Chapter 405: Row after Trip
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The autumn wind is bleak and the weather is cool, and the grass and trees shake and fall into frost.
In the autumn of the first year of Zhide, it was very cold. It's not yet September, and the trees along the road are almost dropping their leaves.
There are more than 20,000 people who left Chang'an City, in addition to Long Wujun, there are also a large number of princes and ministers, dragon sons and dragon grandsons, and the clans with titles in the Ten Princes' Mansion are all in the ranks, and the ministers who are qualified to participate in the court meeting are also among them. Most of these ministers were newly added, and most of the original ministers were assassinated by Hu Nu overnight, and a large number of positions were vacated, so these people had a chance to ascend to the throne.
High-ranking officials and lords don't want anyone, most of these newly ascended ministers have taken the path of Zhang Xun, the right minister, and generally speaking, they are inclined to Zhang Xun, although Zhang Xun is a lonely and loyal person, but these ministers he promoted are still naturally their own party and have become the biggest force in the court.
Of course, since the favor is from above, when Zhang Xun appointed these officials, it was still in the name of Li Heng, the son of virtue, which was actually still an overkill. But this is also something that cannot be helped, the Son of Heaven fainted on the night he ascended the throne, where is there time to promote officials on a large scale to fill the vacancy.
All the dragon sons and dragon grandchildren are in the ranks, which avoids the possibility of them making trouble. And the Long Wu Army was the most powerful force of the forbidden army, and after the Long Wu Army left Chang'an City, the defense of Chang'an City became extremely weak.
More than 20,000 people were dressed in white. Walking in the autumn when the frost has fallen. The Son of Heaven has not yet recovered from his illness, so naturally no one is gone, and the huge carriage almost fills the entire official road. Therefore, the speed of walking is extremely slow, and after a day's time, it is only forty or fifty miles away from Chang'an City.
Zhang Xun, the right minister, and Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, both rode horses and accompanied them, following closely beside the huge carriage of the Son of Heaven, with extremely solemn expressions. An edict has been issued ordering Anxi Dadu to escort Ma Renjie to escort the coffin of the former emperor out of Tingzhou as soon as possible, and the speed here does not need to be too fast, and the two sides will converge above the halfway. Slow down here. The place of convergence in the future is a little farther away from the west of the moraine.
The mighty flow of people went west, and in Chang'an City, Mi Xue personally released a tail of Haidongqing. Watch as the falcon rushes into the sky and disappears.
The people of the Persian Temple have been almost cleaned up by Zhang Xun, and the Lijingmen has almost been wiped out, and the entire Chang'an City has been destroyed. Agent Anthy has become the most powerful dark force again. For Michelle. Today's Chang'an City is one-way transparent.
Li Heng, the son of heaven, is still in a coma, this is a secret that Zhang Xun of the right minister wants to keep, and it is extremely successful in keeping it secret, and now there are no rumors that the son of heaven is in a coma in Chang'an City, but she has already reported the news to the general of Tingzhou.
And this time, Zhang Xun took the ministers and the dragon son and Long Sun Hao out of Chang'an City, claiming that the Son of Heaven personally went to greet the coffin of the first emperor, which was virtual and real. She is already clear. All of these were written into the information by her personally.
There are, of course, some small things in the intelligence. For example, the destroyed Fufeng County Royal Mansion is being rebuilt. On that day, Li Heng, the son of heaven, once said that he would demote the title of general to the prince of the county, but he fell into a coma that night, and later the mansion was copied, but this will was not announced, and now looking at this situation, this will is probably impossible to appear.
She knew very well the choice of the general on the Tingzhou side, the general's side had been waiting for Chang'an to react to the death of the old emperor, and now Chang'an had already reacted quickly. Michelle is also an extremely smart woman, and the combined intelligence of all aspects can probably guess what Zhang Xun is doing now, and these analyses are also written into the intelligence by her for the reference of her own general.
In general, the situation is actually developing in the direction that the general expects, of course, Li Heng's coma is an accident, but the political situation in Chang'an is now decided by Zhang Xun, which is a good thing for the general's plan. Zhang Xun is a loyal minister, but his focus is not on the Son of Heaven, but on the whole country, so he is deeply favored by the old emperor, but he will try his best to promote the new emperor to ascend the throne and stabilize the world. He has no selfishness, not for power, but for the stability of the world, from this point of view, Zhang Xun is actually the same kind of person as the general. The difference is that Zhang Xun has great respect for imperial power compared to generals, no matter who is the emperor, he still needs an emperor, this is Zhang Xun's idea.
It should be easier for two people who are somewhat similar to each other to come to an agreement. Originally, Li Heng ascended the throne, and if the general wanted to ask for the special status of Qixi from Li Heng without bloodshed, it could be said that it was extremely difficult, and Li Heng, as the Son of Heaven, was afraid that it would be difficult to accept such conditions, and the result would still be bloodshed after all. And now that Zhang Xun has been replaced, he is not the emperor, and the angle of considering the problem is different, so there is a possibility that the two sides can reach an agreement without bloodshed.
Michelle understood that the purpose of Zhang Xun's trip this time was not to negotiate with his own general, because he did not know the purpose of his own general. However, in her opinion, Zhang Xun sent herself to the negotiating table this time.
As for those secret troop movements, they were all in vain in Mi Xue's eyes, and Zhang Xun would eventually understand that even if his own general left Tingzhou, he would still be a tiger, and would not become a lamb to the slaughter.
Surely the two sides will meet somewhere, and then ...... Then the situation should be clear.
Her own general doesn't want to be the emperor, which is a great pity in the eyes of the Xinghu woman. However, this has long been determined, and with the general's temperament, no one can change him. So for her and her Anxi agents, it doesn't make much sense to spend a lot of time and energy on the Chang'an side, since the general's purpose is still in the river and the big food hometown, then the battlefield of her and her agents should also be there. She also wanted to settle all this as soon as possible, and then return to Moxi to continue to preside over the affairs of Anxi's secret agents.
Of course, there is another reason why she wants to go back, and that is that she ...... Some missed him.
Pride was her armor, the only thing she couldn't possibly let go, so even if she returned to Moxi, she would still only be the leader of his spies, not his woman. However, after all, it is different, at least ...... I'll be able to see him more.
Hai Dongqing has disappeared for a long time, and the cool breeze is rising, and the leaves are falling. The Xinghu woman reached out to catch a fallen leaf, stared at it for a moment, and gently crushed it in her palm.
Excess emotions, she never let it last long. She stayed by his side because she knew she was a useful person, and this was what qualified her to stand in front of him. As for the rest...... I just think about it occasionally, but since it's impossible, it's better to think less.
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Traveling in such cold weather is actually a very sinful thing.
Except for Long Wujun, most of the others walked, and the old and young clans were all pampered and pampered, where could they bear such a crime, and they didn't walk long before they were already full of blood blisters, and the more they walked, the slower and slower they went. The ministers are actually not much different, most of them are from families, even those from poor families, who have been up and down for so many years, and have long forgotten what it is like to walk on their own feet. When camping, there was a wail in the camp, I don't know how many people were secretly scolding Zhang Xun, scolding him for being unkind, those killers of the Longwu Army could ride horses, but let them walk.
Scolding and scolding, at the moment, Zhang Xun dominates the power of the Chaogang, it is the hot time, who dares to touch his moldy head, when Zhang Xun and Chen Xuanli are inspecting the camp, no one dares to say a word.
Yongwang Li Lan was Li Heng's most arrogant younger brother, and today he also suffered a lot, and when he saw Zhang Xun, he jumped to his feet and scolded, clamoring to go to see the emperor's brother to comment, Zhang Xun's face was flat, and he immediately ordered Long Wujun to take care of Li Xuan and his family, and not give him food as a punishment. As a result, they really didn't give a little food, Li Lan's family walked for a day, they were already tired and dizzy, but they didn't get any food, and more than a dozen Yongwang Mansion guards who followed Li Lan just showed a little resentment, and they were executed by Zhang Xun on the charge of rebellion.
Under such a shock, others didn't even dare to talk about it. No one feels that their life is long, so they will provoke Zhang Xun at this time. Li Lan has been the king for more than 20 years, and he has been loved by the Son of Heaven, and he has always been arrogant and arrogant, but he was done by Zhang Xun in public, and everyone said in their hearts that Zhang Xun acted too much, but no one dared to say anything.
Li Lan himself is also bitter and can't say it, in the eyes of others, Zhang Xun killed his guards for the crime of rebellion is a crime to add to it, but he knows his own things, he was originally preparing to launch a palace coup, and these guards are his henchmen, but now that he has just left Chang'an City, he originally wanted to win people's hearts by suppressing Zhang Xun, who expected Zhang Xun to be so ruthless. Once these henchmen die, if he can't do anything along the way.
At this time, Li Lan still had the heart to think about starvation, he began to worry about whether his plan was discovered by Zhang Xun, and whether Zhang Xun did it on purpose. I wanted to take the opportunity to see Li Heng's condition, but I didn't dare to say anything more at this time. The family was very sad and starved for a night.
The nobles were called up early the next morning, and the procession to welcome the coffin continued westward. I thought it was still an extremely difficult day, but I didn't expect Zhang Xun to suddenly become merciful, and the whole team slowed down, no longer in a hurry like yesterday.
As a result of slowing down, the day was only thirty miles. In late autumn, it gets dark early, and in the evening, the carriage of the Son of Heaven can no longer go, so naturally he has to camp. The journey of thirty miles a day was barely bearable, but it was relatively tired, and after a hurried dinner, they fell asleep in a simple tent, and slept very soundly.
In the center of the camp, Zhang Xun stood in front of the carriage of the Son of Heaven, his eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was extremely solemn.
Among so many people, only he and Chen Xuanli knew in their hearts that leaving Chang'an City this time was not just to welcome the coffin of the first emperor. (To be continued......)