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Chapter 1209 Organizing the Next Card Game
Taiping gave Yunluan a weird smile, then followed Wu Mei and left the Yun family.

Yunluan was feeling uneasy, as he felt Taiping had seen through his plan.

But it doesn’t matter. From now on, the Yun family will stay in Chang’an and will never come to Luoyang again.

Yin Erhu came up to Yun Chu and said, "My Lord, we can set off now."

Yun Chu said to Yu Xiurong: "Let's go!"

Yu Xiurong asked, "Why not bring your beloved old woman with you?"

Yun Chu said: "You are my beloved old woman!"

Yu Xiurong rolled his eyes at Yun Chu and got into the carriage that had been prepared long ago.

When Yin Erhu, wearing iron armor and holding a long-handled saber, stepped onto the streets of Luoyang, the dark red fire line in the direction of Mangshan was no longer so obvious, mainly because a patch of pale white appeared on the horizon.

Yun Jin threw a torch into his own house, watched the flames suddenly rise, sighed, jumped on the horse's back, and let the raging fire burn in the Yun mansion.

There are already sporadic Jinwu Guards on the streets. They are in small teams and fully armed. They are searching for those who caused the riots last night.

The bells and drums on the bell and drum tower rang steadily, and each sound represented the emperor's majesty. What truly reflected the emperor's majesty was killing, and they did not need to be held responsible for killing people.

Yun Chu was riding a huge black horse, and the chestnut horse followed behind the black horse's butt timidly. It didn't dare to bite the black horse's butt because it couldn't beat it.

It was obvious that the Yun family's troops were the ones who caused the riot last night, but the Jinwu Guards seemed to be blind, and even ignored the cavalrymen who clearly showed signs of fighting.

It was not until the Yun family's convoy arrived at Xuanhui Gate, the west gate of Luoyang, that it was finally stopped.

The one who stopped the Yun family's convoy was a cavalry general. His armor was not good or new, and the lance in his hand was mottled and looked terrible. But even a lance with a red blade would make even someone as arrogant as Yin Erhu feel like he was facing a formidable enemy.

The cavalry general opened his visor, revealing a middle-aged face that couldn't be more ordinary. He hung his lance on the saddle, clasped his hands together and said, "I, the Fengzhou Sima Tang Xiujing, request to see you, Your Majesty."

Yin Erhu said: "Get lost!"

Tang Xiujing's eyes flashed with coldness, and he asked coldly: "Have the servants of the Yun family always been so rebellious?"

Yun Chu rode up slowly and said, "That's because their patriarch is even more rebellious."

Tang Xiujing saw Yun Chu coming out and bowed again, saying, "Luoyang is in turmoil. It may not be safe to leave the city at this time. Why don't you wait until the situation calms down before returning to Chang'an?"

Yun Chu lifted his visor and said with a smile: "It seems that you want to challenge someone."

Tang Xiujing said expressionlessly: "That's not my intention."

Yun Chu said: "No, you do."

Tang Xiujing asked: "So, you are willing to go back?"

Before he could finish his words, Li Si behind Yun Chu raised his crossbow and shot an arrow. Tang Xiujing raised his hand to block the arrow. Seeing that the arrow was nailed to the wrist guard, he pulled it down while saying, "It shouldn't be like this."

Yin Erhu swung his saber and chopped at Tang Xiujing. Then, Yun Jin threw out the short spear from behind. Li Si and Yun Jin continued to shoot arrows at him.

Yun Chu watched coldly. He really didn't understand who gave Tang Xiujing the courage to stop his convoy.

It has to be said that the armor on Tang Xiujing was of very good quality. The arrows shot from the hunting bows in the hands of Li Si and Yun Jin could not penetrate the armor. The attacks from Yin Erhu and Yun Jin made Tang Xiujing overwhelmed and unable to cope with them.

The Yun family's carriage rumbled past the fighting men, and none of the Jinwu Guards around Tang Xiujing dared to stop it.

Just as the last carriage passed the battlefield, the carriage window suddenly opened, revealing Yun Luan's fat and cute little face. Tang Xiujing, who had been keeping an eye on everything, saw with his own eyes the young boy throw a black object with sparks coming out of the window.

Tang Xiujing didn't care about his warhorse. He rolled over and left the horse. He pressed on the tall city wall with one hand and turned away from the large thunder and fire bomb.

With a "hiss" sound, in the dim early morning, the giant thunder and fire bomb spewed out a golden flame, and then more golden flowers exploded, and the fireworks were very brilliant.

Tang Xiujing angrily used his lance to knock the firework away, then looked at the Yun family and found that they had already entered the city gate.

"Yun Chu——" Tang Xiujing was extremely angry.

"Swoosh" a feather arrow came towards him like a meteor. Tang Xiujing screamed but had time to turn his head. With a "thump" sound, the feather arrow was nailed to the city wall, sticking to his cheek, and penetrated half a foot into the wall.

"You should thank your majesty this time. If you do it again, you will die."

Yun Chu's voice came from the city gate.

Tang Xiujing pulled out the thumb-thick feather arrow from the city wall, looked at it for a while, and then hit the arrowhead against the wall. The back of the arrowhead instantly bounced off several pieces of iron as sharp as knife blades.

The solid city wall restrained the feather arrow, preventing the jagged iron pieces inside from bouncing out.

Pei Xingjian walked out of the workshop at the city gate and said to Tang Xiujing, who was holding a feather arrow, "Why do you think Yun Chu will fight you alone?"

Tang Xiujing said: "I heard that whenever you have a conflict with the Prime Minister and General Xue, you like to use force to resolve it."

Pei Xingjian smiled and asked, "So?"

Tang Xiujing heard the sarcasm in Pei Xingjian's words and sighed, "I thought the world of warriors was simpler."

Pei Xingjian asked in surprise: "Do you think Yun Chu is a warrior?"

Tang Xiujing said: "It is said that you can come and go freely among millions of troops..."

Pei Xingjian once again looked carefully at Tang Xiujing, whose body was covered with feather arrows. He used to regard this man as a big shot, but now it seems that he is just a warrior who charges into battle. It is unlikely that he will make a name for himself in the Tang Dynasty court. Instead, he is likely to become a scapegoat for this riot.

Thinking of this, Pei Xingjian's gaze fell on the Ziwei Palace high above. The emperor selected a person, and just stretched out a big hand from the clouds to put this person in an important position. The rest depended entirely on this person's own efforts.

If this person cannot maintain his position and still needs the emperor's continued help, then this person is not worthy of the emperor's attention.

The emperor is as enthusiastic when selecting someone and as heartless when treating him coldly.

Watching the Yun family's convoy heading west in a cloud of dust, Pei Xingjian felt a sense of envy for no reason.

The emperor was about to set off for Jiucheng Palace. Luoyang, which had been in ruins, still needed his help to repair it. What needed to be repaired were not only the damaged buildings, but also new interpersonal relationships.

In short, after this turmoil, Luoyang has changed a lot...

Because it has not rained, the city of Luoyang has changed from being hot and humid in previous years to being dry and cool now. Those who participated in the riots last night even used oil tanker trucks, so the fire in Luoyang city has not been extinguished.

Hearing the clanging sounds of the water wheels being pulled by the warriors through the streets, Pei Xingjian adjusted the three-beam crown on his head and felt that his time had finally come.

The sky in Luoyang gradually brightened, and the sky in Hebi Palace naturally brightened as well.

Luoyang Hebi Palace is located in Shendu Garden of Luoyang City in the Tang Dynasty. It is located at the westernmost end of Shendu Garden. It was a birthday gift given by the emperor and empress to Crown Prince Li Hong on his 18th birthday.

Naha sat up in a daze and saw Li Hong getting dressed with the help of palace servants.

"Are you going back to the East Palace?" Naha asked with a yawn.

Seeing Naha's naked body, Li Hong came over to cover her with the quilt and said softly, "All the damned ones are dead, and the ones who survived still need to be taken care of. I have to go back to the East Palace to clean up the mess."

"Is it fun for one's own people to kill one's own people?"

"It was my father who warned me and my mother. He wanted everyone in the world to know that he was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty."

"He is the emperor himself, who would deny that?"

Li Hong stroked Naha's smooth forehead with his thumb and said, "The emperor is the embodiment of power. Whether a person is an emperor depends on how much power he holds. Over the years, my mother and I have taken a lot of power from my father, which makes him a little uneasy. Therefore, he needs to take back some of the power to prove that he is still the supreme emperor of the Tang Dynasty."

Naha took the opportunity to fall into Li Hong's arms and said generously: "Your power has been taken away? I still have a lot of power here. Whether you want it or not, I will give it to you."

Li Hong kissed Naha on the corner of her mouth and said, "Your power is yours, no one can take it away. The power I want is very, very great, great enough to protect you and your daughter."

Naha chuckled and said, "You left the Crown Princess in the East Palace when it was dangerous. She looked very angry."

Li Hong said indifferently: "She is the Crown Princess and should have stood together with the Eastern Palace. Even if she died in the Eastern Palace, it was her duty as the Crown Princess. What's more, when she was in the most dangerous time, I asked her to go to the Yun family to participate in the banquet. It is very safe there."

Hearing this, Naha crawled back into the quilt and waved to Li Hong, saying, "Since it is so important, you should hurry back to the East Palace."

Li Hong smiled and said, "Do you want to go back to the East Palace together?"

Naha shook her head in the quilt and said, "The East Palace belongs to the Crown Princess. If I go to the East Palace at this time, the Crown Princess might go crazy."

Li Hong smiled warmly, pressed Naha's raised buttocks through the quilt and said, "You are still too kind. If you enter the palace and still have such thoughts, you will be very unlucky."

Naha hummed in the quilt, "Isn't it just the word rude? My brother also taught me to take advantage of his weakness to kill him. My sister-in-law said that we must beat the drowning dog, so as to avoid him jumping out of the water and biting me.

Don't worry, I'm not a soft-hearted person, I just don't want to make things difficult for you. If I make things difficult for you everywhere and make you suffer, what's the point of me liking you?

I hope you can be a good crown prince and a stable emperor, so that I can have the capital to be arrogant and domineering.

Go, go, comfort your surviving men."

Li Hong left Hebi Palace reluctantly, but the number of guards guarding Hebi Palace did not decrease because of his departure.

When the sun shone on the earth again, the emperor, the empress, the prince and his family of three were eating breakfast quietly.

Li Zhi had a good appetite today. He drank a bowl of porridge and ate two snacks before he put down his chopsticks.

Since Li Zhi stopped eating, the Queen and the Crown Prince were naturally full as well.

"I heard that Xu Jingzong wants you to trap me in Jiucheng Palace?"

There was no emotion in Li Zhi's voice.

Li Hong said: "That is the perverse act of a dying man. Father, don't take it to heart."

Li Zhi said calmly, "I heard that not only did you disagree, but you also cited the example of Shaqiu Palace to him?"

Li Hong said: "The reason why King Wuling of Zhao was trapped and died in Shaqiu Palace was entirely because he deposed the eldest son and enthroned the youngest son. If he had simply deposed the eldest son and enthroned the youngest son, it would have been fine, but he felt guilty towards his eldest son Zhang, which led to civil strife in Zhao.

How could such a foolish act be done by a wise ruler like my father? Therefore, only someone like Xu Jingzong, who is about to die, would have the sudden idea of ​​trapping my father in Jiucheng Palace. "

Li Zhi was satisfied with Li Hong's frankness. In fact, he also felt that this was not something his son could do.

Thinking of this, he said to Wu Mei: "I am going to Jiucheng Palace, will the Queen go with me?"

Wu Mei looked up at the emperor and said, "This is a mess here. It needs to be cleaned up. It may take a very long time."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "That's right, you are all very busy."

Li Hong suddenly said, "If your father wants to recuperate, I think it would be better to go directly to Chang'an instead of going to Jiucheng Palace. Your father has been away from Chang'an for more than ten years. Chang'an today is very different from the Chang'an in the past."

Li Zhi looked at Li Hong with a smile and said, "Do you really want me to go to Chang'an?"

Li Hong smiled and said, "Father has placed high hopes on Chang'an for many years. It would be a pity if I don't go and see it."

Seeing that the father and son were talking endlessly, Wu Mei couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Your Majesty, it's a good opportunity to reorganize the Sixteen Guards of Chang'an when you go to Chang'an. I always feel that the Sixteen Guards of Chang'an are not on the same page with the court."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "The Queen is worrying too much."

(End of this chapter)