readx; Chang'an, Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, the bell of the next dynasty has been ringing for a long time, but Li Heng is still staying in the courtroom, alone, the door is closed, and no one is allowed to come in. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Heng stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the light snow falling in the sky, and there was an indescribable bitterness and loss in his eyes.

On the table behind him, there is a letter he just gotten, a handwritten letter from his father from Chengdu, this is the fifth letter he has received in a few months, and he has also replied to four, in which his father chatted with him about the past more than 30 years ago, telling about the excitement and excitement of a father when he was just born, and the words of the letter are full of nostalgia for life.

Li Heng read from this letter that his father will die soon, although the letter did not say it explicitly, but these five letters were connected together, but it sent a strong signal to him, his father, the Southern Tang Emperor Li Longji wanted to pass on to him, this is the reason why Li Heng felt bitter and lost, he knew today, why bother in the first place?

At the beginning, he was also the prince of the Tang Dynasty, the dignified Prince His Royal Highness, but he was deposed by a trumped-up witch cup, although it was later understood that this was a frame by Li Cong, the king of Qing, and the Yang family, but his father refused to correct it, but only let his son inherit the throne, which was something that made Li Heng haunt his life and made him never forgive his father in his life.

But at this moment, Li Heng is not thinking about family affection, but what his father has never said, let him inherit the throne of the Southern Tang Dynasty, why did his father choose him in the end, instead of Sixteen Lang or Eighteen Lang, Li Heng knows better than anyone else in his heart, because only by letting him ascend the throne can the Northern and Southern Tang Dynasty have the possibility of unification, and he is the only one.

Of course, Li Heng was very pleased with his father's choice, but Li Heng also knew in his heart that if he ascended the throne and unified the two Tang Dynasty, he would encounter many obstacles, his fellow brother Li Lan, Eighteen Lang Li Mao, and the current Emperor of the Northern Tang Dynasty, his grandson Li Shi, are all obstacles to him, but the biggest obstacle is Li Qing'an from Anxi.

Li Heng silently watched the snow fall from front of him, but he was thinking about various unification plans in his heart, but no matter how he thought about it, there was a level he had to pass.

"Click!" The jade pen in his hand was folded into two pieces by him, no matter who it was, as long as it became an obstacle to him, he would sweep it all away!

Li Heng turned around and returned to the table, picked up the letter and read it again, and when he saw the end of the letter, his brows gradually furrowed, his father still had a request here, hoping that he could find Yang Guifei and send her back to Chengdu.

"Humph! I'm dying, and I still miss that woman. ”

Li Heng folded the letter into a long strip, squatted down, he put the letter on the charcoal basin, the letter was lit, and when it was burned to ashes, he stood up and pulled a thin rope by the wall, the door opened, Li Fuguo walked in, bowed down and said, "Please command, Your Highness!" ”

Li Heng quickly wrote a short message and handed it to him: "Quickly hand over this letter to Chen Xuanli, and say that he must find the person, so that he might as well go and keep an eye on An Lushan, and he will definitely get something." ”

Li Fuguo took the letter and left, Li Heng also left the courtroom, and a chief guard greeted him, "Your Highness, do you want to go back to the palace?" ”

"I don't want to go back for a while, I want to go out for a walk."

Li Heng walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back, the sky outside was completely dark, and the snowflakes were flying in the sky, painting the Daming Palace into a dark silver world, the Daming Palace was empty, the courtiers went home separately, and the entire Daming Palace was very quiet.

Li Heng walked in steps, he left the Zichen Palace, and came to the Yanying Hall next to it, this hall is temporarily empty, there is a side courtyard next to the Yanying Palace, and there are several rows of bungalows in the courtyard, which was originally a place to place Luo umbrellas, red carpets and other ceremonial sundries, but now it has been changed to a temporary duty place for the Yulin Army, and the officers of the Yulin Army must come here to give orders after they are on duty.

At this time, the lights in a room on duty were still on, and there were two Yulin soldiers on duty standing at the door, Li Heng walked to the door, and the two Yulin soldiers immediately knelt down on one knee and gave Li Heng a military salute, "See His Royal Highness the Prison State!" ”

"Are you General Xu here?"

"Here, General Xu is handling official business in the house!"

"Who's out there?" A man's voice came from inside the house.

"It's His Highness the Prison State."

"Ahh

There was a low cry inside, followed by the sound of footsteps walking in a hurry, at this time, the door opened, and a forty-five or sixteen-year-old officer appeared, not tall, with very broad shoulders and a big face, looking very mighty, this person's name is Xu Ziyao, the general of the Yulin Army, and one of An Baoyu's two lieutenant generals.

At present, the Yulin army has a total of 12,000 people, in addition to the two thousand troops directly under the jurisdiction of the general An Baoyu, the remaining 10,000 troops are divided into two armies, the left and right armies, commanded by two generals, Xu Ziyao is the left general, originally governed the Taiji Palace and the imperial city, due to the impact of the Pinglou incident a few months ago, the left and right Yulin armies have swapped stations, and now Xu Ziyao is in charge of the Daming Palace.

The other 5,000 troops are responsible for governing the imperial city and Taiji Palace, commanded by the right general Zhao Yuxin, Zhao Yuxin is the personal guard of the eldest grandson Quanxu, and has followed the eldest grandson Quanxu for 20 years, which is also the main reason why the eldest grandson Quanxu can influence the Yulin army.

Xu Ziyao is also a veteran of the Yulin Army, when Li Heng was just canonized as the crown prince, Xu Ziyao used to be a straight chief in the East Palace, and he had a good personal relationship with Li Heng.

"Humble position, see His Highness the Prison State!" Xu Ziyao knelt down on one knee and bowed.

Li Heng hurriedly helped him up, "General Xu, don't be polite." ”

He looked into the room again, and said with a smile: "If General Xu is very busy, then I won't bother." ”

"It's okay now, Your Highness, please come in!"

Xu Ziyao hurriedly invited Li Heng into the house, Li Heng did not refuse, and happily entered, the room was quite messy, the table was full of various documents, and weapons such as armor and swords were also discarded on the ground, Xu Ziyao hurriedly packed up a seat and said, "Your Highness, please sit!" ”

Li Heng waved his hand and smiled: "No need, I'll just say two words and leave." ”

He pondered for a moment and asked, "I heard that General Xu wants to buy a house, but I don't know if I got it?" ”

'General Xu buys a house', has become a common saying in the Yulin Army, the implication is that just say not do, three years ago Xu Ziyao shouted to buy a house, but after three years of shouting, the shadow of the house is gone, and the people next to him have already heard him tired of shouting.

Li Heng actually knew about it, Xu Ziyao's old face couldn't help but blush, his family has a large population, in addition to his wife, mother and five children, his brother died early, leaving his brother-in-law and four children to live in his house, he also has two concubines, plus a few old servants and maids, his family's old house of two acres of land is really not enough to live, so he has always wanted to buy a house, especially next month, his second son is going to marry a wife, naturally live with him, there is no empty house at home, which makes Xu Ziyao anxious.

Although Xu Ziyao's income is not low, he also has 100 acres of Yongye land, and his subordinates have a lot of filial piety, but he can't save money, the reason is that Xu Ziyao has a bad habit, gambling like life, and he loses more and wins less, in addition to supporting his family, the foreign water he gets is basically lost by his gambling money, it is for this reason that he has become a general, but the house he lives in is no different from an ordinary Lang General, and his house is still bought ten years ago when he was a Lang General.

Xu Ziyao was embarrassed to speak, but His Royal Highness Jian Guo looked concerned, so he had to say helplessly: "The lowly family has a large population, and the income is just enough to support the family, so there is really no money left to buy a house." ”

"General Xu only relies on Yulu to support his family, and he really deserves to be an honest general."

Li Heng sighed, then took out a paper contract, put it on the table and said: "This is a paper house deed, it is a middle house in Chongrenfang, it has been empty there, and it will be given to General Xu." ”

Xu Ziyao was so overjoyed that he couldn't even close his mouth, this is simply a big cake from the sky! But he repeatedly excused himself in his mouth: "Humble and immoral, incompetent, how can you ask Your Highness for such a valuable reward, absolutely not." ”

"General Xu's words are not right, when I first entered the East Palace more than ten years ago, I remember that General Xu had just gotten married, and he was worried about not having a house to live in, and now General Xu is worried about the house again, how can I stand idly by, is our friendship for more than ten years not as good as a house?"

Listening to Li Heng talk about the past more than ten years ago, Xu Ziyao couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "His Royal Highness was heroic and high-spirited, fifteen or sixteen years have passed in a flash, and we are all old. ”

"We still have at least 20 years of career, not to mention the word 'old', General Xu must also work hard. Strive to get out of the town as soon as possible, for the festival of the big man, and then I will buy wine to General Xu to celebrate. ”

After speaking, Li Heng nodded and took his leave, "General Xu continues to be busy, so I won't bother." ”

Li Heng smiled slightly, turned around and left, Xu Ziyao hurriedly said: "Your Highness, this deed!" ”

"Move early, the dignified General Yulin, won't even be able to marry his daughter-in-law!"

Li Heng's voice came from a distance, and his figure had disappeared into the fluttering snowflakes.

"I can't thank you enough!"

Xu Ziyao chased to the door and bowed down, Li Heng had already walked away, he slowly returned to the room, picked up the deed on the table, opened it, and his eyes suddenly widened, where is this middle house, it is clearly a thirty-acre mansion, he stayed for a long time, he 'aha! He screamed and jumped for joy.

．．．．．．．．．． An Lushan has been in Chang'an for more than two months, with the support and acquiescence of Li Heng, he re-established Chang'an's intelligence agency, located in Wannian County, under the jurisdiction of Jin Wuwei, and his family house, are located in Qinrenfang, originally An Lushan's eldest son An Qingzong's house, An Qingzong died, this house was empty, and now used as the headquarters of An Lushan's Chang'an intelligence agency, he appointed his staff confidant Zhang Tongru as the intelligence director, directly responsible to him.

In more than these two years, An Lushan used a lot of money to recruit more than 200 outlaws with strong martial arts, and sent 300 elite Fanyang scouts to join, and the base where the personnel were stationed was in Changlepo, east of Wannian County, and it was also a manor covering an area of 1,000 acres.

Although An Lushan was doing well in other things, he was not happy to find Yang Yuhuan, he searched all over Chang'an for two months, and even searched all the Taoist temples near Chang'an, but he could not find Yang Yuhuan's whereabouts.

An Lushan also launched a ruthless attack, if he couldn't find Yang Yuhuan, he would never leave Chang'an, he released all the personnel of the newly established intelligence agency, and placed the heaviest reward, whoever found out Yang Yuhuan's whereabouts, the reward was 5,000 yuan, if anyone Yang Yuhuan brought it to him, the reward was 10,000 yuan, and the official was promoted to three levels.

Yesterday, An Lushan finally got a clue: in Huaiyuan Fang, one of the two squares with the largest garrison of Qianniuwei, someone found soldiers guarding around a nunnery.

Why is a nunnery guarded by soldiers? An Lushan became suspicious, could it be that Yang Yuhuan was not in the Taoist temple, but not in the nunnery? However, Huaiyuanfang was garrisoned by the heavy troops of Qianniuwei, and An Lushan did not dare to act rashly, and he ordered to find out the exact information.

Cihang Institute is quite deserted these days, after the winter, the original more than 30 nuns in the courtyard have gone to Luoyang one after another, Luoyang will hold the Guanyin Water and Land Conference on the first day of the first month, the scale is unprecedented, almost all the Guanyin Academy in the Tang Dynasty will send people to participate.

After walking more than 20 people, there are only a dozen older nuns left in the courtyard of Cihang, it becomes very deserted, just dawn, an old nun goes out of the courtyard gate, goes to the West Market to buy rice and vegetables, Huaiyuan Fang is close to the West Market, the diagonal opposite of the Fang Gate is the side gate of the West Market.

Lao Ni walked all the way, but she didn't know that she had been targeted, two passers-by followed her unhurriedly, she just walked out of the door, at this time there was no one around, there was only an unattended vegetable stall at the gate, the two exchanged a look, one quickly caught up from behind, the action was extremely fast, a stick knocked on the back of the head of Lao Ni, knocked her unconscious, at this time, a carriage came from the side, dragged Lao Ni into the carriage, and the carriage went away.

Behind the door, an old vegetable farmer who was hiding from peeing happened to see this scene, and he was so stunned that he couldn't react for a long time........ Only half an hour later, a confession appeared on An Lushan's desk, there is indeed a woman living in Cihang Courtyard, and she is closely protected, this woman everyone calls her Yuji, what her real name is, no one knows, but Yang Yuhuan's appearance is her brand, and the words 'peerless beauty' in the confession are enough to prove that this woman hidden in Cihang Courtyard is the former concubine Niangniang.

An Lushan was overjoyed, knocked on the table again and again, stroked his beard and smiled: "The first beauty in the world, sitting in the highest position in the world, life is like this, why ask for it again!" ”

But An Lushan also knew that Chang'an County was a place controlled by Li Qing'an, and there were 20,000 Niu Wei stationed, and he didn't dare to kidnap people during the day, so he could only act at night.

After thinking about it, An Lushan decided to send someone to monitor Cihang Yuan first, and then act at night, he personally formulated a detailed plan, and personally selected fifty of the most elite warriors, disguised as hawker porters, and immediately infiltrated Huaiyuan Fang in various ways.

However, the praying mantis catches cicadas, the yellow finch is behind, and An Lushan's subordinates have just been dispatched, and they are targeted by Jin Wuwei's secret sentry.

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(To be continued)