Lei Yue Longmen

Chapter 226

Cen Zhu's injury lasted until the next spring.

During this period, the court's debate on whether northern Xinjiang would rebel has intensified.Especially after Li Jingchen returned to Beijing, the Chengwang faction headed by Pan Suiyong had already had a serious fight with Donggong over this matter.Above the court, it seems to be divided into two factions. The East Palace has clearly unified its caliber and has always insisted that Northern Xinjiang will not rebel, at most it will only separatist.However, Pan Suiyong and others firmly insisted, "The separatist regime itself is treason! Saying that northern Xinjiang will not rebel is just deceiving yourself and others." Even the Metropolitan Procuratorate also stood on their side.

Lan Lie hated Tu Yuanshan to the bone, and Shen Xi and Hua Jinpeng were detained by Beijiang, which almost broke Banhu's confrontation with Donggong. He presented facts and reasoned, listed historical facts, and used history as a mirror.However, the empress dowager, who has always been known for her understanding of righteousness, was abnormally stubborn and stubborn. She always gritted her teeth and said, "Separatist rule is not treason, at least not now! If you have evidence, take evidence. "The court broke up unhappy several times.

After Cen Zhu recovered from his injury, he went to visit his teacher Pan Suiyong.He could hear the smell of gunpowder from the always prudent old man of the Ministry of Rites, "Hmph, separatism is not treason, what kind of bullshit logic is this!" At that time, there were several aides of King Cheng present, and they quickly took over the conversation, "That's right! It doesn't count as treason if they are separated from each other. Does it mean that they want to hand over the country? It's completely bandit logic!"

"The majestic Crown Prince Yurui hasn't ascended the throne yet, so he wants to hand over his ancestral foundation? Give it up and admit that he is a thief. This East Palace is not afraid that people in the world will laugh at it in the future."

"In my opinion, she's not that stupid. She's shrewd. It's obvious that if the Tu family falls, the East Palace will not end well. Therefore, she would rather put the country's righteousness at the mercy of her own self-interest, and say nothing? Let the Tu family fall. "

"I think this time Lan Yuan's leader was also killed? He is very angry. If Donggong also loses people's hearts because of this? Xiao He will be defeated!" It's a great opportunity for us."

"That's right, we don't care if she insists on seeking her own death. It is now known to all courts that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng stood up to argue with the East Palace in order to keep the ancestral foundation intact. Most of the civil servants are now Stand on our side. We can just take advantage of the establishment of the Literature Museum to recruit talents!"

Cen Zhu didn't stay long, stayed for a while and then left.

Emotionally, she is definitely on Li Jing's side, but it is difficult to convince herself logically that Tu Yuanshan's various actions have no disobedience to the court.If I still think this way, what will those people who have no connection with Li Jingxuan think?Especially this year is the year of the Spring Exam, many students gathered in the capital, and the East Palace is so "selfish", isn't it afraid of provoking controversy?If someone has the heart to take advantage of it again, he will probably make wedding clothes for others!

Just when she was anxious and turned sideways, she suddenly heard another piece of news that shocked her extremely.

When the official Zheng Lang from the household department came to her house to chat, he specifically mentioned this matter, "Since the second half of last year, northern Xinjiang has asked for tax reductions and exemptions for two consecutive seasons on the grounds of poor harvests, and this year? He didn't even mention it, so he just refused to hand it in after the deadline. Wang Shangshu was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, but now even people," he refers to Hua Jinpeng sent out by the Ministry of Accounts, "are being detained by them, let alone Don’t even think about asking for tax money. Now you are saying that Beijiang has no intention of rebellion? Even I won’t believe it.”

Cen Zhu's heart skipped a beat, feeling that things were going to get worse.

That night, Li Jingchen suddenly dropped down unexpectedly, which seemed to confirm her hidden worries.When she heard that Li Jingchen was going to go to northern Xinjiang to suppress rumors in person, she was surprised: "Are you crazy?!"

Li Jingchen had a calm demeanor, as if this matter was not worth making a fuss about.

"No," Cen Zhu didn't know what to say, he squeezed his temples to calm himself down, "Now? It's not like you don't know what's going on in northern Xinjiang. If Li Zhouxuan is still here, you still have a chance to escape But now? There is no bargaining chip by your side, will you still protect you as before when you are Tu Yuanshan? Now? Going to northern Xinjiang is tantamount to dying in vain! I won't let you go!"

Li Jingchen looked at her with a smile, "What nonsense!"

"I'm not talking stupid!" Cen Zhu hoped that she would take it seriously, "If Li Zhouxuan is still alive, or even if Tu Yunkai is still alive, I will definitely not stop you, because I know that Tu Yuanshan cares about them? What are you doing? But now, you have nothing around you, and you will be a hostage if you go there. Once he takes you to blackmail the court, what can you do? What can you do to reassure me? You go?"

Seeing that she didn't say a word, Cen Zhu was so anxious that he pressed her on the bed, shook his shoulders and threatened: "You listen to me, you are not allowed to go. If you dare to go, I will... I will..."

She couldn't find any threatening words for a while, and got stuck there, not knowing what to say.

Li Jingchen stared at her very gently, "What about you?"

"I will break up with you!" Cen Zhu said what he meant? He hugged her tightly in his arms, as if someone would snatch her away if he didn't do so.Li Jingchen felt her attachment, and kissed her pink cheek affectionately: "Don't worry, I'll be fine. Behind me is the entire imperial court, and Yurui's army of nearly a million! Tu Yuanshan doesn't care How dare you take me."

"Don't mention the bullshit imperial court, they? They're all a bunch of villains who have fallen into trouble! I wish you had an accident, so I can take the opportunity to rise to power." Cen Zhu defended her injustice, and then acted foolishly, pleading in every possible way: "Li Jingzhu, just treat it for me, you Don't go, okay? I'll be worried if you go? I don't want anything to happen to you. I won't be able to bear it!"

"But if I don't go, they? May? Really take over. Cen Zhuo, do you understand me?"

Li Jingchen patted her on the back and told her seriously what he had wanted to say to her for a long time: "If I lose my country, I will be eclipsed, and if I lose you, I will be in pain. Please never let me do this How about a choice? I'm going to be very embarrassed."

Cen Zhuo had a sore nose and didn't speak anymore, she knew that no matter what she said, Li Jingzhu would not change her original intention.This is also the reason why she chose to fall in love with her without hesitation.But she really didn't want to lose her.In her eyes, the world has been changing for generations, the destiny changes, the host has its own reincarnation, and there is never a vacancy for reincarnation.There will be no one Li Jingchen missing, and she only has this one Li Jingchen.I don't know how many merits and virtues I have cultivated, and I have endured several lifetimes of asceticism in exchange for it. Once it is lost, it will not be there again in this life?

In the early morning of the next day, Li Jingchen set off, left the capital, and headed for northern Xinjiang.

Before leaving, she looked back at the majestic and towering city in the morning light, thinking of the ordinary people in the city who had just woken up and were eating breakfast in the streets and alleys, thinking of the heart that was still snoozing in a dream? Master, thinking of her last night Emotionally chanting, the duplicity in front of you? No, "Don't think that if you say this, I will agree to let you go. Jiangshan may be very important to you, but to me, it is worthless. I don't care. "

Countless nostalgia and reluctance.

But she has no choice.

Just like what another person said to her a few hours ago, "Sister Huang, I didn't want to argue with you, and I never dared to disagree? I think, but I have no choice! I hope you will take care of yourself!" It doesn't matter if you say he is sincere and frank, or you say he is hypocritical, since the matter has come to this point, they all know that there is no turning back!

Cen Zhu slept until the afternoon and didn't wake up. Li Jingzhu seemed to deliberately not let her experience the parting scene, so he had no restraint throughout the night and used a lot of energy.Her body has just recovered, how can she stand up to such a toss.After waking up, her waist was sore and weak, and her whole body was weak. Seeing people leaving the building, she dressed in a panic and asked Lao Chen to go outside to inquire about the news. When she learned that the royal guard of honor had left the East City Gate in the morning, she was unwilling to give up? He called a carriage and went to the gate of the city. Looking at the horizon, he lingered until sunset.

When Chuan Feiyan knocked on her door, she happened to see her crying, with the expected speechless expression: "It was really expected, what are you doing, Cen Zhu? Look, you are worthless Look, it’s the same as when I was in school? It hasn’t changed at all!!”

Cen Zhu hurriedly wiped away his tears: "Senior Sister, why are you here?"

"Your Highness asked me to come," Chuan Feiyan entered the room with a hostess attitude, "She knew you would be sad, so she asked me to comfort you. Here." He handed her a hand. Pa, Cen Zhu pushed away in disgust: "I don't want it!"

"Don't pull it down," Chuan Feiyan was angry and wanted to laugh, looked at the plate of melon seeds on the table, grabbed them and started to nibble, "I'm not talking about you, Cen Zhu, you are a big man, why hide like a woman?" Are you crying in the room? Those who didn’t know thought you were a woman. I’m curious, how do you two get along? How did you get along? She coaxed you in the first place, but you look like a cute little wife? "

Cen Zhu blushed, "Are you here to comfort me, or to mock me?"

"Of course I'm here to comfort you." Chuan Feiyan spat out a mouthful of melon seeds, "By the way? I'm trying to make fun of you. Who told me to be friends with His Highness after drinking, so I must finish what she told me. To be honest , when His Highness first spoke, I was stunned and I was embarrassed to refuse, you know? He is a crown prince, how many important national affairs are waiting to be arranged, and he is distracted? To take care of you. Which woman can? Do it? She is like this, It’s the ultimate! You’re good, you’re just making things worse for others. In my opinion, you’re a poor talent when you’re a man, it’s better to change your career and become a woman!”

Cen Zhu was speechless and didn't care about her.

Before dinner, Chuan Feiyan babbled again, "Hey, Cen Zhu, do you remember when you were in school? When Yi Ting went to propose marriage to my father, what did my father say? He said that compared to Yi Ting Ting, I would rather let me marry you. He also said that our personalities are more suitable to be together. I didn’t think so at the time, but now that I think about it, it makes sense. Your personality like a little daughter-in-law is really suitable for me. , why don't we just live together! Don't harm your siblings."

Cen Zhu was so angry that his face turned red, "Senior Sister, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll go to my senior brother to file a complaint!" Chuan Feiyan laughed loudly, and seemed to be in a pretty good mood.Cen Zhu expected that Jiang Yiting had been running here for three or two days these days, and finally coaxed the elder sister to change her mind, so he took the opportunity to say: "Senior sister, when do you plan to go back with senior brother?"

Chuan Feiyan rested her chin and said: "Not busy, it's only spring now, wait for the Dragon Boat Festival, anyway, your yard is big enough for us and my wife to live in! What's the matter? You want to drive me away?"

"It's not me who kicked you out, it's senior brother, it's pitiful to be alone. There is also Xiaoxia, who also wants to go home to see the old lady."

"He's not pitiful, he hasn't heard enough of Avon Court's little songs!" Chuan Feiyan said with a sarcasm, "Don't even try to drive me away, I have a task to do, I have to watch for my younger siblings You, save those? Those Yingyingyanyan sticking to your body."

It's been two months since Li Jingbin left, and the first month brought some good news, such as Beijiang's promise to pay a quarter of taxes.In the second month, Duan Duan had some bad news.The most serious thing is the emergence of military rations? Difficulties in turnover, and the possibility of mutiny in the northern Xinjiang army?Cen Zhu was heartbroken when he heard that. He was burning with anxiety.

During this time, she was first recommended by Pan Suiyong to be the deputy chief examiner of Chunwei.After that, he returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an errand.The news about the East Palace was revealed to her by Chuan Feiyan.Chuan Feiyan was really conscientious as a courier, in order to bring news to Cen Zhuo, she did not hesitate to go home and stay there intermittently.Every time Jiang Yiting went home, he had to report the news about the East Palace to her. Due to the critical situation, everyone in Jiang's family consciously restrained their internal conflicts and made a consensus to the outside world.The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, which used to be a mess, has also improved a lot. For example, when Jiang Yiting goes out to listen to a little song or something, the people who yell at him are not only Chuan Feiyan, but also Mrs. Jiang.In her eyes, the empress dowager was born and died at the front line, and who was at the back seeking pleasure and messing with life? Anyone who was a bad talent would be beaten to death with a cane.Moreover, Mrs. Jiang and Chuan Feiyan maintained a highly unified position for the first time in terms of dislike of those dirty rumors in the capital.In her words: "They're all a bunch of scholars who don't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt? See, you can fight a war if you want to? Don't even weigh the two pieces of meat on your own kidneys, which are not enough for those people in the north It’s between the teeth! I’m so emotional, I don’t know why!” Chuan Feiyan almost went crazy laughing.When she ran to the Cen Mansion twice every three days, the old lady also uncharacteristically adopted an acquiescing attitude, because in her opinion, Chuan Feiyan went to the Cen Mansion to inquire about news, but it was unexpected? It was the opposite.Chuan Feiyan was the most relaxed one in the happy place.

The situation took a turn for the worse? In mid-May, the East Palace had not received the swan goose letter from the Crown Princess for more than ten consecutive days.Like Shen Xi and Hua Jinpeng, Li Jingchen seemed to have disappeared without a word.At the end of May, Beijiang openly issued an order to kill Ji Wenkui, who had been relegated to the Southwest, and the slogan of "Thirds of Great Sadness and Weeping Blood". In the meantime, the whole country was in an uproar!The Southwest Cheng family responded quickly, arresting Ji Wenkui in less than three days, escorting him to the capital and handing him over to Li Pinghong for disposal.But because the reward offered by Beijiang was too high, Ji Wenkui was ambushed and killed before he was halfway there, and his head was confiscated by the thieves. Seven days later, he was hung on the tower in Beijiang.It is said that when Li Pinghong saw the incomplete body of Ji Wenkui, he suffered a stroke on the spot, vomited blood and passed out.After waking up, Li Pinghong, who was furious with Longyan, quickly summoned civil servants and military generals from all over the country and announced a crusade against the rebellious officials in northern Xinjiang.

But Lan Lie, who originally supported the crusade the most, stood on the opposite side of the king at this moment, and said righteously: "Now? The army is being raised, and the court doesn't take it for granted. How can it be defeated?"

"What's wrong? Could it be that Marquis Wen Song's words were bewitched by the evil words of the rebellious ministers and thieves! Tu Yuanshan fabricated falsehoods to slander the emperor, which is a great treason, shouldn't he launch an army to crusade?" Loyal? Geng Geng, do not believe that Li Pinghong will carry out the assassination?

But this is something that is obvious to the bald man. Marquis Wen Song didn't bother to argue with him, and still insisted that he should not raise troops. The Empress Dowager is still in northern Xinjiang, once the imperial court launches a crusade, won't it put the Empress Dowager in danger?"

Li Pinghong had a gloomy face, "You don't have to worry about the matter of food storage, I will take care of it myself. As for the empress dowager, how can she stay out of the matter when your father is humiliated. On the day when I seek thieves, she will make a clean break with the thieves." , Hurry back to the capital."

"What is this?" Lan Lie was inconceivable, "Once the court raises troops, how can the empress dowager escape back to the capital? The empress dowager's safety is at stake? Yurui Guozuo, how can it be so childish?"

"Wen Songhou, pay attention to your words and deeds, I am Yurui Guozuo! As long as I am here, Yurui Guozuo will not be broken!" Li Pinghong clutched his chest, coughing continuously, and the trembling sounds that he brought out every word Everyone's ears were numb, "At the beginning, she ignored the obstacles of all the ministers and insisted on going to the northern border to speak for the rebels. You all saw it with your own eyes, and I failed to keep it. Now, I am also half responsible for this situation!"

Lan Lie couldn't believe that this is what a father can say, accusing his own son over and over again. The daughter deserves to be blamed, and it seems that she has done enough to take half of the responsibility for her.If he had believed half of it before, the emperor didn't really want to change the prince, but just wanted to sharpen the empress dowager.Then? At this moment, he couldn't believe it.Disappointment, only endless disappointment, as if the scene from [-] years ago was repeated? If Li Pinghong still had difficulties at the beginning, but his character was weak and he wanted to keep the overall situation safe, now, in his view, his aging body There are only four old characters left, cold-blooded and ruthless!

"Then what about the other two borders? How does the emperor plan to appease them? Let them stay out of it?!"

"This is what I'm going to announce next. I have decided to marry Southwest, and King Cheng will marry the prostitute daughter of the Cheng family. This matter is only about the rebellious Tu family in the northern Xinjiang, and has nothing to do with the other two borders. When will I start a war? I will issue an order to appease you, do you have anything else to ask?"

Lan Lie had nothing to say, "If the emperor insists on raising troops to hunt down the thieves, I will not stop you. I only have one request. I beg the emperor to send his ministers to lead the army and hand over the heads of the thieves to Qingshan to comfort the ancestors!"

Li Pinghong's expression calmed down, "I forgot that Marquis Wen Song used to carry a three-foot light sword to kill thieves back then. Well, as long as we? Monarchs and ministers work together? There will be no obstacles we can't overcome."

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Finally wrote about the queen's counterattack!Too long!Next, start the Shuangwen Daguai mode...