Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 147
After mid-September, the weather turned cooler, and the sweet-scented osmanthus in the forbidden garden bloomed, and the fragrance was wafting all over the place.

The sound of the piano is long, accompanied by Xue Qiongqiong's melodious singing.

"I don't know the palace in the sky, what year is it?"

The woman dancing on the stage has a cold demeanor, just like Chang'e in the moon palace. It is Meifei Jiang Caiping.

Jiang Caiping's dancing posture is different from Yang Yuhuan's. It is less charming and pretty, and more elegant and sad, as if she wants to fly away with the wind at any time.

As the tune changed, Li Longji, wearing a white silk robe, stepped down to dance with her, his clothes fluttering like a fairy.

After one song, the charm of the song has not dissipated for a long time.

Gao Lishi trotted forward with a cloak in his hand, and put it on Li Longji.

"Sage don't catch a cold."

"General Gao, what do you think of my newly choreographed dance?"

Li Longji was in a good mood. While speaking, he took Jiang Caiping's hand, put the cloak on her body, and gently patted her shoulders, and said softly: "Mei Jing dances well."

Because Jiang Caiping loves plum blossoms, he jokingly called her "Plum Blossom".

"It's the sage who compiled it well."

"It's a pity that it's too short, and I can't enjoy the dance. I want to expand it into 36 sections and call it 'Autumn Yuegui Gongqu'."

When it comes to music, Li Longji is very insightful.

Xue Bai can only sing one new word, but he can study the ever-changing changes in it.

Just as he was talking happily, in a blink of an eye, he found that Yang Yuhuan had arrived under the osmanthus tree at some point, so he couldn't help scolding Gao Lishi.

"It's too real, General Gao didn't say it earlier."

In fact, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty occasionally deliberately pretended to be low-key to coax the beauties, which is a kind of small pleasure.

Because of Yang Yuhuan's temperament, few people in the palace dared to lose their temper like her.

Li Longji smiled and said, "When did Taizhen arrive? Have you seen my new dance?"

"Concubines are not worthy to look at, after all Concubine Mei is more like Chang'e than concubines."

"Each has its own merits, so there is no need to compare." Li Longji smiled brighter and said, "Wait for me to compose another dance that is more suitable for Taizhen..."

Since this dance is more suitable for Jiang Caiping's cool temperament, she has to dance it.This is an elegant matter, unlike the ordinary affairs of the court and middle school, whoever does the same thing, he has a very high attainment in music, so he has some perseverance.

Yang Yuhuan was still not happy, and after saying goodbye, she turned around and left.

"Hey, don't worry too much." Li Longji persuaded, "How about calling your sisters to play cards today?"

"The sage doesn't need to bother coaxing me. I'm not talented, arrogant and jealous, and my natal brother is also domineering. I'm tired of the sage. Just let me go home."

"Why are you still angry?"

Li Longji asked with a smile, and said to Gao Lishi: "Xue Bai is still locked up? No wonder I haven't seen the monkey story for a while."

As the so-called "what is good at the top, it will be great at the bottom", although Xue Bai took the lead in writing the story, but he only wrote a little every day, which is not very interesting.Many people follow suit, desperately writing stories for saints to read.

Recently, Li Longji has no shortage of stories to read, such as "Guang Yi Ji" has a few strange stories every day, "The Legend of the Western Regions" is a story imitating a monkey, and "The Continued Story of the Messenger in Green" is a complete story. A love story written according to his taste... Behind the scenes, all forces are recruiting talents in order to curry favor with him.

There are only so many holy relatives, and if you distribute more to one side, then naturally there will be less on the other side.

"Returning to the saint, he is still locked up in Jingzhao Mansion Prison." Gao Lishi said: "This case is clear, it is not appropriate to openly favoritism."

"It's even difficult for the emperor?" Li Longji sighed, "It's too real, don't worry, it's just a few more days, and it won't hurt that kid at all."

He could see that Xue Bai was being obedient again, deliberately making his personal grievances bigger.It felt fresh once or twice, but now he is also bored.Moreover, Yang Yuhuan recognized a handsome young gentleman as his righteous brother, and he felt a little unhappy.

Of course, Li Longji was very generous and didn't intend to pursue it, so he just didn't bother to care about it. He taught Xue Bai a little lesson and restrained himself in the future.He knew that officials in the court had their own sense of propriety, and would not embarrass a person who was concerned by a saint.

Yang Yuhuan wanted to be annoyed, and said: "Then the concubine is not sensible."

Taking advantage of the opportunity of jealousy with Jiang Caiping, she dared to shake Li Longji's face, left a word, and led a group of maids to leave.

Li Longji got angry, pointed at her beautiful back, and said: "General Gao has also seen it, and he is arrogant and pampered. If I always spoil her, I will become even more lawless."

"Saint, calm down." Gao Lishi hurriedly apologized with a smile: "It must be that the noble concubine is a little uneasy seeing that Concubine Mei dances well."

In this way, Li Longji's anger dissipated quickly, and he laughed at himself and said: "I am a dignified emperor, I still have to coax her."

There are countless officials in the world, and most of the names are unknown to the saints.However, if some people can climb the skirt of the imperial concubine, the sage will always think of him; if they can become relatives with the imperial concubine again, then when the sage wants to coax the imperial concubine, he will be of great use...

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Xue Bai has been living in Jingzhao Mansion Prison for several days.

He was taken care of, but he was not greatly wronged.

The most miserable one was Daxi Yingying, who suffered this unreasonable disaster for no reason, and was very inconvenient in prison.Stains were stained on the originally fair and clean skin, and there was always a strange sense of shock in the eyes of others.

She felt that she couldn't sit in this prison for nothing, she had to take the opportunity to gain Xue Bai's trust, and she always wanted to talk to him.

"Lang Jun, I see that those jailers are more disturbed than us. I think Xiao Jiong can't bear it anymore, but I don't know why he refuses to let us go?"

Xue Bai was squatting, opened and closed his eyes, and said, "It's okay to tell you."

Daxi Yingying was overjoyed, thinking that she had finally passed the test and became his confidant, she couldn't help squatting over and leaning closer to listen.

Xue Bai only said one word.

Daxi Yingying was stunned for a while, a little confused, then suddenly understood, and said in a low voice: "So that's the case, the slaves should have thought of this level earlier."

Seeing that Xue Bai had no intention of talking, she had no choice but to turn to Du Wulang and asked, "Wulang beat Yuan Mao from the very beginning, did he know about it? It's really hidden."

Du Wulang felt that she was showing too much, so he hurriedly handed over the robe, and asked an irrelevant question: "Put it on, um, the weather is getting colder, in case you catch a cold."

"Thank you." Daxi Yingying took the robe and said naturally, "Wulang help me."

Du Wulang was panicking when a jailer came over from the corridor and opened the cell door. He hurried forward and asked in a more natural tone, "Liu Dian prison, but you want to let us go?"

"Jingzhao Mansion Prison can't entertain Goro, and your case has been handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

"Really? I haven't been to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice yet."

"Hey, Goro is funny. The Ministry of Criminal Justice will review the case. You don't have to go to jail."

"Haha, let's borrow Liu Dianju's auspicious words."

……

On the way to the Criminal Department, Du Wulang was chatting with the jailer who came to escort them.

"This official, I see that you have two more talismans on your waist than the wardens in Jingzhao Mansion Prison?"

"This is for entering and exiting the imperial city and Shangshu Province."

"The prison in Dali Temple only has the Imperial City Talisman, but there is no Shangshu Provincial Talisman."

"Only our prison of the Ministry of Justice is called 'Sendai prison'."

"So that's the case, no wonder I've never been there." Du Wulang said, "I've been to four prisons in Chang'an City, but I don't know there are 26 prisons?"

Now that the topic was discussed, several jailers introduced it.

"Among the prisons in one prefecture, two counties, and three divisions, the most special one is Chang'an County Prison. The ground is dug several feet deep, and the exit is covered with boulders. It is called the 'Tiger Prison'. People range from court officials to Jiangyang thieves, many of whom are vicious and vicious; Dongfang and Xitufang hold many prisoners and drive them into labor; Zhongdu Prison is mysterious, although I have heard of it but have never seen it; by the way, there is another The small prison, named 'Lone Willow Tree Prison', is unknown, but it is the most worth seeing."

"Why?"

"Haha, anyone who needs to be beheaded shall be sent to Duliushu prison first to wait for beheading."

After hearing this, Du Wulang lamented that there are so many specialties in the prison of Chang'an City, and ordinary people really don't know it.At the same time, he also felt chills in his heart, and regained his awe.

After entering Shangshu Province, which is located in the middle of the imperial city and occupies a vast area, turn west, and the second government office is the Ministry of Punishment.

Compared with the noise of Jingzhao Mansion in Guangdefang, the Ministry of Punishment has an austere atmosphere, and officials come and go lightly.Although everyone just came here to go to prison, they also have a feeling of stepping into the center of the Tang Dynasty, because this place is indeed the center.

They were taken to the classroom, Du Wulang looked left and right, and asked, "Should we be placed here?"

"Otherwise? The case has not yet been tried, and it is awaiting trial here! The principal culprit, Xue Bai, come with us."

Xue Bai was not surprised, he got up immediately, but went to change into a plain robe first.

~~
Pingkangfang, Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Li Linfu was a little old and dim-sighted, and his energy was gradually weakened after sitting at his desk for a long time, and he almost fell asleep sitting there while he was writing official documents.

"Grandfather?"

Li Xiu was talking about something in the meeting hall, and after a long time he didn't hear Li Linfu's response, so he couldn't help asking.

"What?" Li Linfu came back to his senses and asked, "Where did you just say?"

"Speaking of Shanxi vines." Li Xiudao: "I asked the craftsman who will be the prisoner. Shanxi has been felled excessively for decades, and the Shengzhou government had to strictly prohibit private logging, so the tribute paper is more expensive. Another thing is that Yuan He is determined to get this money, so he sent people to the south of the Yangtze River three months ago."

"Go and go, hundreds of miles of Shanxi, how many vines and trees can those few people cut down?" Li Linfu said: "The matter of changing the southeast tribute paper to Jiangzuojian has been played together with many methods of saving money. I report to the saint, and the saint is satisfied."

"Yes." Li Xiu said, "Southeast tribute paper is ridiculously expensive now, a piece of paper costs more than a hundred yuan, and you must know that a piece of cake is only two yuan. Only this way of saving money, my grandfather should be able to save money for the court." Thousands of expenses a year."

"Local officials have always made excuses and tried every means. The officials sent to Jiangnan must be selected and suppressed."

"The child understands."

While speaking, Li Linfu looked at the next official document, and saw that it was a dispatch document from the Ministry of Officials, all of which were positions under the eighth rank.The list is very long, and he hasn't had time to read it carefully.

suddenly.

"Right Prime Minister! Northwest News!"

Li Linfu was startled immediately, and said in amazement: "Wang Zhongsi won?!"

A travel-worn messenger entered the hall and knelt down, saying: "Don't worry, the right minister, it's not Wang Zhongsi. It's the border guards who sent envoys to report back, and captured Lianyun Fort!"

"Okay, this is good news."

Lianyun Fort is the key point of the Little Bolu Kingdom. The Little Bolu Kingdom was originally a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, but they dared to switch to Tubo. The saint was determined to destroy his country.Now that Gao Xianzhi is on an expedition to Xiaobolu, Bian Lingcheng is supervising the army, it is indeed a great joy to win the first battle.

"Quickly prepare, the truth is going to enter the palace to have an audience."

"Here."

"Let Xiao Jiong come to see you! Immediately!"

"Here."

Li Linfu hurriedly read the several official documents that were being processed, stamped them, and immediately went to change into a robe.

Before going out, Xiao Jiong rushed over and discussed with him a few more words.

In this way, Li Linfu just opened the way for Jin Wu to go to the Daming Palace to have an audience...

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Daming Palace.

Li Longji rarely summoned An Lushan today to listen to him talk about Khitan.

This was originally one of the things that An Lushan should do when he entered the court, but after the murder of Fan Yang on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the sage seemed to have neglected him for a while, so that even this kind of official business was delayed.

And taking advantage of this period of time, many voices attacking Anlu Mountain fell into the ears of the saint.

"See for yourself."

An Lushan struggled to pick up a memorial and read it, his expression changed drastically.

The memorial pointed out an old incident, saying that An Lushan had done nothing to the border, but had committed a serious crime.

More than ten years ago, Li Yi, the king of Xin'an, conquered Xi people and won a big victory. He led his troops to surrender, moved to the interior, and sent his eldest son Li Yanchong to the court as a hostage.Six years after the death of King Xi, An Lushan asked the imperial court to let Li Yanchong succeed him, and Li Longji married Princess Yifang to Li Yanchong, and paid homage to Governor Rao Le and King Huaixin.As a result, An Lushan invaded and plundered the Xiren tribe several times, burned, killed and looted in order to fake Bian Gong, which caused Li Yanchong to kill Princess Yifang in the fifth year of Tianbao and rebel against the Tang Dynasty.

After talking about this incident, the phrases in this memorial became more and more intense, pointing out that Li Yi and Wang Zhongsi used foreign troops to use the First World War to ensure peace for more than ten years. He won three battles and three victories, and wiped out the entire army of Xi and Khitan.Why has An Lushan been stationed in the Northeast, and there have been many good news, but the rebellion has intensified, even to the point where 30 to [-] troops have to be stationed at the border to guard against foreign invaders?

"Lushan hides evil intentions, and raises the bandits to be self-respecting?!"

When his eyes fell on this line of words, An Lushan's fat hand shook, and the memorial fell to the ground. He was so frightened that he fell to his knees.

"Your Majesty! I'm guilty of the crime, but I never thought about supporting the bandits. I beg your Majesty to let go of my position as the Jiedu Envoy of the Second Township. I am willing to take up a vacant position in Chang'an and serve Your Majesty!"

He didn't have a single excuse, the first thing he showed was his attitude.

Everything is still under the control of the saint, and the saint can remove him at any time, as long as the saint wants.

Li Longji said: "You only have these excuses?"

An Lushan raised his head, he was very sincere and open-minded, and replied: "The wish of the minister is to return to Chang'an."

"Don't say it's useless, I want your explanation."

"Kechen doesn't know how to explain it."

"Say!"

An Lushan scratched his head in some embarrassment, and said: "I'm a barbarian, I don't know etiquette, and I really often rob foreigners, which is different from the Han side generals. It's useless to lead an army of tens of thousands to sweep the Turks. , can't call."

He was right on point.

Li Yi and Wang Zhongsi are formidable, leading a large army to sweep Mobei, but the military expenditure is also high, and the threat is even greater.The reason why Li Longji used An Lushan was that An Lushan was different from these Han generals in that he could take the initiative to attack and consume foreign captives without posing a threat to the central government.

According to these officials, let Xin'an Wang Liyi command 30 troops to sit in the northeast and try?Let's see if Li Longji can sleep soundly one night.

"Mid-Autumn Night, your soldiers dared to kill the Jinwu Guard in Chang'an City." Li Longji said, "How do you explain it?"

"It's my fault. I should deal with those stubborn soldiers according to the military law, and then I will plead guilty to the saint."

"Nothing else to say?"

More than 20 days have passed, and the East Palace has been desperately attacking Anlu Mountain. In addition to the memorials like the one just now, there are also various conspiracy theories that Li Linfu and An Lushan killed those Huihe people and framed the East Palace.

Li Linfu has been criticizing Donggong and Wang Zhongsi all the time, insisting that those Huihe people have friendship with Wang Zhongsi, which shows that Donggong secretly contacted foreign vassals, and then killed people to silence them, with ulterior motives.

Recently, all parties have even thrown out some other news to clear their suspicions.

Li Longji usually doesn't care about it, but now that he remembered it today, he planned to see how An Lushan would deal with it.

"What should I say?" An Lushan murmured: "Some people say that Pei Mian was also killed by someone sent by the minister, but the saint is asking about this?"

"Say."

"I haven't done it before, so I sent ten boxes of wisteria incense to the right minister, please the right minister to decide."

Li Longji laughed angrily, and asked again: "Then what do you think is going on?"

An Lushan shook his head, leaned down, and said with a serious face: "I have never thought about this matter. After finally coming to Chang'an, I just want to make the saint happy and repay the saint's kindness."

He knew very well in his heart that it was Donggong, Wang Ji, Xue Bai and others who were working together to deal with him, but he never mentioned it, nor did he try to clear up his grievances.

These days, he didn't do anything except go to the right minister's mansion to express his opinion.

Because he knows how much he does and makes mistakes, no matter what he does, he will only add trouble to the saint. A loyal minister like him only has saints in his heart, and he doesn't care about being wronged, he only cares about the mood of saints.

"Back off." Li Longji said.

An Lushan was taken aback for a moment, and said, "The minister hasn't reported his duties yet..."

"Tomorrow I will hold a banquet in Xingqing Palace, and I will play while drinking." Li Longji kicked An Lushan lightly, "I still don't get up."

"Hu'er, thank you saint for your grace!"

An Lushan was overjoyed, propped up his fat body, but didn't get up at the first push, and rolled on the ground.

"Hahaha."

Li Longji was so amused that he couldn't stop laughing, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became cheerful.

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In fact, Li Longji didn't even ask about the intrigue of these ministers these days. There are [-] beauties in his palace, and there is no time for eating, drinking and having fun.

Now that the matter is almost over, he took a look and saw a group of people full of ugly appearances.

Among them, An Lushan, who was the ugliest, didn't show his ugliness, and only cared about making him happy.

Even his own son can't do this, it's too far away...

Thinking of this, the smile on Li Longji's face faded, and was covered with a layer of emperor's majesty.

"Saint, the right minister is here, come to announce the good news of Lianyun Castle."

"Call." Li Longji said: "Call Xue Bai too."

"According to the order."

After a while, Li Linfu saw him, and immediately said after saluting: "I congratulate the sage, the victory of Lianyunbao, and the great power of the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Longji's reaction to this was flat, with a stern look on his face, "How dare you betray me in such a small country. I want the chieftain of Xiaobolu to kneel at my feet and cry and repent. It won't be too late for the right minister to congratulate me."

Li Linfu frowned, and replied, "Observe the order."

His answer was very thoughtful, meaning that there must be a day when he would obey the order and congratulate him.

Li Longji was used to winning battles, so he didn't have much interest in it. He drank a glass of wine casually, and said in a chatty tone: "Why does the right minister upset Taizhen several times?"

"Your Majesty has learned from you." Li Linfu rarely dared to retort once, and saluted: "I should put the public heart first when handling state affairs for Your Majesty, and it is not appropriate to care about the wishes of the noble concubine in everything. If the noble concubine is deceived by an adulterer, I will have nothing to do The principle of indulgence."

Although he can't recognize some uncommon characters, he can grasp the mind of the sage very keenly, knowing that the sage may not be satisfied with the fact that the noble concubine recognizes his brother, because Xue Bai is much, much more handsome than An Lushan.

"Jingzhao Mansion captured Xue Bai. The minister did know about this matter. The facts of the case are clear and the evidence is conclusive. Xiao Jiong's verdict is unquestionable." Li Linfu said: "On the contrary, Xue Bai has repeatedly played tricks and never put the minister on the court at all. In my eyes, it doesn’t matter if the minister is humiliated, the face of the Tang Zaizhi cannot be damaged, and the law and the country’s prestige cannot be damaged.”

"understood."

Li Longji smiled, gave Li Linfu a glass of wine, comforted him, and said with a smile: "This matter is indeed Xue Bai's fault, the right minister should teach him, it's right, the gate is closed now, that's about it."

Li Linfu held the wine glass in both hands, but his expression became serious, and he said: "Your Majesty, the laws of the country must not be abolished just because of people, please submit this case to the third division for a fair judgment based on the facts. The sky can learn from you, and I have absolutely no selfish intentions." !"

　This chapter is divided into more than 5500 words, which caused my Chapter 2 to be a little short, so I will write it for a while and post it later~~
　　
　
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