Deng Jingshan mustered up the last courage before his death, and stood on the steps in front of the hall with a sword in his hand, and the rioters rushed over to be intimidated by his usual authority, and stopped at the bottom of the hall.

He pointed at the crowd in a deep and powerful voice and asked, "Who are you who instigated the rebellion, now you can stand up." ”

No one in the crowd squeaked, just looked at him with resentment.

He continued to ask loudly, "You're almost successful, don't you dare to stand up?" ”

Huang Baojie walked into the crowd wearing armor, and the rioters automatically gave him a way to come to the front of the hall and stood majestically in front of Deng Jingshan.

"It turned out to be General Huang, I, Deng Jingshan, have treated you soldiers well, why did I betray me and betray the court."

Huang Baojie sneered and said: "Giving the soldiers to eat moldy rice that they don't even eat for livestock, is this not treating us badly?" Thousands of miles of fertile land between the Jinzhong Plain in Hedong, how much more than one million grains a year, what do you do with these grains, don't you want to fill your own pockets? ”

Deng Jingshan glanced at Huang Baojie with a grim face, only stared at Huang a little hairy, and continued to ask: "Why don't you speak, is your heart weak?" ”

Deng Jingshan said to the trembling entourage behind him: "It just so happens that dinner is being eaten at home, you go and bring out a bowl of rice and let General Huang taste it." ”

The attendant bowed and crossed his hands and said, "Oh! ”

He immediately turned around and went to the side room, and brought out a bowl of rice, which was still steaming on the piled up, but the color of the rice was slightly yellowish, and it was obvious that it had been cooked with moldy rice.

Deng Jingshan took the big bowl in the hands of his entourage, stretched out it in front of Huang Baojie and asked, "General Huang tastes it, is it the same as the rice you eat?" ”

Huang Baojie was stunned in place, he really didn't expect that Deng Jingshan would force himself to eat moldy rice, he didn't figure it out at first, and the preparation for the sudden attack was too insufficient.

Deng Jingshan stretched out the rice bowl in his hand and faced the soldiers: "Brothers of the Hedong Army, you can also taste it, is it the moldy rice you usually eat." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the anger aroused by Huang Baojie gradually resisted. Huang Baojie realized that the situation was wrong, his eyes rolled wildly, and he suddenly asked loudly: "That is also because you are incompetent, let these brothers suffer with you, shouldn't they rebel?" There were originally one million Hu in the granary of Hedong Mansion, even if it was originally dedicated to Chang'an 500,000 Hu, together with the new grain that was beaten this year, there should be 600,000 Hu if there was no 700,000 Hu, why did it fall to this point? ”

Deng Jingshan looked even more confident, he put his hands behind his back and said proudly: "Since General Huang has long had such a question, you can come and ask me directly, why be so aggressive." Now lift up your ears and let me hear clearly. When Wang Sili served as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu when he sent grain to Chang'an, he ostensibly sent 500,000 yuan to Chang'an, but the supply of rations for the transportation team, the loss of travel and the supply to the court officials were all counted on our heads, and in fact we paid the price of 600,000 Hu. ”

"After Wang Sili stepped down, Guan Chongsi succeeded him as the envoy of the Hedong Festival, he was generous, and trusted you, the subordinates and staff of the Hedong Army, resulting in the indiscriminate consumption of the few stored grain in the warehouse, and now there are only more than 10,000 pieces of moldy rice left in the granary."

Huang Baojie asked, "What about the newly harvested corn last autumn?" Are you greedy for these grains? ”

"Last year, the continuous war in Hedong, the people fled their homeland, the harvest of rent and Yong was less than one-tenth of that of previous years, and the huge granary of Taiyuan Mansion was only filled with more than 30,000 hu. These only remaining new grains naturally have to be used on the blade, let me ask you, when Shi Siming besieged the city last year, what kind of rice did I give you to eat, is it also moldy rice? Since we all have difficulties, why can't we get through them together? ”

Huang Baojie's face was a little flustered, he didn't expect that Deng Jingshan would have so many words to say that he was dying, he held the sword in his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay to share weal and woe, but there is a way out in front of you, this is your fault, doctor." ”

Deng Jingshan furrowed his brows and asked in a deep voice, "What is the way out?" ”

"Now that the old court has moved south and no longer cares about us, King Yong supports the new emperor to ascend the throne in Chang'an, recruits talents from all directions, and the heroes of the world return to obedience, and there is plenty of grain and grass in Longyou, Hexi, Guanzhong. Why don't the doctors lead us to surrender to King Yong with the fathers and elders of Taiyuan City, so that we all have a way to live. ”

Deng Jingshan sneered and asked, "You mean to say that if you have milk, you are a mother?" ”

"What the doctor said, what Li Siye, the king of Yong, supports is also the bloodline of Li Tang, and the country name is also the Tang Dynasty, where did he come from."

"Shut up! You are a Yongwang, full of absurd and rebellious words, only caring about your personal fate and future, where did you put my Datang Sheji! ”

"You!" Huang Baojie didn't want to pull Deng Jingshan to join the enemy, he also knew that he would not surrender to the enemy at all, and there was no way to retreat at this moment, so he had to pretend to be provoked, and suddenly pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist and aimed it at Deng Jingshan's stomach and grabbed it.

Deng Jingshan looked at each other with round eyes, and his body slowly fell backwards. Huang Baojie climbed on the high platform of the Lai Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, wiped the blood stains on the horizontal knife, raised it in his hand and said loudly: "Everyone, serve the new emperor, and there will be food!" ”

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In April of the first year of Yuan Shuo, Li Siye appointed Huang Baojie to make the Hedong Festival enter the Hajj and bow down to the emperor in the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, which is regarded as the completion of the last official procedure. The new emperor Li Jixuan sat on the top of the hall like a puppet, facing the respectful and pious Huang Baojie below, and he didn't know what to think in his heart.

"Is this the doctor Huang Baojie who led the Hedong soldiers to righteousness, come closer and let me see you."

Huang Baojie took two steps forward, knelt in front of the hall and raised his head and chest, the emperor saw that he was facing Zhonghou, and hurriedly got up from the chair and wanted to walk down the imperial steps to support him, but Cheng Yuanzhen was stopped by the eyes, so he had to give up.

"Stand down."

After Huang Baojie withdrew from the hall, Cheng Yuanzhen smiled beside the emperor and said: "Your Majesty has performed well, and the kind of energy that is controlled by others and depressed in my heart has been performed, and then there will be fierce medicine, it depends on how this Huang doctor reacts." ”

Li Jixuan sat expressionless on his face, but his heart was extremely depressed, and those reactions just now were not his true thoughts in his heart.

Huang Baojie has not yet arrived in Chang'an, Li Siye placed a mansion for him in Pingkangfang, and the previous owner of this mansion is very promising, that is, the famous Li Linfu, now the former Li Mansion has been renovated, hanging the lintel of the Huang Mansion of the Imperial Historian.

Pingkangfang is the land of fireworks and willow lane, even the air is wafting with the fragrance of fat powder, and other workshops have fallen silent at night, while Pingkangfang has just begun to be active. Living in this kind of place really complements each other for an old color batch like Huang Baojie.

He directly called the singers and maikos in the workshop to the house, and came to the banquet for several days to entertain the guests, and it was late at night.

Just before he was about to fall asleep with his beautiful concubine in his arms, a man suddenly came to report: "There is a Pingzhang Shifang Gong under the Zhongshu Door who came to visit outside the door." ”

Huang Baojie sat on the edge of the bed and pondered, thinking that this Fang Xuan is quite famous, and he has been a Chinese scholar for several years, I don't know what is the big deal with visiting at this point?

"Invite the guests into the main hall."

He put on his regular clothes and hat, and slowly walked into the main hall, Fang Xuan was already standing in the hall waiting, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute and said: "The last general Huang Baojie will see Fang Xianggong." ”

Fang Xuan smiled apologetically: "It is really presumptuous to come to visit late at night, I heard that General Huang is known for his blood, and it is really a grand ambition to kill Deng Jingshan and return to the Yi court, which makes me very admired." ”

"Hey, I'm just upset about the majority of soldiers in Hedong in this matter, and I don't dare to be arrogant."

"The general can hold grievances for 50,000 Hedong soldiers, can he hold grievances for the Tang Dynasty and the world?"