Chapter 417: The Sword Goes Sideways

readx; Li Qing'an's carriage was located in the midst of an army of 40,000, and this time he did not ride a horse, but rode in an extremely wide carriage, like a moving room, pulled by twelve horses, all the way east, he worked in the carriage, in addition to him, there were also his concubines picturesque, who were responsible for his daily life. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This carriage was the one given to him by Geshuhan, and it was covered with a thick Persian carpet, which was one of the trophies, and was thickened with wooden planks on all sides, with bedding and pillows, and was very comfortably furnished, and there was a low and wide table by the window, on which were the four treasures of the study, and a thick stack of papers on the desk, and there was an inner room in the carriage, which was a library with nearly a thousand books.

At this time, Li Qing'an was sitting at the desk to review the documents sent by Anxi, and the concubine Ruhua was sitting cross-legged in the inner room, concentrating on reading, and Li Qing'an for so many years, Ruhua also learned to read and write, and pointed to the financial power of Li Qing'an's mansion.

Li Qingan reviewed a report, casually took the teacup, put it to his lips, but found that the cup was empty, he put down the cup, glanced back, and saw that the picture was fascinated by reading, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, this Nizi said that he was here to serve his own life, but so far, the tea has not helped him pour a cup, and he has been indulging in the world of books all day long.

Li Qingan knocked the teacup lightly on the table, but there was no response, and when he knocked again, there was still no response, so he had to cough heavily and shouted: "Picturesque!" ”

Ruhua slowly raised her head, her eyes were blank, she was still immersed in the plot of the book, Li Qingan pointed to the teacup, and said with a smile: "Pour a cup of tea for your husband!" ”

"Okay."

Ruhua was about to stand up, but 'Oops! With a bang, he fell down again, and his eyebrows were wrinkled in pain, "Big brother, my leg is cramping, and I can't go numb." ”

"I'll show you!"

Li Qingan was about to get up, but he was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again, "Don't come here, you must not touch me, it will be even more uncomfortable to touch." ”

Li Qingan knew this feeling of cramping and numbness, he was most afraid of being touched, but some people liked to play pranks and deliberately touched her, he also wanted to tease her, but when he saw that she was in great pain, he was also worried and asked, "What do you want me to do?" I can help you. ”

"Just don't touch me."

After a pause, Ruhua said, "I'm a little thirsty, why don't you pour me a cup of tea!" ”

....... The army was still ten miles away from Beiting City, and at this time, a messenger came galloping from a distance, raised a roll of red letterhead above the country, and said loudly: "Chang'an urgent letter!" ”

The soldier took the letter and walked quickly to the window of the car, and said in a low voice: "General, Chang'an is urgent." ”

Li Qingan was drinking the tea he poured, and when he heard the voice of his own soldiers, he put down the teacup, opened the window and took the letterbox, which was a red letterbox, which meant that there was something very important, he hurriedly shook the letter out, and slowly spread out the thin paper roll, only to see that it was written: Jiannan sent 80,000 troops and was heading for Chang'an.

Li Qingan was taken aback, Jiannan sent troops, which means that the situation has escalated, and the contest between the two sides has moved from behind the scenes to the front of the stage and has become public.

He pondered for a moment, and immediately ordered his soldiers: "Go, invite Mr. Yan!" ”

Yan Zhuang is also in the team, he also takes a carriage, but it is smaller than Li Qing'an's carriage, and of course there are no concubines waiting for him.

After a while, Yan Zhuang hurriedly came, Li Qingan let him get into the carriage, and when he sat down, Li Qingan said: "Sir, there is a new situation in Chang'an." ”

As he spoke, he handed him the pigeon letter, and Yan Zhuang quickly read it, and he was also taken aback in his heart, although this was what he expected, but he did not expect it to come so quickly, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

At this time, Ruhua finally brought two cups of tea, knelt down and put the tea on the table, smiled apologetically at Li Qingan, and apologized for pouring tea just now, Li Qingan nodded and pointed to the inner room, meaning to let her continue to read.

The small door closed gently, and the painting no longer bothered them, Yan Zhuang had already woken up from his contemplation, and said with a smile: "To be honest, this matter is in my expectation, Li Longji wants to restore the throne but has nothing to rely on, he will inevitably find a few sons, King Wu is too far away, it is inconvenient to come, King Jing has too few troops to compete with the imperial army, only Li Zhen, the king of Shu, is shrewd and capable, and can lead troops, as well as Gao Xianzhi to assist, and more importantly, he is strong, with 100,000 troops in his hands, and also learned the militia system in Anxi, and established a reserve army of 100,000 people, In fact, Li Jian has 200,000 troops in his hands, so Li Longji will take a fancy to him, I guess what kind of promise he made, maybe the prince and the like, he is so active in leading his troops north. ”

"Did you think about it, sir, how should we deal with it?"

"Does the general want to enter Chang'an in one fell swoop and set foot on the Hanyuan Palace?"

"No!" Li Qingan shook his head resolutely, "Now the time for me to seize the throne is far from ripe, and I will not rise to the throne now, but I have decided to directly intervene in the affairs of the imperial court and no longer sit idly by." ”

"If this is the case, the first step of the general is to take Hexi, the general moved to Liangzhou, Chen Binglongyou, not far from Chang'an, I think, only if there is a large army near Chang'an, no matter who it is, will think of Anxi, a powerful force."

Li Qingan touched his chin lightly, of course it is good to take Hexi and Longyou, it is best to be bloodless.

....... Chang'an City was already in chaos at this time, the clan's families were in the limelight, after the Huo State Princess's Mansion was copied, Li Yu ordered to raid more than a dozen princesses and princes' mansions that were notorious for annexing land, including the mansions of King Qing and King Di, Li Yu got a lot of money and grain, the treasury was full, and the grain warehouse was full, and the financial crisis was solved at once.

But his political crisis is getting deeper and deeper, the various clan magnates began to connect on a large scale, began to arm and train Zhuang Ding, and the court also began to split, since Zhang Yun, Yang Shenjin and Chen Xilie two important ministers resigned successively, Yang Guozhong and Wang Heng also gathered their own henchmen, the price was sold, they were no longer optimistic about Li Yu, affected by this, the court officials were panicked, many people did not go to the court, hiding at home.

Guanzhong prefectures and counties are full of conscription points, Li Yu is also desperate, he is like a gambler with red eyes, he has been desperate, he used money and food, began large-scale conscription, in just half a month, he recruited nearly 80,000 soldiers, so that his strength reached 180,000, day and night non-stop training.

Although the government and the opposition made a lot of trouble, but the Chang'an market was very calm, Li Yu seized nearly 5 million stones of grain from the major estates in Guanzhong, except for 2 million stones for the army, the remaining 3 million stones were all handed over to the household department, and the new household department Shangshu Pei Min was fully responsible, Pei Min in order to stabilize the grain price in Chang'an, he successively put 400,000 stone of low-cost grain in the Chang'an market, so that the grain price that had just skyrocketed in Chang'an was immediately suppressed, and the grain price fell to 150 wen per bucket, which was the lowest price in the past two years, and the fall in grain prices made the people feel stable. The people in Chang'an live in an orderly manner, and there is no chaos.

Xiling Lane on the side of the West Market, the original Atami Residence Liquor Store, here has become the base camp of Li Qing'an's forces in Chang'an, at this time in Chang'an and Guanzhong area, in addition to nearly 1,000 people from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and 2,000 scouts were sent from Anxi one after another, they were also Anxi's special forces, disguised as civilians, under the cover of the Han and Tang Societies, lurked into the counties near Chang'an, or restaurant guys, or tea shop clerks, or dart thugs, or martial arts students, all kinds of people, and actively cooperated with the Han and Tang Societies to implement various orders of the Anxi Internal Affairs Bureau.

Although Xiling Lane is the base camp of Chang'an intelligence agency, but the carrier pigeon is not here, it is close to the West Market, there are many residents, the carrier pigeon is frequent, it is easy to arouse suspicion, the carrier pigeon is generally in the village outside the city, there is a special person responsible for the transmission.

That afternoon, a horse-drawn carriage came galloping into Xiling Lane, 'Ga! With a bang, he stopped in front of a black-lacquered gate, and a young man jumped out of the carriage, and knocked on the door heavily, and the door opened a crack, and the young man took out a bronze medal and shook it, and flashed into the door.

"Is Mr. Hu here?" He asked in a low voice.

"In! But is there news from Anthy? ”

The young man nodded, "It's the red letter pipe, 100,000 urgent!" ”

"Please come with me!" The people in the house walked with the young man and hurriedly walked to the inner house, passed through several gates, and walked to the depths of the inner house, he pointed to a room and said, "Mr. Hu has a meeting inside, you can go by yourself!" ”

Hu Peiyun, who was also the head of Anxi's internal affairs governor, Hu Peiyun, made great contributions in the silver dollar battle and was promoted to Zhonglang general, overseeing more than 3,000 members of the Anxi internal affairs government in Chang'an.

At this time, Hu Yunpei was discussing the security of liaison with more than a dozen henchmen, because there were too many people coming, and one would be exposed if he was not careful, so security liaison became a top priority.

At this time, a report came from outside the door, "Manager Hu, there is Anxi emergency information, red letterbox." ”

The red letterbox is an urgent information, usually issued by Li Qing'an's instructions, representing a major order, at the most tense moment of this situation, there is a red pigeon letter, Hu Yunpei is of course not willing to slack off, he immediately ordered: "Take it in!" ”

The young man came in and handed over a red bamboo tube, Hu Yunpei broke the bamboo tube, poured out a thin roll of paper from it, he quickly unfolded it, and saw that it was Li Qing'an's own handwriting, and there were only five words on it: 'Kill An Qingzong'.

...... An Qingzong was placed under house arrest in An Lushan's mansion in Chang'an, the mansion is in Qinrenfang, it is a mansion given by Li Longji to An Lushan seven years ago, covering an area of 30 acres, according to the building specifications, high eaves dome, belonging to the prince-level mansion, in fact, this mansion is the house of Li Longji's sister Princess Yuzhen, after Princess Yuzhen became a Taoist priest, this mansion was idle, and Li Longji rewarded An Lushan.

The building in the mansion is gorgeous, the pavilions and pavilions are readily available, strange flowers and plants abound, rockery pond fish can be seen everywhere, but it is such a beautiful house, at this time it is as deserted as a ghost house, there is no family servant, only two hundred soldiers live, An Qingzong is under house arrest in a small courtyard in the backyard, An Qingzong is the eldest son of An Lushan, the original intention was to enter Beijing to seek a concubine, but also as a hostage, but Li Longji unfortunately fainted in Shuofang, and never woke up, An Qingzong's dream of a concubine was shattered, due to An Lushan's forcible occupation of Hedong, Li Yu was furious, He ordered An Qingzong to be imprisoned in Anzhai, which was originally closely guarded by 500 soldiers, and was locked in a room, but a month ago, there was definite news in the palace that the Holy Lord was going to exchange him for Li Xuan, the king of Xiliang, and his imprisonment was immediately relaxed, from a room to a courtyard, the number of surveillance soldiers was reduced from 500 to 200, and two servants were sent to serve him.

An Qingzong is finally about to be released, he looks forward to it every day, looking forward to the moment of release, but unexpectedly, the recent political situation has changed abruptly, the contradiction between Li Yu and the first emperor Li Longji has become public, and the family and land have been copied, Chang'an is in chaos, and An Qingzong has been forgotten again.

At night, the soldiers are still patrolling outside Anfu as usual, due to the tense situation in the imperial court, Qinrenfang was quiet very early, the family was closed, and there were few pedestrians on the street, at this time, the carriage of the carriage came from afar, only to see a carriage slowly approaching, stopped in front of the house, the two soldiers guarding the door were not surprised, this carriage came every day a few days ago, it was the carriage of Li Dong, the king of Xiliang, after the court decided to exchange Anqingzong for Li Xuan, the king of Xiliang, Li Dong was the specific person who did this, It was he who arranged for An Qingzong to change his residence, and arranged two servants for him, he hadn't come for several days, and if he came again today, there must be some arrangements, but he came at night, which made people feel a little strange.

The door opened, Li Dong got out of the carriage, and he was followed by an entourage, not the one from last time, but a new face, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that there was a person behind him, although this person was wearing a black robe, wearing a hat, and a light veil covered his face, but the soldiers guarding the door still recognized it at a glance, this was actually a young woman, through the light veil, her appearance should be very good.

Li Dong straightened his waist and walked towards the gate step by step, the entourage and the woman followed, in fact, Li Dong's waist should not be able to stand up, he was shackled with heavy shackles, his two sons, wife and mother were kidnapped by a group of strangers, and they were taken hostage, he had to do things according to the instructions of these people, otherwise, the heads of his wife, children and old mother fell to the ground.

"Li Yushi, is there something wrong with coming so late?" An officer stepped out and smiled.

Li Dong nodded, whispered a few words in the officer's ear, and pointed to the woman, the officer's eyes showed envy, the court was thoughtful! Knowing that An Qingzong has been restless recently, he actually used the palace record to appease him, but no one considered them as soldiers, hey!

"Li Yushi, please come in!"

Li Dong gave his entourage and the woman a look, and walked quickly into the house.

An Qingzong is in his early Chinese New Year's Eve, fat in stature, quite like his father, he has not married in order to be a horse, so in Chang'an he is single, he was detained for half a year, really made him suffer, these days finally relaxed, from detention to house arrest, food and accommodation conditions have been greatly improved, and there are people to serve, but the disease of widows makes him distressed, in Hebei, he can't leave women every night, and now, he has not seen women for more than half a year, making him sleepless at night, he is looking forward to going out early, Find dozens of women and have a good time.

He was about to sleep, when Li Dong's voice came from outside, "Gongzi An, have you rested?" ”

"No, no!"

An Qingzong was overjoyed, will there be any new news about Li Dong's arrival, he hurriedly greeted him, at this time he had a very keen eye, and saw the woman behind Li Dong at a glance, the woman's veil had been taken off, and she was really beautiful like a flower, An Qingzong's eyes were straight, at this time Mo said that she was a young and beautiful woman, even if it was a sow, he would be shocked by Diao Chan.

He swallowed and said, "Li Yushi, is there something wrong with me so late?" ”

Li Dong whispered a few words in his ear, pointed to the woman, and laughed ambiguously, An Qingzong's heart was full of joy, and he said in a stacked voice: "Please!" Please! Please! Come in. ”

Li Dong said to the woman: "Meiniang, I won't go in, you go!" I'll take you back later. ”

The woman nodded and lowered the veil again, but the moment the veil was lowered, a terrifying murderous intent flashed in her eyes.

The attendant's face was also as heavy as water, and he waited in the courtyard with Li Dong, and only the laughter of the woman was heard in the room, and then the lights went out.

I don't know how long later, the door opened, and the woman walked out, holding nothing in her hand, still wrapped in a black robe, but the hem of the black robe was unusually wide.

"Are you alright?" Li Dong's voice trembled a little.

The woman nodded and said calmly, "Gongzi An has already slept." ”

"Alright! Let's go. ”

Li Dong walked out with them, and met the officer at the door, who smiled ambiguously: "It's over so soon?" ”

Li Dong smiled and said: "Gongzi An is anxious, his body is fat, of course he will be faster, he has already fallen asleep, don't disturb him." ”

"Good! I'll give you a ride. ”

"No need! We go on our own. ”

Li Dong took the two of them and walked away, the officer looked at the woman's back, touched his beard and laughed in a low voice: "His grandmother's, this woman is fat enough and has such a big ass, it's a pity!" ”

The three of them got into the carriage, the carriage started immediately, and the woman took out a large round package from under the black robe, handed it to the entourage, and sneered: "It's already done!" ”

"Well done!" The attendant gave a thumbs up.

At this time, Li Dong was frightened and said, "Then, what should I do?" What about my family? ”

The entourage took out a pack of silver dollars and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "My family manager will not deceive you, your family is in Xianyang, the specific address is in the bag, and there is a bronze medal in the bag, you hand it over to the caretaker, they will naturally release your family, and then we will have someone to send your whole family to Anxi, a learned person like Li Yushi, Anxi is welcome." ”

Li Dong took the small burden, breathed a long sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave Chang'an overnight." ”

At this time, the drum of the city gate sounded, and the carriage quickly left Qinrenfang and galloped towards Chunming Gate.

"What are you doing killing An Qingzong?"

"Li Yushi is a learned person, you might as well guess."

"Let me think about it, ah! I understand. ”

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(To be continued)