Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3710
Outside the window, the spring rain is pattering, and the air is cold.

There is a pot of hot tea in the house, and the white air is curling up.

Li Ji was dressed in ordinary clothes like a well-learned literati, holding a teacup and sipping tea shallowly, savoring the sweetness, with a calm and intoxicated expression.

Cheng Yaojin was a little restless, moved his butt from time to time, his eyes kept sweeping Li Ji's face, half filled the pot with tea, finally couldn't help it, leaned his upper body slightly forward, stared at Li Ji, He asked in a low voice: "Why doesn't the commander-in-chief want the peace talks between East Palace and Guan Long to succeed?"

Li Ji lowered his head to drink tea, and after a long time he said slowly, "If I can say it, I will naturally say it, if I can't, don't ask."

Looking up at the pattering spring rain outside the window, and the majestic Tongguan tower not far away, his eyes narrowed slightly, with a teacup in his hand: "It won't be long."

In the past, Cheng Yaojin was definitely dissatisfied with this kind of prevarication. Once or twice is fine, but if there are too many times, he just thinks it is perfunctory, and he will often make a big scene, and then be ruthlessly suppressed by Li Ji .

But this time, Cheng Yaojin rarely made any noise, but drank his tea silently.

Li Ji sat still, and ordered his soldiers to pour out the tea in the pot, put new tea on it, and said slowly: "This time, Dong Neiyuan was attacked, and Fang Jun immediately responded with an eye for an eye, and sent the Guanlong army camp outside the Tonghua Gate How could Changsun Wuji swallow this upside down? Chang'an will usher in a new battle, and Duke Wei's pressure will double."

Cheng Yaojin wondered: "Guan Long started the battle, maybe in Taiji Palace, or maybe outside the city, why is it only Duke Wei who is under pressure?"

Li Ji held the pot himself, poured the tea into the cups in front of them, and said, "At present, even if the armistice contract is revoked and the fighting resumes, the two sides are not planning to fight to the end. After all, they are still working hard to win the initiative on the negotiating table. Right Tunwei conquers the west and conquers the north, and Wushuang in the field. He is the number one powerful army in the world. Changsun Wuji is the most insidious and forbearing. How could he provoke Fang Jun without making up his mind to fight to the death? It can mobilize the powerful army in Guanzhong to enter the growth and besiege the Taiji Palace."

Cheng Yaojin was astonished.

The one guarding the East Palace is Li Jing!
A generation of military gods who used to be invincible and invincible, but now Guan Long regards him as a "soft persimmon" and targets him. Instead, he dare not provoke Fang Jun from Xuanwumen?

The world is really changing, the vicissitudes of life...

Li Ji took a sip of tea and asked, "Has anyone in the army made any trouble recently?"

Cheng Yaojin shook his head and said: "No, some complaints in private are inevitable, but most of them know it well and dare not put it on the table openly."

The former fan Qiu Xiaozhong and others wanted to win over the generals from Guanlong to revolt, but Li Ji suppressed them backhandedly. Not angry, but no one dared to act rashly.

And Li Ji didn't care about convincing people with virtue, he just wanted to suppress with force.As a matter of fact, hundreds of thousands of troops gather under their command, and simply convincing people with virtue is not enough. The different origins and backgrounds of each army mean that the interests and demands are also different. Take care of one thing and lose another.

As long as you are afraid of military discipline and don't dare to violate orders, that's enough.

In terms of running the army, only Li Jing was slightly better than Li Ji at that time, and even His Majesty was not enough.

Cheng Yaojin held the teacup in his hand, his thoughts changed, but his eyes drifted to the north wall of the value room.

Behind that is a large warehouse under the city gate, which was vacated after the army settled in, and the coffin of His Majesty Li Er was parked there.

He bowed his head to drink tea, but suddenly remembered something in his mind.

Starting from Liaodong and returning to Chang'an, the weather was icy and snowy along the way. His Majesty's guards in charge of protecting the coffin would collect ice and put them on the carriage transporting the coffin and in the tent where the coffin was parked.However, when we arrived in Tongguan, the weather was getting warmer, and now it was raining in spring, but no one was collecting ice...

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Li Junxian led his elite "Hundred Riders" to defeat the bandits at Pujindu, and then went all the way north to catch up with Xiao Yu and his party.Everyone didn't know the depth of the thief, and they were afraid of being chased and killed. They didn't dare to cross the river at the Wuwang, Longmen, Mengmen and other ferries near the north.Then turn south along the towering and undulating loess slopes, sneaking into Chang'an.

Fortunately, this area is sparsely populated, the roads are difficult to travel, the mountains and rivers are criss-crossed, and there are forks everywhere, and the bandits have no choice but to block them, but the journey is safe and smooth.

A group of people crossed the Yellow River, went south to Suizhou and Yanzhou, and entered the pass from Jinsuoguan. Cross the Wei River and arrive at the Xuanwu Gate outside Chang'an City.

It took more than a month to travel all the way, the soldiers who were originally strong and powerful were covered with dust and exhausted, and Xiao Yu, who was already old and frail and pampered, was even skinny and exhausted. The body, I am afraid that if I can't go back to Chang'an, I will lose my old life...

Since Xianyang crossed the Weishui River, the group felt that the atmosphere of daggers and swords was more intense than before. When they approached Chang'an, the scouts of Youtunwei shuttled in groups in the mountains, rivers, and villages. People in an area have nothing to hide.

This made Xiao Yu, who was already physically and mentally exhausted, even more uneasy...

Arriving outside the Xuanwu Gate, I saw the whole camp of Youtunwei with banners and banners unfurled, and the army in full swing, with three steps, one post and five steps, one sentry. Come on.

After the soldiers reported, General Gao Kan of Youtunwei came in person to escort Xiao Yu and his party through the barracks to Xuanwumen.

Sitting in the carriage, Xiao Yu raised the curtain, looked at Gao Kan who was riding slowly with Li Junxian, and asked, "General Gao, has the situation in Chang'an changed?"

Only then did the soldiers enter the interior to report. When Gao Kan came out, he only saw Li Junxian. He said that Xiao Yu was unwell and couldn't get out of the carriage, but Gao Kan didn't care.Relying on Xiao Yu's status, it is indeed possible to ignore him as the lieutenant general of the first guard.

But seeing Xiao Yu at this moment, he realized that he was just putting on airs in front of him, this person is really sick and dying...

The well-maintained beard in the past was curly and dirty, his face was covered with age spots, gray and sallow, and his cheeks were sunken. How could he look like a prime minister?
Gao Kan was surprised from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He nodded and said: "Two days ago, the rebels blatantly tore up the armistice contract and attacked the East Inner Garden of Daming Palace, causing heavy losses to our soldiers. Immediately, the commander-in-chief mobilized all his troops to retaliate, and dispatched the Armed cavalry raided the rebel camp outside Tonghua Gate. Changsun Wuji sent envoys to condemn him, confounding right and wrong, and the thief shouted "stop the thief". Then he mobilized the troops of the powerful families around Chang'an to enter Chang'an City, Chen Bing Imperial City, and pointed at the Taiji Palace. A big fight."

"cough cough"

Xiao Yu was so angry that she coughed violently, her face was flushed, and she almost couldn't catch her breath...

It took a long time before he stabilized, panting for a while, put his hand on the car window, and said anxiously: "Even so, we must try our best to win over the two sides, and we must not expand the war, otherwise the previous peace talks will be ruined once, and it will be difficult to start the peace talks again." Ascend to the sky! Why didn't the Zhongshu Ling mediate and mediate?"

Gao Kan said: "Right now, Liu Shizhong is in charge of the peace talks, and Zhongshu Ling has ignored it..."

"what?!"

Xiao Yu was inexplicably surprised and stared angrily.

During his trip to Tongguan, not only failed to complete the task of persuading Li Ji, but leaked his whereabouts for some reason, and was chased and killed by the rebels along the way, narrowly escaped death.I had to take a long detour back to Chang'an. The road was bumpy and difficult, and my old bones almost fell apart. When I returned to Chang'an, I found that the situation had changed suddenly.

Not only have all the previous efforts been in vain, but even the right to lead the peace talks has fallen into the hands of others...

I was shocked and angry in my heart, this old thief Cen Wenwen misled me!

Before leaving, I entrusted all matters to Cen Wenwen, hoping that he can stabilize the situation, continue the peace talks, and firmly hold the peace talks in his hands so as to completely suppress the military led by Fang Jun and Li Jing. Otherwise, once the East Palace wins, the civil service system will be destroyed. will be completely suppressed by the military.

In the end, the old thief actually gave himself a backstab...

Xiao Yu was in so much pain that she couldn't breathe, she patted the car window and said in a loud voice: "Go, go, I want to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

The carriage speeded up and drove to the Xuanwu Gate. The accompanying hundred riders had already stepped forward to report to the defenders. The city gate opened, and the carriage rushed in, heading straight for the inner heavy gate.

(End of this chapter)