Shang Jing sat alone in the duty room of the Inner Servant Province that night, and after receiving the news from the little eunuch that the emperor was led to the Yaohua Palace by Luguangting to rest, he couldn't help but fall into a deep anxiety about his own situation, and at the same time forgot that on top of the several cases around him, there was also an urgent military report sent from Western Xinjiang.

Recalling that nearly three months ago, on the same day, he was doing hard labor in the suburbs of Chang'an, and was shouted by the messenger to receive two orders one after another, the first one asking him to immediately return to Chang'an City to serve the province and stand by, and the second asking him to prepare to accompany King Mu to envoy to Tibet.

Although the second order is clearly said to be an envoy with the emperor's eldest son, King Mu, but Tubo is thousands of miles away, and such an envoy is no different from the long stream second only to execution, and it makes him feel that the emperor must have remembered the old stubble that he had betrayed himself two years ago, and he found a reason to drive himself to Tibet, and it was best to die in the middle of the road, so that the emperor's wish was fulfilled.

Shang Jing returned to the palace with such a sense of anxiety and uneasiness, as if facing a catastrophe. Even though the emperor personally summoned him in the Yanying Palace and canonized him in person as the permanent attendant of the inner chamberlain, he still did not feel overjoyed, but only added to the sense of guilt and panic in his heart. He always felt that according to the emperor's original nature, he would not forgive himself so easily. Following King Mu's trip to Tibet is likely to be the emperor's last chance to judge his life and death.

Once he recognized this idea in his heart, even as soon as he left Chang'an with the mission team, he found that the king of Mu in the team was pretending to be Xing'er, Shang Jing still did not dare to be a little lazy, and he was cautious along the way, walking on thin ice, for fear that because of his slackness, others would be dissatisfied with him. He firmly believed that he was at such a critical juncture of life and death, and the only way to withstand the emperor's test was to show incomparable loyalty to the emperor at all times during this mission.

By accident, this trip to Tibet became a major turning point in his life that had never been seen before. Although he went through all kinds of twists and turns and tribulations during his nearly two-month trip to Tibet, he was finally able to exchange his life with Lin Shu for the opportunity to escape death with the rest of the envoy from Lange, so that he could return to Chang'an alive, and with his outstanding performance, he won the emperor's trust in him again, and soon entrusted him with the important task of internal minister.

The respect and status that he has endured humiliation and hardships to gain naturally cannot be easily taken away from him by others. Shang Jing inevitably slipped into the vicious circle that every person in Vanity Fair can't help but fall into, that is, once he finds that there is an opponent who is enough to threaten his own interests, almost all of his body, mind and energy will be transferred to how to defeat the opponent and protect his own existing interests, and often ignore more important things.

That night, Shang Jing was in a very different mood from the emperor who was happily hugging Ying'er to sleep in the Yaohua Palace, and he fell asleep with a stomach full of suspicion. But what he never expected was that in a few hours, he would be wrong again and again due to his negligence tonight, and from then on embarked on a road of no return to death.

Shang Jing, who had been asleep all night and had not woken up, was woken up by a hurried call. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked unhappily, "What's wrong?" Shouting early in the morning! ”

The little eunuch who was keeping vigil outside the duty room held a military report in his hand, and reported to Shang Jing in a panic: "The urgent report that the military department has just sent into the palace is that it is the four prefecture cities of Tubo Liankegua, Sha, Yi, and Xi, and the soldiers are coming directly to Jingzhou. The envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu and the assassin Shi Yamen had an urgent chapter attached to it, requesting the imperial court to immediately increase troops in Jingzhou and take precautions as soon as possible. ”

Shang Jing only felt that his head was "buzzing" as if it had exploded, and he hurriedly turned his head to stare at the emergency military report sent to the palace by the Ministry of War last night on several cases, and immediately sank his face, reprimanded the unlucky little eunuch and said: "Such an urgent military matter, why didn't you wake up our family earlier?" You're a cat dozing off outside the door and overdozing. Come on, take this guy down, and wait for it to fall. ”

The two forbidden army sergeants standing outside the door of the duty room heard the sound and entered the house, and they couldn't help but say, and the little eunuch was dragged out. The little eunuch asked himself if he was not wrong, and begged at the top of his voice: "The adults spare their lives, the little ones didn't dare to delay for a moment after receiving the military report, and the little ones were wronged."

But Shang Jing took him as a substitute for his own thoughts, how could he let him go? After a while, the little eunuch's plea for mercy was drowned out in the sound of the five watch drums from the drum tower, and it could no longer be heard.

According to the practice of this dynasty, when a foreign invasion captures the state city, after receiving the military report from the relevant yamen in Beijing, it must be submitted immediately and in order, without delay for a moment and a half, and ensure that the military report is presented to the emperor as soon as possible. If, after receiving the report, there is a situation of not reporting the document, deception, or delaying the report, regardless of the reason, the officials of the yamen will be dismissed from their posts to listen to the investigation, and at least they will be demoted to three levels in a row, and at worst they may even lose their heads for this. Since last night I received the military report that Tubo captured Liangzhou, a whole night has passed, five hours! Even if he immediately rushed to Yaohua Palace to ask to see the emperor now, he would not be able to escape the charge of delaying and reporting late. Thinking of this, Shang Jing couldn't sit still anymore.

He rarely jumped up from the bed of the beard, and was about to walk out the door with the two military reports in his hand. But before he walked out of the duty room, Shang Jing stopped: instead of going to Yaohua Palace to see the emperor to ask for guilt at this time, it is better to go to Baoxiang Palace to find Jing Xuan to think of a way, King Mu has left Beijing a few days ago, and her father Jing Yuncong is the deputy marshal and head of the marshal's mansion, even if he does not have the right to transfer troops, but he sent an official letter to Xiang Zhifei and Tang Kuan in Jingzhou, indicating that the imperial court has been informed of the matter and ordered them to be on strict guard, it is always okay. In this way, won't the matter of the military newspaper being pressed in his hands all night be bridged? Moreover, if the Tibetans had taken the city, burned, looted, and left as they had done in the past, there would be no need for the emperor to make any arrangements for the transfer of troops, and there would be no need for him to bear the responsibility for delaying the delivery of military reports.

In addition, Shang Jing has another plan in his heart: since Lu Guangting is becoming his biggest threat with the acquiescence of the emperor, and his new backer in the harem is Concubine Li, why don't he take the initiative to move closer to Concubine Hui Jingxuan, who is more respected than Dugu Wanrong's identity and status, and lead her to a strong internal aid?

Shang Jing was inspired by the idea that sprouted in his heart, although it was a bit risky, but it was worth trying, no longer hesitated, stepped out of the yamen of the Inner Servant Province, and hurried towards the Baoxiang Palace. (To be continued.) )