The news of Wang Zhongsi's death was a huge blow to Zhao Ziliang.
He couldn't eat a grain of rice for several days.
He locked himself in his room and was turned away from anyone who visited him.
Zhao Ziliang has been thinking these days, if Huangfu Weiming's death a few years ago can be said to have a little bit to do with the prince, after all, he was born in the prince's east palace and was a close confidant of the prince, but Wang Zhongsi did not At the same time, he was raised by Xuanzong and was Xuanzong's adopted son.
When he was young, he only had a slightly better relationship with the prince Li Heng.
Li Linfu assigned him to the prince's party to frame him, but Xuanzong's suspicion of him was a bit far-fetched. .
Zhao Ziliang knew that Wang Zhongsi was actually the same as him before, he did not know how to hide his clumsiness, he only wanted to build meritorious deeds by winning battles, expand territory for the Tang Dynasty, protect his family and country, and win fame and high status with his military exploits, but in fact he did not know how to hide his clumsiness and In terms of officialdom management, he was the same as Wang Zhongsi.
He was single and weak in the court.
Wang Zhongsi was more dangerous than him.
It is much more dangerous, because Wang Zhongsi's military power is too heavy.
He is also the governor of the four towns of Hedong, Hexi, Shuofang and Longyou.
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, no one has had such great military power, not even Taizong.
Not even when Emperor Li Shimin was a general of Tiance.
It was precisely because of this that Xuanzong began to be uneasy about him and began to be suspicious of him.
But it is undeniable that Wang Zhongsi was a truly great soldier with outstanding military exploits, and the loyalty he showed was so selfless.
If even such a person met such a desolate and sad end, then what future does this dynasty have?
Sporadic news revealed that Wang Zhongsi died "suddenly", but did this "sudden death" mean he was seriously ill and died without treatment, or was he killed silently?
This Zhao Ziliang is unknown for the time being.
It is not impossible to say that Wang Zhongsi died of an incurable emergency.
Wang Zhongsi was jealous of those he was loyal to, which undoubtedly destroyed his faith in his heart.
If his faith collapses, he may suffer a huge mental blow and be unable to recover.
It is also common for his body to die from disease.
If he was suddenly assassinated and died, this kind of situation It is also possible that after Wang Zhongsi was demoted to Hanyang Prefecture, he was completely deprived of military power.
Did he have any official connections in the local area?
Those local officials were afraid of Li Linfu's power and would not cooperate with Wang Zhongsi at all.
Even if Wang Zhongsi had Tongtian He was unable to govern the place by himself.
Later, he was demoted to the prefect of Handong County and was once again isolated by local officials.
He went to a strange place and was harassed by the officials below.
It is absolutely possible for him to be used as a decoration.
When he is alone and weak, someone takes the opportunity to assassinate him.
In this case, he cannot be sent out, especially Li Linfu and others.
They definitely have the ability and courage to do such a thing.
Anyway, Wang Zhongsi had lost Xuanzong's favor and was abandoned by Xuanzong.
Who else would care about the life and death of a minister who was abandoned by the emperor?
At least not Xuanzong, who was lying in Yang Yuhuan's gentle hometown.
Zhao Ziliang locked himself in the room and didn't see anything, which made his close subordinates and officials very worried.
He was the leader and core of these people.
If something happened to him, what would they do?
They didn't dare Imagine that this matter was so important that these people soon gathered at Zhao Ziliang's residence.
It was not until three days later that Zhao Ziliang walked out of the study with a haggard face.
This made Chen Qingying, Nie Sanniang and several children weep with joy, thankful that he finally came out of the study.
Zhao Ziliang looked like he had not eaten, drank or washed for several days.
His whole body stinked.
After learning that Chu Ge, Wang Can, Zheng San and other cronies had been waiting and worrying about things in the house for several days, he hurriedly washed up.
After some food, we rushed to the outer hall.
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When Chu Ge, Wang Can, Zheng San, Bai Xiaode, Pu Guhuaien, Li Sheng, Gao Shi, Dugujun, Liu Tiao, Chen Qing and Gong Ren saw Zhao Ziliang finally walking out of the study, they were all overjoyed and stood up and clasped their fists.
Salute and say hello.
"general" "General, you are finally out.
It's better now."
"Menial jobs can finally feel relieved."
While everyone was chatting, they looked at Zhao Ziliang.
They saw that his face was haggard and his spirit was a little listless, but there was something inexplicable and unexplained in his eyes.
Zhao Ziliang clasped his fists in return and smiled at everyone.
He pressed his hands and asked everyone to sit down.
He said, "Everyone has been worried these past few days.
I have a lot of regrets.
Now I'm fine.
In the past few days, the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion and the Bingma Envoy's Mansion have The official duties have been delayed a lot due to some reason."
Dugujun stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Please rest assured, general, there is no important official business these days, it is just some daily affairs.
We have already taken care of them.
The Jiedu Envoy's Mansion and the Military and Horse Envoy's Mansion have not stopped operating.
These days the king Seeing that there was no movement there, he was very honest and seemed to have accepted his fate."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and instructed: "We can't relax the monitoring of Wang Zhengjian, and we can't relax our vigilance on other officials.
Those people will act according to the wind and fall on both sides.
Now that someone has gained power, they have to fight with Wang Zhengjian."
We have to draw a clear line, but there is no guarantee that some of these people will make excuses with us, but in fact they will endure the humiliation and try to get a hold of me."
Liu Tiao said: "The general's worries are not unreasonable.
The lower official feels that Du Jianhong is very dangerous.
It is said that he is the prince's man.
Because the prince is now weak, he was one of the targets of Li Linfu's attacks, so he was demoted to Now that he is here, the official is not worried that he will report the situation here to the prince.
After all, even if the court knows about this matter, as long as the general does not conspire against him, This kind of cunning and deceitful behavior in officialdom, and this kind of situation where superior officials are evaded by their subordinates to take advantage of their rights, is not uncommon everywhere.
It is not surprising that the imperial court will not care about this kind of thing.
The subordinates are worried that Du Jianhong will become a hidden secret agent.
Those who collect evidence about us, after all, many of our things are illegal now, once the court finds out, there will be a lot of trouble."
Zhao Ziliang touched the stubble on his chin, thought for a moment and then ordered: "As for Du Jianhong, I think it is necessary to track and monitor him and not let him go to places he shouldn't go, especially Xilin Shouchuo and Cheling Minerals , but cannot be He found out that someone was following him, Wang Can, and the monitoring of Wang Zhengjian and other Jiedu officials was left to you.
Another point is that all letters written by these people to Chang'an or sent out of Beiting will be reviewed, and there will be no problem.
Only then can it be sent out.”
Everyone knew that Wang Can was a person who spied on the enemy's situation, so no one was surprised.
However, there was no such thing as a spy in this era.
The work of spying on the military and the enemy's situation was very rough, and there were no intelligence collectors.
A strict organizational structure and system.
Generally, when necessary, people are temporarily sent to investigate and arrange to go to hostile forces to spy on the enemy.
Once one or two of the detailed secrets are caught, it is very likely that others will be dug out, and eventually they will be thrown away.
However, the "Sky Eye" intelligence network that Wang Can is responsible for was personally directed by Zhao Ziliang.
After years of improvement, it has become quite large. , the organizational form, structure and system have all developed very rigorously, and even people with high status in the palace have been developed into members of this organization.
When Wang Can saw Zhao Ziliang ordering the general, he immediately stood up and clasped his fists, saying: "As ordered."
Then Zhao Ziliang said: "Is there no news about Li Siye yet?"
Wang Can shook his head and said: "General, there is no news about General Li yet."
Zhao Ziliang is also really helpless with the communication capabilities of this era.
Li Siye has also been away for nearly two months.
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If everything goes well, he should arrive at Huo Xunguo.
Logically speaking, he should receive a letter from Li Siye in the next few days.
However, Zhao Ziliang was a little worried about the survivability of carrier pigeons in the desert.
After all, from Beiting to Huo Xunguo, there were more than one desert in between.
It had not been tried whether carrier pigeons could fly such a distance and bring back information.
On the seventh day of March in the ninth year of Tianbao, four months had passed since Li Siye left Beiting for Huo Xun Kingdom.
On this day, he finally came back.
After Wang Can got the news, he immediately reported it to Zhao Ziliang.
"What, where is Li Siye back?"
Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed.
Previously, he had thought that Li Siye might have met with misfortune on the way to Huo Xun Country or had an accident in Huo Xun Country.
Now that Li Siye was finally back, he was finally relieved.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt a little uneasy because he, Wang Can, did not receive the carrier pigeon.
Wang Can said: "The people have now arrived at Xilin Shouchu.
After getting the news, the general asked Xilin Shouchu to prepare some more fast horses for them.
They are rushing back to Tingzhou at starry night.
Two days later, on the ninth day of March in the ninth year of Tianbao, Li Siye returned to Tingzhou.
Instead of going home, he went directly to the Military Envoy's Mansion to see Zhao Ziliang, who was handling military and political affairs here.
When he arrived at the Military Envoy's Mansion with more than a hundred of Zhao Ziliang's personal guards, Zhao Ziliang was already waiting at the door.
Li Siye reined in his horse and stopped, handed the weapon to the soldiers next to him, knelt down and bowed to Zhao Ziliang and said: "Greetings to the general, I am really ashamed that I failed to complete my mission."
Zhao Ziliang didn't know the specific situation yet, so he couldn't blame him, so he helped him up and said, "Get up first, let's talk about it after we go in, let's go."
"promise" When they arrived at the lobby of the mansion, a servant brought tea.
Li Siye ignored the etiquette and drank it in large gulps.
He was obviously very thirsty.
After drinking the tea, Li Siye wiped his mouth, clasped his fists at Zhao Ziliang and said: "General, the general has actually arrived at Huo Xun Kingdom at the beginning of the first year of the first lunar month, and the journey has been smooth.
The one hundred personal retinues that the general sent to me are all Having followed the general to the Western Regions, they were familiar with the roads and climate.
Everyone arrived at the Huo Xun Kingdom intact.
After the general arrived at the Huo Xun Kingdom, the lord of the country was very disappointed.
After waiting for us, they still refused to let us enter the Huo Xun Kingdom.
The general felt that there must be something fishy about this matter, so he secretly sneaked into the Huo Xun Kingdom to inquire and heard a shocking news.
Ten days before the final general and others arrived at the Huo Xun Kingdom, The Umayyad dynasty of the Great Food Kingdom has been destroyed by the rebels, and the entire family of Caliph Marwan II of the Great Food Country was killed.
After hearing the news, the general will know why the leader of the Huoxun Kingdom forbids us from entering.
At first, the general did not believe that the rebels would break through Damascus so quickly, so he wrote down the news and sent it back with a flying pigeon.
In addition, he personally led people to sneak into the country of Dashi to find out the news, and confirmed that the news was true.
Yes, and Abu Abbas, the chief leader of the Daesh rebels, has established the Abbasid dynasty and proclaimed himself the first caliph of the Abbasid dynasty.
In the end, he will not be reconciled to this.
Returned and secretly sneaked into the Huoxun Kingdom, hoping to meet with the leader of the Huoxun Kingdom to persuade him to join us in the Tang Dynasty to deal with the Dashi rebels.
However, the Huoxun King was afraid that he would be attacked by the Abbasid Dynasty of the Dashi after joining forces with us.
Fa, not only did he not see me, he arrested us and imprisoned us for more than ten days.
Later, he remembered that I had saved his life, so he released us privately.
The general and others had no choice but to return." .
Zhao Ziliang sighed: "But I didn't receive your letter from the flying pigeon.
It seems that there was something wrong with the pigeon on the way back.
If we had received the news earlier, we could have had more than a month to prepare.
Now that the Huoxun Kingdom has been frightened by the power of the Abbasid Dynasty and has taken refuge there, it seems that it is not far from the time when the power of the Abbasid Dynasty will expand eastward
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