Chapter 96: Four taels to make a huge difference (one)

It was almost noon after coming out of the Eastern Palace. The warm sunshine shone on the magnificent glazed tiles of the imperial city, shining with dazzling light. The sunshine shone warmly on Li Qing. He looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, as if he had been a human being for two lifetimes.

Cui Qiao followed from behind and patted him on the shoulder, "Congratulations to Li for joining the army. Do you know that the prince rarely meets low-ranking officials. Today, not only meets you, but also the prince's words, he values ​​you very much, and has a bright future!"

Li Qing glanced at him with a squinted eyes and became secretly alert to him. He walked out of the Hall of Hell today and realized that Zhang Qiu Jianqiong would never order him to see the prince. Zhang Qiu would not have expected that he would have decided without permission when he saw the prince. Seeing that he was gentle and kind, he could not have thought that his heart was so cruel. Although Li Qing was dissatisfied, he still smiled and thanked: "This is all the cultivation of Lord Cui, and Li Qing dare not forget it."

"Haha! Not bad! Not bad, you can't see arrogance, you don't forget your roots, and you can teach me!"

Cui Qiao's son is also the chief clerk, and he is about the same age as Li Qing. However, every time he meets the prince, the prince will never ask more than three questions. This is still for his own sake. Others cannot even see the prince. However, just now, the prince asked about Li Qing's life experience and his knowledge of the county. He asked about the details one by one. This was something he had never seen before. Cui Qiao was both jealous and surprised. He knew that the prince was interested in this person.

"I want to hold a banquet tonight to invite Li Zhanjun to have a simple meal. I wonder if Li Zhanjun is free?"

Just now, when Li Qing told the prince that he was an orphan, Cui Qiao became interested. He had a daughter, seventeen years old this year, and had a pretty face, but a little indulgent. If Li Qing could be invited to the house, if this half of her son had a bright future, his son would be able to benefit from it.

Unexpectedly, Li Qing apologized: "Tonight I have promised another uncle that I may have to let down the good wishes of the Lord."

"No! No! It's OK tomorrow. Wherever you live, I'll send a car to pick you up tomorrow."

Cui Qiao smiled intimately, his eyes were slightly bent down in the shape of a crescent moon. Li Qing was moved and felt that his smile was so familiar. He thought carefully and suddenly realized that Jian'er! Jian'er's smile was exactly the same as him. His surname was Cui. Li Qing was so shocked that his heart stopped beating. The word engraved on the jade pendant of Jian'er was the word Cui? Could it be that

"Mr. Cui, I want to take the initiative to ask about it."

Li Qing's heart was so itchy that he could no longer suppress it, regardless of whether this was the imperial city, nor whether it would bring about Cui Qiao's painful memories. Anyway, he just wanted to know the secret of Lian'er's life experience.

But Cui Qiao didn't want to pay attention to him anymore. He stared straight ahead, his face changed drastically. Regardless of his solemn appearance, he saw a large cauldron next to him, holding a wardrobe and a waist. He quickly came to the back. While protruding his head to peek, he waved to Li Qing repeatedly.

Seeing that the grand third-rank Dali Temple Minister was so embarrassed, Li Qing looked like he was playing a slingshot game for a child. He couldn't help but look at him. A large carriage was parked fifty steps ahead of him. A hundred guards were on guard. An official with two chicken feathers on his head stood in front of the car and nodded and bowed. His face was full of gratitude. Li Qing didn't care who the carriage was, but he would not forget the two chicken feathers. He couldn't help but reach out and touched his cheek. The whip marks had scabs, but the whip marks in his heart could never heal.

"Li joined the army, I will take a step first, remember to come to my mansion tomorrow."

Cui Qiao seized the opportunity and greeted Li Qing quietly, bent down and walked quietly along the palace wall. He accidentally stepped on the official robe and almost fell to bite the mud. Seeing his nervous and clumsy appearance, he had no way to ask him about the curtain, so he had to do it.

He suddenly became interested in the carriage again. While walking, he looked carefully. The carriage was spacious and exquisite, with jade inlaid with silver and gold ribbons. Even the coachman was wearing brocade robe and leather belts. Looking at the situation, it should be at least the prince. Li Qing suddenly felt a sharp gaze shot from the carriage. The gaze was strange and familiar, as if he had been waiting for him for many years, as if he had seen through him. He actually felt a terrified feeling. Suddenly, he already understood who was sitting in the carriage.

The carriage was Li Linfu, who was about to enter the palace to meet the saint. He used Li Longji's nature to be very happy with the excellence last night to successfully persuade Li Longji and considered sending Li Lin's daughter to the Khitan marriage. However, he received a report early in the morning that Li Lin went to the East Palace first, and then went to the palace to see His Majesty. He was afraid that this matter would be wrong, so he decided to explain the benefits to the emperor again. He happened to meet Li Huaijie who was preparing to return to the north in the imperial city.

Li Linfu caught a glimpse of Cui Qiao who was walking along the palace wall at a glance. He couldn't help but sneer, and expressed his loyalty to him the day before yesterday, but today I'm here to the East Palace. The guy with two faces and three swords, let's see how I deal with you.

He saw Cui Qiao running away, and then turned around to listen to Li Huaijie's gratitude.

"This time I returned north, I will build a sacred temple for my Khitan children to worship all seasons."

When Li Huaijie learned that the beauty was born, he relied on his kindness to help him. He was so excited that he burst into tears. He wished he could bend over to be a watchdog in the prime minister's mansion and drive him to be the sooner or later.

"There is no need to live in the temple. You just need to have the Emperor and Governor Li, are you listening to me?"

"Governor Li, are you listening to me?"

Li Huaijie was distracted. He suddenly saw Li Qing from the gap between the carriage. The two of them looked at each other. He recognized that what he saw next to the princess yesterday was not a servant.

"Does he also want to kiss the princess's beauty?"

Li Huaijie felt the pride of a winner. He suddenly had a strong impulse. He wanted to hold Li Jingyan and walk slowly on the Zhuque Street, so that all Li Jingyan's suitors could take a look. The coldest princess in the Tang Dynasty belonged to the Khitans, hehe! Why not? I will come next year.

Li Linfu could be distracted by himself, but he did not allow others to be distracted by him. He was secretly angry with Li Huaijie's rudeness, and he actually dared to talk to him. When he saw Li Huaijie staring in front of him, his eyes were proud, excited, and a longing smile. He couldn't help but look back and look back from the translucent gauze curtain. Seeing that this person's rank was very low, he dared to look at his carriage unscrupulously. Didn't he know that Li Linfu, who was under the Tang Dynasty and above ten thousand people, was sitting in this carriage that was surrounded by hundreds of policemen?

"Governor Li, who is this person?"

Li Huaijie was shocked to realize that he had lost his composure and quickly leaned over and replied, "Reporting his kindness, I don't know this person either. I just saw it next to Princess Pingyang yesterday. I was very rude, so I had an impression."

"Hmph!" Li Linfu snorted coldly. Needless to say, this is another suitor of Princess Pingyang, an arrogant and ignorant junior.

"Come!"

"I'm here!" Seven or eight guards responded with their hips on their hips at the same time.

Li Linfu pointed at Li Qing and said, "Boll that guy out of the imperial city!"

In the imperial study room of the Daming Palace, Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty was holding hands Zhuo Li, staring silently at the sky, the white clouds gathered together, just like his life; his life had been gone for a hurry, with many things going on, and the prosperity, decline, honor and disgrace, and like the white clouds in the sky. All he saw was the gathering in front of him.

People say that he is 60 years old and he is not, but Li Longji is not. He has too many troubles. His thousands of miles of land and neighbors are unstable, there are troubles in Tubo, the rise of Uighurs, and the Nanzhao are in great success. However, all these troubles are not as good as the position behind him. He has been the emperor for thirty-three years, and it has been too long, and the successor is already impatient.

On his desk, there are two records of the prince's daily life, and the ink marks on the paper are not dry. One is a record in Mingde Hall, and the other is a record in the inner palace of the prince. He doesn't care about the records in Mingde Hall, Li Lin appeals, Cui Qiao tells his job, and a small ninth-rank chief clerk is talking.

Li Longji's interest was clearly written in the ninth-rank chief clerk. In another record of the Prince's Inner Palace, the same person was clearly written. The same person was the same person, but his identity became the military officer of the Jiannan Jiedushi, as if he was a magician. Even Li Longji became interested in this person. Zhang Qiu and Qiong's special envoy intercepted Jing Tie who was smuggled to Tubo. He was arrested by the prime minister last night and escaped the silence of the prince. Countless wonderful clips outlined a living legend. Li Qing, a small businessman who invented snow mud, and the ninth-rank chief clerk of Yibin County, Li Longji, who loves opera, actually had the interest to chat with this person.

"Your Majesty Li Youzhang asked for a meeting."

Gao Lishi's sharp voice came from behind him. Gao Lishi was burly, but he was as careful as his hair. Before Li Longji could speak, he had carefully collected the two daily records of the undried ink.

Li Longji slowly turned around. Although he was sixty years old, the years not only did not bring him aging, but instead added maturity and majesty. Li Heng looked quite similar to him, with a straight nose and wide mouth and long eyebrows and eyes. However, Li Longji's eyes were cold and had a magical power that looked through the hearts, giving people a shrewd but cunning and deep feeling. He was a typical example of a talented and magnanimous style.

"Supreme him in."

After a moment, under the guidance of two little eunuchs, Li Linfu entered the imperial study of the Emperor of Tang Dynasty. He calmed down and was careful step by step, completely losing the arbitrary Zhang Quan on his usual occasions.

"My minister Li Linfu pays homage to His Majesty the Emperor."

Li Longji glanced at him and remembered what the prince’s daily life just said, Li Daofu, this clan’s brother, covered up and smuggled, and he used his troops to arrest the special envoy Zhang Qiu. He couldn’t help but sneer secretly, but his face was not revealed at all, and he was still as kind as usual, and he smiled casually: “No gifts, sit down!”

Li Longji did not discuss the things done by his subordinates, but instead discussed the things on people. He only looked at his needs. Big things can turn into small things, and small things can turn into big things. He did not dislike factional struggles among his ministers. On the contrary, he also encouraged such power struggles. Only when the struggles among court officials could he grasp the balance of power. This is the power trick of the emperor, and he would not allow any force that threatens himself to exist, especially the prince.

In the 25th year of Kaiyuan, Zhang Jiuling's resignation of prime minister was recorded as being demoted for defending Yan Tingzhi, the Minister of the Secretariat. In fact, this is not the case. The real reason for Zhang Jiuling's resignation of prime minister was that he strongly opposed the abolition of crown prince Li Ying. He did not understand Li Longji's true intention of the arrangements for the prince, nor did he expect that Li Longji did not need the prince at all.

Li Linfu's butt was gently hung by the chair, and his face squeezed out a 120,000-strong sincerity, saying, "Your Majesty, I am here today to marry the Khitan. I haven't finished my words last night, so please report it carefully."

Li Longji smiled faintly, "Tell me! I just listen."

Early in the morning, Li Lin, the Sining King, entered the palace and asked Li Longji to cancel the arrangement for Princess Pingyang to marry for the sake of King Ning. When he was moved, he burst into tears. Li Longji knew that Li Huaijie was cruel and was grateful to his elder brother for giving up his position. He was a little shaken.

"I just met the governor of Songmo in the imperial city, and only then did I know that Li Huaijie was deeply in love with Princess Pingyang. I was wondering why my Celestial Empire wanted to marry the Khitan, it was nothing more than to make the Khitan surrender to our Celestial Empire forever, so that the Khitan land would always belong to His Majesty the Emperor. If this is the case, if Princess Pingyang was married, wouldn't it be able to influence Li Huaijie more deeply, and let her bathe the emperor's kindness on every Khitan person and make every Khitan person surrender to His Majesty, just like Princess Wencheng married westward. So according to the old minister, if she wanted to transform into a Khitan, she would have to go."

Li Linfu said while peeking at Li Longji's face. Seeing that he was hesitant in his eyes, he knew that he had a knot yet resolved. He smiled and said happily for him: "It is human nature that King Sining does not want his daughter to marry north. If it is my daughter, I will not want to. After all, the north is bitter and cold, but there is no reason for her daughter not to marry. Li Huaijie is also a hero. Marrying him does not humiliate the princess. Besides, the princess is just as rich and fed in the north. What does Kuhan in the north have to do with her? The emperor will give grace to let the princess go back to Beijing to visit her father often."

Li Longji stood up and took two steps back and forth, "What the Prime Minister said makes sense, but it is not in line with the etiquette system to let the princess marry north. I am worried that the court will oppose it."

Li Linfu sneered in his heart, "Etiquette system? If you want to make your wife a concubine, is it in line with the etiquette system? You just feel that it is a pity to marry the first beauty of the royal family to the little Khitan."

He had already made plans and stood up and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm blunt, now Tubo is in a state of being in a state of military operation, and the court should focus its energy on Tubo. If something happens to the north, I'm worried that it will affect my Tubo strategy, so I'm sacrificing a princess for peace in the north. I think it's worth it."

Li Linfu's last sentence moved Li Longji, yes! What is the tears of his nephew, what is the kindness of his elder brother? Only the country and country of the Tang Dynasty are forever protected is true.

"I understand, let me think about it again."

Li Linfu's heart finally came to this point. It was a foregone conclusion that Li Jingyan's marriage north was married. Who else in the world can change Li Longji's determination to maintain the country, "Li Lin! Li Lin, I'll let you taste the consequences of going against me!"

"I want to discuss with the emperor about the Lantern Festival"

"If you want to change Li Longji's determination, there is only one person in the world who can do it."

Li Qingzheng sat in a snack stall, eating noodles while thinking quickly. Just now, Li Linfu ordered his subordinates to beat his stick out of the imperial city. Even though he ran fast, he still got two sticks on his body. "Li Linfu! Li Linfu, I want you to understand what consequences will be if you don't kill me. And Li Huaijie, I won't be in vain for that whip. I will first give you a silence."

I remember Yang Mo said that they lived in Princess Taiping's old house, but where was Princess Taiping's old house? Li Qing looked at the darkness. He sucked the last bite of noodle soup dry, patted his stomach, and smiled at the old couple who set up the noodle stall and said, "Two old men, I would like to ask where Princess Taiping's old house is?"

The old man was enthusiastic, and he pulled Li Qing and pointed at the front and said, "Princess Taiping's old house is in Xingdaofang. You walk forward for about three miles and see that there is only one stone beast at the gate."

"Thank you!"

Li Qing took out the money to pay the bill, but found that he had no money. The money was in the hut. When he saw the prince, Yinzi was searched and had not been paid back. The old man saw his embarrassment and smiled and said, "Young man, go! When will it be sent again? If there is no one, just treat me as a treat."

Li Qing was ashamed and bowed to the old man and said, "Thank you for treating me to noodles. I will come back in a few days."
Chapter completed!