The New Year of the ninth year of Tianbao, Li Qing'an was spent in Broken Leaf City with the soldiers of the Tang Army, after nearly three months of busyness, the situation in Broken Leaf City has gradually stabilized, seventeen civilian officials from the North Court have adapted to the environment of the Broken Leaves, and various political and military affairs are slowly on the right track, in early February, with the arrival of the official appointment and reward of the most imperial court, the Ministry of War summoned Li Qing'an, who had been promoted to the champion general, to return to Beijing to report on his work, and he completely entrusted the matter of the broken leaves to Duan Xiushi, who had been officially appointed as the governor of the Broken Leaves, and set off to return to the North Garden, He will go directly to Beijing after a short stay in Beiting.

In mid-February, Li Qing'an led a triumphant army of 10,000 to arrive at the Moon Bow City, which was still covered with snow, but the breath of spring had been transmitted here, under the ice and snow, the stream began to gurgle, flocks of antelopes had appeared in the forests and meadows, and flocks of birds were frolicking and flying in the endless forest, and the chirping resounded through the mountain streams.

Arrived at the Moon Bow City, the Tang army will rest here for three days, and then continue to march to the southeast, this morning, several groups of hundreds of Sogdian merchants who returned from Beiting Jinman County also took advantage of the opportunity of the ice and snow to begin to melt to the Moon Bow City, the arrival of a large group of camels and goods, so that the Moon Bow City became lively, Li Qingan was patrolling the city, suddenly a soldier ran from a distance from the vice city, "General! ”

"What's the matter?"

"General!" The soldiers raised their heads under the city and shouted: "Your sister is here, in the vice-city." ”

"Sister?" Li Qingan was stunned, who is here? Xiaolian? It was still picturesque, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately ran down the tower and followed the soldiers briskly towards the vice-city.

When he crossed a hillside, he saw a woman in a red dress running towards him from a distance, and the woman also saw him, waving her hands and screaming excitedly, as if a bird had found a return to the forest on the way.

"Pearl!"

Li Qingan was stunned, he felt a little incredible, how could it be a pearl, wasn't she in Chang'an? Came all the way to the North Garden, what happened?

"Brother Li!"

Mingzhu threw herself into his arms, crying excitedly, two months of difficult trekking, two months of wind sword and frost knife invasion, she suffered a lot, and now the bitterness is sweet, and finally saw the person she dreamed of, how not to make her excited.

"Mingzhu, calm down, tell me what's wrong first?"

"Big brother, save my sister!" Mingzhu suddenly felt dizzy, she only felt that her legs were weak, and she was almost unable to support it.

"Bright Moon!" Li Qingan was taken aback, he grabbed Mingzhu's arm and asked, "What happened to Mingyue?" ”

"General, go back to the city and talk about it!" A soldier reminded in a whisper.

Li Qing'an found that Mingzhu's face was a little abnormally red, he touched her forehead, and it was hot, "Quick!" Hurry into town. Li Qingan helped her to run towards the city.

In the room, the military doctor showed Mingzhu that he was too tired and suffered from the cold, Mingzhu lay in the quilt, wiping his tears while telling Li Qingan what happened in Chang'an.

"The emperor named my father as the prime minister, and issued an order to let my sister and relatives Ge Lulu, my father said that this is the prince of Ge Lulu took a fancy to his sister, the emperor agreed to this family business in order to appease the Ge Lulu people, my sister was forced to agree to my father for the survival of the family, but I know that she will never marry Hu Man, Brother Li, this will force my sister to death! I beg you to let the emperor cancel this family business, my sister is so pitiful. ”

Li Qing'an touched the green silk on his hand, and there was still a trace of Mingyue's fragrance on the green silk, which was her entrusting her life to herself, and a wave of anger rose in Li Qing'an's heart, the Gelulu people dared to rob their own women, and they also designated Mingyue to marry, needless to say, this was revenge against themselves, and their leniency was actually exchanged for the humiliation of the Qarluq people.

Li Qing'an's fist was almost crushed, 'Qarluq! ’

He suddenly turned around and ordered: "Pass my order, the army will be assembled, and the blood will be washed in Qarluq!" ”

．．．．．． In the afternoon of the same day, 10,000 cavalry of the Tang Army set off, their target was no longer Beiting, but Gelulu in the northeast, five days later, 10,000 cavalry crossed the Duotan Ridge, less than two hundred miles away from Gelulu's tooth tent, the chief of Gelulu plotted to assassinate Montenegro and heard the news, and hurriedly sent a messenger to see Li Qing'an.

The envoy was escorted into the big tent by the Tang army, and as soon as he entered the tent, the envoy knelt down and kowtowed: "General, Ge Lulu obeyed the general's orders and never dared to cross the border one step, but the general came to raise troops to ask for guilt, why is this?" ”

Li Qingan said angrily: "Ge Lulu wants to take my wife, An can be innocent?" ”

The envoy was shocked, "General, where does this start, how dare Ge Lulu take the general's wife?" ”

"Ask your chief, he knows better than anyone else!"

Li Qingan gritted his teeth and said: "I'll give you three days, if you don't explain it to me clearly, I should send the Beiting army to crusade against Ge Lulu and kill your chickens and dogs!" ”

The envoy was so frightened that he fled back to the tent, and was anxious to assassinate Montenegro, and he had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw the envoy rushing back, he asked anxiously, "Have you asked clearly?" Why did Li Qingan come with his troops? ”

"Back to the Great Chief, General Li said that we had robbed him of his wife, and he was furious."

The assassination of Montenegro was taken aback, and he didn't dare to rob the wife of the envoy of the Beiting Festival when he was so bold, could it be that someone did it privately, he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "Who is it! Who did it? ”

"Father, I know what's going on?"

Mou Jian Sihan walked in quickly, and he stepped forward to salute his father, "Father, I know this very well?" ”

"Say, what's going on?"

"Father, do you remember the last time I went to Chang'an with my eldest brother? The eldest brother took a fancy to a woman in Chang'an, and later learned that this woman was Li Qingan's fiancée, I persuaded the eldest brother not to anger Li Qingan, but the eldest brother said that it was precisely because he was Li Qingan's woman that he wanted to get his hands more, and when he came back, he stole his father's seal and forged a letter of state to ask for marriage to the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Bastard!"

The assassination of Montenegro was so angry that he roared like crazy: "Arrest that rebel for me!" Catch! ”

Seeing that the time had come, he fanned the flames again and said: "Father, the eldest brother deliberately took revenge because Li Qing'an arrested his woman last time, and he pushed our Ge Lulu into the abyss for his own revenge, if you want to properly solve this matter, you have to ask Li Qing'an for the guilt." ”

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers escorted the assassin into the tent, and he entered the tent and shouted: "Father, what are you doing with me, and I have not committed any crime?" ”

"Do you dare to say that you didn't commit a crime?"

Plotting to assassinate Montenegro, he rushed up and slapped his head and face a few times, pointing at the hole and scolding: "You dog, who asked you to take Li Qingan's woman, you don't want to live, just die, don't harm our whole clan!" ”

The murder of Montenegro was so hated that his eyes were about to burst into flames, and the lust and stupidity of the eldest son brought endless disasters to Qarlu, and he longed to kill this son with one sword.

Seeing that Assassin Sihan was sneering on the side, he suddenly understood, and roared, "Dog mongrel, you dare to betray me!" ”

He violently broke free of the soldier's hand, pulled out the dagger in his boot and stabbed Sihan in the chest, and before he could get closer, the soldiers around him rushed up, pinned him to the ground, and tied him up with ropes.

At this moment, a soldier ran outside the tent and reported: "Great chief, about 1,000 cavalry members of the Tang Army are already thirty miles away, Li Qing'an ordered to hand over the eldest prince, otherwise the blood will be washed in Qarluq." ”

"Father is not afraid of him!"

The assassin roared like a wolf: "He has only brought a thousand men, let me lead my troops to kill him, and kill him for a moment, shame on him!" ”

He was so angry that he almost fainted, and he pointed at Assassin Luo Duo and said in a trembling voice: "How can I have a son like you who is stupider than a pig, just that!" That's it! In order to protect my whole clan of Qarluq, I have no choice but to hand you over, which you brought on yourself, and you must blame me! He turned around and waved his order: "Escort him to Tang Ying, let Li Qingan dispose of it!" ”

Dozens of soldiers pushed the assassination of Luo Duo out of the big tent, and at this time, the assassin Sihan was afraid of another accident, so he said to his father: "The child is willing to go to Li Qing'an to make amends for his father!" ”

The assassin Montenegro sighed, "You go!" He can agree to whatever conditions he has. ”

He yelled and screamed all the way to his tribe to save him, but until he walked out of the camp, no one came to save him, and he turned back to Mou Lun Sihan and shouted: "Second brother, we are brothers, how can you let me go to death?" ”

Mou Sihan laughed gloomily, and said secretly in his heart: "Brother? Hum! If you don't die, when will it be my turn to be the Grand Chief of Qarluq? ”

"Second brother, you let me go, and my women and money will be given to you."

"Second brother, eldest brother, please, let me go!"

He was almost in despair, but he glanced at him coldly and ordered, "Shut him up!" ”

At this moment, there was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the cavalry of the Tang Army suddenly appeared, they were divided into two teams, galloping like lightning, and instantly rushed past the assassination of Sihan and his party, the two armies were staggered, and formed a big circle, and the cavalry tightened more and more, and in a moment it formed a bronze wall like an iron wall, surrounding dozens of Ge Lulu people in the middle, the sword light was cold, and the murderous atmosphere was soaring.

Li Qingan flew out with a long bow and pointed: "Where is the person I want?" ”

The two Qarluq soldiers took out the assassin who was tied to his horse, and the assassin Sihan stepped forward and saluted: "General Li, my father has found out the truth, this is the assassin of the Lothar without permission, and it has nothing to do with the Qarluqs. ”

Li Qingan snorted coldly and said, "It's irrelevant!" What's the matter with the letter of courtship? ”

"The letter of state was also forged by him, and he secretly stamped his father's seal, General Li, in front of the gate of Chang'an Ci'en Temple, he saw that the Mingyue girl was beautiful, so he had bad intentions, and wanted to rush up to be rude, but I desperately stopped him, and he heard that the Yue girl was General Li's fiancée, so he wanted to take revenge on General Li, this is his personal anger, and it has nothing to do with Ge Lulu, and his father handed him over to you, let General Li dispose of it."

What Mou Assassin Sihan said was the same as what Mingzhu said, Li Qing'an's eyes suddenly became murderous, stared coldly at Mou Assassin Luoduo, and slowly pulled out an arrow from his back.

"I'll give you a chance, if you can escape from my arrows, then I'll spare your life, if you can't escape, then you deserve to die!"

As soon as he waved his hand, Tang Jun dodged a way, and several Tang soldiers came up and cut the rope on the body of the assassin Luo Duo with knives, and the assassin Luo Duo immediately reached out and took out the rag in his mouth, pointed at the assassin Sihan and scolded: "You wait for me, I will cut you with a thousand knives!" ”

He turned his horse's head and fled, he had grown up on horseback since he was a child, and he was unusually strong on horseback, and as soon as he drew his horse, the horse galloped out like an arrow, and in an instant he was twenty paces away.

Li Qing'an slowly pulled out the bow, the bow was like a full moon, his eyes narrowed, at this time the assassin Luo Duo had rushed out of seventy steps away, he kept churning on the horse, dodging left and right, eighty steps, Li Qing'an's bowstring was loose, a long arrow shot out like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived behind the assassin Luo Duo, at this time, a harrier turned over and turned up from the horse's belly, he suddenly heard a sound of breaking the air behind his head, and wanted to dodge, but he couldn't control the habitual surname of his body, just listen to 'poof! With a thud, a long arrow came into the back of his head, the tip of which protruded from his forehead, and his eyes bulged out, and he fell from his horse to the ground.

Li Qingan withdrew his bow, and he sneered and said to Mou Sihan: "Tell your father that the person you want to marry is dead, and he can withdraw from the marriage to the Tang Dynasty." ”

After saying that, he turned his horse's head and waved his longbow, "Let's go!" ”

A thousand cavalry roared away, and on the steppe lay the cold corpse of the assassin Lotdo, and a few crows 'quack! Ga! The earth hovered in the air.

．．．．．．．．．． Five days later, the Tang army returned to the Silk Road, where they met the Tang army escorting Mingzhu back to Beiting, and the two armies converged and headed for Beiting.

The army returned to Jinman County, the people of the county poured out of the city, welcoming the triumphant return of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, the official road was crowded with dense people, they cheered, excited, handed a pot of wine and bread to the Tang army soldiers, the deputy capital escort Yang Fengche with Wang Changling and a group of civil officials to greet him, Lao Yuan laughed and said: "Envoy, half a year, remember that I waited?" ”

Li Qingan jumped off the horse and hugged them one by one, and said with a smile: "You are my logistics, I forget you, but I have to starve." ”

Everyone laughed, and Yang Fengche said loudly to everyone: "Everyone, you have not yet invited a treat, what do you say?" ”

"The envoy wants to treat him to a treat, and drink three hundred cups!"

Everyone gossiped and forced him to have a treat, Li Qingan raised his hand and said with a smile: "I'm going to have a treat tonight, everyone goes to Qing'an Restaurant, what you want to eat and drink, although it is casual, it is all recorded in my account." ”

"Won't you go?"

At this time, Li Qingan had already seen his family from a distance, and said with a smile: "I have been away from home for half a year, so I must reunite with my family first!" ”

The crowd laughed, "Yes! Know! We went to Qing'an Restaurant. ”

Everyone no longer pestered him, and went to drink together, at this time the Tang army returned to the barracks, and after a short rest, they would have a three-day holiday.

Li Qingan came to his family with Mingzhu, several of his women stretched their necks and looked at it for a long time, they hadn't seen it for half a year, and everyone was very excited, but Mingzhu was behind him, none of them were embarrassed to step forward, Li Qingan jumped off the horse and smiled: "What, I haven't seen you for half a year, you don't know me anymore?" ”

Wuyi pursed his lips and smiled, and said leisurely with his hands behind his back: "We are here to welcome the triumph of the Tang Army, whether we want to go home for dinner or go to the restaurant to drink, whatever you want." ”

"Naturally, I'm going home for dinner!"

Li Qing'an looked back and saw that Mingzhu was a little gloomy, so he glanced at Rushi, Rushi would understand, she pulled Ruhua and greeted her, they met when they were in Chang'an, and the relationship has always been very good.

"Mingzhu, when did you come to Beiting, why didn't you come to us?"

Mingzhu reluctantly smiled: "There is something at home, I am in a hurry to find Brother Li." ”

"Let's talk about it when we get home! Come, I'll help you get something. Picturesque took the package and smiled and grabbed her arm.

Wuyi came up and took Li Qingan's hand, and said with a smile: "Li Lang, do you want to go back to Chang'an?" ”

"That's right! I was delayed on the road and could only stay at home for three days to rush back to Chang'an to report on work. ”

Speaking of this, Li Qingan patted the back of her hand and said with a smile: "Do you want to go back to Chang'an with me?" ”

Out of the corner of her eye, she quickly glanced at Mingzhu and shook her head, "I won't go, there are more than 200 students in my piano academy now, and I can't leave, and the picturesque tea shop is also very busy, so let Rushi accompany you back!" ”

"Forget it, she can't stand the long journey, I'll try to get back as soon as possible."

At this time, a guard hurriedly came and bowed to Li Qing'an and said, "Envoy, Mr. Yan said that he is looking for you in an emergency, please go for a trip." ”

"I know, let's go!"

Li Qingan turned back to Wuyi and said, "I'll go to Mr. Yan first, and then we will get together in the evening." ”

Yan Zhuang was looking for him so urgently, there must be something important, Li Qing was shocked in peace, so he hurriedly went to Yan Zhuang's mansion.

At this time, Yan Zhuang's family already had their own house, which was not very far from Li Qing'an's mansion, and after nearly a year of treatment and exercise, Yan Zhuang was now barely able to walk with a cane.

As soon as Li Qingan entered his mansion, Yan Zhuang immediately invited him to his study.

"Envoy, do you know what happened in the East Palace?"

Li Qingan was stunned, he was far away in Broken Leaves, he only knew a little about the overdue affairs of the court through miscellaneous reports, and then there was some information about the Han and Tang Societies, but there was no news about the prince.

"What happened to the East Palace?"

Yan Zhuang took out a letter and said: "This is sent by Pei Shangshu, I just arrived in Beiting yesterday, and I was about to send someone to send it to you, and you came back." ”

Li Qingan took the letter and looked at it, it was an ordinary letter, the content was very simple, the political hall was expanded to nine phases, it has been clearly divided into four factions, and the power struggle within the court has intensified, followed by the prince committed an accident two months ago, which angered the saint, and was grounded in the East Palace for a year, and was not allowed to meet any ministers, Pei Kuan reminded him not to visit the prince after entering Beijing, but he did not mention the reason for the prince's crime, he looked at the time when the letter was written, and the payment was written a month ago, that is to say, Pei Kuan wrote the letter a month after the prince's crime.

Li Qing'an frowned and asked solemnly: "Sir's urgent matter refers to the power struggle between the DPRK and China or the prince's crime?" ”

Yan Zhuang smiled bitterly and said: "The imperial court has expanded its phase, it is obvious that the saint is trying to weaken Li Linfu's power, it turned out that the Xiangguo Party was the dominant party, and the Zhang Party was weak, and now the Tide File and the Yang Party have been added, and the power struggle between the DPRK and China has intensified, this has been a means of the emperor's majesty since ancient times, but there is nothing strange about it, I am worried about the prince's crime, although Pei Shangshu's letter did not say the reason, but I faintly feel that something is wrong." ”

"Tell me, sir, what's wrong?"

Yan Zhuang sighed and said: "The problem is that the saint has been in power for too long, it has been almost forty years since the first year of the innate year, and now he is still in good health, and he can stay on the throne for more than ten years, but the crown prince is already forty years old, and it has been twelve years since the twenty-sixth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, does the saint still want him to do it again?" ”

"Are you saying that there is a desire to change the crown prince?"

Yan Zhuang nodded, "This prince is neither the elder nor the saint Mingxian, but a mediocre person, I have always thought that the saint appointed him at the beginning, it was just a transition, so the saint has been tolerating Li Linfu's attack on the prince for more than ten years, no!" It should be conniving, once the prince has any dissenting intentions, or the power is big, he will not hesitate to replace it, and let another new prince tremble and start from scratch, it is obvious that now the tide file is powerful, and there are already Pei, Lu, and Dugu three phases, so can the saint still sit on the throne for more than a dozen years in peace? I can infer that this time the prince committed an accident, the saint must have the intention of changing the prince, and he was grounded in the East Palace for a year, that is, he was not allowed to have any contact with the outside world, and then the saint calmly arranged. ”

Although it was a little unbelievable, Li Qingan also had to admit that Yan Zhuang's analysis was very thorough, and he thought for a while: "What Mr. Nayi meant, how should I deal with it?" ”

Yan Zhuang looked into his eyes and said slowly: "I'll tell the envoy one more news, Wang Zhongji died violently more than a month ago, and the cause of death is unknown. ”

Li Qingan was taken aback, Wang Zhongji was actually dead, and he couldn't help but float a dark cloud in his heart.

"Envoy, this is by no means good news, Wang Zhongsi no longer has military power, but just because he has a very high prestige in the army, he was wiped out, and the general has a heavy army, and the saint throws a mouse against the general, which can be imagined."

Li Qingan suddenly understood what Yan Zhuang meant, he would be more than lucky when he entered Beijing this time, he pondered for a long time, and then asked: "If I find an excuse not to return to Beijing to report on my work, what does Mr. think?" ”

Yan Zhuang shook his head lightly, "I've thought about it, this is the next policy, now no matter what excuse you make, as long as you don't go back to Beijing to report on your work, the saint will decide that the general has rebellion, unless the general rebels, otherwise he can hide from the first day of junior high school, but he can't hide from the fifteenth."

"Rebellion?"

Li Qing'an's mind was blank, and he had never considered the word 'rebellion'.

"Does the gentleman think a rebellion will work?"

"What does the general himself think?"

Li Qingan shook his head and said: "I have only been the envoy of the Beiting Festival for less than a year, even if I want to rebel, Duan Xiushi will not rebel, the Lifei brothers will not rebel, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun will not rebel, and there are thousands of Tang Dynasty soldiers, their hearts are towards the Tang Dynasty, and they will never rebel with me, and in the end I will only end up alone." ”

"What you said is right, with An Lushan controlling Fanyang and Pinglu for so many years, he still doesn't dare to say anything about rebellion, so that Jun can serve as Beiting for a year, and wanting to rebel will only be a dead end, I thought about it all night last night, and thought of three countermeasures for Jun."

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(To be continued)