Li Qingan is still the first time to see Mingyue's mother, he has long heard that Mrs. Pei is the second daughter of the former Xiangguo Pei Yaoqing, from the twists and turns between him and Mingyue, he really understood that this daughter of a famous family in Hedong has a deep-rooted concept of family.

However, Li Qingan can also understand that the concept of the family in Chinese history did not gradually fade until the turbulent times at the end of the Tang Dynasty and entered the Song Dynasty.

His unknown background has always been rejected by these famous families, but since Mingzhu can get her mother's consent and come all the way to Beiting to find herself, it shows that Mrs. Pei's attitude towards herself has been loosened.

But Li Qingan didn't know that just half an hour ago, Dugu Mingyue's parents had another big quarrel for him, the reason was that Dugu Haoran learned that his daughter went to visit Li Qingan in prison, which made him very annoyed.

Unexpectedly, a series of unfavorable news came, Prince Gelulu had been shot by Li Qing'an, and his daughter Princess Feng Mingyue was hopeless.

Dugu Haoran almost collapsed, when Xiangguo was only two months old, he fell from the high platform into the abyss, all because he was a tide file, in order to survive in a desperate situation, he actually thought of giving his daughter to Zhao Xuming again, and then put on the coat of Zhang Dang, but this time it was Mrs. Pei who was resolutely opposed.

Many things in the world are so funny, always going from one extreme to the other, the evening is the twilight rain and the morning is the cloud, perhaps in response to the old saying, there is often only a thin line between heaven and hell.

A maid invited the worried Mrs. Pei into the living room and served her a cup of tea, Mrs. Pei was very upset, although her daughter was rescued from the crisis, but her husband suffered a great setback, she just went out when she heard that Lu Jian committed suicide in prison, what about her husband? Will the always arrogant husband be able to withstand this cruel blow?

"Let Mrs. Pei wait for a long time!" Li Qingan walked out quickly and gave her a deep salute.

"I'm not invited, I'm bothering Li Yuanjun."

Mrs. Pei returned the salute slightly, she was thoughtful and gentle.

Li Qingan invited her to sit down and said with a smile: "I also happened to want to go to Dugu Mansion, but I didn't expect Madame to come first." ”

"Is there anything wrong with Li Yuanjun going to the Lonely Mansion?" Mrs. Pei asked knowingly.

Li Qingan nodded and sighed: "I will leave Beijing early tomorrow morning, and I want to have a good talk with my uncle and aunt before I leave Beijing." ”

"Is it for the bright moon?"

"Exactly! I want to formally ask for marriage from Dugu Mansion. ”

Mrs. Pei was silent for a long time before she sighed and said, "I came to you for this matter. ”

"Madame, please!"

"Mingyue is my most beloved daughter, for her life's events, I broke my heart, her sister was unfortunately killed by the Khitans a few years ago, when I heard that Mingyue was chosen to be a kiss again, do you know? At that moment, I wanted to die. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Pei gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and continued: "In order to save Mingyue, I agree that Mingzhu will go all the way to Beiting to find you, and now, because of your efforts, Mingyue does not have to marry a barbarian Hu again, Li Yuanjun, my heart is full of gratitude to you." ”

"Madame, you don't have to be polite, I won't let Mingyue marry Ge Lulu."

"I know you won't let Mingyue down."

Mrs. Pei smiled and said, "I came to you today, just to tell you that as Mingyue's mother, I officially entrust Mingyue to you." ”

Li Qing'an was not overjoyed, he lowered his head and stroked the teacup on the table, and said with a faint smile after a moment: "Madame, do you know that I have been demoted to Liuzhou Taishou, and I am no longer the envoy of the Beiting Festival." ”

"I already know."

Mrs. Pei sighed and said: "You are still old, you can get up again, in fact, I don't care what position you hold, if I have to say what I care, I care about your family background, you are not a child of a family, this has always been a pity to me, but then again, what about the children of the family?" Inferior character, I would rather not have such a son-in-law. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Pei took out Mingyue's birthday marriage book again, put it on the table and said with a smile: "I know you don't have an elder....."

"I'll be Shichiro's elder!"

Before Mrs. Pei finished speaking, Gao Lishi walked out, took the marriage letter and said with a smile: "The matter of Qilang's engagement will be handed over to me, if I guess correctly, Mingyue's father doesn't agree to this marriage very much!" ”

"Gao Weng guessed well, but I will persuade him that today I will hand over Mingyue's marriage letter to Li Gongzi, and this marriage will be decided, and when the time is right, I will hold a wedding for you."

Li Qing'an was full of flowers, and hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Thank you, aunt, I have given a piece of jade to Mingyue, and that is my token to Mingyue." ”

"Oh well! I'll go first. ”

Mrs. Pei stood up and smiled at Gao Lishi again: "Gao Weng, everything is up to you." ”

Gao Lishi and Li Qing'an kept sending Mrs. Pei out of the gate, and Gao Lishi smiled at Li Qing'an: "Congratulations, but I believe that your second joy will come soon." ”

Li Qingan also squinted and smiled, "How does Gao Weng know?" ”

"Of course I know, since you can dismiss yourself, will there be no backhand?"

Colliers patted him on the shoulder and entered the house with a smile.

．．．．．．．． As soon as the next day dawned, Li Qing'an and three hundred guards left the Gaolishi Mansion and set off, they walked slowly along Suzaku Street, the street was very quiet, there were no pedestrians, there was still a trace of coolness in the morning of Chang'an in April, a thin layer of white mist shrouded in the street, as if the yarn was fluttering in the wind, they soon came to the Mingde Gate, the city gate had been opened, and both sides were crowded with Chang'an people waiting to go out.

"Brother Li!"

Li Qing'an suddenly heard Mingzhu's voice, he followed the voice, only to see a carriage parked next to the city gate, in front of the carriage, Mingzhu was like a bird, excited to jump and jump to him and wave, behind her, is wearing a light yellow dress Mingyue, her eyes are also filled with endless joy.

Li Qingan also smiled, he had never seen Mingyue as radiant as today, her faint sadness was now swept away, her eyes were flashing with a jewel-like dazzling brilliance, this kind of look made Li Qingan feel intoxicated, just like a peony that had just bloomed in the morning, fragrant and fragrant.

"Brother Li!"

Mingzhu ran up, Li Qingan turned over and dismounted, greeted him, and said with a smile: "Do you want to go with me?" ”

Mingzhu pouted and said, "We wanted to, but my mother didn't let us, so we only let us send you." ”

Speaking of this, Mingzhu asked with a smile: "I heard from my mother, you and your sister's relationship has been decided?" ”

"Little girl, you have contributed a lot this time!"

Li Qingan pinched her nose and walked towards Mingyue, Mingyue's face suddenly flew a touch of red, she lowered her head shyly, and whispered: "Mingyue came to see you off." ”

"Won't you come with me?"

Mingyue shook her head and said: "Since I have promised you, when you wait for Jun Mingming to marry, I will wait for you to return, even if you wait until you are old, Mingyue has no regrets." ”

Both of them were silent, and after a while, Li Qingan smiled: "Okay then! I believe that one day, I will definitely take you to see the bright moon in the Tianshan Mountains. ”

He turned over and smiled at Mingzhu: "Mingzhu, take good care of your sister, and I will find you the best husband in the future." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand to Mingyue, and led his soldiers to run towards the door.

"I don't want it!"

Mingzhu muttered in a low voice, she suddenly realized, and hurriedly shouted to Mingyue: "Sister, Brother Li is leaving, won't I send him anymore?" ”

"No need, send you a thousand miles, and you will say goodbye in the end."

Mingyue silently stared at Li Qing'an's back and walked away, muttering, "May you take care all the way!" ”

．．．．．．．．． Five days later, on April 18 of the ninth year of Tianbao, the Tang Emperor Li Longji finally issued an edict that the crown prince Li Heng was no longer suitable for the prince because of the vain use of witch cup, and officially abolished his position as the crown prince, named him the king of Liang, and withdrew from the East Palace.

Li Heng thanked him with tears, but fainted at the foot of the steps of the East Palace, disappeared as if he had grown wings, and instantly spread to all parts of the country, some people were shocked, wept, and worried, but some people were rejoicing and celebrating.

On this day, Li Qing'an had arrived in Xiangyang, he got the news that the prince was deposed, and immediately stopped, and the time to implement the third plan of the strict series finally came, and he immediately ordered someone to send a letter of 10,000 words to Chang'an, asking Li Linfu to write to Li Longji for him.

In the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, Li Linfu's slightly old figure hurriedly walked past a pillar, holding a thick letter in his hand.

The purge of the Tide stalls ended yesterday, and none of the 23 people drawn up by Li Longji escaped, and they were imprisoned, dismissed, or deposed, and Zhang Yi, the criminal servant who interrogated Li Qing'an, was demoted to Luzhou Sima, and the last one to be demoted was Pei Min, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, who was demoted to the county magistrate of Huayin County.

The situation between the DPRK and China changed suddenly, from the original four factions to the three-legged rivalry of the Xiangguo Party, the Yang Party, and the Zhang Party, and there were also undercurrents among the princes, each of whom was dependent on the three parties, and the emptiness of the East Palace made each of Li Longji's sons become ambitious.

In addition to the annihilation of the Tide file, Li Linfu's Xiangguo Party also suffered a heavy blow, his officials were lost, and Yang Guozhong was greatly strengthened because of the officials, and his henchman Wei Jiansu was named Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, officially entered the phase, at this moment in the Tang Dynasty Seven Phases, the Yang Party faction accounted for three people, the Xiangguo Party and the Zhang Party each had two people, in the political hall, Yang Guozhong has already occupied the advantage.

Li Linfu also became old because of this, he walked to Li Longji's imperial study, and said to a eunuch: "Please report to the saint, I have urgent matters to see." ”

"Lee Sang-kook, please wait!" The eunuch turned around and entered the imperial study.

Li Linfu snorted a little annoyed, everyone used to call him 'Xiangguo', but now he is called 'Li Xiangguo', and he has added a surname, this is to distinguish him from 'Yang Xiangguo', a scoundrel in the market, but because he is a relative, he actually fought against him Li Linfu.

Li Linfu sat on the soft pier at the door in a depressed mood and waited for the summons, and then he looked at Li Qing'an's recital again, the annoyance on his face was slightly dark, and a trace of relief flashed in his eyes.

He knows better than anyone that in fact, Li Qing'an is not a tide file, it was he who made Li Heng and Yang Guozhong turn against each other, and tried his best to insert Li Qing'an into the tide file, provoking Li Heng and Yang Guozhong to oppose each other, and finally the prince was deposed, which means that his Li Linfu family will not be punished by the clan because the prince came to power, from this point of view, he Li Linfu achieved his goal, but Li Qingan was purged because of this, and was demoted from the Beiting Festival to the Liuzhou Taishou.

Li Linfu felt a little guilty in his heart, and also a little regretful, Li Qingan could have become his right-hand man, but he didn't expect that Li Qingan would actually be on a book after the prince was abolished, at this time Li Longji had completed a stormy cleaning of the tide file, and began to take a breath, stopped and re-examined the conviction of the backbone of each tide file.

"Li Xiangguo, Your Majesty invites you in!" At the door, the eunuch whispered.

Li Linfu stood up, straightened his robe, and walked into the imperial study quickly, Li Longji was reading a book in the room, which was taken by Gao Xianzhi in Anxi, at this time Gao Xianzhi's appointment as the envoy of the Beiting Festival should still be on the way, but Gao Xianzhi sent the news of the victory of the Shushi Kingdom, but for some reason, the victory of the Shushi Kingdom did not bring any ecstasy to Li Longji, in a sense, it is far from being compared with the recovery of the Broken Leaf Military Town.

Li Longji pondered for a long time, and Gao Xianzhi proposed to attack the Yueshi at the end of the song and completely drive the Tubo forces out of Tocharo, on the grounds that these small Tocharian countries had not entered Beijing for many years to make the pilgrimage, and they had long since ceased to regard the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, and they should be subdued by the royal road, and the Tocharian countries had a lot of money and grain, and they did not need the imperial court to spend military resources.

Although the great victory of the Shushi Kingdom did not bring any ecstasy to Li Longji, Gao Xianzhi's final proposal made Li Longji quite excited, and he did not need the imperial court to spend military funds to take the entire territory of Tocharo and drive the Tibetan forces out of Tocharo, why not? He also casually took out the secret report of the supervising army Bian Lingcheng, saying that the morale of the Anxi army was high, and the land they had passed was like a broken bamboo, and Li Longji already had seven points of agreement in his heart.

At this time, Li Linfu walked into the imperial study, bowed down and said, "Minister Li Linfu see Your Majesty!" ”

Li Longji put down his pen and said with a smile: "Xiangguo came just in time, I just want to discuss with you about Gao Xianzhi's proposal to attack the entire territory of Tocharo." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is also here for this matter."

As he spoke, Li Linfu presented Li Qing'an's recital to Li Longji with both hands, "This is Li Qingan's recital on the way to his post, and the minister is deeply touched and hereby presents it to Your Majesty." ”

"Li Qing'an?" Li Longji was stunned for a moment, he took the fold, unfolded it and looked at it, and actually wrote more than a dozen pages densely, which was enough for 10,000 words.

'The minister thought that my Tang Dynasty had to travel long distances and labor expeditions to enter Lingxi from Beiting or Anxi, and Gai Jiayun and Fumeng Lingcha marched westward with male soldiers, all of which could not last, because Lingxi had no foundation, and the broken leaves were recovered, which would change the disadvantages of the Tang army, which was actually a turning point in the strategy of Lingxi of the Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of this year, we should take advantage of the opportunity when the big food has no time to look east, recruit troops to hide grain, build the city, migrate military households to the broken leaves, appease the Tuhu, and consolidate the foundation of the broken leaves, and do not use the swords and soldiers in vain, alarm the big food, and lose the opportunity for our Tang army to recuperate.

．．．．．．．．． The minister thought that the strategy in the river should be divided into two steps, one is to actively consolidate and strengthen the foundation of broken leaves, so that our Tang army has the foundation to stand, and secondly, we should implement the policy of combining vertical and horizontal, contact the nine countries of Zhaowu, and support them to resist the westward advance of the Great Food, the temple of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu was destroyed, the faith was lost, the people paid heavy taxes, the property of the nobles was not guaranteed, and the big food was dissatisfied for a long time, but the country was weak and weak, and it was unable to confront the big food. Then send a Tang envoy to the west, go west to Byzantium, Byzantium is the enemy of the Great Food, the country is strong, only because of different religions, and the Great Food is incompatible with the same water and fire, the Tang Dynasty should unite with Byzantium, conspire with the Great Food, so that the Great Food has no time to look east, the minister dares to assert, according to the minister's plan, within three years, the land in the river should be returned to the Tang Dynasty'.......

Li Qing'an's recital opened up a vision that Li Longji had never seen, he pondered for a long time and was silent, at this time Li Linfu played: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Li Qing'an is different from Wei Jian, Huangfu Weiming and Wang Zhonghei, etc., and the old prince has no marriage, nor has no old friendship for a reason, and has become a line of the old prince, but the Yangzhou salt case involved King Qing, his way of self-preservation, he became a tide stall when he was not long, and far away in the North Garden, although he has the prince's gold medal, but he cannot be considered to be the prince's sworn friend, this person started completely by military merits, and has no family background, There is no blood relatives in the clan, when it can be of great use, he has a profound insight into the Western Regions, there are no two people in my dynasty, Your Majesty, it is a pity to let him go to Liuzhou. ”

Li Longji's left index finger lightly tapped the imperial case, and last night the concubine complained that he demoted Li Qing'an to the border wasteland of Liuzhou, but now that the tide stall is beginning to disappear, the situation in the DPRK and China is chaotic, and it is not appropriate to repeat it, which makes people have the illusion that he has the illusion of letting the prince go.

At this time, there was a eunuch at the door to report: "Your Majesty, Yang Xiangguo has arrived." ”

"Announce him to him!"

After a while, Yang Guozhong hurriedly walked in, he is now the secretary of the military department and the secretary of the ministry, he is in a high position, and he can already compete with Li Linfu, the pride of his career makes him full of spring breeze, and his face is extraordinarily glorious, he walked into the imperial study, saw that Li Linfu was also there, and couldn't help but look at him with hostility, and immediately knelt down and bowed: "Minister Yang Guozhong sees His Majesty the Emperor, may Your Majesty live long live." ”

"Yang Aiqing is exempt from courtesy!"

Li Longji summoned Yang Guozhong to discuss with him about Gao Xianzhi's attack on Tochar, but Li Qing'an's letter made him hesitate a little.

At this time, Li Longji quickly glanced at Li Linfu, seeing that his smile was sincere, there was no kind of life-and-death frown of political enemies, Li Longji's heart suddenly became a little vigilant, he knew this Xiangguo too well, he had honey in his mouth, a sword in his waist, and his uncle Yang Guozhong burst out when he entered the door, obviously a step lower, can he beat Li Linfu?

Originally, he wanted to discuss Gao Xianzhi's suggestion with Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, but now that he thought about it, he changed his mind, and Li Longji smiled at Li Linfu and said, "Xiangguo, I want to talk to Uncle Yang about family matters." ”

The implication is to let Li Linfu retreat, of course Li Linfu knows that Li Longji summoned Yang Guozhong to discuss the matter of Gao Xianzhi, and now he has let himself retreat, obviously taking away his own dominance of Anxi's affairs, he is extremely dissatisfied in his heart, but he does not dare to show it, so he bows down and says: "The minister retires!" ”

He slowly retreated, Li Longji waited for him to retreat, and then gave Yu Chaoen a look and asked him to close the door, and then said to Yang Guozhong: "I came to you for two things, first of all, the drought in Henan, there was no rain for three months, and someone wrote to the local officials to swallow relief grain, which caused the people's resentment to boil, and the hungry people rebelled. ”

Yang Guozhong hurriedly said: "The minister recommended Zhang Qi, the head of the household department, to go, he has been in the household department for a long time, he is familiar with the people in various places, and he should be competent." ”

Zhang Cheng is Zhang Yun's third brother, has been serving as the head of the household, is the key person in Zhang Yun's control of the household, Yang Guozhong wants to transfer him, obviously in the idea of the household department, but he does not understand Li Longji's intentions, Li Longji asked him to send people, because his qualifications are shallow, want to give them a chance to exercise, but Yang Guozhong is insatiable, and hit the idea of the household department, which makes Li Longji a little unhappy in his heart.

He held down the topic and said: "Forget it, the affairs of the DPRK and China are complicated, and you are not familiar with many people when you first become a ministry, so I won't ask you about this matter, and I will send someone else." ”

Li Longji took Gao Xianzhi's recital and said: "I want to ask you, since you are the secretary of the military department, Gao Xianzhi proposed to attack Tocharo, what do you think?" ”

"The minister resolutely supports!"

Anxi affairs have always been Li Linfu's domain, Yang Guozhong is in charge of Nanzhao, he has not been able to intervene, now since Li Longji intends to give him Anxi affairs, of course Yang Guozhong will not let go of this opportunity, he hurriedly took out a book of recitals, and said: "This is Tubo made Yao Zhongting envoy to Tubo after writing a memora, Tubo Zampu has just died, Xin Zampu is young, domestic factions are fiercely fighting for power, and there is no time to use troops abroad, now Geshuhan has taken Jiuqu, the border of Jiannan is calm, Nanzhao is subservient to the Tang Dynasty, and An Lushan is guarded in the northeast, It was at the time of the use of troops in the northwest, since Tubo had no time to take care of the Western Regions, the minister thought that it was just time to completely sweep away Tocharo and completely drive the Tubo forces out of Tocharo. ”

"What about the big food? Why don't you take into account the big food factor? Li Longji asked.

Yang Guozhong sneered and said: "The big food is just a barbarian in the Western Regions, slightly stronger than Kang Guo and Shi Guo, only dare to compete with the Zhaowu countries, and dare to confront my Tang Heavenly Army. ”

Although Li Longji knew that Da Shi was not as Yang Guozhong said, it was only slightly stronger than Kang Shi and other countries, if that was the case, he would not support Tuqi Shi to fight against Da Shi, but Yang Guozhong was right in one sentence, Da Shi was in the midst of a civil war, and this was indeed an opportunity.

Although Li Qing'an's strategy for the Western Regions is very reasonable, it does not affect the Battle of Tocharo, and it is completely possible to advance on two fronts at the same time.

He immediately picked up his pen and approved the word 'quasi' on Gao Xianzhi's recital, and said: "Spread my will, add Gao Xianzhi as Honglu Siqing and Yushi Zhongcheng, reward 10,000 taels of silver, 5,000 horses of silk, take Tochar, and I will reward the three armies together." ”

Yang Guozhong was overjoyed, he was finally able to meddle in Anxi's affairs, he took advantage of Li Longji's trust in him, and hurriedly played another thing and said: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that Li Qing'an disbanded his own soldiers without authorization and went to Liuzhou as a private army, and I hope Your Majesty will punish him severely!" ”

Yang Guozhong reminded Li Longji in one sentence, he looked at Li Qing'an's Western Regions Ten Thousand Words, pondered for a long time, from Li Qing'an's self-dismissal letter, to the concubine's pillow wind, and then to the current Western Regions Situation Analysis Ten Thousand Words Book, Li Longji felt Li Qing'an's sincerity, just like Li Linfu's advice, Li Qing'an is indeed not a tide stall person, so he said slowly: "Spread my will again, Li Qing'an will change the seal of Henan Province to interview the envoy and appease the disaster situation in Henan." ”

(To be continued)