In the evening, the sun sets over the peaks of Lishan Mountain. Lishan Evening Sunshine is one of the eight scenic spots of Chang'an, and countless tourists have been happy to enjoy this beautiful scenery since ancient times.

But at this moment, no one was in this mood, and there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves on the road of Lishan Palace, and hundreds of cavalry hugged a carriage and moved forward quickly.

On the road of Lishan Palace, there was no one, and on the entire road, only the sound of horses' hooves continued to echo lonely.

On the carriage, sitting was Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, who was now riding in a carriage with Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and his henchmen, and rushed to the Lishan Palace.

Originally, he listened to Wei Ting's meaning and was ready to refuse the city to defend himself, but then Qiao Gongshan suddenly appeared. Li Jiancheng suddenly felt as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, changed his mind at the moment, and decided to go to Lishan to explain to Li Yuan in person.

Now Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, and Qiao Gongshan are sitting in the car and galloping straight to Lishan. Li Jiancheng was worried that something would change, so he kept urging on the road to make the carriage faster.

"Slow, stop, stop now!" Li Jiancheng suddenly shouted loudly.

Outside the car, the soldiers of the six rates of the East Palace stopped their horses one after another, and picked up their bows and arrows to guard the surroundings. Feng Li, the general of the East Palace Guard, stopped his horse and asked, "His Royal Highness the Prince, what is the matter?" ”

Li Jiancheng was covered in sweat, grabbed Feng Li's hand and said: "Feng Li, you said that Gu took so many people and horses to Lishan to see his father, would his father feel that Gu was leading the army and had bad intentions?" ”

Feng Li hesitated when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this is somewhat possible. ”

Li Jiancheng said at the moment: "Then what are you waiting for, stop quickly." Alone on horseback to Lishan Mountain, he explained to his father. ”

As soon as Li Jiancheng said this, Feng Li immediately objected: "His Royal Highness the Prince." This move is too dangerous, you go on the road alone, if you meet someone from the King of Qin......"

"Needless to say, the will has been decided, if King Qin really wants to kill Gu, let him kill him!"

Li Jiancheng jumped off the carriage and roughly pulled a guard off the horse. He rode up in stirrups and shouted, "None of you are allowed to come with you." ”

After saying that, Li Jiancheng walked away, and Li Yuanji saw him and said: "Since the prince is afraid that his father will be suspicious." Then Feng Li, you immediately led a dozen people to catch up, and stayed at this post station to wait for news. ”

"No!" Feng Li immediately led more than a dozen people to gallop away.

Lishan Hot Spring Palace.

The roads were firmly guarded by Li Tang's palace guards. On every palace avenue, it was guarded by the armored Li Tang Praetorian Guards.

Li Yuan sat upright in the palace. Looking out at the mountains in the distance. The face is expressionless. But he understands that he is very sad at the moment, not only because he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also because he is the father of two sons.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived at the foot of the mountain." The eunuch in the palace prayed to Li Yuan with a happy face.

Li Yuan heard this, but asked lightly, "The prince is here?" How many soldiers did this rebel bring? ”

"There is no retinue, just him."

Li Yuan nodded, and said with a sigh of relief: "Bring him here to see me." ”

After a while, footsteps were heard. But I saw Li Jiancheng enter the hall.

"Father!" Li Jiancheng suddenly burst into tears, and then fell to the ground and bowed. kept kowtowing, banging his head on the ground and said: "Father, the son is wronged, the son is wronged!" ”

When Li Yuan saw Li Jiancheng's expression, he couldn't help but feel sad and sad. He got off the dragon chair, walked in front of Li Jiancheng, kicked Li Jiancheng fiercely and scolded: "As the crown prince and the prince of a country, how can you be so careless?" ”

Listening to Li Yuan angrily reprimanding himself, Li Jiancheng was not only not afraid, but happy. Li Yuan's temper, he knows that if he blames you in person, then it means that there is something to be done, if he doesn't blame you, but talks to you with a pleasant face, then things are already so bad that they are irreversible.

Li Jiancheng raised his head, blood dripping from his forehead.

He cried and said: "Father, this matter is someone framing Erchen, Erchen has asked Yang Wengan to pick people from Gyeongju to fill the East Palace guards, and also has the intention of sending armor to Gyeongju, but Erchen only has no intention of rebellion." ”

"Then what do you mean by choosing guards and building armor?"

Li Jiancheng cried: "Father, you don't know, the second brother has forced me so hard in the past few years, as soon as I choose the guards, he will also increase the guards of the Qin Palace, and he will add as much as I increase." As for the armor, it was also Weichen who wanted Yang Wengan to have some ability to level Liang Shidu for his father, so that he could also give his son a long face in front of his father. ”

"But the son is not dealing with his father, but the second brother. As for the eradication of Duan Decao, it is Yang Wengan's intention alone, and he has nothing to do with Erchen, Erchen didn't even think about it. ”

Li Yuan slapped the table and said angrily: "Bastard, as the prince of a country, you should be a harmonious brother, how can you fight with King Qin in secret." ”

Li Yuan didn't expect that the battle between his two sons would be so fierce. He has always believed that although King Qin is powerful, it may not be a role in urging this cowardly prince.

Today, however, the situation has deteriorated to this point.

Li Yuan said: "Then Er Zhuhuan is at the behest of King Qin and has come to harm you, why don't you even know that your henchmen and guards have been infiltrated by others." ”

"The sons are confused, the sons are confused."

Li Jiancheng kept knocking on the ground with his head, and then he almost fainted, Li Yuan took a slow breath and said, "Okay, you don't have to kowtow anymore." ”

Li Jiancheng stopped at this time, Li Yuan saw that Li Jiancheng was so wolf, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, and the nature of father and son overwhelmed the emperor's ambition for a while.

Li Yuan wiped the blood from Li Jiancheng's forehead with a silk handkerchief and said: "You are now in a place of suspicion, you said that the King of Qin framed you, but I can't make a judgment based on your words." You step back first, and live in this hot spring palace, and I will find out about this matter. ”

"Thank you father, my son thanked my father." Li Jiancheng kowtowed in surprise and joy.

"That's enough, don't kowtow anymore, stand down!"

At that moment, Li Jiancheng walked out of the main hall, and dozens of palace guards were waiting for him.

"Prince, please!"

All the guards said in unison. Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and was taken away by the guards at the moment.

Li Yuan walked with his hand in His Highness for a while, and then said, "Someone is coming." ”

"Xuanqiao Gongshan entered the palace. I questioned it myself. In addition, Xuan Si Nongqing Yu Wenying entered the palace to meet him. ”

"In addition, King Xuan Qin entered the hot spring palace to meet him."

"Your Majesty, will you announce it now?"

"Yes, immediately."

Late at night. Two guards escorted Qiao Gongshan out of Li Yuan's main hall. Just now, Li Yuan interrogated Qiao Gongshan for half an hour, and Qiao Gongshan told Li Yuan everything except for what he had done as Zhao Jun.

In his confession, Qiao Gongshan did not dare to deceive the shrewd Tang Emperor at all, and said that what he said was also the truth. It's just that he escaped from the custody of the guards of the Qin Palace, which was explained by the other party's poor guarding of him.

Li Yuan was not suspicious.

When Li Yuan interrogated himself, Qiao Gongshan could feel that Li Yuan was getting more and more angry the more he asked. Obviously, he already believed his words, and he was inclined to agree with Yang Wengan's matter, and it was Li Shimin who framed Li Jiancheng.

Qiao Gongshan was imprisoned. He knew that his mission had been completed, he completed the task assigned to him by the Wind News Division and saved Li Jiancheng. Since then, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin have reached the point of never dying.

As long as the two continue to fight to the death, Li Tang's power will further become internal. So for Da Zhao. Of course, I am happy to see it.

But for him, his use value for Li Tang has been lost. If the value of Li Tang is lost, then the value of the Fengwen Division is also lost.

And this is likely to be Qiao Gongshan, the place where this wind news division broke into Li Tang's highest-level work.

He is now being held in a dark room in the Hot Spring Palace, where he was covered before he came, and where he was after taking off his blindfold.

The guards outside the house were very guarded, and the footsteps of the guards patrolled rustled past the door from time to time.

Qiao Gongshan knew that he would inevitably be strictly guarded at this moment. And there is absolutely no escape. Don't expect the previous thing to happen again. If Feng Wensi could casually save people in the Hot Spring Palace, then they would have assassinated Li Yuan a long time ago.

After thinking about it, the only one who can save himself is Li Jiancheng himself.

But Qiao Gongshan didn't expect the cool prince to remember this kindness to save him, and for the ruthless Li Yuan, his own existence was the ugliness of the Li Tang royal family.

No matter what kind of punishment Li Jiancheng receives in the future, Li Shimin will only be killed. And people from the outside world only care about the dispute between King Qin and the crown prince, and who will ask them about the life or death of an insignificant person.

Thinking of this, Qiao Gongshan stood up, and he said to himself: "It's time to act according to the plan, I wonder if the pill that Cao Beijiang said is really effective?" ”

Then Qiao Gongshan tore off a piece of his clothes, bit his finger and wrote down the blood book, and then he took an inconspicuous black pill from his wardrobe.

Qiao Gongshan stared at the pill, smiled bitterly, gritted his teeth and swallowed it.

In the hot spring palace late at night, Li Yuan was talking to a man in his forties, this person was Si Nongqing Yu Wenying.

Li Yuan said to him: "I know that you have an old relationship with Yang Wengan, now you will take my will, go to Gyeongju, and persuade Yang Wengan to return with good intentions, remember to persuade him to come back, sue him, and I will ensure that he is fine......"

"Qi Qi Xià, Qiao Gongshan committed suicide by taking poison in prison." The head of the guards of the Hot Spring Palace outside the door said to Li Yuan.

Halfway through his words, Li Yuan stopped, and then he asked, "Why did you kill yourself?" Was anyone instructed to do so? ”

A cold glint flashed in Li Yuanhu's eyes.

"The place where Qiao Gongshan is located, strictly guarded, and no one approached, he also left a blood letter, saying that a qiē is his own sin, and the prince has been wronged, saying that he has no face to see His Majesty and the prince again, so he died, and begged His Majesty to take care of his family and give him a whole corpse."

Li Yuan was relieved when he heard this: "This person is a smart person, okay, just do what he says." ”

This incident did not cause much turmoil in Li Yuan's place, but continued to say to Yu Wenying: "I just said it, do you remember everything? ”

"Wechen remembered." Yu Wenying hurriedly nodded and accepted the order.

When Yu Wenying and his party left Gyeongju on a fast horse, in a remote place in the hot spring palace, two guards were walking on a mountain path carrying a corpse wrapped in a hemp mat.

"Old Shen, what did this brother do?"

"Hey, it's hard to say, this brother is really not lucky, he is involved in the matter of the crown prince and the king of Qin!"

"What's the big deal?"

"Don't ask. Are you dying? This person's character rank is several levels higher than that of you and my brothers, and he died, and you and I have a few lives. ”

"Yes. Be. The other didn't dare to speak out at the moment.

At that moment, the two of them walked to a remote mountain col, but they heard the sound of wolves roaring from all sides, and it was terrifying to hear. Both shivered together and stopped.

"That's it, in a few days, the corpse will be taken away by the wolf."

"Yes, yes. I don't know if I'll bump into a ghost if I go any further. ”

"Brother, it's not us who hurt you, you have the head and the debtor. Have a good birth in the next life. ”

The two guards bowed to the corpse a few times, then threw it on the hill and left, unaware that the man inside the mat was not actually dead.

This medicine can make you fake your death. Even if you have an experienced doctor. You will also mistakenly think that you have committed suicide by poisoning, but in fact, you will wake up in six hours.

These six hours are a chance for you to save your life, you can't wake up late, you can't wake up early, but your luck after waking up depends on yourself, if someone else slashes you or destroys your body during this time. Then he can't be saved, so he went to the East Palace to find the prince to defend himself. It's really very dangerous, you think about it yourself, if you don't want to, we won't force you, we will let you go home and give you a sum of money, after all, this matter must be done willingly.

A few hours later, Qiao Gongshan, who slowly woke up in the mountains and forests a few miles away from the Lishan Hot Spring Palace, kept these words swirling in his head.

Qiao Gongshan opened his eyes and looked at the rising sun, surrounded by woods, and a few cute elk were grazing nearby.

Seeing this scene, Qiao Gongshan couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh. He knew he had saved his life.

A few years later, Qiao Gongshan has become a rich man, living in the warm Jiangnan, living an ordinary life incognito.

Only occasionally when he heard others talk about this sensational Li Tang coup d'état, he would always show a hint of a smile. As the so-called good fighters have no outstanding achievements, except for a few people in Da Zhao, who doesn't know how much role Qiao Gongshan played in this matter.

In Chang'an, outside a business called Risheng Rice Shop, countless people lined up outside the door, waiting eagerly to enter the door to buy rice.

At this time, a shopkeeper held a wooden sign with the price of rice written on it and hung it high in front of the store. The people who were waiting outside the door with sacks to buy rice complained about the price of rice.

"Why has the price of rice risen again?"

"How can I do it, yesterday it was still seventy-three dollars a bucket."

"yes, there's no way to get through this day."

"Let's go, let's go, a month's hard-earned money is not enough to buy a bucket of rice."

Many people looked at the rice price sign, sighed for a long time, and then took the rice bag, dragged their bodies out of front of the rice shop, and kept looking back at the rice price on the sign when leaving, hoping that the number on it could be changed.

But the figures of these people were immediately drowned out, and more people poured in.

"The rice shop is open!"

"The rice shop is open!"

The days still have to pass, the people still have to eat, and no matter how expensive the rice is, there are still people who have to buy it.

When the people in front of him were queuing up to buy rice, at the back door of the rice shop, Cao Wen of the Fengwen Division walked into the rice shop.

This Risheng rice shop is one of the five important strongholds of the Great Zhao Fengwen Division in Chang'an City. The top and bottom of the rice shop, from the boss to the guys, are all people from the Wind News Division.

After Cao Wen entered the rice shop, people immediately stood guard on all sides and watched over the place.

Cao Wenju walked inside, and the owner of the rice shop, the boss in charge of this liaison station, walked out and bowed down and said, "The lowly Liu touches all to meet General Cao." ”

"Liu joined the army, I have said several times, this is the enemy territory, we don't have to pay respects to our superiors and subordinates."

"No!"

Cao Wenju stepped inside and asked Liu Modu: "Liu joins the army, has the price of grain in Chang'an reached this point?" ”

Liu Modu replied: "Yes, last year, when Li Tang took advantage of my Da Zhao to use troops against the Turks, he borrowed a lot of military food from the people, and the price of grain in Chang'an soared all the way, and this year's situation is worse than last year. Today's grain price was jointly agreed upon yesterday by more than 70 commercial banks in Chang'an. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Modu smiled proudly and said: "Besides, the increase in grain prices in the customs also shows that our Luoyang blockade policy against Chang'an has always been very effective and effective?" It's all a credit to Don General all along. ”

Cao Wen glanced at the crowded scene outside, and the people of Chang'an, who were crowded in line, waved the rice bags in their hands and rushed to the grain store. Cao Wen forced himself to suppress the unbearable love in his heart, he knew that this should not be the love he should have.

Cao Wen asked at the moment: "After the prince was escorted into the Hot Spring Palace, what was the movement in the Tiance Mansion?" ”

"Humble and incompetent, the actions in the Tiance Mansion are still very thorough, and we can't detect the slightest bit of information." Liu Modu lowered his head and said. (To be continued......)