Late Tang

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In Chengdu, in the Palace of Mental Cultivation, Li Xuan, Yang Fugong and his ministers sat opposite each other, they were silent.

Li Xuan frowned, with a strong indignation still on his face.Yang Fugong bowed his head, glanced at Li Xuan from the corner of his eyes from time to time, with disappointment in his eyes.

While they were silent, they suddenly heard a noise outside the hall, with heavy footsteps in the middle, and they knew it was Tian Lingzi who had come.

Sure enough, it was Tian Lingzi who came. He looked very energetic in his attire today. As a eunuch, he was wearing a boa robe, a pair of buckskin boots with knee-high heels, and a crown of beams on his head. The beam was made of gold and inlaid with beautiful jade. Incomparably, he waved and walked as if no one was around.

Just as he was about to enter the hall, he saw Yang Shouli, the new envoy of the Tianwei Army, standing in front of the hall, standing outside the door, holding the horizontal knife in his waist.Tian Lingzi snorted coldly, but this Yang Shouli was Yang Fugong's adopted son.The Yang brothers have recently won the emperor Pang Xin, Yang Fuguang is outside the world to supervise the army, and Yang Fugong is beside the emperor as the lieutenant of the left army of Shence.Relying on the favor of the emperor, Yang Fugong accepted his adoptive sons and placed them in various parts of the palace in Chengdu.Now, even the palace emperor's imperial court has been inserted in.

He stopped and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Yang Shouli smiled all over his face, stepped forward to salute, and said in a low voice, "I pay my respects to the Duke of Jin."

When Tian Lingzi heard this honorific title, he felt even more dissatisfied.At the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, he was granted the title of Jin Guogong, which really made him happy for a long time.But now, that barbarian from Shatuo suddenly named King Jin, what's going on?My father, the son of the emperor, is the Duke of Jin. Li Ke used that one-eyed wolf, but he was called the emperor's brother by the emperor, and he was also named the king of Jin?Where do you put yourself?This matter became a taboo of Tian Lingzi, but Yang Shouli still called it like this in person, obviously deliberately mocking it.Thinking that even the two brothers Yang Fugong and Yang Fuguang had already been named county kings, but he was still the Duke of the state, he became more and more angry.

He squinted his eyes slightly, and the loud voice could be heard by everyone in the hall, "What are you doing here?"

Yang Shouli straightened his body, and said: "The humble job is here to protect the emperor!"

Tian Lingzi was about to make trouble, but Li Xuan in the hall asked loudly, "Who is making noise outside the hall?"

Tian Lingzi shook his robe sleeves with both hands, snorted coldly, and said as he stepped into the hall: "The old minister has an audience with His Majesty!" He nodded his head slightly, and before Li Yan could speak, he straightened up, "I am old, Rong Chen Stand by and wait!"

Li Xuan was dissatisfied for a while, but he smiled and said: "Of course, come and give my father a seat." He said, "Father is here, what's the matter? I have done what my father said , Three edicts have been issued a few days ago, presumably when Li Jing got married yesterday, he had already received my edict."

Tian Lingzi raised his head slightly, raised his hand and said, "I have known for a long time that your Majesty will take responsibility for the great Tang society. Today, I am here to ask for something. Chen Jingxuan, envoy of Xichuan Jiedu in Jiannan, Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedu Envoy Yang Shili, Shannan Xidao Jiedu Envoy Niu Xu, as the country's frontier official, the imperial court's screen vassal commander, have made great achievements, and according to the imperial court system, they can all be crowned kings. Veteran, please issue an edict!"

These words were loud and sharp, full of air, but Li Xuan and Yang Fugong in the hall looked at each other in blank dismay.

Li Xuan couldn't help changing his face, took a breath, and thought to himself: "Although Tian Lingzi is domineering in ordinary times, he is not as aggressive as he is today. He must be angry with me because he sees that I favor and trust the Yang brothers." Looking at the guards left and right, except for Yang Shouli and Yang Shouxin, who are somewhat reliable sons of Yang Fugong, they are all from Tian Lingzi.Thinking of the entire palace being in Tian Lingzi's hands, I couldn't help but shudder.

Li Yan suppressed the panic in his heart, calmed down, and said: "The three Marshals Chen Jingxuan, Yang Shili, and Niu Xu were originally generals of Shence, and they only served as Marshals of Sanchuan Festival for three or four years. In terms of qualifications, their prestige is not high. Not long ago, I just decreed to confer three people as Dukes of the county. Now that I suddenly conferred the title of king, I am afraid that the other commanders in the feudal towns will not be convinced. However, the three commanders are indeed loyal and diligent. I think it is better to give the three commanders the rank of martial What do you think of the second-rank Fuguo General, the addition of the Zhuguo title, and the other, and each of them will be the sixth-rank imperial guard?"

Seeing the emperor took a step back, Tian Lingzi hesitated in his heart when he said something logical.

He bowed his head and thought about it and replied: "Your Majesty, in recent years, starting from Li Jing, has been crowned king countless times. Not only Li Jing, Gao Pian, Zhou Bao and others have been crowned kings. Even Li Keyong, Han Jian, Wang Jingchong and others have been crowned kings. And not long ago, Li Quanzhong, Yang Fugong, and Yang Fuguang were crowned kings. Why did His Majesty refuse to crown Sanchuan Jieshuai, who loyally guarded the holy driver? Could it be that His Majesty really prefers to be with foreign enemies rather than with his family?"

Li Xuan has already heard something, the last sentence is the key point.He made brother Yang Fugong the county king, but not Tian Lingzi, the old slave was dissatisfied.Yang Fugong, who was silent on the side, couldn't help but sneered and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Tian, ​​don't Li Quanzhong and Li Ke use my brothers from the Yang family to belong to me? Since you keep talking about your achievements, why do you keep avoiding fighting? Previously, Cui Anqian, etc. Recruiting soldiers to fight rebellion, why do you want to seize their soldiers and horses, and spend countless food and money, and you have formed a new army of [-], but why have you only sent Wang Chucun [-] soldiers and horses to Guanzhong so far?"

As soon as his words fell, Li Yan immediately asked sharply: "If you had sent more troops into the pass to fight last time, perhaps Chang'an would have already been recovered."

The emperor and his ministers discussed with each other, for this sake.

Tian Lingzi should have kowtowed to plead guilty.

But now the situation, he has long been clear.On the bright side, there is Huang Chao, the rebel who still occupies the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, and the thief is not small.In secret, Li Jing's wings were flying, and he began to have the idea and ability to establish another court.While the other feudal towns respect Tang on the surface, they are actually separated from each other.Li Xuan, the emperor, if he didn't have the three rivers he managed, and he didn't even have food and clothing, how much prestige would he have?The current imperial court has almost no binding force on Zhuzhen.The Son of Heaven has long since become a clay puppet. Although he is high on the stage, he is only a clay puppet.

Therefore, without fear, he raised his head arrogantly, and replied: "Maybe, maybe the old minister stayed with His Majesty last time, and Chang'an will not be lost. Maybe, the old minister sent more troops into the pass last time, and Chang'an has already recovered." But that's all possible. Maybe it's still possible. When I stayed in Chang'an, maybe the old minister and His Majesty became Huang Chao's prisoners. Maybe, last time the old minister sent more soldiers and horses to enter the pass, and there was no one guarding the Majesty's side. Will be taken advantage of by Xiaoxiao. The old minister advised His Majesty to leave Chang'an and did not send more troops to fight in Guanzhong. What is the reason for all this? It is not for His Majesty's safety. How can you allow the slightest mistake? Luoyang Chang'an lost Yes, you can fight back in the future. Failure in one or two battles is a common thing in military affairs. But if your majesty makes a slight mistake, you will regret it at that time. Your majesty must not trust Yang Fugong and other villains to deceive the public and slander them. Yu Chen."

After all, this is nonsense.

Li Xuan knew that Tian Lingzi controlled Sanchuan and controlled the troops.Whatever you say, it's useless in the end.Fearing that further disputes would result in more incidents, he said: "There is no need to bring up those old things, I think it's better to make the third commander-in-chief the Duke of the country, how about it?"

At this time, Tian Lingzi saw that the emperor was still unwilling to propose to make him king, and he was very angry.When he named Sanchuan Jieshuai as king, he actually implied that Li Xuan wanted to make him king.Now seeing that the Son of Heaven is deliberately pretending to be stupid, and he doesn't care about the courtesy of the emperor and his ministers, he raised his arms and raised his eyebrows in the hall and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, do you think this is buying vegetables in the vegetable market? Are you still bargaining? If you have merit, you will be rewarded. How to convince the public? Since even Li Quanzhong and Li Keyong can be crowned king, why can’t Sanchuan Jieshuai be crowned king? Since His Majesty let Yang Fugong and Yang Fuguang be crowned king, then the old minister dares to ask, why can’t the old minister be crowned king? Could it be that the old minister does not have them Loyalty, not as meritorious as theirs? Today, a certain is not an official title, but just a word of reason. If your majesty can't distinguish between rewards and punishments, but just follow his heart and listen to the villain, then the old minister will have to stand up and fight!"

Li Yan's face turned pale, and he sat on the dragon chair in silence.

Yang Fugong and Tian Lingzi glanced at each other, their gazes were like knives and swords, as if sparks could burst out at any time.

After a moment of stalemate, Li Xuan saw that Tian Lingzi had finally torn his face and told the truth, knowing that if he continued to confront him, he might not be able to turn things around.

Sui said, "Father calm down for the time being. In fact, I have already prepared to tell you that I am determined to make my father king."

Tian Lingzi snorted coldly in his heart, this Li Xuan is really guilty, if he doesn't put some pressure on him, he still doesn't know who is in control of the situation.He knew that the so-called long-awaited plan to crown him king was nothing more than a step.He didn't say anything, anyway, as long as the goal is achieved.

Immediately eased his face.

"Since this matter is mentioned today, I will immediately draw up an edict and promulgate my father as King of Shu immediately. In addition, Chen Jingxuan will be named King of Linqiong County, Yang Shili will be named King of Xincheng County, and Niu Xu will be named King of Xingyuan County .In addition, Sanchuan civil and military officials are all promoted to a rank, and the soldiers of the three towns are all promoted to a rank.

Tian Lingzi laughed twice, as happy as an old hen that just laid eggs.He walked up to Yang Fugong, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "You are the king of the county, so is the king, the king of Yang County!" Hearing this, Yang Fugong stared at Tian Lingzi coldly. Before the new emperor came to the throne, He is already an envoy of the Privy Council, but Tian Lingzi is just a small horse farm envoy. When Tian Lingzi sees him, he has to bow down.But now, the old eunuch crawled to shit on his head again and again, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Yang Fugong finally withdrew his glaring gaze, which, in Tian Lingzi's view, was an expression of his admitting defeat.He was very satisfied in his heart, turned around and bowed to Li Xuan, and said, "Your Majesty, since King Yang Jun has no objection, please ask the emperor to draw up an imperial edict and seal it!"

Li Xuan tightened his lips, held his head up, and remained silent, his two hands tightly gripping the chair trembling slightly.

Seeing that Li Xuan didn't answer, Tian Lingzi smiled slightly and said, "Oh, the old minister is confused. The drafting of the imperial edict has to be drafted by the Hanlin Chengzhao Bachelor, but it doesn't need to be so troublesome. Just let the minister do it for me." After finishing speaking, Unexpectedly, he strode close to Yuji, picked up the imperial pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and hung his wrist to write quickly.He read aloud: Fengtian Lingzi is the imperial edict of the king of Shu, under the sect: the choice of fate is hard to be benevolent.The non-husband's text can be passed by the state.Violence can be restrained by military force, but success cannot be achieved by defeating the enemy.Yun Ji Hongcai, Yuan Shen Ximing.Privy Envoy, Lieutenant of Shence Army, Rong Envoy of Tenth Army and Twelve Guards Guanjun, Shizhong, Duke Lingzi of Jin State, Heyue leisurely, and Yanlang Chongbao.Appreciation is deep and knowledgeable, wide and strategic; technique should be general, and use it without stagnation.He will put an end to the outer turmoil, clarify the counties, honor the vassal screen, honor the merits of the community, and put his life on the line, so as to end up with an eternal reputation.It can be named the king of Fenyang County.Still serving as the envoy of the Tenth Army and the Twelve Guards, as before. "

He clapped the silk book together with both hands, and shouted outside the hall: "Come here!"

Several imperial guards entered the hall in response, Tian Lingzi put the edict in front of Li Xuan and said, "Please use the treasure, Your Majesty!"

Although Li Yan was furious in his heart, but looking at Tian Lingzi who was like a wolf, and the guards who were like wolves and tigers, he finally had to call the guards and ask them to call the person in charge of the jade seal, take out the jade seal and put it there in front of Tian Lingzi A "rescript" is stamped on it.

Tian Lingzi took the edict, read it several times with satisfaction, and blew on the wet seal, and handed it to the guard behind him: "Take it and pay the three provinces, let them pass it according to the edict, and then announce it to the world." Turning around and smiling at Li Xuan: "Forgive me for being rude, this old minister has such a quick temper and can't wait for everything."

Li Xuan waited for him to finish speaking, stood up, glanced at Tian Lingzi, and said slowly: "I'm a little tired today, let's go!" After finishing speaking, he walked away!

Yang Fugong was dumbfounded by Tian Lingzi's domineering behavior as if he had had a nightmare.

But Tian Lingzi was like a normal person, smiling all over his face, pinching his smooth and beardless chin and laughing.Now that the emperor has begun to alienate him, there is no need to repeat the hypocrisy of the past.

Toasting does not eat fine wine, all of this is what he asks for.

Even Li Jing can be the king of Qin at ease, why can't Tian Lingzi be the king of Shu?

Even if the current situation is rotten, as long as he controls Sanchuan, he will be quite prosperous as the King of Shu.Sometimes he even thought, let the world be in such a mess, so that the emperor will hear about it obediently.As for Li Tang Tianxia and the court, he doesn't care at all.

Li Xuan, who returned to the imperial study, opened a bottle of red wine and poured it into his mouth. He drank most of the bottle in one go, and then slammed the bottle against the wall, smashing it to pieces.He roared loudly: "The annihilated minister Li Jing, the villainous slave Tian Lingzi, the traitor Huang Chao..."

He turned around and shouted to the outside: "Lieutenant Yang, please come."

Yang Fugong came soon, kowtowed and said: "The Lord is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the Lord has humiliated the minister to death. The minister is ashamed of his majesty, and let his majesty be bullied by the field thieves."

With tears on Li Xuan's face, he said bitterly: "What happened to the Zhu Wen matter you mentioned last time?"

"Zhu Wen is still hesitant, he wants a lot." Yang Fugong replied.

"Don't you just want an official title? I will give it to him. You immediately draft an edict and send it to Zhu Wen. I will immediately make Zhu Wen King of Liang, Grand Tutor, General Hushi, and General Zuo Jinwuwei. Deputy Marshal of the Henan Camp, Xuanwu Jiedu envoy, in addition, I specially bestowed the name Quanzhong on him, um, choose another clan princess and give it to Zhu Quanzhong."

"Your Majesty, I have a suitable candidate, Princess Donghai, the daughter of King Zhao, who has never been married so far, and can be promised to Zhu Quanzhong."

Li Yan frowned: "It is true that Princess Donghai is not married, but she is 26 years old, and she has actually been with Li Jing for a long time. I heard that she is still pregnant with Li Jing's child. Is this appropriate?"

Yang Fugong chuckled, "That's the way, it's the most suitable."

It is really wonderful to promise Li Jing's woman to Zhu Quanzhong.

A knowing smile appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, "Okay, let's draw up an order!" (To be continued.)