Sixteen Killers 2

It was not until the third year of the Gandao (1167) that Zhong Ziang saw that the Manichaean power was gradually growing, and took advantage of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty to finally decide to gather people in Guangnan to start an incident. In that year, Zhong Xinyu went to Linfu to observe the movements of the imperial court, and visited the palace at night, but fell into a heavy siege and was almost captured. At that time, Yang Yan was on duty in the palace as a "royal weapon", and he had also fought with Zhong Xinyu and Li Dao respectively. It's just that Yang Yan didn't know that it was Li Dao at that time.

When the imperial court sent the guards to be commanded by Wu Gong to lead the army to the south to quell the rebellion, Li Dao also continued to provide news to Manichaeism in Beijing. This is also one of the reasons why Wu Gong has repeatedly sent troops, but it is difficult to win. If it weren't for the fact that Yang Yan was in Guangnan at that time, first defended Hengshan, disrupted the Manichaean advance plan, and later helped Wu Gong to defend Renxiu County, and then supported Guangzhou, and repeatedly repelled Manichaean attacks, I am afraid that Manichaeism would have completely occupied Guangnan.

Later, the imperial court decided to change the generals to quell the chaos, and Li Dao secretly moved again, hoping that he could take over Wu Gong's position and go to Guangnan to quell the chaos. Fortunately, Zhao Yan thought about it again and again, and with Yu Yunwen and Li recommending it, he finally decided to use Yang Yan instead of Li Dao to pacify the southern branch, and finally made the right choice, which invisibly enabled the Great Song Dynasty to escape this catastrophe. Otherwise, I'm afraid that Manichaeism will really become a climate.

After Yang Yan led the army to Guangnan to quell the rebellion, Li Dao was still secretly active in Lin'an, providing information to the Manichaean religion while attacking Yang Yan, hoping to remove him. Yang Yan used the strategy of arrogance at the beginning and insisted on not fighting, but Li Dao secretly instructed people to impeach Yang Yan for being timid and cowardly, and slacking off the morale of the army. Later, when Yang Yan won consecutive battles and was like a bamboo, Li Dao sent people to spread rumors in Lin'an, saying that Yang Yan had the ambition to establish himself as king in Guangnan. strongly advocated that Yang Yan be transferred back to Lin'an. However, decades of eunuch life have also made Li Dao proficient in officialdom, these things are secretly instructed to others to do, and he himself has not personally come forward, and has always stayed out of the matter.

Fortunately, at that time, Yu Yunwen and others in the court tried their best to explain Yang Yan, and Zhao Yan was very sober-minded and knew the truth of employing people without doubt, so he never interfered with Yang Yan's advance in the army, so that Yang Yan was finally able to successfully quell the chaos. and killed Zhong Ziang in the Battle of Hainan. This Manichaean rebellion was put down.

After Zhong Ziang's death, Zhong Xinyu took over the position of the sect leader and led the remnants of Manichaeism to go into the shadows and go overseas activities, so he did not contact Li Dao for a long time. At this time, the Jin army invaded the south, Lin'an was lost, Zhao Yan was martyred and a series of other things, so that the Great Song Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself, and also relaxed the pursuit of Manichaeism, Zhong Xinyu secretly led people back to the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time contacted Li Dao, asking him to try to get rid of Yang Yan.

For Li Dao, getting rid of Yang Yan is also a breakthrough to bring down Yang Yizhong and take charge of the front division of the palace, so he also takes active action. However, this time he still used the practice of hiding behind his back and instigating others to come forward. can only secretly make efforts to let Shi Hao and Long Dayuan and their gang be the first birds, and even instigate Emperor Zhao Dian to come forward in person. And Li Dao always hid in the shadows and did not show his face.

As a result, after several twists and turns, things also unfolded step by step as Li Dao wished, and Zhao Duan finally moved Zhao Yueru. Zhao Yueru personally took matters into account, plotted against Yang Yan, and finally captured Yang Yan.

But what Li Dao didn't expect was that although Zhao Yueru came forward to catch Yang Yan, she still refused to hand Yang Yan over to others to dispose of, not even Zhao Dan. Li Dao saw that the communication could not be successful, so he did not hesitate to jump out from behind the scenes and personally come forward to rob it by force, but he didn't want Zhao Yueru to be super skilled in martial arts, and he was still above Li Dao, and several female soldiers under him were not weak. The use of force will not take advantage of Li Dao at all.

At the same time, in order to save Yang Yan, Zhao Qianru actually adopted the most extreme method, launched a mutiny, and led the army to surround the palace. Under such circumstances, Li Dao was powerless to stop Zhao Yueru from letting Yang Yan go, so that this time, the plan to get rid of Yang Yan, which was almost successful, was ultimately a failure. And at this time, Li Dao Yijing walked to the front desk, and it was impossible to hide behind the scenes as before. At the same time, he was afraid that his identity would be exposed, and he was afraid of Yang Yan's revenge, so Li Daocai decided to take the emperor hostage and escape from Tianlin Mansion, avoiding Yang Yan first.

Because many of the things that happened before Zhao Cao said could be matched, Yang Yan and Zhao Qianru believed most of them after listening to Zhao Cao's presentation and finishing this experience. Yang Yan thought for a while before he said: "Mr. Lai, thank you for telling me the news in time, but the stakes are so important that you can't decide easily, you take Mr. Zhao and the others down to rest first, we have to discuss it again, and then see what to do next." ”

When Lai Wenzheng heard this, he immediately said goodbye to Yang Yan and took Zhao Cao and the others down. After they left, Yang Yan immediately invited Yang Yizhong, Wan Xiansheng, Gu Zhengyang, Yixiu and others to tell them all about what they had just learned from Zhao Cao. After Yang Yizhong heard this, he was also a little surprised, from what Zhao Cao said, this thing really doesn't seem to be fake, but the whole thing is too weird, too bizarre, and it involves the royal harem, the relationship is too big, whether it's true or not, he can't easily draw conclusions.

At this time, Wan Xian said: "I don't think what Zhao Cao said is false, because I fought with Li Dao last night, and I thought his martial arts were very strange at that time, but at that time, I just wanted to save Yan'er as soon as possible, and I didn't think about it carefully. ”

Yang Yan was stunned, and hurriedly asked Wan Xiansheng about the details of the fight at that time. He has fought with Li Dao and Zhong Ziang, and he is no stranger to the "Great Shift of Qiankun", and after listening to Wan Xiansheng's words, he can immediately confirm that Li Dao is using the martial arts of "Great Shift of Qiankun". In this way, it can almost be confirmed that what Zhao Cao said is true, Li Dao is indeed a Manichaean person, and he is a spy of the Manichaean sect within the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Qianru breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's so terrifying, I didn't expect Li Dao to hide this for more than forty years, I really didn't expect it." But where will they go? ”

Yang Yan said: "Listen to what Zhao Cao said, now that the remnants of the Manichaean Institute are now gathered in Ganzhou, will they ......" Suddenly remembered that Li Dao and his party were heading south, which was the direction of Ganzhou.

Yang Yizhong changed color and said: "It's not good, now that the emperor is in the hands of Li Dao, where are they going to hold the emperor hostage?" ”

Yang Yan Huoran got up and said, "Let's go to Chen Xianggong and Han Shumi immediately, tell them about this matter, and then make a decision." What I thought in my heart was that Zhao Yueru also left Tianlin Mansion with the emperor and his party, so wouldn't her current situation be very dangerous?

The sun was about to set down the mountain, and the sky was getting darker.

Long Dayuan urged the horse to rush to Li Dao's side, who was walking in the front, and said: "Li Jiedu, it's not too early, I think we should find a place to rest quickly, and let's hurry tomorrow!" I see that when I walked here, Yijing was far away from Tianlin Mansion, and Yang Yan probably wouldn't catch up again. ”

Li Dao looked at the sky, let out a long breath, and said, "Where is this place?" ”

Li Jinyuan said on the side: "Dad, we thought that we had reached the boundary of Jizhou, and less than ten miles in front of us was Longquan County. ”

After they left the Tianlin Mansion, they traveled all the way south, and this was the fifth day of the Sutra. Longquan County is only more than 70 miles away from Ganzhou, today to rest for a night, tomorrow another day of road can reach Ganzhou. So Li Dao nodded and said, "Xianggong Long, let's take a walk and rest in Longquan County in front." ”

When Long Dayuan heard this, he also felt reasonable, he had been camping in the wild for the past few days, and the conditions were very simple, Long Dayuan had never suffered this kind of hardship before. Although Longquan is only a county town, it also has houses to live in, and it is always more comfortable than camping in the wild, so Long Dayuan also nodded and said, "Okay, I'll reply to the emperor." ”

After Long Dayuan beat the horse, the centaur continued to advance towards Longquan. After walking for a while, Li Dao could vaguely see the outline of Longquan County. At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, and Li Dao looked back to see that it was Zhao Yueru who rushed up with a few female soldiers.

Zhao Yueru also had more than 300 female soldiers under him, so along the way, Li Dao didn't dare to underestimate them. However, after coming out of Tianlin Mansion, Zhao Yueru was silent all the way, just accompanied Zhao Dan's car, followed Li Dao and his party, and did not ask where to go.

Seeing Zhao Yueru coming up from behind, Li Dao stopped sitting on his horse and said, "Princess, is there something wrong?" ”

Zhao Yueru said: "Li Jiedu, we have been traveling all the way south, and we have been walking for several days, are you planning to take us there?" ”

Li Dao raised the horsewhip in his hand, guided the way, and said: "Princess, not far from here is Ganzhou, I plan to bring everyone to Ganzhou to settle down first, and then make plans." ”

Zhao Yueru was a little puzzled: "Why do you want to take us all the way south to Ganzhou?" Wouldn't it be better if we left Tianlinfu and went north to Xiangyang, or west to Sichuan? ”

Li Daodao: "Princess, if you can think like this, Yang Yan can also think that if he sends troops to defend the west and north and block our way forward, we will be in a dilemma." Therefore, only going south would surprise Yang Yan. After we arrived in Ganzhou, we will send edicts to various places and let local officials go to Ganzhou to serve the king. After a pause, Li Dao said again: "And the current situation, I don't need to say that the princess should also be clear, Ganzhou is close to the sea, in case the time is incomprehensible, we can also escape to the sea, take refuge at sea by boat, didn't the emperor come all the way back then?" ”