Fairy Road Return [comprehensive]

The mountains and rivers are broken and devastated.

Empress Xiao only felt that her life was really rich and colorful. She didn't remember which old man said that if a person is blessed, no matter how he was when he was young, when he is old, he will surely spend his old age peacefully, not wandering about, not going for nothing. Life is running around, but what about her old age?She is doomed to be far away from her hometown and will not live in peace for a moment, so it seems that she is not a blessed person, maybe she committed a crime in her previous life, and she will have to pay back in this life.

Liaocheng was swept away by the rebels, and now the whole city is extremely depressed. It was not until Dou Jiande arrived that he ordered the soldiers not to disturb the lives of the people. The people who had been hiding in the city came out of the tunnels and basements and started to build a new home. It won't be long before they will be wiped out by other rebels, but if people are alive, they must live, and building a home must be done.

Empress Xiao and her party lived in one of the few houses in Liaocheng that were not completely dilapidated. When they heard the news from Chang'an today, they couldn't help being stunned.

In this room, there are only Empress Xiao, Princess Nanyang, Yang Siniang, Yang Wuniang, Yang Liuniang, and the only grandson of Empress Xiao, who survived because she was posthumous, and a few servants. She also has a grandson in Luoyang, He was established as the puppet emperor by Wang Shichong.

When they were in Jiangdu, the rebels only took away Empress Xiao and Yang Guang's concubines. Of course, those concubines didn't get any good. After being invaded by the rebels, they were thrown away like broken seats. out.

However, the only exception is Wang Wan. She has guards from the Lie Sect to protect her from being ruined by the rebellious army. At this moment, Wang Wan has returned to Chang'an and reunited with her mother and Princess An. After suffering so much, he named her Princess Mingyue.

"Mother, we want to go to Chang'an." When Yang Siniang said this, she was only a little nervous, but when she finished speaking, she was already crying, lowering her head and sobbing, "What shall we do in the future? I don't want to be rewarded casually." other people."

Yang Wuniang and Yang Liuniang also cried immediately. The mother protected them a few times before, but what about in the future?Not every time the luck is so good, what awaits them is a life of endless abuse.

With tears in her eyes, Empress Xiao said helplessly, "How to get to Chang'an? Just rely on us girls?" This is a troubled time, if not for their identities, I'm afraid they would have fallen into the boundless abyss long ago.

"What are Sanniang and Qiniang doing? You can't just listen to one-sided words. It may be the news released by Li Tang, just to win people's hearts."

Yang Wuniang hesitated and said: "That's better than being displaced like this. I don't need to marry Prince Tang, as long as I end this unstable life."

Why can a wooden person like the third sister be liked by Prince Tang, but not her?In the past, she was obviously the favorite of her father, and she was also more beautiful than the third sister. Even if she didn't marry the Tang prince, she was confident that as long as she entered Chang'an, there would be many noble sons who would fall under her pomegranate skirt.

Yang Liuniang's eyes were dumbfounded, because she saw her biological mother being tortured by the rebels with her own eyes, and finally her biological mother handed her over to her aunt, and she couldn't breathe in an instant.

Thinking of what happened to her biological mother, Yang Liuniang trembled all over. She came to her senses, lowered her eyes, and murmured: "Mother, I don't want to be randomly matched. I don't want to be insulted and die like A Niang."

Empress Xiao looked helplessly at the three concubine daughters, she didn't understand what they were thinking, she just didn't want Sanniang and Qiniang to have a better life than them in the future, but they were not out of trouble yet, so they began to dream about the bright future, It can be predicted that if these three girls don't straighten their minds, everything will be delusional.

And don't think that Sanniang and Qiniang will approve of them. Sanniang and Qiniang may be able to help each other, but it is absolutely impossible to let the three of them get what they want. Sanniang and Qiniang are just children forgotten by their parents, and she is just an aunt. I haven't seen each other for many years, and the feeling that I still had before has long since faded away.

However, these were all things that happened after Li Xie went out to fight. Li Xie knew a thing or two about the whereabouts of Empress Xiao and others. When he received the news that his cousin had escaped from trouble, he never paid attention to Empress Xiao and others again.

He fought against Liang Shidu in Yan'an. According to Li Xie's understanding, this guy is a hero who has fought against Datang several times in history, and finally let Datang win miserably. Joining forces with the Turks will cause even more trouble for Datang.

Li Xie directly beheaded Liang Shidu on the battlefield. Once the leader died, the Liang army's morale collapsed. The Tang army seemed to be as powerful as a broken bamboo, and occupied the entire area occupied by Liang Shidu in an instant, including Yan'an, Honghua and other places. Xie aimed at Guo Zihe and Liu Wuzhou. Liu Wuzhou heard that the Tang prince was fighting with Liang Shi, and Liang Shi was almost powerless to fight back. So Liu Wuzhou was anxious and sent an envoy to join Guo Zihe. As a result, the envoy returned. The news that Guo Zihe directly surrendered to the Tang army made Liu Wuzhou very angry.

Liu Wuzhou had no choice but to ask the Turks to send troops in an instant. As a result, the two sides had just reached an agreement. The Tang army and Guo Zi and the surrendered troops simply stationed at the border.

Now, it is almost the end of the new year, the weather is cold, the military camp is stationed outside the city gate, Li Xie is looking at the map, the door curtain is lifted, a ray of winter sun with warm sun shines in, and two soldiers in armor come in , this is Li Xie's right-hand man, the head of the two legions.

"Your Highness, the military report is here." The taller one was called Luo Changyi, the shorter one was called Jiao Yuxuan, and Luo Changyi presented the last piece of paper.

Li Xie took it over and took a look, then nodded: "Erlang and Shiro will produce results after the new year, there is no problem with that." Looking at the map, Li Xie thought for a while and decided to raid Dou Jiande from the east. Respect, if he surrenders, he will definitely not kill him, and then attack Li Mi and Wang Shichong, and Erlang over there will also outflank him. Wang Shichong and Li Mi are the turtles in his urn.

Later, Li Xie repaired a letter and sent it to Li Shimin. Zhu Jie did not accept his surrender.

Li Shimin is far away in Hanshui. He fought Zhu Jie five times, but Zhu Jie was as cunning as an earthworm, as if he could be reborn even with a broken arm. As a result, after three months, he hadn't completely defeated Zhu Jie. Now the weather is cold, People and horses are frozen, so he can't rush forward regardless of the endurance of the soldiers and horses.

The battle reports from the elder brother and the fourth younger brother are also reported every few days. The elder brother has already taken down Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, and Liu Wuzhou. hit.Fortunately, the fourth brother was temporarily unable to send troops because of the weather like him, otherwise he would not be able to save the face of the dignified King Qin.

As for the elder brother's talk about outflanking Li Mi and Wang Shichong, he has no reason not to agree, not to mention that even if he does not agree, according to the ability of the elder brother, he can take down Li Mi and Wang Shichong by himself.

One person broke into the military tent and said loudly: "Your Highness, Chang'an urgent report."

The person who came was Li Shimin's confidant Wen Geng, his voice interrupted Li Shimin's contemplation, he turned around and took the report, his expression changed drastically after reading it.

Wen Geng was curious about what happened in Chang'an.

After Li Shimin calmed down, his face became very tangled. Now, regardless of whether the family is big or small, the court officials are basically from various big and small families. Even if there is a poor family, they are attached to a certain family. When going to a poor family, he will not think of the difficult situation when he was born in a poor family in the past, but strive to climb up and become a top family. The interests he protects will not be from a poor family, but from a family, because he has also become Although in the eyes of the top family, he is still a nouveau riche.

With the news of the success of the Tang army from all over the country, many talented people, or talents cultivated by certain families, entered Chang'an. They were looking for a way out. There are only so many official positions in the government office, and they will inevitably conflict with other people who occupy official positions. They didn't dare to offend those officials who had someone behind them, so they aimed at the group of poor children who were recommended by the prince or arranged to enter the government office, but this is troublesome again, because every department, whether it is old or new All employees must take an exam, and not just one exam, there will be exams every once in a while. Those who fail the exam will be given three chances. Now that the Tang Dynasty was first established, although these rules or orders have been promulgated, they have not been thoroughly implemented, and there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Cheating has never disappeared since ancient times, so every department of the government office has a vegetarian meal The generation, now that "talents" from outside are pouring in, urgently need a position. Those people who have nothing to eat, are afraid that the rules of the examination will be fully implemented in the future, and they will lose their positions, so these officials who "occupy the latrine and don't shit" planned it. With the response of foreign 'talents' and the support of family officials, an invisible cold war is going on in Chang'an City.

The memorial in Li Shimin's hands was sent by Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui. They both felt that this was an opportunity for the Qin/Prince Palace, but there were pros and cons, so they told Li Shimin everything they knew and the pros and cons they had analyzed. Let him choose, should he take this opportunity to gain the support of the courtiers?

Moreover, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui felt that the crown prince would not win this secret fight, because this was the protest of the ministers of the Manchu court, so what if it was His Majesty?What's more, the crown prince was not in Chang'an, so he was too far away. When he returned to Chang'an after the battle, everything would have fallen to the ground.

"I want to send a letter back to Chang'an." Li Shimin thought for a long time at the back of the book case before writing. He wrote two letters, one to Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui and one to his wife, eldest grandson Wuyou.

At the same time, Li Xie, who had just captured Luo Yi in Youzhou, naturally also received news from Chang'an. He frowned and said, "It really doesn't make people have a good year."

Because Li Xie took Luo Yi not from a brigade of troops, but his 2000 private soldiers, so the brigade of soldiers and horses is not in Youzhou, but after taking Youzhou, Luo Yi's soldiers and horses were incorporated, and now Youzhou has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses People, Li Xie ordered his subordinates to rectify the soldiers and horses, and they will be stationed on the border of Mingzhou in the next year.

As for Gao Kaidao, Li Xie asked Luo Yi, who had just surrendered, to conquer him, and there would be good news soon.

In Chang'an, it seems that a storm is coming. People in the world do business during the day to earn a living. At night, Chang'an City is very quiet. Ordinary people have a strong sense of danger. They still go out during the day, but they dare not come out at night.

Sister Yang Ruoxi was still living in the palace. It was already dark and the cold wind was blowing outside. She was walking back and forth anxiously in the room.When she heard the sound of footsteps, she could not wait to walk to the door, and Liu He and the green-clothed maid ran in.

"Miss, we didn't see Jiang Nei Shi, but we asked a little servant to tell Jiang Nei Shi." Liu He said out of breath.

Lu Qian, the maidservant in green clothes, frowned and said: "My lady, it's getting late, I'm afraid I won't be able to see His Majesty, how about going to see His Majesty tomorrow?"

Yang Ruoxi bit her lip and said, "I'm afraid it's too late to understand."

After pondering for a while, Yang Ruoxi decided to go to the imperial study to see the emperor. Originally, the harem women had to send someone to ask if they wanted to see the emperor. If the emperor could summon you, the servants or maids would tell you that you could go to the imperial study to ask for an audience, otherwise they would run away in a hurry Go, you may be questioned.

Before, Yang Ruoxi had been thinking about how she could realize her own value while taking into account the face of the emperor's cousin and the prince, that is, to be independent under such limited conditions. It was all given by the emperor's cousin and the prince, so she couldn't provide other benefits, but she could do things for them.

After Yang Ruoxi reported her idea to Li Yuan, Li Yuan thought for a while and agreed, and gave her two small shops in Chang'an City. If she can make these two small shops realize three times or five times the profit within three months, he It also recognizes her ability, and then he can give her more tasks, and if she completes better, it means that she is worthy of the crown prince.

In this way, Yang Ruoxi has the right to freely enter and leave the palace. She only has five maidservants, but Li Yuan gave her a guard of 12 people. Automatically close the team.

In the past half month, Yang Ruoxi has finished inspecting the market and bought more than a dozen people in the slave market. There are shopkeepers, mistresses, and sweeping women. Running, there are neighbors, in fact, they know more people than the host.

Flying around in the market, one can learn a lot of news, such as the maidservant in the backyard of this big family has an affair with the gentleman, which backyard son is worse off than the son of the concubine, and so on.

Just before returning to the palace, the shopkeeper reported something to her, explaining that something big might happen in Chang'an City tomorrow, and asked her not to bump into those people when she leaves the palace tomorrow. Yang Ruoxi asked out of curiosity, and the shopkeeper said "Third lady, I don't quite understand what's going on, but I've been hearing people say that court officials are dissatisfied with some of His Majesty's decrees, and they want to unite to put pressure on His Majesty."

Yang Ruoxi was taken aback, and immediately asked the shopkeeper to tell her everything he knew, where did the shopkeeper and the others know?It was said by some officials' servants drunk and complacent, saying that in a few days, my master will be on the rise, what a first- and second-rank high-ranking official, and become a gentleman, plus there are many people from outside Chang'an City recently , the tension in the air condensed together and could explode at any time.

Liu He quickly took out the hood hanging on the hanger and put it on Yang Ruoxi. She and the other three defended her back and forth. If you go out of the palace or go to the former court, there is nothing you can do.

As for the imperial study room, Li Yuan did not rest. He was frowning and thinking at this moment. Sure enough, being an emperor is not something he can do as he pleases. The throne he just sat on was kicked out.

Jiang Lianggong told him about Yang Ruoxi's begging to see him, but Li Yuan didn't have the heart to deal with the little girl, so he just listened and ignored him. He was thinking about what to do?

Yang Ruoxi knew a little bit about it. As the emperor, Li Yuan knew everything.

Liang Tao came out from the dark and bowed to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, Your Highness has already made arrangements, and you will not be threatened by anyone."

"What if it fails?" Wars depend on generals, but civil servants are needed to govern a country. If there is no one on duty in the court, wouldn't it be a big joke for the world?

Liang Tao straightened his chest and said, "Your Majesty, no, you can watch a good show tomorrow, and watch some people throw stones at your feet."

The officials of the imperial court, apart from those from poor families, some are fanatical supporters of His Highness the Crown Prince, and some people will still attend the morning court tomorrow and go to work in the government office as usual due to the high profits promised, and among the officials who will strike tomorrow, only Some people who stand up and do nothing will be expelled from the official position. If they want to get the official position again, they are very embarrassed. Like other people, they all have to pass the assessment, and they are qualified to be officials.

On the second day, at Chenshi, the sky was not bright yet, only the sky was a little white. Li Yuan went to the main hall of Tai Chi Palace on time, and saw only one-third of the figures in the main hall that were comparable to those of the Great Court Meeting five days ago. My heart sank, these bastards really wanted to threaten him, yesterday I was afraid, but today I will go all the way to the end, I will not compromise, let's see what you do!

He signaled Jiang Lianggong to start the court meeting as usual. The officials standing in the hall were really confused. Even Feng Deyi didn't come. They followed His Majesty all the way to the end, wouldn't they hit the wall?

Although the two-thirds of the officials who wanted to challenge the emperor did not come to the court, they could not sleep in late, get up early to get dressed, and waited in the study room, waiting for the news from outside.

They already know about the situation in the early court. Sometimes they are smug, and sometimes they gnash their teeth and curse a certain person. They obviously spoke well yesterday, but today they are with them, but he actually went to the court. Isn't this playing tricks on them?

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Time passed by minute by minute. At Si time, although the sky was bright, the winter sky was a bit dark, and after Li Yuan finished his morning court, the officials should go to work in the government offices, and most of the officials who went to work in the government offices today did not come for a long time. , Even the officials who came were restless.

The officials who hid at home and watched the changes let go of their worries and stroked their beards a little proudly. Now that the new year is approaching, there are many things to do. They have been on strike for several days in a row, and the affairs of the upper and lower levels are in a mess. His Majesty will definitely have to compromise!

Feng Deyi felt like he was sitting on pins and needles at home, but it was a pity that Pei Ji was not there, allowing him to escape this chaos. The children of the Pei family didn't dare to make decisions without Mr. Pei, so they all went to work, but the people of the Feng family could Just follow him, if they collectively fail, will the children of the Feng family have a way out in the future?

"Where's the boss, the second, and the third?" Feng Deyi walked around a few times and shouted outside.

The butler immediately poked his head back and said: "My lord, Dalang and Erlang are both in the mansion, and Sanlang has gone to meet friends." I'm away from home all day.

Feng Deyi was half dead with anger: "This bastard, let's see if I don't expose his skin." He thought that when the kid came back in the evening, he would definitely beat him up.

For such a big battle, there are no secrets in Chang'an City. Word of mouth, one word of mouth, one word of mouth, one word of mouth, one word of mouth, and soon all restaurants and tea houses are full, especially those talented people from outside. I don't believe it, Tang Huang ignored the pleas of so many officials.

But at two o'clock, a group of soldiers came to each office, and they surrounded the front, rear, left, and right doors of the office. All the officials who were already on duty were not allowed to come out, and some officials regretted it at home. Can't get in.

There is a group of people around every government office, they are not afraid of the severe cold, they gather together to point at the soldiers on guard, and even poke their heads to look inside, especially the formerly lively government office, which is now very clean.

"These high officials really dare to challenge His Majesty." Someone said staggeringly, and someone next to him immediately took up the conversation and started chatting freely, but they didn't dare to speak loudly, they were still afraid of the soldiers on guard, what if they were arrested?

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"My lord, there is news from outside that all the entrances and exits of the office are surrounded by the army. People inside are not allowed to come out, and people outside are not allowed to enter."

The housekeeper went back and forth to Feng Deyi again, Feng Deyi hurried out, at this time his two sons also came to the study, they were all waiting for the result.

"Army? Who mobilized that? Your Majesty ordered it? What is Your Majesty going to do?" Feng Deyi couldn't think of what to do. He glanced at his two sons. As for the third son, he was in no mood to care about him now.

The Wei family, Wei Ting, as the crown prince's hardcore team, dare not go on strike, but Wei Xihou thinks twice, he doesn't want to offend too many colleagues, and he can't offend His Majesty, so yesterday he asked for today's sick leave, he needs Wait and see for a day, what is the trend today, if His Majesty wins, he will recover from his illness tomorrow, and go back to work obediently.

If His Majesty fails, he will continue to be sick tomorrow, not to mention that even if His Majesty wins, he is not afraid. He still has a younger brother, who is the Prince's hardcore team. Anyway, as long as the younger brother is there, the Wei family will not be in a dilemma like some other families land.

Time continued to slide forward, and at the right time, the doors of the Crown Prince's Mansion, King Wei's Mansion, King Qi's Mansion, and King Chu's Mansion finally opened. Shi Chong and Xie Chong, representing the Prince's Mansion, led a group of people to the government office. Li Xuanba led himself The people went to King Qi's mansion, and after the two parties met, they went to the office. Li Zhiyun led his people to the office, and the three parties met at the street outside the office.

The onlookers looked at each other in blank dismay, what are King Wei and King Chu going to do?The proud talented scholars in restaurants and teahouses frowned and thought deeply, what would King Wei and King Chu do?And even if the prince is far on the front line, doesn't he have a backup?

Li Xuanba and Li Zhiyun directly led nearly 80 people into the office. They assigned the personnel to various departments one by one according to the list. The eyes of these young men were eager to try. They can do whatever they want, and the meaning of what the prince said is to let them replace those high-ranking officials who don't do anything. It's exciting to think about it. No matter whether they succeed or not, they are also famous.

Shi Chong and Xie Chong waited at the gate of the government office. After a while, Meng Liang, who had never heard of his name, came with a group of people. There were more than 300 people, including young people in their teens and twenties, and 30 people. Middle-aged people in their 40s, after they were brought to the office, a group of soldiers soon surrounded them. Shi Chong and Xie Chong quickly led them in, and then arranged tasks according to the list.

But after these people went in, they were still standing in the yard, waiting for Li Xuanba and Li Zhiyun to hold a mobilization meeting for them, and the people watching outside were excited, what were these people doing in?

After a while, I heard a very provocative roar inside, some couldn't hear clearly, but I heard the voice that seemed to be King Wei: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, let those old scholars take a look, without them , the world is turning likewise!"

Two-thirds of this group of young people who were so motivated to shout slogans shouted along with excitement, but one-third of them turned bitter faces, thinking in their hearts, when they go home, I'm afraid The buttocks will be opened by the father, but they have already boarded the pirate ship and can't get off, so they have to bite the bullet and do it, not to mention that this game is quite interesting!