The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 209 New Year's Eve is approaching, Sudden Bad News Worries My Atrium
It's eleventh, Dongyue, Chang'an.

One month before New Year's Eve, the streets and alleys of the huge city are brightly lit, as if the sky is covered with stars. In the market where the curfew has not yet been curfew, the vendors are shouting loudly, and the prostitutes in the brothel are looking at the street and waving handkerchiefs at the passing men below. With a delicate voice, people couldn't help but look up.

Occasionally, amidst the humming on the street, the carriage drove past the lively night market and stopped in front of a shop. The cold wind blew in. A woman with a velvet scarf around her shoulders led a child out of the carriage, Geng Nian Amidst the yelling, buy some desserts and preserved fruits.

The store owner liked the three-year-old boy very much. When sending the mother and son out, he did not forget to grab a handful of dried fruit and stuff it into the child's hand.

The store owner likes Geng Nian, some of them are from Geng Qing, he is an old man under Dou Wei, he lived in Yong'anfang, now he has settled down in the city, has a child and a wife, so he will stop beating and killing all day long, Dou Wei I gave some money, helped him to take down the shop, opened the shop, and sometimes helped pass some news.

"Ma'am, there is news from Mr. Geng."

He sent Bai Yunxiang and Geng Nian back to the carriage, rubbed his cold hands, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear through the curtain of the carriage:

"Mr. said everything is fine, Madam doesn't need to worry about it. She might come back to Chang'an at the end of the year."

"You didn't tell the truth." Bai Yunxiang's shrewd female shopkeeper noticed something was wrong when she looked at the shopkeeper's eyes. The man lowered his head and smiled in embarrassment. After being exposed, he had to tell the truth about Longzhou.

However, the words were short, but it also made Bai Yunxiang open her mouth slightly, making it difficult to close it. She didn't know much, she knew that she had dealt with yellow thieves and plotted against the late emperor, but these were all like telling a story. She listened, without any intuitive feeling.

Right now, when he heard from other people that Geng Qing had killed a Jiedu envoy, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He didn't know when he would put down the curtain and let the coachman drive away.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?"

Geng Nian took a small sweet cake, ate it into his mouth, puffed his cheeks, tilted his head to look at his mother, Bai Yunxiang came back from his senses, stroked his little head, and smiled.

"Mother is fine."

"I'm thinking about daddy. Was that uncle talking about daddy just now?"

"Well, your father is a man of great ability. He is very imposing outside, and he can beat bad guys to pieces just sitting on a chair." Bai Yunxiang put her arms around her son, rubbed her chin lightly on the little bun, and smelled it. With a faint fragrance of saponin, he said with a smile: "Nian'er, you need to read more and read more, so that you can become a person of great ability like your father, and others will respect you and listen to you."

"Like Dad, don't you don't read books?"

Bai Yunxiang froze for a moment, "Who told you that?"

"Daddy. When he was at home, he told Nian'er that he had never read a book."

"Nonsense, your father didn't have the conditions at that time, and he learned it all by himself later."

Bai Yunxiang pushed her son's forehead with her fingers, no wonder Geng Nian didn't pay much attention recently, it turned out that her man was playing tricks behind her.

Wait for you to come back and see how I deal with you.

The woman blushed and thought about it, the carriage slowly walked through the long street and disappeared into the noise of the market.

Soon, the Jingjie drums from the Bell and Drum Tower rang, and the lights of thousands of families, like the Milky Way, gradually quieted down and went out one by one.

In the huge imperial city to the north of the city, the palaces and buildings are still brightly lit. Inside the Zichen Hall, bronze lampposts are surrounded, and a small copper furnace is wafting warm heat.

Sitting behind the dragon case, the emperor held the news from Shu in his hand, and there was still one month before New Year's Eve, and his fourth year as the throne was approaching. Finally, he had something to tell his thousands of people. He is the son of heaven.

At this time, he was in a good mood, flipping through the battle report back and forth, this was the comfort he had never felt since he became a great treasure.

'The only shortcoming is that this Wei Zhaodu is really difficult to take on a big job. I let you be the commander-in-chief to promote you, let you lead the Shence army to fight, and train the soldiers. '

Knowing this situation earlier, he simply let Li Shunjie lead the army. Unfortunately, he thought highly of Wei Zhaodu, so that the whole plan was somewhat regrettable.

"But it doesn't matter. Xi Chuan returned to my feet. The next step should be Longyou in the rear. Except for war horses, the land there is barren and the people are few. Even if Li Maozhen is ambitious, she will have to kneel on the ground in the end. '

Inside the hall, Li Ye put down the battle report and walked outside, standing on the stone steps, quietly looking at the surrounding palace, behind him, the personal guard took a cloak and put it on him, telling the emperor to go back to the hall early, so as not to avoid wind chill.

Entering the winter moon, the night wind was already chilly, but Li Ye didn't care about it, letting the cold wind blow on his face, he felt refreshed.

"After several years of planning, we finally have to clear the clouds and see the sun. How can a little cold wind hurt me." He doesn't like eunuchs, and most of the people who are by his side are his personal guards. He is naturally saying to them now, "When the New Year's Eve is over, When the spring of next year arrives, it is time to carry out a purge.”

He was not worried that these words would be spread, and all the guards around him were brought by him when he was still King Shou.Li Ye took a breath and was about to speak when someone came up the stone steps below, "Your Majesty, the great general is here."

The general that the guards were talking about was naturally Li Shunjie. After he took over the Beiying Shence Army, he almost stayed in the barracks. He took back Zhang Huaiyi's former subordinates, but the progress was not smooth. One of the commanders, Yang Huaixiong, was very skilled in martial arts, and he was an old man. , making it difficult for Li Shunjie to cope.

Coming here now made Li Ye frowned, entering the palace late at night was probably an urgent matter.

"Is there any change in the barracks?"

Not long after, in his line of sight, a fast-paced figure hurried over, went up the stone steps and half-kneeled to salute, Li Ye asked him to get up.

"Shunjie, but those thorns in Beiying want to rebel against you?"

Li Shunjie was tall and burly, standing up like a hill in front of the emperor, he bowed slightly and lowered his head, so that the gap seemed not that big, and it was also a compliment to the emperor.

He shook his head, looked around, and hurriedly took out a letter and handed it over, "Longyou's letter was delayed for half a month, so I sent it urgently."

Longyou?

Hearing these two words, Li Ye's first reaction was that of Li Maozhen and Geng Qing, and his face was filled with joy. He was always confident in his plan, especially after taking down Xichuan, he probably already saw that Longyou would have a lot of trouble next year. accident.

Unexpectedly, it came so quickly.

He hastily opened the letter, unfolded it in his hands, his eyes moved along his own, the joy on his face gradually turned cold, he felt dizzy before reading it, his feet were numb, and he staggered to the stone rail beside him, holding the letter in his hand trembling slightly.

".When did it happen?"

Li Shunjie looked at the emperor's expression, and half-knelt down in trepidation: "Return to Your Majesty, in October. Li Jiji killed Li Maozhen and Li Jipeng, and beheaded the entire family of the two families at Caishikou. The news could have arrived at the end of October, but someone Press down, it was only passed from Fengxiang three days ago."

"Li Jiji is Li Maozhen's adopted son, how dare he?! How dare he do this—"

All the plans for making Longyou were suddenly overthrown, and the plan against Li Maozhen would even implicate him in purging the eunuchs next year, how could Li Ye not be angry?
He tore up the letter paper and scattered it on the ground, called Li Shunjie to get up and return to the main hall, and discussed how to continue the previous plan overnight. As for the Geng Qing who appeared in his mind, he was redrawing it in his heart at this time Made a fortune.

An adopted son killed his adoptive father and seized the military power to occupy Longyou.

With such a move, if no one came up with an idea later, Li Ye wouldn't believe it even if he beat him to death.

The game he set up was over before it even started. Li Ye almost stayed up all night to re-arrange the plan. However, he and Li Shunjie were only halfway through when another guard came rushing over from outside the palace.

It was a letter from Fengxiang, and it should have been sent in a few days after the previous letter was sent away. The emperor opened the envelope, his eyes fell on the paper, and there was only a short flick.

——Li Jiji took Geng Qing, his staff member, as the deputy envoy Shao Yin and the secretary in charge, and raised [-] troops to force Fengxiang.

In just a short vertical handwriting, what he saw was a content, a few short words: I'm back again.

"what!!"

In the main hall, Li Ye let out an angry roar, and waved his hand to sweep away the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and paperwork on the desk, and the lamp post that hit the side was shaking slightly.

On this day, Li Maozhen was killed, and the news spread that Li Jiji sent Fengxiang soldiers. The name that had not appeared for a long time was heard in the ears of familiar people again.

It was a shocking emotion.

Also on this day, Tu Shifei heard the news from Wang Feiying, walked out of the Ministry of Punishment silently, rode his horse, and went to Dali Temple.

　This chapter should be overdone, let Chunfeng prepare, when will the next four chapters come
　　
　
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