At the north gate of Yangzhou, the canal goes north along the ditch from one side.

On the east side of the canal, a fast horse is speeding north along the official road.

Above the city gate, Li Xuan looked at the fast horse in the distance, and asked sideways, "Has it been approved, is this person sure to go straight to Dengzhou?"

"It's approved." Zhou Qian nodded and arched his hand: "The subordinates have been staring at that bird, and followed to a pharmacy on the north side of the East Street Market, who would have thought that the pharmacy that seemed to be just an ordinary Northland merchant turned out to be a dark line of the Silla people."

Speaking of this, Zhou Qian couldn't help but grit his teeth.

On the front line of the Andong Prefecture, the army was fighting a fierce battle with Silla, but in Middle-earth, the Silla people disguised themselves as merchants from the North to sell medicinal herbs.

If it's just to make money, it's fine, but if it's used for poisoning, the consequences are also great.

Zhou Qian couldn't help but complain a little in his heart about the people of the Hundred Cavalry Division, such a secret pile was buried in Yangzhou, and they didn't even find it.

Li Xuan waved his hand absently and said, "Silla specialty ginseng and all kinds of rare medicinal materials, Silla people disguise themselves as the people of Liaodong Province, if you talk about it in detail, it won't be a big problem, because they don't know how to heal."

Zhou Qian suddenly realized how many medical skills Silla Xizuo could know, and they would not be able to enter the house of the powerful at all.

Moreover, the medical skills of the people who used the decoction medicine in the powerful families were never low, and it was difficult for the Silla people to focus on this.

"If the guess is correct now, I am afraid that the Silla lieutenant will also ask Silla to do a lot of heavy work in the country, and with a letter, the pressure on the front-line army will be greatly reduced." Li Xuan sighed easily, and said at the same time, "And the Silla people will definitely devote some of their energy to the Wa Kingdom."

Yu Ze, who was standing on the other side, nodded and said, "Congratulations to the prince, at least I have waited for most of the things in Yangzhou."

"The official business is basically over, but it is over, and the rest is all private affairs." Li Xuan turned around and strode towards the city gate, leaving a sentence in mid-air: "Go, go back to the Governor's Mansion!"

Qian Niuwei soon returned to the official office of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, Li Xuan asked Qianniuwei to return to his residence, and Li Xuan went alone to visit Shi Dou Xuande, the governor of the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

"Your Majesty, please!" Sima Changyu led the way in front, and at the same time said with admiration: "The prince has only been in Yangzhou for a few days, and he has already broken the traitor repeatedly, I don't know if there is any magic method, and the next two are instructed."

Looking at Chang Yu's envious expression, Li Xuan smiled faintly and said, "Sima, when you know when the other generation wants, everything that the other generation has is under your control."

Li Xuan's words made Chang Yu nod as if he didn't understand, and then lowered his head and began to ponder.

Li Xuan smiled faintly and walked into the lobby.

In the lobby, Dou Xuandegao sat in it, and on the low tables on both sides, there were more than a dozen scribes, copying something quickly.

On the side of the case, Secretary Lang Xue Zhongzhang and a group of secretaries and supervisors, officials from Zhongshu Province, are also actively recording.

Li Xuan walked to the front of the middle hall and arched his hand to Dou Xuande, "Subordinate Li Xuan, I have seen Dou Weng."

Dou Xuande blocked the brush in his hand to one side, stretched his waist, and raised his hand to Li Xuan, who stood up.

Dou Xuande looked at the left and right sides, and said with a solemn face, "Everyone go down."

"Whoa!" The officials of the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion on the left and right sides stood up, bowed their hands to Li Xuan and Dou Xuande at the same time, and then bowed and retreated.

"Sima, and Xue Langjun, take the people from Zhongshu Province to go out together," Dou Xuande's face was completely solemn, and Chang Yu did not hesitate at all, and immediately retreated.

Xue Zhongzhang hesitated slightly, but when Li Xuan and Dou Xuande's two sharp eyes looked at him at the same time, Xue Zhongzhang could only smile wryly, and then retreated.

After everyone left, Li Xuan gave up his hand to Dou Xuande: "Thank you Dou Weng for your support, if it weren't for that, that Xue Langjun would have to ask about the rest of the matter."

"It's just a secretary, if he doesn't have the signature of this official, he won't be able to send a single official document," Dou Xuande didn't care about Xue Zhongzhang, and shouted in front of him, Pei Yan came in person

。

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the Guanzhong Dou family has been one of the top families in the imperial court.

The Empress Dowager Dou and the Prime Minister Dou Ying during the Wu Dynasty were all representatives.

Since then, there have been a total of five queens, queen mothers and countless prime ministers in the entire family.

In this dynasty, it is also a top-level family of relatives.

Emperor Li Zhi's own grandmother is the Dou family, and even a woman from the Dou family has been selected as the wife of the prime minister Li Dan.

If this one can survive until Li Dan ascends the throne smoothly as in history, he will also be the queen's choice.

In addition, a family of relatives like the Dou family, they are not as easy to be suspicious of the emperor as the children of the clan like Li Xuan.

The huge family power, the emperor's trust, and the official position of the governor of Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor, even if it is Pei Yan, he has to pull Wenxi Pei's family, and the trust of Empress Wu, in order to be on a par with Dou Xuande, what is Xue Zhongzhang.

The reason why Dou Xuande let Xue Zhongzhang act before was just because he didn't want to provoke the martial queen too much, as for Xue Zhongzhang, Dou Xuande could easily let him get out, but there was no need, the chess pieces that rolled in front of the stage would always die the fastest.

Li Xuan arched his hand at Dou Xuande and said, "Dou Weng, the Silla people have already entered the palace, and Xiao Wang has come to give orders."

Dou Xuande nodded and said with emotion, "If Silla can really be cautious because of this, it will be much easier for the army to retreat."

"The front-line army has been in Andong for several years, and the morale of the army is very tired, and there is no room for carelessness." Li Xuan took a deep breath, looked at Dou Xuande, and solemnly arched his hand: "Dou Weng, even if the Silla envoy has now been tricked, the reaction of the Silla Kingdom is still between the two sides, if the Silla people are to be more shaken, they still need to fight a few more victories on the front line."

Dou Xuande smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Lord Wang, don't worry, the commanders of Anton are experienced, and they will not completely pin their hopes of retreating on people's calculations."

"That's fine." Li Xuan couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and then arched his hand and said, "If it weren't for Xiao Wang shirking his responsibility, it would be the front-line army that couldn't be damaged."

"It doesn't matter." Dou Xuande waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty's intention is very clear, what the prince is doing now is not in front of him, and in the future, the matter of Silla, even if it is not peaceful today, he will definitely be peaceful day and night, and there is also the Wa Kingdom, can the prince find the traces of the truth of Zen Buddhism?"

"I found it, after Xiao Wang leaves tomorrow, I will go to Hangzhou and look for him immediately." After a pause, Li Xuan said seriously: "The Silla people are untrustworthy and unrighteous, and they are two-faced and three-stabbed, but the Wa Kingdom is also a wolf ambition, and the Japanese State and the northern resistance of Baekje against the Heavenly Dynasty army are proof of this, which can make the Wa Kingdom and Silla fight, but it is best to be weak at the same time, and there is no winner."

The Silla people are not good people, and the Japanese people are not good people.

The best case scenario is that the two families fight to the death, and the Tang Dynasty will not only bulldoze Silla, but also the Wa Kingdom in the end.

But this will not be easy, as soon as the Tang Dynasty reveals this ambition, Silla and the Wa Kingdom will immediately join forces.

Coupled with the Turks and Tibetans in the west, Datang will immediately fall into a two-sided quagmire.

The operation needs to be carried out with great care.

"The words of the king of Nanchang, this official will write a letter to inform the envoys of Anton." Dou Xuande looked at Li Xuan with a solemn face, and asked in a deep voice, "I don't know what else the king of Nanchang has to say to this official?"

"Don't dare." Li Xuan bowed his hand slightly, and then said, "But Xiao Wang still has three things to do, and I hope that the governor will be thoughtful."

"Lord, please speak."

"One is the matter of the merchants of the Western Regions, Tubo used the merchants of the Western Regions to steal the intelligence of our dynasty, not a day, if there were no Silla people to guide the way, it would be difficult for Xiao Wang to capture them, but the Tubo people in addition to Yangzhou, other stops also have eyeliner, and I hope that the governor can go to the states to investigate in detail." Li Xuan gave up.

"Don't worry, this matter will be dealt with later."

"The second is the dark line of the Silla people, but after the departure of the army, they must all be cleared, and no one will be left, and there must be no hidden danger."

Dou Xuande nodded silently, Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, Yangzhou is Dou Xuande's territory after all, he still has to be careful in doing things.

slightly

After a pause, Li Xuan's expression suddenly became solemn, and he looked at Dou Xuande and said, "Dou Weng, the last thing is Li Huainian, although we have captured Li Huainian, but the king of the East China Sea is in Yangzhou, in the entire southeast, not only Li Huainian has a dark line, as for the other ......."

"Matter!" Dou Xuande directly interrupted Li Xuan, and said very decisively: "This matter involves the clan, and we still need to wait for His Majesty's holy decree to be issued."

"And that Secretary Xue?"

"He is a smart man, even the prince of Shi'an County is only under house arrest, how can he offend the entire Southeast Clan, the matter is really done, I am afraid that he will even return to Chang'an alive is a dilemma." When Dou Xuande said this, he glanced at Li Xuan deeply.

Li Xuan immediately smiled bitterly and arched his hand: "Where does Dou Weng want to go, how can Xiao Wang mess around at will."

"That's the best." Dou Xuande smiled lightly, still not fully believing Li Xuan.

Xue Zhongzhang did this thing in Yangzhou, and his last mistake was to give the king of the East China Sea a reason to kill him.

But it is not necessarily the person who really wants to kill him, but the shield of the King of the East China Sea can be used by everyone.

"Everything is delivered, then Xiao Wang will retire."

"Tomorrow's ......"

"Tomorrow, Xiao Wang will leave at dawn, and he doesn't need anyone to send him off." Li Xuan arched his hand again and said, "After all, Xiao Wang will return from Hangzhou in a few days, Dou Weng, Xuan will retire."

"Slow down, the prince!"

In front of the Yongchang Bo Mansion, Li Xuan turned over and dismounted, and took Zhou Qian and others straight into the inner courtyard.

In the middle room of the inner courtyard, one person has just closed the door and walked out, this person is the uncle of Yongchang County Army Liang Ling, Xinlin Mansion Zhichong Captain Shi Jin.

Li Xuan immediately arched his hand and said, "I heard that the governor has called, and Xiao Wang is coming, please forgive the governor."

"It doesn't matter." Shi Jin waved his hand at Li Xuan and said, "The prince is busy with affairs, and it was Shi Jin who disturbed him...... Poria has already rested, please come here."

"Whoa!" Li Xuan bowed his hand to Shi Jin, and then followed him to the side courtyard.

Walking between the halls and corridors, Shi Jin said slowly: "The prince should know that the four major Zhichong Mansions in Yangzhou are all under the command of Zuo Wei, although Shi has been appointed as the commander of the Zhichong Mansion, but further, only the Sixteen Wei generals and the Zhuzhou Assassin Shi have a way to go, Silla is small, it is difficult to have a place to play, although Tubo is big, but the victory or defeat is unpredictable, I don't know if the prince can teach Shi."

Li Xuan sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "The matter of Silla, the commander is not bad, this trip is the last batch of reinforcements in the DPRK, if it can be quelled Silla, it is the best, if not, it should also be hit hard, force it to sign an alliance under the city, if it can be meritorious, and then transferred to the Western Front, but don't want to be at the front, sometimes, the last, but can come first."

Shi Jin nodded suddenly, then took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, this is the secret letter that Shi Mou just received from Chao."

Li Xuan hesitated slightly, but still opened the secret letter in front of Shi Jin.

"From the sixth year of Yonghui to the fourth year of Xianqing, Xue Zhongzhang studied in Guozijian, and his classmates included Li Jingye, Li Jingyou, Tang Zhiqi, Du Qiuren and others."

Li Xuan's eyebrows couldn't help but raise, Xue Zhongzhang turned out to be Li Jingye's person.

Isn't he Pei Yan's nephew, wait, Li Xuan seemed to think of something.

Pei Yan, Xue Zhongzhang, Li Jingye, Luo Binwang.

Yangzhou.