After Gu Yuanxi came out of Wei Qing'er's room, he wanted to find Pei Si and Li Luo, but found that several of them didn't know where they were. Because of Wei Qing'er's incident, he also felt that he was not interested, so he walked out of Miaoyulou alone and left.

"Am I too cheap?" Gu Yuanxi asked herself, then shook her head very unconsciously and said: "Impossible, I'm just too handsome, she knows that she can't get me, so she wants to kill me because of love and hatred - it must be so." ”

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At the same time that Gu Yuanxi stepped out of Miaoyu Building, Xiangguo's house, which was also Pingkangfang, was also lively.

Li Linfu's mansion is in the southeast corner of Pingkangfang. As an important place in the north, Pingkangfang not only has countless Qinlou Yan Pavilions, but also many offices in Beijing of various feudal towns, provinces and states, that is, the Jinsoyuan is located here, and there are a total of fifteen Jinsoyuan in Pingkangfang.

In addition, it is also a residential area for many dignitaries. In the Tang Dynasty, in the southwest corner, there was the residence of Yao Chong, the former first minister of the Kaiyuan Dynasty; There is also the mansion of Princess Taiping of Zhenguo, which was once powerful and dominant; the mansion of the eldest princess of Lanling, the nineteenth daughter of Tang Taizong; Zhenguan Dynasty Guozi sacrificial wine, the mansion of the great scholar Kong Yingda. To the south of the West Gate is the house of Zhenguan Yonghui's famous minister Shangshu Zuo Servant shot Henan County Gong Chu Suiliang. In the northwest corner, there is the palace of Princess Changning, the eldest daughter of Tang Zhongzong and Empress Wei. To the west of the south gate, there used to be the house of Wang Zhixuan, the secretary of the criminal department; the house of the household department Shangshu Cui Tai; Pei Guangting's residence in the prime minister of the Kaiyuan Dynasty; There is also Guozi Siye Cui Rongzhai.

In the southeast corner, Li Linfu's extremely luxurious mansion was once the mansion of Li Jing, the founding god of war of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Linfu's Xiangguo Mansion is located in Pingkangfang, because of the laws of the Tang Dynasty, all officials above the third rank can open the door to the street outside the fang, while the residences of other officials and ordinary people must open the door to the fang. Therefore, unlike other mansions in the square, the gate of the mansion of Li Linfu, the powerful prime minister in the world, is naturally opened on Tongqu Street in Chang'an City.

It is rumored that there is a hall in Li Linfu's house shaped like a half-quarter moon, which is called "Moon Hall". Whenever I met a minister who wanted to exclude and frame him, he would live there and think about how to slander people. If he had come out happily, that man would have ruined his family.

And today is the day when Li Linfu left Yuetang to live...... In other words, another minister is about to finish......

Li Linfu is 60 years old this year. Since the twenty-fourth year of Kaiyuan, he succeeded Zhang Jiuling and was promoted to the right minister, and now he has been in charge of the government for ten years.

His sideburns were already white. Different from the descriptions in later history books or storytelling novels, he is tall and long, with a clear face, and a few neatly combed long beards under his chin, like a celebrity and gentleman. Although he inevitably grew old in his years, it was still vaguely surmised from his current appearance that he must have been handsome when he was young.

At this time, Li Linfu sat on the Hu bed and closed his eyes to recuperate, and sitting next to him were his own brothers, Li Fudao of the official residence of the fourth rank of the upper official department and Li Fugong of the official residence of the fourth rank of the lower punishment department. Like Li Linfu, they are all descendants of Li Shuliang, the cousin of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, the king of Changping County. Similarly, both of them are also members of the Tang Dynasty clan, and they are Li Linfu's most trusted henchmen.

"Brother-" Li Fugong called Li Linfu gently, and seeing that Li Linfu did not react, he turned to look at Li Fudao before slowly continuing: "This year, since Huangfu Weiming was demoted to the Taishou of Banchuan County and Wei Jian was demoted to the Taishou of Jinyun County, the crown prince Li Heng lost his right-hand man, and the strength of the Donggong Party declined greatly. Why didn't my brother take advantage of the victory to pursue him? ”

Li Linfu's fingers lightly tapped on the armrest of the Hu chair, still closing his eyes and recuperating without speaking.

"Not bad." Li Fudao next to him nodded, and then Li Fugong's words said: "It has been more than half a year since the case of Emperor Fu Weiming and Wei Jian on the Shangyuan Festival. Wei Jian has already been removed from Jinyun Taishou to Jiangxia again. But Li Shizhi's old thief still stayed out of the matter, and the crown prince Li Heng was not disposed of by His Majesty. Our situation is still worrying......"

Li Fudao was really worried, on the first day of the first month of this year, on the first day of the first month of this year, Huangfu Weiming, who entered Beijing and was entitled, played with the prince's brother-in-law, Shangshu Wei Jian, of the Criminal Department, and spent the festival together. As a result, Li Linfu used this as an excuse to say that Wei Jian had a private meeting with the border generals and wanted to abolish the establishment.

Huangfu Weiming and Wei Jian were arrested and imprisoned for this, and Li Linfu asked his henchmen to come out to testify. As a result, Tang Xuanzong also suspected that Wei Jian was conspiring with Huangfu Weiming, so he demoted Wei Jian to Jinyun Taishou.

And the Longyou Jiedu made Huangfu Weiming on the thirteenth day of the first month just been crowned from the Sanpin Hongluqing, and concurrently served as the envoy of Longyou and Hexi Jiedu. Unexpectedly, within a few days, he was charged with "sowing discord among the monarchs and ministers", and was relegated to the remote land of smoke and miasma, and was relegated to the remote land of smoke and miasma. It can be said that happiness is sad.

Li Linfu and his henchmen framed Huangfu Weiming and Wei Jian in this way, and the target was nothing more than the crown prince Li Heng.

A few years ago, after the death of the crown prince Li Ying, Xuanzong will appoint a new prince. Li Linfu praised King Shou and wanted to support Concubine Wu Hui's son Shouwang Li Mao as the emperor. However, Tang Xuanzong chose the third son of the emperor, Zhongwang Li Yu - that is, the current crown prince, and later Tang Suzong Li Heng. The prince was established, Li Linfu hated and couldn't plan, and wanted to curry favor with Li Heng again, but he was disgusted by the prince Li Heng and held a grudge. So Li Linfu and his henchmen were afraid that Li Heng would be detrimental to his family after he ascended the throne, so they could only desperately want to abolish Li Heng's position as the crown prince.

And the brother-in-law of the prince of Wei Jian, the secretary of the criminal department. Wei Jian was born in the Jingzhao Wei clan, the most powerful of the Guanlong clan, and his talents were outstanding and he was shrewd. During the Kaiyuan period, when he served as the Taishou of Shaanxi County and the envoy of water and land transshipment, he rebuilt the Cao Canal on the basis of the Cao Canal in the Han Dynasty and the Guangtong Canal in the Sui Dynasty, so that the ships from the west of Tongguan could sail directly to the Guangyun Pond. Since Wei Jian repaired the canal, Guanzhong can transport more than 200,000 stones of grain every year, which is 10 times more than the original. His sister is the princess of Xuanzong's fifth brother Xue Wang Li Ye, and his sister is the crown princess of the crown prince Li Heng, who is the number one person in the prince party. Moreover, he was kind to Li Shizhi, the political enemy of Li Linfu, and Li Shizhi asked Xuanzong to worship him as the prime minister, and wanted to be the arm of the "Left Prime Minister Party". Li Linfu and his henchmen naturally couldn't tolerate it, so he naturally bore the brunt of being killed by Li Linfu and his party.

And Huangfu Weiming was because he was friends with the then loyal king Li Yu and the current prince Li Heng in his early years, so he naturally became the Donggong party of Baozhun. He has been serving as the envoy of the Longyou Festival since the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, because he has repeatedly fought with Tubo and made many military exploits, so on the thirteenth day of the first month of this year, he was awarded the official title of Hongluqing from the three products, and concurrently served as the envoy of the Hexi Festival! But two days later, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, because of a night tour with Wei Jian, Li Linfu and his party found an opportunity to attack, and as a result, the position of Hongluqing and the envoy of the two towns was pushed to the end within a few days (it really can't be done for a few days) and was sent to Banchuan County as a taishou.

It's just that even so, the true purpose of Li Linfu's party has not been achieved. The crown prince Li Heng lost two arms of one article and one martial arts, but he was only reprimanded by Tang Xuanzong for a few words. And Li Linfu's biggest political enemy, Zuo Prime Minister Li Shizhi also resigned from the position of Zuo Prime Minister and was reappointed as the crown prince Shaobao.

On the surface, Li Linfu's Xiangguo Party benefited a lot, and the two henchmen of the crown prince Li Heng, who relied on the most, were killed, and Li Linfu's biggest political enemy, Li Shizhi, the left minister, also resigned from the phase, but only Li Linfu and his henchmen knew the suffering. If you don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots this time, you will definitely end up like Zhang Jiuling back then, or even worse.

Political struggles are brutal, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything. Li Linfu, who is well versed in political struggle, and his henchmen naturally will not stop there. In fact, this time, the case of Huang Fu Weiming and Wei Jian, it seems that the prince's D party and the Left Prime Party have suffered heavy losses, but in fact, they have only been stripped of a layer of skin. The crown prince Li Heng is still as stable as Mount Tai, and he has not repeated the old path of the abolished prince Li Ying as the legend has been said. The "Left Prime Minister's Party," which was in opposition to Li Linfu's "Right Prime Minister's Party," did indeed disappear with Li Shizhi's resignation, and Li Linfu's "Right Prime Minister's Party" became a dominant party and became a veritable "Xiangguo Party." However, Li Shizhi, the leader of the "Left Prime Minister's Party", still holds the idle post of Shaobao, the prince of the second grade, and on the surface he drinks every day, but who knows if he will launch a strong counterattack?

A hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, not to mention the powerful left minister Li Shizhi. Li Shizhi is a descendant of Li Chengqian, the former crown prince of Tang Taizong, not only in the court, but also in the imperial clan, and his power is also intertwined, which cannot be underestimated. What's more, there is also a scheming prince Li Heng!

Compared with Li Fudao, Li Fugong's brother's impatience, Li Linfu is calm and very good. After listening to the two brothers' confessions, he slowly said a word that was not answered: "This courtyard is too close to those Qinlou Music Houses, and it is too noisy. ”

Li Fudao, Li Fugong's brothers were stunned, and seemed to be inexplicable by Li Linfu's answer to the question.

"Brother-" Li Fugong interrupted him anxiously and said, "Brother, why are you still saying these unrelated words at this time-"

Li Fudao frowned, but he was not as dissatisfied as Li Fugong. He smiled and said: "Pingkangfang is Chang'an's song to make trouble, and there are countless Yanguan in Qinlou, which is very lively. How many people want to live in this workshop but suffer from no money, no power and no land, but my brother is in the blessing and does not know the blessing. ”

"It's not good to be too busy." Li Linfu smiled thoughtfully: "The place that is too lively is too noisy, and it makes the old man uneasy——"

Li Fudao seemed to understand the meaning of Li Linfu's words, and nodded suddenly with understanding: "Not bad." It's so small that it can only accommodate a few people. Since we like to be quiet, we don't allow others to make noise. ”

"Exactly." Li Linfu glanced at Li Fudao with appreciation, stroked his beard and said, "Not bad." This court is the same as the place where you live, and it can't be too lively and noisy. This courtyard is too noisy, so let's not talk here next time. It's too noisy to live in, so it's a big deal to take a step back and move away. But this court is too noisy—"

Li Linfu's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he stared closely at the big tree in the courtyard in front of him and said, "But this court is too noisy, and it is not possible to take a step back to open the sky." If I don't take the initiative, I will be eliminated by others. That's how the political struggle is......"

"What do you mean, brother?" Li Fugong was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Huh." Li Linfu regained his breezy countenance, and said slowly: "Li Heng's Xiao'er City Mansion is extremely deep, and it has the style of today's emperor. But did he think that this would save him from disaster? ”

"Li Heng Xiao'er and my Li family don't share the sky, and if we don't waste it for a day, we will not be able to be at peace-" Li Fugong clenched his fists.

"Not bad." Li Linfu nodded and said with a smile: "There is also Li Shizhi's old man, who thought that he could escape by resigning from the phase...... I heard that I was happy at home every day, thinking that I could avoid disaster. Huh-"

"Avoid the virtuous at the beginning, and be happy and win the cup." Li Fudao also smiled and said: "This former left minister, the current prince Shaobao, has written a good poem. ”

After Li Linfu heard this, a vicious sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Does Li Shizhi think that he can get out of this way...... The struggle in officialdom is never about you dying, or about me, if Li Shizhi is lucky, then he will really go back more and more......"

As he spoke, a pair of fists tightened and clenched, and a hideous smile appeared on his clear face......