Chapter 237: A Son of Heaven and a Courtier

Hou Junji was about to return to the Qin Palace, walking on the road, when suddenly a rhythmic knocking sound sounded on the carriage next to the entrance of the alley.

Three long and two short, one long and one short. Hou Junji's face changed slightly, this is the call signal of the left prison guard.

Hou Junji's face changed slightly, in front of Li Yuan, he was actually panicked. Li Shimin is not unclear about Li Jiancheng's almost murder, but very clear. However, he did something to hide it from Li Yuan, because Li Shimin proposed to Hou Junji with Fang Xuanling, and wanted to marry Hou Junji, so that Li Chengqian, the son of King Qin, would marry Hou Junji's daughter.

Although Hou Junji knows that this matter is definitely not as simple as it seems, he must have inadvertently leaked out of the horse's feet and let Li Shimin discover something, this is a solicitation called proposing, and it is also the last ultimatum.

Once Hou Junji refuses Li Shimin's kindness, then he Hou Junji may either be hit by a speeding carriage and killed, or even choke to death while eating, or he may be shot to death by a stray arrow when he goes to the battlefield.

If Li Shimin wants Hou Junji to die, Hou Junji has absolutely no possibility of escaping, the key is that Hou Junji has no choice at all, he can't be honest with Li Yuan, his identity is leaked, and Li Shimin may be killed at any time.

In this way, Li Yuan will think that Hou Junji is incompetent, as one of the four secret spies of "heaven, earth, Xuan, and Huang" in the left prison gate, and his identity is revealed, which means death.

However, compromise with Li Shimin and help Li Shimin deceive Li Yuan, once the matter is successful, Li Shimin is the crown prince, Li Chengqian may also be the prince, and his daughter is the future princess and queen, then for Hou Junji, it is also the maximization of interests.

Li Jiancheng was killed this time, in fact, the eldest grandson Wuji used the Guo Shaogang under the command of Hou Mo Chen Xu, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, if Li Jiancheng was killed, Li Shimin would not give indisputable, and he would become the new prince of the Tang Dynasty, as Li Yuan's remaining two sons-in-law, although Li Shimin was not as good as Li Jiancheng, but relatively speaking, he had much more advantage than Li Yuanji.

However, as soon as he left the palace with his front foot, the guards of the left prison came to contact him. Hou Junji's heart moved, could it be that he said: "He leaked the bottom in front of Li Yuan?" ”

Thinking of this, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in Hou Junji's eyes. His hand instantly touched his waist, and he pulled out a bone nail about three inches long, and if necessary, he could also kill people.

Hou Junji took a deep breath and slowly boarded the carriage, the curtain of the carriage was immediately lowered, and it took a while for Hou Junji's eyes to adjust to the darkness in the carriage.

Not surprisingly, the person sitting opposite was Yu Yanzhang, the general of the left prison guard, and he was also the world-famous master of the same name as Zhang Zhongjian since the death of Yu Juluo, Hou Junji's eyes dimmed.

In front of Yu Yanzhang, he couldn't get out of ten rounds at all, and even if it was a sneak attack, there was no possibility of half a point.

Yu Yanzhang looked at Hou Junji thoughtfully and said, "Your ass is crooked!" ”

Hou Junji bowed his head and said, "Humble...... Treat unjustly! ”

"Humph!" Yu Yanzhang snorted coldly: "As a minion of the Son of Heaven, you will fight against the master, you know the consequences!" ”

Hou Junji's face was in cold sweat, and the bone-penetrating nail in his hand was clenched even tighter.

Just when Hou Junji was about to rise up against Yu Yanzhang and was ready to fight to break the net. Yu Yanzhang sighed and said, "You can do it yourself!" ”

Yu Yanzhang's sleeves suddenly flicked, and Hou Junji felt a huge force in front of him, as if a galloping rhinoceros crashed into him, he flew upside down to the carriage, pounced on the ground, and didn't get up for a long time.

Originally, Yu Yanzhang wanted to clean up the portal, but at the moment of doing it, he was a little unbearable.

As the so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, as a royal secret guard organization, once Li Yuan is a hundred years old, the left prison guards will definitely be banned, the king of Qin has a hundred cavalry divisions, and Li Jiancheng actually has a pocket intelligence organization, which is subordinate to the order of the department, and the reputation belongs to the personnel purchased by the food government, but there are certain similarities with the prison guards.

The key point is that once it is abolished, how should the livelihood of hundreds or thousands of left-handed guards who have died, been disabled, and their families have been killed, disabled, and depended in the line of duty? There is no doubt that the "Huang" secret agent who was placed next to Chen Ying has also defected, and he has already surrendered to Chen Ying, otherwise Li Yuan will definitely receive some criticism from Chen Ying, instead of all good words like now.

As for Li Jiancheng's "Tian" secret agent, he also had the idea of compromise, the sky is going to rain, the mother wants to get married, everyone takes care of everyone!

Yu Yanzhang decided not to care about these anymore, no matter who is in power, "Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang" will not abandon the power of the left prison guards, at that time, the left prison guards may still have life.

Thinking of this, Yu Yanzhang was a little relieved!

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Xu Jingzong rarely returned to Chang'an, and he liked to live in Chenjiabao in the Qinglin. Nowadays, a prosperous city and a commercial capital have been formed outside Chenjiabao.

In Chang'an, it is not suitable for doing business, as the imperial capital, here is the power center of the Tang Dynasty, inhabited by too many magnates and gate valves, in the words of no exaggeration, an inconspicuous person, it is possible to stand behind a large group of magnates, in this era, the magnates have privileges, if there is no power and no power, no matter how profitable the business will be snatched away.

Chenjiabao rises with commerce, and Chen should be the heaven here. Although Chenjiabao belongs to the jurisdiction of Wannian County, but Wannian County basically does not go to Chenjiabao in addition to collecting taxes, because the signboard in Chenjiabao is useless, dare to bully the people and merchants, they are beaten, and then hit Chenjiabao, can not call the wind and rain in Chenjiabao, as a prestige, these officials and officials, naturally do not want to come to Chenjiabao to eat.

The biggest feature of Chenjiabao is fairness, fair trading, fair trade and fair competition. In addition to the workshop, there is also a wine pond meat forest here, and even the orchids, who have always begged for a living in Chang'an and made a living by selling skin and meat, would rather go to Chenjiabao to do things here.

Xu Jingzong is Chen Ying's outer court manager, except for Chen Jiabao's inner house, all affairs are handed over to Xu Jingzong, and his power is comparable to that of a palm seal main hall.

But now, Xu Jingzong had to leave Qinglin and go to Chang'an. Because Princess Pingyang recommended him to be appointed as Bibu Langzhong, although this is an official position from the five grades, he is in charge of the internal and external endowments, funds, salaries, public offices, honors, ransom, apprenticeship courses, arrears, and military funds, weapons, and income. This position is the most important position in the 24th Division of the 6th Department, responsible for the audit and reimbursement of the entire 6th Department, and the financial and financial items.

This position is equivalent to the director of the State Audit Office in later generations, and it is typical of the position of low authority. Xu Jingzong is a very smart person. Although Princess Pingyang is his recommender, he also knows very well that Li Xiuning and Xu Jingzong only have a multifaceted relationship, and they have not said a few words, and it is absolutely impossible to give up this position to themselves.

The only possibility is that Chen Ying wants to let himself take this position, which can also be said to be Chen Ying's first step to start running the court power.

Xu Jingzong was born in a family of eunuchs, and they are all doorways in the officialdom, which is Menqing. His appointment to this official position is a sharp sword in Chen Ying's hand, as long as necessary, he can examine all officials below the rank of four in more than 300 prefectures in three provinces, six ministries, ten provinces, thirteen prefectures, whether military or political.

In the future, Chen Ying wants to replace the officials in which position with his own people, he only needs to ask Xu Jingzong to check which position of the officials, the crows in the sky are as dark as the sky, which official will not be afraid to check?

Sit in a carriage and head to Chang'an City. Xu Jingzong looked at Li Jiancheng's red scum, and a very meaningful smile appeared on his face. Li Jiancheng has nothing to do with himself, but now he has made himself Zuo Chunfang Zhongyun, if he is placed in the imperial court, this position is Zhongshu Shilang, one of the real prime ministers who has the right to criticize.

Xu Jingzong returned to Xu Jingzong's mansion first, although Xu Jingzong's mansion was sold to Chen Ying at a price, Chen Ying has not bought other mansions in Chang'an City, but he bought a set of five-entry courtyards in Qinglongfang, which is close to Quchifang's Furong Garden, although it is not larger than the mansion that Xu Jingzong sold to Chen Ying, but it is more exquisite.

Even after Xu Jingzong gave birth to his second son Xu Ang, he still didn't have much time to go home, and this time his vehicle just arrived at the door of his house, and he found something unusual.

Xu Jingzong looked at the concierge Xu Zhong and said, "Uncle Zhong, what's going on?" ”

Xu Zhong said with a smile on his face: "So that Ah Lang knows that this is a gift from Pei Xiangguo's son Lawyer Pei, congratulations to Ah Lang on his promotion!" ”

Although Xu Jingzong's wife Xu was born in the Pei family, she has no direct family relationship with Pei Lian, and if you count up to three generations, it is barely within a clan. Pei's family called Pei Lin his uncle, which was also Gao Pan, and he didn't see any contact during the ordinary New Year's Festival.

He had just been promoted to Bibu Langzhong and Zuo Chunfang Zhongyun, and before he even officially took office, the people who climbed his relatives came.

Not only did the Pei family come to give gifts, but even the Nanyang Fan family, who had not been in contact for a long time, also sent people to send six luxury gifts. Nanyang Fan's family is after Fan Wang, the general of Anbei in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but since Fan Wang, there have been no outstanding talents. However, it was only when Xu Jingzong's maternal grandfather Fan Xiaocai became the Nanliang Situ sacrificial wine and the prince's middle house.

Looking at the gifts in the courtyard, the smile on Xu Jingzong's face became more obvious and colder.

When Chen Ying was originally just a feudal official, Xu Jingzong, as Chen Ying's outer court administrator, had no official and no position, only a civil and prose official from the sixth grade, and everyone looked down on him.

However, now that Chen Ying has returned strongly, it means that the power of the prince of the court is more stable. As the crown prince was almost killed in the prison of the Criminal Department, Li Yuan, who was furious, dismissed the former Shangshu, Shilang, Dali Siqing, Shaoqing, and Lang Zhong of the former Criminal Department, and dismissed more than 30 officials at once.

This is actually not the most important thing, the important thing is that this is the beginning, Xu Jingzong, who is more than a Langzhong, is intriguing enough, he is likely to use his position to exterminate the Qin Wang and his party.

Although the official who did it now is dead, the truth can definitely be found out if you want to investigate.

Li Jiancheng didn't take this matter to heart, it was also a helpless move, I was afraid that finding out the clear picture would cause greater waves in the government and the opposition. At present, Datang is in crisis, with frequent internal and external troubles, and can no longer withstand the great toss of the DPRK and China parties.

Xu Jingzong looked at the direction of the East Palace, his heart was surging, the horn of battle has been sounded, then fight, I, Xu Jingzong, are destined not to be nameless!