In the city of Chang'an, in the Wanchun Palace.

A cadre of civil and military officials stood at the foot of the stairs, their heads drooping silently, their brows furrowed. Li Mao on the throne was scolding at the dragon book case. No one could have imagined that Li Mao, who has always shown a gentle and elegant image, is scolding some unbearable filthy words in her mouth at the moment, some dirty words that can only be scolded by the mouth of a shrew in the market.

The news from Golden State has long been known to the world. Wang Yuan led more than 100 cavalry to break through tens of thousands of Jinzhou military formations and kidnap Emperor Taishang, which made everyone's faces gloomy. When I first heard the news, no one believed it to be true. However, when the news was confirmed, everyone seemed to have been slapped in the face, and their faces were hot and painful.

The empathetic courtiers did not blame Li Mao for his gaffe today, and anyone who heard the news that Wang Yuan took more than 100 people into Lishan Palace to rob the Emperor Taishang, and forced his way into the army of 40,000 troops and escaped safely, he would vomit blood and go crazy with anger. Not to mention Your Majesty.

Just when soldiers and horses from all over the country gathered in the capital and were about to start the encirclement and suppression of Wang Yuan, there was such a thing, which not only greatly damaged morale but also lost face, no wonder His Majesty would curse. Moreover, everyone who understands knows that Wang Yuan's move to rob the Emperor Taishang must have a major purpose. At the beginning, Wang Yuan sent the Emperor Taishang back to Chang'an, and it is said that the Emperor Taishang was unwilling to return to Chang'an at that time. But only a few months later, Wang Yuan was willing to take a big risk to rob the Emperor Taishang, what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd? Is this Wang Yuan stupid? Is His Majesty's anger related to the hidden story behind it? These things are like seeing flowers in the fog, and people can't see through them, and they can't figure it out.

After Li Mao vented a lot, he finally calmed down, and sat on the throne with his eyes closed. At this time, the courtiers dared to persuade and persuade Li Mao one by one, saying that it was the responsibility of strictly investigating the soldiers and horses in Jinzhou, and how more than 100 people broke through the military formation of tens of thousands of people, and someone in the army must have deliberately let Yunyun go.

The more Li Mao listened, the more angry he became, jumped up from the throne, waved his hand and told the ministers to get out, he didn't want to listen to this nonsense anymore. What he needs to think about now is not these things, but his father's response after being rescued by Wang Yuan to Chengdu. Obviously, everything he did in Lishan Palace would not be able to be kept secret. After Wang Yuan rescued his father, these things will soon ferment. Li Mao needs a proactive response.

After the hundred officials retreated, Li Guangbi and Zheng Qiushan stayed, and the two of them are now Li Mao's most relied on right-hand men, and Li Mao needs to analyze the matter with them and discuss countermeasures.

"Say, what is Wang Yuan doing here? What did he do when he went to Lishan to kidnap his father? Guangbi, Guozhang, I want to listen to your opinions. You tell me, what is Wang Yuan doing here? Li Mao's voice was tired, and he asked dejectedly.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

Li Guangbi and Zheng Qiushan spoke at the same time, both of them were a little stunned, and they both stopped at the same time.

Li Guangbi frowned, very dissatisfied. This Zheng Qiushan is now very domineering, there are rules for speaking in the court, and in front of His Majesty, he is the first person to speak at any time, which is well known to all officials. But this Zheng Qiushan likes to be the first to speak recently, as if he wants to challenge his authority.

"You can say it first." Li Guangbi said coldly, closed his mouth and took a step back. He didn't want to compete with someone like Zheng Qiushan for such a fearless advance and retreat at this time. What Li Guangbi was thinking about was the upcoming all-out crusade against Wang Yuan, and all his energy and thoughts were focused on this matter.

Zheng Qiushan took it as a matter of course, and arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is ......."

Li Mao waved his hand to interrupt his words, and said to Li Guangbi: "Brother, you speak first." ”

The title of the elder brother is Li Mao's honorific title for Li Guangbi, and after Li Guangbi assisted him in ascending the throne, Li Mao will follow him as his brother, as long as he is not in front of the hundred officials, Li Mao will call him so to show respect.

Zheng Qiushan's mouth opened, embarrassed. He saw the sarcastic look in Li Guangbi's eyes, and his embarrassment suddenly turned into anger. But he could only retreat obediently.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Wang Yuan's move is sinister, Your Majesty can't sit idly by, it's time to solve everything with thunder means." Li Guangbi said softly.

"Tell me, make it clear." Li Mao frowned.

"The minister believes that Wang Yuan's purpose in coming to kidnap the Emperor Taishang is to use the Emperor Taishang to the detriment of His Majesty. The minister was worried that Wang Yuan would force the Emperor Taishang to tell the world......"

"Tell what?" Li Mao glared.

"Your Majesty, what else could it be? Naturally, it is about the inheritance of the society and the ...... of the imperial system."

"Shut up!" Li Mao jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp, "I am already the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, what else can I tell the world about the emperor?" He has already passed down to me, he has abdicated as the emperor, what right does he have to do this? ”

Li Guangbi looked at Li Mao quietly and said, "Your Majesty, you understand. Wang Yuan will do that, only by using the mouth of the Emperor Taishang to announce to the world and announce that His Majesty's throne is not right, he can get rid of the name of a traitor and justifiably raise an army to rebel. ”

Li Mao stared at Li Guangbi fiercely and didn't speak, Li Guangbi also frowned and looked at Li Mao, the two looked at each other for a long time, Li Mao slowly spoke: "Do you think this is Wang Yuan's purpose of robbing his father?" ”

Li Guangbi nodded and said, "There is nothing else." Otherwise, why did he insist on sending him back to the Emperor Taishang before, but now he is willing to take a big risk to save him? At the beginning, he sent back to the Emperor Taishang to make His Majesty embarrassed, and today he rescued the Emperor Taishang to make a bad name. Wang Yuan is really insidious and treacherous, but he will not hesitate to do anything that is beneficial to him. Your Majesty, if Wang Yuan succeeds this time, and the Emperor Taishang really issues an edict according to Wang Yuan's request, it will have an extremely bad impact. Your Majesty has thought about the consequences. ”

"Do you think Father would allow him to do that? What good would that do for my father? Is he willing to help foreign thieves take away my Tang Dynasty? Li Mao lowered her head, as if asking herself this question.

"Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to be presumptuous. But according to the information grasped by the minister, this time Wang Yuan's sneaking into Lishan Palace seems to be related to the Emperor Taishang. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Mao was surprised.

"After the Emperor Taishang was taken captive, the guards and horses found a dragon robe left by the Emperor Taishang in the palace of the Emperor. A small hole had been cut in the chest of the dragon robe. ”

"Got a little hole? What does that mean? Li Mao was even more confused.

"Your Majesty, someone has cut a small hole in the dragon robe, but the cut yellow cloth is nowhere to be found. Why did the Emperor do this? Where did the cut pieces of cloth go? After speculation, the minister boldly concluded that the cut dragon robe was probably sent away as a token. The minister was a little more bold to speculate that Wang Yuan came here to save him at the request of the Emperor Taishang. With this assumption, all doubts are solved. Li Guangbi said softly.

"What? You mean, my father sent a letter to Wang Yuan? Using the fragments of the dragon robe as a token? Li Mao exclaimed.

"Exactly."

"Impossible, impossible. The guards in Lishan Palace are so tight, how can he send a letter? Besides, the Emperor Taishang is already bedridden and delirious......"

"Your Majesty......" Li Guangbi raised his voice and shouted, "There is nothing absolutely impossible in the world. There is no such thing as an absolutely reliable guard. If the guards are reliable, why can Wang Yuan succeed? There will always be people who will take risks for money. And the madness of the Emperor Taishang may not be really crazy. Your Majesty forced too hard, and it is not impossible for the Emperor Taishang to pretend to be crazy and stupid in order to protect himself. If all these speculations are true, then it means that there must be cooperation between the Emperor Taishang and Wang Yuan. In other words, the minister's worries are not superfluous. ”

"You say I'm pushing him too hard? So he's pretending to be crazy? Deceit? Contact Wang Yuan? Want Wang Yuan to save him? And then...... Follow Wang Yuan against me? Tell the world that the throne is not right? Li Mao asked with a series of exclamations.

"I'm afraid that's exactly what happened."

Li Mao slapped the dragon case heavily and scolded: "It's all my fault, I should have been done a long time ago, and I am a woman." Left for trouble. ”

Li Guangbi frowned and said, "Your Majesty, do you still think so?" At the beginning, the minister suggested that His Majesty allow the Emperor Taishang to return to Chang'an, but His Majesty just didn't listen. If he could have been gentler at the beginning, how could Wang Yuan have taken advantage of it? ”

Li Mao pointed to his nose and asked, "Are you weird?" Are you weirding me? Did I do something wrong? Don't you know what kind of person your father is? When he returns to Chang'an, can I be safe? ”

Li Guangbi frowned and was silent. I sighed in my heart. In fact, there are many ways to avoid today's situation, but Li Mao insisted on choosing the worst one, so he pushed things to today's situation.

"Li Guangbi, I want you to share your worries for Your Majesty, but I don't want you to go through old accounts and blame Your Majesty. Don't forget your identity, you are a courtier, could it be that Your Majesty still wants to see your face? Zheng Qiushan on the side suddenly shouted.

Li Guangbi turned around abruptly, staring at Zheng Qiushan with a pair of sharp eyes like knives, Zheng Qiushan was startled, and said, "You want to ...... Do? ”

"Zheng Qiushan, when I speak in the future, you have to interject. My Majesty and I are talking, when will you interject? Do you think you're above me? Li Guangbi shouted sharply.

"I ...... I...... Your Majesty, look at him, he is so arrogant, in front of His Majesty, he Li Guangbi actually spoke like this......"

"Guozhang, you go out." Li Mao said in a deep voice.

"What?" Zheng Qiushan was stunned.

"I want you out. If you don't want to go out, stand by and don't interject. Li Mao said coldly.

Zheng Qiushan was devastated and silently beside him with a gray face.

Li Mao turned his head to Li Guangbi and said, "Brother, there is no need to mention the previous things, whether it is right or wrong, the matter has come to this point, and there is no turning back." If it is really as the elder brother said, my father is afraid that he will really cooperate with Wang Yuan this time. If my father really issued an edict at the instigation of Wang Yuan's thief, wouldn't I have to be difficult to discern. I don't want the world to think that my throne was usurped. That would be very bad for me. ”

"That's why the minister just said that Your Majesty must take resolute measures and never allow the situation to deteriorate." Li Guangbi said in a deep voice.

"What kind of drastic measures should be taken?" Li Mao asked hurriedly.

"First strikes." Li Guangbi said word by word.

"What's the first strike?" Li Mao said in a low voice.

Li Guangbi thought for a while, and said loudly: "Since you know the means of Wang Yuan and the Emperor Taishang to join forces, you will strike first. There are four strategies for ministers, and His Majesty can implement them immediately. His Majesty immediately issued an edict to the world, enumerating Wang Yuan's great crimes, launching an order to crusade against Wang Yuan, and ordering the world's soldiers and horses to fight against him. This is the first, and second, His Majesty needs to tell the world, so that the Emperor Taishang has been captured by Wang Yuan, and he can't help himself. From now on, all proclamations and orders issued by the mouth of the Emperor Taishang may be coerced by Wang Yuan, which is not enough to be accepted. Third, an order was issued to reward Wang Yuan's head, and the world's heroes were rewarded with a large amount of money to take Wang Yuan's head, and Gao Jue was given a reward. Fourth, the issuance of a recruitment order. However, all the officials and soldiers from Wang Yuanzhi, as long as they no longer help the abuse and take the initiative to surrender to the court, they can not be blamed in the past and be promoted to the third level. ”

Li Mao stared and listened to Li Guangbi's words, and did not speak for a long time, only walked back and forth in the hall with his hands quickly, like a restless beast in a cage.

"Your Majesty, do you want the ministers to explain the intentions of these four strategies one by one?" Li Guangbi said in a deep voice.

"No, I know what you mean." Li Mao stretched out his hand to stop him: "I'm so stupid that I don't even understand the purpose of your four strategies. Didn't you mean to gag Wang Yuan and his father before the affair began? Once we preemptively declare Wang Yuan a thief and the Emperor is coerced by him, when the Emperor Taishang issues an edict to the world, the people of the world may not believe it. ”

"Your Majesty, that's exactly what the minister meant. Gagged them and drove them in the head, and that was the first to strike. Your Majesty, the minister reminds you that the Emperor Taishang may have arrived in Chengdu, and the matter cannot be delayed. It is better to be sooner rather than later, and the effect will be greatly reduced if it is late. ”

"I understand, but I think your second strategy needs to be changed slightly."

"Oh? I wonder how Your Majesty wants to change? ”

"I ...... Think. It is not so much that the father was coerced by Wang Yuan, but that the father ignored the Tang Dynasty and went back on his word with the intention of restoring the throne. After being rejected by me and the princes, they colluded with the rebel king to take revenge. After killing the queens in the Lishan Palace, he absconded to Chengdu and rebelled against the thieves. Isn't this even more of a bottom-up strategy? Li Mao said softly.

Li Guangbi and Zheng Qiushan, who was standing in the distance, shivered, and a chill rose in their hearts. Li Mao is too ruthless, this is to splash all the dirty water on the emperor, so that not only will people in the world not believe the words of the emperor, but I am afraid that there are many people who will scold and reprimand him.

"What? Does my brother think it's wrong? At this point, why should I be kind to women? I was forced to do it for the sake of the Tang Dynasty. I believe that the ancestors and the ancestors will not blame me. Li Mao said coldly.

Li Guangbi swallowed and spit, and said in a dumb voice: "What Your Majesty said is that there is no informality in achieving big things, and under the righteousness, everything can be abandoned." The minister felt that there was nothing wrong with it. ”

Li Mao smiled and said, "Okay, then you can prepare immediately." Within three days, he swore to send troops to defeat the rebel king Yuan. Return me to the prosperous scene of the Tang Dynasty, a world of peace and happiness. ”

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In the city of Chengdu, there was a lot of confusion about Xuanzong's restoration and accession to the throne. Up and down the Shence Army, the officials of all provinces in Shu have different views on this matter. Many people don't agree with this matter, they think that Dashuai has made a bad move. Finally, with today's situation, it is really unwise for the marshal to give everything away.

The reaction of the people in Chengdu and all parts of Shu was even more intense, and when the news spread in the streets and alleys that the marshal was going to be restored to the throne by Emperor Tai, the people suddenly boiled like a fried pot.

Back then, the young official's first appearance after arriving in Jiannan amazed the people of Shudi. He reversed the situation of the defeat and retreat of the former Jiedu envoy against the Nanzhao Kingdom, and led the Jiannan army to fight all the way to the capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom, forcing the Nanzhao Kingdom to return to the Tang Dynasty. Since then, this young handsome man has become the object of conversation among the people of Shudi. With the passage of time, with Wang Dashuai's various measures and actions in Shudi, it became more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Wang Dashuai led the army to sweep through the Tubo country, and forced Tubo to sign a peace agreement, solving the enemy in the western border of Shu. Since then, Wang Yuan's reputation has soared.

In all the provinces of Shu, Wang Dashuai is the biggest talking point in the mouths of the people. From Wang Yuan's strategy of employing troops to benefit the people, to Wang Yuan's height and weight, and his hobbies for talking, they are all widely excavated talking points. The young men and women in the city followed Wang Dashuai's example and set off various trends. For example, Wang Dashuai's usual clothes, favorite dishes, and favorite tunes are all objects for men to emulate. What's more, people with good deeds summarized Wang Dashuai's preferences for women from the images of several ladies in Wang Dashuai's mansion, and they summarized several points. For example: Wang Dashuai likes slender women, which is contrary to the mainstream aesthetics of Datang women. For another example, the handsome ladies all have willow eyebrows instead of heavy distant mountain eyebrows, and the flowers are also small and delicate, which is by no means the big and exaggerated popular in the Tang Dynasty. Lip makeup is not a lip in the middle of the lips to make the mouth appear smaller, but a natural application of lip gloss along the contours of the lips.

All of these, some of them are not, and some of them are not serious, and they have become the objects of emulation by the men and women of Shu. Dashuai and his wife seem to lead the trend of Shudi, making Shudi's aesthetics and fashion completely different from the outside world. All this shows how important Wang Yuan's status in the minds of the people of Shu is, and how much he is worshipped.

And Wang Yuan's position in the hearts of the people finally reached its peak after An Lushan raised troops. When the rebels swept across the land of Beijing, and the people of the world were in danger, the people of Shu were terrified