Shen Lie also thought that it would be without further ado, so he nodded in agreement, and led Dong Tianxing into the imperial city with Murong Xue.

At this time, the crown prince Li Bing was reviewing the chapter in the Ziwei Palace. Poison soldiers, Turks, Li Kui, Yizhou, Jingxiang, Jiangnan, a lot of troubles are blocked in his chest, which makes him feel resentful and unable to evacuate.

Hearing that Murong Xue and Shen Lie were coming together, Li Bing knew that there must be something important, so he hurriedly ordered to summon them.

The two capable generals walked into the main hall quickly, introduced Dong Tianxing who was next to them to Li Bing, and roughly described the methods of Lao Dong and others to deal with the poisonous soldiers.

When he learned that the Xiahou girl who had been thinking about him had a letter to him, Li Bing immediately showed a cordial and friendly attitude towards Dong Tianxing, and at the same time ordered the chamberlain to quickly bring it to him.

However, Li Bing's good mood did not last long.

Xiahou Ninghan wrote a lot of content in the letter, in addition to carefully describing the current excellent situation in Western Xinjiang and the efforts made by Dong Tianxing and others to eliminate the poisonous soldiers, she also mentioned her relationship with Li Jiangyao at the end of the letter.

Li Bing's brows gradually wrinkled, his face became more and more gloomy, he trembled slightly and held the letter in his hand, read the last paragraph several times, and suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and a small mouthful of blood spit out directly.

"Your Highness!" Murong Xue screamed, rushed to the front quickly, and reached out to support Li Bing before he fell.

Shen Lie was also taken aback, and immediately turned around and ordered the guards to hold Dong Tianxing first, and then stepped forward to check Li Bing's condition.

Murong Xue hugged the pale prince and shouted loudly, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?" Where did it hurt? ”

Shen Lie put his hand on Li Bing's wrist, paused for a moment, and said, "It's not a sign of poisoning, let's pass on the imperial doctor first." Your Highness, what's wrong with it? ”

Li Bing calmed down slightly, sat up strongly, first folded Xiahou Ninghan's letter in his arms, and then breathed a long sigh of relief: "It's okay, maybe I'm tired...... Let's move on. ”

"Why don't you forget it today?" Murong Xue said worriedly: "You take a rest first, and then wait for tomorrow to ......"

Li Bing raised his hand to interrupt his words, and said in a deep voice: "State affairs are important!" ”

This sentence seemed to be said to Murong Xue, but Li Bing knew in his heart that this was actually for himself. He who lost his sweetheart can only focus on state affairs now, and he must also focus on state affairs.

Otherwise, how will you clean up the Li Jiangyao who should be cut with a thousand knives in the future?

Seeing that the crown prince insisted on this, Shen Lie pulled Murong Xue: "It's better to listen to Your Highness, solve the problem, and Your Highness can recuperate with peace of mind." ”

Murong Xue nodded helplessly, gently helped Li Bing again, and then retreated to his original position with Shen Lie.

Li Bingqiang endured the feeling that his heart was like a knife, and asked, "Does your method work?" ”

This sentence is naturally asking Dong Tianxing. But Lao Dong was still grabbed by the warriors in front of the palace at this time, his arms were grabbed, his head was pressed, and he knelt on the ground motionless, unable to answer the prince's question at all.

Shen Lie smiled bitterly and hurriedly ordered to release the people.

Dong Tianxing's old bones were almost directly broken up by the warriors in front of the palace, and he himself couldn't figure out what happened just now, but at this time, he didn't have time to be hypocritical, and hurriedly grinned and endured the pain, and responded: "Back to Your Highness, according to our judgment, eighty percent will work." ”

The old man is very ghostly, he told Li Jiangyao and Xiahou Ninghan that he was sixty percent sure, but he reported two percent more with the prince, and he was so afraid that he couldn't convince Li Bing.

"Eighty?" Li Bing pondered for a moment: "Don't say it's eight, even if there is only two percent hope, then you have to give it a try!" Murong, have the poisonous monsters been making more trouble recently? ”

Murong Xue said: "Yes, Your Highness." Especially on the front line from Xingyang to Yingchuan, in half a month, many places were attacked by poisonous soldiers on a large scale, and the local garrison suffered heavy casualties. ”

Li Bing nodded painfully: "So you have to eradicate it quickly, otherwise, the army of this palace will be dragged down by those monsters." ”

He looked at Dong Tianxing and asked, "What is your position now?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, Weichen is a member of the Ordnance Division of the Ministry of War."

"From the fifth grade?" Li Bing thought for a while, and then asked: "Since you Wang Shangshu don't allow you to ask about the poisonous soldiers, why do you have to risk losing your official position and come here?" ”

Dong Tianxing replied: "It is incumbent upon me to protect the Holy Tang. ”

Li Bing bowed slightly: "I have been a courtier for more than 30 years, and I also worked in front of my father and emperor, and my loyalty is commendable." In this way, Murong, you write a note to Yizhou, and promote Dong Tianxing to the doctor of the five grades and the ordnance supervisor of the leading department. If you can really completely eliminate the poison soldiers, there will be a reward. ”

Dong Tianxing didn't care whether he was promoted or not, he wanted support from above, so when he heard the prince nod his head in agreement, he quickly knelt on the ground and shouted long live.

Li Bing said "flat", and instructed the chamberlain to take Dong Tianxing down to rest first, and then said to Shen Lie: "How did you do the thing you said last time?" ”

At this time, there were only three monarchs and ministers left in the hall, so Shen Lie had no worries, and said directly: "Please forgive Your Highness, we have failed again." ”

Murong Xue guessed what he was talking about, and said in surprise: "Brother Shuxuan?" ”

Shen Lie nodded: "This is already the fourth batch." Unexpectedly, that guy's guard is so strong, and his kung fu is also very tough. The most powerful killers of the Scales Division have nothing to do with him. ”

Li Bing was a little upset at this time, and couldn't help but say angrily: "It's useless! Grow the enemy's arrogance and destroy your own majesty! ”

This is the first time that the crown prince has reprimanded the head of the anti-scale division so bluntly, and Shen Lie couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and arched his hand: "Your Highness's lesson is that the ministers are not good at doing things and should be punished." Tomorrow, the minister will go to the imperial capital in person, and he will kill Ge Shuxuan no matter what. ”

"Your Highness, this ...... I'm afraid it's not appropriate. Murong Xue hurriedly said, "Lord Shen is shouldering the heavy responsibility of intelligence, so he shouldn't take risks easily. Although Ge Shuxuan is important, he is only doing evil on the poisonous soldiers, but Lord Shen is related to the entire battle situation, and it is not worth it for just one Ge Shuxuan. ”

Li Bing also knew that what he had just said was a bit heavy.

Shen Lie is different from Murong Xue, as the head of the Reverse Scale Division, he belongs to the close ministers of the first emperor, if it wasn't for Shen Lie to send someone to rescue him, and later sent an edict for the first emperor, and personally came forward to persuade the northern soldiers and horses to be loyal, he Li Bing may not have it today.

Murong Xue could train as much as she wanted, but Shen Lie couldn't.

At least, not yet.

Li Bing suppressed the irritability in his heart, and said when he heard this: "Shen Aiqing, this palace was a little anxious just now, you don't have to go to your heart." Murong Xue is right, your value is far greater than that of Brother Shu Xuan, and you act as an assassin yourself, but it seems that this palace will not use people. ”

"Wechen is terrified." Shen Lie responded: "It's the minister's inconsiderate consideration, please don't blame yourself, Your Highness." ”

Li Bing waved his hand, signaling not to mention the matter again, and then asked, "How is Li Jiong's side?" ”

Shen Lie looked at Murong Xue, Murong Xue understood that the other party asked him to say it first, and then said loudly: "The troops of the Yinshan Governor's Mansion have retreated the defense line as a whole for fifty miles, and they have now regained their footing. The anti-king Li Kui also did not seem to have any further intentions, and his soldiers and horses were still quiet. The minister has ordered the deputy governor Song Lang to strengthen their vigilance. ”

Li Bing looked at Shen Lie: "Last time you said that Li Kui secretly sent two messengers, what happened?" ”

Shen Lie responded: "Back to Your Highness, because Lianghuai is too close to Jingxiang, it is too late for us to act after receiving the news, so we only intercepted the secret envoy who went to Yizhou. The spy in charge of the matter later reported that the secret envoy had poison in his mouth and killed himself before we captured him. ”

Li Bing nodded silently, pondered for a moment and said, "It's okay, just don't let them come into contact with the people in the court." What was Li Chenglin's reaction? ”

"According to the insider, the king of Anping County was not very polite to the secret envoy of Huaiyang, but only let the deputy general meet a little, and he did not come forward." Shen Lie replied: "However, this is only the surface situation, what he thinks in his heart remains to be further observed. ”

Murong Xue said: "I don't think the situation is very optimistic. Some time ago, on the orders of His Royal Highness, I sent a letter to the king of Anping County again, urging him to lead his troops north as soon as possible, but Li Chenglin still repeated the same old tune and shifted the responsibility to Yizhou. Alas, the old treacherous and cunning. ”

Li Bing groaned: "Do you think that the king of Anping is waiting? Or have you already moved Huaiyang's mind? ”

Shen Lie and Murong Xue glanced at each other, and then said in a deep voice: "At present, it should be more of a wait-and-see." Although Li Chenglin was the same generation as the first emperor, he belonged to the side branch of the Li royal family, so he was not a prince, but a county king. He has been stationed in the south for a long time, although he has some military exploits, he has never been qualified to enter the center of the court, and most of the time is because he is not sure about the direction of the situation, and he is afraid of standing on the wrong team, so he does not dare to move. ”

"Will he be confident that he has a heavy army...... Li Bing hesitated slightly, and continued: "What about the idea of moving the throne too?" ”

"Probably not." Murong Xue analyzed: "When the minister was studying in Yanwutang, when Commander He commented on the generals of the Holy Tang Dynasty, he specifically said that Li Chenglin was cautious and calm in battle, and he was a rare defender. People like this are less likely to have big rebellious thoughts. ”

Shen Lie agreed: "That's right. The Reverse Scale Division has long monitored members of the imperial family who are qualified to challenge the emperor's throne, and Li Chenglin has always been listed in the category with the lowest danger level, mainly because of his personality. To put it bluntly, this person has no ambition, even if he has mastered thousands of troops, he will not do anything out of the ordinary. ”

Li Bing was noncommittal, and advised: "Everything cannot be absolute. Is it difficult to say now, and whether it will be even more difficult to say in the future, whether it is his own ambition or Li Jiong's ambition, it is always right to keep an eye on it. ”

Shen Lie hurriedly replied, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Li Bing thought for a while, and then continued: "At present, there are not many chips in the hands of this palace, or rather, the chips of Turkic and Li Kui are not enough, so neither side wants to easily place heavy bets on the gambling table, but only hopes that others will fight for both sides, and then take the opportunity to appear." And what we need to do most is to make Li Chenglin our bargaining chip, not a new gambler. ”