Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 95: The Tang Dynasty is not chaos
This general was not Li Yu's man, nor the queen's man, but Xu Shi's man.
He didn't know why His Royal Highness asked such a question, and after a moment of silence, he replied: "Since there is no will, the general is naturally still in the south."
"At this time, it's better to be honest. If what I expected, General Xu Shi had already embarked on the journey of returning after the news of his father's death reached Nanzhao."
Li Yu said: "Now is not the time to pursue these things. I want you to tell the old general that in Chang'an City and the empire today, the most needed him. Xiling Temple ordered the world to attack our Tang Dynasty, and it will definitely be against him.
It is not good, please be careful with the veteran general."
The general did not expect that the princess not only did not blame the military for doing his own thing, but instead gave such instructions, saying, "Please rest assured that the general will definitely return to Chang'an safely."
Hearing this sentence, Li Yu's mind finally relaxed a little.
The next person who was taken into the imperial study by the eunuch was the Censor of Song.
The censor had no connection with military and political affairs. Li Yu summoned him because of military and political affairs, because the censor Song was the contact person between her and the clans of Qinghe County.
"The court has transferred back to Zhenbei Army, and part of the Western Army and Zhennan Army have also received military orders. They will soon go north to resist the cavalry of the Jin Treasure Royal Court. The Xiling Temple has been planning for many years, and the pain of the Southern Jin emperor losing his son has not yet subsided.
There must be a large army coming from the south. If you want to stop them, you can only rely on the navy on Daze and the clans of Qinghe County."
The things Li Yu said were all arranged by the court to pass the Ming Road, and there was no problem of leaking the secret. She looked at the imperial censor Song and said, "I will not forget the promises of the various clans of Qinghe County, and I hope that the
The valves have shown some performance at this time. I am very looking forward to the arrangements of the valves in the Xiling Temple."
The Censor Song knelt down on his knees without hesitation, bowed to him with great salutes, and said sincerely: "Please rest assured that the 100,000 prefecture troops in Qinghe County and the 30,000 Zhuang troops in total, will definitely cooperate with the Navy's troops.
We must also block the enemy from the temple and the Southern Jin army south of the Great Lakes. Even if we lose in the end, we will definitely buy enough time for the empire."
"Very good." Li Yu said quietly looking at him.
After the Song Censor left, Mo Han, a great scholar in Yinghua Palace, walked out from the bookshelf. He looked at the closed door of the imperial study room and said with a little concern: "If there is a general in charge of Chang'an, whether it is the morale of the army or the people, he will be in charge of the country.
They will be further consolidated. What I am worried about is Qinghe County, although the families have surrendered for many years..."
"Don't worry. The valves spent so much resources to push Hunyuan and me to this position. Even if they had other ideas, it would be impossible to force the direction to change in such a short time, otherwise that powerful
The tearing force will cause great problems inside the valves."
Before he could finish speaking, Li Yu said coldly: "And the descendants of all the families, including the second son of Mr. Cui and several relatives and grandchildren, are in Chang'an. How can they have a strange intention?"
Mo Han thought for a moment and felt that there was no loophole in His Highness’s arrangement, but the worried expression on his face still did not completely eliminate it. He said, "There is still no movement in the academy?"
Li Yu was silent and suddenly picked up a piece of paperweight on the desk and threw it on the ground.
With a bang, the paperweight was broken into countless pieces.
She could not suppress the anger in her heart, and her body trembled slightly, "The academy is still closed and there are no guests... My Tang Dynasty has been to support the academy for thousands of years, and the empire is now in danger. Are they still unwilling to take action?"
At this moment, a eunuch whispered a word outside the imperial study room.
Li Yu's anger was not gone, and the cold shouts subsided.
The eunuch's voice trembled slightly, but he did not retreat as he said, "Someone wants to see Your Highness."
Li Yu was stunned when he heard the man's name.
Mo Han frowned slightly and said, "Your Highness will see him yourself, and I will leave first."
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He entered the palace overnight and demanded to meet His Royal Highness the Princess to meet Xiaoshu. No wonder neither the guard nor the eunuch leader dared to repel him, nor even dared not report it.
Li Yu looked at the middle-aged man in green clothes under the autumn tree. After a moment of silence, he said, "A few days ago, I made a special trip to invite my second uncle to enter the palace. My second uncle ignored me, why did he come to see me again today?"
He said to Xiaoshu: "Your Highness met me a few days ago for the sake of the affairs of the court. I told Your Majesty that I would not pay attention to the affairs of the Tang Dynasty, so I don't want to enter the palace to see you."
Li Yu frowned slightly and asked, "Why would you like to see me again tonight?"
Chao Xiaoshu said: "Because this is no longer a matter of government affairs, but it is related to the safety of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Yu said: "If you have anything to do with the second uncle Chao, please tell me directly."
He said to Xiaoshu: "I want to ask for two imperial edicts."
Li Yu was a little surprised and asked, "Imperial Order? What are you going to do?"
He said to Xiaoshu: "A imperial edict is given to the Yulong Gang. If Chang'an City is messed up by Taoists from Xiling Temple, the brothers in the gang will be able to come forward to suppress His Majesty."
Li Yu looked at him quietly, as if he wanted to see if there was something else hidden in his words, and said, "Chang'an City will not be in chaos, so I think this imperial edict is not necessary."
He looked at her at Xiaoshu and said, "Your Highness is really confident that Chang'an City will not be in chaos?"
Li Yu said: "There are Chang'an Mansion, the guards, and the cavalry camp in the city..."
Before she could finish her words, she said to Xiaoshu: "The second decree I want to ask is related to the Knight Camp. I want your Majesty or Your Highness to grant me temporary power to rule over the Knight Camp."
Li Yu frowned a little deeper, and he didn't understand his request, saying, "I have promised that Chang'an City will never be in chaos. No matter how unfaithful officials who are loyal to the queen hate it, I will never treat them before solving foreign troubles.
If you do it, then what else do you want the Knight Camp to do?”
"I'm going to leave with the cavalry camp."
"You are leaving Chang'an?"
"good."
Looking at her at Xiaoshu, he said, "You and I know that all the military forces in the Tang Dynasty are now used to resist the Jin Treasure Royal Court and the army heading north of the Xiling Temple. They also have to keep a part of them staring at the Yuelun Kingdom, and now they are northeast.
The border troops have been destroyed, and the court can no longer find any troops to resist the large army from Yan State.”
Li Yu shook his head and said, "There are still Xiangjun in Gushan County and various states."
He said to Xiaoshu: "The Xiang army is slow to move and cannot keep up with the speed of the grassland cavalry."
Li Yu said: "The grassland cavalry in the Eastern Wilderness are not dangerous. Even if they are allowed to enter the border, they will not affect the overall situation of the war."
"But the people in the eastern part of the Tang Dynasty will be killed, plundered, and burned to death."
Looking at Xiaoshu quietly, he said, "I know what you are thinking. Indulge the invasion of the grassland cavalry. As long as they rob, kill and burn, and the more deteriorating the military discipline, the slower their actions will be.
Like a greedy bear, you will eventually be so tired that you can't eat anymore, so you can't threaten the most prosperous and prosperous keys of Chang'an and Tang dynasties."
Li Yu asked coldly: "Is this wrong?"
"Losing some old, weak, women and children, ordinary people. The burned fields and villages are also destroyed, but they can save the army. It may bring peace to the Tang Dynasty for thousands of times... If we look at it this way, this is of course correct, and it can even be called
It’s a wise decision and a calm response.”
After a moment of silence towards Xiaoshu, he said, "But the Tang Dynasty is not only Chang'an City, but also the elderly, weak women and children, ordinary farmers, but also the Tang Dynasty, those fields, villages, and small towns are also the Tang Dynasty."
Li Yu said: "So...you want to take the cavalry camp to the east?"
He said to Xiaoshu: "Yes, if the late emperor was still alive, he would have done this long ago."
Li Yu said: "Even if you know that the Knight Camp can't change the situation in the east at all?"
He said to Xiaoshu: "At least, we want the people on that land to know that the Tang Dynasty did not forget them."
Li Yu was silent for a long time, and then said, "I will not give you the first will."
He said to Xiaoshu, "Thank you, Your Highness."
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When Li Yu summoned everyone in the imperial study, her younger brother Li Huiyuan also talked to people in her palace, but the conversation was not pleasant.
He Mingchi glanced at His Highness's dark night and turned his head. Looking at Li Huiyuan with a gray face, he said, "Chao Xiaoshu was in the imperial study at this time, but he didn't know what he and His Highness were talking to him."
Li Huiyuan waved his arm very anxiously and shouted, "There are naturally arrangements for those things. What do you care about those things. I just ask if you can contact the people from the Xiling Temple."
He Mingchi bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty. Even if you can contact Xiling Temple at this time, you will never let them change their minds. You must know that the temple has issued an edict and both sides have already tore their faces."
Li Huiyuan was stunned when she heard this, her face became more and more ugly. Her right hand kept shaking. She wanted to hold the teacup on the table and drink a sip of tea, but almost knocked the teacup to the ground.
"Let me find a way."
He said: "If you can't contact Xiling Temple, then please find a way to contact General Xu Shi and tell him that Xiling Temple is preparing to ambush him on the road."
He Mingchi was slightly shocked when he heard this and said, "Your Majesty... do you want this matter to be exposed?"
Li Huiyuan slowly raised her head, stared at him fiercely, gritted her teeth and said in a cold voice: "Even if the military knows that I have tried to join forces with the enemy and kill the general of the country, I will save this matter back!
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"I originally thought it was just Longqing who was disturbing the border with the grassland cavalry, but I didn't expect that it would eventually become a world-wide attack! If I want to protect the Tang Dynasty, I have to protect the general. You can do it immediately!"
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He left the palace towards Xiaoshu.
He did not take the imperial edict, but Li Yu's handwritten letter.
Now Li Yujianguo has this handwritten book, and the commander of the Xiaoqi Camp is his own brother, so he is confident that he can take the Xiaoqi Camp out of Chang'an.
After returning to Henger Street, Chunfeng Pavilion, he started a banquet at the gate and invited a troupe to come and have a lively event.
At this time when the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil, this style was really dazzling.
But no one expressed any advice, whether it was the guests attending the banquet, Linzi who was crying silently with the child in his arms, or the old man holding a crutch with a calm expression.
This is the wine for farewell and the wine for a strong journey.
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Censor Song left the palace.
According to Li Yu's wishes, he went to the Qinghe Guild Hall first, met the children of the Qinghe County clans, and had a long talk with the second son of Mr. Cui.
Then he took Mr. Cui back to the mansion, held a banquet, and invited more than ten singers to come and have fun.
After the banquet ended, Censor Song got drunk.
The Censor's wife served him with heartache and said, "Drunk is harmful to the body, and the master himself is the Censor. If you do such a thing at any time, you will be criticized."
The Censor Song opened his eyes and looked at the curtain on the top of the bed. After a long time of silence, he smiled and said, "There are many kinds of banquets, say goodbye wine, and give a strong wine. I let the banquet tonight, I let the palace watch it.
I want the palace to feel that we are paying a glass of wine to worship our old friends in our hometown.”
"How could the court be completely at ease with us from Qinghe County? Whether it is me or Mr. Cui, or every clan in the Qinghe Association, there are secret guards following us all year round."
"So in the end, it's a word dead."
"This wine tonight is actually a drink of courage."
"But for the sake of the cause of a thousand generations, even the soul-breaking wine must be sipped in one go."
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The night shrouded the mountains.
There is a military camp at the foot of Wushan Mountain, composed of more than ten military tents, and I think there are not many people.
There were constant pain in one of the military tents.
Xu Shi is already very old. No matter the wrinkles on his face or the lung disease that has been getting worse every day, it proves this, but he does not allow himself to fall, especially at this moment.
He was the general of Zhenguo in the Tang Dynasty and the de facto leader of the military. He was deeply trusted and favored by His Majesty the Emperor. He spent most of these years in the Zhennan Army because the humid and hot climate in the south was good for his body.
The Wushan Mountain is hundreds of miles away from the Zhennan Army, but a little north, the annoying lung disease recurs again. The old general's chest was like a broken drum, causing all the guards in the camp to feel pain.
In the battle for the throne, General Xu Shi, who had the most powerful words, always remained silent. Because of his vigilance against the academy, many people, including Li Yu, suspected that he secretly supported the Queen, but the facts proved that who did he do, he was suspected of his secretly supporting the Queen.
He doesn't support it, he only supports His Majesty the Emperor.
When His Majesty the Emperor passed away, he supported His Majesty's will, so he now supported Li Yu's sister and brother. However, when the imperial edict to be summoned to the capital did not reach the Zhennan Army, he suddenly felt that this matter was a bit strange.
He took more than a hundred guards to leave the Zhennan Army, sneaked through the mountains and forests, and headed towards Chang'an City.
Stay at the foot of Mount Kou overnight.
Wang Jingluo once again questioned the general's decision. Xu Shi glared at him and shouted sternly: "The general is away, and the king will not accept anything, let alone the king is gone now!"
Wang Jingluo later recalled this sentence and always felt a lot of sighs. When people get old, they will always become as angry as children. General Xu Shi was anxious to return to Chang'an. He was worried about national affairs, but he went back to the next day.
Thinking deep down, maybe he was just in a hurry to go back and see His Majesty for the last time.
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