On April 30, the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, it was sunny, and the heavy rain for nearly ten days finally stopped, and the long-lost sun showed its face from the clouds, but it also brought some light to the haze of Chang'an City, but the water in the city was so illuminated by the sun, which raised the fog all over the city, and aggravated the degree of resurgence, and the water inside and outside the house was wet everywhere, so that people were also sticky and uncomfortable, and the room was unbearable, and the people in the city all poured into the streets, regardless of the water on the street. Just walking through the muddy water, you don't necessarily have to buy anything, just bask in the sun, so the whole Chang'an City presents a rare prosperity and hustle.

Outside the north gate of Chang'an City, where people come and go, a flying horse gallops from a distance, and the knight on the horse shouts wildly from afar: "Urgent, urgent, get out of the way, get out of the way!" The speed of the horse was not slowed down at all because of the large number of people on the road, and the fierce and vicious appearance was suddenly frightened to gather at the gate of the city and wait for the people to enter the city to scatter and dodge, and for a while the people turned on their horses in a panic, however, the cavalry ignored the embarrassment and panic of the people, and the flying horse rushed into the hole in the city gate, and went straight to the city, splashing countless muddy water along the way, leaving behind the pedestrians who could not avoid a burst of vicious scolding.

"Something happened, something must have happened." The soldiers who could guard the gate of Chang'an City were very thief-eyed, and they saw the sign on the flying horse marked with an emergency military situation, and they knew that something big was going to happen, and they all got together, and one of the youngest pawns couldn't help but take the lead in saying: "The emergency report from the north, could it be the ...... of the saint?"

"Fuck your mother's fart, Your Majesty has just come out, and this battle hasn't started yet, what can happen? As much as the fucking nonsense, if something really happens, it can only be a matter from the northwest side. A bearded soldier unceremoniously punched the soldier and scolded.

"Hey, there is His Royal Highness King Yue in the northwest, and if something can happen, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that Xue Yantuo's gang of dog thieves can get a good deal from His Royal Highness." The little pawn who was trained was unwilling, although he didn't dare to fight back, but he fought back unrelentingly.

"It's this reason, His Royal Highness King Yue will never have an accident, Wang Si'er, you kid don't spray feces in his mouth."

"That's it, anyone can have an accident, and His Royal Highness King Yue won't have an accident there, so it's your mother's fault!"

"That's right, who dares to say that something happened to His Royal Highness, who is in a hurry!"

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A group of soldiers had already regarded Li Zhen, the king of Yue, as the undefeated god of war in the army, how could Wang Si'er be so open-mouthed, and immediately reprimanded him, making Wang Si'er's face flushed, but he didn't dare to defend casually, seeing that the big guys were coming at him, Wang Si'er hurriedly said: "But the urgent report is obviously a military report, but why is such an urgent military report?" ”

Why? No one could answer this question, but they all felt that it must not be good news, and they all fell silent for a while, and no one dared to speak casually, and they scattered boringly, but everyone's faces showed a worried look......

Shangshu Province, located in the west street of Chang'an City, east side of Chengtianmen of Taiji Palace, covers an area of nearly 100 acres, is the general meeting of the world's government affairs, Shangshu Province is in the middle, the left and right divisions, the east of the capital hall has the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites three yamen, each of the four divisions, to the left division of the system; In the west of the capital hall, there are three yamen of the military department, the criminal department, and the Ministry of engineering, and each yamen has four divisions, and the right division is under the control. At that time, the Son of Heaven was conquering Goguryeo, and the logistics were complicated, and because the left servant shot Fang Xuanling, the right servant shot the eldest Sun Wuji, and all the Shangshu were all traveling with him to the east, and the yamen of each department was extremely busy, so the three auxiliary ministers had to move to Shangshu Province to work on duty to solve the difficulties of official business.

At the moment, a flying horse rushed through the crowd on the street, and rushed to the gate of Shangshu Province, and the cavalry on the horse did not wait for the horse to stop, so he turned over and dismounted, negotiated with the guards guarding Shangshu Province, and hurriedly marched into Shangshu Province, and rushed straight to the location of the Yamen of the Ministry of War, but did not go to the various departments first as usual, but went straight to the office of Lu Chengqing, the squire of the Ministry of War.

Lu Chengqing, the word Ziyu, Youzhou Zhuoren, the number of Youxian worry, Sui Wuyang Taishou Lu Sidao's chief, Sun Sui Hedong Ling Lu Chisong's eldest son, his father and Tang Gaozu Li Yuan have old friends, Zhenguan Chu, attack his father, appointed Qinzhou Governor Hu Cao joined the army, because of the Hexi military, Taizong Qiqi Ming Debate, worship the merit officer Wailang, Zhenguan eleven years for the household waiter, and Zhenguan sixteen years after the abolition of the prince rebellion, succeeded the Yue King Li Zhen as the left waiter of the military department, this time the Son of Heaven conquered Goguryeo, the military department Shangshu Li Ji, the right soldier Yang Hongli all went out with the car, The military affairs dispatch in Beijing was all promoted by Lu Chengqing alone, and he was very busy every day, and Lu Chengqing couldn't bear to read all kinds of official documents, no, after arriving at the yamen early this morning, he sat down behind his desk, and he didn't get up, and he always buried his head in a large pile of official documents, until there was a commotion at the door that he woke up from the pile of official documents.

"What's the noise?" Lu Chengqing frowned unhappily and snorted coldly.

"Yu Shilang, Li Yuanming, the king of Xiangzhou Assassin Shishu, sent someone to send an urgent letter, and the small one asked him to report to the Ministry of War first, and he insisted on seeing Shilang, so there was a dispute." The guards guarding the door of the office saw Lu Chengqing's inquiry coming from the room, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they hurriedly walked in and reported loudly.

"Xiangzhou?" A trace of doubt flashed in Lu Chengqing's eyes, he groaned for a while, and still spoke: "Let him in." ”

"Yes." The guard who had come to pay the service replied in a loud voice, and the general retreated, and in a moment, led a soldier covered in mud and walked in.

"Lu Shilang, my lord has an urgent letter here, please take a look." The dirty soldier strode into the room, holding an official letter in both hands, and bowed.

Li Yuanming, the eighteenth son of Tang Gaozu, rare talents, and the long is strict and sparse wealth, the first king, the king of Shu, has a virtuous name, good governance, has been praised by Li Shimin as "the model of the kings", and now has gone through the history of the three states of the thorn, the real seal of a thousand households, Zhenguan 17 years in October as the history of the Xiangzhou thorn, so far only a few months, the state has been governed, in the court and the opposition have the name of the king of the virtuous, not the history of the Xianzhou thorn can be compared, although Lu Chengqing does not know what urgent matters to report on the military affairs of King Shu, but he did not dare to slack off, hurriedly waved his hand, signaled the guards to transfer the letter over, I opened the letter, and when I saw it, I was stunned, not that the matter mentioned in the letter was serious, on the contrary, the matter contained in the letter was actually just a big or small matter - Li Shimin's expedition to the east, Xiangzhou was ordered to mobilize grain for military funds, since March, there has been no mistake, however, on April 25, Xiangzhou received an order from Sinong Temple, and once again sent 400 stone of grain from the grain depot as a military need. Only then did he find out that these rice were all old grain, and the escort official Renqing was furious, and argued with the Xiangzhou Mansion, and the two sides each held a remark and refused to give in to each other, which brought the matter to the Ministry of War.

The old grain is not inedible, but because of its broken rice and yellow, the taste is very poor, generally speaking, it is only used as feed or wine, and is rarely used for human food, let alone used as military food - according to the practice of the imperial court, the grain in the granary in various places must be changed every year, the old grain is sold, and then the new grain is purchased to make up the amount, the price difference between the new grain and the old grain is not small, the rice rats in the granary are not less in this one, filling the pocket, if this matter is found in the past, it has to be traced from the root, in order to determine right and wrong, It should be investigated by the Criminal Department, which is really not a big deal, but the problem is that this is the time when the emperor is driving his own expedition, no matter how small the matter is, no one dares to be careless, whether it is the escort official Renqing or the Xiangzhou assassin Li Yuanming, they do not want to bear the charge of delaying the military aircraft, and the two sides immediately got into trouble. According to common sense, the transportation of grain and straw belongs to the work of the household department and Sinong Temple, and the military department is only in charge of escorting, but now it is wartime, and the military needs have gone wrong, so naturally the military department must take the lead to coordinate this matter.

This matter is troublesome, but it is really not a big deal, at least in Lu Chengqing's opinion, without him, the parties can take a step back, first exchange the old grain for new rice, and then make a decision is not too late, there is no need to make such a stalemate so that it affects the supply of military supplies, but both sides are reasonable, and no one is willing to take a step back, which has led to today's deadlock - Fang Renqing is an escort officer, and he is responsible for escorting military rations, of course, he is unwilling to use old grain to fill military rations, It is a matter of duty to propose the exchange of new rice, and there is not much fault in itself, and Li Yuanming, the king of Shu, has the relevant transfer documents transferred from Sinong Temple in his hand, and he also opened the designated granary according to the transfer order.

"The official knows about this, so let's go down and rest first." Lu Chengqing was reluctant to coordinate such a, but where his duty was, he had to come forward, his face immediately became a little ugly, he glanced at the Xiangzhou soldier who came to deliver the message, and said lightly. As soon as he saw Lu Chengqing speak, the Xiangzhou soldier didn't dare to stay any longer, so he saluted respectfully and retreated without mentioning it.

"Damn it!" After the Xiangzhou soldier retreated, Lu Chengqing scolded angrily, got up and paced back and forth in the office for a few steps, and then picked up the military information fold and strode towards the Yamen of Shangshu Province.

Lu Chengqing hurriedly walked to the yamen of Shangshu Province, and after the guards at the gate went to the courtesy, he straightened his official robes and stepped into the main hall. ”

"Ah, it's Lu Shilang here, quick, look and sit, watch and sit." Zhu Suiliang raised his head, greeted with a smile, and let Lu Chengqing on the chair in front of the desk, and after Lu Chengqing sat down at the desk, Zhu Suiliang asked with a smile: "Lu Shilang came to find this official, but there is something important?" ”

Lu Chengqing has been in Chaori for a long time, and he has long known that Zhu Suiliang is a smiling tiger, and his methods are ruthless, and he doesn't want to get too close to him, but he just arched his hand and said: "Princess, there is a difficult matter that must be mediated by the prince, this thing is like this......"

"Oh? Is there such a thing? After listening to Lu Chengqing's briefing, Zhu Suiliang frowned quickly, reached out and took the document that Lu Chengqing put on the desk, and quickly swept it, although there was still a smile on his face, but a trace of excitement flashed inadvertently in his eyes, but he didn't say much, just said lightly: "This is a trivial matter, Lu Shilang and relax, this official will start to handle it." ”

Lu Chengqing saw that Zhu Suiliang had taken over this troublesome matter, and he couldn't ask for it, and he didn't want to get close to Zhu Suiliang, so he got up with a smile and said: "Then it's annoying to the princes, the lower officials still have official business, so don't bother much." ”

"Okay, good, good, Lu Shilang is diligent in the king's affairs, and I am a role model, if you are busy, the old man will not send it." Zhu Suiliang sent Lu Chengqing to the door of the main hall with a smile, and said goodbye to Lu Chengqing with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but as soon as he turned around, his face immediately turned gloomy, walked to the desk, picked up the document, repeatedly checked it in his hand a few times, and suddenly raised his voice and said: "Someone, prepare the car, the official wants to go to the East Palace!" ”

In the palatial Xiande Palace, Zhu Suiliang stood silently beside the hall, although he stood upright and had a smile on his face, but a pair of old eyes were full of anxiety, and he kept looking at the direction of the apse, his face was full of beads of sweat, and his mood was so impatient - it was almost noon, and since he arrived at the Xiande Palace, Zhu Suiliang had been waiting for almost an hour, but he never saw the prince Li Zhi appear, and he couldn't ask anyone to urge, which really made Zhu Sui's conscience impatient, but there was no way, who made him a minister, Others are half-kings, even if they are impatient, they can only pinch their noses and wait for the general to go down, right?

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!" Just when Zhu Suiliang was waiting for his eyes, the sharp voice of the East Palace Supervisor Da Song finally remembered, and with the cheers, the crown prince Li Zhi yawned and turned out of the apse.

"The old ministers and Zhu Suiliang knocked to see His Royal Highness the Prince." As soon as he saw Li Zhi appear, Zhu Suiliang hurriedly rushed forward and respectfully saluted Li Zhi.

"Ah, it's Zhu Aiqing, is there anything important about being in such a hurry to see this palace?" Although Li Zhi's tone was gentle, and he also had a smile on his face, but the words revealed the boss's displeasure, without him, this guy was fooling around in the harem today, and he didn't return to the East Palace at all.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the old minister does have important matters to play His Royal Highness." Zhu Suiliang has long known that Li Zhi is a dou-type character, and the reason why he will throw himself into Li Zhi is not because he is impressed by Li Zhi's eloquence, but because he has the same idea as the eldest grandson Wuji, what he values is that Li Zhi is weak and easy to control, and he will not worry about those attitude issues with Li Zhi, but Zhu Suiliang said that there was something important to play, but he did not go on to say what it was, but looked at the group of eunuchs and palace maids who were gathered around Li Zhi.

Li Zhi is a little cowardly, but he is not a fool, seeing that Zhu Suiliang did not open his mouth for a long time, he knew that there must be something strange in it, and he groaned slightly, waved his hand and said: "You and others all retreat." Since Li Zhi gave the order, a group of eunuchs and palace maids did not dare to stay any longer, and each promised to withdraw from the main hall, leaving only Li Zhi and Zhu Suiliang standing opposite each other.

"Zhu Aiqing, what can you say?" After everyone retreated, Li Zhi walked in front of Zhu Suiliang, who was standing down, looked at Zhu Suiliang with interest, and said lightly.

"Your Highness, this is an urgent letter sent by Li Yuanming, the king of Xiangzhou Assassin Shishu, and I would like to ask Your Highness to take a look." Zhu Suiliang didn't say much, but just took out an official letter from his wide sleeve, held it in both hands, and handed it to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi bears the name of the prince of the prison country in vain, but he can't interfere in the official affairs of the court at all, and now the power is in the hands of Liu Xun, Li Zhi is at most a rubber stamp, that is, stamped with a seal, and signing a name is considered to be a prison country, before Li Zhi also tried to put forward his own views on the official document that came up, but no one paid attention to his opinion, and later, he was too lazy to take care of government affairs anymore, and he was drunk and dreamed of death every day, but he was also very free, at this time, he saw that Sui Liang sent the urgent mail from Xiangzhou, I really came to some interest, but I hurriedly looked at it, but I was depressed to find that this was just a trivial matter, if you really want to coordinate, the credit may not be there, but the trouble is not old and young, and I suddenly became angry in my heart, and frowned and said: "Zhu Aiqing is in a hurry to see the palace just for this?" ”

Zhu Suiliang had long known that the master in front of him was a dou, and he had long expected that he would not be able to see the secret hidden behind this official letter at all, seeing that Li Zhi was unhappy, he despised Li Zhi fiercely in his heart, but he had the most sincere smile on his face, and replied very respectfully: "Your Highness, please take a closer look at the names of the officials attached to the transfer list of Sinong Temple." ”

"Huh?" Li Zhi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, hurriedly opened the document again, found the transfer order, glanced at it, but didn't find anything wrong, and asked confusedly: "Liu Cheng?" Who is this? ”

Zhu Suiliang smiled, smiling like an old fox, nodded and said, "The eldest son of this Liu Shizhong is also." ”

"Ahh Li Zhi was first surprised, and then he was happy, just thinking about ordering a strict investigation, but he stopped his mouth, his eyes rolled wildly, the expression on his face changed constantly, and after a long time, he let out a sigh of relief and said: "This matter is important, this palace must think about it, Zhu Aiqing will wait here, and this palace will go back when he goes." As soon as the words fell, he didn't give Zhu Suiliang a chance to speak, turned around, and strode into the apse.

"This ......" Zhu Suiliang didn't expect Li Zhi to say that he would leave, he was angry for a while, he threw down his wide sleeves hatefully, stood back beside the hall, and continued to count the decorative patterns on the top of the hall boredly, and it was inevitable that Li Zhi would be scolded in his heart......

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