"Tell me what's going on." Li Zhi sat behind the imperial case and looked at the ministers in front of him casually, his expression was unexpectedly calm, and there was even a hint of interest in his eyes.

Pei Yan took a step forward and seriously bowed his hand: "Back to Your Majesty, someone stole the prince's congratulatory gift from Henan Yi, and then hid it in Tiangong Temple. ”

"Hide!" Li Zhi glanced sideways at Empress Wu and said, "The word "hidden" is very good. ”

Empress Wu immediately spoke: "Your Majesty, do you want to let the Buddhist monks outside the imperial city this year pray for Your Majesty's devout Buddha?" ”

Li Zhi shook his head directly and said: "Over the years, I have treated Buddhism fairly fairly, and Buddhism has no additional complaints, after all, I have never received a letter of complaint from Buddhism.

Moreover, this year, when there was a flood in the south, Buddhism sent countless monks to the south to provide relief, which I am still grateful for. ”

Li Zhi raised his head, looked outside the main hall, and said softly: "Tell the senior monks of the White Horse Temple that the death of the presiding officer of the Tiangong Temple is headed by Di Renjie to investigate the case, and I hope that the Luoyang Buddhism Gate can be convenient, and this case must be solved in the shortest possible time."

As for the birthday ceremony, let the secret guards cooperate with the Buddhist monks.

Since some people don't want them to show up, I let them quietly participate. ”

Speaking of this, Li Zhi sneered: "I want to see what kind of tricks this person in the dark is doing." ”

The more others don't want him to do anything, the more Li Zhi has to do.

"Your Majesty is wise." All the ministers gave up their hands at the same time.

Li Zhi looked up at Li Xian, who was standing on the side, and said, "Prince, you can consider your own congratulatory gifts, whether to change them to another set, or to use the current one?"

I don't care about anything else, your congratulatory gift will be delivered in the end, and there must be no problems. ”

"The retainers take the order." Li Xian was suddenly solemn.

The congratulatory gift he had brought back from overseas had been suddenly stolen and then retrieved.

In this, he doesn't seem to have the slightest loss, but if you think about it carefully, he has a huge problem here.

Once someone plays tricks in the congratulatory gift, if something happens in the future, he will be the first to be unlucky.

Even thinking farther, this may be someone else's means at all, and the original intention is to let him change a set of congratulatory gifts.

A set of congratulatory gifts that have already been manipulated by others.

If someone really plays tricks on congratulatory gifts, the unlucky one must be Li Xian in the end.

Without waiting for Li Xian to make a choice, Li Zhi waved his hand slightly and said, "Let's all step down, today's matter is handled properly." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment." The ministers bowed their hands at the same time, and then retreated in unison.

After the ministers left, Li Zhi looked at Empress Wu and said: "This year's battle of Tubo has finally rested a little, and someone has jumped out to make trouble, since they want to make a move, let's kill them all." ”

"Whoa!" Empress Wu nodded immediately.

……

It was dark and the north gate was located.

Yuan Wanqing walked in with an ugly face.

Fan Lubing glanced up at him and asked, "Why, Pei Yan didn't believe that this matter had nothing to do with us?" ”

"Nope." Yuan Wanqing sat down on the short couch, shook his head, and said helplessly: "This matter is too coincidental, and it made Pei Yan think that we were calculating him." ”

Leaving from the Qianyang Palace, Pei Yan didn't give Yuan Wanqing a good face, even if he rushed to explain, Pei Yan didn't believe it at all.

Yuan Wanqing simply came back by himself.

"Pei Yan's attitude is not important, it's good that the queen knows that it's not you." Fan Lubing calmed down a little, and then said: "No matter what, that person must be hidden among the foreign envoys and ministers who came to Beijing this time. ”

"Foreign envoys collude with ministers." Yuan Wanqing sneered and said: "There are at least more than 40 foreign envoys in Luoyang, and the ministers, most likely, are Li Jingye. ”

"He's damned, people have forgotten about him enough." Fan Lubing raised his head and said, "Let's do it now, before Your Majesty's birthday, it must be over." ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Yuan Wanqing nodded directly.

Seeing Yuan Wanqing walk out of the door, Fan Lubing calmly said to himself: "In this way, you can also test it, is it him?" ”

……

"Tiangong Temple?" Liu Jinyu hugged Xia'er, looked up at Li Bi, and said with a surprised face: "It turned out to be Tiangong Temple, didn't they notice that someone had broken in?" ”

"No, the senior monks in the temple are all cultivating, and the coachman who delivers things only collects the money, and then the things are sent to Tiangong Temple."

Li Bi paused slightly, and then said with a wry smile: "The Buddha Gate is also preparing to celebrate His Majesty's birthday, and is also preparing a congratulatory gift, so ......"

"Fished in troubled waters." Liu Jinyu nodded, and then asked hesitantly: "Do you think that this person is familiar with everything in Luoyang?" ”

"What the princess said is true, not many people in the court know about the undersea trees that the East Palace transported back from the southeast, and even fewer can know the exact time and whereabouts." Li Bi hesitated a little, but still said cautiously: "There are not many people who dare to attack the prince now, and there are not many who have a reason to attack the prince." ”

"No, there are no more, there are only two, Mi Wei and Li Jingye." Liu Jinyu also suspected the secret guard and Li Jingye for the first time.

The emperor's birthday, there are many things that can really be destroyed, but they only target the prince's birthday gift.

The flavor is too strong.

"Something is going to happen!" Liu Jinyu keenly caught something wrong, and said in a deep voice: "Pass the order, from today on, people in the house, there is no need not to go out."

Four days later, His Majesty celebrated his birthday, the house was closed, and everyone went to Xifu to stay. ”

"Whoa!" Li Bi immediately gave up his hand, his expression solemn.

On the emperor's birthday, Chang'an and Luoyang congratulated the two capitals for three days, but only on the first day, it was Liu Jinyu, who wanted to take Xia'er and Zhao'er to accompany his mother Ouyang to the palace to celebrate his birthday.

"In addition, these days, if someone at home visits, receive it, and send it away respectfully, these days at home, do not receive foreign guests, but also remind that the wind direction in Luoyang is not right, let it be cautious." Liu Jinyu's tone seemed to be a bit startled.

Li Bi did not have the slightest surprise, and directly arched his hand: "Wow! Princess, should we investigate the British duke? ”

"Don't go." Liu Jinyu shook his head directly, looked in the direction of the palace, and said softly: "It is not only us who can think of Li Jingye now, but also the secret guards and the East Palace. ”

"Yes!" Li Bi bowed and promised.

Liu Jinyu looked at the direction of the palace, thought about it and said: "Li Jingye chose to move at this time, I am afraid that the purpose is not simple.

The emperor's birthday, the states celebrate, and the nations pay tribute.

This guy is afraid that he is planning to kill two birds with one stone. ”

Li Jingye is the grandson of Li Quan, and even the emperor has not deprived him of the title of Duke of England until now.

Even when Li Jingye committed a crime, the emperor drove him out of Chang'an before the New Year, and didn't let him live in Chang'an for many years.

What worries him is that he is colluding with the assassins of various states.

It's the same today.

If Li Jingye really wants to make a ghost on the emperor's birthday, in addition to attacking the royal family, I am afraid that he will have to contact the old ministry of the British Duke Li Qian.

These people served as assassins, generals, temple secretaries, scholars, and even prime ministers in the court, and so on, and there are countless of them.

Leaving aside their respective positions for the time being, once the emperor becomes suspicious, then the entire government and the opposition will be in turmoil.

This is not alarmist, Liu Renliang, Dai Zhide, and other prime ministers in the DPRK have more or less worked with Li Wei.

Even Yuan Wanqing once followed Li Li to conquer Liaodong, and was Li Li's Liaodong Provincial Governor.

It's just that now everyone has their own positions, and few people will offend the emperor because of Li Jingye.

But there are still very few.

In addition to the high-ranking officials of the court, there were also foreign tribes.

Over the years, Li Qian doesn't know how many countries he has destroyed and how many monarchs he has subdued, if Li Jingye really wants to do something, there are still some people who will be used by him.

Or conversely, someone will take advantage of Li Jingye.

……

"Turkic." Liu Jinyu was immediately alert.

The Turks have been hit by drought for two years, and this year they have caught up with repeated torrential rains.

Some Turkic tribes are afraid that it is becoming more and more difficult, and it is normal to seek change in such a situation.

Li Bi stood on one side, and his face inevitably brought a hint of worry.

Under Li Xuan, Li Bi knows best how much Datang needs this year's recuperation.

Even if there is a lot of rain in the south, Datang is still much relieved.

At least the string that has been tight will not break, if the Turks make trouble at this time, I am afraid that it will not be good for the entire Tang Dynasty.

"Princess, do you want to inform Prime Minister Zuo about this?" Li Bi asked cautiously.

Liu Jinyu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "When I can think of it, Ah Weng and they didn't have any ideals, and now they are probably already doing means to deal with it." ”

After a slight pause, Liu Jinyu said with a rare helplessness: "There are ten tribes with ten surnames in the Western Turks, and there are twenty-eight tribes in the East Turks, even if the Eastern and Western Turks destroy the country, the remaining Turkic tribes still have at least one million households, inside and outside the Great Wall, in the south and north of the desert, in the east and west Turks, it is not rare for millions of people to control the strings, and it is not easy to deal with it." ”

The Tang Dynasty has done its best to divide the Turks, but the power of the Turks is still very strong.

"Over the years, the reason why the Turks dared to waver was because of the defeat of Dafeichuan and the loss of the four towns of Anxi in the back." Liu Jinyu looked at the palace and said softly: "It is also these years that Anxi West Town was regained by the Tang Dynasty, and last year's victory in Dafeichuan, which made the Turks a little stable, but ......"

However, it was just in time for two years of Turkic drought, and this year there were torrential rains.

That's not all, and Li Jingye came out at this time, no wonder the Turks were uneasy.

In fact, the uneasiness of the Turks is not recent.

In the second year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, the filial piety emperor Li Hong died of illness, and the Turks had already begun to take action, trying to rescue the grandsons of the Turki Khan and Jieli Khan from Chang'an back to the grassland, that is, Li Xuan caught up to stop it, otherwise the matter would be big.

When the Tang Dynasty was fighting against the Tibetans, it also had to guard against the Turks, and it was even more difficult to win on the battlefield.

……

"That's it." Liu Jinyu opened his mouth directly and said: "You take the token of the prince, go to Honglu Temple and Guozijian to ask, how the heirs of the envoys of various states have reacted in Chang'an and Guozijian recently, and if there are any rumors, check them, and ...... other."

"The princess commanded." Li Bi bowed down.

"You take the black-clothed Heavenly Kings from your family to the Tianshan Mansion and tell them about some sensitive things recently.

In addition, find a way to find out the real movement of Tuyuhun. Liu Jinyu's eyes were faint, even with a hint of ruthlessness.

"Whoa!"

……

East Palace, main hall.

Everyone left, and Li Xian stood alone in the hall.

His eyes looked straight at the undersea tree.

(End of chapter)