readx; The news of the struggle at the court meeting spread all over Chang'an City half an hour after the end of the court meeting, and the major liquor stores in Chang'an, the good deeds were spitting and describing the wonderful stories that happened in the court today, as if they had seen it with their own eyes, talking excitedly, and the listeners were shocked, until the end of today's court meeting, Li Qing'an's martial artist image was finally subverted, and many people listened to it leisurely, and it turned out that the political struggle could be so wonderful. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At noon, the news came out again from the Daming Palace, and the political affairs hall voted by four to two, appointing the former governor of Yangzhou Dadu, the prince and young master Wei Tao as the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and the same Zhongshu Men Pingzhangshi to fill the vacancy after Cui Lian's fall.

In the early autumn of Chang'an, it was drizzling, a wash after the summer heat was more sultry, the time for the lunch break came, the lunch break was quite long, nearly an hour, the courtiers withstood the drizzle, walked out of the Daming Palace in twos and threes, each looking for a wine shop to drink, and chatted about the political changes after today's meeting, at this time, a carriage drove out of the Danfeng Gate, more than a dozen guards waiting outside immediately rode up to meet them, and the carriage guarded the left and right, the carriage slowly went in the direction of Suzaku Street, in the carriage, Zhang Yun closed his eyes slightly, In soothing the fatigue of the morning pilgrimage.

Sitting opposite his brother, Taichangqing Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan seemed a little worried, his relationship with the Wei family is not very good, especially with Wei Jiansu, when Wei Jiansu entered the photo is to take away his name, which made him deeply dissatisfied, and now Wei Jiansu has been arrested, he is happy and adds a trace of worry to Wei Tao's entry today.

"I thought it was very unwise for the eldest brother to support Wei Tao's entry into the picture."

Zhang Yan saw that the eldest brother was still silent, so he sighed and continued: "In fact, Wei Tao's entry into the phase not only hit Li Heng hard, but also is very unfavorable to the eldest brother, the eldest brother imagines, in the past, the balance of power in the political affairs hall, each accounted for three people, and the eldest brother's vote is particularly critical, it is the key to the competition between the two sides, but today's eldest brother's support for Wei Tao's entry into the phase has undoubtedly disrupted this balance, and the loss is greater than the gain, I think it's not appropriate!" ”

At this time, Zhang Yun's eyes opened a little, glanced at his brother, and after a long time, he said slowly: "Last time I said that you couldn't be Xiangguo, it was because you couldn't hold your breath, and today I still say this, you are too anxious, and you have exposed your selfishness prematurely, so you can't become a big thing." ”

Zhang Yan is also a fifty-year-old person, the tone of the eldest brother's lecture made him feel indignant in his heart, and his face sank and said: "I am kind enough to persuade you, if you don't accept it, it's just that, why bother to sarcastically mock me like this, I can't be Xiangguo, that's because with you in front, there can't be two people surnamed Zhang in the political hall!" ”

Perhaps Zhang Yun also realized his brother's dissatisfaction, so he opened his eyes, smiled, and comforted him: "You stubborn cow is the same as when you were a child, okay!" I'll tell you why I support Lee Kyung-an. ”

"Say it! I listened. Zhang Yan still spoke in a hard and authentic tone.

Zhang Yun pondered for a while and said: "When the tide comes suddenly, the most important thing is not to block the tide, how can manpower shake the sky, so if you want to retreat from the tide, the key is to take advantage of the trend, just like Ding Ding to solve the cow, this time the two parties fight is the tide rushing to the shore, I help Li Qingan is actually taking advantage of the trend, do you think I really went to Anxi as an official for the sake of the festival?" Of course, it's not bad to leave yourself a way out, as for the balance of power you said, it seems to make sense, but it really doesn't matter in the face of strength. ”

Zhang Yan's tone softened a little, but the doubts in his heart deepened, "Big brother can't help but exalt Li Qing'an too much!" If he hadn't caught Cui Lian's handle by chance this time, would it have been so easy for him to bring down Cui Lian? It's God watching over him. ”

Zhang Yun didn't speak, quietly staring at his brother, in fact, his father said since he was a child, the second brother is stupid, if he succeeds in the future, he will be the light of his relatives, now it seems that his father is not right, if he didn't become a lieutenant, Li Longji treated him differently, how could he be too Changqing, Zhang Yun couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, he didn't want to say anything, God favored? Hum! Could there be such a coincidence in the world? This is clearly Li Qingan's arrangement, Li Qingan has been able to control Li Longji, isn't this kind of strength terrifying? The brother's ignorance reminded Zhang Yun from the other side that he must send his son to Anxi and send him away today, Zhang Yun closed his eyes again and didn't say a word more.

．．．．．．．． Jingshanfang, a carriage came quickly and stopped in front of the steps of Pei's house, as soon as the carriage stopped, Pei Zunqing jumped off the carriage and walked up the steps quickly, and a porter ran out with an umbrella to cover Pei Zunqing from the rain.

"Is the master resting?" Pei Zunqing asked.

"The master has just gotten up and is having lunch."

Pei Zunqing nodded, and walked into Pei's mansion quickly, although half a month has passed since Pei's birthday, many decorations and decorations have not been removed, four red lanterns are still hanging red on the big tree in the atrium, Pei Kuan is waiting for several maids, slowly drinking porridge, compared with his birthday, his body is a little weak, weakly half lying on the soft mattress, like a puppet at the mercy of the maids.

"The second master is here!"

Someone at the door announced, Pei Zunqing had already hurriedly walked into the room, although Pei Kuan's body was weak, but his mind was very clear, he raised his head, and saw Pei Zunqing in a hurry, so he smiled and said, "Why are you so anxious?" ”

"I have something important to discuss with my eldest brother."

Pei Zunqing sat down and told Pei Kuan everything that happened in today's court meeting, Pei Kuan still drank porridge one bite at a time, but the bright color that kept flashing in his cloudy eyes showed that he had understood Pei Zunqing's description, Pei Zunqing told Pei Kuan these things not to listen to his strategy, Pei Kuan is old and will not have any strategy, but some things must be supported by Pei Kuan.

Pei Zunqing was provoked by Li Linfu more than ten years ago, and once turned his face with Pei Kuan, but as he got older, he also understood a lot of truths, especially the interests of the family, should always be put first, Pei Zunqing is not an open-minded person, because of this, he is full of hatred for the Cui family, and he is bent on suppressing the Cui family, making the Pei family the first family in the Tang Dynasty, the wrist that covered his hands for rain made him even more determined to follow Li Qing'an.

"Li Qingan is very good!" A hint of a smile appeared on Pei Kuan's walnut-like face.

"It's not bad!"

Pei Zunqing got Pei Kuan's response, and immediately perked up, he waved his hand and asked the maids to retreat, and then approached Pei Kuan and lowered his voice: "This time he defeated the Cui family, the situation is clear, if our Pei family does not seize a place as soon as possible, we will regret it in the future." ”

Although Pei Kuan was old and weak, after all, he had decades of experience, and he immediately heard the meaning of Pei Zunqing's words, he narrowed his old eyes and said, "You mean he will ascend the throne?" ”

Pei Zunqing nodded, in fact, Li Qing'an's ambition is not news, Li Qing'an's occupation of Anxi has long been disobedient, and after it is completed, he is ranked as a prince, two years ago, someone impeached Li Qing'an for supporting the army and self-respect, with ill intentions, these, many discerning people can see, but Pei Zunqing, as the head of a big family, is also observing Li Qing'an, he wants to see how Li Qing'an competes for the throne, whether he wants to be the emperor for ten years, or the emperor for a hundred years, from Li Qing'an's army to suppress Guanlong, it is not a foot on the throne of the Son of Heaven, But after supporting Li Shi's ascension to the throne, Pei Zunqing understood that Li Qing'an wanted to be the emperor for a hundred years, so the Pei family could bet their future and fate on Li Qing'an, and today's court dispute strengthened his thoughts.

"Big brother, this is an opportunity for my Pei family, the Cui family has fallen, it must be an opportunity for my Pei family to rise, I hope that the eldest brother can persuade the Pei family to fully support his ascension to the throne."

Pei Kuan smiled and said, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"The first step I plan to take is to marry him, marry Wan'er to him, and use marriage to tie the Pei family to him."

Pei Kuan nodded, he agreed with Pei Zunqing's idea of marriage, and Pei Wan'er is the best of the Pei family's granddaughter's generation, no matter her appearance, talent or surname, she is undoubtedly the best candidate.

At this moment, there was a rush of running outside the door, and the porter reported outside: "Master, His Royal Highness has come down to apologize to the master for his birthday." ”

．．．．．．． Marriage is like clothes, if the Pei family and Li Qing'an are two pieces of clothing, then Pei Wan'er is the button that connects these two pieces of clothing, at this time this shallot-like jade button is not in Pei's Mansion, but in Dugu Mansion, Pei Wan'er has a very good relationship with the second girl of the Dugu family these days, and there is also a Pei Yu, after Pei Kuan's birthday, the three of them got together for three days, and Mingzhu was the oldest among the three, three or four years older than the Pei family sisters, but the psychological age, they are the same.

In the embroidery room, Mingzhu carefully took out a gold box, opened it, and inside was a diamond the size of a pigeon's egg, and excitedly handed it to them: "Look at this, haven't you seen it!" ”

This light blue diamond is a tribute to Li Qing'an from the Broken Leaf Turkic Khan, called Atami Jing Tears, which is rare in the world, Li Qing'an gave it to her in order to thank Mingzhu for coming all the way to Beiting to report the news, as a reward, this is the most precious thing in Mingzhu, since she almost lost it last time, she refuses to take it out easily to show people, this time it is a close relationship with the Pei family sisters, so she gave them a look.

Although the Pei family sisters are all famous women, the dazzling diamond of the pearl still made the two of them exclaim in a low voice at the same time, and both of them couldn't help but show envy in their eyes.

"Mingzhu, is this really yours?"

"Of course, this was given to me by my brother-in-law."

Mingzhu mentioned her brother-in-law, a smug look flashed in her eyes, now her brother-in-law is recognized as the most powerful person in the Tang Dynasty, even the emperor may not be able to compare to her, when she goes out, she will always hear someone whispering behind her, 'Look! She is the sister of Princess Zhao. This filled Mingzhu's heart with a sense of glory, and the only fly in the ointment was that others only said that she was Princess Zhao's sister, not that she was Li Qingan's sister-in-law.

Mingzhu carefully put away the diamonds, and said to them with great interest: "I'll take you to see my sister's room again, it's not easy for people to see, many people want to visit the house, but my mother won't give it." ”

Pei Wan'er and Pei Yu were not interested in this, Pei Wan'er shook her head and said with a smile: "Let's see it another day!" Let's talk about going on an autumn trip tomorrow. ”

When it came to the long-awaited autumn outing, Mingzhu suddenly smiled and said: "Speaking of the autumn outing, my heart has flown to Qujiangchi, let's bring more friends and go to have a lively trip, what do you say?" ”

"Not good!" The Pei sisters objected in unison: "If there are too many people, we won't go." ”

Mingzhu hurriedly said: "If you don't want more people, forget it, in fact, you need more people to have fun in Qujiang Pond, everyone races boats and sings, sings poems and drinks, just the three of us, staring at each other, what's the point?" ”

At this time, Mrs. Pei walked in and said with a smile: "Then let your brother-in-law accompany you!" ”

"Mother, why did you sneak in and don't say a word." Mingzhu stood up in fright, and complained a little about her mother.

The Pei family sisters stepped forward together and saluted: "See my aunt!" ”

"I'm here to clean your sister's room, I happened to hear you chatting, just now your brother-in-law sent someone to say that he wants to go to Qujiangchi tomorrow, and asked if you are interested in going together, it just so happens that Wan'er Xiaoyu is here, so let's go together."

"Really? That's a coincidence. Mingzhu smiled and said: "We are also going to autumn outing, how did you think of going together?" ”

Pei Wan'er lowered her head and said, "Then I won't go." ”

"Why don't you go!"

Mingzhu said unhappily: "Originally, we were going to go by ourselves, so we treated him as if he joined our threesome, and there was one more person, no!" But it's not just one person, he has a whole bunch of guards! ”

Mingzhu suddenly reacted and went to play with Li Qingan, she was very willing, but when she thought that there were a large group of guards staring at her, her interest was reduced by half.

"Otherwise, let's go by ourselves in two days, and tomorrow we will say that we are sick, forget it."

"Don't talk nonsense, my mother has already promised, you clean up today, and tomorrow morning, he will send a carriage to pick you up."

．．．．．．． Lishan, on a dirt mountain about five miles away from Huaqing Palace, the forest is luxuriant, there is a small temple of land in the forest, the temple is dedicated to the land god and the land grandmother who do not know what year and what month, the small temple is quite dilapidated, the doors and windows are gone, empty, the mud god is also missing arms and legs, there is only a three-legged broken wooden case, the corner of the wall and the roof are covered with cobwebs, the place here is remote, even the beggars will not spend the night here.

At night, the land that had been deserted suddenly became lively, and dozens of black-clothed people gathered in the small temple, their bodies were flexible, running like flying, and they were obviously people with strong martial arts.

The men in black did not say a word, they all sat aside to eat dry food and drink water, and at the offering table of the god of the land sat a person, also dressed in black, this person had heavy eyebrows and a horse face, and his appearance was very ugly.

He is An Lushan's intelligence leader Liu Luogu deployed in Chang'an, since An Lushan's defeat in Guanneidao, Liu Luogu, who has been active in Chang'an's social field, has also disappeared, of course, he did not withdraw to Fanyang, but from the front of the stage to the background, in the secret activities, the stronghold also from Chang'an City to Gaoling County, during this period of time he did not have any activities, just wrote some major events in Chang'an into pigeon letters sent to Youzhou.

And five days ago, Liu Luogu finally received An Lushan's order, in view of Yang Yuhuan has gradually been forgotten, An Lushan ordered him to kidnap Yang Yuhuan to Youzhou, if he can complete this task, he will be promoted two levels and rewarded with 50,000 yuan.

An Lushan's order made Liu Luogu dare not slack off, and he immediately regathered the various subordinates who were lurking.

Liu Luogu has been operating in Chang'an for many years, An Lushan gave him sufficient funds, so that he has the capital to recruit troops and horses, and collect capable people, he has 500 elite soldiers in a manor in Chang'an, and also collected nearly 100 capable people.

At this moment, Liu Luogu was standing in front of the offering table with the two leaders, discussing how to kidnap Yang Yuhuan's plan, in fact, they had already done it once three days ago, but they thought about it simply, thinking that there was only one battalion of 300 soldiers guarding the Huaqing Palace, but they didn't expect that there were other people in ambush inside and outside the Huaqing Palace, so that their actions failed, and three people died, and some of them exposed their intentions.

Although there were some worries that Yang Yuhuan had been transferred, there were only two days left before the seven-day deadline given to them by An Lushan, and Liu Luogu had to bite the bullet and carry out a second operation.

On the table was a simple map, the handwriting on the map was faintly illuminated by the faint light, this map was sold to them by a guard who had been on duty in the Huaqing Palace, and the map showed Yang Yuhuan's Taoist temple and the shortcut to enter the Huaqing Palace.

The shortcut is the northwest corner and the southeast corner of the Huaqing Palace, both of which are densely wooded, easy to hide, and can be climbed into the palace by trees, the last time they were found in the northwest corner, now there must be heavy defense, then this time they will attack the southeast corner.

Liu Luogu knocked heavily on the confession table with his fingers, and said without question: "Enter from the southeast corner tonight!" ”

At this time, a spy rushed in outside and said, "General, the hour has come." ”

Liu Luogu looked up and looked outside, the sky was still drizzling, the clouds were thick, the wind was high and the night was dark, it was a good time to do it, he immediately said to the nearly 100 subordinates sitting on the ground: "I still say that, you are not allowed to frighten the concubine Niangniang, put people in a sack and leave, whoever can succeed, I will reward 10,000 yuan." ”

The 10,000-strong reward stimulated the eyes of each of the men in black to glow, and they all stood up and rubbed their hands, when one of the leaders suggested: "General, it is better to attack the east and west, and make a feint to attack the northwest corner and attract the defenders to pass." ”

"Good! That's it, the first team goes to the northwest corner, and the second team follows me to the southeast corner. ”

He blew out the lights with a snort, "Let's go!" ”

Nearly a hundred black-clothed people rushed out of the small temple, like a group of black wild cats, and their figures quickly disappeared into the dark drizzle.

(To be continued)