Chapter 830 West and East

Although the mountain path is not as flat as the official road built during the Sui Dynasty, and the carriage is slightly bumpy on the path covered with gravel, it is also a bit more interesting. Looking at the mountains in the mountains is always more charming than looking outside the mountains. Even if the road is bumpy, people who see the scenery are in a good mood and there is nothing to be picky about.

Hundreds of tall horses were walking slowly in a carriage, or because this trip was not a war, the cavalry guards' expressions were quite relaxed, and people whispered a few words from time to time. Some people pointed to the distant mountain scenery and praised it, and everyone looked relaxed.

But in fact, these hundreds of iron cavalry were not as relaxed as they seemed on the surface. Although this trip was not an expedition, it seemed to be less dangerous than an expedition.

The person in the carriage they wanted to protect was too noble, so noble that he would not allow any accidents.

If there is a little accident, it will also cause a stir.

The carriage is pure black and is extremely sturdy and spacious. This carriage is more than twice as fast as an ordinary carriage. Even if ten people sit in the carriage, they will not feel too crowded. Such a huge carriage will definitely not be able to pull one or two horses, and it will pull eight extremely majestic foals on the grassland.

On one side of the carriage, a big dark horse trotted along the carriage. Perhaps because of boredom, the big dark horse sniffed from time to time.

The formations of hundreds of iron cavalry advancing seem to be scattered, but in fact the division of labor is clear. These hundreds of people are the best selected from the 100,000 elite cavalry, and each of them is an elite of war who has killed many lives. These hundreds of people are on the periphery, and close to the carriage are twelve blue-shirted swordsmen.

The Tiqi and the blue-shirted swordsman were already ignited.

The big dark horse shook its tail bored, and looked at the carriage from time to time with dissatisfaction in its eyes. The curtains of the car were pulled open, and a handsome face appeared in front of the big dark horse.

"If you dare to crash again, I will stew you to eat meat at night!"

This handsome face of the world actually threatened a horse, and the horse felt aggrieved as if it understood and turned its head aside to look at him.

Li Xian smiled and retracted his head back into the carriage and said, "This beast seems to be able to understand people's words. It has been with me for eleven years. After returning to Chang'an, he will find a beautiful mare with big eyes and double eyelids for it to be his wife, so that it can live a good life."

Chirp

The big dark horse outside seemed to hear this and shouted happily twice.

The people in the carriage suddenly laughed, and Daxi Changru, who was lying in the carriage with a velvet blanket, smiled and said, "I still remember that on the unknown mountain in Saibei, the people in the blood cavalry, including the four Iron Lang, and of course, I was also a little curious. Why did this big dark horse fall into Zhongjian's eyes? At that time, I couldn't see any of his magical horses. The mounts and horses that were raising blood cavalry were all obedient to it. Later I found out..."

He escaped for a while, but he didn't say it because there was still a woman in the car.

It was because of Ashina's association rate who didn't know the past, so he chased and asked how it was going on later. Ou Siqingqing pulled her over and whispered a few times, and the little girl's face suddenly turned red. She turned her head out the window and looked at the scenery, pretending to be nothing, which made people laugh when they saw it.

"Do you miss your sister?"

Li Xian asked.

Ashina nodded but did not answer. She did not look back at Li Xian, nor did she know if she was shy because of the previous incident or because of something else. The six or seven people sitting in the carriage were all smart and clear-headed. Except for Da Xi Changru half-closed her eyes and did not see the fleeting reluctance in her eyes, almost everyone keenly captured the things in her eyes.

Ye Huaixue pulled Ashina's hand and said nothing. The warmth in her palm made Ashina's body feel very comfortable, so she looked at Ye Huaixue with gratitude.

"After Yanshan, you can't walk far north. It's the pasture of the Sotoxi people, but now it belongs to our great Khitan tribe, Da Aijin Osqingqing."

Li Xian deliberately changed the subject, pulled the curtains up and pointed to the outside and said, "I remember when I came back with Tie Liaolang and the others, I set a fire not far from here. That was when I came back. Now the grassland should have regained its vitality, or the traces of the fire that year could not be seen."

Daxi Changru narrowed his eyes and smiled: "There are always many memories on this grassland, but memories are just in people's minds. People are old, but they always look like vitality on the grassland."

Zhang Zhongjian shook his head and sighed: "What a pity. I didn't spend that time with you, and I feel a little regretful to think about it."

Zhang Wancheng curled his lips and said, "What are you regretting? It's their regrets if you regret it."

Li Xian quickly flattered and said, "It's just to make up for our regrets, so I brought you aunt this time."

"Oh, what you mean is that this trip is entirely to make up for your regrets. Your grandfather and I are the tools for you to make up for your regrets?"

Li Xian was stunned and didn't know how to answer. He looked at the smart women around him for help, but found that they all looked gloating.

Ye Huaixu gave Zhang Wancheng a thumbs up and praised: "Sharp"

Changsun Wugui praised: "Domstic"

Ou Siqingqing thought for a long time but didn't know how to express it. She finally remembered a word and said unwillingly, "I'm so manly!"

They talked and laughed, and four big men riding horses on the front, back, left and right outside the carriage laughed. They were four tigers of blood, and they once again followed Daxi Changru into the prairie. However, the cavalry responsible for the guards on the outside focused their attention on observing the surrounding environment and did not dare to relax at all.

But no matter how careful they were, they would not find a team of people thirty miles away passing by in the opposite direction. They were thirteen women, full of dust.

Thirty miles away, the first month of the year urged the horse to catch up with Ashi Duoduo in front and said tiredly: "Miss, do you want to take a break?"

Ashi Naduoduo wiped the sweat from his forehead, pointed to the mountain that had appeared in front of him and said, "Let's rest after passing Yanshan and entering the pass. There is still a long way to go."

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Chang'an City

Daming Palace North Yai

Shengtu Xiaohua handed a thick stack of paper to Xie Yingdeng, who was sitting on the chair. After picking up the cup and taking a sip of cold tea, she felt much more happy: "The list of people is basically complete. After checking it in the past few days, all the spies arranged by the Military Archives secretly moved. It should not be possible that no one would be missing. These guys thought they were doing meticulously, but they didn't know that not to mention Chang'an City, even if the entire world was the people from the Military Archives wanted to investigate, how could they not find anything?"

Xie Yingdeng smiled and read the thick list of people very seriously from beginning to end.

"The three people involved in the throne of Duke of the Kingdom were all old ministers during the Li Yuan Dynasty. Several heads of the Longyou family were afraid that they lived too long. Thirteen officials below the marquis were almost all under Li Yuan's original subordinates. Most of them were from the Longyou family. Sixty-seven officials above the fifth rank, twelve officials above the fourth rank, and two people above the third rank. The first page has only a few more than seventy people... There are at least two hundred names on the page after that."

Shengtu Xiaohua said: "There are thirty-six pages in total, and the names of the servants are not listed."

"How many males?"

Xie Yingdeng asked

Shengtu Xiaohua replied: "One thousand six hundred and seventy-eight people, including 261 old men over fifty years old and 299 children over fourteen. Among these wealthy families, many of them have served as foreign enemies, and many of them have already achieved the position of county magistrates, county magistrates, even county magistrates, and county magistrates. If they really start, almost all the people from the Military Audit Office will have to be scattered. In order to ensure that they are almost always taking people at the same time, the spies who are far away will set off first and wait for a while if they are close."

"Um"

Xie Yingdeng nodded and said, "I don't know that I'm back in the city, even Lord Du Ruhui and General Cheng Mingzhen don't know. After lunch, I sent a car to pick them up to the Beiya. Go around a few more circles and change more cars."

"I obey the order... Why did I bring the two adults here after lunch?"

Shengtu Xiaohua couldn't help asking.

Xie Yingdeng replied seriously: "Save money in charge."

Shengtu Xiaohua couldn't help but spray out the cold tea that she had just drunk, and thought to herself that she was very humorous, but this humor could make people laugh to death in one go. The helmsman of the two yamen in the North and South Yas, which can call for wind and rain in the future, was actually planning a meal.

Xie Yingdeng also laughed, waved his hand to stop laughing and said, "Send messages to Jiangdu as quickly as possible, and ask Wan Yulou to send someone to arrest those aristocratic families in the Jianghuai area. That sectarian sect is just a big sect. He is afraid that he will gain a lot of weight during his time, so he should let him do some serious business."

"Here"

Shengtu Xiaohua responded softly.

Xie Yingdeng picked up another list from the table and handed it to Shengtu Xiaohua and said, "You gave me one just now, and I will give you a list now. It's not as good as there are so many people on the list you gave me, but the weight is not light at all."

Shengtu Xiaohua took the list and took a rough look, then her face changed: "So many? There are thirty-nine people from the fifth rank, and there are more than a dozen people from the fourth rank, and there are more than a dozen people from the fourth rank, and there are more than a dozen."

Xie Yingdeng waved his hand and said, "It's almost dead now. Before I returned to Chang'an City, the spies chased after me with the news. The lord planned to take down these people after the Mingzhou City was broken. Those people from the aristocratic families made the lord completely annoyed. Take this list of people and send people to stare at them. Whether it's servants or relatives in the family, no one can escape. Watch first, and wait until the lord sent back to Chang'an before taking the people."

When he said that the two families stood in a row, his tone was natural, and he seemed to have forgotten that he was born in the Xie family in Jiangnan, and was once one of the best prominent families.

"Subordinates obey the order."

"There's one more thing."

Xie Yingdeng thought about it and ordered: "How many black robes are guarding outside the yard where the man lives in the palace?"

"Forty-eight people rotate."

"After the matter is settled... there is no need for these forty-eight people to stay. They actually sent people down on their noses to pass on the message. Even if they were not bribed and kept, it would be useless. When the matter is settled, the forty-eight people went out to Hedong to do things, I will arrange for Tiqi to wait halfway."

"Here"

Shengtu Xiaohua felt a little unbearable, but she quickly threw it behind her mind: "I just don't know what the one in the palace is planning. He is trapped so tightly, how can he get out?"

Xie Yingdeng shook his head and sighed: "He can't get out no matter how long he is, unless he is lying out."

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The deserted yard is covered with weeds, and from time to time a few crickets jump out and appear in people's sight. The small grass in this small yard is even their paradise and home.

Emperor Li Chengde moved a small stool and sat down at the door, staring at the crickets jumping around in a daze.

The palace maid with thick hands and feet sat down beside him, looking forward along his gaze, but didn't know what the emperor was looking at. Her hand was playing with the pill that was much more than the poison hidden by Li Chengde in her cuff. After smiling, she asked in a gentle tone: "Your Majesty, are you afraid of death?"

Li Chengde was stunned and nodded immediately: "I'm afraid of death, who is not afraid of death?"

The palace maid lowered her head, her ugly face turned slightly red: "I'm not afraid... I can accompany Your Majesty, I'm not afraid of anything."

Li Chengde was shocked and couldn't help but feel sore when he looked at the rough face of the palace maid. He thought to himself that if a big thing really happened, it would be good to really agree to her to let her be the queen. Although she was ugly and vulgar, she was sincerely treating me, which was the most rare thing.

"I have to fight for fear of death."

Li Chengde raised his head and looked at the dazzling sun: "Crickets regard their home as a small inch, but my home is the whole world. If this small courtyard is not my dragon's place, it can only be my grave. If you buried it in the west, I buried it in the east. At that time, the world will not be my home, this courtyard is."
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