Chapter 5 The Rebellion in Yingzhou

After a night without words, Dugu Shuo stayed at the door of the wing, because he drank too much wine and was blown by the wind, his head became more and more dizzy, and he didn't wake up until dawn. The door of the wing room was wide open, and Liu Lingwei was gone. Dugu Shuo got up and looked around, hurriedly went to the room to get the saber and crossbow, put it on his body, and wanted to go outside to find Liu Lingwei, so he walked to the door quickly, suddenly stopped, stood in a daze for a long time, turned back, took off the saber and bow, and sat on the steps with his hands.

"That's it, if she wants to go, she must have thought about it for a long time, and she must not be able to keep it, people are born on different paths, so why should I force her!" Thinking like this, suddenly my heart became inexplicably sad, and two lines of tears rolled out of my eyes inexplicably. He originally thought that God would give him another chance when they reunited, but it backfired, how did he know that Liu Lingwei, who was full of things in front of him, was not the simple-minded Liu Lingwei back then. The phrase swirling in his mind: "This is the case when fate is over!" ”

"Dugushuo, get out of here!" Dugu Shuo sat on the steps obliquely, and listened to Pei Ce shouting in a loud voice, breaking his thoughts, and a sense of ominousness lingered, he hurriedly pulled up his sleeves and wiped his tears.

"Brother Pei, don't do it, Brother Pei knows that his anger hurts his body, and his anger hurts his body!" There was a person next to him who seemed to be trying his best to dissuade the angry Pei Ce, and Dugu Shuo listened to it, it was the voice of his colleague Xu Gao.

"Brother Xu, you give a comment, Lao Tzu saw that he was alone, so he kindly told his cousin to him, he wanted to fulfill a happy event, he was good, he provoked his cousin in a few words, and cried for half the night, and even his wife was reprimanded by his father, and I was picked up by my wife, he was good, coaxed us to go to the teaching department to get drunk, and went home by himself, if I don't beat him today, it will be difficult to dispel the anger in my heart!" The voices of the two were getting closer and closer, and when they spoke, they had already arrived at the door, and when they saw Dugushuo's eyes were red, as if they had just cried, the two looked at each other again, and they were at a loss for a while, and half of their qi dissipated in an instant.

The two stared at Dugu Shuo for a long time, and then Xu Gao slowly pulled Pei Ce to sit around Dugu Shuo, Pei Ce was a hundred reluctant in his heart, but when he saw Dugu Shuo's appearance, he couldn't bear to have a seizure, so he had to sit on the spot half-pushing.

"Seeing that Brother Dugu seems to have repentance, Brother Pei doesn't have to worry about it anymore, Brother Dugu will ask Miss He Huan to compensate for the Drunken Immortal Building again in the future, and by the way, he will also invite his sister-in-law to go with him, okay?" Xu Gao looked at Dugu Shuo and said. Dugu Shuo didn't speak, Pei Ce turned his head when he saw it, his nose was indignant, and he didn't look at Dugu Shuo anymore.

Xu Wei wanted to ease up, but he didn't expect to suffer a secret loss, so he slapped himself angrily, and looked at the two people next to him who didn't appreciate it, so he had to slap it on his thigh and shouted: "Yes, I'm amorous!" So he was about to get up, but was stopped by Pei and Dudu at the same time, Xu Wei looked at the left and right and smiled, and said to Dugu Shuo: "It seems that Brother Dugu has not slept all night?" ”

Dugu Shuo was stunned for a long time, and suddenly hugged Xu's stomach and cried, which only made Pei and Xu confused. Xu Jie was originally a rough man, and he was not good at coaxing women, let alone men, so he turned Dugu Shuo over and put his hands on Pei Ce, Pei Ce saw it, looked at Xu Stomach in disbelief, and scolded in his mouth: "What are you doing?" I was so angry that I wanted to beat himΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·" Pei Ce said, was blocked by Xu Stomach, and said: "Coaxing women is Brother Pei's leader, I really can't coax men, and I have to ask Brother Pei to help me when I coax men!" As he spoke, he pushed with both hands, got up and went to the house, leaving alone the crying Dugushuo and the reluctant Pei Ce.

"Manly man, what kind of body does crying and crying become, like a girl, don't let your colleagues laugh at itΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·" Pei Ce said, but he didn't see Dugu Shuo reined, so he said again: "Hey, don't cry anymore, the other brothers will come in a while, if they see it, they will definitely spread it, I'm afraid I will be embarrassed and thrown home!" ”

After waiting for a while, he still didn't see Dugushuo getting better, so he threw it aside, and went to the house by himself, shouting as he walked: "Brother Xu, but there is a lot of food, I am hungry and panicked, the teacher is also an aunt who is really a little family, and she doesn't even have pastries, she just wants silver when she opens her mouth and closes her mouth, don't you know that my silver money is blown by the wind!" ”

"Yes, yes, four dishes and one soup, it's a little cold, you can't drink it, wait for me to heat it up!"

"Okay, you have a good hand and foot, wait for that group of wolf cubs to come, but there is no part for the two of us!"

"Okay, okay, it's going to be okay right away, by the way, what's wrong with Dugu?"

"Okay, you just have to take care of yours, he has someone to take care of!" Pei Ce said, sitting on the threshold and watching Dugu Shuo lie on the steps and fake crying.

"Hey, it's almost there, I don't care about my cousin's business, just don't worry about you, when will you be free, backup the gift to compensate for it!" Pei Ce said, pulling the steamed bun in his hand and sending it to his mouth.

"That's true!" Dugu Shuo suddenly turned over and asked, startling Pei Ce, so he threw away a handful of steamed buns, pointed at Dugu Shuo and scolded: "You, you, you are an unsuccessful thing, you have trampled on Lao Tzu's hard work!" ”

When Dugu Shuo saw Pei Ce holding something and beating him, he jumped up for a while and spun in circles in the courtyard.

Pei Ce glared a few times, then turned his head and said to Xu Gao: "You hurry up, Lao Tzu is dying of hunger!" ”

As the two were talking, Shangguan Yi led everyone in, and there was a commotion, Pei Ce suddenly flipped up and rushed in, facing the food courtyard that Xu Gaocai placed on the desk, and only shook his head at the people who looked like tigers and wolves.

"May I ask if this is Lord Dugu's home?" A person knocked lightly at the door and asked.

Dugu Shuo slowly turned around to see that it was Li Zeng, the head of the Imperial Court, who was busy welcoming him in.

"Well, what kind of wind is it today, it actually blew Lord Li here, hurry up and please!" Dugu Shuo said, shouted into the room, and a group of people came out of the house, Li Zeng was dumbfounded, curious and funny, so he waved his hand and said: "I don't know if all my colleagues are there, bother, say a few words to Lord Dugu and leave!" ”

"It's very disturbing, it's all my own brothers, Li Zhang, please come in and sit!" It turned out that Pei Ce didn't go out and was still eating, and the rest of the people listened to the shouting and followed out one by one, but they were full of food and chewing heavily, which made Li Zeng want to laugh but couldn't.

Li Zeng listened, walked up the steps quickly to stand at the door, and waved his hand to Pei Ce: "I've seen Commander Pei, I don't know that adults and colleagues are gathering here, it's really annoying, don't blame adults, there are a few words and Commander Dugu will go, go!" As he spoke, he immediately stepped down the steps, pointed to Dugushuo and said, "My lord, please take a step to speak!" Then he walked a few steps out of the door with Dugu Shuo, carried everyone on his back, and took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Dugu Shuo.

"My lord, this is since the Junchen falsely accused the north and the south of the rebellion, the brothers of the Imperial Court Division tracked it day and night, I can't imagine that this Junchen actually has dealings with the border army, in addition to the assassin history of the various prefectures, the governor, the minister of the central government, even Zhao Wenhui, the assassin of Yingzhou, and Sun Wanrong, the assassin of Guichengzhou, have also come to visit, you say it's not strange!" Dugu Shuo was carefully looking for the person on the paper, and overheard Zhao Wenhui's name, and was overjoyed, but unexpectedly heard Sun Wanrong's name, he was stunned for a moment, folded the list, put it in his arms, pulled Li Zeng and went to the internal guard.

"My lord, Master Pei is still at your house, do you care?"

"Leave them alone, the matter at the moment is important, you need to go to the household department and the military department!" Dugu Shuo said as he walked, and asked Li Zengdao: "Lord Li is here on horseback?" ”

"Exactly!"

"Let's go back with hard work, Master Li, borrow a horse!"

"Okay, okay, you can go yourself!" After saying a few good words, Li Zeng suddenly felt a pain in his heart, his face twitched a few times, and when Dugushuo walked away, he smacked his lips and said: "I knew that I was waiting for him in the division, but I pity my horse and run again!" ”

Dugushuo rode straight to the military headquarters.

All the departments of the imperial court were afraid of the internal guards, but when they saw that the deputy commander of the internal guards hurried to the door as soon as dawn, the officials of the military department could not be nervous, and hurriedly summoned the messengers and lined them up in the hall.

Dugu Shuo waved his hand and said: "Your Excellency, I want to read the military reports of Yingzhou and Guicheng Prefecture in the past two years and ten days, please make it convenient!" ”

The military official headed by him listened to it and said with a smile: "My lord, only Yingzhou is from Yingzhou, and Guicheng Prefecture is from the Khitan tribe, and it is not regularly reported, and there has been no military report recently!" ”

"I see, Lord Lao will take a look at the Yingzhou's and lowly duties!" The man greeted him with a smile, and agreed again and again, and after a moment of effort, the Yingzhou military report and the report on the deployment of grain and grass were presented on the desk, Dugushuo looked at it carefully, but did not find anything wrong, and became more and more confused in his heart for a while, and muttered to himself like a demon.

The people in the military department didn't know what his intentions were, so they put the military reports of the two states on the desk and didn't dare to move without permission.

"It shouldn't be! If there is a problem in Yingzhou, it should be allocated more horses, but the horses are less than in previous years, but there is more food for a month, which is really strange! Dugu Shuo read in his mouth, walked out of the gate of the military department, and quickly ran to the South Street Household Department.

The people in the household department are also like the people in the military department, and the two states that Dugu Shuo wants to report to the general urgently, and there are only those in Yingzhou, Dugu Shuo took a closer look, it was two months ago, there was no abnormality, only a few words mentioned the drought, Dugu Shuo couldn't see the clues, so he said goodbye to everyone.

Dugu Shuo didn't know much about Yingzhou, and he couldn't piece together the news for a while, so he had to go to the Internal Security Division in frustration.

Early the next morning, Dugushuo came to the Internal Health Division early and stayed for a long time, but there was no abnormality. He was annoyed, he deliberately told Liu Lingwei about the affairs of the North and South Ya and Yingzhou, and wanted to use this to test the movements of the people behind Liu Lingwei, but who knew that it was a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no news.

Dugu Shuo didn't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, hurriedly put on his official uniform, and led several envoys from the division to Shangyang Palace.

When he entered the palace gate, he saw the commander, deputy commander and the commander kneeling on the ground, and he also knelt at the door from afar, listening to the scolding inside for a long time before he understood.

It was originally the Khitan tribe of Yingzhou, the Songmo Governor Li Quanzhong, and the Guicheng Prefecture Assassin Sun Wanrong raised troops against Zhou, and had besieged Yingzhou for several days.

When everyone dispersed, Yan Qingfang left Pei Ce and Dugu Shuo in Shangyang Palace.

"Get up!" Emperor Wu was lying on the couch on his side, with one hand under his head, and Di Renjie, Li Duozuo and Wu Sansi kneeling on the side.

When everyone heard this, they all said in unison, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" So they came together and bowed down and stood in front of them, and Dugu Shuo followed Yan Qingfang to the side.

"Stand down, all of you! I'm tired! As Emperor Wu spoke, everyone knelt down again and thanked him, and hurriedly retreated.

Before leaving, Emperor Wu left Yan Qingfang behind, and Yan Qingfang grabbed Dugushuo, who was about to leave. At this moment, Emperor Wu pointed to Yan Qing Fangshuo and said: "The rebellion in Yingzhou, the internal guards are incompetent, and they can't get the truth, so that the military department can't judge the enemy's movements, and now we must quickly send the effective internal guards to Yingzhou to check whether there are really Wu people and the Li family involved, and the period is limited to fifteen days!" Saying that, he knocked over the teacup on the ground, Yan Duji saw it, and knelt on the ground when he landed, Yan Qingfang hurriedly said: "Obey the holy order, and you can go in person, but there is one thing that Your Majesty wants to know, the King of Luling has not participated in this matter, the internal guards monitor every day, the King of Luling has never seen any outsiders, and he has never left the residence for half a step!" ”

Emperor Wu said: "Li Quanzhong's slogans have been shouted to Yingzhou, 'Why don't you return to my King of Luling', this is the Yingzhou military report submitted by the Ministry of War overnight, is it false, if it wasn't for the secret performance of Junchen, how could I know that the North and South Ya rebelled under my nose, and you were incompetent, and dared to resign!" Emperor Wu scolded in his mouth, tore the military newspaper on the desk to the ground, and held his forehead with his hand, holding back his anger.

"Your Majesty is angry, and the lowly host of Lai Junchen falsely accused the North and South of plotting rebellion, and found that there is another hidden truth in this matter!" Seeing this, Dugu Shuo risked death and kowtowed.

"Oh, is it? What can there be secrets, Aiqing said that I will listen to it! Hearing Dugu Shuo's words, Emperor Wu suddenly changed color, looked at Yan Qingfang with a sneer and said.

Just a few days ago, Sun Wanrong secretly entered Beijing with five or six boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, only to see Junchen and then hurriedly returned, and the internal guard verified that Princess Taiping and others had no dealings with the North and South Ya, the so-called physical evidence of the letterhead, checked by the Internal Guard Case Evidence Division, is not the emperor's handwriting, as soon as the physical evidence is complete, at this moment in the Imperial Court Division, His Majesty can summon the Imperial Court Division to summon Li Zeng, the head of the Imperial Court!"

"There is no need for the face saint, I know Dugu Aiqing's ability and character, since the hidden situation has been investigated, in this case, it is the Junchen thief who shouted to catch the thief?" Emperor Wu's mood eased slightly, but he still frowned.

"At the moment, I don't know the inside story of the secret conversation between the two, and I dare to ask Your Majesty to issue an edict and allow the internal guards to arrest Junchen for a trial trial, so that we can know whether it is related to the rebellion of Sun Wanrong and others!" Dugu Shuo said, and his heart immediately became apprehensive, everyone knew that Lai Junchen was the favored minister of Emperor Wu, if it wasn't for the chaos in Yingzhou, it would not be easy to bring down Lai Junchen in the future.

The two knelt on the ground for a long time, but they still didn't see Emperor Wu's permission, and the two of them became more and more worried when they thought about it.

After about half a pillar of incense, Emperor Wu said slowly: "That's it, that's it, there have been many ministers and generals of the forbidden army recently, all of whom have said that Junchen has two hearts, and they have all been rejected by me, if according to what you say, this Junchen really did a thief's internal response, deliberately falsely accused the north and south ya, so as to disturb the eyes of the court, and really dared to rebel against my favor, this is the intention, specially ordered the two of you to investigate, there must be a return within two days, go down, I am tired!" ”

The two listened to what Emperor Wu said, and they breathed a sigh of relief, Dugu Shuo's face was slightly filled with joy, but Yan Qingfang frowned, showing a worried look, and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty should take care of the dragon's body, don't work too hard, the minister will retire!" ”

"Retire from your duties!" Dugu Shuo followed and said. The two of them retreated and walked for a long time, but they still didn't see Yan Qingfang asking about the crime and Dugu Shuo, they couldn't figure it out in their hearts, thinking that they were waiting for him to take the initiative to say, so they took two quick steps, knelt on the ground and waved their hands and said, "Please punish your lordship!" ”

"Punishment, why do you say this!" Yan Qingfang stopped and said coldly.

"The matter of coming to Junchen is also known just now, I failed to inform the lord in advance, the situation is urgent, and I am worried that Your Majesty will blame the commander, and I don't choose what to say, it is a crime to go beyond the top, please punish it!"

"Your Majesty, the commander of Dugu, trusts deeply, and since he can find out the hidden situation, not to mention me, he can face the saint directly, so why should he accept the guilt from me?" Yan Qingfang still has a yin and yang tone.

"Please punish the Grand Commander!" Dugushuo bowed for a while, and still pleaded guiltily in his mouth.

Yan Qingfang stared at Dugu Shuo and looked at it again and again, and then said for a long time: "Since you are also a genius, let's stop it!" But I want to ask you, why don't you say a word to me, dare to ask for an order to arrest Junchen in front of Your Majesty, it really shocked me into a cold sweat, do you know who Junchen is? How dare you speak outrageously! Yan Qingfang pretended to be angry and pointed at Dugu Shuo and said.

"The opportunity is rare, if you don't tell the truth, I'm afraid that your lord will lose trust in front of Your Majesty, and it will be even more difficult if you want to please Your Majesty in the future, if you can't bring down Junchen this time, you can't say that our class will be slandered by him in the future, and you can't be afraid all day long, so you just don't do it, you don't stop, and you can't make up your mind by taking advantage of the affairs of Yingzhou!" Dugu Shuo said resignedly, and secretly glanced at Yan Qingfang, and at this time, Yan Qingfang's anger disappeared a little.

"That's it, you kid is also loyal, calculating that the affairs of the Junchen are all beneficial and harmless to the country, but you must be cautious in your words and deeds in the future, and you must not make excuses in front of Your Majesty, and you will be reckless!"

Dugu Shuo saw that Yan Qingfang's anger had completely dissipated, and said in a corrective manner: "Remember the master's teachings!" Yan Qingfang was overjoyed when she heard this, pointed to Dugu Shuo's forehead, and said: "Since you have Your Majesty's holy words, you can let go of the affairs of the North and South Ya, go back and know Wu and Guan, and plan to capture Junchen as soon as possible!" Yan Qingfang said so, and asked Dugu Shuo to go first, Dugu Shuo only walked a few steps, and then shouted back, and said softly: "I'll go to Yingzhou first, and when this is over, you come as soon as possible!" ”

"Commanded in vain!" Dugu Shuo said, ran all the way, and when he arrived at the Internal Security Division and informed everyone about Emperor Wu's order to arrest Junchen, the Internal Security Division suddenly became happy.

However, after a long time, there was a decree in the palace, Wu and Guan took it, and everyone listened, one by one, they were gearing up, carrying knives and crossbows, and went straight to the Junchen Mansion in a mighty way.