Chapter 211 News from Nanzhao

The court officials returned to the government offices. The government affairs hall was quiet, but Li Qing did not leave. He followed a little eunuch to Li Longji's imperial study. The room was warm and dry. Li Longji, who had just changed into a regular dress, closed his eyes and rested after the imperial case. He was already in his sixties. His sexual intercourse every night made his elderly body unbearable, but Yang Yuhuan's skin seemed to be a purified morphine, which made him unable to suppress himself. In this way, the most direct consequence was that his energy could not bear the weight of state affairs.

At this moment, Li Longji's heart was extremely heavy. When did the prosperity of Kaiyuan prosperous times go away forever, as if he had torn off his gorgeous coat, leaving only a body full of illnesses, land annexation, financial crisis, government troops were corrupt, evil neighbors were enlarged, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, making him frown. When would there be a solution? Li Longji sighed a long time ago. Sometimes he really didn't want to care about it and didn't want to know anything.

If this hungry commotion had not caused the first incident of robbing food shops since he ascended the throne, he would have just ignored it, just like a company boss who dared not check the accounts. When the debt collector came to his house, he suddenly realized that the company was going to go bankrupt.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Li is here."

Gao Lishi's soft voice interrupted Li Longji's contemplation. He opened his eyes slightly and saw that Li Qing was kneeling in front of the imperial case.

"Li Aiqing is exempt from gifts!"

Li Longji smiled kindly, and he sat upright with difficulty, and said, "I just saw you in the lobby that I seemed to have not finished speaking. There are no people here. Just say anything if you have anything to say!"

Li Qing stood up and sorted out his thoughts: "This time, the biggest personnel allocation problem of reforming the Salt Law has been solved by Your Majesty, and there are important officials in the local area to inspect. I am very grateful, but there is another thing that needs to be made clear by Your Majesty."

"What's the matter?" Li Longji's tone suddenly elongated. Although he was very eager for a better finance, Li Qingruo relied on him in everything, which also made him feel unhappy.

Li Qing also heard the dissatisfaction in Li Longji's tone, but he had to say some things.

"Your Majesty, this salt law reform may involve the interests of some royal family members. I dare not make decisions without authorization. I would like to ask Your Majesty to make it clear."

Li Longji was silent. He could understand Li Qing's meaning. He also knew that many people in the royal family were suspected of reselling private salt. If they wanted to solve the problem of salt administration, these people could not avoid it.

On the one hand, it was the country of Li Tang and on the other hand, the interests of the Li clan, which really made it difficult for him to achieve both. After a while, Li Longji looked up at the ceiling and slowly said, "I am already old and I only hope that my children can be safe. Mr. Li, my territory in the Tang Dynasty is more than ten thousand miles. You might as well take a long-term view."

Li Longji's answer was expected by Li Qing, but he also heard some clues, and the implication was that he did not interfere with other royal families except the direct prince, but let him do it. This may be his way of both worlds!

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little awkward. After a moment of silence, Li Longji smiled and said, "I sent seven ministers to branch the world, supervise officials, and promote salt administration. Although you are the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, your energy is mainly focused on the new salt law and have no time to preside over the daily affairs of the Ministry of Revenue. Wei Jiansu still has to stay. The salt production area of ​​my Tang Dynasty is mainly in the Jianghuai area. The key to the success or failure of the salt administration is also there. So I have considered it again. It is more appropriate for you to go to Yangzhou. I will also be appointed as the Jianghuai Transportation Commissioner and Censor, and set off for Yangzhou in three days."

Li Qing understood that this was Li Longji who did not want to put the main battlefield of salt tax reform under his nose. In Yangzhou, even if he did too much, he could pretend to turn a blind eye. After all, this salt tax reform was related to whether the Tang Dynasty's finances could improve. How could Li Longji not care about it?

Thinking of this, Li Qing took a step forward, bowed and clasped his fists, and said in a deep voice: "My memory, follow the order!"

Li Longji nodded secretly. It seemed that Li Qing understood his good intentions, "I hope you can deliver good news early to comfort my heart."

After a pause, his face gradually became gloomy, his body leaned forward slightly, his cold eyes stared at Li Qing, and lowered his voice and said word by word: "You must remember that I sent you to be in charge of the salt administration not because you drafted this new law. I liked your calmness and decisiveness in the Western Regions. When you go to Yangzhou, you must use some thundering means, only success, not failure!"

"Please rest assured, your Majesty, I will never let down your Majesty's trust!"

Li Qing said goodbye, turned around and was about to leave, but Li Longji suddenly called him again. He found an 800-li quick news report from the imperial case and smiled at Li Qing, "I forgot to tell you something, news has just been heard from Yunnan."

Li Qing's heart became nervous for a moment. Wu Xingsu had been away for more than a month, but there was no news at all. It really made him worried. What is the situation in Nanzhao? So what about Awan now? Can mother and son be safe? He looked at Li Longji nervously and listened to his words without missing a word:

"I have adopted your suggestion and sent troops to Nanzhao in several ways to guard all the dangerous passes. When the Tubo people saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, they retreated back to Shenchuan, and Feng Jiayi also withdrew. However, because the king Yu Chengjie died in battle, his two younger brothers had an internal strife to fight for the throne. Wang Gong failed to mediate, so he and Queen Yilan designed to get rid of the last two sons of Piluoge. Now Nanzhao has actually established a queen. I heard that he is the youngest daughter of Piluoge who married to the Han clan."

Speaking of this, Li Longji glanced at Li Qing sideways and asked in a puzzled tone: "You are good at all in eastern Yunnan. You should know this woman! What kind of person is she? But she is biased towards my Tang Dynasty?"

Li Qing returned home in a daze, and Li Longji's words seemed to echo in his ears, "Nanzhao actually made a queen, and I heard that she was the youngest daughter of Piluoge who married to the Han clan."

He felt like he had a five-flavor bottle, sour, astringent, bitter, spicy, and all kinds of flavors were intertwined in his heart, "Awan became the queen of Nanzhao!"

Li Qing suddenly relaxed his heart, and the responsibility for A Wan to deal with was left behind, but the deep sense of loss filled his heart, becoming stronger and stronger, and the pain made him unable to suppress himself, and he swallowed his reason frantically. He walked back to his bedroom like a walking corpse, and instinctively took out a string of gem necklace from the box at the head of the bed. His hands were trembling, gently stroked the necklace. Gems of various colors shone in his hands, just like A Wan's eyes like two gems.

"Li Lang, I want to take a Han name, I want to forget the past."

"If I go to find you, I will be with you for the rest of my life. I don't care about any status, but you have to think about it for me. I also long to do something. Please don't force me, okay?"

He finally lost her, "Pu!" A crystal teardrop slid down from the corner of his eyes. Li Qing could no longer help but jumped onto the bed, pounded the quilt with a necklace, grinned and started crying silently.

"I'm going to Nanzhao! I'm going to find her!" He wiped his tears dry, slammed the door and rushed out. At this moment, he threw all the salt administration and the rise and fall of the country behind him. He was like an eighteen-nine-year-old boy, with only the pain of loss in his heart and a moment of noble regret.

"Master! Where are you going?" The coachman Lao Yu watched Li Qing riding a saddle-free horse and leaving. He was so scared that he rolled and crawled towards the inner courtyard, "Madam! Madam! Something is wrong with the master, something happened!

Lian'er stood anxiously at the gate and looked around. All the family members were sent out. If there was no news, she could only report to the official. The sky was dark, and the last trace of red clouds in the sky was swallowed up by the black clouds, and night fell.

Just as the curtain had just decided to report to the official, she suddenly saw a tired and thin horse carrying a dejected man at the end of the long street, turning toward this side.

"Li Lang! What happened?" Yan'er met him in panic and held the shaky Assistant Lord Li.

"It's okay, I'm crazy!" Li Qing whispered hoarsely, feeling weak.

The curtain was pushed away Lao Yu who wanted to help Li Qing dismount, "Let me do it!"

She carefully helped her husband off the horse, put his arm on her shoulder, and helped him into the door. Li Qing's loss of composure was the first time that Yan'er saw him. With her extremely sensitive heart, she realized that something must have happened. 'Is there something big of a problem in Jingyan? No, she went back from here only at noon.'

While thinking about it, Lian'er helped Li Qing back to the bedroom, lay him flat on the bed, quickly removed his shoes and socks, and gently pulled the quilt to cover him.

With a 'Wow!', a string of gem necklaces slid down to the ground. The curtain bent down and picked it up. She looked at the necklace, then looked at Li Qing, closed her eyes, and nodded slowly. She understood that something happened to the princess in Nanzhao.

"Li Lang, is there something wrong with Awan?" Jian sat beside the bed and gently stroked her husband's head.

After a long time, Li Qing sighed. He thought in pain for a long time. Only today did he begin to wonder: Did he have the only one way to go, leaving Awan in eastern Yunnan and Nanzhao? He now feels that his decision was wrong. He could have taken another action at that time. After learning that Awan was pregnant, he should have taken her out of Nanzhao without hesitation, brought her to Chang'an, or stayed in Chengdu, so that today's events would not happen. His women and children no longer belonged to him. This is all his mistake. His heart was already numb from pain and overwhelmed by a strong remorse.

"Can'er!" Li Qing sighed again. He grabbed her slender and warm hand, as if she was lost, and kept tightly. "Awan, she, she is now the Queen of Nanzhao."

"What!" Yan'er was startled, "Where is that child?"

Li Qing shook his head, "Of course the child is with his mother. If she doesn't come, the child will not come!"

"This, this" Lian'er wanted to say what if it was a boy? But she didn't want to stimulate Li Qing anymore.

"Liang'er, I feel very tired, my heart hurts so much that it's almost broken."

"If you are tired, just sleep for a while!"

"Then don't leave." Li Qing grabbed Yan'er's hand.

Jian'er gently rubbed his neck and whispered gently in his ear: "You go to sleep! I won't leave, I'll be by your side, forever, forever."
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