As soon as the day dawned, Chang'an had not yet reached the time to open the door, but a team of cavalry came galloping from afar, and the cavalry rushed to Hanguang Gate and shouted: "Longyou emergency military situation, open the door!" ”

In a moment, the city gate rumbled open, only the emergency military situation of the battle of Longyou could make the city gate especially open, and a team of cavalry galloped into Chang'an City and rushed towards Xingqing Palace.

In the hibiscus tent, Yang Yuhuan's hair was like light clouds, sideburns were sprinkled wildly, her crisp breasts were half-covered, revealing a pair of mutton fat white jade-like delicate breasts, at this time, she was suddenly awakened by a low shout.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

Yang Yuhuan opened his eyes dimly, and said unhappily: "Your Majesty is still sleeping!" Didn't you say that you wouldn't go to court early? ”

"Niangniang, there is an emergency military situation on Longyou."

"Got it, let's go outside and get ready to serve!"

Yang Yuhuan stretched out his jade arm like a snow lotus root and gently pushed Li Longji beside him, "San Lang, wake up!" ”

Li Longji turned over and hugged her, and said in a daze: "What's the matter?" ”

"It seems that there is an urgent military situation on the right side of Longyou."

"What!" Li Longji sat up suddenly, and suddenly pressed his waist, "Ouch! He shouted.

"San Lang, what's wrong?"

Li Longji waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just that I got up too fast and flashed my waist." ”

"Look at you!" Yang Yuhuan said coquettishly: "The slave family told you to rest well these few nights, but you didn't listen, but now it's okay, flash your waist." ”

"I'm so strong! It's okay to be in love with the lady for another twenty years. ”

Li Longji smiled and pinched Yang Yuhuan's jade cheeks, got up and went out of the account, "Change my clothes, I want to go to Datong Hall immediately." ”

Half an hour later, Li Longji dressed in regular clothes and wearing a black gauze hat, came to the Datong Palace, at this time Li Linfu, Chen Xilie and other five ministers rushed to the Datong Palace, Ge Shuhan's emergency military information also reached their hands, and soon, the crown prince Li Heng also heard the news and rushed to come.

"Your Majesty!"

Li Longji nodded and said to everyone: "A few Xiangguo, please take a seat!" ”

He sat down, and casually opened the emergency military information that had just been sent from the gold plate next to him, which was written by Ge Shuhan himself, Li Longji's brows gradually wrinkled, two months ago he heard that Shenwei City was successfully built, and Li Qing'an burned the Tubo military rations in Haixi, and his heart was very happy, but today's emergency military situation told him that Shenwei City was taken away by the Tubo people again, and the heavy troops stationed in Xihai County were in Xihai County, and I am afraid that he could no longer go up the mountain from the north of Chiling.

This news made Li Longji's mood worse, and he just put down the twists and turns, and Li Linfu, who was good at observing words and feelings, immediately said: "Your Majesty, there is good news ahead." ”

"Oh?" Li Longji opened the recital again, and then looked down, when he saw Li Qing'an defeated the 20,000 army of Tubo with 2,000 troops under Yinglong City, killing 5,000 enemies, he was so excited that he could no longer restrain himself, slapped the dragon case heavily, and praised loudly: "Good! Good! Well played! ”

He was suddenly in a good mood, and smiled at Li Linfu: "I can't imagine that this Li Qilang is really a general, I want to reward him well, what does Xiangguo think?" ”

Li Linfu glanced at Li Heng from the corner of his eye, and when he saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, he smiled faintly and said: "Your Majesty, when the two armies were at a stalemate, the loss of Shenwei City could be said to affect the morale of the army, but Ying Longcheng's victory saved this decadence, Li Qing'an really deserved a reward, but the minister thought that the war was not over yet, and there was still a big battle in the Battle of Hehuang. ”

"Xiangguo was surprised by this!"

Li Heng stood up, and Li Longji bowed first, "The son has something to say, please ask for the emperor's permission!" ”

"Heng'er, if you have something to say, just say it!"

"Thank you, Father!"

Li Heng slowly walked in front of Li Linfu and said: "Li Xiangguo, I have long heard of the way to be handsome, when the reward and punishment are clear, there is merit but not reward, there is no punishment, the way to defeat is also, Li Qing'an last time Haixi surprised the army and won a big victory, Xiangguo said that the credit is difficult to confirm, this time Li Qing'an defeated the Tubo army in Yinglong Fort, Xiangguo said that the merit can not be rushed, then I don't understand, what kind of miraculous merit Li Qing'an wants to make, Xiangguo thinks that he can give such a small reward? ”

"Henry!" Li Longji's face sank, and he said unhappily: "Don't be rude to Xiangguo." ”

"Erchen doesn't dare!" Li Heng glared at Li Linfu fiercely and retreated to his seat.

Li Linfu hurriedly stood up and said to Li Heng with some trepidation: "Your Highness, the minister didn't say that he couldn't reward Li Qing'an, and he never denied his merits, what the minister meant was that he should write down his merits first, and reward him after the Longyou Campaign, and then he would be able to convince people to be a high-ranking official." ”

At this time, Chen Xilie also stood up and said with a smile: "The minister supports Li Xiangguo's idea, the soldiers have soldiers, there will be general rules, Li Qing'an's military merit reward should be proposed by the commander Ge Shuhan, if we cross Ge Shuhan and directly reward Li Qing'an, one is disrespectful to Ge Shuhan, and the other is that we will omit the reward of other meritorious soldiers, which will lead to uneven rewards and punishments, but will affect morale, so the minister means that His Majesty can first praise orally, and then discuss the merits and serious injuries one by one after the end of the war." ”

Li Longji nodded, and said to several other ministers: "How many Aiqing can object?" ”

Yang Shenjin and Zhang Yun said together: "The minister has no objection!" ”

Li Longji saw that Pei Kuan was silent, so he smiled and said, "Pei Aiqing thinks it's inappropriate? ”

Although Pei Kuan felt that it was unfair to Li Qing'an not to reward him for the time being, he also recognized what Chen Xilie said, he couldn't bypass Ge Shuhan, and if he wanted a reward, he also asked Ge Shuhan to make a formal request, he also nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the minister agrees with Chen Xiangguo's words, and he really can't bypass Ge Shuhan." ”

"Well, since all of you Aiqing have the same opinion, then I will adopt it, and you can praise it verbally first."

Speaking of this, Li Longji said worriedly: "Now it is gradually reaching the end of the year, but there has been no progress in the Battle of Hehuang, I am very worried that after this battle, the treasury of the Tang Dynasty will also be depleted, Li Xiangguo, I heard that the price of rice in Chang'an is one hundred and twenty Wen, but is it true?" ”

Li Linfu sighed and said: "One hundred and twenty wen is just the average price of rice, the best Huzhou rice has reached one hundred and forty wen, if the imperial court does not level the price of rice, I am afraid that by the New Year, it will break through two hundred wen of doumi, and it is very likely that there will be a rush to grab rice at that time." ”

Dou rice is two hundred Wen, this is something Li Longji can't think of, Tianbao Dou Mi was only ten Wen in the early years, and it was only a few years to two hundred Wen, he pondered for a moment and asked Zhang Yun: "Zhang Shangshu, how much rice is still stored in Taicang?" ”

Zhang Yun took out a fold from his sleeve and said: "Your Majesty, there are 800,000 stones of rice stored in Taicang, and the minister went to check on the spot yesterday, of which 300,000 stones are moldy and rotten old rice, inedible, in fact, there are only 500,000 stones left, Your Majesty, just these 500,000 stones, it is not enough for the three months of the Longyou campaign, yesterday the Ministry of War sent a letter, asking for another 800,000 stone rice to be transferred to Longyou, how can the minister have grain to be transported?" ”

"What about the rice in Shaanzhou? Is it possible to bring in some of them? ”

"Your Majesty, the catastrophe in Hedong and Henan, the rice in Shaanzhou has been transferred to two places."

Li Longji's brows were twisted into an inverted figure-eight, how could he be embarrassed to this extent? At this time, Pei Kuan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a way to get a million stones immediately." ”

Li Longji was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Pei Aiqing, please speak." ”

"Your Majesty, there is not a lot of rice in Guanzhong, the key is that it exists in the private warehouses of the major wealthy families in Chang'an, if Your Majesty can issue a decree to limit rice, restrict the wealthy families from tun rice, and then the imperial court buys rice at a fair price, at that time, why worry about the lack of rice in Beijing?"

After Pei Kuan finished speaking, there was silence in the Datong Palace, allowing the Chang'an wealthy family to limit rice, what is the difference between this and the field restriction order in previous years? Who's going to buy it? The atmosphere in the Datong Hall became a little awkward, and Li Linfu laughed dryly and said, "Although Pei Shangshu's method is good, it is not realistic, I'm afraid it won't work?" ”

"How could it not work?" Pei Kuan said coldly: "The private warehouses of wealthy families are all over Guanzhong, and there are two hundred and fifty in Xianyang County alone, which one is not more than a thousand stones?" Who are these private warehouses, Li Xiangguo should know better than me, this Longyou campaign has reached a critical moment, and the army can't be defeated because of the lack of military food, right? There is also the New Year is coming, the rumors that the price of rice in Chang'an City will skyrocket, the day before yesterday, the Zhangjia rice shop in the West Market has been robbed by the hungry people in Hedong, the brown rice price in the West Market yesterday afternoon has exceeded 140 Wen, by the time of the New Year, 200 Wen will be able to stop? Isn't Lee Sang-kook more aware of these than I am? ”

Li Linfu listened to Pei Kuan's whitewashed words, his old face couldn't help but redden, and said: "I'm not saying that you can't buy rice from wealthy families, but you need money to buy rice, and now Zuozang's savings are only 500,000 yuan, and you have to pay Yulu at the end of the year, and you will have a New Year's festival next month, all of which cost money, where is there any money left to buy grain?" ”

"Buying grain is just saying, if you don't have enough money, you can owe it temporarily, the battle of Longyou affects the safety of Guanzhong, and the death of your lips is cold, don't the wealthy even understand this truth?"

"That's it!" Li Longji interrupted their argument unhappily, how could it be possible to levy rice from a wealthy family? He stretched his face and said to Li Linfu: "Longyou's military rations must be guaranteed, and the price of rice in Chang'an will also be reduced, no matter what method you use, the price of rice in Chang'an in the New Year cannot exceed 200 Wen, otherwise I will only ask you." ”

Li Linfu had no choice but to say with a bitter face: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

After a pause, Li Longji said again: "Spread my will to Longyou, and tell Ge Shuhan that I don't want to drag it out any longer, and within three months, I must take Shibao City, otherwise Wang Zhongji will be his fate!" ”

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Although the price of rice in Chang'an is high, it will not be associated with the Battle of Longyou, not only Chang'an, but the entire Tang Dynasty is paying attention to this largest battle since Tianbao, decades of competition for Shibao City, three times changed hands, will be settled in this Tangbo War.

At dawn, the latest battle report brought by the Tang Army of Longyou quickly spread throughout Chang'an City, streets and alleys, and restaurants and teahouses, all talking about the latest progress of the Tang and Tibetan Wars.

At noon, the Taibai Restaurant was very lively, and at a table on the second floor, more than a dozen scholars who were preparing to participate in the Tianbao eight-year imperial examination were gathering together to talk loudly about the Qinghai War.

"That Anxi Li Qing'an heard that he made another miraculous feat, defeated the Tubo army on Longju Island in Qinghai, killed 5,000 enemies, and he only lightly injured a dozen people, which is incredible."

"Brother Yao, I don't believe it, kill 3,000 enemies, and lose 800 yourself! How can it not hurt the soldiers, this must be a rumor. ”

"It's not a rumor, it's true, I have the latest news."

A gentleman came over with a grin, and everyone hurriedly pulled him to sit down, and asked, "Brother Wang, tell me quickly, what's going on?" ”

The scholar surnamed Wang drank a glass of wine, ate a mouthful of food, and said with a smile: "Your news is too simple, my uncle is in the military department, this time Longyou sent two battle reports, one is a briefing to the saint, and the other is a detailed report copied to the military department, I met my uncle just now." ”

"What did your uncle say?"

"Uncle said that Li Qing'an made two major contributions in Longyou this time, led 1,000 people to break through the ambush city, killed 3,000 enemies, killed the Tubo general Shangxi Dezan with arrows, burned 300,000 stone military rations of the Tubo army, and then set fire and thunder arrays on Longju Island, burned the Tubo army, and annihilated more than 5,000 people in one fell swoop, and they only lightly injured 15 people."

All the scholars showed a look of antiquity, and after a while, one of the scholars sighed leisurely: "Hey! But to make Longcheng fly, not to call Hu Ma to cross Yin Mountain, this is what the man's husband did. ”

Just when the scholars were talking about Li Qing'an, in front of the small table by the window next to them, sat two handsome young students, although they were dressed as men, but the discerning people could see at a glance that these were two girls dressed as men and women.

"Girl, have you heard, many people are talking about Li Qing'an!"

"You just eat! Don't put your ears so long. ”

"However, Li Qingan has a relationship with the girl!"

These two women are the dance clothes and her maid Yu slave, since the Li Mansion relaxed the control of the dance clothes, she also often goes out to play, no longer depressed in the house, today they went to the street to repair the piano, just heard the wine guests to Li Qing'an's discussion, the dance clothes saw the more Yu Nu said, the more explicit became, then unhappy: "What does he have to do with me?" The more you talk, the more strange it becomes, okay, stop talking, we'll take the piano back after eating. ”

The jade slave didn't dare to say anything, but after a while, she couldn't help but whisper: "But girl, before he returned to Anxi, he gave his six-stringed piano to the girl, isn't this his show of goodwill to the girl?" A war broke out in Longyou, and he had to go back, so why should the girl blame him? ”

Wuyi was silent, she turned her head to look out the window, a trace of melancholy flashed in her eyes, and after a long time, she whispered: "Yunu, don't say it, don't mention this matter in the future." ”

Yu Nu sighed secretly in her heart, Li Qing'an went to Anxi and didn't know when he would come back, the distance of thousands of miles and the long time was enough to extinguish the glimmer of hope that the girl had just risen, thinking of this, she was also sad in her heart, and the dance clothes were in her eyes, she smiled faintly and said: "Yu Nu, you said that I promised to make a comeback, what kind of expression will Aunt Du have?" ”

"Do you need to ask? Qinxian's comeback will definitely cause a sensation in Chang'an! ”

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(To be continued)