The problem in Huaixi was that if you wanted to enter Shouzhou, you had to march east and cross Anhuang. And An Huang's festival envoy is Han Gao, the former Shangshu Youcheng who was delegated from the imperial court to the local government. And An Huang's soldiers and horses have not been afraid of Huaixi soldiers and horses since the beginning of Yishen, and they may not be Huaixi's opponents in the field, but they are very good at defending the city. Behind An Huang, there are Xuanshu and Huainan as backing, and if necessary, the Wuning Army and the Xuanwu Army are not without the possibility of participating in the war. Therefore, when the envoy of Huaixi came to Huangzhou arrogantly and asked for a passage, Han Gao unceremoniously beat the envoy of Huaixi out, and then a half army of nearly 20,000 people in Anzhou and Huangzhou was mobilized, and Anhuang's report was also quickly sent to Chang'an, and the urgent envoys came to Luoyang, Chen Xu, Xuanwu, Xuanxi, Huainan, Eyue, and Shannan Dongdao.

The prince's footprints have not left Tongguan, and the east is no longer peaceful.

In order to prevent some officials from harassing the people in the name of welcoming the car, Li Chun issued one order after another before he arrived at Tongguan, such as not mobilizing the people to welcome the car, not using the people's power to repair the palace, not using loess to pave the road, and so on, and even strictly limiting the number of dishes. After Li Chun reprimanded the extravagance of a certain county, he said to Cui Qun and Bai Juyi beside him with infinite emotion:

"The emperor is sympathetic to the people, and in the palace and even at the royal banquet, he does not even eat white meat (fatty meat), but only eats red meat (lean meat). The king of a country, who is still so self-suffering, is a widow as a prince, how dare he not double his restraints? ”

In the past, people thought that fatty meat was better than lean meat, and that fatty meat was expensive and lean meat was cheap, unlike the generation of the cross-century and the new century, who were afraid of fat like a tiger. I don't know how Li Yu would feel when he heard Li Chun say this, at that time, Cui Qun, Bai Juyi and even Li Deyu nodded heavily, sighing and sighing. After that, Li Chun and these people stopped eating fatty meat.

Generally speaking, as long as you want to do anything, you will do it well, after Li Chun gave orders in succession and punished two county orders, the march speed of more than 3,000 people was significantly faster. Get up in the morning and hurry, eat at the point, and camp at night, and no magistrate dares to disturb you. If it weren't for Li Chun, he would take Cui Qun, Bai Juyi, and Li Ting out for a walk every time he went, chanted poems, bragged, and let Li Deyu and Gao Yu follow the knife to protect, find the people to pull the people, and understand the local officials' governance of the people's livelihood, and the speed of travel may be faster. However, Li Chun and even a few guards would not have thought that the old man who Li Chun once questioned was actually the world's first female assassin Nie Yinniang. The old man's ears were so old that he couldn't hear anything, so Li Chun had to ask Bai Juyi to take out two treasure bills for him, whether he could hear it or not, and wish him a peaceful old age. Several people praised the prince for his good heart, looked at the faint spring color in the field, and made a few poems. If they knew that the old man who had made some money was Aunt Nie, they would have killed themselves by wiping their necks.

I walked for more than ten days in a row, and everyone was full of interest on the side of Mount Hua, but no one dared to climb up, so I was so shy that I was not even embarrassed to write a poem and walked away. Huashan is dangerous in the world, since ancient times, Huashan is a road, why Du Fu is close to Huashan, but he ran Mount Tai, which is shorter than Huashan, to write what "will be the top of the mountain, a glance at the bottom of the mountain"? Don't dare to climb Huashan at all! Han Yu was bold enough, but he didn't dare to come down after climbing Mount Hua, hugged the stone head and cried, and even wrote a suicide note and threw it down the mountain, which was ridiculed by Yu Qiuyu more than a thousand years later.

Out of Tongguan Valley Road, gradually approaching Luoyang, just when Gao Biao felt that his poetry and poetry skills had greatly improved, the team stopped at Lianchang Palace. Lianchang Palace is a palace between Chang'an and Luoyang close to Luoyang, no one lives in it for a long time after the Anshi Rebellion, it has long been dilapidated, even the loess road in front of the palace gate has been opened up by the people for farmland. When Li Chun's brigade arrived at Lianchang Palace, the old farmer who was working in the fields in front of the palace recognized the royal honor guard, dragged his grandson to kneel, and Li Chun comforted them with kind words and let them continue farming.

However, at this time, there was only a narrow passage left in front of the palace gate, barely allowing the carriage to pass through, and the local officials who greeted him looked embarrassed, but Li Chun ordered not to trample on the seedlings, and more than 3,000 people shrank and drove into the Lianchang Palace. There are still several white-haired palace maids in the palace, and they can't help but see the royal honor guard, and some of them hear the local accent is really "three thousand miles from the homeland, and twenty years from the deep palace." With a sound of He Manzi, tears fell in front of the king". Li Chun, who couldn't bear it, immediately said that he wanted to play, please let them return to their hometown. The palace ladies packed up the room and asked the prince to rest and go on the road early tomorrow. But the next day, the prince and the scholars did not come out for a long time, and when they came out, their faces were heavy and they were extremely sad and angry.

Wang Dahai didn't ask much, he knew that something big must have happened. Sure enough, the prince ordered no more carriages and no more riding honor guard horses, but changed to fast horses, put away the honor guards, and rushed to Luoyang. On the way, Li Deyu quietly told Wang Dahai that news came from Huainan that Jiedu had assassinated Wei Dan in Yangzhou City. The more than 3,000 people who knew the news were suddenly silent and a little depressed, and only heard the sound of non-stop drinking horses.

Wei Dan was the first high-ranking official to be assassinated in so many years. The assassination of Wei Dan darkened the prince's eastern tour. Everyone knows that Wei Dan's assassination must be related to the rectification of salt affairs and Cao Yun in Yangzhou, but the specifics are not very clear. Only Li Chun, Cui Qun, and Bai Juyi, who have access to secrets, know that Wei Dan once secretly said that several large salt merchants and big trading houses in Huainan were secretly controlled by several feudal towns to earn military expenses for these feudal towns. Li Yu also issued a secret order for Wei Dan to secretly investigate, looking for an opportunity to knock out these salt merchants and cut off the black hands of the feudal town. When Wei Dan was assassinated, everyone thought of Fan Zhen. But who did it?

When Li Chun and his entourage arrived in Luoyang, they were all exhausted. The tired face of the Eastern Capital stayed behind, and officials such as Zheng Yuqing, the secretary of Tongping Zhangshi, and the Shaoyin Hantai of Luoyang, Wei Xiaqing, the prince's guest branch, were already waiting outside the Tianjin Bridge. The people did not know the news yet, so according to the plan, Li Chun re-boarded the carriage, and under the escort of 3,000 soldiers of the Guards, amid the cheers of all the people, put up the royal guard of honor, showed a smiling face, and entered the Luoyang Imperial Palace, which was already old but still solemn*. Due to the shortage of funds, neither Wang Shao nor Zheng Yuqing allocated funds for the maintenance of the palace. The people of Luoyang were still very excited to see the royal honor guard again, but Nie Yinniang and Mirror Grinding Langjun found in the crowd that Luoyang welcomed many strange people and strange people, many of whom were assassins and thieves, and there were also their old acquaintances in Weibo.

After entering the palace, Li Chun and everyone put away their smiling faces. Wang Dahai was busy and commanded the soldiers to be on guard. After sitting down under the service of Father-in-law Tutu, Li Chun asked:

"Does Zheng Xianggong know how Lord Wei was killed?"