East Palace, Lizheng Palace

"Your Highness, the minister is late."

Suddenly summoned by His Royal Highness, Lu Ji, who was leading the Wei Mansion to deal with affairs, hurried over.

At this time, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's face was very bad, he seemed to be in good spirits, and he was sitting in front of the desk and paying full attention to the post. Seeing this scene, his hanging heart finally let go.

"How did the people of the Xu family handle it?" Li Hong asked.

Lu Ji hurriedly reported, "Yesterday, everything was dealt with, and the news was released, and the people from Weiwei Temple were brought over." ”

Li Hong nodded, and immediately understood how Xiaozhou and Li Yu were captured in Daming Palace. Playing chess is like this, once there are more pieces on the board, it is easy to overlook some variables, if it is not for the eyeliner placed in the palace to report in time, last night's trouble can be big.

"How was the boat these two days?" He asked quietly.

He didn't continue to visit civil officials, he left the palace every morning, and after returning home, he didn't go out again. Last night, he stayed at home and did not return to the palace, Li Yu came to the house early this morning to find him, and the two went to Chang'an County together. Lu Ji told the situation reported by the secret agent.

Li Hong wrote calmly, angry and funny in his heart.

Lu Ji arranged for someone to follow Xiaozhou for so long, and he actually wandered between the East Palace and the Su Mansion every day, and she didn't even know that she had found Xu Yanbo. After managing the spy for himself for so many years, he thought he could be in charge alone, but he didn't expect to stumble this time.

Also, he didn't know that Xiaozhou was his daughter, and he didn't tell him to follow Miss Su San. By mistake, Xiao Zhou and Li Yu actually went all the way under the noses of the secret agents of the East Palace, and almost touched the East Palace.

"Very good, I don't have to follow her anymore." He said.

There was the "thrilling" last night, and Xiaozhou will not leave the palace again in a short time.

"Yes." Lu Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good that Xiaozhou is his own person, and he always sends people to follow him, although it is for protection, he is always a little weak-hearted.

"Well done, that's a reward for you."

Li Hong didn't raise his head, and pointed to the low case not far away, on which a square brocade box was placed.

took the brocade box and opened it, Lu Ji was dumbfounded, and it was his lost white jade pendant inside.

"Thank you...... Your Highness. Where did you find this? ”

After the fight that day, he searched all around, but he couldn't find the fallen jade pendant. I thought it was picked up by thieves, but I didn't expect it to appear intact again.

Li Hong smiled and said slowly: "Yesterday, a male corpse floated on the pier of Xicheng, and this jade pendant was dug out of his stomach. That thief is also strong, and he will bite you to death. ”

Lu Ji was startled, and his hands holding the brocade box trembled a little.

I didn't expect the jade pendant to be swallowed by the thief, and now he lied that he lost it, which was self-defeating.

He pounced and knelt on the ground, "Your Highness, since the jade pendant was taken out of the deceased's womb, it should be in the Jingzhao Yin Mansion or the Chang'an County Mansion, why did you return to the East Palace?" Have you found ......?"

He didn't dare to say any more, if the assassination of Li Qi was found out to him, then he would be the next Xu Yanbo.

When a post was finally finished while speaking, Li Hong put down his pen and looked up and said to him: "Chang'an County Ling was originally the general of the Wang family, and this jade pendant was brought back by Wang Zhao personally for you." Just put it away, and you don't have to worry about it. ”

Didn't Wang Zhao go to Shanzhou?

Lu Ji was muttering, only to see a man in black slowly walking out behind the curtain of the side hall.

"Brother Wang!"

He couldn't believe his eyes.

As a captain of the border army Zhaowu, with a military order, why did Wang Zhao return to Beijing privately? This is a capital crime of killing the head!

Looking at him dumbfounded, Wang Zhao stepped forward and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for many days, the virtuous brother has worked hard." You were too careless, you dropped such an important object when you killed the thief, and you also acted in a scene of a female thief stealing, so you didn't die and chose Xiaozhou's enthusiastic heart as the audience. She is dedicated to your affairs, and all the government offices in the capital, large and small pawn shops and jewelry shops all have this jade pendant. If it weren't for the heart of my family, the people from the Weiwei Temple would probably have come to the door at this time. ”

"Thank you, big brother. But you ......" Lu Ji looked worried.

"Ahem—"

Li Hong got up and walked in front of them, "Wang Zhao's errand is not finished yet, and he needs to stay in the capital for a while." There will be someone covering him up in Shanzhou, so you find a safe place to settle him down, and be responsible for liaison if necessary. ”

"Yes, Your Highness!"

"You can only know by yourself." Li Hong added.

"Yes!"

Lu Ji nodded straightly.

This terrible thing is to cut off his head, and he will not tell anyone else!

However, what kind of errand is Wang Zhao doing, requiring him to leave his post without permission and risk death to lurk in Chang'an?

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After Wang Zhao and Lu Ji left, another father-in-law came to the East Palace and sent a holy decree.

The will is jointly signed by the two saints, roughly speaking: the Tibetan mission is about to enter Beijing, because the envoy is the younger brother of the prime minister, the general of the Tubo Qinling, the other party is high and powerful, and the line involves the two dynasties and relatives, so it was handed over to the East Palace to receive full power, the nephew of the Queen of Heaven, the Ministry of Rites Lang Wu Sansi co-organized, the relevant government, the temple is at the mercy of the call.

After receiving the holy decree, thanking the holy grace, and seeing the father-in-law leave, the corners of Li Hong's mouth provoked a sarcastic smile.

His parents really loved him, and they even handed him such a tricky errand, and sent a relative who was eager to correct the position to get involved.

Four years ago, the Tang Dynasty fought a war with Tubo Dafeichuan, which was extremely tragic, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were wiped out, and the soul of the buried plateau had nowhere to go.

After the war, Tubo not only seized the four important towns of Qiuci, Shule, Khotan, and Yanqi, but even Tuyuhun also became its other department, and began to compete with the Tang Dynasty, and coveted the Western Regions, and Qinling was the commander of Tubo in that war.

At present, the Tang Dynasty is at war with Silla in the northeast, not to mention that he led a delegation to visit and make friends sincerely, or to spy on the truth. Ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty were also full of hostility towards their party.

As many soldiers were killed in battle, there were as many families as they were burdened with hatred, and if the imperial court wanted to reconcile with Tibet again, they would be the first to refuse.

Therefore, as soon as the news of the visit of the Tibetan delegation came out, there were several incidents of orphans crying outside the imperial city. Although they were all dealt with in a timely manner, they could also see what the people wanted.

This trip, the reception was not good, that is, it destroyed the friendship between the two dynasties, and was regarded as incompetent by the civil and military officials.

If the reception is good, it will be with the enemy and completely lose the support of the people.

……

Entrusted this important task to him, it seems that his father wants to make the most of his things.