It was another winter, and the Son of Heaven was fortunate to ride the Huaqing Palace in Lishan, and among the ministers who were able to accompany him, there were a few more fresh faces who were fortunate enough. The king of Hubu Langzhong was appreciated by the Son of Heaven because of his financial schemes, and he was an official who worshiped the imperial history and interviewed the envoy in Gyeonggi; Yang Shenjin, who was the cashier of the former Zhitai Mansion and had accumulated countless people, was also the middle of the imperial history, and the money was made by all the ways. Both of them started from financial schemes, and they tended to be attached to Li Linfu, so they were in the limelight for a while. However, neither they nor Li Linfu are as good as the Yang family, which suddenly rose.

After Wenjun was newly widowed, Yang Yuyao, who replaced her sister as the female crown of Taizhenguan, worshiped the second grade Shuyi in the middle of this year. According to Yang Yuyao's ambitions, she naturally hopes to be a concubine, but after all, she was a widow, and in the early years of Li Longji's accession to the throne, he changed the four concubines of Guishu Dexian to the three concubines of Hui, Li, and Hua, and successively named Concubine Wu Hui, Concubine Zhao Li, and Concubine Liu Hua. She didn't want to use the same title as others, so she endured it.

Compared with Yunu's proficient rhythm, she is dexterous and charming, enchanting and seductive, and quickly captured the heart of the Son of Heaven. Under her pillow wind, everyone in the Yang family ascended to heaven as chickens and dogs, the two sisters were named wives one after another, and the men won the beautiful officials one by one. Even Yang Zhao, who was appointed by Zhang Qiu and Qiong as the official of the festival in Shuzhong before, and ordered Shangjing to hand over the power, also relied on Yang Yuyao to befriend Yang Yuyao, and because he was proficient in Pupu, he was able to become familiar in front of the Son of Heaven.

There are people in the harem who are good officials, and it is precisely because of Zhang Qiu and Qiong as a backup that Xian Yu Zhongtong has repeatedly given generous gifts, although Yang Zhao has a relationship with Yang Yuyao is already quite distant, but he still relies on those gold and silver treasures to stabilize the relationship with the Yang family. On this day, after accompanying the canopy in the hot spring palace, he succeeded in getting the promise of the Son of Heaven and was overjoyed.

He has done all kinds of work in Shuzhong, and many officials have been mixed up, but he has never been able to get ahead. After the Yang family had a princess of Shou, he also had the idea to go to Beijing to defect, but in a blink of an eye, he saw those dazzling changes, and even the princess Shou became a female Taoist, and then died at a young age, and he didn't dare to act rashly. If it weren't for Xian Yu Zhongtong recommending him to Zhang Qiu and Qiong, I'm afraid it would still be difficult for him to make up his mind to come to Chang'an, and it was this trip that he finally seized the opportunity he had lost for a long time.

After being stunned for a moment in front of the Hot Spring Palace, Yang Zhao suddenly saw a group of carriages and horses coming towards him. Seeing the front and back hugging, it was the escort of the North Gate Forbidden Army, he hurriedly gave way next to him, and when the people passed, he saw the red fragrant green jade on the car curtain, which was clearly a woman, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised. After thinking about it, he stopped the last sergeant and asked, but the answer he got made his heart sink slightly.

"That's Zhang Meiren, Xie Meiren, and a few talented people, who were ordered by His Majesty to accompany the Hot Spring Palace."

What is the origin of these so-called harem concubines, Yang Zhao has heard it countless times from Yang Yuyao's mouth, and knows that these are the servants beside Yunu back then, and their identities are humble and low. After many years, he can't remember the girl who was like a dumpling back then, and those feelings in the past have long since disappeared, not to mention that now that people are gone, the remaining waiters still share Yang Yuyao's favor. However, according to Yang Yuyao's words, if it is just one person, it is easy to deal with, these waiters are faintly twisted into a rope, and it is not easy to use any strategy to divide and envelope, and she is helpless. But they didn't expect to come to the Hot Spring Palace this time, and they didn't have their share, but who could have known that the Son of Heaven actually ordered someone to summon them again.

After staring at the backs of the group for a long time, Yang Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief and left such a thing behind. It is said that these women are all bought slaves and maids, who have served the jade slave for many years, and have no family, so it can be said that they can't start from outside the palace, and they haven't had much contact with Princess Yuzhen and others over the years, as long as Yang Yuyao can control the situation in the palace. Now the most important thing is to finalize his official position, and this Guangtianzi does not count, he has to go to meet the right minister Li Linfu first.

Li Linfu, as the right minister, was given a separate soup spring in the hot spring palace, which is also a unique treatment, and even the left minister Li Shizhi only shared a soup spring with several other high-ranking officials. Over the years he had accumulated more power than before, but he was almost invincible to all those he had to deal with, no matter how high or low, so that even though he was sixty-five years old, that kind of coercion did not decrease but increased. For Yang Zhao, who was still struggling to survive not long ago, just standing in front of Li Linfu, he could actually experience a stronger sense of awe than in front of the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty Chrysostom Yuyan, if you want to be the middle of this household, naturally no one dares not to be serious." Li Linfu's tone was very gentle, but his eyes were very sharp, "It's just that although Wang Ji is not a servant of the household department now, he is the one who really manages the stall of the household department." Well, I'll say hello to him and ask him to make you the judge, so that no one else can say anything. ”

"Thank you Xiangguo, thank you Xiangguo!" Yang Zhao didn't expect Li Linfu to be so easy to speak, and immediately thanked him, but the three words "just" that followed made his heart suddenly hang.

"It's just that you, the judge of Jiannan Dao, have been in the army since you entered Beijing, first joined the army for Jinwu Bing Cao, and then suddenly moved to Duzhilangzhong, so you have risen a little too fast. Although you are a member of Shuyi's family, if you have not made an inch, the rise of the other day will be limited, don't you say? ”

Li Linfu was as kind as the old man next door, but Yang Zhao became more and more awe-inspiring as if he were to Dabin: "Xiangguo is very right. If there's anything I can do, I'll die. ”

Li Linfu was not surprised by Yang Zhao's trembling attitude, in fact, there were many people with such an attitude in front of him. Therefore, he just said with a smile: "In order to capture Shibao City, Emperor Fu Weiming of Longyou Jiedu has just fought another battle with Tubo, but he was defeated, and even the deputy general died. For this reason, he came to Chang'an this time to offer Jiejie, but in fact, he also wanted to exonerate himself from this defeat. Longyou's military spending is also one of the best in these festival towns, and since you are about to become a member of the Duzhi Langzhong, you should also pay attention to it. ”

Although what Li Linfu said was only military spending, how could Yang Zhao really think so. He agreed repeatedly, and after withdrawing for a while, he already knew in his heart that the person Li Linfu was going to deal with next was Huangfu Weiming. However, even though Huangfu Weiming has risen to the top over the years and is quite favored, no matter how he is a mere foreign minister, and he is not a marshal like Du Shiyi, is Li Linfu still worried that people will come back to compete for the position of prime minister? Or does Li Linfu mean something else?

Yang Zhao is a person with a delicate heart, he can't figure it out for a while, but he is not discouraged, when he gets on the horse and returns to his residence, he still has been trying to figure out the joints, so that he almost collides with people head-on. When he staggered back a few steps to stabilize his body, but when he heard a loud groan, he found that there was an ugly middle-aged eunuch in front of him, and after being stunned, he remembered who it was. If it were other eunuchs who were on an errand in the palace, he would definitely treat each other with good words, but the other party was a person from the East Palace, no matter from the position of Yang Yuyao or Li Linfu, he couldn't give any good voice.

Therefore, Yang Zhao immediately shouted angrily: "Be careful when you walk in the future!" Fortunately, it hit me, and it would be terrible to bump into any nobleman! ”

A mere Jinwu soldier Cao joined the army, and he dared to be so arrogant in front of the lieutenant, and the middle-aged eunuch was angry in his heart. However, he only resigned himself to apologize, and only after Yang Zhao was far away did he show a hateful expression, and then sighed gloomily.

He Li Jingzhong is now in his forties, but he still has achieved nothing, he was transferred to Li Heng, who was still the king of Zhong, on the order of Concubine Wu Hui, but he didn't expect that it didn't take long for Concubine Wu Hui to die, and it was not Li Mao, the king of Shou, who entered the East Palace, but Li Heng! He was also glad that he had followed the right master by mistake, Li Heng was not bad to him, and the princess's maiden Wei family was also famous for a while because of a Wei Jian. But since Wei Jian became the secretary of the Criminal Department, he faintly felt that Wei's seemed to be going downhill, and even the attitude of those people inside and outside the palace towards the East Palace was a little wrong!

Li Heng also came to Huaqing Palace with his car this time, as the crown prince, he naturally got a soup spring, but the position was not as good as those court officials favored by the Son of Heaven, but it was a little remote. He has always been low-key, and he only brought Concubine Wei and a few palace maids and chamberlains, so after Li Jingzhong came back, he hurried over to ask where Prince Ming was. After saluting, he lowered his voice and said: "Lang Jun, Your Majesty has summoned Zhang Meiren and a few of them to Huaqing Palace, and I heard that a mouthful of soup near the lotus soup was given. I met Yang Zhao on the road, and his tone was very polite. ”

Li Jingzhong said in his early years that he was serving on the orders of Concubine Wu Hui, and Li Heng still trusted him, but when he heard the news, he just rubbed his eyebrows lightly in the soup spring, and then said: "The Yang family is now proud, don't mess with them, as for those beauties who are favored by grandpa, don't bet casually, these things in the harem are not something I can mix!" ”

Seeing that Li Jingzhong agreed, he opened his mouth and asked: "Who are the envoys of the towns who are going to enter Beijing in the first month of the New Year?" ”

"The Longyou Jiedu envoy Huangfu Weiming is determined to come, as well as the Shuofang Jiedu envoy and the protector of the capital of Anbei Du Shiyi, and the Hedong Jiedu envoy Wang Zhonghei. It should be these three. As for An Lushan, the envoy of the Fanyang Festival and the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, it is said that he will send his righteous brother Ashina to do it. Speaking of this, Li Jingzhong paused, observed Li Heng's face, and then said softly, "Anbei Ya Tent City has been completed, and Du Shiyi should have come here to report this matter to His Majesty." ”

Li Heng didn't have a good impression of the pot-bellied An Lushan, and Huangfu Weiming had been a loyal prince friend back then, that is, his palace official, and the two had old friends. As for Du Shiyi, his feelings are even more complicated. He has been silent all these years, but some things have been explored very clearly, thinking that Li Ying would have been unable to escape the fate of being deposed for a long time, but because of Du Shiyi's words, this process was temporarily delayed. Such a festival envoy who can turn the overall situation around at a critical moment and also holds great power, he has been trying his best to fight for it, but he can't succeed every time. As for Wang Zhongsi, what he regrets most now is that when Wang Zhongsi was raised in the palace, he didn't have much interaction with people, but at that time he didn't know that he would become the crown prince, let alone that Wang Zhongsi would become a very conspicuous one of the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty!

Thinking of this, he took a light breath and said word by word: "You go to see Wei Jian and let him make arrangements, I will meet him alone outside the palace." Then, whether it was Huangfu Weiming, Du Shiyi, or Wang Zhonghei, he tried to arrange it himself, and see if he could see it, and he knew the benefits! ”