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Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "I must go to Anxi first. I have to make arrangements for Anxi."

"Then the Commander-in-Chief must leave quickly. After November, Lingshan will be insurmountable."

"I know that I will rush over at the last opportunity."

At this time, Li Ye stood up and said: "Everyone, we came to the Western Regions to open up frontiers and finally stabilized Hezhong. I don't know if I will be the next governor of Hezhong. I hope I can come back, but the court's No one can tell me the arrangements. If I can't come back, I'll say goodbye to everyone here."

Li Ye's words made everyone very sad, but everyone also knew that this day would come sooner or later, and the emperor would not let him stay in the river for a long time. Everyone stepped forward to hug Li Ye goodbye one by one.

Li Ye and Wang Changling returned together. Wang Changling said sadly: "Is it true that you will not come back now?"

Li Ye smiled bitterly and said: "Everything in the world is unpredictable. I hope I can come back again. I still have too many things to do here."

Wang Changling nodded, "I also hope to see the envoy again!"

Wang Changling's wife and children have come from Chang'an. He plans to live in Suiye forever and live in this quiet town for the rest of his life.

Of course, people like Gao Shi, Cen Shen and others will go back together.

Arriving at the door of the post house, Wang Changling smiled and said, "Please take care of yourself along the way!"

"Please take care of yourself too, prince. I believe we will see you again."

After saying goodbye to Wang Changling, Li Ye returned to her yard. Xiaokang had already packed up. This time she would follow Li Ye back to Chang'an.

"Have everything been packed?"

"It's already packed, but Aunt Ling still has something here. It's a gold bracelet. If we want to take it away, we should send it to Guangming Temple."

When Aling was mentioned, Li Ye's expression became very complicated.

A Ling returned to Samarkand not long after Li Ye went on the expedition. According to Xiaokang, she left after crying profusely. Li Ye later found out that she did not bring Sui Ye, but was just an excuse to inspect the Saint of the East. Will have the opportunity to come to Broken Leaf.

She is currently the Right Silver Saint of the Great Guangming Temple in Samarkand. She has great power, especially since the Golden Saint is old and basically does not care about affairs. In fact, the power is in her hands. Can she resist the temptation of power? , give up everything to find yourself?

Li Ye was not sure at all. If it were his wife Dugu Xinyue, he believed that Xinyue would definitely give up. But he didn't know Aling. He didn't actually understand her.

Time will create distance, and distance will create unfamiliarity. He has known Aling for five years, but in the past five years, the total time they spent together was less than five days.

At the beginning, Li Ye was still a little bitter in his heart, but as time passed, he gradually figured out that there was no need to force any woman. He already had a wife and asked Aling to give up the lofty status and status of the Golden Saint Girl that he was about to inherit. Power, do you want to be your concubine? How unfair this is to her!

A woman with a high status, not giving her the status of wife, asking her to give up her power over tens of millions of people to follow her, this kind of thing may only happen in fairy tales.

Li Ye nodded and said, "Just put on the gold bracelet."

Think of this bracelet as a souvenir that Aling left for you!

Early the next morning, Li Ye said goodbye to everyone and headed towards Lingshan with a thousand cavalry and ten thousand camels. The supplies carried on the camels were one million kilograms of cotton and two million gold coins. He planned to use this batch of cotton and gold coins. Put them in Ganzhou for the time being and do not consider taking them to Beijing.

Also returning to Beijing this time were Gao Shi and Cen Shen. Both of them had obtained official official positions in the imperial court in Hezhong. After returning home, they could be transferred to other prefectures and counties for some activities.

It was late October at this time. Generally, after entering November, a snowstorm will come in Lingshan, making it impossible to cross Lingshan to Anxi. Late October is the last time.

Li Ye also wanted to seize this last opportunity.

As the governor of Anxi, Li Ye also needed to arrange various affairs, and the key was the deployment of the army.

Historically, after An Lushan annihilated Ge Shuhan's army at Tongguan, the panicked Li Longji immediately issued an order to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops from Longyou, Shuofang, Hexi, Anxi, and Beiting to come to King Qin.

Li Ye certainly hopes that the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army will also be placed under his command, but it will be very difficult. After all, they are not the Hezhong Army. Whether it is Li Siye or Liu Yong, they are more loyal to the imperial court.

If that doesn't work, Li Ye will settle for the next best thing and take the most elite 3,000 heavy armored infantry into his own hands.

That morning, when the army arrived at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, Li Ye threw a thick blanket to Xiaokang who was sitting on the camel, "Wrap yourself up, your little body can't withstand the cold."

Xiaokang quickly wrapped herself in a blanket. She looked back at the land in the river with nostalgia, and sighed secretly, not knowing that she would not have a chance to see Agu again.

"Sir, can we still see Aunt Ling?"

Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "The word fate is very strange. I have a hunch that I will definitely see her again!"

He waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

A thousand troops and a huge camel team crossed the Lingshan Mountains and headed towards the Xiata Ancient Road.

At the same time that Li Ye led his army to Kucha, Cheng Qianli also arrived at Hedong County in Puzhou with dozens of followers. It was already getting late and he could not cross the Yellow River again. He could only rest for the night and leave early tomorrow morning.

Cheng Qianli is the third batch of Jiedu envoys to report on their duties. The time is set at the beginning of November, and there is still a full month left.

Of course Cheng Qianli had to go to Beijing early. He still had many activities planned, and he especially had to fight for some resources. For example, An Lushan asked the court last year for the quota of 500 generals and 2,000 lieutenant generals, and the emperor actually approved it. But he couldn't even apply for the quota of ten lieutenant generals. The gap was so huge.

Cheng Qianli didn't know that he had been targeted by the emperor. He was still aggrieved and prepared to write to the emperor to ask for more official positions for the Hedong Army.

In the study, Cheng Qianli was sitting on the table writing furiously. At this moment, the door behind him opened and a soldier came in carrying a tea tray.

Cheng Qianli thought it was a soldier, so he said without raising his head: "Put it aside! Close the door and don't disturb me!"

Suddenly, a hand covered Cheng Qianli's mouth, and before he could react, a sharp dagger immediately pierced the back of his heart. Cheng Qianli screamed and died instantly.

The assassin quickly searched Cheng Qianli's luggage, and he quickly found a small box filled with letters. He hugged the small box and left in a hurry.

A quarter of an hour later, another soldier who came to deliver tea opened the door and found blood all over the floor and Jiedushi lying on the table. He was so frightened that he dropped the tea tray and started shouting.

"There is an assassin, Jiedushi was assassinated!"

The dozens of soldiers in the posthouse suddenly became a mess.

In Chang'an, Yuan Siyi hurried to Prince Qing's Mansion. When he saw Prince Qing Li Cong, he said immediately: "Cheng Qianli was assassinated in Hedong County and all the letters were taken away. What happened?"

Li Cong, the king of Qing, was stunned. He said after a while: "The prince must have done it. He sent assassins to kill people and kill them, and took away all the letters that were not good for him."

Yuan Siyi knocked on the table and said, "Everyone understands the truth, but the question is where is the evidence? Also, who leaked the information about Cheng Qianli?"

Li Cong shook his head like a rattle, "I will definitely not leak such secret information. An Lushan sent someone to deliver it to me, or there was something wrong with the messenger, but usually the messenger doesn't Will know the contents of the letter.”

Yuan Siyi was upset for a while, "Cheng Qianli was assassinated, how can I explain this to the emperor?"

"Tell the truth! Isn't there the letter written by Cheng Qianli to the prince as evidence?"

"That was only written by Cheng Qianli to the prince, not from the prince to Cheng Qianli. What if the prince denies it? If it's not true, Cheng Qianli is just being sentimental. At most, it can only convict Cheng Qianli, but not the prince. You Understand? Unless we find the letter written by the prince to Cheng Qianli."

"What do you need me to do?"

"You have warriors under your command. Investigate this case immediately and find the assassin. If the assassin can identify the prince as the assassin of Cheng Qianli, that's fine!"