Chapter 193 The First Spring Thunder

The next day, the Honglu Temple informed him of the Tubo envoy Dazha Lugong and informed him of the Tang Dynasty's decision to remove the governor of Shazhou.

The news that Li Qing was dismissed was like wings, spreading throughout the court and the country in an instant, and was widely publicized by well-informed people, which was even more shocking than when he was promoted.

Some people sighed, but they were more excited, shouting that the sky had eyes, and a person without background and without fame could actually reach the third rank in just one year, which really made too many people jealous.

Yang Guozhong was even more excited. He hated Li Qing's development from the bottom of his heart. He was a dignified uncle, but he was not as fast as an outsider. Especially when he knew that Li Qing had robbed the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, this jealousy became even stronger.

Now that Li Qing has finally been dismissed, Yang Guozhong wished he could rush to Xingqing Palace and shout, "Your Majesty, you are so wise!"

‘The winter wind was so proud that the horse's hooves were fast,’ Yang Guozhong was riding in the imperial city lightly. He was humming a small song in his mouth, but his mind was recalling the wonders of Duan Shiniang, the top player in Qunfangyuan last night.

With the money pack, his frivolous nature was undoubtedly exposed. He sang every night, was extremely arrogant and extravagant, and he just wished he could make up for all the regrets he had lost in the past.

Of course, political achievements are still needed, but when his first substantial impeachment memorial was thrown out, it aroused an unprecedented rebound. It seemed that everyone was enemies of him overnight. Thanks to the newly defected Zhao Yue's timely proposal to make him public statements. The voice of impeachment gradually subsided, and Li Linfu took care of the Ministry of Personnel, he was able to overcome this difficulty without any danger.

When he arrived near the Secretariat, he saw a carriage in front of him turned out from the office and was driving with him in a hurry. Yang Guoguozhong recognized that it was the carriage of the left prime minister Chen Xilie. At this moment, he was in a good mood and was anxious to find someone to share this joy. Chen Xilie, who had always hated Li Qing, was undoubtedly a soulmate.

Yang Guozhong urged him to go forward and go side by side with the carriage. He turned his head and smiled at the car window: "The left prime minister is still in the court for the New Year, and he is worthy of being a model for all officials!"

The curtain of the car was pulled up, revealing a gloomy face, but the smile at the corners of his eyes had not faded. You can imagine how he smiled happily in the carriage just now.

"Yang Zhongcheng is back from measuring the land?"

Chen Xilie said coldly: "My homeland occupies two parts of the neighbors, so Yang Zhongcheng might as well put me first in the memorial."

Yang Guozhong didn't understand why he had only impeached officials and businessmen, but he actually brought out land issues. Although he didn't understand political affairs very much, he also knew that land issues were sensitive and could not be touched.

He laughed dryly, "The Zuo Prime Minister is joking. Today is the official on duty, so come and take a look."

As the topic changed, Yang Guozhong was excited again and said with a smile: "Can the left prime minister know about Li Qing's affairs?"

I thought Chen Xilie would look at each other and laugh with him, but although Chen Xilie hated Li Qing, he did not bother to share his inner compliment with Yang Guozhong. In his opinion, Yang Guozhong is a villain and is just gloating. How can he compare with his elegant and interesting things? I am just a little different from Li Qing's political views and profound!

"Yang Zhongcheng, don't you hear that those who want to discuss others must first discuss themselves. They are both ministers of the same dynasty, so why bother to take the blame for the injustice?"

He shook his head contemptuously, "Forget it, this is a gentleman's words. It's useless to tell you. Chen Zhong, speed me up!"

The car curtain was pulled down, as if the mistress of a bankrupt businessman was looking like the face of a bankrupt businessman. He ignored Yang Guozhong, urged the carriage to speed up, and left in the dust.

Yang Guozhong hit a big nail and couldn't help but stare at the carriage away, "Ph!" and cursed: "A bullshit gentleman, hypocrite!"

He turned his horse's head depressedly and headed towards his censorate. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the bureau, he saw a group of guards surrounding a carriage and about to leave.

Yang Guozhong suddenly panicked and shouted, "Li Xiangguo, Li Xiangguo stay!"

He almost rolled and crawled down from the horse, with one foot hanging in the stirrup, almost causing him to fall to a big horse. When Li Linfu heard Yang Guozhong's shouting, he ordered the carriage to stop.

Although it was a New Year's vacation, every temple had people on duty. Li Linfu was the right prime minister of the Secretariat and the ruling minister. It was his duty to maintain the normal operation of the court. He inspected various departments every day. Today he went to the Censorate, but found that there were only a few small officials chatting in it, and there was not one of the Censors.

When Li Linfu saw Yang Guozhong approaching, his face slightly darkened and he rebuked slightly: "Yang Zhongcheng, you are specializing in correcting the etiquette and inspecting with the original rules. But not only do you not follow me to inspect the various departments, but you come late by yourself. I heard that you stay in brothels every night, you need to check, otherwise what kind of face do you have to impeach others?"

Yang Guozhong was sweating profusely and bowed to explain: "I had arrived early, but I was called by the left prime minister, so I came late. Please forgive me for my crime!"

"Is Chen Xilie? What did he ask you for?"

Yang Guozhong responded casually, but Li Linfu wanted to ask the truth. Helplessly, he had to answer: "It was because of Li Qing's dismissal. When Long Yan was furious, his subordinates and the left prime minister were quite worried about him."

Li Linfu sneered slightly, "You are gloating!"

He sighed secretly that Li Longji dismissed Li Qing just to perfunctory Tubo and gave them an explanation. He sent troops privately. Without him, Li Longji's acquiescence, would Li Qing dare to send troops? He killed Tubo Zanpu and died of Chide Zuzan. Li Longji was most happy. Now it was so popular that his political life was over, and no one could see the meaning of Li Qing's four words "stay in Beijing and wait for use".

'It seems that the Ministry of Revenue cannot reach its own hands.' Li Linfu couldn't help but be deeply worried. Although Li Qing's energy was still small at this time and could not pose a threat to him, but without long-term plans, he would have to worry immediately. If he was allowed to become a big shot, he would sooner or later die at his own hands.

But at this time, Li Linfu had no time to take care of Li Qing. Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming were his top priority. This was something Li Longji personally told him. Seeing that Huangfu Weiming had finished his report, he would go back in a few days. He had to hurry up!

Li Linfu looked at Yang Guozhong and knew that he was eager to get rid of the disadvantage of the failure of the impeachment case in the official and business case. He was anxiously looking for credit everywhere. If he didn't make good use of him, when would he wait?

Thinking of this, Li Linfu smiled and said, "I have a family dinner tonight. Yang Zhongcheng has not arrived at my mansion after the New Year. Why don't you come and have a few drinks together? What do you think?"

A sentence reminded Yang Guozhong that he forgot to greet the prime minister. He couldn't help but slapped his forehead and hurriedly bowed and replied: "I will definitely come tonight! I will definitely come!"

Unfortunately, Li Linfu didn't know about Dong Yanguang. If he knew, he would have judged that Huangfu Weiming was already a fish on the chopping board at this time, so he was not in a hurry.

Huangfu Weiming was like a fish placed on the chopping board for slaughter at this time. He was in panic all day long. His half-white hair turned white overnight. Since the king rarely betrayed and took his private equity army away, he knew that the situation was going to go. All this began when Li Longji ordered Li Qing to be the deputy envoy of Longyou. As soon as he left, Li Longji inserted into Dong Yanguang, and it was a dead end to go back.

He sat in the mansion every day, waiting for the army to come to search the house and arrest people, but ten days after the incident, Li Longji still had no movement. Huangfu Weiming's already desperate heart had a trace of luck. It might be that Li Longji could not catch him and wanted to rebel. Thinking about it, the same is true. Wang rarely leads troops but does not know the order. The order he issued was broken into three parts, and none of them was missing. The most critical one had been returned to his hands. Only the other two were obtained, and he could not guess his true intentions.

"Is this true?"

The fish on the chopping board struggled for a few times, eager to jump back to the pool, but he didn't know that Li Longji had not slaughtered him for a long time, just wanted to use him as bait to catch larger fish. The surroundings of his house were already covered with secret whistles.

Early in the morning, the gatekeeper came to report: "Master, the Eunuch Li outside the door is here again. I told him that the Master is not at home, but he just refused to leave. He is still waiting there, and it has been almost half an hour."

"Li Jingzhong is here again!" Huangfu Weiming jumped up suddenly. This was the third time that Li Heng had sent Li Jingzhong to his house.

"Don't worry about him, he can stand as long as he likes."

Huangfu Weiming took two steps at a time and hid in the study first. He didn't want Li Heng to know that the matter had failed, nor did he want to be implicated by him anymore. He guessed correctly that Li Jingzhong was indeed entrusted by the prince to find out the news. In the past few days, Huangfu Weiming seemed to have disappeared and there was no news. Prince Li Heng was anxious and sent people to Xianyang and Fengxiang to find out the news. The Huaqing Palace was even more peaceful, and the 20,000 troops were missing.

Li Heng became scared now. He only hoped that Huangfu Weiming had found something wrong and took the initiative to withdraw so that he could wash away the charge of forcing the palace. But hope did not represent the reality. What was going on? Huangfu Weiming himself must be found, but he had no words or any news. He disappeared with 20,000 troops. Prince Li Heng fell into deep fear and worry, and was in chaos. He gradually lost his mind and measure.

In the afternoon, the sky became silent and terrifyingly quiet. Large areas of thick black clouds had been scattered in the distant horizon, like lead-colored curtains. Now it began to expand and appeared on the treetops. Soon, the entire Chang'an City quickly became dark, and the sky seemed to be poured with ink. This is a sign before the heavy rainstorm that is common in summer, but it is too unusual to appear in winter.

In just a quarter of an hour, the sky was completely swallowed by the darkness. Li Qing stood in front of the window and stared at this unusual winter day. He seemed to have heard the rumbling thunder in the distance. The sound was getting closer and closer. Suddenly, a lightning bolt teared the darkness in the sky. Then, a crack of heaven and earth exploded above his head, and his ears seemed to be deaf.

"This is the first spring thunder this year."

Li Lin walked into the room and said a little surprised: "But Jingzhe has a few days left, and Chunlei will arrive first."

Li Qing closed the window, and the thunder immediately weakened. He smiled apologetically and said, "It's too late to greet Uncle Shi until today."

"It's good to come, sit down and talk first." Li Lin pulled two chairs and asked Li Qing to sit down.

He pondered for a moment, "I think it's quite strange to me when my nephew was removed from office this time. My nephew might as well tell me what's going on?"

"I'm back to Beijing."

Li Qing had a wry smile on his face. If he had known that Shazhou Governor had not been the governor for half a year, why would he have let Yan'er suffer the bluff? No wonder Li Longji took his family away. He picked up the teacup and sipped it carefully, and then smiled: "Uncle Shi can understand the emperor's layout."

"The deposed prince has been confusing recently. Some people say they want to depose it, while others say they only do it. Who can see through the emperor's mind?"

After stopping, Li Lin's eyes suddenly became extremely surprised, "Does my nephew know?"

Li Qing nodded, "I know I can't tell you, I just guessed it a little."

"That"

Li Lin really wanted to know that in the repeated power changes in the court, he could only expect the opportunity. To put it bluntly, only by guessing the emperor's thoughts first could the career of the official can be smooth, but such words were extremely sensitive. Will Li Qing tell him? His eyes were hesitant and full of hope, and he stared at Li Qing tightly.

Li Qing smiled faintly. He came to Li Lin's mansion today to support Zhang Qiu Jianqiong. Yesterday, Zhang Qiu Jianqiong came to him again and told Li Qing frankly that the emperor had decided to let him enter the capital and serve as the subordinate minister, that is, the left prime minister. Now Chen Xilie's position is, Chen Xilie was promoted to the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe and sent him out to the provincial government, while Li Qing was appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue and was sentenced to the governor (if the actual title is not added, the minister is also famous but not authorized).

Li Longji's layout is already very obvious. He used Zhang Qiu Jianqiong to restrain Li Linfu's party as the dominant party. The reason he used Zhang Qiu Jianqiong was not only because of his qualifications and abilities, but more importantly, Zhang Qiu Jianqiong had a close relationship with Prince Li Heng. He could easily accept the old prince's party members and then wipe out Huangfu Weiming, Wei Jian and other iron players. Even if the prince did not fall for the time being, he was completely undermined and became a real lonely person.

Li Longji's deep scheming and ingenious methods really amazed Li Qing, but he also vaguely guessed another meaning of Li Longji, allowing Zhang Qiu Jianqiong to alleviate the increasingly sharp land and financial conflicts. Li Qing knew that this was also the root cause of the Anshi Rebellion. If you want to avoid the Anshi Rebellion, you must face the difficulties and do your best to alleviate these two problems that everyone avoids. How could he not understand the profound meaning of the five words "Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Revenue"?

"The emperor wants to appoint Zhang Qiu Jianqiong as the left prime minister, and I will be the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the subordinate to balance the prime minister and the Kuomintang." Although his tone was light, Li Lin was still shocked. This was undoubtedly a major change in the power structure. Zhang Qiu Jianqiong as the left prime minister means the rise of a new party, and a series of personnel changes will occur. What about himself? Where should he stand on?

Before he could speak, Li Qing seemed to see through his thoughts, and then said solemnly: "I came to find Uncle Shi just to ask Uncle Shi to stand on our side."

Li Lin remained silent. After a while, he sighed and smiled bitterly: "My daughter has gone with you. Do I have any choice?"
Chapter completed!