Fu Tang

After the minister, Wai Lang announced the decree, because of the preferential treatment, he added an extra sentence: "Your Highness, don't worry, the sage is ready to send good generals to help His Highness in two days."

Li Congjia immediately asked, "Is the sage determined to recover the states north of the Yangtze River?"

Si Xun Wai Lang sighed: "Not long after His Highness left, the saint had this intention, but later His Highness disappeared, and the saint was hit hard, his health was far worse than before, and he didn't have the energy to take care of this for a while."

Li Congjia immediately looked sad: "It's because I'm not filial, and my parents are worried."

Si Xun Wai Lang hurriedly comforted: "Your Highness, don't be sad, the saint's dragon body is safe."

Li Congjia wiped away the almost nonexistent tears from the corners of his eyes and asked, "I don't know who the angel will be to help me?"

Sai Xun Wai Lang did not hide anything and simply said: "If there are no major changes, it should be Zhu Yuan, Wai Lang of the driving department, and Li Ping, Wei Weiqing."

Zhu Yuan and Li Ping?

Li Congjia was no stranger to these two people, and of course they were no strangers to their historical records, so he didn't feel at ease knowing that it was the two of them.

He asked again: "Then... I don't know who the King of Wu will send there?"

"It's Chen Jue, the privy envoy," replied Wailang, a member of the Si Xun.

Li Congjia: Damn it!

He controlled the expression on his face, smiled and said: "In this way, I will not disturb Yuan Wai-lang, and ask Yuan Wai-lang to rest as soon as possible."

Si Xun member Wailang was flattered and felt that His Royal Highness King Yue was too polite.

After Li Congjia waited for him to leave, he went back immediately and asked Chunsheng to come in to help him grind the ink, but Chunsheng didn't come, and it was Shi Xueting who came.

Li Congjia was surprised while holding the pen: "You haven't slept yet?"

Shi Xueting shook his head, he had been staying outside Li Congjia's tent before, after all, the place was unfamiliar and he was still in the wilderness, thinking about their experience at the inn last time, he was always worried.

Li Congjia said without talking nonsense: "Master Lao will help me grind it."

Shi Xueting didn't ask any more questions, and watched Li Congjia write Xie En's notes.

When Li Congjia finished writing the booklet, Shi Xueting saw him grab the letter paper and continue writing. The most important thing is that the booklet was beautiful regular script just now, but it became wild cursive on the letter paper.

Li Congjia moved very quickly, almost writing many sheets in one go. After finishing writing, he said, "Let Jinbanya send this letter to His Highness King Wu of Jiangdu Mansion!"

Shi Xueting asked Chunsheng to go out to call for someone, and asked, "But something important happened?"

Li Congjia didn't hide it from him: "I don't know whose slander I listened to, but I actually want Chen Jue, the privy envoy, to assist brother."

This damn is the rhythm of an accident!Li Congjia swallowed this sentence, but did not dare to say it.

Shi Xueting was not familiar with the senior officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty, so he could only ask: "What's wrong with letting the privy envoys go?"

At this time, the privy envoys at this time were not the official positions held by eunuchs in the later Tang Dynasty, but were actually held by scholars. They had an overview of the three powers of politics, finance, and military. The prime minister is quite.

Such a person went to assist Li Hongji. On the surface, it should be that Li Jing had high hopes for Li Hongji, but Li Congjia only had Li Ping, the servant of the military department, and Zhu Yuan, the foreigner of the driving department, who were not as good as Li Hongji.

Li Congjia sneered: "You probably don't know this person very well. This person has led troops many times. He has more success than failure, but he is also jealous of talents. With him around, I am afraid it will be difficult for brother."

Li Congjia saw that Shi Xueting seemed to understand, so he couldn't help popularizing what Chen Jue did.

To be honest, Chen Jue always reminds Li Congjia of the phrase "there are no heroes in the time, and it makes Zhu Zi famous."

Yes, this sentence should be referring to Chen Jue. To be honest, it is a bit biased to say that Chen Jue is useless, but he is not capable enough to take the position of privy envoy.

When the Southern Tang Dynasty destroyed Fujian, the rebel general Li Renda took refuge in him, and the Southern Tang successfully eliminated Wang Yanzheng, so he appointed Li Renda as the governor of Fuzhou.

As a result, Zha Wenhui and Chen Jue were all kinds of alarmist, saying that Li Renda was unreliable, of course, Li Renda was indeed unreliable, but after they persuaded Li Jing to take precautions against Li Renda, Chen Jue vowed that he would not use troops to attack Li Renda, He can persuade Li Renda to come to Jiangning Mansion.

Li Jing believed him, so he made him an edict, but when he arrived in Fuzhou, Li Renda ignored him. Chen Jue probably felt that he had lost face, so he turned around and ran to Jianzhou, and sent a coercive edict to Ting, Jian, Xin, and Fu. Zhou attacked Li Renda.

How dare he issue a false edict!Li Congjia still thinks that it was unbelievable that Li Jing still let him be the military supervisor at that time.

According to the national strength of the Southern Tang Dynasty at that time, attacking a Li Renda was not a problem at all. Li Renda probably thought so, and then turned around and sent money to Wu Yue for help.

Wu Yue was not the opponent of the Southern Tang Dynasty at that time. As a result, Feng Yanlu, Wei Cen, and Chen Jue fought for power and merit, and the princes were defeated.

At that time, Han Zaixi, Song Qiqiu and others thought that Chen Jue should be cut off, but in the end Li Jing just sentenced Chen Jue to exile, even if he was exiled, he stayed in Jiangning Mansion in the end, and even returned to his post later.

Li Congjia always felt that if Li Jing didn't really love Chen Jue, he wouldn't believe it!

As for the issue of character, one thing can explain it well. Chen Jue was promoted by Song Qiqiu back then. As a result, after Chen Jue took office, he turned around and had a quarrel with Song Qiqiu, and even once excluded Song Qiqiu from the court. Tang is also great.

After Li Congjia finished his gossip, Shi Xueting recited the Shengfo gatha: "Amitabha."

Because apart from these words, he didn't know what to say. He felt that Li Jing hadn't died yet. It was really because his father, Li Sheng, had laid a good foundation and could withstand his torment. However, anyway, Li Jing also said that Li Congjia's father , Why can't he say it so clearly.

Of course, Li Congjia actually thought so in his heart. The two of them met each other's eyes, and instantly understood each other's true thoughts.

Li Congjia waved his hand helplessly and said, "Forget it, I've already done what I can do, and the rest is up to brother."

However, Shi Xueting was not optimistic about Li Hongji: "Wu Wang's leader has his own unique features, but he is far less cunning than Chen Jue. I'm afraid it will be bad."

Li Congjia had a bitter look on his face, otherwise how could he say that Li Hongji was going to be bad?

Anyway, Jiangdu Mansion was also planned by him. If Chen Jue screwed up and let Zhou Guo take it back, he would probably go crazy!

Seeing Li Congjia's gloomy look, Shi Xueting comforted him, "King Wu has his own sense of control, so you don't have to worry too much, Your Majesty."

Li Congjia also calmed down and said, "Go to sleep, we have to hurry tomorrow morning."

Because this incident made Li Congjia feel troubled, he didn't pay attention to the roadside scenery on the way, but just hurried on. When he arrived in Chizhou, Li Jing arranged for the chief of the palace to take all his subordinates out of the city to greet him. The county magistrates and county magistrates also came out to welcome them one after another.

Fortunately, Li Congjia tidied up his appearance in advance when he was [-] miles away from the post station, and his court dress and regular clothes had been remade and sent over—for this matter, he also specially measured the size on the way, after all, the previous ones were already full. Can not wear.

Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there has been a precedent for an official in the court to be the chief history of the palace, so this time Li Congjia's long history is also an important official in the court, and this person is quite famous-the secretary and the young supervisor Liu Yi.

When Li Congjia knew that this person was his long history, he felt very... hard to describe.

Many people may not be familiar with the name Liu Yi, but his son is quite accomplished in Ci, and many people have memorized his Ci - Liu Yong, Liu Sanbian.

Of course, Li Congjia's complicated mood was not because of Liu Yong, but according to historical records, Liu Yi had a legacy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Such a person manages the palace?

Li Congjia felt that his eyes were dark. The most important thing was that in his memory, Liu Yi was the highest official supervisor in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The one that doesn't come in.

The Secretary and Young Prisoner is from the fourth rank. Of course, this rank is comparable to the rank of the prince's mansion chief Shi, and it is reasonable to serve concurrently, but how did he climb from the eighth rank to the fourth rank?Even a position with no real power like secretary and junior supervisor is a bit unbelievable.

Here Li Congjia is worried about the future, while Liu Yi's villain is rubbing his hands excitedly.

Liu Yi didn't dare to think of becoming the Chief History of the King's Palace of Yue. He is only 30 years old now, and he is too far away from the position of fourth rank. Although he has worked hard for this position for a long time, he has never had much hope , I didn't expect it to actually become a reality.

Yes, this position can be said to be Liu Yi's dream, who made him Li Congjia's number one fan?

He can memorize the poems written by Li Congjia back and forth. The only pity is that His Royal Highness Yue Wang is restricted by his status and is not allowed to hang out in the Qinglou Chuguan. There are not many romantic poems written by Li Congjia.

When Liu Yi saw Li Congjia, her bright eyes almost turned into heart shapes. The first reaction was that the idol is coming, and the second reaction was why the idol lost weight?

It's not just him, anyone who can become Li Congjia's staff is not bad in Jiangning Mansion, at least he has seen him, and everyone knows that His Highness King Yue is quite fat, this is... what's wrong?

Li Congjia walked over calmly, cupped his hands and said, "It's been a long time, everyone, it's hard work."

Liu Yi and the others naturally did not even dare to say so. After saluting according to the official etiquette, Liu Yi said: "I learned that the king is coming today, and we have already prepared a banquet for the reception. It is still early in the day, why don't you go back to the governor's mansion to rest first?" some."

Li Congjia was very tired after driving for more than ten days. After hearing this, he felt that Liu Yi was considerate, so he couldn't help but smiled and nodded: "Very good, if you don't mind going to your own affairs first, I will have a banquet with you later. Let's have a drink."

Liu Yi had already arranged things for everyone, and everyone just came over to show their faces in front of the leader, and if the leader wanted to go home, they naturally wanted to do what they should do.

Li Congjia asked Tian Wuniang and Yang Xin to lead the army and stationed the army twenty miles outside Chizhou City. At this time, eighteen monks actually followed him into the city.

Many people know that Li Congjia has not heard from him for the past six months because he was in danger, but they don't know exactly how he was in danger. Now that Liu Yi saw these monks, she was very curious, and she couldn't help asking: "My lord, my subordinates are not prepared enough. I didn't expect it. There are all mages traveling together, how to arrange it?"

Li Congjia said directly: "Don't be embarrassed, just find a clean yard with the mages, and prepare some other meals. Whatever dishes are for the banquet, I will serve the mages with whatever dishes."

Liu Yi couldn't help blurting out: "There are meat dishes!"

Li Congjia glanced at him, but repeated: "Just take the last copy."

Liu Yi couldn't help but looked at the monks in surprise, Shi Yanlie was filled with shame, his senior brother Shi Qingsong was usually a vegetarian except when he was forced to, the same was true for Shi Xueting, but their branch, after eating meat There is no going back.

As a monk, it's wrong to eat meat, Shi Qingsong had a heart for his junior, so he didn't open his mouth, Shi Yanlie had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty, don't be embarrassed, vegetarian is fine."

Li Congjia smiled and said: "You have suffered a lot with me along the way, and now it is the end of all the hardships, so why be cautious? What's more, it's just the same as the last one. If it's another vegetarian, it will be troublesome, so it's settled."

Shi Yanlie thought about it, and since he wasn't very resistant, he didn't say anything.

Liu Yi was not used to walking beside Li Congjia. Before that, King Zheng had always been the representative of the prince of literature and art. It is faintly similar to King Wu.

Fortunately, Li Congjia looked more like a literary youth, otherwise Liu Yi would be heartbroken.

Thinking about something in his mind, Liu Yi didn't stop talking. On the way from the post station to the city, Liu Yi introduced the whole Chizhou situation.

Not only the current situation in Chizhou, but also the gossip among various officials!

Li Congjia's eyes rolled around when he heard this, and he really wanted Liu Yi to shut up and let him be quiet, not to mention that Liu Yi shouldn't be the one to talk about the situation in the state capital.

He is the chief history of the palace, just manage the affairs of the palace. Chizhou has its own history. If Li Congjia wants to know the situation, he has to ask the history of the governor of Chizhou. Liu Yi is stealing his job!

What's more, even if he said it now, Li Congjia had to listen to Governor Chi's story again in order to go through the motions, so as not to make people feel that he neglected the local officials, which was painful, really painful.

But Li Congjia was not good at berating Chang Shi on the first day they met, telling Chang Shi to shut up, so he had to let him continue talking.

After finally arriving at the Governor's Mansion, Liu Yi happened to finish gossip about the whole Chizhou, and then said with regret: "It's a pity that there is no Wang's Mansion. Although the Governor's Mansion is not bad, after all, the king has been wronged."

No no no, I am not wronged at all, Li Congjia thought to himself, even if it is just a vassal, my fief is not here, so why build the palace here?

After entering the Governor's Mansion, Liu Yi explained the layout of the Governor's Mansion again. Li Congjia was puzzled when he heard it, and thought... this Liu Yi...could be two hundred and five, right?

The governor's mansion under the sky... Oh, or the specifications of the governor's mansion in the Southern Tang Dynasty are the same no matter which state it is in. There are express regulations on this. Do you need to introduce which corridor and which main hall?

Finally, Liu Yi's introduction was almost the same. Li Congjia also sat down in the main hall, smiled and said: "I am very unfamiliar with you, so it is better to introduce a long history."

This is talking about his new team, but this new team is not complete. At the beginning, some of them went to Jianzhou with Zhou Ehuang, and he took the other part away, which is basically half and half, so I want to have the whole team. , I have to wait until Zhou Ehuang comes over.

When Li Congjia thought of this, he felt overwhelmed. Nearly half a year was enough for Zhou Ehuang to infiltrate those people little by little, and hold them firmly in his own hands. On his side, the people were all fresh, and he wanted to make them completely loyal. It's not a matter of a day or two.

The only thing that makes him gratified is that now he has military merits in his hands, and the credit for taking down the Jiangning Mansion is not comparable to others. No matter what method he uses, and with the military power, Zhou Ehuang has to weigh it if he wants to deal with him. Backlash!

Li Congjia was focused on two things, while thinking about how the two of them would get along when Zhou Ehuang came, and usually listened to Liu Yi's introduction of these palace officials.

Fortunately, Liu Yi was just a little excited, not stupid, knowing that on this occasion, every subordinate official should show his face and speak as much as possible, without causing too much hatred.

After all the subordinates were introduced, Li Congjia said gently: "You are all newcomers in the country, and now I am sitting on the north bank of Chizhou with the Zhou army, and the situation is precarious. Replace wine with tea, I respect you first."

Liu Yi and others naturally patted their chests and said that they must assist the King of Yue well. Li Congjia was not worried about them being a stumbling block. A place like the Prince's Mansion is already equivalent to a small imperial court.

Although Li Congjia didn't seem to bring much luggage when he came here, it took a lot of effort to arrange it.

When Li Congjia was inspecting his courtyard, Chunsheng ran over and whispered, "Your Majesty, Master Shi Xueting just sent someone to ask how to arrange the Zi Palace of Emperor Yangdi?"

Li Congjia paused, realizing that he almost forgot about it, it was really wrong, he hesitated a little, and asked someone to call Liu Yi.

This matter can not be reported, but it is not good to avoid Chang Shi. Avoiding it means distrust and problems will arise.

Although Liu Yiren was exhausted, he was still in high spirits. He came over and asked, "What orders does Your Majesty have?"

Li Congjia felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by his overly bright eyes, coughed lightly and said, "I have something to discuss with you."

Liu Yi immediately said: "If your majesty has orders, just order them directly."

Li Congjia had no choice but to talk about the matter of Emperor Sui Yang's tomb in a low voice, emphasizing that the Zhou people destroyed Emperor Sui Yang's tomb during the war, and all the funerary objects inside were moved, indicating that he did not take anything.

To be honest, he still has a guilty conscience when he says this, but there are many things that are difficult to explain clearly. After all, no matter how unrestrained Liu Yi is in the legend, he was raised by Confucianism since he was a child. no.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yi's focus was completely wrong, and after listening to it, he exclaimed: "Your Majesty is indeed so heroic, and he defeated Zhao Kuangyin twice. Looking at the previous battles, it is really rare."

Two... Twice?Li Congjia was at a loss. If the first sneak attack counted, it was only one time. Where did the second attack come from?But how do you know that I repelled Zhao Kuangyin twice?

After listening to Li Congjia's question, Liu Yi couldn't help laughing and said: "Your Majesty, don't be surprised. Even though Your Majesty kept a low profile and never said anything about such an inspiring story, it was passed on by word of mouth. Nowadays, many people are fond of talking about His Majesty's two battles. It's a pity that many details are not clear, and there must be officials who want to ask in detail during the banquet."

Li Congjia wiped off his sweat. This is a big misunderstanding. The Thunder Box is a little ahead of its time, and he doesn’t really want to take it out. Duozhu teammates, other than this explanation, I can only believe that those people are useless.

If you don't tell the truth, you have to find a way to make up a new set of rhetoric. The most important thing is that Li Congjia himself doesn't know when the second repulsion will be!

Wouldn't this rumor deify him?Li Congjia was so worried that he almost gnawed his fingers, and finally decided to simply bring Shi Xueting with him, after all, he was also the person involved.

Li Congjia thought of this and immediately asked Chunsheng to notify Shi Xueting, but he didn't expect Shi Xueting to come with Chunsheng.

Seeing Li Congjia's solemn face, Shi Xueting couldn't help comforting him: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the poor monk has already made up his mind."

"Have you figured it out? So fast?" Li Congjia was a little surprised at first, and then remembered that Shi Xueting had said before that someone would know that he defeated Zhao Kuangyin, and suddenly he was blessed: "What did you do?"

Shi Xueting smiled and said nothing, Li Congjia was full of shit, damn, he actually used the public opinion war, young man, you understand well, I'm going to suspect which of the two of us came through!

Li Congjia was also a little ashamed. Without the Internet, he had forgotten to control public opinion. Word of mouth, in fact, is sometimes very fast, especially in troubled times when the population flow is very frequent.

But after knowing it, he was relieved a lot, and complained: "If you don't say it earlier, otherwise you don't have to make a special trip."

Shi Xueting laughed: "What is this?"

Liu Yi looked at him in a daze. Although he couldn't understand what these two people were playing, he could tell that his king had a very close relationship with this monk. He looked critically at Shi Xueting for a long while, and could only reluctantly admit it. , this person is prettier than him, but no matter how good-looking he is, he is still a monk!

Seeing that their conversation had come to an end, Liu Yi took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty has come from a long way, I'm afraid he is very tired, why don't you take a bath and change clothes, take a rest, and then go to the banquet."

Li Congjia naturally agreed, and then he saw Liu Yixi smiling and said: "So, I should serve the king to take a bath."

Li Congjia: Wait...wait?