Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 109

Beiya Prison is a very mysterious place, and even Li Linfu didn't dare to inquire about it easily.

But he can inquire about the Du family, and then reveal the clues.

For example, ten years ago, the Du family bought a maidservant who was the granddaughter of the birth mother of Guang Wang Li Yao, one of the three concubines; Huangfu Ran, one of the five sons of Chunwei, was a student of Zhang Jiuling; Passing Qujiang Collection...

Putting these details together, combined with Xue Bai's actions and his ups and downs in literary talent, everything becomes clear.

Chen Xuanli also met Li Linfu once, and after hearing these analysis, he finally nodded and said, "We will know when Han Yu is captured."

In this way, Li Linfu knew what to do and began to arrange.

Pei Dunfu sued Pei Kuan again, claiming that his general Cao Jian had been wronged by Pei Kuan, and presented evidence of Pei Kuan's "constructing the East Palace and denouncing Chengyu".

The real, real evidence.

A letter that Pei Kuan introduced to Prince Sheren Wang Zeng for Pei Dunfu in the past is undoubtedly handed over to the East Palace; in another letter, Pei Kuan wrote in his own handwriting complaining that the sage has been appointing brother slaves as ministers for many years, and he has never been handsome. There is no doubt about it.

Immediately, the court was full of fear, and even Yang Zhen felt in danger.

Yang Zhao, who hadn't come to the right minister's mansion for a while before, also asked to see Li Linfu again, leaning on crutches and dragging a wounded leg, saying that he fell off his horse and delayed serving the right minister.

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Donggong's reaction was also quick, and he directly posted a confession of guilt.

Li Heng argued that he had no personal friendship with Pei Kuan, and had never been to the East Palace, so the Sheren of the East Palace had never seen each other.Someone with a heart had presented him with the Salt Law, and he thought it might be beneficial to the country, and he expressed his support, but he never thought that it would be used by Pei Kuan.

At the time of Wei Jian's case, he and Concubine Wei "did not get along" because they were afraid of the turmoil in the Northwest; now they "have no personal friendship" and only feel that salt can replace miscellaneous taxes.

Because of his filial piety to the saint, he retreated step by step, abandoning his personal love and friendship, but always put the community first.What is shown is respectful, filial, weak, and pitiful, but still compassionate and sympathetic to the people.

When the son has reached this point, if the sage thinks about Yi Chu again, the scholars and the people will not allow it.

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pear orchard.

Several memorials were placed beside the imperial case.

A hundred dancers on the singing stage are singing "Debao Song" again, showing the style of Jiangnan.

After the song was over, Li Longji put down the notebook in his hand, and said calmly: "Since the performance is over, let's bring them here."

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Censorship Desk.

No official dared to come to the official residence of Doctor Yushi again.

Pei Kuan looked up to the window, as if he felt that even the birds refused to rest in his yard.

Sadness came to his mind, he picked up his pen and confessed himself in the memorial.

He knew that he had lost too, and no one could stop Li Linfu's attacks these years.Going here, it can probably be relegated to a certain place who is engaged in history.

The fear of life is within a year or two.

"Doctor Pei."

The door was pushed open, and a servant came in and said: "Tomorrow there will be a banquet in the inner courtyard of Zichen, and the saint invites Dr. Pei to watch singing and dancing."

Pei Kuan became more and more sad, knowing that this was the last honor the sage gave him to the Hedong family.

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"Really?"

In the Ten Kings' Residence, Li Wei was in disbelief at first, and then his eyes burst into surprise, and he said: "The sage really invited me to serve a banquet in Daming Palace?"

"good."

"I, I learned dominoes, is it useful?"

"Eighteen Lang just goes to the banquet."

Except for the big banquet where all the clan members were present, Li Wei had not been summoned by a sage for many years.

He faintly sensed that the sage already hated him shortly after the death of the three common people.The reason why he took away his wife made him ridiculed by everyone, although Yang Yuhuan is really too beautiful, it seems that there is a faint disgust.

This time, maybe it was Li Niang's words that made a difference.

Li Yingyu's party sent Yang Tong and Pei Kuan to make the sage realize that Li Ying was really going to rebel back then, so did he change his mind?It should be so.

Thinking up to this point, Li Wei rarely rushed to the house of Queen Shou Wang.

"Princess, go to the palace with me tomorrow for a banquet, you should show that you are more affectionate with me."

Wei Shi was embroidering with his head down, raised his head, his face was blank, and murmured: "Enai?"

"Remember, we are very affectionate." Li Yan finally had the intention of cheering up, "We want to let the world know that we are extremely affectionate."

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The next day, Daming Palace.

The inner palace of Zichen is built on Longshou Mountain. The terrain is quite high, surrounded by clouds and clouds, like a fairyland.

Today is a small banquet, and there are only a few dozen cases in the hall.

Li Yan held Wei Shi's hand inside, and sat cross-legged on the seats together.

Sitting below him are Li Niang and Yang Hui and his wife; sitting above him are Li Cong and Dou; at the top are Li Heng and Zhang Ting.

In the row opposite, sat Li Linfu, Yang Yu, Pei Kuan, Zhang Qiu Jianqiong, Wang Yu, Xiao Jiong and other foreign ministers.

Li Cong had injuries on his face, with several raised scars, he looked a little scary, he had always kept a low profile, he didn't expect to come here today.

If a sage does not appoint the eldest son as the crown prince, all officials would feel that it would be difficult to be a king if he is not good-looking, but in fact there has never been such an explicit regulation.

Li Yan thought to himself, this elder brother is not honest.

The saint has not yet arrived, but the music and dance have already risen.

"Boom" sounded a drum.

A high-pitched voice suddenly sang a sentence.

"Where is Dong Fanhe, the capital of Dinghe Fanti?! He Nang is decent?!"

Li Yan was taken aback, thinking it was a ghost screaming from somewhere.

"It seems to be Jianghuai dialect." Li Niang said: "This is "Debao Song", the sage has begun to listen to it again?"

In fact, the sage did not come to listen, only let them listen.

After singing over and over again, everyone became more and more uneasy and at a loss.Especially Pei Kuan, who was sweating on his forehead.

at last.

"The saint arrives."

With this shout, everyone got up quickly, only to see Li Longji pacing forward in a flowing crimson gauze robe with his head facing the sky, looking like an old fairy.

Yang Zhen peeked out and saw that Concubine Yang was not there, his spine felt a chill and he buried his head even lower.

"What are you doing so boringly?" Li Longji sat down comfortably, and said, "I invite you to a banquet, and you seem to have made a mistake, but which one really made a mistake?!"

At the beginning, the tone seemed to be joking, but when it came to the last sentence, the voice suddenly rose.

Pei Kuan shuddered, prostrated himself on the ground first, and held up the letter of confession.

"The old minister is guilty!"

"What's Pei Qing's crime?"

"Chen... lie, please tell the old man Rong Chen."

"Is it just a lie?"

Pei Kuan hesitated, his face became more bitter, and he said: "The minister is still encouraged by others, and I ask you to discuss the salt law, but I don't know that this law will harm the country and the people, and the crime is serious."

Li Longji drank a glass of wine, smiled and said nothing.

Gao Lishi asked, "Who encouraged Dr. Pei?"

"Xue Bai."

"Xue Bai is only a child, how could he persuade Dr. Pei?"

"I don't dare to hide anything. I only know Xue Bai and don't know anything else. I implore your Majesty to trust me."

Gao Lishi asked again: "Don't you know Han Yu?"

Pei Kuan was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "I don't know Han Yu, it's absolutely true!"

"Doctor Pei is embarrassing this old servant." Gao Lishi smiled, glanced to both sides, and said, "What does King Shou think?"

When these words came suddenly, the expressions of Li Linfu and Li Heng changed instantly, and their bodies seemed to stiffen a little.

Li Yan was extremely surprised and didn't know what to do.

On the contrary, after Li Niang encouraged her brother with her eyes, she spoke directly.

"Why don't you dare to say it? Xue Bai mentioned the salt law, and Han Yu instigated Xue Bai. As for who is behind Han Yu, can the court not find out?!"

As she said that, Li Niang raised her hand and pointed at Pei Kuan, showing the arrogance of the princess of the Tang Dynasty, and shouted: "Pei Kuan, what do you intend to do by colluding with Han Yu?!"

Pei Kuan couldn't help but bow down to the saint again, saying: "The old minister has failed the holy grace, please allow the old minister to become a monk."

"What does Pei Qing mean by this?"

"Your Majesty, the old ministers became officials when they were young, and they met His Majesty in Chang'an County as a lieutenant; after that, they included the fields and households in the world for His Majesty; they transferred Taichang Temple to manage rites and music; Bian Shuai, interviewing Hebei, guarding Fan Yang, leaving the customs to expand the border; entering the court to govern the Constitution... All his life, from the youthful crown to the gray head, the veteran has always served His Majesty and devoted all his energy. Now that he is old and weak, only There is Buddhism that has not been enlightened, and the wish has not been fulfilled. The old ministers only ask you to retire and become a monk."

In Pei Kuan's life, local officials, Beijing officials, field officials, household officials, judges, provincial officials, ministerial officials, border commanders, constitutional officials... have made outstanding contributions.With his qualifications, it's okay to be suppressed by others and not be able to worship the prime minister, but he is suppressed by his elder brother?

Brother Slave has been a prime minister for more than ten years, but Pei Kuan can't?
Shir!Shir!Shir!
Every time he thought of this, he was so angry that he couldn't sleep all night.But just like that, he knew that if he lost power, Ge Nu would kill him.

What he said at this moment was exactly the mix of anger, grievance, fear, dissatisfaction, disappointment, and survival. After Pei Kuan spoke, he burst into tears.

Li Longji stood up slowly, seemingly a little moved.

"Pei Kuan!"

Jing Zhaoyin Xiao Jiong got up immediately, pointed at Pei Kuan and cursed: "Dare to criticize Chengyu! What do you mean? You have worked hard and made great achievements, and the saint has wronged you?! You are dissatisfied and want to rebel?!"

"The old minister dare not, the old minister dare not!"

Pei Kuan is really not good at speaking well. He is a proud person like him, and he usually has too few opportunities to practice pleasing others.I got used to venting my emotions, and indeed even begging for mercy seemed to be complaining.

He knew that the more he said, the more wrong he was, and he kept begging to become a monk. In the end, even this, in the ears of others, seemed to accuse the saint of being heartless and ungrateful.

Li Niang was very excited, thinking that killing Pei Kuan today is not enough, Li Heng and Li Cong must be implicated.

"Pei Kuan, Hugh complained in front of the emperor, saying who is behind you!"

"enough."

Li Longji finally spoke, and said lightly: "Today is a banquet, not a court meeting, so we all sit back... But since we all want to investigate, we invite 'Han Yu'."

Everyone was stunned again, Yang Zhen and Pei Kuan fell into an ice cave, and the rest including Li Heng and Li Linfu were all overjoyed.

Really Han Yu!

Beiya really revealed the truth.

A eunuch led two people into the palace, and from a distance, one was Xue Bai, and the other was a middle-aged man with a long beard.

Li Heng and Li Linfu both squinted their eyes and nodded secretly, feeling that Han Yu's demeanor did not disappoint them.

It is such a person who is worthy of deploying in secret, but this person is not detained, but can still walk around like this, has he fallen into the eyes of a saint?
Only Jing Zhaoyin and Xiao Jiong stood up in surprise.

Because he already recognized that figure... Yan Zhenqing!

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"They all want to find Han Yu, and they have a good plan, so let's see where Han Yu is." Li Longji suddenly laughed heartily, "What are you doing so tensely? There is no need to sing and dance at the banquet today, and we will appreciate famous calligraphy!"

"I have admired Lord Yan's name for a long time." Li Cong echoed, trying to improve the atmosphere at the banquet, and said with a smile: "I am finally lucky to see you today."

Everyone laughed, laughing embarrassingly.

It was in this atmosphere that Yan Zhenqing saluted and asked: "Please ask the sage to give me a title, so that I know what the book is about."

Li Longji finally became interested, drank the wine, and said in a loud voice: "The book... Xue Bai's poems in prison, his poems and your writing can be called Han Yu."

Yan Zhenqing's complexion changed, and he replied with some embarrassment: "I obey the order."

The servants held up the long scroll, and Xue Bai rubbed the ink.Yan Zhenqing held the pen in his left hand and went straight to write like crazy.

Thick ink is swayed wantonly, it is cursive script.

Wild grass.

Unknowingly, everyone stood up with shock in their eyes.

"When I was young, I wrote cursive script with my left hand. I felt that I could not surpass Zhang Changshi, the 'Sage of Grass', so I switched to regular script with my right hand. Today I am laughing and generous."

Following this sentence, Yan Zhenqing stepped aside, revealing the writing behind him.

Li Linfu stared intently, unable to recover for a long time.What surprised him was the poem on the scroll, he couldn't believe that he saw such a poem at the imperial banquet, who was he beating?
With such doubts, he read the poem over and over again in his heart.

"The Duke of Zhou fears the day of gossip,"

"Wang Mang is humble and has not usurped the time."

"Xiang Shi died at the beginning,"

"Who knows the truth of a lifetime?"

Li Linfu shuddered suddenly, but feeling lucky in his heart, he turned to look at Li Heng who was opposite him.

Li Heng's complexion was even uglier, it was an irrepressible defeat at all.

He felt that Xue Bai's sentence "Wang Mang was humble before usurping" was simply scolding him by name.He also felt that everyone thought so.

He tore his face in public.

Xue Bai didn't want his future life at all, and publicly declared his discord with the prince.

There were only three things, and no one could frame him again for the crime of "constructing the East Palace".

……

Pei Kuan also couldn't recover for a long time.

He felt that Xue Bai's sentence "Duke Zhou is afraid of gossip day" was simply praising him by name.He also felt that everyone thought so.

After doing so much for the country, so many rumors and crimes were thrown at him.Li Linfu accused him, and Donggong was happy to see it succeed.

But looking at the word "Han Yu" inscribed at the end of the scroll at this time, Pei Kuan's spirit lifted.

Well, he is colluding with Han Yu!

Then ask who is behind Han Yu?

Today's saint!

Thinking of this, Pei Kuan burst into tears.

He doesn't plan to become a monk anymore, he wants to continue to support Quyan in order to worship the prime minister!
At this point, the whole thing is pretty simple.

Xue Bai proposed the law of disputing salt to Yang Zhen. Pei Kuan supported the matter in order to fight for power with Li Linfu. Some pretentious rumors used Li Tong and Li Niang to file a complaint.

This is the truth in everyone's heart.

Even Li Linfu and Li Heng knew that this was the truth, and that's what they did.But there was still a cry in their hearts - "This is Xue Bai's trick!"

They knew very well that Xue Bai did it on purpose. Sometimes he showed his talent, and sometimes he showed his clumsiness. He deliberately made people think that there was an expert behind him, but it turned out to be the easiest lie to expose.

Xue Bai had figured out what they would do, because they would use the same trick every time to deal with it, and Xue Bai's purpose was to expose them in front of the saint.

"Please look, saint, the crown prince really knows how to invite names. He seems to be forbearing, but in fact he doesn't want to suffer at all; the right minister always uses the name of 'committing the East Palace' to get rid of ministers who are loyal to the saint but threaten him."

But they couldn't reveal it.

Even if the sage knew that they had been tricked by Xue Bai, would he sympathize with them?

The saint would not blame Xue Bai, who was not threatening and would still make him happy, the saint would only be more annoyed at them.

"So incompetent, how dare you want to sit in my country?!"

This stupid gentleman is already selfish to the extreme...

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Zhang Ting took a sip of his wine and felt Li Heng's hands trembling.

She shook his hand lightly and motioned him to look at Li Wei.

Li Yan trembled even more, his eyes had lost their brilliance, as if he had lost his soul.

Seeing this scene, Li Heng calmed down instead. After all, the East Palace was just thinking about inviting people to be famous, and it was the Shouwang family who really made the move.

"Shiba Lang." Zhang Ting kept her husband and son-in-law steady, and said without losing the opportunity, "What's wrong with you? Are you drunk?"

Although she is the only one, she has the tone of a sister-in-law like a mother.

The sage invited King Shou to come, which shows that the sage understands everything.At this time, she didn't have to expose Li Jin at all, but instead reminded Li Zhen to take the Holy Wrath away as soon as possible, which was good for everyone.

Li Jin didn't dare to bear it, his lips were trembling, and he still didn't open his mouth.

Zhang Tingliu frowned, thinking that if she didn't give it a chance, then don't blame her for bringing out the King of Shou to defend the East Palace.

She raised her glass and was about to stand up.

"Sage." Xue Bai said, "I have something to ask King Shou."

"ask."

"Miss Daxi who presented the dominoes with me before, the sage has given back her life contract. I don't know why the Shouwang forced her to sell her body to the Shouwang's mansion again?!"

"I didn't force her, it was..."

Li Jin wanted to explain, but Li Linfu suddenly turned his head and gave him a hard look.

"Say!" Li Longji suddenly shouted angrily.

In recent years, few people have ever seen a saint with such a furious face, as if the sky had darkened as the thunder exploded.

"Boom!"

There was a loud bang, but it was Li Wei who hooked the table and fell to the ground in a panic.

As soon as he looked up, he met Li Longji's angry eyes. Li Wei was so frightened that his feet went limp.

"King Shou is drunk."

"It's disgraceful to be in front of the imperial court. It's outrageous. Take it down to sober up, and avoid going out of the ten king's house in the future."

Immediately, an eunuch stepped forward, half helped and half dragged Li Zhen out.

From the beginning to the end, Li Wei even forgot to look at Princess Webster.

Webster was forgotten at the banquet, and it took him a while to remember to salute the saint, and he hurriedly left.

Li Niang was stunned.

She watched this scene helplessly, and wanted to say something a few times, when she turned her head and saw Xue Bai turned his head to look at her, and nodded as a gesture.

Li Niang was startled for no reason and hiccupped.

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"Sit down, Yang Qing, Pei Qing, my son is not up to date, let you watch a joke, let's have a feast, don't talk about state affairs."

"Thank you saint."

Yang Li and Pei Kuan looked at each other, and resisted not to look at Xue Bai, but their blood was already boiling.

So far, Li Longji has not exploded on the bright side at all.

He will not carefully interrogate and punish anyone, and he does not need to let his subordinates know how much he has found out.It shows that he is in control of everything, and it is enough to maintain the supreme majesty of the king.

Li Heng and Li Linfu obviously felt his beating, and were afraid of his dissatisfaction.

But this is not enough.

The East Palace, which was supposed to be content with itself, invited fame and fame every time; the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, which was supposed to stare at the East Palace, hid its selfishness every time, but instead increased the prestige of the East Palace.

Surely someone should be watching them in the middle of the court...

Thinking of this, Li Longji has made up his mind.

For the appointment of Yang Zhen and Pei Kuan, let the Taiwan Province make an order. At this time, at the banquet, Li Longji remained calm, clapping his palms to call for singing and dancing.Let the courtiers feel that he is in control of the overall situation, but still understates it, showing coquettishness.

"Konghou, Konghou... I think of something."

At the end of the banquet, Li Longji seemed to be drunk, and he played a konghou for everyone, laughing loudly.

"You all say that Xue Bai has no talent, so you suspect that he is instigated by others, but I have recently learned an interesting story about him. There is a little stone monkey who can turn over a thousand miles in a somersault, but guess what, this monkey can do it. Turn out the palm of the Buddha?"

"This……"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, glanced away, and saw the sage spreading his palms.

Li Linfu saluted first, with a solemn expression on his face, and replied in a deep voice: "I think, I can't find it!"

"My son also thinks he can't find it!"

Hearing the shouts, Xue Bai lowered his head, took a sip of his wine, and smiled imperceptibly.

　I went to bed at 4 o'clock and started writing at 10 o'clock until now. I tried my best to write and send out the entire plot at once, otherwise I would break the chapters and be so sleepy~~There are more than 1 words today, please ask for a monthly ticket, please subscribe~~ I feel like I write a lot, but the ranking keeps dropping~~
　　
　
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