also heard that Li Qi said that he wanted to go to Puzhou to inspect in person, and he was so busy that he insisted on accompanying Li Qi in person.

With the prince as the commander, in most cases, the political significance is much higher than the military significance. The prince who served as the marshal of the soldiers and horses usually did not have actual military power, so he did not need to be in battle. However, after Emperor Li Qide appointed him as a marshal, he was full of satisfaction to do something to make up for the shortcomings of the previous envoy to Tubo who was placed under house arrest by King Jiangling in the city and returned in vain.

He politely rejected Jing Yuncong's persuasion, and took the initiative to ask the emperor to go to the former enemy to take charge of the army, intending to take advantage of the rebel army to suppress the rebellion in one fell swoop and win glory for the imperial family. Li Qi's lofty ambition coincides with his father's intention to revive the imperial family, but after all, leading troops to fight is different from child's play, the emperor rewarded his son's ambition, but he did not dare to easily hand over the actual military power to Li Qi's hands alone, only gave him a name to go to the former enemy to supervise the war, and repeatedly told him that in case of trouble, he should discuss more with Liu Yi, Fu Yi and others, and must not be blind and arbitrary.

As soon as he left the capital, Li Qi immediately left his father's instructions before leaving, and sent three orders to Liu Yi and Fu Yi in a row, and agreed on a time for them to come to Shaanzhou to see him, so that the military power of the two could be unified into his own hands, unify the orders of the whole army, and fight a big battle with the rebels.

But now, he has arrived in Shaanzhou for five days, and the agreed time has long passed, except for Zeng Qingze, Li Qi has not even seen the shadows of Liu Yi and Fu Yi. At this time, he really felt that the marshal was not so easy to be.

However, Li Qi has Li Qi's strengths, and he is very good at finding a reasonable explanation for his repeated cold reception: although he is the eldest son of the emperor, he is far inferior to Liu and Fu in terms of age and qualifications, and he will take over military power from them as soon as he comes up, so it is no wonder that the two are not convinced. Since they refused to take the initiative to see them, they simply rushed to Puzhou City, which had just been recovered, to see Fu Yi. It just so happens that it can be regarded as a real return to the former enemy.

In this way, Li Qiyu, accompanied by Chengen, came here on the third day when Puzhou City was recovered by the official army.

On the order of Fu Yi, the head of the marching governor's mansion who stayed in the city, Shi, led a cadre of civil and military troops to meet five miles away from the city, and respectfully welcomed Li Qi and his party into the temporary governor's mansion in the city to sit down, and then did not wait for Li Qiqi to speak, and politely reported to Li Qiyu: "On the night of the recovery of Puzhou, the chief administrator received a report from someone in the army that the rebel Li Shu had been captured by the official army at the foot of Wangwu Mountain three days ago, but then he was released privately. That night, the general led the army out of the city to pursue Li Shu, and before leaving, he gave a special explanation to the lower officials, and detained all the informants and those accused of favoritism in the army, so that after His Royal Highness entered the city, he would personally try the case and distinguish between right and wrong. The lower officials are entrusted by the chief administrator, and they dare not be negligent, and they have now escorted the people on both sides to the outside of the palace, I wonder if His Highness will immediately summon them into the palace for interrogation? ”

Li Qi had previously received the news that Fu Yi led the army to the north to chase Li Shu, but he didn't expect that as soon as he and Yu Chengen entered the city, they were sent by Fu Yiqiang to try the case. This king is in a handsome position, so he can't help but share some of the hardships for his generals and pass them in. ”

Chang Shi quickly agreed, and personally went to the gate of the mansion to bring Xing'er, Jiang Zhongshi, and a dozen informant soldiers to the front hall of the mansion to see King Mu.

Li Qi and Yu Chengen, who were sitting and waiting in the hall, recognized Lai Xing'er who walked into the hall behind Changshi at a glance, and the two quickly exchanged glances, Yu Chengen knew that it was inconvenient for Li Qi to ask Lai Xing'er alone about the reason for the matter at this time, so he got up first and walked to Lai Xing'er, and greeted him with a smile: "Virtuous nephew, farewell to Jingzhou, do you remember our family?" He immediately pointed to the dozen or so informant sergeants with his hand and asked, "Are they secretly conniving at Li Shu?" ”

In fact, it was not only Yu Chengen, but when Li Qi saw Lai Xing'er walking into the hall with everyone, the first thought that flashed through his mind was how could this kid tell the secret?

"My lord, you're doing it the other way around." Seeing this, Changshi on the side hurriedly stepped forward to laugh and said to Cheng En, "It turned out that these dozen or so sergeants of the Left Army's jumping team complained to the chief manager that their leading captain Lai Xing'er had let go of the rebel Li Shu for personal gain......"

Yu Chengen's smile instantly condensed into autumn frost on his face, Rao is he is well-informed, very good at seeing the wind and rudder, so he was not choked by Changshi's words on the spot, with a look full of doubts and disgust, he glanced at Lai Xing'er coldly, and said in a deep voice: "So that's the case." So, let him talk about it first. As he spoke, he retreated to his seat and sat down, putting on a posture of assisting the king to ask about the case.

When Li Qi entered the palace before leaving Beijing to resign to Jingxuan, Zeng Chengjingxuan took special care of him, and asked him to transfer Xing'er to the Shuaifu to serve as his guard, so he was even more surprised that Lai Xing'er was accused of letting Li Shu privately, and he couldn't wait to urge when he heard that Yu Chengen wanted to come to Xing'er first, and he couldn't wait to urge: "Tell me quickly, what's going on?" Is there a selfish thing to let Li Shu go? ”

Lai Xing'er was once locked up in the house by Li Qi for nearly a whole day because of a disagreement, and he had no good impression of this unreasonable little prince, and saw Yu Chengen, who claimed to have a good relationship with his father, who was hot and cold, as soon as he heard that he was suspected of arsonizing with the head of the rebellion, his expression changed greatly, and he deliberately alienated himself, and he was even more annoyed in his heart, and when he heard that Li Shu was eager to know what was going on, he raised his head and replied neatly: "There is no such person as Li Shu in the world, so why talk about letting it go or not?" ”

The scar-faced sergeant standing not far behind him saw Yu Chengen and Lai Xing'er acquaintance, and he secretly said something bad in his heart, and now he heard that Lai Xing'er refused to admit that he had secretly released Li Shu, so he couldn't help but get anxious, and shouted at Li Qi, who was sitting where he lived, "Lord Wang, don't listen to his nonsense, he and the Mei Ji who fled with Li Shu are old friends, even this one who was accepted by him as a personal soldier and guard was also Li Shu's personal guard, Li Shu was not let go by him, will he fly away by himself?" ”

He said it vividly, not only falsely calling Na Yu Li Shu's concubine, but also revealing the details of Jiang Zhongshi in public. When Li Qi heard this, he couldn't help but believe three points in his heart, beckoned to Scarface, and motioned for him to come close to him to speak. (To be continued.) )