Chang'an, East Palace.

Since Chen Ying was issued by Li Yuan with the imperial edict of the general manager of Lingzhou to manage the military of the six prefectures, Prince Li Jiancheng became ill.

In fact, Li Jiancheng's health was not a problem. All he had was heart disease, but Li Jiancheng was tasteless and could not sleep, but his body was getting thinner.

Li Yuan initially thought Li Jiancheng was angry, but after a month, Li Jiancheng lost nearly 20 kilograms suddenly. Li Yuan felt something was wrong and ordered the imperial physician to go to the Eastern Palace to diagnose Li Jiancheng.

After the imperial physician diagnosed Li Jiancheng's illness, he was quickly recruited to Ganlu Palace for questioning.

"Prince, what disease did you have?"

Imperial Doctor Zhang Gongluo (Old Cheng was lazy and did not check the information in this regard. Here I pay tribute to Mr. Tubi, an immortal doctor in the Tang Dynasty, borrowed the name of the person) respectfully bowed to Li Yuan: "Report to Your Majesty, the Crown Prince's evil wind invaded, the virtual fire rose, and I used the medicine to apply, it was not a big deal! It's just..."

As the saying goes, tigers are poisonous and don’t eat their children, but seeing Li Jiancheng getting thinner, Li Yuan couldn’t bear it. Li Yuan’s heart tightened: “It’s just what?”

Zhang Gong pondered: "It's just that there is a breath of depression in the heart of the Prince's Palace, which condenses but does not dissipate. If it continues for a long time, I'm afraid..."

Li Yuan waved his hand impatiently and asked Zhang Gong to retreat slightly. In fact, Li Jiancheng had something to do, so why didn't Li Yuan know?

At this moment, an eunuch ran to Li Yuan with a small step: "Your Majesty, Lingzhou memorial, you can go 800 miles in a hurry."

When Li Yuan heard that it was Lingzhou, he thought that the Turks had gathered troops to attack Lingzhou. However, when Li Yuan read the memorial, his nose almost became crooked. There were three memorials in Lingzhou, namely Chen Ying, the general manager of Lingzhou, Yang Ze, the chief of Lingzhou, and Du Shanguo, the right guard of the Eastern Palace, led the record officer to join the army. The matters reported by these three memorials were different. Yang Ze was reported by Liang Shidu to go to Lingzhou as the Minister of Shangshu Lu Jilan, who wanted to surrender Chen Ying. As a result, Chen Ying denounced Lu Jilan and Liang Shidu for being unfaithful, unkind, filial and unrighteous, and were despicable, shameless and vulgar villains.

As a result, Lu Jilan was scolded to death by Chen Ying.

Li Yuan naturally knew that Lu Jilan was this person. When he entered Chang'an in his early years, he wrote a poem about the sycamore "Shake and fall into the air well, and life and death are still left to rest. He never refuses to enter the restaurant first, but he only regrets that he has few soulmates." Li Yuan once commented on this poem as whining without any illness and was intimate with Lu Jilan. At this time, Lu Jilan was scolded to death by Chen Ying, and Li Yuan was very happy. Li Yuan picked up his pen and wrote a four-character comment under Yang Ze's memorial, "It's great to please the people", and promoted Yang Ze's Taizhong Doctor. He was awarded three thousand pieces of silk to the head of the Lingzhou General Manager!"

Yang Ze himself was dismissed from the fourth-rank lower-rank middle-level official, and now because of this memorial, he was promoted to the fourth-rank upper-rank Taizhong doctor. I don’t know if he knew this news, would cry or laugh.

Then, the former Right Guard led the Records to join the army (the Records are not the chief of staff, but are equivalent to the supervisor of the army, and have the right to report directly) Du Shanguo reported: "The weather is about to warm up, and the Turkic Rangers are very closely reconnaissed Lingzhou. Since February, Lingzhou has fought with the Turkic scouts more than a hundred times, with more than three hundred beheads!"

However, when Li Yuan saw Chen Ying's memorial, he almost turned his nose awkward. Li Yuan cursed angrily: "Liu Zhongzhi, you, have let down my high expectations."

However, a few days later, Prince Li Jiancheng's illness suddenly worsened, vomiting from top to bottom, and he had no improvement. Now he is still vomiting blood and is in a coma. Li Yuan was suddenly anxious: "Come on, let's go to the East Palace!"

While talking, a man in a ragged eunuch's uniform broke in, and while rolling and crawling, he knelt down in front of Li Yuan, screaming: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty is not good... Then... the person surnamed Chen... is reversed..."

A foul smell came out of him, and Li Yuan couldn't help but look at this person. After a while, the person with a very embarrassed expression was Liu Zhongzhi. Li Yuan was almost fainted by the foul smell emitted by Liu Zhongzhi. He immediately covered his nose and scolded: "What's wrong with you guys? Who's going to rebel?"

Liu Zhongzhi finally came to Chang'an like a broken dog. Since leaving Lingzhou these days, Liu Zhongzhi has been frightened, like a frightened bird, worried and afraid day and night. In his dream, Chen Ying cut off his head. So he went on a journey, traveling day and night. Originally, it took more than 2,000 miles from Lingzhou to Chang'an, but Liu Zhongzhi actually took seven days to arrive in Chang'an on the tenth day of the second month of the second year of Wude.

For the past seven days, Liu Zhongzhi, like the soldiers led by the sect in the hall, had eaten, drink, defecation and urination on the horse's back. However, the rare species of eunuchs are different from normal men. They have no *** and can easily splash on themselves when they urinate. In just seven days, Liu Zhongzhi turned himself into a famous brand in later generations - Laotan Pickled Vegetable.

Liu Zhong was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that even Pei Ji was present. His neck suddenly shrank and hesitated: "That's...that's the Lingzhou general manager Chen Ying..."

As soon as the words came out, Pei Ji was shocked, but his face was silent, as if he was not listening.

When Li Yuan heard this, he suddenly remembered Chen Ying's memorial. He glanced at Liu Zhong and said, "You can tell me in detail!"

Liu Zhong heard this and recalled the pain of the bumpy days, and couldn't help but feel sad. Tears rush down like a flood that broke the gate: he cried and said, "Your Majesty... I almost never see you again... The surname Chen, he was about to rebel and almost killed me for the sacrifice flag. If I hadn't seen me escape quickly, I would have... never see Your Majesty again."

Although Liu Zhongzhi performed very well, because of his preconceived concept, Li Yuan believed that Liu Zhongzhi was acting. Even though his acting skills were very impressive, Li Yuan still didn't believe it at all.

Li Yuan said coldly: "Okay, how did he rebell?"

As eunuchs, they only have one master, that is, the Supreme Lord of Nine Five. In the palace, there are only a few eunuchs who can stand out. Every eunuch who can make it out is a master. Of course, when observing the words and expressions, it is perfect. Liu Zhong heard Li Yuan’s dissatisfaction and was shocked: “What’s going on, the wind direction is wrong?”

Liu Zhong said straight: "He had an affair with the enemy, and he recruited surrendered and rebels... and stole and sold weapons, and sold official positions and titles..."

Speaking of this, Li Yuan's face became colder and colder: "Is there any more?"

Liu Zhong shuddered: "No...no...no!"

"Come here!" Li Yuan shouted in a deep voice: "Pull this dog slave out, and let the stick be killed!"

"Your Majesty, you are wronged, wronged!"

Several strong eunuchs rushed up and pulled Liu Zhongzhi up and walked out without saying a word. From time to time, Liu Zhongzhi's shrill screams rang out outside the hall.

Li Yuan suddenly smiled as if nothing had happened and said, "Pei Jian, do you think Chen should have ambition?"

Pei Ji frowned deeply, and the question Li Yuan asked was also difficult for him to figure it out.

Chen Ying must have ambitions. He can completely satisfy Liu Zhongzhi's threat. The problem that can be solved with money is not a problem at all. Chen Ying was an unknown person before, and was originally a Shimo Shutong, the magistrate of Wannian County.

If Chen Ying had no ambition, he really couldn't tell at this time. The geographical location of Lingzhou was really important. Whether it was the Turks, Liang Shidu or the Tang Dynasty, they regarded Lingzhou as the throat. Whether facing the Turks or Liang Shidu, Chen Ying could be at the forefront of the price.

However, Chen Ying would scold Lu Jilan to death and openly scold Liang Shidu, and basically cut off the Liang Kingdom's retreat.

Pei Ji was a smart person. He now knew that Li Yuan was just suspicious of Chen Ying. This suspicion itself was not convincing, but Pei Ji's cleverness was that he neither wanted to bear the crime of inspection nor offend Chen Ying, a rising star in the Tang Dynasty.

So Pei Ji bowed and said, "I am stupid and can't guess this person!"
Chapter completed!