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When Taizong heard the words, he was shocked and said: "Mutiny! Why did the Zuo Tunwei army mutiny? Could it be that someone deliberately spread rumors to cause trouble!?"

The Zuo Tunwei Army is the old department of Prince Yin Li Jiancheng. Although it has been a long time since the Xuanwumen change, the old department of the original Qin Palace and the Zuo Tunwei Army have always been at odds, and sometimes they are dirty. Over the years, Taizong tried his best to mediate , but it doesn't help, so I have to turn a blind eye and close one eye.At this time, when he heard that the Zuo Tunwei army had mutinied, Taizong's first reaction was that someone was provoking trouble from it.

Ma Xuanliang said: "I was in an old unit of the Zuo Tunwei Army. I risked my life to escape from the camp and just delivered the letter to the Ministry of War!"

When Taizong heard the words, he believed it was true. He was taken aback and asked, "How did it cause it?"

Ma Xuanliang replied: "It is said that he ate moldy rice and died, which aroused public outrage. The soldiers have surrounded the big tent of the Chinese army, and the situation is very critical!"

When Taizong heard this, his face was full of anger: "This Wu Qing, how did he lead the soldiers!"

Ma Xuanliang said anxiously: "Your Majesty, the old base of the Zuo Tunwei Army is the Sixth Commander of the Old East Palace. Wu Qing was also the confidant of Prince Yin back then. I'm afraid someone will make use of the issue to stir up old grievances. Now the total number of guards in the Imperial Palace and the Eastern Palace is only a thousand. There are 5000 people in the Zuo Tunwei Army, please send troops quickly to quell the chaos."

Taizong took a look at Ma Xuanliang and thought to himself: To transfer troops, where are we going to transfer them now?The imperial guards from the other battalions in the city have all gone to Beiyuan for drills. After such a long journey, when the troops are transferred back, wouldn't the turbulent soldiers from the Zuotun Guards have already entered the palace?

Although he was anxious in his heart, Taizong said calmly: "What's the big deal about this little thing, why do you need to deploy troops? Besides, I don't believe that the Zuo Tunwei Army will mutiny, so I will go to the Zuo Tunwei Army barracks right now." .”

As he spoke, he struggled to get up and got out of bed, but just as his feet hit the ground, he staggered and fell to the ground.

Ma Xuanliang hurried forward to help Taizong, but he pushed him away, saying: "Go away, have I ever been helped? I can stand up by myself!"

As he spoke, Taizong climbed up the wall with difficulty and stood up, but his feet could not move forward, and shouted: "Ma Xuanliang, bring the horse!"

Ma Xuanliang said: "Your Majesty, I'd better go and carry the dragon chariot."

Taizong reprimanded: "Absurd, when did I sit in a sedan chair before the army?"

Ma Xuanliang had no choice but to walk out of the Chengqing Hall in tears, and led the horses.

Taizong leaned on the ground with his sword and stood in front of the corridor in the palace. Looking at his beloved horse, he leaned on the sword and walked forward with difficulty. His face was full of pain, and sweat slipped drop by drop. The lightning horse walked up to the master. Squatting down beside him, Taizong slowly climbed onto the horse's back sideways, the horse stood up, Taizong swung his whip, and the Lightning Horse took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, a soft voice came from behind Taizong: "Father!"

Taizong pulled the reins and turned around, and saw his daughter Ankang standing in front of the corridor of Chengqing Palace.It turned out that she was tired after playing cuju in the garden for a while, and was about to come to Chengqing Hall to play with Taizong for a while.Who would have thought that her father, who had been bedridden for a while, actually got on a horse when she came over and pouted unhappily, "Father, you can ride a horse now, why don't you ride a horse?" Come play Cuju with your daughter?"

Taizong looked at his daughter standing on the porch with his little hands behind his back, as if he suddenly saw the former concubine Shu, he couldn't help being stunned, blinked hard, only to realize that it was just a hallucination, so he smiled wryly at his daughter and said: "Ankang, don't blame me. I have no choice but to ride a horse. When my leg is healed, I will definitely play a kick with you!" After finishing speaking, he beat the horse and left.

Seeing this, Ankang was also surprised, and asked Wang De what happened, Wang De sighed, told Ankang about the mutiny of the Zuotun Guards, and told her to go back to the bedroom and stay well, not to run around.

Ankang's shock was no small matter. After Concubine Shu passed away, she had been raised by the eldest grandson empress, and her relationship with Prince Li Chengqian was stronger than that of her compatriots. She promised Wang De to return to the bedroom, but turned around and ran to the East Palace in a hurry after leaving the courtyard.

In the East Palace, Prince Li Chengqian was in a state of desperation, sitting on a chair with his face propped up, his face full of exhaustion.Heng Lian reported to him from the side with a bitter face: "Your Highness, the people sent by the minister searched all the grain shops, and after a whole day of tossing around, they only bought one or two thousand shi of good rice. There will be several people from important border towns tomorrow." I'm coming to Taicang to pick up rice, what should I do?"

Li Chengqian said weakly: "You ask me, who should I ask?"

At this time, Ankang came in three steps at a time, shouting all the way: "Brother Prince, something happened!"

Li Chengqian hurriedly stood up and asked, "What happened?"

Ankang panted and said, "The soldiers of the Zuotun Guard rebelled because they ate some moldy rice, and the emperor himself suppressed it."

Li Chengqian's face changed drastically when he heard the words, and he was almost knocked down, Heng hurriedly helped him up.

Ankang asked with concern: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Li Chengqian said with cold sweat running down his face, "The sky is really going to fall this time."

Ankang asked again and again, and Li Chengqian told how he had listened to Jiang Bai's advice and sold out the grain stored in Taicang.After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian held his head and said in pain: "40 shi of grain, hundreds of thousands of frontier soldiers are waiting to eat, if the grain cannot be brought by tomorrow morning, the world will be in chaos! I really have nowhere to go! "

Ankang stomped his feet angrily after hearing this: "Brother Prince, let me tell you what you want, and Henglian, you dog slaves, why are you so confused!"

Li Chengqian scolded himself repeatedly: "I'm sorry father, I'm sorry father."

With that said, Li Chengqian stretched out his hand to pull out the sword hanging on the wall and was about to kill himself, but Heng Lian quickly stopped him.Ankang's face turned pale with fright.Seeing that the prince's brother was so desperate, Ankang was also very anxious. Suddenly, she thought of someone.

"Brother Prince! Why don't you go to Du Rui to find a solution?"

"Chengming!" Li Chengqian frowned, and said with embarrassment, "Chengming also advised me not to resell the grain in Taicang before, but I didn't listen to his good advice. I don't know if I ask him now. Will it matter! What's more, as a young man, how can he suppress the mutiny of the [-] soldiers of the Zuo Tunwei Army?"

Ankang said: "Whether you can do it or not, you have to give it a try. This way! Brother Prince! You rush to the Zuo Tunwei Army now. Father's leg disease has not healed, and he can't ride a fast horse. Brother Prince, you now Immediately lead people to the Zuo Tunwei Army, and stop those generals no matter what, you are the prince of the Tang Dynasty, they will not dare to do anything to you, I will ask Du Rui now, and let her think about it no matter what. A way to come to the rescue!"

After Ankang finished speaking, he took two guards out of the palace. In recent days, Ankang has been secretly going out of the palace, learning rhythm from Du Rui, and often listening to Du Rui giving lessons to his younger sisters. He admires Du Rui's knowledge. At this time, there was such a big mess in the Zuo Tunwei Army, Ankang instinctively thought that if it was Du Rui, there must be a way to eliminate this crisis invisible.

When he arrived at Du Rui's mansion, after talking about the ins and outs, Du Rui was shocked when he heard that there was actually a mutiny.

Seeing that Du Rui didn't speak, Ankang became anxious, and shouted loudly: "Hey, what's wrong with you, my prince brother is in danger, will you save him or not!?"

Du Rui came to his senses at this moment, hurriedly called Du Zhong, and said: "Princess, don't worry, you send people to call more people, I still have more than 7 shi of grain in this house, although it is not helpful, but it can be done anyway." Take care of the frontier army, and transport it quickly, and tomorrow there will be two 10,000+ shi grains delivered."

Ankang was very happy when he heard the words, and hurried to Du Rui's desk, cut a piece of paper, wrote a few strokes, handed it to Du Rui, and said: "This is an IOU. The money will be sent to the house in a few days."

Du Rui reached out to take it, tore up the IOU and threw it on the ground, saying: "It's this time, what are you talking about, I will go to the Zuo Tunwei Army with Your Highness!"