"Bold!" Li Zhe slapped his palm on the dragon chair and stood up. www.biquge.info What Xuanqi said was not only blaming the ministers, but also faintly seemed to be accusing himself, so that Li Zhe couldn't help the anger in his heart no matter what, and immediately took the case.

"Bold Li Ning, this matter is my decision, are you blaming me?"

"Weichen doesn't dare!" Xuan Qi hurriedly said respectfully. Xuan Qi never thought that Li Zhe, who was originally humble and self-disciplined and open-minded, would completely lose the Li Zhe he had known for so many years, but became suspicious, and even more stubborn. Xuan Qi sighed secretly, and immediately stopped talking.

Li Zhe originally called Xuan Qi to question Xuan Qi about letting his family escape from the capital to avoid disaster, but he didn't expect that Xuan Qi would have the upper hand, and in turn he scolded a group of ministers, which was equivalent to Li Zhe's face. Li Zhe naturally knew the image of Li Hu's family in the hearts of the subjects of the Heavenly Empire, and he didn't dare to punish Xuan Qi excessively for a while, so in order not to make more trouble, he immediately said: "I remember that you grew up in the rivers and lakes since you were a child, I don't blame you for not understanding the affairs of the court." That's the end of today's business!

Seeing Li Zhe flicking his sleeves away, Xuan Qi couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Since then, Xuanqi has devoted all his energy to the Xuanmen and no longer cares about the affairs of the court. Every two or three days, he also took a day to accompany the old princess.

In such days, it was not until two months later that news came from Jizhou that the combined forces of Bohai and Silla had broken through the Shanhai Pass, forced Jizhou, and at the same time began to attack Li Sheng's army in the area of Taihang Mountain. Li Sheng's army was attacked by the enemy, and the situation was already quite dangerous. At this moment, Xuan Qi had to say goodbye to the old princess and go north alone, hoping to help Li Sheng.

And when Xuanqi arrived in Daizhou, there was bad news from Yanmen Pass, Li Sheng was assassinated on the way to inspection, and his body had already left Yanmen Pass and came to Daizhou. Xuan Qi was hit by this thunderbolt on a sunny day, and his heart was very painful, and he endured his grief overnight to meet him.

It turned out that when Li Sheng inspected the customs defense, he only took Chang Bin and the deputy general of Yanmen Pass Guo Guosheng with him, as well as more than a dozen personal soldiers. When passing through a small town, I saw two officers and soldiers bullying a local woman. Li Sheng stepped forward to drink, and the two officers and soldiers were tied aside, waiting for the departure.

And just as the woman knelt down to thank her, and Li Sheng stretched out her hands to support her, the woman suddenly pulled out a dagger from her sleeve and stabbed it into Li Sheng's heart. When everyone was shocked, Guo Guosheng suddenly slashed at Chang Bin's back who was about to rush forward, and this knife actually killed Chang Bin on the spot. Then, more than a dozen black-clothed people rushed out from all directions, instantly eliminating Li Sheng's personal soldiers.

When Zhuge Yunzhi came with the officers and soldiers, Li Sheng and his party of more than ten people, except for Guo Guosheng who escaped, the rest of them were killed on the spot. Zhuge Yunzhi was grief-stricken, and on the one hand, he sent a large number of officers and soldiers to hunt down the assassins, and on the other hand, he had to bury Li Sheng and Chang Bin and send them back to the capital.

The officers and soldiers escorting the hearse back to Beijing met Xuan Qi more than ten miles away from Daizhou, and the grief-stricken Xuan Qi actually fainted on the spot. When he woke up, Xuan Qi was already in a carriage and was heading towards the capital. At this time, Xuan Qi had already calmed down, and immediately asked the disciples of the Beggar Gang to give an order to search for the assassin and the Shanxi family in an all-round way.

On the second day, the beggar gang disciples who went to the house came with the news that dozens of people in the family had disappeared, but they didn't know where they went. And Zhuge Yunzhi also came with news that more than a dozen assassins crossed the Taihang Mountain and headed north, which should have entered the Xiongnu army.

When the news of Li Sheng's assassination reached the capital, the old princess was so grief-stricken that she vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted. And the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty was summoned into the palace by Li Zhe overnight to discuss major matters. At this time, the ministers did not know what to do, there were no generals in the court, and the only three generals of the Beijing battalion were responsible for the defense of the capital, and the three of them had never really become the commanders of an army and had fought with the Xiongnu.

Li Bin, the general of the Beijing camp, can also be regarded as the emperor's family, seeing that the ministers have no choice, they proposed to replace Li Sheng with Xuanqi to guard the northern frontier, and the ministers of civil and military affairs all felt that this was the only way to solve it at this moment. It's just that Xuan Qi has the holy decree of the former emperor who is not allowed to enter the court as an official, and he has just been squeezed out of Beijing by Li Zhe and a group of civil ministers, but everyone doesn't know what Xuan Qi means. And at this time of crisis, Li Zhe and a group of ministers finally put down their face and decided to send someone to probe Xuanqi's tone first.

Li Zhe immediately asked the eunuch beside him to greet Li Sheng's coffin, which was not far from the capital, and at the same time probed Xuan Qi's tone. The next morning, the eunuch returned, and Xuan Qi refused to take over the military horses of Northern Xinjiang because he did not dare to disobey the will of the emperor, and at this time he wanted to guard his father's spirit.

Although Li Zhe had long expected this possibility, he was so angry that he jumped up from the dragon chair, and scolded Xuan Qi for not knowing how to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism.

Seven days later, Xia Chongxiao, who was already on the road, rushed back to the capital overnight, and the palace was even more mournful. On the second day, Li Sheng went to the funeral, Li Zhe was going to go to mourn in person, but he was still angry at Xuanqi's disrespect to himself, and he had to be persuaded by a few ministers, so he only sent a little eunuch to the palace. The people in the palace were in grief, but they didn't care.

When Li Sheng was at the funeral, only a few military generals in the court and the family lords who had always had a deep relationship with the palace went to see him off. On the way out of the funeral, the people of the capital spontaneously went to the streets to see each other, crowding the streets of the capital, and more than 200,000 people walked out of Beijing and sent Li Sheng to the imperial mausoleum on the outskirts of Beijing, and then returned.

Li Zhe was in the palace, and when he heard the mourning in the capital, he was shocked and asked people to investigate. After understanding the truth, Li Zhe couldn't help frowning and was silent, and the fierce gaze in his eyes made all the eunuchs and palace maids kneel down in a hurry, trembling all over.

After Li Sheng was buried, the old princess sent the white-haired person to the black-haired person, but she fell ill, and no matter how Xuan Qi treated her, it did not get better. Xuanqi knew that the old princess was sick of her heart, and Li Sheng, who had finally run away from home, returned to her knees, and she had only been together for a few years, but now she was separated forever, how could the old princess, who was already eighty years old, endure the pain of parting?

Xuan Qi had no choice but to let his family stay by the old princess's side all day long, hoping to alleviate the old princess's grief as much as possible. At the same time, Xuanqi also remembered his uncle Li Xing, and was afraid that Li Xing would also encounter an accident, which would make the old princess's illness worse, so he immediately transferred ten disciples from Xuanmen, led by Chu Lin and Li Xinchen, to Henan Li Xing's army to protect Li Xing.