Historically, after Li Heng of Suzong and Li Longji of Shu fled westward, they retreated to Shuofang Lingwu with the support of a cadre of civil and military personnel, and then ascended the throne as emperor in Lingwu. Li Longji had already lost the hearts of the people at that time, and Li Heng added a lot of sympathy points to the people because of the persecution in every way, plus the use of Guo Ziyi and others, after regaining Chang'an and Luoyang, the throne was finally secured. Just like Li Longji guarded against his son, Li Heng also guarded against Lao Tzu, and even Princess Gaolishi Yuzhen and others were all exiled from afar, so when Li Longji, the emperor, was dying, it could not be said that he was not desolate.

However, due to the suspicion and constraints of the two generations of the sons of heaven of Suzong and Daizong, the rebellion has always been unsmooth, and in the end, it was because An Lushan and Shi Siming had encountered the same son who killed his father, so that the rebels were in civil strife, and the Tang Dynasty struggled to completely quell this Anshi rebellion. As the heroes of the rebellion, except for Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi died of sorrow, Fu Gu Huaien rebelled to death, and Lai Yao died unjustly, few other fierce generals had a good end, and the eunuchs also began to run rampant in the Tang Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty. Whenever Du Shiyi used to read this history, she always had to scold her for deserving it.

However, now, Li Heng and King Jianning of Guangping are all dead. Li Longji has not yet been crowned a crown prince, and among the remaining kings, there is not even a famous one like King Rong. Even so, these dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren followed Chen Xuanli back to Chang'an City, and in the face of the completely empty East Palace, there were still many people who showed extraordinary enthusiasm. It was probably because I saw that Li Longji, the son of heaven, had lost the kind of intimidation that he used to say, and the officials in the prison in the Sixteen Princes' Mansion also ran away and scattered, and they suddenly became unprecedentedly active when they turned over for the first time.

No clan is allowed to hand over to foreign ministers, and such a ban has been left behind by them. From Pei Kuan to Wang Jin to the former Muzuo recommended by Du Shiyi to enter the dynasty, especially the Xuanyangfang Du Mansion and Pingkangfang Cui Mansion, many Tianhuang nobles want to explore the rumors. Of course, there are also people who want to express themselves such as Li Qi, the king of Sheng, who ran directly to Pei Kuan, and impassionedly expressed that he wanted to lead the troops to Luoyang to quell the rebellion, and after being perfunctory by this left minister, he even ran to Chang'an City to recruit market warriors, and finally was invited back to the Sixteen Prince's Mansion by Du Youlin with a flying dragon horse, which was finally a little more honest.

It was precisely because he found that the children and grandchildren who had been suppressed by him for most of his life were all jumping up and down one by one so happily that Li Longji did not dare to choose one of them to be appointed as the marshal. Du Shiyi had raised the matter at the beginning, but he was vague and unwilling to agree. Because he was really worried that as long as such an appointment was made, the chosen person would ask to go to the front line from Tongguan on the grounds that the rebels were strong, and then with the support of the army, he would turn around and bully his own monarch.

I think that at the beginning, wasn't he like this to his father Ruizong Li Dan? Even those who seemed to be honest and didn't go out, he didn't dare to take it lightly, for fear that they were trying to numb themselves. How sad the emperor's life was, he had already seen it very clearly from his father Ruizong Li Dan!

Li Long basically planned to forcibly appoint Li You, the king of Wu, as the marshal, but Pei Kuan expressed his resolute opposition to such a meaning. When he was young, he liked a hard top, and he didn't even buy Wang Maozhong's face, but later the official became bigger and bigger, and he became more and more convinced of Buddhism, and his temperament was much softer. But since he became the left-behind guard of Xijing and single-handedly organized the defense of Chang'an, Pei Kuan has become uncharacteristically tough. Li Longji still remembers Pei Kuan's exhortation at that time.

"King Wu was able to stand up when Hebei, Henan, and Dugi Province had almost all fallen, and he was indeed an immortal talent in the clan. If it is now a prosperous era of Chengping, in time, King Wu must be another King of Xin'an. But now the timing is not right, the rebels are still strong, Helong is fighting against the Tubo people who are taking advantage of the fire to rob, Beiting and Anxi are going to attack Shiguo on the one hand, and they want to deal with Gelulu on the other hand, the main force of the rebellion is Shuofang, Anbei and Hedong Three-way Army, and Huaiyi Khan who was persuaded anyway, if King Wu is to conquer the marshal, there will be all kinds of speculation in the army and the people! ”

Pei Kuan's words were tactful at the end of the righteous and strict words - otherwise, could he have said bluntly that His Majesty has so many children and grandchildren, and they can't believe it one by one, could it be that he plans to pass on the throne to King Wu?

Since he knew that the two provinces under the Zhongshu Gate might not be able to pass, Pei Kuan of the Political Affairs Hall was the first to refuse, so Li Longji concealed Gao Lishi and sent his only henchmen to see Li Yi with great difficulty, and sent his own Zhongzhi. Although it was a central order, Zhongzong and Ruizong had both been sealed by Mo Yi at that time, and he guessed that as long as Li Yi had the slightest ambition, he would take advantage of this to stand up. At this time, in the face of a fait accompli, as long as he is tough in Chang'an and Du Shiyi is not there, can Pei Kuan still force him to take back his life? So in his opinion, this is a dignified conspiracy.

Today it is said that Du Shiyi and Guo Ziyi have recovered those cities, and tomorrow it is said that the rebel wolf bèi has fled, and the day after tomorrow which rebel generals have surrendered...... All in all, a series of news made the soldiers and civilians of Chang'an extremely excited, but it made Li Longji, the son of heaven, more and more like a pins and needles. He even had the idea of sending eunuchs to the front to supervise the army, but the outside world had already publicized that Bian Lingcheng had delayed the military plane and caused disaster to the country, if it wasn't for Bian Lingcheng's death, I was afraid that he would be completely drowned by the spittle stars in the city!

It's all that Jiang Du and Dou Yi tricksters! However, these two imperial relatives who made contributions to the Chang'an Guard War were appointed as prison generals, and they were actually supported by the Chang'an army and the people! Although there were also courtiers who were loyal to him, the Son of Heaven, who objected and brought up the old precedent, they were suppressed by more people who brought out the old precedent of Emperor Taizong. If it were back then, he would have cared about what public opinion and public opinion he cared about, but now he can't!

"Someone, someone!"

Seeing a faceless waiter coming quickly, Li Longji forcibly suppressed his anger and asked, "What about Gao Lishi?" ”

"General Gao is the overseer."

Even Gao Lishi, who returned to the palace, finally resigned from his position as the general of the right prison gate. There has long been a problem between the monarch and the minister because of Li Heng's matter, but Li Longji understands that when the servants around him have escaped on the way to escape, the only person he can trust and rely on the most is Gao Lishi, who has been with him for decades, even if Gao Lishi and Du Shiyi have also had a friendship for 30 years. So, he paused heavily on the crutches that he could no longer leave, and said word by word: "Go to Xuan Gaolishi and come over, I want to go to the Forbidden Garden to inspect the four armies of the North Gate!" ”

When Gao Lishi came in a hurry, he learned that Li Longji didn't even have time to wait for him, and he had already insisted on sitting on his shoulders and going to the Forbidden Garden in Daming Palace. After all, after many years of construction, although it is enough for the Son of Heaven to live in the court, it is not as spacious as the Daming Palace, only connected to the Daming Palace through the Guò Jiacheng Road, and the four armies of the North Gate are all located in the left and right Yintai Gate of the Daming Palace. With the return of Chen Xuanli's troops, the general who had followed the Son of Heaven for the longest time wrote a letter to ask for his resignation, and he saw Li Longji angrily fall out with Chen Xuanli's resignation, but in the end he ordered him to pick it up, his face was full of bitterness and helplessness.

In the end, Chen Xuanli was still retained, and Gao Lishi was instead appointed as General Zuo Yulin. Judging from the situation when he went to the Forbidden Garden to inspect these forbidden troops, he could only say that the elite of the forbidden army that killed Erzhang, punished Weihou, and forced Princess Taiping to death is now much worse than before. The number of people has plummeted by more than half and needless to say, in the simplest way, it is that there is no longer a military spirit! But for the Son of Heaven, even if this army once killed Yang Guozhong and forced Yang Yuyao to death, it was still the last straw!

Sure enough, when Gao Lishi arrived at Zuoyintai Gate, he saw Li Longji quietly watching the soldiers and horses on crutches. He chased after him at this moment, and with the worst news, he silently stepped forward and stood behind the Son of Heaven, but did not speak. I don't know how long it took before he heard Li Longji ask without looking back: "Lux, what do you think of Zuo Yulinjun's appearance?" ”

Colliers replied against his will: "Mighty and majestic, worthy of the forbidden army." ”

Li Longji raised his eyebrows, but thinking of the scene of the field battle of the army that day, he couldn't help but clench his fists when he really saw the scene of the big army fighting in the field, and he had always claimed that he was not in the hands of the women in the deep palace. He is the third son of Li Dan, and Li Dan is the youngest of the four sons of Gaozong and Empress Wu, and he is 108,000 miles away from the throne, so he has stayed in Luoyang, Chang'an for a long time, and has also been released to Luzhou, what he has seen, heard, and experienced is not much. Even when the palace changed several times, he was also with Wan Qi back then, but the fight like that when he broke the siege of Chang'an, it was the first time he experienced it as a son of heaven.

These elite soldiers and horses are all pinched in the hands of one by one, and it is he who single-handedly created these festival envoys, whether it is An Lushan or Du Shiyi!

He suddenly felt a little excited, and then thought that Du Shiyi's youngest son Du Youlin was appointed as the internal and external idle stable, and the forward battalion under Du Shiyi's command was also stationed in the flying dragon stable outside the Chongxuanmen in the northernmost part of the Daming Palace, so he had the idea of going to see what was going on. But he only said a word to Gao Lishi, and he found that the person behind him was silent. When he turned his head to look, he saw that the expression on Gao Lishi's face was vague.

"Why, since it's still a Tang Dynasty soldier, I can't see it?"

"If Your Majesty was going a few days ago, the old slave wouldn't dare to stop it, but today ......" Gao Lishi finally took out the paper scroll that had been held in it from his sleeve, lowered his head and presented it with both hands.

Li Long basically had a bad premonition. He trembled and reached out to take it, and when he saw the familiar words on it, his body trembled even more. He gritted his teeth, but when he saw Du Shiyi asking for credit for Li Yi and his subordinates, followed by the statement that hundreds of dense signatures in the army were gathered, and none of them would believe the rebels' tricks, he finally couldn't hold back anymore, and wanted to throw this piece to the ground, but as soon as his hand was raised, it fell down again, and his nasal breathing became extremely rapid.

As if he had a premonition that he would faint anytime and anywhere, Li Longji said in a deep voice with all his might: "Let's just say that I am seriously ill, Xuan Du Shiyi will come back immediately and postpone the march to Hebei!" ”

We can't let Du Shiyi continue like this anymore! He must not tolerate it any longer!