Since Li Yuanji restarted the suspicion order in Chang'an, Xuanwu Jingwei arrested thousands of people in Chang'an in just two days, including dozens of beggars and idlers who were the first to spread rumors, and the network for arresting the Chang'an Intelligence Agency was shrinking, which brought tremendous pressure to the Chang'an Intelligence Bureau, and Lu Ping had to order all the important members of the Intelligence Agency to withdraw to the outskirts of Chang'an, and all shops and liquor stores were closed, leaving only a tavern in Pingkangfang to be responsible for external liaison. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Early this morning, Lu Ping wore a military uniform of the captain of Qianniuwei, and rode into Chang'an City, Qianniuwei is the imperial guard of the Son of Heaven, with a very high status in Chang'an, the biggest feature is that it is equipped with a long silver-handled instrumental knife, which is particularly eye-catching, even Xuanwu Jingwei does not dare to provoke easily, of course, ordinary people will never think that someone would dare to pretend to be the captain of Qianniuwei to swagger through the market.

Lu Ping went straight to the tavern in Pingkangfang, the only point of contact that the Intelligence Bureau had retained, and as soon as he arrived at the door, a bartender greeted him, took the horse and gave him a look, indicating that he was safe.

Lu Ping walked into the tavern, there were no guests in the tavern, the bartender immediately closed the door, Lu Ping walked into the room quickly, only to see two people sitting in the room, one was Gao Jin, who joined the army, and the other was Luo Yumin, the two saw Lu Ping, stood up and saluted together.

"How about it, I'm okay with this uniform!" Lu Ping smiled at the two.

Gao Jin shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The general is still too conspicuous, of course ordinary people don't dare to provoke Qianniuwei, for fear that some Xuanwu Jingwei who don't know life and death will deliberately cause trouble, don't say that there is no such possibility." ”

Luo Yumin next to him also smiled: "The general might as well change his appearance as Xuanwu Jingwei, at least they won't provoke their own people, of course, the best way is not to enter the city, let's just go out of the city." ”

Lu Ping smiled, "It makes sense, be careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship." ”

He sat down and drank a glass of wine, and then asked Luo Yumin, "What's the urgency?" ”

Luo Yumin is still one of Li Yuanji's ten staff, but after Li Yuanji has a confidant Cui Wenxiang, he basically no longer asks other staff, and asks Cui Wenxiang about everything, Luo Yumin is only responsible for the daily affairs of Xuanwu Jingwei, and rarely participates in the secret business of major affairs.

Luo Yumin said in a low voice: "There was a big incident in Chongrenfang last night, didn't the general hear about it at all?" ”

Lu Ping was stunned, turned his head to look at Gao Jin, Gao Jin nodded, "We also heard a little rumor, we only know that it is related to the Guanlong nobles?" ”

"What the hell is going on?"

Luo Yumin said in a deep voice: "Last night, the thirteen Guanlong noble family heads discussed the matter of donating grain to the Tang army in the Dugu Mansion in Chongrenfang, and as a result, Li Yuanji personally led three thousand Xuanwu Jingwei to surround the house, and the thirteen family heads were all under house arrest. ”

Lu Ping frowned, and asked puzzledly: "Since it is a discussion to donate money and food to the Tang Army, why does Li Yuanji embarrass them, is there another mystery in their discussion?" ”

Luo Yumin shook his head, "There are no other mysteries in the discussion of the head of the family, but Li Yuan has a deeper request, he wants to force the Guanlong nobles to hand over their Zhuang Ding, that is, their private army, which is about 30,000 people. ”

Lu Ping also knew the existence of this private army, although they were usually scattered in various estates in Guanzhong, but once assembled, the force was quite huge, it was said that it was well-equipped and well-trained, it was a very elite army, but this army existed in Guanzhong, the threat to the Tang Dynasty could be imagined, no wonder Li Yuan wanted to put these family heads under house arrest.

Lu Ping thought for a while and asked: "But the Guanlong nobles have penetrated deeply in the imperial court, almost every temple has their clansmen and protégés, and there are also many of their children in the army, Li Yuan is not afraid of causing turmoil in the government and the opposition and the army?" ”

"This can only show that the existence of this army is a more serious threat to the Li Yuan dynasty than the turmoil of the government and the opposition, so when Li Yuan was faced with a choice, he chose to eradicate this army, and Li Yuan sent people to each house last night to pacify, never mentioning that it was for the army, but only to raise money and food."

"No wonder last night was calm and there were no riots."

"Everyone knows in their hearts that the cost of making trouble is very high, as long as the head of the family does not have an accident, he will basically endure it, Li Yuan also understands this mentality, so he sent someone to appease, which greatly reduces the impact of this matter."

Lu Ping took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and he turned back to Gao Jin and said, "This matter must be reported to the Central Capital immediately!" ”

Gao Jin immediately agreed, "I will write an eagle letter immediately." ”

Lu Ping immediately shook his head again, "You are inconvenient in the city and easy to be discovered, or if I write an eagle letter after I leave the city, you can leave this matter alone." ”

After arranging the matter of Eagle Letter, Lu Ping asked Luo Yumin again: "Let's talk about Li Yuanji again, I found that he has been quite skillful recently, and he used to arrest people indiscriminately, but this time it is different, he caught us very accurately, and forced us all out of Chang'an City, what is going on with him recently?" ”

Luo Yumin sneered: "Li Yuanji has not changed, he is still as arrogant and arrogant as ever, ruthless and vicious, and his mind has not grown, but his new army division is very powerful, everything Li Yuanji has done recently has been planned by him, General Lu should know this person." ”

"Who is this person?"

"Cui Wenxiang!"

"It turned out to be him!"

Lu Ping suddenly realized that he had been in charge of the Luoyang Intelligence Agency, of course he knew Cui Wenxiang very well, it turned out that this person went to Chang'an and became Li Yuanji's military advisor, no wonder Li Yuanji has been doing things differently recently.

"Is the general familiar with this Cui Wenxiang?" Gao Jin asked next to him.

"I don't know him well, but I know him very well, this person has a despicable character, and even betrays his brother in order to climb up, and is despised by the Luoyang court, but Wang Shichong appreciates him very much, and entrusts him to reuse him many times, and finally promotes him to Xiangguo, this person is a little capable, very good at planning political struggles, after the city of Luoyang was broken, the saint saw that he let him go in front of the Boling Cui clan and the Fan Yang Lu clan, but he didn't expect him to take refuge in Li Yuanji."

Gao Jin smiled and asked, "Then can we buy this person?" ”

"No way!"

Lu Ping shook his head decisively, "This person has a despicable character, and he will do whatever it takes to climb up, he is very likely to betray us, we can't take this risk." ”

At this time, Luo Yumin asked, "Then how should we deal with the matter of the Guanlong nobles last night?" ”

Lu Ping thought for a while and said: "This matter is very important, we can't meddle at will, we only need to do one thing, collect the latest intelligence, report to Zhongdu in time, or carry out Zhongdu's orders." ”

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Half an hour later, Lu Ping released two letter eagles and flew into the sky in a circle, flying in the direction of Zhongdu, at dusk, the two letter eagles landed on the eagle tower in the south of Ziwei Palace.

Fang Xuanling hurriedly ran up to the Heavenly Pavilion, and walked quickly to the door of Zhang Xuan's imperial study, he asked a guard, "Is the Holy Lord still there?" ”

"Qiqi military advisor, the saint is still there, but he is preparing to return to the palace."

"Go and report it for me, and say that I have something important to see."

The guard ran up to the second floor, and after a moment at the top of the stairs, he said, "Strategist, please have a holy place!" ”

Fang Xuanling also climbed the stairs to the second floor, and saw Zhang Xuan standing in front of the imperial case to sort out the documents, it seemed that he was preparing to return to the palace, Zhang Xuan glanced up at him, and asked with a smile: "Is it the military situation of Taiyuan or Bashu?" ”

"No, it's news from Chang'an."

Zhang Xuan put down the Chinese book in his hand and looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "What happened to Chang'an?" ”

Fang Xuanling handed the eagle letter to Zhang Xuan, "Your Majesty, read it for yourself!" ”

Zhang Xuan took the eagle letter and read it, his brows furrowed, he felt a little incomprehensible, the thirteen heads of the Guanlong nobles were collectively placed under house arrest last night, and the letter mentioned that Li Yuan wanted to force them to hand over their respective Zhuang Ding, Zhang Xuan was relieved, and said with a smile: "I said how can Li Yuan allow a knife to hang next to the couch, and it is not his knife, if I were him, I should have done it a few years ago to eliminate the hidden danger, instead of waiting until the danger came out now." ”

Fang Xuanling also sighed: "Weichen also feels that he is adding turmoil to doing this now, which is very unwise. ”

Zhang Xuan sneered and said: "This is called lice too many not afraid of biting, a little court shock is nothing, just afraid of the emptiness of Guanzhong, these Guanlong nobles gather troops to kill Chang'an City, the consequences will be serious, Li Yuan can distinguish the priorities." ”

"Your Majesty, do you need us to do something? For example, he pressured Li Yuan to release the thirteen family heads who were under house arrest and showed favor to the Guanlong nobles. ”

Zhang Xuan walked to the window with his hands down, stared at the sunset in the west for a long time, and after a long time, he said slowly: "I have always thought that the Guanlong nobles are a real long-term hidden danger, if Li Yuan is willing to eliminate this hidden danger for us, why don't we do it?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan turned back to Fang Xuanling and smiled slightly: "The seeds sown by Wei Yunqi when he went to Chang'an last year finally sprouted in the spring. ”