Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 136 Anxiety
Changan.

This magnificent city is falling into a strange atmosphere. Some people are panicked, some are eager to try, some are watching with cold eyes, but some people volunteered.

Volunteers...like Li Dewu.

Li Qianyou, the order of Chang'an, has not yet returned to Beijing. Li Dewu, the county lieutenant, presided over the city's inspections, suppression of violence, and supervision of rape.

The Changlin Army was formed by Prince Li Jiancheng after Wei Ting's suggestion. The number was about [-], and they were stationed at the left and right Changlin Gates.

After returning to Chang'an for more than a year, Li Dewu finally became famous, and he can be called the version of Zhi Jinwu in the Tang Dynasty.

If Li Shan, who is still undergoing surgery every day in Guantao City, knew about this scene, he would feel relieved, and maybe he would give Li Dewu a few rounds of applause.

Like today's incident.

On the fifth day of October, Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, was defeated in Bo. On the eighth day of October, the battle report came to Beijing, and the whole city was shaken.

The atmosphere in the court was strange. A courtier once wrote to ask the King of Qin to attack him again, but the sage Li Yuan ignored it... Afterwards, the news gradually spread that the Prince of the East Palace, Li Jiancheng, intended to conquest himself.

No one said anything on the surface, but behind the scenes, as long as the brain is not in the water, it can be seen... Obviously, this has become the focus of the battle between the East Palace and King Qin.

King Qin's military exploits are unrivaled, but it also caused a shock to the court...Last year Liu Heizai made such a fuss, if not for the defeat of all the armies, the saint would never use King Qin again.

This time, following Du Ruhui's strategy, Li Shimin did not ask for the expedition himself, but promised to use others to control Daxingtai on the Shandong Road... It was enough cooperation, but Li Jiancheng did not ask himself to lead the army to crusade against Hebei.

Obviously, this is delaying time until the weather gets colder and the Turks return to the north.

But the problem is that the battle reports of the defeated and lost places came one by one. Jizhou, Xingzhou, Beizhou, Cangzhou, and Dezhou fell one after another. Even Luozhou was lost. The saint was furious. Li Yuan, King of Lujiang County.

Li Dewu didn't want to care about these things. What he wanted to know most now was whether Li Shan was alive or dead.

But Li Dewu couldn't inquire, and he didn't dare to inquire... He could only pray silently in his heart that he must never return to Beijing alive.

Li Dewu couldn't even imagine that if Li Shan returned to Beijing alive, he would be recommended by the crown prince Wei Zheng and his close friend Wei Ting to the East Palace... Well, Li Shan can actually guarantee that this scene will never happen.

Looking at the time, Li Dewu put down his pen, changed his clothes, and left the county office to go to the East Palace. Today, the East Palace discusses matters, and someone sent a letter early in the morning.

Before arriving at the East Palace, Li Dewu stopped in surprise, turned his head to look at the crowded room, "Why gather people?"

Wu Zhong, his follower, went up to look him up, and then whispered something when he came back.

Li Dewu's face became gloomy, and he went to see it in person... The pipa was struck like a thunderbolt, the drums were beating loudly, and more than a dozen big men were dancing and singing loudly.

"Resign from the head of state, and the prime minister will punish the traitors."

"The salty song "Broken Array Music" is for the people of Taiping."

It's the King of Qin's Breaking the Formation... King Qi paused, and the East Palace was still pending. At this moment, someone actually blatantly sang the King of Qin's Breaking the Formation!

Li Dewu didn't even think about it, and immediately sent an order, and soon dozens of Changlin soldiers came to kill him. After a while of chaos, more than a dozen big men were sent to the county government prison.

When Li Dewu entered the East Palace, he unexpectedly discovered that this matter had already been reported to the East Palace. Wei Ting was using a mocking tone to accuse the Qin Palace of only playing such small tricks.

Xu Shimo, Zhao Hongzhi, Li Zhi'an and others all agreed, Wang Gui kept his identity silent, but Wei Zheng shook his head slowly, "It was definitely not written by the King of Qin."

"Brother Xuan Cheng, how did you see it?"

"King Qin should know that it will be difficult for him to go to war." Wei Zheng said slowly: "What's more, King Qin Xudong Palace controls Daxingtai on the Eastern Shaanxi Road. Doing such things again will only make the sage look sideways."

What he said made sense, everyone was silent, Li Jiancheng nodded slightly, he didn't believe that his second brother would do such a stupid thing... This would only make his father more afraid.

Wei Zheng continued: "I'm afraid it has something to do with yesterday's battle report, the Turkic soldiers invaded Beizhou..."

"Xuancheng is right." Wang Gui nodded and said, "Even if Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai are in chaos in Hebei, they dare not offend Beizhou, and they are all from Beizhou... Now that the Turks are in chaos in Beizhou, what happened today is just I'm afraid it has something to do with Qinghe Cui."

This time, everyone nodded their heads. They heard that Turkic soldiers had entered Beizhou... Qinghe Cui's clansmen in Beijing were not terrified. Maybe in a few days, there would be endless news of funerals.

Today's move is likely to be Qinghe Cui's behind the scenes... I hope the imperial court will send troops to help Hebei as soon as possible.

Li Jiancheng had a headache. He had discussed this matter countless times, but the Turkic soldiers hadn't returned to the north yet, so he really didn't have the guts to send troops.

This can't be blamed on Li Jianjun's cowardice, and Li Shimin wouldn't be much better off.

At the beginning of the year, when Luoshui was victorious, Liu Heikai led a hundred cavalry to flee northward. You must know that Luozhou has to go north through Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, and Dingzhou before it can border Turks.

And Cheng Mingzhen led his troops to pursue him, and he had already touched Liu Heita's tail in Dingzhou... But Li Shimin strictly ordered Cheng Mingzhen to withdraw his troops because he was afraid of offending the Turks.

Seeing the prince's questioning gaze, Wang Gui shook his head and said, "We have already sent many Changlin soldiers to Dingzhou and Zhaozhou to investigate, but the Turkic soldiers were still in Beizhou a few days ago, and it is rumored that they may go south to attack Weizhou."

Li Jiancheng sighed and refused to let his second brother go to the battle, so he could only go to the battle himself, the prince of the East Palace, but the Hebei provinces fell, and the pressure was increasing... Even his father was quite displeased.

"When the army goes out to fight, food and grass come first." Wei Zhengjian said: "The Minister of the Household Department of Daxingtai, Eastern Shaanxi Province is concurrently held by the Shangshu Youcheng Han Liang, and the Duzhi Lang Zhong is the Shangshu Zuocheng Yu Zhining concurrently..."

Li Dewu understood as soon as he heard it, but he just sat silently. He was very aware of his own weight. Although he was able to participate in the East Palace discussion, it was mainly because of the two big bosses Pei Ji and Pei Shiju behind him.

Wei Zheng's words are actually easy to understand. Han Liang and Yu Zhining are both engaged in the palace of the Qin Dynasty. The latter is also one of the eighteen bachelors, and both are direct descendants of Li Shimin.

If Li Jiancheng used these two people as an excuse, it would make sense to delay for a while...Father, if the sons and ministers lead the army to attack Hebei, I am afraid that the lack of food and grass will eventually lead to a failure of success!
After roughly half an hour of discussion, Li Jiancheng got up to send everyone off. He never lacks in etiquette in this regard.

"By the way, Dewu has worked so hard, I will inquire about today's matter later."

Li Dewu stepped forward to accept the order, his heart moved, and he said with a smile: "Today the county government's accounts are quite chaotic, and I'm going back to do a detailed calculation later."

Wei Ting said casually: "Then the abacus came from the county government, and it's still unclear?"

"Ashamed, ashamed." Li Dewu cupped his hands and smiled wryly, "I'm not good at arithmetic. The officials and aides who are good at arithmetic in the county government all went south with the army and haven't returned yet."

"Oh, yes, Li Shan hasn't..." Wei Ting turned his head and asked, "Brother Xuan Cheng, Li Shan hasn't returned to Shandong Road yet?"

Li Dewu was a little nervous... He succeeded in insinuating, just wanted to hear this sentence.

Wei Zheng shook his head slightly, "Rong Jiusi, who joined the army in the Qi Wangfu's office, is good friends with Li Shan. He has already replied, but there is no news. I heard that Li Shan left for Jizhou that day."

Li Dewu was overjoyed, Huaiyang King Xiabo was defeated, all [-] Tang troops were wiped out, Li Daoxuan himself did not know whether he was alive or dead, how could you, Li Shan, escape the pursuit of the Turkic cavalry?

Finally feel at ease.

(End of this chapter)