The Mid-Autumn Festival in August is coming in a blink of an eye, a bright moon shines on the imperial city, within the city walls, as fine as day.

But in Li Li's eyes, the moonlight was miserable and white, which made people's hearts chill.

The door was pushed open, Zhou Xiangren walked in slowly, Li Li turned his face sideways, deliberately did not look at Zhou Xiangren, Zhou Xiangren sighed twice.

"Today's daytime ceremony is really lively, compared to the day of King Qing, the people of Chang'an City came to I don't know how much, and there are many people in Luoyang City, a few days ago from Luoyang by rutted train, specifically to watch the ceremony. Tsk, that scene, after watching it, people will never forget it......"

"Shut up!"

Li Li snorted vigorously, his hair was open, and he glared at Zhou Xiangren, his eyes full of resentment.

Zhou Xiangren laughed, Li Li, who had lost his imperial power, couldn't even compare to a toothless tiger, he could only be regarded as a toothless cat.

At the beginning, after Li Li ascended the throne, he deliberately snubbed him and supported other eunuchs to replace him. Now, what else do he have to scruple about, if it weren't for Ye Chang's explanation, he would even be willing to take action personally to solve this "future trouble" in his opinion.

"King Qing doesn't think it's still your time to be the Son of Heaven? Now that the empress is on the throne, Her Royal Highness Shou'an...... No, His Majesty has chosen an auspicious time to ascend the throne this morning, and King Qing is in this deep palace, I'm afraid I don't know the way, right? ”

How did Li Yu not know about Lu Dao, although he was confined in the palace, it did not mean that he was completely ignorant of what was happening outside Lu Dao, not to mention, it was such a major event as Shou An's accession to the throne and the title of emperor!

Shou'an's ascension to the throne as emperor, in the eyes of everyone, was a balanced result, which allowed a certain compromise between the old scholar doctor and the new magnate with Ye Chang as the soul figure, and also allowed the imperial power to gradually transition from the Li family to the Ye family.

Because in the whole process, there was no phenomenon of blood flowing, several royal families committed suicide, it was their own business, and the errand soldiers who were killed by the people were not mentioned. Therefore, both inside and outside the court are vigorously advocating, believing that such a peaceful transfer of power has been rare since ancient times, and it can be seen that Her Majesty the Empress and Her Royal Highness King Wei Ze have been returned to the hearts of the world and even the people. In short, it was vigorously advocated, and the historians solemnly recorded it in the annals of history, calling it "the bloodless Ding Revolution", and some people called it "Glorious Ding Revolution".

Although the name of the country is still "Tang", and the lord of the country is still surnamed Li, in the eyes of these people, the momentum of the Ding Revolution has been complete, and they are just waiting for the balance transition.

Naturally, there must be a round of rewards, but these have nothing to do with Li Li, he was renamed King Qing, but he was allowed to keep the old palace and live here. This kind of generosity once made the ministers very worried, but Shou An and Ye Chang still insisted on it.

"Now are you here to drive me out of here, let me tell you, don't you think, isn't Ye Chang unwilling to take on the name of killing the king, unless he kills me, don't think I will move out of the palace!" Li Li howled: "Come on, come and kill me, come and kill me, I'm not afraid!" ”

"If you weren't afraid, you'd have already finished yourself, what are you pretending to be until now?" Zhou Xiangren couldn't help but ridicule him again, and then said: "But don't worry, the empress has a will, the palace here will be changed to Qingwangfu, which belongs to you, and in addition, 150,000 yuan will be allocated every year for the maintenance of Qingwangfu." ”

"What...... What the? ”

Li Li opened his mouth and was stunned again.

It's not here to drive him away, so he just made a fuss, no wonder it only attracted ridicule and ridicule.

Ye Chang and Shou An treated the Li Tang royal family quite well, and according to the bloodline with Li Longji, the Li Tang clan had a lot of annuities. Li Li's standard is the highest, 150,000 yuan, of course, this money is for Li Li's entire family, including their family's food, clothing, housing and transportation, as well as hiring servants, internal supervisors, maids, and palace maintenance, if Li Li still has to support a big stall, then 150,000 guan may not be enough to spend.

In this way, the entire Li clan has to take more than 200,000 yuan from Ye Chang every year, although Ye Chang can make money, it is also very painful to do so.

After learning about this, Li Li had mixed feelings in his heart, and after a while, he sighed, and after all, he didn't scold Ye Chang again.

originally thought that his life would definitely not be guaranteed, but he never thought that Ye Chang would also allocate an annuity to him, and he couldn't reach this amount. At this time, he also had a strong sense of guilt in his heart, he just hated that he shouldn't have listened to the villain's slander, and he had to be suspicious of Ye Chang, so today.

It's all to blame for Yuan Zai's fight, the success is insufficient, and the failure is more than enough!

Yuan Zai, who was cursing in his heart, was in a place he was very familiar with at the moment, and although it was late at night, he still couldn't sleep.

He said that he was familiar, because the place he was in now was the prison door of Jingzhao Mansion, and the moonlight shone through the gap in the prison in front of his feet. He once served as the chief official here, and locked many heads of chambers of commerce and Guozijian here, but at that time he was so proud that he never thought that he would live here soon. If I had thought about it at the time, I would have changed the environment here, at least, not because of the rancid smell that permeated the place.

There was a sudden squeak from the cell door, it was opened, Yuan Zai immediately stepped forward, hugged the fence and shouted: "Let me go, let me go, I am wronged......"

A lantern was raised, and then, Wonjae heard the familiar coughing sound, he was stunned, and the screaming also stopped abruptly.

Wang Zhonghe's old and haggard face, his wife's desolate and mournful face, and Liu Yan's calm face appeared in his sight one after another under the light.

Yuan Zai was happy and worried in his heart, hoping that this was to let him go, but also afraid that this was the last side for him to see his relatives.

He knew that the relationship between Wang Zhongji and Ye Chang was a little complicated, but at least in the past ten years, the relationship between the two was quite good, so Wang Yang'er was by Ye Chang's side and became a brave general with great achievements. If Wang Zhongsi came forward and begged Ye Chang, Ye Chang might really sell his favor.

But he knew more that he had offended Ye Chang.

A considerable part of the reason why the relationship between Li Li and Ye Chang is so stiff is that he spied on Li Li's suspicion of Ye Chang in his heart, which contributed to it.

"Prince, I'll go outside for a while, and if there's anything, you can tell him about it." Liu Yan arched his hand to Wang Zhonghei, then glanced at Yuan Zai with some disgust, and left on his own.

The jailer moved a chair, and Wang helped Wang Zhongsi sit down, and Wang Zhongsi sighed slowly.

"Zhangweng......" Yuan Zai muttered.

"At the beginning, the first emperor dismissed me from my position and put me in Qianzhong because I had grown up with Reverse Heng since I was a child, and at that time, I was disheartened and really unwilling to participate in the affairs of the imperial court...... I've said it again and again, we just need to do our part, and don't be greedy to get into trouble, but you just won't listen. Wang Zhongsi waved his hand and signaled him to be quiet: "You have this calamity, but you are self-inflicted, no wonder others!" ”

"Yes, yes." Yuan Jae replied in a low voice.

"I didn't want to pay attention to you, but your lady begged to come to me, when she married you, she suffered a lot of grievances, and now you are still causing trouble for him, if it is not for the generosity of King Wei, the disaster will not be for his wife, or she, she will accompany you to prison!"

Yuan Jae looked at his wife, who had lost a lot of weight, and was far from being as radiant as she was at the beginning.

He was really a little ashamed in his heart, he was just a poor scholar, he had nothing to do, and he was lucky to marry the daughter of the Wang family, and because he was despised by the members of the Wang family, his wife resolutely left home with him, wandered around, and suffered a lot. Later, he was depressed and unwilling, and was even humiliated by Ye Chang, who was a civilian, and his wife went home in shame and asked for an official for him.

Now that he is facing prison, he is a wife, and he has invited his father to help him.

"Are you wrong now?" Wang Zhongsi asked.

"The son-in-law has already realized that he is wrong, and he shouldn't go against Ye Gong." Yuan Jae settled down and said guiltily.

"Wrong, wrong, you don't know what your mistake is, you're not against Ye Gong, you're against the whole world!" Wang Zhongsi snorted and said: "You are in prison, I don't know what has happened these days, in your imagination, this Ding Revolution, the Quartet must always be a little unstable, right?" ”

Yuan Zai didn't answer, which can be regarded as a default.

Although Ye Chang pushed Shou An out as the empress, anyone with a discerning eye can know that he actually sought to usurp the throne. The Li family has been sitting in the world for so many years, Li Longji has been the emperor for fifty years, the four seas are salty, and all the people are in their hearts, how can no one come out to speak out, reprimand Ye Chang, and even raise troops to raise righteousness?

"Let me tell you, the Sifang border town, the town generals from all over the world, have gathered in Chang'an these days, do you know what this means?"

The generals of various towns and festivals gathered in Chang'an, which means that they have unreserved trust in Ye Chang, and at the same time, they also fully support this Dingge. Hearing the news, Yuan Zai couldn't help but lose his mind, and then smiled bitterly: "He...... He has such prestige! ”

"Even if the first emperor is reborn, his prestige is not as good as Ye Chang, do you think that the first emperor did not make any moves in the next five years, and he really has no suspicion of Ye Chang? Wrong, wrong, that's because the first emperor understood that suspicion or non-suspicion is meaningless, Ye Chang has become a general trend! ”

When Wang Zhongsi said this, he coughed twice, and sighed again: "You don't know, the benefits of Wei Wang Yiwei firearms ......."

After the training of the firearms army, Tianbao was nineteen years old, that is, last year, Ye Chang invited the generals of the towns and festivals to gather in Liaodong, saying that they were going to conduct a drill. That time, Wang Zhongsi, who was a general in the army, also went as an envoy sent by the imperial court to preside over the exercise, which was the first time Wang Zhongsi saw a firearms exercise.

As a famous general in the Tang Dynasty - it is very likely that he is the first general outside of Ye Chang today, Wang Zhongsi has enough vision to see from the artillery and muskets and the phalanx of his drills that such a formed army will have what kind of combat effectiveness.

As long as the ammunition was endless, no army could get close to them, and all the enemy was slaughtered from a close distance.

The impact of this exercise on Wang Zhongsi and the border generals of Zhuzhen was great, whether it was like Gao Shi or not, he was originally a general of Ye Chang's family, and when he saw this new type of troops, new tactics and new weapons, he was convinced by Ye Chang, and at the same time, he also imagined that his troops would also become such an army that surpassed this era.

But it is obvious that this is Ye Chang's top secret, and it is also the foundation of his life. Through various means, they obtained a small number of firearms, and even let the Taoist priests of alchemy imitate gunpowder, but whether it is power or safety performance, it is far from what Ye Chang has, not to mention arranging troops like Ye Chang.

Therefore, in this Ding Revolution, the generals of the towns who held the military power, whether they agreed in their hearts or not, at least did not do anything stupid to oppose the army.

"Even if a few people don't know the general trend and want to raise troops, they are captured by their subordinates and dedicated to Ye Gong...... These subordinates are not afraid of Ye Gong's firearms, but they are defeated by Ye Gong's money, the border army and the towns, which one has not made a fortune from the border in the past few years, if according to the patent policy between you and King Qing, which of them does not want their interests to be damaged? ”

The border generals and the new nobles in the imperial court were all active participants in the establishment of industrial and mining industries, not to mention the fact that the textile factory provided military uniforms for their subordinates, and I don't know how much money they added privately. In addition, now they rely heavily on the two major chambers of commerce of Anton and Anxi in terms of weapons and equipment, and they also rely on collecting a lot of fees for the three major chambers of commerce to open up the trade route to the realm of Yidi, so they are also Ye Chang's staunch supporters.

On the contrary, among the courtiers, Yan Gaoqing and others were very dissatisfied with Ding Ge, but they also knew that it was not Ye Chang's active choice to make Shou An the empress when they came to this point, but Ye Chang made great concessions.

Listening to what Wang Zhongsi said about the outside world, Yuan Zai's heart was very twisted, and he didn't like to listen to these. Wang Zhongsi looked at his eyes, found what he was thinking, and was furious in his heart, but seeing his daughter's pitiful appearance, Wang Zhongsi couldn't help but sigh again.

"Evil Barrier!" He pointed at Yuan Zai and said: "You are here, so introspective, I don't expect you to change your mind, I just hope you think more about my daughter's goodness!" ”

After he finished speaking, he waved his sleeves and got up, and was about to leave, but Yuan Zai couldn't help but panic when he saw it in the back: "Zhangweng, Zhangweng!" ”

Wang Zhongsi didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said to his daughter: "I'm waiting for you outside, don't delay for too long, make it difficult for Liu Gong!" ”

The Wang family originally wanted to help him leave, but he threw off his arm and could only stay. Wang Zhonghei had just left the city, and Yuan Zai asked his wife in a trembling voice, "When will I be able to leave the city?" ”

Wang wiped his tears and said: "Wait for three more days, after three days, the Son of Heaven will be amnesty, and you will be able to get out, but ...... It's just that from now on, you can't be an official anymore. ”

"It's good to be able to get out, it's good to be able to get out...... Official? He Ye Chang's official, I don't want to do it yet! Yuan Zai said.

"And ...... Although it is an amnesty, only capital crimes must be pardoned, and they must still be punished......" Wang looked at Yuan Zai, and stopped talking.

"What punishment, in addition to not letting me be an official, what punishment is there?" Won Jae suddenly became nervous.

"Among the clan, there are some people who are dissatisfied with the imperial court, and they should be exiled to Yizhou with them."

"Yizhou...... Liuqiu Island? Yuan Zai was shocked: "This ...... It's better to kill us! ”