The rooster crows at dawn, and Chang'an is good to fall asleep.

Li Siye lay on the couch, his head resting on his arms and looking at the sky through the top window. Now it is the end of the lunar month, and it will be Yuanzheng in a few days, his eyes wandered and his thoughts flew to Shule Town, thinking about how Twelve Niang and Mei'er Yuanzheng would live.

Someone outside the door knocked lightly on the door and said, "Envoy Li, it's me."

"Cheng Duhu?" He lifted the quilt and sat up from the couch, got down to the ground wearing only a mid-single, put his feet into his ** boots, and said, "Come in, the door is not closed."

Cheng Qianli pushed the door in, lifted his hem and sat in front of his couch and said, "The weather is fine today, what are you sleeping in the room, go out with me for a drink of flowers."

"No, don't go, the lady won't let me go."

"Come on, don't play stupid, just let you drink, and didn't let you touch the meat." Cheng Duhu pretended to pause mysteriously: "I asked you to go out for a drink, because I still have important things to tell you."

Li Siye hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, you wait for me, I'll pack up and go out immediately."

The relationship between him and Cheng Qianli is not close, far less than the relationship between him and Gao Xianzhi, although Cheng Duhu's daughter Cheng Wansu has been best friends with his family Mei'er for a while, but they have not narrowed the distance between the two.

This time the two came to Chang'an together, and Cheng Qianli suddenly found that the young man surnamed Li was more wild than him, and he could climb to Yang Taizhen, so he was more and more impressed with him.

Li Siye made many contributions when he was in the west, but he didn't see this Cheng Qianli impressed him, and his attitude immediately changed when he had a way. It seems that the world's recognition of personal ability is far less important than clinging to the powerful, and the values of Datang Chang'an have degenerated to this point.

The two walked out of the backyard together and came to a relatively high-end brothel in Zhongqu. Open the door and enter the room, there is a fragrance wafting out, there is a wide four-legged case in the center, surrounded by four screens, a woman is kneeling in front of the desk, facing the mirror is applying fat powder.

"Wait a minute, two guests."

Cheng Qianli and Li Siye sat in front of the long case by themselves, there were already crystal persimmons and wine bottles on the case, and there was no one waiting for them for the time being, so they poured their own drinks.

Li Siye picked up the wine bottle and poured a glass from Cheng Qianli's wine cup, and asked: "You said that you have something important to talk to me about, tell me, what is it?" ”

Cheng Qianli took the wine cup and drank it all, held it in his hand and smacked his lips with his brows, as if the wine was very bitter: "The world is like this wine, which is getting more and more chilling." ”

"Don't sell Guan Zi to express emotion, just talk about things."

Cheng raised his head and glanced at him: "The official letter from the Ministry of War to us for meritorious service and promotion has come down, and it is temporarily in the hands of Fumeng Lingcha, and this official letter was received by me in the backyard, so I peeked at it a few times, and I was very cold." ”

Li Siye Qi said: "Since Fumeng Zhongcheng has received an official letter of merit, why didn't he inform us? ”

"He's embarrassed to show it, so he can only hold it in his hand. I can't mention it, Gao Xianzhi has been promoted to be the deputy envoy of the Anxi Festival, and you and I, I didn't participate in the war this year, and I didn't get promoted regardless of merit, but you got the upper middle school in the big exam this year, and you planned an expedition in the crusade against the Tuqi Shi Mohe Department, and killed the enemy general, why did you only get a Xunjiu Protector? ”

"What's wrong with the Guardians?" Li Siye put down the cup and said with a smile: "The Ninth Rotation Protector Army is already regarded as the third grade. ”

"That's not what you think in your heart," Cheng Qianli stared into his eyes and said, "Think about it, how fast you rose in the past few years, do you feel that it is getting slower and slower now, and your exam class is not as good as Gao Xianzhi?" Isn't your credit better than Gao Xianzhi's? Okay, even if he is in front of him in terms of seniority, you should also serve as a capital protector, and no matter how bad you are, you should be a marching Sima. ”

The official letter issued by the Ministry of War was indeed unfair, but this only disappointed him, and he did not feel that the sky had fallen. Even if he is stuck at the pass, it is a big deal to go to Gongsun Daochang again, and Gongsun Daochang will introduce Yang Taizhen again. His ascending passage was not blocked, so it would be easy to do. However, Cheng Qianli seems to be in sympathy with each other, and it is estimated that his mind is not so pure, which has a little meaning for him to charge in front.

Li Siye threw the words back: "Cheng Duhu, in fact, you are the most wronged, when Gao Xianzhi was the deputy envoy, you were the envoy of Qiuzi Town, he was the deputy capital protector, and you were also the deputy capital protector, but the other party was already the envoy of the four towns, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, and you are still the deputy capital protector." ”

"To put it very simply, we don't want to target Gao Xianzhi, just talk about things. Now these ministers in the court are afraid that the generals will occupy their positions, and almost all the newly used Jiedu envoys are Hu people. Gao Xianzhi's ability to quickly be promoted to the deputy envoy of Jiedu is also inseparable from the fact that he is a Hu person. ”

"Alas," Li Siye asked suspiciously: "Isn't the military department concurrently served by Zuo Xiang Li Shizhi, who himself entered the prime minister from the side, how could he cut off the way of the juniors?" ”

Cheng Qianli coughed lightly and covered up: "Of course Li Shizhi, the left minister, will not, but the court has been completely controlled by the right minister, and even the military department in charge of the left minister has been hollowed out. With that, he became more and more depressed, and took a sip of wine from the full cup.

The prostitute who had been putting on makeup just now had already come to the screen, she was draped in a thin veil, she sat next to the two of them in red dresses piled up into a ball of flowers, picked up the wine cup on the table, and poured it for the two of them and said with a smile: "The two officials have nothing to complain about, there are more unlucky than you, and there are fewer officials who have lost their lives, not to mention anything else, just recently an official in Wannian County was arrested by a bad handsome, because the following criminals killed Shangguan, and he has been asked to be on death row." ”

"Who?" He threw down the glass and turned his head.

Li Siye was incredulous and asked again: "Who?" In that county, Chang'an or Wannian? ”

"It's our Wannian County."

"Zhang Xiaojing?"

"That's right, it's Zhang Xiaojing."

Cheng Qianli noticed his strange expression and asked casually, "What, do you know." ”

"Well, this Zhang Xiaojing is an old friend of mine."

Cheng Qianli didn't care about Li Siye's so-called old friend, and said to the woman who poured wine next to him: "You go down first, and I'll call you later." ”

The woman pursed her lips, turned to her feet, and pulled her skirt out of the screen.

Cheng Qianli raised his head and drank the wine in the cup: "I have never seen such a narrow-minded and jealous person, and it is just a matter of guarding against the ministers of the court, and the prevention of border generals also starts from the bottom, and you and I will be strangled in the career in the bud."

"It's not as serious as you said, but it's based on the practice that the Hu people don't serve as prime ministers, thinking that the Hu people won't covet his position before he is promoted, but it's not very fair to us Han generals." He lowered his voice and said, "There is no solution to this situation for us now, unless something unexpected happens, well, the wine is almost drunk, we should go." ”

Cheng Qianli obviously didn't get what he wanted to know from Li Siye's mouth, he knew that he could solve this situation, and even use his momentum to get rid of his current predicament, but for now, is this Li Zhen envoy ready to let go of this matter like this?

The two came out of the brothel, Li Siye bowed to Cheng Qianli, walked out of the door of Pingkangfang, and turned to go towards Xuanyangfang.

Standing at the door of the Chang'an County Party, he raised his feet and walked inside, and a messenger guarding the door hurriedly stopped him: "Who, you, do you know what this place is?" ”

"Yes, Wannian County." He lowered his head and touched it from his sleeve, pinched out a string of money, handed it to the other party, and whispered: "Buy some wine to drink in your spare time, you don't have to be polite." ”

The messenger put it away without a trace, and said with a smile: "What are you doing in the county party?" ”

Li Siye asked in a low voice: "Where is Zhang Xiaojing, the former bad marshal of Wannian County, where is he being held now, I want to go and see him." ”

The officer's face changed slightly, and he suddenly felt that the money was a little hot, but it was within the range he could bear.

"It's in the cage over there in the county jail, but there are a lot of people over there, so watch it closely, this ......"

"It's okay," Li Siye patted the errand officer on the shoulder, and walked towards the door.

The errand officer was right, there were three or four passes from the gate of the county party to the county prison, almost all of which were passed through with Tongbao, although it was not so weak that the follow-up was weak, but it was enough to make him feel distressed.

"It's in the third cage facing east, so go ahead. It can't be too long, otherwise the above will blame it, and we won't have good fruit to eat. ”