The departure of Wen Yuanheng and Yu Fuguo calmed down in the Qingliang Palace, and Li Xu suddenly found that it was impossible for him to continue his past life. The Uighurs who crossed the desert unleashed a storm that swept through thousands of miles, across mountains and rivers, and stirred the fragile balance of Baiyujingli.

There is an inexplicable connection between everything, and today's crisis of the Uighurs herding horses in the south cannot be turned into a turning point for the prosperity of the Yu Dynasty. Li Xu paced with his hands behind his back, and his boots stepped on the stone floor of the Qingliang Palace, rubbing back and forth.

The situation of the dynasty will change, and the original situation of Empress Dowager Wen Yufuguo fighting against each other has been broken, and Li Xu deeply feels that he has no one available at this time. Although he is an emperor, he has lived in the deep palace for a long time and is isolated from foreign dynasties, and only at special times such as the spring equinox, winter solstice, and Shangyuan Festival will he face the ministers as the emperor every year. The people who came into contact with him were either labeled as Empress Dowager Wen or had connections with Yufuguo.

At such a critical time, Li Xu really felt the meaning of being alone.

He has no one to trust, no one to use. On Bai Yujing's stage, not only did he not arrange time for him to perform, but even his shadow would not appear.

People are always the most important resource. Liu Bei didn't leave Pingyuan County to be a henchman like Zhang Fei as a henchman, Zhao Kuangyin just turned over and worshiped the ten brothers of the Yishe, and now if you want to become a chess player in the court, you must have at least a few chess pieces that can be used.

The person Li Xu wants to use can't be too far, and the rank can't be too high. He can't rashly contact the officials of the foreign court, because that will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Queen Mother or Yu Fuguo.

With a turn of thought, he raised his hand to summon Chen Chaoen.

"Swing, I want to go to Hongwen Pavilion to have a look. ”

Hongwen Hall was originally set up in the Taizu Dynasty, the main task is to store and copy all kinds of books, to the Taizong period, there are more than 200,000 books in the Hongwen Museum, there is an official school in the Hongwen Museum, teaching nobles and officials children, but later the teaching effect is not good, so the teaching part of the function is merged into the Guozijian, still exists as a royal library, with bachelors and people responsible for management.

When the Holy Empress was in power, because the prime minister did not go with her wishes, she placed many young scribes in the Hongwen Hall as a think tank, and instead of the prime minister, these scribes were allowed to enter and exit from the north gate of the palace, so these scribes were also called "North Gate Scholars", at that time, the prime ministers did not agree with the Holy Queen's major repair of the Mingtang Palace, and she directly crossed the prime minister and the North Gate Scholars were responsible for drafting the construction plan.

Later, the God Emperor changed the North Gate Bachelor to the Hanlin Bachelor, and Lu Zhen, who is now the prime minister, was born as a Hanlin Bachelor.

Now that Empress Dowager Wen is in power, she likes to directly install her own henchmen in important positions, and the Hanlin scholars have gradually resumed their normal secretarial functions.

Li Xu remembered that in his previous life, a master said that it was necessary to go to a place where the enemy could not control or was difficult to manage. Now Hongwen Pavilion is a place that the enemy can't take care of, Yu Fuguo and the Queen Mother's eyes are staring at the location of the political hall and the six departments, Han Gang Han Lao Linggong is boiling these two with water grinding work, and Lu Zhen firmly holds the Yushitai.

The young scholars of the Hongwen Pavilion copied those ancient scrolls all day long, and after work, they would drink a few small dishes and scold the imperial court, although the life was comfortable, but it was impossible for these learned young people to endure a comfortable life.

So Li Xu was ready to choose his own team from among them.

On duty today is Li Congxian, the general of the right Jinwu, who is in charge of the Jinwu guard with Han Rui, the general of the left Jinwu, and the two of them are in charge of the emperor in shifts. Li Xu was going to Hongwen Pavilion, and Chen Chaoen was naturally busy arranging the shoulder and informing Li Congxian to prepare.

If there is anyone in the court who Li Xu trusts the most, that person is Li Congxian. He was a square man after Taizong, and when the God Emperor was the crown prince, he appointed him to counsel the affairs of the court. Later, the feudal towns joined forces against him, and he served as an envoy to the Emperor of God, conveying military orders to various armies.

Empress Dowager Wen has always wanted to remove him from his post as the general of the right Jinwu, but Han Gang and Lu Zhen are very opposed, so they have not succeeded. Although Han Ruiren is square, his personal morality and loyalty are enough to reassure Li Xu, but if he wants to meet with Empress Dowager Wen, Li Xu thinks that Han Rui will strictly abide by neutrality.

And Li Congxian, if Li Xu told him now that he wanted to take the head of the Wen clan, this right Jinwu general would definitely stand behind him and march towards Mingtang Palace.

"Your Majesty is going to Hongwen Pavilion?" Li Congxian was wearing armor and standing outside the door with a sword in his right hand. He was a tall, bearded middle-aged man with dark skin, piercing eyes, a slightly whitish scar on his left eyebrow, and a deep and powerful voice.

"Well, I was fascinated by reading "Treatise on Salt and Iron" yesterday, and today I want to see the records of "Book of Han" and "Spring and Autumn of Han Wu". Li Xu changed into light casual clothes, he planned to go to Jiguang Tower after going to Hongwen Pavilion. After Dong Zhongshu introduced the doctrine of the five elements and five virtues into Confucianism, the color of the emperor's clothes had a special meaning, for example, most of the clothes in Li Xu's wardrobe were yellow, because the emperors of the Yu Dynasty believed that they inherited the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty was the king of fire and virtue, according to the doctrine of the five elements, the Yu Dynasty was the world of soil and virtue. As a symbol of the dynasty, the emperor naturally admired yellow in his clothes.

Li Xu changed into a yellow round-necked robe, put on black boots, and then took a soft-edged hat, walked out of the Qingliang Palace, and prepared to go to the Hongwen Pavilion.

"Well, the Han family has its own system, and it is supposed to be domineering. At that time, Emperor Shen took Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as an example and was determined to flatten the feudal towns and sweep away the Hu Barbarians, but the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes. ”

Li Xu boarded the public opinion, and Tianzi Luan drove north. The biggest difference between Li Congxian and Han Rui is that Li Congxian thinks that he is Li Xu's "own person". When Han Rui was on duty, he was a silent general, and when they walked together, they were all calm and powerful and never said much. You may be able to see Wudang's martial arts style from his hands, eyes, and body methods, but you can hardly think that his father Han Gang is a master of qi science, and he himself is a scholar who has studied hard since childhood.

And Li Congxian, he is like a warm elder, his mouth is always chattering, he is never as silent as Han Rui, he always has something to say in his mouth, from whether you slept well last night, to what books you should read, or the latest news in the court.

There is no conscious distance between Li Congxian and Li Xu. At this time, Li Congxian began to recall the actions of the God Emperor when he was in power. Many of them are not very clever in Li Xu's opinion, but in Li Congxian's case, they are wise and martial.

When the God Emperor first took power, the governors of prefectures and counties were often assassinated by the forces of the rivers and lakes. After all, martial arts can make people fly off the wall and split the monument and crack the stone, so it is naturally easier for a person with martial arts to kill a person who does not know martial arts. Most of the state and county magistrates of the imperial court are familiar with government affairs such as money, food, and punishment, and they are rookies in terms of their martial arts.

The gangs in the rivers and lakes often rely on force to run amok and commit lawlessness, and most of their means of making a living in the rivers and lakes violate the law of the country, and the officials of the imperial court will naturally not sit idly by. The so-called cutting off someone's financial route is like killing his parents, and if you cut off his financial route, you will naturally be retaliated. As a result, there were frequent cases of assassins murdering officials.

It's the same now, Li Xu heard Wen Yuanheng say that last year, there were seven people in the so-called "theft and killing" assassination history, and there were 24 county magistrates, and all the officials in the world regarded these local officials as dead places in the Kanto county commander. The most arrogant envoys of Wei Bo, Fan Yang, and Chengde also raised Assassins of the Dead, and if anyone intended to disadvantage them, they would be greeted by the assassins of these three families.

In order to deal with the assassins' visits, the imperial court placed guards for the ministers according to their ranks, and on the other hand, they pursued the murder of officials. This set of methods may have been useful when Taizu Taizong was there, but it would not be possible when he came to the God Emperor. At that time, the God Emperor appointed Pei Du as the prime minister, Pei Du was politically strong, and made many preparations to sweep away Wu Wujun, the most domineering Chengde Jiedu envoy in the feudal town at that time, but the court did not knock on the door, and Wu Wujun's assassin touched it first.

At that time, Pei Du returned home, walking on the road, passing by a big tree, there was a master holding a long stick from the tree and down, the stick move was fierce and spicy, a messy stick, the Jin Wuwei knight who was responsible for guarding the prime minister made the family play a meat. Fortunately, Pei Du did not have diamonds and did not do porcelain work, and he also had several master guards, and he immediately faced this good hand with a stick.

Assassinating the prime minister of the court on the street, naturally he would not just take a stick and harden it, and before Pei Du's guards could take down the good man with the stick, thirteen sword-wielding masters came out of the alley again. Their long swords and blades were all five feet above, and thirteen people formed a formation to move forward, and those who blocked were all shattered.

At this time, Pei Xianggong immediately made a decision, galloped to his home, Pei Xianggong was a rich and handsome man from a big family, not only good horses, but also great riding, and ran home when he landed. However, the Assassins were also very well prepared, and fired an arrow into his left shoulder. After Pei Xianggong ran home, he immediately changed into women's clothes, disguised as a woman and hid in the secret room, at this time the assassins had been killed by all the people who rushed to hear the news.

Later, it was found out that it was presided over by Wu Wujun, the envoy of the Chengde Army, and the thirteen people who were armed with horse-chopping swords were the elite of the Chengde Army, but the water in it was also deep, and the assassins who were caught did not know who the first master with a stick was, and the person who shot Pei Chengxiang with arrows said that his arrows were smeared with poison, but Pei Chengxiang was not poisoned. ”

"Prime Minister Pei Cheng has been serving as the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu for two or three years, and I don't know what he thinks of the Uighurs in the north. ”

The advantage of being with Li Congxian is that it won't be boring, and before listening to the story of the God Emperor, Hongwen Hall is almost there.

Li Xu suddenly opened his mouth and asked: "The general admires Emperor Wu of Han so much, what do you admire Emperor Wu of Han the most?"

"When I was young, my father punished me to go to the field to plough the land, so that the housekeeper kept an eye on me, and there was a poor peasant next to my house, and my father asked me to follow him to learn farm work, saying that if I harvested less grain than him at the end of the year, he would punish me to continue farming. The poor peasant got up early and returned late every day to teach me the things in the field, and he worked many times harder than me, and I had an old cow to help. At the end of that year, I had grown as much food as he did. ”

"The last general only then understood that I was thanks to the strength of the old cow, my father said to me, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a person named Zhao Guo, he was elected by Emperor Wu as the captain of Sosu, Zhao Guo invented the method of substitution, the promotion of cattle farming, so that a husband can plough a hundred acres of land, and still use the method of ox ploughing. Emperor Wu's northern expedition to the Xiongnu, his exploits may be able to stabilize the frontier for a hundred years, to the Eastern Han Dynasty to attack the Xiongnu in the north, the Xiongnu are finished, there are still worms, and there are Turks after the worms, and the Turks are gone. And the promotion of cattle farming, the practice of the field law, to this day can still benefit, the tribes of Mobei replace each other, but I Huaxia can still cultivate the Central Plains, this is Emperor Wu's legacy to the descendants of the eternal deed. ”

Li Xu was silent for a long time.

"What the general said is very true, the widow has been taught. ”

Suddenly, Li Xu asked again: "What happened to that poor peasant back then?"

"The last general gave him ten oxen, and he managed it well, and now he lives next to me. ”

Li Xu sighed: "The general has the talent of a prime minister." ”