Last night, Gao Lishi happened to feel sick and was not by Li Longji's side, he was also almost seventy years old, and he fell ill from time to time after the winter, and it was not until dawn that he got the news that something had happened in the East Palace, Gao Lishi couldn't care about his heavy body, and immediately rushed to Xingqing Palace, and as soon as he entered the Datong Palace, he happened to meet Li Longji who was angry and fainted to the ground.

Gao Lishi panicked, the saint fainted, this is still a never-before-seen thing, he ordered the eunuch to find the imperial doctor, and together with several eunuchs, carried Li Longji into the bed in the inner room, let him lie flat, and covered him with a quilt.

In a moment, several imperial doctors rushed to rescue Li Longji, Gao Lishi retreated outside the house, his eyes fell on the little paper figure on the imperial case, and when he saw it clearly, he was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, and felt an extreme fear in his heart, could it be that something happened in the East Palace, was it actually this thing?

"Gao Weng, Your Majesty is awake, please come over."

Gao Lishi hurriedly hid the little paper figure, walked into the back room quickly, on the bed, Li Longji had woken up, he looked at the roof blankly, I don't know what he thinks?

"Your Majesty, the old slave is here!" Colliers whispered.

Li Longji didn't answer, still staring at the roof in a daze, "Your Majesty!" Colliers reminded again.

"Everyone else stand down!"

Li Longji's voice was low and hoarse, revealing a deep sadness.

The imperial physician and the officials who were waiting for him retreated one after another, and only Gao Lishi and Li Longji were left in the room.

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body!" Colliers whispered.

Li Longji let out a long sigh and said, "Gao Weng, how could I give birth to so many unfilial rebels. ”

"Your Majesty!" Colliers was so confused that he didn't know how to persuade him.

Li Longji asked again: "Have you put away the things on the imperial case outside?" ”

"Yes, the old slave is done."

"This matter must be tightly sealed news, I have already explained to Wang Chengye, and he is not allowed to reveal the slightest rumor, and you are the same here."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the old slave will never leak it to anyone."

A glimmer of hope rose in Gao Lishi's heart, if the news was blocked, would it mean that the prince could escape this catastrophe?

Li Longji sighed again and said tiredly: "General, I am already old, I can no longer withstand the toss, after all, he is my son, I just thought of the sorrow of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in his old age, and my heart hurts, so I don't want to abolish the prince." ”

Gao Lishi was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian! ”

"But he's gone too far, and I'll punish him severely."

"Your Majesty, this is as it should be, and he must be made to remember this lesson."

Gao Lishi's heart was relieved, as long as the prince was not abolished, then all punishments were acceptable.

At this time, a report from the eunuch Yu Chaoen came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is waiting outside the palace." ”

"I don't want to see him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Longji said again: "Wait a minute! ”

Li Longji pondered for a moment and said, "Tell him that from now on, he is not allowed to see any ministers, and he is not allowed to leave the palace for a year after thinking about the wall in the East Palace." ”

Although this punishment is very severe, compared to the abolition of the prince, it is a heaven and a place, and Gao Lishi's heart hanging in the air finally landed.

"Your Majesty, the old slave is going to talk about him."

"Go ahead! By the way, I went to the palace of the king of Guangping and told the king of Guangping that my concubine interceded for him, and I spared Concubine Shen once, and similarly, ordered her to eat fasting and pray Buddha for a year as a punishment. ”

Gao Lishi didn't know what was going on in the Guangping Palace, he didn't dare to ask more, and hurriedly retreated, leaving Li Longji alone in the study, at this time, Li Longji's eyes flashed a murderous intention, he turned over and got up, walked quickly to the outhouse, sat on the throne and pulled a thin rope hidden in the throne.

'Whew! With a bang, a black-clothed guard jumped out of the window, this was the personal guard protecting him, he knelt down on one knee and said, "Please command, Your Majesty!" ”

Li Longji coldly ordered: "You immediately go to Jiujiang and get rid of Wang Zhonghe!" ”

．．．．．． The sky has already dawned, the officials have already gone to the court, although the palace is strictly sealed news, but Li Linfu still got a little bit of news from the guards he placed in the palace, last night, Guangping Wangfu and the East Palace had an accident, there was a large team of Yulin Army to search the palace and the East Palace, but he didn't know what happened.

But Li Linfu immediately realized with his keen political sense that something serious must have happened last night, and he had no intention of dealing with court affairs anymore, so he immediately ordered his henchmen to go around to find out the news, what happened last night?

Soon, his people found the records of Jingzhao Mansion, and in the middle of the night last night, Jingzhao Yin Yang Guozhong personally led the officials to capture a witch named Wen **, and entered the palace with Shaoyin Li Yan.

Li Linfu immediately summoned Li Yan, not long after, Li Yan hurried over, although Li Yan is from the clan, but he is an upright and fair person, deeply loved by the people of Chang'an, he is also loyal to his duties, never do things that exceed the power and courtesy.

However, last night he felt a little uncomfortable, Yang Guozhong forced him into the palace to face the saint, which violated the functional rules of the imperial court, they could not face the saint directly, but should report to Xiangguo, and then Xiangguo went to face the saint, they could only enter the palace with Xiangguo as circumstantial evidence at most.

He was uneasy in his heart, and suddenly Li Linfu passed on him, and he knew that things were not good, and with Li Linfu's shrewdness, it was difficult for them to hide this matter.

"See Xiangguo!"

Li Linfu glanced at him and said coldly: "Li Shaoyin, why did you go beyond your true appearance last night and go directly to face the saint?" ”

"When I returned to Xiangguo, I didn't want to be more saintly, but Yang Shangshu must pull me to witness, and I have to go with him."

"Humph! You're going to blame. ”

"I don't dare to be lowly, it is."

"Then Ben asked you, what happened when you caught a witch?"

"Back to Xiangguo, this witch was instructed by Concubine Shen, the king of Guangping, to give witchcraft to the side concubine Cui, making her crazy, we found out last night that this witch did it, and she also confessed."

"Oh? So where is the witch now? ”

Li Yan sighed and said regretfully: "As soon as it was dawn this morning, she committed suicide in fear of sin. ”

Li Linfu was stunned and committed suicide, how could it be? He asked again: "Since the Guangping Palace, what does it have to do with the East Palace?" ”

Li Yan was very embarrassed, about the matter of the East Palace, he also received a gag order, he couldn't say it, but he couldn't help but say it, hesitated for a long time, and finally said vaguely: "When we interrogated this witch, we learned that there was a shop in the East Market that also bought the same villain witchcraft as the Guangping Palace, so we arrested the shopkeeper of this shop, but unexpectedly found that he was Ma Yingjun, the former prince's personal eunuch." ”

"Wait!" Li Linfu suddenly understood, "You mean that Donggong also buys this kind of witchcraft?" ”

Li Yan smiled bitterly and said: "This is Xiangguo's own guess, he doesn't know anything and doesn't say anything." ”

Li Linfu nodded slowly and said with a smile: "Li Shaoyin, thank you very much, you can go!" ”

Li Yan left, but Li Linfu walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, he already understood, it must be the prince who bought villain witchcraft, so it triggered the search of the East Palace, so who did the prince do villain witchcraft? Yang Guozhong? It is impossible to take this risk for Yang Guozhong, he can only be alone.

Li Linfu was extremely nervous in his heart, he already felt that a political storm in the Tang Dynasty was coming, he knew Li Longji very well, in order to occupy the throne for a long time, he took the means of changing the crown prince, changing it once in more than ten years, so that the prince would always live trembling under his wing.

In order to keep his throne, he did not hesitate to kill his own son, in the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, he used the false accusations of Concubine Wu Hui to force the crown prince Li Ying, Li Yao, the king of Hubei and Li Ju, the king of light, to commit suicide.

What to do? How should I stand in this upcoming political storm? Li Linfu's brows furrowed, thinking about his position, and at this moment, Wen Lang reported at the door: "Xiangguo, someone from the palace." ”

"Come in!"

After a while, the eunuch Yu Chaoen came in and saluted: "Xiangguo, Your Majesty ordered you to go to the imperial study immediately to meet you." ”

．．．．．．． After a while, Li Linfu rushed to Xingqing Palace, waited outside the imperial study for a while, and a eunuch came out and said, "Li Xiangguo, Your Majesty ordered you to go in!" ”

Li Linfu walked into the imperial study, and saw that Li Longji was sitting behind the imperial case to review the fold, and he couldn't help but pause, the saint has not approved the fold for nearly half a year, why did he change his surname today.

"Minister Li Linfu see Your Majesty!"

"Sangkook is here."

Li Longji put down his pen and said with a smile: "I came to you to discuss the matter of expanding the appearance with you. ”

Li Linfu had been thinking about the East Palace all the way, and now that the saint was going to talk to him, he didn't react for a while, he was stunned for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, please speak." ”

"I have thought about it repeatedly in the past few days, now Xiangguo is six people, I plan to expand to nine, that is, to add three more, originally I wanted to consider An Lushan, but the Khitan and Xi people are only he can suppress, so I don't transfer him, Xiangguo mentioned An Sishun, I plan to transfer him to Shuofang Jiedu envoy, and I can't enter the phase, I consider choosing one person from the family, one person from the imperial family, and one person from the local Taishou, I don't know what Xiangguo thinks?"

Li Linfu's mind turned sharply, and he chose one person from the family, he guessed that it was Cui Qiao, and one person was selected from the local Taishou, it could be Lu Lian, Tide, as for the imperial family, he didn't expect who it would be?

He smiled bitterly and said, "Please make it clear to Your Majesty." ”

Li Longji pondered for a moment and said: "Cui Qiao is diligent and capable, since he was appointed as the head of the household department, he has organized the household department in an orderly manner, and he is the son-in-law of King Xian, although he is slightly lacking in qualifications, but I still want to promote him and promote him to the servant of the door; Secondly, Yangzhou is the Taishou Lu Lian, who has rich experience in governing the local area and has sufficient qualifications, and there is indeed a lack of Xiangguo with local experience in the political hall, so I consider transferring him to the crown prince Zhan Shi; Again, I considered choosing one person among the imperial family, either the eldest grandson's family or the lonely family, but the qualifications of the eldest grandson's family are a little missing, and the eldest grandson Quanxu is just a general of Jin Wuwei, with no local experience, but Dugu Haoran is good, first to be the governor of Yangzhou, and then to be the Jianghuai capital transfer envoy, Pei Yaoqing was from the Jianghuai capital to the transfer envoy, I considered promoting him to Shangshu Zuo Servant, promoted to Xiangguo, I don't know if Xiangguo agrees with my plan. ”

Li Linfu was shocked, two of the three phases were tide stall people, plus Pei Kuan, three tide stall people entered the phase, the East Palace had just had an accident, but the saint arranged it like this, contradicting each other, which was extremely incomprehensible.

Li Longji saw that he didn't say anything for a long time, so he smiled and said, "What, Xiangguo doesn't agree?" ”

Li Linfu sighed secretly, this has already been decided, what is the use of him not agreeing, so he can only bow down and say: "Your Majesty can convene a meeting of the political hall and invite the six prime ministers to discuss together." ”

"I know, but Aiqing is the right minister and the head of the hundred officials, so I naturally want to discuss it with you first, if you don't have any opinions, it's decided."

Li Linfu was in a state of confusion, so he nodded and said, "The minister has no opinion." ”

Li Linfu withdrew from the imperial study, and the matter of the East Palace suddenly became confusing, what happened? If the crown prince used witchcraft, Li Longji would never promote the tide file, if there was nothing to do, then what did the Yulin army do when they searched the East Palace? It is very likely that no evidence was found, and this was used to appease the prince, but it seems to be a bit of a fuss.

He was puzzled, and walked quickly to the outside of the hall, but at this time, Dugu Haoran came head-on, he saw Li Linfu, and hurriedly saluted: "See Xiangguo!" ”

Li Linfu smiled back with a slight smile, "I'm going to congratulate the lonely virtuous brother." ”

Dugu Haoran was summoned by the saint, but he didn't know what was going on, and he was uneasy in his heart, Li Linfu actually congratulated him, which was really puzzling.

"May I ask Xiangguo, where does the joy come from?"

"You'll know when you go, I want you to have a treat!" Li Linfu patted him on the shoulder and laughed away.

Dugu Haoran was even more puzzled in his heart, he followed the eunuch into the imperial study, Li Longji was looking at him with a smile, his heart jumped, and he hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute, "Your Majesty!" ”

"Aiqing is exempt from courtesy, give a seat!"

A eunuch moved a soft pier, and Dugu Haoran sat down with his side, waiting uneasily.

Li Longji flipped through his qualifications and said with a smile: "Has Dugu Aiqing been an official for twenty-two years?" ”

"Yes, it has been twenty-two years since I joined the army for the sixth rate of the East Palace in the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan."

"Hmmm! Aiqing did the right Qianniu Wei record to join the army, Xianyang County Chief, Ye County Order, Jiangdu County Order, Yangzhou Governor History, the evaluation is also very good, rare! ”

Dugu Haoran had already vaguely guessed what was going to happen, but he couldn't believe it, at this time Li Longji closed the book and said with a smile: "Back then, Pei Yaoqing was transferred from Jianghuai to the prime minister, and it has always been known as a beautiful talk, so I decided to promote you to the left servant of Shangshu, and the same Zhongshu door to Pingzhang." ”

Dugu Haoran was dizzy in front of his eyes, and at the moment he didn't expect, he actually stepped on the peak of his life, his legs were weak, he fell to the ground, and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty's holy grace!" Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Li Longji smiled slightly, and took a letter from the imperial case, "There is one more matter, I want to discuss with you." ”

"Your Majesty, please command, the ministers obey the holy order!"

At this moment, no matter what Li Longji wants him to do, he will not hesitate to agree.

"It's rare for Aiqing to affirm righteousness like this."

Li Longji sighed with emotion, opened the national book and said: "Ge Lulu asked the Tang Dynasty to marry, hoping to marry Aiqing's eldest daughter, I thought about it repeatedly, in order to make Ge Lulu loyal to me, I decided to agree to their proposal, named your eldest daughter Princess Mingyue, and married Ge Lulu." ”

．．．．．．．． When Dugu Haoran returned to the house, the Dugu family seemed to fall into the two heavens of ice and fire, and Dugu Haoran was promoted to Xiangguo, which made the Dugu brothers ecstatic, but Dugu Mingyue was selected to kiss Ge Lulu, which made the back house of the Dugu family miserable.

Mrs. Pei was guarding in front of the Dugu Mansion Hall, anxious like an ant on a hot pot, her eldest daughter was selected to be with the Khitan, but died tragically, and now her daughter wants to be with Ge Lulu, which makes her extremely sad and angry, no matter what, she wants to persuade her husband to return to this family business, and can no longer sacrifice Mingyue.

However, the resolution of the Dugu family in the council hall made her feel cold for a while, and the two uncles, as well as the husband's three brothers and cousins, and more than a dozen people unanimously agreed to make peace, and they all said that they must not ruin the position of the Dugu family because of the matter of harmony.

Mrs. Pei rushed into the venue angrily, and the meeting was talking enthusiastically, all of them were very excited, and Mrs. Pei's sudden intrusion made the venue silent.

"You all agree with my daughter and my kinsman, don't you?" Mrs. Pei said coldly.

Everyone was very embarrassed, at this time, Dugu Haoran's third uncle Dugu Yuan stood up and said with a dry laugh: "Actually, we don't want to, but this is the will of the saint, and we have nothing to do, besides, Haoran has done Xiangguo, and the power is in hand, and I don't dare to bully my niece and granddaughter, and my niece and granddaughter are Princess Mingyue, and her status is very different, this is a happy event!" ”

"Yes! Sister-in-law, this is a happy event, we are alone and happy. The crowd gossiped.

"You guys!"

Mrs. Pei was extremely angry, she tried her best to restrain her anger, and said to her husband: "Master, come out for a while, I have something to say." ”

Dugu Haoran followed his wife out of the council hall with a bitter face, he knew what his wife was going to say, and hurriedly said: "Madam, I really can't help it, the saint forced me to agree, and I had to respond." ”

"Humph! The Holy One forces you to agree. Mrs. Pei sneered, "If you refuse to accept Xiangguo, will he force you?" ”

"This..."Dugu Haoran was speechless, he sighed, and said: "Actually, I also thought about it, Ge Lulu is relatively weak, not as fierce as the Khitan, Mingyue should be fine if she marries her." ”

"Master, what can I say about you, even if you don't think about it, you have to think about it! The kind of barbarian people like Ge Lulu don't understand etiquette and ethics, we Mingyue is like a girl like a flower and jade, and I don't know what to be ruined when we marry, master, how can we open this mouth for Mingyue. ”

Dugu Haoran lowered his head, and after a while, he whispered: "Actually, I have already talked to Mingyue just now." ”

"What?" Mrs. Pei was stunned.

Dugu Haoran sighed again and said: "Mingyue agreed, she said that she would not embarrass me or the family." ”

"Y-you..."

Tears welled up in Mrs. Pei's eyes, and she said sadly, "You are too selfish. ”

As soon as she turned around and ran towards the inner house, Dugu Haoran shook her head and said to herself: "Madam, don't blame me, in fact, I don't want to, but there is really no way." ”

In the room, Mingyue has never been so calm as today, she is neatly dressed, looking out the window without saying a word, she has no sadness, her father's words blocked all her retreats, and also made her make up her mind, no matter what, she will never affect the Dugu family.

Mingzhu was so anxious that her eyes were red, "Sister, run away!" I'll run away with you, this is the only way out, you run away, they can only choose someone else. ”

Mingyue just smiled and shook her head, Mingzhu was so anxious that she stomped her foot, "Sister, do you have the courage to commit suicide, but don't you have the courage to escape?" Run! If you don't leave, it's too late. ”

"Bright Moon!" Mrs. Pei hurriedly walked in.

"Mother!" Mingyue stood up.

Mrs. Pei held her daughter in her arms distressedly, and said with tears in her eyes: "Child, you can go!" My mother agrees that you will marry Li Qingan, you can go to Beiting to find him! ”

"That's right! Sister, my mother agreed. ”

Mingyue's eyes were red, and tears filled her eyes, but she still shook her head stubbornly and said: "I am the eldest daughter of Dugu, I can't affect the family, let alone my father, my grandfather thought about it all his life and failed to become the prime minister, and today my father has become a long-cherished wish of my grandfather's life, how can I, as a daughter, not be filial piety." ”

"But sister, that's a barbarian!"

"Sister, don't say it."

Mingyue picked up the scissors, resolutely cut a string of green silk from her head, handed it to Mingzhu and said: "Sister, sister, I beg you to go to the North Court and give it to Li Lang, if he still misses me, I believe he will definitely intercede with the saint, if he refuses, it will be my life." ”

Mrs. Pei pondered for a moment, nodded as well, and said to Mingzhu: "Mingzhu, my mother agrees with you to go, and my mother will arrange it for you, and you will set off overnight." ”

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(To be continued)