In the backyard of the brewing workshop, Li Mu took Shen Mintuo to a room, stepped back and then closed the door.

Seeing this, Shen Mintuo shouted a little nervously: "What are you doing?" What are you doing when you're closed! ”

"Huh."

Li Mu said with a smile: "Shen Hucao, don't panic, things like signing and painting can't be leaked casually, please!" ”

"I—Where am I panicking!"

Shen Mintuo sat down suspiciously, and then asked, "What about the contract?" ”

"Shen Hu Cao, don't be impatient!"

Li Mu sat down unhurriedly, just chatted with Shen Mintuo, and asked Shen Mintuo about the current situation like an old friend, without mentioning the signing of the pledge.

Shen Mintuo also said a few perfunctory words when he saw this, and at this time he was just in a hurry to sign and draw a pledge with Li Mu, so he chatted for a while. But after chatting for a while, Shen Mintuo saw that Li Mu was always chatting here, and he had no intention of getting the contract at all, so he couldn't help but be furious and stood up suddenly.

"What the hell do you mean! I see that you are not sincere at all, so I will leave, let's see, I want to see if you can get out of Qingzhou City alive! ”

After speaking, Shen Mintuo walked out, but when he pushed the door, he found that the door had not moved, and it was locked from the outside. At this time, Shen Mintuo looked back in horror, only to see that Li Mu didn't know when he had gotten up, and he was still holding a wooden stick that came out of nowhere.

Shen Mintuo's face showed a trace of fear, but he still pretended to be calm and scolded: "Don't mess around!" The eldest prince is in Qingzhou City, if I can't go back today, they will rush to the Pinglu Jiedu envoy to tell the secret! ”

Li Mu sneered and said, "To be honest, you can guess these situations with the help of Li Tingshi's expansion of business, which really impresses me." It seems that you are all very talented, but you have embarked on the road of no return, and no one can save you! ”

"Humph! In this case, you will wait to be captured and killed by the Pinglu Jiedu envoy! ”

"Haha!"

Shen Mintuo looked at Li Mu, who was laughing, and finally couldn't hold back, and shouted close to the door: "Don't come here, I, I'm just passing the word, don't kill me!" Are you really not afraid that the Pinglu Jiedu envoy will discover Li Congyan's scheme? ”

Li Mu said nonchalantly: "It's okay to bluff an honest person like Director Chen with these words, but for me, there is no threat at all!" ”

"Why?"

"You don't want to think about it, who is Shen Tan, the envoy of the Pinglu Festival? Suspicious and murderous, selfish and flattering! Will Shen Tan believe the words of a group of you who have no identity, no evidence, and no acquaintance with him, and go to turn your face directly with Dengzhou Assassin Shi and the current prince? Shen Tan is just tyrannical, but he is not stupid. Take 10,000 steps back, even if Shen Tan really believes you, he will never turn his face with Li Tingshi at this time, and he will also kill Li Xichu and others, and send the head to Dengzhou to express the sincerity of reconciliation, in exchange for Li Tingshi's concession! ”

Hearing this, Shen Mintuo's face suddenly turned pale, like a deflated ball, and he sat directly on the ground, and kept chanting: "Don't go, don't go!" ”

Seeing this, Li Mu also lost his mind, went up and knocked Shen Mintuo unconscious with a stick, and the entourage outside also opened the door. Li Mu waved his hand and asked his subordinates to drag Shen Mintuo away.

When Li Mu returned to the front yard, Chen Dongli was greeting and toasting with a table of guests, and suddenly found Li Mu's figure, so he confessed to the guests, and then hurriedly came up, lowered his voice and asked, "How is Shen Mintuo over there?" ”

"Don't worry, Director Chen, Shen Mintuo has already been taken care of by me, and it is estimated that he is already at ease there at this time."

Chen Dongli was startled when he saw Li Mu's finger pointing to the ground, and his eyes when he looked at Li Mu became a little afraid.

"Haha!"

However, Li Mu didn't care, knowing that he was doing these shady things for Li Congyan, he laughed a few times at this time, and then lowered his voice and said: "I still have to go to Pinglu Jiedu to watch a good show, Director Chen is here to take care of the guests, I must have fun tonight!" But remember, after the banquet, you must return to Dengzhou City overnight, I will prepare the carriage and horses after an hour, and Mr. Chen will remember to leave through the back door. ”

After speaking, Li Mu took a few entourages to the Pinglu Jiedu Embassy. After waiting for a long time, they saw that Pinglu Jiedu had opened the door of the palace, and a man covered in blood was thrown out and fell to the ground like a broken bag, and then the door of the government was closed again.

Li Mu looked around, only to see that it was pitch black and no one else existed, so he asked his entourage to secretly carry the bloody man over. By the moonlight, Li Mu personally stepped forward to confirm that the bloody man lying on the ground was Cao Jia Nai'an, a former citizen of Huang County!

"Okay, today Li Xichu lost two followers in a row, it seems that he can settle down for a while, but this time let him escape, it's really cheap!"

Early May.

Pinglu Jiedu made Shen Tan not believe Jia Naian's words, but directly regarded Jia Nai'an as a despicable villain who played right and wrong and stumbled himself, and directly beat Jia Nai'an to death and threw him out.

So in the past nearly a month, the various workshops under Li Congyan's command have achieved great development, and the sub-labor workshops opened in various places have been put into operation one after another, and dozens of families and merchants in Qingzhou, Mizhou, Laizhou and other places have been accepted to invest in the capital, tying these people to the chariot of the Dengzhou shogunate.

Although these families and businessmen from other states cannot be regarded as Li Congyan's cronies, or even their own people, it is a good start after all, and these people are already crowbars knocking on the doors of surrounding states in Li Congyan's opinion!

Although Li Congyan's economic expansion plan was not affected by the disturbance of Li Sichu and others, with the end of this incident, Li Sichu and Wei Congrong had no news again, as if they had evaporated, and no matter how Li Mu led people to find them, they were still nowhere to be found. This result made Li Congyan feel a little uneasy in his heart, but the current affairs were complicated, so he had to end it temporarily.

At the same time, the situation in Luoyang City has changed dramatically.

Shi Jingjiao, the commander of the Liangchuan in the Later Tang Dynasty, led the army to retreat without authorization because of the disadvantage of the Liangchuan battle, which caused the emperor Li Siyuan to be furious.

Li Siyuan successively issued two edicts to reprimand Shi Jingjiao, ordering him to stabilize the front, and if he retreated, he would be severely punished.

In the palace, Li Siyuan looked at the sky worriedly, and now that An Chongzhi is dead, the ministers of the court and the central government have no suppression of An Chongxue, and they have begun to reshuffle the cards, and they have taken refuge in the princes, which Li Siyuan does not want to see.

The situation between the DPRK and China began to evolve rapidly in the direction of the dispute between the crown princes, and when he thought of his several princes fighting each other for the throne, Li Siyuan's heart swelled with sadness, and his body, which had not recovered from his old illness, became even heavier.

"Someone!"

A eunuch rushed to answer the call and said with his hands crossed: "Saint! ”

"Spread Feng's way, I want to make a move!"

"Whoa!"

After a while, Feng Dao hurried to the palace, and just got up from saluting, he heard Li Siyuan say: "You plan to make a move immediately!" ”

"Whoa!"

"Promote Li Congke to the general of the Left Guard, and order him to return to Xijing within three days to garrison."

Feng Dao was slightly stunned, then lowered his head and wrote, and soon drafted an edict.

"Playing the sage, in the opinion of the minister, this time the prince will definitely be able to send an edict out of Beijing. It's just that after the eldest prince leaves Beijing, what will happen to the princes who are still in the court? ”

Li Siyuan frowned slightly, rubbed his temples with his hands, a little helpless and a little annoyed.

Feng Dao's meaning is very simple, once Li Congke leaves Beijing, Li Congzhang, Li Conghou and others who are still in Luoyang will take the opportunity to win over the courtiers, and the court situation will also have violent turmoil, which will do more harm than good to the war between the two rivers!

"What do you suggest?"

Feng Dao didn't have a good idea for a while, so he said some innocuous suggestions.

Li Siyuan was a little dissatisfied when he saw this, and said: "Aiqing has always been resourceful, why is there no good plan today?" ”

"Initiation Sage, this matter is very important, the minister needs time to think about it carefully, and he doesn't dare to play it in a hurry!"

Li Siyuan shook his head and sighed: "If these sons of mine are like Li Congyan to let me worry about it, and they are not so attached to authority, I can be at ease and don't have to be so anxious!" ”

Feng Dao didn't dare to say more, just bowed his head and said nothing.

Suddenly, Li Siyuan seemed to have made up his mind, slowly stood up, and said: "In my opinion, it is better to release all the princes in Luoyang City, just like Li Congyan, and all of them will go to the local office!" ”

"Saints, never!"

Feng Dao was taken aback, and he couldn't care about the golden mean at this time, and said with his crossed hands: "Has the sage forgotten the disaster of the assassination of the real power in the late Han Dynasty?" ”

Feng Dao said that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to suppress the Yellow Turban Uprising, the imperial court wantonly increased the authority of the local assassination, resulting in a situation where the local tail could not be defeated.

As soon as these words came out, Li Siyuan's face suddenly turned cold, and his eyes were staring at Feng Dao, obviously very dissatisfied in his heart.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what the hell am I going to do!"

Li Siyuan threw the cup in his hand directly on the ground, and said loudly: "Leave a few of them in Luoyang, sooner or later the situation will be ruined, what should we do about the war between the two rivers?" Either way, there must be a way to do it today! ”

Feng Dao was silent when he saw this, even though he knew that Li Siyuan's method was to drink to quench his thirst, but he couldn't think of an alternative way, so he could only be indifferent.

Seeing this, Li Siyuan seemed to be a little tired, sat down and waved his hand, and said, "Okay, let's make a move!" ”

"Whoa!"

The next day, Emperor Li Siyuan issued several edicts, first canonizing Li Congke as the general of the Left Guard, and ordering him to return to Xijing immediately to garrison.

At the same time, Emperor Li Siyuan issued an edict to canonize the princes of the court, and appointed the prince Li Conghou as the envoy of the Xuanwu Army and went out of Bianzhou; appointed Li Congzhang as the envoy of the river festival and went out of the town of Hezhong; Li Congrong was appointed as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu and went out of Hedong.

In the edict of Emperor Li Siyuan, the princes went out of the town to stabilize the place, and the ministers of the court and the central government were shocked when they heard the news, and they all stopped fighting and did not return to the previous chaos.

Li Congke saw that An Chongzhu's party had been destroyed, and the rest of the princes were sent out by Emperor Li Siyuan as envoys, and there was no longer a threat to his existence in the court, so he happily took up the edict.

However, although Emperor Li Siyuan's move temporarily stabilized the situation in the DPRK and China, it shocked the world's envoys.

When the news reached Dengzhou, Li Congyan was also shocked: "In this way, chaos is coming!" ”