At noon the next day, Li Qing'an's team arrived outside Chang'an City, but because he led a large number of troops, he could not enter the city as usual, so the military department arranged for his troops to be stationed in a military camp outside the city.

Dugu Mingyue did not follow into the barracks, after arriving in Chang'an, she took the dance clothes and picturesque sisters back to the house first, the soldiers were busy packing up their belongings in the barracks, the officials of the military department had just left, several officials from the Taifu Temple Warroom and a group of miscellaneous servants arrived, and then more than a dozen eunuchs from the Inner Servant Province also arrived on horseback, the officials of the Taifu Temple were to settle the thousands of camels and war horses brought by Li Qing'an, and the forage for the camels and war horses was an astonishing amount every day, which added a lot of affairs to the officials of the Taifu Temple.

The eunuchs from the Inner Servant Province came to count and hand over the spoils of Li Qing'an's tribute to Li Longji, which belonged to Li Longji's personal matter, and the imperial court did not interfere, and the Inner Servant Province was responsible for handling it.

The barracks were busy, and in the big tent, Li Qing'an was discussing with Lang Jiwen, the head of the military department, about entering the city, and when Li Qing'an returned to the North Court, he received the decree of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and Li Longji intended to hold a ceremony for him to enter the city in recognition of his merits, as a sign of glory.

But Beiting and Chang'an are far away, it takes time to come all the way, and many details are difficult to implement, and now Li Qingan has arrived in Chang'an, but Li Longji is still in Huaqing Palace and has not returned, which brings variables to the entry into the city.

Ji Wen was the right-hand man of Li Linfu when he was the first Shaoqing of Dali Temple, he and Luo Xixiao were collectively called 'Luo Tong Ji Net', Li Linfu gradually fell into decline last year, sick constantly, the people of the Xiangguo Party knew that Li Linfu was approaching, so they went their separate ways, Ji Wen did not take refuge in the hot Yang Guozhong, but took refuge in An Lushan, who had always had a good relationship with him, and became the spokesperson of An Lushan in the court, as An Lushan's power continued to rise, he was named the king of Dongping County, and Ji Wen also rose and rose to the right of the military department.

This time Li Qing'an's entry ceremony into the city, Ji Wen is the specific person in charge, Li Longji refused to return, which made him very embarrassed, he knew that the cat in this was out of Yang Guozhong, in fact, when Li Qing'an passed Fengxiang, he sent a letter to the saint who was still in the Huaqing Palace, but the letter he sent was like a stone in the sea, and there was no news.

When Li Qing'an arrived in Wugong County, he sent another letter, but there was still no news, until the Heavenly Saint sent someone to ask him, when would Li Qing'an return? Only then did Givin know that the letter he sent twice, the Holy One had not received it at all, where did the letter go?

Ji Wen carefully interrogated the messenger, only to know that the letter was handed over to Pei Xiao, the lieutenant general of the Yulin Army who was guarding the Huaqing Palace, and was forwarded by Pei Xiao, and the problem was this Pei Xiao, but this Pei Xiao was Yang Guozhong's brother-in-law, the younger brother of his mother-in-law Pei Rou, this is a means of Yang Guozhong, in the name of strengthening security and defense, any foreign items must be inspected by the Yulin Army, including the folds sent from the court, so that the Yulin Army has invisibly become a barrier for Li Longji to contact the outside world, Yang Guozhong obtained the opportunity to know the content of the fold in advance through Pei Xiao, the lieutenant general of the Yulin Army.

As for whether the twists and turns that are unfavorable to Yang Guozhong will be sent in, only God knows, Ji Wen knew in his heart that the letter he sent must have been withheld by Pei Xiao of Yulin Army, which made him very annoyed, but he was unwilling to turn his face with Yang Guozhong for Li Qing'an's matter.

"General, my idea is that the general should not enter the city, wait outside the city for a few days, someone has already gone to tell the saint, it is estimated that he will come back in the next few days, the general, please be calm."

Li Qingan didn't say anything, Li Longji kept saying that he would hold a ceremony to enter the city, but he had already arrived in Chang'an, and he had not returned in Lishan, which was funny, if this situation was not official dereliction of duty, then Li Longji had no intention at all, but Li Qingan saw that Ji Wen's expression was a little unnatural, so he briefly guessed that there might be another hidden meaning in this matter.

Li Qing'an's face immediately sank, stood up and said: "Ji Shilang, my Anxi army soldiers are far away from their homeland, sacrificing their lives and forgetting their lives to fight bloodily for the Tang Dynasty, deserve this glory, I received His Majesty's decree in Beiting, will hold a ceremony for the Anxi army to enter the city, I have spread this news all over Anxi, the army and the people are boiling, I don't feel the emperor's grace, but now my army has arrived in Chang'an, but the saint is still in the Huaqing Palace, cancel my entry into the city this time, but Ji Shilang said that everything remains the same, I don't understand, whether the court is unwilling, Or did the Holy One arrange it? If it is deliberately arranged by the saint, I have nothing to say, but if it is deliberately difficult for the imperial court, then I will go to the saint, which will make my Anxi army lose face, let him give me an explanation, and give an explanation to the 7,000 soldiers who died in the Anxi army. ”

After speaking, Li Qingan snorted heavily, and strode out of the tent, "Prepare the horse, I'm going to Huaqing Palace!" ”

Jiwen chased after him in a panic and shouted: "General, calm down! Please calm down! ”

Li Qing'an stopped and sneered: "Could it be that Ji Shilang is deliberately making things difficult for my Anxi Army?" ”

"Where is this, I have no grievances with the general, that year Li Xiangguo banquet, I also had a banquet with the general, and later the arrest of the general at the Xianyang Post Station was also on order, and I myself was not at all dissatisfied with the general."

"Humph! Since it has nothing to do with Ji Shilang, please don't ask. ”

Li Qingan turned over and ordered the surrounding guards: "Go to Huaqing Palace!" ”

Ji Wen was so frightened that he grabbed the reins of Li Qing'an's war horse, "General, slow down!" ”

He looked to both sides, and then said in a low voice: "This matter is actually Yang Guozhong's doing!" ”

"Yang Guozhong?"

Li Qingan's eyes narrowed, "How should I say this?" ”

Ji Wen sighed, then told Pei Xiao about the seizure of the letter privately, and finally took out a copy of the last two letters, handed it to Li Qing'an, and said: "This is a copy of the last two letters, and there is also a date for sending the letter, as evidence." ”

Seeing that he even had a copy ready, Li Qingan couldn't help sneering in his heart, and said, "In that case, why didn't Ji Shilang explain the situation to the Holy Lord and impeach Pei Xiao for secretly withholding important documents." ”

Ji Wen smiled bitterly: "The key is that there is no evidence to prove that Pei Xiao did it, I can only prove that I have reported the letter, but what is the problem, I don't dare to talk nonsense, please forgive me." ”

"Oh well! This matter will be put aside for the time being, but I do have to go to Huaqing Palace to report on my work, if Ji Shilang has nothing else to do, then I will go first. ”

Although Li Qing'an said this, he did not return the two copies to him, he gave Ji Wen a fist salute, and led the three hundred guards to gallop away.

Ji Wen looked at Li Qing'an's back, a trace of pride gradually flashed in his eyes, and he muttered: "Yang Guozhong, your opponent is back!" ’

At that time, Ji Wen and Yang Zhao were both Li Linfu's thugs, at that time, Yang Zhao first entered the Yushi Terrace, and he was very unfamiliar in all aspects, Ji Wen was his master, and taught Yang Zhao how to torture to extract confessions in the Wei Zhuang case, how to frame him, and now Yang Guozhong is actually a prime minister, and he Ji Wen still has to rely on the eyes of others to act, which makes Ji Wen's heart full of jealousy, that's right! It's jealousy, this is a kind of human instinct, but it is particularly violent in Ji Wen, in the past two years, he has been paying attention to Yang Guozhong's words and deeds all the time, Yang Guozhong's mistakes everywhere can allow him to seize countless opportunities for impeachment, but Yu Shitai does not dare to impeach, he also does not dare, he knows that he is a light man, and he cannot afford to offend this successor of Li Linfu.

This time Li Qingan entered the court, Yang Guozhong once again unscrupulously used means, will Li Qingan endure this breath? Givin waited and watched expectantly.

．．．．．．．．．． Huaqing Palace, here is Li Longji's palace, that is, the famous hot spring palace, located at the foot of Lishan Mountain, is a large-scale building complex, hot spring water slippery wash gelatin, hot spring palace has always been the best place for Yang Yuhuan to go in winter, when the cold winter comes, thousands of trees are bleak, ice and snow, but the Huaqing Palace is warm like spring, singing and dancing are leveling, Li Longji and Yang Guifei enjoy the luxury of the world here, do not want to return to the dynasty.

It was already early spring in February, and it was the time when it was warm and cold, and according to the previous practice, they should return to Chang'an in mid-February, when the weather was a little warmer, but because Li Longji was going to hold an entry ceremony for Li Qing'an, they had to start packing up and preparing to return to Beijing.

The Huaqing Palace was in a mess, full of messy cages, and the palace maids and eunuchs were busy packing up various items, but the atmosphere in the palace today seemed a little strange, and all the palace maids and eunuchs were cautious, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.

Li Longji's angry scolding faintly came from the imperial study in the palace: "You find out to me who is bold enough to intercept the twists and turns of the court, if you can't find out this matter, I will take you to blame!" ”

In the imperial study, the left and right generals of the Yulin Army, Sun Quanxu and Chen Xuanli, knelt on the ground, sweating profusely, trembling, and did not dare to say a word, the thing that angered Li Longji was Ji Wen's report, Li Longji had just gotten the news that Li Qing'an had arrived in Chang'an, and Ji Wen had sent two letters in a row before this, and they were actually intercepted by the Yulin Army.

This incident made Li Longji furious, not only that he could not explain to the Anxi army, but that someone dared to bully him and took away his right to know as an emperor without authorization, he must investigate to the end and severely punish those who dare to act.

"Go! Check it out from top to bottom, check it out one by one, I give you a day, if you can't find it clear, you can decide it yourself! ”

"Obey the order!"

The eldest grandson Quanxu and Chen Xuanli kowtowed and left the imperial study, Li Longji blushed and stared straight at the ceiling, the two years of uncontrolled indulgence made him obviously old, more and more age spots appeared on his face and hands, his temper was more irritable, and his surname was more paranoid, and the things he decided would never change, and he could no longer listen to the minister's advice and advice.

With the aging of his body, Li Longji's energy is not as good as before, and he almost no longer cares about the affairs of the DPRK and China, and delegates more and more power to Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, especially Yang Guozhong, who allows him to play directly on himself, and all the things he plays are approved, but he often adds a sentence to Li Linfu's recital, which can be discussed with Yang Shangshu.

Although Li Longji ignores the affairs of the imperial court, there are two things he is still unambiguous, one is the throne, he sees it more strictly than before, the East Palace has been empty for nearly two years, he has always refused to set up a prince, he even said to Gao Lishi that he may designate the person who inherits the unification in the edict, he has never been so attached to the throne as today, although he knows that the prince will have to be established sooner or later, but he can delay it, and he is unwilling to discuss this matter with the minister.

The second thing is military power, this is the power he firmly grasps in his hands, even Yang Guozhong can't think of getting the slightest, An Lushan of Fan Yang and Pinglu; Longyou, Geshuhan of Hexi; Gao Xianzhi of Jiannan; Shuofang's An Sishun; Li Qing'an of Beiting and Anxi; Zhang Qiqiu in Hedong, these six feudal ministers had millions of troops in their hands, and they were all directly loyal to him.

And these six people all have Li Longji's favorite character, that is, he has the courage to forge ahead, opening up territory for him, An Lushan attacked the Khitan and Xi people in the northeast, and expanded the territory of the northeast; Geshuhan continued to march into the hinterland of Tibet, expanding the border between Tang and Tibet thousands of miles to the west; Gao Xianzhi used his troops effectively, defeated Nanzhao in a row, and at the end of last year, he had recovered Yaozhou, and reconnected Jiannan and Annan into one; Needless to say, Li Qing'an recovered the broken leaves, completely exterminated the Turgish, defeated the Great Eclipse, and recaptured the river.

In order to get more territory, Li Longji almost spared no effort to support these six feudal officials, and the treasury was not enough to pay for military expenses, so he allowed them to raise their own money and grain, including An Lushan, Ge Shuhan and Li Qing'an, and he also delegated the power to mint coins, all to satisfy his expanding ambition to open up the territory.

If you look at it from today's point of view, Li Longji has suffered from a slight paranoia of old age, which is mainly manifested in the fact that in order to realize the dream of a heavenly khan, he has begun to break away from the national conditions of the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the Tang Dynasty still do not understand this, but Li Longji's paranoia and arrogance have made some people who understand worried.

Gao Lishi is one of them, since the prince was deposed, Gao Lishi's right to speak is not as effective as before, he asked Li Longji several times to establish the prince early, but was repeatedly reprimanded by Li Longji, Li Longji's surname took away his right to approve and fold, and all the power was delegated, followed by the power of supervising the army, Li Longji deprived Gao Lishi of the power to control the prison army since last year, but directly controlled by him, and the prison army reported directly to him, but the problem is that Li Longji did not bother to ask about the situation of the prison army at all, only when he thought of it, he asked, This invisibly broke the rule of supervising the army that Gaolishi had established and reported every three days.

What's more, Li Longji didn't ask Gao Lishi when he thought of it, but asked his other henchman, Yu Chaoen, to ask, which was equivalent to Yu Chaoen becoming his liaison envoy to the prison army.

Colliers lost all his power, and it was only because he was indispensable to serve him that he could stay by his side, otherwise, Colliers would have retired and gone home.

Although Gao Lishi lost his power, he knew better than anyone else that Li Longji's anger was not because someone dared to intercept his plays, but because he usually ignored it, and when the matter came out, he couldn't let go of his face, and this time he was angry and ashamed.

Who intercepted the decree, does it need to be asked? Who is in charge of the periphery of the outer Huaqing Palace? Pei Xiao, this is Yang Guozhong's deliberate arrangement, this was agreed by him Li Longji himself, doesn't he know what Yang Guozhong is? Now that the problem has come out, he wants to force Changsun Quanxu and Chen Xuanli to investigate, just to ask them to clear Pei Xiao's responsibility.

Gao Lishi felt sad in his heart, the emperor favored the Yang family to this point, and even a small Zhonglang general had to protect him, and he knew that if he didn't lead Yang Yuhuan to him back then, maybe it would be better.

Li Longji suddenly glanced at him and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

"The minister is thinking, since Li Qing'an has arrived in Chang'an, it is better for the emperor to announce his audience first, and then enter the city."

Li Longji nodded, this is okay, and said: "Spread my will, announce Li Qing'an's visit!" ”

(To be continued)