Poor Family 1

  Chapter 758 Decisive disposal

The situation has already begun to develop against Li Yanqing, but Zhao Huan used the method of crowding out Li Yanqing's foundation bit by bit, negating Li Yanqing's defense plan, excluding Li Yanqing from the recruitment of recruits, and at the same time Li Yanqing's allies were transferred away one by one, first Li Gang, then Gao Shen, which made Li Yanqing gradually isolated in the court.

Of course, Zhao Huan will not come forward by himself, but use the hands of Bai Shizhong and Wu Min to achieve all this. On the surface, Zhao Huan still shows that he attaches great importance to Li Yanqing. In the afternoon, Zhao Huan specially received Li Yanqing and encouraged him Continue to strengthen the defense of the capital, and the imperial court will do everything in its power to support the defense of the capital.

   Coming out of the palace, Li Yanqing rode slowly on the street, as if he was still reminiscing about Zhao Huan's reception in his mind. Zhao Huan's excessive enthusiasm made him clearly see the big sign of this enthusiasm: hypocrisy.

Even this kind of hypocrisy reveals a trace of Zhao Huan's fear of himself. Zhao Huan sometimes has to look at his own face to speak, and the majestic emperor actually wants to see his subordinates' faces. Li Yanqing doesn't know whether he should be proud, but He also understood in his heart that his problem was due to his meritorious service. A young, inexperienced newly enthroned emperor, whose throne was far from secure, happened to meet such a powerful and prestigious army commander as himself. It's strange not to be afraid.

After more than ten days of large-scale southward withdrawal in Bianliang, the population in the city has further decreased from more than 900,000 to less than 600,000. Most of the population has concentrated in the inner city, which is the old city of Tokyo. Most of the commercial centers are concentrated here, such as Yujie, Panlou Street, Daxiangguo Temple, Zhouqiao Night Market, and the most important tile shops and so on.

However, due to the small size of the inner city, dense houses, and many shops, it is difficult to build large mansions, so the big mansions of the rich and powerful are basically built in the outer city. It was very deserted, there were basically no pedestrians on the street, there was only one empty house next to another, and only the vicinity of Taixue in the south was a little popular.

   "Dutong, it happens that we don't have enough barracks, and the outer city is empty, can we dismantle and build barracks?" Several soldiers asked with a smile.

  Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "There will be 200,000 new troops entering the city soon, and the outer city will definitely be demolished and built camps on a large scale, but this has nothing to do with us."

  The street was empty, at this moment, three old men were arguing about what to come out of a courtyard, they suddenly saw Li Yanqing, the quarrel disappeared immediately, the three respectfully knelt down and paid respects to Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing didn't go to help them, he was used to this scene, almost as long as the people in the capital saw him, they would respectfully salute him, his status in the capital was already a god-like existence, far surpassing the new emperor Zhao Huan. It was also the root cause of Zhao Heng's fear of him.

  Li Yanqing secretly sighed, he should go in and out by carriage.

   Li Yanqing bowed his fists to several old men, then urged the horses, and led the crowd to speed up towards the direction of the military office.

   Not long after, everyone returned to the military office of the defense envoy. At this time, it was already dusk, and the soldiers all ran to the dining hall to eat, and there were not many people at the entrance of the military office.

Li Yanqing just got off his horse when suddenly a man in black rushed out from behind the stone lion beside him. Several soldiers also reacted at the same time, one of them rushed forward and threw the man in black to the ground, while other soldiers rushed forward and pinned down the man in black.

   "Li Dutong, I'm not an assassin, I came from Jiangning Mansion!" The man in black struggled to lower his voice and shouted.

  He appeared very professional, his voice was very small, but it was just enough for Li Yanqing to hear, but never for passers-by to hear.

  Li Yanqing's heart moved, and he immediately looked around. It was empty and there was no pedestrian.

  Li Yanqing ordered: "Don't hurt him, bring him to see me later!"

   After speaking, Li Yanqing turned around and walked towards the military office. Several soldiers **** the man in black and took him in.

  At this time, a pair of eyes appeared faintly on the roof across the street, staring intently at the man in black who was brought into the military office.

After eating dinner, Li Yanqing asked the little tea boy to order a good pot of fragrant tea, and then sat down in the study. This is Li Yanqing's habit. When his family is not around, he will stay in In the study, apart from reading books, he is planning his own future and that of Da Song. If the official has reached his level, his every move will have an impact on Da Song's future and fate.

   After taking two sips of hot tea, Li Yanqing ordered: "Bring that man in black in!"

  Since he is from Jiangning Mansion, Li Yanqing can certainly guess who the other party is, but he is still a little vigilant, what if someone cheats inside and pretends to be Zhao Ji's emissary? He had to guard against the court's intrigues.

   After a while, the man in black was brought into the study. He didn't have any sharp blades on him, and he was taken care of specially. The soldiers didn't tie him up, but they still sent him into the study under close surveillance.

The man in black, surnamed Xu, is one of Zhao Ji's guards. He looked back at the soldiers behind him, meaning that they can retreat, but Li Yanqing ignored his hint and asked lightly: "Are you Oral orders still contain secret decrees!"

  The guard Xu had no choice but to bow down and said: "The humble position has a secret order."

   Finished speaking. He took off the leather belt around his waist, and Li Yanqing almost laughed out loud. It was actually a clothes belt edict. It has been more than a thousand years, and he still played this song. The expressions of the soldiers behind were not very good. Searched the whole body of the man in black, and even untied his hair, but he didn't find any secrets in his leather belt, which really annoyed and embarrassed several soldiers.

The leather belt is made of two layers of leather, and the edges are sewn tightly with thin threads, so that the inside of the leather belt becomes hollow. Guard Xu found the gap and pulled it violently. The leather belt was torn in two, and the plain white silk scroll hidden inside was exposed. The guard Xu took out the silk scroll and handed it to the soldiers. They are all Lianjiazi, who understand the truth that everything is a weapon.

  The soldiers presented the silk scroll to Li Yanqing. When Li Yanqing opened the silk scroll, he saw the big red seal at a glance. It was Zhao Ji's private seal. Li Yanqing had seen it before.

As soon as the seal came out, Li Yanqing knew that this was Zhao Ji's handwritten letter to himself, and his unique thin gold body, Li Yanqing also wrote it very well, but it was still worse than the original creator Zhao Ji. A lot, that kind of heat is far from enough.

  The content of the letter is not much, only a few sentences, which is actually a promise. If he is willing to support his restoration, he promises to recruit himself as a son-in-law and make him the county king.

  This is interesting, he already has a regular wife, and he is also a powerful Cao family, Zhao Ji dare not offend anyway, does Zhao Ji want his daughter to be his concubine? Li Yanqing thinks it is unlikely, but offending the Cao family at this time is tantamount to offending the entire meritorious family, unless Zhao Ji's head is caught in the door, of course it is not very possible to make an empty promise for himself.

  There is only one explanation, Zhao Ji will give herself a daughter from a concubine. After all, she has more than thirty daughters, but even a concubine is an emperor concubine! In order to reset, Zhao Ji wronged his daughter in this way.

   "Any other instructions?" Li Yanqing asked.

   "There is nothing else, and I want to take Li Dutong's reply back."

  Li Yanqing thought for a while and smiled: "Go and tell the Supreme Emperor, just tell me the conditions offered by the old man, I am very interested."

   "I'll go back overnight tonight!"

   Guard Xu was very excited, he hesitated, "Do you want Li Dutong to write a letter, or give me some token."

Of course, Li Yanqing would not write a letter to leave any clues. He just stated that he could consider it, and did not really promise anything. He took out a golden arrow from the box beside him. This was after he won the first place in the horse bow competition that year. A golden arrow awarded to him by Zhao Ji is equivalent to a trophy for later generations, and the words "leader of the bow and horse competition" are engraved on it.

  Li Yanqing handed the arrow to Xu Shiwei, "This arrow was given to me by the Supreme Emperor back then, he can recognize it."

   "Thank you, Dutong!" Guard Xu took the arrow and bowed in salute.

  At this time, a soldier walked in quickly and said in a low voice: "Dutong, we found someone monitoring the military office!"

   Li Yanqing was stunned, his military office could not be monitored by arrows, he immediately asked: "How many people are there?"

   "Three people have been found so far."

  Li Yanqing pondered for a while, then asked Xu Shiwei, "Who else did you go to find when you went north this time?"

   "I also went to find King Kang and His Royal Highness King Yun!"

   Li Yanqing immediately understood that it must be Zhao Huan who sent people to monitor Kang Wang Zhao Gou and Yun Wang Zhao Kai. As a result, this guard Xu was discovered and followed all the time.

  Li Yanqing took a few steps with his hands behind his back, and made a decisive decision. He gave the guard a wink, and the guard pierced Xu Shiwei's vest fiercely from behind.

  Li Yanqing took back the golden arrow from Xu Shiwei's hand, and said to Xu Shiwei who was still alive: "I will send someone to give it to the Supreme Emperor, and I will double the compensation for your family. You can go at ease!"

   Guard Xu moved his lips, tilted his head, and died.

  Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Carry his body out of the city and throw it away. I deliberately made it a little bit more secret, and someone will follow you."

  (end of this chapter)