readx; Li Qing'an only stayed in Taiyuan for one day, and then immediately rushed back to Chang'an, and there was only one possibility for him to hurry back to Chang'an, and something big happened in Chang'an. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Chang'an did happen a big thing, to be precise, this incident did not happen in Chang'an, but happened in Gaoling County, a subordinate county of Jingzhao Prefecture, there are fishermen in the Zhongbai Canal caught a large turtle, look at the turtle at least more than a thousand years, people are extremely surprised that the turtle is engraved on the back of the text.

The fishermen were illiterate and sent the turtle to the county government, and the county government recognized these characters, which were a kind of ancient seal characters, with only six words: 'Tang Zaixing, Qing'an'.

The county magistrate of Gaoling County has a very high political consciousness, and he felt the profound meaning of these words, so he immediately sent the big turtle to the imperial court, and these seal characters surprised the high-ranking officials in the political hall, and immediately ordered to block the news.

But the news still spread, quickly spread in Chang'an, the people are speculating about the meaning of these words, first of all, the turtle is an auspicious animal, and his appearance is generally Ruizhao.

And those six words, the meaning is relatively simple, many people have guessed it, Tang is also the meaning of Li, that is to say, the re-prosperity of the Li Tang Dynasty lies in Qing'an, Qing'an has two meanings, one is that the current year name is the second year of Qingping, which means a period, and the other meaning is to remove the word 'Ping' in the three words, leaving the two words 'Qing'an', which is the meaning of Li Qing'an.

In other words, the re-prosperity of the Li dynasty lies in Li Qing'an, many people are inclined to the latter interpretation, and some people deduce that the word 'ping' also has meaning, that is, sweeping Ping'an Lushan and sweeping the Southern Tang Dynasty.

What's even more weird is that the news came out from within the imperial court, the text on the turtle, at least in about a hundred years, about a hundred years, that is, when the Tang Dynasty was established, many people suddenly thought of the discovery point of the giant tortoise, Gaoling County, which is very close to the dedication of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, which is easy to make people have a deeper reverie.

This news undoubtedly caused the calm Chang'an to stir up waves all of a sudden, Ruizhao, Li Qingan's Ruizhao appeared.

At this time, Li Qing'an's reputation in Chang'an was very high, he pacified Jiangnan, so that Jiangnan grain was sent to Chang'an, the first batch of grain in Jiangnan was delivered, the price of rice in Chang'an immediately plummeted, Doumi Baiwen, this is the lowest rice price in Tianbao eight years, and Hedong came to the news of the Tang army's defeat of the thief army in Luzhou, and the elite of the thief army was wiped out more than 100,000 people, and at this time Li Qing'an's Ruizhao appeared, and people couldn't help but think of one thing, Li Qing'an was going to ascend the throne.

Li Qing'an's ascension to the throne is a matter that many people take for granted, after several major turmoil, the royal clans in Chang'an have gradually declined, most of the clans with status have gone to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and those who remain in Chang'an are some distant clans who have nothing to do with the background, and many people don't even have titles.

And the current emperor is extremely young, many people don't admit it at all, just let the Buddha he don't exist, a young emperor, even if he grows up in 20 years, is also immoral and incompetent, how can he bring the Tang Dynasty back to Zhongxing Dazhi. And the son of the Tang Dynasty who can revive it is none other than Li Qingan.

He is the crown prince, and it is four generations of descendants, with authentic royal blood, and he has a heavy army, can firmly control the imperial power, can make the Tang Dynasty in a kind of peace for a long time, as long as the world is peaceful, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty will slowly recover, which is also what the people of the world are eager for.

But if Li Qingan really ascends the throne, many people feel that they can't accept it for a while, just like a neighbor who exercises and runs with you every morning suddenly becomes your leader.

But these are all a kind of speculation, whether to ascend the throne or not, it depends on Li Qing'an's own wishes, the attention of the people of Chang'an is still focused on this giant turtle engraved with mysterious words, its source, is this really providence, or is someone deliberate?

The news of the giant tortoise spread more and more widely, and at first it was still circulated among a few people with status, but later almost the whole of Chang'an knew about it, and this matter finally alarmed the intelligence headquarters.

This is not to say that the Intelligence Hall only knows about this now, in fact, when Gaoling County sent the giant turtle to Chang'an, the Intelligence Hall got the news, generally speaking, if Li Qingan wanted to do this kind of thing himself, it would be up to the Intelligence Hall to do it.

But the intelligence hall didn't know anything about this matter, at first Hu Peiyun thought that Li Qingan had arranged for someone else to do it, so he didn't ask about it, but routinely sent the news to Li Qingan, but soon, Li Qingan's reply arrived.

In the room, Hu Peiyun's brows furrowed, and there was a piece of paper on the table in front of him, this was a pigeon letter sent by Li Qing'an, which had been translated, and the content was not much, and it was summed up in one sentence, and he didn't know anything about the turtle's back words, and instructed the Intelligence Hall to conduct a secret investigation.

It's strange, even the general himself doesn't know, so who did this? Is it really a manifestation from heaven? Hu Peiyun didn't believe it.

At this moment, the voice of the guard came from outside the door, "General Qin is here!" ”

General Qin is Qin Haiyang, the leader of the internal guards, Hu Peiyun immediately ordered: "Please let him in!" ”

Qin Haiyang came just in time, and we can refer to this matter together.

The door opened, and Qin Haiyang walked in from outside, "I heard that the general has news coming?" ”

Qin Haiyang's news was very well-informed, and Li Qing'an's pigeon letter arrived less than a tea time, and he rushed here.

Hu Peiyun didn't want to hide it from him, so he pointed to the letter on the table, "Take a look for yourself!" ”

Qin Haiyang picked up the letter and sat down, he quickly read it, and his brows furrowed, "It's really fucking weird, who did this?" ”

"I didn't know, I initially thought it was you, so I didn't ask."

Qin Haiyang shook his head, "This kind of thing is usually done by your intelligence hall, and it is not our turn to be the internal guard." ”

"But the key now is that even the general himself doesn't know about it, so it must have nothing to do with our Anxi Army."

Qin Haiyang lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said slowly: "Could it be that this was arranged by the Political Affairs Hall?" ”

"Political Affairs?"

Hu Peiyun frowned, "There is this possibility, those old bureaucrats want to find a head, so they want to use this matter to push the general to the top." ”

"There's another possibility, you don't think of it."

Qin Haiyang smiled and said: "Maybe someone is dissatisfied with the excessive power of the political affairs hall, so they hope that the general will take the throne to weaken the power of the political affairs hall, or there are differences within the political affairs hall, such as someone who is dissatisfied with Zhang Xiangguo's excessive power." ”

Hu Peiyun suddenly had a sense of energy, and said with a smile: "According to your inference, there may be many surnames, such as some people think that the country cannot be said to be without a king, or some people are dissatisfied with this little emperor, etc., and there is even another possibility, this is done by Nantang, or An Lushan, to distract the general's attention." ”

At this time, Qin Haiyang suddenly asked, "Where did the general send this letter?" ”

Hu Peiyun took the carrier pigeon tube and looked at it, and said: "Strange, this pigeon letter is from Puzhou......

He suddenly found out that something was wrong, his letter was sent to Taiyuan, how could the general reply to him from Puzhou? As soon as he thought about it, he suddenly understood that the general had not received his letter at all, but someone else had passed the news to him, so who would have sent the news?

Qin Haiyang said with a smile: "If I guess correctly, it should be that the Political Affairs Hall sent a letter to the general, and this matter was concealed by the Political Affairs Hall for at least four or five days before the news came out, and it was deliberately released." ”

"His grandmother's, speaking of which, our intelligence hall is a waste, I don't know anything, what is it called!"

Hu Peiyun's face was a little unbearable, so he got up and said: "The general ordered me to find out who is behind this matter, seeing that the general will arrive in three days at the latest, I must at least find out a little clue, if there is any possibility to ask Brother Qin for help."

Qin Haiyang also stood up and said with a smile: "This is no problem, I will definitely try my best to help." ”

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Half an hour later, Hu Peiyun took two of his subordinates to the Daming Palace Menxia Province, and the giant turtle was raised in the courtyard pool of the Menxia Province in front of him.

At this time, the dynasty has been dispersed, the gate of Menxia Province has been closed, it is also luck, Hu Peiyun and the three of them just walked to the side door of Menxia Province, and saw two officials walking out of it, one of the two is Zuo Shizhi Wang Lang, and the other is Zuo Buque Pei Jingming, the two are on duty tonight, and they are making an appointment to go all the way to dinner, and they happened to meet Hu Peiyun.

Pei Jingming knew Hu Peiyun, and hurriedly smiled and said, "It turned out to be General Hu, is there something wrong with coming to Menxia Province?" ”

Hu Peiyun leaned over and smiled, "I want to take a look at that giant turtle, I don't know if it's convenient." ”

Wang Lang and Pei Jingming glanced at each other, although the waiter did not explain to the giant turtle, but they just rashly let Hu Peiyun in to see, they always felt that something was wrong, but it was also inappropriate to refuse, the two were a little embarrassed, Wang Lang said: "The giant turtle is raised in the pool, I'm afraid I can't see anything clearly?" ”

"Well, I'll just look at it from afar."

Hu Peiyun insisted on seeing, but the two had no choice, so they had to lead Hu Peiyun and his entourage into the compound and came to a pool, which was an ornamental fish pond in Menxia Province, which was quite wide, and from a distance they saw a giant turtle swimming slowly in the pool.

"General Hu, please look, that's the giant tortoise!"

Hu Peiyun laughed and said, "So far away, where can I see it?" ”

He gave one of his subordinates a look, and his subordinates jumped down, Wang Lang and Pei Jingming were taken aback, and it was too late to stop them, so they had to watch as their entourage fished the giant turtle out of the pool.

Hu Peiyun waved his hand, another entourage shook out a bag and put the giant turtle into the bag, the two officials were shocked, Pei Jingming hurriedly said: "General Hu, what is this for?" ”

"Nothing? The giant tortoise was temporarily borrowed for two days, and it was changed to be returned. ”

He looked up and smiled, turned and left, and two attendants carried the giant turtle and followed him, leaving only two stunned officials.

Back in the intelligence hall, Hu Peiyun immediately ordered someone to find two masters of carving tablets, and he had already seen that the words on the turtle shell were not natural turtle patterns, but were carved by people.

In a moment, two stele engravers were brought in, both of them were two old men, and they knelt down together to salute, "Xiaomin see General Hu!" ”

"Two craftsmen, please!"

Hu Peiyun helped the two craftsmen up, and led them to the water tank where the giant turtle was placed, pointed to the turtle shell and said with a smile: "Both of them are masters of carving monuments, and they are well-informed, can you take a look at this turtle shell for me, can you see a little fame?" ”

"Don't dare to be it, General Hu has won the award."

The two stele makers were modest, and then walked to the giant tortoise, the two carefully observed for a moment, and an old man said: "This is the font pen is strong, but it contains round and soft, so rigid and soft, obviously not ordinary people so engraved, if I guess correctly, this is also engraved by a stele craftsman." ”

Hu Peiyun was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Can the old craftsman see whose handwriting this is?" ”

The stele maker shook his head, indicating that he could not see it.

Hu Peiyun saw that another thin and tall stele maker was silent, so he asked him, "Has the Ding craftsman gained anything?" ”

"Hmm!"

The tall and thin stele man nodded slightly, "I seem to have seen this handwriting somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while." ”

Hu Peiyun's spirits were lifted, "Think about it again, where have you seen it?" ”

The thin and tall stele maker looked at it carefully for a while, frowned, and said: "Maybe I've seen it before, but I can't remember it for a while, I have to go back and flip through the stele, can General Hu let me take the words on it?" ”

"Yes!"

Hu Peiyun immediately ordered his entourage, "Take out the turtle and prepare paper and ink rubbing!" ”

Soon, the old craftsman carefully took down the text from the turtle shell and arched his hand: "General, I'll go and check, please let the general let me for a few days." ”

"Good! I'll give you two days, and if you can find it, I'll give you a big reward. ”

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Although he got a glimmer of hope from the stele maker, Hu Peiyun did not dare to pin all his hopes on the stele maker, and the next morning, he led more than 20 people to ride to Gaoling County, he wanted to try to find a clue from the source of the giant tortoise.

Gaoling County is not far away, a hundred miles north of Chang'an, less than half a day's effort, a group of people rushed to Gaoling County, without delay, directly found the county office.

After listening to Hu Peiyun's request, he sighed and said: "The turtle picker is a fisherman who specializes in fishing in Zhongbaiqu, I only know the surname Zhang, and I rewarded him with five yuan afterwards, but I didn't ask his address and name, and I am afraid it will be a little difficult to find him immediately." ”

Hu Peiyun said with a smile: "Zhongbaiqu is not a big lake, there are not too many people who want to come to fish, let's inquire all the way, I think we should be able to find it in half a day." ”

Wu Xianling secretly wondered: "Where is it so easy, if the fisherman doesn't come out today, and no one asks, wouldn't it be missed?" ’

I thought so in my heart, but Wu County's order was not easy to postpone, so I had to get up and say, "Okay then!" I'll accompany General Hu on a trip. ”

Wu County Ling also rode a horse, and Hu Peiyun and others along the Zhongbai Canal all the way to inquire, the Zhongbai Canal is more than 100 miles long, although it is an artificial canal, but the construction is old, and the natural river is no different, the Zhongbai Canal produces a kind of carp, the meat is delicious, it is a palace tribute since ancient times, and the price is naturally very high when it is famous, therefore, there are many fishermen who rely on the Zhongbai Canal to eat, they ask all the way, but they ask a few fishermen surnamed Zhang, but they are not the old fishermen surnamed Zhang.

After walking for an hour, one of the officials pointed to the river and shouted, "Look, there's a white-haired fisherman over there, quite like the old fisherman!" ”

Hu Peiyun was in high spirits, and hurriedly shouted with all his subordinates: "Old fisherman, please come and say something!" ”

The white-haired old fisherman seemed to hear their shouts, and as soon as he stretched his penny, the fishing boat sailed over, and said with a smile: "Is there something wrong with the military masters looking for me?" ”

Hu Peiyun asked Wu Xian Ling in a low voice: "Is it him?" ”

Wu Xianling shook his head, "It doesn't seem to be!" ”

Hu Peiyun was extremely disappointed in his heart, but he was still a little unwilling to ask: "May I ask my father-in-law's surname?" ”

"Hui Junye, my surname is Xu."

Sure enough, it wasn't the fisherman surnamed Zhang, Hu Peiyun sighed, and asked casually: "Have you ever seen the giant turtle with the words engraved on his back?" ”

"Oh! It turned out to be for this matter. ”

"My husband knows?" Hu Peiyun had another glimmer of hope in his heart.

The white-haired old fisherman shook his head and said, "Yesterday I was told by a nephew from Beijing that a thousand-year-old turtle with words engraved on its back was found near Xianling, I don't know where Xianling was found, but it was definitely not in Zhongbaiqu." ”

Hu Peiyun and Wu Xian Ling glanced at each other and said in unison: "Why not Zhongbaiqu?" ”

"It's easy! I have been fishing in Zhongbaiqu for almost 50 years, and I have rarely seen a turtle at all, let alone a thousand-year-old turtle, if there is really a thousand-year-old turtle in Zhongbaiqu, he should have a lot of turtle children and grandchildren, but no, it is difficult to see a turtle. ”

Hu Peiyun nodded secretly, it made sense, although it made sense, but he was still unwilling to give up, thanked the old fisherman, and continued to look west along the Zhongbai Canal, and asked a lot of fishermen, the fishermen all said that they had never heard of the giant turtle with the inscription on their backs, and they had found it at dusk, and they were about to leave the county, but they still found nothing, Hu Peiyun thought secretly, "It stands to reason that this fisherman surnamed Zhang fished out this kind of thing, and got a reward, and he will definitely brag about it, but after asking all the way, he has never heard of this matter at all, and he knows a little, It's all news from Chang'an, which is really a bit weird, is this so-called 'Zhang Fisherman' a fake fisherman at all, or is there no one to offer the giant tortoise? ’

Hu Peiyun couldn't help but glance at Wu County's order, could it be that this official planned it single-handedly, made up a so-called trick of a fisherman sending turtles, and then he took it to the court to report.

But after thinking about it, this Wu County Order has a very high reputation, and the Jinshi in the first year of Tianbao is still a county order, if he really understands this set, he should have been promoted to a squire a long time ago.

Hu Peiyun was puzzled, seeing that it was already evening, he had to return to the county office, preparing to stay for one night and look for clues tomorrow.

As the saying goes, 'a wave is not settled, a wave rises again', just when they just returned to the county government, suddenly there was a government official to report, near the tomb, someone found a three-zhang high white jade stele, which was engraved with the words 'Anxi out of the sage, the Tang Dynasty Xing ten thousand years'.

Hu Peiyun and Wu Xian Ling looked at each other, this is another auspicious sign, Hu Peiyun immediately ordered: "Go!" Look at it. ”

Several officials led him and Wu County Order, as well as more than 20 servants, galloped towards the direction of Xianling.

Xianling is the mausoleum of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, located between Gaoling County and Yunyang County, that is, in today's Sanyuan County, the last time the turtle was caught is also near Xianling, and the two Ruizhao are less than five miles apart.

This time, they were led by a local leader, and soon found the white jade stele, which was found in a forest, less than twenty steps away from the Xianling Tomb, and was accidentally discovered by two woodcutters.

When Hu Peiyun and the others arrived in the woods, it was already dark, and everyone lit torches and walked into the woods.

Hearing that the head of the Internal Guard Intelligence Hall was coming, several officials hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Xia Guan and the other four are all officials who offer the mausoleum, see General Hu!" ”

"Hmmm! You're welcome. ”

Hu Peiyun said kind words, but his eyes fell on this huge white jade stele, the stele is indeed huge, three zhang high, six feet wide, originally half inserted into the soil, but has been flattened by the villagers, in the hunting firelight, only to see a line of words on the stele, 'Anxi out of the sage, Tang Xing Wannian', and the handwriting on the giant tortoise shell is exactly the same.

"Sure enough, it was the same group of people!"

Hu Peiyun suddenly became vigilant in his heart, and there were two cases of Rui Zhao praising Li Qing'an, which seems to be a good thing, but in fact, if there is only one, maybe it is good intentions to do this, but if this kind of Rui Zhao comes out one after another, it is not a good thing, and things will be reversed, which makes people obviously feel that Li Qing'an himself is cheating, and he is eager to ascend the throne, which will make the world disgusted.

That's a disguised smear, and the person doing it is likely to have malicious intentions.

Several mausoleum officials didn't know the depth, but they patted their asses vigorously and said: "I think this white jade stele is likely to come out of the mausoleum itself, this is the will of heaven!" It's called 'the heavens are intentional, and the ghosts and gods are spiritual'. ”

"Nonsense!"

Hu Peiyun glared fiercely, and several mausoleum officials were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything.

Hu Peiyun stepped forward and touched the white jade stele, there was no stone powder on it, it was very clean, indicating that this stele had been made for a long time.

He asked the mausoleum officer, "Are there any carriages or boats approaching the mausoleum these days?" ”

Several mausoleum officials were about to ask for their heads, but Li Zheng, who led the way, said: "I heard that a few days ago, there was indeed a big boat parked in the small river in front of it, and it stopped all night, sneaky. ”

Hu Peiyun hurriedly asked, "What day was it a few days ago?" ”

Li Zheng scratched his head and thought about it, "It seems to be seven days ago, right!" It must have been seven days ago, and I remember it very well, that night, my uncle died. ”

"Do you see who's on board?"

"The boat stopped for a day and a night, and left around the early hours of the morning, and no one showed up during the day, so it is estimated that they started at night."

Hu Peiyun nodded, he had to rush back to Chang'an to deploy, this matter is a bit of a sign of intensification.

He immediately instructed Wu County Order: "Wu County Order, this white jade tablet will be placed in your county office for the time being, don't report it, and even block the news, I'm afraid there is a conspiracy in this matter." ”

Wu Xianling nodded, he also felt a little wrong, how could there be such a coincidence in the world.

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Hu Peiyun rushed back to Chang'an overnight, he got two news on the way, the Ding craftsman found the owner of the handwriting, this is exciting news, but at the same time there is another nervous news came, in Lantian County and Xinfeng County also appeared Ruizhao, Lantian County is found to unearth a carved word Baoyu, and Xinfeng County is unearthed a carved stone horse, the engraved words are the same, 'Tang Zaixing, Qing Ping'.

Extraordinarily weird!

(To be continued)