At the same moment when the lantern festival was in full swing, a carriage stopped in front of Li Linfu's house, and two Li Linfu's sons ran down the steps, respectfully helping a middle-aged man out of the carriage, "Wang Zhongcheng, my father has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

The middle-aged man was Wang Heng in the imperial history, and he smiled slightly: "I'm really sorry that Shangyuan Festival is still coming to disturb you." ”

"Wang Zhongcheng was too polite, and his father said that he should apologize to Wang Zhongcheng so that Wang Zhongcheng could not rest."

A few people exchanged a few words, and Li Linfu's two sons led Wang Heng to the inner mansion, in Li Linfu's heavily guarded isolated island castle.

This year's Li Linfu did not go to the Lantern Festival to inspect as in previous years, Wang Heng transferred an impeachment note to let him stay at home, at this moment, this thin letter is on his desk, the content is very simple, Yizhou Governor Shi Cui Yuan impeached Yizhou Taishou Wei Wei for nepotism, and promoted his nephew Wei Ming from an ordinary official to Cangcao to participate in the military, frankly speaking, this kind of promotion is not a problem, a dignified Taishou promoted a low-level official, it is really too normal to do it, even if it is his own relatives, it is not a big problem, The reason why famous families can control the local political situation in Datang is not all this? The Cui family is not much better, Cui Qiao's nephew Cui Ping quickly promoted his cousin Cui Yu to join the army after serving as the Taishou of Sizhou, so Wei Lian's approach is really not a big fuss.

But Li Linfu attaches great importance to this recital, because it came too timely, just when he was thinking hard about how to provoke the struggle between Yang Zhao and the prince, this recital came, Li Linfu saw through the inside story behind this recital at a glance, Cui Yuan and Yang Zhao teamed up to get rid of Wei Lian, in other words, the Cui family has taken refuge in the Yang Party, so what about Wei Lian? Li Linfu immediately thought of Wei Jian, the representative of the Wei family who was brought down by himself back then, the backbone of the tide file, after Wei Jian was deposed, the Wei family was purged, and the local forces of the Wei family were basically deposed, so what about now? With the rise of Wei Lian, Wei Tao, and Wei Jiansu, whether the Wei family has the possibility of rejoining the Tide file, the answer is possible, the key is to see how he Li Linfu comes to indulge.

"Father, Wang Zhongcheng has arrived."

The sound of a report at the door interrupted Li Linfu's train of thought, and he smiled and said, "Please come in!" ”

Wang Hui can be said to be Li Linfu's first confidant, he is also his most capable thug, in the last year or two of the imperial history of Cheng has been sealed a lot, even Li Qingan has hung a title of the imperial history of the Cheng, but the real full-time and master of the real power of the imperial history of the imperial history, but only Wang Heng alone, this Cui Yuan's impeachment recital, Wang Heng found it from nearly a hundred books, he first found the cat hidden in this book.

"See Xiangguo!"

"Huh! Shangyuan Lantern Night was still annoyed that Wang Zhongcheng came to talk about things, but he really didn't want to go. Li Linfu smiled gently.

"What Xiangguo talks about must be a big event, can he come to his humble job?"

Li Linfu nodded, "Zhongcheng is right, I saw the recital you transferred to me yesterday, I think this is indeed a big deal." ”

Receiving Li Linfu's affirmation, Wang Heng perked up and hurriedly said: "I think so too, Wei Jian has been the Taishou of Yizhou for more than a year, Cui Yuan and him have never had anything to do, how did Yang Zhao just serve as the envoy of Jiannan Festival, and the matter came out?" Moreover, Cui Wei's two families have been friends for a hundred years, and they are married, so it is a bit of a fuss to impeach him for this trivial matter. ”

"It's not trivial in them, and it's not trivial for us, you understand?"

Seeing that Wang Heng still didn't understand, Li Linfu said bluntly, "This will be the fuse of the enmity between the East Palace and the Yang family." ”

Wang Jue suddenly realized, he secretly called Xiangguo clever, he thought about it and said: "It's just that Wei Tao is the father-in-law of King Di, and he is worried about whether it will evolve into a fight between Yang Zhao and King Di." ”

"There is indeed this possibility, but it may not be a big surname, as long as we push the Wei family to the East Palace a little, it will naturally be the battle between Yang Zhao and the East Palace."

"Does Xiangguo mean to let the lowly do this?"

"Nope! How could it be you? Li Linfu waved his hand and smiled: "I have arranged this person a long time ago, have you forgotten?" Yangzhou salt case. ”

"Li Qing'an!" Wang Heng slapped his forehead, he really admired Li Linfu's foresight, Li Linfu arranged Li Qing'an into the East Palace, it turned out that it was for this matter.

"Xiangguo is clever!"

Li Linfu smiled faintly and said: "I know that he is no longer convinced of me, but I don't worry, as long as I am still a one-day right minister, or a one-day envoy of the Beiting Festival, he Li Qingan will have to cooperate with me." ”

"Then Xiangguo wants to invite him?"

Li Linfu shook his head, "I don't need to say anything, he naturally understands in his heart, and naturally knows what to do." ”

Li Linfu smiled and handed Cui Yuandi's impeachment fold to Wang Heng, "I heard that Wei Ming is already on his way to Beijing, and this matter is very urgent. ”

Li Linfu walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said, "Record another copy and give it to Li Qing'an, and I'll give it tonight." ”

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The door of the Shangyuan Festival is not closed, Li Qingan did not send the Mingyue Mingzhu sisters back to Dugu Mansion until the second watch, the shame when saying goodbye, the tenderness of bowing his head, the glimpse of autumn water with affection, tenderness like water, and unlimited good times, so that Li Qingan is looking forward to seeing him again.

Although the second watch has passed, there are still crowds in Chang'an City, and the tireless Chang'an people sing and dance to welcome this annual Tang Carnival with unprecedented enthusiasm.

Li Qing'an and more than a dozen pro-soldiers walked slowly on Chunming Street, and the pro-soldiers were still looking around, admiring the lanterns on Chunming Street with great interest, but Li Qing'an was immersed in the tenderness and sweetness of the bright moon.

Suddenly, there was a melodious sound of the piano in the distance, it was a beautiful lantern playing the piano, surrounded by hundreds of lantern watchers, looking through the gap in the crowd, I saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old beautiful lady sitting under the lamp playing the piano, her white dress was like snow, and her hair was fluttering, which suddenly made Li Qingan think of the dance clothes, the lonely and helpless descendant of the Jiang family, the woman who once made him dream of playing the piano.

Li Qing'an sighed softly, and he remembered Li Linfu's words that night: 'As long as you complete the second step for me, I will give you Jiang Wuyi, and the position of Anxi Jiedu envoy is also yours, and I will make you the youngest Jiedu envoy in Datang." ’

When did Jiang Wuyi become the bait of Li Linfu, and became the reward for his Li Qing'an to work hard for Li Linfu, what if he didn't want to be Li Linfu's lackey? Is it that Jiang Wuyi will never have a chance with him.

This is a problem that he Li Qingan has always been unwilling to think about and face, love may be expensive, but he Li Qingan will never lose his principle of life for a woman.

Walked into Yishanfang, saw Gao Lishi's swarthy huge mansion from a distance, and walked a little way, Li Qing'an came to the steps of Gao Mansion, he saw a black shadow squatting under a tree at a glance, the black shadow immediately stood up and strode over, "General Li, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

"Is there anything wrong with you?" Li Qingan asked with a smile.

When the soldiers saw that his hand was in their bosom, they gathered around him, holding the hilt of his sword with their hands, and staring at him vigilantly.

Unexpectedly, someone took out a thin booklet, and he handed it over with both hands and said, "This is what my master transferred to my master." ”

Li Qing'an saw the words 'Wang Zhongcheng respectfully' written in the lower right corner, so he smiled and said: "But Wang Zhongcheng of the imperial history? ”

"Exactly!"

Li Qingan took the booklet and asked, "Does he have anything else to say?" ”

"General Hui, no."

The visitor saluted, turned and ran towards the door, and gradually disappeared into the night.

Li Qingan flipped through the booklet, and it turned out to be a copy of the impeachment excerpt, he didn't have time to read it carefully, he casually put the fold into his arms, and smiled at the soldiers: "Everyone has worked hard today, let's go and rest!" ”

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As soon as it was dawn the next day, Li Qingan was awakened by a knock on the door, and the voice of his own soldiers came from the door, "General, Mr. Yan is already well, and he is waiting for the general." ”

Last night he instructed his subordinates to wake him up immediately as long as he was fine today, and he turned over and sat down, briefly freshened up, and then walked to the solemn room.

After a day and a night of careful recuperation, Yan Zhuang has basically returned to normal, although he can't move yet, he can already lean on the soft mattress and drink porridge by himself.

Li Qingan walked into the room, looked at him and smiled: "It seems that Mr. Yan is recovering faster than I imagined!" ”

Yan Zhuang hurriedly put down the bowl and arched his hand: "It is the careful care of the envoy that pulled Yan Zhuang back from the ghost gate. ”

Li Qing'an smiled, waved his hand to the person next to him, several guards and female guards who took care of the solemnity retreated, Li Qing'an sat down in front of his couch, and said after a deep sigh: "Yesterday, Mr. Yan told me that An Lushan killed Dong Yanguang in order to seek Absi's cavalry, how old does Mr. think it might be?" ”

Yan Zhuang smiled coldly and said: "In fact, the cavalry plotting for Absi was planned by me, and I took three steps, the first step was to kill Dong Yanguang and make Absi owe favors; The third step is to attack the Khitan, and ask the court to order the Shuofang cavalry to participate in the battle, at that time Absi owes a favor, he naturally has to go out in person, as long as he does something in the logistics supplier, when attacking the Khitan, Absi will be defeated, and finally kill him and lose, and then collect the remnants of the army, and the Turkic cavalry will be in the hands of An Lushan. ”

Li Qing'an was taken aback, if this was the case, Arbus's cavalry would really be difficult to protect, but when he saw Yan Zhuang sneering on his face, he knew that he was still unfinished, so he smiled and said, "Please Mr. continue!" ”

"In fact, the third step, I didn't have time to tell him, originally after Absi left, I was going to tell him all the plans, but unfortunately at this time the Yang family came, so that I didn't have the opportunity to say the third step strategy, he only knew the second step, this second step is actually my false shot, the purpose is to test the court's view of the Absi Ministry, that is, to suggest that the Turkic Absi Ministry move to Youzhou, I know that the court will definitely not agree, but the key is that I want to see the importance of the court to the Absi Ministry, and test the bottom line of the court, And then make an effective deployment of the third move in a targeted manner, but it's a pity! An Lushan couldn't hear my third-step plan. ”

Li Qingan nodded lightly, sure enough, he was an expert in conspiracy and planning, An Lushan abandoned this talent in order not to offend the Yang family, it was really stupid, and this was also God's favor.

At that moment, he took out the fold that Wang Heng gave him yesterday and handed it to Yan Zhuang and said, "Today, I want to discuss something with Mr. Yan, which was sent to me by Wang Heng overnight last night. ”

Yan Zhuang took it and looked at it, it was the Yizhou Governor Shi Cuiyuan who impeached Yizhou Taishou Wei Lian, he was also stunned for a moment, and said to himself: "Aren't the Cui Wei family friends for generations?" How could you tear your face for such a trivial matter, could it be, is it related to Yang Zhao? ”

Li Qing'an couldn't help but secretly admire the essence of his words, and said with a smile: "Mr. guessed as soon as he said that this is indeed related to Yang Zhao, not only related to Yang Zhao, but also related to the prince and Li Linfu, it is a bet that Li Linfu has put on his family name."

He simply explained Li Linfu's strategy of fighting with cranes and mussels, and looked at Li Qingan in a daze, he didn't feel that Li Linfu was scheming, and Li Qingan actually told himself about such a major matter.

After a while, he asked in a low voice, "Does the envoy really trust Yan Zhuang?" ”

Li Qingan nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I, Li Qingan, have always used people without suspicion, and don't use suspicious people, since I have decided to accept you, then from now on, you are my staff, and I naturally want to discuss these important matters with you." ”

Yan Zhuang was silent, what he felt was not only Li Qingan's trust in him, but also a kind of respect for him, a kind of courage with a thousand miles in his mind, he couldn't help but think of An Lushan's slap, under that slap, he was a dog, but under Li Qing'an's account, he was a person, he restrained the emotion in his heart, and said slowly: "Envoy, my opinion is to cooperate with Li Linfu." ”

Li Qingan sighed lightly and said, "I've thought about it too, but I'm worried that it's easy to get in and hard to get out, and once you get on his thief ship, it's not easy to think about it again." ”

Yan Zhuang said with a smile: "If the envoy is a member of the Xiangguo Party, there is this worry, but the envoy is a tide stall person, on the contrary, as long as the envoy is clever, the prince will value you more, as long as you are careful not to have any handle in the hands of Li Linfu, then he has nothing to do with you, so I say it is cooperation, not service, the difference between the two words, but the meaning is thousands of miles apart, cooperation is to make the monarch also get benefits, and both sides take what they need in this game." ”

"Then what good can I gain in this game, sir?"

"Li Linfu is Xiangguo, he has almost all the resources of the Tang Dynasty, so what does Jun think he wants most after sitting in Beiting? Food or weapons? ”

Li Qingan touched his chin and smiled, he had already thought of what he needed most, neither food nor weapons.

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At noon, a major event came from Xingqing Palace, and the Yushitai officially wrote to Li Longji, and the Yushitai will strictly investigate the case of Yizhou Taishou Wei Lian's nepotism, and Li Longji immediately approved the reply to form a small three hall for trial: 'Investigate to the end, and never tolerate it!' ’

The Imperial Historical Observatory immediately turned out the document and notified the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the important ministers who were resting at home from the third rank or above, and this matter spread all over Chang'an City in an instant.

In the afternoon of the same day, the small three halls formed by the Yushi Tai attendant Yushi Han Yuan, the Dali Temple Sizhi Zhang Jin, and the criminal department Langzhong Chen Yuzhi began to formally try the case.

At this time, the Wei family got a news that Cui Qiao, the right attendant of the household department, visited Yang Zhao at noon, and Yang Zhao's family opened the door to welcome Cui Qiao's arrival, which means that Cui Yang has openly formed an alliance.

In the secret room of Cui's Mansion, the three giants of the Wei family, Wei Lian, Wei Tao, and Wei Jiansu were urgently discussing countermeasures, Wei Lian's expression was solemn, and he was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, he never expected that it was just a small sesame official from the seventh grade, and he was so hyped that he even alarmed the saint and set up three halls for trial, which was obviously aimed at the Wei family, and if it wasn't good, this would evolve into the second 'Wei Jian case'.

"Big brother, is King Di still unwilling to come forward?"

Wei Tao sighed and said, "I looked for him again just now, and his attitude was the same as at noon, he said that he would do his best, but I could see that he didn't want to ask about it." ”

Wei Lian's brows furrowed, even King Di saw the seriousness of this matter and didn't want to ask, could it be that his Wei Lian's career really ended?

It is not a pity that he Wei Jian was deposed, but the revival that the Wei family had just begun will be hit hard and will collapse.

"It's really not good, I took the initiative to resign from the position of Taishou, don't they just want to do this?"

"No way!" Wei Jiansu immediately objected: "If you resign before the case is filed, it may be okay, but now that the court has filed the case, resigning now means that you have acquiesced in the crime, will they let the Wei family go?" Now it is difficult to ride a tiger, so I can only fight. ”

Wei Jiansu thought for a while and said: "Actually, it may not be nepotism, Wei Ming's father Wei Yu once achieved the position of Imperial Doctor, according to the door shadow system, he can be appointed to the position of the seventh grade, the key is how virtuous he was before he was promoted?" Is there any political achievement? ”

In a word, Wei Jian reminded Wei Lian, and he stared for a moment and said: "Wei Ming was the chief bookkeeper of Dongyang County before he was promoted, and the evaluation for three years was in the middle school, and there was no merit or fault, but this son is more lustful, and he often stays in the Qinglou overnight and does not return, and there are records in the evaluation, I am very worried that the judge will catch him and hold on to this." ”

Wei Tao next to him shook his head and said: "It's not whether the political performance is good or not, now it is obvious that Cui Yang is taking the opportunity to make trouble, even if it is good, it will be said that it is useless by them, now the key for us is to find a backstage, there is a backstage that can confront the Yang family, so that it is possible to preserve." ”

The three Wei were all silent, they thought of the crown prince Li Heng almost at the same time, but after Wei Jian's case, they took the initiative to leave the East Palace, and now they will go after the accident, can the prince accept it?

At this moment, someone at the door reported: "Master, Li Qing'an, the deputy envoy of the Beiting Festival, asks to see the master!" ”

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(To be continued)