Can I get to the other side?

The news that the emperor led the army to defeat the rebels and beheaded Ma Chao spread throughout Chang'an in a short time.

Ma Chao's head and body were hung on the city gate tower.

All the people in Chang'an saw it clearly.

When the people learned about this, they all cheered and jumped for joy. Every household was happier than the New Year.

You must know that Chang'an City had been besieged for more than half a month and was almost about to be broken. The shadow of death was like a mountain hanging over the hearts of all the people.

Now this mountain has finally been removed.

Many people ran to the city gate tower to watch and curse Ma Chao's body. Some wealthy businessmen felt that it was not enough and threatened to pay craftsmen to build a kneeling statue of Ma Chao with fine iron, so that he would kneel outside Chang'an City forever for people to insult.

This shows how much the people hated Ma Chao.

After all, colluding with foreign races to besiege the imperial capital is an unforgivable crime, which is more excessive than rebellion in a sense.

However, some people get a bad name, and some people get a good name.

Among them, Yuan Xi, Gao Lan, Jia Xu, Zhao Yun and other great heroes who defended Chang'an all gained great reputation.

For example, Yuan Xi was the prime minister, but he personally went up to the city wall to kill the enemy; Gao Lan was shot by three arrows to protect ordinary people; Jia Xu was seriously injured in the battle to defend the city.

Zhao Yun killed the traitor Ma Chao in the army.

These deeds are witnessed by everyone, and they are praised by the people after being passed on by word of mouth by soldiers and people.

Liu Xie is not concerned about these things.

He still has many things to deal with now, such as the treatment of prisoners of war, the pensions of the fallen soldiers, how to reward the people who participated in the defense of the city and died for the defense of the city, etc.

He needs to ask about each and every one of them.

Because Jia Xu is seriously injured now, Guo Jia, Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang and others are all on the expedition, and only Fa Zheng, Yang Xiu, Chen Gong and others are left by his side.

With fewer people to share the pressure, the emperor naturally needed to work harder. He had little chance to slack off and was busy for several days.

Weiyang Palace, Xuanshi.

Fa Zheng presented a memorial and said, "Your Majesty, this is the court's reward and suggestion for the people who died and were injured in the attack and defense of Chang'an. Please take a look."

Liu Xie was reviewing the memorial. Hearing this, he rubbed his eyebrows and reached out to take the memorial and read it.

But after just a glance, he frowned and said with displeasure: "It's ridiculous! How can it be arranged like this?"

"The reason why Chang'an was able to survive the attack of Ma Chao, the villain, was that in addition to the soldiers fighting hard, the people also contributed a lot."

"Those civilians who died and were injured in the battle to defend the city should enjoy the same treatment as the soldiers in the army, and the military merit pension should not be reduced!"

"Send it back and discuss it again!"

Liu Xie threw the memorial back casually. Now he felt more and more that it was really not good to have no reliable people around him to assist him.

Such a memorial could also be presented to him.

In order to reduce the cost of pensions, it was reduced to the heads of those civilians who died in battle. I really don't know what the group of people in the court think.

If this is really implemented, if a similar situation occurs again, who will be willing to defend the city desperately?

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Fa Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and bowed his hand in response.

His opinion is the same as Liu Xie's, but he is not influential, and some things are beyond his reach, unless Liu Xie asks him.

Just as Fa Zheng was about to leave, Liu Xie stopped him and asked, "How is Wenhe? It's been five days, and he hasn't woken up yet?"

It has been five days since the end of the defense of Chang'an.

But Jia Xu hasn't woken up yet.

This makes Liu Xie worried.

Fa Zheng said, "Your Majesty, I went to visit the Zhongshu Ling's mansion yesterday, and the Zhongshu Ling's complexion has improved a lot."

"I think he will wake up soon."

Liu Xie nodded, and just as he was about to ask the eunuch to send some supplements to Jia Xu's mansion, Zhao Yun suddenly came to report.

"Your Majesty, Zhongshu Ling wants to see you."

Zhao Yun walked into the Xuanshi and said.

Because Gao Lan was injured, the imperial guards in the palace were temporarily led by Zhao Yun to protect the safety of the palace.

"Oh? Bring him in quickly!"

Liu Xie's eyes lit up, and he put down the red pen in his hand and said.

Zhao Yun bowed and left.

Soon, Jia Xu walked into the Xuanshi Hall with the help of two eunuchs. It was not known whether it was because of the injury that had depleted his energy and spirit, but Jia Xu looked much thinner.

The clothes that used to fit him well were now a little too big for him.

"Minister, I pay my respects to Your Majesty--"

After seeing Liu Xie, Jia Xu was very excited, and knelt down with difficulty to salute, his movements meticulous.

Seeing this, Liu Xie stood up and went forward to support him, and said, "Wenhe, you are still injured, why are you so polite?"

"Come here, give the Secretary-General a seat."

However, Jia Xu's face was full of tears, and he said in tears, "Minister, I have received Your Majesty's grace, and I am grateful and can't express it in words. I really..."

He couldn't say anything after speaking.

Only tears kept falling.

After waking up from the coma, he learned that the rebels had been defeated and Ma Chao had been beheaded, and he also learned that the emperor had personally sucked out the blood for him.

The first two pieces of news were within his expectations, until he heard the latter piece of news, he was so shocked that he was speechless.

He was loyal to the emperor, half out of gratitude for the emperor's trust and attention to him; half for his own future and the prosperity of his descendants and family.

Although he thought that he had done well enough so far, and that the Emperor trusted and valued him enough, he never expected that the Emperor would do something like suck out the blood from his wounds!

This is no longer something that can be described in just two words: grace.

Even though the city was as deep and heavy as him, he couldn't help but feel extremely moved by this, almost losing control of himself.

Therefore, even if he had just recovered from a serious illness and even if his body was not fully recovered, he still had to struggle to enter the palace to see her and express his excitement.

"I never thought that one day I would see Wen and you cry."

Liu Xie laughed and teased Jia Xu: "When Fengxiao comes back, I will tell him about this."

Jia Xu raised his hand to wipe away his tears. Instead of feeling embarrassed after hearing this, he said proudly: "If Fengxiao learns about this, he will be jealous of me."

To be so favored and honored by the emperor.

From ancient times to the present, there is only one person, Jia Wenhe!

So what if he cried because of this?

No one else has the right to cry if they want to!

"Well you fat man!"

Liu Xie laughed for a moment and wanted to pat Jia Xu on the shoulder, but then he remembered that his shoulder blade was still injured, so he retracted his hand.

"Sit down quickly, don't just stand around."

"I just have something to discuss with you."

Jia Xu arrived just in time. Liu Xie still had some questions to ask him about Fu Wan and Queen Fu.

"Yesterday, Fu Wan suddenly asked me to retire and return to my hometown. In addition, I also heard some rumors related to the Queen... What is going on?"

Liu Xie did not know about these things.

I haven't understood it in depth.

After all, I am too busy with the affairs at hand, and I really can't distract myself. I might as well ask Jia Xu for clarification now.

"Your Majesty, don't you know?"

Jia Xu was stunned when he heard this, then turned his gaze to Fazheng and asked doubtfully: "Didn't Xiaozhi tell His Majesty about this?"

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Fazheng's face, and he lowered his head and said, "This is not something I can discuss, so I did not report it to His Majesty."

Jia Xu's eyes twitched and he couldn't help but sigh.

Fazheng didn't learn anything else from him, but he had already learned a lot about being cautious, which was a bit too cautious.

"What's going on?"

Liu Xie frowned, becoming more and more curious.

Jia Xu did not continue to lie, and said: "Your Majesty, the night before you led the troops to rescue Chang'an, Ma Chao used deceit to test the strength of the troops in the city."

"This thief said that he would be willing to retreat as long as we hand over the queen and three thousand carts of money and silk."

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"At that time, Fu Guozhang strongly advocated agreeing to Ma Chao's request and letting the queen leave the city as a hostage, but he was opposed by Lu Guiren."

"I was injured and unconscious at the time. When I woke up and learned about the incident, I rushed to stop it, which prevented the queen from leaving the city as a hostage. I also took the opportunity to plan a strategy to ambush Ma Chao..."

Jia Xu recounted what happened that day.

This matter involved the Queen and Fu Wan, which was a bit sensitive, so no one took the initiative to mention it to Liu Xie.

Of course, some people like Yuan Xi thought that the emperor already knew about this, so they didn't say much.

After listening to Jia Xu's explanation, Liu Xie narrowed his eyes slightly.

Today, he is no longer the naive college student time traveler he was five years ago. Through Jia Xu's words, he immediately understood Fu Wan's plan.

Let Queen Fu voluntarily leave the city as a pledge to save Chang'an's reputation and thus benefit the Fu family.

It's really a good idea.

"No wonder this old guy wants to ask me to resign and return to my hometown. It turns out that he is worried that I will cause trouble for him later... ha."

Liu Xie sneered and his words were even more unkind.

Just call Fu Wan the old guy.

He himself didn't have a good impression of Yang Biao, Fu Wan and others. He was old and had many merits, so it was difficult to deal with them.

Yang Biao was just fine, he was pretty honest on weekdays, but Fu Wan kept jumping around, which was just annoying.

"May I ask what Your Majesty plans to do with Fu Wan?"

Jia Xu asked bluntly.

In the past, he would not have asked so directly, but now his mentality has changed and he no longer has so many worries.

The emperor trusts and respects him so much. If he still hides it in front of the emperor, it means that he does not know what is good and what is evil.

"If he wants to retire and return to his hometown, I will let him return to his hometown."

Liu Xie's face did not waver at all, and he said calmly: "After all, he is the hero who climbed to Lingyun Pavilion. He has no fault on the surface, so I can't punish him."

Although what Fu Wan did this time was disgusting. He was putting Chang'an's safety at risk in exchange for the interests of the Fu family, but the cleverness lies in taking advantage of the greater good.

Even if he was blamed, he could only blame him for not seeing through Ma Chao's plan, but there was no way to say that he had any bad intentions.

However, Fu Wan himself had some brains and knew that he had gone too far this time, so he took the initiative to resign and stay away from the court.

Otherwise, a reckoning awaits him.

Looking at the emperor's expression, a thoughtful look appeared in Jia Xu's eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Fazheng on the side listened to the conversation between the two.

I just felt like I was sweating profusely.

Is this really something he can hear?

Why didn't he resign earlier?

Seeing Fa Zheng sitting on pins and needles, Liu Xie also knew what he was thinking, so he waved him off first.

Fa Zheng was pardoned and left quickly.

After watching Fazheng leave the announcement room, Jia Xucai said again: "Your Majesty, Guo Meiren has made great contributions to the failure of Fu Wan's plan this time."

He explained all that Queen Guo had done.

There was no exaggeration, nor was there any shrinkage.

After listening to it, Liu Xie's eyes flashed with surprise. He did not expect Queen Guo to have such courage.

The most important thing was that he had stayed in Queen Guo's palace in the past few days, but he had never heard Queen Guo mention it, let alone take the initiative to ask him for credit.

On the contrary, Lv Lingqi praised Queen Guo a lot. He just thought that Queen Guo accompanied Lv Lingqi to guard the palace gate, so she admired her so much.

It turned out that the root cause was this matter.

It must be said that Queen Guo's wisdom and character are extraordinary, and it is even more precious that she can remain calm after such a feat.

"It seems that being a beauty is still a bit unfair to her. I will draft an edict later to promote her to a noble lady."

Liu Xie thought in his heart that Queen Guo had made such a contribution, so naturally she had to be rewarded, and it was also appropriate to raise the rank of concubine by one level.

However, when he mentioned Queen Guo, he couldn't help but think of Zhen Mi, who was still in Yecheng to take care of her baby. Calculating the date, she should be about to give birth.

After the treatment of Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, Zhen Mi's lung disease has almost healed. She is no longer in danger of life and will not affect the birth.

But no one can say for sure about this kind of thing, so Liu Xie is still quite worried. If it weren't for the fact that pregnant women can't be bumpy, he would definitely take Zhen Mi to Chang'an.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after she gives birth."

Liu Xie suppressed his thoughts and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, you should go back and rest first, and come to the palace when your injury is better."

"Now that government affairs are busy, Fengxiao and Kongming are all away. I really can't do without your help. You have to come quickly to help me share some of the pressure."

Jia Xu was moved and said: "Minister, thank your majesty for your concern."

The monarch and the minister chatted for a while.

Jia Xu took the initiative to leave.

Liu Xie took his injuries into consideration and sent eunuchs to carry him out of the palace and to the carriage outside the palace.

The carriage slowly drove towards the Jia Mansion.

It was already evening, and Jia Xu sat in the carriage, looking at the setting sun in the distance through the window, and did not take his eyes away for a long time.

After a moment, he said lightly: "Fu Wan will retire and return home soon, so arrange some people to send him off, and be more efficient."

"Just do it...kill him by horse bandits."

There are some things that the emperor cannot speak about.

So he needs to take the initiative.

What Fu Wan did this time has touched the bottom line of the emperor. Retire and return home? How can it be so easy? There is no such good thing in the world.

"Yes, Lord Jia."

A low response came from outside the carriage, and then there was no sound, only a breeze blowing.

The carriage continued to move forward and gradually sank into darkness.