Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 2956 The Thief's Trace
Princess Changle glared at Fang Jun, thinking that it's already this time, are you still in the mood to eat?

However, his eyes touched Fang Jun's gentle smile, and his heart trembled suddenly. It seemed that all the tension and fear were instantly relaxed, and the tense heartstrings were relieved even more.No matter how big the matter is, this person knows how to deal with it properly...

Then he glanced at Fang Jun indistinctly, turned back and said to the maid: "Did you hear that? Hurry up and give Duke Yue a supper, so as not to turn around and say that you don't know how to serve people."

The maid lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, she was amused in her heart, does her dignified and rigorous Highness sometimes tease others like this?
He hurriedly responded, turned around and left in a hurry.

Fang Jun said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, why are you throwing dirty water at people like this? I am used to being a virtuous corporal and a glorious man. When you say that, my image is completely ruined."

Princess Changle was a little funny, she gave him a sideways look, and raised the corners of her lips: "When the government and the public say you are a stick, why don't you ever care about your image?"

After all, he ignored Fang Jun and said softly to Gao Kan: "It's rainy and cold in the night, the general also goes to clean his hands, let's have dinner together."

How dare Gao Kan stay?Looking at the star-studded look of his own commander-in-chief, he knew that he wanted to kick all irrelevant people away at this moment. If he stayed and was an eyesore... the consequences would be disastrous.

Hastily said: "The general dare not! Your Highness and the commander-in-chief can just have a meal, and the general will guard the door outside, waiting for the news from outside to come back, and then come in to report!"

After finishing speaking, he saluted Princess Changle, then turned around and went out the door, picked up the bamboo hat and put it on his head, straightened his waist, held the waist knife in his hand, and stood on the side of the door like a door god, not looking sideways.

Princess Changle naturally knew Gao Kan's thoughts of avoiding suspicion, she was a little shy, she glanced at Fang Jun, and complained: "I have always been pure and self-sufficient, but now I seem to have ghosts in my heart and can't see others, I am really annoyed."

Fang Jun chuckled: "Your Highness, don't worry about it. This guy is a rough man. He was afraid of showing his timidity in front of His Highness, so he went out and stayed at ease. Besides, the discipline in the army is strict, and they are still performing military duties at the moment. How dare you disregard the military law and eat privately? Your Highness don't care about it."

Princess Changle was noncommittal, walked to the coffee table, saw the scroll on the table, said "huh", picked it up and looked at it, then looked at Fang Jun in amazement, and asked, "Do you understand?"

Fang Jun didn't put on any pretense, and said honestly: "Although I am a humble minister with unparalleled literary talents, I am not familiar with Taoist theory. I can see it, but I really don't understand it."

Princess Changle gave him a coquettish look, ignored his nonsense, pursed her lips and said: "You are honest, but fortunately you said you don't understand, otherwise I will ask you a few questions in the book at random, if you answer If you don’t come up, you will be ashamed.”

This book can be regarded as the essence of Taoism.The author, Yan Junping, was a famous Taoist official in the late Western Han Dynasty. He loved Huang Lao and stayed out of office all his life.His real name is Zhuang Zun, and his courtesy name is Junping. In order to avoid the taboo of the name Liu Zhuang, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, he called himself Yan Junping.

After the mid-Han Dynasty, it was a period of transformation for Taoism.Taoism, which has lost its dominant position in the ideological field, is no longer used by rulers as a ruling technique, and if it is replaced by Confucianism, its existence and development can only take two main forms, one is as academic thought, the other is The second is as the way of immortality.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the main form of research on Taoism has also changed from writing books to commenting on "Lao Zi", and it is difficult to make a breakthrough.

Yan Junping's "Laozi Zhigui" is considered to be the best of this kind of commentary, and it is quite insightful, but his cultivation is too profound, the Chinese words in the book are ancient, and the sentence patterns are parallel, which is very obscure and difficult to understand.If the readers themselves are not proficient in Taoist mysteries, it is naturally difficult to understand this book.

However, from this, Princess Changle discovered another advantage of Fang Jun, that is, even though this man is famous all over the world, he never pretends to understand, he is very straightforward, and has a sense of candor.

Unexpectedly, Fang Jun answered, "Your Highness praised my minister's 'sincerity', so I also think that my minister is graceful and unparalleled in literary talent? Haha, Your Highness has good eyesight!"

Princess Changle: "..."

Well, what kind of openness and magnanimity, but I have lost my mind, I never had...

Putting the scroll on the table, she knelt down, raised her eyes to look at Fang Jun, and asked worriedly: "The thief has never been caught, so if he retreats this time, he must be vigilant, and if he strikes again next time, he will be even more fierce and vicious. You still have to be more careful and don’t be careless.”

Fang Jun also sat down, the two faced each other, their voices could be heard, they looked at each other calmly, and said warmly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your concern, but there is no need to worry. Although the thieves escaped on alert this time, they did not kill their main force to deter them, but Since the thieves left a loophole, it is naturally impossible to find them without a trace. All you need to do is to find the thieves' lair and know their identity, and that would be a big trouble. His Majesty will go on a personal conquest tomorrow, but it happened before he left Beijing For such a big event, no matter how much the overall situation is concerned, it will inevitably be furious, how can we not beat those thieves hard, so as to make an example of others?"

From His Majesty Li Er's point of view, those people made such a big move tonight when he went out to fight tomorrow, they simply didn't take him seriously as an emperor.

Even, if he is an emperor who is good at suspicion, he will think about whether those people don't want to watch him personally conquer and make great achievements...

After all, the night before the emperor's expedition, the important officials of the court were killed in the capital, how dare you let the emperor leave the capital and lead the troops to Liaodong?

That is to say, His Majesty Li Er always cherishes his feathers and cherishes his reputation very much. If it were Emperor Yang of Sui, the whole of Chang'an would be bloody tonight.

While the two were talking, the maid had already brought the prepared meals, just a few simple side dishes, porridge and steamed buns, so the speed was very fast.

The two began to eat.

As a result, Fang Jun just drank a bowl of porridge and ate two small steamed buns when he heard Gao Kan from outside saying in a deep voice: "Marshal, the scouts are back."

Fang Jun put down the bowl and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with the handkerchief, and said to Princess Changle: "His Royal Highness, enjoy it slowly, I will come as soon as I go."

He didn't want to disturb Princess Changle, who knew who appointed these people?If it is an important minister in the court, Princess Changle will be worried again.

Unexpectedly, Princess Changle quickly put down the bowls and chopsticks, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and said in a clear voice: "I have finished eating, let them come in and talk, I want to hear it too."

Fang Jun saw that there was still half a bowl of porridge in the rice bowl, and looked at Princess Changle's pretty face, he could only say nothing.

"Come in and talk!"

"Here!"

After receiving the order, Gao Kan entered, followed by a drenched soldier.

Fang Jun took a look and said, "Speak."

"Here!"

The soldier responded, took a breath, calmed down his irritable breathing, and then said: "I was ordered by General Gao to track down the whereabouts of the thief, and finally found the trace of the thief in the valley near Ziwu Road. "

Fang Jun frowned: "Ziwu Road?"

The soldier said, "Exactly."

"How many thieves are there?"

"No less than three hundred people."

Fang Jun frowned puzzled.

Ziwu Road is an important passage from Chang'an, the capital city, to Hanzhong, Bashu and other places in the south.It is named after passing through Ziwu Valley, one of the "72 Valleys of Qinling Mountains" at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and the direction of the road from Chang'an to the south is north-south. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, it has only been important.

However, there is another name for Ziwu Road, "Ziwu Plank Road". As the name suggests, this road is an ancient plank road built on cliffs for a long time. It is narrow and dangerous. But it has never been suitable for many people to pass, especially in rainy days like this.

If you are not careful, you will stumble and fall into the deep valley, and your body will be smashed to pieces.

Fang Jun asked again: "Can you confirm the identity of the thief?"

The soldier said: "Subordinates dare not get too close, so they can't see the appearance and attire of the culprit clearly. But from a distance, the culprit advances and retreats with a certain degree of control, and is anxious and not chaotic. He must be a well-trained soldier who enforces orders and prohibits."

You Tunwei followed Fang Jun and defeated Xue Yantuo in northern Xinjiang. He also fought fierce battles and battles. The scouts in the army were all tempered by the flames of war. They are highly skilled and experienced. Then there is no doubt.

Since it is a brigade of soldiers, and they are passing through the extremely dangerous Meridian Road in the dark, there is only one answer: the bandits are stationed in the north of Zhongnan Mountain, and they have to go back to the station as soon as possible through the Meridian Road, otherwise they will be killed after dawn. If people find out, disaster will come.

But Zhongnan Mountain stretches endlessly, with vertical and horizontal mountains, but there are not many passes for people to walk in. If you don't take the Meridian Road, you have to go around in a big circle, and you may not be able to return to the station for ten and a half months.

The most important point is that to the north of Zhongnan Mountain is Chang'an City.

As His Majesty Li Er is about to march eastward, the army mobilized to Guanzhong and stationed in Chang'an City now has more than a dozen troops...

(End of this chapter)