The road is up and down, and although the road surface is wide, there are many places of disrepair. The ranks were a little loose, the wheezing, snorting, and neighing of the horses mixed on all sides, and the ground trembled slightly, and the carriages and horses passed by, and billowing smoke and dust were swept up.

The morning light is slightly dewed, and it has reached the temporary bridge. The bridge is commonly known, also known as the Xianyang Bridge, which is the main road from Chang'an to the Western Regions and Bashu. Li Jiao stopped his horse, Gao Lishi passed the edict to rest for half an hour, and the two ladies of Han and Yu Guo were slightly scattered, and they were still chattering to themselves after getting off the carriage, complaining that the emperor stopped here, for fear that the rebels had chased after him.

Li Li frowned and looked at the road from afar, and he didn't see any more cars and horses coming for a long time. At this time, the dark clouds are overwhelming, and it seems that a piece can be dragged down as soon as you reach out, and it seems that you can vaguely hear the bell of Changle Palace, which is vigorous and sad, urging people to leave the residual dream. It's all gone, and it's about to start again.

Li Qi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, General Cheng has always been cautious, and they are on the way." ”

Li Jiao nodded and said in a low voice: "Hey, do you remember the nine years of Taizong's martial arts." ”

Li Qi thought for a moment and replied: "In the ninth year of Wude, the Turkic Jieli Khan went south to enter the Kou, and the troops were forced to come here, and Emperor Taizong rode alone with Jieli on this Xianyang Bridge. This is a great shame for my Tang Dynasty, but Emperor Taizong was wise and martial, using persuasion, counter-strategy, destroying his crops, and the army to crusade against all kinds of strategies, and finally avenged this revenge four years later, captured Jieli, and destroyed the Eastern Turks. ”

Li Jiao said: "Taizong's martial arts and martial arts have been unmatched by no one through the ages. Don't you want a century-old foundation, the momentum changes, you and I have to be unfilial descendants? ”

The two turned their heads to look back at the three thousand guards, and the group of palace people were embarrassed and embarrassed. Just run all the way west, be a lost dog, and he will be slaughtered by the neck every day?

"Brother Wang......" There was a low voice behind him. But it was the county lord of Dening, there was a look of timidity in her eyes, Li Li thought she was worried and scared about the escape, and said with a smile: "Where is the girl who is not afraid of the sky and the earth in the past?" ”

"Brother Wang," the county lord of Dening called in a low voice again, his face was hesitant and uneasy, and he stopped talking, which made Li Li surprised: "Is there something wrong, say it quickly." ”

"There's one thing, I haven't told Brother Wang yet,......" The lord of Dening County opened his mouth, Li Jiao suddenly made a silent gesture, leaned sideways to listen, Shaoqing jumped up, and said happily: "They are here!" He got on his horse and whipped his whip and ran the way he came.

The county lord of Dening stepped on Li Qi's horse nearby, stroked the sleeves of Li Qi's robe, and said, "Hurry up." Li Qi was stunned and said: "They meet as husband and wife, what kind of excitement do we have." The county lord of Dening kicked him anxiously: "I don't have time to explain to you, get on the horse quickly, it's late, I'm afraid something will happen." Only then did Li Qi ride with the Lord of Dening and rushed forward.

Seeing that the carriage and horses were getting closer and closer, it was Cheng Yuanzhen who rode the horse in the front, and it was not time for the horse to leap down, Cheng Yuanzhen called "Your Highness", Li Jiao couldn't wait to lift the curtain of the first carriage, and couldn't help but be stunned - it was empty, but some bedding, clothes, and baby utensils were piled up; Hurrying forward, he opened a second carriage, and a nurse dressed as a nurse sat in it with a baby in her arms; There were no more carriages after that. Li Jiao gasped, suddenly realizing that everything around him was unreal, and asked sharply: "What about the princess?" Why don't you see the princess? ”

Yan Ming's palace guards, all the way to the beginning of the anxiety, this time hurriedly approached the horse, there are still a hundred and ten steps away from Li Jiao, abandoned the horse galloped up, and bowed: "Back to Your Highness, the princess did not go along!" ”

"Didn't go along?!" Li Jiao was so angry that he didn't think twice, he pulled his sword out of the sheath, and the sword light seeped cold, reaching Yan Ming's throat, and shouted: "You are so bold, you dare to abandon the princess and run away to do something!" ”

Yan Ming saw that Li Jiao was angry, he didn't dare to defend, his expression was solemn, he raised his head to the tip of the sword, did not move at all, and only said: "The subordinates are incompetent, and there is no resentment in death." ”

"Your Highness!" Cheng Yuanzhen wanted to help Yan Ming speak, but when he saw Li Jiao sweeping towards him, his eyes were already red, as if he was about to burn everything in front of him, so that Cheng Yuanzhen, a general who wore gold armor in a hundred battles, had almost suffocated fear for the first time in his life, and the following words were swallowed back into his stomach.

Li Jiao snorted coldly, raised his hand to throw the sword, turned around and jumped on the horse, shook the reins violently, Yan Ming and Cheng Yuanzhen were shocked, both fit together, and grabbed the bridle, Cheng Yuanzhen only said, "Your Highness must not, the thief will soon enter the city." Li Jiao gritted his teeth, raised the whip coldly and pulled it down according to Yan Ming's hand, and immediately raised a thick layer of blood marks, his hand relaxed slightly, and the big Wan Liangju seemed to know the master's mind the most, struggling to roar and erect his front hooves, Tutorial Yuan Zhen staggered, and his standing was unsteady. Seeing that the horse was about to raise its four hooves and gallop up the road, at the last moment, Li Qi and the county lord of Dening galloped to the ground, Li Qi jumped up, straight like a white crane spread its wings, pounced on Li Li's horse's back, hugged it properly, and both of them rolled off the horse.

"My sister-in-law had a postpartum blood collapse and couldn't walk with us at all!" Lord Dening shouted loudly in the interval.

Li Jiao's mind was a little sober, and when he heard this, he grabbed the hand of the county lord of Dening, and asked, "What the hell, why has no one ever told me?!" Looking up at Yan Ming and Cheng Yuanzhen, seeing that they all hung their heads, Fang said: "It turns out that all of you know about it, but you are the only one who hides it from me!" Ridiculous, ridiculous! "Only Li Qi also doesn't know why, because after he lost Tongguan, he was entrusted by Xuanzong with the important task of patrolling the city, and it was difficult to rest day and night, so he only knew that Shen Pearl had given birth to a son, and he didn't know that she had a postpartum blood collapse.

The county lord of Dening bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty strictly orders that you are not allowed to know about your sister-in-law." After a pause, he added: "This is also because Your Majesty sees that you are injured and is afraid that you will be worried." Li Jiao recalled that when Feng Shengyi passed the token to him and Shen Zhu, his face was quite unhappy, and he thought that Feng Shengyi was just worried about his detention, and the time was pressing, so he didn't have time to ask more, who knew that even he hid it from himself. This is from top to bottom, everyone knows that Li Jiao has worked hard for him and maintained it in every way, but he has suffered her alone. And I asked myself, it wasn't a foolproof way to keep her safe at the beginning, but in the end it didn't work. Now that she is repentant, it turns out that she is so responsible for her.

Yan Ming ordered the nurse to bring Li Shi, and told Li Li that Shen Pearl had a look of 1510 when he left the house. When Li Jiao heard Shen Zhuzhu's words that "I will never be humiliated and disgraced to the royal family", I couldn't help but mourn again in my heart.

Li Jiao hugged the child, this is not the first time he has seen his son, when he was detained in the palace, Xuanzong had already asked the concubine to hold Shi'er for him to see. Li Shi had woken up, the person in front of him was so unfamiliar, and his arms were not familiar, he couldn't help but open his small mouth and cry "wow". Li Li saw that his eyes were cool and quiet, bright and transparent, quiet and peaceful, and at a glance, it was like the heavens and the earth were suddenly clear, and all things were reborn.

Looking at Chang'an from afar, the smoke is confused. Li Li muttered to himself: "Pearl, it's all my fault." "The only thing that is fortunate is that Feng Shengyi led several dead soldiers to be beside Shen Zhuzhu, hoping that this strong man's long sword is volleying into the air, slashing the charm and spirit, and welcoming the reunion again.

The rainstorm is temporarily suspended, and the waning moon rises from the forest.

After crossing the bridge on the first day, Xuanzong and his entourage were hit by heavy rain, and the flags were scattered, and people turned over on their backs. Entering Xianyang City, the officials and people in the city have long been scattered, fortunately, the people in the suburbs heard that His Majesty is coming, or offer rice, mixed with wheat beans, and the entourage must eat in a moment, and they are as happy as food. However, there were many soldiers and horses in the Sixth Army, and most of the sergeants were exhausted and complained.

The name of this place is called Ma Weiyi, because of the heavy rain damage to the road and bridge ahead, the escort of the Longwu general Chen Xuanli sent soldiers to renovate, and the army was temporarily stationed. Xuanzong, the noble concubine and the female dependents took the post station as the palace, and the princes, grandchildren, officials and soldiers all set up simple camps around it.

After Li Jiao settled his son, he went to the prince's tent. I saw that the sergeants around him looked sluggish and demoralized, and if they ran into the rebels, they would be defeated.

When the prince's guards saw that he was coming, they did not stop him, and approached the tent by him. Li Jiaofang wanted to enter the curtain, but he suddenly heard the prince talking to Li Fuguo in the tent, his voice was low, and he couldn't hear anything else, only the words "kill Yang Guozhong" shook into his ears leisurely. He didn't want to hear it anymore and turned away.

Patrolling all the way through the sergeants' camps, I saw that there were soldiers gathered in front of many camps, complaining, and even some soldiers shouted loudly for Yang Guozhong's disaster to the country and the people. When Yang Guozhong's cronies and guards heard this, they could only hide from afar, and they did not dare to fight with these soldiers, and Yang Guozhong was nowhere to be seen.

After walking a few more steps, suddenly a figure flashed out of the tent and said, "Your Highness, please take a step to speak." Li Jiao looked up and saw that this person was Chen Xuanli. The royal car is on the way, and it is taboo for the princes and grandsons to secretly communicate with the escort general, Li Jiao glanced at him, did not answer, and walked back to the camp slowly.

As soon as he sat down, the curtain moved, and Chen Xuanli had already flashed in. Li Jiao coughed, Yan Mingxin comprehended, and personally went out of the tent to guard.

Chen Xuanli said respectfully: "Your Highness, rest assured, no one else will see it." ”

Li Jiao waved his head and asked, "Old General Chen, please sit down, I don't know what happened when the general missed the night to visit?" ”

Chen Xuanli sat down at the bottom, he was a hero who followed Xuanzong to pacify the rebellion of Wei's and Princess Taiping thirty years ago, and he was trusted by him, not under Gao Lishi, he was sixty years old, and he still did not reduce the fortitude and courage of the martial arts, and said at the moment: "Your Highness knows that the old minister is a straightforward and rough man, and now the matter is not to beat around the bush with His Royal Highness - Yang Guozhong summoned chaos and provoked, the crime was extremely evil, everyone hated it, unless this thief was killed, otherwise the world was centrifugal!" ”

Li Jiao was speechless, and after a long while, Fang Shi said: "The matter is big, and it is necessary to be enlightened to the saint, and then make a plan, Xiao Wang does not dare to persuade the senators." ”

Chen Xuanli raised the case, and said in a deep voice: "The saint is the honor of ten thousand times, leaving the dangerous city, Xingxi Shu, protecting the national line, and trying to be safe for a long time, as a matter of course." However, His Royal Highness clearly understands that the sergeant has a lot of resentment against Yang Guozhong, and Yang Guozhong is the culprit, if he can't bow his head, he is unwilling, and he can't protect the saint with peace of mind, and he is afraid that he will abandon the saint and go, and the consequences are unimaginable. I have entrusted Li Fuguo to tell the prince about this matter. However, the crown prince is hesitant, the matter is urgent, His Royal Highness is the identity of the emperor's grandson, and he hopes that His Royal Highness will make a decision quickly. I, Chen Xuanli, swear to obey! ”

Li Jiao frowned and said: "If Yang Guozhong is punished, the concubine will definitely be difficult to protect." ”

Chen Xuanli snorted and said, "With such a red face, you don't have to stay in the world." ”

Li Jiao stood up, turned his back to Chen Xuanli, and said for a long time: "It's just that Your Majesty will definitely be extremely sad." ”

"But just a woman, no matter how sad and sad she is, Your Majesty will slowly forget. The minister has seen a lot, when Concubine Wu Hui died, His Majesty was only sad for half a month, and there was an endless stream of beauties entering the palace, and the saint could not find a Yang Yuhuan again. When will Your Highness be so kind to a woman, looking forward and looking backwards? ”

Li Jiao looked at Chen Xuanli and said: "The old general is brave and loyal, but it can be known that even if the incident is successful, the general's reputation will be in vain." ”

Chen Xuanli's expression was calm: "Since the old minister dares to consult with His Royal Highness, he has already put his life, infamy after his death, and the history of a thousand years into his mind. ”

Hearing this, Li Jiao turned sideways and poured wine himself, handed one of the cups to Chen Xuanli, and said: "The camp is simple, and Xiao Wang has to use this thin wine to honor the general." The general lives up to the Tang Dynasty, and Xiao Wang promises here - the history of the thousand autumns will not live up to the general. ”

Chen Xuanli muttered: "With His Royal Highness's words, Chen Xuanli, this life is enough!" "Drink it all with Li Jiao.

At the moment, the two planned carefully, and Chen Xuanli said goodbye and left.

After Chen Xuanli left, Li Jiao left the camp tent and walked slowly towards Li Qi's tent.

That night, more than 20 Hu envoys suddenly surrounded Yang Guozhong, complained to him that there was no food, for the sergeant to see, Qi said "Yang Guozhong and the Hu people colluded to rebel", and then, someone with an arrow in Yang Guozhong's tent, Yang Guozhong saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly fled to Ma Weiyi, in order to seek the protection of His Majesty's concubine, Fang arrived at the door of the post house, and was chased and killed by the soldiers, and hung his head on the spear to show the public.

Concubine Xuanzong was frightened when she heard this, and Chen Xuanli said inside: "Yang Guozhong's rebellion has been killed, may Your Majesty cut his love and give the concubine death." Xuanzong didn't allow it, but the six armies didn't send it, Jingzhao Silu joined the army Wei Ge knelt in front of Xuanzong, kowtowed, and his face was full of blood: "Today, the people are angry, and the safety is at stake, may Your Majesty make a quick decision!" Xuanzong was helpless, so he ordered Gao Lishi to lead the concubine to hang herself under the pear blossom tree.

After Yang Guozhong's death, the soldiers went on to kill his son Yang Xuan and Mrs. Han. Although Yang Guozhong's wife Pei Rou, his youngest son Yang Xi, Mrs. Qiu Guo and his son Pei Hui took the opportunity to escape, they were captured and killed by Xue Jingxian, the county commander in Chencang County.

This is the "change of Ma Wei". For less than a thousand years, all historians have different opinions on this change, and they have no opinion. or there is no mastermind in this change, all because of the mutiny of the soldiers; Or the person who masterminded the cloud was Gao Lishi, Chen Xuanli or Prince Heng.

On the second day of the chaos, Xuanzong still wanted to lead the army to Xingshu, and Li Qi, the king of Jianning, and Li Fuguo, the servant of the East Palace, held the prince's horse head and persuaded: "Reverse Hu and make mistakes, the four seas will fall apart, not because of human affection, how can it be restored!" Now His Royal Highness enters Shu from the Supreme, if the thieves burn the plank road, then the Central Plains will be handed over to the thieves. Human affection is separated and cannot be reunited! It is better to collect the soldiers guarding the border in the northwest, summon Guo and Li in Hebei, and fight against the rebels in the east with them, recover the two capitals, and flatten the four seas, so that the society is in danger and restored, and the temple is destroyed and survived, and the palace ban is swept away to welcome the supreme, isn't it the great one of filial piety! Why bother with warmth, for the love of children! The soldiers and people around him knelt down and begged the prince to stay and resist the enemy. The prince finally agreed.

Li Jiao knelt in front of the emperor and said goodbye to Xuanzong. Xuanzong sat down on the chair and waved his hand outward: "Heaven's will is like this, why bother to say more." ”

Li Jiao kowtowed heavily to Xuanzong: "The grandson is deeply gracious, and he deserves death." ”