A gust of wind blew the snow particles, and people on the road wrapped up their clothes tightly. Jiang An opened his hood and raised his face to face the wind and snow.

"We're home." He said, taking a deep breath and looking at the city faintly visible in the wind and snow in front of him, "It's been a long, long time since I left home."

The attendant next to him wrapped his cloak tightly: "It's less than three months."

They walked slowly when they went there, and the return journey only took them half a month.

Jiang An stretched out his hand to catch the wind and snow: "Is it not long since autumn passed to winter?"

The attendant smiled and stopped refuting him. He turned around and saw Liu Fan sitting in the car climbing out and taking off his hat to blow the wind. He shouted: "Mr. Liu, you are going to die, so you can't catch the cold."

Liu Fan was a man who kept his word. Even after leaving Linzhou, he still pretended to be sick, his face was always painted yellow, his body smelled bad, he insisted on lying in the car, and he was not afraid of the bumps and he was about to die.

He felt the cold wind with a yellow face and ignored the follower's laughter: "It will snow so early this winter, it will be very cold."

Jiang An smiled and said, yes, yes. As he spoke, the team continued to march. Although it was windy and snowy, there were still pedestrians coming and going on the road. There were also busy farmers in the fields, pulling sheets of wheat straw to cover the newly sprouted trees.

Green crops.

"People can freeze, but they can't."

"Hey, people can't bear the cold. I saw that your family brought a cart of grass to repair the house. Your family has more people in our village."

"Don't you have a bad look in your eyes? My family didn't take more!"

The farmers who were busy in the fields were not idle chatting and laughing, but they were not all so kind. One woman yelled at the top of her lungs, and she was just scolding someone who had taken over her field and wanted to go to the village.

Chief, I'm going to sue the official.

Pedestrians on the road include mules and horses, women in carriages, and children on their backs. You ask me to give way, and I ask you to watch the road. It is noisy, but when you see their group of soldiers and horses coming, look at Chu He again.

The flag of the Zhenwu Army was among them, and no matter who they were, they immediately moved to the side of the road.

In wars in troubled times, military law takes precedence. Anyone who dares to disturb the march will be severely punished.

This is one of the rules that everyone, men, women, old and young, rich, homeless and beggars knew under the rule of Mrs. Chu. Announcements would be posted in cities, villages and towns, and the officers would constantly repeat the preaching. It was also common to see people being arrested for labor violations in violation of laws and regulations.

or deported persons.

Mrs. Chu was kind, and all the cities and towns under her rule had porridge sheds, so that people who entered here could always have something to eat to survive. However, Mrs. Chu was also a person with a bad temper.

She likes a good reputation, likes everyone to praise her and respect her, and likes everyone to listen to her and obey her, so once someone doesn't listen to her, she will get angry, beat, or kill people.

The roadside was noisy and noisy, and the road was narrow and crowded with people, but the queue flowed smoothly without any stagnation.

Liu Fan took a deep breath of the cold wind and snow, this is the taste of living and working in peace and contentment.

Liu Fan pretended to be ill and went straight to the capital without getting up when he arrived at the palace. Li Minglou got the news and came to see him in person.

"It's nothing serious, it's just that I'm tired and tired." Liu Fan said in a hoarse voice with a yellow face and half-closed eyes, "Linzhou can't decide to return to Beijing for a while. I'm afraid that my wife will be anxious and uneasy, so she doesn't dare to fall ill in Linzhou.

Zhouzhou, save your breath and come back to report."

Li Minglou said: "Mr. Liu, you are as cautious as you started. Thank you for your hard work."

Now that he was back with a breath, she asked in detail what His Majesty's orders were, what arrangements the court had, and how they could help.

Liu Fan also answered in detail in one breath. Needless to say, what happened on the road was that he entered Linzhou and met the emperor. How the emperor praised and expressed his feelings, how the court celebrated, and what difficulties there were in returning to Beijing.

"The difficulties are not small, but they are not many. It is just one thing: how to stabilize Linzhou and the people."

"It's too difficult to travel, especially now that Ankang Mountain occupies the Hedong Road, like a knife across the road from Linzhou to the capital."

"As for helping, Madam, guarding the capital is the most important thing."

Li Minglou said: "Then let's wait for His Majesty and the court to arrange it. Mr. Liu, please take good care of yourself, and I will send others to the capital to follow your orders."

Liu Fandao: "Madam, no need. I have left some manpower over there to listen to the court's orders. If anything happens, they will report it back. The court is very busy now. Sending people there will only disturb them. Besides, those gentlemen are all

We are still in Linzhou, they are more familiar with the capital than we are, so it is convenient for the court to ask them if there is anything we need."

Since he said this, Li Minglou nodded: "Mr. Liu has made arrangements, so I won't worry."

Li Minglou asked the two doctors to watch here and left with others.

Although Liu Fan was pretending to be ill, it was almost as if he was really ill. It was a bumpy journey. He was a scholar after all. After taking medicine, he fell into a drowsy sleep. He didn't know how long he had slept. First he heard someone knocking on wood, and then again.

Someone rubbed hard on his face...

Liu Fan opened his eyes and saw Jiang Liang's old wrinkled face and his hand on his face.

"You can't wipe this thing off your face." Jiang Liang said, wiping it twice with his hand and holding it up in front of his eyes, "You actually have such skills."

Liu Fan ignored him and closed his eyes, but couldn't sleep anymore. Jiang Liang poked him.

"But your coffin is not well made."

"Do you want me to make a good one for you again?"

Liu Fan glared at him: "I'll find it for you first. You'll need it before me."

Jiang Liang laughed and twirled his sparse beard: "I don't know how. I'm not like you, asking for trouble."

This was about his trip to Linzhou. Liu Fan closed his eyes and ignored him, but Jiang Liang refused to let him go and poked him again.

"Stop sleeping, you've been sleeping for two days, tell me quickly, how is Linzhou?"

Liu Fan closed his eyes and said, "Didn't I tell you that Linzhou is very good and arrangements for returning to Beijing are in progress."

Jiang Liang smiled: "You are not me, don't imitate my lies. Linzhou is so good, why do you have to run back alive and don't let my wife send more people?"

Liu Fan opened his eyes, looked outside through Jiang Liang, and clenched his hands tightly under the quilt.

Because the emperor is cowardly, arrangements need to be made for his return to the capital, but he must issue an order.

Because Cui Zheng was hegemonic, he had the final say on what the emperor wanted to do and what the court wanted to do.

Because the generals are scheming, Xiang Yun is hiding his selfish motives, Li Mingyu is young and arrogant, and Zhang An and Wang Lin Yaowu are not showing off their power. What they want is not to quell the chaos and calm the people, but to seize power and greed for credit.

Because the imperial court is empty and the officials are doing nothing, thinking about the past and thinking about the future, but don't look at the present.

Because the family is domineering, sitting at the foot of the world, taking advantage of the chaos to keep slaves, infringe, seek huge profits, and be lawless.

Because the people over there are obviously alive, but they don’t want to live well, and they don’t know how to live well.

Liu Fan slowly told what he saw and heard in Linzhou.

Jiang Liang stopped laughing and asked: "Then you are saying that the imperial court and His Majesty cannot be allowed to return to Beijing now?"

Liu Fandao: "If we let them return to the capital now, they will cause chaos in the capital. If the thieves are not put down, the capital will be in danger."

When the emperor returns to the capital, the court is in power, and the aristocracy is running rampant, the laws and rules of the Chu State will inevitably disappear. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of powerful soldiers at that time, if Ankang Mountain comes to attack, the capital will most likely fall into chaos and chaos from within.

Taiyuan Prefecture is an example.

"I will give my wife some advice, and then I will personally dissuade Your Majesty."

Jiang Liang said: "You risked half your life to go to Linzhou and you understand this?"

Liu Fan looked at him, what did he mean?

Jiang Liang smiled: "I don't want to go to Linzhou, I know that."

Liu Fan ignored his bragging and fell asleep to recuperate his energy.

Jiang Liang poked again and found that he couldn't wake up. Liu Fan really fell asleep this time.

Jiang Liang didn't bother him anymore. He got up and walked out, standing in the corridor and distracted. Unexpectedly, the lady said not to worry, but it turned out that she really didn't need to worry. Seeing that Liu Fan had made this trip, he ran back early and changed his mind.

Let His Majesty return to Beijing.

However, the madam said that His Majesty also knew about it. He always felt that the madam had other arrangements, but he couldn't figure out what she meant...

He came to Mrs. Chu to report about Liu Fan. As soon as he walked to the front of Haitang Palace, he heard the sound of breaking teacups.

"That's too much!"

Yuanji's voice sounded angry.

Jiang Liang stopped and asked the guard in front of the palace gate: "Is there anything wrong here, madam?"

The guard didn't hide anything from him and lowered his voice: "Some news has just been sent from Linzhou."

That doesn't look like good news! Jiang Liang looked at Haitang Palace. This was the first time he heard Yuan Ji get so angry in front of his wife.

...

.......

There were not many people sitting in Haitang Palace, but in the face of the angry Yuanji, no one stood up to persuade him.

"Miss, we conquered the capital with great difficulty." Yuanji paced back and forth in the room, "Before they come back, we need to drive Miss away first."

Jiang Ming frowned: "I really didn't expect that the imperial court would have such an idea."

Fang Er said: "That Xiang Yunlai's intention is very clear. He is here to replace the young lady."

Li Minglou looked at the urgent letter in front of the case. As soon as Jiang An came back, he told her that the court had not yet decided when to return to the capital, but asked Xiang Yun to come to the capital first. As for what he was doing, he could not find out at that time.

Just now, Li Mingyu sent new news by urgent letter from Linzhou Feige. Xiang Yun set off in a very secretive way, claiming to be exploring the road. Xiang Yun kept the confidentiality to the extreme, and Li Mingyu tried his best not to pry.

He realized his true purpose, but at the same time as he set off with Xiang Yun, Cui Zheng wrote a letter to Han Xu in Shannan Road.

Han Xu was his home here. When Zhongli saw the letter, Cui Zheng asked Han Xu to come to Linzhou and also asked him to ask Mrs. Chu to also assist in garrisoning Linzhou.
To be continued...