Chapter 1207 Twelve Hours in Luoyang (3)

In fact, the people employed in the imperial court have a certain number of years.

Some people have to use it for a while.

Some people need it for a year or two.

A person who needs to be employed for five years is considered a great talent.

The one that takes ten years is the humeral bone.

It will take more than twenty years. If he does not have a terminal illness that will kill him soon, or is determined to resign, he will usually not end well.

Emperor Li Zhi has trusted Xue Rengui for twenty years.

In the past twenty years, the emperor had trusted him with his life several times, and he had behaved well.

Now, it's time for Xue Rengui to be seriously ill or to resign.

Many people think that Xue Rengui is a rare Zijin Liang in the Tang Dynasty army. In fact, that is not the case. It is very unfavorable for the court for one person to command the troops of the Tang Dynasty for a long time.

Li Zhi worked hard to deprive the British Duke Li Ji of his authority, and patiently endured the British Duke to death. Of course, he did not want a new British Duke Li Ji to appear in the Tang army.

Replacing Xue Rengui is not a good thing for the army, and may even lead to defeat in foreign wars.

This is not important to the court, the replacement of military generals is a big deal.

The advantage of Yun Chu is that he is irreplaceable!

The social development of the Tang Dynasty today has far surpassed that of previous dynasties. When there is nothing to learn from in the history books, many of Yunchu's practices are often refreshing. In addition, Yunchu has no intention of getting involved in military power. Therefore, The emperor's tolerance for Yun Chu was obviously much higher than that of Xue Rengui.

There is nothing more than an undefended Chang'an city on the left and right. If you keep it as a human being, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The moment Xue Rengui stood up from the giant bear and looked at him, he immediately understood that his days as a military general were numbered.

Moreover, he even understood who the next generation of military generals the emperor valued was.

"Your Majesty, I have become increasingly unable to lead troops in recent years."

This was the first time that Xue Rengui used the word "Lao Chen" in front of the emperor.

Li Zhi's heart trembled slightly, and he followed Xue Rengui's words and asked, "But the old injury is reoccurring?"

Xue Rengui replied with a pale face: "Exactly."

Li Zhi said angrily: "What do the people in Taiyuan Hospital do for food? They can't even heal Aiqing's old injuries. What use do I need them for?"

Xue Rengui shook his head and said: "It is said that medicine can not cure diseases. There are too many old wounds on the old minister's body, just like a torn bag. Everyone in Taiyuan Hospital has done their best to repair them over the years. Now, there is no way to repair them. , I can’t blame them.”

Li Zhi sighed and said: "Besides Ai Qing, who else can I trust in the army?"

Xue Rengui looked at the emperor and said helplessly: "I think Fengzhou Sima Tang Xiujing can be of great use."

Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "You can't take charge of the overall situation yet."

Xue Rengui smiled and said: "I just made a suggestion. Whether to use it or not depends on your Majesty's decision."

Li Zhi just shook his head, as if he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Ruichun personally brought some wine and food, and Li Zhi and Xue Rengui sat on the high platform opposite each other, drinking and chatting.

The main thing was that the emperor listened to Xue Rengui telling him about his life experience. The emperor just praised some key points, or picked up a glass of wine and drank with Xue Rengui.

It seems that the monarch and his ministers get along very well with each other.

The sound of explosions and rising flames in Luoyang City became louder and louder. It was not until after a violent loud noise that some broken bricks and tiles fell into the Yun family courtyard that Wu Mei ordered the banquet to be stopped.

The banquet stopped, but none of the guests wanted to leave Yun's house at this time.

Wu Mei left the house and went to the courtyard where no one wanted to come. She stroked a pine and cypress bonsai with hundreds of knots. She seemed to enjoy the feeling of the pine needles pricking her hands.

Li Si followed closely behind with the horse in hand.

"Do you think your brother will kill me?" Wu Mei took her hand away from the pine needles and asked softly.

"No!" Li Si replied decisively.

Wu Mei nodded and asked: "Do you think the queen mother will kill your prince brother?"

"No!" Li Si continued to answer with absolute certainty.

Wu Mei smiled and continued to say to Li Si: "Since we, mother and son, will not fight each other, then what does the current scene in Luoyang mean?"

Li Sidao: "It's a game."

Wu Mei sighed after hearing this: "Yes, it is indeed a game, but this game is a little too cruel."

Li Sidao: "It's not cruel at all."

Wu Mei turned around and looked directly at Li Sidao: "Why do you say that?"

Li Si smiled and said: "Master told the children a long time ago that everyone dying for their ideals is one of the happiest ways to die in the world. Maybe they had a lot of unwillingness and regret when they died, but this is not Is that the most beautiful thing about the whole thing?

People in the world love glory and wealth, and pursue princes for eternity. Everyone wants to stand on the top of the mountain and look down on the world. However, the higher the mountain, the more cramped the top is. There are not many people who can stand on it. If you want to stand up, you need someone to help you. Make room.

Isn't it normal for them to pay a price or even die for these noble positions? "

Wu Mei smiled when she heard this and said to Li Sid, "Why did the Yun family retreat bravely?"

Li Si smiled and said: "Master thinks that the location on the top of the mountain is too small, not suitable for moving around, not suitable for farming, let alone building houses, and even building workshops. So, climbing to the top of the mountain is not suitable for you." It doesn't mean much to Yunshi.

Besides, apart from the narrow foothold on the top of the mountain, there is only the sky, and people who climb to the top of the mountain will easily regard the sky as their next target, which is too dangerous. "

While the mother and daughter were talking, a beam of fire suddenly jumped out from the high wall, more than three feet high, and the flames were bright. This was not the movement that a simple kerosene bomb could create, but the flame-spouting nozzle of the kerosene tank, a powerful weapon in the army, could create such a fierce flame.

Then there came a series of screams that did not sound like human voices from outside the high wall. Anyone who was sprayed by this kind of flame with oil had a very slim chance of survival.

The kerosene tank injured people and also injured the fence trees planted by the Yun family outside the wall. Li Si's face was gloomy, and he roared to the family general standing not far away: "Drive those killers out a hundred steps away, and I will take the blame for the murder. "

The family general promised, and immediately a hundred people opened the side door and went out. After a while, the sound of killing was heard everywhere.

Wu Mei looked at her reckless daughter and said, "The reason why they set fire here is that they want to drag the Yun family into the battle. Don't you think about it?"

Li Si said angrily, "Even if they think so, whoever hurts the Yun family, we will fight him. If we kill them all, they will not have that intention anymore."

Wu Mei smiled and said, "Can you make the decision for the Yun family?"

Li Si said, "Eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, after I officially enter the family, my mother will not care about the family affairs. I will make the decision on these matters in the future."

Wu Mei sighed and said, "Yun Chu is very calculating. This is a royal dispute. It's not good for him to get involved. It's okay for you, Princess Anding, to get involved. After all, this is also a royal dispute.

After you return to Chang'an, get married as soon as possible and give birth to the eldest grandson of the Yun family as soon as possible, so that you can be stable. "

Just as Li Si was about to nod, there was a loud bang, and the tall courtyard wall of the Yun family collapsed. Wu Mei was startled. She was firmly protected by the guards in the middle, and then she saw a group of cavalrymen rushing out from the alley of the Yun family mansion. The war horses swiftly crossed the collapsed high wall and lined up to kill into the battlefield outside the courtyard wall.

After the cavalry attacked, many servants immediately carried various things to the gap. In just one incense stick, the gap was blocked by debris.

Wu Mei turned her head to look at Li Si, but heard Li Si shouting.

"Clear the isolation zone to prevent the invasion of the fire. Anyone who dares to enter the isolation zone will be killed without mercy! "

Although the scene was chaotic, when Wu Mei looked carefully, she found that the servants of the Yun family were very orderly in their advance and retreat. Some put out the fire, some blocked the hole, and some even climbed up to the rockery and other high places, holding longbows to provide cover for the servants blocking the hole.

Yu Xiurong came over with a smile and said to Wu Mei: "Why don't you go to the flower hall and sit for a while, there are naturally children here to deal with it."

Wu Mei followed the advice and entered the flower hall of the Yun family. She found that although the guests looked pale, their overall mood was normal. There were four of them at a table, and in front of them was the Yun family's proud game - mahjong.

At this point, Wu Mei laughed happily and said to Yu Xiurong: "Why don't we come too."

Yu Xiurong smiled and said: "That's what I meant."

"Don't be naughty! "

Yun Chu pinched Jin Manru's ankle and threw her outstretched foot without stockings aside.

Jin Manru said in a charming voice: "Your Majesty is a rude man."

Yun Chu said: "Don't go too far."

Jin Manru said: "Minister of the Ministry of War Cen Changqian is the Queen's true confidant. If Your Majesty wants to live a good life in the future, or wants to make a difference in the army, you must take advantage of this chaos to kill him."

Yun Chu once again threw away Jin Manru's foot and said: "The Yun family does not want to participate in military affairs."

Jin Manru unyieldingly stretched out her foot again, this time directly to Yun Chu's crotch. After being dodged by Yun Chu, Jin Manru said: "If you have a chance, kill Fengzhou Sima Tang Xiujing together. He is a person that His Majesty values. As for the Lieutenant General Liang Ying of the Prince's Sixth Command, he should be your man. If not, he is the prince's man, so kill him together. "

Yun Chu pinched Jin Manru's feet and pondered for a moment, "Why didn't the foreign generals participate in this war?"

Jin Manru's face flushed, and she said in a dreamy voice: "This is the decision of the queen. Most of the Tang generals are willing to follow His Majesty, the prince, so she had to use foreign generals. The queen was not unprepared for this war. Most of the people pushed to the front were Tang people, because even if these Tang people were submissive to the queen, once the prince ascended the throne, they would abandon the queen one after another."

Yun Chu pushed away Jin Manru who wanted to throw herself into his arms, and shouted to the window: "Yun Jin!"

Yun Jin's handsome and blue face suddenly appeared in the window.

Yun Chu said: "Take the people of Qingyi Tower to kill the foreign generals of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Turks, Mohe and other foreign generals in Luoyang."

Jin Manru, who was curled up on the brocade bed like a cat, said to Yun Jin: "They are easy to find..."

Yun Jin said angrily: "Shut up. "

After saying that, she looked at her father with resentment and disappeared into the darkness.

Yun Chu picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of her cold tea, looking at the bright moon in the sky and said, "Go to hell."

"I like an empty kitchen the most!"

Yun Luan lifted a gauze cover and took out a big piece of cooked beef with tendons from the bottom, took a big bite and said to Princess Taiping.

Taiping picked up a pig's trotter, took a bite and threw it back into the gauze cover. She thought it was not delicious, and scooped a mouthful of cheese from the ice jar with a spoon and stuffed it into her mouth and ate it a few times, saying, "It's not delicious."

Yun Luan immediately opened a large cabinet. As soon as the cabinet was opened, white cold air came out from inside. He almost leaned his whole body into the cabinet before taking out a jade plate from inside.

He put the jade plate on the table and said to Taiping: "Eat quickly, this is ice cream, it tastes like peach. Don't ask me why I called it this name. It was my father who gave it to me."

Taiping struggled to dig out a spoonful and took a bite. His eyes immediately narrowed in happiness. It seemed that this thing was very suitable for his appetite.

While eating ice cream, Taiping said to Yun Luan nonchalantly: "It's useless for you to please me. It's impossible for me to marry you. My mother and father will not allow me to marry you. Your Yun family already has A princess now.”

Yun Luan nodded and said: "This has nothing to do with me whether you marry or not. You are born to be the kind of person who makes people want to go out of their way to treat you well. Eat more, there is also apricot flavor in the freezer. After you finish eating, I will Get it for you.”

"You like Yun Guan, right?"

"Yes, I am trying so hard to be nice to you, just because I hope you can help that stupid girl. She is obviously a woman, but she wants to be an official."

"Well, it's really stupid. When I see the promotion documents from my mother in the future, I will fill in her name..."

"That's great. By the way, we are childhood sweethearts who grew up together. What kind of man do you like?"

Taiping stopped the spoon in his hand, licked the ice cream at the corner of his mouth with his pink tongue, and said slowly: "I want the gentlest and most handsome man in the world."

Yun Luan took a mouthful of ice cream and said, "You understand, my eldest brother, right?"

Taiping looked at Yunluan with disdain and said, "You think your eldest brother is the most handsome man in the world, right?"

Yun Luan rolled her eyes and said, "Is there a handsome man more handsome than my elder brother?"

Taiping seemed to be lost in memories and said slowly: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I sneaked out with Webster wearing the mask of Kunlun Slave. After I got separated from Webster, I hugged a man who wore the same mask as Webster's. The man wearing the Kunlun slave mask took off his mask and looked at me tenderly and said: "Little lady, you have recognized the wrong person..."

Yunluan took two bites of beef and asked quickly: "Who is it?"

Taiping was awakened by Yun Luan's words and immediately said in a fierce tone: "What are you going to do? Why do you ask? What does it have to do with you?"

Yun Luan gritted his teeth and said, "That guy is finished. Everyone in Luoyang wants to kill him!"

"How dare you!"

Taiping threw away the spoon and pointed at Yunluan in an excited tone.