The leaders and envoys of the Tiele tribes who participated in the alliance left Lingzhou one after another in two days and headed for the grassland.

Generally speaking, Li Longji was quite satisfied with the results of this meeting, and he had accomplished the exploits that only Taizong had in those years. Among the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong was the first and he was second, and now it should be no longer controversial.

Li Longji's vanity was greatly satisfied, and it was an almost flawless meeting ceremony!

If Yang Yuhuan's disappearance is not counted.

Zhang Xun, the tenth general of the Youzhou border army, and 50 people below who were on duty that day have all been imprisoned. Although these people all said that Yang Yuhuan insisted on attending a banquet on the grassland north of the Yellow River and left, they did not know where they were going and could not stop it.

But what Kee needed was not an explanation, and he didn't want to delve into the truth of the matter at all.

Brother Ji as long as the result!

If the result is satisfied, he will not pursue it, and if the result is not satisfied, then he will be sorry.

As for whether these Qiu Ba were innocent or not, Brother Ji didn't think much of it, he felt that it didn't matter, and he didn't take it to heart.

If Yang Yuhuan comes back, then these people can just dispose of it casually, or even let it go lightly.

If Yang Yuhuan can't come back, then it is inevitable that these people will be buried.

There is no reason to talk about it, whether it is malfeasance or conspiracy, it doesn't matter, Brother Ji doesn't want to bother to dig into it. Zhang Xun and the others prepared in advance, but Brother Ji didn't even listen to it properly, let alone spend effort to interrogate and investigate.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that Yang Yuhuan and his party should have fallen into the water when crossing the bridge. The makeshift wooden bridge collapsed for no apparent reason on the night of the banquet! It is very likely that Yang Yuhuan and his party encountered an accident when crossing the bridge.

In fact, this is also very understandable, this temporary bridge is a one-time consumable, and it also leaves a secret door of "one-click destruction". In battle, the enemy's cavalry pursues, and the broken team can destroy the bridge in an instant.

Most of the bridges in Fang Chongyong's previous life also had such a function, which was convenient for demolition.

The local stone bridge over the Yellow River is farther away. If you really want to talk about it, Brother Ji is also one of the culprits, and it is he who set the venue of the banquet on the open grassland north of the wooden bridge. It's not a road you're often on.

Too many people have left this bridge recently, and there are more than 2,000 leaders and envoys of the Tiele tribes alone, not including the Youzhou border army. The quality of the wooden bridge itself is very ordinary, and Li Longji felt the sound of wood rubbing under his feet when he crossed the bridge.

Duan Xiushi, the border general of the Shuofang Army, who was responsible for building the wooden bridge, was also affected by Chiyu this time and was taken down for interrogation. However, his treatment is still much better than that of Zhang Xun.

Three days later, the first bad news came.

In a certain section of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, when local fishermen went down to fish, they picked up a person wearing eunuch clothes, who was one of the eunuchs who served Yang Yuhuan at the beginning.

The body was soon sent to Lingzhou City, where the best local servant was responsible for the inquest.

It is not an official position, it is just a general term for those who are responsible for funerals and often deal with corpses. These people occasionally assisted in the examination of injuries and the examination of corpses when the government needed them, a profession known as "squandering."

The old man who participated in the autopsy came to a very certain conclusion: drowning!

When Li Longji heard the news, his heart sank more than half!

The guessed interceptions, vendettas, and conspiracy assassinations may not exist at all, and it is likely that they were just on it when the bridge broke, and they fell into the water and died.

As if to confirm Brother Ji's conjecture, these corpses were found one after another, and the corpses of several eunuchs and palace maids were not bad. All of them were drowned.

Only there is no corpse of Yang Yuhuan!

No news is good news, and Kee Ge is hoping for a miracle in his heart, but he also understands that there is little hope.

In the spring of the Yellow River, Lingxin has actually just passed, but the broken ice in the river is gone. It's okay during the day, but the water temperature at night is still frighteningly low. Falling into the river at night, unless someone can be fished up in a very short time, and then the fire is warmed, and the ginger tea warms up and goes cold.

Otherwise, even if you don't drown, you will freeze to death.

The situation that Brother Ji is facing now is like one boot on the upper floor falling to the ground, waiting for the other one to land as well.

In the lobby of Shuofang Jiedu Mansion, Li Longji walked around anxiously. Youzhou Jiedu made Fang Youde, Shuofang Jiedu made Zhang Qiqiu and Lingzhou Thorn Shi and others, all of them did not say a word, lowered their heads and looked at the ground, no one wanted to touch the mold.

At this moment, Shi Yan Gaoqing, the marching commander of the Youzhou border army, walked in sweating profusely. He looked at Li Longji, whose face was as heavy as water, and then at Fang Youde and the others, who didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere, and the words that had been brewing in his stomach for a long time, but he didn't know what to say at the moment.

"Any news?"

Li Longji stepped forward excitedly, grabbed Yan Gaoqing's sleeve and asked.

"Hui saint, there is indeed news ......"

Yan Gaoqing lowered his head, not daring to meet Li Longji's hot gaze.

As soon as he saw the other party's expression, Li Longji's heart sank to the bottom.

He slowly loosened Yan Gaoqing's cuffs, tidied up his dragon robe, and then scolded in a deep voice: "Just say anything about it!" ”

"Hui saint, the Taizhen monk has been found, and the body has been cleaned......"

Yan Gaoqing was about to lose his words.

"Let's go, let me be quiet."

Li Longji sat on the ground dejectedly, waved his hand at everyone and said.

No one dared to move, and no one knew what Li Longji wanted to mean by this.

Gao Lishi stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Sage, do you want to see Taizhen for the last time......

"Get out!"

Li Longji roared at Gao Lishi!

Now everyone understands!

Zhang Qiqiu, Fang Youde and others all came out, and the entourage and personal soldiers in the hall of the government also quietly retreated, leaving Li Longji sitting on the ground alone.

Shaped like a lonely man!

Only Gao Lishi was in a corner of the lobby, waiting for Li Longji's orders at any time.

It hurts, it hurts!

For a while, Li Longji didn't know how to describe his mood.

Emptiness and sorrow, back and forth. Thinking of the passion and excitement of being with Yang Yuhuan for more than a year, his heart was like a knife.

After lamenting and sitting there for a long time, Li Longji beckoned to the "transparent man" Gao Lishi in the corner.

"Find someone to put on makeup for Huanhuan, draw it better, I want to see her one last time......"

Li Longji said with a sigh.

The people who were fished up in the Yellow River must have been unsightly, and their bodies were covered with yellow mud and sand. Yang Yuhuan's body naturally needs someone to restrain and put on makeup so that Li Longji can see it.

"Slave go and do it, please mourn on the saint's day.

Brother Taizhen is gone, and the saint can be kind to her family. Bring the family of Brother Taizhen to Chang'an, and you can also worship her from time to time.

It also lets outsiders know that the saint values love and righteousness.

Especially the sisters of the Taizhen monks, the saints can canonize them as a show of kindness to the Taizhen monks. ”

Colliers suggested quietly.

Li Longji's eyes lit up, and he instantly recalled the stunning posture of Yang Yuhuan's three sisters at the Yang family's birthday banquet a few months ago.

It can only be said that each has its own merits, and it is on par with Yang Yuhuan.

The grief in his heart was suddenly diluted a lot.

"This matter can be done earlier, and there is no need to wait for me to return to Chang'an."

Li Longji put away the lamentation on his face and said indifferently.

"The slave understands, the saint can rest assured.

Please don't grieve, a woman like Monk Taizhen, there are thousands of people in Datang.

But the saint of the Tang Dynasty is only you. If the saint damages the dragon body because of grief, it will be the misfortune of thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty. ”

Colliers persuaded bitterly.

Li Longji sighed, patted Gao Lishi's hand lightly, shook his head and said, "I understand, you don't have to say more, go and do something." ”

He had recovered from his extreme sorrow, and now his heart was no longer filled with sadness, but with anger!

The dignified emperor can't even protect his favorite woman! Yang Yuhuan's death is small, but it's big that he, the emperor, was slapped in the face!

The Son of Heaven was angry, and millions of corpses were ambushed! Oh, these people are waiting for his wrath!

……

In the coffin made of fine sandalwood, Yang Yuhuan, who had been dead for a long time, lay quietly inside. She has changed into a palace dress that can only be worn by a concubine, her face has been painted with heavy makeup that can only be painted by a concubine, and the body has also been disposed of, so that it can be stored for a long time without decaying.

Li Longji will not bury her in Lingzhou, he will take Yang Yuhuan back to Chang'an and bury her in Chang'an.

Looking at Yang Yuhuan lying in the coffin, he was still so beautiful, as if he was asleep. From a certain point of view, she was freed from this incestuous sadomasochism, and she no longer had to think that she should be Princess Shou and not the emperor's confined.

For her, it may just be a break from an illusory dream of desire and evil thoughts. She no longer has to bear the infamy of history, and she doesn't have to endure curses and criticism from all sides.

Perhaps, this is really not a bad thing for Yang Yuhuan.

She is still Yang Yuhuan, but she will no longer become Yang Guifei.

"Ring Ring! Ring Ring! ”

Without warning, Li Longji suddenly burst into tears, beating the coffin weakly.

"Huanhuan, don't go, Huanhuan! What are I going to do when you're gone! ”

At this moment, he was the only one in the mourning hall, and even Gao Lishi went out.

Li Longji held on to the coffin and cried like a child.

The last time he grieved like this was when he was young and his mother was killed for no reason.

In the second year of Wu Zhou's longevity (693 AD), the two concubines of the emperor's heir Li Dan, Liu and Dou, were summoned into the palace by Wu Zetian, and were finally killed by the rod and the corpses were buried casually. Among them, Dou is Li Longji's biological mother.

That time, Li Longji's grief flowed against the current, but he didn't dare to cry at all, surrounded by secret agents sent by Wu Zetian.

After a long time, Li Longji finally cried enough, all his warmth for Yang Yuhuan flowed away with his tears, and all that was left of his whole heart was cold and hard.

Li Longji walked out of the mourning hall, and the Gao Lishi and the border army generals outside the door had been waiting for a long time, and no one was willing to take the initiative to speak up.

According to the itinerary, Li Longji has been in Lingzhou for ten more days, and it is time for him to return to Chang'an.

It's just that everyone knows that the breath in Li Longji's heart hasn't come out yet, and the person who should be punished hasn't been punished yet, and he won't leave no matter what!

Whoever mentions this stubble will surely die!

"Go to the Jiedu Mansion to discuss matters, I have something to say."

Li Longji left with one sentence, and everyone cautiously followed, for fear that the saint's anger would reach him.

When the group came to the hall of the palace, Li Longji sat on the main seat and looked around at everyone, at this moment, he had restored the majesty of the emperor.

"Fang Aiqing, as a guard, but let the protected object die, what crime should he be guilty of in the army?"

Li Longji asked in a deep voice.

"Return to the saint, according to military law, be the head of the owl."

Fang Youde saluted with his hands crossed, his face calm.

"Well, the guards who were on duty that night from Zhang Xun down to Zhang Xun should all be dealt with according to military law."

Li Longji said expressionlessly.

It's like killing fifty chickens.

"Sage, although Zhang Xun and the others have made a big mistake, they are not guilty to death. Spare them their lives and let them go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions! ”

Fang Youde knelt down and pleaded.

Then Zhang Qiqiu and others, including the Shuofang army and the border army, all knelt on the ground!

Now is not the time to watch jokes, the rabbit is sad and the fox is dead! After dealing with the Youzhou Army, the next wave will be the Shuofang Army!

This bad precedent was opened, and the emperor found an excuse to kill the border generals! In the future, because the women in the harem are unhappy, won't the emperor be able to kill the generals of the border army at will?

"Don't you all take me seriously?"

Li Longji slapped the table, stood up and scolded angrily.

Huanhuan is dead, how can Zhang Xun and these people still be alive! They must also be buried together! Whether it is directly related or not!

"Weichen, I am willing to give up all my duties, disarm and return to the field, and only ask the saint to spare the lives of Zhang Xun and others. Please be perfected by the saints. ”

Fang Youde took off his helmet, put it on the ground, and knelt down without getting up.

"Are you threatening me?"

Li Longji stepped forward angrily, kicked Fang Youde to the ground, pointed at him and scolded:

"I trust you so much, entrusting Huanhuan to your subordinates, how do you repay my trust? Yes!

I'm sorry for you! Yes!

Your son was a stabbing at the age of ten, who has this treatment, ah?

That's how you repay me for my kindness to your family? ”

Li Longji scolded while kicking Fang Youde, who did not resist at all, and did not even use his hands to resist.

"You pay me for the rings, you send my rings back! What do I want your official hat to do, that's what I gave you! ”

Li Longji roared at Fang Youde.

The entire hall was silent, and only his voice was heard.

"The minister is guilty, please punish him. People can't be resurrected after death, and there is nothing we can do about it, so please mourn on the saint's day. ”

After a long time, Fang Youde, who was bleeding from the corners of his mouth, knelt on the ground and pleaded.

"Get out of the way to Lingnan! You get out of here in Lingnan! I don't want you to resign, I want you to go over there and show me the frontier and reflect on your mistakes! What you owe me, you can't finish it in your life!

I never want to see you again! You should never go back to Chang'an! ”

Li Longji roared loudly at him, like an angry lion.

"Zhang Qiqiu! You temporarily take the position of the envoy of the Youzhou Festival, and all the sergeants on duty under Zhang Xun will be beheaded!

Your subordinate Duan Xiushi, get rid of all military positions, and tattoo the face and send the frontier, forever! No! Narrate! Use! ”

Li Longji turned his head and ordered Zhang Qiqiu, the Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy who had not been in office for a long time, and his tone was calm!

"I'll do it at the end."

Zhang Qiqiu crossed his hands and saluted and said, he is sophisticated and sophisticated, he understands very well that Fang Youde is just a beginning, and he is temporarily acting as the envoy of Youzhou Festival, but Li Longji is worried that no one will take care of the military affairs in the border town.

Yang Yuhuan is in the Dead Spirit State, and he can still run away from this Shuo Fang Jiedu Envoy?

It's just that Li Longji is not convenient to do it now. He was sure that the sergeants who participated in the bridge repair would not be able to run away, and Duan Xiushi was just the first unlucky guy.

"Lux, get ready to go back to Chang'an. Take the ringed coffin on the road together. ”

Li Longji said tiredly to Gao Lishi beside him.

……

What happened later did not exceed Zhang Qiqiu's expectations.

After Li Longji returned to Chang'an, he immediately demoted him and transferred him to Hedong as the assassin of the history, and he was never allowed to be promoted, rotating between several lower states in Hedong.

Duan Xiushi, who built the wooden bridge, was assassinated and sent to the Western Regions to serve in the army, and he didn't hear any news from him later.

Hundreds of sergeants who participated in the construction of the bridge, regardless of their rank, were collectively transferred to the most dangerous Longyou front line by the military department, and were deployed by the Longyou Jiedu envoy. Participated in the front line against the Tubo people, these people did not exist for many years and disappeared quietly.

The Youzhou border army that won the battle this time not only did not have any rewards from the whole army, but also the generals in the army were basically demoted and called. Except for a few people who followed Fang Youde to Lingnan Jiedu Mansion as a border general, the others were all unlucky.

Needless to say, Zhang Xun and others were personally beheaded by Li Longji. The soldiers on duty on the day of the accident were also beheaded, and Brother Ji didn't give them any chance to explain, and he didn't even bother to ask.

Yan Gaoqing was transferred to Hebei as a county lieutenant, and Xu Yuan became a civil official who did not enter the stream, and he was still working at the grassroots level in Youzhou. This time, all those who could be angered by Li Longji did not run, and all the immortals were cleaned up.

The north was killed two jiedu envoys in a row, one of which was still a famous general who fought all over the north, and the pattern of the northern part of the Tang Dynasty also ushered in drastic changes.

With Fang Youde being dealt with, the hearts of the border army in Youzhou are also quietly changing.

In a popular phrase, that is: everyone doesn't believe in love anymore!

(End of chapter)