Chapter 98 ninety-seven

fourteen chaotic clouds As night fell, the eunuchs and maids in the palace were busy lighting the lamps. Empress Changsun was sitting on a chair with a sad face. Eunuch Jing Ming walked in, pointed to the palace gate and whispered: "Your Majesty, he is here." "Well, let him come in." Empress Changsun said, wiping her tears with a handkerchief at the same time.This "he" is Cen Wenwen, the servant of Zhongshu. After arranging the security matters in Chang'an City, the first thing Empress Changsun thought of was to summon this person.She understands that Cen Wenwen is an important figure in the gentry, and more importantly, he has an extraordinary friendship with Li Ke, King of Shu, and stabilizing the two of them will stabilize half of the situation in Chang'an.

Cen Wenwen walked in and made a big gift.The status of the Minister of Zhongshu gave him access to many top secrets of the empire. He knew everything about the emperor's tour, and he was also one of the few insiders who knew about the destruction of Mayi City.The queen summoned him at this time, there must be something extraordinary, so he felt a little uneasy. Empress Changsun asked him to stand up, and asked Jingming to bring him a round stool to sit on, and then said to him: "Ben Wen, the emperor should really listen to your advice! I have told him a long time ago, Lord Cen is an understanding People are the most loyal and loyal, and you must listen to your opinions when things happen, but he is such a stubborn person." Cen Wenwen said sadly: "The emperor is also for this country."

Empress Changsun said sincerely: "Text, there is a sudden change in the court, the crown prince is young, I am a woman after all, and there are powerful enemies watching outside. The future situation will all depend on your important ministers to preside over it. I have already told you Jian Guo said, let him set up a study room in the East Palace for Mr. Fang, Hou Junji and you from now on. Before the emperor comes back, you will go to the East Palace to handle business. All state affairs, big or small, must be discussed with all the adults. Come on." Fang Xuanling and Hou Junji were the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty. The empress compared them with Cen's text, which clearly meant to win over him. An Neng couldn't tell what a smart person he was, and immediately put on a face of emotion and plopped on his knees. She thanked her loudly: "Mother, you have treated me so kindly, how can I repay you even if I am so heartbroken!" Empress Changsun quickly asked Jingming to help him up, and said in her mouth: "Ben Wen, get up quickly. If you can stand up, I will help you!" Don't worry. Alas, the emperor seems to be worried about foreign aggression these past few years, but in fact he is most worried about internal strife! You also know that my Tang Dynasty was not long established, and the ministers in the court came from different backgrounds, including those from the former Sui Dynasty. , there are those from Bingzhou, and those from Wagangzhai, that is, those from Bingzhou who are still divided into the Prince Qin’s mansion, and several factions from the Old East Palace. They often have disagreements with each other in private. People's hearts will inevitably become chaotic, thinking about everything. No, a while ago when you reviewed the matter of leaking secrets, someone came to me and whispered, saying that you have selfish intentions and killed two eunuchs to cover up people's eyes and ears. Keep someone, I scolded him back at that time." Cen Wenwen was startled, and glanced at Empress Changsun.Empress Changsun continued: "I said, Master Cen is right! If we really want to go deeper, it will cause storms all over the city, not to mention causing a shock, I'm afraid Hu Kou will hear the news, and push the emperor to a more dangerous place. In this situation, killing two eunuchs to resolve such a big mess is a brilliant move to stabilize the overall situation!"

Only then did Cen Wenwen realize that his little abacus hadn't escaped the Queen's eyes at all. Sweat dripped from his forehead, and he bowed and hurriedly said: "This, this matter, I have always wanted to report it to the empress. It's just that I've been too busy with things to take care of recently, and my mother can think so, and I feel at ease." Empress Changsun looked at his expression, and understood in her heart that those few words just now had been hit on the point, and then Said: "When the emperor was surrounded, there were people who dared to stand up and attack you. Now that the news of the emperor's whereabouts is unknown, I'm afraid there will be more people playing tricks in their hearts. Maybe someone should jump out and attack the prince and me, you have to beat these people hard." Cen Wenwen hurriedly replied: "I must follow the lead of the empress and do my best to stabilize the court situation." While talking, He sighed secretly in his heart, what a powerful woman!

While the queen was trying her best to control the court situation with her soft body, Hou Junji was using another method to erode the results of her painstaking efforts.As the general of the left guard, he controlled all the troops in the capital. He mobilized 10,000 people from the sixteen guards and circled the city from east to west to deter those who harbor evil intentions.When the generals who had completed this task returned to him, he ordered these troops to walk from the west of the city to the east of the city again, and asked them to make more noise when they walked through the palace of the king of Shu.

The generals all showed surprise expressions, and someone asked puzzledly: "Commander, wouldn't walking around like this make the soldiers more tired?" Hou Junji glared at the speaker: "Who said here? Forget it, is it me or you? If you are afraid of getting tired, leave the general seal and go back to hug your wife. If I don’t stop you, there will be someone who is willing to eat this royal food!" Everyone knows Hou Junji’s temper, and no one will Dare to speak, and the ten thousand soldiers were pulled out of the camp again.Standing at the door of the big tent, watching the soldiers passing by one after another, Hou Junji was secretly proud: "Hmph, some people will panic if your legs are tired out of ten thousand of you!"

The person Hou Junji wanted to scare was naturally Li Ke. Last time he set a trap but failed to beat him to death with a single stick. Now, a new opportunity has come. He wants to use this method to make Li Ke flustered. Then make a mistake, so as to give Donggong a chance to completely eliminate the troubles. There was a lot of noise outside the courtyard, Li Ke stood up, glanced outside, then turned around and began to fidget and pace the room.There was a sound of footsteps outside the house, and An Heihu stepped in. Li Ke hurriedly asked: "Have you found out clearly? What happened?" An Heihu replied: "I haven't found Mr. Cen all day, he has been in Hongwen Hall On duty, now the city is full of soldiers and horses, it looks very strange."

An ominous feeling rose in Li Ke's heart. He thought, could it be that the father had suffered misfortune?If that were the case, the situation would be bad. After the "dead sue the living" incident last time, Li Ke used Cheng Yunliang to blackmail Haitang, and even took her, in order to plant a nail beside Li Chengqian, this nail The premise that it works is that the father is there. If the father is gone, the power will be transferred to Donggong. Haitang will no longer be afraid of the resurrected dead man, and Li Ke will die without a place to bury him.Thinking of this, a huge sense of fear hit him, almost overwhelming him like a mountain.Coincidentally at this time, there were bursts of shouts from the street in front of the Wangfu, which lasted for more than two hours without calming down. If he started an incident, at worst there would be another Xuanwu Gate change.After making up his mind, he asked An Heihu to prepare his horse, and prepared to leave the palace secretly to invite Cheng Huailiang, his buddy who was at home, to go south together.

The imperial guards on the street were still living endlessly, the back door of Shu Palace was gently opened, An Heihu looked out with his head, Li Ke, who changed into casual clothes, walked out of the gate, An Heihu led two A horse came out.Li Ke was about to get on his horse when a carriage came quickly and stopped in front of him.A family member raised the curtain, and Cen Wenwen came down.Li Ke's complexion changed, and he shouted: "Sir, it's you!" Cen Wenwen glanced at him, and said eagerly: "What time is it, and you are still running outside, go back to your house!"

After entering the palace and sitting down in the study, Cen Wenwen told Li Ke that there were too many official duties in Hongwen Palace these days, and he really couldn't separate himself from him, but he was worried, so he took the time to come out.He asked Li Ke where he was going. Li Ke hesitated for a long time before saying that the soldiers and horses outside were walking endlessly. He judged that Mayi City must have been broken. Hou Junji dispatched troops in such a hurry to deal with He, therefore, he wanted to go out and drag Cheng Huailiang to hide in Cheng Zhijie's Jingzhou army.Li Ke just said to hide, and didn't dare to say that he wanted to instigate Cheng Zhijie to raise troops.