Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 618 Release from Prison
"Entering the palace with a sword? Save Wang Wenzuo? Is there such a thing?" King Luo Bin was already dumbfounded: "Is this true?"

"It's true, do you understand the relationship between the crown prince and Wang Wenzuo now?" Li Jingye sneered: "So you know why I value this man so much, right? You all think that the emperor is seriously ill, the crown prince is benevolent, and the empress is fine." Do whatever you want, but forget that there are people around the prince! So this time the queen asked Wang Wenzuo to return to Chang'an, but she shot herself in the foot!"

"That's right!" Luo Binwang smiled and said, "Brother Li still has this trick behind him, but I really can't do it!"

"When Li got acquainted with this person, he was just a slightly outstanding general, how could he have thought that he would be here today?" Li Jingye said with a smile: "This is a gift from heaven, not a human affair, so why should Brother Luo belittle himself? "

"That's right!" King Luo Bin sighed, "At first Wang Wenzuo was transferred from Liaodong, and then he left Chengdu to come to Chang'an. Patience, but I didn't expect that he could let the prince do so much for him, and create such a situation in Chang'an!"

"Looking at it now, there is a reason for what happened today!" Li Jingye said with a smile.

"Oh? Why do you say that?" King Luo Bin asked.

"Since the fifth year of Xianqing (660), the emperor has often suffered from headaches and dizziness. In severe cases, he can't even see things and deal with state affairs. So the queen intervened in government affairs. After a long time, she became accustomed to it. The two saints are called together. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was born in Yonghui three years ago, so he is already nineteen years old. At the nineteenth time, the first emperor had already recruited heroes and plotted big things. In the past two years, his health has been deteriorating, and he has to worry about his death. More planning and planning!"

"The daughter-in-law is the palm of the hand, the son is the back of the hand, the palm and the back of the hand are all flesh?" King Luo Bin laughed.

"What you said is wrong!" Li Jingye said with a smile: "Although a daughter-in-law is close, she still can't kiss her son, especially the eldest son, who is now in Yingrui, how can he not even understand this truth?"

"That's right!" Luo Binwang smiled and said, "In the final analysis, Wu Minzhi died as soon as Wang Wenzuo returned to Chang'an City. Empress Wu seemed to have lost her arm. This has done a great service to the crown prince, and the crown prince naturally wants to protect him!"

For Li Jingye and King Luo Bin, although they didn't know the truth of what happened that night, with years of experience in political struggle, they also came up with an answer that was closer to the truth in a sense: as Li Zhi's illness progressed, Li Zhi began to gradually consider handing over part of the power to the prince and let him act as an agent of state affairs. This weakened the power of Empress Wu and hurt the interests of the political group under Empress Wu.Although from a personal point of view, Li Hong and Empress Wu have a direct mother-child relationship, which can be regarded as a loving mother and filial piety, but since the two have entered the political stage, they are no longer just a simple mother-child relationship. people.Empress Wu changed her nephew's surname to Wu, edited books in the Hongwen Library, accumulated prestige, and became her agent in foreign courts. For Li Hong, recruiting Wang Wenzuo, a border general with rich military experience, into the court, commanding the ten commanders of the Eastern Palace It is also a matter of course to rectify the Guanzhong government soldiers and kill the queen mother's agent in the outer dynasty.

"Brother Li!" King Luo Bin smiled and said, "In your opinion, are we on the side of the prince or the queen?"

"What is the crown prince or the queen?" Li Jingye smiled and said, "Can't we stand on our side?"

"Stand on your side?" Luo Binwang's face changed slightly: "Brother Li, what does this mean?"

"Brother Luo, haven't you seen it clearly?" Li Jingye sneered and said, "Whether the queen or the prince wins, it's not up to us to take advantage of it. Have you ever thought about why Wang Wenzuo was able to rise to the top? The queen I also value him, and the prince also values ​​him? Is it just because of his ability?"

"Is Jin Renwen recommending for him?"

"Then Jin Ren asked himself? Isn't he also a foreign hostage? I am the eldest grandson of the Duke of England, and I have been watched by the emperor since I was a child. Why am I not as good as him?" Li Jingye sighed: "In the final analysis, it is Wang Wenzuo. It doesn’t matter if you ask, they are all outsiders with no roots. If you want to use it, you can use it, and if you don’t want to use it, you can dismiss it, and there will be no trouble. But people like me, they will not reuse it! Brother Luo, you don’t understand this principle understandable!"

Faced with Li Jingye's complaints, Luo Binwang did not have much sense of approval. Although he was also from a noble family, his father died early and he was a southerner. Although he was famous for his literary talent when he was young, his official career was bumpy. Not being able to become the general of the Sixteenth Guards, not being able to master the Hongwen Museum, being a regular servant of the Sanqi, and the chief officer of the marching is all wronged. King Luo Bin naturally couldn't understand the bitterness of it.Li Jingye also seemed to realize that what he said was inappropriate, so he smiled and said: "Actually, it's nothing, the empress and the crown prince are fighting, there must be an opportunity to take advantage of, we just need to wait and see what happens!"

"What Brother Li said is true!" King Luo Bin nodded, "This is the best policy!"

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Guangde Square, Jingzhao Mansion Prison.

"Okay, Mr. Lu, you are fine, go out!"

Hearing the jailer's voice, Lu Zhaolin felt as if he was hearing fairy music. He stepped over the threshold of the prison door, but his foot tripped and he almost fell to the ground.

"Mr. Lu, do you still remember me?" A burly young man in front of the door greeted him, and stretched out his hand to support Lu Zhaolin.Lu Zhaolin looked familiar, but couldn't remember it for a while, he hesitated, and the young man was not annoyed when he saw it, and said with a smile: "That day, Mr. Lu forgot about the incident of an arrow piercing through the rabbit eagle outside the city of Chengdu that day?"

"Oh, oh! You, you are that one, Akton!" After being reminded by the other party, Lu Zhaolin immediately remembered that he had just been released from prison, and even an old friend who met him once was very kind: " Why are you waiting for me here?"

"Of course it's the Lord's order!" Acton laughed and said, "The Lord told me that Mr. Lu was released from prison today, so he asked me to wait here to cleanse Mr. Lu!"

Lu Zhaolin is also a smart person. He immediately knew that he must have something to do with Wang Wenzuo that he was able to come out smoothly. Where is the general now?"

"Your Majesty is serving the crown prince in the East Palace, and I can't get away for a while!" Acton asked Lu Zhaolin to get on the horse, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu, please take a bath and rest first, just wait patiently!"

"East Palace? Crown Prince?" Lu Zhaolin was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "May I ask, what is General Wang's current position?"

"The lord Shangguan lives in the right guard rate of the Eastern Palace. In fact, all the ten officers of the Eastern Palace are under his jurisdiction!" Acton said proudly.

"The ten ranks of the Eastern Palace are all under his jurisdiction?" Lu Zhaolin gasped. He had heard from Acton that Wang Wenzuo served the prince in the Eastern Palace. He couldn't get away for a while and thought that the other party was putting money on his master's face. , but if it is true that the ten ranks of the Eastern Palace are under the jurisdiction of Wang Wenzuo, then I'm afraid it's not that he can't get away for a while, but that he eats, drinks and sleeps next to the prince, and he has to ask the prince for leave every time he goes home.

"Damn, this is not serving the prince. It's clearly the prince's right hand, the one holding the sword. After ascending the throne, he directly leads the Beiya imperial army! I've tried my best to think about it, but now it seems that I still think about it." It's too low!" Lu Zhaolin thought to himself, but said in his mouth, "It's okay, as the next scholar, how dare you bother General Wang to take care of you, all you need is a letter of invitation, and Lu will do like a dog!"

When he arrived at the assigned residence, Lu Zhaolin took a hot bath, combed his hair, and wiped away the fleas and bad luck brought by the prison. When he woke up again, he felt that his whole body had been renewed, as if he had become the self in his early twenties who left Fan Yang to study abroad.

Wang Wenzuo's arrival came much earlier than Lu Zhaolin expected. On the second night after he was released from prison, Wang Wenzuo suddenly appeared. Compared with the first time, this time Wang Wenzuo can be said to be easy-going, and his entourage does not exceed There were twenty people, and he himself was only wearing a brown round-neck brocade robe, a purple scarf around his head, and a short knife hanging from a silver belt around his waist. He looked like a well-to-do wealthy man on the streets of Chang'an.

"Leader Wang!" Lu Zhaolin knelt down, stammering a little: "I don't know how to repay you for saving my life! What an honor!"

"It's a great honor for me to meet you, one of the 'Four Heroes'!" Wang Wenzuo smiled and helped Lu Zhaolin up: "Now maybe people in the world will think that it is an honor for you to meet Wang. I'm afraid it will be reversed, so let us both be evened!"

"Don't dare!" Lu Zhaolin laughed: "I only wrote a few sour poems and short essays, how dare I compare myself with the leader!"

"Writing is a matter of the ages, and you know the gains and losses!" Wang Wenzuo said casually: "We are still reciting Qu Yuan's Li Sao today, and our descendants will also be reciting it thousands of years later, but who knows where King Qin's Afang Palace is? If it weren't for Jia Yi, We probably don’t know that Afang Palace ever existed, at least we don’t know what the palaces of King Chu, King Qi, and King Han were called, not to mention where they are, and what they look like! We can build them by ourselves. Merit is good, but being able to record and praise the achievements of others is also a good thing! Mr. Lu, don’t you think so?”

"Writing is a matter of ages, and you know the gains and losses with your heart!" Lu Zhaolin recollected Wang Wenzuo's casually uttered poems, and felt that the poems had endless aftertaste in his heart, and he couldn't help sighing: "Wang Lingjun is so bold, Lu can only admire him, if the general does not give up, Be like dogs and horses!"

"Common cause, common progress!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Who is Wang, how dare he treat people with lofty ideals as dogs and horses? Let's go, this room is very suffocating, go to the yard to get some fresh air!"

Lu Zhaolin followed Wang Wenzuo to the back garden, where the half-moon illuminated the leaves of the fruit trees shining silver, which was also reflected on the water surface of the rockery pool, rippling.Wang Wenzuo sat down by the water, Lu Zhaolin stood aside, and somewhere on the right, a cricket chirped. The scene was really comfortable and comfortable.It's so peaceful, Lu Zhaolin thought, but how long can it last?
"Mr. Lu, do you still want to stay in Chang'an?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"This——" Lu Zhaolin was stopped by Wang Wenzuo's question. He thought that Wang Wenzuo wanted to recruit himself to be his secretary's office, to undertake the work of drafting manuscripts, organizing documents, and making suggestions. He was also confident and capable of doing a good job, but Hearing what Wang Wenzuo said, doesn't he want to stay by his side?

"Mr. Lu, do you still want to stay here?" Wang Wenzuo repeated.

"If we talk about my original intention, I do have the idea of ​​returning to my hometown and working in the countryside after being imprisoned this time!" Lu Zhaolin sighed: "But since I have been greatly favored by the leader, this side is no longer my own. Naturally, the leader is here. Wherever Lu is!"

"If that's the case, Mr. Lu doesn't need it!" Wang Wenzuo waved his hand and interrupted Lu Zhaolin: "Do you think you can do great things only by staying in Chang'an City?"

"That's not true!" Lu Zhaolin shook his head, but he didn't know what to say. In fact, what the other party said was correct. Chang'an was the highest stage of the Tang Dynasty. Even if you walk around Chang'an, you can't count it as top-notch.

"You should have heard about Wu Minzhi, right?" Wang Wenzuo whispered.

"Well! He's dead!" Lu Zhaolin nodded.

"Yes, he died, and he died in a disgraceful way!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head, "The queen has already blamed me for his death. If it wasn't for His Highness the Crown Prince's efforts to protect me, I would already be a prisoner! You understand ?"

Lu Zhaolin took a deep breath. He could feel the turbulent waves hidden behind Wang Wenzuo's seemingly calm words. The queen wanted this man to die, but he is not only still alive, but he is still talking about all this calmly here. Very within reach.

"Now I can't leave Chang'an anymore!" Wang Wenzuo sighed rarely: "I originally wanted to find opportunities to go back to Liaodong, Baekje, and Wa. I have a lot of things there, but now it's impossible. Your Royal Highness Because of the grace of saving my life, it is impossible for me to leave him and leave Chang'an, so I need someone capable to do something for me, do you understand?"

"Understood!" Lu Zhaolin nodded, "Then what do you want me to do?"

"Don't be in a hurry, you should read more first, and then think about what to do after reading it?" Wang Wenzuo smiled.

"Look, what are you looking at?" Lu Zhaolin asked puzzled.

"Look at that piece of land, and the people on that piece of land!" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "The situation there is very bad, and a large-scale war will break out at any time. This war will not only protect Anton The mansion will be reduced to ashes, and it will threaten Hebei, your hometown. But don't worry, my people will arrange your journey well, and your personal safety will not be affected!"

"Of order!" Lu Zhaolin nodded. He still didn't quite understand what Wang Wenzuo meant, but he nodded anyway.

(End of this chapter)