Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 607
"Duke Zhou!"

"General Wang, are you still there?" Wu Minzhi glanced at Wang Wenzuo in surprise: "Is there something wrong?"

"That's right!" Wang Wenzuo nodded, "May I take a step to speak?"

Wu Minzhi frowned: "My cousin values ​​you so much, what can you ask him for, and what can't be done? Why bother me?" After saying that, he wanted to leave.But Wang Wenzuo grabbed his arm: "I don't bother the two masters, this matter is only related to you, so don't bother His Highness the Crown Prince!"

The so-called one person ascends to heaven, since Wu Minzhi became entrusted by the Wu family, Wu Minzhi has also been favored and rich, not to mention the courtiers and nobles, even the members of the Li family are rarely able to match, as far as the eye can see They were all greeted with smiling faces, and I had never seen someone as strong as Wang Wenzuo.Immediately he said angrily: "How courageous, don't let go!" He struggled hard, but he felt that Wang Wenzuo's right arm was like cast iron, and he couldn't move it.The guards of the Eastern Palace who were not far away heard the sound and ran over, but when they saw that it was their immediate superior, they backed away immediately, pretending not to see it.

"My lord, let me finish the matter. Why do you make it so ugly in a few words!" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"You——" Wu Minzhi looked at Wang Wenzuo viciously, but the other party's expression remained constant, with a smile on his face, just like usual, Wu Minzhi couldn't express his anger, but felt timid in his heart, and said with a pause: "Okay, what's the matter?" You say yes! Let go of your hands!"

"Obey!" Wang Wenzuo let go of his hand and said with a smile: "I have a friend who accidentally offended the Duke and has already been taken away by the yamen. He is a useless scholar, and I ask the Duke to give him a lifeline. Zuo is here to apologize to the Duke!" Having said this, Wang Wenzuo bowed to Wu Minzhi.

"Your friend offended me? He was taken by the yamen?" Wu Minzhi frowned: "What's his name?"

"The surname is Lu and the name is Zhaolin. He is a member of the Lu family of Fan Yang. He can also write a few sour poems!" Wang Wenzuo laughed and said, "He is a family friend of Shan wife!"

"Lu Zhaolin?" Wu Minzhi burst out laughing when he heard the name: "Wang Wenzuo, do you think I'm a fool? Doesn't he just know how to write a few sour poems? And he didn't just offend me, there was nothing wrong with him." So easy!"

"Oh? It's not that simple?" Wang Wenzuo's heart moved: "But I heard that Lu Zhaolin just judged a book you compiled arbitrarily. At best, it would be enough to expel him from Chang'an, right?"

Wu Minzhi looked at Wang Wenzuo again, and sneered: "General Wang, for the sake of His Royal Highness, let's just pretend that today's incident never happened. I would like to advise you that the water in Chang'an is very deep and should not be involved." Don't meddle in things, or you'll just lose your own life!" After saying that, he flung his sleeves and walked away.

"This Wu Minzhi is really not simple!" Looking at the back of the other party going away, Wang Wenzuo twisted the beard under his chin and said to himself: "But what he said is true, the water in Chang'an is indeed very deep. Just be careful!"

Leaving the East Palace, Wang Wenzuo did not go home, but took Sancho to the British government. Since Li Jingye's father died early, after Li Ji died of illness, Li Jingye directly took over the British Duke's title and served as the servant. Qing.Although the British government at this time was no longer as powerful as it was when Li Ji was alive, it was still the first-class nobleman in Chang'an City.Wang Wenzuo came to the door and asked Sangqiu to send his famous assassin in. After a while, he saw Li Jingye hurried out to greet him, and laughed loudly: "Sanlang came to my house after returning to Chang'an, it really shouldn't be, wait You will have to drink as a fine, and if you are not drunk, you will not return!"

"There are important matters in the Eastern Palace these days, so I really don't have time to come here! After this period of time, I will buy wine and apologize to Brother Jingye!" Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice, "Brother Jingye is free, I have something to ask!"

"It's easy to say!" Seeing Wang Wenzuo's solemn expression, Li Jingye stopped making fun of him, and led Wang Wenzuo to a side courtyard, and entered the main room where the guests and hosts sat down. She passed away in [-], so she was vacated, and few people come here on weekdays, it is very quiet, so there is no need to worry about the walls having ears!"

"It's nothing, it's just that I bumped into someone today, it may be a little troublesome!"

"I bumped into someone? There's nothing to worry about!" Li Jingye said with a smile, "Isn't it some of the highnesses in the palace? It’s just a crime to accompany me!”

"It's not the highnesses in the palace!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "It's Zhou Guogong Wu Minzhi!"

"It's him?" Li Jingye's face changed drastically: "My dear boy, how could you offend this one? This is going to be troublesome!"

Seeing Li Jingye's expression, Wang Wenzuo's heart tightened. He was very aware of this man's courage, and it would be really troublesome if he could say the word "trouble" out of his mouth.

"Is this person so troublesome?"

"Yeah!" Li Jingye nodded: "Let's put it this way? You have this big banner under the East Palace to protect your body, and everyone you meet in Chang'an City will sell you some face. But this is the only one who has no face. If he doesn’t sell it, he doesn’t care about anyone, he’s not afraid of anyone, there’s nothing he’s afraid to do, this is a living Tai Sui!”

"Who doesn't sell face? Live Tai Sui?" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "What about your two majesties? Don't you say that he doesn't sell your majesty's face?"

"No, he really doesn't sell it!" Li Jingye said with a smile: "Let's put it this way, he is not afraid of the two majesties, but the two majesties are a little afraid of him!"

"How is this possible?" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "Let's not talk about the sage, the queen will be afraid of him? He is today, but it is all thanks to the queen! His surname is not Wu!"

"Hehe!" Li Jingye laughed twice: "That's a long story!" At this point, he glanced at Sanqiu at the side, and Wang Wenzuo smiled knowingly: "Sangqiu, go outside and wait for me!" Now, don't let other people approach the house!"

"Yes!" Sancho replied, and exited the house.When the door was closed, Wang Wenzuo smiled and said, "Brother Li, it's just you and me right now, you can speak up if you have anything to say!"

Li Jingye saw that Sancho had gone out, and there were only Wang Wenzuo and himself in the room. He smiled, got up and took out a bottle of wine and two wine glasses from the cabinet next to him, filled them up for himself and Wang Wenzuo, and took a drink. One mouthful: "That's fine, I'm fine tonight anyway, so I'll tell Saburo about the scandal in the palace, but I won't recognize it when I leave this room!"

"It's easy to say!" Wang Wenzuo also picked up his wine glass and said with a smile, "I've never heard of it before I left this room!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, and both drank the wine in their glasses. Li Jingye coughed: "Sanlang, you should know the life experience of the current empress, right?"

"I've heard about it! But it shouldn't be as detailed as brother Li's!" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"Hehe!" Li Jingye smiled: "The father of the current empress is named Samurai Xun, and he was a good friend of Emperor Gao of this dynasty when he was young. The two had known each other for many years. One of the seventeen Taiyuan Yuanmou heroes. In the eighth year of Wude, someone reported that Li Xiaogong, king of Zhao County who had pacified the south, was rebellious. Emperor Gao ordered him to return to Chang'an for trial, and this is the one who succeeded Li Xiaogong to guard Yangzhou."

Hearing this, Wang Wenzuo nodded: "So, the Queen's father has a deep relationship with Emperor Gao!"

"Hehe! That's not right!" Li Jingye said with a smile: "The person who can succeed Li Xiaogong, king of Zhao Jun, can't be an ordinary person?"

Speaking of this, the two looked at each other and smiled. It turns out that Li Yuan came from the Eight Pillars Kingdom of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and there were many military and political talents in the clan. Therefore, after he raised the army, many of the clans with the same surname had made military exploits, and the one with the highest military exploits was Li Shimin, the second one is Li Xiaogong, who is Li Yuan's nephew and Li Shimin's cousin. He led the army to attack Fugong Er and pacified the south of the Yangtze River. Almost the whole south was pacified by him alone.Although many people said at the time that he made things happen because of people, it was all due to the planning of Li Jing, who was the lieutenant general, and he was just a shopkeeper.But victory is victory. Being able to adopt the strategy of a talented general and then resolutely implement it is also the talent of a great commander.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the north and the south had been separated for hundreds of years. The south, especially the southeast and Chang'an, had a strong tendency to be centrifugal. Li Xiaogong made great achievements, and he had the blood of the Li family.Therefore, no matter whether he was reported for treason or not, Li Yuan would not let him stay in Yangzhou for a long time, and the successor could only be someone whom Li Yuan absolutely trusted. This shows the close personal relationship between Li Yuan and the warrior Xun.

"The samurai Xun married two wives. The first one was Xiangli, and he had two sons. The older one was Wu Yuanqing, and the second was Wu Yuanshuang. There are two daughters, the eldest daughter is Mrs. Han, who married He Lan Anshi, who joined the army in Yuzhou, and has a son and a daughter. After the death of the warrior Xun, the two sons left behind were quite displeased with his stepmother Yang, and there were many disrespectful things. At that time, the queen had not yet ascended the throne, and there was nothing to do in the palace, so they treated the two half-brothers Quite displeased. So after the queen ascended the throne, not only did she not benefit the two elder brothers, she demoted them to the southwest and treated her sister's son as her own nephew!"

"Could it be that the scandal in the palace that you mentioned just now refers to the empress's family affairs?" Wang Wenzuo asked: "But the empress treats Wu Min like this, why is she a little afraid of him?"

"Hehe!" Li Jingye said with a smile: "Sanlang, listen to me. I also said just now that the queen and his two half-brothers are not good, so only the mother Yang and sister are left. So Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Han often brought their children to visit the queen in the palace. After a long time, there were rumors in the palace that the saint had an affair with Mrs. Korea, and even said that the saint was not only having affair with Mrs. Korea, but also with Mrs. Korea. The lady's daughter also has an affair. This is a serious matter. A few years later, Mrs. Han passed away, and His Majesty named her Mrs. Wei Guo, and it was rumored that she was going to enter the palace. In this way, what is the face of Her Majesty the Queen? In the third year of consecration, the sage enshrined Zen in Mount Tai, and Mrs. Wei Guo accompanied him. When he returned to Chang'an, he died of a sudden illness. At that time, Wu Minzhi went to the palace to express his condolences because of his sister's funeral. When the sage saw him, he cried sadly: "I Looking forward, she was fine, but I didn't expect that she would die after retreating, how could it be so sudden?' After hearing this, Minzhi just wailed and didn't answer!"

Wang Wenzuo took a deep breath and asked, "Then Mrs. Wei's death was the queen's hand?"

Li Jingye smiled, but did not answer.

"This Wu Minzhi probably suffered a mental breakdown because of this incident! That's why he acted mischievously, and the emperor probably knew that it was the empress who did it, so he felt a little guilty about Wu Minzhi, so he deliberately favored many things to make up for the guilt in his heart. ;The queen is probably the same!" Wang Wenzuo thought to himself, and suddenly a thought flashed in his mind:
"No, Mrs. Wu is not such a person. Even though she feels a little guilty about poisoning her niece, Wu Minzhi's behavior at that time proves that he probably already knew that it was the Queen's Aunt who did it, and he still has a heart of resentment. Then Wu's most likely reaction is not guilt, but fear. If it is someone else, family affection and guilt will make it up, but Wu is definitely not that kind of person. Her most likely choice is to cut the grass and root out, so as to avoid future troubles! The reason why she hasn't done it yet is not because she doesn't want to do it, but because she is still looking for a good excuse!"

"Sanlang, you understand!" Seeing Wang Wenzuo's silence, Li Jingye thought he had been persuaded: "This Wu Minzhi is not something you can afford, so let's do it! I will find an opportunity to talk to him for you tomorrow. Let’s make peace with him, let’s settle the matter that offended him, as for other things, let’s stop here, okay?”

"Well, I'll trouble Brother Li!" Wang Wenzuo made up his mind and said with a smile, "By the way, what does Duke Zhou like this time? Since I bumped into him, I have to give him a gift. I have the right to express my apologies!"

"That's right!" Li Jingye smiled, and he raised his thumb: "If you have this attitude, this thing will definitely happen. Let me think about what he likes first!"

"How about falcon hunting?" Wang Wenzuo recalled the past when he met Wang Bo and Lu Zhaolin on the way to Chang'an: "I heard that falconry is very popular in Chang'an recently, and I brought some good ones over there in Haidong!"

"Hunting Falcon? Do you have top grade?" Li Jingye's eyes lit up.

"I dare not say Shangpin, but it must be better than what Chang'an can see!" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"Okay, this is good!" Li Jingye patted his thigh: "Chang'an is indeed very fashionable recently, even if he doesn't like it very much, it's not bad to give it to others as a gift!"

"Okay!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Tomorrow I will send four pairs to the house. Brother Li, you can give him two pairs, and if you have two pairs, please keep Brother Li!"

"How embarrassing!" Li Jingye laughed.

"Brother Li told me stories for half the night tonight, shouldn't I have two pairs of Sakers?" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

(End of this chapter)